The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, June 13, 1894, Image 4
BF.>tfRGEST.
Only a bunch of withered dowers, (
Faded and brown and old, i
But memory makes them gay once more i
With purple, white and gold.
The pink spring beauty greets us first, ]
Fed by the me'ting snow.
And ground nut blossoms show the place *
Of hidden stores below.
The pure wake-robin on the bill
i*reeis me nrs; uuu again,
The starry blood root in the dell
Stili leaves its crimson stain,
Jack-in the-pulpit preaches yet ,
To little woodland folk,
And liverworts and violets grow
At the feet of the hollow oak.
The dainty waxen Indian pipe
Ber jath the beafl'n tree springs,
And the golden bell of the adder tongue
Still lightly sways and swiDgs.
It tolls the knell?that fairy bell?
Of childhood's hopes and fears
And ushers in the toil and sin
Of later, sadder years,
And so I kept the faded dowers
My old time playmate gave,
With grasses sweet that grow above
A ionely western grave.
SONG OF THE SHIRT?
R v. Dr. Taluxsge'a Eloquent Sennon ? n
Woman's Woik.
Brooklyn, June 3--Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage, who is now on his round
the world journey, has chosen as the subject
for today "Martyrs cf the Neecl?,"
the text being Matthew xix, 24, "It is
easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle."
Whether this "eye of the needle" be
the small gate at the side of the big outran
c 3 of the wail of the ancient city, as
is generally interpr, ted, or the eye cf a
needle such as is now handled in sewing
a garment I do not say. In eiiher case
it would be a tight thing for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle. But
there are wholecaravar s of fatigues and
hardships goiDg through the eye cf the
sewing woman's needle.
Very loDg ago the needle was busy.
It was considered honorable for women
to toil in olden time. Alexander the
Great stood in his palace showing gar"?
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merits maae oy nis owa ujuiuci. mc
finest tapestries at Buy eux were made
by the queen of William the Conqueror.
Augustus, the emperor, would not wear
any garment except those that were
fashioned by acme member of his royal
family. So let the toiler everywhere be
respected!
The greatest blessing that could have
happened to cur first parents was
being turned out of Eden alter
they had done wrong. Adam
ana Eve, in their perfect state,
might have got along witheht wort, or
only such slight employment as a perfect
garden, with no weeds in it, demanded.
But a3 soon as they had shinned the best
thing for them was to be turned sat
where they would have to work We
know what a withering thing it is for a
man to have nothing to do. Good old
Ashoel Green, at fourscore years, when
asked why he kept on working, said, "I
do so to keep out of mischief." We see
that a man who has a largs amount of
money to start with ba3 no chance. Of
the thousand prosperous and honorable
men that yen know, 999 had to woik
vigorously at the biginning.
Bat I am now tell you that industry
is just as important for a woman's safe- 1
ty on/3 >ionnineoa Tha mncf nnhannf '
to J i?uu 4UG.J*/A.UV Wiiuu^|/J
women in cur communities today are
those who have no engagements to call ]
them up in the morning, who, once hav- '
ing risen and breakfasted, louose through
the dull forenoon m slippers dovn at the
heel and with disheveled hair, reading ]
the last novel, and who, having dragged ]
through a wretched forenoon and taken
their afternoon sleep, and having spent j
an hour and a half at their toilet, pick
up their cardcase anil go out to make 1
calls, aDd who pass their evenings wait- ]
ing for somebody to come in and break J
up the monotony. Arabella Stuart nev- 3
er was imprisoned in so dark a dungeon <
a3 that. f
There is no happiness in an idle wo- i
man. It may be with hand, it may be with i
brain, it may be with foot, but work she i
must or be wretched forever. The little j
girls of our families must be started with
that idea. The curse cf cur American i
society is that cur young women are I
*? taught that the first, second, third, lourth 1
fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fiftieth, i
thousandth thing in their life is to get 1
somebody to take care of them. Instead 1
of that, the first lesson should be how h
under God, they may take care of themselves.
The simple fact is that a majority
of them do have to take care oi
themselves, and that, too, after having,
through the false notions of their parents,
wasted the years in which they
ought to have learned how successfully
to maintain themselves. We now and
here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and
outrage of that father and mother who
pass their daughters into womanhood,
tiaviDg given them no facility for earning
their livelihood. Mme". de Stael said,
"It is not these writmgs that I am proud
of, but the fact that I have faculty in 10
occupations, in any one of whicn I could
mak a livelihood."
You say you have a fortune to leave
them. 0 man and woman, have you not
learned that, like vultures, like hawks,
like eagles, riches have wings and
flyaway? Though yoa should be successful
in leaving a competency behind
you, the trickery of executors may
swamp it in a night, or some elders or
deacons of our churches may get up a
fictitious company and induce ycur orphans
to put their money into it and if it
be lost prove to them that it was eternally
decreed that that wa3 the way tbey
were to lose it, and that it went in the
most orthodox and heavenly style.
Oh, the damnable schemes that professed
Christians will engage in?until
God puts his fingers into the collar of the
hypocrite's robe and rips it clear down
t a f Ho haifnm' Vnn Horro t-ia rinrHt Ho r
v wuv ?/vwi?vfc? ? a. vu uu t v av v/v a.
cause you aie well ofi, to conclude that \
your children are going to be as well ofi.
A man died, leaving a large fortune.
His son fell dead in a Thilaaelphia grog- r
shop. His old comrades came in and t
said as they bent over his corpse, "What i
is the matter with you, Boggaey?" The i
surgeon, standing over him, said, "Hush e
up; he is dead!" "Ah, be is dead!" they \
said. "Come, boys, let us go and take t
a ?n momnrc r>f "Rr^arGfBOT.'"' <
CM UllUA it* UiWUAU4 J V/* ywi 4
Have you nothing better than money
to leave your children? II yen have not i
but send your daughters into the world s
with empty brain and unskilled Land, s
you are guilty of assassination, homicide s
regicide, infanticide. There are women j
toiling in our cities for $3 and $4 per (
week who were the daughters of mer- !
chant princes. These suffering ones now
would be glad to have the crumbs that 1
once fell from their farthers' table. That <
wornout, b~oken shoe that she we?rs i3 \
the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiters 1
in which her mother walked, and that <
torn and faded calico had ancestry of i
magnificent brocade that swept Broad- i
way clean without any expense to the ]
street commissioners. Though you live i
in an elegant residence and fare suraptu- i
ously every day, let rour daughter? feel j
it is a disgrace to th*.ui not to know how
to work. I denounce the idea prevalent i
in society that, though cur ycung wo- s
- - - ? ? n v\ I
men iua_y emuiuiuci uuppoio uuu <
ana make mats for lamps to stand on 1
without disgrace, the idea ct doing any- 1
thing tor a livelihood is dishonorable. It s
is a shame for a young woman belong- ]
ing to a large family to be instlijient
when the father toils his life away for "
her support. It is a shame for a daugh- \
ter to be idle while her mother toils at I
the washtnb. It is as honorable to i
sweep house, make beds or trim hats as (
it is to twist a watch chain. f
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As far as I can understand, the line g:
>f respectability lies between that which b
s use ul andandthu which is useless n;
[f wuEi^n du that which is oi no value, b
ibeir work is bonoiahle. It they do c<
orac'ical work, it is dishonorable. Tnat o
5ur yoan? women may escape ihecen- t!
;nre oi doing dishonorable work I shall t(
particulate. You may knit a tidy u
for 0 e b?ck of au armchair, but c<
by to m?acs make the money, b
where with tot nv tne chair. You may, tl
with delicate tru-h, beautify a mantle s
ornament, but dc rather than earn ii
enough to buy a marble mantle. Ycu b
may lesrc artistic n usic until you can t(
squall Italian, but never sing k Orfouville"
or 1 Old Hundred." Do nothing ?
practical, it ycu wou'd, in the eyes of re
Qned soeie'y, preserve your respectabili- ?
T 4. 4 tr? 1 nA'.l Ana i t ?. 1 1
iy? X bWU'j llictv uv.n.'uo< a bvit Y
ycu do wgcqsd, utiT more than a man, p
has a right to cccupy a place in this c
world unless she pays a rtnt for it. s
In tie course cf a lifetime you con? b
surne whole harvests and droves of cat- a
tie, ar.d every day you liva breathe 40 c
hogshead? of good {. ure ai\ You must c
by some kind of usefulness, pay lor all *
ibis. Our race was the last thing creat- ?
ed?the birds" and flsbes on the fourth u
day, the cattle and lizards on the fifth
day aid mancn the sixth day. if eeol- ^
agists are right, the earth wa3 a million E
of years iu the possession of iheiusects, ^
bias's and birds, befjre cur rcce came t
upon it. In one sense. we were inDO v
valors. The cattle, the lizards and the l
hawks bad preemption right. The qaes- c
lion is not what we are to do with the v
lizirds and summer insects, bat what 1;
the 1 ztrda and summer iusects are to ^
do with us. c
If we want a place in this world, we ^
must earn it, The patridge makes its ?
ownnesi before it occupies it. The lark *
by its morning song, earu3 its I reakfast ^
before it eats it. The Bible gives an s
intimation that the first duty of an idler j
is to starve when it says it he "win noi *
work neither shall he eat." Idieness r
ruins the health, and very soon nature a
says: "This man has refused to pay his
rent. Oat with him!" ^
Society is to be reconstructed on the c
subject of woman's toil. A vast major- 1
ity cf those who would have woman in- 1
du?triou3 shut her up to a few kinds of {
work. My judgment in tlris matter is
that a woman has a right to do any- t
thing she can do well. There should v
be no department of merchandise, me- s
chanism, art or science barred against z
her. If Miss Hosmer has geniuf for j
sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa
Bonheur has a fondness for delineating r
animals, let her make "The Horse r
Fair." It Miss Mitchell will study as- ?
trononiy let her mount the starry lad- 1
der. IfLvdia will be a merchant let J
her sell purple. If Lucrecla Mott will J
preach the gospel let her thrill with her 1
womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting *
house. e
It is said it woman is given such op- f
portunities she will occupy such places )
that might be taken by men. I say, if f
she have more skill and adaptedness for s
any position than a man has, let her r
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navei I see naa as luuou ngui, iu uci i ^
bread, to her apparel and to her home f
a? men hare.
Bat it is said that her nature is so delicate
that she is unfitted for exhausting ?
toil. I ask in the name of all past his- ?
tory what toil on earth is more severe, ^
exhausting and tremendous than that e
of the needle, to which for ages she has
been subjected? The battering ram,
the sword, the carbine, the battleax, .
have made no such havoc as the needle. v
I wc uld that these living sepulcher3 in ?
which women have for age3 been buried c
might bs opsned, and thai seme resur- t
rection trumpet might bring up these o
living corpses to the fresh air and sua- z
light. I
Go with me, and I will sho w ycu a
woman who, by hardest toil," sup* J
ports her children, her drunken husband i,
aef old father and mother, pays her t'
iicuse rent, always has wholesome food n
on the table, and when she can get tl
some neighbor on the Sabbath to come
n and take care of her family appears a
n church with hat and cloak that are tl
:ar from indicating the toil to which she tl
s subjected. J
Such a woman as that has body and ""
jou! enough to lit her for any position, &
She could stand beside the majority of 0
^our salesmen and dispose of more |
>oods. She could go into your wheel- 1
svright shops and beat one half of your
workmen at making carnages. We talk %
ibout woman as though we bad resinned ?
.o her all the light work, and ourselves .J
lad shouldered the heavier. But the day y
if judgment, which will reveal the suf- f,
erings of the stake and inquisition, will ^
narshai before the throne of God and o
.be hierarcb ; of heaven the martyrs cf v,
vacMub and needle. 'C
iiow, I say, it there be any preference, a
n occupation, let iromaa have it. God e
mows her trials are the severest. By SJ
leracuter sensitiveness to misfortune, ^
iy h*r hcur cf anguish, I demand that
10 oce hedge up her pathway to a livell- tl
locd. Oh, the meanness, the despica- cl
iility ot men who begrudge a woman the f*
ight to work anywhere in any honorable ?
: ailing! *(
I go still further and say that women
ihohld have tquai compensation with g!
nen. By what principle of justice is it
hat women in many of our cities get ^
inly two thirds as much pay a3 meD, and b
n maDy cases only half? Here is the gi- u
lautic injustice?that for work equally 0
veil if BOi better done woman receives j,
ar less than man. Start with the na- n
ional government. For a long while tl
vomen clerks in Washington got $yuu o
or doing th it for which men received ?
51,800." C
To thousands cf young womeu ia our c!
lities today there is only this alternative 13
-starvation or dishonor. Many of the ^
argest mercantile establishments of our
:ities are accessory to those abomina- s(
ions, and lrorn their large establish- e,
nents there are scores of soul? being aj
)itched off into death, and their employ- t<
;rs Know it. a;
Is there a Goo? Will there be a jadg b
nent? I tell you, if God rises up to re- g>
Iress woman's wrongs, many of our
arge establishments Will be swallowed bi
lp quicker than a South American U
jarttquake ever took down a city. Gcd ti
will catch these oppressors between the w
;wo raill3tone3 of hi3 wrath and grind ic
.hem to powder!
1 hear from all thi3 land the wail of
womanhood. Mao has nothing to an>wer
to that wail but iiitteries. He sav8 -n
she 13 an ansrel. She is not. She knows 0]
she is not. She is a human being, who sj
^ets hungry when she has no food, and ^
jold when she has no fire. Give her no td
more flatteries; give her justice! t(
There are about 50,000 sewing girls in w
New York and Brooklyn. Across the 11
larkness of this night I hear their death ai
jroan. It 13 not such a cry as comes d
xom those who are suddenly hurled out *(
of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible ~
wasting away. Gather them before\ou j-'
md look into their faces, pinched, ghast- h
y, hunger struck. Look at their fiosrers ^
ippdip n.-ir krd and hloorl tinned! Sse ?
bat premature sloop in the shoulders. s$'
liear lhatdry, hacking, merciles? cough! g
At a large meeting of these women n
ield in a ball in Philadelphia, grand a
ipeeches were delivered, bat a needle h
voman took the stand, threw aside her &
:adsd shawl, andwita her shriveled arm ^
:u:Ied a very thunderbolt of eloquence, *
ipeakiog out the horrors or her own ex- ^
>eriecce. ^
Stand at the corner of a street in New '
k.'ork in the very early morning as the ?j
vomtn go to their work. Many oi them
]ad no reaxfast except the crumbs that
were ovtr from the night before or a ri
;rust they chew on their way through ir
.he street. Here they come the working tl
iris of the cit)! These engaged m
eaawoik, these in fl>wer making, in
11 nerv. enameling, cigar making, bo< k A
muing. labeling, leather picking, print
oloriug. paper box making, but, most,
verweiked of all and least compensated 0]
le sewing woman. Why do they not p.
ki the c:tv cars on their way v:
p? They cauuot tffjrd the five w
E-nts. If, concluding to denv s<
ersell something eIre. she gets into (j
he car, give her a seat! Tou want to
e how Latimer and Ridley appeared D
a the tire. Look at that woman and
t<hnM mnrp bnrrihlp rpart.vdnm. a hot
i-r tire, a more agonizing death!
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule ?
f my church, atter service, a woman -v
ell in convulsions- The dGctor said ^
he needtd medicine not so much as b
omethiDg to ea^. As she began to re- a
ive,in her delirium she said gasping- !c
y: "Eight cents! Eight cents! Eight c<
ents! I wish 1 could get it done! I am
o tired! I wish I could get some sleep, b
ut I must get it done." We found a)
fteward that she was making gar Ci
aents at 8 cents apiece, and that she w
ould make but three of them in a day. p
learit! Three times eight are twea- "*
y-four! Hear it, men and women who
ave comfor."able homes! 0
Some of the worst viilians of the city
,re the employers of these women.
?hey beat them down to the last pen- 1S
iy a"nd try to cheat them out of that.
^he woman must deposit a dollar or d
wo before shegeis tho garments to
rork on. When the work is done, it 7.
3 snarpiv mspeoicu, uib luusu uisi^liticam
"flaws picked out, and the 3
rages refused, and sometime the dol- ci
ar deposited not given back. The ^
Vomen's Protective union reports a ti
ase where one cf these poor souls, ,
inding a place where she could get J:
nore wages, resolved to change em- ^
iloyers and went to get her pay for 15
rork done. The employer says, "I hear rl
ouare going to leave me?" "Yes," b
he said, "and I have come to get what *
oa owe me." lie made do answer, n
ih? said, "Are you not going to pay &
ne?" "Yes," he said, "1 will pay you," v
md he kicked her do wn the stairs. tl
How are these evils to be eradicated ? <j
tfhat have you to answer, you who sell
:oats and have shoes made and con- jj
ract for the southern and western \
narkets? What help is there, what i
janacea, what redemption? Some say, \{
'Give women the ballot." What effect L'
uch ballot might have on other quesions
I am not here to discuss, but c
vhat would be the effect of female t
uffrage upon woman's wages? I do P
lot believe tbat woman win ever get i:
ustice by woman's ballot. t:
Indeed, women oppress women as ft
nuch as men do. Do not women, as f
nueh 2s men, beat down to tbe lowest s
igure the woman who sews for them ? (j
^.re not women as sharp as men on g
vasherwomen and milliners and man- t
ua makers ? If a woman asks a dollar
or her work, does not her female em- f
iloyer ask her If she will not take 90
ents? You say, "Only 10 cents differ- \
>nce," but that is sometimes the dif- t
erecce between heaven and hell, r1
Yomen have often less commiseration 1;
or women than men. If a woman a
teps aside from the path of virtue, S
nan may forgive?woman, never! f<
-Voman will never get justice done her u
rom woman's ballot. G
Xever will she get it from man's bal- P
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oi. now, men r u-oa wni nse up lor ?
ier. God has more resources than we h
:now of. The flaming sword that
lung at Eden's gate when woman was
'riven out will cleave with its terrible *
dgs her oppressors.
But there is something for our worn* a
n to do. Let our young people prepare c
o excel in spheres of work, and they v
rill be able after awhile to get larger s
rages. If it be shown that, a woman h
an in a store sell more goods iD a year t<
han a man, she will soon be able not h
nly to ask but to demand more wa- ft
es, and to demand them successfully, h
Jnskilied and incompetent labor must b
ake what is given. Skilled and com- a
etent labor will eventually make its p
wn standard. Admitting that the *
iw of supply and demand regulates
hese things, 1 contend that the de- T
rand for skilled labsr i3 very great and *
he supply very small. 11
Start with the idea that work is hon- "
ble, and that you can do some one ^
Mnrr haffor tVian onvnrtct olca if
LUO^ Iv'LCtVi. IUUU t*UJ VUV, Vl^Vl A VVW4 V
Liar, God helping,you will take care of s
ourself. If you are after awhile called
lto another relation, you will all the
etter be qualified for it by your spirit ^
f self reliance, or if you are called to
Lay as you are you can be happy and
elf supporting. ^
Foets are fond of talking about man n
s an oak, and woman the vine that ti
limbs if, but I have seen many a tree g
ill that not only went down itself, but a
Dok all the vines with it. I can tell ij
ou of something stronger than an oak u
or an ivy tc climb od, and that is the 0
arone of the great Jehovah. Single 0
r affianced, that woman is stronger ti
rho leans on God and does her best. i?
'he needle may break,the factory band e
lay slip, the wages may fall, but over h
very good woman's head there are p
pread the two great,gentle, stupendous c
icgs of the Almighty. o
Many ol you will go siogle handed a
trough life, and you will have to d
hoo3e between two characters. YouDg li
loman.iam sure you will turn your tl
ack upon the useless, giggling, paint- si
I nonentity which society ignomini- -A
usly acknowledges to be a woman and u
sk God to make you an humble.active, h
arnest Christian. c<
What will become of that godless ^
iqpinlp of fashion V Whar, an insult to ^
ersex! Her manners are ail outrage ^
pon decency. She is more thoughtful S5
t the attitude she strikes upon the car- 31
et than how she will look in the judg- J*
lent; more worried abqut her freckles Cl
lan her sins; more interested in her ^
onnet strings than in her redemption!
[er apparel is the poorest part of a ^
hristian woman, however magnifi- y
sntly dressed, and no one has so much "
ght'to dress well as a Christian. iSrot F(
o with the godless disciple of fa3hioD. ^
ake her robes, and you take every- ,
ling. Death will come down on her 1(;
>me day and rub the bistre oft' her a!
yelids and the rogue off her cheeks,
ad with two rough, bony hands scat- ^
it spangles and glas3 beads and rings ?
od ribbons and lace and brooches and *a
uckies and sashes and frisettes and P
oiden clasps. j!
The dying actress, whose lire had fj
een vicious, said: "The scene closes e]
raw the curtain." Generally the ^
agfdy comes first and the farce after- C(
ard, but in her life it was first the ^
irce of a useless life and then the
agedy of a wretched eternity. iE
Compare the life and death of such a ^
ne with that of some Christam aunt ^
rat was once a blessing to your house- p
old. I do not know that she was ever differed
a hand in marriage. She lived e(
ngle, that untramrneled she might jn
e everybody's blessing. Whenever re
is sick were to be visited or the poor C?
> be provided with bread, she went fc
itb a blessing. She could pray or sing ^
:ock of Ages for any sick pauper who ^
3ked her. As she got older there were re
ays when she was a little sharp, but rt
)f the most part auntie was a sun
earn?just the one for Christmas eve.
he knew better tban any one else how
) fix things. Her every prayer, as God C
earn it, was full of everybody who w
ad trouble. Tne brightest things in g:
11 the house dropped from her lingers, ti
he had peculiar notions, but the tr
raudest notion she ever had was to sp
lake you happy. She dressed well? s!
unties always dressed well?but her di
ighest adornment was that of a meek li
nd quiet spiiit, which, m the sight of tc
fod, is of great price. When she died b;
ou all gathered lovir2iy about her, si
nd as you carried her out to rest the fr
unday school class almost covered the bi
oflin wit h japonicas, and the poor peo- ti
le stood at the end of the alley, with tt
ieir aprons to their eyes, sobbing bit- ft
?rly, and the man ot the world said, st
ith SolomoD, "Her price was above di
abies," and Jesus, as unto the maiden f<:
1 Juchea, commanded, "I say unto uj
lee, arise." w
MBMBCMPB?ai MM Ml .'1 r T"U"UILJIl.rr.lMlftMri
iZ.AR WAKES A HIT.
luuaQal Honor Conferred on Hlxn l?y
the House.
Washington, June 2.?On motion
E Moses (D?m.) of Georgia a bill was
assed granting a pension to Mary I.e
ins, widow o! a soldier cf the Indian
ar of 1817, now ceariy 100 years of
ie, nod an inmate oi the poor house in
arroli County, Ga.
The House, in committee of the whole
roceeded to the further consideration of
le bill to rep ai the State bank tax
Lct, and then an unusal honor was paid
new rpember, when llsed (Hep.) of
[iiuo asked and obtain ucauiccous conjut
lbr Izlar to conclude his remarks
ecun yestseday and which he was unble
to conclude because the time aimed
to hira had expired. Iz'ar said in
DDcludinp:
"Island for unconditional repeal, first,
eeause the plaiform recommends it,
od the people demands it; second.Treatise
I did cot iiod the power anywhere
hich would authorize Congress to reslate
and came the securities or the
onditiocs on which State banks could,
r should issue their bills. The Federal
r.vprnmrnt. has never undertaken the
sercise of any power over State bank
(sues save that of taxation; and this, in
17 judgement, is a questionable and
cubiful power."
He ihen quoted the sections under
rh:ch the tax was laid, and continued:
"It had long been settled that the
tales possessed the power to grant
harters to State banks, that the power
' as incident to sovereignly, and that
bere was no limitation in the Federal
/'onstitufoa on its exercise by the
tates. This being so, to destroy the
tate banks which the Stete3 had the
ight to create and to eccourge notional
anks, was the object and intent with
rhieh this burdensome and UDjust tax is
iow imposed. To use the language ol
Ir. Justice Nelson in the case of Veazie
s. Fenuo, it :.s sufficient to add that
beburden of tax,while it has encouraged
besc banks (national) has proved fatal
o those ol tue States; and if we are at
berly tojugdeof the purpose of the
Let from the consequences that have
allowed, it is perhaps not going too far
o say these consequences were intended.
"And Chief Justice Waite, in the later
ase of'Hollister V3. Mercantile Instituions
said: "That it was no doubt the
nrpose cf Congress in imposing this
ax to provide against competition with
be established national bank currency
ar circulation as money. The mere
act that Congress saw At to enact these
triugent and unjust laws, laws of
oubtful coust;.tutionaliLy?i3 a very
troag argument in favor of the State
iaak system aDd of the value of their
urrency a3 a circulating medium. The
1W3 which regulated banks in South
Carolina at the time when the banks of
hat S:ate gave a safe and flexible curency?a
currency which circulated f.eey,
Dot only within her own borders and
mong her own people, but in other
Hates?are in their main and essential
saiures, still to be found upon her statte
books. In some particulars they are
ow more stringent than formerly and
onsequently must afford more ample
nd better security to depositors and bill
olders.
The Legislatures of the several Stales
rill see to it that they are protscted
rom "wildcat" banks, from over issues
nd from unfaithful and dishonest ofllials,
so far as these evils can be prolded
against, by strict laws and careful
upemsion. We should not hestitate
y reason of these apprehended dangers
o the business public to come up to the
.11 nionnnvn r.( mif 1-1X7 K) ! n fT nilf
?iii Ui^aOUlw VI VUI UUiij w J vwv
-om the statute book this law, which
as borne so hard on the South and West
y destro\iDg our bankiDg institutions
nd crippling our resources. The pecle
have demanded it, our duty is plain,
nil we do it?"
At the.conclusion of Izlar's remarks.
Inloe (Dem.) of Tennessee explained
oat the motion he made yesterday to
ike up bills on the private calendar
^as not made in aotagODism totbepend)g
bill, for he was in favor of its pasage.
Wholesale Removal.
Washington, June 8.?Xotonly ofce
holders, but boardinghouse keepers
nd businessmen are becoming stirred
p over the recent and still contining
dismissals in the different departlents.
About one tenth of the populaion
of the cify is employed by the
overnmeDt. That one-tenth represents
t least 50,000 people, whose happiness
2 a large majority of cases depends
pon the regular receipt of the envelpesattheend
of the month. When
ne-fifth of the population is thu3 inimately
interested in office holding, it
5 easy to imagine the widely divergent
fleets of such sweeping charges as
ave taken place in the past month,
let ween 700 and 800 have been dis
hargea trom tne government printing
dice, and though Public Printer iieneict
has said that no more wholesais
ismissals will be made, it is
kelj the end is not jet in
tie bee hive on North Capitol
treet. In the war department, since
Lpril, nearly 350 clerks have been re
loved, and others are expected to go
1 the near future. These will be in
ompany with about 300 of the census
ureau employes and these of other
epartments when the Dockery bill
comes a law. It may, therefore, ba
ifely estimated that at least 2,000 perms
will have to look for ocher empipylent
before the winter comes. Among
lose dismissed, particularly in the
rar department, are men who have
ved a generation in Washington, and
ave come to regard it as their home,
ome may have managed to buy comirtable
homes, and the Ics3 of their
'guiar monthly stipend causes them
> wonder how they may now continue
) occupy them. Others have been so
>ng at one desk that by reason of their
?e they are absolutely unlitted to enage
inother occupations even were
lere any opening for them. In view
{this outlook a movement is contempited
to engraft on the Dockery bill a
rovisioa that to those clerks who will
e removed under it a year's notice be
iven. This, it is contended, will enble
them to look around for other
nployment,so that they may adjust
lemselves more readily to circumstanjs
when they cease to derive tneir
leans of support from the government,
jcretary Iloke Smith sent to congress,
i reply to a resolution, the number of
ismisals made by him in his departent,
and also some oth er particulars,
ue most striking fact in the reply is
lat. 212 old veterans have been remov1.
It is stated that there were GO restated
which means men who were
imoved before this administration
ime into oilice, or who lost their places
>r other reasons. Between March 4,
193, and April 19, 1894, the list shows
lat there were 7G0 appointments, 176
linstatements, 883 dismissals, and 89
isi^nations by request.
, Free Fljjht.
Tunc Tha dcKofo i r> fha
V UUU V? JLUV U WMIU 4U (.J1W
baoiber of Deputies this afternoon
as remarkable lor its bitterness. Luli
Diligenti, ltadical, delivered a long
rade against Felice Cavalotti, exeine
Iladicai. At the close of his
)eech he turned toward Cavalotti and
laking his list at him exclaimed, "You
ishonored yourself by a dishonest al
ance with Gioletii." Cavalotti sprang
) his feet white with rage and called
ack, "You coward and Jlar, you shall
lifer for those words." Cavalotti's
ieuds tried to restrain him, but he
rokeaway from them, caught Diligenby
the waistcoat and struck him
iree heavy open handed blows in the
ice. A dozen deputies threw them:lves
between the two men. A hunreel
more gathered round, shoutiQg
>r order or reviling one another. The
proar drowned the voice of the deputy
ho ascended the tribunal.
A Shocking Tragedy.
Bennettsville, June G.?Our usual}
quiet and orderly town has been
shocked by a tragedy unparalleled in
sadness. Last night about 9:30 o'clock
a horseman, with lightning speed,
rushed up town to notify phvsicians
ard relatives that Mr. J. I)ongla3
Moore had been shot down with, a
double barreled shotgun at the residence
of Mr. Henry T. Breeden by Mr.
Breeden himself. They are both resirWif
s nf fhis town and are brothers-in
la*', Mr Bretden having married Mr.
Moore's sister. They are young men,
representatives of the very best and
most pjominent families in Marlboro
county, and had been fast friend3.
Your correspondent immediately secured
a buggy and drove to the place
of the sad affair. J found three physicians
and about one dozen citizens
present. Mr. Moore was stretched on
a mattress on the floor of one of the
pcrchfs near where he was shot and
fell. Your correspondent obtained the
following facts: Both men were under
the inlluenae of liquor, they drank
together in Breeden's house; hot words
passed in reference to family matters.
Breeden got his gun, but Moore induced
hind to put it up; they then drank
together. Moore started home, and
was on the porch near the steps when
shot. The load entered just below the
navel. The wound bled profusely, and
the unfortunate man suffered much
pain. Moore told your correspondent
that he was leaving for home and was
shot without provocation. Mrs. Adams
proprietress of the Adams House, is
the mother of Mr. Moore, and she, with
her daughter, Miss Moore, were sent
for. When they arrived i witnessed
the most touching and heartrending
scene of my life. Early this morning
the wounded man was removed to his
mother's. His two uncles and cousin
arrived from the country. His ante
mortem statement was taken by Trial
Justice Easterling. The contents
of the statement have not
been made public. Dr. C. Kollock of
Cheraw, assisted by local physicians,
by investigation discovered that the
bladder had been shot to pieces, and
they at once pronounced his case hope
less, lie can live Dutaiewnours. iYLoore
stated that he entertained no ill will
toward Breedeu and that he freely forgave
him. Whiskey caused the trouble.
Xo arrests have been made this evening.?State.
Two Lynchln&s
Yorkville, S. C., June 2.?Jed
Crawford, colored, was lynched this
morning at 1:30 o'clock. At that hour,
a crowd called at the county jail and
waked up the Sheriff, telling him they
had a prisoner. He had heard that there
W38 talk ot lynching Crawford, and he
refused to open the jail. The crowd
broke into the jail. Crawford was found
in the duogeon and taken near the Chester
and Lenior depot. Fifteen minutes
were given him in which to make hi3
peace with God, He confessed to having
murdered Mr. D. A. Blackburn.
He was swung up and a few bullets fired
through his body .
Mr. D. A. Blackburn wa3 found dead
last autumn near Rock Hill. His bodv
was horribly mutilated. Jeff Crawford
was suspected ct having commuted trie
crime. He was arrested, tried, convicted
and sentenced to be hung on June 1. In
application tor a new irilal wa3 made,
and was granted by Judge Watts. The
people would wait no longer for Crawford's
life to pay for his crime. Judge
Lynch w&3 appealed to and gave a
speedy sentence.?Register.
one at lancaster.
Lancaster, June 3 ?Hardy Gill, a
young negro, about thirty years old,
was taken from the jail this morning between
1 and 2 o'clock, by a crowd of
men and shot to death, about three miles
from town. Gill was in jail for cruelly
beating Mrs. James A. Clark, of Cedar
Creek Township, on Monday last. Gill
went to Mr. Clark's promises in his ab
3ence and commenced raising a disturbance
in the yard. Upon being ordered
away by Mrs. Clark, he turned on her
with an andiron and beat her unmercifully.
He then picked up Mrs. Clark's
baby and threw it across the house.
Mrs. Clark's injuries are such that she
is not expected to live. The little
child's injuries are also of a serious nature.
The negro was immediately arrested
and lodged in jail. Yesterday
he was adjudged insane before Trial
Justice Burns.?State.
More Men lhan Women.
The United States census bureau has
issued a special bulletin containing
marriage statistics. It has been as
carefully compiled as the nature of the
case would admit. Its conclusions upset
several ppints of popular belief.
One of these is that there are more women
than men in the country. The
cold figures show that this is not true of
the country at large, even if it be so of
Massachusetts. - But Massachusetts is
not the country, through Boston may
think the country revolves around her
as a pivot. The fact is that we have
1,422,410 more males than females in
the United States, so that every woman
could have a husband if she
wanted one and have a fraction of a
man to spare besides, so far as the
mere supply of men goes. This ought
to comfort those maidens who still
have hope that their affinities may be
found, thought it holds out small consolation
to baehelors. Statistics of
widowhood and widowerhood show a
difference on the otner side. Widows
are for some reason far more constant
to the memonry of the dear departed
than widowers. For every widower
who remains in the single state there
are three widows. And yet,with the ma
jority of widowers remarrying, there
are still nearly a million and a half husbands
left over for the ladles who want
them. Perhaps they are not distributed
is. the right districts.
Crime ol Universal Suffrage.
London, June 2.?The Economist,
commenting on the campaign oi Ida
Wells against the lynching of negroes in
the Southern States of America, says:
"The equality ot the races does not exist.
The whites who granted the suffrage to
the negro were guilty of a grave offence
against republicanism as a system assuring
the moral and intellectual competence
of a citizen. There is nothing to
be done except to tolerate the negro as a
subordinate citizen until he becomes civilized,
which he may never be. We do not
ask good Americans to interfere in behalf
of the negro, but we do ask our own
countrymen, who cannot be good repubh
cans in the midst of lynch law." The
Spectator says: "The action of the
North after the war made the condition
ot the negro infinitely worse than if tbey
had adopted a wiser and more unselfish
policy. It is a terrible example of mischief
due to vindictive and short sighted
partisanship. It wa3 impossible to
maintain a system under which a despised
and ignorant race was cncoraged
to play the despot over a race of higher
political intelligence."
Don Dickson said in an interview
the other day that he believed in Grover
Cleveland more than ever. "There
was a time," said he, "when they mimed
Andrew Jackson in elligF all over
this country, and yet two years after
that, so popular had Jackson become,
vou couldn't Had a man who had said
a word against him. That is the way
it will be with President Cleveland.
He is an able, fearless man; a man
with the courage to do what he believes
to be right. And he is doing
more for bimetallism than any other
man living today. lie is a believer in
silver. The only question is as to the
best way in which to do it. They will J
come to his idea of it yet. England is
already receding from her situation
and the day will come when you will
see silver restored to the world; and
Grover Cleveland is doing more to that
end, as I said than any other man or
force in the world today. "
GOV. TILLMAN ON TEMPERANCE.
He A?td!e?a?8 au Aadieneo of Two Thousar.d
People.
Prohibition Park. Staten Island,
June 4.?Governor Tiilman, of
Sou h Carolina, presented his State
agency plan for the solution of the liquor
question to an audience oi two thousand
Prohibitionists at this evening's session
of the international Temperance Congress.
The Governor's hearers did not
agree with him as to the plan, but they
listeaed closely to the cod. and found
some points at which they could applaid
without doing violence to their
conscience At other times they loudly
expressed their disapproval.
Before the arrival of Governor Tillman
Col. Alexanders. Bacon, of Brooklyn,
made au appeal for the raisins: of
$2,500. At this point the ekctr.c hght3
went out and the auditorium w?.3 in
darkness. A score of lanterns were
brought In and the guest from South Car
olina was led forward iu -cmi-darkness.
He was introduced by the Kiv Lr II. L.
Wayland, ot P liladelphia.
Governor Tiilmm began by saving
that he wished there wa3 more light so
he could look the people :u the eye and
have them lock him m the eye and tell
whether he was telling the truth. Continuing
he said: "I have come a long
way and left my cilicial duties m the
interest of truth and right. I have heard
a great deal at the session I base attended
of 'sana' and 'backbone.' It has
been said that I possess those qualities.
I will say that I will show here to night
that I am willing to advance my convictions
on my audience, and I am going
to controvert you: dearest ideas and
firmest beliefs. I am probably the only
politician present. I have been elected
Governor of a State, and I am a candidale
for the United States Senate, and
expect to be elected."
The Governor then went on to say
iViot Vio iron n/\t o nrvlifipion in
UViU'w U\s ?T ao UVU CAUVWJ fc? I'Uii OiViU u *u
the ordinary acceptance ot the term,
lie said he always spoke his convictions
and that was not characteristic of politicians.
lie said that he was a farmer;
that his Gubernatorial position was his
first cfilce. He announced that he proposed
to have his say and if anyone in
the audience wanted to throw rocks
at him he would throw recks
back. Then drawing himself to his full
height he said, in tones that made the
rafters ring: "I am here to night to tell
ycu that prohibition don't prohibit, and
never will prohibit. We have got a
, plan m South Carolina that completely
wipes out saloons, and we have done
more than you have. Now, I am a
temperance man. [Applause.] I never
drank five gallons of whiskey ail together
in my life. [Laughter.] I sometimes
take a social glass with my friends,
but I don't like the stuff."
The Governor then produced a bottle
of whiskey with the South Carolina
Iable on in. He waved it like a firebrand
in the faces of the total abstainers and
described the State dispensary plan. He
said that prior to the decision by the
Supreme Court of the State there were
sixty-six dispensaries in operation, and
the State had paid cut $379,000 for
liquor, $57,000 for bottles and $37,000
for labels and other expenses. From
the total outlay of $475,000 aud with $98
000 worth of liquor cn hand, $567,000,
worth had been sold and a net profit of
$100,000 to the State and $84,000 to
the counties had been realized. He said
that the quality of the whiskey was
chemically pure, so that the people
quit having a headache when they got
drunk on it. He said a moment later
than no one got druak on dispensary
whiskey; they got drunk on blind tiger
whiskey, which, he said, they hid in
holes in the ground or "toted" ia their
boot legs.
He stirred up the audience by declariDg
that prohibition would never be established
by yotcs.
"Give us a chance," said a man in
front. This brought a volley of applause,
when the Governorshcuted. "You are
not read/to remove ttie Government
tax on whiskey."
"Yes we are," came from all parts, of
the hall.
"Then you are blinder than I tbcught
you were," said the Governor.
A moment later he alluded to "prohibition
narrow-mindedness" and complained
that the audience would only
go half way with him. Then he said:
"Before you are a dczm yea's older
you will see half the States in the Union
following the example of South Carolina,"
"Never," shcuted a woman delegate.
"If ycu can't get prohibition, will you
take the dispensary?" asked the goveruor.They
vne a litdifd cccs.snd one
man in the back of the hall said yes.
"That is encouraging," said the Governor.
He said that in ail the country
of South Carolina and nearly all the
towns public sentiment is in favor of
the dispensary law, and it will be car
ntu out eventually, i.x? wcui uu. uu
far as backbone is concerned I have as
much as any other man, but when you
tackle the liquor trade entrenched behind
its hundreds of millions you need
to have the backbone of the statue of
Licerity."
The Governor left for the South after
the meeting adjourned, at 4 15 P. M
A Tboaaand Killed.
New York, June 1.?A special from
Han-Kow says that 1,000 persons at
least have lost their lives in a catastrophe
peculiar to this singular section;
Heavy rains, caused apparently by a
waterspout or "cloudburst" fell early
last week on the upper IIan,suddenlv
flooding the lowlands to the depth of
several feet. Two great rafts moored
to the bank were torn away by the
maddened waters ana hurried down
stream, smashing everything in their
way for over 200 miles, leaviDg death
and ruin in thei* wake. They reached
the mouth of the Ilan, where it empties
into the Yangtse King, at this place,
Friday night. Like two huge catapults
they crashed into the junks and swept
them into the Yaug-tse-Kiang, where
a whirlpool was formed and the hapless
crafts with their crews were sucked
I beneath the furious waters. Six small
Chinese gunooars were suns wane trying
to rescue the hundreds of persons
thus placed in jeopardy. Life saving
boats also did what they could but the
current was so rapid that all efforts
proved of little value. The vast, impetuous
volume of water that rushed out of
the Han did much damage on the opposite
shore of the Yang-tse-Kiaog,
over a mile distant, and to the bund in
front of the iron works. Many frail
houses on the bank were carried away,
occupants and all, the water coming
down like a tidal wave, almost without
wamiDg. Over 400 bodies have been
found floating m the Yacg-tse-Kiang
below this ptace, and others are found
daily. The Ilan drains an immense
area and its surface is covered with
junks and small craft. The only wonder
is that the destruction was not
greater, the pecuniary loss being conlined
to the destruction of junks and
boats and the lloodiDg of rice fields, of
which no estimate can be obtained.
To Start at R >ck Hill.
Columbia, Jane 9.?The campaign
will really start at Hock Hill and the
fun will begin on Monday. June 18th.
The Yorkvills meeting will be held cn
the 19;n according to schedule, but a
meeting has been agreed upon for Rock
llill on the date named. Tnis meeting
was arranged by Senator Finley, of
York, and it is understood that both
Governor Tillman and Senator Butler '
have accepted invitations to be present. !
Candidates for Congress from that dis- ,
trict wili also be invited and are ex- 1
pected to speak, besides the Guberna-11
torial candidates and the seekers for J1
State otlices. i
The Need of the Country.
Senator Patrick Walsh, of Georgia,
made one day last week one of the best a
speeches ot' the session in favor of tariff h
reform. lie repudiated the charge h
made by Senator Iloar, of Massachu- n
setts, that the South is in any sense hos- d
tile to the industries of New England, b
atid claimed that the South is destined n
to be the great manufacturing centre p
of this country. He declared that the o
Democrats of the South favor the in- ti
come tax, not as a sectional measure, tJ
but because it is just and equitable, y
The revenue tariff plank in the Chicago ?
platform is solidly endorsed in the n
South, but our people [recogniz9 the S
fact that the i;emocrauc parry is
National and not sectional, and'itis e
absurd to suppose that they have any f;
desire to discriminate against any c
American industry or lower the wage's ii
of the mechanic or laborers. We have 1
seen under the McKinley bill millions v
of dollars vverth of our products shut \
out from foreign markets because we
would not allow other countries to
compete with us for'the custom of our
home markets. The jolicy of the ?
Democratic party has not been free "
trade but tariff reduction. It has de n
clared not only for lower taxation but u
for non-interfernce with the capital !|
and labor engaged in the manufactur- "
ing interests ot the country. The over - s:
whelming election of Mr. Cleveland on y
a revenue tariff platform leaves no *
doubt as to the wishes ot the people. t:
Under the McKinley tariff we have
had more failures, suspensions, en- *
forced idleness ana general distress than
ba3 ever been known within the J
pasi two generations, In three years it \
has caused an increase of 18 per cent. {
in the number of failures and 44 per f3
cent, in the liabilities. The prices of *'
farm products have declined lower 1
than at any time within fifty years. 11
The demonetization of silver was a
largely responsible for this shrinkage,
but it will be seen that the claims of the
protectionists are not sustained by the
facts. The Wilson bill may not be a t
complete remedy but it is a reform and 0
on the right line. In regard to the in- v
come tax Senator Walsh made a strong r
point when he called attention to the t
fact that the British masses never com- t
plain of the tax, because it falls on ^
these who are able to pay it, whereas, v
under our system we collected last year
over 00 per cent of our tariff duties
out of the necessaries of life while the '
luxuries paid only 37 per cent. Uader J
lue preaeuL law lue pjui man paja ao much
and sometimes more than the millionaire
for the support of the Gov- ,
ernment because the tax is laid on consumption.
This is inequitable. The
senator urges the Democrats in Congress
to redeem the free silver and <
State Banks planks of their platform. (
He contends that it is safe for this <
country to adopt free coinage, with or '
without international agreement, and
that our population, wealth and re
sources will enable U3 to sus.ainiton ]
a parity with gold, and 'compel recog- i
nition for it from the enlightened governments
of Europe. His view of the
State bank tax is a sound one. He argues
that it is an unconstitutional war
measure, prohibitory tax, and that it
should b6 repealed, because it has
served its purpose and because the
States have just as much right to control
their own local banks as tbey have
to exercise any other right uader the
Constitution The tax should be unconditionally
repealed. The speech is j
a clear presentation of the facts of the ?
situation and an unanswerable argil- '
ment for the redemption of.the Democratic
pledges of the remonetlzation of
silver, State banks and a revenue tariff.
Until these pledges are redeemed
the senator frankly aay3 that he sees
little prospect of the improvement of
trade, the revival of industry and better
prices for farm products. Senator
Walsh has pointed out the remedy that
is needed to cure the malady from
which the country is suffering, but we
U'-iotsv lifflA Vwv*-?/-v t-kof if- mill ho onrvllorl
liavc iiltiU liUp'C luao i.Ui niu Kf\J My^/iivu I ;
by the present administration, which ?
seems to be blind.
a. Woman Asaasilaatedt
Greenville, Jane 8.?News has i
jast been received here of aaother crime 1
in the ''Dark Corner." On Thursday ,
morning about 11 o'clock, while all the t
male members of her family were in t
the fields working, Mrs. Plumley was
shot and will probably die. She is the
wife of William Plarnley, owner of
considerable property and of a promi
nent family. Mrs. Plumley saw some i
one on the hill above her house and his i
movements excited her suspicion. She
went into the yard and saw a man en- ,
ter her house. He ran toward the |
house and left, taking a trunk contain- ?
ing 6600. As she reached the door, a i
gun was fired and she was struck by a B
bullet which went in her side, coming *
cut on the other. The news spread j
rapidly. A posse was formed and the
assassin was tracked bv the mountain- eers
five miles around Hogback MountolD,
across the headwaters of the Saluda,
the trail ending a few yards from
the house of Van Durwell. Mr. Plumlev
says the Dur wells were the only
people who knew ne had money in
the house: The mouutaineers say that
if Mrs. Piumley dies, the man who fired
the shot will never get out of the
mountains alive. The shooting took ^
place about thirty miles above Greenvi)la,
in the edge of the "Dark Corner."
a?a a
UiO lOAUWlU *-? VM VU|
New York, June 9.?Y peculiar
case of suicide is given out by the authorities
of the prison at Chester. 111.,
in the death of Jame3 Murray, a convict
sentenced from Marion county,111.,
for laceny. Murray resorted to all
kinds of methods to avoid working.
Shortly after he came to the prison he
feigned illness and was seDt to the hospital.
So well did he act his part of a
hospital patient that for several days I
he lay apparently in great agony, refusing
to eat, and took with eagerness
all the bitter prescriptions prescribed
for him by the physicians. His trick
w2s (inallv discovered and it failed to
work on several occasions afterward.
Being determined not to work and
knowing no way out of it but real sick- 1
ness. Murray attempted several methods
of carrying out his purpose. About
two week3 ago he ate a large quantity
of soap. It was the most successful Z
plan he had hit upon, and he lay in the li
the hospital for more than a week really
suffering. Last Saturday Murray
was released from the hospital, and on
Monday he again succeeded in securing
a large bar of lye soap. This he ate
and was at once taken with violent
spasms. He died a horrible death.
says Ir Is a Lie.
Columbia, S. C., June 10.?Governor
Tillman was in hi3 office at the State
House yesterday, having returned from the
North yesterday morning- The
Governor was in a good humor except
over the story which was sent out by
the Associated Tress about his speech
before the Trohibition Convention in
Xew York. lie denounced the entire
report as false and said that he could
prove it by any officer of the convention.
He said that h9 had the Convention
with him by a majority of at least
three to one and believes that the majority
was nearer ten to one. He said
that the New York Times was the only
paper which came near giving him justice.
That paper headed its account of
his speech "Tillman Wins the Day.
Prohibitionists Vote for the South
Carolina L'quor Law." The Governor
was warm under the collar when talking
about the way he had been treated
by the Associated Press and requested
the representative of the Association
here to ask that an investigation be
made into the story sent out.?Uegister.
The Viable Supply.
Xkw Yokk, July 2.?The total visible
supply or cotton for the world is
3.326,Gil bales, of which 2.735,411
bales are American, against 3.410,803 i
bales and 2.774,603 bales respectively
last year; receipts of cotton this week at I
ali interior towns 12,089 Dales; receipts
irom the plantations 1,676 bales; crop
in sight 7,178,612 bales.
\ -r
Musical Homes are Rsppy Bornei. ^
Have you ever noticed it? Call to
rind. the homes of your friends who
?we a good Piano or Orgaa in the
ouse. Are they not brighter and
lore attractive than those where the
ivine art of music never eaters? To
e sure it costs to buy a good instruient,
but it lasts mauy years, and will
ay its costs many a thousand times
ver by interesting the young folks in
aeir homes. Don'c make the mistake,
oougb, of investing haphazard. Post
ourself thoroughly by writing Ludden
rj Bates Southern Music House, Savah*
ah, Ga., the great music house of the
outh, established in 1870. They have j
upplied 50,000 instruments to South
rn homes, and have a reputation for
air prices and honorable treatment of
ustomers; and they represent the leadig
pianos and organs of America
'hey take pleasure in corresponding
rith you, sending free catalogues, etc
Vrite them.
Th j Kingdom of Home.
Let home stand iirst. No matter
ow high your ambition, no matter
ow far your talents or your influences
nay reach, before everything else build
patru9home. Be not its slave; be
:s minister. Let it not be enough that
; is swept ana garnished, that its
iJver is brilliant, that its food is deicious,
but feed the love in it. Then
rom its wails shall come forth the
rue woman and the true man.
What honor can be greater than to
ound such a home? What dignity
igher than to reign its honored misress?
What is the ability to speak
rom a publie platform or the wisdom
hat can command a seat on the judge's
iench, compared to that which caD
nsure and preside over a true home?
?o be the guiding star, the ruling spirit f
n such a home is higher than to rule '
m empire.
A Talk with Tillman.
Washington, June6.?Asoecial to
he Post from WiDston, N. C., says:
rovernor Tiliman, of South Carolina,
fas interviewed here this evening on his
eturn home irom New York. He said
hat dispensaries and high license will be
he issue in tne fall campaign in South
larolina. The question will be settled
ly Democratic primaries in August. 'T
fill not be a candidate for Governor,but
fill be in the race for Sentor Butler's
eat," said the Governor, l,and I expect
o win."
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