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?fl TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. HJ Isl L NIGHT THE DAV, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1881. VOLUME XXXII. NO. 48. T AX N?TICE ? -0:0-. TREASURER'S OFFICE, August 15, J 881. \N accordance will) tho Supply Bill, op? proved December 24th, 1880. notice is hereby given that this ellice will bc open for tho collection of tuxes Thursday, September 15, nod will rc alain opeu until Ootober 31st Tho rate per CCU tutu of tuxes is us follows: State purposes, 5 mills. Couuiy, 3J mills. Dust indebtedness, ll mills, ?cliooi?, - - - 2 mills Fence ~ 1J mills Pull 'tux, - - - $1 00 For thu convenience ul thu tuxpayers I will i.ii.mi ut the billowing plucis: Mrs Barker's, Wednesday, 2 1H Septem ber. Hull's, Ti u red uv, 22d September. Fort .Mid iso o, Fr div. 23d Septo.?.ber. West in luster, Suture'uy, 24th September Fuir l'luj, Tuesday. 27ib September. Sitton's Mills, Wednesday. 28th Septem? bir. Seneca City. Thursday,20lli September. High Fulls, Ftiduy,80th September. Alexander's Store, iMutiduy, 3d October And lui bu I? nee ul' time in my elli oe in the Court House. Tux payers will plc iso attend tit tho ap 1 01 nt me nls by 3 o'clock 1'. M. lu ab e.ises where thc Muy lnMulltucnt has liol beeu piiid u iMiully of Five l?er Cenl. will te utided io said InGtullihcnt. All lax? s re tn ui mug un pud on the first dn> bf November will in? ur ? I'eliulty ?>* Fifteen B'er Cent. mid \\iil be collected by dit-ms or other wist until 15th ot November; tilter that dato i tm County Treasurer will proceed m tol I eel 'y levy und Hule us provided b^ lu y 'luxesme payable in the following kinds ni tuiM s >inl nu oilier; Culu oiiu Silver Coin. United Sinus Currency, National Hmik Notes. Ano toi Connu Tuses Jury and Wit ll Ul fcl'S '1 lek els. Et. I'\ ALOtrVnB'U, Coumy IrtuMiKi OiUIKC County. 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Oclober 128, 1880' 60-ly. AUCTION EVERY SATURDAY, OF THU STOCK OP GOODS ASSIGNED TO mo by A. [, LKIIFOUO for Ibo benefit of his oredilors, until they nro nil sold, at his old stand in Seneca City, S. C. TERMS CASH. f nl.so offer al pvivntcsa?e his Store Hume ?I nd l>M<!?I?ng until Ocloher Isl. next, and if not previously sold I will, on Ibo last men tioned day, ?ell Ibo said Real Estate al auction, TERMS-One third cash, balnnoo in ooo year with intercut from day of sale. JOHN T. DANIT,!,, Assignee mid Agent of Creditor)*, September 1, ?88D .J'^?f Garfield's Favorito Hymn. Ho, r?op?ra of life's harvest. Why stand with rustod blade, Until night draws round theo, And day begins to fade? Why stand yo idle, waiting For reapers moro to ooiuc? Thc golden morn is pnssing, Why sit yo idlo, dumb? Thrust in your sharpened sickle, And gather in the grain; Tlx. night is fust approaching, And soou will como ugain. Thy Mas er oulla for reopcrs; And Bhall ho call in vniu? Shall sheaves lio there ungntbered, And waste upon thc plain? Onno down from hill and roountuin, In morning's ruddy glow, Nor wait until tho dial Points to tho noon below; And come with thc strong sinew, Nor faint iu heat or cold; And pauso not till thc evening Draws round its wrcatli of gold. Discourse bj Hov. T. DeWitt Taimase, on Suuday, September 18th. EMBEZZLEMENT. Thou shalt not steal,-Exodus xx., 15. I am glad that on tho morning of tho aftcvuoou in which wo uro to sit ut thu I o'y communion ? am to speak upon thc great subject of publie morals. It is high time that the Lord's table ceased being thc hiding place for ionic who aro recreant in their lives, and for people who oujiht to know, in the words of tho liturgy ol the Reformed Dutch Church in which I was born, that all thieves and drunkards, und Lars, and whoromoaters, and gamesters, end idolaters cat mid drink damnation to themselves. There is only one orguincut that has ever duue Christianity any damage und that is tho argument drawn from thc inconsistency of Christians. And wo must admit that it is most depressing to have tba world on communion day look over and seo nt thu Iiord's table some who ore known as sharpers, os Shylocks in a bargain, ns impure aud unch-u-tc in speech and action, und as in every way unworthy. It is high time th u t we preached the morals of thc gospel right beside the faith of the gospel. Slr. Froud?) the celebrated English I) is to riin, bas written of his owu oouutry these remarkable words: "From tho great IIOUHO in tho city of London to tho village grooer, tho commer cial lifo of England bas been saturated with frau !. So deep has it gono that a strictly honest tradesman can hardly hold his ground against competition. You cnn no longer trust that any nrtiolo you buy is ibo thing which it prctenls to be. Wc hayo false weights, false measures, cheat ing and shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy have seen ail this glow up iu abso lute indifference. Many hundreds of ?er mons have I board iu England, many u dissertation on tho mysteries of faith, on bishops and justification, and tho theory of good works, and verbal insp. i ion, and tho ellie.icy of thu sacrament, but, during all these wonderful thirty years, never one, timi lean recollect, on common honesty." Now thut IO ny be an exaggerated state ment of things in England, hut I mn very certain that in all parts of thc earth wo need to preach tho moralities of the gospel right along beside thc faith of tho gospel. Une of the crying .sins of thc day ia thc abuse of trust funds. Every man during thu course of his life, op a larger or smaller .-eile, has tho prosperity of others com mitted to his keeping. Ile is so fur a Safety deposit; ho is un administrator, and holds in his hand thc interest of thc family of a deceased friend. Or bc is an attor ney, and through his custody goes the pay ment from debtor to creditor. Or bc is the collector for a business houso, whioh compensates him for thc responsibility. Or bc is a treason r fol a cbariiable institution and holds alms contributed for thc sulfur ing. Or bc is an ollieiul for tho city, or the State, or tho notion, ond taxes, and subsidies, and salarios, and supplies are io his keeping. It is ns solemn u trust as Oed oun make it. It is concentrated and multiplied conUdcnces. Ou thut mun de pends thc support of a bereft household, or the morals of dependants, or thu right movement of a thousand wheels of social mechanism. A man muy do what ho will with bis own, but bo who abuses trust funds in that ono not commits theft, false hood, perjury, und becomes, io till thc in tensity o? tho word, n miscreant. How many widows and orpbn.s ibero oro with nothing between them ?nd starvation but ti sewing machine, or held out of thc vortex ol destruction simply by thc thread of a nee dle used with their own h art's blood, who ii little while ago had, by father husband, left them n competency. What is the molter? Tho administrator or tho execu tors have frnoriliocd it-running risks with lt they would not havo dared to ciioouulor iu their own private uff? irs. How often it album mun will carn n livelihood by tho iwtiit of bis brow, und then dio, and within i ic? months nil tho cstato goes into tho itockgnmbling rapids of Wall street. How lften ia it that you havo known tho man to vhom trust funds wero committed taking hem out of tho savings bunk mid from rust companies, and administrators tuni ng old homesteads into hurd cash, and then tutting thc entire cstule into the vortex of peculation. Ivnbez/.lement is tm ca1 y ?ord to pjroiidun<Hybut it lus ten' thou sand ramification*, of horror. Tl?ero ia not n oity or a town thut has not suffered from tho abuso of trust funds Whero is tho courthouse, or tho city hall, or tho jail, or thc postofliuc, or tho hospital that iu the building of it has not had a political jot? Long boforo tho now court houso in New York city was completed it coat over 812, 000,000. Fivo million six hundred and sixty three thousand dollars for furniture! For plastering and rcpuirs, 82,370,000. For plumbing and pas work, 81,231,817. For awnings, 823,053. Tho bills for thrco months coming to thc nico lit?lo sum of 813,151,198 39. Thero was not an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or nail, or foot of plumbing, or inoh of plastering, or ink stand, or door knob in tho whole establish ment. Such u set of thieves as that discouraged all tho other oitics aspiring to great knaveries. Brooklyn sat modest und overshadowed; but wc oro ooming up at last. During the lust few days it Iras hecu fouud out that our city is to take a stand io tho frout rank of speculation. More than 8200,000 intended for ibo education of tho children of tho city diverged into privuto pockets. About tho outr igo there can bo uo doubt; but I solemnly cbargo you, halt in your condemnation of individ uals until the high tribunal of the city shall huvc explored this whole mutter. It is on awful thing to fly at innocent people, and theo find uftcrwurds they aro inuoccnt, and too lute to correct tho wrong. Thero uro times when there is a conjunction of cir cumstuuees, and it seems u9 if tho nun must be guilty, but ufter ull tho Lord do livers him. If it is a good rule for tho world, it ought oertuinly to be a good rulo for tho church: tuite overy man us innocent until you have proved him gui,ty. Now. 1 declare that I will not believe any of these men guilty until the witnesses hive given their sworn testimony, and tho judge hus given his einige, und the jury h ivo render ed their verdict. Dut thero ts not a mun in pulpit who can nflord to let thc crime itfioll puss without arraignment und anath ema. There ure two or thrco things espe cially aggravating about this outrage. Ono is that it takes tho taxes of tho people In tho struggle of life there are exhausted men and there ure invalid women to whom thc tux bill is a torture. All tho year long they have to make close calculation for thut crisis, but it is p ty or be sold out, piy or you lose yjur home, pay or you .sacrifico all you have gained. It seems a very easy thing while yon aro standing ia tho collec turs office lo see tho tuxes puss through the business window and seo tho receipts re turned; bul God only knows what anxiety, what tug, what toil, what sweat, what pang may have made that payment possible Thero is blood money in those 8200,000 of purloined finnis Dut another aggravation is in thc luot that the teachers of our pub lic schools have been pushed and crowded in their livelihood by this fraud. Enough moneys have been voted for educational purpuses, but instead of going to Ibo sup port of the men und women who aro put ting bruin a'd nervo und lifo in the educa, tion of young, much of tho money has gone into tho bunds of scoundrelly. Teachers' Si la fies lowered and lowered and lowered to tho point of starvation simply because tho publie treasury was in thc hands of plunderers. It will never bo known in thu world what sufferings there havo been in some households bccuiso of tho necessitated economy in the fixing of teaohers' salaries. There is many a young vornan in tltis city by teaching supporting invalid parents on a poor stipend, and when that stipend is out short it simply means domestic tragedy. If one halt', if ouo fourth of tho moneys have been swindled or stolen bud gono for tho support of tho teachers, thero would havo been better work done in thc schoolroom, thero would havo been less suffering in many houics und there would bc less injustice to uo wcr for when God brings us into tho reck oning. Now, this great outrngoleads mc to two or three remarks Ono is, thero must bo something awfully wrong in n management where hundreds of thousands can be stolen, and thc process go on year by year, and thc discovery of it como so lute. Thero must be a group boin ow here interested in this. Thero must bo a considerable num ber of bauds. While I hopo thc officers of thc law will arrest thc guilty, 1 want to say here, ibero ought to bo better stylo of business introduced into many public piucos, and thero ought to bo less opportu nity fur embezzlement. Lest u man shall take u five cent piece that does not be long to him, thc conductor on thc oily boise our must sound his boll ut cvory pavement, and wo aro very cautious about small offenses, but givo plenty of opportu~ nity for sinners on a largo aculo to escape. For a boy who 6teuls a loaf bread to keep his motlier from starving to death, u prison; hut for defraudors who unsound with half a million of dollars, ti castle on thu Rhine, or Waiting uutil tho olfonso is forgotten, then a cast lu on tho Hudsm! Another remark needs to bo made, and that, that people ought not to go into piucos, into business, or into positions whore tho temp tation is mightier than their oh arador. If there bu large sums of money to bo handled iud the mau is not sure of his own integ rity, you have no right to rim un uasea . Worn y cruft into an euroolydon. A man jun tell by the sense of weakness or strength io tho prosonoo ot a bud opportunity ffhetht-r bois in u sufc place. Ohl how nany parents make un awful mistake when hey put tluir boys in bunking houses, and llores, und shops, und factories and )f places of solemn trust without onoo dis - lusting whether they cnn ouduro tho temp atioo. You givo tho boy plonfy of money, iud have no account of it, and moko tho tay down become very easy, and you tony put upOD him n pressure thut lie cannot stood. There aro men who go into posi4 tione full of temptation, considering only ! tho fact that thoy aro lucrativo positions. Oh! I suy to tho young pcoplo hero this morning, dishonesty will not p<iy in this world or tho world to como. An abbot Wonted to buy a picoo of ground, and tho owner would not soil ii, but tho owner finally consented to let it to him until bc could raiso ono orop, and tho abbot sowed acorns, a crop of two hundred years! And I tell you, young mun, that tho dishonesties which you piont in your heart nnd lifo will seem to be very insignificant, but they Will grow up until they will overshadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all timo and ull eternity, lt will not be a crop for two hundred yean, but a crop for everlast ing ages. I stand thu morning bet?re many who have trust funds. It is a o:im pliaient to you that you have been so in trusted; but I charge you in tho presenco of God and tho world, bo careful; bc os careful of tho properly of others as you arc careful of your own. Above ull, keep your own private account ut thc bunk sopu nto from your account as trustee of an es tate, or trustee of any institution. That is the point at which thousnnds of people make shipwreck?. They got tho property of others mixed up willi their own prop orly; they put it iuto investment, and away it all goes, and they cannot return that which they borrowed. Then comes thc explosion, nod thc money lanker is shaken, and the press denounces, and tho church thunders expulsion. You liavo no r'glit to uso the property of ethers except for their advantage; nor without consent, ex? oept they are minors, [f, with their con sent, you invest. Iheir property os well us you can, and it is nil lost, yon nro not to blame. You did tho best you could; but do not como into thu delusion which hus ruined so many men, of thinking beoiuse a thing is in their possession therefore it is theirs. You havo a solemn trust tint God hus given you. In this vast assemblage there may bo some who havo misappropri? ? ted trust funds. Put tlictn back, or if you have so hopelessly involved them that you cannot put them back, confers the whole thing to those whom you have wronged, and you will sleep bettor nights, and you will have tho better chance for your soul. What a sid thing it would bc if after you ero dead your Administrator should Ind out fro n thc account books, or from the lack of vouchers, that you wera not only bankrupt in estate, but that you lost your soul. If n!l thc trust funds tliut havo been misappropriated should very suddenly fly to their owners, and all tho property thal has been purloined should suddenly go buck to its owners, it would crush into ruins every city in America. A missionary in ono of thc islands of the Pacific preached a sermon one Sabbath on dishonesty, und tho next morning ho looked out of his window and ho suv his yard full of goods of nil kinds ile wondered omi asked thc cause of ull this. "Well," said the natives, "our gods that we huvo been worshipping permit us to stol, but according to what you said yesterday tho God of heaven nod earth will not allow this, so we bring bick all theso goods, and wc ask you to help us in taking them to tho places whore they bo long." If next Sabbath all the ministers in America should pro-ioh sermons on tho abuse of tiust funds, and on thc evils of purloining, and tho sermons wore all blest of God, and regulation wcro made that all theso things should he taken to thc city halls, it would not ho long before every city hall in America would bo crowded from cellar to cupola. Lit ino suy in tho most emphatic way, U young mon dishonesty will never pay. A blustering young mun arrived nt a hotel in tho West, and he saw a man on the sidewalk, and in a rough v, ay, ns no man has a right to ad dress a laborer, said to him: "Curry this trunk up stairs " The man oarriod tho trunk up stairs and cunio down, und then the young mun gave him a quarter of a dollar, which was marked, and instead of being twenty live cents it was worth only twenty cents. Then tho young mon, who gave his card to thc laborer, but J: "You take this up to Governor Grimes; I want to sec him." "Ah!" suid tho luboror, 'T jin Governor G times!1' "Oh,'' said the young mun, "you - 1-excuso me." Then the Governor said: "I was UIUJII impressed ny the letter you wroto mc, asking for a jortnin ofiioo in my gift, and 1 lind made ?P my mind you should huvo it, but a young mun who will oho.it a laborer out of ivo cents would swindle thc government of ho State if he got his hands on it. I ion't want you. Good morniug, sir.'' lt lever pays. Ncithor tn this world nor ho other to oomo will it pay. Well, I vant you to understand that while these lislioucstics uro going on, immortal souls iro being lost. Tho reoord will never bc cud in this world. God will bring into cecum all those who havo offended Him. \ro you not impressed with tho idea this norning that this is n poor wot hi to do ^sinews in without God to help omi God odciotidf' You seo tho mun whom you opposed inourruptiblo going down under ho first flash of temptation-tho mun raving not only his conscience, but oowing ho will bo found out, braving thc [ovation of tho world. Every business iso wants God. He knows our weakness nd he knows our temptation. It is an uthentio stutistio that ninety-eight busi ess men out of ovory hundred fail finan iully. I wonder how many foil morally? 'un want God besido you, behind tho nurjtor and beforo ibo ooutitcr, ond then ou will buy right nnd you will sell ght, und you will bo right. Do not ?list in your, own arm; it may fail you. Do ut trust in your wisdom; it my turneo' folly. Do not trust in your own Unen lightened oonsoioncc; it may bc perverted. Got directly from thc throne of God your counsel. 1 do not suppose thcro ever was n better specimen of honesty than was found in tho Duke of Wellington. JIo marched witlt his army over tho Kreuch frontier, und tho urmy was Bullering and ho hardly kocw how to get along. Plenty of plunder nil about, but ho commanded nono I of tho plunder to bc talton. Rewrites homo these remarkable words: '.Wo aro overwhelmed with debts, and I can scarcely stir out of my houso on oe? count of publio creditors waiting to do mond what is diio to thom." Yet at that very time tho French peasan try were bringing their valuables to him to koop! A celebrated writer says of tho transaction: .'Nothing cnn bo grander or moro nobly original than this admission, This old soldier, nftcr thirty years' service, this iron mau and victorious general, established in un enemy's country ot ?ho head of an im mense urmy, is nfruid of lin creditors! This ia a kind of fear that has seldom troubled conquerors and invndors, nod ? doubt if thc annals of war present any-, thing comparable to its sublime simplic ity." When you hear that you arc not sur prised that I statu that in tho timo of old age, when, with oil tho honors that Eng land could put upon him, tho Duke or Wellington knelt nt tho chancel to tuko thc sacrament, a poor mau knelt beside bim, and some one touched thc poor man on tho shoulder and said, "You havo no business here beside tho Duko of Welling ton." The Duke of Wellington lifted his bead from his prayer and put bis hand on tho shoulder of thc poor man, and said, "Stay where von mo. liofuro God wc ara all equal." Ali! my iVionds, it is tho morality of tho gospel beside tho faith of thc gospel that is KO admirable Lot us also i ? lociciful whilo wo aro critical of the fallon. A very impoitaof, remark for mo to make now. Thora aro, two kinds of persons for whom wo ought to have a great pity. First, tho innocent, if they are pursued and maligned and perse cuted. Wo ought to pity them because they atc so maltreated But thcro is ouc class that needs moro pity and ought to havo it. That is tho guilty. They have not only the assault of tho world, but they havo thc hard blows of their own conscience. You give mp a very poor reason for being severe on the fuJIeu when you say they aro guilty. Fur whom did Christ, tho great exemplar, como to sufier and die? For thc guilty. While thc hw ought to be executed, and thc aggressor, for tho good of society, ought to bo punished, let there bo no severity in the judge's ch irgc, let there be no exultation over tho fallen, lot thcro bo nu clapping of hands when the verdict of condemnation is rendered. How much better would we have dune it if wo had been under tho samo temptation? God knows. God sometimes lets these merciless critics tumble into tho very crimes that they reprehended. Just ut tho time I was entering tho ministry there wis n clergy man, a celebrated clergyman of a sister denomination, whom I heard one day with blazing and merciless indignation d muutie ing a fallen minister of tho gospel, and, with ? sort a pharisaical air, declaring that he never could be tempted into such a sin. Within three years that boasting minister was tried and condemned for that very sin, hurled out of the ministry, died of a broken heart, and lins a long whilo lain in Greenwood. Oh! you had better bo mer ciful in your criticism of the fallen. T do not like to hour a m in say, "I couldn't bo tempted to do this," or "1 couldn't bo tempted todo that'' If God's grace should lot us go we ooulJ do anything. It is a sim ple fact that sumo of the most magnificent natures that G id ever built havo {allen, They had ono weakness, or they made ouo misstep from which they could never ro cover. 1 havo seen so urmy kind, genial, generous tu'eutcd, potent men overthrown, whilo many who were nci'hor kind, nor talented, nor potent Irivo rcmaiuod mimo jested ?ti their mediocrity, that I fool I must cry tho al inn loud und long to all those who have any attractiveness-any especial ability. Aye, wc must go further, and not only pity tho filien, but show mcroy unto them. Inever shall forget au old minister, Hov. Dr. Soott, living ir? Newark, N. J., who ivas inulignod becauso ho scemod to feel sorry for a man who had been inoircoratcd; und whilo tho community denounced tho 3riine oud tho man, Dr. Soott-ono of tho most glorious ministers of tho gospel I 3vcr knew-day by day stood nt the wicket >f thc prison. I met Dr. Scott ono day >n thc street, and I was surprised at his joinposurc. ?'Why," ho said, "I don't nind this at nil; it is tho greatest honor I ?vcr hod. Christ was tho friend ol' sin? icrs, jou know, ond I um just trying to ?mi. ato (lim." Howard-John Howard for lungcons, Floro nco Nightingale for tho pounded, Miss Dix for thc insane, David brainard for tho barbarians und Jesus Jlirist for nil tho suffering, and all tho vandcring, and all tho wicked, and nil tho ost. Ohl.let us imitato his example I ?ko thc spirit ol the two English s.?lora vandcring thc streets of Fun's ouo day. They were on their way from Spain home. L'hcy flaw o henrso going through tho street -a hearse oarrying tho dead to tho demo ary. There was no ourringo following, ^icro was not cvon a dog following, 'he sailors wero touched by this speotaclo f lonlincs?, and ono of them said, "Poor rrctch, ho has got nobody to follow him j tho grave; let us follow him." So they )ok o position behind thc hearse, took their ats oft, followed to tho goto pf tho'eenie [09NCI.UDED ON FoUUT? PAO'?'.J'