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TO THINS OWN SELF BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BS FALSE TO ANY MAN. j BY JAYNK8, HUELOK, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAROU 27, 1001. NEW SERIES, NO. 150.-VOLUME MI,--NO. 18 We Pay a^* ^-.Dividend ! We have adopted a new system in our store by which our cash customers are enabled to realize a dividend. Be sure to get your check for the amount of your cash purchase and read both sides of it. Come in and let us explain our system to you. C. W. & J. E. BAUKNICHT. Walhalla, S. C. STORY RECALLED BY DEATH. Body of Gon. Harrison's Father Once Sold by Gravo Robbers. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 14.-Tho death of Gon. Harrison recalls the 8oneation which was created when tho body of his venerable father was found in a medical college in this city, where it had been sold by "body-snatchers." Tho Hon. John Scott Harrison, the son of Ohio's first President and father of ex-President Harrison, died suddenly at his home in North Bond, on Wednesday, May 29, 1878, of a mysterious disease. Two days later his body was interred in Con gress Green Cemetery, near North Bend, beside tho tomb in which his father's remains rested. As a gang of body-snatchers had been at work in the vicinity extraordinary pre cautions wore taken to keep them from stealing the body, especially as it was understood that, owing to tho fact that he liad died from some unknown disease, the doctors wanted to secure the remains for dissection, j That same night John Harrison, another son, was informed that tho grave of August Devins, an intimate friend of his,, had been opened and tho body stolen. Tho grave was located near that of the Harrison tomb. John Harrison was consider ably wrought up when he learned of the affair and, with a friend, came to this city to look for the body, as they were positivo that it had been brought here. This was thc day following tho burial of his father. On reaching the city bc secured tho services of Detective Snelbacker, Constable Walter Lacey and Deputy Constable Tallon to assist him in the search. Tho first place the party visited was tho Ohio Medical College. Thc janitor, John Marshall, met them at the door, and after some argument agreed to show them through the building. Suspicious of the jani tor's move tho detective walked over to one corner of the room, where a chute, which was used in hauling bodies from the alley to the room, was located. There were several bodies in tho room, soino of which had been out Up, but as none of them was that of tho one they were looking for, tho party was about to leave the room, when Snelbacker grasped bold of tho rope in the chute and remarked that there was something heavy attached to the other end of it. He asked the janitor whether it was a human body, but Marshall said he did not know, and to make sure, Snelbacker tamed the windlass and soon brought into view a nacked body, over tho head of which was a com mon sack. The rope to which tho body was attached had been fastened around under tho anns and in ono place had cut tho neck. The corpse was hauled into tho room and placed on tho floor. At first young Harri son did not want to lift tho sack from tho bead, saying that Devins had died from consumption and that tho body was too heavy to be that of his friend. Snelbacker, however, urged him to look at thc face, say ing that if they did not lind tho body he would later regret having gone without assuring himself that it was not his friend. It was then | that Harrison lifted the sack which concealed thc features of tho corpse I and glanced at the face, which was that of an elderly man with white TO THINS OWN SELF BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BS FALSE TO ANY MAN. j BY JAYNK8, HUELOK, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAROU 27, 1001. NEW SERIES, NO. 150.-VOLUME MI,--NO. 18 He Disputes the Famoi Terms of Pe Northfield, Minn., March 4.-Edi tor Atlanta Journal : Upon my return from the Northwest into tho sphere of daily newspapers, I find, copied from tho Washington Post, tho an swer of Henry Watterson to my criticism of his recent utterances on "Undo Tom's Cabin," and of his anterior sensation with regard to Mr. Lincoln and the Confederate Commissioners at Hampton Roads. The historical importance of tho issue raised will justify mo in asking again tho courtesy of your columns tor reply. A brief personal digression is ren dered necessary. Mr. Watterson, writing with much evidence of heat, proclaims his "independence of meretricious advertising," imputes to mo discourtesy and impertinence and tho desire for self-exploitation in attacking him. ' NO DISCOURTESY INTENDED. As my personal comments wore purely hypothetical, Mr. Watterson seems unduly sensitivo. I did not mean to touch him so deeply. I have long been a groat admirer of his talents and popularity. I fully agree that ho does not need "mere tricious advertising," and should not seek it. Nor was I moved by any desire or necessity to exploit myself in attack ing his opinions. When so trans continental a luminary as Col. Wat terson attacks thc civilization or the history of a whole section of tho Re public, oven tho humblest and obscurest of its citizens may pre sume without impertinence to do fend it. But while I disclaim tho discour tesy, I do not hesitato to confess my very great impatience at thc avidity with which Mr. Watterson seizes upon opportunity to say things that reflect upon the people who have loved and honored him. The South has boen much under 1 fire within the decade. Over its ' financial policies, and, more particu larly, over thc occasional eruptions of its social problem, there has been some fierce criticisms from distin guished and potential sources of ex pression. If tho blade of tho Ken tuckian has flashed onco during this period in public defense of his sec tion and people, the chivalric act has not been noted in tho newspapers. IONORKS TUB ISSUE. But twico within these six years ho has gone out of his way to lend the weight of his name and popu larity to documents which reflect the ono upon the ante-bellum charac ter and civilization of tho Southern people, and the other upon the wis dom and fidelity of the Confederate President and his cabinet. Thc fact that both of these posi tions command the applause of Northern newspapers and of North ern audiences, does not necessarily imply that Mr. Watterson believes that eternal concession is the price of popularity "across the lines." In tho card published in Tho Post Mr. Watterson distinctly ignores thc issue raised by his endorsement of Mrs. Stowe's self-confessed exaggera tion of tho conditions of Southern slavery. Ho is wise to do so. I commend his prudence. His position is indefensible in fact or in loyalty, and ho knows it. Before, however, I permit him to escape to a scarcely less offensive proposition I must inform him that ho has already dono the South grave injury by his thoughtless speech. The peoplo of the North aro freely quoting him in condemnation of the South's treatment of the slaves. I hoar it on many sides. Here before; me is tho Minneapolis Journal, claim ing tho largest circulation wost of Chicago, exultantly exclaiming "Col. Watterson says that Mrs. Slowe's picture of Southern slavery was cor rect, and that not tho book, but tho conditions it described, produced the war." HKKPONKIIU.K KOK MIS WORDS. Col. Watterson will protest he did not say that. Even so. But that H tho effect of his words. Mis en dorsement, gives color and force to every baneful impression created by Mrs. Stowo's fiction and tho spec tacular dramas which perpetuate it. Mr. Watterson is responsible for the effect of his words. Ile is not a novice in tho uso of English, and the Minneapolis Journal cannot bo ac cused of ignorance in its construc tion. And if thc distinguished talker, upon his next lecture tour of the country, will forgot for a moment j MES8 S Editor's Statements, j ace in 1865, bis bouquet audiencos in Now York and converso with tho young oolloge mon and tho average people who a8somblo in tho lecture halls, ho will need no further assurance of the iuilucnoe of tho book and of tho play and of his own endorsement of thom among tho representative people of tho North and West. But perhaps tho distinguished lecturer does not have leisure or inclination for tho representative class. Ile evidently prefers to measure public opinion by tho genial tides of metropolitan good fellowship. STORY IS UNFOUNDED. Mr. Watterson devotes tho burden of his reply to the defense of tho very sensational position which ho assumed five years ago in Chicago with reforenco to tho torras offered the Confederate commissioners at Hampton Roads. There is nothing in yellow jour nalism more sensational and un founded than the story ho insists upon exploiting in this connection. In dealing with this phaso of tho controversy, he does not deal fairly with his own record. Ile quotos in tho Post only a portion of tho speech for whioh I arraigned him in Chicago, and omits, accident. Hy, of course, the paragraphs which contained tho sting to thc peoplo among whom ho lives. I will refresh his memory. In his Chicago speech, after relat ing tho romantio incident supposed to have occurred between Mr. Lin coln and Mr. Stephens, in which tho former is alleged to have put hi arm about the latter and said, "Ste phens, let mo write Union at tho top of this page, and you may write what you please after it." Mr. Wat terson is reported verbatum as fol lows : "I am not going to tell any talcs out of school. I am not hero foi controversy, but when wo aro dead and gone the private memorabilia of those who knew what torms wore really offered the Confederacy within ninety days of its total col lapse-will show that in tho indi idual judgment of all of them thc wisdom of the situation said, 'Ac cept.' " REFLECTS UPON COMMISSIONERS* If the allegations expressed or im plied in these sentences are true thc} mightily impugn the common sense of the Confederate commissioners ant of the Confederate government, ant reflect with great severity upon timi loyalty to the great interests com mitted to their administration. If they were true it seems to rai lhat Henry Watterson of Confede rate memories might well have lef Lo other hands their promulgation If they are not true-and I shal provo this to the satisfaction of al honest men-it seems to mo tba Henry Watterson of national reput should not be slow to disavow ai utterance which does him no honoi und rellects discredit upon the los sause ho served. Of the great figures that Hat in tba famous conference at Hampton Road not one survives. Lincoln, slain b tho mad fanatic who stabbed deepOfi in his blindness tho causo ho mean to serve ; Seward dead, while Alex Mirier Stephens, Vice President c the Confederacy, after long years c usefulness) to a reunited country, hr Followed Hunter and Campbell to th final assizes, where all causes ai adjudicated. CITR8 Ills AUTHORITIES. If Lincoln and Seward havo le: upon record any statement wino sustains the Walterson allegations, have yet to sec it. On the otb hand, I place upon the witness stan in their published utterances, St plions, Hunter, Campbell-evei one ot tho Confed ralo eonforocs li id J. II. Rengan, tho last li VII member of Jefferson Davis' cabine in direct and positive con trad ictio No linnie in Confederate histoi lias been more frequently used f tho purposes of this story than th :>f Judge Campbell, of Louisiana, e Justice of the United States Supren Court, Assistant Secretary of Wi io tho Confederate government ai >ne of the talifcrees at Ilamptt Hoads. Let us appeal from goss IO tho records. Almost immediately after thc co fcrohoe at Hampton Roads, ai probably on the steamer whit liroughl tho Confederate Commi donors away, Judge Campbell s lo wu and reduced to writing a coi [)loro and accurate "memorabilia" jvery incident of that conf rent ncluding the anecdotes with whl Mr. Lincoln interspersed it. FLT TO Cites Authority for Deni; Indemnity to ! CAMPBELL'S ACCOUNT ACCURATE. Ia tho promptness of its prepara tion and the freshness of its tran scription, this is perhaps the most aoourato and roliablo history of that oonferenoo iu existence, ante dating by sotuo months at least any account of it which ovou Mr. I Stephens might have written at that period. This statement was tempo rarily committed to tho keoping of Governor Bonjamiu Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, who exhibited it at differ ent times to loading men in refuta tion of this idlo story. These recol lections were afterwards published by Judge Campbell ovor Iiis signa turo io "Tho Land Wo Love," a magazine edited at that time by Gen. D. II. Hill, and tho files of which, by tho way, aro preserved within reach of Mr. Watterson's hand in Louisville. Tho statement was afterwards contributed by Judge Campbell to tho Historical Society of Virginia, and was published a second time under tho auspices of that society. Tlio statement of Commissioner Campbell is too lengthy in detail to be reproduced in this article. It is enough to say that ho puts it much stronger and closer than oven Mr. Stephens in "Tho War Between tho States" that neither Mr. Lincoln nor Mr. Seward mado any offer or sug gestion which could servo as a foundation for this Wattcrsonian story. MADE NO PROMISES. Ho distinctly says that "before the conference proper began Messrs. Lin coln and Seward informed the com missioners from the Confederate States that on the day before tho Congress of tho United States had passed a constitutional amcndment-| entirely abolishing slavery, and gavo them notice that nothing could bo dono on that subject. This disposes effectually of the dramatic incident described between Lincoln and Stephens. Judge Campbell made several ef forts to got a statement from Messrs. Lincoln and Seward au to what would be done, and what guaranteo tho Southern States would have if they should agree to end tho war then. Ho was uniformly mot with the answer that "nothing would be prom ised ; no guarantees would bo given. The South must cease hostilities and trust to 'clemency.' " Ho says nothing whatever as to any interview between President Lincoln and Mr. Stephens, private or aside from tho other commissioners. Thc only difference between the statements of Judgo Campbell and Mr. Stephens is in the greater clear ness and definiteness of detail with which tho former destroys tho rumor that Mr. Lincoln mado any proposi tion to pay for thc slaves or to settle tho war upon any other terms than absolute submission on tho part of the Confederacy. REPUTATION PROM STEPHENS. Alexander Stephens, Vice Presi dent of tho Confederacy, and Com missioner to Hampton Hoads, has been quoted by Mr. Watterson and by other gentlemen recently as hav ing sustained in private conversation tho details of' this sensational narra- a tivo. Ho is tho strongest and most convincing witness in refutation. 1; As to Mr. Stephens: When wo a remember that tho Vice President ' was not on cordial terms with tho President of thc Confederacy-that l' ho was a Union man and an unwill- 0 ing convert to secession-and that w although ho went into thc war earn estly ano loyally, ho soon lost hopo H of its favorable issue and as earnest ly desired pe"acc-it does not seem possible that ho would have failed to " eagerly receive and advocate, any . P proposition so enticing a tho alleged P offer of Mr. Lincoln, or that, it such 11 a proposition had been made and rc- I1 jeeted, ho would have failed to re- f< cord it in iiis book for his own vindi- n cation and for the truth of history. On the contrary, ho furnishes the 1' strongest refutation of this irrepres- w siblo canard. n LINCOLN ts QUOTED, In Iiis "War Between the States" 8 (vol. 2, pages bl -617) Mr. Stephens 0 describes the conversation in which n Mr. Lincoln, broad, catholic, just, 11 and loving tho Union supremely, h expressed his merely personal feel- Ol ings in this matter of tho Southern T slaves. I quote hore tho only his- j, torical foundation on which our tl banquet historian can rest his a whimsical romance : - 0 ''After Mr. Lincoln had repeatedly 1 TO THINS OWN SELF BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BS FALSE TO ANY MAN. j BY JAYNK8, HUELOK, SMITH & STECK. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MAROU 27, 1001. NEW SERIES, NO. 150.-VOLUME MI,--NO. 18 MR. CARNEGIE ACKNOWLEDGES A DEBT. "Labor, Capital and Bu si noss Ability ar tho Three Legs of a Throe-Longed Stool." Mr. Carnegie's latest gift, that of $6,000,000 for the benefit of super annuated and disabled employees of the Carnegie Company, was an nounced yesterday, and is said to be the largest benefaction oreated by him, and probably without a coun terpart in the world. It is oertainly a generous ouo, and is especially notable bec au HO of the reasons which be assigns for making it. As explained in his letter to the president and managers of the com pany, the income of $1,000,000 is to bo spont in maintaining three largo libraries already provided mainly for tho use of tho employees of the com pany, and that of the remaining 14,000,000 is to bo applied for tho support of all injured omployeoB and the dependents of those who are killed, and to provide pensions or aid bo suob employees as, "after long and oroditable service, through excep tional circumstances, shall need help in their old ago, any surplus over 1)200,000 after ten years of such use, to bo applied in like ways for work men in mills other than of the com pany, in Allegheny County, tho near est of suoh mills being first em braced." This gift, it is noted in tho dispatch announcing it, is independent of and in addition to the savings fund estab lished by tho oompany fifteen years ago for the benefit of the employees generally, in which nearly $2,000,000 of their savings are on deposit, and >n which the company, "by oontraot, pays 6 per cont and lends money to them to build their own homes," tho aggregate fund available for their aid ind relief in misfortune and for homo building purposes, while thoy are ablo to work, being $6,000,000-the annual income from which, it may be assumed, in consideration of the general profitable management ot tho company, cannot be less than $860, 000. The employees may, therefore, be regarded as very well provided for and protcoted from want and anxiety in times of need and in old agc. It may also well be believed that tho oompany, by reason of their sevoral beneficent provisions, will always have an exceptionally strong claim on the loyalty of its many employees and will bo able to command their most efficient work in its service. Doubtless its investment will provo a profitable one, as well as a benefi cent one, accordingly. The especially noticeable point in Mr. Carnegie's letter, however, is tho reason he frankly and publicly assigns for his gifts. Ho says : "I mako this just uso of surplus wealth upon ro tiring from business as an acknowl edgment of the deep debt which I owe to tho workmen who have con tributed so greatly to my success," and ho repeats what he had before said in a recent speech to somo of them, that "labor, capital and busi ness ability are thc three legs of a three-legged stool"-tho stool of business success-"and neither is first, neither second, neither third ; there is no precedence, all being equally necessary." These, it is to bo remembered, aro not tho words of a theorist, a vision ary, a leveller, a Socialist, ora mouth ing politician, but of a particularly practical business man-about tho most practical and successful one that tho Iron Age has produced so far. Ile speaks with unimpeachable au thority, and out of the fullness of a full knowledge, an unprecedentedly successful experience and an over flowing pocket. What he says is worthy of tho profoundest attention and respect of all other representa tives of "capital" and of "business ability" everywhere. Ile has not so much mado a generous present to his workmen, ho says, as "acknowledged" merely, not paid, "tho deon debt" which ho owes to tho workmen who have worked with him and for him and contributed so greatly to his success-who have mado it possiblo for him to give away money liko water to them and to others. Capi tal and business ability, says tho greatest living representative of both, jo not como beforo thc "labor," tho humble and unknown, but efficient, worker, who workB with tho u. "There is no precedence." It is an impressive statement to some from such an authority, and it is woll worth tho most thoughtful aonsidoration of all employers, of all 3las8cs, in all business enterprises, From tho groatest to tho least. It pre8ont8 a most instruotivo lesson in business management and a most suggestive chart of ope way to busi ness success-ff very broad and straight and^satisfactory way, ns ap pears /rom tho experience of tho authority who presents it. There is only one point, perhaps, in whioh it might bo improved. Mr. Carnegie has waited long, for many years, until ho has "retired from business" and from work with bis humbler fellow workers before acknowledging and paying, in greater or less part, the deep debt whioh he oonoedes that he owes them. It might have been bet ter, on the whole, for him and them it doubtless would have been better if he had reoognizod it and acknowl edged it earlier and begun its pay ment earlier. Had be shared tho fruits of bis suooess with them in a moro liberal or just measure from the beginning, during all those years when he was gathering them and pit ing them up, life would have boon far botter with thom, the hardest of their work would have been far easier for thom, many hours of anxiety and sorrow and hopelessness would have been spared to them, and many of thom would havo been encouraged, comforted and blessed by bis help who passed boyond tho roach of it while they waited for it. Others who may bo inclined to profit by his teach ings and follow his fino example might well avoid his ono error.-Charleston Nows and Courior. Soo that you got the original DoWitt's Witch Hazel Salvo whoa you ask for it. Tho gonuino is a certain euro for pilos, aoros and skin diseases. J. W. Bell. Sam Jones and Talmage. Sam Jones is the embodiment of an audacity that sometimes comos very near the border line of discour tesy. A clergyman who often assists him in his series of meetings told me tho other day this story in the early history of Mr. Jones's evangelistic work : He was invited by Dr. Talmage to hold a series of meetings in the doc tor's Brooklyn ohuroh. Mr. Jones went to Dr. Talraago's home during tho afternoon of the day on whioh his engagoment began and intro duced himself. Mr. Talmago looked him over and was evidently a little taken aback at the rather shabby ap pearance of the evangelist. As it approached evening he said : "Bro ther Jones, would you take it amiss if I presented you with a new suit of clothes ?" "Certainly not," said the accommodating Samuel. He was taken to a clothier and fitted from head to foot, topping all with a high hat. At church the doctor introduced him as tho Rev. Samuel P. Jones from Georgia. Mr. Jones arose with his new hat in hand and repeated : "Yes, tho Rev. Samuel P. Jones, from Georgia," and added : "And this is tho new suit of clothes and this the new hat your pastor has presented to me. If your pastor had as much of tho grace of God in his heart as ho has pride be would convert all Brooklyn and would not need me." :W PISO'S CURE FOR r3 hiiMHin[liMi"i<K>] iiHji !a4iii'aaa j, \ CURtS WHERE Att ELSE FAILS. Boat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. In time. Sold hy druggliu. # CONSUMPTION! Programme Of tho Union Mooting of the Third Division of tho Boavotdam Baptist Asso ciation, to bo hold with tho New Bothol church on tho fifth Sunday and Saturday boforo in this month : Introductory sermon by Re?. R. W. Nelson at ll a. m. Missionary sermon by Rov. J. R. Earlo. Query 1 : What should bo tho attitude of Christians as regards tho liquor trafilo of to-day ? Opened by J. W. Boardon. 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