The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, May 02, 1894, Image 1
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, MAY 2, 1894.
VOLUME XXVIII.?NO. 44.
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VERY SFICT 15 DEED !
the miserable vultures that they are,
fViPtr Trmilrl hp thp drat, to turn and
8ABGE PLUJiKETT
came along one day while me and
Brown were both bandaged up from
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fflWrfi'mi A rh\r\rnt*_
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All Sorti of Pangi-apli.
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The following letter has been ad?
dressed by Congressman McLaurin, of
South Carolina, to Editor Appelt of
the Manning Times:
Washington, April 16,1894.
Mr. Louis Appelt, Manning, S. C.?
Dear Appelt : Your letter of recent
date, calling my attention to widely
circulated reports of my being in
"combination ! with Senator Butler
in his race for the Senate, has been
received. It is a lie out of the whole
cloth. Hitherto, I have paid no at?
tention to slanders "circulated" by
interested parties, for the purpose of
destroying the confidence that the
people are supposed to have in me. I
cannot, however, avoid a reply to a
pointed question, such as you ask. I
shall "call a spade a ..pado" and ex?
press my feelings fully. Last spring,
when the famous "blacklisting" of
the South Carolina delegation was in
progress, I soon discovered that the
trouble arose largely from the admin?
istration confounding the Alliancemen
and the Populist. In the West, the
People's party swallowed the Alliance
and, just coming into power, the mis?
take was natural in reference to the
Alliancemen in the South. If you
will remember, I was not present
when that disgraceful scene occurred
io the office of - our Postmaster-Gen?
eral, where the^question of the De?
mocracy of our Representatives in
r!rm?wp?q wan tenterl. T felt that the
-o- -?- - -_-- ?
matter of my Democracy had been
tried by the people of the Sixth Dis?
trict, and if I suited them it mattered
very little to me whether I suited any?
body else or not. I soon discovered
that Mr. Bissell was a big-hearted,
big-brained man, not much of a politi?
cian, but a fine lawyer and a thorough?
going business man ; the only trouble
being that he runs the Postoffice De?
partment in a business way instead of
as a political machine. Mr. Talbert
and myself had an additional advan?
tage in not having defeated ex-mem?
bers on the spot to wage special war
upon us. While the issuing of
ukases, pronunciamentoes, etc., was
going on I kept my mouth shut, and
attended to my own business. Per?
sonally, I did not hanker after the
distribution of the offices, for I knew
[ couldn't suit everybody, and every
man who made application and failed
ffould either be a lukewarm friend or
vo. open enemy. I felt, however, that
[ had a certain duty to perform in
reference to these postoffices, and
made up my mind to perform that duty,
if permitted by the Postmaster-Gen?
eral, and if not so permitted then the
responsibility was taken from my
shoulders. I was pressed from every
quarter by Reformers to secure these
appointments. Tou wanted the office
it Manning, and suppose I had said:
"Oh, I cannot recommend you because
Messrd. Latimer and Strait are not re?
cognized I" You would have very
probably told me that I was sent to
'/M.w.noo fn ?nnta?nf. flie RiTfri and
not the Third and Fifth Uongressiona
Districts. I made a formal request o:
Senator Butler that he should not in
terfere with my recommendations, o;
if he did, to give a reason why hi
should treat me in a different manne:
from that in whioh the Hon. G-eorgi
W. Dargan had been treated. Sena
tor Butler's treatment of me was kind
courteous and upon a high plane. H<
said that in his service in the Senati
he had never interfered in the distric
of a Congressman, where he was treat
ed with that consideration due Li,
official position, and would not inter
fere in mine. In the majority o
cases in my district, Senator Butle:
has made no recommendation what
ever; in some cases, yours for in
stance, at my request he joined in thi
endorsement.
It is utterly impossible to represen
South Carolina without some concer
of action between the Senate and thi
House. Senator Butler has beei
kind and considerate. I have in m;
turn, endeavored to be courteous an<
show proper respect for his official an<
personal character.
The subject of State politics wa
never mentioned between us until afte
the article in the Headlight, due re
speot for the feelings of each prevent
ing even an indirect reference to it
I had appointed to nearly every post
office in the district Tillmanites of th
most marked type, without a questioi
being asked or a pledge being take:
from a single man. So far from an;
appointee of mine feeling that he i
under the slightest obligation to Sena
tor Butler, you feel perfectly free ii
your last issue to compare him to ;
"buzzard." My dear Appelt, what ii
the name of Heaven is a public man t
do ? Latimer tells me that some o
his people are "cussing" him becaus
he has not any influence, and some o
mine are "cussing" me because
have.
I have nothing to do with the can
didacy of Senator Butler; he ha
treated me like a gentleman, and
shall treat him the same way regard
less of consequences. The very firs
time that State politics was discussei
between Senator Butler and mysel
was that infamous attack and insinua
tion by Gantt of a "trade and combi
nation." I then deemed it my dut
to talk to Senator Butler, arid he sai
not to pay any attention to that, tha
he knew the personal and political re
lations between myself and Tillman
and did not expect me to do anythin
else, but that it need not disturb ou
personal and official relations, for m
to support my friend.
Now, Appelt, I appreciate your kin
letter, and the motive which prompte
it. The past four years have been t
me full of experiences and I tell yo
candidly that I have about reacho
the conclusion that at present there i
no place in public life for a man wit
any delicacy of feeling, conscience o
patriotism.
When I think of the dream I hac
when we all started out in 1888 t
smash "rings" and to have fre
speech, free thought and a truly popi
lar government, I do not want to se
established as absolute a despotism a
there is outside of "Darkest Russia ;
the Alliance and all those great finar
cial and governmental issues freighte
with the life or death of a natioi
dwarfed into the single question c
how whiskey shall be dished out t
thirsty souls.
Take the situation when I went t
Spartanburg. After villifying an
slandering me for months, telegrarx
from Washington ordered Gantt to as
me certain questionsv I said I woul
support Tillman provided he stood f(
the demands of the Alliance, and a<
tually one of their little creatures,
peripatetie school teacher, who wan'
to be Superintendent of Educatioi
denounced me. I think Tillman
willing to stand upon his own meri
but this ? crowd of sycophants flatti
his vanity and call everybody eh
"traitor," when if the test came, HI
blindfolded, but if I had been even
willing to do this, I would have died a
thousand deaths before I would let one
of the polithal "hell-hounds" that
can be bought like a piece of dog meat
in the market, pop his whip over my
back and drive me cringing to his mas?
ter's feet.
It is not love for Tillman or their
country that influences these blatant
bawlers. I know some of the loudest
mouthed who hate him most. They
want an office. This tells the tale.
Governor Tillman does not need help
now, he is in the very zenith of suc?
cess and power. Let the tide turn,
let danger, defeat or disaster threaten,
and then he will Bee who his friends
are, men who stood shoulder to shoul?
der when the battle was thick, men
who have the courage to differ with
him, or the miserable parasites and
barnacles that only exist amid un
cleanness, and who, unless scraped off
at regular intervals, eat through the
hull and sink the stoutest shin to the
bottom of the sea.
It is mortifying, humiliating, for
politics to be upon the low plane
where such explanations are demand?
ed. Now, as to the other question
which you asked me about the dispen?
sary, I am more than ever convinced
that some modification along the line
suggested by me at Spartanburg is a
necessity. The establishment at Co?
lumbia with its host of officers, is too
cumbersome, and the profit feature is
morally wrong. It is better to under?
sell and starve the "blind tiger," than
to shoot it; especially when the beast
shoots back. Besides, any law that
necessitates a standing army for its
enforcement "'will ran 01 its own
weight. I am glad that you heartily
support me in these view3. "We have
had enough turmoil and strife in
South Carolina. ? There were old, deep
seated abuses and traditions that had
to be destroyed and rooted out. Till
man was the man to do it. His genius
is essentially destructive, and as he
has about accomplished his work in
South Carolina, send him to the Sen?
ate, where he will find enough abuses
to employ his genius for the balance
of his life. In South Carolina we
want something now on the construct?
ive order. We catinot live there in
two armed camps, and if we undertake
it the Federal government will put iis
through another course of reconstruc?
tion. We do not need an "apist" to
prance around over the State, squint
one eye, "cuss" and try to play "Ben
Tillman," I think that the soil waB
No. 1.
The squeak of the "squedunk" try?
ing to.masquerade as the blast of a
trumpet will make us ridiculous and
contemptible. What the State needs
now is a sedative to steady the "old
lady's" nerves, and then a good tonic
to build up the waste tissue. After
so much- one x, two x, three x and
four x, a short course of "Keeley
Cure" would not be a bad investment.
In other words, we want "oil on the
troubled waters."
A good, conservative, business-like
Governor, who is not an "imitator,"
not brilliant, but sensible, will bring
us round all right, and the "old lady
will be all the better for the little
shaking up she has had.
Thanks for your kind reference tc
my political future. If my record and
zeal that I have displayed on ever;
occasion where our demands are in
question entitle me to this considera?
tion, well and good, otherwise I do
not want it. I have borne for sis
months patiently and silently these
continued misrepresentations and
slanders. I am 500 miles from home,
trying to do my duty, and if my lan?
guage is strong, it is because I fee]
outraged at the malicious meanness oi
these attacks.
Yours truly,
John L. McLaurin.
Presence of Mind
Some one has wittily said that t
better thing than presence of mind ii
i danger, is "absence of body." ?$utw
? cannot always be absent from danger
and fortunate, indeed, is any on<
whose friends are present in bod;
when he is in danger and needs help
I once knew a lady who screame<
! and wrung her hands when a girl wa
burning to death before her eyes, am
i made no effort to put out the flames
Here is an account of two boys, wh
i by presence of mind and rare goo<
sense, saved the life of their father
In Maine, lately, these two boyi
l went.out to the woods with their fath
i er to see him cut down trees. Througl
i a mistake in calculating how a tree h
' was cutting would fall the father wa
> caught and pinned to the ground, th
' tree lying across his body.
At the fearful sight, the boys di
not lose tneir pruseuue ui uiuiu, u
- set to work with energy to save the
s father. Some boys would have e:
I hausted their strength in vain effor
- to remove the tree; others would ha^
t run and screamed for help, and raea
1 time the father would have died. Tl
f boys did neither of these things. The
- commenced digging a hole immcdiat
- ly under their father, and in a ve
short time released him from his a'
I ful situation. Their coolness ai
t wisdom were the means of saving h
- life.
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? A peculiar decision in jurispruden
has been given in the West Ridir
Yorkshire, England. A man in liqu
became excited by some trifle and 1
bis wife on the band with a poker. S
fled and he pursued her across the ya
with the upraised poker. Their s
stepped between them, and, wresting t
poker from his father, bit bim on t
head with it. The old man fell and die
During the trial the Judge decided tl
a man may strike in his own defense, 1
cannot strike in defense of another's 1
Thereupon the lawyer for the accus
arose and read from "Archibald's Cri
lnal Practice:" ? When a man kills s
other in self-defence, or in defense of 1
wife, his child, his parents or his serva
without malice, and at a chance enoot
ter, it is justifiable homicide." 1
Judge saw bis error and withdrew !
deoision. The jury gave a verdict of "i
guilty."
mera and Everything la Bright.
Atlanta Cbnttitution.
No matter how much harm the cold
snap has done us, me and .Brown pro?
pose to?
"Just let the wide world wag as it will,
We'll be gay- and happy still."
Everything is bright and cheerful
3n the farm, now that we are sure the
winter is over. The roosters crow
louder, the hens sing all the day, the
turkeys strut and the guineas are look?
ing for nests?there is nothing to mar
bhe delights but the withered flowers
ind the backward garden truck. The
jountryman has many things to charm
bim as he carries on his work. The
fresh plowed ground is soft to his
bread and sweet to the smell, and it is
lelightful to watch the young plants
breaking through the crust and show?
ing up along the rows. And it is
jharming to get hungry as the plow
nan does and to eat with the relish
/hat he does. Brown turns his eye
toward the kitchen chimney about 10
/clock on these days and a spell of
dUilUU? V/itlC D{/IOWO u)i v f vi u?m
brown face for quite a while some
times, but when a little wreath of
smoke curls up from that chimney
suoh a reaction comes in his looks and
his actions that would impress you
that he is well paid in joy for all his
anxiety. He knows that the smoke
from the chimney means dinner. He
smiles along to the end of the row and
bobs His head as if keeping time to
the churn dasher. At the end he
throws his plow stock away round
before old Kit has had time to grab a
mouthful of grass, and bawls with
strong voice and a slap of the line for
her to "Get up, you lazy thing, don't
be so slow."
The countryman is all right. He
can manage to have something to eat
and an appetite to relish whatever it
is. He may get to the house at night
with wearied limbs, but his rest is
sweet and refreshed in the morning he
goes again to his field in cheerful
cities to-day who pine for the rest and
health of these countrymen. Many
of them know what it is, but they lost
it in their greed for gain, or lured by
the glitter of city life. Some have
grown poor by the change?so poor
that they cannot return?while some
have grown rich and weighted down
with business they cannot return.
Many of these would like to come out
with me and Brown and walk bare?
footed in the fresh plowed ground, or
walk over the woods, breaking off the
dogwood blossoms and pretty honey?
suckles, but they are too poor, or too
rich and busy, or else too fashionable.
We sympathise with the poor and are
sorry for the hard worked business
man who has not time to relax, but it
is the fashionable who need most our
pity. The poor may be forced, a
blessing in disguise, to come out and
taste of these country sweets; the
business man may learn that he should
rftlar and come out and romD over the
fields and woods and drink buttermilk
and other wholesome food, but for the
fashionable, poor things, they must
follow fashion. They must go off to
the seashore or watering places and
strain to keep in the swim. I used to
steal off fishing on Sundays along with
Brown, and the thoughts of taking
our whipping when we returned home
was anything but pleasant, and I
think that these people who live in a
strain to be fashionable feel somewhat
as me and Brown felt?it is worse
than taking a whipping with many of
them. If these people would only
have tue nerve to Drean: away iron
their sets and come down to cheap and
healthy recreation somewhere in the
country near home, there would be a
falling off in suicides and many a
home made happy.
Business, business, and fashion,
fashion. The world is running wile
on these things. I heard a good mar
say a few Saturdays ago, "?od bless
Sunday!" He told me that were it nol
for the rest he gets on Sunday he
would be in the asylum in less than a
month. I believe him; the world if
overworked. Night must be lit uj
and turned into day. The great
wheels must turn and the clatter oi
machinerv eo on. It takes milliont
of dollars to satisfy now where hun
dreds used to satisfy. The richer
man I knew in all of Georgia befor
the war was reckoned to be wort
$200,000. This mau was a wonder i
those days; he stood higher tha
Van derb ilt stands now. Aman start
ing out to get rich now wouldn't thin
about stopping at $200,000. Strai
all the time, overwork all the timt
never a time to go out in the country
never a day to rest and all for moi
money than they know what to d
with?money to make them the mor
anxious. The man of a million ca
. ?auf riAr Mil fclifl man wlm has hi
UUV lOBU uui vwu V ? w ,._
b heart set on making a million res
r No artifice can take the place of tl:
" relaxation needed. Peaceful rest ca
3 find no substitute in excitemen
2 Prize fighting, ball playing, theate;
or whatnots, can not give the res
2 You may go on till you have tl
? Spanish bull fights or anything els
but it won't ease the tired brain ni
I it won't improve the morals. Brow
' says, and I say, put out the electr
r lights when night comes on; shi
8 down business, go to bed with tl
chickens and lay there without scher
ing to make more money. Do thi
and once and awhile go out to son
- good country home and spend a ,vee
a or a month would be better. This
. what the busy town man needs ai
- ' ? 'i i * t -u? j_ t:i_;
tue iasmonaDic nau uuuui- uu uiwcwj
?at least live "within your mea
'. without strain.
d Brown wrestles with the weather i
II the time. When it is cold it
y mighty nigh impossible to get him
e in the morning to make a fire, a
then he shivers all through the da
j- but when the earth begins to f
N warmed up he takes upon his fac<
j, grin that continues there more or It
till time to go to shivering again. ]
r- looks distressed as he shivers in t
>d winter, and looks distressed as
i. grins in the summer, but he is ne\
II much distressed about anything. ]
is down baiting a fish hole now and
happy in the thought of how he
36 going to draw them out. He is hs
g, pier than any town folks will ever
ar while the craze to follow fashion a
lt to make money is at such a tensk
rrj A good Jones County friend wril
>n mc that he and friends of his tri
*e my cat racket on the crows in his si
j tion, and that it would not work.
a't says that our plan may do for c
ut crows, but that it will not work
fe Jones. I am mighty sorry about th
*j as some of his friends seem to take
a* as a joke on themselves. I am sure
Is was intended as no joke, as it woi
it, well on DeKalb County crows, bu
n" will state a circumstance that happi
[jj ed to me and Brown, just to show h
0t these _ things do change in diffen
?localities, A Jones County m
Tones County man knew exactly how
-o keep a cow from kicking?oh yes,
iure. He gave us the recipe and the
lext morning we proceeded to use it
vith. great faith. Brown held the
low by the nose and one horn till I
lad run a strong leather strap around
ler and buckled it tight just in front
if the leg. When I had finished my
mckling I hollered to Brown to let
ler go, and she went. She never did
rick any more after that?she killed
lersclf and come mighty near cleaning
?ut the Brown and Plunkett families,
oo. Right through the fence she
>lunged, kicking with both feet, to
urn and plunge through another
>anel to get back into the lot. Bails
lew and her feet, too, and me and
? i.? l. i i_ . i.x_ j_ t_4_
DrOVrli U1UU h illUlt YVllUb livuv, uuu n ^
were mighty active. I have never
seen the Jones County man from that
iay to this, but if he was in the crowd
it the crow hunt, tell him wcare even.
Locality does make a difference.
Saeoe Plunkbtt.
Politics Ts. Law.
The claim that is made by the Till
manites that when Judge Gary goes on
bhe Supreme bench to succeed Judge
McGowan the Supreme Court will then
be favorable to Governor Tillman, and
that the recent Dispensary decision
will be reversed, is eitner very dis?
creditable to the Court as it is now
organized,, or as it then will be.
It implies that the present decision
was made by the highest Court in
Carolina, not from the standpoint of
law, but merely as a matter of par?
tisan politics, governed by the fact
that two out of the three judges of the
Court are anti-Tillman men. Either
this is implied, or else that the Court,
as it will be organized on the promo?
tion of Justice Gary, will pay no
attention to the law, but will be gov?
erned in its decision by the fact that
the majority of the Court will then be
for Tillman. That this is really the
opinion entertained by many Caro?
linians is a pathetic fact, indicative of
the unhealthy condition of things in
the State. Saturday the writer talk?
ed with a representative of one of the
most prominent families in Carolina,
and he advanced the idea that as the
decision just made was under the old
Dispensary law, the system could be
continued under the new law, and that
any case wuiua tumu uc uau? nuum
have to come before the Supreme
Court with Judge Gary on the bench,
and he and Judge Pope would uphold
the constitutionality of the law.
When we mildly suggested that a
judge on the bench would have to be
governed by the law and the facts,
and not by his political affiliations,
the Carolinian looked at us with a
look of ineffable pity, and in that
Sicturesque diction so common to the
t?te, exclaimed:
"Great G?d! You don't suppose
that Dispensary decision was made
from the standpoint of law, do you ?
Why, h?11, man, we've got no law in
Carolina; nothing but politics. If
the case to be decided has any politi?
cal bearing, the decision will be ac?
cording to the complexion of the
Court. If the judges are for Tillman
the case will go that way, and if the;
mmm ? ?Q- ? _
way. If the Dispensary law comes up
before the Supreme Court again, with
Gary on the bench, the decision will
be just the reverse, as sure as h?II."
Now. we don't believe this; and we
don't believe the speaker really be?
lieves it. He was influenced by his
prejudices in speaking that way. But
it is illustrative of the unfortunate
state of mind which the people across
the river are in, when a man can bring
himself to contemplate the highest
Court in the State as acting upon such
a low plane. It is time for a change.
The conservative men of both sides
should come together and agree upon
some man who will be acceptable tc
both sides as Governor, and who can
be elected without any terrible wran?
gle. Another bitter partisan cam?
paign in Carolina just at this time will
be very unfortunate. A compromise
candidate, and a quiet peaceful ad?
ministration for a few years, the aim
of which shall be to bring harmony,
and to close up the rupture in the
State will be of incalculable value tc
Carolina.
The men who desire to precipitate
another heated ana oncer c.-iwpaig
for the offices, are not true friends {
Carolina.?Augusta Chronicle.
A Scientific Fact.
A well known medical man was bus
in his office when a patient called upo
him who had a peculiar and interes
ing raalad}-.
"Doctor, my arm twitches and ach(
all the time; I can feel the pain 1
my finger ends," he said, presenting
stump of an arm grown from the shou
der for an inspection.
"How did you lose your hand an
arm ?" asked the doctor.
"It was blown off in a mining acc
dent."
"You are troubled this way often 1
"Constantly, doctor. I can at th
moment feel the fingers of my lost an
contracting with pain."
"I don't doubt it," answered tl
doctor, calmly; "you must dig up tl
-J V. #.??./?? it Knrnor] fhotl VATI Wl
i, not suffer any more."
e "Doctor, you are making fun
i, me."
is "I never was more earnest in i
d life."
le "I cannot find my arm. It is son
is where in Montana, returned to dust
this time."
11 "If that was the case your a:
is would not ache. As soon as th
p member is entirely decomposed y
d you will lose the sense of pain. Tl
f\ is why I said it should be burnt
3t There arc sympathetic magne
a chords connecting it with your phy
38 cal system ; when every vestage of
fe is destroyed it will become a part
le your astral body, and give you
le pain."
3r The man walked thoughtfully aw;
[e and a visitor in the doctor's off
is asked:
is "Doctor, is that superstition ?"
p- "No," said the doctor, in a c(
)e vincing way; "it is science."
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Are the white people of South Caro
iua irrevocably divided into two politi?
cal factions? Is there no possibility
>f uniting the people again? If the
wo political factions cannot come to?
gether on a platform alike honorable
.0 each, is there no hope of bringing
tbout a better state of feeling between
hem?
These are questious of the gravest
mportance, and they deserve the
?aim, yea, the prayerful,consideration
if every Christian patriot. On the
Lnswers that may be given depend the
uture moral, social, educational, in
lustrial and commercial prosperity of
he commonwealth. The ascendancy
if one or the other faction is a small
natter compared with the higher in
crests that are involved. It is com
?arativelv a small matter whether Be
formers or Conservatives shall be in
power?whether the laws shall be
made and executed by this, that or the
other political party or faction. But
it is no small matter that all the high?
er interests of the people?education?
al, social, moral and religious?should
be put in jeopardy by the present in?
tense and bitter partisan feeling that
prevails throughout the State.
It is not for us to say which faction
is most to blame for this unusual and
ieplorable condition of things in South
Carolina. Both are greatly to blame;
ind it is infinite folly to stop to cavil
over the measure of censure that be?
longs to each, when each one is so evi?
dently culpable. It is enough for us
;o know that our State is' in a deplor?
able condition; that our people are di?
vided; that intolerance, abuse, mis
represen tation, anger and the intensest
passion are the ruling spirits of the
iour; that father is against son, and
with brother and neighbor with neigh?
bor; that under these adverse influen?
ces the cause of religion and morality
suffers, the peace of the State is en?
dangered, and anarchy and ruin are
threatened.
Is there not patriotism and religion
enough in South Carolina and among
South Carolinians to put a stop to this
mad carnival of bitterness and hate?
Will ihe formenter of strife and the
breeder of discord among 'neighbors
and friends, whether he occupies a
V?J(tTi or 1/vw nnnifinn?will such an fin
~'0" ?-' l- - -
emy to the peace and well-being of so?
ciety continue to be made the hero of
the hour?
"We plead with our people?our
Methodist people particularly?for a
better state of feeling, for more toler?
ance of opinion, for more temperate
ness of speech and action. And we
have a right to make this plea. We
belong to neither of the political fac?
tions now warring for the mastery in
this State; we are neither Tillmanite
nor Haskellite, Reformer nor Conser?
vative. We have well defined views
of public policy and of our responsi?
bility in the exercise of suffrage. But
we allow no party lash to be popped
over our" head; our highest political
allegiance is to God, our country and
our own conscience. We have had no
part in bringing about the present
strained relations between ourpeople.
By tongue and pen, have we counsel?
ed moderation, unity, peace, the ob?
servance of law, wisdom and prudence
in the execution of law, respect for
those in authority, and all else that
tends to the happiness and well-being
of the people. To do other than this
?to stir up bad blood, to incite to un
fractional wrangling, strife and blood?
shed among friends and neighbors, is
unpatriotic, sinful, devilish.
There is too much of this spirit
abroad in the State. Some of our ut?
terances, verbal and printed, have too
much of the sulphurious odor. Though
spoken of neighbors and friends, they
?? ' ?- -* i.M-3 ?3 Llii...
hate instead of conciliatory love. W
may not be able to revolutionize th
the press, we may not be able t
sweeten the tone of debate on the hus
tings, we may not be able to contrc
the utterances of the leaders of th
factions, but every man can an<
should set a watch over his own speec
and actions, and every man can coun
sei moderation, forbearance andbrotl
erly love.
We believe the hour has come whe
the pulpit should speak out with n
uncertain sound on this subject. W
do not believe in discussing politic
in the house of God, but this is no
politics. It is always in order for th
the pulpit to cry "Peace, peace," t
the angry passions of men, and to a]
ply the principles of Christianity an
the Bible to political conduct. It i
not politics to remind the people thi
whoso hateth his brother is a murde:
er; that righteousness exalteth all m
tions, but sin is a reproach to all pec
pie; that when the wicked reign th
people mourn: that it is a duty the
owe both to God and to man to t
peaceable and law-abiding citizen.1
. that the right of suffrage is a fearft
responsibility, to be exercised in th
fear of God and not in the fear of pa
ty or of men: that the peace and higl
est good of the people should be mo;
to every Christian and patriot ths
the triumph of faction or party. Thei
, and like lessons need to be taught wit
all the force possible from every prj
pit in the land.
, Can the readers of the Advoca
, give an intelligent statement of tl
j matters of political principle that d
vide our people into two hostile cam]
I and cause so much bitterness of speec
and feeling? Is it necessary th
r these principles of government shou
be established in fire and blood? A:
the liberties of the people endanger*
j by the ascendancy of either factioi
Arc not the factions agreed in mo
'1 *-aV-a ??? nt tlia TiirrTroaf noniwi
blilUgQ bJUUV civ> yjM. vuv u.B~y..._
to the people? Are .their different
worth fighting over? May not a m(
rational and peaceful solution be t
better way? How much of this par
enthusiasm, excitement and bad blc
is born of the desire for office,
is nursed in selfishness and is mati
ed in lust for gold and power? A
shall the intelligence, patriot:
and piety of South Carolina be ma
a plaything of by the designing poli
cians?
May t*^e people open their eyes, n
the Holy Spirit quicken their c<
sciences, may they see the dangers tl
threaten us, and may they ar
as one man to bring about again
era of good feeling and brotherly kii
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?ho have inherited large fortunes oi- <
en succeed in life, and become as
seful to the world as if they had been ]
orn poor, such cases are exceptional,
or it is a general rule that the po3- (
ession of unearned money, whether (
nherited or acquired in any other way.
i the greatest obstacle to a life of
usefulness. (
This must be true in the nature of 3
ooiety and of money itself, for money
i nothing more than a symbol of work 1
one, an order on society for value <
eceived. Society itself is an organi
ation for voluntary co-operation in t
II work necessary to support life or -
o increase its comfort, and money is i
be symbol of labor product. When
man haa a dollar it is an assertion r
n its face that he has freely and on c
is own accord, on his own acoount, 1
* * -*?x v:_ 1
lone so mucn ior ine coruiori- ux ms
ellow mcD, and is, therefore, entitled
,o so much from them. If he has
10t, then the dollar is a false pre
ense, and he is a usurper when he
ises it to control their action and to
ibtain power over them for his own
)leasure or benefit.
The curse of such a pretense as that
rhich attaches to the use of unearned
nonev is never to be avoided or erad
ed. There are those who can take
unearned money fortuitously into
their possession and, instead of using
it to oontrol men and women for their
own pleasure, can use it for the good
of mankind, but such cases are rare.
For nearly all the temptation is too
great. Not one man in a hundred
thousand can freely and fully deny
himself gratification that law and
society offer him, freely and without
the price of his own effort to return.
It is very seldom, indeed, that a
man attempts to accumulate an im?
mense fortune on his own account.
He does it for his family. He wishes
to put his daughters and his sons "be?
yond the reach of want," and he does
not at all reflect that in striving to do
so he is striving to free them from the
only always reliable incentive to use
? * -?- *? iL. T-Gi. nf
iuiness; w wor*. iur tue ui.ut.uu ui
others ; to take a part of the great
scheme of free co-operation through
which the world grows better and men
grow freer and less brutal.
The man who leaves his son a yearly
income os $20,000 does not know that
he is saying to the boy: "Here is the
labor of a thousand men for twenty
days in every year. For twenty days
in every year the product of that labor
is yours without your doing anything
in return for society. I thus put you
beyond the reach of want; beyond
the need of doing anything whatever
to help the world. Live as you please.
Be idle and useless if you please/'
And when the boy who has received
this legacy of usefulness squanders
his money to buy power over dissolute
men and women, and finally to buy
the brains and learning of criminal
lawyers, who in return for it, strive in
vain to free him from the operation of
the iron laws which govern human
nature in its transgressions, we all
wonder that he should have "abused
such advantages," when, in fact, the
ignorant and cruel benevolence of his
father has placed him at a most deadly
disadvantage.
Tri?? Kent lecacv anv man can leave
his children is highly developed ana
accurately trained intellect. Educa?
tion means a knowledge of human
nature at all times and under all con?
ditions and of the best means of use"
fulness to mankind. Poverty means
the necessity of using intelligence for
the good of others, that through inch
use of it mutual benefit may arise and
the sum of good in the world may in?
crease.
The man who puts his children "be?
yond the reach of wantwho leaves
them with untrained and undisciplined
minds, freed from the necessity of
serving their fellows, leaves them the
worst curse of the ninth circle of the
cruelest hell of torture there .is in the
iinivArsp.?fit. Lou? ReVubUc.
Discussing a Legal Point.
Probably no one in town enjoys i
joke better than Major Baldwin, say
the North Dakota Republican, and h
never allows to pass unimproved ai
opportunity of making one. At a pai
ty at Mr. Roberts' the other evening
he rapped the company to order, am
stated that a party had recently com
to his office and asked a question on
legal point which he was unable t
answer. As the district attorney wa
present, and as the question and an
swer was one which would interes
every one present, he would repea
it. The question was, "Could a ma
in North Dakota marry his widow'
sister."
The district attorney promptly ar
swered that he could if he wanted tc
and the company concurred in his de
cifjion.
But when the major quietly remarl
ed that this was the first time he ha
heard that a dead man could marrj
there were explosions of laughter whic
continued for several minutes.
Let as Take Time.
Let us take time for the evenic
prayer. Our sleep will be more res
ful if we have claimed the guardiai
ship of God.
Let us take time to speak swee
foolish words to those we love. B
and by. wnen tney can nu lunger uc
us, our foolishness will seem mo
wise than our best wicdom.
Let us take time to read our Bib!
Its treasures will last when we shi
have ceased to care for the war
political parties, the rise and fall
stocks, or the petty happenings of t
day.
Let us take time to be pleasai
The small courtesies which we oft
omit because they are small will soi
day look larger to us than the weal
which we have coveted or the the fai
for which we have struggled.
To Save the Tree.
The Baptist brother was passi
along by the Methodist brother's hou
in a country town, and the Method
brother was sprinkling with the hos<
a good size shade tree, which w
badly withered.
"What are you doing?'' inquir
the Baptist brother, hanging over t
fence neighborlike.
"I don't want to lose my tree."
The Baptist brother looked at t
tree a minute and at the hose.
"That won't save it," he said, wi
the air of a tree doctor.
"Why won't it ?"
"You've got to do something mi
than that."
"Thunder!" exclaimed the Metl
dist brother, still sprinkling aw:
"you don't expect me to immerse it
you ?"_ _
? Every year 22,000 tons of car
are consumed in the United States.
fnces in the Umtea States.
? The walls of Babylon were 350
igh and 100 feet thick at the base. ?.
? A beetle can draw 20 times its
pro weight. So can a mustard plas
ir.
? Over 20,000 men, women and
lildren died from snake bites in the
jar 1893 in India.
? The bones and muscles of the
uman body are capable of over 1,200
ifferent motions.
? Hicks?"I am never able to find
iything in this house." Mrs. Hides
-"Oh, yes, you are. You generally
anage to find fault."
? An enthusiastic New York wo
an is engaged in the work of raising
inary birds on a large scale. She
is now 1,000 birds sitting.
? The '[King of Water Moon" is
ie name given the largest gold nug-v-$?
get ever found in Australia, it was -
found in 1852; weighed 223 pounds
and 4 ounces.
? Eight millions of shoe pegs.
8,000 bushels, have just been shipped:;
from New Hampshire to Germany, %
A Maine man has made $100,000 in
wooden toothpicks.
? There is a gentleman living n?;ar
Marshall, Fauquier County, Va.. who.;
has 21 children, 17 of whom are DOffr:
All sit down at one table, made ex?
pressly for them.
? "I wonder what makes Higby so
unpopular?" "I give it up, but it's *# 5
fact. Why, that man is so disliked
that he can't even get a bite when he
goes fishing."
? A Kentucky woman recently
brought suit against a railroad for
killing her horse and her husband.
She got $150 for the horse and one .
cent for the husband.
? The edible dogs of China are
known by their bluish black tongues.
Ihey never bark and are very taciturn.
Fonr million and a half are slaughter?
ed annually for the Celestials.
? Nell?"Why is it that Bjones
girl is neglected by men during the
winter and becomes so popular in the
summer ?" Belle?"She is fond of
the theater, and detests ice cream and
soda water.
? Babbi, who is happier, the man
who owns a million dollars, or he who
has seven daughters? The one who
has the daughters. Why sc ? He
who has a million dollare wishes for
more?the man who has seven daugh?
ters does not.
? "And did the west impress you
favorably ?" they asked. "Carried
me by storm," answered the returned
traveler, who on one occasion had been
wafted across three counties by a
v/vlVUv.
? The oldest engine is claimed to
be in operation in a Savannah, (Gju)
rice mill. It was built in 1815 by
James Watt of Lancashire, England,
and was brought to this country in
the same year.
? A man with a head that is two
feet one and five-eights inches in cir?
cumference was fitted with a hat in
Baltimore the other day. His sixe is
eight and five-eights, which is twelve
sizes above the average.
? A little Green street girl was out
walking with her nurse when an old
maiden lady met her and asked;
"How is my little girl 60-day ?"
"Your little girl?" said the child.
"I didn't know you was married."
? At Gainesville, Tex., a few days
ago, during an hour's storm, the
ground was covered with ocean snails,
which, except a few specimens cap?
tured by local naturalists, b' next
day had found their way instinctively
to the streams.
? Bobbie (in sober mood): Ola,
mamma, I wish I only had all the
money I've spent for candy. Mamma
(proudly): My boy would put it in
his savings bank, wouldn't he ? Rob?
bie (deliberately): No, ma'am; I'd
buy more candy.
? The State of New Hampshire is
paying one dollar a bushel to farmers
for all the grasshoppers they can de?
stroy. Rates have not been reduced
because of the allegations of general
depression, and yet the number of
bushels destroyed has not appreciably
increased.
' ? Hoop skirts first appeared in
1530. An iron cage was prepared and
the skirts were stretched over it.
The oage was tipped to one side, the
lady crawled underneath, and the
cage was fastened to her waist by a
' strong leather belt. The contrivance
often weighed as much as 40 pounds:
? The wheat crop of 1893 in the
United States amounted to 396,131,
725 bushels, grown on 34,629,41?
acres of land. It yielded about 11
bushels per acre, and was worth at the
farm 54 cents per bushel, making i
gross return of $6.16 per acre. Total
value, $213,171,381.
i ? The punishment for drunken
ness, in St. Petersburg, is to make the
offender, no matter what his sociai
position, sweep the streets. Well
attired gentlemen, some of them ii
r dress suits, are occasionally seei
- sweeping the streets, after a night'i
. carouse.
? New York is the first manufac
, turing city of the country. It hai
r eleven thousand factories, which xaab
ir every year $500,000,000 worth o
e goods, including $80,000,000 of cloth
ing, $25,000,000 of books and papers
!. and $18,000,000 of cigars. Centra
11 Park covers eight hundred and sixt;
)f two acres, and cost $15,000,000.
* ? With four bullets in his head
e George Adams, of North Attleboro
who is at the Massachusetts Genera
k Hospital, will recover, although al
n the pullets have not been extracted
ie Adams stood before a mirror in hi
n barber shop, before a dozen customers
ie and with the remark, "Boys, want t
see a man die ?" drew a revolver an
fired four shots at himself. Famil
troubles led him to seek death.
? A case of "love at first sight'
recently developed in Texas by mean
|? of which a girl of 19 was married to
gay young fellow of 84. This is a'
encouragement to other octogenerian
1 to mate. The feminine heart is e
(j exceedingly susceptible that years ct
' no figure. Let neither the octogei
erian, the nonagenerian, nor the ce>
tenarian despair so long as he is sti
active enough to train his whiske:
becomingly.
la ? We have queer experiences i
the house of mourning," said tl
clergyman of the party. "Itwas on)
rc a few weeks ago that I called upon
middle aged shoemaker who had lo;
0. his wife. I spoke to hiu as Ithougl
y. meet, and especially enjoined upc
jo him the duty of being resigned. Wire
I had got thus far, he interrupted n
to say, in a quiet tone, "Oh, that
3y all right, Mr. Prooftext: "I ain't
' kickin'." - ? ?