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HARD KNOCK FOR TRACY. Abbeville Editor Talks of Temper ance Lecturer Who Made Money. Dr. Tracy has been continuing his lectures, and the exhibition of his moving pictures seems to have afford ed pleasure to a large number of our people, says the Abbeville Pres" and Banner. ie ha- been here nw long enough f r the people t,. begin to find fault ,r ti pick flaws in his pro ceedings, and he has learned. too, that Abbeville is not in the highest state of perfection. Dr. Tracy's show as some people insist on calling it, is all right, but ;here ate differences of opinion as to the mer;s or demerits of his lect;' es, which are interspersed between the canvas scenes. And he thinks it very hard for the town council to charge a license fee for "preaching the gos pel" of temperance. On the question there may be a difference of opinion among our people. Some may re gard the doctor's performance as a business proposition. while others may think that he is traveling around the country solely in the interest of sinful creatures who take a drink or dance or play cards. The doctor -seems to be in earnest in- his talks. however misguided he may be as to facts about the liquor business in this state. It is plainly to be seen that he thas been inspired more by the license people than by the temperance ele ment. He. like the stray prohibition ists that are to be found in different parts of the state. seems to look en 'tirely to the saloon element for his iacts and his arguments. If he brought forth a single state ment that did not originate in the sa loon element or which had not been repeated times without number. it es caped our notice. While we accord to the doctor the best and purest mo tives. yet we think we have never be fore heard a speaker who did not say something which we fad .not heard before. We have not given much - thought to the suggestion that he was sent out by the Law and Order 'League in a crusade against the dis pensary. While he quotes from an :thorities which we presume come .from that quarter, we cannot think 'that Dr. Tracy is doing anything .worse than trying to support himself and family. Th,e making of speeches and the exhi'bition of pictures is a legitimate business, an~d we think he is entitled to any money that may be -paid to-him. His show is worth from 25 cents to 50 cents, to say nothing of his lectures, which are thrown in as good measure, so to speak. He -charges nothing for either the show -or the lecture. He prepares a great >number of free seats, and for the dhairs he ciharges only 5 cents on which the occupant can rest during the show. .But instead of charging an admis -sion ice he allows opportunity to make a "silver offering." This is right. Nothing wrong in that. .\nd t hen -the town council g.ave him an ~opposatnity for giving a "-Gre dollar" 'offering at the clerk's desk. Nothing w'rong ~in this, either. TheC doctor didn't seem to like the ingfl of the silver offering which 'was requliredl of hi m by the council. 1He asked the preachers, says tihe Ab '-beville Press and P.anner. and others :to intercede with the council to stop 'The license fee of $5. This was the -only town, with a single exception. where he has been required to pay a license for preaching the gospel of temperance. On this subject ihis hear ers were nearly of one opinion. but he ~kept tup the talk andl criticised the ac --tion of the city council of Abbeville until we think he had nearly convert ed the whole of his hearers to the opinion that the town council did cx -actly rigtht in requiring daily a license iee for conducting an alleged religious show. \Vhile wve think the doctor is a temperance zealot, yet as a preacher of the gospel he lacked something of coming u-p to our ideas of the proprie ties and refinement which should characterize the action of a pulpit spe-aker. A speaker should avoid coars eness, vulgarity and profanity. We thought that the doctor several times came too near to these things. For instance, the story about the old Smaid and the owl was suggestive both -of irreverence and vulgarity. His reference to "hugging 'by music" was .a ...ar expesseion which no gentle man should use and few gentlemen I would use. His repeated use of the name. "Lord God Aimighty" was ir j reverent, if not positively profane. After speaking of "hugging by mu sic," and allowing the owl to answer that old maid's prayer to tthe Lord,. and after his profanity in the use of the name of "the Lord God Almighty" it seemed shocking that he should close a performance of thi. kind by a 1 prayer. A show wherein such expressions a we have quoted may be 'heard 1 should not object to a license fee. But whether his lectures were good, t"v carried captive the greatest as iblies of people. For two weeks his great tent was filled every night. BILLION DOLLAR INDEMNTY. Who Will Raise the Money for Rus sia, and How-Some Notable Cases in Point. New York Evening Post. If $i.ooo.ooo.ooo. or half that sum. is imposed by Japan as the terms of peace with Russia, where will the stupendous sum be raised? The question would have baffled con jecture half a century ago: it is easily answered now. China in 1895. after t'te Japanese war, was worse off fi nancially than Russia is to-day. Most of her revenues were pledged in part already against earlier loans, and Japan demanded $140.000,000 indem vity. This is what followed, as told by the London Economist that year: "Great financial hou:;es are scram h.ing and intriguing for the purpose of acting as China's agents for the issue 0f new loans, and something even of international rivalry is intro ('uced into competition. And the Chinese government entering into the s!>irit of .{he thing. are acting as if, in consenting to borrow. they were conferring a special favor upon the lenders. If Paris and St. Petersburg are permitted to lend 20.000.000 pounds. then, as a consolation to Lon dan and Berlin. they are being given an opportunity of lending- another x 15,ooo,ooo pounds." In the end the Russian Government actually lent China its endorsement on 16,ooo,ooo pounds-a real stroke of political humor, considering what has happened since. The case of the $x,O0o,000,O00 pay ment by France to Prussia, after the wvar of 1870. is familiar.~France issued bonds for the amount, offered them to her own people, who forthwith sold their investments in foreign securities and subscribed for the new "rents." T'his French liquidation of other bonds came at the moment when London, and Berlin itself, were alsoI trying to buy the new French rentes.I The odd result was that those two money markets suffered the conse quent depression more than Paris. Something like this is possible if Paris agrees to finance the indeminity this year for Russia. It is often asked, cannot Russia meet the indemnity from her home reserves? She posseses, it is true, $oo.000.000 to $6oo,ooo,ooo in her home gold reserve and her European credit balances; but a note circulation of $5oo,ooo.ooo stands against it. Russia would certainly hesitate to denude herself of her coin circulation. That plan was tried with China, after the Boxer .outbreak of 19oo, and with had results. The Powers fixed, as tihe terms for withdrawing their armies from Pekin. a money penalty of S3.,o00.00 to be paid to the Powers i:i I. : -:iay- ie annual install mens ater1901. All of China's cus toms revenue unpledged in former loans was dlevoted to this purpose.1 China floated no new loans: she sent out to gather up her silver currency. ~old it and bought with tihe proceeds sterling dlrafts to pay the Powers. I Within a year Europe's Oriental trade was so badly deranged by the consequent break in silver that the whole plan had to be revised. Reflections of a Bachelor. The -man who never told a lie is an awful liar to say so. We say that others differed from our opinion: that we squeldhed theirs. It hardly oays to give your wife the advice vnn ask for unless you really want her to do the opposite. A wvoman can have more money than he. husband because when she spends hers he can pay it out of his pocket for her.I [HOS. J. DAVENPORT IS HELD FOR TRIAL (Continued From Second Page.) )id man Hood Merchant standing omewhere about the line of Mr. sodfrey's and Mr. Davenport's. I old him to come here and to come tuick, and the old man come running. \bout the time Mr. Merchant got here Clark says. I believe I will go ip and see if I can't make it to the votds. le got up and got into the >ig roz.d and made a step or two and ome down again, and Just looked t if it was the end again. Mr. Mer ,hant says, let me go for Golding. I ;ays, all right, and he bounced the iiare and started for Golding and hat then just left me alone there vith Clark. Q. How did you finally get him 1')IlTiO A. Golding came with the phaeton Lnd took him there. Q. How many shots were fired here that morning? A. One. Q. And Toni Davenport fired that? A. Yes, sir. Q. What was the result of that hot; did anybody get shot? A. Clark Smith got shot. Q. Who shot him? A. Tom Davenport. Q. Did you see the wound, the >lace where it went in and came out. f it did come out? A. Yes, sir: it was right about the tipple. Q. On the right side? A. Yes, sir: on the right side, and t come out right back where the ;allus crosses. Q. In the back? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you see anything after the hooting-did you see anything more >f Ton that day or that morning? A. He rode back to me after we Lad go': a little piece off and called nie and come tip right near to me. Q. What? A. Mr. Toni hollered to me. and I lidn't answer and lie hollered again. r. Workman, and I looked and seen ie was coming and I stopped and urned and met him and he said. For od's sake do all you can for me for rou know he was riding on me. I ays, Tom, I thave not got time to alk to you for that man needs all my elp and more than all my help. nd I turned and rode off from him, nd tha: is all I seen of him that day. Q. When you turned around there, ~fter this talk, you rode to catch up vitih Clark? A. Yes, sir. Q. Could you see then any blood ~bout him anywhere? A. Yes, sir. I had seen in front iefore we left down there and when I eft Tomn and rode up to Clark I seen e was bleeding back here (indica ing). That was the first I knew the >al hac. gone through. Q. Was anybody else present that ou know of except yourself? A. I didn't see anyone at all. Old nian M.ercthant was the first man 1 een after the thing happened. Q. That was when vou saw' him ifter you rode back up to the road o get his help?I A. Yes, sir. Later on I saw an ther man. Q. So far as your knowledge ex ends was there anybody else there resent at the shooting except Smith and Davenport and yourself? A. No, sir, just we tihree. 3arestai ani Tatrn CaraIi Ry. (Schedule in lF.fect April x6, 1905.) 19o.. 52. Daily. ,v. Newberry. ........... 236 p. mi. tr. Laureins...... ....... S P. D No. 2. Daily. ,v. Laure us..............2. p. mn. tr. Green wood ............ 2.46 p. mn. Kr. Auausta.............. 5.20 p. mn. Kr. Anderson ............7.10 p. mn. No. 42. Daily. , . Augus':a...... .. . ......... .. ...2.35 P. m. tr. Allendale...... ..............-- . 4 30 p. m. %r. Fairfa .. . ............. -...... 4.4! p. mn. tr. Charleston .......................... 740 p. in. r. Beaufort..........................6. . 30 p. mn r. Port Royal............... ... ... 6.40 p. mn t. Savannah... ........ .....--.--.....6.45 p. in. tr. Waycross ........................ 1. p. m. r. Jacksonville............... ......... ..--. No. i. Daily. , . Laurens.......... ....... ..------. 2.07 p. m tr. Spartanburg....... .............-- 3.20 P. mn. No. 52. No. 87. Daily. Ex. Sun. v. Laurens. ............2 p. mi. 8.oo a. mi. Kr. Greenville .... .. ..... - 3.25 p. mi. 10 20 a. mi. Through Pullman Car Service between Au pista and Jacksonville, Fla. H. GASQUE. Agt.. Laurens. S. C. E O. T. BRAN Gen'l Agt., Greenville, S. C. R NEST WILLIAMS.Genl 1Pass. 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