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0 C-" ~ A ~ arnlh anal IW LLUIU tUtU II VOL XLIV. NO. 42 NEWBERRY. S. 0. IrRL4AY MAY 24. 1907. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR ImpnGRATION SITUATION. Col. Holland of Salvation Army Makes Glowing Report of Condi tion in This State and Will Bring Settlers Here. WAsh'ington Correspondent The State. -South Carolina's commissioner of immigration, Col. E. J. Watson, left Washington. tonight for Columbia. He is on his -way back from New. York, and lie is as enthusiastic about immigration and the prospects for South Carolina a ever. He -has rea son to be,..for while here lie had con ferences with Baron Moncheur, the Belgian minister, and with Col. Hol land, the head of the Silvation. Army in America, the latter over the long distance telephone, and both of these have made reports which lie says will mean more th'an anything else which h'as been said abroad in favor of im migration to Sout>h Carolina. Col. Watson announced the appoint ment of Maj. George B. Edwards of New York and Chiarleston as the Eastern repiwsentative of his depart ment, with headquarters in New York. Maj. Ed'wards has a wide knowl edge of port and freight traffic condi tions in the south .and is identified (with at least two l'arge concerns in New York. Col. Watson conferred with a num ber of members of the diplomatic corps while in Washington, and while in New York lie made arrange ments for the formation - in South Carolina of a second Scandinavian colony wi.th some 6,000 acres to begin with. Col. Webson expects to leave again for Europe on-July 18. The report which Col. Holland of the S'alvation Army. will.make to Col. Lamb .of London was told 0ol. Wat son. today over t.he long distance telephone. Col. Lamb is at the head of the inimigration department of the S'alvation Army. The Sailva-tion Army is one of the most potent and most important inmigaiation agencies aboard. Said Col. Holland today: ''It is not generally knorwn that the S'alvation Army has become a coloni zer and distributor of surplus popula tion, which gives it rank second only to the Mormons. Unless all signs fail, indeed since the Salvation Army is of an internation'al character, it is likely soon to outdistance the Mor mons in this respect." During the past six years the army h'as been instrumental in transplant ing 26,000 people from Great Britian to Canadh and the new settlers are described by the government officials as the most promising ones entering that country. 'This year the officers in charge of that work expect to set tle not less than 3,000 EuropeAns in Canada. Recently the army immigration de rartment in London turned its at tention to South Carolina as a prom ising field and Col Holland was a) pointed to make a report on the pos sibilities of sueegssiful settlement in athat st'ate. Col. Hol4land has for the ast ten years been director for the rmy colonization work in the Unit 1States and was recently awarded silver medal by the exposition au orities at Liege, Belgium, for his 'anitarian erfforts in directing he landless man to the manless d.'' SHe told Col. Watson, today that is report wvas nowv on its way to nidoni and that it refers to South arolina as a pl-ace offering unibound 1opportuniities fori agr'icultuire, ~ t'h or without capital, and lie pre-C dts in his report a prosperous fu lure for. any industrious man who 'avails himself of its resources. The cotton miFlls also, lie says, offer em ployment under ecomfortable condi i ns to thousands of men, women andl children who now live on the bord er nid elf want in' Europe and else 'wI re and are getting the worst of th struggle for existen-ce. 'During my visit to South Car oli a,'' says Col Holland, ''I met ma y men owning land in healthful o iiswho expressed a willingness to mhild comfort:able houses and gi p farms wvith live stock and .farm ing imp)lements for families without a1 Cal, giving them all the time they a t to pay for them, or, instead, e ging them only a nomin'al rent." Iollowing the visit to South Car olina of Baron Moneheur, the Bel gian minister, who mates a favorable report. to his governmont on the con- 3 ditions there, Col. Watson hs been trying to get other representatives of foreign governments to come down and see for themselves and report to their home governments and people. Through th,c consul at Savannah, the British emiassy has called on.i Col. Watson, to make a report on con ditions in the south. Col. Watson will make this report, and he says he will < emliody in it the reports of Col. Hol- < land and of Baron Monchour. WINE WITHOUT GRAPES. Acid and Glycerine are Used as a Substitute. London Express. A Bavarian. wine dealer named Kern has been sentenced in the Frau ental criminal court to two months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of ?500 for systematic adulteration of his wine. It was shown that in one year 4ie manufactured by means of chemicals 55,000 gallons of wine without a sin gle drop of grape juice. Dr. Roesicke, the agrarian leader, has made some staritling revelations of the 'poisonous concoctions which are being sold as Rhine and Moselle wine. One chemical manufacturer, whose name is made public by Dr. Roesicke, is proved to have supplied nb less than 267 wine merchants with injur ious chemical preparations used to adulterate wines. An annual average of 100 wine merchants are convicted for illegally doctoring wines in Germany, and i during 1905 70,000 gallops of wine I were condemned by sta,te inspectors I to be poured down the drains as un i fit for publie consumption. In one case, the iiispector found 10 per cent of pure wine and 90 per cent. of chemical coneoctions. One wine merchant was proved to have used within a period of seven years no less than 300 tons of glycerine, 120 tons ar tartaric acid, 16 tons of pot ash, and 11 tons of citric acid. What's the Use? What's th' use a-going crazy over worry? Worry never would crazy 'long o' you. What's the use t' go a-gettin' in a -hurry? Hurry'd never git inside o' you, fer true. What's th' use? What's th' use to go around ahuntin' trouble? Trouble never prowls around aiunt in' you. When ye find it, like as not, ye'll 11ind it double Better turn yer back an' quietly skidoo. What's th' use? What's th' use with stubborn fate t' soothe *a baby? Baby wouldn't miss its sleep a soot-hin' you.] 'When it's older it would help a little, maybe, But t>hey aint a lot at present it would (do. What's th' use? WVhat's th' use t' try all (lay t' git a nibble Frum a fish that never ast a bite of you? What 's th ' usi e with stubborn fate t' stand ain' quibble? Fate won't ceen stanmd an' listen while ye ehew. What's t.h' use? What's th' use t' go a-frettinm' 'cause ye're idle? Ain't no job would over - set an' pine for you. What's th' use t' go make sleepy eyes an ' sidle 'Round a girl that ain't a-carin' what ye do? What's thm' use? Aw, whmat 's the use? --Striel-and WV. Gillilan in Chicago Newvs. Girlish happiness .seems just what ADDRESS TO YOUNG FOLKS. )elivered by Hon. Kenneth Baker, of Greenwood, at Old Folks Day at Prosperity Last Sunday Morning. The following is the jxeellent. ad less delivered at (Irace church, Pros erity, last Sund'ay by Mayor Ken ioth Baker, of Greenwood: Members of Grace church and Sun lay School: Friends and ocquaintan -es, whei T was notified that I hai men selected to addreii the young )eople on this occasion, I was very ensible of the high hoa!nr you had lone me and while appreciating it to he highest extent, on first thought, [ was inclined1 to say that I could lot accept, not because I did not vant to be with you, but because I 'elt that I was not capatitated to do lie aceasion justie and as I stand )efore you, among friends and famil atr faces, I feel it more so. But af er more mature consideration, I felt hat perhaps this was an r,pportunity :o say something that might be of ienefit to some of you who are just ;tarting on life's rough and rugged .oad, realizing that it is not the op >ortunities we have, but the oppor -unities we grasp that are of benefit :o us. I have been somewhat at *a oss as to just what line of thought vould be best for an occasion of this tind, for so few things hold the at :ention of the young people even for k short while unless it is about such :hings as tend only to their special joy and pleasure, without regard to heir more lasting and material good. V'outh, with its fulness of life, very joy of existing and future ambitions, Ippeals to us all and makes us love i. Men of all ages have sought for ;he spring of eternal youth and have Ind a corresponding horror of grow ng Old. But as we pass from early ,t to more mature thoughts an-1 'eds we soon be-An to realize that ',e "retr par of mankind usually -nploy their first years In such a Wa i to make their last miserable. Use ,-our youth so that its past will he Ipleasure and a cmfort to you :n.1 it a burden; use it as a farmer u s the springtime, to sow and to plant 'ri a long and happy life and finally in eternal home. Did you ever think Vhy it was that of all animals, God nade man the most helpless thd long nst? Because he made us to be train !d and taught for an ultimate and ligher life and also endowed us with immortal souls. The life of every me of its is as closely under Divine i:e as if we were tle Mlly ones (if -ill hi'd. Oh ! thogliht'less yout,h, if yu could only he taugit to realize vhat your life's mission is and how :o fit yourself for it, how much wast Ad time would be saved aindl how mnuch happier you wouli be. What. is the whole scheme of life? Is it >nly to he born, to live and to die? rom early childhood we train out mnds and bodies for the realization fsome vague' and indefinite trade >r calling ini the fuiture; out of wvhich ye hope to realize wvorldly wealth and tionor, a proceedling so thoughtless dso tunmindlful of the plaits of our Divine Creator that we almost shud letr at the arrogance of'-it. Now~ one >f the thioughits that I wish to impress 11o0n you all today, is: that in all our ~raining, in all ourii thioughts and in ill our plans fr'om earliest yoluth, tup o mnatutrity, is I lit yout snall ever' re netnber' that yout wer*e creaOted for' 10(d's own glory andl that, you are a >airt oIf a great Divitne plan11 andll liat ('(in miust learn1 i you place andl( hiow~ )est to fill it. D.idl you evetr stop a noment. to thuink just how little you really do kniow~ antd just hiow~ few ,hitngs y'ou r'ea.lly kniowu hiow~ to do? Int his age of techntical training and1( upecializa tion,1 men spend years in earnitng just how to (do things as they uhould lie (lone. Not long ago an nigine in a large manufacturing es ablishment suddenly stopped without ny apparenit cause andl no one was Lble to get it to move. Loss of mon ~y anid time, disotrganiization of labor', tar'ed the own'erU in the face and in expert was hi urriedly sent for. In few moments the wvheels were mov ng ag~ain, as usual. He was asked ~or his bill. It was for $50.50. The >wners wereo surpirised at so large an umouint for stuch a small service. An inln.n.ation wna nakend r. and the expert replied that the fifty cents wd-'for the actual work and the $50 for knowing how. Now, instead of Ispending our time in aimloss wander ings, in indefinite probabilities, how much more sensible and lrofitable it woltid be ifori us to find out, ''Lord what wilt, Thou have me do?'' Ques tion yourself. How did I learn to walk, not in a single day, not by a single effort, but by constant trying How did you learn to read, to spell, to Write and to sing? Wlhen you hear the'beautiful voice of the trained sin get, how you do admire it and wish yoi were so talented and gifted. You do not think of the time, study and traii-ing it took to develop that voice. Alas! No, you grasp for the fruits without thinking of the work it takes to produce them. If you would only thitik and look for the cause and ef feet. Thinking leads to knowledge, good thoughts are true wealth, they are fountains of liviiig water. Chris tian training is the only hope of our church and country. My friends, you want to realize as early as possible in life that just as you are living, thinking and doing now, just so will your future existence be. This life is ohlyttransitory and preparatory for a graider, ndbler future c.sistence. A 'young man says, I will be a lawyer. He goes to -a law school and just as he is studious and painstaking in ac quiriiig legal knowledge, just. so sure will lie he a good lawyer. He learns law, and knowing how to use it, makeg him suecessful. A young lady desir6s to be a musician and just so much time and study as she honestly and faithfully devotes to it, just so much and certain she will become the skilled pianist. Learning how is not -,sv, but it. is the road to success. Wiwyo know that it is essential for you to have some. business or pro fession for this world and you seleet soinething you think you can do. If you would be successful you must do it with all your might. Now it is necessary for you to awake and know that all the thiings ot' this world are non-essential and only incidental to your earthly existence and that your future state is the main one, and the one for which you must prepare Your selves by special work and training. You must fit yourselveA for the Mas ter's design, and learn how to fit yourselves into the work for wihich you are destined and not be a misfit and be rejected and east out. To do this, you must study God 's Holy book, learn to pray for Divine assistance and instructions, learn to surmount the little t.roubles of life which pre pare you to overcome the greater oles. Train your hearts and minds daily and prepare yourselves for eternal life just as you would for your earllih ly affairs. Sometimes you are so stuipid that nothing but tihe misfor tunes of others can arouse you to see your own blessings. How ut hank fiul von usually are for the many ner-ies land blesing- whicl God showers upon you. You must learn that you must grow in Grace, Chris tianity is progressive. ''Heoavenm is not reached in a single bound. We build the ladder on which we rise from .lowly earth to vaulted skies and to its summit, mount. round by ro ul. '' Only a little wvhiile oif earth 's trouhh-s and trials and( then eternal rapt ure. If you would only fully see this. Ih>w gladly you would go with bright and shining faces aminid cart h's worst misfortunes and Itrials, only a little while and then et erna l joy anid re-unionI. ''Be Ye followers of (God as l)eari Children.'' it is not the theo logy t hat you may havei' in your. head that mna kes you a clirstian ani. td wil save viin. but the love you have mn your. i.or. The exp)erience( of most chr ist ians1 is, that we arme jutsl as mnuch in need1 of grace to do ou r Lord 's wiill as of guidance to teach us what that will is. A story is told of a con versation between an old1 and useful church member and a youniger brot h er~ in the church, about rising up car ly in t he morning. The older man saidl it had been his life-long habit to rise early aind that lie found those early morning hiourgt invaluable for Bi ble studity and commnifiioni with God. The younger brother said that lie knew t his was so and that il. wvould e ith himi too, but. that lhe couild not get hiimself up early enough and that ie had often made it. a subject of~ 3very morning; but sonichow his prayer had not been answered. To which the older man replied dryly: 'I don't pray about it, I just get p.'' My friend, when duty calls you, ,)e ready to get up as well as to pray, 1id, ''Whatsoever le saith unto you, lo it.'' The Bible is full of promises of ] ;niidance and you need no pillow of eloud by day or night. Learn to see that spiritual force is stronger than material force. At school we are taught that if we take $5.00 from 10.00, we shall have only $5.00 left. But in the Bible we learn that one may take $5.00 from $10.00 and give it away and have moro remaining thUan he had at the outset. Remember the five loaves and the two small fishes. What is the chief end of man? ''To gdorify God and enjoy him forever.'' Do al you can each day to fit your self for your future and having done all you can, go to rest, pillowing your head on Divine love and grace, sleep peacefully, not carrying the whole world on your head, but willing to leave results with God. Some one has published a remark able dreain ow a wealthy lady. She was a christian and dreamed that she died and went. to Heaven where an angel escorted her about the celes tial city and showed her its wonders. She was taken to a place where stood a magnificent palace built of precious stones and flaming with the splendors of Heavenl's light. Upon inquiring whose it was and hearing the name of the owner, she was filled with as tonishment, for he was her coach man on earth. She said, ''He had not. been accustomed to splendor and lux ury ..on earth, ..hut lived in a very modest way during his lifetlime. le neveIr save( anything for although lie recivetd good wages, he always gave most o his m1oney alway.'' ''Th l,at is jist ithe reasol ,'' said thle lngel,''why tie has suchli a sp)eidid mansil ill Ileaveti. le sent, so niuch on before that we have beenl. able to build this 11'2ansionl ouit ol, U." Then she was taken to a plac where she saw a little cottage. Whose is thi,' said sl(e. ''This, sind the angel, ''is yours.'' Aain she was filled with astonishmenit. She de elared that on earth she owned a fine mansion and had every luxury she could ask. ''This place is so nar row, I shall not have room IC) turn around in it,'' sa.id she. ''This is the best we couid build with what you sent on before,'' answered tlie angel. Some will say this is nothinl.g bull a dream. It is true, but it is not a d1ream1. My friends, what a1 re yoli seldi"ng. on to erect your fltire habi tation in God's eternal Kill.noinm? Is it good dleedis, un sel fishness5, kin dnie.s, self-sacrifiee'l Learn to know how that you may excel in doion good. He more solicitotis about en Ii tiva t iiig your cbarnwter than i dressing your earthly body. A writer truly says: ''Give us aii age in which Chris tian mainhood shall assert itself as the h.ighest. carthlly thing~ anCd the nob)hlest earthly estate. Give us an agec wiiehu lifted into idlent ity with its highest po(ssessionls, shahll be madec by those p)ossesions paIienit , putre, hiernie, noble1(, obedientI. siumissivye, couiragecous. Tlhecse are essenia ilii br lielIerist ics. You can niever' I ell when yo,u do ani act juist w hat th le rest t will lie, but withI e very act yoit are sow ig a seed Ithougrh ils hia rvest you ca11 nt see.' ''A aingel p)ansedl iniinIls C nward~i fIi~liht right, WVherei 'Iiiil4l iiost fruiit wheni filly grownl. TheI p)rIince of' darknhess is so ingi secd I Of t erribl e hatIred, stif e and greed; He IhIas hielperis 'mnong thle h14ost s of sinl. W\ho Ito sowii goCod seed( will nowCbe gin?] To'( w~*homi eann this p)reciouis seed beC Th at it beari most frit for'ca rt'h aiid heaven?'' The Sa viou11r heCard, alld saidl, as lie ''Pl'ace it at onice in thle lieart (of a The angel whispered the blessed truth To a weary teacher of precious iEGRO SOLDIERS DID THE SOOTING AJORITY OF SENATE COMMIT . TEE ARE CONVINOED. sosing aBttle for Foraker-The Sen ator Wants to Take Committee to Brownsville, but They Don't Seem Inclined to Take the Trip. Washilngton, May 22.-The senato ommittee oil, military aiffairs, which s investigating the Brownsville af 1ry, held an execntive session at the !lose of the heaving today to deter nine whether the commitiltee shall go o Texas to take testimony and per onally inquire ito the shooting from lie Browiisville point, of view. No greeient was rZaiclied. A majority of the members of the ,ommittee argued that the testimony akenl a11realdy proves conelusively ,hat the negro troops did the shoot. ng and that notling would be gain d by taking the trip. It was inti nated by several senators that there vas no occasion to call any more wit iesses. Senator 1"oraker took execp ion to this position andli he was sup iorted by tle three or four seiators hvlio have sided with him ii the do Pense of tle negroes. It. was deeided to snimion several [iore witnesses from Brownsville 5hat are deemed import.ant and to Xadinie ilie experts at the Spring ield arsenal who mnade the report on ;he shells picked up in tihe streets of Irownsville after tle 4nootling. After this lIas been done the question of oing to Tex'as will igain be consid red, and it, is likely that, a subeom nittee, at least, will go there. Fred ' . Slark anid Fred Tait, nolinled eistoms inlspeco's, with len14qu1arters at 3ronvisville, and Ierbet Il1kins. a elerk in a eonfee ionary store there, were oi fthe stand 14d(y. S4-ark (ohl 10, Ilhe narwes.. -.1pe of h6isellf and f:nily (m tihe nigh.t of the sh4tlig. Eight hllets were fired i Io1 his humse and thie tandly o-k hetn llind- a brick *imnv. Sihells were f'umil inl front >f his bonse thle n1ext Imfiorninlg and the willness silid lhey were of t lie char leter used by the s11-ldiers amd showed thaIt tIleY had been reeently fired. Tait. is lie man who sIriek a ne 4ro soldier on the head with his six ;hooter beease the sollier had brnsh. d aside women who were standilng ou lie sidlewalk. He gave a detailed ae 'o li1 of the incident. Elkins testified to seeilig a an1Ier f negro soldiers firing on the towi. fanehersq in the vicinity of the porge Bixbv ranehj, five miles north 11st of the cil.%y say that lie nriads of tonds which have eovered the fields and roads ini that section for weeks past have begun to migrate verbiad toward the ocean- and cn be seen by hundreds hop)pimng across TIhe ponids and sloughs in which they had their birth have dried uip. 'hie ranchers say that seveni years rigo there was a like migration oif Progs anfd 10oads from the ranches to 'Iie sea, but thie aimphi11binans are inore numiyerous I his time. I her face grew briirht with heavenly light. As shue led their thought in the waiys of right.' Learn also this lesson: that if yon >qiar life 's burdenus patien,tly your liety FILlher, all unseen, will, vbtn thle pro per1 t ime1 comeis, take and >Ie lhim foi y~on. "ChliItreun of vest erdlay, heirs (of omorirow, Iilihten thle labor, sweeten he sorrow~. Now while thle shuttles fly faster ad fasteor, uip anud 1e at it, at work vith thue Master.'' l Ie st anmds at your loom, room for [lim, roomn. Anmd finially my dear i'riends he wise today. I am not talk in' to paiss the time away but to war fliu now. Le(t everything else loiithe thu let ILea vein go. lRe.. iiemberi I Ihat. von have beeni born as lie hir to a lle(aven'Ily home ini which you can meign aifter the last monarch 4f all the earth shall have gone to :lust. Kenneth Baker. 3reenwood. S. C., May 22, 1007.