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VOL. Vii. _ __MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1891. NO. 40. TilE POWER OF KINDNESS. LESSIONS FROM PAUL'S RECEPTI "N ON THE ISLAND OF NIELITA. The Darbaroub People ot the Island Were as Yet Uncorrupted. and So the Prompt Ings of Nature Ruled Them-Kludness a Royal Flower of God's Goodness. BROOKLYN, Sept. 13.-Brooklyn Tabernacle today contaned many stran gers on their way home trom the water ing places and foreign lands. Many of the members absent from the city dur ing the summer were In their places. The church buildina and the organ, which have been almost continually under brush and hammer since the dedication last spring, are now about completed. The sermons today were full of congra tulation and were attended by the usual thronas. Dr Talmage's morning ser mon was on "Kindness," from the text. Acts xxviii, 2: "The barbarous people showed us no little kndness." My text puts us on the Island of Malta, another name for Melita. This Island, which has always been an im portant conmercial center, belonging at different times to Phcenicia, to Greece, to Rome, to Aribia, to Spain. to France, now belones to Enaland. The area of the island is about one hundred square miles. It is in the Mediternean sea, and of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna, one hundred and 'thirty miles away, can be distinctly seen. The island is gloriousIy memorable, because the Kniahts of Malta for a long while ruled there, but most famous because of the apostolic shipwreck. The bestormed vessel on which Paul sailed had "laid to" on the starboard tack, and the wind was blowing east northeast, and the vessel drifting proo ably a mile and a half an hour ere she struck at what is now called St. Paul's bay. Practical sailors have taken up the Bible account and decided beyond controversy the place of the shipwreck. BuIt the island which has so rough a coast is for the most part a garden. Richest fruit and a profusion of honev characterized it in Paul's time as well as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives grow there. When Paul and his comrades crawled up on the beach, sat urated with salt water and hungry from long abstinence from food and chilled to the bone, the islanders though called bar barians because they could not speak Greek, opened thei'- doors to the ship wrecked unfortunates. Everythins had gone to the bottom of the deep, and the barefooted, barehead ed apostle and ship's crew were in con dition to appreciate hospitality. About twenty-five such men a few seasons ago Ifound in the life station near Easthamp ton, Long Island. They had got ashore in the night from the sea, and not a hat nor shoe had they left. They found out, as Paul and his fellow voyagers found out, that the sea is the roughest of all robbers. My text finds the ship's crew ashore on Malta, and around a hot fire drying themselves, and with the best provision the islanders can offer them. And they go into government quarters for three (lays to recuperate, Publius the ruler, inviting them, although he had severe sclkness in the house at that time-his father down with dysentery and typhoid fever. Yea, for three months they staid on the istand watch ing for a ship and putting the hospitali ties of the islanders to a severe test. But they endured the test satisfactorily, and it is recorded for all the ages of time and etermity to read and hear in regard to the inhabitants of Malta, "The bar barous people showed us no little kind ness." BIBLE EXAtIPLES OF KTNDNESS. Kindness! What a great word that is. It would take a reed as long as that which the apocalyptic angel used to measure heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the height ot that munificent word. It is a favorite Bible word, and it is early launched in the book of Gen esis, canght up in the book of Joshua, embracedin the book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalmns, and enthroned in many places in the New Testament. Kindness! A word no more gentle than mighty. I expect it will wrestle me down before I get through with it. It is strong enough to throw an archangel. But it will be well for us to stand around it, and warm ourselves by its glow as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood aroung the fire on the Island of Malta, where the M tltese made themselves im mortal in my text by the way they treat ed these victims of the sea. "The bar barous people showed us no little kind ness." Kindness! All definitions of that multipotent word break down half way. You say it is clemency, benignity, gens erosity; it is made up of good wishes, it is an expression of beneficence, it is a contribution to the happiness of others. Some one else says: "Why. I can give you a definition of kindness: It is sun shine of the soul, it is affection p~erennial, it is a crowning grace. it is the com bination of all graces, it is compassion, it Is the perfection of gentle manliness and womanliness." Are you all throurh* You have made a dead failure in your definition. It cannot be defined. But we all know what it is, for we all felt its power. Some of you may have felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast of rock as the ship went to 'pieces, but more of us have again and again in some awful stress of life had either trom earth or heaven hands stretched out, which "showed us no little kindness." There is kindness of disposition, kind ness of word, kindness of act, and there is Jesus Christ, the impersonation of all of them. KIndness! You cannot atrect It, you cannot play it as a part, you can not enact it. you cannot dramatize it. By the grace of God you must have it inside you, an everlasting summer, or rather a combination of June and Octo ber, the geniality of the one and the tonic ot the other. It cannot dwell with arrogance or sp.ite or revenge or malevo lence. At its first appearance in the soul all these Amalekites and Gergishiites and Hittites and Jebusites must qut., and ciuit forever. Kindness wishes everybody well, every man well, every woman well, every child well, every bird well, every horse well, every dog well, every cat well. Give thus spirit full swing, and you would have no more need of socie ties for prevention of cruelty to animals, no more need of protective- sewing wo man's association, and it would dull every sword until it would not cut skin deep, and unwheel every battery till it cculd not roll, and make g'unpowder of no more use in the world except for rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebra tion. Kindness is a spirit divinely implanted, and in answer to prayer, and then to be sedulously cultivated until it tills all the nature with a parfume richer and more pungent than mignanette, and, as it you put a, tft of thnat aromatic beauty behind the clock oa the mantel or in some cor ner where nobody can see it, you fiud peo ple walking about your room looxing this way and that, and you ask them, -What are you looking for?" And they answer, "Where is that flower?" So if one has in his soul this infinite sweet ness of disposition its perfume will whelm everything. THE EVILS OF REVENGEFUL FEELING. But if you are waitin! and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed or discomfited, or in any way over thrown, then kindness has not taken possession of your nature. You Are wrecked on a Malta where there are no oranges. You are entertaining a zuest so unlike kindness thatkinkness will not comne and dwell under the same roof. The most exhausting and unhealthy and ruinous feeling on earth is a revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as I know by experience, for I have tried it five or ten minutes at a time. When some meen thing has been done me or said about me I have felt "I will pay him in his own coin. I will show him up. The ingrated! The traitor! The liar! The villain!" But five or ten minutes of the feeling has been so unnerving and exhauisting that I have abandoned it, and I cannot understand how people can go about torturing themselves Live or ten or twen ty years, trying to get even with some body. The only way you will ever triumph over your enemies is by forgiv ing them and wishing them all good and no evil. As malevolence is the most uneasy and profitless and dangerous feel ing, kindness Is the most stealthful and delightful. And this is not an abstrac tion. As I have tried a little of the re taliation, so I have tried a little of the forgiving. I do not want to leave this world un til I have taken vengeance upon every man that ever did me a wrong by doing him a kindness. In most of such cases I have already succeeded, but there are a few malignants whom I am yet pur suing, and I shall not be content until I have in some wise helped tl.em or bene fited them or blessed them. Let us all pray for this spirit of kindness. It will settle a thousand questions. It will change the phase of everything. It will mellow through and through our entire nature. It will transform a lifetime. It is not a feeling gotten up fcr occasions, but perennial. That is the reason I like petunias bet ter than morning glories. They look very much alike, and if I should put in your hand a petunia and a morning glory you could hardly tell which is 'e petuni% and which the morning glory; but the morning glory blooms only a few hours and then shuts up for the day, while the petunia is in as widespread a glow at twelve o'clock at noon and six o'clock in the evening as a sunrise. And this grace of kindness is not spas modic, is not intermittent, is not for a little while, but it irradiates the whole nature, all through and clear on till the sunset of our earthly existence. Kindness! I am resolved to get it. Are you resolved to get it? It does not come by haphazard, but through culture unde- the divine help. Thiptles grow without culture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalka grow without culture. But that great red rose in the conservatory, its leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for Its beauty and it were still reeking with the carnage of the battle, that rose need ed to be cultured, and through long years its fioral ascentors were cultured. 0 God, implant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch it, to enrich it, to develop it! The king of Prussia had presented to him by the empress of Russia the root of a rare flower, and it was put in the royal gardens on an island, and the head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was told to watch it. And one day it put forth its glory. Three days of every week the people were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realiz ng what a wrong thing he was doing, plucked this flower and put it in his but tonhole, and the gardener arrested him as he was crossing at the ferry, and asked the king to throw open no more his gardens to the public. Tbe king re plied: "Shall I deny the thousands of good people of my country the privilege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrong? No, let them come and see the beautiful grounds." And when the gardener wished to give the king the name of the offender who had taken the royal flower, he said, "No, my memory is very tenacious and I do not want to have in my mind the name of the offender, lest it should hin der me granting him a favor some other time." Now, I want you 1 o know that kindness is a royal tlower, and blessed be God, the King of mercy and grace, that by a divine gift and not by purloin ing, we may pluck this royal fiower and not wear it on the outside of our nature, but wear it in our soul and wear it for ever, its radiance anid aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderful for eternity. "KIND WORDS CAN NEVER DIE." Still further, I must speak of kindness of word. When you meet any one do you say a pleasant thing or an unpleas ant? D~o you tell him of agrec able things you have heard about him, or the disa greeable? When he leaves you doss he feel better or does he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the produc tion of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tongue is caged in we might take the hint that it has a dangerous power. First, it is chained to the back of the mouth by strong mus eles. Then it is surrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and then by tbe teeth of the upper jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside of all are the two lips with the power of com pression and arrest, and yet notwith standing these four imprisonments or limitations, how many take no hint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are .aceration, santication and damnation. There are those if they know a good thing about you and a bad thing, will naation the bad thing and act as though they had never heard the good thing. Now there are two sides to almost every one's character, and we have the choice of overhauling the virtue or the vice. We can greet Paul and the ship's crew as they come up the beach of Malta with the words: " What a sorry tooking set you are! How little of navigation you must know to run on these rocks! Didn't you know better than to put out on the Mediterranean this wintry month? It was not much of a ship anyhow, or it would not have gone to pieces so soon as that. Well, whait do you want? We have hard enough work to make a living for ourselves, without having thrust on us two hundred and seventy-six raga muffins." Not so said the Maltese. I think they said: "Come in! Sit down by the tire and warm yourselves! Glad that you all got off with your lives. Make your selves at home. You are welcome all we have until some ship comes sight and you resume your voya Here, let me put a bantiage on y forehead, for that is an ugly gash : got from the floating timbers, and Ii is a man with a broken arm. We v have a doctor come to attend to I fracture." And though for th months the kindness went on, we ia but little more than this brief reec "The barbarous people showed us little kindness." Oh! say the cordial thing! Say useful thing! Say the hospitable thi Say the helpful thing! Say the Chr like thing! Say the kind thing! I mit that this is easier for some tempe ments than for others. Some are b( pessimists, and some are born optimi and that demonstrates itself all throt everything. It is a cloudy moini: You meet a pessimist and you sf "What weather today?" He answe "It's going to storm." and umbre under arm and a waterproof overc( show that he Is honest in that utt ance. On the same block, a minute ter, you meet an optimist, and you si "What weather today?" "Good weal er; this is only a fog and will soon sc ter." The absence of umbrella and sence of waterproof overcoat show il an honest utterance. On your way at noon to luncheon 3 meet an optimistic merchant and 3 say, "What do you think of trie co mercial prospects?" and he sa "Glorious. Great crops must bri great business. We are going to ha such an autumn and winter of prosper as we have never seen." On your w back to your store you meet a pessimr tic merchant. "What do you think the commercial prospects?" you a: And he answers: "Well, I don't knc So much grain will surfeit the count Farmers have more bushels but 1 prices, and the grain gamblers will : their fist in. There is the McKinley b and the hay crop is short in some plac and in the southern part of Wiscon they had a hailstorm, and our busin< is as dull as It ever was." You v find the same difference in judgment character. A man of good reputati is assailed and charged with some e deed. At the first story the pessim will believe in guilt. "The papers s: so, and that's enougrh. Down w him!" OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST. The optimist will say: "I don't 1 lieve a word of it. I don't think tha man that has been Ps useful and see ingly honest for twenty years could ha got off the track like that. There a two sides to this story, and I will w to hear the other side before I condet him." My hearer, if you are by natu a pessimist, make a special effort by I grace of God to extirpate the dolorc and the hypercritical from your dispo tion. Believe nothing against anybo until the wrong is established by at lea two witnesses of integrity. And if gt be proved, find out the extenuating c cumstances if there are any. And then commit to memory so ti you can quote for yourself and quote f otliz that exquisite thirteenth chapi of First Corinthians about charity ti suffers long and is kind, and hopeti things and endureth all things. pen, by voice, in public and in priva say all grood about people you can thi of, and if there be nothing good, th tighten the chain of muscle on the ba end of your tongue, and keep the ivc bars of teeth on the lower jaw and t ivory bars of teeth on the upper j: locked and the gate oc your lips tigh closed and your tongue shut up. What a place Brooklyn would be live in, and all the other cities a neighborhoods to live in. if charity do inated! What it all the young and< gossipers were dead! The Lord hast their funerafs! What if tittle-tattle a whispering were out of fashion! WI if in ciphering out the value of oti people's character, in our moral aril mnetic, we struck to addition instead substaction! Kindness! Let us moi ing, noon and night pray for it until get it. When you can speak a go word for some one speaic it. If you c conscientiously give letter or comme dation, give it. Watch for opportunit for doing good fifty years after y ou a dead. All my life has been affected by t letter of introduction that the Rev. I Van Vranken, of New Brunswick TI ological seminary, wrote for me, a b under him, when I was seeking a s' tiement in which to preach the Gosp The letter gave me my first pulpit. I Van Vranken has been dead more th thirty yearn, yet I feel the touch of tt magnificent old professor. Strange se sation was it when I received a ki message from Rev. Thomas Guard, Baltimore, the great Methodist orat< six weeks after his death. By way the eternal world? Oh, no, by way this world. I did not meet the friend whom he gave the message until neal two mosnths after Thomas Guard had a cended. So you :-an start a word abc some one that will be on its travels a: vigorous long after the funeral psa: has been sung at your obseguies. Kir ness! Why, if fif:y men all aglow wi it should walk through the lost worl mehinks they would almost aboli perdition. TOUCHING ANECDOTE OF ABRAH.A LINCOLN. Furthermore, there is kindness of a tion. That is what Josep)h showed his outrageous brotliers. That is w1 David showed to Mephibosheth for I father Jonathan's sake. That is wi Unesiphorus showed to Paul in the Il man penitentiary. That is what WV liam Cowper recognized when hie sa he would not trust a man who wot with his foot needlessly crush a wor: That Is what our assassinated Preside Lincoln demonstrated when his privr secretary found him in the Capil grounds trying to get a bird back to t nest from- which it had fallen, and whi quality the illustrious man exhibit years before, when having with sor lawyers in the carriage oni the way court passed on the road a swine fast the mire, after awhile cried to his hors4 "Ho!" and said to the gentlemen, must go back and help that hog out the mire." And lie did go back and I on solid ground that most uninteresti quadruped. That was the spirit that was manife ed by my departed friend, Ilonoral Alexander H. Stephens. of Georgria (a lovelier maa never exchanged earthj heaven), when at Washington. A se ator's wife who told my wife of the c cumstances, said to him, "Mr. Stephet come and see my dead canary bird And he answered, "No, I could r look at the poor thing without crying That is the spirit that Grant show when at the surrender at Appomatt he said to General Lee, "As many your soldiers are farmers and will nie the horses and mules~to raise the crc to keep their families from sufferi next winter, let each Confederate w can ..laim a hore or a mule tsake it nlo to with him." That is the spirit which, in last night, ten thousand mothers showcd ae. to their sick children cominz to give the )ur drink at the twentieth call as cheerfully -ou and as tenderly as at the first call. re Suppose all this assemblage, and al. vill to whom these wor(s shall come by his printer's type, should resolve to make ree kindness an overarching. undergirding Lve and all pervading principle of their life. rd, and then carry out the resolution-why. no in six months the whole earth would feel it. People would say: the "What is the matter? It zeems to ag! me that the world is getting to be a bet st- ter place to live in. Why, hte after al. id- Is worth living. Why, there is Shylock.. ra- my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuil. >rn of foreclosure aizaii st that man. and be.. ts, cause he has had so much sickness ici gh his family he is going to have the house ig. for one year rent free. There is an old ty, lawyer in that young lawyer's ollice and rs, do you know what he has gone in there la for? Why, he is helping fix up a case )at which is too big for the young man to er. handle, and the white haired attorney af- is hunting up previous decisions and Ly, making out a brief for the boy. Down ;h- at the bank I heard yesterday a note at- was due, and the young merchant could ib- not meet it, and an old merchant went is in and got for him three months' exten. sion. which for the young merchant iN ou the difference between bankrupuwy and ou success in business. And in our stree' m. is an artist who had a tine plcture of the ys: 'Rapids of Niagara,' and he could not ng sell it, and his family were suffering, ye and they themselves were in the rapids; ty and a lady heard of it and said, 'l do not ay need the picture. but for the encourage - is- ment of art and helping you out of your of distress I will take it,' and on the draw k. ing room wall are the -Rapids of Niag w. ara.' 7y. THE AGE OF HELPFULNESS. ss -Do you know that a strange thing et has taken place in the pulpit and all the 1il, old ministers are helping the young 1s, ministers, and all the old doctors are sin helping the young doctors, and the fEc ss mers are assisting each other in gather ill ing the harvest and for that farmer who of is sick the neighbors have made a 'bee,' on as they call it, and they have all turntd vil in to help him get his crops Into the ist garner? And they tll me that the tid older and more skillful reporters whoI th have permanent positions on papers are helping the young fellows wno are just beginning to try and don't know exactly e- how to do it. And after a few erasures a and interpolations on the reporter's pad n- they say: 'Now here is a readable ac ve count of that tragedy, nand it in and .1 re am sure the managing editor' will take 9it it.' an "And I heard this morning of a poor t re old man whose three children were in I he hot debate as to who should take care t us of him in his declining days. The old i- est son declared it was his right because y he was the oldest, and the youngest son st said it was his right because he was the ilt youngest, and Mary said it was her right ir- because she better understood father's vertigo ad.' rhenimatism and poor spells at and knew better how w, Lurs , i~M 'or the only way the ditliculty could be st er tied was by the old man's promise that at he would divide the year into three. ill parts, and spend a third of his time wit j 3y each one of them. e, "And neighboring stores in tile same ak line of goods on the same block are act en ing kindly to each other, and when one ck is a little short of a certain kind of.goods ry his neighbor says, 'I will help you un he til you can replenish your shelves,' Jt tw seems to me that those words of Isaiah I ly are being fulfilled whea he says. The carpenter encouraaed the goldsmita and to he that smooths with the ha umer, him ad that smote the anvil, saying it is ready n- for the soldering.' W hat is the matter? id It seems to me our old world is picking en up. Why, the millennium must bet ad coming in. Kindness has gotten the at victory." .er My hearers, you kno w and I know h- we are far from that state of things. [ of But why not inaugurate a new dispensa - tion of geniality. Ii' we cannot yet have ye a millennium on a laige seale, let us & od have it on a small scale, and under our rn own vestments. Kindness! If this world n- is ever brought to God that is the thingi es that will do it. You cannot fret the re world up although you may fret the world down. You cannot scold it into be excellence or reformation or godliness. Ir. FABLE OF THE WINDS. - The east wind and the west, wind were 2y one day talking with each other, and the a t- east wind said tio the west wind: ''Don't t l. you wish you had my powerY Why, Ir. when I start they ball me by storm t m signals all along the coast. I can twist at otl' a ship's mast as easily as a cow's n- hoof cracks an alder. With one sweep ad of my wing I have strewn the coast from of Newfoundland to Key West with parted >r, ship timber. I can lift and have lifted of the Atlantic ocean. I am the terror of I of all invalidism, and to tigh~t me back for- ~ to ests must be cut dow for fires, arid the ly mines of continents are calle~d on to feed C ,s- the furnaces. Under my breath the na ut tions crouch into sepulchres. Don't you 2 id wish you-had my power?" saidl the east m wind. d- The west wind made no answer, but t th started on its mission coiming somewhere a d, out of the rosy bowers of the sky. and l sh all the rifers and lakes and seas smiledJ at its coming. The gardens hloomed, *x and the orchards ripened,. and the wheat fields turned their silver into gold, and. .c- health clapped its hands, and joy shouted to from the hill tops, and the natiovs liilted at their foreheads into the light. and the s earth had a doxologzy for the sky ,and at the sky an anthem for the ear'th, and o the warth and the sparkle, and the foli- t il- age, and the flowers, iandl the fruits, and id the beauty, and the hfe, were the only .ld answer the west wind made to the in n. solence of the east wmnd's interrogationl.t nt Kindness to all. Surely it ought not to s te be a difficult grace to culture when we s 01 see towering above the centuries such I he an example ~that one alimpse ought toi rh melt and transform all nations. Kind d ness brought our Lord from hcaven. ae Kindness t oiscreants, k~induess to per to secutors, kindness to the crippled andt in the blind, and the cataleptic, and thei s leprous, and the dropsical, and the r I demoniacal characterized him all the of way, and on the cross, kindness to the ut bandits suffering on the side of hiim, and i g kindness to the extceutioners while yet they pushed the spear, and hammnered t t- the spikes, and howled the blaspheCmies. ile All the stories ot the .John Ilowards ad and the Florence Nightingsles and the 'or Grace Darlhngs and the Ida Lewises n- pale before thistranscendant example oh e ir- him whose birth and life and dleath are s, the greatest story that the world ever ." heard, and the theme 0f the mightiest ot hosanna that heaven ever lift:ed. Yea. ." the very kindness th it alloved both I d hands to be nailed to the horizontal tim- I x ber of the cross w:th that cruel thump! of thump! now stretches dow~n from the d skies those same iuands filled with balm t ps for all our wounds, forgiveness :hr all; ag our crimes, rescue for all our seridomns. *j Lao And while we take this matchless ... k.dnss from God, m.li e it mmoud that, we have uttered our last bitter word, written our last cutting paragraph. done our last retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful heart throb. And it would not be a bad epitaph for any of us if by the grace of God from this time forth we lived such benefcent lives that the tomb stone's chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our grave a suggestion from the text. "He showed us no little kindness." But not until the last child of God has got ashore from the earthly storms that drove him on the rock - like Med iterranean Euroclydons, riot until all the thrones of heaven are mounted, and all the conquerors crowned. e.nd all the harps and trumpets and organs of heaven are thaummed or blown or sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and ages are i in full chorus under the jubiiant swing of angelic baton, and we slial for thous ands of 3 ears have seen the river from under the throne rolling into the "sea of zliss minjled with fire," an-l this world we now Inhabit shall be so far in the nast that only a stretch of celestial memory can recall that it ever existed at all, not until then will we understand what Nehemiah calls "the great kind ness, and David calls "the marvelous kindapes.'' and Isaiah calls "the ever lasting kindness'' of God! TRYING TO SAVE HIS SON'S NAME. rhe Hentz-Hendorson Scandall Takes An other Turn. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 12.-The State has reecived the follo ving documents Crom the father of Prof. W. W. Hentz. )f Pomaria, now of Jacksboro. Texas, which are cheerfully published: To the Editor of The State: In your ssue of September 3 appears a good leal of matter which is published as proof that my son, W. W. Hentz, was married to Eva Henderson, alias "Rosa inds,"in Florence County, Wednesday aight, August 12, 1891. My son left his iome ir. Newberry County, August 10; ie incorrectly puts it August 11, to risit relations in Cedartown, Ga., pre >aratory to his departure to take a hair in a school in Texas, and he went )y way or Atlanta. He was in Cedar own, Ga., from August 1 until Au ust 17, as the accompanying affidavits vill show beyond all possible question. send you the originals which you will >blige me by returning, when you have :ublished the affidavits. Whether the )ublic has any interest in th - matter )ublished by you, and whetber, in pub ishing it, you went beyond the hounds f clean :ad legitimate journalism, you re perhaps a better judge than I. But reserve the right to suggest, at least, 1 hat such publications ought to be sup- t orted by clear and incontrovertible viden~ce. Respectfully. D. J.IHENTZ. PO3rAiIA, S. C., Sept. 10, 1891. Accompanying this is the following d etter and atlidavits: d CEDARTOWN. Ga., Sept. 6,118'1. j Jr. Geo. B. Cromer, Newberry, S. C.: a DEAR SR:-l enclose iny affidavit md another. If you need any more I f; vill send my wife's and p:obably can a et more. Walter stayed pretty close a ith us while here and very few could 0 wear positively as to the timne he came, 1 ,nd when he left. Hlop# these will be t, ullicient. Yours, etc. n J. E. HOUSEAL. GEORGIA, C POLK COUNTY Sf Personally appeared before me 1,. F. ti ims and J. N. Sims. who, being duly o worn, say that they are citizens and si esidents of Celdartown, Polk County, fo ~eorgma; that they are personally ac- o nanted with W. W. Hentz, formerly 'I f Newberry, S. C.; that he visited a dartown at 12 m. on the 11th day of g ugust last, anti remained in said town ti n said visit until the afternoon of p kugus' the 17th last; that he left Cedar- s: own to go to Jacksboro, Texas. t< .3. F. SuIs, fa J. N. SDrs. Sworn to before meSe-ptember 7, 1891. 1: EAL ] W. C. KNIouT, a: Clerk Superior Court, Polk County, ti Ga. 8 TATE OF GEORtGIA, )I COUNTY OF POLK. Personally appears .J. E. Hlouseal, P ho, being duly s worn, says that he is a citizen and resident of Cedartown, U eorgia, and that he is personally ac- ~ nainted with WV. W. Hlentz, formerly t f Newberry, South Carolina, but now V rJacksboro, Texas; that in the month ci f August the said W. WV. Hent z visited P~ is afliant at Cedartown; that the said al V. W. Henitz arrived at Cedartown on he 11th day of August, 1891, at twelve V 'clock, and remained in Cedaytown g .til the 17th day of August last. bJ J. E. HLOUsEL, b Sworn to before me Sept. 7th, 1891. V [SEA L] W. C. KNIGIIT. s Clerk Sup'r Court, Polk County, Ga. el "E:VA IIEND.E~SON's" REPLY. The State has certilied copies of the a ettrs ot Professor Hentz to the girl ~ nowni here as "Eva Henderson," upon P ,hch the publication was based, the c andwriting being proven. Upon re- I eipt of the above, the girl was seen. e he said, showing considerable surprise: P I haven't my marriage certIficate here, ut can get it by going home, from ~ 'reacher lill. l.'rofessor Ilentz and I ~ id not go over on the same train. I t tent on the evening train. We stayed 1 night at Jacobi's Hotel in Florence. t his was Monday night, August 10. i aven't got any body to prove my mar age by except my grandfather, my S :iothe-r, my brothers and the preacher. 3 ut if they want this proof, I'll giver hem alk they need. I'll go over to 'lorencee Monday morningr, (I can't go efore ,then.) and get all the atlidaivits eded."t Thus the matter rests until she re- e uirns to the city.-The St-ate. S-sho,,nr Cai,sized at sea.t MoBIrLE, Sept. 10.-Capt. .1. C. Pla ado. who arrived here to-day on the t chioonefr Seagull, reports that his yes ei, the schooner Polar Star, from Be-g uwe to Pensacola, was capsized July 24. f, a lonuzitude 84.50, latitude 19.L, at 11 'a elock at night, in a squall. The cai- a: ai and crew were thrown into the si ater. but managed to cut the boats pa drift and made the best ot their way to lie Mexican coast, being four days en ei oute. Reachinu Point Taillow, they t: a ou green cocoanuits for three -lays. ese being the only iood or drink -hey ad from the time of the wreck. They " t ~ere then rescued by tishermen and ken to Ruatan, whence Capt Flatado is ame to this port. tU HIwi priced journalism seemns not to " ave reached its zenith. The New a ork Sun says that Robert Louis stev- h ason's South Pacifie letters cost $10.- u 00; that it hias brought a new novel by s1 lowelis for $10,000. and a ne w novel P y Mark Twain for $1,200, and that s ark is going to write it letters from~ 'f urope at $12U00 a letter-"the highest t emuneration." it thinks. "'that any ct ExatAxN has created a flutter aiurang is de powers of Europe by sieging the tl land of Metylene, which belongs to mn urkey. it is thought that this action E n the part of England will precipitate gi gm'ne.a war in Euronne WhY FARMERS ARE POOR. THE VERY PRACTICAL VIEWS OF A PRACTICAL MAN. Iditor Wallace, of the Newberry Obser ver, Claims that the Farmerd are Poor Because they Spend More than they Make-The Sub Treasury Plan. To the Editor of The News and 2ourier: A great many people follow 2ow ideas as they follow the fashions >lindly and without reason. It is hard ;o get men to think. It Is constantly epeated, "The people are beginning to ;hink." We have all heard that for 7ears and years-and it always comes roni the men who are leading the peo le for the time being. Whoever has watched the movements >f the people for any length of time Dust have been impressed with the act that they are often led away by aprice and prejudice, more than by eason. Notwithstanding this fact, the mass of the people are honest in their )pinions and in the end they come out eght. The people of this State are conserva :ve-especially the farming class. The iistory of the past eighteen months md the present condition of unrest and igitation would seem to contradict this, >ut there are causes that fully explain ;hese seeming contradictions. We have been told time and again by uch publications as the Manufacturers' Record that the South Is eminently rosperous. I do not believe it, and I m not a pessimist either. There are >rosperous sections in the South, wher ver mining or manufacturing has, )een developed. And there is some rosperity, more apparent than real, lowever, in towns and cities-caused lot so much by ousiness successes as )y the addition of so many citizens of he country, who move to towns to get )etter schools and church advantages or their children. This increase in >opulation creates an increased demand or lots and residences and sends up the )rice of real estate. And since many f those moving from country to town 6re men who have prospered at farm ng, their change reduces the propor ion of prosperous farmers-never very arge-and contributes to the opinion hat farming does not pay. Then there s opportunity for co-operation in owns. The citizens can unite together a establishing manufacturing enter irises and other industries, which add o the prosperity of the community at arge, although they may not prove iroitable to those who put their money n them. These things are stated to offset the mpresston that individual citizens of he town are more prosperous than in ividual farmers; for such is not the 1 ase. Appearances are often deceitful. here is very little money in merchan ising or in other business. Large ealers who have ample capital can uake money at merchandising, by close ttention to business; so can a large lanter at planting. But the small rmer and the small merchant have bout an equally hard time to get along; nd. capital for capital, the latter would fteu be very willing to exchange laces and get into a business where here is much lews worry and much ore independence. Times are hard with all classes. All lasses feel it. More complaint is heard rom the farmers, not because they are ae worst off, but because on account t f their numbers they can make them lves heard and felt. Who cares if a w small merchants or town doctors r mechanics complain of hard times? l 'here are not enough of them taken together to organize a corporal's ard at a primary. So no one heeds eir cry. But let the farmers corn lain, and at once hosts of "friends" pring up on every hand, who are ready > get the farmers out of trouble if the armers will only put them into office. 1 The farmers, feeling that something Swrong but not knowing what it is, re not disposed to question too closely eir self-appointed champions, nor to :rutinize too carefully their motives. is natural to feel kindly towards one E ho offers relief, though we may be 1 erfectly aware he cannot extend it, 1 ud it is ungracious to reject sympathy, o matter from what source it comes. ~ nd it.is mean tobe suspicious. Hence ~ ie farmers, in their vagce sense of C -rong and their perplexity about tbe, tse and the remnedy, become anl easy ~ rey to the oily-tongued demagogue, a plausible politicians. In what I say I dlo not charge those ~ -ho side wvith the farmers in their rievances-real or imaginary-with ing politicians or demagogues; but I ~ ave no hesitation in saying that men -h make political capital for them *lves by trying to pre judice the farm s against other classes of citizens are oking al ter their own selfish purposes, t ad will prove it in the end by asking ~ tr the loaves and fishes. No true atriot wants to set the citizens of one ~ as against those of another, especial rin a State menacedl as this is with an er prtesent danger to civilization and I rogress. But it is the du:y of every ian who loves his htate to discover as I tr as he can the causes of the denres- I on among the farmers and to help in le solution of their difliculties. Wi h this purpose in view I propose >offer some suggestions. These, I ar, may not touch the popular chord; 1y are not in the line of the stump ~ perches of the day, and may,therefore, I :emi insipid to palates acenstomed to ( ich and spicy discussions. P'erhaps t me will stop iight here and read no ~ .irther when I say that I put very lit- ~ .e conlidence in any scheme that looks ~ governmental relief. Triere are sev al political reforms I would like to e brou-zht about, which would prove very decided and la.sting benellt to ec farmers. These will appear in the ~ irther progress of this article; butt I ~ iust be candid and say that 1 have lit e hope of their realization during this ~ neraion. The people of the dtate,including the C timers, are not prosperous. To keep ~ ithin the .scope and purpose of this t rticle I speak more specitically and my the farmers of this State are not rusperous. Why? The answer is, because they have not ough money. That is vague, but a ue. "Money answereth all things." o Why is there not money enough? he United States Treasu-er says there e: more in circulation per capita now c: ian ever before in the history of the b. overnment-S23 45. Others say there c) only $5. I do not know how much d tere is and have to .ake somebody's " ord for it. And as I know nothing, ti id have heard nothing, agamnst the ej >nes~y and truthfulness of the Treas. li rer, I am compelled to believe his p atement. I say this without im- n igning the credibility of those who TI y otherwise, because the Treasurer ut know, while they maiy be mis- a ken. si No matter what the circulation per ;u pita may be the country over, the cir iation in this section of the country el very limited. It is from this section pl tat comes the miost urgent demand for ti ore money-notl from the Northern or p: astern States; tney seem to realize no al eat scarcity. t( Why is mney scrcer in this section d of the country? Here are some rea sons 1. The annual pensions to Federal survivors of the late war amount $130, 000,000. All of this, practically speak ing, goes into Northern States, while every Southern State has to pay its pro portion. The average of each State is nearly three millions. South Carolina pays at least two millions more than she gets back. 2. Then comes the import tariff, of wbich $230,000,000 a year goes to the Government, and about $600,000,000 to protected Industries, and of which South Carolina pays its share, estimated at eight millions, and gets back only a small portion, the greater portion going to manufacturing States in the -North. South Carolina pays out for tariff duties seven millions more than she gets back. This is a moderate and safe estimate. The usual estimate is from eight to ten millions; but I prefer to put the figures too low rather than risk putting them too high. 3. Again, our railroads are all owned by Northern capitalists. Whatever the roads earn over actual running ex penses goes North to pay the interest on their bonds. The gross earnings of the railroads in South Carolina for the month of July last was $570,000. July is one of the poorest months. But sup pose that to be the average for the year, there would be gross annual earn ings of $6,840,000. Sixty per cent of this amount goes to runnin-z expenses and remains in South Carolina; the other forty per cent or two and three quarter millions goes North to pay in terest on the bonds. The first item is a burden imposed upon us as the conquered section by the National Gove:nment. It is the penalty of defeat, and we will have to endure it with whatever patience and fortitude we have. It cannot be avoided. The second item is a burden conse quent upon our being an agricultural people. There is good ground for hope f relief from much of that burden by reform of the tariff, which is the teaviest burden of all. This reform ,an only come through the triumph of the National Democratic party, for that s the only party in the country pledged :o that reform and working for its ac 3otmplishment, and if the party remains united this hope will soon be realized. Our railroads after the war were worn >ut and run down and we did not have noney enough to reorganize them; ience they fell into the hands of North .rn capitalists, and those since built iaye been built by Northern capital nany of them with our aid, that aid :onsisting in gifts of county and town ihip bonds, the interest on which, as Nell as the net earnings of the roads, Poing to the Northern bondholders. I ee no hope of relief from this railroad )urden. All we can expect is that these fiant monopolies stall not oppress us >y exorbitant charges for freight or ravel, and that is provided against in >ur National and State railroad com nissions. Those are fearful drains upon our re ources and take immense sums of noney out of circulation in this section >f the country. But they are not all. 4. We send somewhere about two nillons every year into Tennessee and Centucky and other States for mules. 'ewberry County alone-one of the mallest counties in the State-sends bout $50,000; the State about $1,500, 00. 5. Immense quantities of corn are hipped to South Carolina from the qorthwest. I can only approximate he amount. One merchant atNewber y has received and sold since the first f January seventeen (17) carloads ,500 blashels. Not less than 30,000 ushels are sold annually in Newberry, nd about 10,000 at other points in the ounty, at an average price of about 90 ents, making 836,000 for corn. That vould make the amount for the State, t a moderate calculation, $1,250,000. 6. Our Western meat costs more than ur Western corn. Large numbers of lye hogs are shipped into the State and old and butchered here, but I take no ,count of these and speak of the bacon nly. One merchant here-the same I ave already mentioned-sells 350,000 ounds of bacon annually. He thinks .e sells aboutone-fourth of what is sold ai this county. The total then would e 1,400,000 pounds, which at 7%~ cents vould be $90,000. On the same basis f calculation there would be about ~3,000,000 sent out of the State for ba on. To recapitulate: ent out of the State for pensions..............$ 2,000.000 ent outof theStatefortariff.. 7,000.000 ent out of tne Stan for railroad bonds................. 2,750,000 ent out of the Ststce for mules. 1,500,000 ent out of thestate for corn.. 1,250,000 ent out of the Stale for bacon. 3,000,000 Total.... ...... ..$..17,500.000 Nearly all our flour, hay and agricul ural implements come from other ,tates. And what do we produce that we can eli and get money to pay for all these hings ? Cotton--nothing but cotton. even hundred thousand bales at $40 er bale, brings in only $27,000,000, rhich is nearly all taken out again for urposes mentioned, and for other pur oses too numerous to mention. leaving ery little to pay debts or to lay up "for rainy day." No wonder we are poor. What is the remedvy Some say the "sub-treasury plan." A great deal is said on the huslings nd in the newspapers about this "plan." t was conceived and:worked out by Dr. 1.W. Mccunegand presented to the Na ional Farmers' Allhance Convention at t Louis in 1889. It was adopted, among ther planks in their platform, by that onvention; was sent down to the Sub Lliances for their endorsement, and ras reaffirmed at Ocala, Fla, in Decem er, 1890. I have seen no real argument i its favor. Senator Stokes and Sen a or Butler "debated" it at Prosperity. de 29th of July. They said a great eal about a great many things, but :arcely anything about the subject un er debate. The only apparent result f the debate was that Senator Stokes, everal days afterwards, charged Sen >r liutler with grossly insulting "40,000 lliance men," and the latter retorted y calling his accuser a "sneak and a Cangressman Watson, of Georgia, nad Senator Butler met at Batesburg o the 9th inst. to dicuss it. There was a great flow of wit and oquence and repartee. A great deal of citicism at the existing order of things; ut each accused the other at the ose of the debate of having failed to scuss the subject-and the accusation -as well founded on boath sides i'he -ith is, there is not much to be said ther for or against the plan. It is ke debating the question whether the lanet .Jupiter is inhabited; there are o facts as a basis to reason fram. here is no argument by analogy. othing like it has ever been tried. It ould reqjuire an actual experiment to ~ttle the matter, and an experiment ould cost a good many millions. The plan is to have the National Gav nment lend money directly to the sople at 2 per cent, taking as security erefor either land or one of the live roducts, cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat id1 oats. Government warehouses are >be built in every county raising pro ur-ts to the vaue of half n milin dol lars a year. There is to be a Govern ment officer in charge of each ware house, whose business it shall be to classify the products stored in the ware house and set a value upon them. and to issue to the owner of such products 80 per cent of their value in Govern ment certificates, which shall pass as money. The object of this is to enable the owner to hold his products for a rise in the market. When he gets ready to redeem his cotton, or whatever pro duct he may have stored in the ware house, he can do so by repaying the agent the 80 per cent advanced upon it and a proper sum for storage, insurance, etc. If the product be not redeemed by the end of the year the Government is to seli it and pay itself the 80 per cent, "returning the overplus, if any there be," to the owner. Whatever money the Government issues for the sub treasury storage goes back to the Gov ernment by the end of the year and is all destroyed; and the next year the same process is repeated. It is readily seen that this plan gives a "flexible currency," and that Is regard ed by its advocats as its~highestrecom. mendation. Whether a flexible currend cy is desirable is a matter about whicll. people differ; but I cannot enter on the discussion here. In the case of land, the plan provides' that the interest and a portion of the - loan shall be paid back to the Govera ment every year until the whole Is paid -the object aimed at being long e and a low rate of interest. Suppose this plan should benefit an body, who would it be? Not the who owns no land; tor if has nw" land he has no products, therefore can offer no security The security must be gil Anyone can see that it would not d take risks along this line, or the who Government would go to financiat smash In a short time. Whatever favors or special privilegend the Government gives to one itMis obliged to take or withhold from 'r other. If a father has six sons and six thousand dollars and gives four thous and to one and two thousand to another, there is nothing for the other four. -o that the very people that most nee help do not get it, while those who.are, able to help themselves are helped by the Government at their expense. It s not the landowners that need help, bA the men without land-and they form very large percentage of the poplulati, and a large majority of the prodc. The cry is, the rich are growing ri and the poor poorer. That is a fact. and it is nowhere more strikingly ex emplified than in the ownership ot The census shows that the propo of landowners is steadily aecreing Suppose, however, the "plan" w put in operation, there must be limit to the loans. To flood thee an with paper money would be to de ate its value and run up the price everything. The advocatesof the " say the limit should be $50 per cm They say the per capita circuation is only $5 There would, therefore, b sudden expansion of the currency told and a like increase in prices every article the people have to b which might not make much diferen if everybody owned land and nonparish able products, but would prove J to wage-earners and others havl neither. And no time is given to pare for this great flood of The Alliance "platform of deands, adopted at Ocala, says: "We e that the amount of circulating medi be speedily increased to not . . $50 per capita." It would takeS10 to buy what 81 buy now. and at and dollar note could be paid off money worth only a hundred Herein is the popularity of the " It appeals to the debtor class, towch most of us belong. Were we o1gt-~4 debt the amnougt of circulation per cp ita would be of small conseqecN cause tile more abundant money is higher prices are, and vice versa. Fifty dollars per capita would a to $3,000,000,000. Two-pe cent isvey very cheap for money. Eeyo would want all he could get at that Three billions would not last 10 en he land in New York State alone iswot more than $3,000,000,008 and the a~a~ products of the State are enormousUi in quanity and value. There certaini wouldnot be near enough to g r The scheme is impractible. I bb'. it would involve the Governcan tile people in financial panic and7' ter and bring upon as evils that present evils could not be compared t. If there is more money needed for te purposes of trade and business, adL believe there is, there are other safer means of getting it into crua tion. Two hundred million could be paid in Government bills Government employees and pension every year, until thle volume of currn cy was sufficient, the credit of the Gov enent being pledged to the redemp tion of the bills. A gradual epnin of that sort would hardly depreciat the currency, and would not be so-hardi on the debtor class and on wage earners as would the rapid expansion contem. plated in the sub-treasury plan. But, after all is said, the reme~' must come from the people thems~er~ more than from the Government. fe' land is productive and her people indua trious, but they are not prosperous, bR cause the great bulk of the money made: in Ireland is spent by alien landlorcsi in London and on the Continent. -y The South suffers alike misfortune, though in a milder form. A large pro portion of the money made in the Southd goes to pay Northern pensioners, North ern manufacturers and Northern bond holders. This cannot be helped now. But another large proportion goes t pay for Western mules, Western bacodn and Western corn. That can be helpedy If 1the farmers will raise these things and make cotton their surplus crope they will yet be prosperous and happyd notwithstanding the national burdenas they are compeiled to bear. To com-2 pensate in some measure for those bur :ens we have the best soil and the best# elimate in the world, and with a united people there is every reason to hope for -a brighter day in the near future. W. HI. WALLACE. Newberry, S. C. A Terrible Fate. CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 16.-John Mc ~afferty, a lineman for the Western Union Telegraph company, met with 3 :errible death in front of the court iouse in the presence of one hundred4 spectators yesterday. McCafferty was - ~aling to somis friends, and then begang ;o climb a telegraph p ole to adjust ad wire. He had reached a point beyonde ~he first cross-arm, when, with a shriek,3 ie fell backward. His spurs caught in ;he iron steps of the pole. and his head iung downward. A telephone wire lad ~fallen across an electric light wire, ind McCafferty had received a terrible voltage in his body. His face and arms ;urned black, and he hung fully three alinutes before a ladder could besecured md the unfortunate man brought to the ground. He died on the way to the hos >ital. The importance of purifying the blood cainnet be ever-estimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good healh. P. P. ~P. (Prickly Ash, loke Root and Pottassiuma) is a mirac-4 ulous blood purifier, performing more _ cures in six mnonths than all the sara parillas and so-called blood purifieraM put tnother.