The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 02, 1898, Image 4
A 1A0 IUME
Domestic Life the Subject of Dr.
Talmage's Sermon.
KEEP GOD AT THE FIRESIDE.
Every Member (f the Household
Should Strive to Make It
Happy. Start in the
Right Way.
Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets
forth radical theories, which, if adopt
ed, would brighten many douestic cir
cles: text, John xx, 10. -'le disciples
went away again unto their own
homes.
A church within a church. a repub
lie within a republic, a world within a
world, is spelled by four letters-home'
If things go right there. they go right
everywhere: if things go wrong there.
they go wro g everywhere. The door
sill of the dwelling house is the foun
dation of church and state. A man
never gets higher than his own garret
or lower than his own cellar. Domestic
life overarches and undergirdles all
other life. The highest house of con
gress in the domestic eircle: the rock
ing chair in the nursery is higher thai
a throne. George Washington com
manded the forces of the United States
but Mary Washington commanded
George. Chrysostom-s mother, made
his pen for him. If a man should start
out and run 70 years in a straight line.
he could not get out from under the
shadow of his own mantelpiece. I
therefore talk to you about a matter of
infinite and eterna! moment when I
speak of your home.
As individuals we arc fragments.
God makes the race in parts, and then
he gradually puts us together. What I
lack you make up; what you lack I
make up; our deficits and surpluses of
character being the cogwheels in the
great social mechanism. One person
has the patience, another has the cour
age, another has the placidity, another
has the enthusiasm. That which is
lacking in one is made up by another
or made up by all. Buffaloes in herds.
grouse in broods. quails in flocks. the
human race in circles. God has most
beautifully arranged this. It is in this
way that he balances society: this con
servative and that radical keeping
things even. Every ship must have its
mast, cutwater, taifrail, tilast. Thank
God, then, for Princeton and Andover.
for the opy.sites.
I have no more right to blame a man
for being different from me than a driv
ing wheel has a right to blame the iron
snaft that holds it to the center. John
Wesley balances Calvin's "Institutes.
A cold thinker gives to Scotland the
strong bones of theology. Dr. Guthrie
clothes them with a throbbing heart
and warm flesh. The difficulty is that
we are not satisfied with just the work
that God has given us to do. The water
wheel wants to come inside the mill
and grind the grist, and the hopper
wants to go out ;nd dabble in the wa
ter. Our usefulness and the welfare of
society depend upon our staying in just
the place that God has put us, or in
tended we should occupy.
For more compactness and that we
may be more useful we are gathered in
still smaller circles in the home group.
And there you have the same variety
again-brothers, sisters, husband and
wife, all different in temperaments and
tastes. It is fortunate that it should
be so. If the husband be all impulse.
the wife must be all prudence. If one
sister be sanguine in her temperament,
the other must be lymphatic. Mary
and Martha are necessities. There will
be no dinner for Christ if there be nc
Martha. there will be no audience for
Jesus if there be no Mary. The home
organization is most beautifully con
structed. Eden has gone. the bowers
are all broken down, the animals that
Adam stroked with his hand that mor
ning when they came up to get their
names have since shot forth tusk and
sting and growled panther at panther.
and midair iron beaks plunge till with
clotted wing and eyeless sockets the
twain come whirling down from under
the sun in blood and fire. Eden has
gone, but there is just one little frag
ment left. It floated doni on the riper
Hiddekel out of paradise. It is the
marriage institution- It does not, as
at the beginning, take away from man
a rib. Now it is an addition of ribs.
This institution of marriage has been
defamed in our day. Socialism and
dolgyamy and the most damnable of all
things, free lovism, have been trying to
turn this earth into a Turkish harem.
While the pulpits have been compara
tively silent novels, their cheapness
only equalled by their nastiness, are
trying to educate, have taken .upon
themselves to educate, this nation in
regard to holy marriage, which makes
or breaks for time and eternity. Oh.
this is not a mere question of residence
or wardrobe! It is a question charged
with gigantic joy or sorrow, with heav
en or hell. Alas for this new dispen
sation of George Sands! Alas for this
mingling of the nightshade with the
marriage garlands. Alas for the venom
of adders spit into the tankards. Alas
for the white frosts of eternal death
that kill the orange blossoms! The
gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what
is right and to assail what is wrong.
Attempt has been made to take the
marriage institution, which was intend
ed for the happiness and elevation of
the race and make it a mere commer
cial enterprise, an exchange of houses
and lands and equipage, a business
partnership of two stuffed up with the
stories of romance and knight errantry
and unfaithfulness and femine angel
hood. The two after awhile have
roused up to find that instead of the
paradise they dreamed of they have got
nothing but a Van Amburgh's menag
erie, filled with tigers and wild eats.
Eighty thousand divorces in Paris in
one year preceded the worst revolution
that France ever saw. And I tell you
what you know as well as I do, that
wrong notions on the subject of Chris
tian marriage are the cause at this day
of more moral outrage before God and
man than any other cause.
My first counsel to you is, have God
in your new home. if it be a new home.
and let him who was a guest at Bethany
be in your household, let the divine
blessing drop upon your every hope and
plan and expectation. Those young
people who begin with God end with
heaven. IHave on your right hand the
engagement ring of the divine affection.
If one of you be a Christian,
let that one take the Bible and
read a few verses in the ev-en
ing time, and then kneel down and
commend yourselves to him who setteth
the solitary in families. I want to tell
you that the destroying angel passes by
without touching or entering the door
post sprinkled with blood of the ever
lasting covenant. Why is it that ir
some families they never get along and
in others they alway get along well? I
have watched such eases and have come
to a conclusion. In the first instance
nothing seemed to go pleasantly. and
other ease, u ammu' - thr -ee :
lip, and Trials and some things that
had to be explained. still things went
011 pleasantly until1 the very last. Wh1y?
Thev :tarted right.
31' second advice 1o von in your
home is to exercise to the very last pos
sibility of your nature the law of for
bearance. Prayers in the household
will not make up for everything. Some
of the best people in the world are the
hardest to get along with. There are
people who stand up ia prayer meetings
and pray like angels who at home are
' ncomn promising and cranky. You
may not have everything just as you
want it. Sometimes it will be the duty
of the husband and sometimes of the
Wile to yield, but both stand punctii
ously on your rights, and you will have
a Waterloo with no Ifllueher coning up
at nightfall to decide the conflie't.
Never be ashamed to apologize when
von have done wrong in domestic
affairs. Let that be a law of your house
hold. Ihe best thing t ever heard of
my arandfather. whom I never saw.
was tIis. 'I hat once. having unrighte
ou-ly rebtuked one of his ehildren. ie
himself having lost his patience and
perhaps having been misinformed of
the child's doings. found out his mis
take. and in the evening of the same
day gathered all h:s family together
an'd said: "Now, I have one explana
tion to make and one thing to say.
Thomas. this morning I rebuked you
very unfairly. I am very sorry for it.
I rebuked you in the presence of the
whole family. and now I asked your
forgiveness in their presence." It must
have taken some courage to do that.
It was right, was it not? Never be
ashamed to apolhgize for domestic in
accuracy. Find out the points, what
are the weak po nts, if I may call them
so, of your con.panion and then stand
aloot from then. Do not carry the fire
of your temper too near the gunpowder.
If the wife be easily fretted by disorder
in the household, let the husband be
careful where he throws his slippers.
If the husband come home from the
store with patience exhusted, do not
let the wife unnecessarily cross his tem
per. but both stand up for your rights.
and I will promise the everlastug sound
of the warwhoop. Your life will be
spent in making up. and marriage will
I be to you an unmitigated curse. Cow
per said:
The kindes' and the hap; iest pair
Will find occision to forbear
And somethiDg every day they live,
To pity and perhaps forgive.
I advise also that you make your
I chief pleasure circle around about
that home. It is unfortunate when it
is otherwise. If the husband spend
the most of his nights away from home.
of choice and not of necessity, he is not
the head of the household; he is only
the cashier. If the wife throw the
cares of the household into the servant's
lap and then spend five nights of the
week at the opera or theater, she may
clothe her children with satins and
laces and ribbons that would confoand
a French milliner, but they are orphans.
It is sad when a child has no one to say
its prayers to because mother has gone
off to the evening entertainment! In
India they bring children and throw
them to the crocodiles, and it seems
very cruel, but the jaws of social dis
sipation are swallowing down more little
children today than all the monsters
that ever crawled upon the banks of the
Ganges!
I have seen the sorrow of a godless
mother on the death of a child she had
neglected. It was not so much grief
that she felt from the fact that the child
was dead as the fact that she had ne
glected it. She said, "If I had only
watched over and cared for the child.
I know God would not have taken it."
The tears came not. It was a dry,
blistering tempest-a scorching simoon
of the desert. When she wrung her
hands, it seemed as if she would twist
her-fingers from their sockets; when she
seized her hair, it seemed as if she had
in wild terror grasped a coiling serpent
with her right hand. No tears! Com
rades of the little one came in and
wept over the coffin, neighb~ors come in,
and the moment they saw the still face
of the child the shower broke. No tears
for her. God gives tears as the sum
Imer rain to the parched soul, but in
all the universe the driest and hottest,
the most scorching and consuming thing
is a mother's heart if she has neglected
her child. when once it is dead. God
may forgive her, but she will never for
give herself. The memory will sink
the eyes deeper into the scr-kets and
pinch the fa e and whiten the hair and
eat up the heart with vultures that will
not be satisfied forever plunging deeper
their iron beaks. Oh, you wanderers
from your home, go back to your duty!
The brightest flowers in all the earth
are those which grow in the garden of a
Christian household. clambering over
the porch of a Christian home.
I advise you also to cultivate sym
pathy of occupation. Sir James MIcin
tosh, one of the most eminent and ele
gant men that ever lived, while stand
ing at the very height of his eminence,
said to a great company of scholars,
"3My wife made me." The wife ought
to be the advising partner in every firm.
She ought to be interested in
all the losses and gains ''f shop and
store. She ought to have a right--she
has a right-to know everything, If a
man goes into a business transaction
that he dare not tell his wife of, you
may depend that lie is on the way either
to bankruptcy or moral ruin. There
may be some things which he does not
wish to trouble his wife wvith, but if he
dare not tell her he is on the road to
discomfiture. On the other hand, the
husband ought to be sympathetic with
the wife's occupation. it is no easy
thing to keep house. 3Iany a woman
who could have endured martyrdom as
well as M1argaret, the Scotch girl, has
atually been worn out by house man
agement.
There are 1,000 martyrs of the kitch
en. it is very annoying after the vexa
tions of the day around the stove or the
register or the table, or in the nursery
or parlor to have the husband say:
"You know nothing about trouble.
You ought to be in the store half an
hour." Sympathy of occupation! If
the husband's work cover him with the
soot of the furnace, or the odors of
leather, or soap factories, let not the
wife be easily disgusted at the begrimed
hands or unsavory aroma. Y our gains
arc one, your interests are one, your
losses are one. Lay hold of the work
of life with both hands. Four hands
-4o fight the battles; four eyes to watch
for the danger; four shoulders on which
to carry [the trials, It is a very sad
thing when the painter has a wife who
does not like pictures. It is a very sad
thing for a pianist when she has a hus
band who does not like music. It is a
very sad thing when a wife is not suited
unless her husband has what is called a
"genteel business." So far as I un
derstand a '"genteel business," it is
something to which a man goes at 10
o'clock in the morning and from which
he comes home at 2 or 3~ o'clock in the
aternoon and gets a large amount of
the mistake o! no >imi satisued until
the husband has given -1p the tanning
of the hide-. or the turning of the
banisters or the building of tl walls
and put hjimself in cir-les whero he lias
nothind to do but smoke cigars and
drink wine and get himself into habits
that upset him. 2oin down in the
maelstrom. taking his wife and children
with hinm. There are a good many
trains running froi earth to destruction
Thev start all hours of the day and all
hours of the -night. There are the
freight trains they go very slowly and
very heavily, and there are the accom
modation trains groing on toward desiru
ctioin. they stop very often and let
a man get out. and on when lie
wants to. Blut genteel idleness is an
express train. Satan is the stoker and
death is the engineer. and, though one
may come out in front of it and swing
the red flag of -danger" or the lantern
of God's word, it miakes just one shot
into perdition. coming down the em
bankment with a shout and a wail and
a shrick-crash! erash! There are two
classes of people sure of destruction
Lirst. those who have nothing to do:
secondIv. those who have something to
do. but who are too lazy or too proud to
do it. I have one more word of advice to
guie to those who would have a happy
home. and that is, let love preside in it.
When your behavior in the domestic
Scircle becomes a mere matter of ealeui
lation, when the caress you give is
merely the result of deliberate study of
the position you occupy. happiness lies
stark dead on the hearthstone. When
the husband's position as head of the
household is maintained by loudness of
neice, by strength of arm, by fire of
temper. the republic of domestic bliss
has become a despotism that neither
God nor man will abide. Oh. ye who
promised to love each other at the altar
how dare you commit perjury' Let no
shadow of suspicion come on your af
fection. It is easier to kill that flower
than it is to make it live again. The
blast from hell that puts out that light
leaves you in the blackness or darkness
forever.
Here are a man and wife. They
agree in nothing else, but they agree
they will have a home. They will have
a splendid house, and they think that
if they have a house they will have a
home. Architects make the plan, and
the mechanics execute it, the house to
cost $100,000. It is done. The car
pets are spread, lights are hoisted,
curtains are hung, cards of inv;itation
sent out. The horses in gold plated
harness prance at the gate, guestscome
in and take their places, the flute sound
the dancers go up and down. and with
one grand whirl the wealth and the
fashion and the mirth of the great town
wheel amid the pictured walls. Ha,
this is happiness. Float it on the
smoking viands. sound it in the music.
whirl it in the dance, cast it in the
snow of sculpture, sound it up the bril'
liant stairway, flash it in chandeliers.
Happiness indeed!
Let us build on the center of the par
lor floor a throne to happiness, let all
the guests, when come in. bring their
flowers and pearls and diamonds, and
throw them on this pyramid, and let it
be a throne and let happiness, the
queen, mount the throne, and we will
stand around, and all chalices lifted, we
will say, "Drink, 0 queen, live for
ever!" But the guests depart. the flutes
ar brahes h last clash of the im
paten hofsisheard in the distance.
and the twain of the household come
back to see the queen of happiness on
the throne amid the parlor floor. But,
alas, as they come back. the flowers
have faded, the sweet odors have be
come the sinell of a charnel house, red
instead of the queen of happiness there
sits there the gaunt form of anguish,
with bitten lip and sunken eye and
ashes in her hair. The romp of the
dancers who have left seems rumbling
yet, like jarring thunders that quake the
floor and rattle the glasses of the feast
rim to rim. The spilled wine on the
floor turns into blood. The wreaths of
plush have become wriggling reptiles.
Terrors catch tangled in the canopy
that overhangs the couch. A strong
gust of wind comes through tbe hall and
the drawing room and the bedchamber,
in which all the lights go out. And
from the lips of the wine beakers comec
the words, "Happiness is not in us!"
And the arches respond, "It is not in
us!" And the silenced instruments of
music. thrummed on by invisible lingers
answer, "Happiness is not in us!" An-i
the frozen lips of anguish break open;
and seated on the throne of wilted flow
ers, she strikes her bony hands together
and groans, "It is not in me.
That very night a clerk with a salary
of $1,000 a y-ear-only S1l,000-goes to
his horme, set up three months ago just
after the marriag"e day. Love meets
him at the door. love sits with him at
the table, love talks over thme work of
the day, love takes down the Bible and
reads of him who came our souls to
save, and they kneel, and while they
are kneeling, right' in that plain room.
on the plain carpet, the angels of God
buid a throne not out of flowers that
perish and fade away, but out of gar
lands of heaven, wreath on top of
wreath, amaranth on amaranth, until
the throne is done. Then the harps of
God sounded, and suddenly there ap
peared one who mounted the throne
with eye so bright and trow so fair that
the twain knew it was Christian love.
And they knelt at the foot of the throne
and. putting one hand on each head.
she blessed them and said, "Happi
ness it with me!" And that throne of
celestial bloom withered not with thme
passing years, and the queen left not
the throne till one day the married pair
felt stricken in years-felt themselves
called away and knew not which way go
and the'queen bounded from the throne
and said, "Follow mc. and I will show
you the way up to the realm of ever
lasting love." And so they went up to
sing songs of love and walk on pa :e
mntf of love, and to live together in
mansions of love, and to rejoice forever
i the truth that God is love.
I~ow~ vo V'OTE.-In addition to the
registration certificates, voters at the
polls are required by law to produce
evidence of the payment of their poll
axes. and the Attorney General of the
Stat'ihas held that the evidence of this
fact is the production of thme poll tax
receipt. Voters should therefore hunt
Iout their last year's tax receipt and
have it in readiness for thme general elec
tion. Too great care cannot be exer
cised in this respect as the absence of
the tax recipt, or legal proof oft the
payment of the tax will be the cause of'
the loss of his vote to a man who is
otherwise q1ualifled.
No SvAMP IREQUIRD.-On petition
by 3Ir. Waddy C. Thompson. cashier of
the Lancaster bank, the internal
revenue commissioner, at Washington,
has ruled that a receipt signed by a de
positor and delivered in person to the
officials of the bank, where the money
is on deposit is exenmpt from stamp duty
under the War Rievenue Act. This
ruling is based upon thle opinion of the
Attorney Generalh of the United States
and modifies a previous ruling requiring
S~~ :9.4.AkV.
ieountrv dtIg the iva t two-s.:o*re: yeas1;
has beenl the raiih, .d. 4ew t co-pie re
a1lize niumber of mlen :ndd!asin thi,
great :idlsry The railny stem in
the iited St, s et:( i ii.3(H) loco
inotives. 2(;. iassen cr ear- and
1131H imlii I an d' b'i:.n'g enars. Thnese fIg
ures seem Large 6i1l the number of
freigiht ears is stated. which is 1.250.
(100. A passenger traim (onsiting of
]ocoinotive. tender. bagege anld six
passenger cars. with their con tents. is
estimated to weigh a bout 184 tols.
Freiglt trains sonetimes rch a weight
of 55-0 tons. .\n Ordinary passenger
car costs froi -41.000 to ;5.00(). and a
sleeping car any wherc from 310. 000 to
$20. i011 . Poor's lailroad Manual for
18!)S contains som1e interesting- statis
tics concerning the railroads of the
counitty during 18'97. The railroad
mileago of the country was 179.6102 miles
with 57.218 second tracks, sidings, etc.,
making a total of 236.!)11 miles of track.
Of this. 211.928 miles were laid with
steel rails. The number of miles op
crated was 181.132. The total cost of
the roads and equipment was .10.02!,
1.51.6(07. to which is added 81.509,841.
162 other investiments. making the
total assests $11.931.(;13,6(2. Against
this enormo uns aggregate of assets there
is charged up liabilities in the way of
capital stock. bonded and unbonded
debts to the extent of $11,631.711.740.
This leaves an excess of assets over
liabilities of 298,.901.013. Dealing
in round numbers, there were carried
during the year 504,000,000 of passen.
gers and 7SS.1100,000 tons of freight
The passenger earnings were $253,557,
!936 and the freight S780.351,939-the
revenue from freight being more than
three times that from passengers. Our
of gross earnings. aggregating 1,121
millions of dollars, the net earnings or
available revenue was 433 millions of
dollars. For rent, interest, dividends
and miscellaneous 406 millions of dol
lars was required, leaving a net surplus
of 27 millions of dollars. The average
interest on the total bonded railroad
debt of the railroads of the country was
4.27 per cent, against 4,47 per cent the
previous year. The dividends paid on
the total share capital were 1.52 per
cent. agai':st 1.54 per cent, 1.58 pet
cent, 1.64 per cent and 1.83 per cent in
the years immediately preceeding. Over
a million men are employed by the rail
roads. and every community is interest
ed. directly or indirectly, in the actual
transaction of its business, or in the
financial returns from it. The advance
in railroad building and equipment dur
ing the past score of years has been
tremendous, and what the next genera
tion will achieve no one can foretell.
Railroads are the great material devel
opers of the country, and whatever may
be said about them as soulless corpora
tions and grasping monopolies, we can't
do without-them, and every enterpris
ing and wide-awake state, county or
municipality offers all reasonable en
couragement to their entrance and ex
tension.
Election Day.
The congressional elections this year
will be held in nearly all the States on
November 8. and on that day the great
State election in New York will occur.
It is often asked why the date for the
congressional and presidential elections
was fixed for the first Tuesday after the
first monday in November instead of
simply for the first Tuesday. The ob
ject was to prevent the elections from
falling on the first day of .the month,
There is a good commercial reason for
this. The first is the busiest day of
the month. and therefore it is desirable
that it should not be disturbed by elee~
tions. While all presidential elections
must be held on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, it must not
be understood that the States are
obliged to elget congressmen on that
day. The national legislature has the
power to fix the date of congressional
elections, but it has never exercised
that power. Oregon, Maine and Ver
miont, as a matter of fact. have elected
their members of the next congress
already. All the States except the
three named elect congressmen on the
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember. and it is probable that these
three States will soon fall into line with
the others. The day for the presiden
tial elections was fixed so far in advance
of the beginning of the presidential
term to insure the delivery of the re
turn? in Washington in time for tihe
official count before the senate. In the
earlier days of the republic, when tra
vel was much slower, it was necessary
to hold the election earlier than might
be necessary at present. -Efforts have
been made several times to change the
date of the presidential elections and
also the date of presidential inaugura
tions, but as no strong reason has been
advanced for such an amendment of the
constitution we shall probably never see
the present plan changed.
Race Trouble in Mississippi.
The Picayune's Forest. Miss., special
says; Eleven dead negr es, one dead
white man and one negro and three
white men seriously wounded is the re
sult of the bloody war being waged be -
tween the white and black races in the
Harperville neighborhood of Scott
county. Several of the rioters have
been captured and lodged in jail at
Forest, but the others escaped into the
swamps. Large crowds of white men
are in close pursuit. however. and more
names are hourly expected to be added
to the dead list.
AccIDENTALLY KILLED.--Adam
Bradley, a colored man residing on the
place of Mrs. A. H. Smoak, near Or
angeburg, left his home Saturday after
noon for a hunt nearby, and not return
ing at a late hour that night his friends
instituted a searcea and found his dead
body Sunday morning, lie carried a
muzzle-loading gun, one barrel of' which
had been dischiarg~ed and the tube
blown out, and as the dead man's head
had been pierced by apparently such
an instrument the conclusion was
reached that the bursting of the guni
caused his death.
Lat BRtOKEN. -Sunday afternoon
while little Wilbur Reeves, sin of Dr.
L. L. Reeves, and other boys were
waiting at the First Baptist church, in
Orangeburg, for the hour for Sunday
school, they when into the cemetery
adjoining, and while attempting to
straighten a large tombstone which had
been displaced, the stone fell on the
tigh of young Rleeves crushing the
flesh and badly breaking the bone.
The leg was caught between another
stone which caused the breaking of
the bone. The little fellow received
prompt attention and is doing very
well. _________ __
Rloses were laid on the tomb of Ma
jor Andre in Westminster Abbey Sep
tember 15, with a card, on which was
inscribed: "From Mrs. Curran, nec
Ucatrice Benedict Arnold, of Chicago,
a descendant of General Benedict Arn
old. who detests the memory of 1her an
estor, but revers that of the man whose
death he encompassed. Major Andre.
HILL ON THE WAlt
He Expose. Repub!ican Duplicity
and Hypocricy.
iT WAS A DEMOCRATIC WAR.
He Shows Very Plainly that Had
It Not Been For the Dem
ocrats Spain Would Still
Own Cuba.
In his speech at the Brooklyn Acad
ciny of Music on Friday night David
B. Iill made so clear and able a pre
sentment of the hypocrisy, the duplie
ity of the liepublicans in their effort to
coin the war into partisan political
capital that we are moved to quote him
fully on this point. Ile said:
The achiev-nents and glories of the
recent war with Spain belong not to
any political party, but the whole coun
try. This fact should be everywhere
conceded; but if there is a disposition
to inject partianship in the considera
tion of the inception or results of that
war, we need not shrink from a com
parison with our opponents. We may
recall the plain facts of history.
The people have not forgotten the
great struggle in the halls of congress
less than a year ago, which preceded
the declaration of war-the fact that,
with a few and honorable exceptions,
all the earnest pleas for intervention in
behalf of Cuban liberty were uttered by
Democratic leaders. the arbitrary re
fusal for months of a Republican speak
er. backed by the dominant majority,
to even consider the Cuban question at
all; the steady. persistent and deter
mined efforts of the Democratic minori
ty to force the Cuban question to the
front, aided by the powerful Democrat
ic press of the country and backed by
the patriotic sentiment of the people,
until at last their efforts were crowned
with success and a halting andreluctant
administration was forced to inaugurate
a war in behalf of humanity and civ
ilization to which it was at heart op
posed.
You have not forgotten the cold and
unsympathetic .nessage of President
McKinley in December last opposing
Cuban intervention of any kind, exag
gerating the difficulties in the way, and
unnecessarily reminding congress and
the people of our neutral obligations.
You have not forgotten the attitude
of Senator Hanna, the Warwick of the
present administration as well as the
head of its financial syndicate-fresh
from his senatorial triumph at Colum
bus, purchased by bribery and corrup
tion, who sent to the president in an
swer to his congratulatory telegram the
famous, or rather, infamous, message.
"God reigns and the Republican party
still lives," and who with tears in his
eyes, was pleading at Washington for
peace at any price, and lamenting the
threatened disturbance of the business
interests of the country by "so unne
cessary a war. "
Neither need I remind you of the
dire predictions and lamentations of
other Republicans high in the councils
of the party. who in those momentous
days were seeking to stem the tide of
popular enthusiasm which was sweep
ing over the land, and protesting that
their party was being "'dragged" into an
unholy foreign war by their unscrupul
ous opponents.
But now that "this cruel war is over"~
and American valor has easily triumph
ed on both sea and land, and the Amer
can flag proudly floats over our newly
acqIuired territory-never, as it is fond
ly hoped, to be lowered again-these
po'st-war patriots who never lifted their
voices in behalf of Cuban liberty when
the cause was in dire distress and need
ed friends, come forward with unbe
coming haste, not simply to share, but
to monopolize all the glories of the war.
Their perennial and moss-covered
orators, from Mr. Depew down to the
village oracle, are perambulating the
State fighting over again with their
tongues the few battles of the war,
giving vivid descriptions of war scenes
which they did not witness and detail
ing warlike events which never occur
red. seeking vague and imaginary issues
rather than confronting those actually
existing.
Even the distinguished Republican
candidate for governor in one of his re
ent speeches went so far as to say that
the war would be regarded as having
been fought in vain if a Democratie
victory should now occur. This is the
first suggestion which I have heard
from so high a source that the late war
was a Republican war, or that it was
waged in the interest or for the benefit
of any political party, official or indi
vidual. Democratic soldiers as well as
civilians will resent the offensive and
untimely suggestion.
It was the nation's war, undertaken
not for political effect but for lil'rty's
sake-for the sake of humanity-for
the defense of the national honor; a
just and righteous war which over
shadowed all piolitical considerations,
and it will not have been fought ini
vain, nor will its glorious results be
obscured, dimmed or affected by the
success or defeat in this State cam
paign of any political party-much less
of that party which is held in public
estimation largely responsible for com
pelling the inauguration of that very
war.
It is said that the president must
be sustained. This is a silly plea at
this stage of events. The conflict has
ceased; no armed forces confront us
anywhere, and we are virtually dicta
ting our own terms of peace. No dan
gers confront the country except those
which may be occasioned by our own
selfishness or incapacity, and under
such appeals to our patriotism to sus
tain an adverse administration with
which we do not agree must be regard
ed as unwarrantable and childish.
During the continuance of the struggle
the appeal was pertinent and was most
patriotically answered.
Never in the history of the nation
was a president niore loyally sup~ported
by an opposition party and by the peo
plc generally than during the recent
conflict. Men. supplies and money
were voted ad libitum. Democrats vied
with -Republicans in the endeavor to
give the administration everything it
desired; and while differences of opin
ion necessarily arose as to methods and
details, there was but one common pur
pose manifested, wvhich was to assist
the president in every legitimate way
in a vigorous proseutian of the war.
That duty having been abundantly dis
charged, there is now no obligation
resting upon anybody so sustain the
national administration, .nless we
really approve its policy.
While a blind approval of an admin
istration, whether it is right or wrong,
may be exacted in times of war, no
such rule prevails in timas of peace
It is no impeachment of the loyalty or
patriotism of the people that they de
cline to condone the incompetency, the
negligence, the favoritism and the cor
ruption which characterized the con
duct of some of the departments of
the government especially since the
cloe o th a r, resuling in much pri
ilet. and dena li!ng aen oIliial in. si
gation.
TFhey naturall'. di as :a a i nI
tration which desires to i!vestigate it
self. and they insii.1 witlh much propri
ety that the people's representatives n
congress assembled constitute the prop
er tribunal for the conduct of such an
investigation. A wise statesmanship
will satisfactorily solve the new and in
teresting problems arising out of the
terms of settlement with Spain. will de
termine what governments shall bc
formed: what territory, if any, shall be
actually annexed; what relations shall
exist between our own and the newly
acquired countries: what shall be done
in reference to the solemn promise
contained in our declaration of war;
these question cannot be said to be
political "issucs" in the ordinary sensc
of that term. because they have not
become a certainty: parties have not
divided on them: they have not been
appropriately or legitimately presented,
and their discussion seems premature.
Neither does the proposed increase
of our army; the further strengthen
ing of the navy; the duty which we owe
to our volumteers: the greatness of our
common country. or the necessity for
the preservation of its honor, furnish
issues of any importance, because they
are subjects on which the people are
substantially united. It may gratify
the vanity of idle men and flippant
orators to seriously discuss such topics
in a brief political campaign, but basy
and thoughtful men, intent on practi
cal results, prefer the consideration of
contested questions and actual issues.
Riohts of the Newspaper.
The following from the Newspaper
Maker, so nearly voices our views on
the subject treated, that in reproduc
ing it, we do not care to change a word
or a phrase: The newspaper has been
established long and many of its limit
ations and presc iptions are so set that
the wayfaring man, though a fool. sees
and understands them. Yet in many
essentials there is gross and utter dark
ness in the general public mind as to
the relation between the public and the
newspaper. It is hard for people to
understand that the newspaper is a
business enterprise like shopkeeping.
or the manufacture of tobacco. A man
engages in it for the money making. or
for reputation. The right of the sub
scriber begins and ends with his sub
scription. le need no more subscribe
for'a paper if he has no use for it, than
he has to buy a cigar if he be no smo
ker. The paper has no claim upon his
support. and if he believes he is not
getting the worth of his money he owes
it to himself to stop it. So of the ad
vertiser. He is a fool if he pays out
good money for what will bring him no
returns. He is free to insert an adver
tisement, or decline to do so, according
as he think it is profitable to him or
otherwise. Because he advertises that
is no reason why he should feel the pa
per owes him something else than the
space for which he pays. Yet subscri
bers and advertisers are too prone to
think that they have peculiar claims
upon the editor. They are bold to ask
for the gratuitous insertion of notices
concerning themselves or their friends,
and for the suppression of news which
may militate against them or their
business. In this instance they are
bold, aggressive, exorbitant and often
times impertinent. These men would
scarcely attempt to interfere in such
manner with their butcher. grocer or
tailor. In their dealings with all busi
ness houses except the newspaper, they
recognize the right of the dealer to con
duct his affairs in his own way. Why
not the editor? lie is a purveyor of
news. Such is his business. It lies
with hini to select. cull and arrange
what comes his way. If he does this
to the distaste of individuals they are
free to reject it. No law can compel
them to buy or advertise in a paper not
of their taste. Equally it is none of
their business as to the direction of it.
The responsibility begins and ends with
the editor.
Terrific Storm in Chicago.
Chicago's lake front is bespattered in
spots from Indiana state line to East
Evanston and beyond, as the result of
the storm which found a center there
during the last two days. While no
Jives have been reported lost, the seve
rity of the hlow-48 miles an hour at
its worst-was the greatest since the
gale of 1894, when the shore was strewn
with wrecks -and when many sailors
perished. The tolal damage is estimat
ed at S81,500. The objects that suffer
ed most was the lake shore promenades
and walls, whose huge rocks and flags
were battered- down and tossed about
like chips by the waves. The Lincoln
park board has suffered most in this
respect. It will require S35,000 to re
place its wrecked ways. An indication
of the fury of the storm is shown by the
fact that the official clock in the hydro
graphic office in the Masonic Temple
was stopped by the vibration of the big
building. The hands pointed to 6.51
when the pendulum ceased to swing.
Lieutenant Wilson says~all clocks in the
upper floors of high office buildings
were similarly affected.
Sank With Help At Hand.
The Three-masted schooner St. Vin
cent, sank Wednesday about five miles
northwest of Sodus, on Lake Ontario,
with all on board save Capt. John
Griffin, who was rescued in an uncon
scious condition. The tug Cornelia
started for the rescue, but the great
seas nearly swamped thie boat and the
Cornelia was compelled to return to
the harbor. Word was sent to Char
lotte that the distressed vessel had
ben sighted near Pultneyville, and
the tag 'Proctor started with the
life saving crew. When within a mile
of the St. Peter the crew of the Proc
tor were horrified to see the distressed
ship sink. In ten minutes the tug
was cruising about the spot where she
went down. Capt. Griffin was picked
up in an unconscious condition. After
spending half an hour looking for the
other members of the ill-fated crew,
the tug started for Sodus where medi
cal assistance was secured for the cap
tain. IIe is still unconscioui, but
will recover. The wife of the captain
was lost.
A Narrow Escape.
Wednesday Constable Tom Bishop
and Mr. Pleas Jacobs of Columbia had
a very narrow escape fronm serious in
juries. Mr. Bishop was called into the
country in his official capacity to serve
some papers for the Coliumbia Phos
phate company and rented a horse and
buggy for the trip. When about three
miles from the city, going down a hill,
the horse began to kick without provo
ation of any sort. The first kick land
ed in ai glancing way on Mr. Bishop's
side and scraped all the buttons off his
vest. The second kick turned the bug
gy over. throwing the occupants heavi
ly to the ground. Mr. Bishop was bad
ly bruised ab)out the body and had
large patches c f skin scraped off his ana
tomy. Mr. .Jacobs had his left eye
neatly blacked and closed besides other
slight injuries. Mr. Bishop was knock
ed unconscious for awhile. The horse,
after upsetting the buggy, proceeded to
thorngghlyrdemolish it.
THI{ANKSGIVING PROUL4MATION
'artiu aar Reason Why Amorican Peo
pie Should be Thankful This Year.
The President after the cabinet meet
ing Friday issued the following thanks
n proclamation:
By the President or the United
States:
A proclamation.
The approaching November brings to
mind the custom of our ancestors, hal
l)wed by time and rooted in our most
sacred traditions. of giving thanks to
Almighty God for all the blessings he
has vouchsafed to us during the past
year.
Few years in our history have af
forded such cause for thanksgiving as
this. We have been blessed by abun
dant harvests. our trade and commerce
have been wonderfully idcreased, our
public credit has been improved and
strengthened. all sections of our com
mon country have been brought together
and knitted into closer bonds of na
tional purpose and unity.
The skies have been for a time dark
ened by the cloud of war, but as we
were compelled to take up the sword in
the cause of humanity. we are permitted
to rejoice that the conflict has been of
brief duration and the losses we have
had to mourn, though grevious and
important, have been so few, consider
ing the great results accomplished, as to
inspire us with gratitude and praise to
the Lord of Hosts. We may laud and
magnify His holy name that the cessa
tion of hostilities came so soon as to
spare both sides the countless sorrows
and disasters that attend protracted
war.
I do. therefore, invite all my fellow
citizens, as well as those at home, as
those who may be at sea or sojourning
in foreign lands, to set apart and ob
serve Thursday, the 24th day of Novem
ber. as a day of national thanksgiving,
to come together in their several places
of worship, for a service of praise and
thanks to Almighty God for all the
blessings of -the year; for the mildness.
of the seasons and the fruitfulness of
the soil, for the continued prosperity of
the people, for the devotion and valor
of our countrymen, for the glory of our
victory and the hope of a righteous
peace, and to pray that the divine gui
dance which has brought us heretofore
to safety and honor may be graciously
continued in the years to come.
In witnesses whereof, etc.
(Signed) William McKinley.
By the pesident, John Hay, Secre
tary of State.
OBSERVANCE OF ARBOR DAY.
Superintendent Mayfield calls Teach
ers' Attention to the Law.
The general assembly, at its last ses
sion, passed an act authorizing the pro
per observance of the third Friday in
November as Arbor day by the free pub
lic schools of the State. .
Superintendent Mayfield has sent a
letter to the county superintendents of
education and the teachers of the State
calling their attention to the law and
its provisions.
The following is the letter sent out
from the superintenden's office:
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 28, 1898.
To the School Officers and Teachers;
I call to your attention. that you may
observe its provisions, the followiug
act
"Section I. Be it enacted by the gen
e ral assembly of the State of South
Carolina, That the free public schools
of this State shall observe the third
Friday in November of each year as
Arbor day, and on that day the school
officers and teachers shall conduct such
exercises and engage in the planting of
such shrubs, plants and trees as will
impress on the minds of the pupils the
proper value and appreciation to be
placed on flowers, ornamental shrubbery
and shade trees.
."Approved the 16th day of Februa
ry, A. D., 1898."
If for any good reason the day named
in the act cannot be observed by a
school, the observance of some other
day will be a compliance with the spirit
of the law.
Thirty-nine States and territories
now observe Arbor day.
I leave it to you to decide what you
will plant, and what exercises you will
have.
I call attention to the fact that this
State has no State flower. Most of the
States have one. On Arbor day a State
flower may be adopted by permitting
the pupils to vote for the flower of theli
choice. Teachers should report the
result of the vote in their respective.
schools to the county superintendent of
education, who will tabulate the vote
of his county and report to the State
superintendent of education, who will
tabulate the vote of the State and an
nounce the result.
W. D). Mayfield,
State Superintendent of Education.
HESTER'S COTTON FIGURES.
Marked Increase in the Movement Into
Sight for the Week.
Secretary Hester's weekly New
Orleans cotton exchange statement is
sued Friday shows an increase in the
movement into sight compared with the
seven days ending this date last year of
2,800 bales, an increase over the same
days year before last of 132.,000. For
the 28 days of October the totals show
an increase over last year of 338,000,
and for the 58 days of the season the
aggregate is ahead of the 58 days of
last year 224,000. The amoun t brought
into sight during the past week has been
518,375 bales against 515.660) for the
seven days ending this date last year,
and for the 28 days (.f Oct oher it has
been 2,077,619 against 1.79J 390 last
year. T1hese make the tot.d -movemnt
of the 58 days from Sept. 1 to date
3,032,969 against 2,808,829 last year
and 2,963,971 the year before.
The movement since Sept. 1 shows
receipts at all United States ports
2.242,814 against 2 f171.453 last year;
interior stocks in e~~ of those held
at the close of the commuercial year 415,
056 against 317,346 last yeamr; southern
mill takings 222.617 agains.t 215,831
last year.
Foreign exports for wveek have been
317,555 againstC249,245 last year, umak
ing the total thus far for the season
1. 298.415.
Stocks 'at the seaboard and the 29
leading southern interior centres have
increased during the week 128,924
against an increase during the corres
ponding period last season of 177,496,
and are now 871.719 larger than at this
date in 1897.
Gunter Succeeds Townsend.
Mr. U. X. Gunter, of Spartanburg,
secretary of the Democratic State Ex
cutive Committee, will succeed Judge
C. P. Townsend as assistant Attorney
General. This matter was finally
agreed on Thursday and Mr. Gun
ter will assume his new duties when
Judge Townsend leaves for Washing
ton, where he will practice law with
Satorn MLaurin_
ROVAL
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
aganst aum.
Am 9 powds are the ratet
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THE BANKRUPT LAW.
Valuable Information as to the Work
ings of the New Law.
Maj. James F. Hart, a careful and r
accurate lawyer, has furni-ahed th#'
Yorkville Enquirer with tiwe! v and inr
portant information as to the signifi
cance and operation of the new bank
rupt law. This article u ill p-rovc in
teresting to the public generally, and
especially to individuals and firms who
are in debt. Here is what Maj. Hart
says:
The bankrupt law, recently enacted
by Congress, is new in fall effect, and
available to all who may seek its bene
fits. Its provisions seem to be but lit
tle understood, as the press generally
has not given much attention to its le
gal features.
The main purpose of the law is to
provide the way to close up the busi
ness of such persons as are hopelessly
insolvent; give their creditors a ratable
distribution of the assets in hand, (re
serving the State homestead exemptions
to the bankrkipt,) and then grant abso
lution for the balance of the indebted
ness. When there has been no dis
honesty or fraud, the mode of obtaining
the benefit of the act is speedy and in
expensive.
A secondary purpose of the act is to
force into bankruptcy, and thereby
compel a distribution of the assets of
any persons, who, being insolvent, is
misusing or fraudulently applying his
means. Insolvency, in the present act,.
has a new and more liberal definition
than has usually been given it, and no.
person is to be adjudged insolvent who,
has sufficient property. at a fair val
uation, to pay his debts, exclusive of*
such property as he may have convey
ed away.
The effect of the law is the feature
that will attract the widest attention.
How far it supereedes State insolvent
laws, such as assignments for benefit of
creditors and releases by such m s,
dues not seem to be fully agreed upo 1.
Bat as to partnerships, an assignment
would be ascribed as an act of bank
ruptcy, and the assignors forced to
settle their indebtedness under the
terms of the bankrupt act, for a most
obvious reason.
Under the decisions of our supreme
court, all partnership assets are given
exclusively to the partnership creditors;
and these creditors, if not fully paid
then come in ratably with the individu
al creditors to share the individual as
sets. The bankrupt law provides, how
ever. a different rule for distribution,
and gives partnership assets to partner
ship creditors, and individual assets to
individual creditors, with the right to
each class to participate in any surplus.
Individual creditors of a partnership,
of course, would not stand by and per
mit a distribution under the State as
signment law when they can get a.
better provision under the bankrupt
law.
But aside from this, it seems to be
the better legal opinion that, as under
the Federal constitution (Art. 1., Sec.
10) "No State shall pass any law im
pairing the obligation of contracts," but
the right to establish "an uniform sys
tem of bankruptcy." (Art. 1., Sec. 8)'~
reserved for the United States Conrf
this remedy, when enacted, must su
percede and displace all State insolvent
laws.
So long as Congress failed to exer
eise the power to adopt the "uniform"?
system for the whole Union, each State
exercised the right of providing its owin
sys tern of relief for insolvents. But
the constitutional system having been
provided, the State systems are super
ceded, This view seems to be the log
ical one, and, if correct, the enactmenb
of the bankrupt law has produced am
unexpected and startling influence on
State laws.
How to obtain the benefits of tlie
bankrupt law can better be ascertained
by interested persons consulting their
lawyers. Bat, briefly stated, proceed
ings, are commenced by petition to the
United States district court; and after
this most of the proceedings are before
local "referees" appointed by the dis.
trict judge, one or more for each coun
ty. Trustees are appointed to take
charge of the assets and convert into'
money. The fees allowed are so ex
ceedingly small that there will be found
difficulty in securing suitable persons
to fill appointments of referees and
trustees.
The law is full in its directions as to'
the minor details of the process of bank
ruptcy, and these will not interest the
public. But altogether, it presents a.
wise, liberal and humane method by
which the stifled business encrgy of'
many who went to the wall under the
grinding depression of the last ten
years. may be released and given oppor
tunity for new expression in the busi
ness world. And in this view, it is not
only a blessing to the unfortunate, but
a boom to the whole country.
Despsrate Fight With Indians
A special from Canyon Ciay Oregon,.
states that a young man who was a.
member of the sheriff's posse, has just
returned to Canyon City, with the rc
port of a desperate fight whichi occurred
between the whites and a renegade :
band of Indians. The 19 whbite men
and five buck warriors were about 40'
feet apart when the battle began..
George Cuttings. son of David Cuttings,.
received a ball in the left arm, the-mis
scl passing through his lungs. One of'
the Indiuns who was shot and killed.
fought with desperate courage. After
being repeatedly shot, he continuedl
fighting with his rifle until it was empty,
then fired his revolver until the muzzeli
dropped so low that the bullets struck
the ground near the dying redskin's
side. George Cuttings, af ter receiving
a wound, started in company with M.
Moiser, for Izee, near the scene of the
trouble. The wounded man became so
weak that he was left near the trail
propped up against a tree. When a
searching party went to look for Cut
tings they found his dead body near a
spring where he had eriwled. The
posse continued pursuit and after a
running battle killed all five Indians.
Settlers have been sent to Canyon City
for more ammunition, statings that the
Indians are gathering around Izee in
large numbers. The trouble arose over
the Indians accusing the whites of steal