The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 12, 1902, Image 4
Open the Door of Your Heart,
Open the door of your heart, my lad,
To the angels of love and truth,
When the world is full of unnumbered
joys
In the beautiful dawn of youth.
Casting aside all things that mar,
Saying to wrong, Depart'
To the voices of hope that are calling
you
Open the door of your hear-.
Open t.he doorlof yoir heart. my lass,
To the thinrs that shall abide,
To the holy thoughts that lift your
soul
Like the stars at eventide.
Ali of thbe fadeless ilowers that bloom
In the realms of song and art
Are yours if you'll only give them
room.
Open the door of your heart.
Open the door of your heart, my friend.
Heedless of cross or creed.
When you hear the cry of a brother's
. voice,
The sob of a child in need.
To the shining heaven that o'er you
bends
You need no map or chart.
But only the love ,he Master gave.
Open the door of your heart.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Wanderers From God Invited to
Come Under the Sheltering Wing.
A familiar illustration from the
barnyard is employed in this discourse
by Dr. Talmage to show the comfort
and protection that affords to all trust
ing souls. The text is Matthew xxiii,
37. "Even as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye
would not."
Jerusalem was in- sight as Christ
came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a
height of 700 feet. The splendors of
the religious capital of the whole
earth irradiated the landscape. There
is the temple. Yonder is the king's
palace. Spread out before his eyes are
the pomp, the wealth, tlie wickedness
and the coming destruction of Jerusa
lem, and he bursts into tears at the
thought of the obduracy of a place
that he would gladly have saved and
apostrophizes, saying, "Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens un
der her wings, and ye would not'"
Why did Christ select hen and chick
ens as a-simile? Next to the opposite
ness of the comparison, I think it was
to help all public teachers in the mat
ter of illustration to get down off their
stilts and use comparisons that all can
understand. The plainest bird on
earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only
adornments are the red comb in its
headdress and the wattles under the
throat. It has no grandeur of gene
alogy. All we know is that its ances
tors came from India, some of them
from a height of 4,000 feet on the
sides of the Himalayas. It has no
pretension of nest like the eagle's
eyrie. It has no luster of plumage
like the goldfinch. Possessing anato
my that allows flight, yet about the
last thing it wants to do is to fly, and
in retreat uses foot almost as much as
wing. Musicians have written out in
musical scale the song of lark and
robin redbreast and nightingale, yet
the hen of my text hath nothing that
could be taken for a song, but only
cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in the
text uttered while looking upon
doomed Jerusalem declares that what
he had wished for that city was like
what the hen does for her chickens.
One day in the country we saw sud
den consternation in the behavior of
old Dominick. Why the hen should
be so disturbed we could npt under
stand. We looked about to see
if a neighbor's dog were invading the
farm. We looked up to see if a storm
cloud were hovering. We could see
nothing on the ground that could ter
rorize, and we could see nothing in the
air to ruffe the feathers of the hen,
but the loud, wild, aff righted cluck
which brought all her brood at full
run under her feathers made us look
again around and above us, when we
saw that high up and far away there
was a rapacious bird wheeling round
and round and down and down, and,
not seeing us as we stood in the shad
ow, it came nearer and lower until we
saw its beak was curved from base to
tip and it had two flames of fire for
eyes and it was a hawk. But all the
chickens were under old Dominick's
wings, and either the bird of prey
caught a glimpse of us or not able to
find the brood huddled under wing,
darted back into the clouds. So
Christ calls with great earnestness to
all the young. Why, what is the
matter? It is bright sunlight, and
there can be no danger. Health is
theirs. A good home is theirs. Plen
ty of food is theirs. Prospect of long
life is theirs. But Christ continues
to call, calls with more emphasis and
urges haste and says not a second
ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what
is the matter. Ah, now I see; there
are hawks of temptation in the air,
there are vultures wheeling for their
prey, there are beaks of death ready
to plunge, there are claws of allure
ment ready to clutch. Now I see the
peril Now I understand the urgency.
Now I see the only safety. Would
that Christ might this day take our
sons and daughters into his shelter
"as a hen gathereth her chickens un
der her wing."
The fact is that the most of them
will never mind the shelter unless
while they are chickens. It is a sim
ple matter of inexorable statistics
that most of those who do not come to
Christ in youth never come at all.
'What chance is there for the young
without divine protection? There
are the grogshops, there are the gamb
ling hells, there are the intidelities
and immoralities of spiritualism, there
are the bad books, there are the im
purities, there are the business ras
calities, and so numerous are these as
sailants that it is a wonder that hon
esty and virtue are not lost arts. The
birds of prey, dirurnal and nocturnal,
of the natural world are ever on the,
alert. They are the assassins of the
sky; they have varieties of taste. The
eagle prefers the flesh of the living
animal; the vulture prefers the car
cass; the falcon kills with one stroke,
while other styles of beak give prolon
gation of torture. -And so the temp
tations of this life are various.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful and
importunate and get the chickens un
der wing. May the Sabbath schools
of America and Great Britain within
the next three months sweep all their
scholars into the kingdom. Whom
they have now under charge is uncer
tain. Concerning that serawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many years
ago, the father dead, many remarked,
"What a mercy if the Lord would take
the child:" And the mother really
thought so too. But what a good
thing that God spared that child, for
It became world renowned in Chris
tian literature and one of God's most
illustrious servants-John Todd. Re
member. your chilren will remain
children only a little while. What
you do for them as children you must
do quickly or never do at all. "Why
have you never written a book?" said
some one to a talented woman. She
replied: "I am writting two and
have been engaged on one work ten
vears and on the other five years-my
two children. They are my life work."
When the house of John Wesley's
father burned and they got the eight
children out, John Wesley the last he
fore the roof fell in. the father said:
"Let us kneel down and thank God.
The children are all saved. Let the
rest of the place go.- My hearers, if
we secure the present and everlasting
welfare of our children. most other
things belonging to us are of but lit
tie comparative importance. Alexan
der the Great allowed his soldiers to
take their families with them to war,
and he accounted for the bravery of
his men by the act that many of them
were born in camp and were used to
warlike scenes from the start. Would
God that all the children of our day
might be born into the army of the
Lord:
The wings of my text suggest
warmth, and that is what most folks
want. The fact is that this is a cold
world whether you take it literally or
figuratively. We have a big fireplace
called the sun, and it has a very hot
fire, and the stokers keep the coals
well stirred up, but much of the year
we cannot get near enough to his fire
place to get warmed. The world's
extremities are cold all the time. For
get not that it is colder at the south
pole than at the north pole and that
the arctic is not so destructive as the
antarctic. Once in awhile the arctic
will let explorers come back, but the
antarctic hardly ever. When at the
south pole a ship sails in, the door of
ice is almost sure to be shut against
its return. So life to many millions
of people at the southT and many mil
lions of people at the north is a pro
longed shiver. But when I say that
this is a cold world I chiefly mean
figuratively. If you want to know
what is the meaning of the ordinary
term of receiving the "cold shoulder,"
get out of money and try to borrow.
The conversation may have been al
most tropical for luxuriance of thought
and speech, but suggest your necessi
ties and see the thermometer drop 50
degrees below zero, and in that which
till a moment before had been a warm
room. Take what is an unpopular
position on some public question and
see your friends fly as chaff before a
windmill. As far as myself is con
cerned, I have no word of complaint,
but I look off day by day and see com
munities freezing out men and women
of whom the world is not worthy. Now
it takes after one and now after an
other. It becomes popular to depre
ciate and defame and execrate and lie
about some people. This is the best
world I ever got Into, but it is the
meanest world tha, some people ever
got into.' The worst thing that ever
happened to them was their cradle,
and the best thing, that will ever hap
pen to them will be their grave.
What people want is warmth. Many
years ago a man was floating down on
the ice of the Merrimac, and great ef
forts were made to rescue him. Twice
he got hold of a plank thrown to him
and twice he slipped away from it, be
cause that end of the plank was cover
led with ice, and he cried out, "For
God's sake, give me the wooden end of
the plank this time:" and, this done,
he was hauled to shore. The trouble
is that in our efforts to save the soul
there are too much coldness and icy
formality, and so the imperiled one
slips off and floats down. Give it the
other end of the plank: warmth of
sympathy, warmth of kindly associa
tion, warmth of genial surroundings.
The world declines to give it and in
many cases has no power to give it,
and here is where Christ comes in, and
as on a cold day, the rain beating and
the atmosphere full of sleet, the hen
clucks her chickens under her wing,
and the warmth cf her own breast
puts warmth into the wet feathers and
the chilled feet of the infant group of
the barnyard, so Christ says to those
sick and frosted and disgusted and
frozen of the world: "Come in out of
the March winds of the world's crit
icism, come In out of the sleet of the
world's assault, come in out of a world
that does not understanid you and
does not want to understand you. I
will comfort, and I will soothe, and I
will be your warmth, 'as a hen gath
ereth her chickens under her wing.'"
Oh, the warm heart of God is ready
for all those to whom the world has
given the cold shoulder.
But notice that some one must take
the storm for the chickens. Ah, the
hen takes the storm. I have watched
her under the pelting rain. I have seen
her in the pinching frosts. Almost
frozen to death or almost strangled in
the waters, and what a fight she makes
for the young under wing if a dog or
a hawk or a man come too near: And
so the brooding Christ takes the storm
for us. What flood of anguish arnd
tears that did not dash upon his holy
soul? What break of torture did not
pierce his vitals? What barking Cer
berus of hell was not let out upon him
from the kennels? Yes, the hen takes
the storm for the chickens, and Christ
takes the storm for us. Once the tem
pest rose so suddenly the hen could not
get with her young back from the new
ground to the barn, and there she is
under the fence half dead. And now
the rain turns to snow, and it is an
awful night, and in the morning the
whiteness about the gills and the beak
down in the mud show that the mother
is dead, and the young ones come out
and cannot understand why the mother
does not scratch for them something
to eat, and they walk over her wings
and call with their tiny voices, but
there is no answering cluck. She
took the storm for others and perish
ed. Poor thing: Self sacrificing even
unto death: And does it not make
you think of him who eudured all for
us? So the wings under which we
come for spirital safety are blood
spattered wings, are night shadowed
wings, are tempest torn wings. In
the Isle of Wight I saw the grave of
Princess Elizabeth, who died while a
prisoner at Carisbrook castle, her fin
ger on an open Bible and pointing to
the words. "Come unto me ail ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest." Oh, come under the
wings:
My text has Its strongest applIca
tion for people who were born in the
country, wherever you may now live,
and that is the majority of you. You
cannot hear my text without having
all the rustic scenes of the old farm
house come back to you. Good old
days they were. You knew nothing
much of the world, for you'had not
seen the world. By law of association
you cannot recall the brooding hen
and her chickens without seeing also
the barn and the haymow and the
wagon shed and the house and the
room where you played and the fire
side with the big blacklog before
which you sat and the neighbors and,
the burial and the wedding and thtl
bell called you to worship and seeing
the horses which, after pulling you to
church. stood around the old clap
boarded meeting house and those who
sat at either end of the church pew
and, indeed, all the scenes of your first
fourteen years. and you think of what
you were then and of what, you are
now. and all these thoughts are arous
ed by the sight of the old hencoop.
Some of you had better go back and
start again. In thought return to
that place and hear the cluck and see
the out spread feathers and come un
der the wing and make the Lord your
portion and shelter and warmth, pre
paring for everything that may come
and so avoid being classed among
those described by the closing words
of my text, "as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings, and ye
would not." Ah, that throws the re
sponsibility upon us. "Ye would not."
Alas, for the "would nots." If the
wandering broods of the farm heed
not their mother's call and risk the
hawk and dare the freshet and expose
themselves to the frost and storm.
surely their calamities are not the
mother's fault. "Ye would not" God
would, but how many would not?
When a good man asked a young
woman who had abandoned her home
and who was deploring her wretched
ness why she did not return, the reply
was: "I dare not go home. My
father is so provoked he would not re
ceive me home." "Then.", said the
Christian man, "I will test this."
And so be wrote to the father, and
the reply came back, and in a letter
marked outside "Immediate" and in
side saying, "Let her come at once;
all is forgiven." So God's invitation
for you is marked "Immediate" on
the outeside, and inside it is written,
"He will abundantly pardon." Oh,
ye wanderers from God and happiness
and home and heaven. come under
the sheltering wigrg. A vessel in the
Bristol channel was nearing the rocks
called the Steep Holmes. Under the
tempest the vessel was unmanageable,
and the only hope was that the tide
would change before she struck the
rocks and went down, and so the cap
tain stood on the deck, watch in hand
Captain and crew and passengers were
pallid with terror. Taking another
look at his watch and another look at
the sea, he shouted: "Thank God,
we are saved! The tide turned! One
minute more and we would have
struck the rocks!" Some of you have
been a long while drifting in the tem
pest of sin and sorrow and have been
making for the breakers. Thank God,
the tide has turned, Do you not feel
the lift of the billow? The grace of
God that bringeth' salvation has ap
peared to your soul, and, in the words
of Boaz to Ruth, I commend you to
"the Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou hast come to trust."
A NEW LAW.
The Dispensary Profits to be Given to
the Schools.
The State Superintendent of Educa
tion more than a year ago directed
attention to the fact that the dispen
sary authorities had invested in liquor
a lot of money belonging to the public
schools of the State. There was no
way for the funds to be gotten for the
schools, and the dispensary authorities
claimed that the funds were needed
as assets upon which to conduct' the
enormous business of the dispensary
over two millions of dollars a year.
At the last session of the legislature
there was some talk that the dispen
sary keeps too large a stock on hand,
and an investigation was suggested by
some, but the matter went up in
smoke. However, the legislature
passed an act reducing to $400,000 the
amount of school funds to be used as
assets by the State board. The act
also provides a more specific mode for
apportioning and declaring the profits.
The new act says:
That the directors of the State dis
pensary shall pay over to the State
treasurer by Jan. 1st, 1904, in equal
semi-annual payments all of the school
fund reported by them in excess of
$400,000 for the benefit.of the Com
mon schools of the State, to be appor
tioned by and paid out on the warrant
of the comptroller general as is now
provided by law for the apportion
ment and payment of dispensaryprofits
for the benetit of said schools, provid
ed that the first payment shall be
made on the 30th day of June, 1902.
Section 2. That from and after the~
approval of this act, the directors of
the State dispensary shall make~ a
quarterly statement for the purpose of
ascertaining the net profits accruing
to the State from the sales made from
the State dispensary and shall pay
over the profits so ascertained to the
State treasurer within ten days there
after for the benefit of the common
schools of the State, to be apportioned
by and paid out on the warrant of the
comptroller general as is now provided
by law for the apportionment and pay
ment of dispensary profits for said,
schools. The first settlement made
under this act shall be on the 31st day
of March, 1902.
Section 3. That the county treasur
ers of the several counties of this State
shall not pay to the authorities of the
several cities and towns entitled to
dispensary profits, their share of such
profits except upon the warrants of
the county board of control and coun
ty auditor issued to the authorities of
said cities and towns, when settle
ments are made by them as required
by law. The said county board of
control and county auditor shall at
the same time also certify in writing
to the county supervisor of the1
county entitled to share the dispen
sary profits the amount thereof to
which the county is entitled.
Section 4. All profits from county
dispensaries subject to distribution
among the counties, cities and towns
of the State which have accrued since
the fourth Monday of December, 1901,
and which may hereafter accrue, shall
be distributed monthly among the
counties cities and towns entitled
thereto in the proportion fixed by law,
and that the settlements to ascertain
the same shall be made on the fourth
Monday in each month, instead of
juarterly as heretofore provided by
The act has been approved by the
governor.
Nagged Them On.
The Manchester Union says "un
doubtedly Senator Spooner, in the
course of debate, nagged Tillman into
the row with McLaurin; but it is a
rather slim excuse for Tillman. Sena
tors, it ought not to be necessary to
remark, should be above the ]evel of
street urchins who fall to fighting be
ause somebody "sets them on."
The Illinois Central road intends
o plant several rows of catalpa trees
long its track from Chicago to New
rleans to furnish crossties in the'
0ming years. The distance is 900
BILL ARP ON THE FIGHT.
He Is Not Disgusted With Tillman for
Scrapping in the Senate.
I was ruminating about the fight.
It is common property and everybody
has the right to talk about it. Till
man did wrong in jumping over three
desks to strike McLaurin. About one
desk was the limit of propriety.
Three desks gives a man time to cool
and that makes it against the law to
tight. As to the time and place, that
is of no consequence now. There was
a time in the days of Webster and
Calhoun and Tom Benton and Henry
Clay when the United States Senate
was as sacred almost as a church, but
now a large majority of its members
get their places by conduct infinitely
more disgraceful than fighting. Brib
ery and corruption have got so com
mon that a man can't get there with
out using a big pile of mcney and mak
ing a lot of promises. Of course, I do
not include our southern senators, for
they haven't got the imoney. If we
had some millionaires in Georgia, Clay
and Bacon wculd have to step down
and out. And I am not so disgusted
with Tillman for fighting in the sen
ate chamber. He had reason to be
lieve that his partner had received
promises, and I reckon he had. He
certainly had great expectations or he
would not have flopped over to the
Republicans so suddenly. Politicians
have tb be paid for their votes. Till
man is a true man, but he is not a
great and good man. I admire him
for some traits in his character. He
'cannot be bribed or intimidated. He
dares to say what he beieves and he
uses his pitchfork with impunity. He
Is impetuous and combative, but he is
sincere and everybody admires a sin
cere man. Sincere is one of the
strongest and best words in our lan
guage. It literally means unsealed
without wax-for in the olden times
letters were sealed with wax, bu.t if it
contained no secrets it was not sealed
at all, for wax cost money. Tillman
is a bold, defiant, stubborn man, but he
is not great. A great man like Webster
or Calhoun would have said to Mc
Laurin: "Well, sir, If I am a liar I
deserve the epithet. If I am not, then
you deserve it, but I shall not stoop to
give it." I wish we were all that
great. This thing of resenting the
charge of lying with a blow is a
strange perversion of propriety. A
man may gain his ends by cheating,
swindling, over-reaching hypocrisy,
bribery or concealing the truth, but
you must not call him a liar.
He may break all the cormand
ments, but don't call him a liar,
though that is not in the Decalogue.
All that I regret about the fight is
that Spooner did not call Tillman a
liar and get mauled for it before Mc
Laurin came In. I want somebody to
whip Spooner. He was the teaser that
brought on the fight and was delight
ed that it occurred between the two
Carolina senators. With his party it
is no crime to shoot down ten thous
and Filipinos, who refuse to give up
their country, but it shocks them aw
fully to have a little fracas in the sen
ate chamber.
Well, there are some great men and
there are intany good men, but great
ness and goodness are rarely combined.
Addison says it takes both to make a
man complete. Such, for example, as
Washington and Robert E. Lee. Job
says great men are not always wise
and he might have added most of
them are mean, selfis1h, heartless and
ambitious. Lord Bacon, for instance,
who took bri bes while on the bench,
and Cromwell and Napoleon. Web
ster was a very great man and long
has been my ideal of greatness. Hie
was called the Godlike, sometimes his
human nature overcame him. And so
with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs.
The great weakness of the people is idol
atry. Partisan or sectional or religious
idolatry. E'very man who climbs up
wnere the people can see him is either
a saint or a sinner, according to our
politics, our section, our creed. One
idolizes the character of Lincoln or of
Grant, another holds both of them in
contempt. I suppose that three
fourths of the northern people pay
homage to the memory of old John
Brown for what they call his good in
tentions, and every northern history
and encyclopedia apologizes for him,
and even so good a man as McKinley
excused himself for not attending the
reinterment of his bones, on the
ground that the pressure of official
duties would not permit him to leave
Washington. Most northern men
still denounce John C. Calhoun as the
author of secession and justify Sher
man in burning Columbia. Here in
Georgia this idolatry is already taking
shape in our silly hurrahs for our can
didate. for governor. But, as usual,
the loudest shouters have axes to
grind and are diligently engaged in
setting traps to catch the people. But
this is the shadowy side of politics and
I won't ruminate any further about
it. BILL ARP,
In Atlanta Constitution.
The South's Soldiers In Various Wars.
Here is the percentage as shown by
the figures in the Revolutionary, Mexi
can and Spanish wars as to population
and as to quota of troops furnished.
War of Revolution-Out of a total
population in all the States of the Un
ion, of say 3,929,214, that of the South
was 1,792,710, contributing 7 64 per
cent of the troops, as against a popula
tion in all the States of the Union
other than the South of say 2,136,504,
which latter, in all contributed only
11.22 per cent.
War with Mexico-Of the whole
population of the United States, of say
23,191,876 that of the South was 9,
521,425, contributing 5 per cent of the
troops as against a population in all
the States other than the South of say
13670,439. which latter contributed
on 4. 72 per cent.
Spanish-American War-Out of a
total population in all the States, of
say 76,303,548, contributing :'.27 per
cent, as against a population in all the
States other than the South of 50,
885,839, which latter contributed only
3.19 per cent.
War of Revolution--Southern
States contributed 36.35 per cent of
troops.
War with Mexico-Southern States
contributed 42.47 per cent of troops.
War with Spain-Southern States
cotributed 26.29 per cent of troops.
The Potato Crop.
Prepare for a large sweet potato
crop. They make cheap hog food.
They are good to have in the family
about eight mnonths in the year. Any
variety of the yellow kind is good for
table use. Fo; hogs and cattle the
large red kind, are more prolific. Land
should be pulverized 3 to 12 Inches
deep. Plant In two-foot rows. If
you use commercial fertilizer and the
land is thin mix 500 pounds acid phos
phate. 300 kainlt and 200 pounds cot
tnn cserd meal for two acres
A NORTHERN VIEW.
What A Leading Paper of New Eng
land Says About
THE MCLAURIN-TILLMAN ROW.
Says Everybody Knows What the
Facts Are and That There
is no Need of an In
vestigation.
The presiden: could not well do
anything else, under the circum
statices, than cancel the invitation to
the State dinner in honor of Prince
Henry. which ha* been sent to Sen
ator Tillman as the ranking minority
member of the Senate naval commit
tee. The South Corolina's presence
at such a function, when his Senate
brawl is so fresh in everybody's mind,
would. of course, be most unpleasant
for all present, and his refusal to
withdraw an acceptance left the Presi
dent no other course to pursue.
Meantime, it is to be noted, the
other party to Saturday's fracas de
mands an investigation of the truth
of Tillman's charges, and a resolution
has been introduced to this effect.
But what were the charges? Tillman
had first said that improper influences
were used to gain votes for the Philip
pine annexation treaty when it was
before the Senate. "Name the man;"
shouted Spooner. of Wisconsin, add
ing that "a man who will impeach a
brother Senator without naming him
is a coward." And thus baited on by
the desiring Wisconsin Senator Till
man declared that he knew that "the
patronage of a State has been parcell
ed out to a Senator for his vote." And
when further pressed by Spooner he
mentioned South Carolina, referring
to McLaurin.
SNow it is proposed to Investigation
the truth of that charge, but the
truth is that there Is nothing to in
vestigate. Everybody knows what
the facts are and everybody according
ly knows that the charge made by
Tillman is substantially true. These
undisputed facts are thus stated by
the Philadelphia Record which, by the
way, has been a supporter of the Re
publican policy involved in that treaty
of annexatio.
"It is a fact, as aseertedby Senator
Tillman, that Senator McLaurin was
opposed to the Paris treaty, and that
when a vote was badly needed by the
Administration he was suddenly and
mysteriously converted in its favor. It
is also a fact that immediately after
this miraculous conversion Senator Mc
Laurin became the dispenser of
Government patronage in South Caro
lina. He had the run of the depart
ments and postoffices and revenue col
lectorships in the State were at his
exclusive disposal. It is not yet for
gotton how he undertook, as one of
his first experiments, to seduce the
venerable Wade Hampton with the
Columbia, S. C., postoffice, and how
his base attempt was repulsed. This
did not seriously discourage him, as It
would have discouraged any man pos
sessed of a lingering sense of political
decency. McLaurin is still making
his proffers of Federal office and spoil
to every Democrat in South Carolina
whom he can thus convert into a tool
of his own and of the Administration.
With all this he still keeps up the
impudent pretence of being a Demo
crat, while supporting by speech and
vote every measure of the party in
power.'
And when It is added that Mc
Laurin in all this has particularly
sought out Tillman's personal enemies
in South Carolina for the places and
power at his disposal it will help ex
plain, while never excusing, the in
sane fury of Tillmnan.
But was a deliberate bargain struck
betweena McLaurin and the Adminis
tration before the ratification of the
treaty? This is another question and
one an investigating committee can
probably dispose of with proof. Mc
Laurin suddenly turned on himself
and voted with the Administration,
for reasons good or bad. If for rea
sons honorable then he smirched him
self with the dishonor when he accept
ed pay for what he had done and when
he continues to accept pay in office
patronage from Mr. McKinley's suc
cessor. His case thus becomes as bad
for himself as if there had been a
previous bargain.
Spooner knows all this and knew it
when he baited on the fiery Tillman to
his undoing. Every Senator in the
chamber knew it. South Carolina
knows it and the country knows it.
The charge of Tillman Is notoriously
true In every essential feature and
the only thing left for an Investigat
ing committee to determine is whether
MLaurin changed his coat in the
hope of gaining what he has without
a previous promise or in response to a
previous promise, and if the latter
supposition is true how many and
what Administration Senators, if any,
were responsible for the bargain. This
is one of those scandals connected
with the Phillippine treaty which no
amount of up)roar over Tillman's
brawling conduct can hide from pres
ent view or history.
Farmers Will Rejoice.
The Carolina Spartan says never
hav-e the farmers of the county been
in a more perple~xing condition. Food
for man and beast Is scarce. Wheat
the poorest lool:ing stuff ever seen the
first week in March. No oats of any
conseuence. No preparation for the
next crop and no chance to do any
general plowing this week. But there
is a way out of all this. The farmers
will yet rejoice before 1903." We
hope the prediction of the the Spartan
will come true, as our farmers have
certainly been having a rough time
for some years._______
The Watzers Called Her.
"The waters are calling me," says
Miss Alice M. Colie, who Is believed to
have committed suicide at Niagara
Fals, in her farewell message to her
carents and her lover. Miss Colie is
considered to have been perfectly sane
and she bought a return ticket when
she went to the Falls. Hence It is in
ferred that she had no previous inten
tion of suicide, and simply yielded to
the terrible fascination of that rush
ing torrent, an Impulse which has
been, for the moment, experienced by
many when standing upon Niagara's
brink.__ _ _ _
Caught in Virginia.
Gov. A. J. Montague of Virginia
wired Gov. M]cSweeney Wednesday
that the she-:iff of Williamsburg
county, Va., had captured one John
Henry Floyd, colored, who is wanted
for the murder -> John Nance, colored,
in Laurens county on the 20th of last
October. The proper requisition
papers have been forwarded. Floyd
has confessed. Harvey Floyd, his
brother, is also implicated in the af
fir.
SOUTH CAROLINA DAY.
Some Reasons Why Everybody
Should Attend.
Some reasons why the people of the
state should visit the Exposition on
that day, Thursday, March, 20 are:
First-It is a South Carolina Ex
position in which the state and the
people are vitally interested, as it
presents to the people of the coun
try at large for the first time the
great possibilities of South Carolina,
both as a manufacturing and agricul
tural state.
Second-The state has a building
at the Exposition, in which are ex
hibited the industries and resourecs
of South Carolina. Many of the peo
ple do not realize the magnitude of
the possibilities within our borders.
Go then and see them you will profit
by the trip in many ways.
Third-In the Cotton Palace, Com
merce, Minerals and Forestry, Ma
chinery and Electricity and West In
dian Buildings will be seen many ex
hibits that will justify the trip.
Fourth-To those who have never:
seen the Exposition exhibits of the
United States government, seeing
them alone is worth more than the
cost of the trip.
Fifth-The exhibits in the Wom
an's Building will be of interest to
every woman in South Carolina. The
display is far superior to the woman's
work at any other exposition.
Sixth-When you have seer all the
exhibits of interest, the Midway of
fers its attractions, where you can
spend as much time in pleasure as
you desire.
Seventh-The people of Charleston
desire you to see the Exposition to see
from your own observation that -they
projected the Exposition in your in
terest as well as theirs and that we
should be again united as one people.
Eighth-The railroad rates are very
low, and accommodation for all can be
secured in Charieston at reasonable
rates.
Those desiring to engage rooms or
board in advance will communicate
with Mrs. A. H. Olancy. Mannager
Exposition Information Bureau, 216
Meeting street, Charleston, S. C.,
may have the same engaged in ad
vance without any charge for ser
vices.
INTERESTING ITEMS
Gathered from Various Sources and
Condensed for Busy Readers.
Norfolk, Va., is in the throes of a
big strike on the street car lines.
England is still sending 13,000
horses a month to South Africa for
her army there.
Several of the leaders in the late
riots in Barcelona, Spain, have been
condemned and shot
Six lives were lost in Patterson, N.
J., on Sunday night by the washing
away of a bridge.
Two large buildings were wrecked
and three persons were killed by an
explosion in Reading, Pa., on Sunday
night.
A widow and a widower of Laurin
burg, N. C., ran away from their re
spective children the first instant and
got married.
James Walsh, 112 years old, a na
tive of County Roscommon, Ireland,
died suddenly in Cumberland, Md.,
on Sunday night.
Frank W. Cotle, defaulting cashier
of the State bank at Elkhart, Ill.,
committed suicide on Wednesday by
blowing out his brains with a pistol.
The British had 632 men killed and
wounded and captured at Klerksdorp,
South Africa, a week ago. In addi
tion the Boers captured two guns.
The postoffice at Westerville, Ohio,
was dynamited Tuesday night and
$1,200 in stamps and several hundred
dollars in money were carried off.
Win. Cox shot and killed his wife at
Evansville, Ind., on Tuesday and then
killed himself. The deed was commit
ted in the presence of their little
daughter.
Frank P. Jacobs, aged 25, shot and
killed his wife, aged 18, at Lynchburg,
Texas, on Monday and then cut his
own throat with a razor. They had
been married a year.
Misss Ellen Stone, the missionary
captured by Bulgarian brigands
and lately released for a ransom of
$72,000, will lecture this summer for
the Chautauqua societies in this coat,
try.
Harvey Nesmith of Pelham, Ga.,
shot and killed his wife on Satuirday
night and then killed himself. Both
were members of good families, but
Nesmith had been drinking hard.
Mr. Mullen, who celebrated his
reappointment as postmaster at
Charlotte, N. C., by getting on a jam
boree, and whose appointment was
held up on that account, has iseen
given the grand bounce and H. K.
Pope has been appointed in his stead.
The country authorities of Birming
ham, Ala., have a very disagreeable
problem to deal with and have called
on the governor for assistance. The
bodies of ten dead babies have been
found near the city within two
months._________
Extra Cheap Rates.
It will be no fault of the railroad
lines if "South Carolina Day" at the
Charleston exposition March 20, is not
a great success. The railroad lines
have, as predicted, announced re
markably low rates. The tickets
are to be sold on March 19 and 20
good to return on any train within
three days from the date of sale.
Here are the round trip rates from
some of the principal points:
Columbia.................$ 2.7~5
Abbeville.......... .... .... 4.50
Blacksburg.................. 4.75
Greenville............... ... 4.75
Camden................... 2.75
Greenwood................ 4.15
Newberry.................. 3.35
Orangeburg ...... ........... 2.00
Prosperity................. 3.25
Rock Hill................. 4.00
Spartanburg................. 4.50
Sumter.................... 2.00
Tickets will be sold at above rates
by both the Southern and Atlantic
Coast Line Systems. These rates are
within the reach of all, and will en
ble all who wish to do so to visit the
exposition, which is certainly worth
seeing. So go by all means, and if
possible take along the wife and chil
:ren.
The Beauties of Divorce.
The following is the closing para
graph of a late news dispmdh: "Two
years ago New York society was sur
prised to learn that Richard H. Hunt,
the architect, asked his wife to get a
ivoce and thus allow him to marry
Mrs. Waiter Watrous. Last year she
went to Dakota to secure the divorce
and there fell in love with Dr. Hiar-!
gens. He then divorced his wife, and
hls maariage to Mrs. Hunt followed."
ow perfectly lovely and romantic:
What a convenient thing is the di
-A FRIGHTFUL WRECK.
Fifteen Persons Killed and Twenty
eight Persons Wounded.
LEFT TRACK ON A CURVE.
Going at Such Speed, Engine Jumped
Seventy-Five Feet. Coaches
Piled Up in Heap and
Burned.
A broken rail caused a frightful
wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad
near Maxon station. 25 miles west of
Sanderson, Texas, at 3 o'clock Friday
morning. From the latest accoimts
fifteen people were killed outright and
twenty-eight persons were more or less
injured.
The dead:
Three children of Mart Riddle of
Chetopa, Kas.
Estavon Contraras, Del Rio. Tex.
Andrew C. Shelly, wife and child,
Loiror. Tex.
Child of D. E. Housen, Racine,
Wis.
Mr. ana Mrs. White, Manitowoc,
Wis.
Al Mast engineder, Fl Paso, Tex.
W. W. Price, engineer, San A nto
nio.
H. Bertscholtz, fireman, El Paso,
Tex.
Chris Keel, contractor, San Anto
nio.
L. A. Boone, news agent, Doyline,
La.
Injured:
Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco,
internal injuries.
,A. S. Turner, Blackhawk, Miss.,
hand crushed.
Mrs. M. E. Sheppard, Glenn Mills,
Pa., hand hurt.
J. Fuller, Washington, D. C., leg
and foot crushed.
Antonio El Rio, DelRio, Tex., inter
nal injuries.
George Ellenburg, Lexington, Ky.,
hand crushed. -
E. C. Baker, Angleton, Tex.,
bruised.
Charles S. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex.,
both feet scalded.
A. E. Massey, Wilby, Tex., scalp
wound.
J. I. Taylor, Mulberry, Kas., head
injured.
Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa.,
internally.
W. P. Adams, express messenger,
internal injuries and badly scalded.
Craig Battleman, North Dakota,
head and back hurt.
Biscoe Rodgriguez, Del Rio, Tex.,
bruised.
Lulons Merales, Del Rio, slightly
bruised.
Antonio Donuel, Del Rio, bruised.
M. Lobert, residence unknown, head
hurt.
D. P. Havens, El Paso, bruised.
A. E. McKenzie, Safford, Ariz.,
slightly injured.
R. J. Todd, Frankfort, Ky., bruised.
Thomas 0. Crowder, Houston,
bruised.
Win. Josephs, San Jose, Cal, back
injured.
J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala.,
slightly hurt.
Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kas., slightly
injured.
Dr. G. C. Martin, Pecos City, Tex.,
slightly injured.
C. W. B3. Bennett, St. Paul, Kas.,
bruised.
W. S. Glenn, Blackhaw, Miss., leg
broken.
Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San Fran
cisco, leg and hand crushed.
The ill-fated train left San Antonio
at noon Thursday, two and a half
hours late and at the time of the acci
dent was runining at a high rate of
speed in order to make up time. The
road at the point where the wreck oc
curred is in a rough country, the
curves being sharp and the grades
heavy. It was when rounding a curve
that the train left the track, it is said
on account of a broken rail.
The hour was 3 a. in., 15 hours af
ter the train had left San Antonio,
showing that it was still behind time.
All the passengers were asleep and the
shock that followed was the first inti
mation they had of the danger.
The train was going at such a rate
of speed that the tender and engine
landed 75 feet from where they left
the rails. The cars behind piled up
against engine causing a fire and all
were consumed except the sleepers.
A private car, owned by Thomas
Ryan of New York, with his family
aboard, was attched to the rear of the
train, but it was pulled away before
the fire reached it and no one on it
was injured.
The wrecked train was the Galves
ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio
westbound passenger, and consisted of
an engine, mail car, baggage car, one
coach, one chair car, three tourists
sleepers, one Pullman sleeper, and one
private car.
The mail car, the baggage car and
the coaches were piled together against
the engine and were ablaze in a few
seconds. It was impossible to move
any of the coaches or the tourist cars,
as they were all off the rails and were
soon consumed by the flames.
So soon as it was possible to get in
communication with the division
headquarters relief trains with sur
geons aud physicians were started from
El Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson. pick
ing up along the line all the surgeons
that could be found.
All the injured who were in a con
dition to be moved were sent to El
Paso where they are receiving careful
attention.
The Price of a Foot.
Mr. James C. Schumpert, of New
berry, lost a foot by an accident on
the southern Railway at Belton on
the 19th of February, 1901, while he
was an engineer on that system. He
brought suit for $50,000. The trial
came ott recently in Newberry, and
the jury gave a verdict in his favor for
12.500. A motion for a new trial
was refused with the understanding
that the verdict be reduced to $10,000.
Ten dyas time was given to accept
the reduction or a new trial will be
granted.
The Coldest Month.
The Carolina Spartan says February
was the coldest month of the winter.
It gave us the deepest snow ever
measured here by any one living.
The ground was frozen hard nearly
every morning in the month until the
Last few days. Vegetation was mak
ing no show at all the first day of
March. The amount of rain and
elted snow was 8.49 inches, about
louble the normal amount for the
nonth. There were ten days on
DO GHOSTS EXIST?
Dr. Savage Certain 'That They Do.
An Incident in Proof.
"The history of the world is full of
reported apparitions or ghosts.' Do
such things as ghosts exist' I am
perfectly certain that they do. This
does not mean that I feel that I am
ready to explain their origin or nature.
1 simply recognize the fact. Whether
they are purely subjective or whether
they represent some objective reality
-that is a question to be settled in
each particular case. I have many
instances in my notes, but they must
be omitted for the present.
"There is one case. however, which
is of a very extraordinary kind. It
occurred about a couple of years ago
here in the immediate vicinity of New
York. There was a certain yoang
man who had been studying abroad.
He had been at been-at Heidelberg
University. He was of anything but
an imaginative temperament. Tall
and stalwart in build, he had a repu
tation *as an athlete. His favorite
studies were mathematical, physical
and electrical. . He-had returned-home
from abroad and, so far as anybody
knew, was in perfect health. He was
at the summer home of his mother.
It was his habit after dinner to go outr
on the piazza and waik up and' down
while smoking his pipe. One evening
he came quieLly in and, without talk
ing with'anybody, went up to bed.
The next Dgorning he went into his
mother's room before she was up.and
laid his hand on her cheek in order to.
awaken her quietly. Then he said,
Mother, I have something very sad to
tell you. You must brace yourself
and be strong to bear it.' Of course,
she was startled and asked him what
he was talking about. He said,'
'Mother, I thean just what I am say
ing. I am going to die, and very
soon.,
"When his mother, startled and
troubled, pressed him for an eqplana
tion, he said: 'Last night, when I
was walking up and down the piaz
smoking, a spirit appeared and walked -
up and down my side. I have received
my calland am going to die.' The
mother,' of course, was seriously
troubled, and wondered whether any
thing mightbe the matter with .him.
She therefore sent for the doctor-and
told him the. story. The doctor made
a careful examination, said there was
nothingi the matter, treated the whole
thing as a bad ream or an h'allucina
tion, told them to pay no attention to'
it, and said that within a few days
they would be laughing at themselves
for letting such a thing wofry them.
The next morning the young man did
not seem quite as well as usual and
the doctor was sent for a second time.
Again he said there was nothing the
matter and tried to laugh them out of
their fears. The third morning the
young man appeared in still poorer
condition and the third time the phy
sician was summoned. -He now dis
covered a case of appendicitis. The
young man was operated on and died
in a couple of days. From the time
of the vision until his death not more
than five days'had gonby. Some
time after this experience mother
visited a psychic here in New York.
She made no previous appointment,
but went as a perfect stranger and
waited her turn. The son claimed at
once to be present and told his mother
a whole series of very reakable
things, which by no possibility could
the psychic ever have known. Then.
in answer to the questio. 'Who was
it that you saw that night?' (theques
tion being purposely so framed as not
to seem to' refer to anybody out of the
body,) he at once replied: 'It was my
father.' The father had been dead
for some years and the mother had
been married again."
Must Be Protected.
Tife' Daughters of the Confederacy
last year conferred upon a number of
gallant ex-Confederate soldiers a deco
ration known as the Cross of Honor.
Certain requirements were exacted of
those who received these badges- of
honor-fashioned in the shape of the
southern cross and made of the metal
which once composed the cannons be
hind which the Confederates fought.
It has since come to light that un
worthy persons have in a few cases
received these crosses of honor. It
is evident that they musthave obtain
ed the decoration by falsifying the
records, so the legislature has passed
an act to prohibit unworthy persons
from wearing these badges. A well
known member of Camp Hampton
was asked recently what would be
the effect of this act. He replied
that the veterans' camps might be
forced to inquire into the records of
the parties suspected of having obtain
ed the award through misrepresenta
tions. He stated furthter that, while
it is an unpleasant duty, the veterans'
organization will go at -the matter
boldly. The act of 1902 declares that: --
"Any person wearing in public the
Southern Cross of Honor adopted and
conferred by the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, or any coun
terfeit or likeness thereof, unless the
same has been conferred, bestowed, or
authorized to be bestowed, , upon such
person by some chapter of the said
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
shall be fined no more that $25 upon
conviction thereof, in any court of
competent jurisdiction."'
A Bride's Trouzsseau for $75.
In the March Ladies's Home Jour
nal .Mrs. Ralston tells how a bride
may buy a complete trousseau, ready
made, for $75. Here is the list:
Tailor suit........... .... ..$15.00
Walking-skirt ......... ..... .3.50
Dress of challie. .... .... .. ..12.00
Silk waist..................~00
Flannel shirt-waist.. .... .... ..1.25
Two wash waists at $1.00 each. 2.00
Wrapper.................. 2.00
Corset .... .. .............. .1.50
Two nightgowns at 85c each... 1.70
Two nightgowns at $1.25 each. 2.50
Two chemises at 50 cents.. .. ..1.00
Two chemises at $1.00 each.. .. 2.00
Two underwaists at 75c each... 1.50
Two underwaists at $1.00 each. 2.00
Two pair drawers at 50c each.. 1.00
Two pair drawers at 85c each.. 1.70
ne sateen petticoat.... .... .1.00
ne muslin petticoat.... .... .1.00
ne muslin petticoat ... .. .. ...50
[at........... ............ 5.00
loves, two pairs.. ...... .... ..2.50
Stockings, half-dozen pairs..1.50
Shoes..................... 3.50
andkerchiefs. one dozen.. .. ..1.50
Sundries.................. 2.85
Total..................75.00
The governor has o1fered a reward
f $100 for the apprehension and con
iction of' the party or parties who
>urglarized the St. Matthews Savings
ank recently. So far as known no
race of the burglars has yet been
senurld