Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A GOOD SHOWING. The Progress Made in South Caro lina During Ten Years. SOME INTERESTING FIGURES. Our Mant'act uring- -Itd Other iI tlu- trie-- iave Matie Iapid Stride's in the Past Decade, as Shown by Census. The revelations of the tenth census as shown by a bulletin just issucd ought to prove interesting I everY citizen of South Carolina, i. aM are concerned in one way (.r an K the development / ur and nechanic:7 in es ble cozmpil;aziof k!" is taties and summary of comparis has been made by "' Columbia State. from which we make the follwing extracts: The manuffc ring prosperity of the State in 1900 is shown by the fact that while ther-- were 7.9: ' active es tablis-hmne..,ith a capital of 7. 056,299~ ti:.* we\e only lidl -nes. with a capital ,f "1, 1-17. The eight leading- industries of the State were cotton gods, fertilizers. flouring and grist raii produacts. lum ber and timber products. planing mill products. including sash, doors and blinds, cotton seed products. rice clean ing and 'polishing and naval stores. These embraced 1.640 establishments or 43 6 per cent. of the total number in the State: used a capital of 45S. 538,373. or 86.9 per cent of the total: gave employment to 39,066 wage-earn ers, or 81.2 per cent. of the total num ber: and paid 36.965.935 or 73.7 per cent. of the total wages. The value of their products was Q4S.041,940 or 81.8 percent. of the total. Some de tails are as follows: The number of establishments in creased during the decade 1890-1900 from 1.169 to 1.640: the capital in creased from 821.771.113 to 858.538. 373: the average number of wage earn ers in. from 15.565 to 39,867: the total wages paid increased fr.om $3,008,722 to $6,965,935: the miscellaneous ex penses increased from 81,278,679 to $2,472, 263; the cost of materials used increased from $14,301,942 to 829, 272,774; and the value of products in creased from $21,927,098 to S48,041, 940. The percentages of gain (exclud ing the numbers of establishments ranged from 93.3 in miscellaneous ex( penses to 168.9. During the decade the capital in vested in the manufacture of cotton goods increased from $11,141,833 to $39.259,946; the average number of wage-earners from 8.071 to 30,201; the *ages from $1,510,494 to $5,066. 840; the cost of materials used from $6,819,320 to 817,263.882: and the val ue of products from $9,800,798 to 829, 723,919. The fertilizer industry showed only a smal1 increase except in capital, the enlargement here being from 85,920. 218 to $10,505,043. The number of wage-earners increased only from 1, 102 to 1,772 and the value of products from 84,417,658 to 14.882,505. The flouring and grist mills showed contrary tendency as to capital, the reduction fni this direction being over one-third and the number of wage. earners increasing nearly two-thirds, while the value of products increased from $2,083,126 to $2,247,790. Tbe lumber and timber products showed these increases: Number of es tablishments, from 352 to 729; capital from 81.348,155 to 85.187,727; wage earners from 2,590 to 4,585: wages from $420,588-8897,899, materials cost from $996, 2S9 to 82,692805: and value of products from $2,146,750 to $5,207.. 184. The value of planing products. etc., increased from $711,838 to $1 016,328. The number of cotton seed oil mills increase~ from 17 to 50: their capital from $- 5,372s to 81,059,872: their wage-earners from 416 to 734: their wages paid from $56,354 to 8143.932: their cost of materials from $740,605 to 82,362,837: and their value of pro ducts from $927,772 to $3,103,423. There was a decrease in the naval stores industry: in the number of es tablishments from 201 to 132: in capi . tal from $605.873 to8268.719: in wage earners from 2,243 to 886: in wages paid from 8378.768S to 8135,575: in cost of materials from 86577,383 to $471,261. and in value of products from 81.524,100 to 8787.' ->6. Appar ently the naval stores industry is dis appearing from South Carolina-and with it a good many negro ''turpen tine hands" who can well be spared. In considering these figures one can not but be impressed by the lack of diversification of our manufactures. Deduct cotton goods, fertilizers. lum ber and cotton seed from the list and there is .sery little left. The cotton mills alone employed in 1900 over two thirds of the capital: three-fourths of the wage-earners and furnished nearly two-thirds of the products. The fifth table gives statistics of the consolidated manufactures of the 12 leading manufacturing cities and towns: Anderson, Beaufort. Camden, Charleston, Chester, Columbil. Green ville, Newberry, Orangeburg, Rock Hill, Spartanburg and Sumter. These 12 communities have 22 2 per cent, of the number of manufacturing estab lishments, in the State, 41 2 per cent. or the capital. employed :33.7 per cent. of the wage earners, paid 39.8 per cent. of the wages and 39.7 per cent. of the materials used. Their establishments yielded 39.2 per cent of the value of products, while they contained 10.2 per cent. of South Cawlina's popula tion, in the amount of capital in vest ed they stand - as follows: Charleston $12,473,187: Columbia 85,277,306: Greenville $2,858,388: Spartanburg 82. 351,175: Newberry 81,836.625: Ander son $1,280,111; Rock Hill1 8826.941: Chester $480,624: Sumter 8308,272: Camden $304,289: Orangeburg 82:39, 635: Beaufort 834,331. The wage earners in the more considerable of these were as follows: Charleston 5. 027: Columbia 3.250: Greenville 2,153: Spartanburg 1,375: Rlock Hill 1.050: Anderson 910: Newberry 811. The wages paid showed these totals: Char: leston 81,489.966: Columbia 8759.200, Greenville 8370.392: Spartanburg 8276 042: Rock Hill 8197,080: Newberry 8175.178: Anderson Sl166.31:3. Their products were thus valued: Charleston $9,562,387: Columbia 84.243.030: Greenville 82.224.990: Spartanbuirg $1,630,275: Newberry $1.200,892. Aa derson 81.127. 488: Rock Hill 81,007. 216: Chester 8t45,444: Sumter $590'. 337: Orangeburg 8493.860: Camden $241,632: Beaufort 84'7.M1. Charleston is the largest city in the State wsth 4. 2 per cent. of the total population, and furnishes It; 3 per cent. cof the manufactured prodlucts. Columbia s the scond city, with 1.'i per cent. f-f the total Population, and irnishes 7.2 per cent. 0f the manu factured produets. Greenville is the third .ity. with 9 per cent. of the to tai population, and furnishes 3 S per cet".. t the manufactured products. Spiartaiiburg is the fourth eity in the tat e. with .9 per cent. of the total pop uiat ion. and furnishes 2.s per cent. of t11' total products. Sumter is the fifth city. with .4 per cent. of the ti tal pop uLati On. and furnishes c per f. f the total produvts. A idersonl is tle sixth city. with .4 per eit. 1f the t( tal population. an(i furnishes I.9 per cent. of the total pr'oducts. LZOck iill is the seventh city with .4 per cent. of the total population, and furnishes 1.7 per cent. tf thlie total products. .N w herrv i.s Li i< ht city. with .3 per I tt otal population, and fur 2.1 per cent. of the total pro d:es.<rngbn is the ninth city. i .: pr c ent. of the total popila on1. I'lnd ftrnishes .S per cent. of the L 1 products. The table ofi manufactures by coun ties is very full, but need not be con side'red exCept to show the rank of certain leading counties. Charleston County h.s 417 establishments with 1:1.217,14 invested in manufactur in and the valte af its products is 14.:. Spartaniurg County 1 es.tablisahme.nts with s11,059,4t6s in vst c pil :mdl S. is prodr cts. . ::s 1:'o cstablishments Nwith 5.4 2.'15 invested capital and $4. 4.! I'ureuts. Greenville County ha 1 esi'*talishments with 54.59$ 25 invcsted capital arid :4.559.;29 pr uucts. Anderson Counity has 167 estabIishments with $:1.622.904 capital and $4.001.52; products. A iken has 85 establishments, with S:.559.745 capital and 82.996.274 products. York Countv has 1o establishments with S2.129 65 1capital and $2.066.257 pro ducts. Cherokee has 4S establish ments with $2.374.358 invested capital and 1 .588,25S -products. Union Coun tv has 51 establishments with $3,2S7, 1 34 capital and $1.976,387 products. Newberry has 86 establishments with 81.416.808capital and $1.339.455 pro ducts. Marlboro has 112 establish ments with $1,129.SO invested capi tal and $1.065.255 products. Darling ton has 67 establishments with $1.47 1, 8:19 capital and $1.1.1,608 products. Lexington has 154 establishments with $1,271.491 capital and $923,571 products. Beaufort has 41 establish ments with $1.138.332 capital and $703.957 products. Laurens has 90 es tablishments with $540,566 capital and $1.027,478 products. Oconee has 133 establishments with $902,145 cap ital and $75,158 products. Orange burg has 171 establishments with $495,347 capital and SS36,167 products. Sumter has 143 establishments with $502,114 capital and $922.236 pro I ducts. DEMOCRATS FOR BOERS. Strong Resolutions Favoring Them Passed by Congressional Caucus. The Democratic members of the house at a caucus held Thursday night unanimously adopted resolutions de claring congress should express the sympathy of the American people for the struggling Boer republics and pledging themselves to use their ut most endeavors to "force" the com mittees to report resolutions expres sive of such sympathy in order that congress might have an opportunity to act. The Crumpacker resolution -to in vestigate the franchise question was not considered at the caucus. Rep resentative Ihay of Virginia presided at the caucus and Representative Robertson acted as secretary. The attendance was large. There was no division of sentiment as to the course to be taken, the question pre sented being simply one of choice be tween two resolutions, one offered by Mr. Randell of Texas anid the other by Mr. Sulzer of New York. The Sul zer resolution looking to the passage of a resolution requesting the presi dent to urge upon Great Britain the wisdom of stopping the South Afri can war was voted down 32-35. and the Randell resolution unanimously adopted as follows: Resolved by the Democratic mem bers of the house of representative.s of the United States of America, in cau cus assembled, that the congress of thes Uni ted States should, by resolu tion, express the sympathy of the people cf the United States for the people of the South A frican republic and the Orange Free State in their heroic st::ugle to maintain their liber ty and independence. "Resolved, That the congress should in the spirit of amity and frieudship, appeal tc the British government, in the interest of humanity, to accept overtures for peace, cease hostilities, and endeavor to bring about a just 1and honorable settlement of existing differences, to the end that peace may be established. "Resolved, That the United States should fairly and honorably maintain a position of strict neutrality in this contest between nations friendly to us, and see to it that neutrality laws are vigorously and Impartially en forced. Resolved, That we, as Democrats and representatives of the people, will use our utmost endeavor to force the committees now dominated by the Republican party, having in their charge resolutions similar to these. to Ireport the same back to the house, so that the congress may give expression thereon, declaring the sentiments and will of the American people." In pursuance of the action taken in the caucus a resolution will be framed for introduction into the house and hereafter the Democrats will do every thing in their power to secure action upon it. Lost Brother Found. Lewis J. Grant. of Kalamazoo has nst heard from his brother Alexan der, wh om he has not seen for 50 years. and who was supposed to have been mrdered by the Ute lndiansand Mor mons in the mountain meadow massa cre The family lived at Glengary, Ont. and Alexander went to Califor nia in search of gold. After a few years had elapsed and no tidings came from Ihim. Lewis started in search of him. Then a third brother started mn search of the two brothers, and he is still missing. Alexander. now 70 years of age. is living at Bell Grade, Net. He inserted an advertisement in a news paper, and thus his whereabouts be came known. It develops that Lewis' children attended school where Alex anders daughter acted as teacher. but the identification never became known. Every eftort is now being made to tind a trace of the third brother. GEN. Funston, who is on a visit to this country from the Philippines. pro poses hanging for all who differ with him unless they keep their mouths shut till things are settled his way in the Philippines. Ihow rapidly the im enal istic idea grows. BREAKS THE RECORD. The Charleston Exposition the Best for the Money Ever Known. GREAT ECONOMY IN BUILDING. Would Have Cost Five Times asI Much to Duplicate in-a North ern City. The Fish Hawk Arrives. "This exposition would have cost Buffalc or any other nothern city five million dollars." remarked a director of the exposition recently to the Char leston correspondent of The State. It doss in fact represent an expendi ture of $800.000, but every dollar is represented by full value. In Buffalo the men who put on the ''staff work" were paid from $6 to$14 a day. Here we secured laborers from 75 cents to S', per day. The saving in the price of labor represented a large amount. "Furthermore. where they paid as high as $40 for lumber. we obtained the same quantity of that material for $11. We economized in every possible way and were able to erect buildings which cost us $800.000, but are as handsome and as well finished as could have been done for $5,000,000 in any northern city." The seven men who are directors of this-exposition may well feel proud of the artistic success which they have wrought. These gentlemen are Capt. F. W. Wagener, president: Samuel Lapham, Jno. F. Ficken. J. L. David, C. S. Gadsden, W. H. Welch, and J. C. Hemphill. Capt. Wagener has con tributed liberally of the private for tune, and he could afford it. Other directors have taken equally as much interest in the exposition, and all have the assurance that from an artistic standpoint the great fair is a success. The buildings are beautiful, the Spanish-American style of architec ture prevailing. The sunken garden Is of artifncial construction and cost $18,000. It seems almost a sacrilege to tear down these splendid buildings, and yet they cannot long survive the attacks of the elements, as the ex terior is of "staff work," a composi tion of sand and line with other ingre dients. A director of the exposition said today that Col. Dodge of the Un ited States geodetic survey has discov ered a formula by the use of which buildings made of this staff work can be kept in a fine state of preservation. The buildings would also need per manent roofs. The exposition com pany may not feel justified in making these expenditures, but certain it is that if these buildings should be pre served and these grounds cared for, Charleston would in two or three years have the most beautiful gar dens in the south. When it is said that the expenditures for grounds and buildings approximated 3800,000, this does not take into cons(Ideration the cost of the State buildings, which would run the grand total up to over 900,000. These are owned by the States or cities which built them. Whatever may be the intrinsic value of these grounds and buildingi in the future, they are certainly worth see ing now. This may be the last expo sition held In the south for a number of years, and South Carolinians now have a rare opportunity to vIsit a grerat show. There is no charge to see any of the exhibits. The price of admission to the grounds lets the visi tor into every building--even the race track-except on the Midway, where each attraction has its own charges. The United States steamer Fish Hawk arrived here today and is lying off the wharf at the exposition grounds. The Fish Hawk and the Albatross are the two government boats engaged in making scientilic researches. The former plies frcm Eastport, Maine, to Galveston and has just recently been engaged off Key West where the weather was so 'bad that the fishermen could do nothing. The Fish Hawk has put in here for two weeks and the sailors are today getting the ship ready for visitors who will be given a hearty welcome by Capt. J. A. Smith, who is in co:n mand. The steamer is supplied with all kinds of paraphernalia for propa gating fish, and the captain staties that the department is engaged now in an endeavor to cultivate sponge~s The efforts give promise of success. The officers of the boat will ex plain to visitors the method of drecg ing the bottom of the sea. These dredges bring up all kinds of creatures over which the scientists become much excited at times. The Fish Hawk brought in a number of fish for the aquariaums in the fisheries build ing, which is an interesting place for visitors. One of the most interesting articles in that building is a rod which cost $2,000. The butt is a topaz, hal~f an inch in diameter, and the joints are of gold. To "land-lubbers" a visit to the Fish Hawk and to the fieries building will be quite a pleas ure. L ower Rates Coming. The Charleston correspondent of The State says "In order to encourage the people, the railroads have knocked the bottom out of the rates. At a meeting held Friday it was practical ly decided to make the rates lower than at present, and the existing scheme of rates is lower than ever before issued for Charleston. No very definite statement may be made In re gard to the new rates, but the whole matter will be made public in a few days. This much is known here-the rate from Norfolk will be $6: from Atlanta $3.50 (which is cheaper than the ordinary rate from Columbia: -from Savannah S1: from Columbia and Augusta $2.00 (which is cheaper than walking if one had to buy meals along the route.) This is in keeping with the rates from other points, so it will be seen that the railraods are de termined to bring the people here. The midway people were very much delighted when they heard of the rates being reduced so conspicuously. They say that they have never heard of such rates being offered to any other ex position." This is good news, and we hope the crowds will now pow into Charleston to see the best exposition ever held In the South. Everybody should see the exposition. T HE Augusta Chronicle says: "The newspaper is called on to help every in terest in the community; but does ev ry intereat in the community think about helping to support the newspa-' pers" Not much. We have hau men who never subscribed or advertised In our paper bring In a half column puff about something in which they were interested with a request that we pub TALMAGE'S SERMON. Godliness Induces Industry and is the Foundation ofGood Health. In this discourse Dr. Talmage advo cates the idea that the Christian re ligiou is as good for this world as the next and will help us to do anything that ought tu be done at all: I Timothy iv, 8. "Godliness is profitable unto all things. havingr promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." There is a gloomy and passive way of waiting for events to come upon us. and there is a heroic way of going out to meet them, strong in God and fear ing nothing. When the body of Cati line was found on the battlefield. it was found far in advance of all his troops and among the enemy. and the best way is not for us to lie down and let the events of life trample over us, but to go foith in a Christian spirit determined to conquer. You are ex pecting prosperity, and I am deter mined, so far as I have anything to do with it, that you shall not be disap pointed, and, therefore, I propose, as God may help me, to project upon your attention a new element of suc cess. You have in the business firm frugality, patience, industry, persever ance, economy-a very strong business firm-but there needs to be one mem ber added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner either, the one introduced by my text, "Godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." I suppose you are all willing to ad mit that godliness is important in its eternal relations, but perhaps some of you say. "All I want is an opportuni ty to say a prayer before I die, and all will be well." There are a great many people who suppose that if they can finally get safely out of this world into a better world they will have exhaust ed the entire advantage of our holy religion. They talk as though religion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on our way up to a heavenly mansion; as though it were an admission ticket. of no use except to give in at the door of heaven. And there are thousands of people who have great admiration for a religion of the shroud and a re igton of the hearse and a religion of the cemetery who have no apprecia tion of a religion for the bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the ware house, for the jeweler's shop, for the office. Now, while I would not throw any slur on a postmortem religion, I want today to eulogize an antemortem religion. A religion that will be of no use to you while you live will be of no use to you when you die. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having pro mise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." And I have always noticed that when grace is very low In a man's heart he talks a great deal in prayer meetings about deaths and about coffins and about churchyards. I have noticed that the healthy Christian, the man who is living near to God and is on the straight road to heaven, is full of jubi lant satisfaction and talks about the duties of this life, understanding well that if God helps him to live right Hle will help him to die right. Now, in the first place, I remark that godliness Is good for a man's physical health. I do not mean to say that it will restore a broken down constitu tion or drive rheumatism from the limbs or neuralgia from the temples or pleurisy from the side, but I do mean to say that it gives one such habits and puts one In such condition as are most favorable for physical health. That I believe, and that I avow. Everybody knows that buoyancy- of spirit is good physical advantange. Gloom, unrest, dejection, is at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every respiration of the lungs. They lower the vitality and slacken the cir culation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers over an unregenerate man or pounces upon him with the blast of ten thous and trumpets of terror is most deplet ing and most exhausting, while the feeling that all things are working together for our good now and for our everlasting welfare is conducive to physical health. You will observe that godliness in duces industry, which is the founda tion of good health. There is no law of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will stab him, erysipe las will burn him, jaundice will dis color him, gout will cripple him. and the intelligent physician will not pre scribe antiseptic or febrifuge or ano dyne, but saws and hammers and yard sticks and crowbars and pickaxes. There is no such thing as good physi cal condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sleep on down of swan or ride in carriage of softest upholstery or have on your ta ble all the luxuries that were poured from the wine vats of Ispahan arid Shiraz. Our religion says: "Away to the bank, away to the field, away to the shop, aivay to the factory! Do0 something that will enlist all the ener gies of your body, mind and soul!" "Diligent in busIness, fervent in spirit, serving the the Lord," while upon the bare back of the Idler and the drone comes down the sharp lash of the apostle as he says, "If any man will not work, neither shall he eat." Oh, how important in this day, when so much is said about anatomy and' physiology and therapeutics and some new style of medicine is ever and anon springing upon the world, that you should understand that the highest school of medicine Is the school of Christ, which declares that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." So, if you start out two men in the world* with equal physical health, and then one of them shall get the religion of Christ in his heart and the other shall not get it, the one who becomes a son of the Lord Almighty will live the longer. "With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation." Again I rematrk that godliness 1s good for the entellect. I know some have supposed that jeist as soon as a man enters into the Christian life his* Intellect goes Into a bedwarting pro process. So far from that, religion will give new brilliancy to the intellect new strength to the Imagination, new' force to the will and wider swing to all the ntellectual faculties. Christianity' is the great central fire at which philosphy has lighted Its brightest torch. The religion of Christ Is the~ fountain out of which learning has~ dipped its clearest draft. The Hleli con poured forth no such inspiring waters as those which flow from under' the throne of God clear as crystal. Religion has given new energy to poesy, weeping In Dr. Young's "Night Thoughts," teaching in Cowper's tymns and rushing with archangelic ;plendor through Milton's "Paradise Lost." The religion of Christ has bung in studio and In gallery of art. ind in Vatican the best pictures-: Titian's "Assumption." Raphael's "Transtiguration," Rubens's "Descent From the Cross." Claude's "Burning Bush" and Angelo's "Last Judgment.' Religion has made the best music of the world-1Haydn'a "Creation." Han lel's 'Messiah," Mozart's 'Requiem." Is it possible that a religion which builds such indestructible monuments ind which lifts its ensigh on the iighe.st promontories of worldly power :an have any effect upon a man's in tellect but elevation? Now. I commend godliness as the best mental discipline, better than belles lettres to purify the taste, better than mathematics to hainess the mind to all intricacy and elaboration, better than logic to marshal the intellectual rorces for onset and victory. It will go with Hugh Miller and show him the 'ootprints of the Creator in the red andstone. It will go with the botanis and show him celestial glories encampt ad under the curtain of a water lily. It will go with the astronomer on the great heights were God sheperds the great flock of worlds that wander on the hills of heaven answering his voice as he calls them all by their names. Again I remark that religion is good for wordly business. I know the gen eral theory is the more business the less religion. the more religion the less business. Not so, thought Dr. Hans in his "Biography of a Christian Mer chant" when he says: He grew in grace the last six years of his life more than at any time in his life. During those six years he had more business crowding him than at any other time." In other words, the more worldly busi ness a man has the more opportunity to serve God. Does religion exhilarate or retard worldly business? is the prac tical question for you to discuss. Does it bang, like a mortgage, over the farm? Is it a bad debt on the ledger? Is it a lien against the estate? Does it crowd the door through which cus tomers come for broadcloths and silks? Now, religion will hinder your busi ness if it be a bad business or if it be a good qusiness wrongly conducted. If you tell lies behind the counter, if you use false weights and measures, if you put sand In sugar and beet juice in vin egar and lard In butter and sell for one thing that which is another thing, then religion will interfere with that business, but a lawfully conducted, will find the religion of the Lord Jesus Chrisa its mightiest auxiliary. Religion will give an equipoise of spirit. It will keep you from ebulli tions of temper, and you know a great many fine businesses have been blown to atowms by bad temper. It will keep you frem wortiment about frequent loss; it will keep you Industrious and prompt; it will keep you back from squandering and from dissipation; it will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mere store courtesy - which shakes hands violently with youasking about health of your family, when there is no anxiety to know whether your child is well or sick, but the anxiety is to know how many dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash down. It will prepare you for the practical duties of everyday life, I do not mean to say that religion will make us financially rich, but I do say that it will give us, it will assure us of a comfortable sustenance at the start, a comfortable subsistence all the way through, and It will help us to direct the bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct all our business matters and to make the most insignificant affair of our life a matter of vast smportance, glorified by Christian principle. In New York city there was a mer chant hard in his dealings with his fellows, yvho had written-, over his banking house or his counting house room, "No compromise." Then when some merchant got In a crisis and went down-no fault of his, but a conjunc tion of evil circumstances-and all the other merchants were willing to com promise-they would take 75 cents on the dollar or 50 cents or 20 cents-com ing to this man last of all, he said: No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the dollar, and I can afford to wait." Well, the wheel turned, and after awhile that man was in a crisis of business, and he sent out his agent to compro mise, and the agent said to the mer chants, "Will you take 50 cents on the dollar?" "No." "Will you take anything?', "We'll take 100 cents on the dollar. No compromise." And the man who wrote that inscription over his counting house door died in destitution. Oh, we want more of the kindness of the gospel and the spirit of love in our business eater prises! How many young men have found in the religion of Jesus Christ a practical help? How many there are today who could testify out of their own experience that godliness Is pro fitable for the life that now is! There were times in their business career when they went here for help and there for help and yonder for help and got no help until they knelt before the Lord crying for his deliverance, and the Lord rescued them. In a bank not far from New York a village bank-an officer could not balance his accounts. He had worked at them day after day, night after night, and he was sick nigh unto death as a result. He knew he had not tak en one farthing from that bank, but somehow, for some reason, Inscrutable then, the accounts would not balance. The time rolled on and the morning of the day when the books should pass under the inspection of the other ofil cers arrived, and he felt himself in aw ful peril, conscious of his own integ rity, but unable to prove that Integri ty. That morning he went to the bank early, and he knelt'down before God and told the whole story of men tal anguish, and he said: "0 L ord I have done right, I have preserved my integrity, but here I am about to be overthrown unless thou shouldst come to my rescue. Lord, deliver me." And for one hour he continued the prayer before God, and then he arose and went to an old blott-r that he had' forgotten all about. He opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures which he only needed to add to another line of figures-some line of figrres he had forgotten and knew not where he had laid them-and the accounts were balanced, and the Lord lelvered him. You are an Infidel if you do not believe it. The Lord de livered him. God answered his pray ar, as he will answer your prayer, oh, man of business, in every crisis when you come to him. Now, if this be so, then I am per uaded, as you are, of the fact that the vast majority of Christians do not ful y test the 'value for their religion, 'hey are like a farmer in California w'ith 15,000 acres of good wheat land Lnd culturing only a quarter of an acre. WVhy do you not go forth and make the ~eligon of Jesus Christ a practical af 'air every day ot your business life Lnd all this year, beginning now, and tical effect this holy religion and dem onstration that godliness is profitable here as well as hereafter? How can you get along without this religion? Is your physical health so good you do not want this divine tonic? Is your mind so clear, so vast. so com prehensive. that you do not want this divine inspiration? 1s your worldly business so thoroughly established that you have no use for that religion which has been the help and deliver ance of tens of thousands1 of men in crises of worldly troubiey And if what I have said is true then you see what a fatal blunder it is when a man ad journs to life's expiration the uses of religion. A man who postpones reli gion to sixty years of age gets religion fifty years too late. He may get into the kingdom of God by final repen tance, but what can compensate him for a whole lifetime unalleviated and uncomforted? You want religion to day in the training of that child. You will want religion tomorrow in deal ing with that customer. You wanted religion yesterday to curb your tem per. Is your arm strong enough to beat your way through the floods? Can you, without being incased In the the mail of God's eternal help, gc forth amid the assault of all hell's sharpshooters? Can you walk alone across these crumbling graves and amid these gaping earthquakes? Can you, waterlogged and mast shivered, out live the gale? Oh, how many there have been who, postponing the reli gion of Jesus Christ. have plunged in to mistakes they never could correct, although they lived sixty years-after, and like serpants crushed under cart wheels dragging their maulded bodies under the rocks to die. So these men have fallen under the wheel of awful calamity, while a vast multitude of others have taken the religion of Jesus Christ into everyday life and, first, in practical business, and, second, on the throne of heavenly triumph, have illustrated, while angels looked on and a universe approved, the glorious truth that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life which now is as well as of that which is to come," THE NEW TAX LAWS. Comptroller-General Sends a Digest to County Officials. The general Pssembly at its recent session made so many changes in the laws governing the operation of the tax machinery in the several counties of the State that Comptroller General Derham has deemed it necessary to get up a digest of the new laws, which is valuable information for auditors, boards of assessors and county boards of equalization, showing how these boards are constituted and their com. pensation. This circular contains in formation of value too to the people at large. It reads as follows: Township and Town Assessors and County Boards of Equalization.-In Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Berkeley, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dorchester, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Lancaster, Laurens. Lexington,Marion, Marlboro, Oconee. Richland, Saluda, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg. and York, the governor, on the recommendation of the membsrs of the general assembly, shall appoint a board of assessors com posed of three qualified electors in each township or tax district, and three discreet electors in each incor porated city and town having a popula tion of not less than 5,000 inhabit ants in any of the above mentioned counties, except in the city of Colum bia, where the board shall be appoint ed annually by the city council, and shall be composed of three discreet residents. In Horry, Newberry and Pickens counties the county auditor shall ap point the township assessors and spe cial boards of assessors. The town ship board of assessors shall be paid $2,00 per day for time actually employ ed, not to exceed five days in any one year, provided, that when real estate is assesscd, it shall not exceed ten days. The chairmen of the boards of assessors shall receive the same per diem and be limited to ten days when serving on the county boards of equal ization. In Florence county members of the county board of equalization shall also receive five cents per mile one way, in the most direct route to the court house. In Fairfield. where the number of days of said boards shall not exceed three days, and the members of town ship boards shall have no mileage. In Spartanburg county the board of assessors shall be appointed by the county board of commissioners and shall receive as compensation $2.00 per day for time actually employed. not~ to exceed ten days in any one year, except when real estate is assess ed, and in such years not exceeding fifteen days. The chairmen of the boards of assessors shall receive the same per diem and be limited to ten days when serving on the county board of equalization, except when real estate is assesfed, and then to fifteen days. In Orangeburg county the auditor shall appoint three discreet freehold ers in each township or specil tax dis trict. who shall receive $1.00 per day for not exceeding one day in each year and mileage. and the same com pensation shall be allowed the chair man when sitting as a member of the county board of equalization-limited to one day. Township assessors and special boards shall meet on the first Tuesday in March, or as soon there after as practicable. The chairman of each board of assessors and each special board in the county shall com pose the county board of equalization and shall meet on the fourth Tues day in March and organize by electing one of their number chairman. In the counties of Bamberg, Barn well, Beaufort, Charleston, Cherokee, Chester, Kershaw and Hampton, the township commissioners shall assess the property in their respective town ships or tax districts and shall receive as compensation $2.00 per day while actually employed In assessing prop erty, not exceeding three days; except In those townships or tax districts in which Is situated an incorporated town or city of one thousand and less than five thousand inhabitants, they shall be paid for not exceeding five days: and in those townships or tax districts, where there is a city or town of over five thousand or less than one thousand, they shall be paid for not exceeding ten days, and in those townships or tax districts in which is situated an incorporated town or city of ten thousand inhabi tants or more, they shall be paid for not exceeding twenty days. That no per diem shall be paid unless accom panied by the affidavit of such mem ber, giving the number of days actu all mployed. and by the r-ertificate of the county auditor that such mem ber has fulfilled all the duties requir ed by this article: that the chairman of such township board of commis sioners, when acting as members of the county board of equalization. shall receive as compension for their !services $3.00 per day for each day actually employed in performing such duties, and mileages at live cents per mile each way for travel actually per formed, to be paid by the county treasurer upon the warrant of the county board of commissioners on the certificate of the county auditor. The county boards of equalization of the last above meutioned counties shall be composed as follows. The chairman of the township board of commissioners and the county super visor, except in the city of Charleston, where the city council shall elect six citizens of the city of Charleston, who, with the county auditor, shall com pose the board of equalization. At the first meeting of the county board of equalization they shall elect one of their number chairman, who shal be a member of the State board of equalization. The county anditor shall act as the clerk of the board. HORSEBACK RIDING REVIVED. Kermit Roosevelt Arouses Washiag ton Youths and Finds Us* for Bridle Path. Col. Bingham's bridle path aound the white house lot, through the monument grounds and cver the Smithsonian way and back again is no longer scorned by horsemen who love a lively mount, for in his daiiy.explora tions about the town Kermit Roosevelt has discovered it, and one of his favor ite pastimes now is a ride equal to that of John Gilpin over the once neglected path. One may enjoy a far brisker canter over this narrow way than is seemly safe on the highway, and Ker mit has so impressed his friends. Last Sunday he ended his horseback ride by a dash about the bridle path, over the crossings and into the white house stables with all the life of the charge up San Juan hill. Horseback riding has been revived with a vim since the advent of the president's family, and the society girls of Washington, as well as the young matrons, are looking to their mounts with greater care than ever before. The boys, too, have the horse back fever, and every boy at the capital who owns a pony spends every minute possible out of school in this lively pastime. Most of the boys were formally known to young Roosevelt or made his ac quaintance through a discussion of the pony subject, and now the almost daily habit of a half dozen or more boys is to ride to the white house stables, se cure the companionship of Kermit. and go for a lively canter. The weeds and grass are growing visibly less about Col. Bingham's bridle path, and in time it will be a fne place for a short canter. BRINGS PALACE FROM ITALY. Mrs. C. F. Sprague Imports an Historie House Whih Will Be Ereeted in Boston. Mrs. Charles F. Sprague, a member of the famous Weld family and wife of a former representative in congress now in an asylum, is about to outdo Mrs. Jack Gardner in the fad of im porting and installing an Italian house within greater Boston. Mrs. Sprague has bought one of the handsomest of the old-time palatial piles in Venice. The entide building, all pieces being carefully packed, and its valuable fur nishings are now on their way to Bos ton. The materials this secured are to be used in transforming Mrs. Sprague's country home at Brookline into an Italian palace that shall surpass Mrs. Gardner's. Mrs. Sprague has about $20,000,000 at her command. Mrs. Gardner is popu larly credited with the possession of about $5,000,000. *Mrs. Sprague's residence, which is of wood, will be incased in a shell of brick and Italian marble. All the wood, marble, tapestry, furniture and rugs of the new ballroom will consist of the furnishings of that formerly in the Venetian palace. TRAINMEN SCARED BY SPOOK. Ghostly Figure Annoys the Engineers and Crew on the Colorado - Midland. Engineer Gene Smith, of the Colo rado Midland, doesn't believe in ghosts. ahd that's what troubles him. He was rounding a deep cut near King sta tion one day the other week when he saw the figure of a woman dressed in white lying across the track. "It was too late to apply the brakes," he said to a group of trainmen. "I gave the whistle. It was an echo of the despair ing wail that rose from my hearr. I closed moy eyes, but we struck nothing. Looking out from my engine a nmo ment later I saw before me floating up and with the hand waving mocking ly at me the figure which T had just seen lying prostrate on the tracks." J. D. Cowley, who runs another train over the same route, confirms Smith's story. Both are men of unquestioned veracity. There is much apprehens'on among trainmen over that branch. and it is said there is a strong demand for rabbits' feet and other talismans. No More New Instruments. The government will save a good deal of money as a result of the de cision of the quartermaster general of the army to buy no more musical instruments for army bands until the present stock, which is quite ex tensive, has been exhausted. It has been the practice in the last few years to permit the bandsmen to in dicate the particular make of instru ments deemed most suitable for the requirements of individual musicians. The choice was limited to instru ments of domestic manufacture. For the time being calls for instruments must be confined to the make at present on hand. The reserve stock has recently increased owing to the turning in of the instruments of abandoned bands. Town Without Gas. Ehosilanerchruigog, a town in Wales with a population of over 10, 000 inhabitants, will be in darkness this winter. Owing to the refusal of the local gas company to reduce the price of gas the parish council has d'e termined not to light the street lamps. Private consumers also in tend to do without gas if a reduction is not made. Vaccination Concerts. There is a smallpox scare in Eng land, and an ingenious vicar in Kent has devised "vaccination concerta" for the hop-gatherers. A band plays in a big tent. and in a smaller tent are vaccination officers, while the vicar and his assistants go through the audience urging the desirability of MAn' LETTERS LOST. Recent Post Office Reports Show a Big Increase in Number. Indioation of Greater Carelessness on the Part of Senders.-Work of the Dead Letter Department Largely Incres& The belief that the people are more careful now than they were five years ago as to the addre*ing of letters is not borne out by the report of the cea(-:eter omhee, 4av the Chicago In ter (cear. The receip:s of mail mat ter at that (;"ce were S.507,257 pieces for the %ear tnced June 0, 1901,against, 7i.336.153 Pieces in 1900. an increa'se in one yr-ar of over 12 per cent. The or dinary unclaimed letters numbered 5,931.407 in 1901. an increase of 538,607 over 1900. There were received at the dead-let-. ter offlce in 1901 unregistered pack ages to the number of 433,386, an in crease of .252,472 over 1900. The or dinary uncialmed packages numbered 315.t:5. agairnst 74,434 for 19C0, an in creazeof :.40.99!. Of theletters opened .::! e*.1rznC $42.S.54 .n mcae:tv. -r.,, 3S,.5 ea* . :zined drafts, notes. movuey orCers, deds. wills and n rtgages, ha'ing a face value of $1.378.070. Of the i tters and parcels opened 47,725 cor.tained phIotgraphean! 179.649post age (tar.;p. Of the letters held for 1%, e S.758 vere to foreign addresses I and 107,139 to addresses in the United at L he n:iiuircetcd leters num bered 454,S83. and'the parces~13,324. - There were 39.837 letters without ad dresses. 15,843 envelopes containing ncney found loose' in the mails,-and 103,640 letetrs sent to fictitious ad dresses. Of the great mass of matter re ceived at the dead-letter office 4,701, 169 letters and circulars, 44,711 par cels and 19,042 letters containing postage stamps were destroyed; 24, 738 letters containing money, 36,653. vontaining drafts and money orders, 41,537 containing valuable papers, 175,649 containing postage stamps, 47,725 containing photographs, and 1.900,S16 containing nothing of value were delivered to the persons for whom they were intended, and 6,359 letters containing money or drafts and pliotographs were returned to the writers. U-claimed addressed parcels to the nt 'er of 27.234, and 25,087 without adt.. .ss, were sold at public auction for $3,732, ard 23.362 magazines were d:stn:buted among charitable institu tions in Washington. -Of the misdi rccted letters 60,962-'of-domestic or! gin and 17,559 foreign were delivered to correctcd addresses. Foreign let ters and parcels to the number- of 749,s31 were returned to the coun tries from whieh they were mailed. Of a'l the letters and packages re-. ceivel at the dead-letter office 996, 004 were returned or delivered un opened. Foreig) post offices re turned 3,276 registered letters, 361 934 ordinary letters and 196,380 par cels to the dead-ietter office as mn deliverable, and the dead-letter of fice returned 85,000 letters to Austria Hungary. 114,000 to Canada, 86,000 to Great Britain, 74,000 to,Italy and 71, s00 to Russia. -. It is easy to understand how let ters written abroad may be misdi rected or may' be sent out with im perfect addresses, but it is not so easy to understand why even regis tered letters and letters containing money and drafts should be sent wrong in Chicago and other cities of the United States. - -Little Boy Blue. The little toy dog is covered with dust But sturdy and stanch he stands: And the' little toy soldier is red with rust And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when the little toy dog was new And the soldier was passing fair, And that was the time when our 'Lit tie Boy Blue. Kissed them and put them there. "Now 'don't you go till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" So todding off to his trundle-bed,. He dreamed of the pretty toys. And as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Litte Boy Blue Oh, the years are many, the years are But thae little toy friends are true. Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they. stand, Each in the same did place, Awaiting the touch of a littles hand, The smile of a litte face. And they wonder, as waiting these long years through, In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue Sincc he kissed them and put them there. -Eugene Field. Told by W. J. Bryan.. William J. Bryan found time to tell a story or two while he was at lunch eon in the house restaurant at the cap tol today, says the Washington cor respondent of the Philadelphia North American. "A while ago," he said, "I went with a party of friends to,. visit the Nebraska State asylum for he Insane, I became separated fromn my party and wandered through some f the rooms alone. An inmate ap proached me, and seeking to be friend ly, said: 'What are you In here for? 'Because I believe in the free and un-. limited coinage of silver at the ratio f 16 to 1.' I replied, thinking to be facetious. 'Huh,' said the inmate, moving off in disgust, 'You ain't. razy, you're just a plain, dum fool.' " Adrift on the Ocean. Capt. Keane, of the tug Edward' Luckenbach, which arrived at Boston n Friday from Newport News, reports: the loss of the barge Hamilton, which hstug had in tow, off Highland light. n Wednesday. It is feared that the: barge has foundered and that Capt.. ohn A. Shoemaker and his crew of four men were drowned. The Hamil on broke loose from the tugin a gale ad snow storm during Wednesday ight. The Luckenbach cruised in the vicinity until Thursday afternoon in a vain search for the barge. The Hamilton was coal laden for Boston. She was formerly the ship Margerithe. Bryan Moves in a Barn. W. J. Bryan is no longer a resident f the city of Lincoln, Neb., Thurs ay Was Mr. Bryan's 42nd birthday, ad he celebrated the event by moving to his farm four miles from Lincoln. Until a handsome country residence which he is building shall be complet d Mr. Bryan and his family will live n the barn. The K~ingstree Record says: "Its a right that every man has to run for ofe, and we like to see them think nough of themselves to offer their ervices-even if all can't get elected.. man seldom thinks less of himself for having run for an office, and It al ays makes him better known to his lw citizens."