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IN MEMORIAM. Just one year ago and a few days, or to be accurate, on April 21st 1915, the soul of Louis Appelt, the Editor of this paper and for many years, State Senator from Clarendon County; passed from earth to the great beyond while at a hospital in Columbia. At the time of his death there were many expressions of sympathy and esteem, showing the high regard in which he was held in his home county, and also many ex pressions by the press throughout the State. Such a large portion of his life and his work were spent in mak 'ing the Manning Times what it is that we deem it only fitting to give some memorial expression to his memory after the lapse of the first year after his death. His per sonal habit, his life spent in Clarendon County, and his efforts locally, or the place he occupied among his home people, will not be again recited, as this was done just a year ago, but the people of his county have never had a full opportunity of knowing the stand which he took in the Councils of the State, or of the expressions which fell from the lips of his associates in the State Senate. and for this reason what is now said in memoriam deals only with his life as a Senator, or rather what was said by Sen ators at the memorial services which were held in the Senate on February 1st 1915, the first session which was held after his death, and we therefore copy the official record of the Senate covering the memorial exercises: THE LATE LOUIS APPELT. SPECIAL ORDER. At 12:30. p. in. the President announced that the time for the memorial exercises in honor of the late Hon. Louis Appelt had arrived. Messrs. DuRant, Sinkler and Banks presented the following Resolution: To the President and Members of the Senate: The Committee appointed to present a tribute and resolution of respect to the memory of the late Louis Ap pelt, submit the following: IN MEMORIAM. Hon, Louis Appelt, late Senator from Clarendon County. The late Louis Appelt took a keen interest not only in the political affairs of his county but of the State, which was generously and appreciatively recognized by his constituents, who elected him again and again to the Senate. He served in the Senate for a period of thirteen years, and this service was attended by close attention to committee work, intelligent interest in every measure that cbme before this body, showing always a spirit of "give and take" and displaying also the qualities of an earnest and militant debater in many a hard-foug' 3 His courtesy and kindness was natural and pleas was true to his own convictions, but tolerant o who disagreed with him. In recognition of his long legislative service to h county and State, and as a mark of esteem and respect felt by his colleagues; Be it Resolved that in the death of Senator Appelt the State has lost a faithful public servant, his county a valued citizen, and this body at earnest and hard-working member. That an expression of our regard and respect for our late colleague the Senate do ad journ. That these resolutions be entered in the Journal and copies thereof suitably engrossed be sent to his family. The following Senators spoke to the resolution: Messrs. DuRant, Waiker, Black. Banks and Chris tensen. Mr. DuRant said: Louis Appelt was born in Green Port, L. I. At the - age of 18 he came to Clarendon and remained a citizen there until hisi death last year at the age of 58. He, while still a boy, began work in the newspaper * office of The Mana.mg Times, and, in 1894, purchased it and became its editor. He continued this relation until his death a r ade of it one of the leading country news papers of the State, and a power in all the affairs of its section. He had great talent for politics and served his count.) for twelve years as Probate Judge and thirteen years as a member of this body. The Senators know and car speak of his services here, but it is proper for me to say that he was always alert and quick to perceive the conse quences of any legislation affecting the welfare of his .County and gave all such careful, conscientious consider ation. He was postmaster at Manning for many years anc faithfully discharged all the duties of that office. He was a man of strong vitality, vigorous energy and temperate, regular habits. His nature was a social one. He loved his fellows and was a good companion. He was a 32d degree Macon, a Shriner, Knight of Pythias and Woodman and in these fraternal orders he was an interested, valuable and val ued member.Some men are so constituted that they dc not seem to feel the need of the pleasant companionship of fraternal orders, but it was not so with him. His obli gations meant something real to him and he endeavored to exemplify their high teachings. He was a charitable, generous man. Kind to those in distress and ever resentful of oppression of the weak The poor of the community mourned for him and a high ly significant occurrence was the adoption of resolutions by the negroes of the county lamenting his death. He did not bear malice, ana differences with him were easily adjusted. His home life was ideal, and his care and affectiot for his family colored and affected his whole life. I have known no better or truer husband and father. While we differed politically, yet I am glad to say there were no personal differences, and he was my friend and a true friend of many of the county regardless of political obligations. The people of Clarendon county regret his untimely death, the sudden end of a useful, busy life. Mr. Walker said: The dead man was my friend-not by mere assertion, but by demonstration-not in word only, but in deed and in truth. ever steadfast and true. hence his death was and is to me the realization of a personal loss. If his number less friends were speaking through my one voice today, they would surely utter the same sentiment. His steadfastness to his ideals was one of his most prominent characteristics. I knew him long and inti mately in his public and private life. I have watched his long legislative work in this Senate, and I have stud ied him through the medium of editorial expression in his newspaper. I have been permitted glimpses of his home life. I have talked with him many times on sundry and varied questions of our day and times. I had ample op portunity to judge ripely, and my deliberate judgment is that he proved himself to be a faithful, earnest, pains taking, efficient public servant in every line and depart ment of service, that his familiarity with the legislative and political work and history of his State, and time and of the men who took part in the doing of that work and the making of that history was marvelously comprehen sive and accurate, that he was single-minded and broad minded, that he contemned slander, that he was fearless, as well as fair and square, that, in common with one of the old philosophic writters, he -loved a good Later" and was himself such as one. that he was free from malice, in thought and in expression. and in his discussion of public men and measures he loved to "call a spade a spade," and however we might disagree with his conclusions, such an one was never at a loss as to what those conclus ions were, and never had reason to doubt that they sprung from honest convictions, and that they were butt ressed by a fearless, courageous spirit, that this man loved his State and his home with unfaltering, unvarying fervor, that his big heart ever throbbed with a beautiful devotion to those whom he cherished beyond all else on earth; that, as has been truthfully written of him as a key to his character, he was -intensely loyal, and with the courage of his convictions, he would stand by them at any cost.' He had his weakness, he had his faults, what - human has them not? But his heart was big, his im pulses generous, his disposition sunny. And his spirit, strong and fearless though it was, impatient and intoler ant of fraud and sham, was ever imbued with tenderness for the helpless and unfortunate. He was one of the "Old Guard." His constant desire and effort was to hold a place in the forefront of life's battles and activities. When he fell, in life's final en gagement, the "Great Adventure," he was on the "firing line," the advance post of duty, well and gallantly taken and maintained. If hehad been the kind of r.at to sound his praises and publish his own virtues (v-Lich he distinctly was not) and he, in his last hours, possessed the poetical genius, he might of himself have written witn certitude and with. out flattery, as an epitaph for engravement upon his tomb and upon the memuories of his friends, the following beautiful lines: When I am dead, if men can say - 'He helped the world upon its way, With all his fanlts of word and deed Mankind did have some little need Of what he gave"-then in my grave No greater honor shall I crave. If they can say-if they but can "He did his best, he played the man, His wvays were straight, his soul.was clean, His failings were not unkind nor mean, He loved his fellow men, and tried To help them"-I'll be satisfied. But when I'm gone, if even one Can weep because my life is done -And feel the world is something bare Because I am no longer there, Call me a knave, my life misspent No matter. I shall be content. Mr. BLACK said: Mr. President, I would "feel untrue to myself if I did not say something on this s id occasion. It was my good fortune and my gr-eat pleasure to know our deceased friend, Senator Appelt, intimnateiy. I served with him a long time in this Senate and on Committees and I can truly say that I always four'd him earnest, faithful and zealous to duty, whether in committee room or in the Sen ate Chamber. Since our last meeting here, death has only taken one of our number. We should feel thankful that his mantle has fallen on such worthy shoulders. Friends, may our conduct while we are here as Senators be such that when we, too, are gone some worthy words of tribute may be said of us. I look back to the days when Senator Appelt would rise from his scat there and oppose every measure that touched his own county that he thought would be an in jury to them. I do not think that I have ever known any Senator that watched closer his county affairs than our deceased fr-iend. But, friends, he did not stop there. He also watched the interests of the State of South Carolina, and he was always in his seat: you could always count on him being here, and though Icould not always agree with him on questions coming up before the Senate, yet I al ways admired his manly stand for what he thought was right. He was always ready to express himself, but ac corded the same privilege to those who differed with him. I just wanted to add these few words of tribute to his - memory and in conclusion say, -"'Farewell, friend, fare well," Mr. BANKS said: Loyalty to his fieinds and gentleness in heart and -mind were the dominant qualities of Senator Appelt's character and teimper-ament. I have seen him on the floor of the Senate with tears in his eyes and voice, leading a torlorn hope in defense of an absent friend. I have seen him in fierce struggles against overwhelming odds mn not battle for causes dear to his heart, but always gentle, al ways kind and courteous, always considerate of the feel ings of those opposed. On occasions like this, standing in the presence of a vacant chair when we "sigh for the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still," the dark and unfathomable mnyster-y of like, death and destiny presses in upon us with crushing insistence, compellhng the thought that man is like "an infant crying in the night, an infant crying for the light, and with no language but the ci-y," and wve find our only solace in poetic fancy voicing the age-long hopes and yearnings of the heart. The wo.ds of a Pci-ian po..t and philosopher of the eleventh century, who looked deep into the tangled m. tery of things. should be appropriate to this occasion: "Up from earth's center through the seventh gate, I rose. and on the throne of Saturn sate, And many a knot unraveled by the road, But not the Master Knot of Human Fate. "There was the door, to which 1 found no key, There was the veil, through which I might not see, Some little talk there was a while of Me and Thee And then no more of Thee and Me. "Earth could not answer, nor the seas that mourn In flowing purple of their Lord forlorn. Nor roiling Heaven with all his signs revealed And hidden by the sleeve of uight and morn. 'For some me loved, the lovehiest and the best That from his vintage rolling time hath pressed Have drunk their cup, a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. "So when the Angel of the darker drink At last shall find you by the river brink And offering his cup invite your soul forth to your lips To quatf you shall not shrink. "Why if the soul can fliag the dust aside And naked-on the air of Heaven ride. Were it not a shame, were it not a shame, For him in this day carcass crippled to abide. "'Tis but a tent where takes his one day's rest, A Sultan to the realm of death addressed, The Sultan rises and the dark Ferrash Strikes and prepares it for another guest. "Yet ah! that Spring should vanish with the rose That youth's sweet scented manuscript should close, The nightingale that in the branches sang, And whence and whither flown again, who knows? "Ah! Love, could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry schemtt of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits And then remould it nearer to the heart's desi-e? "Yon rising moon that looks for us again, How oft hereafter will she wax and wane, How oft hereafter rising look for u.s Through this same Garden and for Louis Appelt in vain. "And when like her, 0, Saki, you shall pass Among the guest, star scattered on the grass. And in your joyous errant reach th'e spot Where he maae one turned down an empty glass." Mr. CHRISTENSEN said: I rise with hesitation after you have heard the elo quent tributes of the Senators who have spoken, but I find that I cannot let the occasion pass without saying a word about mytold seatmate. You will remember that Senator Appelt sat beside me here for many years. All this season I have missed his cheerful morning greeting, and the loss of his companionship has been felt from day -to day. The late Senator Appelt was a hard worker and one wvho felt that every matter deserved consideration. There were no questions too large and none to small to be given his careful attention. He was not one to feel that he was legislating for his county alone, or for those matters in which he was particularly interested. His range of activ ities covered all the issues that came before the General Assembly. He was one of those who stood for rigid econ omy in all the State's affairs. As a member of the Finance Committte, he was posted on every item of the Appropri ation Bill. The Senator from Georgetown made use of the ex pression, "That he died on the firing line." That brings to my recollection the fact that he _appointed Senator Ap pelt and myself on a special committee to report to this session of the Legislature as to reforms to be made in printing, and that he took a great deal of interest in the preliminary work of this committee and looked forward to reporting back to you his recommendations. He served on that odmmittee up to within a few weeks of the time of his death, and although he seemed to reaize then that the hand of sickness was severely upon him, lie was his usual cheerful self at all times during the business of the commaittee. It is, of course, a trite thing to say. but this occasion necessarily brings to our minds a keen recalization of the uncertainties of life and impresses us with the feeling that our time is all too short to be, wasted on personal misunderstandings; that in our work done here on the foor we should maintain, as did the late Senator Appelt, a personal relationship, no matter how much we may differ as to the measures which come before us. The resolution was unan':mously adopted by a rising vote of the Senate. A Tribute. On Saturday night, April 15th. tue- - death angel came at 10 o'clock an~d ~ A taken from our midst Mrs. M ".' R becca Btgnall, wife ot .\l. M. M. FBanfnsa hide nall of Wilson, S. C. She was a~ loirg s o vr3 er mother anri a devoted wife. Awy er She leaves to mourn hoe 1-;ss a fln he husband, eleven children. are, :ioth-r. S~teo two brothers, one sister and a host of relatives and friends. She was a good woman aud beloved by all who knew her. As the golden sun was sinkingt in the' oie west she was laid to ress in the famtily burigground at Uijoon MethodistThrwilbameinofteoics Ch-h of which she wa a dermoedoftedfretomiteepcly member for many yeats. tecmiteo rudo h lr Oh! howv hrra to part with cur lovdedonCut arAscaina h one, of whom we loved so wi-li. Sh ore ouei anig n rdy has only gone ahead of us to lhe'- ha:p.py i 3~,a 1ocoka i h home above and xe, hope :1~ he -64 Blovledoctonwllpeseme ones will meet her where the serges wt s cease to roll. W .P POT Precious aunt, she has left us, left us, yes. forever more, But we hope to meet our loverd :ne on that bright and happy shore. SAEO OT AOIA Lonely the house, and the sad hour since our dear one has gone. But, oh! a briihter homne th-in ours, in Heaven is now her own. We miss thee from home dear aunt, we OR FCOMNPES miss thee from thy place; I.\ l~dn litf A shadow o'er our life is cast, we miss ais the sunshine of thy face. seCaesTotlnbwSdilen We miss thy kind and willingr hand, bw n ayIebw eedns thy fond and earnest care,SumnFoRlif The home i3 dark without her, we miss (opan evd her ever. where. T h betDfnatTo ebw Earth has lost its look of gha.ness. Yua- eeySmoe n e Heaven seems to us m.>re b "ght, qt oase h opan nti Since the spirit of our dear ouc took~atoo hc acu shrwt its happy homeward fi~ght.sevdunyondtsreacpyf Never will her memory fade. Sbcie thsofc nSmeS Loving tbought will always linger Cwti wnydy fe h evc Around the spot she is laid. hro;ecuieo h a fsc Flowers laid upon her grave may Cmlitwti h ieaoead wither and decay, Itepanifi hsato ilapyt But the love for her who s'eeps beneath teCutfrterle eaddi will never fale wawaty. teCmlit A Loving Niece, NTCta h oiia umn REBECCA I3AGNALL. ncopntithsainhaehs Cures Old Sores, Other RemedIes Won't Curne. uty 'are cured by the wonderful, old relinale Dr.L .JENNS Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It i ieves litf' tony Pain andHeals attreTsanttime.d2Chik, ren 1 CASTASOIIA r0 Infante and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. i Rears the S.cnga~estmada " -NFAT CHcorRENt e * U se ForOve -nesand(0SOFSEEP SThirty Years CASTORIA Ec Copy of Wrappe-. us eu...a* ~m.newo a. AreYouat All Particular What You Drink ! BLUDWINE Contains the Minerals andjother active properties of Wheat, Oats, Lemons, Oranges, Grapes, Ginger, Mint and Sugar. READ THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS Made by Chemists of National Reputation: From The Lederie Laboratories. New York, Dec. 9, 1914. "Our analysis shows that the product (Bludwine) does not con tai any poisonous matter or injurious alkaloid. No chemical pre servative or soap bark has been used in its preparation. No coloring matter other than a harmless one. permitted by the United States Government is present. "Our analysis shows the product to be composed of fruit or fruit flavor and cereal, and pure cane sugar. "There is notting preaent which is not in accordance with the statement on the label regarding the composition of the beverage. It has value as a food, imparted to it by the carbohydrates present." T. A. DEGHUEE, Ph. D. Director Department of Chemistry. The Lederle Laboratories From Dr. McCloach. St. Petersburg, Fis. BLUDWINE CO., Athens, Ga. -During my stay in Florida I have had an opportunity to test Bludwine and examine the formula. It is the most delightful drink that is ENTIRELY FREE FROM DRUGS that I have yet seen. It is the Americon drink for all America. Wishing Bludwine the suc cess it deserves, I am, Very truly, W. H. McCOACH. Ph. G., B. Ph. M. D. From Dr. White. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., May 28, 1913. This "syrup" (Bludwine) has much the composition of grape. juice, except that it contains considerably more sugar. It should be a harmless and wholesome drink, as palatable .as grape juice and rather more nutritious because of the larger content of sugar. H. C. WHITE, Sc. D., D. D. L , LL. D. Professor of Chemistry, Univ. of Georgia. Letter from Dr. J. C. .lohnson. U. S. Physician at Macon, Ga. "The proprietors of "Bludwine'- have submitted to me for ex amination the formula comprising every ingredient whidh it contains A fter a careful consideration, I find it to be a healthful, nutritious drink, and cordially recommend it for the table as well as for general use. It is a predigested food tonic as well as a laxative. I further recommend it as a mild, nutritious, refreshing drink for those who are convalescing, as well as for the siek in proper quantities: Macon, Ga. 3. C. JOHNSON, M. D. (Dr. Johnson has been U. S. Physician at Macon for twenty years,) Bottled By Sumter Bottling Works,. SUMTER, S.. C, EVERAL GOOD TURKEY HINTS 7.. 0 A ~ lIIfl ronze is Giant of Turkey Family andU UL Can Be Easily Grown-Change Gobblers Yearly. (y A. e.n oma Exper)i- NOW Jhe Was Relieved from In dressing, turkeys shrink about ,~~nb yi .ika ' athird. O yLdaEPnca The Bronze is the giant of th tu Y'egetable Compoumd. ey family, and. can be esily growin_____ I Oklahoma with proper care. 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