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BARNWELL.SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. |ULY 20,1890.
NO. 46.
KS88R8. MORGAN AMD PUGH.
IT U BRYAN AND ANTI-BRYAN.
Morgan Wants a Man to
■alt tbs East—Ex Senator Pugh
■Mobs to Bryan and rree Stiver.
An Interview with Senator Morgan,
of Alabama, hay created a sensation
In political circles, beeause he does not
faror the renomi nation of Bryan.
It has created much more of a stir,
coming from Senator Morgan, than it
would from most Democrats. Of course
It has given rUe to all kinds of specu
lation, prominent In all being the sug-
S estlon that Morgan’s friendship for
orman may have had not a little to
do with his talk. Senator Morgan is
quoted as follows.
“I very much fear that uieDsmo-
oratlc party of the East and North
cannot be brought into harmony with
the Democratic party of the South and
West until we have a candidate who is
recognized for his wisdom and his will
ingness to follow the instructions of
hie party when his party has the
power to issue its instructions through
legislation. •
"lama free silver man. I believe
the free coinage of silver is right and
that the country will not prosper as Jt
should until silver has been restorfed
to its proper place as one of our money
metals, but at the same time I do not
overlook present conditions and the
situatiou that confronts us. To win we
must be reasonable and wise. Tht re
can never be force and power in our
party until we have united it as it was
in the days when we stood solidly under
one banner and fought our battles
against a common enemy. The ques
tion that ought to give every member
of the Democratic party concern is :
How can that condition of affairs be
restored?
" My personal views may be of little
impjrtance, but 1 have an idea which,
if worked out, would, I believe, bring
the Democratic party together and get
out every vote in the country for the
man who would be nominated for
President. In my opinion we should
nominate a man who would bs willing
to say to his party something like this:
" ’When my party is able, in Con
gross, to pass a free coinage bill, 1 will
not veto It, but will permit it'to be
oome a law. Whatever my own opin
Ions may be, I believe the combined
wisdom of the men of my owa party in
Congress la better than mine. It
might be possible that 1 should not,
personally, think a free coinage law
the proper thing to enact, but if your
representatives in Congress believe
otherwise, If It la your judgment that
such a law will be lor the best interests
of the country, such a law, when en
acted by you, will stand.’
"A man who will make such an an
nouncement and live up to it could
easily, I am sure, be elected by the
Democrats to the presidential office.
"Then, if the people saw (It In their
respective districts to elect advocates
of the free coinage of silver, we shou d
have it. We would not* have a rjpetl-
tioe of that deplorable inclueat in IBM.
when President Cleveland, repud lav
ing bis party aad all that it s‘<ood for,
vetoed tb« b\,'t passed by both houses
of Csns rose jr?ovidin^ for the coinage
of. the sliver^iulllon held in the tress-
ary.
"When Mr. Cleveland sent that veto
ton Democratic Congress he committed
himself W> the single gold standard
and becmne no longer a Democratic
President, elected on a Democratic
platform.
" We must get rid of shat we mlghP 1
call fanaticism and act like sensible
men. Wnen we do this, Democracy
will again become triumphant, and we
will all work together in harmony. 1
believe a mao can.be found who, while
notan extremist on the silver ques
tion, wlU follow the will of his party
expressed in legislation, and that,
after all, is the way, and the only way,
in which to settle thls^reat question.
Att-the tsklktag we- may^ do on Vhe
stump will not bring about free coin
age, save only that in educating the
people we may elect silver men to Con
gress. It takes votes in Congress to
bring us to free coinage, and after we
have cast our voles that way we must
have a President who will permit our
will to stand. Until we have the
votes we are fighting the air. Why,
then, not nominate a man in whom the
Democrats of all parts of the country
have confidence, and then go about the
business of electing' free silver men to
Congress?
" I could name several' such men,
but that is not my province. It does not
require qjparked degree of greatness
to make r good President. Common
sense is of much more importance in
that position.
"I was discussing this question with
some friends coming up from Virginia,
and they all agreed that loyalty, abili
ty, tact and common sense were better
factors in making a good administration
than too high a degree of what is
known as statesmanship. Pierce and
Polk were not brilliant men, but,they
were good Presidents. I wish they
were here now.
" 1 permit no man to outrank me in
loyalty to the causa of free sliver. I
taught that doctrine, when some of the
men now controlling the Democratic
party were yet unborn. But 1 see the
uselessness of the party, North and
South, being divided,and continually
pulling the one against the other on
this money question. I believe tfye
suggestion I h ve made would gtr a
great ways in once more uniting the
crease the strength of the Democratic
pa-ty in the election of a President.
" I have read the interview and was
greatly surprised and mortified,” said
the ex-Seoator. "Senator Morgan says
na man can question his fidelity to tbe
free coinage of silver, or d my the ne
cessity for its restoration in our money
system.
“ The question he asks and answers
Is : * How is this most important result
to be accomplished?’ He answers
that the first and indispensable thing
to be done is to unite—’bring together
and solidify the divided and antagon
istic elements of the Democratic party
now existing in the East, South and
West on the money question’—and,
secondly, that such union can best be
effected by nominating a man who has
no ‘
no
question
"Ido not question the sincerity or
hon sty of Senator Morgan’s comvic-
t'ons, but I feel constrained by my
sense of duty to the Democratic party
and the country to enter my earnest
p rote it against and condemnation of
Morgan’s interview.
" What are we to understand by an
‘ extreme position on the money or
coinage question ?’ Is that jiart of the
' extreme ’ views and has expressed
' extreme ’ opinions on the coinage
“I want to see Democracy once more
united and the principles of Demo
cracy triumphant, but there is little
use In endeavoring to acooknplish it
through impracticable means and me
thods.
"I oare not so much to know whether
our candidate is a radical free silver
man at heart as I do to know that he
will abide by the decision of Congress,
If the Democrats have the power to
put their policy into the statute books
of the country. That Is tbe test.”
KX-SKNATOR PUGH DISAGREES WITH
HIS FORMER COLLEAGUE.
Ex-Senator Pugh, of Alabama, was
naked if he had read 'the Interview of
hia old ^colleague. Senator John ' T.
Morgan, on the question of what sort
of man the. Democratic convention
ahonld nominate and what sort of plat
form it should adopt next year to In-
Chicago platform extreme? Does an
indorsement of the Chicago platform
put a Democrat in an extreme posi
tion ? What shall the next Democratic
convection do after it shelves Bryan ?
To be consistent tbe convention should
amend tie p!fctfo-m of 1896 as to get the
party out of its so called present ‘ ex
treme’ position on the coinage question
and place it in'harmony with the con
flicting elements, and especially so as
to acoommolate Itself to the elastic
and broad gauge position of the new
nominee on the coinage question. How
is such a feat to be accomplished ?
" My conviction is,” said ex-Senator
Pllgh. "that if the conflicting elements
of the £>emocratlc party can be united
and brought into harmonious action on
the coinage question, which is a mani
fest impoesioility, by shelving Bryan
and making a new platform, broad
enough to take on and sttisfy all gold
standard advocate*, and be endorsed
by any nominee who may hrve ton*'
nounce his life-long opinions against
free coinage and pledge himself to ap
prove any bill on that subject the De
mocrats might pass through both
bouses of Congress, the party cannot
be very much divided, and can cer
tainly be very easily united, as it would
show Itself without any fixed principles
on any subject. . ' .
" If the Democratic party would se
cure more strength by trusting a no
minee who had been a lifelong enemy
of free silver coinage on his pledge to
waive the veto power and approve
such a bill if passed by the party that
elected him, it would be a spectacle
unprecedented in history, but it would
prove there would never bs any free
coinage of silver H such a President
was elected. •
"What Influence would a Democratic
President with gold standard convic
tions that he waived to insure bis elec
tion exercise In this great office ?
Would be be silent pending a free
coinage bill in Congress ? How would
be distribute his appointments f How
many Democrats who had urged
Bryan’s nomination and favored the
Chicago platform would receive ap
pointments ?
” No, sir, it is a grave mistake of my
old colleague. 1 have had much poli
tical experience. I have watched^Mtr-
ties and know their history. My poli
tical career has ended, but 1 am as
much as sver devoted to the Demo
cratic party and its principles as de
clared in tbe Chicago platform.
** I believe that William J. Bryan is
the best organized and wisest ana most
reliable ‘ Democratic statesman now
living, and he is now 6etter established
In the confidence of the American peo
pie as such a statesman, and is now
stronger than he ever was, and can be
elected when nominated, as he will
•UtflljJhOj the ncxvDjmocratic na
tional convention.
"As to the nfcxt Democratic plat
form, with additional declarations
against the manifold trusts growing
out of the existence of the gold
standard and prohibitory tariff du
ties ; also ih favor of a vigorous
prosecution of the existing war in
the Ph^ippine Jslands until peace
and ordsg is established and the gov
erning power and jurisdiction of the
United States is fully reoognifeed
throughout the archipelago ; also that
peace and order and the governing
power of the United States is to be
established, not for territorial expan
sion or dominion of the United StMes,
but for the sole purpose of securing to
the people of those islands better and
more stable government, with all the
rights, liberty and privileges they
show themselves by trial to be capable
of exercising and enjoying in a condi
tion of independent self government.’’
The Destruction of Spruce.—In
1870, according to George T. Crawford,
a forestry expert, there stood in the
mountain districts of New Hampshire
about 1,600,000 acres of primeval spruce
forest, carrying about 10,000 feet, board
measure, to the acre, or 16,000,000,000
feet in all. The demand for spruce for
paper pulp, added to tbe amount re
quired for lumber, has reduced this
area to 280,000 acres. The consump
tion [of spruce for pulp is increasing at
the rate ol 15 per cent, a year. The
mills of New York and New England
make 720,000 tons of paper-pulp each
year, requiring more than 700,000,000
rd measure, and strip
ping 160,000 acres of forest land.
This rapid destruction of the avail
able supply of spruce has impressed up
on mill-owners the necessity of taking
vigorous measures to secure new
growth. The wasteful and wicked
policy has prevailed of cutting the
forest clean, not leaving even a sapling
standing. A new system, enforced in
some of the tracts, will save lor repro
ducing the forest all trees of fourteen
inches and less. Unless something is
done to prevent tbe destruction tbe
supply of spruce will soon be exhaust
ed.
ROBRRT BONNRR, PRINTER.
BIS INDUSTRY AND SAGACITY.
&
-Ex-Senator George F. Hamlin, of
Kansas, is the son of Europe Ilsmltn,
and ha4 three uncles whose names
were Asia, Africa and America. Vice-
President Hannibal Hamlin was the
aM of Africi.
He Became the Greatest Advertiser
in the World—The Ledger Was a
Revelation to the Country.
The career of Robert Bonner, who
as publisher of The Ledger became
the greatest advertiser in tbe world,
It one Illustrating sagacity and indus
try. He was bo^n in Ramelton, Ire
land, in 1824, and came to this country
at the age of fifteen years and began
business life as an apprentice in the
composing room of The Hartford Cou-
rant—a printer's devil. His hours
were from 6 o’clock in the morn ng
until 6 o’clock at night, and his wages
for the first year were $25, for the
second $35, and for the third $45, with
board and clothes in addition. He re
tired from bqftness several years ago
worth several millions, and only two
ypars ago, in the preface to his cata
logueof trotting horse stock, he wrote
“ Since I began purchasing trotting
horses I have expended about 9600,000
in this way. ' To those friends who
have criticised me for having paid so
much money for horses I may be par
doned for saying that 1 have given
awsy a much larger sum than that for
religious and benevolent purposes.'’
The New York Ledger in 1850 was a
small financial she^t known as Tbe
Merchants’ Ledger,«nd Robert Bon
ner was a printer employed upon it.
He had saved a little money, tbe pro-
rietor wanted to sell tbe paper, and
Benner bought it. He ran it for
a while as a mercantile paper, then
turned it into a family story paper.
He had a genius for advertising, and
the way he advertised The Ledger was
s revelation to the country.
Fanny Fern was the most popular
woman writer of that time, but she
had never written for newspapers. She
had just sold 6,000 copies of a book,
and Bonner paid her 9100 a column for
a/story of ten columns. In telling of
tnls story in later years, Mr. Renner
sauK. " Nearly every newspaper in
the country published my extrava
gance in paying $100 a column fora
story. 1 got 960,Oil) worth of advertis
ing out of the arrangement, and the
people begsn to sak (or Tbe Ledger.
Before this I had trouble in getting
the news-stands to take The Ledger.
After this they were glad to get it.
He paid Henry Ward. Beecher 930,-
00O for his novel, "Norwood,” and
$2C00 a year to write from half to
tbree-quarters of a column a week for
The Ledger. Be bad Edward Everett,
at that time tbs leading statesman of
the country along certain lines, writ
ing a series of articles for the Lodger.
He secured Mr. Beecher by sending a
check for 92,000 in the first letter he
wrote to the great divine proposing a
weekly letter. Mr. Boecber’s reply to
this was: ”1 am almost dumb after
reading yodr proposition, and must
clear my bead before 1 say a word.”
Beecher accepted, however, just aa
Everett did. At that time Everett
was giving lectures around the coun
try to secure a fund for the purchase
anl reservation of Mount Vernon
Mr. Bonner offered to give 910.000 to
the fund if Everett would write for
The Ledger.
He spent 9,250,000 in a<N£rtlslog his
paper. He thought nothing of buying
a page at a time in the leading dallies.
Tbe circulation of The Ledger reached
400,000 copies. When it got to 150,000
copies he fired a salute of 150 guns in
City Hall park, and started in to double
tbe clrcuLtton. Tbe Ledger adver
tisements were unlike those of any
other publication. Mr. Bonner be
lieved that if all advertisements in a
paper were displayed it was equivalent
to no display. His advertisements
were always original/ In those da/s
9h would secure as much advertising
e as 94 can buy now. He made
Herald publish a sixteen-page
paper one dav. It was printing eight
pages, and Mr. Bonner asked what
space he could have for a " big ad.”
" All the space you want:*’ tBb pkbllsk
said. "All right, I’ll take the
ole pap$r,” said Mr. Bonner, and an
extra eight pages had to be added to
hold the news aad the other advertise
ments.
Mr. Bonner bought Dexter after he
had made a record of 2.17i on the
Buffalo track in 1867. Thyt night he
rote to a friend: "I saw Niagara
Falls this morning for the first time,
and came down here to Buffsrio this
afternoon to see that other great won
der, Dexter, when he trotted In the
unprecedented time of 2 17L You
know I always like to have tbe b, st
things, and inasmuch as [ could not
buy tbe Falls, I concluded to do tbe
next best thing and buy Dexter. He
ill go into my stable on the 10th of
next month.”
The horse cost him 935,000, and Bjdd
Doble said he would have the horse
back in three weeks, because Mr. Bon
ner couldn’t drive him on the road,
Doble was wrong. Mr. Bonner drove
Dsxter and later he drove Maud S and
Sunol and the other crack trotters he
bought, and every horse he purchased
meant so much more advertising for
him and his great property, The
Ledger.
Until he turned the publication of
the paper-over to his tons, who have
since turned it into a monthly, owing
to the keen competition of the Sunday
newspapers, Mr. Bonner’s sole interest
in life was The Ledger. He had tbe
story paper Instinct largely developed.
He read with his own eyes every word
printed in The Ledger as long as he
actively managed it. He read all
manuscripts submitted and selected all
those which he deemed available.
The contributor, no matter how
humble and modest, no matter wheth
er a beginner or an established author
with a hyphenated name, was always
courteously received at an outside desk
by the proprietor, who advanced from
a private office to return a story or de
liver a check. "I’m sorry we can’t
uae this,” he would say in tbe first case.
In the second, handing over a check.
" Fetch us another story.” There was
no waste of words.
Horace Greeley, N, If.
John G. Saxe were among
hutors to The Ledger in
Charles Dudley Warner was one of Mr.
Bonner’s earliest friends, Gqqrj
Childs one of his latest. JEfcjoha
Hail, of whose church, the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian, Mr, Bonner was
always a stanch pillar, was one of his
space
The
intimate friends, and he grieved great
ly over the clergyman’s death. Mr.
Booner’s stable backs up against the
churcb, and they /say that the former
owner of the church property refused
to sell to-the organization, but said that
if Robert Benner wanted h s land for
any purpose whatever, why of course
he oou Id have it.
Mr. Bonner bought Maud S. in 1880
from Commodore Vanderbilt. She
had made a record of 2:111, and under
Mr. Bonner’s ownership sue lowered
this record, but never in races except
against time. In 1885 John Murphy
drove her to 2:081, and at that time
she was considered a horse - marvel
such as the world would never again
produce. He paid 940,000 for Maud S.
and the same price for Sunol, which
he bought from Leland Stanford only
to discover that the horse waa lame.
"I am going to cure that horse with
out letting Stanford know,” said Bun
ner. " If I tell him he will sem^my
money back to me and I shall be ob
liged to return Sunol. But if I cure
the horse I know I shall have a prize.”
He cured the magnificent animal, and
in treating Sunol he developed tbe
veterinary g4fm that aftM*wards made
him tbe leading authorlMof the coun
try on horses. ^
When a horse went lame in the old
days they used to “fire” him or they
would soak his hoofs and put on poul
tices and "treat ” the hoof The horse
would get better, but in a few days was
worse again. Tnen thty " refired’’
and so on, until tbe horse either was
well ur went lame forever. In curing
bis own horse Mr. Bonner made the
remarkable yet simple discovery that
most lame feet were caused by the un
even paring of tbe/horse’s hoofs as the
shoes were put on. The horse bad to
walk on the side of his foot; pftera
while the foot became lame, the knee
got twisted and the horse was useless
for service. 80, Mr. Bonner perfected
a system of horse shoeing which is In
general use today, and about which he
was willing to talk for hours with con
genial spirits on bis stock farm, at
Tarrytown. ” Balancing the hoof ”li
the keynote of horse-shoeing.
. Maud B. was the pride of Robert
Bunner’s heart up to tbe day of his
death. He owoed other trotters, many
"that cost him more money, many that
had beaten her mark, but be loved tbe
old mare aid spent many hours with
her on the road and in tbe box stall at
Fleetwood In the old days, and later at
Tarrytown. He bad been offered
fabulous prices for tbe "Qjeen of tbe
Turf,” but would never consider one of
them He would not trot his horses
for money, though be wanted to pwn
tbe fastest bones in tbe world, aad
his ambition was gratified. He bred
Macy’s Hambletoniao, tbe sire of Boe-
que Bonita, the ffnt American trotter
to beat all tbe records that had ever
been made in Europe. There were
also bred at bis farm Cartridge, 2:144;
Majolica. 2:15; Cheyenne, 2:144; in
stant, 2:144, and others still falter, but
with no public records.
Mr B toner’s wealth was said to he
915,000.000. In 1887, when he turned
over Tne Ledger to his sons, he gave
to them property wornh 92.000.000.
All three sons are married—Andrew
Allen, R>bert Edwin and Frederick.
er
Why England is Afraid of Rus
sia—Oae important reason why Eng
land ought not to assume an offeos vj
attitude towards Russia, if it were
otherwise desirable for her to do so, is
the weakness of her army. A war with
Russia would not be a naval war. It
would necessarily be a land war, and
England, it Is well known, with her
present force and her policy of volun
tary enlistments, could not put more
than thirty thousand men into China
This was asserted only the other more-
ing in the House of Commons, and the
government did not contradict the
statement. Indeed, it is perfectly well
understood that iLrests on the author
ity of Lord Wolseley himself. It is
hardly worth while to enlarge upon
s j sloe;>...4, Eo#-
and would find herself if the were
called upon to face Russia with a fjrce
of 30,000 men. Russia has probably
already many more troops than this in
Manchuria. The result of a war, then,
between Russia -and Great Britain,
undertaken under existing conditions,
would be the total destruction of Brit
ish commeroe in China, and the invas
ion, and possibly tbe temporary loss,
of India. And in considering the pos
Bible effect of tuch a war we must bear
In mind the attitude of the people of
India towards the imperial govern
ment, which is that of discontent, ex
pressing inert in riots. Surely such
an attitude would be of Immense assist
ance to Russia in the invaslen that
would immediately follow the breaking
out of war over China. The facts
which British statesmen are facing are
sterq and threatening, and wbat clamor
there is ip England for dealing offens
ively with Russia is the clamor of
iguoranen—an ignorance that may not
be dissipated until its victims are
aroused and Informed through the
awful surprise which is sure to follow
the first shock of arms.—Harper’s
Weekly. 4
The Kiss in School.—The kissing
bug is getting in its deadly work in
t rwlpgton, Ga. But it isn’t tbe same
ind of a bug which has recently
aroused tbe whole scientific world. It
assumes a more practical kind of form.
During the exercises incident to tbe
commencement eeason down in Irwing-
ton there was a play on the board ra
qulrlng one of tbe young men to kiss
one of the young ladles Ho must
have made it too realistic, too Eonma-
Abbott-like, for tbe yoang lady’s broth
er made it a personal issue after the
performance was over and is now under
a 9250 bond to keep tbe peace, while
the kisser is supposed to be on his way
to the Philippines, where kissing
comes cheaper.
a
Willis and
the contrl-
thelr time.
BILL ARP’S HEART IB BAD.
Tbe Recent Death of Two Good Old
Friends—He Speaks of Them as
ths Best of Men.
Simon Peter R; ,hardton and Henry
B. Plant, two more of my friends, have
fallen asleep. They were not my Mar
and dear friends, but they were friends
to humanity and I am human. 1 knew
them well and was always pleased withj
their presence. It is a good sign when
you are glad even to meet an acquain
tance—a good sign for him and it is a
good one for you when your acquain-
tances meet you gladlv. Simon Peter
Richardson ministered here several
years and I was always cheered with
bis presence and learned something I
did not know. He was a walking edu
cator, a man of wit and wltdbm and of
great philanthropy. Sometimes he
cut to the quick, but his knife was
sharp and left no ragged, edges. I re
call an incident that, illustrated his
earnest readiness to reply to a man
who refused a little charity to a very
poor blind ^oman who wished to go to
Atlanta to hav* Dr. Calhoun remove a
cataract from her eye. Simon Peter
very ^rnestly related her condition
and b&r extreme poverty and said,-
" Please give me half a dollar, only
half a dollar.” The merchant replied,
” No, I can’t do it. We merchants are
bled to death by these country people
and we have got to stop. I tell you
Upcle Simon, we are bled to death,
you must excuse me.” Simon Peter
looked at him as if he were amazed.
After a brief silence he said, " Bled
are you? Let me show.you something.”
He took off his long linen duster, then
unbuttoned tbe wristband on his left
arm, rolled up the sleeve and pointing
to two little scars near the elbow said,
” A long time ago Afool doctor tried 10
bleed me and made those scars. He
missed the vein and got no blood, but
the scars are there. I am afraid that
is tbe experience of a good many peo
ple who ask a little charity for the
poor. They get no blood r but leave a
We who saw the point smiled audibly.
The merchant’s face reddened under
the sarcasm. He suddenly pulled out
tbe money drawer and handed a dollar
to the old mao, and said : "Give this
to her. I don't want any of your scars
about me.”
Tbe last year of his sojourn here
Uncle Simon took a vacation and visited
his old home on tbe Pee Due river, in
South Carolina. When ne returned
he told me excitingly of the good time
be had and about a wonderful revival
that occurred In bis old home church—
the greatest revival he said that he
had witnessed for many years. " How
many converts did you take into tbe
church,” said I. "The first week,”
said he, ** we never took in nary one,
but we turned seventeen out and purged
the church. After that the Lord
blessed ng and there is many a church
in this part of the country that needs
the same medicine.”
Uncle Simon left his Impression upon
tbe people of every community in
which be lived. He was an earnest
man, a strong man, a man of convictions
and was perfectly fearless In maintain
ing them Woe to the Infidel or seep
tic or agnostic who encountered him.
Woe to the man who declined to go to
church because he didn’t feel the ieed
of religion. No doubt we have as good
men now, but tbe preachers are rare
in any denomination who are his equals
In convincing and converting force.
With Paul he could say^‘‘I have
fought a good light. I havP kept the
faith."
Mr. Plant’s photograph is before nsp.
What a broad, attractive, human like
face. There is nothing of awe or solemn
ity in his features that would intiml'
Jate tbe approach of the humblest of
his race. "Knowing that thou wast an
austere man” did not apply to him.
Always dignified, always self-poised
and earnest, he seemed as much con
cerned for others as for himself. He
was frank but careful in sneech, gen
UtL.uncomplaining and never worried
blisiness cares or disappointments,
lis last letter to me, written in Febru
ary, was an autograph and is a model
of good old-fashioned penmanship. It
Is a large, open, honest hand without
a blot or erasure, the i’s all dotted, and
the t’s all crossed and quotation marks
where they should be. In speaking or
hi* Jjealtb. he says : " I have been
suffering, but am yet on deck and pre
pared In a moderate way-to attend to
my duties and in some measure be of
benefit tq the people.”
.1 nave taken note of him for nearly
half a century and know of no greater
man in the line of public progress and
public benefaction. Many millionaires
lave acquired fortunes from specula
tlon—soeculatioo that robbed others.
Many have built on the foundations
that others laid and some have wrecked
railroads and private enterprises on
purpose for their own profit, but Mr.
Plant made honest plans in early life
and has by slow and sure degrees ex
panded and matured them. He has
added to values not only of his own
property, but to that of oommunltley
and States. He has proved himself
an unselfish friend to the South and
won the love and admiration of our
people. Shakespeare says, M The evil
tbat^men do lives after them. The
ood is oft interred with their bones.”
'hat is hot always true. Ih fact, he
might aa truly have said, “ The good
that men do lives after them.” Good
deeds are like tbe circling waves tbat
gently move to the shore when a stone
is cast into a pool. They never
their Influence. The good tha^Mr.
Plant bas done fortbe people has not
been buried with him, nor will he .be
—The Philippine problem is summed
up In this week’s Independent by tbe
Hon. George F. Edmunds : "First let
as know tbe whole truth of wbat has
happened, and then pernaps the advo
cates of glory or dominion or trade or
civilization and religion advanced hy
the cannon and the bayonet anl sup
ported by the blood and treasure of our
people can point out tons bow thoso
are ’ the ways of pleasantness and the
1 paths of peace.' ”
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
CROP
Columbia, 8.0., Jnly Uth,1898.
'here were a few very hot days dur
ing the week ending July 10, bat the
average temperature waa slightly be-
low the normal. The range of teas*
the greet need of the oou^J perature wm between 53 and 100 de-
There were frequent showers during
the week, especially over the central
and eastern counties, where la places
the grouad la too wet. Over the north
central aad western counties, tbe show
ers were very few, light aad local, aad
many places are suffering for rain.
Rain which began falling after most of
the reports were mulled, may have af
forded relief. Over the greater por
tion of tbe State, tbe moisture condi
tions are now very favorable.
Some damage was caused by hall aad
high wlailfc bat It wae confined to small
areas.
Reports on cotton, while not wholly
favorable, are -aery promising. The
crop is small, healthy, clean and bloom
ing freely; lice oootinue to Infeet It,
le places, but are doing no serious in
jury. . A few report the plant growing
too much to waed, others aa not grow
ing at all, especially on red lands In
the western counties. Sea Island cotton
never looked better.
The oorn crop oontlnnea to suffer
from bud worms and the larger oora
stal k- borer. Drought baa also affected
the crop seriously ovar large area*, but
on the contrary, in places, the orop is
very fine. Old oorn is practically all
laid by.
Tobacco Improved somewhat daring
the week, although In places more
rein Is needed to develop the upper
leaves. Cutting and curing baa become
quite general. In Marlon County the
orop is turning out very well. ,
Rice is dolcg well, although' cater
pillars still Infest it at a few points.
Tbe early rioe is receiving its lest
flooding. On some plantations, water
for flooding la not yet available.
Sweet poUto slips continue to he
set out, peas to be sown, and theaeooad
crop of Irish potatoes to be pleated.
Suffer cane and sorghum vafy la con
dition, but generally look promising.
Haying continues on the coast mead
ows. Little or no fruit, save a lew
apples, anywhere In she State, except
grapes, which are plentiful la the
western ooaatles.^kmt are rotting
badly. Malous arsPnelag skipped la
large quantities to the Northern
markets.
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Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered from Various Sources.
■ »-v,
—Senator W. E. Chandler says he hat
not changed his views, on the financial
question, but stands firmly for blmet-
try.
—“ Fighting Bob ” Evans was In bis
early days the Nimrod of his Virginia
countryside. No one oduldbring home
many rabbits or birds, and no one
could break a colt aa well as he.
—Colonel N. M. Dyer, who com
manded the Baltimore at the battle of
Manila, did not graduate from the na
val aqademy, but served six years on
merchantmen before entering tbe
United States navy.
—In a letter just received from Sur
geon Book of tbe Thirteenth Mlnue-
sota, now In the PblllpplSee, be says
tbat in the 1,100 cates of wounded sol
diers who had gone to the hospital at
the time of bis writing there were only
three cases of amputation.
—A statute of the late United States
Senator Z ibulon B. Vanoe Is to be
placed at tbe eastern entrance to Capi
tol Square. Raleigh, N. C., opposite
the monument to the Con federate dead.
The State Legislature appropriated
$3sB00 for it and private citizens added
IS.jQOO to the amount.
—Senator W. A. Clark said in an in
terview last week that he owed bis
success in life entirely to his early' ex
periences on bis father's farm in Penn
sylvania. " I learnad that hard work,”
he said, “was necessary if a man
wanted to live. Tbe trouble with most
people is that they don’t realize this.”
-John Kates, of Lower Alloway, N.
J., who recently had hatched out a
chicken with three legs and another
ith four legs, now has a third with
only ooe leg. All-are doing well and
Ketes hopes to complete hie collection
of freaks by securing more one-legged
fowle to even matter* up on the count
of legs.
—Tbe Increaee of Insanity in civil
ized centers of population 's appalling.
A half dozen new asylums have been
built In and about London In the last
dozen years, and eaobqpe Is filfed al
most as soon aa 00mpiffled. Tbe num
ber of Insane in London Inatltutlone
alone now reaenee aa aggregate of
over 25,009. ’ r ./
—The DeKalb Avenue Methodist
Episcopal chureb baa brought salt
against Geo. 8. Kelk. as tbe adminis
trator of Jane Boose, who died in De
cember, 1897, alleging that oho obtained
9977.04 from the oburch daring a pe
riod of years by fraudeatly represent-,
ing that she was e pauper and in need
of eld for aupport. After she died
there were found in her apartment
various sum* of money aggregating
96^4 75, a bank book showing a balance
of deDOoiie in tbe Brooklyn Saving*
Bank amounting to $1,600 aod aocther
bank book showing a balance of 9360.
—Mrs. C. W. Good lander, the young
wife of the Mayor o’ Fort Soott, Kane,
has attracted much attention by an in
novation she has introduced in the line
of assisting her husband in one of bis
most onerous public duties, namely,
providing for tbe needy poor of- tbe
city. She spends certain hours each
day driving around the poorer quar
ters of the city and personally investi
gating clafmr for assistance, aod no
indolent or undeserving person gets an
order from her. She permits no social
function- to interfere with this work.
Tbe results of her enterprise ere being
aatlclpeted with great interest.
—A novelty in summer kbhool* is of
fered in Missouri this year. The State
university has given instructions along
tbe lines familiar in such schools dur
ing tbe vacation season for w good
while past, aad it now adds new courses
in horticulture 1 and agrloulture. Pre
sident Jesse holds that some attention
should be given In the public school of
an agricultural State to stud let of soil,
climate, birds, Insects aad plant life;
end he point* out that tbe field*, for
sets and highways lo the country and
the lawns and public squares in tbe
city and towns,f|irnlsh all the labora
tory facilities which are needed for
such studies.
—Governor Rooeevelt shortened the
sentence of John Howard, a convict in
Sing Sing prison, because the prisoner
constructed two large pipe organs for
the chapel, worklpg two years on the
job, and thus saving the State an am
ount of money estimated at about
96,0(0. The organs were finished about
two weeks ago, just as Howard’s sen
tence expired, and be was released
Tbe organs were greatly admired.
When It came to trying them last Sun
day It transpired that they only looked
would
failed
to leave his future address at the
prison when he depai ted.
—A remarkable freak of lightning
oecurred at East Brookfield, Mass., the
other day, when a sudden shock restored
to its old-time vigor the left arm of
Ell Forbes, which had been useless for
thlrteenyears on aooount of rneuma-
tlsm. While he wss sitting at the
window a thunder shower came up and
with it were twosbarp flashes of ilght-
aay it transpired maitney only 100
like wbat they purported to be,
despite all the electric pumps w<
not give fprth a sound. Howard fa
forgotten for generations to oome.
ut tbe command is to " Close up !
Close up!’’ Tbe old men die and others
step into their places—and the world
moves on. "Close up” is heard all
along the line.
“ Friend after friend departs,
Who bas not lost a friend 7
The e is no union here of hearts
That has not here an end.”
' Bill AEp*/
—Mias Anna Gordon, Secretary of
the Women’s Christian Temperance
Union, gives it as her opinion that
tbqre is less drinking In public than
thetoused to be. -But she thinks that
has seemed to be an Increase
ing at home ' on the part ol
people who have been in Europe
have put in practice here wbat
nlng. With one of tbe tremendons
7 nestle* 01 lie
tbe tremendt
crashes Mr. Forbes felt a sharp prick
ing of bis flesh and tingling in his
bones and with a jerk his left arm shot
violently forward from Its cramped
position.^ The shock was over in a flash
and Mr. Forbes felt bis left arm bristle
with the vitality and tingle, with vigor.
To his delight he found he oould
the arid as well as ever.
— Attorney
they found abroad.
General BeUlnger has
received no end of applications for
positions in the engroselng department
of the general assembly. He requests
the statement made that all appllca
are merely waiting paper, Ink and
stamps In writing to him, for he Is now
preparing to change the entire plan of
appointing these clerks. AU appli
lions will have to be made to the soil
eftors of tbe respective circuits. The
appointments are to be left to the
solicitors, but requirements will be
put in that will Basalt in obtaining
elerks who write good heads and who
can spell correctly. This has been
found to be an abeolute aeeeseity aad
some kind of examination to likely to
be provided before aa appointment
will be confirmed.
Raising Mkn in Georgia.—During
tbe recent visit to ths army camp la
Savannah Gen. Joseph Wheeler was
.entertained by e party of Northern men
at tbe De Soto, when, in the good humor
of efter-dluaer cigars, one of ’the
gentlemen said, laughlagly:
"How is it, general, tbat the sleepy
farms of the South produos|iueb whirl
wind fighters in such small paekages?”
"Well/’ said the little general, puffing
at a large men’s cigar, "I believe I’ll
have to give yqp the answer an old
‘cracker’ woman onoe gave me whea I
asked bar a similar qaeetloa. Not
many years ago 1 bad oreaeioo to make
a saddle journey through the plan
barrens of Georgia, where most every
body is a ‘cracker’aad mighty shift-
lees. On* day, however, I rode lato a
little community that ■ boWed such
signs of thrift a* to be quite out of
keeping with the general character of
the barrens, I do assure you, geatiemea.
I rode up to e oabla where a gaunt eld
woman stood la tbe doorway, aod asked
her who owned these little farms that
farm that were so well kept
" ‘That farm oa the left belongs to
my son Jabtz,’ said sba, ‘and the next
one to my boy Zalim, aad the next to
my lad Jasen, aod the next to my boy
Potlphar’s place and—’
"‘Hold on, sister,’said I. ‘How did
you manage to raise such a fine lot
of boys way off hero in the woods?*
’Well, stranger,* she answered, *1
am a wldfly woman, and all I had to
raise ’em 00 wen prayer and hickory,
bat I raised ’em powerful frequent* ”
Pension Frauds—The discovery of
a fraudulent scheme In Memphis te
secure a pension for a woman as the
widow of a soldier who was not only
not marred to the soldier, bat bed met
him only onoe in her Ufe| is doubtless
but one of thousands of such abuses
that have escaped detection. la this
instance it to stated that the papers
were made ont In due form with
elaborate detail aod witnessed aad
sworn to as the law requires. So ole
and just a case was apparently
that the examining board were about
to recommend the grant, which called
for a payment of abou} 96,000 In back
pensions, when the commissioner, bj
Instituting a special investigation,
made tbe discovery of the fraud.
When fraud m one oase is discovered
only by such extraordinary and special
effort we may well., believe that the
government has been wickedly Imposed
upon la thousands of other Ini
Commissioner Evans Is d
work In fighting pension frauds, and
the more exacting and severe he oaa
be in this matter the better servloe he
will render.—Nashfllle Banner.
Why the South is Poor.- A pound
of raw cotton Is worth about fi oenta.
When it Is spun and woven Into fabrics
it is worth from 26 cents to $1, according
to the figures of a Boston oorrespondent
of the New Orleans Picayune. Massa-
obu etts has 8,000 spindles and annually
manfactures 1.260,000 bales of oottoo.
This oottoo she boys from the South at
5 cents a pound. After she has spun
and woven this oottoo she sells a very
larfepart of (t book to us at 25 cents
to iia pound. That to why Massachu-
setti to rich and Georgia to poor/- "The
South,” aays the Picayune, "hews the
wood and draws the water; It does the
drudgery of producing raw material
for the North to manufacture aad gal
rich upon, jit to this whloh keeps tae
South poor aod always will, until tha
Southern people shall
their owa products.”
—Waste of time is Hie most extrava-
gant and ooetly of all <
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