The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, June 19, 1901, Image 5
| Away From You.
I 1 spent t Jay away from you?.
I A pennanee in a lonely plaoe;
I 1 said: "I will forget her face,
I The mouth'a rose red, the eyes' bold blue;
I 1 will forget a little apace "
I Ah me! Lore grants no holiday!
I I sought my lonesome hold, and there
I Your happy laoghter filled the air
I Your footsteps followed in the way,
I The sunlight tangled in your hair.
You whisper thrilled my heart anew;
1 sa./ your oyee?1 watched your smile.
Oh, mockery of mile and mile!
I I spent a day away from you
And you were with me all the while.
?Theodosia Harrison in Harper's Bazar
THE TALMAGE SERMON
The Noted Divine Preaches on Stock
[ Gambling.
Proverbs xxii', 6, "Kiches certainly make
themselves wings; they tly away an an eagle
toward heaven."
Money is a golden bnuted bird with
ilrcr beak. It alights on he oflioe desk 01
on the parlor center table. Men and women
stand and admire it. Tbey do not notic<
that it has wings larger than a raven's, lar
gerthana flamingo's, larger thanau eagle's
One wave of the hand of misfortune and il
spreads its beautiful plumage and is gone?
"as an eagle toward heaven," my text says,
though sometimes 1 think it goes in the
other direction.
What a verification we have had of the
flying capaoity of riches in Wall street! And
Wall street is one of the longest streets in
the world. It does not begin at tho foot ??1
Trinity church, New York, and end at the
Hast river, as many suppose. It reache*
through all our American cities and across
the sea. F.ncouraged by the revival of trade
and by the fact that Wall street disasters o1
other years were so far baok as to be forgotten,
speculators run up the stocks from point
to point until innocent people on the outside
suppose that the stocks would always con
tinuo to ascend. They gather in from all
parts of the country. Large sums of money
are taken into Wall street and small sums ol
money. Tho crash comes, thank God, in
time to warn off a great many who were on
their way thither, for the sadness of the
thing is that a great many of the young men
of our oities who save a littlo money for the
purpose of starting themselves in business,
and who have $500 or $1,000 or $2,000 or
$10,000 go into Wall street and loso all.
rAnd if there ever was a time for the pul
pit tospetk out in regard to certain kinds ol
nefarious enterprises now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell, and now they begin
to rise again, and they will fall again until
thousands of young men will l>o ruined unless
the printing press and the pulpit give
emphatic utterance. My counsel is to countrymen,
so far as they may hear ot this discourse,
if they have surplus to invest it in
first mortgages and in moneyed institutions
Which thnutrh nftvinir Mmrnmllnnto umull
- o r ?J -~t> "'"f1"'" "vi/ u,"l"?
interest, are sound and safe beyond dispute,
and to stand clear of the Wall street vorlex,
where so many have been swamped and
swallowed. What a compliment it is to
the healthy condition of our country that
these recent disasters have in nowise de
pressed tradt! 1 thank God that Wall street's
capacity to blaat this country has gone for
ever.
Across the island of Now York in 1G85 n
wall mado cf stone and earth and cannon
mounted was built to keep oil' the savages
Along by that wall a street was laid out, and
as the street followed the line of the wall it
i was appropriately called Wall street. It is
I narrow, it is unnrchiteotural, and yet its bisI
torv 'a unique. Excepting Lombard street,
L London, it is the mightiest street on this
planet. There the government of the United
States was born. There Washington hell
his levees. Ther^Mrs. Adams and Mrs
Caldwel^^JBBHBfc|yL_and other brilliant
U)Htl l| 11 w displayed
^?%irmn. ^ itherspoon and Jonathan
Uuwa.George W'hitefield sometime*
preached. Tbefe I i. Vlaaon ohidod Ah
V der Hamilton for writing the constitution ol
^ S the United Slates without any God in it
p There negroes were sold in the slave mart.
f There criminals wero harnessed to wheelbarrows
and, like beasts of burden, com
polled to draw or were lashed through the
street behind carts to which they were fastened.
There fortunes havo come to coronation
or burial since the day when reckless
speculators in powdered hair and silver shoe
buckles dodged I)ugan, the governor general
of his majesty, clear down to yesterday at 3
o'clock. The history of Wall street is to a
oertain extent the financial, commercial,
agricultural, mining, literary, artistic,
moral and religious history of this country.
They are the best men in this country and
there are the worst. Everything from un
swerving integrity to tiptop scouudrelism ?
everything from heaven born charity tobh <>dless
Shylockism. 1 want to put the plow in
at the curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear
through to Wall street ferry. And soil shall
go if the horses are strong enough to draw
the plow.
First of all, Wall street stands as a type in
" this country for tried integrity and the most
outrageous villainy. Farmers who have
only a few hundred dollars' worth of pro
duce to put on the market have but little to
test their character, but put a man into the
even times heated furnace of Wall street
excitement and he cither comes out a blind
rach, with hair unsinged, or he is burned
into a black moral cinder. No half way
work about it. If I wanted to lind integrity
^ bombproof, 1 would go among the hanker?
and merchants of Wall street, yet because
there have been such villainies enacted there
at ditfercnt times some men have supposed
that it is a great financial debauchery, and
they hardly dare go near the street or talk
lip or down it unless they have buttoned up
their last pocket and had their lives insured
or religiously crossed themselves. Vet if
yon start at either end of the street and read
the business signs you will fiud the mtmet
of more men of integrity and Christian benevolence
than you can find in the suae
space in any street of any of our cities.
When the Christian commission and the
sauitary commission wanted money to send
medicine and bandages to the wounded,
when breadstull's were wanted for famish
ing Ireland, when colleges were to be endowed
and churches were to be supported
and missionary societies were to be equipped
for their work of sending tlio gospel all
around the world, the first street to respond
has been Wall street, and the largest re
sponscs in all the.land have come from Wall
street.
But while that street is a type of tried
integrity on one hand it is also a type of unbounded
swindle on the other. There are
the spiders that wait for innocent tlies.
There are the crocodiles that crawl up
through the slime to crunch the calf. There
are the anacondas, with lifted loop, ready to
crush the unwary. There are financial wreckers,
who stand on the beach praying for a
Caribbean whirlwind to sweep over our com
mcrcial interests.
Let mo say it is no place for a man to go
into business unless his moral principle is
thoroughly settled. That is no place for a
man to go into business who does not know
when he is overpaid $5 by mistake whether
he had better take it back ngain or not
That is no place for a man to go who lias
large funds in trust and who is all the time
temntnd to snpoiilnln i- ?
1 r " *"v"" '"i" "
place for a man to go who does not quite
know whether the law# of the slate forbid
usury or patronizo it. Oh. how" many men
have risked themselves in the vortex and
gone down for the simple reason their integrity
had not been thoroughly established. Kcmember
poor Ketcham. How soon the (lying
hoofs of his iron gmys clattered with him
to his destruction! Remember poor Gay, at
.'10 years of ago astonithing the world with
his fortunes and his forgeries. Remember
that famous man whose eteamboats and
whose opera houses could not atone f.r his
adulterous rides through Central park in too
face of decent New York and whose behavior
on Wall street by its examp'e has blasted
tens of thousands of young men of this generation.
I hold up the polluted memory to warn
young men whoso moral principles arc not
thoroughly settled to keep out of Wall street.
It is no place for a man whj shivers under the
blast of temptation. Let me say also to tho s
In this discourse I>r. laUiiage arraigut
the spirit of wild speculation and gires somf
account of the financial ruin of other days;
wbo are doing legitlras'e business on that or
similar streets of which that in a type to stand
firm in Christian prinoiple. You are in a
(treat oommero'al battlefield. lie courageous.
There is suoh a thing as a hero of the bank
and a hero of tho Stock Exchange. You be
thut hero. 1 hare not so much admiration
for the Preneh empress who stood in her balaony
in l\?rie and addressed an excited mob
and quelled it as I hare admiration tor that
venerable banker on Wall street who in 1804
stood on the steps of his moneyed institution
and quictod the fears of depositors and bade
peace to the angry ware of commercial excitement.
God did not allow the lions to
hurt Daniel, and he will not allow the
"bears" to hurt you. Remember, ntyfriendj
that all these scenes of business will soo
haro passed away, and by the law of Ood'B
eternal right all the affairs of your business
life will be adjudioated. Honesty pays beet
for both worlds.
Again, 1 haro to remark that Wall street is
a type throughout the country of 'egitimate
speculation on the one hand and of ruinous
gamblingon tlie other. Almost erery mer
chant is to somo extent a speculator, lie dc1
peuds not only upon the difference between
> the wholesale price at which ho gets the
goods and the retail at which ho disposes of
, them, but also upon tho fluctuation of the
markets. If the markets greatly rise, he
! greatly gains. If the markets greatly sink,
he greatly loses. It is as honest to deal in
stocks as to deal in iron or ooai or hardware
, or dry goods. He who condemns all stock
dealings as though they were iniquitous simp
1 ly shows his own ignorance. Hlop all legiti)
mate speculation in this oountry and you stop
all banks, you atop all factories, you stop all
storehouses, you stop all the great financial
L prosperities of this country. A stock dealer
is only a commission merchant under another
, name. He gets his commission on one stylo
> of goods. You, the grocer, get your commission
on another stylo of goods. The dollar
> that he makes is just as bright and fair ami
I honest a dollaras thcdollar earned by the
i day laborer. Rut here we must draw the
t line bet ween legitimate speculation and ruin
ous gambling. You, a siock operator withi
out imy property behind you, financially
i irrcsnausible, sell $10 I of nothing and get
i piid forit. You sell 100 shares at $ 10,000 ut
T :50 d tys. If al the end of dO days you can get
the scrip for $0,00(1, you have ina iea thousand
if at the end of dO days you have to
' pay $11,000, then you have lost a thousand.
Now that is iratlicking in fiction; that is bet1
ting on chances; that involves the spirit of
gambling as much as anything that ever goes
" on in the lowest gatnbliug hell.
At certain times almost every prosperous
merchant wakes up, and ho says: "Now, 1
have hebh successf ll in my lino of trade, and
1 havo a tolerable iucome. 1 think 1 shall
go down to Wall sired and treble it in three
weeks. There's my neighbor. Ho was in
the sam? line of business. lie has his $300,
000 or $ 100,000 from the simplo fact that he
went into Wall street. 1 think 1 shall go
' too " Here they come, retired merchants
who want to get a little excitement in their
lethargic veins. Here they oome, the trus
1 tees of great prjperty, to fool everything
away. Here they come, men celebrated for
t prudence, to tiitlo with tho livelihoods of
widows and orphans. Do y?>u wonder that
sometimes they become insane? It is insanity.
Do you known there are hundreds
of young men who are perishing under tho
ivr hi.uv.n y,'*'" '"iig. l'o you Know
that in all Christian lands this is one of tlio
greatest curses?
It is not peculiar to mercurial Americans
i Oh, no! Almost every nation has indulged
in it. The Hollanders, the most phlegmatic
people in the world, had their gambling
I seizure in 1(583. It was called the tulip
mania. It was a speculation in tulips.
Properties worth $500,000 turned into tulips,
i All the Hollan t nation either buyiug or selling
tulips One tulip root s>ld for $200,
another for $2,000. Excitement rolling on
I and rolling on until history tells us that one
Amsterdam tulip which was supposed to be
i the only one of the kind in all the world
actually brought in the markets $1,810,000!
That is a matter of history. Of course, the
i crash came, and nil Holland went down under
it.
But France must have its gamMing ex
pedition, and that was in 17 Hi. J >hu Law's
Missisbippi scheme, it was called The
French had heard that this American continent
w .s built out of soli l g)lt, nud the
i project was to take it across the ocean and
drop it iu France. Excitement beyond anj'
thing that had yet been seen in the world.
Three hundred thousand applicants for
shares. Excitement so great that sometimes
the mouutcd military had to disperse the
crowds that had come to buy the stock. Five
hundred temporary tents built to accommodate
the people until i. ay could liavo opbortunity
of interviewing JAn Law. A lady
of great fashion had her coachman upset her
s near the place where John Law ?ms passing
in order that she raighi have an Interview
I with that benevolent and sympathetic gentlenan.
fctooks went up to 2.050 percent, uutil
one day suspicion got iuto the market,
and down it all went?John Law's Mississippi
scheme?burying its projector and some
I of thee latest financiers io all France and
was almost as bad as a French revolution.
Sedate F.ngland took its chance in 1720.
That was Ilie south tea bubble. They prot
posed to transfer all the gold of Peru and
Mexico and tho islands of the sea to Eng
I land Five millions' worth of shares were
put on the market at ?300 a share. The
hooks open, in a few days it is all taken aud
, twice the amount subscribed.
There was a large company formed with
, great capital for providing funerals for all
parts of the laud. Another company with
Inrge capital??5,0OO,O O of capital?to
, develop a wheel in perpetual mo'ion
Another company with a capital of 1,000,000
to insure people against loss by servants
I Another company with $2 500,000 capital to
transplant walnut trees from Virginia to
England. Then, to cap the climax, a com
i pauy was formed for ' a great undertaking.
nobody to know what it is.' And, lo, JEtiUO,,
(KHt in shares were otlerei at C100 a share.
Hoiks were opened at o'clock in the morning
and closed at d o'clock tu the afternoon,
and the first day it was all subscribed. "A
great undertaking noboby to know what
it is."
i Unlit was left for our own county to surpass
all, about 117 years ago We have the
highest mountains and the greatost cata
rncts and the longest rivers, and of course,
we had to have the largest swindle One
would have thought that the nation had seen
enough in that direction during the morns
inulticaulis excitement, when almost every
man had a bunch of crawling silkworms in
his boute, out of which he expectod to make
a fortune. Uut all this excitement was as
nothing compared with what took place in
lhH4 when a man near Titusville, 1'a. digging
for a well struck oil. Twelve hundred
oil companies call for a billion of stock
Prominent members of churches, as soon as
a certain amount of stock was assigned thctn,
saw it was their privilege to become presidents
or secretaries or members of the board
of direction, tfome of these companies never
hail a foot of ground, never expected to have.
Their entire equipment was a map of a region
where oil might bo and two via s of grease,
crude an i clarified. People rushed down
from all parts of the country by the first
trnin and nut their bard eariuncs in the irulf I
A jrniDf; man came down from the oil region
of Pennsylvania utterly demented, having
nold his farm at a fabulous price because it
was supposed there might be oil thero?com
ing to a hotel in Philadelphia at the time I
was living there throwing down a $r?,(H>!>
check to pay for his noonday meal and saying
he did cot care anything about the
change! Then he stepped back to the gas
burner to light his cigar with a $1 OCO note.
Utterly insane.
The good Christian people said, "This
company must be all right, because Elder
So-and-so is president of it, and Elder So andso
isseoretary of it, and then there are three
or four highly respected professing (Jhristitnsin
the hoard of directors." Tliey did
not know that when a professed Christian
goes into slock gambling he lies like sin. llut
alas for the country! Jt became a tragedy,
and a thousand million dollnrs were swamped.
There are families today silting in the
shadow of destitution who but for that great
national outrage would have had their cottages
and their homesteads. 1 hold up bo
fore the young men these four great stock
gambling schemes that they may seo to what
length men will go smitten of this passion, <
ami I want to show them how all the best
interests of society are against it, and (lod is '
against it and will condemn it for lime and 1
condemn it for eternity. I do not dwell upon 1
the frenzied speculations in Wall street last '
month, i on i.U have enough remembrance I
of that financial horror. I only want you to i
know that U waa in a procession of mono
tary frenzies, some of which have pawo 1 and
others are to come.
0 men of Wall street and of ail streets,
stand back from nefarious enterprises, join
that great company of Christian men who
are maintaining their integrity, notwithstanding
all the pressure of temptation. In
the morning, when you open business in the
broker s oflioe or in the banking house, ask
God's bleesing, and when you close it pro
nounoe a benediction upon it. A kind of
business that men cannot engago in without
prayer is nr business tor you. 1 wish that
the words of George l'eahody, uttered in tho
hearing of the people of his native town?
Danvors. Moss.?I wish that those words
could be uttered in the hearing of all tho
young men throughout the laud, lie sud:
"Though Providenoo has granted me unvaried
and uuiversal success in the pursuit
of fortune in other lands I am still In heart
KtlmKl A K.... ?I? l-? J ? *
?v -U.UI/4V kj\jj nuv ivu y juuur uujiruieu'iing
dwelling. There ia not a youth within
the sound of ray voice whoso early opportunities
and advantages are not much greater
than were my own, and I h ?ve since achieved
nothing that is impossible to the most humble
boy among you." Oeoige Peabody's suo
cess in business was not more remarkable
than bis integrity and bis great hearted
bencvobnee. I pray upon you God's pro
tecting and prospering blessing. I hope
you may all make fortunes for time anil
fortunes for eternity.
Some day when you come out of your plaoe
of business and you go to the clearing house
or the place of custom or the bank or your
own home?as you come out of your place of
business just look up at the c'ock in the
tower and see by the movement of the hands
how your life is rapidly going away and be
reminded of tbe fsct that before God's
throne of inexorable ju 'gment jou must yet
give acount for what you have done since
the day you sold the fust yard of clotb or the
first pound of sugar. 1 pray for you all
prosperity. Htnnd close by Christ, and
Christ will stand close by you. The greater
the temptation lie more mignificvut the reward.
Ilu*. a'as, for the stock gambler?
what will he dj iu the judgment'.' That day
will settle everything. Tuat to the stock
gambler will bo a "break" at the "firstcall."
No smuggling into heaven. No ' collaterals"
in which to trade ycur way in. Go in
througa Christ the Lord or you will forever
stay out. God forbid that after you have
done your last day's work on earth and tbe
hushed assembly s auds around with bowed
heads at your obsequies?God forbid that
tho most appropriate text for your funeral
oration ehoutd be. "As a partridge sitteth
on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteih richos, and not by right, shall leave
thorn in tho midst of his days, and at the end
ho shall be a fool," or that the most approl
riate funeral psalm should bo the words of
tho poet:
l'rico of many a crime untold?
Gold, gold, gold, gold.
PESSIMISTIC BUT TRUE.
Mr Bauer s Summary of Crop Condi
tlone for Week Juit Ended.
Mr. J. W. Bauer, the weather bureau
man, is personaly very clovor, but ho
certainly is pessimistic iu his official
capacity. But if there should bo good
weather and flourishing crops all tbo
time, thcro would bo no need for a
weather buroau In his regular weekly
crop bulletin Mr. Bauor says: The
week oiiding Monday, Juno 10, was
somewhat warmer than the preceding
one, but tho averago tcmpor&turo continued
below tho norm \1. Thcro was a
maximum of 03 at Yemas&oo on tho
5.h, and a mininum of f>5 at Gnenvillo
on tfco 4ih. Over the western acd
northern counties, tho nights wee
much too oool for ootton, and thero
was a general deficiency of sunshine.
General showers ooourcd on tho 3d,
and again on tho ti.h, and 7,h, light
over the greater portion of tho State,
but heavy in tho middle and lower Sa
vannah valley, tbo southeastern, aud
portions of the west eential counties,
whore tho ground were kept too wot for
general cultivation, and where only
from two to throo day's ploughing was
practicable. Over the western, central,
northern and northeastern oountios,
the weather conditions were favorablo
for farm work, and cultivation made
fair progress.
Cotton is unsually small, lacks cultivation,
and somewhat lousy in plaoes
while grassy field arc tho rulo. It has
sot all been chopped to stands. In tho
tho eastern and southeastern sootions
its growth is at a standstill, aud tho
plants are turning red or yellow, showing
an unhealthy condition, but ovor
the remainder of the Stato it is grow
ing and improving .slowly and has a
healthy color. Sea islands looks better,
but blight is still prevalent.
Coin ! as begun to tassel and is being
laid by in tho southeastern sections,
where its ooodi.ion is, however, very
poor, owiDg to hv.-k of cultivation and
an excess of moisture In other sootions
upland corn has improved and
looks healthy, but bottoms are still too
wet to replant. But worms and crows
arc damaging bottom land corn in the
UAUUWC tfVUOK.
I.ate wheat has runted badly, wbilo
early is being harvested with the aver
ago result only fair, and not up to expectations.
Oats harvest is well advanced,
but the rains havo damaged
some in the shock. Yields are variable,
but averazed fairly good.
Tobacois oxiremcly poor, and dyiugfroui
lack of proper cultivation and
excessive moisture in Williamsburg
county and vicinity, wbilo in the other
toeacco districts, it has improved
slightiy, but i-t still poor. Worms are
numerous in places.
Upland rice is line, and somo river
rice also, but in tho Georgetown districts
freshets have done uiuoh damage
and prevented a lull acreage of .June
sowing.
Melons are a failure in plajcs, and
poor generally. l'<3?choa are dropping,
and caily varieties nro rotting. Pastures
and gardens have improved.
Truck is growing and yielding well.
Many correspondents report a scarcity
of farm laborers.
Heavy on Carolina.
Oil Inspector K. 11. Hook, of
Augusta, Ga , seized a oar of dofeotivo
oil in that city a few days ago, and sont
a sarnplo of it to tho Stato Oil Inspector
at ALlanta. After tosting tho oil
tho Stato Oil Inspector wrote tho following
letter to Mr. Hook.
"Stato of Goorgia, Department of
Oils, Atlanta, Ga, .Juno 3, 1901.?Mr.
K 11. Hook, Augusta, Ga?Dear Sir?
Tho sauiplo oil airivod and was tested
by Dr. MoUaudloss in tho prcsoncc of a
rosposontativo of tho Standard Oil
Company. You woro oorroot in rojootiug
it and not allowing thorn to unload
it. They have agrocd to transfor this
tank to Carolina
" 'Glasoock llarrott,
" 'State Oil Inspector.'
South Carolina boiog lesi particular
about tho quality of oil furnished her
o111/ ins this defective oil was promptly
shipped into this Stato.
TIlOV Cotiin Ifirrli
J
The presont oxponno in salaries for
tho Judiciary in an follow* in Now York
Uity: Hupromo oourt, New \ ork oouoty,
$ 102,000 ;HUirogato's court, $169,000, i
city court,$119,000; oity magistrates, <
f337,000; Bpooial sessions, $ 122,000;
gonoral sossions, 1183,000; municipal,
ocurU, $380,000; supremo oour;, Kings 1
county, $159,000; surrogate's court, !
$60,900; Qjoons county courts, $28,000,
and Kioauiond county ourts, $12,000, i
a total of $1,750,000, i
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THE OLD VETERANS.
Bill Arp Writes cf the Great Gathering
of Brave Men
Forty years have passed bidoo these
Boldicr boys first shouldered arms and
hurried to the front. No such array
of patriots wcro ever seen, for thco
was not n tory among them nor a
foreign hireling, and even tho Northern-born
citizens of tho South volunteered
with one aoccrl and oast their
V 1 ?
nvos idu property in tno common peril
of their adopted State. To tb'.i olass
wo owo ali tho n oro honor for it wan a
great heart struggle to sever the bonds
that bound theui to tkeir kindred and
tho rlaco of their birth. Forty years
have not c If 40( d nor dimmed the iuouiory
of those four long years from the
minds of tho veterans who gathered at
tho Memphis reunion. As timo rolls
on they seem the more eager to congregate
ard commuoo together;'and
happily, there are none now to molest
or make them afraid.
Happily tho soldiers of tho blue and
tho gray are becoming every year
the moro oonsidorato of tho feolings
and principles of each other. Tho soldiers.
I say?those who fought against
us?lor the bravest are tho tendcrost. It
is tho politicians who taw tho battle
from afar, who still refuse to give us
back our flags aud are still worrying
over tho rebol brigalitrs whom wo liavo
sont to Connress. Hut time >s a good
dootor, and soft wordH tako away
wrath.
That waB a grand convocation that
paraded the streets of Memphis.
Hearts beat rapidly and eyes were
moist with tears ?
While memory lingered o'er the sail review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew"
Tha' wat a beautiful prayor sent up
to heaven by our beloved grand chaplain,
ltcv. J. William JoneH, and faith
ful bulwark of Confederate history. I
know that tho bluo and tho gray clasped
hands aad hearts as ho invoked a blcBSing
upon Mr. acd Mrs MoKiuley and
asked for her restoration to health. 1
tell you, my brethoren, thoro is noth
ing small or selfish or moan in the
hearts of our great leaders. In war
and in peace they bavo been and aro
gentlemen. There was not a Nero or a
Dako of Alva nmoDg them nor a heartless
dostroyor of tho innocent nor a
violator of the laws of kindnoss to wo
mon and children. Our soldiers fought
a good fight, on patriolio principles,
and it rejoices us that they havo kept
the faith and arc as truo cow to tho nation
as they were then to tho prinoiplcs
for whioh thoy fought. Those principles
aro not dead; and wo believo that
if this rcpublioan government is preserved
from tho domination of imperialism,
with whioh it is threatened, it will
bo tho conservative spirit of tho South
that will do it. The spirit of constitutional
liberty is yet alive with us and
will be transmitted to our ohildrcn.
It is high time that tho Northern
preachers and teachers and editors wero
itaming a salutary lesson Irjm these
annual reunions of the old Confederates.
If 1 had been a Federal soldier and
lived up there, it poems to mo that 1
would say, "My brothrcn, tho o rebels
must have been tremendously in earnest
Thcro is no let up or abatement iD their
faitn. Forty years has not humbled
them one iota. Wo bad better make
frionda with such a people and divide
honors and pensions, too. Thoy have
earned an awful load for all these -yars.
Thoy havo to pay a good part^I the
pensions to our soldiers and all oj the
pensions of tbeir own and a big ta* to
cducato thoir negroes; and they had to
enduro tlurravages and stealages of the
oarpet-baggors for years, but they'.never
complain. Thoy fight back and dofond
thoir honor, but, like tho sons of Alne
mofc, thoy nover complain. Surely thoy
are a great people. They suffer, and arc
strong, and when soldiers were wanted
for Cuba and the Philippines they eaiue
at tho first oall. Brethren, lot's stop
all this anti Southern sentiment and
make our prcaohcrs and editors stop it.
There is no good in rubbing an old
eorc. Wo don't know what may happon,
and we may need those hoys to
save the country. The old veterans
are dying out, hut their sons aro the
samo old stock. The South is fast
oomirgto tho front, and is destined to
he a great power in tho land, and if we
keep on aggravating thorn with abuse,
it is possible they may get fighting mad
soino of theso days ami get up another
civil war and?and?and whip us again,
or como pretty near it." That's what I
would say if 1 wa^cnt a fool.
Theso are alarming times. Wars,
fires, floods. Awful clamitics on land
and on the sea, explosions in mines,
wreoks on railroads, murders, suicides,
robberies, abductions of children, and
worse than all, there seems to be no
stop to these horrible outrages of brutal
negroes. Then there rs the in*ubor
uination of students in our colleges
and the infamy of hazing is still going
on. It distressed mo to sco among
those expelled from West Point the
names of two Sjutncrners?ono from
Alabama and one trorn Torn*. K.'u
canon and di-oiplnio seem to bo divoro
cd. Time waj when Mr. Bcnmm
boasted that ho had subdued every big
boy in his school?subdued hiuo by the
rod. Old man lsham did the mine
thing, and so did l>r. 1'attorson thresh
out the worst bojs at our Manual Labor
school; but now it is tho boys who rule
tho teachers and make demands, and
the consequences is our colleges have
no disciphno snd hazing seems to be as
popular as ever.
I thought that this haiing business
was a modern invention, but in tho
second volume of "American Literature"
I find a lottor of John Lawson,
a Scotchman, who lived for years
among tho North Carolina Indians. Ho
is writing to his folks at home 1711
about tho customs of those Indians,
and says tho way thev make warriors
of their young men is to husquedaw
them in early manhood. They aro
shut up in a dark log houso for six
weeks, and kept half starved and mado
to drink a decoction of pollitory bark,
which renders them faving mad. They
L. aL i J! ? . *
mane iiiq iuosi uinnai, noiusn crio* and
howlings over hoatd. When given a
hltlo meat it is mixed with nasty,
loathaomo, filthy stuff. After six
weeks they come out as poor and miserable
as creatures over bocomo. Soino
of them die under this diabolical treatment,
and sotno young men tun away
to avoid it. Tho savages told mo thai
this hardens thorn to the fatigues of
war and kills off tho weak and infirm
and cowardly who would bring disgraoo
upon the nation. Ilusquonawing!
That's it that's whoro hazing started,
and West l'oint is whoro it mairioulatod
and flourished!
This insubordination of oollogo bovs
seems to havo crept into our own Southern
institutions, and has wollnigh domoralizid
Oxford and Tusoaloosa.
What does it mean? Wo had nothing
liko it in our day. Wo feared our
fathers and wo foarod and re-tpcoted
tho faoulty. Tho Tcoh boys cawght tho
infootion not long ago; but Lhat don't
matter very muoh, for if thoso boye do
/
!> .< - -
anything else besides play ball, th?
newspapers don't publish it. Ball boo inn
to bo the only textbook in tho onrriou
lum. Their aooompiiehmonts in that
lino may be catifaotcry to tho boys and
tho professors, but the patrons and
friends of tho institution are surfoitod,
and would adviso a recestsl Ball play
is another Indian gamo in which tho
savages exoellod. Bill Abp.
COTTON 18 QxtASbY.
The Stands are Fair But Somewhat
Inregular.
TKn nrtn/1 iiiA** /vf 1 ?
m ... vuuviiivu VI iua ?[VWIUg OUllOD
crop is of great fpcculativo interest
at this time, and tho general impress'en
prevails that it is in an extremely
poor condition over tho ontiro Cotton
Belt. Mr. J. W. Bauer in his weekly
summary deolares that this is not universally
tho oate, although tho orop as
a wholo is probably two to throo weeks
lato, and in many loualitios quite
grassy, especially over tho AtlaDtio
States, and portions of the Gulf, and
Mississippi valley Slates.
Stands aro fair to good, but somewhat
irregular, owing to tho unusual
amount of planting that was neoessar>.
Insects are not moro numerous aod
destructive than usual, and in Texas
the weevil is not less threatening than
heretofore Atafow points only has
thetplant begun to fruit. A few weeks
of dry and warmer weather in tho
Atlantic States, and a continuation of
tho prtsant favorablo weather to tho
westward, would put tho growing cotton
orop into a very promising condition.
Tho following short statements in t
dicato how the crop is in tbe principal
cotton raising States:
In North Carolina all reports indicate
that the past week has boon very
favorablo both for farm work and for
growth of crops. Chopping ootton pro
grossed very rapidly, but is not yot
finished. Where fijlds havo been I
cleaned tho crop shows eood stand and
better color, but large aroas aro all
very grassy, and somo fields havo boon
abandoned or will bo plowed up for
corn. Cotton seems to bo almost tho
smallest for the season on rcoord.
In South Carolina ootton is unusually
small, lacks cultivation and is somewhat
lousy in places, whilo grassy '
Golds arc tho rulo. In tho eastern and j
southeastern sections its growth is at j
a standstill, and tho plants aro turning j
red or yellow, showing an unhealthy
condition, but over tbo remainder of a
tho Stato it is growing and improving o
Blowiy, and has a healthy color. Sea- r
island looks bettor butjblight is still t
prevalent.
In Georgia tho wockly reports oon- .
tinuo to bo genera! j of a discouraging .
character. Crops have Buffered from
excessive rains in nearly all counties; ,
and aro muoh in need of cultivation.
The condition of nnttnnia nn h?n V./, 1??
poor, and numerous correspondents ^
consider the outlook gloomy.
In Alabama oottou has nearly all ,
been cuoppcd; and, while tho general .
condition of this staple has improved
very slightly, it is becoming quite #
grassy in many holds, and continued
dry weather is needed for its proper
cultivation insoots continue damaging
in a few localities, and some is dy- .
ing from effects of provious cold; cotton-is
just beginning to form tquarea
in southern aud middle counties.
-?IrO-Miasissippi over a greater portion v
of the State farm work has been considerably
delayed on account of the .
wet condition of tho soil. Crops on
lowlands havo been damaged by overflow
and lack of cultivation, whilo on .
uplands all orops are generally grow
iDg rapidly and aro in a fair state of
ouitivation. Cotton is from two to i
thiee weeks late, and in somo counties
has boon materially injured as a result ,
of tbo cool weather during the last I
decade in May; chopping out has not
boc-n completed in many northern
counties.
In Louisiana reports concerning the
improvement in crop conditions and
prospects are almost universally favor
able and in some oases enthusiastically
encouraging. The condition of the oot
ton crop in the State, as a wholo, hns
greatly improved Hail injured it in
localities in tho central and northern
parishes; so badly, in laot that some
fields havo been plowed up and re
planted, or abandoned, but the acreage
thus destroyed is not largo. In som j
of tho northern parishes, too, the crop
is becoming foul with grass, because
the grcund is too wet to work. Hut,
as stated above, tho conditions and
prospoots gonorally havo improved materially.
Cotton in Bienville parish is
reported to bo forming squares rapidly.
In Tennessee tho past week was
characterized by higher and more seasonable
temperature and timely showers?eonui.ions
very favorable to tho
growth of crops. Cotton made good
progross during the week, aud though i
tho til an f m aro udiai! - ~ ^ ?j
r V uuiau auu niauu |?uur *
in maD} localities, trie t .me of reports
is much more oueouragiug than for r
several we.ks There arc juitoa nuai- ;
her of complaints ol cut-worms.
In Arkansas fairly well distribute!
raintaii and decidedly wanner weather
l ave improved crop conditions to a
greater extent. Cotton is fioua 10 to
'JO days lato, the stands are poor to
fair but rapid growth was made during
tlio week.
In Texas the past week has been the
most favorable one of the season for
the growth and development of crops.
Sufhe'cnt rainfall has oocu-rcd io most
seotions for tho immediate needs of
crops, and the temperaluro, especialLy
during tho latter portion of tho week,
has been conducive to rapid growth.
In soiuo localities tho growth of cotton
was somewhat retarded by tho oold
nights during tho first few days of the
week, but tho crop generally has made
good progress. Tho crop is fruiting
over the south portion. The boll wooytl
is becoming less numerous, but still
duiog considerable damage. ?
in Oklahoma far woathcr with warm
days and moderately cool nights, caused
slightly drouthy conditions until tho
7th and 8ih, when general rains rcliev
nd and halnnit ihn L
r..v V..W vtvi'il. 1AIU1 WUTK
progroHtod rapidly under favorablo oon 'j
dittoes, except over the Chickasaw |
Nation and Greer oounty, where tho ^
ground was too wot to oultivato. \
True Bills Found. t
A dispatch from Andorsjn naya the c
grand jury roturncd true bills -gainst
J. 8. Fowler in four oases for oonapi- l
racy, falso imprisonment and assault v
ana battery of a high and aggravated
nature. Truo bills wore roturncd *|
againat W. O. Hammond in four casos, it
on the Himo charges, and against Willis
MoGoo, Goorgo Thomas, .lames b
Cook, Mike Robins, .lames Martin and
W. M. Hailoy, ono oaso each. Tho t
grand jury has not completed its work, t
A local weather prophot says thero n
will bo no drought this summer. Wo J
hopo this prediction will provo truo,
and that tho farmors will make big k
crops. t
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THE B
n
VJ1 V T V O J
The formula i
know just what yo
do not advertise th<
their medicine if ye
Iron and Quinine pv
form. The Iron
malaria out of the i
Grove's is the Ori
Chill Tonics are iir
that Grove's is si.
are. not experiment
and excellence ha
only Chill Cure sc
rhc United Suues.
A NEGRO SAGE '
Who Is Wiling to Bet Hit Ox on
Bsn T'llman
AGAINST ALL COMERS
:xcopt Rsv. 8arr. Jones, Woo Hs
Says Ran tht "Debb'e"
Out of the City of
Savannah.
To tho Editor of Tho Mows and
Courier: Negro politicians, onco bo
dentiful, aro becoming ;aroo in this
art of tho State, as I suppose thoy aro
n ail other parts of tho Stato. Now
,ud then, however, you stumblo on one
it the "hai boons" and, strange as it
nay bo, most of them admire Bon Tillnan.
Why this is tho caBO it would bo
lard to say, unloss it bo as one has said,
'So much ob do big buokra no'r like um
on yare gone."
Old Soipio <i idsden oatno up to tho
'willage" a few days sinoc to mako sorno
mall purchases from one of tho two
tores which old Gillisonvillo now
toasts.
Soipio is getting old, but is a groat
iddlor and politician, and novcr fails to
iston attentively to tho reading of a
towspapor?himself not knowing B
rom tho proverbial bull's foot.
An old "brudder" first espied Soipio
losiiDg around "Morrison's corner,"
iding on a forlorn looking ox, whoso
10ms were tho thriftiest part to look
ipon of his wcathor-boatcn anatomy.
liehind Scipio's anoiont romaindor of
i saddle, and aoross .lorry's emaciated
)ack, fluttered a half dozon chickens,
ibout half grown, whioh wero to be
'ourrent money" with the merchant in
)*ym:nt for his small purchases.
The merchant knowing Scipio's in.erost
in things political read a portion
>f tho Tillman-McLaurin-MoSweonoy
imbroglio and asked him if he had
loard it and what ho thought of it.
"Yes, sir," said Soipio; "I binnor
> rry Mr Potterman read 'bout dem to
'Coosyhatohio,' en one wito man binner
jit off de cahr da da, on o bin stand
round wid scgah enn a mout wen Mr.
Potermao der read 'bout dem, on e say:
Nlel.aurin sho beat Tillman, o say. Ea
Hitman ncr gwino bin eon dc race, e
jay. En den Mr Rowel speak up en e
jay, o say; 'Do debblo ner beat Tiliman,
nuss less McLuirin.' lint I ner say
uuttin; none 'all. I der jerry wuh all
uenf say, Ea Mr Pererman ax dem
how 'bout McSwiny, od do wito man
pull < sogahr out o mout en blow de
umoake en swell up liko, en o say, e say:
McSwinny beat Tillman, e say. Den
Mr Rowoll speak up gin on o say, e
lay: MoSwinny boat McLaurin mobSy,
iut c ent boat Tillman.' Djn Mr.
Peter man read some more on o ax ma
wuh 1 der link? En now you ax me, cn
I toll yunner all wuh it is.
"I tink say wuddcr Mr. llrowol say, o
lo Gawd's truto: n ent no man wid two
egs der beat Mr. Tillman wid e one
;yo; o ent no nouse talk 'bout boat Mr.
:ion Tillman, 'cause obblo body dun
ry en e ont no man kin beat um "
"Soipio, you soem, to be stuck on
Tillman. Why is it you do not like
MeLaurin and MoSweoney?"
"No, sir, I ner struck on dem. on I
lor say I nor like Mr. McLaurin cn
Mr. MoSweenoy. I ont know Mr. McLaurin
en 1 nubber sheuai, but 1 der
rerry o berry nice man. I der jiss talk
mlitio. 1 ncr tink all two boat dun
im neai oir. Hon Tillman?dadder
vuh L link, en 1 bet dal olo Jerry Ox
>n wuh 1 dor nay."
"Well, Soipio, do 70U think MoSwoeloy
will beat MoLaurin if ho runs
igainst him next year?"
' Well, I ont know rightly, sir. Mr.
VloSwinny bin try bill e fonoo berry
ligh, but 0 bill wid MoLaurin rail on 0
lill wid Tillman rail, en 0 ont lay well
ogeddcr. All two boat dom. Kn 0
iair climb pun top dom on straddle dom
ur nick dom lay still, but 0 small man
in 0 leg short, on ont no foot hit do
jroun,' Ka Mr. MoLaurin stan' pun
>no side on Mr. Tillman Btan' pun
arrcr sido. Kn 0 hab watoh boat dom
ur kocp dom juokin rail out 0 fonoo.
Jui I tink say 0 binnor watch Mr. Till
nan do moost ob do timo. K know Mr.
Tillman bin do boll ram, on 0 hab pitohork
on 0 head for horn, on wendodeb>lo
git oon do, 0 cnt no doin' nuttin'
fid dem, nono tall. Jiss haft lot dom
oro on loh dcui but till 0 butt nuff.
jawdl o ont nobody kin boat Mr. Hon
Tillman. Soep'n 0 bin Mr. Sam Jones,
yorry say 0 bin run do dobblo round
lavannah, on of 0 bin truto. mobby so,
lim kin stan' foro Mr. Tillman, oauso
lavannah der bin do dobblo homo, en 1
ink say 0 binnor koop 0 host pitchfork
ion Savannah."
' So Soipio, you would not bet on Till nan
if Sam Jones was a Carolinian and
ras to run against him?"
"Ha! iia! Ha! No, sirr ru, I ncr bot
gainst no man kin run do dobblo oon
lavannah, no sir ru."
"Well, thon, in that case would you
tot on Sam Jones?"
"I ?fli Irn/M. .<-l.il- 'L?* *
awn iiguii/ uuut uitv, nir. i
icr tink, do, nir. 1 uor bot on odo, ncr
arrcr. I ner bot none tall."
"J'hon you aro willing to bot on Tilluan
against all comers, exjopt Sam
I ones?"
"IHddorhim! Diddorhiml Kn you
in tell anybody Scipio Gadsdon roady
o bot dat .Jorry Ox Mr. Ben Tillman
EST PRESCRIPTION IS
rastetess Chill Tonic.
s plainly printed on every bottle?hence you
u are taking when you take Grove's. Imitators
:ir formula knowing that you would not buy
)u knew x/hat it contained. Grove's contains
it up in correct proportions and is in a Tasteless
acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives the
system. Any reliable druggist will tell you that
glnai and that all other so-called Tasteless
litations. An analysis of other chill tonics shows
iperior to all others in every respect. You
ing when you take Grove's?its superiority
.ving long been established. Grove's is the
>ld throughout the entire malarial sections of
No Cure, No Pay. Price. 50c.
bo?t anybody torp'n Mr. Sam Jones." Grand JL?odgt) Rescinds.
n.n. ,, ? h*wton Lamar. graD,j |cdg0 Df Masons of the
Qilhaonvillo, Hampton County, June State of Washington have rescinded the
resolution adopted two years ago
A Student Killed. recognizing negro Misobry. The aofI
u ... . ... * m v don of the lodge at that time was seII
S. Bigelow, of Buffalo, S. Y. a verely criticised all over the United
reshman at Harvard, was instantly States and a? a result iho n?xt session
killed by a chemical engine of the 0f tho grand lodge attempted to return
Cambridge fire department A firo was to tho ^ ? ablt8hcd principles, but
found among a pile of b arde near the thtf reBolulioQ wa9 B0 artfu]iy 'drawn
Harvard agricultural bin ding;by one of tbat sister lodges refused to construe
tho Harvard professors. An alarm it a8 ? honest expression. The lodge
was sent in, but before the1 firemen re- has D0W in unmi8takablo i?gu40
sponded Pro Holhs and the students made its position known.
had put out the fire. The alarm oaus
ed tho under graduates to assemble and m T) ,
as the fireman came there was much Three Boys Drowned,
leering. Tho ohemioal engine was very Arthur Backman, 19 years old;
late and tbo crowd hooted tho men. Arthur Kalbflssh, 13, and Edward
Tho aocidont is desoribed diffeicntly, Sheets, 13, ?oro taken dead from a
tho firemon claiming that the horses on water hole in Leonard's stone quarry
tho engine beoame exoited at tho how Dear Biltimore, Friday. The three
ling crowd and dashed forward, scatter boys left homo Thursday accompanied
ing tho crowd. The students claim by two dogs. When tho dogs returned
that tho driver, Johb Dowdis, dolib- without tho bjys a Bcaroh was made
orately drove his engine into tho crowd a?d tho boys were traocd to the quarry.
of studnntn. Hiaolou? nr.. nanirlit nndnr liflinifTfl ndirre io an nl I **?V..?V.
tho whoola and other students were has lain uoworked for a long time.
knocked down, but only one had an in- Its depths arc usually filled with water
jury to speak of. As soon as the Btu- *nd it was a favorite swimming plaoe
dents realized what had happened they for the boys in that locality.
make a wild demonstration. But cool heads
maintained control and the fire ^
men were allowed to return to their jVj ll Ift
stations. '
Five Murderers Hanged. Corn Mills.
Five bodios dangling upon the same a
gallows, five souls launohed into etcr- (joiip 1 j 1 Q
nity at tho samo moment, maikatthe VttilC Xu_J.AJ.0y
triumph of the majoBty of the law and T) " ^^ TT 11
tho end of what is believjd to have JL\1C0 JLXl_1110A 8y
been an organized gang of murders, at - - . _
Sylvania, Ga., Friday. The victims of KDQ |-| 11 I I rar*e
the legal tragedy were Arnold Augustus, *"
Andrew Davis, ltichard Sanders, Wil- T?nr?inAo
liam Hudson and Sam Baldwin, all no- -Ci I l^JLIlGOy
grooB. Tho victims of their orime were .
Constable Meara and Fillmore Herring- JoOll01*8a
ton, whom thoy ambushed and shot to ' ______
death, and Capt. Wade, whom they so- TJl q vi fttirl L""
riously wounded in tho shooting that ItHlCl B CJllLt
killed tho two first mon nearly a year H/T x I
ago. Oq at least two occasions efforts JxI_?tLOilL0rSf
wero made to lynch the murderers, *->*
but by tho prompt aotion of the offioers ^aT171 YlOr StU TATG
of the law they were frustrated. On ^ ** O kjIX W Oj
ono of these occasions the governor "pin C<
found it neoessary to order out three Sy
companies of the Stato militia. *
$100 Reward. $100 and all other kinds of wood
The readers of this paper will be working machinery. My Serplcast
d to learn that there is at least geant Log Beam gaw mill |8
one dreaded disease that science has fch heavie8t strongest, and
been ablo to cure in all its stages and " _ >
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is most effaclent mill for the
tho only positive euro now known to money on the market, quick,
the medioal fraternity. Catarrh being accurate. State Agent for H.
nmnlilulinntl .anni... . ?- ? ? - - ? --
? ..*" UV"V a. Smith Machine Company
stiluuonal treatment. Halls Catarrh _ T.- 1 i? '
Curo is takon internally, acting direot- ~ ^ . workni? machin ry,
ly upon the blood and muoom surfaces I1 or nigh grade engines, plain
of the system, thereby destroying the slide valve?Automatic, and
foundations of the disease, and giving Corliss, write me: Atlas,
the patient strength by building up the Watertown, and Struthera
constitution and assisting nature in do , ?T .. '
ing its work. The proprietors havo so a,lc* H?l8.
inuoh faith in its ourative powers, that V. C. BADHAM,
they offor one Hundred Dollars for any 1826 Main St., Colnnibla, S. C.
case that it fails to cure. Send for list ___________________________
of testimonials.
Address. F. J. CH KNEY <fe CO., s
Toledo, O
Sold by druggists, 7f>o. \f tv
Halt's Family Pills are the beat.
A Sumter Killing. ^
A dispatch from Sumter to The /C\ " ' ? M.
Stite says Frank H. Winn was shot 11, .. .'ira
and killed Friday afternoon by Edward Jjyj; jpfjttl *Edwards,
both young men being na- ' , 1;-? U -**' ?
lives of this oity. Charlos Smith, who ~ v^ti
attempted to separate tho men, was f, (*, ',?? 7- <~- I'T
shot and scriouly wounded. The faots Jij ! ' 'v | ^ H Ijj H
leading up to the shooting are as fol | ^W s|i
lows: Winn Hued Edwards in tho ^ ^
magistrate oourt Friday for an old dent * .1 !>] j]n Sp
of $S.B0 which he olaimod was duo him ?"-* 1' ' ~~
Edwards domed tho aooouut. Winn
won tho ease. The two men mot Fri Pl/^ntv r\f Plar??tC
day afternoon in front of Harby's livery XadlLjf >* IlclCCb
stablo and after the interchange of a
few words Winn struck Ki wards in the Ar?ft OnPll
faoe. Both drew pistols and fired sev- r
oral times with the results above stated. t0 Krailualefl of ,hc Coltimb,R Ruiiness
Winn was struck twice, OQO ball crush- College, and every grainate is thorough- j?
ing tho skull, tho other entering his ij qualified to fill a mpomlbls position
body near the heart. Edwards was in this business world.
not hit. Tho affair has oreated con- We fit young men and women for business
siderable exciteinant in the oity. careers, and assist them 10 secure good
positions. '
lie May Change. F?r special sunmer rates, and catalogues
rn, it i v u. , ? r. 11 K>T?ng full information, send at once to
The Columbia State says after all, B '
it may bo a mistake to tako President Columbia Rnctnncc rniinu.n
VU110gD|
Mclvinley's dedication of a third term .,nT,uini.
seriously. Tho Toller rosolution recog- ' ' *"
niziog tho fact that the people of Cuba W. H. NEWBERRY, President.
'worCj and of right ought to bo, free
and independent,' and plodging the "
United Statos to withdraw ita forces from } ' , > ' ;;;-i /'WW
tho island as soon aa ita paotfioation "t, ?.'> . i r ?. I
should bo aooomplishod was ijuito aa ex- V
;1^?D RuGS.^OAeHfft.ANTs |
plioit and comprehensive iu its terms ??? ?? C.ROT0N DU6S,
aa President MoKinley's declaration ?PlOERS, FuS&.J LBA8,
that ho will not be a oandidato for re AND Au L'??
oleotion?but Mr. MoKinley fourd a w f *i!??ieA31f0Jl0r>11
to"Ket.rou0d'th.l. W. ?.? ! and is ?nt?
not wagor two cents on the vnt 10 of ^%auu DF.Ai,eM??
President MoKinloy, advised and con- Jl|l JL.j j
trolled as ho is, where personal and par- 5
ty interests are involvod. ? ^ ,
If Death Dust la not for sale by your ?
Many Killed. dealer, we will upon reoeipt of *26 cents !
An explosion in a oartridga factory ^<1. '?U '%r** paokage by mail postsituated
in tho suburb of Lea Mouli- Aprll-16. 8t.
noaux Franoo has rosulted in the loss ?
of 15 livos and tho injuring of about 20 ???????????????????????
persons. Tho viotims wore horribly S7T?yn/>Y/>S> A0
mutilated. A majority of those injurod -fy <- < <
wore woiuon. ' - *
iiv//me^aao \
William J. Samford, Governor of IJ 0 fl 0 3
Alabama, died WcdnoFday night at I
Tusoalooaa, Ala., where he haa been ill I
for aomo tiino. Diaeaso of the heart Adlreaa, B. W. Gvrsman, %
was tho real oa use of death. Box 105, Spartanburg, 8. 0. ij