The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 10, 1899, Image 1
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I VOL. XIV.
^PHILIPPINE WAR.
! Fundamental Principles Involved
in Question.
SUGGESTS WAY TO "LET GO"
President Can Summon Congress
to Guarantee Filipinos Independence
on Same Terms
(as the Cubans.
Win. .J. Bryan discusses the l'hilip.
?-J (iuestion in this week's New York
Independent. He says:
"The PhiliiiDino nuostion is imnnr
Itant because fundamental principles
are involved in its discussion. There
are two sources of government, force
and consent. Monarchies are founded
upon force, republics upon consent.
"Tho declaration of independence asserts
that governments dcrivo their just
powers from the consent of the governed,
and this is the doctrine to which
wo have adhered for moio than a century.
It is the doctrine which has distinguished
us from European countries
aud has made our nation the hopo of
humanity. The statue in New York
harbor typilies the nation's mission.
"If the doctrine set forth in the declaration
of independence is sound,
how can we rightfully acquire sovcrciap.ty
over the Filipinpes by a war of
conquest. If the doctfino set forth in
tho declaration of iudcpendenGC is
sound, how can wo rightfully purchase
sovoreigntv from a Spanish sovereign
whoso titlo we disputed in Cuba and
whose rebellious subjects we armed in
tho Philippines?
"In the resolution of intervention
congress declared that the Cubaus were,
aud of right ought to be, free. Why?
Because governments dcrivo thoir just
powers from the consent of the governed,
aud Spain has rcfusoi to respect
the wishes of the Cubans. If
tho Cubans wero and of right ought to
be free, why not the Filipinos?
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aii luc ueginning 01 inc opanisn
vrar congress denied that our nation had
any thought of oxtending its territory
by war. If we then had no thought of
soeuring by conquest new territory in
tho wostern hemisphere, why should
wo now talk of securing in tho eastern
hemiphore now races for subjugation?
"An individual may livo a double
life when only one life is known.
When both lives arc known he can lead
only one life and that the worst. A
republic cannot enter upon a colonial
policy. It cannot advocate government
by consent at home and government by
forco abroad. Tho declaration of independence
will lose its value when wo
proclaim tho doctrine familiar in Europe
but detestable here, that governments
arc round in shape, ab?ut 13
inches in diamctor and tired out of a
cannon.
"For more than a century this nation
lias been travoling alo?.g tho pathway
which leads from the low domain of
might to tho lofty realm of right, and
us msiory nas ucgn without a parallel
in the annals of recorded time. Wliat
will bo our fate if we turn backward
and begin the descent toward force and
conquest.
"It is not sufficient to say that the
forcible annexation of the Philippine
islands is a boncVolcut undertaking entered
upon for the good of the Filipinos.
Lincoln pointed out that this has always
been the argument of kings. To
use his words, 'they always bestrode
the neck of the people, not that they
wanted to do it, but because the people
wero hotter off for being ridden.
"It is surprising that any believer in
solf-governnicnt should favor forcible
annexation, but more surprising that
any one who believes in the Christian
religion should favor the substitution
ol force for reason in the extension of
ou^ ation's influence.
4 m.k we adopt the gunpowder gospel
in the Philippines how long will it be
before that principle will be transplanted
in American soil. So long as
our arguments are addressed to tho reason
and tho heart our progross is sure,
but can wo, without danger to Christianity,
resort to tho ancient plan of in
jeoting religion into the body through
bullet holes?
"Tho question is frequently asked,
What can wo do? Nearly two months
elapsed between the signing of the treaty
and tho beginning of hostilities in tlnx
Philippines. During that timo tho
presidont and congress might havo
given to the Filipinos some assurances
of independence that was given to tho
Cubans. Suoh assuranco would havo
provv,,?ed bloodshed. If t'ac doctrino
of sei*-govcrnmont is sound tho Filipinos
are entitled to govern themselves,
and the president can now promise
thorn indcpondcnoo as soon as a stable
government oan be established.
"If the president is not willing to
take the responsibility of onforoing tho
dootrino set forth in the declaration of
indopendeneo, ho oan call congress to?
ether and let them take the rcsponsirlity.
A special session would bo less
expensive than tho war, not to spoak of
the principles involved.
"Our nation is protceting tho republics
of South America from outward interference
whilo thoy work out their
destiny. Wo oan extend the same doctrine
to tho Philippines, and, having
resouod the inhabitants from a foreign
yoke, we oan guard them from molestation
whilo thoy dovclop a republic in
tho Orient. Thoy will be our frionds
itvtfaad of our enemies. Wo can sond
Softool teachers to Manila instead of
soldiers and tho world will know that
there is a reality in tho theory of government
promulgated at Independence
Jftall and defended by tho blood of the
revolutionary fathers."
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DESOLATION ON FLORIDA COAST.
The Town of Carrabelle Laid in Ruins
by a Hurricane.
The town of Carrabelle, Fla., a pros
porous port on tlie l ult of Mexico, is
reported almost eouipletely destroyed
by a tcrrilio wind and rain-storm which
passed through that secttion during
Wednesday. Many boats which were
in the harbor have been wrecked and
most of the long wharf is gono, together
with large quantities of naval stores.
At Lauork, the ho?*Bes, pavilion and
boats havo been destroyed. Unconfirmed
reports say that tho steamer Croseut
City has been lost between Apalachicola
aud Uarrabelle. Several persons
are reported drowned at St. Mark's.
A few housos wcro destroyed at St.
Teresa. The Molntyre, Ashinorc and
Curtis mills suffered severely. A passenger
train 011 tho Uarrabelle, Tallahassee
and Gulf railroad thirty-five
miles below Tallahassee, was badly
wrecked but 110 0110 is reported killed
or injured. Tho turpentine interests
in this section are greatly damaged and
tiiuoh injury has boon done to the crops.
The wires uro down south of hero
and railroad scrvico to the Gulf ports
is susponded. The storm was one of
tho hardest that ever passed over this
section. It came directly up the great
Gulf a id sturted northward. For hours
the wind was terrific, blowing at a high
rate and the rain fell in torrents, washing
away many bridges, endangering
thoroughfares and lailroaiiy. Tho
storm reached the coast Wednesday
morning aud there was no cessation until
far into Wednesday night. The
wires aud railroads have bccu so interfered
with that the results of the storm
arc just beginning to reach this city.
Along the coast tho fishing industry
has been severely interfered with.
Many Tallahassccans arc at tho various
resorts along tho coast from
which no reports have come and tho
cond'tions at these places is causing
much anxiety. Parties who returned
on tho wrcckiug train which went to
Carrabcllo Wednesday moruiug report
that tho country along the route shows
tho effects of the storm. Tho train
was compelled to run with great cauticn
owing to tho condition in which the
storm had placed the roadbed. The
water had been over the tracks in many
places. Passengers on tho train which
was wrcckod say the train was blown
from the track. The city of Apalaohicola
at the mouth of the Chattahoochie
| river is cntirol j cut off from communication
anti nothing can be lcarnod from
there.
A new trestle ovor the Oohlocknee
river at Molntyrc was blown away.
The wrecking train which went out
Wednesday into the utorm devastated
territory, found over 200 trees on the
track in a run of thirty miles. (General
Manager Crittenden who had charge of
the train, says that cvory town along
the line is desolated. Hotels, houses,
churches, saw mills, wharves and pavilions
were in many places blown from
thoir positions and in several instances
completely wrecked. There arc many
rumors afloat Wednesday night as to the
loss of life. One mill hand is known
to have been drowned at Mclntyrc. One
man was drowned at 8t. Mark's, but
rumors place the loss of life there at 15.
It is nnt hftliflvnil 1i?M tlin? rino litrno
_ _ ^ v. .?W>V v.tuv ?%l*jr IKV/O
wero lost at tho numerous summer rosorts
but reliable news is unobtainable.
President's Cousin Pugnacious.
J. N. MoKinlcy, a first cousin of
President McKinley, was arrested at
Fitzgerald, Ga., Tuesday afternoon on
a poacc warrant. Tho warrant was
sworn out by J. M. Fiokler, a neighbor
and G. A. ](. comrade. McKinley and
Fickler live on adjoining tracts of land
and have had trouble before. Mr. McKinley
moved to Fitzgerald from Canton.
Ohio, about two voara nan nrwl la
a farmer. lie is charged by Fioklcr
with using threatening language against
him and also with seeking to have Ficklor's
pension discontinued. Mr. McKinloy
has given bond to keep the
peace.
Qave Him his Blood.
Five ounces of blood, drawn by a
suction pump from the arm of a friend,
coursed through the veins of Ex-Judge
Richard Prendergast Wednesday as ho
lay on a cot at the Chicago hospital,
where for nearly a month ho has been
under treatment for anaemia. The
transfusion of tlio lifr.giviug fluid was
decided on as a last resort. The young
man who heroically gavo part of the
contents of his arteries is John Morrissoy,
employed in the office of tho judgo.
Petition for a Time.
Ninety prominent citizens of Athens,
Ga., will present a petition to tho city
council at its noxt session asking for a
change of time and that all public clocks
bo sot either eastern or western time.
Tho town now operatos by what is
known as sun time, being just between
eastern and central time. The town is
situated on tho lino whioh divides the
temporal sections of tho country.
Afraid of Us.
A dispatch from London to tho Asso
i>?A..- i 1
u.abvu X ivon iiug. 1 giivu 1110 suDsianco
of a message sent by tho Itomo correspondent
of tho Morning Post to his
paper. IIo said: "Aooording to news
received horo, tho victory over Spain
and the growth of imperialism in tho
United Statos Las led tho South American
republics to talk of an allianco
against the United States^ and it is allogod
that the preliminaries of such an
allianco havo been concludod between
Brazil and Argentina.
Hanged by Alabama MobSolomon
Jones, a negro, was hanged
by a mob near Forrest, Qa., for attempting
to assault a young whito woman.
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CONWAY, S. C.
QUARTERLY REPORT
Text of the Report of the Legislative
Committee.
COUNTY AND CITY PROFITS.
The School Fund Gets About
$30,000. The Profit and
Loss and General
Accounts.
The report of the legislative coinniittco
on the dispensary of tho affairs
of tho State dispensary for tho quarter
euding June 30th, was eompletcd Tuesday
and forthwith filed with Governor
MoSwceney. The report shows that
the quarter resulted in a profit of $30,341.50
to th? credit of tho school fund I
of tho State and of $34,241.68 to the
towns rnd counties. Here is the text
of tho report:
To His Excellency, M. 11. McSweouey,
Governor, Columbia, S. C.
Sir: Wo, the committee appointed by
the officers of the general assonibly to
investigate and examine the books and
papers of the State Dispensary for the
year 1899, beg leave to submit our report
for the quarter ending .June 30,
1899.
The stock on hand was taken on .Juuo
30th by Mr. 1>. F. Klird, representing
the committee, uud Mess. L. J. Williams
and T. C. llobinson, reproHcnting
the State board of control. An inventory
of liquors, supplies and machinery
and office fixtures was exhibited
and takon as submitted. The
committee met .July 24th and examined
the books and records for the months
of April, May and .June, we found
on record, vouchers for all expenditures.
Wo append hereto the following
statements:
First?Assets and liabilities.
Second?Profit and Iofs aceonnt.
Third?Cash statement of receipts
and disbursements:
All of which is respectfully submitttod.
Appendix: 1). F. Kfird,
A. C. Lylcs,
Members of the House.
Since the close of the quarter above
examined wo liud that $25,000 has been
paid over to the State troasurer as per
voucher on tile in this office, to the
crodit of the school fund.
1). F. Kfird,
A. C. Lylcs.
Quarterly statement of the Stats dispensary
for the quarter ending .June 30,
1899.
ASSETS.
Cash in State treasury .June
30, 1899 $ 63,050 17
Merchandise in bands of
dispensers June 30, 1899 190,249 32
Merchandise, (Inventory of
stock at State dispensary
June 30, 1899 159,019 27
Supplies, (Inventory June
30, 1899.) 38,087 65
Teams and wagons, (Inventory
Juno 30, 1899 04 00
Machinery and office fixtures,
(Inventory June 30
1899 2,550 00
Contraband, (Inventory
Juno 30, 1899.) 392 75
Real Estate 35,300 27
Suspended acoounts 2,320 15
Personal accounts due
Stats for tax advanced
on bonded spirits, empty
barrols, alcohol, royalty
on beer, etc 6,622 96
Total $504,256 54
LIA1ULITIES.
School fund $436,667 08
Personal accounts due by
State for supplies, whiskies,
wines, beer, alcohol
etc 67,589 46
Total liabilities $504,256 54
Statement of profit and loss account
for quartor ending Juno 30, 1899.
PROFITS.
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vjfross proms on morcnandiso
sold during quarter $ 74,100 10
Discounts on purchases.. .. 3,240 70
Contraband seizures 1,951 45
Permit Fees 10 50
Prolits from beer dispcnrarios
from April 1st to
June 12th 7,754 77
Total gross prolits $ 87,000 52
LOSSES.
Supplies?Bottlos, corks,
labels, wiro, tinfoil, load
soals, boxes, nails, sealing
wax, etc., usod during
quarter $ 17,477 20
Tear and wear of machinery
and oflico fixtures 20 55
Constabulary 14.137 00
Breakage and leakage 207 00
Freight and oxprcs charges. 14,375 82
Labor 3,151 55
Insurance 040 84
Kxponse account?
Salaries, traveling expenses
of inspectors, per diom
and mileage of members
of Stato board, per diom
and miloago of legislative
examining committee,
rtflic.rt atinnlirta r?n?irB
? M?rF..vu, (vrm.u,
lights, to:egrams postago
stock, food, ice, printing,
revenue stamps, tclophono
rent, etc.... 0,01)3 39
Litigation 360 05
Amount of liquors takon
from tho Blacksburg dispensary
on April 4th,
1899, by soldiers : 30 50
Amount of whiskey taken '
from tho Varnvillo dis
lovi'i!
.THURSDAY. AUGUS
pensary on April 11th,
1899, by soldiors 8 37
Worthless porter and ale at
Vou Santcn's dispensary,
Charleston, dostroyed by
county board of oontrol. . 23 05
I .n>m Kv rnMi#?rv at llm Itiuli
opvillo dispensary April
28,1899 U:i 84
Total expensed $ 5(5,728 02
Net profits on sales for
quarter, passed to the
credit of the school
fund 30,341 50
Total . $ 87,009 52
Net protits paid to towns
and counties by sub-dispensaries
for quarter
ending Juno 30th, 1899.,$ 34,241 08
Cash statomout for quarter ending
June 30th, 1899:
HKCKIl'TS.
Balance 111 Stato treasury
Maroh 31st, 1899 * 32,438 91
April receipts.$ 98,945 52
May receipts.. 108,114 71
Jnno receipts,. 87,31154
Total receipts for quaiter.. 294,371 77
Total $325,810 08
1 11 U 11 I T f ? *4 k' \f L'V'TJ
April disburseincuts
$ 95,808 72
May disburseuicuts
112,402 43
.Juno disbursomonts
55,489 30
Total disbursement* for
quarter $203,700 51
Balance iu State treasury
June 30th, 1899 03,050 17
Total $320,810 08
T H0SE SOLDIERS' CLAIMS.
Gov- MeSweeney Gives a Statement
Concerning the Contract.
Tho following statement was given
the press from tho cxecutivo office
Wednesday:
4,A few days ago Gov. MeSwccncy
stated that bo would not intorforc with
tbo contraot made by Gov. Kllorbc for
the collection of tho back pay duo tho
soldiers in tho late war. For tho infor
mation oi thoso concerned Gov. MoSweeney
has Hccurod a copy of tho contract
which Gov. Ellcrbo made with
Messrs. Evans and Townsond from Mr.
W. Boyd Evans and is herewith given.
"These claims have to ho paid
through tho governor'# "office. but in
order to put them in proper shape requires
a great deal of labor and it will
ho decidedly hotter and simplify matters
for all claims to go through this one
source.
"The following is tho copy of tho
contract furnished hy Mr. W. Boyd
Evans:
"Columbia, S. C., April 15, 18D(J,
"Whereas, certain claims of tho
State of South Carolina against tho
United States for moholi/ing of South
Carolina volunteers in tho lato war
with Spain have boon suspected by tho
war department because said claims
have not been presented in duo form, I
do hereby omploy C. P. Townsond and
W. Boyd Evans to properly prepare tho
said claims and collect all pay for
volunteers from this Stato and hereby
agree to pay them as a commission for
such sorviccs fifteen per cont of the
amount colloctod. W. II. Ellerbe,
"Governor.
"Gov. McSwoenoy will aid in any
way possiblo to assist th c soldiers in
gotting thoir pay."
Good Advice.
"Itur.l pftn (riu/ifl irr\i\A orltrinn c> a
A?UIUWI<iU T ?,u ??* ? iVVfj ?0 1V1
Iowa: "There aro young men that do
not work, my son ; but the world is not
proud of them. It doea not know their
names, ovon; it simply speaks of them
aa old so-and-so's boys. Nobody likea
theui, nobody hates them; tho great
busy world doesn't oven know that they
aro there. So find out what you want
to bo and do, son, and take off your
coat and make a dust in the world.
The busier you are the loaa deviltry you
we apt to got into, the sweeter will be
your sleep, the brighter and happier
your holidays, and the better satisfied
will the world be with you."
Cure for Lockjaw.
Here is something for the doctor's
scrap book: A resident of Asbury
Park, N. J., says that ho has cured
cloven cases of lock jaw by hot water
treatment. Ilis instructions aro: "Put
tho patient in a bath of warm water and
placo in it one pound of mustard. Immerse
all except tho iqputh, nose and
eyes. Covor the head with warm
cloths, then add hot water until tho
tomporature roaches about 110 degrees;
if the patient can bear it go to 120 degrees,
and keep patient in until tho
jaws open, which takos usually about
twenty minutes. I havo had to keep
patients in forty minutes."
Sacred Grass,
In Boston it is regarded as almost a
erimo to lie down on tho saorod grass
of tho Common and twenty-one unfortunates
who slept there on a reeont hot
night wore wakened earlv in ihn mnm.
ing by a squad of vigilant policemen
and marched off to a magistrate. Kaoh
of the victims was fined $3?the price
of a night's lodging in a first class
hotel.
Big Strawberries*
Record Breakers in strawberries were
grown this past season. Six berries
raised by Mr. A. T. Goldsborough, of
New Jersoy, were sent to the Secretary
of Agriculture and found to weigh an
average of three and six one-hundredth
qunces eaoh. The six berries filled a
quart box, and looked more like tomatoes
than borries.
31m
VI 10, 1891).
CARLISLE SLEAKS, j
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The Veteran Educator Tells How
He Was Educated.
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WHAT ARE COLLEGES TO ME. j
Some Words of Wisdom From
One Whose Knowledge Comes
From Experience. Pearls
of Thought.
To tho Editor of The State:
Colleges endowed or unendowed are
valuable only as they endow men and
women. If every collcgo now in our
country (100 in round numbers) bad
amplest outfit, in all needful buildings,
apparatus, salaries for professors, thcro
would stiii be a groat question pending.
How can all this money and money's
worth bo changed into Christian man
hood, and Christian womanhood? In
building a largo factory an expert can
predict how many yards of cloth it will
yearly soad out, aud also tho general
worth of tho frabric. It is not so where
human minds, hearts aud character arc
involved. Supposo, howover, that
every collcgo scut out yearly its largo
class of thoroughly educated men and
women. A rich stream of good influences
would certainly bo poured into
tho current lifo of our great, restless,
growing nation. Vet tho prospcot
would bo vory gUomy, indeed, if no
other causes wore at work to help us.
We need and must hayo moro good influences
at work than all our colleges
can possibly give us. Perhaps somo
parents aro becoming almost provoked
at the frequent allusions in our papers
to colleges, their work, and their needs.
The paper may he laid down with tho
feeling, "What are colleges to me and
my children?"
No parents should hastily oonoludo
that their children will never have access
to acollcgo. An intelligent thirst
for education and a persevering spirit
may bring tho improbable to pass. Rocent
statistics show tlmt oollogo stu
dents from farms arc moro numerous
in proportion in the South than in other
parts of the country. Rut our purposo
now is to speak to the parents whoso
children will never go to college. Your
children arc not shut out from a useful
oarcer ovon if shut out from college. A
good common school education is taken
for granted. This you must give them.
Komombcr tho word common docs not
necessarily mean cheap, inferior, insignificant
and worthless. It means general,
universal. Air and water arc
oommon. Rut thoy aro not worthless.
The world ncods r groat many pcoplo to
do common, general things. This does
not mean insigniticant or degrading
work. It means the work that is absolutely
necessary to hold up tho vast
structure of society; such work as tho
groat majority 01 human hein^s must Uo
thougli it attracts no special notice. "1
expect to be a common man, standing
in my common lot, bearing common
burdens, and doing common duties, as
a 'private good man ought to do."
Would an expression like this betray a
weak, cowardly, ignoble spirit? "Faithful
but not famous." This is tho best
epitaph in reach of tho great mass of
human beings. To be famous is, of
necessity, donided to tho multitude,
just as great wealth is denied them.
A nation of millionaires would bo a
nation of paupers. All men becoming
famous would end in no one boing famous,
all boing on a dead lovel.
A common education, when it moots
tho requisite material, may bring forth
an uncommon man. This has often
happened and will happen again. Tho
generous instincts and aspirations of
finest natures are provided for by Jthi?
law. And by a law equally suro many
collcgo graduates are common men and
do common work. Hut wo come back
to the great truth that boys and girls
may bo fitted for life in its broadest,
healthiest, most necessary sphcro, its
widest rango of duties, achievements
and enjoyments by a good common education.
This placos them on that high
flat table on which the great majority
of the world's population must live.
And on this populous plain, after all,
there is moro contontmcnt more real
happines than on the few higher peaks
where the light aud heat striko so
fiercely!
Habits of truthfulness, justice, selfdenial
and rovcrenco form a large part
of a good oducation, and theso may bo
found elsewhere than in collego campus.
They may grow readily and rapidly
in tho humblest homo, on a small
farm, owned or rented. Tho parents
may resolve that they will not send into
life an ignorant, unsubduod, selfish,
dangerous boy or girl. As parents, you
are already interested in tho kind of
teachers your children will meet in the
sohool room a year hence. Seo to it
that they havo good 'teachers now at
home. Seo to it that the daily life tho
atmosphere, tho routine, tho constant
spirit of the home is teaching good lessons
of abiding valuo. Bishop John II.
Vincent bears this tostimony to his
homo training: "My father mado a
point of holding his children to tho use
of good Knglish. * * * To this habit
of parental oarofulnoss I owo more for
what little knowlodgoof Knglish I havo
than to all my teachers and text books
IMlf f I nln/M f - rtAHrt-n 1
jruv bV^OVUCli AVI BDYOIHl /UftlB
in a community, whore the worst provincialisms
prevailed, I was kept in a
great dogrco, from falling into habits
which it would havo boen hard in the
after yoars to correct." This is an instanoe
of what may bo done in one very
important respect.
Families, liko oolloges, aro valuable
and fill their high mission only as they
endow men and women. A very small
minority of tho families supply all tho
college students of our land. Tho colleges
need all the thousands of homos
III.
from whinli no uhwlnnl mill I'"""'' I
? ?.v?. ..v ??*? ?' 1? v (fill \J t *? i\ iiui rv
at a oollogo door for admission. Thoso
homes need the collegos. The country
needs both. When you read tho next
appeal for colleges, do not lot it annoy
you. Lay the paper down with a silent
prayer for collegos and take up your
home duties with now zeal, sclf-respot t
and hope. A quiet, happy day in tho
home life is a fair page in tho history
of that family. It. will leavo associations
and motnories to he recalled tenderly
a half century after tho family
circle is broken and scattered!
The quiet homes of tho land take
their place with tho churches, colleges,
tho pross and other great agencies ir
building up all that is valuable in our
social, political and religious life. And
the home is generally what the mother
makes it. A French writor says:
"Woman oarrics the destiny of the farn
ily in the fold of her nr.ntle. ' Thcro
is great truth in that striking expression,
whether that mantle be of royal
silk, calico or homospun. Tho late
president of Vale university, answering
at hoiiio length the question, " How was
1 educated?" closes with these words:
"Tho childron of a household grow
moro easily and naturally in the religious
life, not when tho parents aro always
talking about it and pressing it
upon them, but when the at inosphcro of
the liouso is eo full of religion that they
do not think of livimr <n?v nllinr lif.i
And, in the same way, when paronts
make their children stirrers in a truo
iutellootual life possess by themselves
and make the houso full of the sense of
the blessedness of knowledge, the
minds of tho children will surely ho
awake to knowlcdgo and will ho educated
as tho years go on. * * * And so
my answer to tho question, 'How 1 was
cducatod?'( ends as it began? 1 had tho
right mother."
las. II. Carlisle.
Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 2.
THE GREEN EYED MONSTER
A Young Man Takes a Letter of the
Woman Ho Loved.
lie broke down anl exclaimed: "I
loved that girl better than anything in
the world, and I could not stand for
that fellow to conic to sec her; that's
why 1 did it." And thereby hangs an
interesting talo. The man who had
uttered tho words has just been hound
over for trial at the ()ctobor term of tho
United States court in (Jrceuvillo on
tho charge of stealing and destroying
mail.
This man was W. T. Crouch, a young
fellow about 25 years of ago, from Sil
ver Street, Newberry county, ltsooms
that ho was desperately in lovo with
Miss Minnio L. Wcrts. Mr. William
Kddy of Newberry, a dry goods clerk,
knew Miss Wcrts and had called upon
her sovcral times. This made Crouch
very jealous and one day ?Juno 7 last,
according to tno omccrs no saw a let
ter in the postoflieo addressed to Miss
Wert a, bearing the Newberry postmarks.
It is alleged that be could not
resist the temptation to take it.
Anyway a few days afterward Mr.
Cddy got a letter signed with tho name
of the young lady reading thus:
"kind friend:
"I don't caio for you to call any
moor at all."
In a few days Crouch told tho young
lady thcro wus a letter at the postoflieo
for her. She wont to tho oflico
and asked, but could find no letter.
Cater on she went down to Newberry
and there her frionds askad her why
sh? had treated Mr. Kddy so badly,
telling her of the note ho had gotten
from her. That was a revelation. Soon
Mr. Eddy called and Miss Worts was
shown the noto, which she immediately
declared sho had not written.
Miss Werts at onco reported tho matter
to the postal authorities and Post
oflico Inspector J. F. Oldlield went to
Silver Stfeet. Ho charged Crouch with
the theft of the letter, -hut the youug
man deniod it. Finally the inspector
made the young fellow sit down and
write from dictation. He read him the
letter written Mr. Eddy. When it was
finished an examination showed the
samo capitalization and chirography
and tho word "moro" was spoiled
"moor" as in the Eddy note. The inspector
promptly arrested Crouch who
maintained his denial, on tho charge
of violating section 1431, CJ. S. Postal
Regulations.
Tuesday Crouch was brought to Columbia
by tho inspector and dames M.
Davidson, chief clerk II. S. marshal's
office. Ho was takon before Commissioner
Henry F. Jennings, where a
preliminary was waivod and tho prisoner
was released on $200 bond. While
at the commissioner's office he broke
down and uttcrod tho words at the boginning
of this article, which have a
pathetic interest to all who havo felt
the pangs of tho grcon oyed monstor
that is considerately callod .Jealousy.
The State.
Old Water Pipes.
While digging a trench in front of
tho fcdoral building in Park Row, New
York, tho other day, workmon unearth
ed a scotion of tho first wator pipe ever
laid in that oity ? part of the system
for which Aaron Burr soourcd a franchise
from tho New York Legislature.
The pipe consisted of hollow chestnut
logs, laid end to end, and was in ex
collent condition.
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NO. 4.
DECISION REACHED.
Penitentiary Investigating Committee
Preparing its Report.
WILL ADVISE PROSECUTION.
The Committee Holds That Col.
Neal is Due the Penitentiary
$11,000. Report to Governor
This Week.
Tho Legislative Committee which
has heen investigating the penitentiary
finished its work at Greenville, whoro
it had been in session several days,
Thursday morning Col. W. A. Noal,
ex superintendent of tho Stato ponitontiary,
presented tho following list of
his liabilities to the Stato:
Cash collected and not turned over to
penitontiary:
J. T. Fowlor $ 500 00
W. I. Hammond 500 00
Fowler it Hammond 530 00
W. W. Kussoll, noto 000 00
Collected from W. T. Magill
for brick sold at DcSassuro
farm 40 00
Commissary account 0 yoars.. 573 00
5 hook oasos at $12.00 each .. 00 00
1 hat rack 10 00
I* 1 I i-L I ?
v> niuiiii iuoic8, ui oacii... 1 - UU
1 bedstead 10 00
Painting furniture at homo.. . 10 00
TOO bushels cottonseed at lb
contH 105 00
Check unpaid 172 00
2,131 95
The investigation so for has developed
nothing now at this session. Col.
Neal on tho stand said that ho had not
presented tho carload of briok to Tillman,
and donicd a written statomont
of the lattor that whon governor he had
used his carriago horsos in his farming
operations around Columbia. Tillman
had said, too, that Neal had bought a
$700 sugar oano mill from him and had
paid but $100. Tho senator seemed to
think that this aocountod for Ncal's
showering kindnesses upon him. This
Col. Neal donicd.
Col. Neal as above stated concedod
that ho owed tho ponitentiary $3,197.27.
Wodnesday there was another item
added, $3*7.17, for oats from J. .J.
Frotwell. This makes Col. Noal's dobt
$3,584.11 as conceded by himuelf and
attorneys. However, tho committeo
claims that ho is involved for $11,000.
They contend that ho owos tho penitontiary
$7,400 for convict hire in addition
to tho $3,584.4 1, and a few smaller
items, which Col. Neal has overlooked
iu his statomont.
Tho comiuittco will not submit its
roport at onoo. The report was written
Friday, but will not bo sent to Gov.
McSwconey until tho stenographer can
make a transcript of the additional ovi-.e.!
? -
??ug? BUMUlIbMJU Ul IIUS 80SS10U 01 tne
committee. It is, of course, not known
what tho committee will recommend,
but tlioro is good reason to boliove that
the governor will be asked to instituto
criminal proceedings against Col. Noal
for malfeasance in office, and also that
steps bo taken by tho penitontiary authorities
to collect tho shortages as well
as the opon accounts against Senator
'1 ill man, ex-Governor I'lvans and
others.
Dog Days.
What aro tho "Dog Days?" There
is an opinion that if it rains tho first
dog day it will rain forty conseeutivo
days. The beliof socmcd to originate
in Mediterranean countries that Sirius
or the dog star exorcised a baneful influence
ovor animal lifo and conditions.
This dangerous period began whon the
star and sun roso together and continued
an indefinite period. Hut owing
to tho procession of tho oquiuoxos this
docs not occur until August 10, when
the greatest heat of the summor is drawing
to a closo. Modern almanac makers
differ as to dates. Some place the dog
daVR. .flllu't Ananof 11
?? v *' *1, n imc uviiura
say July 24 to August 24.
Frequently Struck.
It is almost a weekly occurrence for
the Washington monument to bo struck
by lightning, the shaft being so high
that it attracts overy bolt within a wide
radius. There aro no less than 180
lightning conductors fixed in the cap of
the great strueturo, and each of these
leads to a thick wire which oarrics the
electrioity down the inside of the shaft.
It is said that if tho conductors had
been placed on tho outsiio, as on other
structures, thoro would be many accidents
and tho handsomo structure
would be scarred and ohippod by the
frequont bolts.
Willing for a Fourth,
The London papers aro famous for
queer advertisements. A "Personal"
which appeared in ono of them roads:
"Wanted?A respectable gentleman?
widower preferred?to marry the housokeepor
of an aged gentleman, who has
been an invalid for years ana who respects
hor as a good and true sorvant,
whom ho would liko to soo in the happy
state of matrimony boforo ho dies.
Sho has had thrco husbands, but is
willing for a fourth."
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