The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, October 25, 1906, Image 3
THE LONG AGO.
^ ^^DIFFICULTIES UNDER WHICH
* 4 FARMERS USE TO FARM
And the Great Improvements in Farming
Implement! In Recent
Years
Every man seventy years old was
contemporaneous with the Introduction
of agricultural implements to
which might properly be applied the
word "improved." In other words,
when he was a baby there were a few
places where farmers were staring in
open-mouthed wonder at the mysterious
things that bad come out. They
were orude as compared with what we
have now but marked the beginning
Of that most marvelous development,
in which they and their kind have
been the principal faotor. Up to 1837,
all states west of the Alleghenleu and
nearly all sections of tue others, we*,
still using the old wooden plow, a
very oiumsy affair beside the Oliver
Chilled and the wrought Iron plowpoint,
a mlfish&pen thing with a badly
rounded point at one end and a
large hole or socket, at the other, intended
to receive a sort of beam by
wmcn toe plow- could be pulled and
guided. Tula wu tue period of the
BPiDulng-wheei and log cauin, with
greased paper wiudows, when the pioneer
could bt&nd in his doorway any
pleasant morning and shoot squirrels
enough for the family breakfast, with
out leaving his tracks. In fact, the
population depended far more ou furs
of wild animals for on income than
upon cultivation of the ground. Agriculture
was little more than rude
gardening or truok patohing and wnafr
little manufacturing was done was altogether
by hand. Such was the unpromising
beginning of an era, wnloh
in the regular lifetime of mau has ac
oompilBhed the wonders wo see before
us on every farm. It 1h interesting to
cote that the State museums which
Contain samples of too crude implo
meuts of the late thirties, label them
"anolent," much as they would mark
an Egyptian mummy, though a man
who has not passed the psalmists
limit of three score and ten would
hardly feel oompiimented if so characterized.
Though something then
thought to be "improved" was brought
into the west as early as 1837, the
really revolutionary larm maoniiicry
was not introduced until much later.
A man much younger than seventy,
In fact men still in the tiflies, have
covered by their lives the epooh-mas:
in* period of agricultural machinery.
The dillkulty prior to 1850 was not so
much lack of invention as laok of
manufacturing facilities, practical*
all ugrieulcurai Implements up to that
time being made by hand in a smaU
way by local mechanics in the eabt.
It was not until after the oivil war
that increase In manufactures with
their Increased power and specially
Invented tools that the modem farmers
area began.
The student of evolution will find
an interesting held by following up
the Inventions of agricultural machery
from the beginning. The great
law so brilliantly expounded by Darwin
and which he proved to be the
governing principle in all worldly af
fairs, the law of gradual growth from
*small beginnings, the law of orderly
development from the simple to the
complex, is found here operating In
full force. Take for instanoe the hist
invention of a reaper, wnioh appeared
in Great Britlan in 1827 aud was reproduced
in this country a few years
later. Its main principal was the reciprocating
knlfo between reaper ling
era ana linougu greatly improver* m
details since, t?iiis cardinal feature,
which was found to be fundamental
and indispensable, has been emooalec!
it* an succ,uUuik types of hay and
grain-ouHing machines. It was the
v same way with the clews, harro?s,
threshers ai d all other Implements?
one main principle must be adhered
to, however great the variety of details
and Improvements to meet objections
of an inoidcuul eharaotoi,
such as 100 much weight, faulty oou-i
Btiuction, difficulty of handling er d1
the. Jifce. Tae thresner v/c,t, long ooming.
Thougn invented over seventy
years ago, the difficulties of manufao
turlag p*evtu.Vl its general lntronuotioii
until a comparatively recent per
iod. It was not until tae modern
laciiities for turning out scores or
hundredt$ of finished machines dally
became common that the r<. production
of all the large machinery on a large
scale made tnem familiar pa every
farm, carrying out the Idea of evolution,
it may oe remarked that the
first patent lur a thrasher, though Issued
in 1830, was a crude uff. ir,
though it developed Into the magnificent
machine of to-day which contain^
the principal of the original. The first
effort, however, resembled the improved
thrasher of the present day about
as muoh as the old fashioned hand
printing-press resembles one of the
great perfecting presses in one of our
first-olass minting offices. Farmers
bad to await the comb# of the Improved
thrasher before they let go the
old-fashioned flail, made of a long
stiok and short stick tied togother,
and the process of tramping out the
grain by horses. Many men still living
remember these primitive methods
just as they remember when the
tree branohes was the only harrow
used and when the spike-tooth O
row, shaped like a capital A, was
sldered a great improvement.
The chief value of reoalling all this
Is to show farmers that they are living
In the golden age of agrioulture,
Formerly, great developments like
that we have been describing, took
many oeuturies for their Accomplishment.
Everything moved with pain-'
ful slowness. It Is a oharaoterlstio of
our age that great revolutions in mechanical
appllanoes, epoch-making
dieoovaries and reforms, follow eaoh }
other with suoh startlir g rapidity as
to dr ze the beholder. The telephone
In only twenty-six years old, and eleotrio
traction by fcrolloy is much younger.
The Inoandesoent lamp and other 1
arvels of electricity have been pro 1
juoed so recently that the lives of
more boys measure their existence. ,
The nineteenth has gone into history
as the "marvelous century" and muoh 1
the greater part of its accomplish
menst was the product of the last \
half. Every department of science ]
has made wonderful headway, aatron- ]
omy, geology, aroheology, literary ie- j
searoh and orltloism, but none have i
profited more thau agriculture. Great A
is its indebtneaa to applied science, ]
which has converted a rule and semi- i
savage calling into the most intelleot \
ual and profitable of the industries ]
For a hundred years the best Inventive
genius of the world has been work <
ing to ameliorate the oondltlon and i
'militate the operations of the farm- i
,Tbe field was wide, the oppertun- <
iw great, and greatly have they been )
Improved. It Is educational as well r,p ]
inceurp.ging and uplifting, to <
through tho history of agricultural p*v i
tents and see what has been done,
how the farm world has been turned
upside down during the throe so^re
years and ten vouonsafed to the ordi- i
nary man. Walk through the patent <
office or some state museum and look i
at the model of the first plow then i
glance at the one you are using and
you will be able to form seme notion
of what has happened In a space of 1
time so short as an ardinary human 1
life.
Deceiving '>10 People,
Speaker Cannon is deceiving the
^Tpublioan voters by declaring in his
stump speeches that the agricultural
prosperity Is due entirely to the protective
tariff. This leads the Kansas
City Star to deolare that what the
people of Missouri cannot understand
is why the blessings of the republican
stand-pat doctrine have worked so
unequally In the several oountics.
What the Missouri farmers wouid like
to know is why the protective tar 1 iT
has brought bountiful harvest to the
rich alluvial counties along the Mis
sourl river ana to those of the midland
prairies, while it has done little or
nothing for the rooky, hilly oountries
of the Ozarks.
A point which adds to the confusion
is that the rioh counties of good
crops are almost all democratic, while
the poor counties that oannot raise
anything better than Ben Davis apples
are almost without exception republican.
If there had to be discrimination,
it would seem that the republicans
would be the bbnetiolaries.
Of course, before Mr. Cannou made
his speech in Kansas City it would
have been argued that the rich alluvial
farms produced good crops just
because they were fertile, and the
montainous counties were distinguished
for nothing in particular?not oven,
In many Instances, for Ben Davis apples
?for the very reason they were
hilly and rooky.
But "Unoie Joe" says that the tariff
makes the farmer prosperous, and
so, since soil and rain acd sun and
climate have nothing to do with It,
the problem must remain for ever un
solved?unless It is explained as being
another Instance of the way the
protective policy oonfers benefits on
some and burdens on others.
Wonder of the World.
Our corn crop is the wonder of the
world. In 1905 it amounted to 2.700000,000
bueheia, worth about $1,210,000,000,
or ijwice as much as tny other
crop. Every section of the country
contributed & share. But great as
tbetis figures are, they ouuid probably
be doubled in a few years without
planting z single additional acre simylv
improving the method of onltiva
tLn *,!? above all, by getting better
seed, The d partmont of agriculture
everyday receives requosts like the
fo lOr.lnqi "Will you please inform
me whs 3 well-bred seed of a variety
of cc: :\ uited to this locality can be
purohar-r.d?" Unfortunately the ma!jo
ls./ of the letters cannot be satisfactorily
answered because no corn
hr? bo?n impro? ,d for section & of the
Uultc d states fum which they come.
As a ccmsequenov. the department is
trying to stimulate at least one person
in every por ion of the country to
br .od se id corn urgir g that he who
pioduces an lmproveo variety for his
section will not only bo a benefactor to
his community, but al 10 get a handsome
profit for his work. To help
tl o work along the department distributes
phamphletsadvising the grow*
en how to select his cord at best adi
vantage. *
| An Eye for BoilaeiH,
' The foliowiLg unique notioe was
i recently published by the Coleeme,
I n u*?. -? . ?
?. u. nnuaor; jauu Jennie Jones
and Boo Henry were married at the
Jc^ea mansion last night. The bride
Is the daughter of our (unstable,
Jones who made a good offlo . r, and
will undoubtedly be reeleoboq next
Bp ng. He offers a fine hcrse for
salt in another oolumn. groom
runs a grocery store on Main street
and is a good patron of our advertls*
lng columns, and has a good line of
bargains this week .All the summer
he paid two oents more for butter
than any store in town. The happy
couple left on the 10 o'clock train for
Milwaukee to visit the bride's uncle,
who is reported to have lots of money
andBright's disease. Bob certainly
has an eye for business." The scribe
who wrote the notioe seems to have
an eye for business as well as Bob. *
Wuat will the corporation lawyers
find to do, when the Amerloan people
oontroi the trusts and have compelled
the railroads to oharge reasonable
rates?
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
KeiolDtiona Passed On tne Death of
Mr. J.T. Paeks.
The following resolutions were pasted
at the last meeting of the State
Demooratio Exeoutive Committee:
Since the last meeting of this Committee
the pold hand of death has removed
from the servioe of the Committee
its efficient and loyal Secretary.
James T. Parks departed this
ifeonthe 30th day of June.'1906.
Ele was born on May 12th, 1865, at
Paiksville, in Edgefield County,
where his remains were laid to rest.
Ifter attending the looal sohools he
received his higher education at Roaloke
College, at Salem, Va., and afterwards
taught school for several
?ears in this State.
At various times he resided in soysral
counties of this State and enjoyed
the esteem and oonfidenoe of his
neighbors and associates wherever be
was known. The best years of his
life and talents were giver) to
lis newspaper work in Marlon and
3raage> urg counties; ho wm a fluent
r'.nd vlgorus writer. He was loyal to his
priends and true to his convictions.
Fie was of a jovial nature, open,
warm hearted. More than four yearu
iiro Mr. Prvrks was elected Secretary
r\f t. V)n Qftt to TPwRrtnKwA
^ x viiv uvs?n> jy^tuuwinvui ijiiv/uuno
Uommittee, and he performed the
duties of this position faithfully and
well. Therefore be it received:?
l^t. That lu tho death of James
T. Parks. its Secretary, this Committee
has lost a faithful and efficient oftieer,
and one who was held in tho
highest personal esteem and regard
by its members.
2nd. That a copy hereof be transmitted
to the family of our deceased
friend together with tho slnccrcst
sympathy of the members of this Committee.
3rd. That these resolutions be
transcribed upon the records of this
Committee.
Apples and Salt.
Eat fresh apples with salt after every
meal, advises a physician who has
made a speoialy of stom&oh and intestinal
troubles. They aid digestion
more rlTeotlvely than many drug3, aud
people who make them a part of the
dally diet rarely have Indigestion.
"Take apples, cooked or freeh, with
salt while dining or immediately after
and eat them between times when
hungry, he says. Cultivate the apple
habit, and Instead of eating bonbons
and pastry serve them in some
form for afternoon tea or for a light
lunches in the morning. Eat thera in
the summer even more than during
the winter months, for nothing is better
or more nourishing for the entire
RVRt.i?m the <1 fchla fvnlfc tfwiru rtlallu II
1b not beatlug. "The skin, if prop
orly masticated, is not iujwrious, but
the best plan is to cut it off, for it 1g
usually tough, as is the outer coat of
most fruits. Apples ls'an aid to digestion
despite the crust that is ordinarily
considered hard to ab?imilafce. The
best time to oat appies is after meals,
whfn all the fluids neooesaoy have
been taken Into the stomach, for if
milk, coffee or water are drunk after
takirg this fruit they lessen it powere.
to help digestion." *
Cotton Fiokor Needed*
The farmer of the South need a
mechanical ootton picker very rcuoh,
and we hope before many moro crops
are made tbat one will c ime to solve
the difficulties of gathering the eotton
crop. Under the present uncertain
system it requires something like
1.500.000 ootton piokors, each picking
130 pouuds of seed cotton on an average
for each picker and ^orkiog 100
days, to pick a 10,000,000 bale orop.
Of oourue some pick more than 100
pounds of seed c itton and noire loss.
There a-" days when on occiuno of
rain, no ojtton can be picket.. Tf )
avrage of 100 piuuds a da? for 100
days Is not. wrong as an estimate t.f
the picker's work. At 00 cents a
nundred v.eight tba cost of picking a
bale of ootton is $9. At 75 rents &
hundred a eight tbo cost Is til.25 n,
bale. Therefore the oost of picking
tLo entire crop will rani * Somewhere
M.uwen t90,000,000 add til2 500,000
This Immense sum of money ought to
stimulate some genius to Invent a cot
toil pioaer wia* wiii pica.
How Not to Advertise.
The farmers of northern Indiana
and southern Michigan have 02me to
realize that advertising signboards
mar the beauty cf the oount.-y and
that the advertisers In plaotng tnera
r in their trees and break their fer.otp;
and they have effected an organization
to<bee that every sign Is removed
from their premises and to
prosecute merchants who, In the future,
trespass on their property. Tnd
advertising signboards in the couutrj
everywhere is a Uiemisa and a ulot,
b sides bting one of the loar.t pre. ft tabic
and i tr motive m des or advertising.
Bii oting of Conference,
The South Carolina Methodist
Conference will be hold in Columbia
curing &ne mss wee* id novomoer
and the Methodist ministers of this
oounty and throughout the state generally
are making preparations to attend.
Already there is much speculation
among them where they will
be sent next year. The last conference
was held in Spartanburg and in
many respects it was one of the most
interesting ever held.
Bridge Collapsed.
A stone bridge over the Lynesville
Creek, near White Haven, Pa., collapsed
Thursday while workmen were
engaged .upon it, and two of the men
were Instantly killed while another
was probably fatally injured.
Mrs. Darta' Funeral.
The train bearing the body of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, who died in New
York last week, arrived In Richmond,
Va., Friday morning and was met by
Lleut. Governor Ellison and details
from Loe and Pickett oamps Confederate
veterans, who escorted the body
to St. Paul's Church, where it was
placed In the lsoture room. Those
accompanying the body from New
York were: Ms]. Owen, oommander
of the Confederate oamp in New
York, Dr. J. Harvle Dew, Col. Theo.
0. Oasbln, Berry DeLeon and Mrs.
Joseph Pulitzer. The funeral took
place at three o'olook Friday afternoon
when the body was laid beside that of
her distinguished husband, President
Jefferson Davis, in Hollywood Cemetery.
Marine Dieaaior,
A dispatch from Paris says & feeling
of the deepest passion prevails at
the ministry of marine here on so
count of the disaster to the French
submarine boat Lieut, which left
Bizork, Tunis, Wednesday morning
for a plunging experiment, having on
bo&id a orow of fourteen m:n, com
manded by Lieut. Phcopon and which
was reported Weduooaay night u
have disappeared
Pell Prom m Htreplo,
Charles Jones, a oegro oarpeuter,
fell from a ohuroh steeple, 53 feet
high, and was instantly kl.led late
Thursday afternoon in Union county.
Ho had just put the finishing touonet
to the Job when slipping on the p'at.
form he plunged downward. His nooU
being broken. Ills body was brought
here today.
Death of a Carolinian,
Maj. E. R. Quattlebaum, inspector
of customs at Mobile, who fell from a
barge and died from the injuries ro
celvod, was a native of this state. lie
B e rl V\aan n vnuldnnl'. t\t M r\l\l 1 a f ar uait
1.1 A V J ULOLl A IVOIV.IUU W \J 1 ATJL 'UMO LV1 OG ? "
oral years.
The Gooa Government Olub of
Monmouth County, New Jersey, has
oommenced its reform work by bagging
a Republican candidate for the
Asssembly and auother of the most
prominent Republicans of the count*
ry. The p)an adopted was simple
The Club iiired a detective, who
caught the Republican corpora Zionists
redhanded in bribing voters at the
primary election an} thoreucon
swore out warrants for their arrest
under the anti-bribery law. The oam*
plan would bring similar result*
wherever the oorpoiatloun control the
Republican party.
Tiik Chicago Record-Herald says
that treasurer Congi'*?sm&n Mr Kin
lay admits that the $1 contributions
to the Rapubllcan can ptdgn air leet
than $50,000. He declared, however,
"that this was amply bufll:tent t/j
*>a.pea campaign in all the necessary
congressional districts this year.,: If
that amouLt is mtliclenb why ^rc the
trusts and corporations being called
ou for oontricur.lona and why arc of
lice holders being asHesood?"
A n i /^?A-i -
xucnijuuMer iienciaj vjuryeiyou IN
still holding the pre1 Men o? chairman
of tho Republican National Committoo
and interested in the collection of
campaign funds from the corporations
and the otlloe holders. This would
have been denounced in former year,
by chat enthusiastic olvil eervico reformer
Oharles Joseph Iionaparfce,
now Secretary of the N^yy, but being
a part of a reform Administration
appears to have olosed bis ayes tr
that infraction of civil servioe ideals
Tub cr Hoe trust has entered into a
deal with the Biazllian government U
raise the price of coffee to the American
corsumers. When an American
ccrporack n can enter into an alliance
or T.reaty witn a foreign governnr on\
with the design of pillaging tbeAmer
icin pcoplo, it <8 time to exterminate
nuch a corporation, a? a public ene
my.
A southern Indiana farmer deserv
os the belt for t *e mo- t curious freak
so far reported this season Fie bu
an ear of corn from the top of whicv
is growing, a fuhy matured blade oi
wheat, the hesd rf whioh is filled
with solid grains. Fr^m tVie head 01
wheat a small nubbin of corn, perfecoly
formed is growing.
The Progressive Farmer savg; "One
thing should be impressed on the
minds of ail is that la it ye it's cot or
seed must bo swid for next ye< r'l
crop, as the seed from the new oot'.oe
are no good at all. If you have i ny
of last year's ootton wnd, don't sell at
feed them, but rave them for plant.ng
purposes. Men who are in position U
kuow advise this as the best plan."
Our farmer* should lo^kin*o this.
The State says "M Aiiie D. Web
star, Pr.j^maater at Orangeturg, lef^
Columbia Wednesday afternoon at
2 45 In his "Reo" and arrived at
Orangeburg at 5.07, a distrnn of 48
miles in 82 mtnutUs. Mr. and Mrs.
Webster and Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Yar
Oradell s.rid two chii.iren were the
passengers.
Secretary Locb has not been
beard frioi for tv o veeks, and the
Washington Post lives In hopes that
"the rabbits" of Jackson's Hole,
Wyoming, have oaptured him. It
warned Loebof the danger from those
ferocious brutes before he started and
wants to have the pleasure of saying,
"we told you so".
G. L. Toole, looal option, was eleo<
ted senator from Aiken county or
Saturday to succeed Senator Johhsoc
deceased, beating hla opponent J. M,
Polatty, pro-dispensary, by nearly
tbree to one.
Twenty-five men killed and
over two-hundred entombed is th<
result of an explosion In an Engllsl
ooal mine.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Q?m? (ilrnniMl From th?? TfiirhlnM
of All Denomination!*.
Love Is the shortest, safest, surest
road to heaven.?Cardinal Gibbon*,
llomaii Catholic, Haiti more.
Kiijoymciit of Mte, *
People who put much into life get
much out of it. The more one puts In
the more he gets out.?Itev. Henry C.
Swentzel, Episcopalian, itrooklyn.
A View of the Almlfrhty.
Cksl is a |H?wer to protect the object
of his love, n God of wrath only to
make it possible for mercy to reach the
miserable.?Uev. J. J. Kayhoe, Lutheran,
Louisville, Ky.
A Neo?ifal Sfttvntfton,
Tin* salvation of which the world
stands most in need today is a salvation
from spiritual selfishness and narrowinindcdhosH.
Uev. Li. lH-an Ellenwood,
Lai versa 11 st, Atlanta, (Ja.
TIm* Till mm: Html \ee?le?l.
TIk* noblest thing. the most powerful
thing, the iihmH natural and universal
thing, the most necessary, far reaching
and all com|timing thing, Is faith.?Uev.
Frederick 1 >. Power, Christian Church,
Washington.
l'nl<|ue lleltfrtoit.
The Christian religion is certainly
unique in (Ik* idea of a Ood going out
after sinners. Other religions have
good points, 1 Kit none has anything to
compare with this.?Uev. C. A. ltarbour,
Baptist, ltochestiT, N. Y.
t'lU'crlnlnly,
Wltli all our progress In ingenious invention
and mechanleal appliance, with
all our marvelous conquest of time and
space, still tIk* element of uncertainty
is not yet overcome.- Uev. Henry
Frank, Independent, Now York.
Sat<*l y of Hi** Soul,
Tlx* human soul must meet strong
fo?*s and ther(*fore must be garrisoned
with divine for<*<*fl. It will km pi ire
something more than the music of Orpheus
to get tIk* soul safely past the
rocks? Uev. Hr. W. J. Williamson,
BajKlst, St. Louis.
l?0?Hl will.
Tlx? need of the hour Is tlie spirit of
pood wifl. Harsh critk'isms and unjust
judgment* are as imtIIomh to the
peaoe of society iws sjsirks ltying toward
tho powder magazine. Therefore
tin* tiojK' of soekMy is in the gradual
progress uf go<Kl will and brotherly
love.?llev. l>r. Newoll Dwlght lllllis,
Congregatloualiwt, Brooklyn.
Spirit of Clod.
WIkmi David went forth to moot Goliath
Ik- was armed with tho spirit ol'
God, which 1 wiped him to conquer that
mighty giant. Ami so tike spirit of God
will help us to go forth and light his
battles if wo trust htiu. It is the spirit
of God tlint onuses us to Ik* linkisl to
tho church and feel tliat it is our {ilaco.
?Itev. G. L\ Miller, episcopalian,
Brooklyn.
I
l*l? I lti u tli m?vo mid Clirislliiiihy.
We cannot serve our hrotl>er men
nor even have a desire to do so long
apart from (lie service of God. As
philanthropy is the legitimate product
of a Christian civilization, so we eun
seo that if ail other churches and
i Christian institutions of our lord were
destroyed it would not be long before
our institution of mercy would wither
and decay. ? ltev. E. Talbot, Eplsco
pallan, Washington.
I)|h4m'pii iiicii ( of OI vll!4' Til 11) KM.
Tliere are particles in every lluid that
can lx> discerned only with the aid of
a microscope. Man's eye, unaided, cannot
behold tJiem. In like manner man's
wisdom cannot comurehend the tvIh
(lorn of his Creator. However, God
has given man love, nn<l by means of
Its powtrr his heart can discern many
' of the tilings of God that would otlver'
wise remain unintelligible.?Rev. Linn
Bowman, Metliodist, l'hlladelphia.
A CltUNli lliiit Will Drnw.
We :u<k too mucli of men about what
tliey boliirvo or <\o not believe. Tho
working and lHiug church of Christ Is
not that which shall only have a place
and a welcome for those who ,1c1 fully
equipped with faith in all i." sacred
doctriikes, but a church which, like
Christ, shall draw all men unto it and
gradually by its spiritual love and care
nourish men Into Its highest privileges
? and possession*;.?Uev. Uol>ert itogors,
Episcopalian, llrook lyn.
l)??" of tho '/luck Hnluv.
Jesus before lMlate declared he came
to Umr wltnoss to the truth- What is
trutli? asks Pilate, nere Is a sceno
1 upon which the reformer of today
> sh mid think. Tlx,* man with tlvo hoe
t and the man with the muck rake are
\ both needed, If both are Txmrlng wlt1
ness to the truth as tlwy *00 it. There
' Is no greater religion tlmn life, and life
1 Is fulfillment of tho personal Ideal.
; Your neighbor stands l?y and watches
> you live your Ideal. .\coordl:ig to his
1 viewpoint of (juth, you hold the hoe
and Clllt1vntl> tlw? tu;ll irr rtin miiflf rolm
and ralno au unuocofwury stench. The
danger to the nation is not In loo much
1 iya; of the hoe or the muck rake, hut In
? the absence of the u m of either.?ltev.
Frederick Alban Well, Unitarian, Ghi1
cago.
Enrioblnff of Memory.
I Iluppy Ik that one who enriches
memory with noble deeds, for mciiwrj1
Is the Ktorehou.se of the soul. Into
which we daily and hourly go for food.
( Tlve more, therefore, that memory 1h
enriched with pleasant thoughts, kind
words spoken, noble deeds douo, the
happier will bo that life, for It will
' feed In after yearn upon tho swoet
memories and reoollections of tho past.
Even down to old ago memory will
1 bring back many a blessed ovont,
many happy thoughts, which will
, prove a liaio of light along tho shad[
owy pathway of life, for to know that
i we have been true to others and to
.God, that we have ovor proved grate,
ful and true to others, thpt wo have
pot wronged, but have helped others,
that will enrich memory and give us
I pence of mind and heart In our older
l days.?Rev. Dr. L. M. Zimmerman, Lu1
theran, Baltimore.
Kept His Word.
At Aahevllle, N. 0 , O. W. Benjamin,
aged 30. formerly of Wallaboro,
Pa , cashier of tbe Aihrvflle
branch of tbe Armour packing Comoany,
shot himself through tbe heart
In ?.ho Y. M. C. A normatorv, after
tell in/ se vera) fr'enda he Intinded to
kill himself. Ills body wee found hy
h's roommate, about eight o'clock
Wednesday Dlght. The deceased
came to this olty frrm Lnoxri.lo
ab< ut a year ?go, and had previous to
thai time lived In Bristol, Tenn.
Trun III IJ ounct, <\
The grand Jurycf Dorchester has
returned a true bill aga?nnt former
Sheriff Limehc use charging him with
malfe asance in c nice In permitting a
negro prisoner In his charge to be taken
from Mm ~r?d Ivrohrd
Kill'd ? i oiinet.
Sheriff Hood, of Kairtleld County,
Nhotarid killed au escaped negro convict
whom he was endeavoring io apnreberd.
It is raid the negro was
about to shco* the phrrlff.
ThcSunter Watchman end Southron
"an occasional antual or
ocrcl annual raid on Ihc va<rant does
,;ood for * tlrco, hut the only wr.y a
cyn be lrecd ficr:. this c'ass of
criminals Is to keep thim on the
jump every c ay In the >esr. This
applied with i s great If not greater
force to guml ]er?, big ard little a* to
vagrants. Professional gamblerf are
a greater cuirio to a ct mmunlty than
negro rtr If "
We tvllihivoit g*t along without
thebirvlce<< of the lie gh JXldfifi In
Cuba, 'or thev are too busy holding
aown government- jots.
The effort ?>f the Repv bl'eans to
omvinoc the country that President
Gcmptrs and Labor out. co tlgure In
the politioal campaign this year Is
ilready a dismal failure
It Is hoped thai Pa l. Muck who
ban o me ov r from Germany 'o tosch
Jii mmio will not turn hi* tuning fork
Into a muck. n\kw.
Till'; captains of industry have such
complete control of the Republican
party that every Republican state and
congressional convention has declared
for the tariIV that proseots tlie trusts.
Is the military dictator of Cuba operating
under the American flag, or
under the Cuban flag?
Hon kmt men are still in the demand
us political leaders. One honest
man on a t icket with a dozen roguts
is expected to pull the whole
bunch through and allow them to
buck and gag him the very next day.
It's a great game as played by the
Republicans.
In spite of the declaration of Congressman
Littlcticld that President
Gompers kept him from being defeated,
there has been no call from Gompers'
services in the many other districts
from Republican Congressmen
who see defeat staring them in the
face.
Tim religious editors declare that
the h gli rates of postage proposed by
t he postal commission would severely
tax their piety. Hie high tar I IT rates
also tax people's piety. They make
the average man swear every time he
t liinks of them.
According to press dispatches from
Washington, the Republicans fear serious
losses in New York, Ohio, Illinois,
and Pennslyvanla this year. The
President is said to be exceedingly
uneasy.
Ik Mr. Roosevelt will read the Philadelpldaf
Pressjand North American
of Oct. 4th, he wili see that he blundered
when he sold his beauty to the
Pcnrose-Pennypacker gang.
Pknkosk, Hopkins, and Sherman
are singing a very doleful song t'ds
year. Their party has been weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
Even Roosevelt cannot console them.
The English government has sent
detectives to Gastonia, N. C., to see if
the complaints of bad treatment of
English girls employed in the mills
there are true.
Frederick Coles Fairbanks, son of
the vice president of; ?the United
States, eloped on Thursday with Miss
Nellie Scott, and tliey were married.
The bride is from Pittsburg.
Four "neatly dressed white men,"
according tojthe Georgian, were in ophim
joint in Atlanta oh Wednesday
night. They are charged Iwith running
the joint.
Chalburn Mintoo, aged 50, a prominent
farmer, murdered his wife and
four children at his home near New
Port, Tenn., with an axe, on Saturday
fatally ^injuring two other children,
and then committed.suicide.
Wayne R. Gooch, known as "the
king of the moonshiners," who is reputed
to have made $200,000 by making
and selling crooked whiskey, was
lined $1,000 in Richmond on Friday for
vlolati n|of the revenuo laws.
Miss Mary Lewis, a telephone operator
of Utica, N. Y., was m&de blind on
Thursday by an electric shock while
she was sitting at .the switchboard.
p -
Mrs. Curdy Green of Dallas, Texas,
shot and killed her husband, a~ street
car conductor, on Thursday because,
as she says, he had been untrue to her.