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r > GOOD AOViCE Given the Younger Members of the Prsss Gang BY COL. JAS. T. BACON "Go and Wrestle With the Angel t'n? til the Breaking of the Day," Says ! I Ho.?An Article That Should lie Head hy All the Young Men of the State. The following is from the pen of that knightly gentleman and ripe Bcholur, Col. Jas. T. Bacon, Editor of the Edgelleld Chronicle. Every young man und young woman should read it: Doar Sunday News: At the very recent meeting of our Press Association in Greenville, we picked us out an Olympus of very young gods. We have old gods. And now we are going to utter a discourse to our youthful Olympus. We do not say preach, because we regard preach as a very unpleasant word. Stand up, Rutledge MeUhee, le Rousseau, of the Daily Piedmont, and hearken uute tuu worus ui wisuom. oiaaa up, r.iimore Honey, of the Laurens Advertiseer. Stand up, Archie Willie, of the Woodruff News and Herald. Stand up, Herbert Sass, of The Charleston News and Courier. Stand up, McDavid llorton, of the Columbia Record. Stand up, Edward McDowell, of the Camden Chronicle. Stand up, Perry Cleaton, of the Greenville Daily News. Stand up, Junius Bailey, of the Johnson News-Monitor. Stand up, young Caldwell, of the Chester Lantern. Stand up, R. Boyd Cole, of the Barnwell Sentinel. Stand up, Neil Chris^on3en, of the Beaufort Gagetto. Stand up young Gardner, of the Greenwood Journal. Stand up, young Bailey, of the Greenwood Index. Stand up, Jas. Izlar Sims, of the Orangeburg Tinvis and Democrat. Stand up, Alva Lor6DE, of the Aiken Journal and Review. Stand up, Louis Wigfall Cheatham, of the Edgefield Chronicle. And ?land up?last, but oh! so far from least!?Estella Smoak of the Branchville Journal. Rutledge McGhee, on account of your vivid piety, we appoint you to * b? priest of all the oracles. Elmore Boney, you will be the young and graceful Apollo of the Mount. Archie Willis, you will be Mercury, the messenger, and see to it that your wings o t*a #a1 tr n H #i nk aJ a ? a ? ? V* /I oi c oulcij uiiaviiru iu /u li I uci io. ?iUward McDowell, on account of your tender youth and your white skin, you shall be the blind Rod Cupid. Estella Smoak, remember that you sprang from the brain of Jove, and do not forget your heavenly birth and the "compulsory education" of the .. lesser little gods. Now draw near, in a line, and hear the words of wisdom from old Sa^ turn; or from an older deity still, if there was any such: To the young men and young women annually making their entrance upon active life, with great ambitions, conscious capacties and high . hopes, the prospect is, in ninety-nine cases in a hundred, most perplexing. They see every avenue to prosperity thronged with their superiors, in experience, in social advantages, and in the posession of all the elements and condition of success. Every of^ flee is filled, every path crowded. Where shall they find room? It is related of Mr. Webster that when a young lawyer suggested to him that the profession to which he ahd devoted himself was overcrowded. the great man replied: "Young man, there is always room enough at the top." Never was a wiser or more suggestive word said. There undoubtedly is always room where excellence lives. Mr. Webster wis not troubled for lack of room. Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun were neve* crowded. Mr. Evarts, Mr. Cushing. and Mr. O'Connor had plenty of space around them. Mr. Becker, Dr. Storrs, Dr. Hall, Bishop Phillips Brooks never knew, in their personal experience, that it was hard to obtain a desirable ministerial charce. The profession was not crowded where they were. Dr. Brown-Sequard, Dr. Willard Parker, Dr. Hammond were not troubled for space for their elbows. Henry Watterson, and John Temple Graves, and James Calvin Hemphill, and Tom Waring, and Win. E. Gonzales, and James A. Hoyt, and August Kohn have room to kick and splash in. When Nelaton died in Paris, he died like Moses on a mountain. When Von Graefe died in Berlin, he had no neighbor at his altitude. It is well first, that all young men remember that nothing will do tnem po much Injury as quick and easy success, and that nothing will do thorn so much good as a struggle which teaches them exactly what there is In them, educates them gradually to Its use, instructs them In v personal economy, drills them into a ' patient and persistent habit of work, and keeps them at the foot of tho ladder until they become strong to hold every step they are able to gala The first years of every man's business or professional life are years of education. They are Intended to be, In the order of nature and Providence Doors do not open to a man until he is prepared to enter them. The man without a wedding garment may get in surreptitiously but he immediately goes out with a flea in his ear. We think it is the experience of most successful men who have watched the courso of their lives in retrospect, that whenever they have arrived at a point where they were thoroughly prepared to go up higher, the door to a higher place was swung back of itself, and they have heard the call to enter. The old die, or voluntarily retire for rest. The best men who stand ready to take their place will succeed to their position and its honors and emoluments. The vountr man will tlmt n>ilv n few can reach the top. That is true, but it is also true that the further from the bottom one goes, the more scattering t lie neighborhood. One can fancy, for illustration, that every profession and every calling is pyramidal in its living constituency, and that while one man is at the top, there are several tiers of men below, who have plenty of elbow room, and that it is only at the base that men are so thick that they snatch the meat out of another's teeth to keep them from starving. If a man has no power to got out of the rabble at the bottom, then ho is self-convicted of having chosen a calling or profession to whose duties he has no adaption. The grand mistake that young men make, during the first ten years of their business or professional life, is in idly waiting for their chance. They seem to forget, or they do not know, that during those ton years they enjoy the only leisure they will ever have. After ten years, in the natural course of things, they will be absorbingly busy. There will then be no time for reading, culture and study. If they do not become thoroughly grounded in the principles and practical detail of their profession during those years; if they do not store their minds with useful knowledge; if they do not pursue habits of reading and observation, and social intercourse, which result in culturo, the question whether they will ever rise to occupy a place where there is room for them will be decided in the negative. The young physicians and young lawyers who sit Idly in their offices, and smoke and lounge away th? time, "waiting for nwHieiiiiii'K iu mm up, are Dy that courso fastening themselves for life to the lower stratum, where their struggle for a bare livelihood Is to be perpetual. The first ten years are golden years, that should be filled with systematic reading and observation. Everything that tends to professional and personal excellence should be an object of dally pursuit. To such men th? doors of success open of themselves at last. Work seeks the best hands, as naturally as wter runs down hill; and it never seeks the hands of a trlfler, or of one whose only recommendation for work is that he needs it. Young men do not know very much any way; most of them know mighty little; and the time always comes to those who become worthy, when they look back with wonder upon their early opinion of their acquirements and themselves. Ther? Is another point that ought I Tint tfl tin nvorln/ilr?/l I- *1.? 4 -1 * v/. ?wwn.^-vi 111 mu treatment of this subject. Young men look about them and see a great measure of worldly success awarded to men without principle. They see the trickster crowned with public honors they see the swindler rolling in wealth, they see the sharp man, the over-reaching man, the unprincipled man, the liar, the demagogue, the time-server, the trimmer, the scoundrel, who cunningly manages, though constantly disobeying moral law and trampling upon social courtesy, to keep himself out of the clu'.Mrof the legal police, carrying off the prize of wealth and place. All this Is a demoralizing puzzle and a fearfu1 temptation; and multitudes of young men are not strong enough to stand before it. They ought to understand that in this wicked world there is a great deal of room where there is integrity. Great trusts may be sought by scoundrels but great trusts never seek them; and perfect integrity is at a premimum even amoung scoundrels. There are some trusts that they will never confer on each other. There are occasions when they need the service of true men, and they do not find them in shoals and in the mud, but alone and in pure water. Tn the realm of eminent acquirements and eminent integrity, there I is always room enough. Let uo young man of Industry and perfectly honest despair because his profession or calling is crowded. Lot him al- i ways remember that there is room enough at the top, an dthat the question whether he is ever to reach the top, or rise abovo the crowd at the base of the pyramid, will bo decided by the way in which he improves the first ten years of his active life in securing to himself a thorough know ledge of his profession, and a sound ' moral and Intellectual culture, j Oo now, good children, and remember your Creator in the days ' j of your youth. Go, now and wrestle with the angel until the daybreak?until you secure the blessing. Commits Suicide. Standing before a mlrrow In his room In his home at Haytt's Park, Columbia, Louis R. P. Arndt, aged 25, took his lifo late Monday by sending a bullet crashing through his brain. Ill health and despondency are given as the cause for the act. He was well known in Columbia having been employed by a local drug store as a drug clerk. THE LAZY BUG IF YOU HAVE THE TIIIED FEELING AND DON'T FEEL Liko Doing Anything that Requires Effort, Why It Is as I'lain as Day? The Lazy Hug's Got You. The lazy bug will get you If you don't watch out. The old-time wizard who could put a whole castle or city to sleep by simply waving his staff above them was scarcely more powerful , says the Atlanta Journal, and even less insiduous than a wee mite of a creature that has come crawling into South Carolina; a microscopic witch-worm that is giving thousands of people a woozy feeling and turning their existence into a prolonged drowsy, lackadaisical gape of indolence. It is the lazy hug. No bigger than a little eye lash, it has become so prevalent here and in other southern states, according to reports, that Surgeon General Torney, of the United States army, has been carrying on an extensive investigation into its cause and has devoted an entire chapter of his forthcoming annual report to its effects. This it is believed, will lead to widespread movement among hoards of health to exterminate the dangerous pest. The lazy hug is sometimes called the hook-worm, and 'occasionally "the uncinaria," which is its hook name. If you should begin to feel an unaccountable tendency to yawn all day long, look out. The lazy bug is after you, and you would fare a thousand times better if all the bogie men on earth were chasing you instead. The lazy hug Is at this moment traveling through the South by regiments, brigades and army corps. Millions of them sometimes stop by the way, walk into a man's blood, hang up their hats and miako themselves at home for the *eet of his life. Then the man, or the child, limit* himself growing sleepy. He doesn't give a rap for anything. Ho becomes a Rip Van Winkle. Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary of the state board of health of Georgia, is the discoverer of the lazy bug in this section. He calculates that it causes more loss to the South in the way of human health and capacity than any other single disease. In some portions of the state, particularly the southern portions, whole communities have fallen into a drowse because of this parasite. When these people move to cities, especially cotton mill districts, they carry their lazy hugs with them, and so it happens that Monsieur Uncinaria finds him wny tiL tunes nuo cny streets, as well as rural lanes. This same lazy hug is at work In South Carolina and is said to be doing a)>out as much damage over here as it is over there, and you had better look out or it will catch you. The Journal says when it became known in Atlanta that the lazy bug was abroad in the land, Dr. Edgar Paulin, who is associated with Dr. Harris, on the state board of health, was immediately communicated with. He is a specialist on the subject and was prepared to give valuable advice. "That lazy bug," he explained, "is one of the most dangerous infections you could imagine. It burrows through the skin into the blood. Then it 1h carried to the heart and thence through the lungs. From there it easily gets into the intestines, where Its worst work begins. It devours a person's vitality. That Is why people infected with it are pale and listless. Children catch it by going barefooted. It starts with the oldfashioned ground itch and sometimes holds on as long as the patient lives. It makes undersized children who are developed neither mentally nor physically, pallid-faced children who eat dirt and all sorts of things. It Is caught mostly in the country." Evidences are plentiful that the lazy bug has reached this city. Numbers of people will testify that the!'' cooks have fallen prey already. And with the cooks infected, what is to prevent the family from drinking lazy bugs through his breakfast coffee? "Rut," explained Dr. Paulin, ' it. takes only 10 cents to get cured of the lazy bug. Yes, sir, only 10 cents. A man can buy him a dime's worth of thymol, which is a simple powdo", and when he has taken it, he will he free of lazy bugs." "Why is it, then, that more people don't cure themselves?" was asked. i cuii i imagine, no answered, "unless they prefer not to be cured. Some folks just love to bo lazy, you know." It is hoped that Surgeon General Torney's emphatic warning against the lazy bug, will bestir the public to vigorous and immediate action. Else, the country may become a land where people talk always in their sleep. Chauffers will drive their automobiles with one dull eyo half open. At church, the man who keeps awako will be as conspicious as the one who now doses off, or rather he would l>e, except for the fact that nobody would be awake to notice ( him. SOME GOOD ADVICE. A Farmer Tolls How to Get the Most From Cowpcoa. "In Juat the proportion that wo Increase the acreage of the cowpea, In that proportion will the soils of our section bo increased In fertility," says Mr. A. L. French, a successful North Carolina farmer, In tho Progressive Farmer. He then goes on to say: With us, It ususally follows a winter grazing crop that has boon sown on corn stubble, but wo aro not averse to turning a good sod of clover and timothy, and often do this, plowing ilie sod in the Into winter. Then as soon as the corn crop Is planted, we start to harrowing the pea land. And the deeper the plowing is done and the better tho seed bed is prepared, the better results we obtain in the pea crop. No crop wo have tried will respond hotter to good treatment than will the pea crop. We usually prepare the land well with the disc, Acme, and spiketooth harrows, sow the peas broad- I cast by hand and cultivate them In ! with the spring-tooth cultivator. ! Then level the land with tho smoothing harrow. On our best land we generally use three-fourths to one bushel per acre of good clean Clay peas and a peck of Amber cane seed. This makes the best combination for cow feed of any tiling we have ever used. On the thinner fields, where we sow the peas for soil improvement primarily, we use the pea alone, broadcast, one bushel per acre. Then where we want the crop to be grazed by hogs we put the peas in rows two feet apart. We plant these with our tworow corn planter. When we have grown a crop of peavines that will make as flue a quality of hay as we have ever been privileged to feed, we make hay of it. everv acre, as wo hnvo novor k<?oi? able to figure out tho economy of making manure direct of peavlnes, when every ton of pea hay is worth fifteen dollars when fed to first-class cattle or sheep, and tho manorial value of the product reduced very little by being passed through the animal. When we can make hay of poavines at u cost of from $1 to $1.50 per ton and return the manure back to the land for 25c per ton, wo believe it is good business to do so rather than to plow under the crop in tho raw state and just bury $13.25 with each ton so plowed uador. ] Doesn't the proposition look reasonable? ? ) So we put the big six-foot mowor into the pea field when tho pods are getting brown, let the hay lie in tho swath until thoroughly wilted, then rake into good sized windrows and leave until pretty well cured. If tho weamer continueB fair, bunch and lia.nl to the barn at once, but if rain j threatens, cock up into large, high cocks and leave them alone until the weather clears, when the cocks are taken apart, sunned and aired and sent to tho barn with a rush. NEC IIOES USE COCAINE. Said to Ota.in the Drug from u Certain White Man. A dispatch from Lexington says a prominent farmer from the Hollow Creek section was there and stated a fact that the law governing the sale of cocaine was being openly and flagrantly violated in his section. The habit among the negroe was rapidly becoming intolerable, in that farm hands were using tho dope to the extent of being useless. He says that negroes carry it around in their pockets, selling it at elllirph pnthcrlnire nnrl in I?, 0.,v..x/. ****** 11* "V/III C litstances they become wild and almost unmanageable. One negro is said to have had as much as $12 worth of the drugs at one time. It is said that it is much easier to peddle cocaine than whiskey as it can be more easily concealed. It Is thought that a prominent gentleman living in one of the near towns is acting as a kind of a wholesale dealer, and that the negroes and whites that have become addicted to the habit get their supply from time to time. It is said that a negro moving into the community from Prosperity somo months ago started the use of tho drug among the negroes, and the habit has steadily grown, until most of the negroes in the setlement use it in preference for liquor. Both men and women use it, it is said. It will be recalled that not many weeks ago the mayor of the town of Leesville fined the violator of the cocaine law $f?00. He was tried on live different counts convicted and lined $100 on each count. One 110gro, Mack Manning. Is now in jail having been sent up by Mayor Hendrix. The officers are going to work on the case reported and it is thought that the guilty parties will he apprehended. Commits Suicide. John Wilson committed suicide at Fort Mill Township Saturday morning. He was a white farmer. He shot homself with a shotgun in the neck, the gun being so arranged that he pulled the trigger with his too. The suicide is supposed to have been caused by family trouble. The deceased was 65 years of age. CASHIER SHORT A Trusted Man of Anderson Ruins His Good Name TOOK BANK'S FUNDS A mi I/Out Them in Speculating in Cotton Futures, Disappears, I,eav- ' ii?H a Writ ton Confession, Which Completely Stunned Mis Friends, Who Had Trusted Him. J. T. Ilolleinan, who for two years has been cashier of the Hank of Ant derson, and who for four years was assistant cashier, has been found short In his accounts approximately $35,000, and has left for parts unit nown. In the cash drawer of the bank he left a letter, addressed to President H. F. Mauldtn, In which he made a clear cut and complete confession saying that lie lost the money In speculating In cotton futures. Rather than face his friends, he said In the letter, he would flee, and t this he did on Sunday morning, when j ho loft supposedly on his annual vacation. The people of Anderson are severely stunned, for there was no man In Anderson who enjoyed the ; confidence nnd esteem of the people more than did Mr. Towmes Holleman. The hoard of director Issued the following statement Tuesday: "The hoard of directors of the lhink of Anderson make the following statement In regard to the shortage of J. T. Holleman in his accounts as cashier, which came to the knowledge of the ofllcials Monday night: After carefully looking into the affairs of the hank we find the amount will ho about $35,000, and inasmuch as the capital stock is $150,000 and the surplus $225,000, making a total of $375,000 to which is added the liability of the stockholders, $150,000, making a total available for crodltors of $525,000, the public can realize that the standing of the bank Is not Impaired nnd that the business of the bank, with Its well-known ability to accommodate its customers, will not be lessened. The loss will be charged off to-morrow, when the hank examiner ascertains the exact amount." This statement was signed by President B. F. Mauldin, Vice President J. A. Brock, Attorney Joseph N. Brown and five directors. No statement ever issued in An derson occasioned greater surprise and consternation. The officials of the bank knew nothing of the matter until Monday night. Mr. Holleman left the bank Saturday afternoon, supposedly with the intention of going away for a vacation of a week or two. He told his associates in the bank of his intention last week and he left with their fullest permission, and they did not dream that there was anything wrong. He is supposed to have left the fity sometime Sunday. It is not known where he has gone. The bank was opened as usual Monday morning and everything ran smoothly during the day. When Mr. A. H. Rharpe, assistant cashier, went to balance the cash that night he .. ~ -1 I _ A 1 U t 1 kjii nil in iut? (thmi i>ox a ituxer addressed to Mr. Manldin, the president. Ho also saw that thore was something wrong *"lth tho cash. Mr. Sharpe sent for Mr. Mauldln, who was at his homo and the letter was opened and road. Tn It Mr. Holleman made a complete confession. He said he had been speculating in futures and had gone from had to worse and that he had become desperate and decided to leave as he could not face his exposure. He turned over all his property to tho bank, but this will not come near covering the shortage. The directors of the bank were summoned, and after examination they placed the facts before Mr. Cfiles Wilson, the state bank examiner, who happened to be in the city on one of his regular trips, and he is now going over the books. The directors, however, have already satisfied themselves that the shortage is not more than $.15,000, and of course, this will not in any J way cripple the bank, which is one of the strongest in the up-country. Everything will go on as. usual as the bank has a large surplus fund, seven or eight times sufllclent to take rare of the shortage. Mr. Holleman, In his letter, said he first began speculating In futures about a year ago w,fn $'jOO which he had saved. He losr. that ant' th< n borrowed $1,000 fr? in tha bank w'lh which to recoup his loss. This soon went and other sums In rapid succession. It is an old story of a small beginning by a man who was the so ill of honor and had no Intention of defrauding anvbody. Mr. Holleman Is a native of Walhalla and has lived in Anderson about twenty years. He has a wife and several children. He has held several responsible positions In the city and hns been with the Hank of Anderson about six years. He was frugal In his habits, steady and Industrious, and had always lived within his Income. Ho was Just about the last man In the city that would have been suspected of being short In his accounts. The announcement of his trouble THE hOCK WORM IS WIDESPREAD IN SEVERAL OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. Effort* Will lie Miuk' to Eradicate the Terrible Dlso^wo by the Medical Hoards. A Washington dispatch pays tho | hook worm, or the "lazy bug." as it | has been shown to exist in the Southern States, according to the investigations of the physical condition of the army recruits, will form an Interesting chapter in the forthcoming report of the surgeon-general of the army and will probably lead to widespread effort on the part of the l>oardH of health in th Southern States to erad nine 1.11 is uisense, which a few years ago was brought prominently to the attention of the world in connection with the Porto Iticans. After being treated all of the Infected soldiers gained in weight and improved in physical condition generally. Following this investilgation of the recruits, it was discovered that "uncinariasis," as hook worm is culled in the medical world, was a common disease thoroughout the Southern States. it is estimated by tho army surgeons that f?0 per cent, of the recruits In the army today from the rural districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Ixriisiana will show book worm infection. The investigation has been progressing quietly during the hist six or seven months, so that when Surgeon General Torney mak< s up his annual report he will have much data to prove the pravalence of tho hook worm among the soldiers enlisted from the Southern States. These recruits passing though tho army depot tit Fort Slocum, N. Y., I wore examined lo the number of 140, [109 of them being infected with the parasite. West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee all supplied tho recruits that were infected. Th e Columbia Record sayr the knowledge now in tho possession of the government corncernlng the hook worm has been secured largely through the investigations of L>r. C. A. Stiles, who spent a year or .more I in Columbia and 8outh Carolina for I this purpose. He went into the c.otI ton mill towns and ont into the {country, Including the sand hills, living among the people in their homes land examining the children in the I schools. His observations are the I basis for the present announcement. 1 WOULD BK FIEND LYNCHED. I Ordered Two Young Iaidies to Get Out of Buggy. King Green, a would-be negro fiend, was lynched and his body riddled with bulletH at Gurn Branch four miles out from Eastman, Ga., Monday morning. The Misses Nicholson, daughters I of Sam Nicholson, one of Eastman's prominent citizens, while four miles out from Eastman, were met in the I road by the negro, who caught their 1 horse by the rein and toid them to I get out, that it was his horse and be 1 was going to have it. ! The young ladies whipped up their horse and tried to get away from him but he held on until frightened by their screams. Dogs were sent from the county convict camp and placed on his trail, and after a run of several hours the | negro was cantured The Sheriff and his deputies, while on their way to town, were met at Oum Swamp by a posse of 17f? men, who took him away from the otllvers and strung him up to a sapling, after which the crowdly dispersed. Medicine of Sunshine. The medicine of sunshine is something we cannot have too much. of. * There are a thousand ills and pains and aches of mankind for which it is the cheapest and most effectual of remedies. When the Samaritan poured wine and oil into the wounds of the beaten traveler he also poured in lots of sunshine of a lovable merciful disposition and it helped to heal the poor man Just as much as the medicine and food. Sunshine ohasee away the shadows and brings hope una cneor. More sunshine in business, home, social seivice, and religion is what the world needs. will he received with the greatest surprise throughout the city and county and State, and there will ho the deepest sympathy for him. Tie was universally liked. It is not known whore he has gone and no statement was made as to what steps would be taken to apprehend him. All of his friends and the bank directors were too stunned to map out any course A in union. In the midst of tho grief over his downfall about tho only comfort Is that tho solidity of the bank was not lrnplred In the slightest degree, and, of course, it does not affoct any of the banks In the city. Mr. Holloman's popularity is shown by the fact that several of his friends said that, if he had told them of his trouble, they would have furnished the money to cover his shortage and given him a new start.