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..o Stays at Home. ,Ueels of the world go round and round, In the press of the busy throng, Morn wih its matin melody, And night with its vesper song; The tides are out and the ties are inI, Like the sea with its obb and flow, For there's always on to stay at hoimo Where there Is one to go. ,Atlbroad on file highway's noisy t rack There is rush of hurrying feet., The sparks fly out from fhe wheels of tim To brighten the bitter and sweet; But a)amrt from the beaten road and path, Where the puls of carth runs slow, There is always one1 to stay at h1om1e Where there is one to go. Over and over good-bys are said In tones that die with the day, When eyes arc wet that cannot forget, And smiles have faded away; Smiles that are worn as over a grave Flowers will blossom and blow; For there's always one to stay at homo Where there is one to go. Always one for the little tasks Of a day that is never done; Always one to sit downi at Iight And watch with the stars a lone; And le who lights on the world's broad field, With banner and blast and drum, Little dreatms he of a battle gained By the one who stayed at home. Governor Ellerbe Not Bound by Factional Lines. The Constitution and Laws Will Be His Guide in All Things. An Independent, Manly As sertion of His Purposes. The following is the inaugural ad dress of Win. -1. Ellerbe as Governor of South Carolina, which wasdelivered on Monday at noon : Fellow Citizens : You have called me to the highest ellice within your gift. In assuming the duties of this most impll)Ortant trust, I cannot cx press in litting wod'(1 Imly high aplreciation of the confidence placd in ile. This great honor, I already realize, carries with it great respon3ibilitics. With Out yOUr Warm 811)port, upon which I confidently rely, i shall he unable to meet and overcome the many dillicul ties already ap)arent. It has long been the custom of the in coming Governor to outline, in his in augural address, the pOlicy of his ad ministration. In obedience to this time honored custom, I shall atteupt briefly to set before you the course which I shall endeavor to pursue during my term of office. Untrammeled by obligations or )led ges inconsistent with thle welfare of the people, it. shall b)0 my highest ambition to discharge my duties faithfully and impartially. The solemn oath of offiee wvhich I have just taken binds me to no political paty or faction, but it does bind me to preserve, to protect and to defend both the constitution of this State and of the United States. Under our' form of government, faith fulness to outr fundamental laws and zeal for tile public welfare arec all that is demanded of citizens assuming public trusts. To sulpport the constitution, the fou nd ation of ouri frtee governments, is thbe duty of every citiz.en. Upfonl this consideration, I have a right to expect the supiport of all good citizens and you have aL right to demand that I, in the administration of the inws, give "'equal rights to all and special privi leges to none." To administer faithfully the laws ; to lighten, by all worthy meanis, the bur dlen of taxation ; to develot) the r'e sources of the State:; to protect the in dustries of her citizens:; to encoutrago Immigration of the right sort:; to fos tor our1 intstitutions of learning, both church and State ; to enhance the clii ciency of our public schools ; to sustaitn our p~enal and1( charitable and other in stitutions--shall be my earnest desire and utnalterable purpose. In matters of detail, however, I deem It best to make to the G;enetral Assomi bly by special message, such recom mendations as may from time to titme occur to me, and the exigenc'i(s of the case may demand. To thle intelligence andl patritotism of this body we must look for the enactment of lawvs which may beCst protect the people's interests. I have neither the power notr inclinat tion to force your repslresentatives to accept my v'iews. At aLlI times I tand ready to co-operate with themn, to coun cil and to advise. T1AXAT1ION. Withotut taxation, di'rect or indirect, no government can be maintained. All patriotic cil~izens chleerful ly beat' their part of the burdecn of taxation wheoi the affairs of state are wisely andi economically mansgedl. it is only when the revenues of the State are squandered or unwisely andl cx travaga~ntly ex pcndecd.'or when some classes of pr'oper-ty cecapc tatxationt and the burden of suppor'ting the govern ment i~', ther'cfore, utneq utay d istri butted, thaut the peoiplo coc 1dian. I t is clear thenm that all taxable proper'ty should be assessed 4nd that great care should ba taketn in the eq(ualhzation of assesa-ments. T1he legislators aro' the servant s of the people, entrusted wvithi the (delicato responsibility of appropria ting public funds ; and. like good bjusi ness ment, they shouldl endea~vor to e'x poend every dollar wisely and econotmi cally. To secure the best govern ment, at th~e leatIt expentso to the peUop'C, shott'd I the contstar.t, aint of every legisilat fit is the part of a states mian t' k to lighten the burdenu of taxa~tio / hein this can b)0 do.iv wit ~h out. det, mient to tiho publlicrz n't est; butt to (ripptjlo or' destiroy ine)51tadocns, establ ished for thec benefit of th<' People, merel y to rediuce the tax ratct , uc nith or wise notr statesmatn-like. 'To pursuo the one course Is to ad vance ; toe pursulo the other is to retrogradc. .It shaull be my pol1icy then, to endeavor to iflcre'aso, in every legitimateo way, our i' ,xable Trhis can b (lone by indiucing worthy immtligr'ants 10 our1 mi tid-st, and by teach Inug ouri own1 people to dliversify and im pro~ve in every possible) way. It Is thuts that we shall be able to bring uinder cultivation vast atretces of rich, un tilled lands and-aIt th'o same thne, to. ilWroyo soil already tado poor by im PIopor' ttllhago. Our' clitmate is, por any on this continent. Our winters are ei short and our summers long, but not in warmer thatn at the North. Stock re- be quire lees food, and man less clothing th than In colder sections. am Our truck farmers have an immense to advantage over their Northern com- wl petitors. We are no longer dependent to upon the WestErn farmer for corn and ur oats and hay and pork and beef. In be some sections tobacco culture has al- gi ready becomo a profltable industry. fi We have perhaps the. advantage of TI Northern aLd Western farmers in at many respects, and with cotton as a in sure money crop, we can offer to immi- b grants advantages not possessed by ary Ui other section. There is now reason to m believe that the manufacturers of New uF England are already looking towards at the South. They are beginning to re- or alize that it is cheaper to bring their p( mills to the cotton than to take the ct cotton to the muls. With our splendid p water powers, many of which are un- tc developed for lack of capital, but which, if harnessed for the uso of man, would ol materially increase our wealth, we ai ought, it scms to me, to call the at- V< tention of the outside world not only to h: those unparalelled advantages, but ci also to our genial climate, the richness c: and variety of our soil, our mineral h wealth, our splendid forests of pine ci and oak and hickory and walnut and ci gum and other varieties of trees. % South Carolina ought to become a oi great manufacturing State. We need c4 a variety of industries. There should t) be no antagonism between the farmer si and the manufacturer, between the cit- d izen of the town and the citizen of the o: country. Their interests are mutual. d 1Every exclusively agricultural country r4 is not only dependent, but poor, and g the povdrty of the South is due not t< alone to desolation of war, but to the a lack of the arts and industries which o have made the North rich. At the d same time, we should not in our zeal to fi foster manufactories, commit the fatal o blunder of neglecting or failing to pro- it te, our agricultural interests, which t lie at the basis of all our prosperity. e, Capital, it ie said, is cowardly. At any c rate it scoks a solid basis for Invest- a ment. We ought, on this account, to t] inspire in the outside world the confi dence that legitimate investments e made in South Carolina shall not be tj disturbed by unjust legislation, and, at c the same time, we should protect and n encourago Industries already estab- a lished. if we rigidly pursue this pol- s icy during the next decade, we shall o be able to double the material wealth m of the State, and thereby to rEduce the h rate of taxation by increasing our tax- c able property. a DISPENSARY. U The most diflicult and perplexiny b problom with which the people in all V civilized countries should contend is n that of the liquor traille. All the V efforts of the legislators to cope with 3 thchydralheaded monstorof alcoholisi 0 have been unsatisfactory and ineff-ect- t ual. Prohibition has been tried re- C peatedly in different States, and, a while it has failed to check drnken- p ness, it has encouraged hypocrisy, i evasion or open violation of the law. tj its advocates are unquestionably in- E spired by the loftiest of motives, but human nature remains forever the same ; and, while legislators may enact r laws for the punishmentof crime, they c can never force men to become vir-tu- t Ous or sober. So vast a problem as that of the 11- t quor trallie demands for its solution the co-operation and combined wisdom of all h people. Local option cannot, I therefore, settle it, except tenm)orarily 1aind to a very limited extent. The open 1 saloon is a constant menace andi a dis grace to civilization. As is well known, I was att first not I an advocato of the diispensary law andi t I was skeptical as t > its ever bleing ar success in any form. .1 can rno4 there- f fore 1be considered as unaeuly biased in e its favor uind I have arrived at my Ipresent conclusion in regard to it somewhat againes my wvill. 'Thme opin-c ion reached by me, after a thorough s investigation of i's working through- ' out the State, and after- having the views of a good many intelligent andv good men, is that the law is a great e improvement, over the old license sye. temn and that it deserves to ho fully t tried, in its present form, before there s is any radical change made. Thet pr-of is overw helming that there is t less drunkenness now than formerly Iandi that the consumnpt~ion of liquor has been largely dlecreased. Thius is ac- I knowledged by ever-y fahm-inded man, I andi that the masses of the peOopie are I averse to returning to the license eye tiem in any form is very evident to any I man whoi has minglcd with thenm. c Having stated my opinion as to the pol-c icy the State bihould pursue. I feel it my~ dutly to enter at some length ont the workings and merits of the law, and point out the severe tests to which 1I it has been subjected. It is not saying c too much to asser-t that it has never t had a fair chance. Enacted during a fi peilod of intense political activity, 1I when prnujudlice and party spirit were c running high, it wvaa opposed by many lI on political grounos purely, without s considleration of its p)urpaso or merit, i atnd cver-y Possible obstruction thrown p in its way. The Federal courts by ini- S junctions have crippled its enforce- v inent seriously. A (ter the D).rlingtonm m trouble had been quieted the decision n1 oIf th.e Supreme Court declaring the s5 law unconstitutional catmo to untdo all I the work that had been done. While it dIemnistrated the utter futIlity of t: prohibition it at the same time initiat- p c d the sale of liqutir withbout license in am every nelghborhood anid many who h. then began the nefarious tra file never in ceased to follow it, and are still selling a I iqumor ats mucho as they dare. V O' what use is it, to argue that the e Sttatue should not SdIl liquor' to Its citi- Li zense or reaip S proifi t from the "' blood o Imoney." as some term it, when they n md vocat-e licensing its safe and thus mr siring in tihe profits made by the pri- o vto dealaer ? Onoe system is just, as h immoral ats the othcr, If there is im- o modraitly in either. i3ut the monopoly tl ofi the sale by the State enables it to t( control in a measure and minimiz3 the a ev i, andl~ the profits which are but of ir secondatry consideration to the State aret shareid by all the people. On the r,< otheri hand the licensing of its sale to t' pr ivate parties wouh! create a monpei t;nly just, as certainly as the existing 'u onie - pr-ivate monopoly which has o1 never- been and willl never be controll ed by law, arnd the profits which then Pi become thbe paramount object are pl sharedi by the State and thoe barkeeper, oi Them e is a monopoly In either ease and 0 thle State in one instance reaps all the o profits anmd seeks only to promfote the cause of temperciance and reduce the al evil to a minimum. In the other the .t pr1ollit goes largely to private individ- 1I utmmd andl there is no thought of redu- i' cin~g the consumption of liquor and promoiting sobriety ; while experience a has show n beyond dispto that private :n gain stimumlates the sale in every way poss~iblo and encourages the evil. - There ar-e no "' back stairs "~ or "' side doors "~ to the dispensaries, but there iin never was a bar-room which did not tell liquor on the sly on public occa- n( )sed. The dispensary is open only tri the daytime and when ordered to vol closed, as on cirous days and during in o fair in Columbia, they were closed, oui d but few drunken men could be an und in the city, though the crowd qu is immense. The Stato can niffrd to lose profit on such ocoasions, but ert idor no system of license has it over vii en possible to shut the bars. Private ou! eed is not to be controlled and here- I lies the great merit of the system. fei ren the closing of the dispensaries th night and the destruction of treat- cri g by forbidding the sealed packages an ting opened on the premises. These au reo features are the ones which to ako the dispensary law popular in cil ite of " shortages " In dispUemers' i1 countq and " rebates," whether rmal th imaginary. Lot us try, then, to co )rfect the system and punish disbon- of t dispensers rather than try the old sy an which we know is loss conduclvo 0h sobriety and good morals. ml Now, in regard to the administration in the law and the prevention of fraud th id stealage, I feel sure that an in- by ,stigation will show that a great deal its been said about " rebates " receiv- im I by the oillcers charged with the p' ccution :f the dispensary law that st as little foundation ; but should the in sntrary be shown I feel that a system te ,n bo devised or is already in forco lo hich will free the law from criticism h( i that score. My exnorlenco in the st )mptroller general's oflico satilles me fo iat the business can be conducted in pt ich a way as to prevent stealing, or fa otect and punish it if the dispensers in e other tilicors ccnnected with the th lsponsary attempt it. There is no le 3ason why such checks and safo- m uards can not be devised as will pro- 1i' %ct the State's intoreskt as thoroughly of 3 in the collection and disbursement Ti taxes and other public money. The tt isponsary has become a part of the s1 xed policy of tho Stato and as long as w ir present constitution remains intact es is the duty of the Governor to see st nat the laws governing it are enforc- ti; 1, and it is tho duty of all law-abiding itizens to labor for the same end, or di t least to submit to the provisions of n< 10 law. Li I believe the dispensary comes near- til r to the solution of the liquor problem pl ian any other scheme yet propos- in I by man. It may be necessary to W iodify the law, but constant changes w re to be deplored. The diLsl)enser8 aV bould be honest men, selected with- r ut regard to party affiliations, and at ,lnn convicted of crime should b:3 PE andled like other criminals. The hief dispenser, the board of control nd all the higher officials should be ni ion whose honesty cannot be reasona- to ly questioned, and who should hold at beir places on account of fitness and M ot for political reasons. An institu- L1 on is known by its fruits, and it is m imply a question whether prohibition a r the dispensary system will do most di ) diminish drunkenness and its ac- tl :mpanyIng ills. Upon inral grounds ) nd only upon moral grounds, the dis- " onsary must stand or fall. The pro- Is t feature is of secondary considora- t0 on. tr DUCATION--TjEI PUBLIC ShljOOLS. of That it is the duty of the State to , rovide for the-education of her child- in en is now almost universally conced d. He belongs to the past andi not to ho present who hopes to check the C( rowing demand for popular oduca- p ion. The enemiesof the public school a uill find the entire drift of modern w Ivilization against them. All the . eadirg nations of the carth have ti ounded, and are still endeavoring to N erfect, systems of piopulat- education. - Vitness Germany with .19) per cent. i nd France and 1t0gland each with w (11-2 Per cent, of their popliation in w he schools. Tro be relegated to the ir ear is the fate of every State that ei siis to provide for the training of her ~ ildro".r Witnens Spain, oaaa~ the leading at ower of Europe, with Onlv 10 per w ent ; Italy, once the home of art anid tI cienco and cu' tur', with ti per cent.; at utrkey, att once the shame~ andi disgrace pl 'f -urope, with 2 1-2 per cent ; Mexico, : L iithn -1 1-2, and l3rczil with only 3 per1 [1 ent. of her pop j ath " t honoi. M Trhe whole hi .'. .v si .a ...... .. civiliza- b< ion teaches t: at, in the strugtgle for rc upremnacy, tho sceptre of dominion ti asses not to the State most richly ca >lessed by nature, but to the State li hat best succeeds in training its citi- s ens for all the dluties of life, both p~ub- a ic andi private, in peac3 and in war. tr n comparison with cold and bleak d< Iewv England the South is a paradise. as and1 yet it must lbe confessed by all Li air-minded men that long befro the d< eselating cyclone of wvar had swept mn vet- our fai'r fields, power anmd do- Si ranion wore air md~y passing rapidly or o the North. We were already ap- is reaching a conflitionu of intellectual ondage in the South. ft has been bj stimated by cminent, author-ityv that ar his section paid annu dhy Lto the N >rth, pi r many years hofore the war', not, su as than $5,000 030 for books and edui- d< ation. When Newv Eugland estab- at shed her- free Pu ublic schools and~ wv trenigthened her~ system of popular bn istruction, shn at-m .d herself with (te Li owver to wres', supremacy from the so outh, which was~ content with pr-i- w ate andl paroohial schools, and to pc take good her claim to lcadetrsh ip far m iorc elfectually tLban she subsecquently ei scured in the sur-render of Lie at A p- in omattox- Lth This is said in no harsh ci iticism of beo generation oIf mon now rapidly Ic assing from the stars, whose courago ar nd fotitude werec testod on a hundred at ard-fought fields, whose "energy es inde bricks without straw and -pt-end In plendior amid theo ruIns of thoir war-- Cl asted homes ;" but for the p~urpiose of Lih mphasizing a truth which cannot be ID io deeply impressed upon the milnds co the men into whose hands Is corn- ti tiLted the sO!emn responsibility of at eouldinag the destiny of the State and at mnakinug her future not unworthy of r~I er proud, inspitring past. rTo see out- na Nn short-comings and to rise with to rmn will to cort-ect past mistakcs is ci ic part of wisdlom. Vain- conceelt in nc State is no more to be admired t~han an individual. Oar- tchools are not what they oughta pa be. .ln the opportunities they offer or toir youth fotr oducation, the north- hei n andl western States have left us far ric mhin and Lthis fotr reasons beyond sat it- control. Tiho wvar left us confront- b~u I by the most serious educational of robhlemi over- thrust upon a free peo- thi le-the problem. it has been well m' idi, oif educating three times the num- G rte of children with one-third the er' oneiy. The war not only robbed us at motre than 50 per cent, of our tax- pit >lo pr-opetty, but it, added at a single b r(oke to out- school poputlation hun- .\I -n's~ of thousands of illiterate ox uaves. In spite of desperate odds, we ive beten moving forwar-d, but the th LLLIh' is not, 3et won. Soutb Carolina -, t- tnot yet r' gained her once proud 'a mit-ioi ini thi gr-oat republic. She i ;, n' v tr meg a n it utiL her people,ri sing above all partisan hatred, unite qut oune heroie ellor-t to make our sys- . o f pu blie irstr-uction inferior to 1b I isa t husand tlhus nl.. that e all .. imph in the end. We should de op our mines, build factories and a prove the fertility of our soil ; but t -highest, our most sacred duty now t I evermore must be to improve the E Ility of our citizenship, to develop mind and hearts of the rising gen Lon, for upon their intelligence, I tu and patriotism the destiny of I State depends. n a monarchy, in an aristocracy, a v great and good men may govern ) state wisely and well, but in a gov iment of the people, for the people I by the people, Illiteracy is ashame I a disgrace and a constant menace the safety of the State. All good izens should unite in the effort to prove our public ehool ; to lengthen , school terin, espe ally in the untry; to encourage the foundation public libraries; to Inaugurate a stem of university extension that iil! ca.'ry sclence and culture to eager nds graspIng after botter things ; to areasa the number and elliciency of u farmers' institute, now conducted the authorities of Clemson college. [n this great work of educating the isses I pledge iuy unwavoring sup rt and sympathy. To our higher in tutions of learning, the public bchools ist look for efficient, well-tralued ichers. Destroy or cripple our col ;os and you destroy and cripple all pe of better public schools. As a 'eam cannot rise higher than the tntain head, so will teachinst in the tolie schools renaivn low and unsatis tory until those who are to engage this work seek the better to equip omselves In the higher seminaries of arning. Nor is this all. The pri ary sehool, it is said, has a right to re because it fits people for the duties citizenship. But for what duties? ) read, to write, to cipher? Dots is fit them for the duties of citize.n ip ? For the lowest perhaps, but Iat of the highest ? Do not the high t duties require the amplest scholar .ip, the hignest and noblest training at can be given ? Can the frec school fit for the highest ities of statesmanship? Aseuredly it. For the solution of great and oft noa perplexing problems invo!ving e peace and prosucrityiof all the poo e the,S-ato stands In constaut need of en of the higLest scholarship, of the ofoundest knowledge of law ; men bose mental grasp is large enough to ,cop the whole horizon ; men able to so above local or even State interests d to act for the common good of the ople ot all the Status. It is the chief pride and glory of our ate to claim for her sons men whoso .mes are forever inscribed in the his ry of this natinr. Such wore L'gare id Sims and Hayno and Preston and eDullie and the great Calhoun. From :r hills and valleys may still go forth en who shall not only bless their State .d nation, but humanity itself. Again. >es the common school train men for ( professions of law, of medicino ? )es it (quil) them for sciitilic pur its ? Doxs it send out expert eheni ts and geologists and engineers and icutific agricuituralists Y It can niever' ain men for the manifold pursuits and ofessions opn to the ambitious youth the State. For these we must furnish eded training in seiminaries of learn g or look to other' States to do for us hat we Ehould do for ourselves, and end muoney abroad for what the Stato u-d supply. Against such a fateStato ido and patriotismn alike rebel. Such disaster vould fall with crushing -ight upon t1o Pons and daughters of e poor, wno would be unaible to meet f3 expr!nses of an education at the orth. Bat, we are told that higher lcation In S.>uth Carolna costs to:) uch. Dl.:s it not cost less than any here else In the world ? Harvar'd,I ith her :i,000 students, has an annual comeO of more than $1,000,000 -a cost $400) per' student, aind thIs, too, with aceount taken of the millions al ady invested in buildings and books id scienitile equipment. A nd ynt who ill soy that the, vest, rums invested in Is groeat univer'sity fail to bring in equnate returi ? Does Virginia comn ai n of the $109,000 annually spent for .e 500 yeoug mn at her university. ave not Mtlichigan, and1( Wisconsin and innesota and Nhr'aiska and ('all fornia ten am ply re paid for the imill ions in cent, years dlevotedl to higher educa n? A tax of $100,000 for highe du tion in Suh Ultr~ molIia means but ,tle morn than 50 ceats for every thou nd dollars of taxable prioperty. Such tax, even weri there no adequate re rns, is no burden to any onte. 13ut it es bring adequate returns in man hood id womanhood. It does, I believe. In e long run, pay for the Investment in llars and cents. Thero can be, there ust be no conllict between church and ate colleges. Trherec should be gener' s rivalry, biut open or covert antagon rn is d isastrous to the Interests of both. Col leges founded hy theochiurches and private benelleence have per'formied, dare still performing, a great and~ .triotic ser'vice, but no0 State should mFrcnder to piivate p~h ilanthrIopy or nominational zeal its sacred, inalien tie right and solemn duty of placing Ethin roach of all her' children the cad of knowledge. Zaal in educa >nal work Is contagious. 'The ch urch hool liourishmes best in those States aeroe puiblic spirit rallIes to the sup lyt of the State colleges, or to speak ore philosophIcally, wherever the urch is healthiest there all publllic stititions for the good of men find eir warmest supplort. Genuine Christianity enkindles Intel tual life, ar'ouses man from lethargy d creates withIn him public spirit d patriotismt and an unfailing Inter t. in thbe 'olfareo of others. In Mexieo, B3amziI, in S;i I ' wherever in short, ritianity 1, b homo r'ngnwit crc all publh: enterprises lauguish. *stroy or crhm~ple our denominatIonali lieges and y- ii take from our civIl>'zt mI its strong, unlfting force; but de 'oy otr cripple our State institutions, dI you take the road which has car 3d Spain, once the lead Ing power and turally the rlchest coun try of 10urope, the rear in the triumphal march of ril:z itton. There should1( of couirse be waste In ouri educational resoures. CONUILUSION. ['ollow ciitIizens, the political eamn lgn of 18011 is over. You have hen rd me as few men in South Carolina ,ve ever' been honored and far more :bly than I des'irve. You gave mc, I y It in no sp)IrIt of vain glory or' of anting, bitt In profound aipprecitlon the honoir he~stowcdl-.-you gave moc in I, irmocratic primnary the largest mj witly ever given a (candildato for' vernor'. Bolth factions of the Demo st parity, as the vote east Indicates, vy tmt wamrm and enthusIastic sup. "t, such as nter- arile~ could not have enI gin-in to ime f...a m.ial candidate. in ,r stant anieity shall be not to. vnohyof your confidence. o 3 whoe poplO. Our interests are itud. It will be base and treacherous al itnmrateful on my p~ rt arnd unwise 1 tn opamtriotlc On, your part, longer to the fires of parttlisan hatred, Or) st ions of public policy we can noet all ree; but, when issues3 ar'o settled at hal lot box, we can and ought to sub. t to t~he will of the majority honestly m-essed. I beseech you to resolve on this occa- i ion to bury all factional feelings and I o join hands and hearts in your efforts o-develop the resources of our beloved tate, to build up her Institutions, to I iromoto her every interest. In assuin ng my oflioal, duties, I pledge you my 1 )1st services. With all my itrength of iend and heart I shall labor for the sommon weal, and in my ofllolal capac tyI shall treat both friend and foo th equal consideration. 1 rId myself >f allseotional and partisan feelings nod trail you all as Carolinians. I love my iative State. I love her people. I an proud of her grand and inspiring his ory; of the names of her illustrious sone; of the thousands of her honored lead who sleep upon every groat battle [Ield of thoir country. I rejoice in the hope our future inspires, in the patriot Ism of our young manhood and in the self-sacriticing devotion of our young womanhood. ile Story of How He lost Both Hands, THill VICTIM O1, RIuPEATUI) Au. CID)'NTS. One of I he Most ItCmarkale Cases in Iusnranco Annals-Flilo Isnir anco Ag-ent Gives the Grouitl of' His Company's Defense in tic Case. Atlanta Cont iltu ion. The ca.e of A. 1. Fowler. the theo logical student who lost his hands in separato accidents, is one of the moAt remairkabic in insurance annals. In August, 1801, Fowler camo to At :unta and took out a ton-thousand-dol lar combination life and accident policy with the Preferred Accident Insurance Company, and just seven days after lie had made his application the company was notilled that while out hunting he had sull'red the loss of a hand from the explosion of a gun. After recovery Fowler went to Ten nessec, and while In Memphis took out a policy with the AJtna Life Insurance Company, ind in a few days the report came into their hcadquarters that the other hand was gone. Shortly after the second policy was taken out Pow ler was cut hunting near Union City, Tenn., and by a most Inysterious fatal ity shot the only hand he had left cn tirely off. These are the bald facts, entirely devoid of any eoloring of inotive, or even the suggeEtion of the case, either provident ial or otherwise. It is all mysterious, and the friends of the un fortunat.e man claim that tho roports which have bee) circulated on him.are unjust and cruel. lowler, at the time lie took his first insurance here in Athnta, was a stu dent at the Presioyterian College, at Clinton, S. C., and wais pr'oilinently connected with one of the college pub I ications. The 1lov. Will ian P. Jacobs, who is known all over the country as the head of the famous I.'hornwell Or ph inage, is the president of this col lege, and iho fact that Powler was connect-d with the loading publication of that Institution is strong evidence of the good mora I character of the young theological student. It seeris that Powler was taking a eneral theological course, and in or der to defray his expe~nses, would go out on occasional trips soliciting insur ance and the like with a view to earn Ing his living. ie came to Atlanta, and while1 here went to the eube of the Preferred Aecident Insurance Clom I)any to see the agint in regard to tak IIg some inisurance. At that time the businciu of the company was conducted by Messrs. Thornton & Scott, and in h is first appl ication lVoeler dealt, en tirely with Mr. Scott. Hie decided to take what is cal led a ''combination" accident policy, and made out the ap p1lication hinise f, but on handing it in he stated to Mr'. Scott that he would call back and pay the premiumn tihe netxt dlay. "'On his isecond v isit,"' said Mr.Thor-n ton. "Vovwle came1i ini the ollice, and( no one hauopined to ho in but myself. I asked him iwivhat lhe wan ted, and he said he had cal led to pay his piremhium on a piolievhie had taken out the day befor.. '-We have r.gular' blank icei pts," con)tinued Mr . Thoornton, ''for our quar' torly premium money, and when I went to iii this out he in formed me that ho could not pay the full amount, which was $3, so I turned thI blank sll) over and simply13 wi-ote a r'eceipt for $5 on tthack of it. This was satisfactory. to himn, and he stated that as soon as lhe reached his home in South Carol inia he would send thie balance of $3, wvhichi he didi. "The)i:se re(cipts expressly say that the amotunt hi received in ease the pol icy shall bo issuied by3 thebC~ company, but that if the co:ni pany r'efuses to take the risk it res .rves the right to refund the money and thereby cacea all that has( been done. (. .r comupany neveir ac cepts, or der any conditions, ai risk until the polie iCIs ?igned att tile home 0111cc, andl this fact was clearly impressed on is~ mind, for ini the blank app~ilication that Vowlecr readl and signed himnself the followIng sentenoo occurs "P'h is appl)1icationl sha ll nomat b)0 binding upon the comnpainy until acecepted by the see retar'y and( the p)olicy shall1 not bo in fore unl aii aly1 I~ issuled from tihe ol~ibco in Newv York.' lFowleir made out his application on thle 7th of August,, piaid the *5 onl the 8th and was injured on the 13th. W here was the 1)01icy all this time ? Why, the papter's had been sent Oil to tile ollice in New Yoi'k and oil the r'epresentation that lie wvas a thleological student was held up, for vwo do not take large risks on thleological s tudents. "A bou t the 8th of A ugust we re'ceived in formaittion that Vowlecr had recceived a callI to a oh urch and on the strengthl of this repIort the 1pol1icy was lssue~d and reaiched him at Clinton, S. (., ab) ut tI 0o st, of S 'pte mbor. Prom th is it atppears that lPowht r held no 1)o11icy In thmis comn ly at any time between the 7th of A 'gust, when) lie iirst came to the rile, amnd 13h, the dlateo of the' policy. Ills hand wa is wounded and the armII amliputated somewhere near the I 3.h, and 0n that groundi the light has Ti'ie case was tied her-e in the city cour't and is no0w h foro~ the supreme courit, and ai decision will, in aili prIoh). -tbilii ty, b)0 rchied tihe eartily part of this week. WhI ie tt~his ca-c Is before the courts of (i''r'ia ut iJvS has r'eachled hiere thait l'i .i* r, has Iost the other 1hand( and 40ods a puhe iy in the ;',:.na LIfe I nsuir' an 'c Coml pany'. In ever~y e-lse there is always two sid ' of ciiim, kind(Om o rlother, buit in th is one there scorns t') b) two big sides w ithi (lhu 01h14 in fav ir of tihe Poo', arm. Id-li thlcolog ical stuident,. "'It Is aL slamnO," saidi Mrin. Geo. WVest r.or'elne, wvho is cond u tlng th.~ fight r'gainsti the IPreferrtd AccIdent insuri '1ncc Company, "'for such rumors to be ci cunlted on( an1 1innocenlt mnu, who is til "ut doubt, the most unfor: unato en''a'r i ever hear 100id of." . 11)i1ot, k~now very mutch abouit thle 'i a i n in P'lnnas-; 'in, h4t I aun) thor' S ath Caroli na.t Vann,~ l...l-. s f,ou moat my old home and his family stands kigh in their section of the Stat.e l vas going out on a hunt atnd while dri- I 'Ing a buggy with another gentleaun i 'he un was in omo nysterious way ilsoliarged. His companion at tue ,!me of the accident, is ono of the ebet. Cnown 1nen in) his s3oo. Iiti I.. ItF Jughly reliable, and ho corroborate Ahe statement made by IP'owler that it was purely accidental. r 11t is simp1)ly the old story of a Iman rIdlug In a buggy over rough country roads with a gun under his arm. That, i Is all there Is to it, and all these wild rumors which are being circulated ar1 uoubtless put out with a view to injur- O ing the poor follow's case, which is now b fore the supreme court. It seems C but he is simply pursued by a most ingular and inoxorabe fate." As a sequel to tho foregoing state- G iont concernig tihe payments of in urance policies hold by A. It. Fowler, d L10 atenlt of Uh i;'Aa co0flfi1nay prints tho folbowing letter from the insur..-d, in which lie acknowledges the receipt A if $1,06 0 for the loss of is righlt hand. In this letter additional light is LI rown u1poln tlhe tralgic accid(ent by which i r. Pow let, lost his seconid hand. He writes as followb : D.:ar Sir: I desire to acknowlet'ld'e reciit of your co pany's eheck foi Wi 0 Sum111 of $1,(;;( 6 for the lots of the right 1wund, which was accideint:i ly tshot oil while I was out oirdi huntinr, near Uiioun City, Tern., en ()ctobI 2: At lie timo Ii met witi tho accil . I (lid not llow that I hald ally in- oa I had Iever t'igned the applicet.Ion, 1 had I paih th m I h m apphea ion to th. A na lI I I - . Company for lfhu i$rs.. was deelined but the mI ,:ay ao I Nzell you to iuntm at .->whoi rk -,a accident11 pjlley, whi00h you dil , ) Ir_ tob;r 12. When m, a'p.a'1 ,J A0. made, y.o informti m t',, g*i .I have to refer the .ame to th. m lice, owing Lto the fact that i t - left hand. As I i,(d to I M. - the next day you proimlisd At iioi;'A m on my trip whl you h< tr 1,h com pany. I now lsir to Ii I you for the proteotion given i1e, whi h I assure yout I apreciate. The pirmlipt payment of the ;na of itn lo)ss. aol PSpecailly in this case, under the cir (cim.stances. should comm nd it to .i favoral)e consideratton of every on - desiring accident hisurance w itli a Company of uniidoubtud financial ta'ld ing. Yours tru'y, A. Riciam lPowinA.:. --Everybody knows how hard it is to look entirely uiconecious if you have nothing to put in the plate wheu a collection is b-ing taken, but it is an impossiblility i)n i certain New Yo-k chureb, where the contribution bIx used contains a small bell concealed in it, which rings only when a contribln tion is made, The collection is usual ly taken during the sermon, and no stingy churchgoer can fail detoetion. On January the I6th, t wenty-four salesmen to travel thirough the conn try and sell Pianos, O gans and Sewving Ma chines. Also six boys whlo can play Or-gans. We wviil pay liberal sala r-ies, furnish horses andw Wagons anid pay all ex pellS. Greenville, S. C. 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