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VL9.--NO. 26. PICKENS S. C., THlURSDAY, JULY 20, 1899. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
MIEWOR8. MORGAN AND PUGH.
11 18 BRYAN AND ANTI-BRYAN.
Senator Morgan Wants a Man to
Suit the East-Ex-Senator Pugh
Sticks to Bryan and t ree Silver.
An interview with Senator Morgan,
of Alabama, has created a sensation
in political oiroles, because he does nob
favor the renomination of Bryan.
It has created much more of a stir,
coming from Senator Morgan, than it
would from most Damoorats. Of course
it has given rise to all kinds of specu
lation, prominent in all being the sug
gestion that Morgan's friendship for
Gorman may have had not a little to
do with his talk. Senator Morgan is
quoted as follows .
" I very much fear that the D3mo
cratic party of the East and North
cannot be brought Into harmony with
the Democratic party of the South and
West until we have a candidate who is
recognized for his wisdom and his will
ingness to follow tWe instructions of
his party when his party has the
p ower to issue Its instructions through
legislation.
"I am a free silver man. I believe
the free coinage of silver is right and
that the country will not prosper as it
should until silver has been restored
to its proper place as one of our money
metals, but at the same time I do not
overlook present conditions and the
situation that oonfronts us. To win we
must be reasonable and wise. There
can never be force and power in our
party until we have united 16 as it was
in the days when we stood solidly urder
one banner and fought our battles
against a common enemy. The quee
tion that cught to give every member
of the Democratic party concern is :
How can that condition of affairs be
restored ?
" My personal views may be of little
imp )rtance, but I have an idea which,
if worked out, would, I believe, bring
the Democratic party together and get
out every vote In the country for the
man who would be nominated for
President. In my opinion we should
nominate a man who would ha willing
to say to his party something like this:
" 'When my party is able, in Con.
gres, to pass a free conage bill, I will
not veto it, but will permit it to be
come a law. Whatever my own opin.
ions may be, I believe the combined
wisdom of the men of my own party in
-Congress is better than mine. It
might be possible that I should not,
personally, think a free coinage law
the proper thing to enact, but if your
representatives in Congress believe
otherwise, if it is your judgment that
such.a Iaw will be for the best interests
of the country, such a law, when en
acted by yoa, will stand.'
" A man who will make such an an
nouncement and live up to it could
easily, I am sure, be elected by the
Democrats to the presidential office.
" Then, if the people saw fit in their
respectijve districts to elect advocates
of the free coinage of silver, we should
have it. We would not have a repeti
tion of that deplorable incident in 1894,
when Pregldent Cleveland, repudiat
ing his party and all that it stood for,
vetoed the bill passed by both houses
of Congress providing for the coinage
of the silver bullion held in the treas
ury.
"When Mr. Cleveland eent that veto
to a Democratic Congress he committed
himself to the single gold standard
and became no longer a Damocratic
Presldent, elected on a Democratic
platform.
"Wb must get rid of Yhat we might
call fanaticism and act like sensible
men. Wnen we do this, Democracy
will again become triumphant, and we
will all work together in harmony. I
belicvo a man can be found who, while
not an extremist on the silver ques
tion, will follow the will of his party
expressed in legislation, and that,
after all, is the way, and the only way,
in which to settle this groat question.
All the talking we may do on the
stump will not bring about free .coin
age, save only that in educating the
people we may elect silver men to Con
grsIt takes votes in Congress to
brn sto free coinage, and after we
have cast our votes that way we must
have a President who will permit our
will to stand. Until we have the
votes we are fighting the air. Why,
then, not nominate a man in whom the
Democrats of all parts of the country
have confidence, and then go about the
business of electing free Bilver men to
Congress ?
" I could name several such men,
but that is nob my province. It does not
require a marked degree of greatness
to make a good President. Common
sense is of much more importance in
that position.
"I was discussing this question with
some friends coming up from Virginia,
and they all agreed that loyalty, abili
ty, tact and common sense wore better
factors in making a good administration
than too high a degree of what is
known as statesmanship. Pierce and
Polk were not brilliant men, but they
--were .good Presidents. I wish they
were here now.
" I permit no man to outrank me in
loyalty to the cause of free silver. I
taught that doctrin& when some of the
tWon ,now controlling the Democratic
-parby were yet unborn. But I see the
uselessness of the party, North and
South, being divided and continually
-pulling the one against the other on
t his money question. I believe tho
suggestion I havye made would go a
great- ways in once more uniting the
* party, and that is what 1 want.
"I want to see Democracy once more
united and the principles of Demo
* racy triumphant, but there is little
use in endeavoring to accomplish it
through impracticable means and me
-thods.
"I care not so much to know whether
our candidate is a radical free silver
man at. heart as I do to know that he
will abide by the decision of Congress,
if the Democrats have the power to
put their policy into the statute books
of the country. That is the test."
EX-BENATOR PUGII DISAO~CES \VITH
HAIS FORME~R COILGEAG1U..
asked ifh a edteinterview of
-his old colleague, Senator John T.
Morgab, on the question of what sort
-- -of man the Democratic convention
should nominate and what sort of plat
form it should adopt .next year,. in-a
crease the strength of the Democratic
party in the election of a President.
" 1 have read the interview and was
greatly surprised and mortified," said
the ex-Senator. "Senator Morgan says
no man can question his fidelity to tve
free coinage of silver, or deny the no
cessity for its restoration in our monay
system.
" The question he asks and answers
is 'How is this most important result
to be accomplished?' He answers
that the first and indispensable thing
to be done is to unite-' bring together
and solidify the divided and antagon
istic elements of the Democratic party
now existing in the East, South and
West on the money question '-and,
secondly, that such union can best be
effected by nominating a man who has
no ' extreme ' views and has expressed
no 'extreme' opinions on the coinag6
question.
"I do not question the sincerity or
honLsty of Senator Morgan's convic
tVons, but 1 feel constrained by my
sense of duty to the Democratic party
and the country to enter my earnest
prote't against and condemnation of
Morgan's interview.
" What are we to understand by an
'extreme position on the money or
coinage question Y' Is that part of the
Chicago platform extreme ? Does an
indorsement of the Chicago platform
put a Democrat in an extreme post
tion? What shall the next Democratic
,onvention do after it shelves Bryan ?
ro be consistent the convention should
amend te platform of 1896 as to get the
party out of its so called present ' ex.
treme' position on the coinage question
and p'ace it in harmony with the con
licting elements, and ospecially so as t
to accommodate itself to the elastic I
and broad gauge position of the new t
3ominee on the coinage question. How E
is such a feat to be accomplished ?
" My conviction is,' said ex-Senator
Pugh, "that if theconlicting elements I
A the Damocratic party can be united
and brought into harmonious action on a
,he coinage question, which is a mani- a
est impossibility, by shelving Bryan 1
and making a new platform, broad 1
mough to take on and sa-tisfy all gold
itandard advocateg, and be endorsed f
>y any nominee who may heve to rc- 1
iounce his life-long opinions against
'roe coinage and pledge himself to ap
)rove any bill on that subject the De
nocrats might pass through both I
aouses of Congress, the party cannot
)e very much divided, and can cer
iainly be very easily united, as it would
ihow itself withoutany fixed principles
>n any subject.
" If the Democratic party would so
>ure more strength by trusting a no- t
ninee who had been a lifelong enemy t
>f free silver coinage on his pledge to I
valve the veto power and approve I
uch a bill if passed by the party that c
ilected him, it would be a spectacle %
inprecedented In history, but it would a
>rove there would never be any free t
,oinage of silver if such a President r
vas elected. e
"Whatinfluence would a Democratic I
resident with gold standard convic- 1
ions that he waived to insure his elec- V
ion exercise in this great oflice ? t
Nould he be silent pending a free '
ainage bill in Congress ? How would A
ie distribute his appointments? How t
nany DemocratB who had urged ']
3ryan's nomination and favored the
'hicago platform would receive ap
)ointments ?
"No, sir, it is a grave mistake of my
ild colleague. I have had much poli
ical experience. I have watched par
ies and know their history. - My poll
ical career has ended, but I am as
nuoh as ever devoted to the Demo- t
ratic party ar.d its principles as do
,lared in the Chicago platform.
" I believe that William J. Bryan is
he best organized and wisest ana most t
eliable Democratic statesman now a
lying, and ho is now better established a
n the confidence of ihe American pee a
)le as such a statesman, and is now '
tronger than ho ever was, and can be
slected when nominated, as he will
urely be, by the next Damocratic na- e
ionai convention.
" As to the next Democratic plat- e
orm, with additional declarations
against the manifold trusts growing
>ut of the existence of the gold 1
'tandard and prohibitory tariff du
1ies ; also in favor of a vigorous
rosecution of the existing war In I
he Philippine Islands until peace I
and order is established and the gov
irning power and jurisdiction of the
[Jnited States Is fully recognized a
1,broughout the archipelago ; also thata
eace and order and the governing
power of the United States is to be
astablished, not for territorial exp~an
sion or dominion of tlae United States,t
but for the sole purp~ose of securing to
the people of those islands better and
more stable government, with all the |
rights, liberty and privileges they
show themsedlves by trial to be capable
af exercising and enjaying in a condi-'
tion of independent self government."1
THE s D usTRUCTION OF~ SPRUCE.-Ir
1810, according to George T. Craw ford,
a forestry expert, there stood in the
mountain districts of New Hasmpshire
about 1,800,000 acres of primeval spruce
forest, carrying about 10,000 feet, board
measure, to the acre, or 16,000,000,000
feet in all. The demand for spruce for
paper pulp, added to the- amount re
q~uired for lumber, has reduced this
area to 280,000 acres. The consump
tion :of spruce for pulp is increasing at
bho rate of 15 per cent, a year. Tno
mills of Now York and New England
make 720,000 tons of paper-pulp oach
year, requiring more than 700,000,000
square feet, board measure, and st'rip
ping 160,000 acres of forest land.
Thi's rapid destruction of the avail
able supply of spruce has lmnpressed up
On mill-owners the Necessity of taking
vigorous measures to secure new
growth. The wasteful and wicked
policy has prevailed of cutting the
forest clean, not, leaving even a sapling
standing. A now system, enforced in
some of the tracts, will. save for rep~ro
ducing the forest all trees of fourteen
inches and less. Unless something is
done to prevent the dlestruction the
sup~ply of spruce will soon be exhaust
ed..
-Ex-S3onator George F. Hlamlin, of
Kansas, is the son of Europe Hlain,
and had three uncles whose names
were Asia, Africa and America. Vice
President Hannibal Hamlin was the
son of Africa.
ROBER'T BONNER, PRINTER.
1118 INDUSI'tY AND SAtGAUITY.
ie Becamo the Greatest Advertiser
in tihe World-Thne ljo(Iger Was a
Revelation to the Country.
The career of Robert Bonner, who
as publisher of The Ledger becamo
the greatest advertiser in the world,
Is one illustrating sagacity and indus
try. He was born in Iamelton, Ire.
land, in 1824, and came to this country
at the age of lifteen years and began
business life as an apprentice in the
omposing room of The Hartford Cou
rant-a printer's devil. His hours
were from 6 o'clock in the morn ng
antil 6 o'clock at night, and his wagee
'or the first year were $25, for the
iecond $35, and for the third $45, with
>oard and clothes in addition. He re
ired from business several years ago
North several millions, and only two
rears ago, in the preface to his cata
ogue of trotting horse stock, he wrote :
" Since I began purchasing trotting
iorses I have expended about $600,000
n this way. To those friends who
lave criticised me for having paid so
nuch money for horses I may be par
loned for saying that I have given
6way a much larger sum than that for
'eligious and benevolent purposes."
The Now York L-3dger in 1850 was a
mall financial shet known as The
derchants' Lcdger, and Robert Bon
ier was a printer employed upon it.
le had saved a little money, the pro
)rietor wanted to sell the paper, and
VIr. Banner bought it. He ran it for
6 while as a mercantile paper, thou
urned it into a family story paper.
le had a genius for advertising, and
he way he advertised The Ledger was
revelation to the country.
Fanny Porn was the most popular
voman writer of that time, but she
kad never written for newspapers. She
ad just sold 6.000 copies of a book,
ind Bonner paid her $100 a column for
story of ten columns. In telling of
his story in later years, Mr. BInner
aid : " Nearly every newspaper in
he country published my extrava
,ance In paying $100 a column for a
tory. I got $50,0CO worth of adverts
ng out of the arrangement, and the
oeople began to ask for The Ledger.
3afore this I had trouble in getting
he news-stands to take The Ledger.
.fter this they were glad to get it."
He paid Henry Ward Beecher CIO
00 for his novel, "Norwood," and
$2.000 a year to write from half to
hree-quarters of a column a week for
['he lo-dger. He had Edward Everett,
t that time tha leading statesman of
he country along eertain lines, writ
ng a series of articles for the L3dger.
lo secured Mr. Beecher by sending a
heck for $2,000 in the first letter he
vrote to the great divine proposing a
reekly letter. Mr. B-ccber's reply to
his was: " I am almost dumb after
eading your proposition, and must
lear my head before I say a word."
leccher accepted, however, just as
Averett did. At that time Evereutt
ras giving lectures around the coun
ry to secure a fund for the purchase
n reservation of Mount Vernon
Ir. Bonner offered to give $10,000 to
he fund if Everett would write for
'he Ledger.
He spent $,250,000 in advertising his
aper. He thought nothing of buying
page at a time in the leading dailies.
'he circulation of 'rhe Ledver reached
00,000 copies. When It got to 150,000
opies he fired a salute of 150 guns in
,ity Hall pack, and started in to double
he circulAtion. The Ledger adver
isements were unlike those of any
>ther publication. Mr. Bonner be
hoved that if all advertisements in a
>aper were displayed it was equivalent
0 no display. His advertsements
vere always original. In those da/s
1 would secure as much advertising
pace as $4 can buy now. He made
he Herald publish a sixteen-page
aper one day. It was printing eight
ages, and1 Mr. Bsnner asked What
pace he could have for a " big ad."
' Ali the space you want." the publish.
r said. " All right, FIl take the
,hole paper," said Mr. Bonnor, and an
xtra eight pages had to be added to
bold .the news and the other advertise
aents.
Mr. Bionner bought Dexter after ho
ad made a record of 2.17k on the
luff ale track in 1867. That night he
virote to a friend: "I saw Niagara
nalls this morning for the first time,
mud came down here to Baffalo this
biternoon to see that other -groat won
ler, Dexter, when he trotted in the
inprecedented tIme of 2 17I. You
cnow I always like to have the b St
hings, and inasmuch as I could not
my the Falls, I concluded to do the
next best thing and buy Daxter. lie,
vili go into my stable on the 10th of
next month."
The horse cost him $35,000, and Badd
Joble said he would have the horse
ack In three weeks, because Mr. IBon
ner couldn't drive him on the road,
D~oble was wrong. Mr. Bonner drove
D~exter and later he drove Maud S anti
3unol and the other crack trotters he
>ought, and every horse he purchased
neant so much more advertising for
tim and his great pr-operty, The
[Ledger.
Until he turned the publication of
Ghe paper over to his sons, who have
since turned it lute a monthly, owing
to the keen competition of the Sunday
newspapers, Mr. Bonner's sole interest
in life was The Ledger. He~ had the
story paper instinct largely developed.
lie read with his own eyos every worn
printed in The Ledger as long as he
Ictively managed it. Hel read all
wnanuscrlpts submitted and selected all
those which ho deemed available.
The contributor, no matter how
humble and modest, no matter wheth
sr a beginner or an established author
with a hyphenated name, was always1
aourteously received ait an outsido desk
by the propriotor, who advanced from
a private office to retura a smory or de
Liver a chock. "I'm sorry we can't
in the second, handing over a check,
"Fetch us another story.'' There was
no waste of words.
Horaco Groeley, N, P. Willis and
John G. Saxe were among the contri
butors to The Lodger in their time.
Charles Dudley Warner was one of Mr.
Bionner's earliest friends, George W.
Childs one of his latest. D)r. John
Hall, of whose church, the Fifthn
Avenue i'resbyterian, Mr. Blonner was
always a stanch niilar. was oe of his
intimate friends, and ho grieved great
ly over the clergyman's death. Mr.
Boaner's stable backs up against the '
church, and they say that the former
owner of the church property refueod
to sell to the organization, but said that
if Robert Bonner wanted ht's land for
any purpose whatever, why of course
he could have it.
Mr. Bonner bought Maud S. in i83o a
from Commodore Vanderbilt. She t
had made a record of 2:1i, and underi
Mr. Bonner's ownership she lowored t
this record, but never in races except
against time. In 1885 John Murphy
drove her to 2:08t, and at that time K
she was considered a horso marvel
such as the world would never again
produce. He paid $40,000 for Maud S. y
and the same price for Sunol, which
he bought from Leland Stanforl only e
to discover that the horse was lame. e
"I am going to cure that horse with- e
Dut letting Stanford know," said Bl3u- 1
ner. " If I tell him he will send my 0
money back to me and I shall be ob- e
liged to return Sunol. Bat if I curt,
the horse I know I shall have a priz." i
ie cured the magnificent animal, an( A
in treating Sanol he developed the U
veterinary germ that afterwards made v
him the leading authority of the coun- a
try on horses.
When a horse went lame in the old h
days they used to " fire" him or they
would souk his hoofs and put on poul- b
tices and "treat" the hoof The horse a
would get better, but in a few days was U
worse again. Tnen they " retired"
and so on, until the horse either was c
well or went lame forever. In curing A
his own horse Mr. Hanner made tie a
remarkable yet simple discovory that Ij
most lame feet were caused by the un- LI
even paring of the horse's hoofs as tle a
shoes were put on. The horse had to t
walk on the side of his foot; after a -
while the foot became lame, the knee b
lot twisted and the horse was useless l
for service. So, Mr. Bonner perfected t
% system of horse shoeing which is in b
general use today, and about which he
was willing to talk for hours with con
Fenial spirits on his stock farm at
rarrytown. " 1ulancing the hoof " is
the keynote of horse-shoeing. 3
Maud S. was the pride of Robert t
Banner's heart up to the (lay of his t
death. He owned other trotters, many t
that cost him more money, nany that t
had beaten her mark, but he loved the a
old mare a-d spent many hours with
her on the road and in the box stall at L
Ficoetwood In the old days, and later at h
Tarrytown. He had been offered S
fabulous prices for the " Q.ieen of the I:
rurf," but would never consider one of It
them. le would not trot his horses t
for money, though he wanted to own 1
the fa.stest horses in the world, and h
his ambition was gratified. lie bred n
Macy's Hlambletonian, the sire of Bas- c
que Banita, the ifrst American trotter s
to beat all the records that had ever b:
been made In Europe. There were t
also bred at his farm Cartridge, 2:141; I
NMajolica, 2:15; Cheyenne. 2:1.1 In- i
stant, 2:14f, and others rtill faiter, but t
wvith no public records.
Mr. Banner's wealth was said to he t
15,000,000. In 1887, when he turned 4
)ver T-bu Ledger to his sons, he gave r
to them property wornh $2,000,000. n
All three sons are married-Andrew 1
illen, Itbert fdwin and Frederick. t
Wil ENGLAND is AFRAID UP' Rus. 1
3iA.-Oae important roaeon why Eng- r
aid ought not to assume an olfTnsve it
attitude towards lIussia, if it were it
>thorwise desirable for her to do so, is V
the weakness of her army. A war with f,
lussia would not he a naval war. it, f
would necessarily 1) a land war, and
England, it is well known, with her \
present force and ier policy of volun- f
tary enlistments, could not put m1ore 1
than thlirty thiousand men into Chlinai
Trhis was asserted only the other morr.
ing in the llouse of Commons, and tile e
government did niot contradict tile
statement. Indeed, it is perfectly well
understoodl that, it rests on thle autihor
ity of Lord Wolseley himself. It is
hardly worth while to enlarge upon
the deplorable situation in wichl Eng
land would find herself if eh wore
called upon to face lRussia Witih a force
of 30o,000 men. Rtussia has probably
already many more troops than this in
Manchuria. The result of a war, then,
between Russia and Great Britain,
undertaken under existing conditions,
would be the total destruction of Brit
ish commerce in China, and the invas- E
ion, and p~osibly the temporary loss,
o>f India. And in considering the pos
lible effect of such a war we must bear
inaImind the attitude of the pleople of
India towards tile imperial govern-. y
mont, wh'icih is thlat of discontent, ox r
pressing itself in riots. Surely such
an attitude would be of immense assist- i
ance to Russia in the invasion thlat t
would lmmediately follow the breaking i
out of war over China. The facts a
whlichl British statesmen are facing are r
stern and threatening, and what clamor
there is inl I~ngland for dealing oiens- ,j
ively withl R3ussia is the clamor of a
ignorance-an ignorance that may noti
be dissipated until its vlctimls are
aroused and informed through thei
awful surprise whi<.h is sure to follow
the first shoak of arms.--Harp~er's
Weekly.
TH11 K iss IN SUIooL.--The ki ssing'I
bug is getting in its deadly work in
irwington, Ga. But It isn't, the same
kind of a bug whlich has recently
aroused the whole scientifie world. It
assumes a more practical kind of form.
D~uring the exercises incident to the
commencement season dlown in irwilng
ton there was a play on tile boardi re
quirIng one of tile young men to kiss
0110 of the young ladies Hie must,
hlave matie it, too realistic, too ~iiowa
A bbott,-like, for the young lady's broth
er made it a personal issue after' the
performance was over and is now under'
a $250 bond to keep tile peaco, while
the kisser is supposed to be on is way'
to the Philippines, whlere kissing
comes chleap~er.
--The Philippine problem is summed
up in tis week's Independent by theO
Lion. George I<'. Ed munds :" l'lrst let
-.1 know the wholo truth of what has
happened, and then pernaps the advo
cates of glory or dominion or trade or
civilization and religion advanced by
the cannon and the bayonet, an'l sup
ported by the blood and treasure of our
people can point out to us how these
are ' the waiys of pleasantness and] the
paths o ni nae."
BILL AIP'S 1I1IART IS SAD.
'he tecent Death of Two Good Old
Frienids-Ho Speaks of Them an
ti'e Beet of Mosn.
Simon Peter Richardson and Henry
I. Plant, two more of my friendw, have
%lion asleep. They were not my near
nd dear friends, but they were friends
) humanity and I am human. I know
iom well and was always pleased with
aolrapreseneo. It is a good sign when
ou are glad even to meet an acquain
ince-a good sign for him and it is a
ood one for you when your acq uain
inces meet you gladly. Simon Ptoer
Lichardson ministered here several
oars and I was always choered with
is presence and leartid something I
Id not know. ie was a walking edu
itor, a man of wit and wisdom and of
reat philanthropy. Sometimes h
ut to the quick, but his knife was
:isrp and lofU no ragged edges. I re
All an incident that illustrated his
%rnest readiness to reply to a man
ho refused a little charity to a very
oor blind wonian who wished to go to
tlanta to liave 1).-. Calhoun remove a
itaract from her eye. Simon l'etor
ory earnestly relat.d her condition
nd her extreme poverty and said,
Pleae givo me half a dollar, only
alf a dollar." The merchant replied,
No, I can't do it. We merchants are
led to death by these country people
rd we havo got to stolp. I toll you
ucic Sinon, we are bled to death,
Ml Must exetuso m." Simon Potor
oked at him as if he wore amazjd. t
.fter a brief allence he said, " 3!ud I
re You? Lot me show you something."
[u took ol his long linen duuor, then I
nbuttoned the wristband on his left
rm, rolled up the sleevo and pointing I
two little scars near the elbow said,
A long time ago a fool doctor tried uo
10ed me and made those scars. H1e
issed the vein and got no b!ood, but
le scars are there. I am afraid that
t,h experience of a good many p)o
le who ask a little charity for the
1)or. They get no b!ood, but leave a
Mar 4
We who saw the point smiled audibly.
'he im irchant's faco reddened under
le sarcasm. He suddenly pulled out
iu money drawer and handed a dollar
the old man, and said : " Give this
her. I don't want any of your ecars
bout 111e."
Tile iast year of his sojourn here
inclo Simon took a vacation and visited
is old home on the lo-3 I)o river, In
aih Caroilna. Wht:n he roturned
* told mo exultingly of the good timo
e had and about a wonderful revival
jat occurred In his old home church
1 greatest revival he said that he
ad wit.eosed for many years. " How
Iany converts did you take into the
bureh," said 1. " The first week,"
Aid he, " we never took in nary one,
ut we turned seventeen out and purged
bi church. After that 0he Lord
leased us and there is many a church
a this part, of the country that needs
he same medicine."
Uncle Simon left his 'mpression upon
he popl of every community in
rhich he lived. le was an earnest
ian, a strong minan, a man of convictlons
nd was perfectly fearless in maintain.
ig them. Woe to the Infidel or scep
c or agnostic who encountered him.
oo to the man w ho declined to go to
burch because he didn'th fool the need
reilgion. No doubt we have as good
en now, but the preach-er are rare
any denomination who aro his eq uals
convincing and converting forco.
Vith 1'aul h could say, " I have
ought a good light. I havo kept the
61 th."
Mr. l'lant's photograph is before me.
Vhat a broad, attractive, human-hlkuj
%co. Thore is nothing of awe or solemn
,y in his features that would int,imi
ate the applroachl of the humblest of
is race. "Knowinug that thou wabt an
ustere man" did not apply to him.
Elways digrniiied, always self-poised
nd earnest, he soemed as much con
erneod for others as for himself. 1ie
vas frank hut careful iiintueoch, gen
al, uncompnlaining and~ never worried
ver business cares or disappointmnents.
Iis last letteor to me1, wr'itten in iFebru
,ry, was an autograph and is a model
if good old-fashion~ed poernmanship). It
s a large, open, honest hland without
blot or erasure, tile l's all dotted, and
he t's all crossed and quotation marks
whlere thbey should be. In speaking of
mis health. lhe says :" I have been
ufforing, but, am yet on deck and pro
ared in a moderate way to attend to
ay dutites and in some measure bo of
eonefit to the people."
I nave taken note of him for nearly
aif a century and know of no greater
Jian in the line of piublic progress and
ubli benefaction. Many millional ros
ave acquired fortunes from apecula
lon -speculation that robbed others.
lany have built on the foundatIons
hat ethers laid andl some have, wrecked
ailroads and private enterprises on
urpose for their own profit,, but Mr.
'lant made honest plians in early life
nd has b~y slow and sure degrees ox-|
anded and matured them. llo has
dded to values not only of Ils own
>roperty, but to that of commu~llnities
and States. lie hlas provedl himself
an unselfish friend to the South and
von the love and admiration of ouzr
)eople. Shlakespearo says, " The evil
,hat men do liven after thomn. The
f'ood is oft interred with their hones."
'hat is not always true. In fact, lie
night as truly have said, " The good
,hat tmen do lives after thorn." Good
leeds are like the circling waves that
rently move to the shore when a stonoe
s cast Into a pool. They never lose
heir influence. The good that Mr.
alant has (lono for the people has not
>oen buried with him, nor will he be
orgotton for generations to come.
But, the comnmandl is to '" Clore up!
Jlose up '" rheol 01mten die and others
tel) into their Places-and the world
noves on. " Close up"4 is heard all
doug the line.
"Friendl after friemnd dleparts4,
Whmo las noct lost a friendt ?
Th~e e Ia not utmn ine ee of hearits
iTat lhas unot here art (eni."'
Bmi1r Auit'.
-Mini Anna Gordon, Secretary of
the Women's Cbrittian Tenmperance
Union, gives it as her opinion that
here is less drinking in public than
ahore used to be. Hut elim thinks that
" there has seemed to be an increase
af drinking at home on tLe part of
some people who have boon in Europe
and have put, in practic here what
ih fu nnd ahenoad."
ITEMS OP GENERAL INTEREST
Quaut anid Curious Paragraphs
Gathered rrou Various Sources.
--Sanator W. E Chandler says he has
not changed his views on the finaucial
question, but stands firmly for bimet
alism as the great ned of the coun
try.
-" Fighting Bob " Evans was in hi
early days the Nimrod of his Virginia
countryside. No one could.I bring home
as many rabbits or birds, and no one
Lcould break a colt as well as he.
----tolonol N. M. Dyer, who com
manded the Baltimore at the battle o
Manila, did not graduate from the na
val academy, but servet six years or
nerchantmen before entering the
Duitod States navy.
- -In a letter just received from Sur
loon Beek of the Thirteenth Minae
iota, now in the Philippines, he sayi
Jhat, in the 1,100 casos of wounded sol
liers who had gone to the hospital at
he time of his writing there were only
hroo casos of amputation.
-A statuto of the late United Statea
ienator Z'bulon 13. Vance is to be
)laced at the eastern entrance to Capl
01 Square, Italelgh, N. C., opposite
ho monument to the Confederate dead,
rlho Stato Ligislature appropriated
I,5,000 for it and privato citizens added
3000 to the amount.
-Senator W. A. Clark said in an in
,erview last week that he owed his
uccess in life entirely to his early ox
erionces on his father's farm in lenn
ylvaniA. "I learned that hard work,"
to said, " was necessary if a man
vanted to live. The trouble with most
)oople is that they don't realizo this."
-.John Kates, of Lowor Alloway, N.
I., who recently had hatched out a
:hicken with three legs and another
,vith fout logs, now has a third with
nly one log. All are doing well and
Kates hopes to complete his collection
>f freaks by securing more ono-logged
rowls to even matters up on the couni
>f legs.
-The increase of insanity in civil
izid centers of population !s appalling
A half doz n now asylums have beer
buit, in and about London in the las
lozum years, and each one is filled al
nost as soon as completed. The num
>er of insane in Landon Institutioni
ilone now reaches an aggregate o
iver 25,000.
-The DeXKaib Avenue Methodist
'splscopal church has brought sult
6gainst Goo. S. Kolk. as the t.dminis
,rator of Jane Doese, who died in Da
:em bor, 1807, alleging that oho obtained
$077.0i from the ehurch during a po
iod of years by fraudently represent
.ng that she was a pauper and in need
if aid for support. After she died
there woro found In her apartment
various sums of money aggregating
$381 75, a bank hook showing a halanec
of deposits in the llrooklyn Savingi
hAnk amounting to $1,000 and ancthc
bank book showing a balance of $160.
-Mrs. C. W. Goodlandor, the young
wife of the Mayor o' Port Scott, Kant
has attracted much attention by an in
novation she has introduced in the lin
of assibting hor husband in one of hi
most onerous public duties, namely
providing for the noody poor of tht
uity. She spends cortain hours caci
day driving around the poorer quar
tors of the city and personally investi
gating claii for assistance, and nc
indolont or undesorving person gets am
Lrdor from her. She permits no soca
function to interfere with this work
The results of her enterprise are being
antlipated with great interest.
-A novelty in summer schools is of
fored in Missouri this year. The Stati
university has given instructions aloni
the lines~ familiar in such schools dur
ing the vacation season for a goot
w hile past,, and it, now adds new course
in horticulture and agriculture. Pre
sident Jese holds that some attentio
should be given in the public school c
an ag ricultural State to studies of sjil
climate, birds, Insects and plant life
and he points out that the filds, for
ests and highways in the country an
the lawns and pubice squares in th
city and towns furnish all the labors
tory facilIties which are needed fe
such studies.
-Governor lIoosevelt shortened th
sentence of John Howard, a convict I
Sing Sing prison, because the prisoni
constructed two large jpep organs ft
the chapel, workIng two years on i
job, and thus saving the State an at
ount of money estimated at aboi
$5,000. The organs were finished abo
two weeksu ago, just as Howard's so
tonco expired, and he was release
The organs were g reatiy admiro<
When it came to trying them last Sut
day it transpired that they only looke
like what they purported to be, an
despite all the electric pumps woul
not, give forth a sound. ieoward faile
to leave his future address at, th
prison when he dopar ted.
-A remarkablo freak of lightnin
oscurred at East lBrookfield, Mass., th~
other d ay, when a sudden shook restore
to its old-time vigor the left arm (
Eli iForhoes, which had been useless fc
thIrteen years on account of rheume
tism. While he was sitting at th
windlow a thunder shower came up an
with it woro two sharp liashes of ligh
ning. With one of the tremendot
crashes Mr. F~orbes felt a sharp prici
ing of his flesh and tingling in hi
bones and with a jerk his left arm sht
viuolently forward from its crampo
position. T1hae shock was over in a flas
and Mr. Forbes felt his left arm bristl
with the viltality and tingle with vigo
Tio his delight he found he could ur
the arm at' well as ever.
-Attorney General lBellinger he
received no end of applications f(
positions in the engrossing departmea
of the general assembly. lie reques
the statement made that all applicoan
are merely wasting paper, ink am
stampms in writing to him, for he is nc
preparing to change the entire plan
appointing those clerks. All applic
tions will have to be made to theo so
citora cf the respective circuits. T
ap~pointments are to be left to t
solicitors, but requirements will
put in that will result in obtainli
clerks who write good hands and w
can spell bocrrectly. This has be
found to be an absolute necessity a
some kind of examination ia likely
be provlded before an appolntmo
will be nnrm.ma
The More People Know
-OF
THE
NEW
STORE.
The better they like it. They like the
fair and square way we do business.
We have only been before the people
about th ree months, and in that time
The Now Store has made many friends
through its money saving policy. You
like to trade where every thing is new;
where prompt, polite and courteous
salesmen servo you ; where you have
plenty of room to trade. There are
untold advantages in trading with us.
Last but not least, here you can at all
times buy the best for the least money.
Some Special Values.
1100 yda Standard Calicos only 34c.
1000 " l'ledmont Dellis 41c.
1200 " good heavy Bleaching only 5o.
600 " good check Nainsook only 5e.
500 " 10-4 Shooting only 10c.
I lot large ready made Sheets only 49e.
1 lot ready mado ['illow Cases only 5c.
Genuine Dongola pat. tit shoe only $1.
I lot two yards wide all Linen Damask
only 493.
1 lot araio Linen Towels only 10c.
I table 32 and .10 Inch Lawns only Sc.
1 case Ventilating Corsets only 25c.
Come to The New S'.oro to do your
trading.
A Word About Shoes.
During the past ton days we have
recelved a car load of shoei. When
our stock Is completed there will be
nothing to equal It in the State. We
are going to have the business.
gW Remember we are agents for the
celobrated McCall Bazar Patterns, price
10 and 15 cents.
Make it a point to visit the New Storc
at the first opportunity, at J. H.Morgan &
Blrother's old stand.
MAHON & ARNOLD,
211 Upper Main St. GlWICNVIL-LE.
WICKLY CHOP BULLETIA.
COLUMIA, S. U., July 11th, 1899.
There were a few very hot days dur
ing the week ending July 10, but the
average temperature was slightly be
low the normal. The range of tem
porature was between 53 and 100 do
graes.
There were frequent showers durin
the week, especially over the central
and eastern counties, where In places
t~h grundlatoo wet. Over the north
conralandwestern counties, the show
ers were very few, light and local, and
many places are suffering for rain.
itain which began falling after moost of
the reports were mnailed, may have af
forded relief. Over the greater por
tion of the State, the moisture condi
tions are now very favorable.
Somne damage was caused by hail and
Shigh winds, but it was contineed to small
areas..
r R31ports on cotton, while not wholly
favorable, are very promising. The
e crop is small, healthy, clean and bloom
a, ing freely ; lice continwe to infest it,
r in places, but are doing no serious in
r jury. A few report the plant growing
o too much to weed, others as not grow
2. lng at all, especially on rod lands in
it the western counties. Sea-island cotton
it never looked better.
a. Trho corn crop continues to suffer
I. from bud worms and the larger corn
[. stalk-borer. Drought has also affected
. the crop seriously over large areas, but
d on the contrary, in places, the crop is
a very fine. Old corn Is practically all
dj laid by.
S Tobacco Improved somewhat during
a the week, althou gh in placesamore
rain Is needed to develop the upper
leaves. Cutting and curing has Deuumc
quite general. In Marion County the
a crop) Is turning out very well.
i ltice is doirig well, although eator
'pillars 'still infest it, at a few points.
r Thei early rico is receiving its last
flooding. On some lIanltations, water
B for flooding is not yet available.
LlSweet potato slips continue to be
set out, peas to be sown, and the second
a crop of Irish potatoes to be planted.
-Sugar cane and sorghum vary in con
e dlition, but generally look promising..
't laying continues on the coast mead-.
Iows. Little or no fruit, save a low
hi apples, anywhere in t~he State, except
* grapes, which are plentiful in the
western counties, but are rotting
e badly. Melons are being shipped ia
large quantities to the Northern
,a markets.
t AS
FoCnAnSTORIA
d For nfantsand Children.'
of The Kind You Hlave Always Bought
a
Bi Iears the
Sie gaur of,
be_____________
20 Oh yesl Alligator Liniment relieves
ya and cnres Rhecumatism, Neuralgia, Back
id ache, Bruises, and all pains. Its guaran
ted to give satisfaction, so you run no
t~o rIsk. D~on't let dealers try and sell you
o something else. There is nothing as good
as Alligator Liniment. sold overywhere,