The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, February 01, 1900, Image 1
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VOL io.--NO. -. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY , 1900. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
THU FRT1141XR TAG TAX.
A REDUCTION BY THE HOUSE.
Th PrI'ilego Tax Cut Down to Fif
leen Cents a Ton-Curtatling the
licomo of Ulemeon College.
Mr. Ashley's bill to reduce the tax
on fertilizurb has passed the House, by
which the privilege tax on fert'.izars
will be reduced from 35 to 15 cents a
ton, if tha Senate concurs.
in speaking on the bill, Mr. Ashley
contended tant tho fatrnert are tih
only clius of people in the State w1n1.3h
is taxed on a spocial commodity. R.
was not right and not just. The time
will come when the people will rise up
and cut off this tax. He denied that
the tax fell upon the producer, and
said that the consumer paid this tax
Ho had been waiting to get figures to
show that this tax ona .ca _ ui, w_ 10
cents in Georgia. 1; did 114. p s
Clemeon or any othcr State its.ttu
Lion. But he was opposed to extrava
gance. The boys who went there
were not educate to be farmre, they
were taught extravagance. Tno peo
ple who paid the tax on fertiltzai-s
were too poor to send their boys to
Clomson, and recived no ban, i. t'om
that co lege which r-ceived th . $60,000
Or $65,000 from tae tax on feet mitzers.
H wanted jut Dax enough to provide
for the inspection and protection o:
fertilizers.
Mr. Blythe referred to the cause
necesiitating the fertilizer or tag Lax.
Year ago there were suits in the
courts on accoun, of frauduleut fe:-t
*-zers. This eatdol for a tax to provide
for the Inspection of fortaiiz3rs to pre
vent fraud. This was long before
Clemson college was founded. Tnere
was a good deal of opposition to the
foundation of the college, his colle gue
Lieut. Gov. Mauldin, casting the decid
ing vote. One of the arguments used
in tbu eampaiguo w.is that this ferti
liz-jr tax should bo used for the support
of the agricultural coliege. It was on
this compact made Ln the stump aid
in the general assembly that the cdt
lege was founded. The law requires
the dealer to pay this tax and this ta
Is not added into the prlce to con
sumers. Clemson was established in
1889 In 1890 tue la! v was pas-sed giv
ing Citmson the proceeds to conduct
the expuriment station and the re
mainder was to go to operating the
college. Clemson is run without one
dollar of appropriation from the State
treasury. If this tag tax is redued,
Clemson will be ruined or the State
must make a direct appropriatio to
keep up the institution. Let Cletuson
alone. If this institution goes down,
the assault will be made on other insti
tutions. Let South Carolina's educa.
tional system alone.
Mr. McCullough stated that he had
heiletofore opposed the reduction o[
the tax, as a matter of expediency.
Clemson has been established and hs
been (quipped at great expenditure.
Its doors are open to :i 1, irreepective
of class or profession, and its support
should come in the same way as other
institutions. He asserted the necessity
of a privilege tax to have fertilize3rs
xaneb1eoruigt it wrong to
wring from somebody, whether farmer
or manufacturer, the tax to run a State
institution. It is wrong undl r the
guise of obtaining money for an in
spection to get funds for other pur
Poses. The supreme court of the
United States has decreed that it Is a
violation of the Unifed States constitu
tion to divert these funds to purposes
other than to pay for the analysis. The
L gislature would be playing the part,
of hypourites to longer continue this
way of raising funds in the face of the
constitution. LAt every State institu
tion stand on its merits and receive a
direct appropriation-or fall.
Mr. Prince agreed with Mr. McCul
lough. As to Mr. Blythe's argument
that there has been a tacit compact,
he recited the fact that while a "great
leader of one of the factin" was mak
ing the light on the stump for this tag
tax, there were some who were afraid
to contend that it was class legislation.
Beyond the amount necessary for in
spection, there should not be a cent of
lag tax. He would vote as much cirect
appropriation as any other man. That
is a Btate institnion and should be
rue just as any other State istltuntlon;
M r. Stevernson had been the author
of the bill which was designe~d aet
year to settle the matter, but that bill
was killed in the Senate. He bad not,
change:1 his views andbhad no apology
to make for them, but as it was impos
sible to pass the measure through the
S..mate, he would favor the reduction.
He read a showing of the finances of
Clemraon College. Trho income last
year was $12,000 from the Morrill fund,
$16,000 from the Hatch fund and from
other sources $75,618'08. A total of
$102,613.08. A reduction of 10 cents a
ton on fertilizers wvould give Clemson
$78.053.08 for 1900--1. This in additilon
to $10,000 not, use~d last year-. Mr.
Stevenson then claimed that nreducing
the tat would noltu-giounsly cripple
Cleason a's:ts income atter- the reduction
would theon be $78,0030 and the expenadi
tures accounted for last year wore
something over $00,000. To let the
tax stand as it is .will put mnore inoney
in the instltution -than it n'eeds and
will breed extravagance. . Etaa
gance will works~he-ruin of thetlihetntyj
tion.
Mr. J. W. Ragedale claimed that the
Virginla-Carolina Vhemilcal company
had bought all the fertilizar factorues
aind the taxes fell on the farmers since
competition had been -done away with.
Mr-. E. D. Smith sait. that, the manu
facturers did not pay this $90,000 tax.
T he last man who uses an 'article Is
the one who pays the tax on it, Th'le
dealer charges .the tax In the prie a.t
which the article is sold. H., contend
ed that the priea per ton ought, to bat
merely enough to pay for the analysis.
He wanted all State, inst.ltuttone to
stand on their merits and get that sup
port of which they ari- worthy.
Mr. C. E. Robinson contornded that
the farmer feels that ho is bening legia
tated against. As analagous he showed
that the consumer paiad, the revenue
being collected to paty the expernsce of
the Spanish war, and deduced that Lhe
farmer pays the tag tax. Leit Comrnson
go if she is to be supported by tax ation
on a class.
Mr. Wingo said he had heard more
against Olemnson College on the tbor-0o
the House than be hasd from the farmn
m.. t makreB no diffrenc to t
farmer who paye this tax. This it a
far" /c 11-gO Ad the tax is upon a
.ffitrlbe4iQ3ity.'.'The farmers art
satisfied or there would b3 complaint.
from them. Heclaimtd there was tit
extravagaercs At Clemon. H-i coul f
not tell the per cent of farine 3' eons II t
Clemson.. .
' . Mr. N. G. Evans had heretofore (
voted for tblN reduction on the ground
that C.emson was handling too muck t
money and. handling it too recklosaly. j
Clemson last year received $102.000.
and reports a balance of $10,000. P
the tax wore reduced to 10 cents, p-o
viding. 6s much fertiliztrs are so i
next year as last, there will b3 $12 000
over and above r XOon8es next yOUr
He did not believe in making a b oat ed
coupon clipper out of one lastitution
and reducing another to penury. He,
wanted to maintain all institutions in
a manner belittlng and at the same 1
time devo'd of a waste of m- ney. t
D~r. Wychie had heard of no corn 'I
plaint In his section. He insls'e I Lhat si
the House ought to go slow. Ha didn't d
believe In throwing away money, and sI
if 10 cents a ton would not crippl the c
Institution he would vote for it Bit r(
he feared that this was a movement m
which would cripple the college. He tc
-.ttacked the Virginla-Carolina Cherni- c
cat conipuny niii insisted thatt' this d
monopoly was keeping the prica of
(ertiliz-rs up, and if the tag tax were e
reduced the price of forttlizers would w
not ha cianerid. The farmer would n
get r.o benefis. Clemson should be a
properly developed an 1 maintained. w
M-. Crum evoke from the farmers' w
standpoint. H 3 haid heard no com b
plaint from bis neighbors. T'Ikey were .h
wating to piy the tax to keep Up Clem II
SGn. The funds of. Clemson have been !C
expended' in part in perfecting the hi
E-quipment. Some of I had gone into w
the textile school. This is a farmers' o
school. A school which is designed to b
&ive an education such as no other in- V
stiLutirn in the South can, Ta)e in W
AtituLion needs libera'l support. A e
year ago there was competition in the 0
fertilizer trade. To.lay the farmers are B
at the mercy of toe great fertilizer 0
trust, and tie reduction of the tax h
would not benefit them. 8(
Mr. GAdaden, of Charleston, naid that r
year after year this bill had come up, h
and the farmers had opposed it. He IT
.us able to judge what the farmrs
want only upon the votes of their rep- t
resentatives on the i)or. Charleston 0
had ouposed the proposition to estab- )
lish Clomion, but had since it was es. b
tablished supporten it to a man. t
He contended that the bulk of this C
tax was paid by other StateE,. Suppose b
the farmer does pay the tax, it is the n
farmer of Georgia, North Caeolina and 'I
Tennessee, hecause South Carolina is r
the producng a-id inanufacturing cen- P
tre. It is not well to obtain this $50,000 %
from the people of other States. It is 8
an ingenious scheme to levy tax upon t
the people of other States and to keep i1
the money in this State.
Mr. Gantt replied that the tax in c
- ach State was kept in the treasury of i
that State. u
Mr. Jeremiah Smith commended the e
work, and in his 16 years In the Gen- d
oral Assembly he had never laid a I
ruthlses hand on any State institution, a
but he had always fought to maintain a
those institutions by fostering t e com- b
mon scho6l'.; Clemson is not, a c.'ass b
Institution, but a State institution, and t(
should not be supported by a class tax. g
Why not tax the women of the State a
to keep up Winthrop ? W.hy not put a h
privilege or protective -tax on shoes, a
flour and other maitifactured ar.ticles, t
and raise an immense fund, without t
levying a cent of direct tax? (
Mr. Gadtden read the statute, 3b*w- P
tng that the tax was to bo paid bu fore
the fertilizer was put: on the train for
shipment,.
Mr. Stevonsn replied that the bill
provided for tax on fertilizers sold in
the State. In reply to the insinuation I
that the lawyers were making line- 1
spun arguments on the constitutionali
ty of the law, he said that ho had based C
bois argument solely on the ground that I
extravagance would he encouraged by
too large an Income. He tnen read t
the list of expenditures as laid down In 1
the annual report and contended that 6
there was evidence of extravagance In i
the use of the Morrill, the Hatch and C
other f'unds.
Mr. Bilythe sustaine.d Mr. Gadsdeni's a
r-xposition of the statutes that othber I
States wore paying tribute to this &
State.
Mr. Estridge said that the matter
came directly home to hinm. He is a
farmer and lives among farmers. li. i
his county-Lancaster-the farmers
are complaining arid they want the tax t
cut down. They want barely enough
to pay for the cost of analysis. In mer'- e
chandie, freight and clerk hire are
added into the selling prico, and It Is
the same way wIth the fertilizer tax.
Mr. CJosgrove said that a very great
deal of fertilizair Is being shilpped out
of South Carolina, tnd Charleston Is (
endeavoring to extend her trade in
fertilizer4 to the far Wi at. He agreed
with Mr. Gadsden, that South Carolina I
w as levyin g a tri bute on othe r States
Mr. Gantt, claimned that not, one
dollar .of. tax came .into South 'Caro- I
lina from the people of other States.
-Mr. W. Hi. Thomas repeated his
3,yarning of a previous session that If
Clemson's income were Interfered with
that Institution would cOme to the
State treasury for money and every
aiducational institution in the Statet
$.vtild suIfer.. '.1he* tc xtrlle sobool ,.at
Cleinmvdmerds pU. thd'funds it c an gut.
An nettack ou Clemsonj would mean an
atta k on the entire system of higher
edu t~Ion.
Thn ous toe istrike out thes
Mr. Stevenson thben introduced .an
amendmeut providing that, the tax be
red-uce4d to 15 conto a ton inste.td of to
10 cents. The amendment .was quite a
long one, changing the -pnraseoiogy of
the- act now In foruo, anid Mr. Bly the
thougbt it mught, to be carr'icd ove' for'
enother day.
Mr; 11. H. Henderson moved to rei
store the proposed reductilon to 10
'centst. This was voted down.
*Mr. Laban Mauldin favored the 10
Cents, tax.
Mr. Elied thought the change wou'd
he too radical. There has been an
average of 240,000 tons of fertilizs
sold In the Sttite annually. A reduc
tion of 6 cents on the ton means a cut,
of $12:000 in the Income, or $24,000 for
a red uction of 10 cents. He thought a
reduction of 5 cents enough for aon.
me, as an (xperiment. H.,3 proposed
ma amendment making thu, tax 20
se nts.
Mr. Ahley taxed Mr. Elird with
laving wanted to take half of the fund
rom Clempon and to give it to Win
brop.
Me. E ir's, amendrent was voted
lown by a vote of 38 to 57.
Mr. Ste'venson's amendment was
hen adopted by a considerable ma
urit-y, and the bill subst quently passed
second r( ading.
IWA '1 OF Ai I M IBLE MAN.
nventor of 'Fire Kxt ingulaher i n G en
eral Use Over the Sout h by Glnntrs
and Ciompressors of Cotton.
The death of Mr. G. W. Taylor, of
Aton, S. C., on the 20th inst., eided
io career of a reima-rkable man. Mr.
'aylor nad been in feeblo bealth for
iam time. but no one realized his con
ition, and his death came as a great
lock. He died while sitting in hit,
ialr, and there was no one in the
iomn with him when tho end came. A
ember of the family had just left hiu
i bring some article needed for h:i
>mfort, an-d on returning found him
31ad.
Mr. Taylor, or "Uncle Wash," as
verybudy affecionately calied him,
as indeud a most rcmarkablo man .An
anv respeets. He had the genius of
i Edison, and spent his entire life
orking out inventions, some of them
onderiul, inrdeed, and which will
ring blessings to posterity long af ter
is name has been forgotten. Invent
ig was his- calling, and that be fol
wed it well everybody who knew him
willing to attest. When he was at
ork on some wodel he seemed almost
blivious to everything ele around
Im, but worked at his plan with a do
otion born of such zeal that success
as Invariably his reward. This seem
1 to be all be cared for, for as soon as
re invention was completed to his
&tisfaction, he at once set about some
tier task, ana left the product of his
cad and band in the possesslon of
)mebody else, who might work it and
scolve the benefit of what was his,
ad he had the inclination to make
koney.
H1 was the inventor of the tire ex
nguieher, which i-s in general use a;l
ree the South by ginners and com
ressors of cotton. ',I s alone has
eu of Incalculable benellt not only to
Jo ginner in the protection it furnish
I him for his machinery, & ., but it
eneilrted the farmer in that tone gin
er wes enabled to do the work at a
iuch lower rate, on account of loss
Ilk and lower insurance. We sup
ose there are few steam gls any
'here that are not iitted up with this
impie little attachment that will ex
[nguish a I rme in the gin bouse at
lost instantaneously.
The gin-whet is another invention
f hs. The machine is complicated
deed, but has becn successfully
sed all over the country for sev
ral years. It used to re quire several
aye of laborious work lor a man to
'het his gin, but with thia machine a
inetyoaw gin or linter can be put in
spliendid condition in three and ULo
aif hours, the machine doing every
it of thu work, from the time it
.uehes t e tirst, tooth until it has
ummed and tiled s-arp the last one,
i1 without being touched by human
ands. The whet was invented by him
aven years ago, but the automatic at
achment, was one of his recent inven
lone; indeed, he had just finished it.
)niy a few days ago he said it was coin
'lete to his satisfaction.
He inveuscd a car replacor that is
ecoming very popular recently. being
sed now on some of the big roada In
he North. These inventions are his
cost useful ones, and of most interest,
possibly, to the people of the South,
but there is another of his of which I
vish to speatr, but of which he was
heated out of. During the civil war
4r. Taylor, on account of his genius,
vas employed in constructing guns for
he use of the Confederacy, and for a
ang time was stationed In Greenville,
.C. Whbile there he Invented what is
nown as the centre-iire percussion
ap, which is now used for nearly ali
inds of gun aind pisetol cartridges, lie
howed trno invention to one of his su
erior oillicers, who stole it from him
nd sold it to tihe government for
500,000. Diring the war two large
uns of English make were brought to
~harleston for the defense of the cit~y
od fort hardby. In testing the guns
lhe larger one was cracked. No one
cemed to know how to hand it so as te
cake it lit for use. The matter was
ubmnittod to Mr. Taylor', and he sue
citted a plan for its repair, which was
ried, the gun was made as good ar.
ver, and did cifective work for a long
rhile.
Mr. Taylor left lit tin or no prop~erty;
thers received the fruit, of his work.
Vhen ho did hsivo money he was gen
rous to a fault. Ha was a simple,
ure-hearted Cariatian man, who at,
endedl to hIs own alfairs. Unless en
rossed wIth somne plan he was always
Ind and nifabie, and never said an un
:id werd of any body.
D~o You Need An I'lectric Belc ?
.IFor the. past ten years, Dr. J . Newtoni
l athiaway who iB recogniizcd as the great.
at of all ou~r specialists, has been perfect
ng an elecrnic holt, suitable to use in lis
>ractice, one0 whi chi he could furnish as a
>art of his system of treatment, and wich
ie couild conscientiously guarantee. lIe
loft ianrounices that lie has perfectedi such
1bell, which lie believes to be the only
merfect belt made. It is light. handsome,
if great power, and with new attachments,
.vhich miakes it suitable for every case
lie is pirepared to furnish this lieIt to all
rmtien'ts who neced it aiid who apply to hpm
ort treatm ment, at a merely nominal charge.
W rite to Dr. Ilatlhaway to-day, telling all
ibobzt your ease and( lie will write you about
he belt, and if you desire the belt will be
rent (1. 0. D). for inispec'tioni. Address Dr.
lHlathawav & (Xi., 2,% South Broad street,
A&tlantLa, (a.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
rho Kind You Hlave Alway Bought
Bears the
THRF/S TOO MA1NY SMITRlS.
A GOOD DEAL IB iN A N A 51E.
Bill Arp Tells of Perplexity Growing
Out of Same Names-li Is Son Trav
eled a Long Distanaon aini Found
Hie Had Another Man's ar logram.
Pleasure, surprise and bcwiIk ermant
combined gives a curious expression to
a man's features. One of our boys is a
doctor in Jaeksonville, Fla. Tte other
day while visiting a patient ho receiv
ed a telephone message from his wife,
" Come home at once; a teleprant from
your sister Hattie says your father is
dying and to come at once." Imagine
nis feelings of distrese. Hurrying home
be found his wife in tears, his vailet
packed and he had only hatf an bour to
make the train. All the long night he
grieved and sighed, as he tried to 4leen,
but could not. N-xt morning at Io
o'clock he reach3d Cartersvillo and
hurrying up to the paternal maneion
met, me and Hattio's husband driving
mcrrily to the po-stl1lice. He coulden
speak. He couldent understand. Plea
urc, surprise and bewilderment fild:-(
his eyes and every feature of his face.
fle had travelled 400 miles in haste ex
pecting to find me dead or dying, and
here I was capering around as lively
as a young colt in a tarley patch. BEe
couldent, stand nor underotand, but am
down and said :" There has been a
mistake, but, thank the Lord you arc
-veil. I never noticed where the tele
gram came from nor to what Dr. Sabit
it, was addresed but sipposed hat
Sarah knew and I came at once. L
me gio down to the oile and wire hor.
Poor girl ! she will h so anxious." In
du- time he received an answer, '% s.
sage nut for you nor from Uartorav illo."
Well, weli! How much mental distre.-c
and tiresome travel would have beet
Paved had he carefully read the tehl
gram. He was dreadfuily mortifi !d at
his own blunder, but we were all grat.
ied at his unexpected visit, and as we
happened to have turkey for dinner, all
went happily and the day was a glaa
one. The trouble is In the name. Doc
tors shlould be named Galen or Hippo
crates or Aberna;yiv or Valentine Mott
or Weatmoreland. Bat Smith is so com
mon and besides tULVO i a co ored son
of Aescule pius in Jacksoiville and not
long ago our boy received a telegram
that was Intended for the colored bro
ther, and it said : " It's a boy and Mi
ranny is doing we.l." Tnerc is a good
deal in a name. Tnere was nearly forty
dollars to my son in th is instance, for
if his name had been Vanderbilt or
R )ckceief-r or even dquet zclfantur, the
telegram wouid not have miscarried.
I'e Smiths, Jones, Browns and John
sons ought to 8t1op multipying thL,
name and take a new start, like tbey
do in Mexico. When a couple mate in
Mexico the first Ltiing they do before
they marry is to agre.o upon a family
name. If tohe irl is humble and sub
missive, she takes bi-, name ; If she is
wealtny or aristocratic and he is not,
he takes her name. If they are of
equal rant, they make up a new nnAme
-a kind of mixture of both family
names. For Instance, Mr. Brown and
Miss .lones would be wedded as Mr. and
Mrs. Brojon. Aly wife and I would have
been Mr. and Mrs. Hutcharp, for bhe
was a Hutchins, and then our Aescul
appeon son would have been Dr. Hutch
arp or maybe Dr. K.ely, after his wife,
and have saved that long ride and
forty dollars. But all's well that ends
well, and we arc still calm and serene.
One of our little grandchildren, a
tdhree-yoar-old, thinks it mighty s-nart
and great fun to call me as I pasi and
say, " Hello, major ! Hello, Bill Arp
1ello, grandpa !"
There is a good deal in a name. I
like big stroag names like Webster,
Calhoun, Washington, Macon, Lumar,
McIntsh, Bayard, Buchar.n, Gould
ing, etc., but it must be a serious con
bideration for a pretty girl with a pret,
ty euphonious name to swap it olf for &
disagreeable or peculiar one. I knew
a MisB Goulding to marry a Mr-. Tur
nipseed, and I always thought she
must have loved him mighty hard.
Charles Lamb tells a story about, an
English girl who was courted by a
wealthy gentlieman who was good and
handsome and had every virtue, but
his name was Hogedtesh. She loved
him, but she couldent bear to think of
being called Mrs. Hogsfloeh and she
refused him for three years and would
have kept on refusing, but, he went be
fore pairliamnent and had his name
changed to Bicon. That Is how 'the
name Bacon originated, and I reckon
our Senator came from that stock
and it. is good btock.
So I have conie pretty near reading
mny epitaph again for there was a news
paper man arounad whlen our doctor
left, Jacksonville anid they a're given tob
unticipating bad news- and lf he heard
I was dying, of course ho could put it
in tbat I was dead naext mornhing. It
porters arc dleathl on )iad news. When
the original Bill Arp diod in Texas It
went all over the cour~try that It, was
me and I had to etire from the fleid1
for a time and walt until thbe people
'earned better'-for wherever I went, I
was a euspect and prionounct d a fraiud;
b~ut I read any epitaphs and: was satis
lied. Mr. Ward, of iliraninghamn, in
troduced me to an audlenced not,
long ago and said as lecturer or
a writer of humorous akeiches was
of no conlst quince un tli he took
anota.er name-that Cnarles L"'. Brown
was unknown until bie toiik the name
of A rteamos Ward ; that, HIenry S'Iw
wa~s nobody until ihe wrote ovar tie.
signatur-e of Jotsh B liing ; that Bam
tuci Ciamens was never heard of unmt, l
lie becamie Mark Twia ni; andl to F
cis B. Hlarte became Bret HJarte and
Di.ckens be'canae Btuz ; ann M'.lvuie
Latndon. became 10ll P'erkans ;anid Al
fred Towiiend Iwcamae Gath ; ar~d
Shiaber wais Mrs. P'artinigton ; anid
Good rich was Pet~er 'ariey ; anid Locew
was P'etroleum V. Niasby ; iandi Jouhn
Prgo..-t(ar we P'uek: and Mauari.c Thomnp
son was Doesticks ; and Georro~ Iia'rl
was Sui, L 'vengooo ; anid Bien Franklin
was Pomor Wehard ; and so forman and
so on, and last, of ali. hrie is ouar frIend,
B31l1 Ar-p, who had to disc urd a good
old honest nameo'and aeaume oneO that
was never heard of In the heaveuns
above nor the earth beneath, nor in the
waters under t.e earth. Snakespeare
-ays that a rose by any other name
would smil I as sweoet,, but these auth
ore, whe'tner wise oar witty, are afraid
to ri.k their thoughts withbout a new
.:briatening.
No'v, I was ruminating about what
Christian Srianwa wouil do with sucrh
a case as our son coming up here 400
miles with a billof that I was dend or
dying--ouid 'he science have told
him better. I am not dispobed to make
sport of tho science Us Mark Twain
did, but I cannot understand how we
can manufacture faith to order, and
Isometaimes it has to be manufactured
so quckly that it mud.t strain the ma
chinerv powerfully. I was mending a
little tablo yesterday for our grand
child and the nall-slipped and the ham
mer came down on my t um'b and made
a bloo:1 blister boore I had time to
think it dident hurt me according to
Christian Science, but was only im
atinary. I toll you it did hurt bad
'and I don't believe the science would
have orevented it..
MI aybe blood blistters are excepted,
they ought to be, and so ought stumped
totb and buron and all other very sud
don things that. don't give faith t.ime
to work. BiLi, A nit.
AN IEXP'EliUMIcVT IN JOUNAILISM
At tlior of "in lis tops" Will Hlave
A hsolute Control of uhe I)ally Capi
tal f'or One Week and Will tun it
onl the Iule of "What Would Jesus
IDs ?"--Nothing Will be Published
I xc( pt M atter A pprovel by the
Preacher 14(litor.
R .-v. Chart!s W. Sheldon. of Tovek a.
Kansas, the author of "In His Steps,"
is to be given an opportunity to publih
a newspaper that shall realizo his con
ceition of what a Christian dally ought.
to be. Th D.sily Capital ha's an
nounced that on March 13th its presses,
fr.auchses and the entire editorial and
blusincs3 management of the paper will
be transferred to Mr. Sheldon. For
six days he will bo its abs-3lute owner.
Unbampered, he will direct its course,
edit its news columns, control its ad
vertisIng. In every way his authority
is to be supreno.
The Sheldon edition Is to be a paper
that will be unique. Guarding its col
omns, as the flaming sword guarded
1Eden, will be the question, "What
Would Jesus Do ?" That is the chal
lenge every piece of news, every edi
torial, every , dvcrtisement will have
to meet.
The suggestion for this experime'nt
took form in a question with which Mr.
Sheldon startled the great, Christian
1Endeavor convention in Detroit lust
.Julv. 11.! asked :
"In this day, when philanthropy mu
nilicently endov s our institutions of
learning, Is thero hern a man who, re
cogniz ig the potency of thu public
pr.ss t.o mako or mar civil zation, will
give $1,000 00 to establish a daily
Cbristian n: wspaper ?"
Thai, qio'tiol went at once from the
Christian End avorers to the world. It
provokcd all un'nding amount of dis
cussion, both friendly and critical.
But in its travels the query failed to
tind the man with the million dollars.
Here, in Sheldon's home town, interest
in the discussion has been unusually
keen. At labt an unfettored opportu
nity to make the experiment, has
como.
In a double-leaded editorial The
Capital, aunnouncing the Sheldon edi
tion, says :
"We can offor our readers rio inti.
mation as to the actual contents of The
C.pital under Mr. bhieldon's mana.go
ment. We do not know. Its aim,
ho-vever, is to be as definite and single
as a ray of light. It is to 1)6 Christian
from dato line to the foot of the last.
page in every issue. Not sectarian or
denominational, but Christian. Its
whole policy will be dictated by %he
question, 'What Would Jesus D, ?'
"As to the results I rom the object
lesson which this Sheldon edition will
alford wo would not venture a pre:dic
tion. They are our(, to be many ; they
may be Arvolutionary. A world that i.
reamilng millions of copies of 'In Ils
Steps' every year, anld even now takinlg
thoem by the thousand every day
fa'om scores of ptress a, may be a world
that is waiting for a daily paper mod
eled after that remarkable book. If it
is, the world will get what the world
wants.
"The Capital welcomes the Sheldon
idea and the knight who, 'without
fear and without, reproach,' bears it to
thbe lists of trial before the world. In
his search for the grail of a purer jour
nallsm may this SIr Galahad of .l900
gain his quest I RIght heartily we
wish hlim Godspeed."
As to what Mr. Sheldon's COlrisianm
daily wiill give to its readers aaml what
it will withold fr'om thuem no o Is de
linituely informed. Mr. Sheldon thim
eli sa s that, he is busy workiny oust
the dletailsi of his joiurnalistic lans, hut
'hat he is not in a po-ition to givu spe
eilia information asd to) what, they will
be. liI is in daily con ference w it the111
"ant.i ro re'pe rtor'ial andl teleg!rapi c
news stalT o.'1The Cate I in oruder that
it may be trained to han 11-, neuw as
Mr. Sa~cidon thiniks it should he hanld
led.
Some light mn uy possibij be thrown
on this rema~rkable nowspa:per venture
by the x1-iwrience of ' E.l ward. Nor
mn"as it is narrated~i in a d rlamiati(
chaupter of G iu LImat Step)?." Theii morn
ing after "Norman" had taken a
pledge in good fti t~h to (do every thing
after askinug '"What Would Jesus Do ?"
he is represent~l ~ed a's coing to hiis ofilee
andl b~ginn ing hi1s work, when "Clairk,"
the manoaig ad itjr, lir'ed thin query
''Here's this piress reii'rt, of yester
d a13 's pr .zie' Ii,' ht at Ilhc R sort. ft, will
miatk-i th rese olius anfd a half. I sup
pms it, all goes in .
"<s-no. iet, me1 see It.,'
'"Nor man" took the typewr'itten mat
ter' julst as it came from the telegrapih
editor andl ran over it careful v. Tihena
he laid the sheets down on hhi desk
andi (lid someC hard thanking.
'"We won't run this today," saId he
alliy.
"B~ut---but, thbat's unheard of," said
thie mrlantag i i ditor in astonime111 nt.
"All theo (ther papiers will print, at.
What will our suibscribes say ?"
"Normau" (11( nt hpeak for a min
ute, then he saId abrnptly:
"'Clark, If Christ we-re editing a
daily paper do you konestly think He.
would pr-int three columns and a half
of priz., fight, In it, Y'
''Clark gasped ins astontiylhment, Irin
ally he rnpli-d:
"'No, I don't, suppose he would.'
" 'Welt, that, is may only reason for
shtigtis account out of The News.
I Ihave de-lded not, to (10 a thing in con
net~Ion with the npape for a whole
year that I honestly believe Jesus
would not do."
"Clark could not, have looked more
amazed if the chlef had Ruddenly gone
crazy."
In Sheldon's Chiitian Daily will the
priz i fight, the horse race and every
other sort of snorting event be com
pletely ignored ?
What, too, will be the policy of the
nAw manager with reference to tobac
co, l'quor and in fact to all inds of ad
vertising ' The questions that will be
aimed at the Christian DaIly will as
suredly be legion. What its answer to
them will be will not be divulged till it
comes from the press.
As if appreciative of some of the se
rious business diffleulties to be met it.
seems to be Mr. Sheldon a view that a
Christian daily paper should be an on
dowed instiutilon. That was behind C
his question asking a million dollars
at Detroit last summer. "E'dwaril
Norman," moreover, in ' In Ills Step-' r
finally gets his paper on the basis or it
strong endow mont, and the author says
of it: "The Nows created a new foret
in jo-irnallsm that in tVino was re
cogniz d as one of the real fact.ors of
the nation, moulding its princip'es anw
actually shapitng its poiic-, a da-)
illustration of thu might of a Cnrtstiant -
press, and the tirst of a series of such
papers begun and carried on by other
dsci4pls who had also taken the
pledge."
This p:Aliey of endow mert seems to
elIminato the idea of such a paper b
coming a paying ventur'. With re
forence to this partleular Sheldon ed
ition that is now to actually take form,
not In a book, but in real life, it is in
teresting to note that if the recelpts
exceed the expenses involved In the
exp)-erimont, a largo portion of them, in
accoidarce with Mr. Sheldon's views
and wislhcs, will be devoted to Christ.
Ian and philanthople work.
QUAKEii- H UMO.-The unexpected
humor which often tints the grave
speech of the Quaker is well illustrated
in a littlo story to)ld of an eminent
young phvsician of Pennsylvania at i
the time of the Civil war. li0 had de
termined to servo his country and t
leave his practIce at home ; but met
with grieved remonist-rance from hio
mother, a sweet faced Q iakeress.
" I beseech of thee rot to go to this
war. my son I" she pleaded, her soft
eyes full of tears.
" But I do not go to light, mother,"
said the doctor cheerfully. " I am s
goinL as a medical man. Surely there
is no harm In that."
Well, well," said the little mother
doubtfully, "go thenl if It must, be so.''
ien sudden l y a gloam of loyalty shone
through her tears, and she straighten
ed herself and looked bravely up into d
her tail son's faco.
" if thec finds theo kills more than I
thee cures," she said demurely, "1 I ad
vise thee to go straightway over lo
the other sido, my son l'-Youth's
Companion.
-Southern Senators express them -
selves hopeful over the prospects of
securing legislttlon during the pre
sent session of Uon-- roes looking to re
fundIng t-ho money liaid Into thu
trreasury t-oon aftor the civil war as a a
result of the sale of cotton captured by
tLu lode-ral forces. There was origi
nally $30.000,000, but, a portion of it
was paid to tho owners of the cotton
soon after the close of the war. The
remainder was left in the treasury and
has remained there ever since. Senator
Money, who is giving especial atten
tion looking to the reopen'ng of the
subject, says that the sum left amounts
to about $11,000.000. A bill introduced
by Senator Davis gives one year ad
additional time for proof of such claims
before the Court of Clanim,. Most of
the claims arc held in the Southern
States.
--Gov. Stanley, of Kansas, has been
releasing some of the convicts of' that
State on conditlon that they will not
drInk Intoxicating liquor nor- gamble,
nor violate any law, nor shirk labor.
Ho finds that the plan has so far
worked well. He does not krnow wheth
er these conditional pardons are legal,
but says that If Illegal the Supreme
Court of the State will notify him to
that effect.
FEIALE~ MAIL.
That so~unds miore 'contradictory than
it is, when attention is called to its being
a descriptioni of the largest mail received
by any iman ini the Umatted States exclui
sively from womieni. This "female mail''
is receivedl by l)r. R. V. Pierce, the cele
brated specialist in wonmn's diseases,
chief consulting physician to the Inva
lids' IHotel and Surgical Institute, Buf
falo, N. Y.
It is only fair to say that it is not the
man that women write to, but the doctor.
One of the remarkab~le features of this
correspondlence is that years after a cure
has beeni effected, grateful women con..
tinue to write to D~r. Pierce, being~ thank
ful for health and for the kind and
fatherly advice, which was blended with
the physician's counsel, and which was
so helpful in p)reservinlg the health whzen
Thle offer of a free consultation lby let
ter is extenidedi by I)r. Pierce to every
sick and ailing womian. Every letter
received is readI in private, answeredl inl I
private and its contents treated as a sa
cred 'onifilenm ce. Tlo exclude satny third
p)arty from thle correspondenice, all
an~swers are mia Iied in a plain menivelop~e,
b~earing up~oni it nio prini ing or advertisimzg
whatever. Address I )r. R. V. Pierce,
invalids' I fotel a nd Surgical Institute,
lBuffalo, N. V.
I)r. P'ietree's Favorite Prescription, the
great remiedy for femnale troubles, irregui
larities, deiliIitatingi dra ins, inflammation
awl uticeratioii, is for sale b~y all dlealers
ini medliciine. Accept iio substitute
which may he recommnended as ''just as,
gool "' tI'* the dealer may make a little
ex tra y a
Dr. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription
makes Weak Women
Strong and Sick
Women We1l
"UCOTON
Culture"
is the name
of a valu
able illustrat-.
ed pamphlet
which should
be in the hands
f every planter who
aises Cotton. The
ook is sent FREE.
Send name and address to
GERMAN KALI WORKS
93 Nassau St., New York.
TO OUR
Pickens Friends,
It gives us pleasure to announce
a our friends in Piekens C ounty
hat we will on or about the first
f february open up a branch
tore in Easley.
We have rented Dr, Smith's new
tore room, next his drug store,
nd will opeii up a Complote Line
f l)ry Goods, Notions and Shoes.
Ve will sell at same prices as we
1o in GIreenville, so hope for your
iatroniia gl.
J. Melton King will be in charge
11nd will be glad to see all his
riends in his new place. Mr.
(lng ieeds no introdction, all of
on know him. Visit his place
.n1d lie will sell you goods as cheap
)r cheaper than you can buy in
I reenville, also save you the long
ride to Greenville.
'hankinig you for past liberal
patronage, and extending you all
an invitation to visit our Easley
Branch Store, also when in Green
ville to comec and see us.
Yours,
R. L R. Bentz'
Leadecr iln Low Prices.
TIhe iman who rises to his opportunities
is the suiccesful man. liere 's the opportu
nity for tnot one, but dozens df men.
Our sale of Men's and Ladies'
['ine Foot Wecar at special prices is
Irawinig to our store those who ap
>reciate style and quality.
Yoursi for agutare (ealing,
PRIDE_& PKlTON,
106 S. Main Street.
I'~ F'irst door above
Lipscomb & Rlussells'.
--The Medical Recordl says : "What
IVer' may be the immediate or remote
sauses of the dark complexion of the
2eg ro, ph ilosoph iet.l inquiry has shown
as that to him it Is a provislon of na
ure, mercy and benevolence. The
>lack color of natives of tropical re
fions may justly, then, be considere.1
is a wise experience provided by Om
uipotence for cooling the fever of the
>lood under the influence of the scorch
ng Snn."