The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, November 29, 1900, Image 1
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BILL ARPS SOUND ADVICIE.
SOUTH MUST PRESERVE NAME.
Our People Should Move Right Along
and Keep in the Middle of the
Road.
Lst us move right straight along and
keep in the middle of the road. All is
not lost save honor, nor will the North
dare to cut down our representation In
Congress-such a move would alienate
their new Southern converts, for
Southern Republicans are at heart
all lilywhites and have no use for the
negro in politics. Southern Republicans
have been under the ban ever since the
war, and they realize.that it Is because
they are alligned with the negro.
Captain Lowry is all right when he
says, "but for the negro in pnlitics
the Republican party would have a
good chance to capture and hold the
South." The captain is a Republican
-a TennesseeaD, a Georgian, a banker,
and has travelca much, and his party
up North ought to give weight to his
opinions. He is a gentleman, a man of
integrity, and stands high in financial
circles ail over the country. Financially
he Is a success and liberal with his
money, but he w ill not take Carnegio's
advice and give it all away before he
dies. Yes, the nigger Is still in the
wood pile, and the joke of it is the
niggor don't know it. There are not
a dozen negroes in this country who
care a straw about voting. If the white
office seekers would let them alorne
they wouldent go about the polls on
election day. What is wanted is to
purify the candidates. If this can be
done in Atlanta why not elsewhere?
We all rejoiced over the election of
Major Mime, for he ran for mayor as
a gentleman and had no heelers, nor
would he ask any man for his vote or
allow any corrupt electioneering by
his friends. He stubbornly refused to
promise anything to anybody, and,
strange to say, was elected.
But the Republican party is growing
very fast in this section, and will grow
into respectability if they will let the
negro alone. Mr. Lowry is right. Some
years ago when we had suffered a
similar defeat my friend Newt Tumlin
was greatly distressed, and told me in
aw whisper that there was only one way
to get even with them, and that was to
jine 'em. Well, there are lots of folks
jining 'em around in these parts, and
it is hard to tell who is a Democrat
and who is not. They tell me that a
Democratic officeholder and two of the
executive committee of this county
voted for McKinley and our neighboring
county of Polk went for him by 500
majority. Maybe that is an evolution
that will stop the threatened reduction
of our representation, for our Republi
can~ friends don't want that to happen
any more than we do, and they will
file a protest and fight it.
What we want at the South is to
preserve our good name, our historic
honor and our traditions. A section
that baa produced Washington, Jeffer
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Polk, as presidents, Clay and Calhoun
and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and
President Davis muist hold up her
proud head sad vindicate her honor.
Who are woe? We import no foreign
era to do our work, and hire nO Hlea
slans to do our fighting. How did our
hearts burn within us as we read the
brave words of General Evans to the
Confederate veterans at Augusta: "Do
not let the history we have made be
pervorted by partisan pens or polluted
by sectional slime. Our schools must
be cleared of Northern rubbish dumped
into the minds of our children. We
want, a literature that will not continue
divisions, but, will contain the honest,
relation of facts, that will unify the
youth of this country in common ap
j,.(neItion of the trutithe of history."
Yes, we hrnve been shamefully care
less in the selcttion of our school
books. The poison has already crept
The Journal:
to come to see us for any thing that meo
year.
Slen's Suits run from $4.00 to 825.00
ice Pant Suits $1.50 to $0.00.
from $1.00 to $7.50.
uc of Men's and Boys' Hats in both
itraw goods.
0 Shoe made for men.
i Underwear, among which is the best
laundered white shirts and colored shirtz
the trade for 50 cents. %
pleasure in showing you through the
of goods in our line in the Piedmont
d the prices are all right.
BRISTOW1
ENVILLE, S. C.
lES.
BHORT NOTICE.
xamine our Summer Stock of
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Coach Factory.
- - i1. C. MARKLEY, Prop
in and must be ejected. There should
be a school commission in every South
ern State, for it is a well-known fact
that there are teachers who are secret
ly paid by Northern publishers to
get their books into our schools. We
cannot control their literature, but we
can their school books. A few weeks
ago an artful canvasser visited our
town with an attractive history of the
world in ten volumes. He was the out
talkingist book agent I have ever met,
and his scheme was to give away five
or six sets in every town to influential
men of culture. He called it giving
away, but required the cos' of the
binding, which he said was $14. The
sale price was $45. 1 was one of the
favored six, and he fed me liberally on
flattery and assured me that there was
not a line in all the volumes that any
Southern ma'n would object to nor
could any read or tell whether the auth
ors lived North or South. He had one
volume as a sample, and I noted that
the authors were distinguished pro
fessors in some Northern colleges.
The volume was well written and I
was pleased with it and with the price 0
and the flattery, and so I put my name
down with the condition that on exam
ination of the other volumes I mig, t
accept or reject. In due time tbey
came and I took up the ninth volume
that contained the history of our civil
war. The book was opened at random
and there was an engraving of William
LI. Seward and the first pargraph read:
"He bad hardly got installed into offiee
when he was con fronted by three auda
clous commissioners from the rebel
States." Audacious ! Just think of it.
I was mad and got up and walked about
and then played on the piano a little
and then openied the book again at Mr
Calhoun's p'cture and read another
paragraph, which said that there was
not much difference between Calhoun
and John Brown, for they were both
fanatics and would go down in history
on the same plane. Of course the
book~s were rejected, but the agent has
my influence as a cultured gentleman.I
" Timeo Danaes forentos dora.'' "LBe
ware of the Grecians when they come
with g if ts," and beware of histories
published by Northern houses unless
they arc writter. by Southern authors.
Sometimes when I ruminate about
all their slanders and lies and bragga
docio, I get sad and then mad and dis
couraged for fear they will drive us
into another war and we will have to
whip 'em again. When a country dog
comes to town he hides underneath
the wagon as long as hecan, but the
town dogs drive him out and he runs
off and backs up in the corner of the
fence and whips the whole gang and
all they dare to do is to stand off and
bark at him. Those Yankees are bark
ing at us now. Lot 'em bark. Those
who come down here to live with us
are good people and soon fail in love
with us. I never knew an exception
except that Mrs. Cantlold, who wrote
that malignant and fool letter back to
her folks and said she longed to see
the time come when black heels should
tread on white necks. Those who
come down here to I.tay soon harmon
ize with our folks and their sons marry
our daughters and our sons marry
their daughters. Old Dr. Kirk says
it's a mixture of blue blood and green-.
backs and makes a fair average. So
it's all right, and no loss on our side.
BILL AUP.
P. 8.-There are two Mormon elders
in town and I've got no dog.
-A resident of Plymouth, Mass., Dr.
Isaac L. Wood, has brought a couple
of apples from an orchard at Ham
loops, British Columbia, just- the ordi
nary fruit of that region. One of thorm,
measures 15f inches in circumference
and weighs 23 ounces, and the other is'
nearly as large. Dr. Wood was at the
agricultural fair at Kamloo ps where
he saw an apple which weighed 29'
ounces. A single apple Is enough to I
make a nie of the usala houehold ie.
THU SOUTH IS THIRE&T4NEj
QUESTION OF APPOltTIONMEN:
Extreuo Itepublicans Want to os
Down Representationi to Acmur
Vote Cast.
Mr. Wm. E. Curtis, the most note
newspaper correspondent in Washing
gton, in discussing the reapportiot
mont in Congress, writes as follows:
The fourteenth amendment to th
constitution of the United States prc
vides that representatives in Congres
shall be apportioned among the State
according to their respective numbers
counting the whole number of person
in each State, excluding Indians no
taxed ; but when the right to vote a
any election, etc., is denied to any o
the male inhabitants of such State
etc., or in any way abridged, etc., the
basis of representation shall be reduc
ed in the proportion which the numbo
of such male citizens shall bear to the
whole number of male citizons 21 yeari
of age in each State.
The census returns, which are now
being computed, will show the number
of male citizens in each State. The
returns from the recent elections in
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Mississippi and other of the South
ern States which have disfranchised
the colored population will show the
number allowed to vote. If a different
basis of calculation is desired, the cen
sus returns will give the number of
illiterates in each State. Several of
the Southern States, in order to pro.
hibit negroes from voting, have estab
lished an educational qualification.
Persons who cannot read and write
are not allowed to vote unless they
served in the Confederate army or
their parents were voters prior to the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment.
That lets in the " poor white trash."
An educational qualiilcation prevails
in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
perhaps some of the other States as
well as in the South, but was adopted
for different reasons.
It is difficult to see how Congress can
ignore the fourteenth amendment in
preparing the reapportionment bill
which will be acted upon at the next
session, and the attention of Represen
tat.ve Hopkins, who will be chairman
of the committee, is respectfully di
rected to that instrument. According
to the constitution the apportionment
must be based upon the population of
the different States, after deducting
the number of illiterates that have
ieen disfranchised in Massachusotte,
South Carolina and elsewhere. If this
is not done the apportionment law ma
be set aside as void, if anybody wi i
Lake the trouble to bring the matter
before the supreme court.
Some of the Republican leaders are
3onferring as to the propriety of apply
ing this constitutional provision to the
3outhern States, which would lose
ibout one-third and in some cases one
ialf of their representation in Con
ress and in the electoral college. If
,he vote of South Carolina, for exam
le, is made a basis of apportionment,
hat State will be entitled to one mem
er of Congress, because the entire
umber of ballots cast in the seven
jongressional -districts did not exceed
he number polled for some of the
nembers from the Northern States.
e. these seven South Carolina dis
ricts heve seven times as much repre
eatation in Congress and the electoral
ollege as the districts in the North.
If any one will tLke the trouble to
ook at the returns he will notice that
ery few Re3publican votes are ever
aat South of Tennessee and Missouri.
Zo carvass was made by the R .publi
ans this year in any of the Gulf Statee
r in South Carolina, Georgia or Ar
ansas. The reason for this was ie
3ntly explained in the United States
anate by Mr. TilIman, who said "we
ieated them, we bulldozed them, we
.ot themt, and finally drove them
way from the polls." Under the Till
aan syste u, for example, Mr. Norton
fSouth Carolina, was elected to Con
ress by 1,765 votes to 151 for Mr.
3vans, his opponent, while M r. Cald
rell, of Illinois, received 23.293, against
1,053 for his opponent. Mr. Caidwell
lone received nearly as many votes as
rere cast for all the seven members of
oug'ress from South Carolina or Miss
is'p,>1. Mr. Foss, of Illinois, received
iore.
An examiration of the returns from
outh Carolina shows a singular uni
srmity In the number of votes cast in
898 for five of the seven members as
ollows:
Dem. Rep.
airst district..........3.030 1,529
lecond district......... 4.073 122
P'hird district. ......... 4 029 332
'ourth district......... ..4.467 165
''ifth district.......... ..4 230 None
sixth district.. ...... ... .1.765 151
ieventh district........4,433 595
Totals................26,027 2,804
Mississippi furnishes a similar illus
ration. The largest number of votes
ast for any member of Congress from
)'at State was 4,943. In one district
he Republican candidate received 58,
n another 373, in another 142, in an
thor 327 and in another 171, while in
we remaining districts no Rsepublican
rotes were cast at all.
The country districts of Illinois offer
good comparison :
Dem. Rtop.
Cleventh district..16.564 20 600
rwelfth district. ,.14,178 21,484
E'hirtoenth district... 14,977 20.635
~ourteonth district... 19,431 21,417
~lfteenth district. ... 20,901 21,143
ixteenth district...21.82 17,021
oeventeonth district.. 23,293 21,053
Totals............102 i4,aj:
The entire number of votes cast for
nembers of Congress in the seven dis
ricts of South Carolina was 28,831, and
n the seven districts of Mississippi
56,797, while in the seven districts in
[llinois, where the average is about
hho same as through the Northern
3tates, the number of votes east was
174,379. Thus, in IllinoIs 274,379 voters
have seven rep~resentatives, or an aver
igo of one member of Congress to 39,197
rotors. In Mississippi there is a repro
sentativo for every 3,083 voters, and in
South Carelina one for every 4,119
r'ho average member of Congress from
Illinois represents 10,000 more voters
than all the seven representatives from
S~outh Carolina or the seven from Miss.
iesip p1 combined.
Other lessons can be drawn from this
oomnarison. It is eallyu..j.....or
P. the Southern Btates to have such at
excessive representation in the elec
'. totral college and in the national con.
ventions which nominate the Presi
t dent. If the negro is not to participate
61 in the government he should not be
represented in Congress or in the elec
d toral college, and those who prohibit
his participation ought not to enjoy
the advantage they receive by the
disfranchisement of a part of their
apopulation.
hie Is not a now question, but it will
9 come at the approaching session of
Congress with more force than ever
before. Some of the Republican lead
ers-and I understand that the Presi
b dent is among them-think it would
not be wiae to do anything that will
excite unfriendly fooling in the South,
because so many business men in that
section are leaving the .Democratic
party and coming over to the Republi
cans.
STONEWALL JACKSON'S WIDOW.
The Rollet of a Southern Hero--The
Story of Her Life.
A correspondent of the Chicago
Chronicle was recently in Charlotte,
N. C., and wrote as follows concerning
the widow of Stonewall Jackson:
Mrs. Jackson is now over 70 years
old, and, though eutfering and sorrow
have added their traces to those of the
passing years, her face still retains
much of the fascination and beauty
which enthralled the then awkward,
dilident young military cadet from
Lexington when he first met her as
Anna Morrison at the home of Gen.
David Hill. Her black, luxuriant hair
has few traces of gray and her black
eyes are piercing and lustrous still.
Since the death of Mrs. Jackeon's
only child, Mrs. Christian, several
years ago, she has devoted her life to
her grandchildren, who reside with
her. Her home is a plain two-story
building on Trade street. To the un
pretentious dwelling, however, a pictu
resque charm is given by ivy and
ma(teria vines climbing at will about
the veranda, violet bordered walks
leading to the hospitable doorway and
stately magnolias casting their luxu
riant foliage over the whole. Within
is the refined atmosphere of a typical
Southern home. In the drawing-room
the most conspicuous object is a large
oil painting of General Jackson. Por
traits of other heroes whose memories
are still sacred in the hearts of old
Confederates are also hung everywhere
upon the walls, Interspersed with
tattered flags and other trophies of the
lost cause.
Here the widow of one of the great
military geniuseo of the world has
passed her peaceful days, busied with
her household duties or superintend
ing the education of her grandchild
ren.
In her " Life of Jackson " she said;
"The home of my girlhood was a
large, old-fashioned house, surrounded
by an extensive grove of pine forest
trees, on a plantation in Lincoln County,
North Carolina. My father was Rv
Dr. R:ibert Hall Morrison, the firet
president of Davidson college. He
was a graduate of the university of
rhe Stato, and of the same class at
President James K. Polk, Bishop
Green and others of note in church ano
State.
Mrs. Jackson's mother was Mary
Graham, daughter of Gen. Joseph
Graham of Revolutionary fame, and
sister of Gen. W. A. Graham, who was
once secretary of the navy.
Mrs. Jackson was one of the ten chil
dren, six daughters and four sons. She
spent much of her early life in Wash.
ington with her uncle, Gen. Graham.
While on a visit t: Lexington, Va.,
she'met her futuro husband, then
Prof. T. J. Jackson, whom she marricd
in July, 185'7. Gen. Jackson died in
1863, May 10, and left his widow and
one child, a girl, Julia, who was but a
few months old. Trhe two and skillful,
old nurse, Hetty, returned to the Morri
son home in Lincoln County, wherej
they lived a quiet, life until Julia was<
ready to enter college, when the moth-,
er and child moved to Charlitte.
After finIshing school Julia married
W. E. Christian, a talented newspaper
man, now in the service of the Seaf
board Air Line railroad at Portsmouthb,
Vai. Mrs. Jackson lived with the
young couple in St. Paul, Minn., Min-.
neapolis and other western towns up
to 1889, when Mrs. Christian died,
after which she returned to her home
in Charlotte and brought with her &
Julia and Jackson Cnristian, her grar~d
enidren. Miss Christilan, sister oft
Mrs. Jackson's son-In-latw, camne to livet
with her.t
Mrs. Jackson was always an interest
leg person. She lived a quiet life
among her friends and relatives. Dur-t
ing this quiet and comparatively lone
ly life she conceived an idea of pub<
lishing the character of her husband,
esp~ecially as a legacy for her grand-|
children, who were too young to re
member hearing from her own lips
the reminiscences of their hero grand.
father.
It was by her close application to
this writing, in addition to the almost
burdensome correspondence which her
position entailed upon her, that caused
the strain on the nerves around the
eye, which brought bor years uf suf
fering anal will bring death. She had
the nerves cut several years ago, but
the relief was only temporary. The
result of the operation now performed
in Baltimore ls dangerous and Is<
awaited here with much anxiety by
her friends.
Mrs. Jackson's; Charlotto home is
very near the Southern railway sta-1
tIon, where an aged Mexican war vet
eran who served under Jackson, has<
stood for years as guard. Hie took <
great pride in guarding Mrs. Jackson
and lost no opportunity to point out
the house to strangers. The house is
a plain two-story frame building and
the yard is adorned by several beauti
ful evergreen trees. When at home
Mrs. Jackson lived a simple but plea
sant life, surrou'nded by her bright
grandchildren, who are now elf at
school.
Mrs. Jackson spent part of every
year at L'exington, Va., her health
permitting. It, was there that she
spent her marrIed life and where her
husband and daughter are buried.
--The Charleston Exposition Com
pany will probably ask the Legisla -
ture for S50,000, with which to erect a
State building and provide exhits.
THE1 NEGRO AS A LABORPlt.
Whites Best for the Cotton Mills ami
Negroes Best for Ootton Fiiehls o
the Soth.
The question of the employment o
negroes in Southern cotton mills hat
been taken up by the industrial corm
mission, before which James L. Orr,
president and treasurer of the Pied
mont Manufacturing Company, South
Carolina, testified that, as a rule, no
negro help was employed in the cot
ton mills except for such labor as Is
placed upon scavengers, firemen, etc.
Mr. Orr believes that preference should
be given to white labor as long as it
can be got, because it has had a hard
time In the South in competition with
negro labor, and this is the only
spbre, as it were, set aside for its
benefit. So far as he is concerned, he
proposes to use white labor whenever
he can do so to advantage. Negro
labor was used in the South for a num
ber of years before the war to a limited
extent, and a case is cited at the late
Saluda mill, near Columbia, where
some negro labor was employed. Some
mills use negroes on the plickers in the
picker room.
Mr. Orr did not consider it dosirable
to mix the races in their employment.
In the first place, between the class of
hands that work in the mill and the
negro laborer there is considerable
feeling, and, in the second plano, the
social feature that it would bring about
would be objectionable. This feeling
is not carried to the same extent on
the -farms nor in the mines, as there
the labor consists principally of men,
whereas in the cotton mills there is a
large number of women. The tende -y
of colored labor In South Carolina is so
work for a less rate of wages than the
white, as they can live on very much
less, and the effect Is to hold down
white labor to a lower level.
In the matter of the colonization of
the negro, which has been advocated
by some of the witnesses before the
commission, the judgment of Mr. Orr
was that it would be a great misfor
tune to the South if any scheme of
colonization should be carried out.
Negro labor is the best for the farm
that the South can get. Negroes can
live on less and they can do more work
when properly treated than any other
class of labor that the South has. 3ut
for the negro labor the South could
not live on five cent cotton, and in his
opinion were it not for five cent cotton
the South would not be able to control
the cotton markets of the world.
Mr. Orr believes that the negro has
retrograded in intelligence In the low
er counties of South Carolina-tnat is
since the control of the whites has
been removed-whore they gather In
large bodies by themselves and where
they have no association with the
white people. In the neighborhood of
Piedmont the negroes work as car
penters and bricklayers by the sido of
the whites. This is particularly soon
In the building of mills and ware
touses, etc., upon which negro car
p)enters plasterers and others work
iong with the white people.-Now
Y ork Commercial.
Da. WHiSIATr GRnOWS BOLDIt.
le Declares That, the Southern Blap
lists are Divide(l as to Whether
They Are Protestants.
Rev. Dr. William H . Whitsitt, late
>residentof the Southern Baptis t Theo
ogical seminary, made a notable ad
tress before the Baptist Congress,
vhich ha;4 -been in session at Rich
nond, Va., in which he adhered to his
>d position with reference to Baptist
kistory, which created such a contro
'ersy in the denomination, and his
Ltterances wreoeven bolder than here
ofor%. Dr. Whitsitt sad
" Southern Baptists are divided in
entiment. One party asserts that Bap
dets are not Protestants; the other as
torts that no man can be a Baptist ex
:ept in name only, who is not also a
Protestant. To hold and teach the
loctrine of a univer-sal spiritual church
which, only with respect of the inter
aal work of the spiritual truth of
frace, may be called Invisible, is alike
Smark of Protestant and of Baptist,
alth. To deny that doctrine is under
tood to be a mark of Rlomanisam. Many
bouthern B-iptists deny that doctrine.
The doctrine that baptism is essential
o salvation appeared shortly after the
postolic age, ane brought in its wake
baptismn of necessity, which, in all I
gee, has been commonly petrformed by I
sporsion and effusion. .It was not long I
efore the distinctive princ!ple of bapt
ism began by this means to bc over-.
*hrown. The last man who is shown toJ
ave held and practiced it was Manus, I
vho wrota a letter to Cyprian, of Car- I
hago, about the year 225, in which hoC
ippears to have advocated the Baptist
:ontention. After that date, though
nany churches and parties held and
)racticed immersion, no record has
sver yet been discovered of any whot
rield and practiced that it is essentir'
so baptism until the Baptists woroe
restored in 1641. Farthormore, his
boric testimony regarding the re-Intro-.
:luction of immersion In 1041, after the
rite had long been disu. d, was abun-t
lant, definite, circumstantial, consie
bent and quite as conclusive as the
hiistoric testimony that Napoleon the
Lirst was named Em~rperor of lFrance in
1804. It is rejected by our Baptists who
are not Protest ,nts, but that is merely
he result of their substantially Oath
>lic position."
Dr. Whitsitt declared :" So f ar as
Jresent research ha: gone, no BaptIst
tas been found between A. D. 255 and
.641, yet the exigencies of the B3ap tists
vho are not Protestants absolutely re
luire that a chain of Baptists shall be
lemonstrated to exist in the actual
tucoesdsion for every day of that pe
-led."
-'rho last day of October closed the
Isaia year of the State of New Jersey.
During the year, according to the re
port of the finance department, forty
>ne trusts were organized under the
laws of the State with a capital rang
ing from $5,000,000 to $160,000,000
none are reported under flive millions
-and with a total capitalization of
*900,000,000. During the last two years
the State has received from charters
for trusts a sum amounting to a mil
lion of dollars, while in other years
the foes received from the same source
am ounted to only a few thousands an
nu ally. The fee for chartering a trust
company is $200 on the milion.
For hoiest trea
or go to Dr. J
great reputatio
satisfactory res1
Blood Poison MC ' oioem
torrible stitges, Krit0ie1g coppe r-coiornd
spots oil faeo or brl, li. ttl ulcers onl t1he
tonguo, iI tI' 1nOtith or throat, ftlling out of
tho hIir or yolibrows, il'-ay of tlie sh 14.s or
withoutt tho uso of Injurious drirs, loaving
the msW Il iI a ipurt-, trong and heaItlth
fut state
aricocele "'largd ve's, wli
Varicocela mi to at cornipleto loss of
soextil p'or; also Ilyttrocele, Gonlorliwa,
f U'vt, strittro and all I'rl~ito antd V oener a
lsmsos and Weaknesses of mon quickly
THE STAIUS OF OG AMtCTTES.
Tobacco an Article of Commerce and
CIgarettes a Subject of State Itogn
latson-No State Can Prohibit their
liportation in Original Packages.
The United States supreme court
has rendered an opinion in the case of
Win. 13. Austin vs. the State of Ton
nossoo, involving the question as to the
recognition to which cigarettes are
entitled under the law.
The caso originated In the Stato of
Tenne8soo and it called into question
tho validity of the State law regulat
Ing the sale of this article of commerce
on the ground that it was an infringe
ment of the right of Congress to re
gulato interstato commerce. The
Tenneeso supreme court upheld the
law and the decision of the U. S. su
preme court sustained that verdict,
though not without disapproval of
soin of the positions taken, and then
upon a very narrow margin, four out
of nine members joining in a dissent
ing opinion and another member of the
court (Justico White) placing his as
sont upon grounds difforent from those
announced by Justice Brown, who
handed down the opinion. The caso
grow out of the importation of cigar
ottoes into Tennessoo from North Caro
lina. They were taken into the State
Ln tile ordinary sized cigaretto pack
ages, about two by four inches, and
theso packages wore loosely thrown
into baskote which were uncovered.
'ho claim was made that those cig
Arette packages wero what is known
to the law as original packages ; but
without cicarly defining an original
package, the court held that it was
Iear that such packages could not be
3o regarded. Justico Brown, in pasE
ing upon the caso, said that tie pack
ages wore obviously made up with a
view of evadlg the law, and as he
spoke he held one of the little cigar
otto cases up to the viw of his audi
tors. On thIs point the delisionm of the
Stato court, to the elfoct that the pack
%ges wore not original, was fully con I
Irmed.
On another phase of the case the %
State court was not so fully endorsed.
lho Tennessou court had hold that
Algarottos aro not an article of com
norce. With this view Justico Brown
AWk -ue, and he deliverod quito a
iisortationi upon tho subject. What
3ver is an object of barter and sale is,
10 said, an articlO of commerceo, and
nust, be so recognized. Tobacco had
)>on teuch ar- article for four hundre1
?cars. it had boon mado the subject
>f taxation and indeed had become
noro widely scattered than any other
voegotablo. Probably, he added, no
)ther vtogetlo has contrib~uted so
much01 to the comfort and solace of the
humaun race. This being the ease it,
was entirely beyond bounds to say that
tobacco wabs not an article of comn
mcr-eo. He thien took notice of the
slaimn that cigarottes are an ebpeoially
harmrful form of tobacco, and while he
soncodedl that, this might b3 the case,
11 remarked that this claim was of
:omparatlvely recent orIgIn. Still, he
bild that cIgarettos are as much a suib
oct of State regulation as is lIquor,
mnd he further hold that while no.
stato law could prohIbit, importation
n origiual packages it was entirely
:ompetent for a LegIslature to regu
ate the sale because of the general
elief In the deleterious effect of the
rtiolo.
Theore was a dJissenting opinion of
iustico Shires, in which the ChIef
ustice and Justices Brewer and Peck
am joined. They based their dissent
pen thte theory that Congrees has ex
lusivo control of interstate commerce.
-Ceculars have been issued direct
ng attentIon to the fact that the ninth
nnual session of the National Irriga
ion Congress will bo held in Chicago
eginning November 21. The motto
f the Congress, "SBave the forests and
tore the floods," is one that may be
dopted by the whole peopie of the
Jnited St-stes. Arid lands are confined
o the West, bjut problems of forestry
md~ w tor corservation are common to'
he whole Union. Consequently what
iver is done for the redemption o1f the,
brid lands will serve as valuable los
ons for the people0 of States whore
~hore is abundant rainfall. Trhe plan
)f the Congress is a comprehensive one I
Ind amplle opportunity Is given for the
eprosentation of all interests. The
aircular announces: '-The best authori
ties on irrIgation and forestry have
been secured to speak and give illus
trated lectures, and men of national
tame and renown as orators and states
rae,a will address the Congress."~
-A pious old lady happened in at a
Dhristian Endeavor meeting. She was
mnuch impressed by the young people's
earnesteess, arnd especialiy pleased
with the singing. She said, "Oh, I do
love to hear 'em sing !They sing with
such venom."
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h10NI-r ON 'Ilm IS PII 'AIImN Wn RrTN.
THE RIGHT PATH.
P~eopie go astray when they pass our
doors, for this is the place where a
light pocket-book can do heavy work.
The past Week hias been a busy one
wit h us and this one we expect to make
it busier one as we intend offering
many bargains that are bound to ap
peal to the pocket book.
Ready-To-Wear Skirts.
If you want a nice Skirt in black or
grey, we have it; or a Rainy Day Skirt,
we have them.
Black Skirts at $1.00 to $8.00
Grey " " 3.50 " 7.50
Walking" " 2.00 " 7.50
Silk Skirts or Satin Skirts-we can
please you.
Jackets, .-- Capes
and Ready-Made Suits.
In fius department we have done a
spleldid business, as we carry the
itock and can fit you, and we guarantee
.very garment we vell.
Dress Goods and Silks.
Our business has been immense in
his departmncut. We carry the goods
aw can't help but please a customer
vlen they look.
See our Plaid Backs at 40 cents.
Rainy Day Skirting at 50 cents, grey
)Ily.
See that $1.25 Peau de Soir Silk
hat We are selling at $1.
Soc our Plaid Backs at $1.50.
See our line of Black Good--can't
)e matched in Carolina.
311OES,
SHOES,
SHOES.
Ve have them in Men's,
Ladies' and Children's.
Bring your feet to us
and we will do the rest.
Ra L. R. Bentz
Leader in Low Prices.
(Cash Dry Goods & Shoe Store
Agent for Butterick Patterns
fWA Little Better Tihan The Hest,g
E~ie wihy we soil them.
ilho American Lady Corset, all styles.
lhon F. Rteymnolds liino Shoes for men.
lientz Shoes for ladies and children.
hiucrrick Patterns only reliable pat
Borne.
We have our store illied with the best
elected stock of
Pall and Winter
Foot Wear
>ver shown in Greenville.
You cannot fall to see the superior stock
and workmanship in our Men's, WVomen's
mnd Children's shoes.
No shoddy stock.- One Price,
Everything Warranted.
FALL FOOT WEAR.
Our kind has Only to be seen to be ap
preciated. The most careless observer
cannot fail to see the Ueauty and Superior
Finish of the Men's, Women's and child.
ron'shhoes: for Fall wear. No eheap
shoddy goods. Everything warranted.
Give us a look.
PRIoE & PKI TON,
106 S. Main Street.
4F First cioor above
Lipsaonmb & nuss..l.