The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, January 31, 1901, Image 1
THE EOPLE'S JOR
VOL 11.-NO. 1 PICKENS. S. C., THURSDAY JANUARY 1 OgoY
BILL ARP ON WEDDING BELL
Discusses Marriage In Interestin
Manner and Speaks of the Trous
seau.
Wedding bells have been ringin
around here for some time. Thei
muusic always excite the good peopl
and everybody talks about the comin
nuptials. Mothers, wives and daugh
ters are specially interested for it is th
bride who has most at stake and i
about to surrender everything to he
lover. But hope is stronger than foa
and the women all rejoice in it an
wish the good woi-k to go on. The
oliusect and discuss every phase of th
niew relationship and crowd the churcl
ojr the home where the knot is to b
tied with anxious and eager interest
The bridal trousseau and the weddin
gifts have especial consideration an<
are carefully inspected. What a dif
terence between man and woman abou
buch thinge. What a difference be
t ween wife my and I. It was of small
concern to me whether the bride's ap
parel cost a thousand dollars or a hun
dlred. Just so she was dressed in good
taste and wore a few pretty ornamenti
was enough for me. I like to see a
pretty woman dressed in a way thal
you can tell pretty well how much of
her is clothes and how much is iles:
and blood. Padding and petticoatl
may fool a man in a new acquaintauice
but a home girl can't fool anybody.
We see them ride and walk and stand
up and sit down and run around and
we can measure thenm up like David
I larum measured a horse. The modern
Ayle of dress is much more pleasing
to men than the old style of hoop skirts
and bustles. Nothing is lacking now
iut to shorten up their walking frocks
to that they won't drag behind and
-weep up the sidewalks with all their
ilth of cigar stunmps and quids and
bacteria and expectorated germs of ex
pectorated consumption. When I see
a girl's skirt dragging along I suspect
I hat she is pigeon-toed or box-an kled
aid wants to hide it. My wife never
wore a dress that way in her life for
she wears a number two shoe and steps
like a deer.
But it is a woman's nature to love
ornament. She cannot. help it and it
is no sin. John Wesley tried to cure her
of it in the discipline, but he couldent
-liscipline about ornaments and jewelry
and other flnery is a dead letter. I
have suspected that maybe he was too
hard on his wife about such things
and that is why she quit him. What
a miserable time those women had in
the days of the Puritans when a pretty
girl had to wear a flain black dress to
church; a home made straw hood
shaped like a coal scuttle on her head,
and not an ear-ting nor a breast pin
nor even a string of glass beads around
her neck. Tlc creator adorned the
earth with flowers and studded the
heavens with stars. Ile gave the birds
their beautiful plunage and taught
them to sing for our pleasure. There
are diamonds in the mines and pearls
in the ocean and of course they were
made for women. We men care noth
ing about such things. I wouldent
give ten dollars for a bushel of them,
but my wife goes into rapture over
them and would give everything sIe
has got for them, except her children
and maybe me.
Woman is a curious and peculiar
creation. I have been studying them
for sixty years and don't tully undIer
stand them yet. T1hey are very near
to us andl very dear to us, but very un
like in their devotional nature; their
love of the beautiful; their long sul
fering undeor trial and adversity. They
go willingly and eagerly to the mrar
riage altar when they knew that theirs
is all the peril and theirs to be all the
pain and care and grief that inevitably
comes to a wife andl mother. I have
pondered over all this and if I was a
wvomnan and had only a man's instincts
and emotions I would not marry any
man upon earth. It is thre God given
maternal instinct that persuadles and
forces a woman to marry. Shre will
launch her boat upon thre stream and
take her chances to jump the water
falls. She will marry even against her
jtudgment and the pleadimgs of hri
friends. She doees not realize thre force
of this maternal instinct, but it impels
and controls her. My little grand
daughters are perfectly happy with
their dolls. They play with them by
day and sleep with them by night. A
little four-year-old saidl to me last night
" Ganpa, don't take (dolly away from
me till 1 get fast aslcep.'' Little boyt
care nothing abotut dolls. They wat
balls and drums and lire-crackers ant
guns-something that will make u'
noise. A man loves a woman ant
marries her, but there is not a lirticl<
of paternal instmect influencing him
The young mother hugs her firsj. borg:
to her bosom and is happy. Th(
young father takes thre advent of thr
child as a matter ouf course, but niot o:
choice. In course of time the littha
one grows into favor and lhe becomei
attached to it, and even proud~ of it
but there is no paternal instinct. The
true woman loves to be a mother. Shi
is not content with one child. Sis
.wants another and another and an
other. T wo childlren double her lovi
and therefore her hrappiness and finall'
when she has no more little onres tm
fondle, her maternal love laps ovier t<
her grandchildren, and sire would clain
them if she could. Mrs. Wilcox wrot'
a lamentation on the " Decay of Lhb
Maternal Instinct mn New lEngland,'
asserting that the women up there (d1<
not wish for child~ren and there wa
hardly a hro1usehold thmat had more thai
one or two-just enough to inherithl
father's estate.
When that decays everything els
decays. A town or city or a Stat
without children-a natural complc
ment of children-is on the dowl
grade. To arrest or impede the coin
ing of children is a violation of the haw
i of;God.
The earth must be peopled by honor
able marriage. Milton says "H 1ail
wedded Love-true source or human
offspring." And again lie says of
r marriage, " It is the buimt of earthly
bliss." Other cynical old poets ntake
sport of it anid call it a "lottery." "An
institution where those who are out
wish to get in and those who tire in
r wish to get out." Some of our modern
. poets ask'the question, " Is marriage a
failure ?" and discuss it in prose and
poetry. Well, suppose that it is, what
is to be done about it. Who is going
to stop it? Ilow shall the earth be
peopled when we all die off ? What
kind of incubators do they propose to
substitute?
Emerson says " All the world loves
a lover," and that is why the good pco
ple of every community flock to wit
ness a marriage ceremony. Every
body loves the happy couple then and
wishes them joy. Will he be kind to
her, ail there is a smothered thought
in every mother's mimd.I
)r. Gaines, of the Agnes Scott In
stitute, gave us a discourse the other I
day on the importance of educating i
our girls. It was deeply entertaining
and convincing. Hlow couies it that<
six tines as much money is invested
in giving our boys a high educatio as i
there is for our' giris. Who are our i
educators at hoime and in our public
schools. Sixty-six per cent of all the I
teachers in Georgia are women and i
they should have the best opportiitt"ies
to fit theni for their vocation. Who i
teaches the children until they can go i
to school. The mothers-the patient E
loving mothers all over the land, while t
the fathers ace in the field, the t
counting room, the workshop, or may
be at the club or the billiard table. I
Why should the female colleges be .
neglected by the State? Who are c
doing the most good in the behool i
room, the church, the Sunday school t
or by the fireside in the establishing
and perpetuating of morality and virtue I
among the children? Is it the boys i
who come fronm college or the girls r
who cannot go, but have to be conteit I
with such education as they can get at i
home?
Well, the good doctor gave us food f
for thought amnd when lie closed I felt I
a wish that I was rich so that I might J
enable every good gir I to get a higher
education than she can get at home. C
When will we have a legislature that c
will have heart enough to give to wo- :
man all of her rights ? The naarriage- a
able girls ought to form a trust and r
vow to marry nobody until theii rights fI
were iecognized. 11 it wasent for tihe t
maternal instinct they would. r
BiLL Am%.
INTRODUCING NJSW PIANTS.
J
Valuable Products Brought to This v
Country by Department of Agri- c
culture. C
Tiere is no feature of the work of
the Department of Agriculture in which
the Secretar) and his assistants take
more pride than that of the intiroduc
taon of new plants into the United
States and the Improvement of those
which are already grown in this coun
try. It may be said that not one of t
the plants producing the great staple i
crops of the United tates are indigen- i
otis to the soil. A few varieties of|
grapes, plums and berries are improve- I
ments upon those which were found
growing wild by the settlers of two I'
centures ago, but none of the gramns,
sugar canes, rice, or other well known(
stap~les were known to Americans in
'the early (lays of wite settlement.
The Indliants had a little cqrn, but even
this, it is believed, was brought from 1
Central America, and the grain itself
15 5o old that its origin has never been
discovered. The same may be said of
wheat, though it is probable that the
latter originated in the Eastern Mcdi
terranean regions.
Since the work of the D~epartment,
of Agriculture commuencedl the charac- I
ter of nearly all of the grains, practi- t
cally all of the rice, much of the cot-a
ton andl many of the grasses have been
entirely changed from that p~roduced1 I
for market twenty years ago. Hardya
andl spring wheats have been brought I
from Russia for use ini all the North
ern States ; date palmis have been
brought from Algeria to grow in Ari- t
zona ; Egyptian cotton and Egiyptian
clover are now being pilanted in many
of the Gulf States, and a seedless f
raisin grape has come to us froni Italy.
Up in Michigan along .ihe sandy lake]
shores a German clover is being plant.
edl to hold the sand dunes in place I
against the prevailing wyinds. Jlapan1
has sent us a clover which is used ex
tensively in -the South for a winter
crop, and( a score of improved vegeta
biles have succeededl those which for
merly grew in American gardlens. 1
11,t was not many years ago that all
of tbe rice grown in the United states
was of the Honduran variety. This1
was found to 1)e unprofitable, and thei
rice iiustry languished .perceptibly.
The Department of Agriculture took
the matter up, and introduced the Ja
pan or Krushu rice, which has created
such a revolution in rice growing as
to eliminate all other varieties. It is
claimed that at least $20,000,000 have
3 been investedl in rice fields in Texas
3 and Louisiana since the introduction
of the Japanese grain. It yields '26
I per cent. more to the acre, andl mills
i at least 245 per cent,. more unbroken
1 rice than did the Hionduraui variety,
3 and has, therefore, increased the rice
production per acre over 50 per cent.
The department has long since given
s up the rice business to legitimate busi-|
- ness enterprise, for it is a principle I
i governing the introduction of a new
plant that as soon as It variety is found sti
desirable and is recognized by the N
seedsmen, the department withdraws wi
from the fild and leaves to private en- do
terprise the opportunity of handling tie
the busimess. 0h
Growing Just a short distance from wi
the agricultural building in Washing- gr,
ton is a thick, horny hedge of oranne I
trees, Citrus trifoliata they are called. wa
The fruit is inedible, beng small and pe
bitter, but the orange is hardy, grow- un
ing to maturity as lar North as ['hila- wt
delphia. The great frost of 1896 in tel
Florida, which destroyel so many or- wi
ange groves, suggested to Secretary 35(
Wilson the great advantages which pit
would follow the discover~y of a hardier 2G
variety of this fruit than is now grown an
in this countiy. It was decided to cot
produce a hybrid orange, crossing the 62(
Florida plant with a trifoliata, in the is t
endeavor to get a sweet orange which -a
should be likewise hardy. The depart- sio
ment has succeeded in getting 3,000 of hoi
these hybzid plants. I., is too soon to ligi
ay what, the result will be with the ed
rruit. It is not believed, however, nte
hbat a sweet orange will result, though I
hlere is still 8o1e hope of that. It, is ino
.hought, however, that by again cross- sob
ng this hybrid with the sweet oraLgo tile
u time a marketable fruit may be pro do
luced from a tree which will grow as I
rery much farther North than the one cht
low known to tile orange groves of ma
lie country. age
In the meantime, however, this hy- te
)rid orange is a new and remarkably ing
raluable hedge plant, with an ever- tha
,reei foliage and long thorius, making ioe
t an impenetrable thicket. This in cru
tself, in the opinion of Secretary Wil- cal
on, is a sufliciently valuable discovery k
o justify the work already (one, but ope
Ie experiment will be pushed to a yea
onclusion in the endeavor to secure a sti'1
aridy sweet orange. As the Secretary 5,
ays, " One of the marvels of the new be 1
entury may be an orange tree bearing mei
narketable fruit which will thrive in A n
lie temperate zone." no
The importation of Egyptian cotton siv
kas been watched with a great deal of in
nterest by tile Secretary, owing to its tun
dlaptability to tile arid belt of the wo,
Jnited States. Ill Egypt this cot(on sya
s irrigated, and the purpose of its im- pile
bortation into the United States is to tje
ind a prolitable crop for Arizona, New j
dexico and Texas west of the San dui
tutonio river. am
Winter mnuskmelons are another the
uriosity which promises to become 111)1
ommercially valuable when grown in bar
arger quantities. 'These muntskmelons me
re grown and harvested in tile sum- oli
ier, stored iu cellars and ripened suf- goe
ciently to be eaton about Christmas no
ime. Some of these melons have al- A v
eady been grown in Colorado and and
ive considerable sat.isfaction. They do to *
ot look much like the muskmelon now (1u
nown to the market gardener, but tick
[ey are sai-1 to be not only a marvel, r'
'ut a very desirahle addition to the Pla
Finter bill of falue. They arc dark in pla3
olor and clongated in sh1ape, weighirag yea
i an average from twelve to fourteen tim
ounds. We
The department is now endeavoring tota
Sintroduce into Oregon and Wash- 87(
ngton tile Bavarian and Bohemian the
rewing hops. These sell for twice as kee
iuch as do tile American varieties and oui
roduce certain qualities of beer now tiral
nly secured in tlis country by impor- Ti
ition. Experimicntis ale now being An
lade oi a field scale with tile Swedish Flu
rowing barley, which took thle grandAp
rize at tihe Paris Exposition. tl
T'HE GR1SAT PASSION PLAY. Per
)rigin and History of the Bavarian the
Drama of World-Wid~e Fame. anr
s101
Th~ie origin c f the Passionl Play dates WI)
>ack to 16133. When theO long Thlirty So
(cars' war was (devouring Germany, a its
evore attack of pllague broke out, (10 11n8
rastating the cities and1( villages of thle schi
lavarian T1yrol, P'attenkirchen and "110
llitteld ~. lica
When eighty-four of tile inihabitanlts hut
if the vilage of Oberammiergau had( b'y
>een swept away m1 a sin~gle month, oni
he hleart stricken survivors met in as-: 'lui
embly, praying Almighty God for tihe
reservation of their hlearths and 'Re0
iomes. In thleir agonly, the terrror- bo01
tricken peasants resolved to ierform est
lien andi every ten years afterward, It
vith tile dleepest reverence and1( sol- Ch
imnity, a play whichl would set forth si
110 life, dleathl andl mledt.ation of tile ni
led .emer. History and traditioin say clo
hat their vow was hoard, and thlat Chi
rm that moment there was5 not one '
rictim, andi the plague3 was stayed. saj
Lfor decade after decade the simple on
rillagere have continued to performli
h1e play, except once or twice whien whm
var rendered it impossile. in
Oberammergau is a village of p)er- wa1
anps 12,000 peopjle, men, women and anl<
thildren, situated in1 tile Bavarianl an11
i'yroi. The spurs of the Alps form a thll
'matural amlphitheatre, while tile Aml- at
:ner river, a small stream of the clear- we]
3st, brighte~st Water, WV.ndsI lazily arounid'
theO converging h.1k. Th'iere are three 1,e
main approaches to thle village ; the .1)
|lr8t and most, obvious by Munichl andl 1s
tihe northl ; the~ second from tihe soulth- At
Sast an~d Partenkirchen, wichl gives aco
beautiful wooded~ ascent to Ettal, withl git
entrance by tile m1o.mitain gateway of wc
Kofel; the third and1( most picturesque ti
route from Rteutte by the PHan See, it.
passmng through tile fair pastures of ph1
Ammerthal, and entering Oberammner. a <
gr~u before the great gray throne of vi
rock which springs out of the Kofel- ick
berg woods, and is markedl by a cross wI
at the summit. dIi
Not far distant from tihe village is lo
the celebraitedl Uenedictine monastery,
whlich was built bly the king of Bavaria
in 1330 to be a temple of the Itoly
Grail, with an order of knightly monks R1
anid Driests t.o uard thn lite acnre b
ituto of the Madonna and Holy Child
Iar the village the hills are coveret
th the evergreen piCne, the blutfs ar<
use with oak, ash and hickory, the
Ids abound in richest grasses, whilt
Aminer, its banks sttidded will:
Id s3camoire, llcws ever through
'oin pastures.
rho Passion Play at Oberama.oragu
a meant, for its citizens and the
isants of adjoining districts. Not
til thirty years ago had it obtained
rid-wide fame. Tlie method of en
taining the visitors is marvelous,
en every hotel in Munich, a Cit) of
),000 people, is crowded beyond c.
ity from May until September, and
trains daily run to Oberammergau
I return. Although the latter place
itains little over 1,000 inhabitants,
I people take part in the play. This
lie only honor known to a villager
part in the cast, of the great Pas
a Play. The only surety to this
ior is by living a pure and upright
it. One's whole life must be pass
in Christian hu-nility and gentle
S.
'he actors iegard themselves as tak.
part in an act of devotion, their
s and their tears show the depth of
ir sincerity. Many of them kneel
(n to pray on entering the theatre,
hey do when they go to worship in
rch. Modern methods of facial
<e-up, stage lighting and stage man
went are lacking; h it criticism is
ed. 'he effect of sincerity in act
is more powerful on the audience
a any finished actor could give. It
a not seem to be the trmgedy of the
3ilixion in mimicry, but the histori
incident in actuality.
'ormerly the play was given in the
n air within the grave yard. Thirty
rs ago a rude theatre was con
cted, having a seating capacity of
10 people, and this will doubtless
ised for many years. In ariange
it, the theatre is not unlike an
erican playhouse, except there are
;alleries or boxes. The most expen -
seats, strangely, are in the rear.
Akmerica, at such a time, the oppor
itits for hotel and ticket speculation
ild he enormous, but by a simple
em, rigorously carried out, the peo
of the village have made such prac
5 impossible.
il tickets for every performance
ing the entire season are divided
)ng the villagers, in proportoi to
number of beds they have been
3 to set up in their houses, shops,
ns and hen coops, for the entertain
it of their guests. There is no box
:es and each ticket of adnssion
s with the bed. Therefore, there is
noney transaction -vith the theatre.
illage law fixes the p ices of beds
seats. Tickets vary from 50 cents
2.50, while the beds are about $3.
sts at a hotel could not obtain a
et if they stayed a year.
'he economic phase of the Passion
' is aimost, as interesting as the
itself. The first performance last
rL was given on May 2.1. They con
led every Sunday, Monday and
dnesday until September 30. The
I receipts, daily, averaged about
)00. This money is Ltrnied over to
village treasury, while the villagers
p what is paid themi by their guests.
of the theatre receipts are taken,
of all, tho expenses of the play.
hie actors' salary is extremely small.
on Lang, the Christus, Anna
nger, the Maria, Peter Rend, the
>stle dJohn, receive $250 each for
.r year's salary, while the salaries
lie others run down to about $t2.50
annum. " The remaninder of the
iey goes Li) the treasury, to meet
expenses of the little city. Obeci
nergau knows no taxes. The Pas..
Play stupports its hospital, its gas
ks, paves its streets antd lays its
ers, cares for its poor andI supplorts
jail andl contributes to all the othier
itutions for the p)ublic good. The
aol children are taught, with the
'iey which conies through the glori
L~ion of God in their play, and the
ial expenses of the pauper is met
the same fund." Each villager has
y his peCrsonatl expendliuires to moot
ing the enterveniing It) years.
hle actors, even those taking the
st, prominient, parts, wait oii their
rders at all times, dloinig the men
labor. A hired servant is unknown.
is wonderful how generations of
ristian culture in) people of rustic
plicity have pirodluced, in face and~
unri, looks and qjualities that so
iely resemble the popular idtea of
rist andI his associates.
'I chanced to see Anton Lang,"
a H1. D). Rawnsley, " at early mass
the morning of the performfanice.
seeimedl rapit in the service, andI
en he left the chturch lie walket as
a dream ; others chatted, b~ut, lie
Iked straight on without, a word,
I it seemedh that, mecn mioved aside
i left a way for him as if they felt,
.t lie were alnost more than a muan;
least he was m->ving in anothber
rId and they kniew it, and felt it.'"
l'hec Virgin Miary of the play is um
'soniated by Anna Fitinger. She is
years old, and a great beauty. It
iaidl that there is no actress oin the
ieirican or English stage today whlo
ld clothe the characteor of the Vir.
with the sweetness, spirituaity,
mamnly dignity and dlevotion whiclh
s unlettered peasant girl imparts tc
Yet she has never seen a theatrt
3 in her life. Truly there must b(
livinity that, shapes the end of thal
lage, that, generation after genera
ni there should be born into it mei
o can look, as well as act, the Ira
lonal parts of Uhriet andi HIs be
,ed disciples.
iLMon~y A. Honrjan.
The Speaker of the Idaho House c
3presenitatives is the youngest moen
r. and is nameod McKinley.
DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS
To Be Divided Among Counties
Towns and Cities Having Dis
pensaries.
Mr. Gunter had a hill to change the
percentage of the profits of the dis
pensary. le wanted 53 per cent of'
the protits to go to the counties and
wanted to force the counties to give 10
per cent of tlheir 53 per cent to the
county schools. The chief difference
wats that he propose(l to reduce the
State's prolit to 2 per cent. Only the
net. profits are referred to.
Mr. Croft urgcd that, those counties
that enforced the dispenary should
get the profits.
Air. Prince said the bill was coni
8titutional anltd fair, and the plain words
were that the dispensany proflts should
go to the counties that make the profit.
Mr. DeLoach said there was no dis
pensary in his county and his people
did not want a dispensary. Ile ex- I
plaedile the history of tile (ispensary
at Tirzah. If this bill was intenled to
drive York County to the (ispensury it
was an outrage an( a wrong.
Mr. Croft, usked if York County was
so righteous as not to want a (ispen- i
sary, would it not be fatir for it not to I
want thu Profits of counties that, pai(d
for the policing of this very trouble- I
some traflic,
Mr. PeLoach insisted that tile dis- I
pensary' was a State and not a county I
law.
Mr. J. 11. Kinar( sid0 he lived in a I
county without a (ispensary and)l want- I
Cd the money to go to the schools. Ile r
thought the counties that hadl dispen
sarics should get the profits.
Mr. Prince, in reply to Mr. I)eLoach, e
said he did not believe in forcintg (is- t
pensaries on any one, but he inbiste(i r
that those who bought the liquor t
should get the prolit. Ile honor. I
eld those who would not have liquor for
sale, butt that Was not the issue, a
Mr. DeLoach asserte(d that if this t
hill was to force dispensaries oil his I
people its purpose was ignoble. .
Mr. Prince couli not see why those c
who so seriously oppose(I the tratlie j
should want tile profits froni the I
obnoxious business. For three years I
his people imade $18,000 for the dhs- i
pensary, and (i( not get ait cet of that I
profit, for it. wts said the county al
teady ha(d its $3 per capita.
Mir. Robinson propose(l to give the
towns in Pickens County 25 per cent
an( the county 73 per cent. Lost Mr.
Bates wante(l the cities to have 410 per
cent, insteaI of 45.
The bill as finally ordered to its
third rea(ing provioles:
Section 1. That ont and after the
first (lay of April, 1901, the net profits
derived in this State from the sales of
spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, in
cluding all beers, wines, etc, now sold
under the di1s)ensary law, be, anl the
sume aire hereby, apportioned as fol
lows: Two per cent of said net pro- t
tits to go to the State, to be odistributed
as now provided by law, 45 per cent of f
the said net profits to g. tolthe several
towns atild cities in which the dispen- t
saries are located, anol 53 per cent to
go to the several counties ill which-the
dispensaries are locatel, aid to be dis
tributed by the several county board of
comiiissioners ats provi(ied in this Act.
Section 2. The county boardI of
commissioners in each of the various
counties in which disp~ensar'ies are
located shall apportion the net profits
coming to each county, as providled by
Section 1 of this Act, ini the following
manner, viz: That iiot less than 10)
per cent, of said profits to be0 appilied1 to
tile public schools of said( county, ando
the balance of said profits, whatever
tuhe samiie may be, to be odistribuited for
the uses and benefits of said county, as
the county boardl of commissioners
thereof may see fit.
Section 3i. The county treasurerr
shall be recluired to imake monthlyi
settlemuents of tile profits going to the
counties and cities and1( towns, and i
place to the credit of the counties,
cities and towns their respiectlive,
amounts by the 15th day of each
Section 4. That all Acts and par'ts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act be,
andi~ the same ar'e iherchy, repealed.
BUYING A COMPETING L4INiE.
Railroads Must be Wholly With
in this State to be Debarred.
.J uoge Richard( C. Watts has filed his
decree with the clerk of Cou t at Aiken
in the case of McNeil vs. the Southerni
Railway comp~aniy. This is an action .
brought b~y McNeil to recover a p~enalty
against, the Southern of $100 per (lay
for leasing and1( operatmng an alleged
competing anid para'lel road. Th'le
case arose out of the Southern's 101ase
of the South Carolina and Georgia,
which the pliainttiff claims was colt
trary to the conlstitution and the statute
laws of the Staute. When tile case was
heard the road, throughl its attoineys,
Messr's. B. L,. Abney, ot Columbia; J.
W. Barnwell, of Chaurleston, am1( tile
Ilendersons, of Aiken, interposed a
dlemurrer. T1hiis was resisted iby
Messrs Boykin Wright, of Augusta,
and G. WV. Croft & Son, of Aiken.
Judge Watts took the matter uinder aod
visemnent and the following~is a synop
sis of his decree:
After stating tihe fact that this suit
was brought by McNeil to enforce the
penalty provided by the act of 1897 of
$100 per (lay for each (lay that a road
operates or controls a competing or
parallel line, ando after showing that
thle plaintiff must brinig himself strictly
under tile terms of this act, his Hlonor'
uses the followmng language as to this
f act and its effect on the case: TheJi
- complaint alleges that the South Caro
lina and Georgia itallroad company
owned and was operatinig a line whili
wias partly within the State of South
Carolina and partly without the State
of South Carolina, to wit: within the
State of Georgia, and it also alleges
that the Southern Railway company
owned and wias operating a line which
was partly within said State and partly
outside said State, and the contention
is that, as the Southern Itailvay com
pany has leased the line of the South
Carolina and Georgia Railroad company
contrary to auch statute, the plaintiff
is entitled to bring this action fol the
pelmity. In the title of the aforesaid
act the expression is used "1 competing
railroad lines within this State.'' It
is impossible for the court in constru
ing this highly penal statute to leave
cut of consideration the plain and ex
pess terms " competing railroad lines
within this State." Such expression
takei into consideration clearly shows
,hat the manifest. intention of the Leg
slature wias to give to the citizen this
penalty when one railroad line lying
ivithin this State purchasee another so
ying, and not otherwise, and 1 so hold.
3o holding it is plain andl manifest I lhat,
vhatever other defects may appear in
he complait, the plaintiff lIas failed
o bring himself within the terms of
his penal statute. Judge Watts then
leclared the net of 189-1 to be repealed
)y the Cons1titutionl 1' 1895, inasmuch
is this act. provides a remedy where
here hais been competition between
mints along the line of the leased rail
011d, while the constitution, cing
ater, provided that there must, be coim
octition between competing lines, thus
asking the law less restrictive. His
lonor then su1ms upl) Jiis discussion of
his plhase of the case as follow s: My
onclusion is that, while the section of
he constitution in question gave the
iglt t the State through its law oflicer
o prevent any corporation violating
he provisiois of said section, the act
f 1897, which is the basis of this
etion, was restricted in its scope and
enor to allowing tho:e who are com
loll informers to recover a penalty
imply where the competing hues in
uestaon lie wholly within the State.
udge Watts, lowever', refused to hold
hait the act of 1897 was unconstitu
ional, but held that the word comupet
ng must be construed in a broad and
iberal sense, following the decisionl of
.he supreme court of ( eorgia in the
ftate vs. the Central Itailway, 35 S. J.i
lrtporter, and Ihat in this case sufficient
3oipetition had not been alleged to
.onstit ute a cause of, action; therefore
ie declared that lie complaint, was dis
lissed; for both of tie reasons given
tbove.
A SPXNDID EU4OGY OF LEE.
)ne of the Finest Tributes Ever
Paid to the Christian Patriot.
At tile celebration of Gei. Robert
Lee's birthday inl the city of Angus.
a,.Ga., there were congratulalory ser
ices in ho:,or of Maj. Win. T. Gary
or his untiring eff >rts in se(iring the
ceeptance of the Soldier's I1omne1 by
he Legislature of Georgia. In re
pomse to the congratulations tendered
nt his own behalf, Maj. Gary made an
doquent and appropriate speech, which
vas reported as follows :
When Major Gary arose lie was
rrected with a storm of' applaus-,
ningl ed here and..1 there with the
rebel yell,'' and it was several mmi
tes before lie was allowed to begin.
Vith his commandmllg .igure electC and
yes 11 ishing, the oli time "' rebel lire''
A detiance, inl a voico clear and dlir..
ict, Major Gary sa.d :
Daughters of the Confederacy, Com
rades, Ladies and Gentlemen :
We hi ve asseimbledl to celebrate the
>irthday of hlobei t E. Lee, (applause,)
he p~ati iot, Christian, at, Lesimn, sol
lier and hero. (Applause.)
P'Cssese of a heart which was
rave and tirue ; endowed with a minid
A'h.chl was v igorous and stron~g; guidled
y a genius which knew no superior,
to made for himself a chairacter which
Nasl witho t a blemish.
I Ionored by his couintrymenm, idlolized
>y his soldiers and1( loved by all, his
presenice waIs an inspjir'ation and his
)raise it beined iction.
Born a leader of mn, God's stamp
>f n1obility was upon him.
Honor, genius, chivalry and patriot
sm were his by inherItance, and the
[)ivine-implanited love of constitutional
iberty, which was tihe inspiration at
Liunnymede, at, loston andi at Fort
Sumter-an eternal vestal fIre which
ias survi ved the attacks 01 sectional.
Sm and of tyrants and which yet lives
o perpetuate the memoiries of its mar
~yrs andl will never die-furnished the
>ccasion which gave to his inlhiritedl
~ifts ia splendid halo of glory.
Faithful untto death, lie won the
crown of life and a wreath of immor
telles of glory gallankds his memory.
(Applause.)
Th'le gentle flow of God's spirit into
his own, made his life illustrious and
its endt suibbmei.
In his grave, rests as true a iman, as
noble a patriot, and as brave a hero as
ever consecratedl his lhfe to the cause
of constitutional liberty. (Applause.)
After patri.tism and1( honor and gen
ins and bravei'y had accompllishedl all
that was piossible, tihe inevitale came,
but the cause yet lives to giuide a'jd in
spire the liberty-loving patrio .s of every
land. (Aplluse8.)
We ha e assembled here also to re.
joice that ourm beloved State has paid
its debt of love an~d that a house has
b~een providedh, for all our Confederate
h r.>cs anid paftriots, who %Lmay need it.
VTe banneilrs of war are furled; the
sword is sheathed, and we are willing
to assist in "loving a nation into peace,
honorable alike to the victor and thi
vanquished,'' but we will continue t<
naVt 0tur tri '.ten of iovAel nd ton feent
Every cotton planter should
write for ourvaluable illustrated
pamphlet, 1, Cotton Culture."
It is sent free.
Se nd nam.e and address to
GEACNIAN KA 1. w'oRKS, 93 Nassau Sr., N. Y.
express our debt of gratitude to the
noble Confederate soldiere-the em
budiment, of patriotism, heroism, love
of country and constitutional liberty.
(Applause.) The tottering crutch, the
em)ty sleeve, and the safferings of the
survivors will continue to causa our
eyes to fill with tears and our hearts to
sigh, in loving sympathy.
The Soldic I's Home represents the
thought which is the progress of our
State and the gratitude which is the
seitilent of our people.
A nation without sentiment is a na
tion without hope. If it is given to
the dead to know what is transpiring
on earth, we may believe that the open
ig of the Confederate Soldier's Home
will caise a smile of approval and a
shout of joy. When the doors of the
Soldier's llome are opened to receive
the heroes, it should be remembered
that to no one is more honor due for
that event than the noble vomen of
our State, and especially to the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, of Atlanta
and Augusta. (Applause). And I
may add that to none of them was I
iiore indebted for advice, assistance
and inspiration than to Mrs. Edwin G.
Weed and Miss Anna Montgomery
unless ii, be to Mrs. M. P. Carroll, who
caenic like a ray of sunshine even into
the committee room of the Legislature
to held ine plead for it. (Applause.)
No man every accomplished any
thing worthy to live in history who did
n1ot bet under the inspiration of some
noble womaii. There cannot exist a
nation of great men and of great
achievements unless it be a nation of
noble mothers. The patriotism and
bravety, the sufferings and herolim of
the Confederate soldiers were only sur
passed in the history of the world by
that of their sisters, their wives and
their mothers. The South was re
(eemed from the infamous State gov
ernments by which it was oppressed
after the war, by the intluence of the
noble women of the South. Their in
Iluence has caused the grams-carpeted
mounds, from the Potomae to the Rio
(rande, God's monumtents to these
heroes and patriots, to be annually
strewn with flowers which the dead
may not appreciate; and it is but pro
per that, they shouIld have inspiredl the
erection of a homec for the living heroes
and patriots who will honor the home
which gratitude has provided for them.
(Applause.)
If not a necedy Confederate soldier
ever enters this home, nevertheless, it
will stand as a testimonial of the love
and (devot ion andl gratitude of the grate
fuil people of Georgia, and as a monu
ment to th; uatriotism, the chivalrie
bravery of ot. living and dead Con
federate soldhiers.
Memorials of . marble and of brass
must crumble and decay but the honors
which are (done to heroes and patriots
give hope that the living will emulate
their virtues, and bear evidence of the
fact that virtue and honor and patrio
tism and gratitude yet abide in the
land. May the Soldier's Home be not
only an inspiration to the living, but
as well as a memorial to the dead, and
may God bless the living andl the dead.
I cannot convey to you in words the
pleasure andl satisfaction it affords me
to know, that any act of mine couldl
call forth from you, the wordls: "Wel
(10ne, thou good and faithful servant."
This mark of distinguished considera
tion tills my heart with a gratitude of
thanks and I most cheerfully accept it.
D~ucks are p~robably more easily fat
tened than any other class of fowls.
T1hey are great foragers on beetle and
insect and consume a regular ration of
feed also. We dto not report them as
being as nice as chickens but they are
richer, more savory, and just about as
populair in our markets as chickens and
are muuch more easily raised.--'Arr
anld Hlome.
(flean amnd pure butter can only come
from clean and pure milk. Once filth
or any kind gets into milk, its essence
stays there. Straining, aeration, sepa
ration, each does something and all
mauay (10 much toward cleaning milk,
but the only safe or satisfactory way is
nlever let it get in. Purity is indeed
cleanliness, and cleanliness is health.'
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hlave Always Bought
ears the