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44 ABISE -16 - A-BLISHED 1865* NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 6,1897. TWICE A EEK, 1.50 R, R AIN p.qRNlq Ibut that is just "in tho ev" of somo YkA UDDDM1Y U nAT inn 1m I ..m ... inrTa A6 ASA&A&I JWAJ PJ%,FAIM1J0,R ETS ON A COUNTRY ALREADY DELUGED. the.,Qood-Narrow Esoa0es Fron, Waiers-Dozen Men,sup sd to Have Perished. .- ,ouis, April 1.-Last night's rain storm was one of the heaviest in this vicinity in the past year, and the wind at times reached a velocity of over 40 mi es an hour. r in the suburbs caused fhoolsioams to rise at an alarm schools iV and in some places they overflowed their banks and flooded the adjoining territory to a depth of several feet. The surburban tracks of the Fris co railroad were flooded to the depth of two feet and trains were tempo rarily abandoned. Through .traffic is being operated over the f raaks of other roads. The river DesPerces in the wPAV orn suburbs, ordinarily small stream, overflowed its.banks and submerged several h.uses in the lowlands. Geo. W . aIe, aged 70, byng at B .'d, was awakened by the d and found that his house I horra Is succumbing to the wa ..': seized his daughter Nellie, agod 6, in his arms and jump ed from a second story window. He was car,ried into the swift current of the river and both were drowned. The river DesPorces rose to the height of 15 feet in the southwest orn portion of the city and over flownd the adjoining property to the depth of from two to six foot. The brick works at Chelonham, seven miles southwest of St. Louis, Die flooded to the depth of three feet and the firos in the furnaces have been drawn. About 40 mon employed in grading suburban property were camped in the lowland near the su burb of Bronwood and were awaken ed by the rushing of waters as they flooded their tonts. The men made a rush for skiffs and reached the ad joining high ground. About a doz en of them, however are missing this morning and it is feared that they were drowned. The mounted police are making a search of thc district, but state that they are un able to locate the missing men. The locality was ocupied by about 5C small houses and the inhabitants wore rescued with great difficulty. it is, hat their homes will be swo ,,the flood is still ris fwater is already four The Mississippi rivei Rose over a foot hero last night and is now within three feet of the danger line. From reports received from upper Mississippi places it ii predicted that the danger point at this city 'will be reached by Satur day. The occupants of stores along the levees on both sides of the rivm are moving their property to saft places. NOTIIING ENCOURAGING. Water Creepling Into Greenville-WaIsI Deep, hn Rtosedale. Jackson, Miss., April 1.--There is nothing .encouragaing in the situa tion along the river front today, but the unbridled waters are fro licking alor g on their march to the sea, and t 6 people of the greatest cotton p( ducing valley in the wiorld are fleeiz for their litos. Several rrigoon've arrived in Jacksor an)d r'p~ that the half has not beer told; tjno pen can 'describe th< dcoJ4 on, the devastion and ruir i'hi is b)eing visited upon the' plan. ters in the counties of B3olivar, Wash. igton, Lharkey .hisaquena and oi,hera. The wife and children of ex-Statt A' Senator Jas. M. Payno arrived from Greenville last night and will ro. main with her father, ex-Governom Lowry, in Ethis city till the watore subside. Greenville is still dry but the wvaters from breaks above and below are backing into the city, be. lng within a half a mile on th( north, and orders have been issued that protection levees be built around ' the city. It is reported today that 80( towns and villages are un~der water sensatdial reportor. The fact of .iness is there are not 800 postoffices in all Delta ccuntry, much less the half now inundated. Sov eral villages, however, are ovorflowi-d. Rosedale, a town of 1,000 inhabitants, is four foot under water, according to private advices received horo to day. Other small towns aro in tho same condition, and still others will be in a day or two, but no loss of life is yet reported. Fortunately the waters travel slowly and the denisons of this swamip have had abundant time to got out.. AT TIJER OWN RISL Judge alm1ontonl 114011 tihe Con4tablet Liable for Suizures. [News and Courier.] Judge," Sinonton yesterday ron dorod iis decision in the case of , Wifamr Beckrogo versus Harling and Roach. Beckroge, a citizen of Georgia, came into the State to be married, and sent by express wines, cigars, etc., contained in a trunk, for his marriage feast. While these articles wero in the express office at Charlvs ton-that is, while they were still in. the hands of an Inter-Stato common carrier-they wore seized by the two State Constables, who went into the express offico and opened the trunk with a key and took away the trunk and contents, and up to this tine have refused to return thom to their owner. Be ,roge brought suit for damages in the United States cir cuit court against the con stables, suing them as individuals, and they wore arrested and hold to bail in the sum of $2,100. Thereupon the Attorney General appeared for the defendants, claim ing that they were acting as con stables for the Stato of South Caro lina, and urging that they had an immunity from suit and arrest as such constables, under the dispen sary law and inved to set aside the order of arrest. The decision of the United States court refusing to set aside the arrest makes clear that tho suit against the individual, as privato citizen, and not against the constables; that the Su premo Court of the United States having decided, in Donald vs. Scott, that intoxicating liquors were a subject of lawful commerce, and having decided the State dispensary law unconstitutional and void in attempting to interfere with such commerce, the acts of defendants could not be justitied by any author ity whatsoever-, and that they stood liable to all the pains, penalties, suits and punishment for their wrongs like any p)rivato person. The decision makes it hopeless for the officials of the State to a-Nompt to enforce the void.lrovisions of the dispensary law, and shows the do termination of the United States judi cial authorities to protet ini every way the Inter-State commerce rights of the citizen. In the case of Herkowitz, a resi dent of Charleston, wvho imported liquors from Savannah, Ga., which were sei;-ed at the Savannah Rail road frieght depot at Charleston, the Court likowviso held yesterday that the constables wvoro liable to arrest in a suit for damages, and re fused to vacate the ordoreI of an rest on motion of the Attorney- Gen eral. Both of these casos finally dispose of Section 44 of the Dispenisary Act, which provides that the civil process arrest procedure of the Stato shall not apply to any oflicor under the dispensary law as a defence toa inter state commerce caIsos. The dispensary constable who seizes liquors at a depot or express oflice does an his own personal risk. Heavy Riains Cuno a 1(8e. Alton, Ills., April 1.-Oneo of thne most tremendous rain storms on record swopt over this city last~ night and the Mississippi is rising again at theI rate of an inch an hor-. It stands 191 feet above low water mark and only 9 inches below the disastrous flood of 1892. Tine highest levees are being encroached upon and alarm is great.through the farming regions of the Missouri and Illinois bottoms, Manufacturing institutions here are fighting the wvaters back from the fires with immense pumps. HV rHRrinti mriub ful l Hi A MICIMOAN LI1ISLATOR WANTS TO A1OLIsi TIHEM IY LAW. Itepresentaktive Goodel han Introdluced a Hill itquiring Bills of Faro to be Prinlted ik English, After a Disma trotis Enconlatter witia Froea In t Itestatrat,t In Chalcago. [From the Now York Sun.J Ont in that part of the wild and woolly West which constitutes the Stato of Michigan any man who is n little more weird than his follow ion is usually sont, not to the asy lum, but to tho Logislature. That's how they got so many strange and awful laws in that Stato. A recont offering in this line is by Ropresenta tivo Goodel, of Wayne County, and is regarded as the prize specimen of the prosent session. Wayne County is in the south eastern part of Michigan, and includes within its boundarios Detriot and the Hon. Potato Pingroo. It is largely given over to the raising of hay. Mr. Goodel is also a product of the soil. Ho is a plain, hard-fisted, straight spokon son of toil; no fanglo-dangles about him, as ho frequently tolls his constituents in political meetings as semblod, and ho has no patienco with high-tighty notions; thoroforo; when Mr. Goodol, who, with one of his constituents, recontly wont to Chicago to see the city, droppod into a restaurant -which puts forth pro tensions to being "co-light," in the language of that community, Ie was rather out of place. This impressed itself 11ponl him to such an extent that ho restrained his constituont, who was ab1out to discard coat, and cilTs and sit down in the unobtrusive com1fort of shirt sloevo, as an honest tillor of tli soil should, and slug gested liat he thought it wouldn't do. Then he tipped back in h1s chair, lookod around the walls for signs, such is "Ham and Eggs 15 cents;" "Boofstoak, with Potatoes and Coffee, 20 cents," and "Two Fish Balls, with Rolls, 10 cents," which constituto tho main mural decoration of the high-toned restaurants of Wayno County. Seeing none, hle whistled for a waiter. The writer camo, smiling and obsequioim. "What you got to eatV' demanded Roprosontativo Goodel, of Wayne. The waiter, bowing, handed a monu to the Legislator and another to his friend. He did not sponk, be canso there was no ned of it. Mr. Goodel thought hitu unsociable. He wasn't; he was Froneh. So was the menu. The constituont looked at his for a moment and then hroke out: "Groat turnips; it's Latin." "No; it's Eyctalian," corrected tile other. "This is wvhat comes of un restricting immigration." "Say, H-onlorab)le," said his com panl ion n orvo usly (oin formal occasions in Waynlo County they address thleir Legislators as "H-oniorable,") "this is too rich for me. Let's sneak. I want to get somewhere whlere I can shluck my coat and eat like a Chris tian." "No, sir," replied Mr. Goodol em phlatically. "WeI're going to stick it through nIow. No foreign langauge can blu111 me. I stand1 here on the rights of an American citizen and Mon roe doctrine. Hoero, waitor, b)ring u.s st i m of thlis." lie p)ointed to an article on the meniu and the waiter wvroto it. dowii muruhairing: "Pomnmes (do terre a la Chiatoaubriand," to indicate that lie had the right article. "Seone of t hat, too,'' he added, pultting his linger downi 0on the "Pomme do( terro au m1 nadore. Oui, m'sion,'' said1 tie waiter. '"Look-a here, IHonorable,1" i)ut in thle conist ituent, "all tiem dishes along the middle there has pommys do berry on 'em. What is that for do you rochon ?" "That's dago for 'Dishes ready nowv,' or 'Pay at the desk,' or some thing like that," explained thle leg islator. "Most likely," agreed tihe other. "But, say, HIonorable, hero's somo1 with long names to thonia. Spozon we get some of tlmm.an nmiaymou w a got more ior our money. Jnore's a good one right there." So pommes de torre eu ris, a Po. range, was added to the list. Then following out this suggostion as to lngth, the logislator made a further selection and boldly plunged into the unknown language. "Bring us some of that pommys do terro a ia maytreo deo hotel." .4Mois, m'sionx," put in the waiter, startled quite out of his. silence. "oot oos all zo am, zat you hafordaire. Eet is all zo-" "That'll do," interrupted Repro you. EARLY CHARITY. Among other things, I find that I gave a cent to the Sunday school ov ery Sunday. That is not a very large sum, is it ? But that was all the mon oy I had to give for that particular object. I wias also giving to several other religious objects, and what I could afford to give I gavoregularly, as I was taught to do, and it has boon a pleasure to me all my life to do so. I had a large increase in my reve. nuo the next year. It weut up to $25 a month. I began to be a capitalist, and had I regarded myself then the same way as we regard capitalists now, X ought to have felt like a crim inal because I had so much money. But we had no trusts or monopolies thon. (Laughter.) I paid my own bills, and always had a little some thing to give away, and the happi noss of saving some. In fact, I am not so indopondent now as I was then. It is true I could not secure the most fashionable cut of clothing. I remember I bought mine fthen of a Jew. (Laughter.) Ho sold me cloth ing cheap, clothing such as I could pay for, and it was a groat doal bet tor than buying clothing that I could not pay for. I did not make any ob ligation I could not meet. I lived within my means, and my advice to you young men is to do the same. Dr. Faunco has just told you that all young men who come to this church are welcome, and are never asked to whom they belong or where they came from. But there is just one question I would like to ask. I would like to know how many of you come from the city. and ho many come from the couutry. (Mr. Rocko fellor asked, as a personal favor, if all those present in the room who camo from the country would raise their right hands. Fully three- quarters of the number did so.) Now what a story that tolls! STR UooLES oF cOUNTRY flOYs. To my mind, there is something un'fortunate in being born in a city. You have not had the struggles in tile city that we have had who were reared in the country. Don't you no tice how the men from the country keop crowding you out here--you who have wealthy fathers? These young men from the country are turn ing things around and are taking your city. Woe men from the coun try are willing to do more wvork. We were prepared by our experience to do hard work. I remember a little time ago I was in the country, I saw a carpoenter placing mineral wool undler tihe roof of a city servant's bedroom, so that the man should not feel the heat of summer or hear the patter of raindrops on the roof. I could not at tihe time help recalling the exp)erienco of my boyhood, when I slept under a roof. While I could nlot see the shingles, I remember I couldl peep through the cracks in thlem. 1t wvas p)rett.y hot in the sum11 moer, up there, too, I can tell you. But I think I wa.s better for all that sort of experience for having been reared in the country in that sturdy, practical way, and my heart is some times full of sadness as I contem plate the condition of a number of young fellows in this city wvhom I happen to know well. THlE EMB1ARAssM1,NT or RIcJHES. 'ThAy aire in the oembarassing posi tion thi.t their fathers have great sums of money, and those boys have not a ghost of a chance to e.mpete with you who come from the country anld who want to do something in the world. Yon are in training now o shortly take the places of those young men. I suppose you cannot realize how many eyes are upon you, and how great is the increasing intorost that is taken in you. You may not t4ink that when you are lonely and find it difficult to got a footing. But it is true that in a place like this true interost is taken in you, and whon, I left the school house I camo into a place similar to this, where I associated with people whom it was good to know. Nothing better could have happened to me. THE MAN WHO IS REALLY POOR. I spoke just now of the struggle for success. What is succo"s Y Is it money? Some of you have all t ihe money you need to provide for your wants. Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who Is nothing but money, nothing else in the world upon which to devoto his ambition and thought. That is the sort of uman I consider to be tile poor est in the world. Money is good if you know how to use it. Now, lot me leave this little word of counsel for you. Koop a little lod ger, ats I did. Write down in it what. yoa receivo, and do not be ashamod to write down what you pay away. Seo that you pay it away in such a mannor that your father or mother may look over your book and soo just what yeu did with your money. It will help you to save money, aind that you ought to do. Whenl I spoko of a poor man with money I spoko against the poverty of that man who has no affection for anything olso, or thought for anything else but mon oy. That kind of man does not hel) his own character, nor does he build up the charactor of another. Boforo I loavo you I will road a few items from my lodgor. 1 find in looking over it that I wnas saving mon oy all this time, and in the course of a few years I had saved a thousand dollars. Now, as to some of my ex penses. I soo that from November 24, 1855, to April, 1856, I paid for clothing $9.09. I soo alo here anoth or item which I am inclined to think is extravagant, because I remember 1 used to wear mittens. The item is a pair of fur gloves, for which I paid $2.50. In the same period I find I gave away $5.58. In one month I gave to foreign missions, 10 cents; to the Mito Society, 50 cents, and there is also a contribution to the Five Points Mission. I was not living then in Now York, but I sup poso I felt that it was in need of help, so I sent up 12 conts to the mission. T1heni to t he venerable teach - or of my class I gave 85 cents, to make him a p)resent. To the poor p)eop)le of the church I gave 1 0 cents at this time, and in January and Feb ruary following I gave 10 cents more, and a further 10 conta9 to the foreign missions, Those contributions, small as they were, b)rought me into (diret contact with philIanthropic work, and with the beneficial wvork and aims of religious institutions, and I have been helped thereby greatly all my life. It is a mistake for a man who wishes for happiness and to help others to think that he will wait uni til ho has made a fortune boefore giv ing away mioney to deserving objects. (Great, app)lause.) TIlE TENNE5ssEE CENTENNIAl,. ExcursIon, I(aton Agrootn1 on by the Rlail. ronlt Reopresentem Ludi NashlvilleI. Nashville, T1enmn., March 30.-TJhe Sout,hernu States P assenger' Assoceiat ion met her'e to-day, wvith C2ommimssion,er Richar'dsoni ini the chai r. Th'le umeeting wias Hipent in buisiiness, antd at commlfittee w.as namedlO( to aigroe upon01 a basis, wh ich wats 1.o) report iat 5 o'clock ini tihe after' mittee Hspent the af ternoon att the Coni tennial groundt,. Thec commit,tee imde their report, in whlmich thme samell basis of rates were adopted as that of A tlanta dnrring the Exposition, the only excep) tion being the l imitat ion of tickets. Tlcketsi will begood for seven diays ait the Exposition hcre against live dlays at Atlanta. Stop-over privileges will b,e granted at Chattanooga for splecial p)arties, but inothing defliite in regard to the latter can stand uintil1 the agents of the various lines agrcec upon a basis of rates ROCKFELLER ON SUCCESS A5E1HRIA'S IICIIEST MAN TELS 0F ilIS START IN LIFE. Home Qutialt Tilogm that EvieueeI the Wort.l of the Man- Vity nloym aro Not at Fortmiately nlrnimtK TihoHe of the Cotittry. On1o of thoo fow and raro o6can ions upon which John ). Rockofollor is provailod upon to addross an aud ionco came around last night in the parlors of tho Fifth Avenuo laptist church. Mr. Roekofeller was on of tho spoakors of tho Young len's Bi blo Class of tho church. Much that Mr. tockofollor had to say wis ex treiely iuitorosting. In l1ying iaiy 0xcellont precopts hoforo his hoarors ho brought forth several lvssonH from tho oxporinllcos of his early lifo. By roforoncos to his first. lodgor, as ho called it', but which was nothing moro than a niall papor-covorod mem!uoraldum book, Mr. Rtockofollor oxplainod how ho jmnaitiged to sivo monoy ovon oin it small salary. Tho little book contained tho first items of his receoipt,s ind Oxponditures when ho first bogtin to earn ilonoy, atnd, to judge from tho catro with which ho handlod last night, this rminindr of his varly strugglvs, "Mr. Rtockofollor was in earnest when ho intinated that it would requiro it fairly lau .go fortuno to purchiso it.. Tho lov. Dr. W. H. P. Faunco introduced Mr. Rockofoller, who spko ill an infor mal11, conivertiational mann11tor, as fol lows: It iH not anll addiss lit ill that I have to givo you. I supposed at first that I was to meet hwro at coplivalny of ilmldical stildeits anld young ienl, aind I havo hid it tle adds pro plared for thoium. Thei whonl I caeio inl horo und stmw so tity geitlomon of miaturo exporionco I said to my solf: "What sort, of studnts are thoy Y" (Ronowed laughter.) Lot 111 say that it givos mo a groat deal of ploasuro to ho loiro tonight.. Al though 1 cannot, ma11ko you a spooch, I have brought. with mo tonight to show you young moln a littlo book a book, I think, which may intorost you. It is tho first lodgor I kopt. I was traintd in businvss affairs, and I was trained how to koop a lodger. Tit practico of kooPing a littlo por sonal lodgor by young mon just start. ing in business and earning ionloy and re<quiring to loarn its valuo, is, I thiink, a good o. In th first strug gin to got a footing--ad if you fool its I (lid I am sorry for you, although I would 1ot 1b wit lhut tiht mmory of that struigglo I kopt miy accounts iln this boo0k and1( also 50o1no InllOran (li of littlo incidents that soiod t) me) imnportanit. 1n after yoaurs I found thait book iandt broughit it to Newv York. It's moro th an fort y-t wo yoars sinlct 1 wroto what it contains. I call it L odhgor A., and1( now%' I)placo the gr'eatest valun upon it. I have thought that it. would( b)0 a little help; to some1 of you young men01 if I road1 ono or two extracts from this lodger. EviDENCEs 01' ExTaiEME. EcONoM v. Mr. Ilockoft ller theon produced from his p)ocket., carefully onvoloped in pape)(r wrapping, the lodgor to which reforonco hats beeni mado(1. Proceedl ing ho said: Whn I found this bo0ok recenItly I Ihioughit it, had( 1no cover, because8t I bac1k. But I had uitilized14 the cover to wriito upon01. In thioso (days I was (ecSIoomicall, veni wVith papiL~er. Whenoi I rea(d it through it b)rought to liy mtind( remembrnhrancees of thie care withI wvhiich I used( to record my little itemsi of receiipt.s aindt dlSisr:4elnents, matters,n~ I thin1k, wh ich many i1i of you youIng men01 are ri.or caroless8 over*. I bel ievo it is a rol:gious dluty to got alhl the mioney you can, fairnly anid houi estly; toC koop aIll you can1, and( t.o give awaviy ill you Can.L I t hinik that it isi at prolm thait.Ot utare atll famnil iar with. I have fold you boforo wvhat pleasnure this lit tle boo0k gives me1.I daro niot lot you road it through, bo causon miy chuildrenn, who havo roado it, say tht I (did not spell toothibrutsh correctly. (l1,aughter.) But thon, you kniow, we havo maludo groat progross iln our spellinglt t( nd I luppost) somfO chanigos have taken placo smnco thoso days. (Ronewed Laughter.) I have not soon this book for twenty-five years. It does not look like a mod orn ledger, does it? But you could not got that book from me for all the modern lodgers in Now York, nr for all that they would bring. It almost brings tears to my eyes .when I rd' over this little book, and it fills me with a sonse of gratit,.de that I can not express. It shows largely what I received and what I paid out dur ing my first years of business. It shows that from September 28, 1855, until January 1, 1850, I received $50. Out of that I paid my washerwoman and the lady I boarded with, and I siaved a little money to put away. I am not ashamed to road it over to sentativo Goodel. "When I need advice from you i'll order it and pay for it. Bring thoso things quick. Hold up there!" he add4d as the waiter started away. "We'll want potatoes. Bring us some of those pat-atios a le espag-nawl. That mpelling wouldn't win any prize in our spelling boos at home." "You're a hand at furrin tongues, ain't you Honorable," said the con stituont in great admiration. Wher'd you ever learn it? I didn't know you was to collogo!" Waving away the compliment, the legislator began to talk politics. Meantime tho puzzl,d waiter had gotio to the manager and told him about it. "Lot thon order what they want," said that oflicial, "and bring what they order. Perhaps they're vegeta rians. Anyway, it's not our affair what they oat." Accordingly the dishes were brought and set beforo the two Wayne County men. The Logislator tackled one dish and pushod another over to his com pan 1011. Simultaneously both reached for another dish. Each having samplod the contents of his second selection roaohed out for the one remaining dish, and both asked simultaneously: "What's the mattort" "Mine are all potatoes," said the constituent. "So are mino," replied the Logis lator, his face darkening. "Wait till I try this other dish." Ho tried it. It was also potatoes. The eyes of Representative Goodel, of Wayne, flashed fire. "Wiaitor!" he roared. "Oui, m'sieu," cried the waiter hurrying to the spot. "W hat's this ?" demanded the an gry Logislator. " What do you mean b)y bringing me an order like this? Five (lishes of potatoes! D'you think I don't know potatoes when I taste 'em ?'' "That must 1) Governor Pingree, of Michigan," said a gentlonian.at a nearby table to his companion, and several mein looked around curiously. The Legislator heard the remark. "No, sir, I ain't Governor Pin gree," he announced, "but I'm from Michigan and I know something about potatoes. In Michigan, sir," continued the maun from Wayne, rising from his chair to a flight of oratory, "we don't have any foreign tongue in our public11 restaurants. No, gentlemen. Thlere a citizen can go in and ordler in English and get a fair assortment of dinner at a just price. But here (he swept his hand around in an all em..bracing gesture) the alien stopls in and overturns our American institutions with his foreign tongue, and the native born man of the 1peop)1 is injured in his most sacred1 pursuits." Here ho laid his hand pathetically on his wvaistcoat, whereupon the head waiter told one of his subordinates to got the gentleman some. brandy, as he had been taken ill. The brandy was brought and waved a way. "I want nothing more," cried the indigniant Legislator. "G imme my cheek. I'm through. What ? a dollar and tweunty cents for potatoes? Great Jehosap'hat! D)o you folks know the price of potatoes in Mich gan! Hero take your money. Come along, Hawkins.'" IIe threw down a dollar and a q uartor. "Keep the change!" lie cried in an excess of scorn mul generosity and strode out, followed by his consti tuont, There is now before the Legisla tore of Michigan a bill . providing that bills of fare of public dlin ig roomis shall be printed in English on)1. Representative Goodel, of VM avne, is the author of the bil