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ESTABLISHED 1865. __ NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1897. TW1CE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR The- Celebrated Speech to Reply to the Charge of Drunkeunese. The following.geod'story of Ser gqat einties aed ,Uovernor Mo NuttAi in the "Menovies of Fifty - 'ars,' by W. H. Sparks. It oe curred a long time before the war, when the State had an immonse Democratle. majority. The Whigs, however, determined to run their brilliant champion, Mr. Prentios, for Congress. At that time the election was by general ticket, the State not having been yet divided into Con gressional districts, and two mem bers were to be elected. .The Whigs nominated Prentiss and Word, the Democrats Claiborne and Gholson. Claiborne was a native of the State, a relative of the Hon. V. C. Clai Wine, who, had been a territorial gvenor, and ayoung,man of splen did abilities, then a member of Con gross. McNutt was the Demiiratio nomi 4mefor or, Ohol"on was Judge GholsQn, of Aberdeen, who died some years ago. Mr. Word was T. J. Word, of Yalobusha, be fore Grenada was carved therefrom. Mr. Word is also dead. The campaign is described as a most animated-one. It is said that Prentiss spoke in every county of the Stato and that the people flocked en massee.to hear him, following him from county to county, and his name was in every mouth. The Detnocratic nominees flunked. Nei ther met him on the stump. His was, a triumphal march through the State. HeNutt was pitted against him. McNutt, who was a man of magnificent abilities, aVirginian and a lawyer, was then Governor. His torians state that, next to Poindox ter, he was the ablest man who had ever filled the chair up to that time. A sad coinuentary, however, is passed upon him, in that he was ad dicted to the howl. "Upon the only meeting of Pren ties and McNutt," says Sparks, "the latter in his speech urged as a rea son for the rejection or defeat of the former his dissipated habits; admit ted his great abilities, his masterly geniar. pronounced him the first man of the age intelleotually,/but deplored his habits, which were ren dering him useles., with all his geni us, learning and eloquence. "Prentiss said in reply: 'My fol low-citizens, you have heard the charge against my morals, sagely, and.T.had almost said soberly, made by the gentleman, the Democratic nominee for the chief executive offiee of the State; had I said this it would have been what the lawyers term a mianomer. It wonld be impossible for him to do or say anything sober. ly, for he has been drunk for ten years-not yesterday, or last week, in a frolic, or socially, with the good fellows, his frienida, at the genial and generons board, but at home,-and by himself and demnijohn; not upon the rich wines of the Rhine or the Rhone, the Saone or the Guadalquiver; nor with high-spirited or high-witted men, whose souls, when mellowed with glorious wine, leap from their lips, sublimated with words swollen with ' wit, or thought brilliant and dazzling as the blood of the grape inspiring them-no, but by himself; selfish,and apart from witty men or enno ftg apirits, in the secret seclu sion a dire- little back room, and on e rn whiskey--these only com ~uring in affectionate brotherhood, the son of Virginia;and.the spirite of Kentncky! Why, fellow-citizens, as the Governor of 'the State he refused' to sign the gallon law until lhe had tested, by experiment, that a gallon would do bim all day!* Now, I w1ll admit, fellow-citizens, that sometimes, when in the enjoy mnent of social communion with gen tlemen, I am made merry with these and the r'eh wmnes of glorious France. It is then that I enjoy the romance ofI life. Imagination, stimulated with the juice of the grape, gave to the world the song of Solomon and the Psalms of that old poet of the Lord, glorious old David. " 'The Immortal verses of .wader ings d AMer, the blind son of Sei ,i , were the inspiration of Samian wine, and good old Noah, too, would have sung some good and merry song from the inspiration of the juice of the vine he planted, but, having to wait so long, his thirst, like the Democratic nominees here, beoama so great that he was tempted to drnk too deeply and got too drunk to sing, and this, I fancy, is the reason why this dis tinguished gentleman never sings. "'Perhaps there is no music in his soul. The glug-glug-glug of his jug, as he tilts and pours from its re luctant mouth the corn juice so loved of his soul, is all the music dear to his ear, unless it be the some glug glug-glug as it disappears down his oapacioUs throat. Now, fellow-citi zens, during this ardent campaign, whi - has been so fatiguing that I bie only drunk once; over in Simp son County I was compelled to sleep in the same bed with this distin guished nominee-this delight of the Democracy-this wonderful exponent of the principles and practices of the unwashed Democracy-and in the morning I found myself drunk on corn whiskey. I had lain too close to this soaked mass of Democracy and was drunk from absorption.' " Prentiss was a high roller. He Beemed to go all the gaits and touch only the high places. When he was not thrilling the multitude or capti vating a jury with his eloquence, or lighting a duel or betting on a horse race or cook fight or sitting behind aces, he was having a good time mingling the juice of the glorious grap6 of Frano with the genial companionship of his friends, the good follows, around the festive board. A story is told of Prentiss and Judge Gholson while practicing law northwest in Mississippi. They were stopping at Hernando. Late at night Prentiss discovered that Judge Gholson an& himself, who occupied the same room, "were not the only Ulaimants," according to L. F. Bige low, in his "Bench and Bar," "for the possession of the bed, as he was vigorously beset by a description of vermin that do not make very com fortable bedfellows. Accordingly he awoke Gholean and a consultation was held whether they should beat a retreat or make an effort to exter minate their assailants. The latter course was accepted and for the pur pose they took from their saddlebags a pair of pistols, with caps, powder and other munitions of warfare. WVith pistols in hand, they proceeded to raise the bedelothing and as the creeping reptiles started from their hiding p)laces bang, bang would go the pistols. "This, of course, aroused the worthy landlord, who came in hot haste to the room, and wvhen he learned the facts was is great rage. Prentiss demanded the landlord should leave the room, claiming that he was only exercising the right of self-defense---a right which the law of man and the law of God had given him. Both the entreaties and the treats of the landlord prosved un availing. The firing continued until the bedstead and the bedding were completely riddled with bullets. At last they succeeded in capturing one of the enemy and a di-fference of opinion arose between Prentiss and Judge G*holson as to what shduld be his fate. At length it was agreed that the offending vermin should be fairly and impartially tried 'by a jury of his countrymen.' "The bedbug was held fast by a pin stuck through him into the table. Three of the landlord's sons were brought in and forced to sit as mem bers of the jury and a tbiiA lawyer, who was present, madu fo, et as judge. The prisoner was pinned to the wall. Judge Gholson, who was a very able lawyer, opened for the. prosecution in a speech of two hour-s in length. Prentiss followed for the defense in a speech of four hours. There were those present who hads known Prentiss intimately and had beard him on the great occasions of his life and who now assert tha6 this was the most brilliant speech. he-ever delivered. "The bedhng was acquitted;.where upon Prention 'pulled the pih fromn him, fondly caressed him and? said: 'Come with me, I will. have,.you for~ a bedfellow.' " Suggestions tor Buei,;us Men When we speak of businesa men it is generally understood to refer to bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and the managers of railroad and other corporations. Of course all men who earn money in any way are business men. But for the pur poses of this article we deal only with the interesta of the men who conduct business enterprises, whether they are individuals, firms or corpo rations. We wl propound a few questions to them. We Will ask the manufacturer why he works himietf up to such enthu siasm over the gold standard, whe01 he should know by a little examina- I tion and reflection that the gold standard provides a stal ionary amount of money for an increasing amount of population and business. It provided the same sized clothing for the man that he had when a boy. This constant widening of the gulf between the supply of money and the demand for its uses is contrac tion. Suppose the demand to be stationary, and the supply to be constantly diminishing. The con traction would then be obvious. It does not require much reasoning to understand that contraction must as certainly follow a stationary supply . and an increasing demand as it would I follow a stationary demand and do creasing supply. Continuing con traction logically compels the con tinning reduction of pric.es. The less money thero is in the world the more property each piece will buy. The more sugar you give for a dol lar 'the smaller the prico you roccih for each pound of the sugar. So with every other article of daily con smnption, Manufacturers are sure to lose while prices are falling, if they manufacture goods beyond the immediate demand of the market. If they manufacture stodks which would require three or four months to dispose of through the variones channels of trade, they find when that time expi7res that the goods on hand have fallen in price below the cost of their m anufacture. It is this that has paral.-zed manufacturing. What possible i nterest can the nan ufacturers have iin fighting in thegold standard ranks, the only object of which is to m.ake money dear and. all other kinds Df property cheap? Why does the merchant walk in procession and shout the usurer's stale cry of "sound money," when. lie ought to know that to advocate. the gold standard is to increase the, value of money at the expense of overything else, and thereby to ad vance the, course of unsound and dis honest. money ? Thra dollar that is. made by law hrarder' to get by the, borrower thtan it would have been. when lie borrowed it is a dishonest. dollart. Laws which make a debtor pay a heavier dollar tihan he borrowed. are palpably dishonest. The do stru.ction of silver as money madeo every gold dollar 'worth nearly twice' as much as it was wvorth before. 'Was not this just as dishonest as it. would have been to double tho amount of gold in a ten detllar coint Is it not strange that merchrants should clamor for a conktiaiuanco of? this system of cutting down the prices of the go.ods on t:heir sholves and in their warehouses? -Why~ do the railroadi manager a play into the hands of taho usurortn? The aingle gold .tandard. has cr-ont,oed such, a decline in the -prices of all comamodities thant the produchi ts of the mill and of the farm will not soe t at the, seaboard for what it costs to produce anrd transnport thorm thiti bor. How are railways to earn oporat ing expenses and interest on their bu nds if the earth will not yie!d its y 'ro ducts to be carried irs freight on tb4'ir roads P And how' can the ea rth be expected to yield when the Ii us bandman cannot obtnin as muchd for his farm pr-oducts na the cost of ti reir production and the transp)ortat.-s to the~ market place? With silver re stored -as a money .metal to its u ld Place, the steady decline of prio os would change toy. an equally stead y rise of prices. Silver equally witj hj gold 'ionld sovan pmy debt -ad h... goods everywhere, because the de nand for gold would decrease until its parity with silver would be sub. itantialy attained. With rising prices he capital which is now bursting he vaults of the banks both in Europe anJ America would come forth for investment in business en Lerprises. This would give employ. ment to millions of men who are now idle, and they would have the money with which to buy the no oessaries of life. An increase of consumption moans an increase of business, including the transporta tion business. Now, capital hides in the dark for fear of being lost; but it can bo easily borrowed at two and a-half per cent per year by any who will give security of the value of two or three to one. Money len ders no longer expect to be paid their principal. They grant exten sions as long as the borrowers can pay the interest. But as property shrinks it will not yield sufficient ro terns to pay interest, and will pass into the hands of the creditors. This :is constantly being done. The same 'process is going .on with the great railroad proprorties. They never pay any of their debts when they :mature. They give new notes, just .as Wilkins Micawber did. Under the present conditions the railroads of this country cannot, as a rule, earn (operating expenses and interest on rthier bonded indebtedness. Bond ih6lders are being satisfied at present -with reorganization plans, by which they ako the railroad property in 3payment of the bonds and then issue now bonds in lieu of the old onen. The holdoro of the old bonds become the holders of the now. The Reor :ganization Committees take a good :slieo as commissions for their ser vices, and then look for now game. 'it is a repetition of the old fable of the monkey, the cats and the cheose. Two cats divided 1betwoon them a pieco of choose, and-then quarreled as 'to which had the larger piece. They submitted tho,question to the m<nkey as an -arbitrator. Finding one of the pieces heavier than the other he bit some of it off. This made it lighter than the other, and ho bit some off of that. This pro ces went on and he was never able to got both pieces the same size. He g raduplly ate both up in his endeavor to do v(. The retired men of fortune in Europo who have inveFed in Amorican railroad bonds, up-n the reconendation of the great banking house brokers, like J. P. Morgan & Clo., .and the Rothshilds are already becoming restless under the "reor ganization" 'of companies in which they own bouds, and the snorifice of lar-ge mouthi'uls of the railroad cheese during thb p-roces of reorgan ization. The real iterest of the rail road managers and thie real interest of the bondholders -vould best be subserved by a united effort in be half of the restoration of ius< ependent bimetallism in the Unit.ed States. Americant railroad bonds irr Eiurope would be worth much more .in gold than they are to-day if it was certain that the irtorest on themu would be p)aidl -i .full legal fendor silver do! h.or silvor certifientes, anl:1 that our rmint ,..ould be open to iho free and suclimited coinage c.f silver. The rail-rad mnamgers are afraid of the great banking brokers, who have thus far been able to build up or pl dowvn the credit of groat cor?porations at their pleasure. They have the power to break away from their self appointied tasknmastors ar d deal with their c-reditors directly. Thie fore closure of railroad mortgages would prove n. losing business to bondhold era, anid. they knowv it. To avoid it they will make for t,ermns, and con sent to *suchm a sealing of railroad debts ase would enable the roads to pa~y interest regularly on the reduced indoebte anoss of the roads. The ornily mon who are ber.cfitted~ by the g 'old s-tandlardl are those who lend monuey for thomselves or for others. 'We have just shown that those wh o lend money for themselvei are not s afe against such a reducmion in the va lue of their securities as will consti'.tute automatic rep)udiationi It. is a trnane spae to ineen thi t1lied money dealers of the world on isting in behalf of their schemes the -, "on aghinst whose interests those ichemes are directed. Contraction ( uins everybody but the world's >awnbrokers, large and small. When ,vill manufacturers, merchants and -ailroad managers learn this great Ti ruth and band themselves together fi o restore the volume of money to its 'ormer proportion for the uses for vhich it is demanded? at, There is nothing mysterious about t ,his question. The valuo of money br a regulated by its quality. The prices of all goods are lowered by t he decrease of the value of money. in rhe gold product of each year is w -onsumed in the arts, and is not t. idded to the money circulation of he world. So says Mr. Griffin, the . tcknowledged authority as a money to itatistioian of the London gold won >metalists. This is why the gold l Atandard means contraction, because w It is a stationary supply for ,a con- to 3tantly increasing demand. The cause of independent bimetal- T lisn is not the cause of the farmer, the laborer or the debtor any more than it is of the capitalist whose mo noy is invested in business enter prisas of overy description. Ir h Literary Notex. C1 McClure's Magazine for June will % open with an article by Prof. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithson- K ian Institution, describing the "fly- a ing-macWne'" that he himself has d lately completed, after ton years of o laborious experiment, and which is e the first "flying.niachine" ever made by man, that has actually flown. The article will be fully illustrated a from drawings and photographs I made under Prof. Langloy's own di- L rection. In view of the great inter- B est and importance of the subject, and the fact that it is Prof. Lang ley's own account of his machine, the article is bound to attract wide attention. Apropos of the sixtieth aniversary j of thh reign of Queen Victoria, the JunO number of McClure's Magazine will contain a series of life portraits of the Queen, the earliest showing I her, a child on her mothers lap, at the age of two years; the next at j four, the next at five, and so on, al most year by year, down to the pre sent day. The reproduction will be, in most instances directly from tho originals, and by the finest process. I No such series has ever been pub lished before. William Allen White, the young Kansas editor, orator, and story writer, who makes a distinct "hit" whenever he speaks or writes, be cause thiere is blood and reality in whatever he ,is moved to say, has written a new short story of Kansas life-a Decoration Day story-which will appear in McClure's Magazine for June, with abund"nt illustra tion.. McCluro's Magazine for June will contain an article on the "Revue dos deux Mondes," which of all the jour nals in the world has probably made the deepest impression on politics, letters, and society. The article is written by "Th. Bentzen" (Madame, Blanc), who has long beu a mem ber of the staff of the "Revue," and has known intimately most of tIhe famous contributors and the several editors, from Buloz, the founder, dlown to the present editor, M. Brunetiere, who has just concluded very successfully a course of lectures on French literature before several American colleges. The Morse t the Jicycte. [Frromn the Phildelphiia Recorder.] The feat of a Baltimore hicyclist, who rode I'20 miles in 12 hours, and 314 miles in 24 hours, seems to show that the new motor is superior to the iaoxso in more ways than one. It is not onuly insensible to fatigue, but it iis superior in pointelof both speed and endurance, Probably the hest irecord ever made by a horse was -that of the animal ridden by (Court S?rahenburg, in October, 1892, which 'covered the distance from Vienna to Berlin, 400 miles, in '7l hours and 34 minutes. This was far inferior to the 314 miles made by -the human muscle, with the aid of the wheel, in 24 hours. The horse can go where the bicycle cannot, but, given go' a roads, he stands no chance with it in a rare against either time or dia.. A POETH TRIBUTE TO TIMIROD. 'ho Mouth Carollula,'s Lofty Ideal aut Ii fils Fidelity to Art. It. Randall In Augusta Chroni. 0le.) I road with interest the art'clo 'itten by Prof. Link on Henry Ti mrod. I know the poet well. My to Bt knowledge of him was at Char. Q iton, when I used to write poetry b ysolf. Dr. John Dickson Bruns, eil that time, a brilliant young man, de o friend and patron of the tuneful it. ethren, told mie several strange w >ries of Timrod's excessive sensi- ju reness. He seemed to be absorbed of his art, and was painfully hurt ei ion anyone disagreed with his es- at nate of the bards of high renown. 8 1 could not comprehend how any ir telligent being had t.bo temerity at rank Byron above Wordsworth o e appeared to forgot that this in >rld is made up of contradictory ti euonts, and that men aro to be ti kon wisely as they are and not as c D desire them to be. The fact is, T imrod, full of the noblest genius, t< as not practical, and I have soldom li et anyo-o so singularly unfitted r combat with this world. He ado soveral horoic efforts to lit mself for lifo's struggle or to adapt s' mself to circumstAnces, but a frail t1 mnstitution, delicato nervoH, ideal 1 ngings and a spirit that constantly a ore out the physical onvelope, t roved too much for him. Poverty 1 ad negloct, along with sorrow and i iiappointment, were added to his 1) ther agonies, and so death was in- I vitable. I once mot him at Mo- e ilo, in the early part of the war, nd he unbosomod himsolf to mo. t Vo visited together the colobrated . idy who wrote "Boulah"-thon liss Augusta Evans. Tiirod was victim of night-blindlness. He10 ould not guide himself after dark, id I piloted him around. lie was true to his art to the last, ust as Hayno wias, and deserves to io ranked among the first of our louthern poets. In somo respects to was essentiaflt the first. lie was t n America what Kents was to Eng and, and there is a pathotid simi arity in their lives and deathi. It 8 said that (overnor Andrews, of assachusetis, constantly repeated hose verses-of his whore, alluding to he coming marble minemoriali to the ilain soldiers of the South, he Haid: 'And some, waiting for its birth, P'he shaft la in the stone." I have thought botimos that South Jarolina has not p)roperly appIreci ted this gifted mant's memory. Hie leserves to ho0 cherished among ber greatest treoasures. IS it aniy won bor that samo1 of the cotemporarios >f Timrod, witnessing his mnelan yholy career, turned1 from the musie, td sought gainful occupations in trade or prose, especially men of family who had no assuranco that wives and children would be0 cared for by the public when they were wandering on Mount Olympus. Some of these men, long surviving their song-brethren, do not regret their abandonment of poetry, for increas ing years eliminate romance and1 make the mere ambition for fame a vanity of vanities. Still the p.racti cal men, who once aspired to become what the world calls immortal as poets, admire the lofty ideal of Tim rod and his fidelity to his art. Thefc look with p)athetic itotrest, upon his record and would rejoice to see his memory rescued froni the sordid things of earth. For my part I do not value as I once did those things that many men contend for, and I know how ompJty they atre, but it is impossible to contemplate wvhat lHoni ry Timrod accomplished and not de-? sire that he should be properly hon - orod, loved and crowned. Johinson's Chll1and Pe ver Tonic is a ONB-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Pever Ia 24 fours. When &-hunmann wvas in love, ho wrote, "I w ish I were a smile, that I might nlay nhnont your chucks. " TILLMAN'S SAD) ISLUNIM'It. Sttil Insists th,mt His View of the Agri. toltural ilall Came is Btight, I)espite the Suproe Court's Decialott. (Special News and Courier.) Washington, May 18.-Sonator llmn says he has not read the it of the decision of the Supremo )urt in the Agricultural Hall case, it he does not see how the Stato n be deprived of the property un ir the decision as he understands He insists that the transaction is a fraudulent one, and cannot be stificd by an honest examination the facts. lie says he was Gov nor when the proposed sale was tempted Tho price offered was [5,000. The parties paid $5,000 cash, then retired to another room id in a fow minutos returned and Tered $10,000 in Blue Ridge scrip payment for the balance of the ansaction. He refused to accept. io scrip, and upon his refusal to >mplete the deal they brought suit. ho Sonator says that the wholo homeo was gotten u) to test the vii Lity of the Blue Ridge bonds. R. M. L. Our recollection of this matter is mowhat. different. The Agricul ird Hall was sold by the State and [r. Wesley becatue the purchasor, d paid $5,000 cash, as required by io terms of the sale. NIo had the rivilogo of paying the reiainder Iso if he saw lit, and under tha. rivilogo lie offered the $10,000 iq Ilue Ridge scrip. An attempt to ollect the balance in the Courti ,ould have raised the question of bo validity of the Bluo Ridge scrip. o Tillnan lawinssly seized the prop rty. --Ed. The N. and C. The Juno lmdies' 1omio Journal ireselts ati irlillito vaiety of stri4 ugly interesting, Iimely and practi Al features. It' opeNIs with III ar ice by William Ueorge Jordan on What Victorilt I1Ias smee,'" Which rraphicauly recolnits the progress of ho world iii tho past. sixty years, iinco the coroiittion of th e English ,ovorignl. Coming on the Ovo of ho Quetll's Jubilee it, is e-peially im Thly. The st ablis0hm11 -nt of Moth )dismn in Awiric is tli in an inter miting hri'el', by Iev. W. It. Scott, 1). D., ol "Wholn John Wesevy Preached in Georgia." It, narrates Wesloy's gret, Worlk, his forcoful preachinlg, d-selibes the first Moth Ddist sermoin in America", 1vhich wvy the first inl lhe world. "U.1ncle Sam's onfessional" dilescribo's how he MoIy aid intoni the Coinsciimen Fu1d of the United States Treasury is re ceived, and1( how its gnilty senders caroftlly avoid revealing theiri iden tity. Edward WV. B3ok makes an appeal that the poor children of tlhe citieti be0 given an outing in the counitry during a part of the summIor, lio vigorOusly denounes "The Offense of the Colored Shirt"; also dliscussenh "The itch to ho0 Seen." Lovers of( fiction will readl with delight Ella Higginisoni's short story, "One o' Th3nm Still, Stubborn K(inds1,"' andi Alice S1. Wolf's romance, "Her After fame.'' Charles Dana G ibson's draw ing--"T~he People o D)ickens"-most intorestingly picture's Mr. and Mrsi. Mica wbor, D)avid Copperfield and Traddles, aind a page of Mr. Woolf's waifs gives a most touching insight into what summer means to the children of the poor in cities. A song, '"Wake Up! Cupid," by Willard Sponsor, author of "ThoI Princess Blonnio," ''The Little Tycoon,'' et.c., will be welcomed by oivery lover of music. Dwight L. Moody's conitri bution to his series of lBible Class articles discusses '"Hop)e" irn the Evangelist's ch aracterist ic, lncid umn - noer, and "D1roch"' chats of "Humor anid th 1101umnorists."' Along the more praicticail line3 are Mrs. S. T1. Ilorer's "Cooking L"s sons''.on vegetables and1( their prepa ration; ''A Simple Way to Swim";' "T1heo back Yard as a Summer lle treat''; "Lbamp Shades for Summoir Cottages"; "Thet City Woman's (Gar den"'; '"or W 'ear in Summer Travel": "What to Expect from a Young Mani," byv luth Ashmore, articles on dress, n'oedle work, et e. Tfhe Jnone .Journal is attractive, interesting and inst ruct ivo from cover to cover. By T1hia Curtis Publishing Company, P'hila 41elp)hia. Ten cents porF copy ; oe dollar por year.. Humorlits, p)1 iples, bo(ils are ver'y an noylng. They qui~ickliy (llsapp~I'ea lihon Ithe blood is pm- rtbs-l by lloo.t' Ana