The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 28, 1901, Image 7
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Bill Says He Likes to Read The '
Apocrapha
HE QUOTES SUMR OF THE BOOK
Talks About Family Influence In Good
, Government for the Whole of Our!
f
Country.
The family is the most important institutions
upcn the earth. It is the
hope of the world. Irs influence is j
greater than that of kings, emperors ;
or cabinets. Parents and children :
gathered around the hearthstones in
separate families make up com muni-!
ties, and they make states and nations
and chccse their rulers. As the fan;- |
Pes are. so is the government?good |
or had?men?unmarried men arc j
merely individuals and foci no groat;
responsibility outside of their individ-:
ual comfort and welfare. But par- j
onts are concerned for their children, j
We live for 'them and would die for I
them, consequently we want good government
that will protect them. But
it is noc every family who feels this
deep concern. From my window 1
see the homes of many neighbors and
tan cotmt on my fingers those whose
presence is of safeguard to the community.
and the rest are of but little
consequence. If they were to move \
away it would add to our peril, So
it is in all communities. The few
protect the many. So it is in church
and state. Twenty members of our
legislature. cciktoI its legislation. Ten
members of an average church membership
give the church its character.
Sodom was desrioyed because tan good ;
men could not he found. If all men i
were good we would have no need of;
courts or prisons. But for ever} j
church that is set on a hill there is a
jail in the valley. I hear the preacher j
calling and the bell tolling from the ;
one. and imagine i hear the devil call- j
ing from the other, and he cries out:
as the sergeants did jr. the old muster
language, "Oh. vesl Oh. yes! All who
belong to Captain Satan's company
phr .de here.'1 And the people ar e go- j
ing and coming all the time some to
one call and more to the other. But as j
the devil can't be heard afar off. he :
goes about calling, and even invades j
the sanctuary and calls aloud while
the preacher is preaching.
"Man never erects a house of prayer
But what the devil builds a pulpit
there.
And 'twill be found upon examination
The devil has the largest congrcgation."
Ay
His pulpit is always at the rear end
where the young people love to sir, j
and you can tell bc^nr popular he is j
by the number who sit there.
I wae? ruminating about this family,
institution and its great importance;
in the world because I have been read- j
irg about 1: in the Apocrypha, which
is cno of our family Bibles. I heard
a preacher say once that a Bible with
the Apocrypha in it should not stay
;:i his house. Well, it took 1.S26 years
to exclude it from 'the Protestantj
Bible, and most cf it is in the Romoan ;
Catholic Bible vet. What is called a
sac rod canon was not established un-j
til the sixteenth century, and for cen- t
turics before that almost every great |
theologian hod his own catalogue of;
inspired hooks as he believed them.'
Cor 300 years cr.ly cm of'Paul's epis-'
ties wore admitted. The Book of ^c.
T f>n <Jt Inhn
.MUiRS HJiU i IIV ? Kianuu ,
worn excluded. S > were Esther and.
Daniel and Jonah in the Old Testa- j
meat. I.u her tried to have Hebrews.!
ar.:l James, and Jude. and the Revelations
of St. John excluded, but failed.
Hut all differences of opinions seem
to have been harmonized at the council
of Trent by all Christians and the
Apocryphia was left in. not as an inspired
pan. hut to be read for religious
instruction. In 1R2<> it was excluded
from the Prc'rst2:nt Riule. but
it remains in many of the old time
family Ribles and is in one of mine. 1
dare to peruse it sometimes, especially
"The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of
Sirach." which is called Eeclesiasticus.
which has fifty chapters and is as full
of mixims and morals and instruction
for the family as are the proverbs of
Solomon. Addison says that if this
book had been loft in the canon or if
t i; had the name of some groat Greek
philosopher, it would have commandoi
HP miration of mankind. To my
mind it is the condensation of wisdom
far family government. It is as
pointed and pungent a; anything that
Solomon ever wrote. This Jesus was
a better man than Solomon. He live t
and wrote 300 years after Malaehi. the
last of the prophets. In the close of
his narrative concerning Moses and
the prophets, he says of Solomon:
""fly his body he was brought into subjection
and didst stain-his honor and
pollute his seed and brought wrath
upon his children, and his kingdom
w.=e divided." I never did have a profound
admiration for a mar. who said.
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"Kejjjoice. un, 'y<mus u.uu, . ??
wife of thy youth, and be,?hou alway ,
ra>vi*htd with her" fove," asid th?n
goes off and-marries 300 wives an i
takes 700 concub'ne?. His precepts
wepe P>od. but his example was baa,
very bad. My doctrine has alwyas
l>ean that a man has no more right to
two wives than a woman has to two
husbands. Let him .stand by his marriage
vows. This i3 t^^injjjjunction
i
o." Jc >:?. :hson of Sirach. As a sam- j
pi* cf his wisdom let mo quote:
" \ man that breaketh his wedlock, j
; "ii'7. Who sc-eth me. am I no: com- j
passed ai:out with darkness.' ho for- j
gette/h that the eyes of the I ord ar"
ten .housnnd times brighter than the j
son."
"Blessed is he who hath a vittuous
wife, for the number of his days shall
be doubled."
"A silent and loving woman is a
gift from the Txard."
"A fool will peep in at the door of
the house, but he that is well nurtured
will stand without."
'To ret banquet upon borrowed
money."
"Commend not a niun for his outward
appearance, for many kings have
sz: down upon the ground, and one j
that was never upon the. ground, and j
one ;hnt was never thought of hath ,
worn the crown."
"A -frierd cannot be known in pros- j
perky, and an enemy cannot be hi J !
in -adversity."
"l\se not much "he company of a !
woman who is a singer lest thou be !
captured with her voice."
"Rejoice not over thine enemy when |
he is dead."
"Ivcnd not to him who is higher than
thyself, hot if thou iuendost cour.t it :
lo=t"
"Sit n-'.-t down with the wife of another
man in thine arms. for it will ;
btir.g the? to destruction."
"My son. helup thy father in his ol.l
age and thou shall have joy in thine
own children."
"Have no fellowship with those who
are mightier and richer than thyself,
for how can the earthen kettle and the
pc- agree."
"When a rich man speaketh every j
m?n holdeth his tongue and ex-col it to the
clouds, but if a poor man speak, I
they say, -What fellow is this?' "
"Build not a. hou?? with anothei
man's money, for it i-s like gathering
stones for the tomb of thy burial."
"A thief is better than a eommon
liar." I
"Accustom not thy mouth to gwear- 1
ing nor to the naming of the Holy ;
One."
Against him that is niggard of his
trait his neighbors shall murar.ir." j
"Ke p a sure watch c.or a shame- ;
less (laughter lesc she make thee a :
ugh in^stock and a byword In the
c'ry and a reproach among thy peo- J
pie."
Whether this book is inspired or not.
it i>- full of devotion to God and grati
tilde for His goodness. The Old Testament
Hebrews canon was made up and 1
elosed before this Jesu- lived or per- j
haps Ecclesiatieus would have been j
embraced in it. It is certainly entitle 1 !
to as much consideration as Solomon's
Son. for there is not a vulgar cr lascti- i
ions expression in it.
This much about the Apocrypha wilj
answer some inq"."! Tt" I have received,
two of them frcm preaehe.s. I have a
long letter from my old friend. Pi-hep
Turner, concerning rhrt recent pu'" !! . ti~n
cf William Hannibal Thoma^;
that bill of indictment against the negroes
of his own race. He denouc.'s
Thomas. His opinion is that some
learned white men wrote the bcok and
paid Thomas for the use of his name. |
He says this is the opinion of those in
South Carolina who kuow this scane- i
gallows. He says "I am well acquain - !
ed with him; knew him during the war !
in front of Richmond, where seme ;
southern hero shot off one of his arms. 1
and it is a pity he did not shoot his ;
head off. He is now receiving an exorbitant
pension from the 1'nitod Stat?s
government. If there ever was momv
paid to a dog it Is paid to him. If the j
white people of the south knew half .s j
much about his rascality and villa.ny j
as he has told me. they would seek h)> j
blcod. If our preachers are so bad as h? |
represents them, what did he stop for
and join the party of the devil. He was
one of the preachers of my church and
will be until hell open Iter arms to receive
him." etc.
I have been following Bishop Tur- !
ner s course evefstace the wa*v a ;d '
have never known aught against him J
as a man and Christian. In the year |
1866. when cur people at Rome we o j
under the oppression of a Spanish cap- j
tain, one Deo la Mesa. Bishop Turner j
acted as a mediator and tried to make j
our condition more tolerable. He m.a ! - ;
a speech at Reese's Spring near Ron"\ j
that we all commended and did his uc- I
most to prevent that Spaniard from exercising
his fonl domination and tyranny.
Ever since then his pen snd ovico
has been for peace between the rac-.
I am pleased to r.pejk of him :s ta:
friend."?Bill Arp in Atlanta C^us itution.
Bill Anthony's Coolness.
"Bill" Anthony was one of the bt~.
examples that came out of the Spanish
war of the man who -:.in keep his head
when others have lost theirs, says
Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's
Magazine. His coolly indifferent announcement
to Sigsbee that the Maine
was sinking, either showed a soul disciplined
to the condition of an automaton.
or a spirit which nothing could
dismay. I once asked Captain Sigsbee
if the popular version of Anthony's
speech was correct. He said it was.
but that Anthony did not salute him
as was generally told, nor preface Jiis
speech with "I beg lb roport^si'.'j." ^We
bumped into each other jp the <tprk," '
Sigsbee said, "and if he had saluted" '
and spoken with that formality, ho j
would have been thinking of himself
and of making an effect, and not of his
duty. What he really said and did is
better without any of the advantages
which came later."
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FOUR SHOTS FIRED.
Atiernpt lo Assassinate Russian Hi*!)
Councillor.
RESULT OF STUDENT AGITATION.
Call Issued Asking Members of Intelligent
Russian Society to Join in
Struggle for Freedom.
St. Petersburg. Bv Caible.?Pri.y
Councillor Pobiedcn.-teff, chief procurator
cf the Holy Synod, narrowly
escaped assassination early Friday
morning. While writing in his study
shortly after midnight, two bullets
shattered a window and parsed cios^
to the procurator and buried themselves
in the ceiling. Two other shots
were fired but did not enter the room.
The would-be assassin was i'entiiKd
as one Lagowski. a provincial official.
The procurator was unscratched.
An investigation into the causes of
the attack is proceeding.
The students organizaton eomrattee
has issued a call inviting all intelligent
members of the Russian society to join
their ranks in the struggle for freedom
A Perilous Undertaking.
Manila. By Cable.?Gen. Funston is
tow engaged in a daring p-oject wnh h
promises to be the greatest and most
romatic achievement of his eventful
career. In January. fr??n his hiding
place in the province of Cabclla. Aguinaldo
wrote letters anathematizing the
sub-chiefs who hid taken the each of
allegiance to the United States. Later,
Aguinaldo ordered certain insurgent
forces in southern Luzon to join him at
a rendezvous in Cabclla province. Th*
rcfoel officer entrusted with these o.ders
secretly negotiated with the
Americans. On securing neeess.'.ry information
Gen. Funston planned Aguinaldo's
capture, and, with Gen. MacArthur's
authorization, proceeded two
weeks ago to make the attempt. Geu.
Funston. with Surgeon Major Hairis,
Major Newton of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
Lieut. Admir of the Twentyset
ond infantry. Lieut. Mitchell of the
Fortieth infantry, six veteran scouts
and a corps of native srou:s, all picked
men, embarked on the gunboat Vieksburg
and were landed on a remote
bench above Baier. 71 was arranged
that Aguinaldo's emissaries, with th9
native scouts, should pass themselves
off as insurgent troops who. having
captured Gen. Funston and other-,
were taking them as prisoners to Aguinaldo.
At the right time, when brought
before guinaldo. Gen. Funston was to
give a signal, when 'the tables were to
be turned and Aguinaldo was to be
seized. Six days' march into the interior
was contemplated. Treachery was
considered possible, but every precau
tion was taken. The troops in New Viocaya
and New Eoija and the gunboats
Vicksburg and Albany were to co-operate
with Gen. Funston's force. The
Vicksburg is expected here tomorrow.
Germany Holds Slaves.
Berlin. By Cable.?The reichstag debate
Wednesday was interesting because,
after Herr Babel's motion to declare
legally free all children born of
domestic slaves in the colonies had
been rejected, with the assistance of
the Center party, Germany now stands
confesed before the world as perpertuating
slave-holding power. All that the
colonial chief. Dr. Stubel. and other
advocates could say was chat slavery
was absolutely necessary for settlers in
the German colonies.
Lynched for Shooting Town Ala.shal.
Little Rock. Ark., Special.?A Gazette
special from Pochontas says that Geo.
Chevris, who lest week sho nd killed
Town Marshal Norris of Pocacontas.
while Norris was performing official
duty, was taken from *=21 by a mob
of 200 men and hanged. The coroner s
jury held Chevries for murder, but
owing to the feeling against him. the
trial has been postponed until next
week. The membe:s of the mob were
masked.
Attorney General Resigns.
Washington. D. C., Special?Attorney
General Griggs has handed to the
president his resignation, to take effect
March 31. Mr. Griggs intends -a
leave Washington on Saturday for his
home in New Jersey, where hn-eafter
he will reside. His intention is to re
Simp immediately the practice of his
profession.
Holt I Destroyed.
Ithaca. N. Y.. Special.?Clinton
House, one of the oldest and best
known hotels in central New York, was
destroyed by fire early 'Saturday evenifig.
When it was seen that the hotel
could not be saved a number of students
of Cornell university, who had
been tugging at the hose* rushed into
the btirnflng-- -building. ^removed
noarly* all -the; furnitnf^\^evera'l ha J
rarrow escapes from falling walls, but
no one was seriously injured. The fire
is supposed to have originated in the
drying room from an unprotected electric
light wire. The. lo.-s, which is estimated
at $150,000, is nearly covered
by insurance.
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THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
The South.
Owen Zoigler cff Philadelphia, kncck;
?d out Tom Corcoran, of Savannah,
| in the eleventh round in the lat!
ter city Friday night. The mill was in
i the theatre, before a full house. The
j fight was to have been twenty-five
I rounds. A punch in the stomach and
I a swing on the jaw did the work. Corj
coran had been bleeding freely for four
1 rounds. Zeigler was not marked at all,
: and left the ring apparently as fresh
j as when he entered iu
An application has been filed in At:
lanta for a charter for the North Geor|
gia Mining and Milling Company. The
! capital stock will be $2,500,000. The
company owns 30,000 acres of land in
Murray. Gilmer and Fannin counties,
upon which it proposes to develop the
ore and timber.
Representative Hivingston, of Geor;
gia. is now steadily convalescing. Dr.
Sprigg. the attending physician, stated
: yesterday that Mr. Livingston is gain!
ing rapidly and that unless unexpected
i complications set in his recovery is
: assured. He has no fever and his
! weak heart is aH that is feared.
F. H. Carpenter, a retired capitalist
: of Ohio, blew his head off with a
; shct-gun at Leesburg, Fla.
j The presentation to Lieutenant
I Hobson, at Greensboro, Ala., has been
postponed because of the Lieutenant's
illness.
The Apierican Leather Compamy, at
Knoxville. Tenn., has closed a deal by
which it comes into possession of the
> Tannery of the Virginia Tanning and
J Exchange Company, one of the largest
j tanneries ;n tne siaie.
A special to The Atlanta Constituj
tion from Lavonia. Ga., says: "John
i Hunter, a negro. charged with assaul'
iting the five-year-old daughter of J.
! E. Con well, escaped from his captors
! Sunday night, while being taken to
| the Hartwell jail. In pursuing Hunter
j Mr. Conwell accidently shot Henry A.
j Singleton, one of those guarding HunI
ter. but the wound is not fatal. Two
j poshes are pursuing the negro.
The North.
The ice in the Mississippi at DubuI
que, Iowa, went out leaving the chanj
nel clear for several miles. This is
the earliest for years.
The Meir.eeke Toy Company's fivestory
brick structure, in Milwaukee,
was guttqd by fire Sunday night, entailing
a loss estimated from $100,000
: to $125,000.
A special to tihe BuiTalo Express
; from Campbelltokn, N. B.. says: "Six
persons were burned to death SaturI
day night at Little Cascapeda, Quebec.
as the result of the explosion of a coal
?* ,v- ~ /-vP Tr?hn Gailth
j Oil Stove la iuc uuuov
ier. Gauthier's wife was sick in
bed."
At the next s?ssion of the Ohio Gen1
eral Assembly, Representative Gear, of
I upper Sandusky, will introduce an
a.nti-kidnapping bill. He has received
three letters threatening to kidnap and
mutilate his daughter unless $500 be
1 left in an old shoe, at a certain place.
! The writers threatened to put out the
! girl's eyes with a red-hot poker and
j fire the Gear residence.
Foreign.
The dock strike at Marseilles is un1
broken.
! Rumors of the illness of President
| Diaz, of Mexico, are denied.
There was a general fight between
; students and police at St. Petersburg
! A lojery in Europe for the Boers is
: being organized by M. Henri Roche
| ion.
{ Indefinite closing has been ordered
at the Colchester Cotton Mills. Burlington.
Vt.
Germany made an additional appropriation
yesterday of nearly $31,000,000
for the Chinese expedition.
The census cf Austria-Hungary
shows a population of -1Q.310.3S5 which
i is an increase cf 10 per cent, during
! the last decade.
A special dispatch from Cairo,
Egypt, says a new Dervish movement
is reported to have occurred in the
southern part of the Soudan.
The official organ of the Russian
Ministry of Finance at St. Petersburg
threatens that Russia will make strict
reprisals in case eft any raising of duties
by Germany on Rus-ian products.
fllscellaneous
Queen Victoria's funeral cost $173,000.
The battleship Alabama developed
15.2 knots on its last trial.
A Berlin dispatch rerorts that the
German navy like the British, has decided
to abandon the Belleville boilers
on warships.
Mr. Herreshoff, Jr., describing the
new defender in an interview published
by the London Daily Mali, says: "I
hope Shamrock II will win. as British
victory woufd do more to develop
yachting on both sides of the Atlantic
and promote good will between the
two nations 'than anything else could,
A Yokohama dispatch gays that the.
cabinet crisis at Seoul, capital of Ko-'
rea, which arose out Of the arresa of? ,
the acting 4 Minister . of Finance on '
charge? oi-having plotted to murder
a number or AaTlddibs otf-ft*'e;imp?cial 1 :
household, continues. I i
A dispatch from Shanghai announces ]
the sailing of United States Minister I
Conger. The condition of Li Hung J
Chang Ls Improved.
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NEWgY CLEANINGS.
A State Dispeusary law is proposed
f ai? A i'l*n non o
' v/i Aiauuoao.
Gro.it Britain lias ordered five Holland
submarine boats.
A dry dock company has been incorporated
at Pensacola, Fla.
A $1,000,000 hotel is to be built in
Chicago just south of the Auditorium.
For the first time since the Civil
War there is not a negro in the North
Carolina Legislature.
St. Louis, Mo., no longer has eable
cars. The trolley has become the
whole thing for local transit.
The German Navy, following the
British example, will discard Belle>ville
boilers in use on warships.
Brigandage in China has considerably
decreased in consequence of the
intervention of the foreign troops.
The Interior Department denies
that there are any special bargains in
land in Oklahoma for soldiers or sailors.
The Kansas Legislature has appropriated
$10,000 to purchase poison to
l>e used in exterminating prairie
dogs.
Twenty of the principal Mexican
banks in the last .government report
showed an aggregate capital of $70,000,000.
The Bank of New York, which was
founded by Alexander Hamilton, celebrated
its 107th anniversary u. few
days ago.
rol-imA / hll/lrnn nt tlin f.irlislP
school in Pennsylvania are said to
rank far ahead of Indian youths in
every study.
The people of Arlzon are returning
tltanks for the heaviest rainfall there
for twenty years. Rains are not an
everyday occurrence in that Territory.
A society has been founded at St.
Petersburg called the Russkoye Sobranye.
"to educate youth according to
the ancient Russian spirit, to restore
Russian antiquity and costumes, and
to cultivate a pure Russian language."
The "lien With a Story."
The majority of the "men with a
story" (vagrants) are frauds. The
expression is often heard, however,
"Oh, well, help them anyway! It is
better to help many frauds than to let
one genuine case suffer." That argument
is all right provded there are
genuine cases? There is on record a
statement of the late Doctor John HalJ
that in aJl the years of his experience
in New York City he had never found
one. Certainly of the two hundred
strangers who have come to me during
the past year not one was worthy
of any help of the kind asked for.?
Re David M. Steele, in tho April Ladies'
Home Journal.
A Business "Clincher."
An artistic, daily business "clincher"
has been sent out from the
Youth's Companion of Boston. It is
a bird portfolio, the portfolio itself being
a pretty creation of rich green paper,
embellished with sketches of
birds, etc.. which inside are twefva
beautiful drawings, by Ernest Set on
Thompson, of American birds. Tiie
pictures are brown tints on he:
cream paper, and are as interesting -a
grown people as the boys and girls.
These sketches are also suitale for
framing and would ornament any wall.
Wolcott to Succeed Hitchcock.
Pueblo. Col.. Special.?The Daily
Chieftain says: "It Is definitely known
here that ex-Senator Wolcott, of Colorado.
wi'.J be appointed by the President
to be Secretary of the Interior to
succeed Mr. Hitchcock. The news has
been received by the friends of Mr.
Wolcott in this city, the statement being
made unequivocally, and it is indicated
that the appointment will bo
made in Washington tomorrow."
Arrested for Kidnapping.
Fort Worth. Texas, Special.?J. L.
Peterson and J. M. Cooper, claiming to
be officers from North Carolina, are
under arrest here charged with kidnapping.
They tock charge, without
a warrant of a man named Warrick,
who is alleged to have killed a relative
of the men and for whom a reward is
offered. They had Warrick bound
with ropes when the Texas officers
made the arrest. Warrick was held to
await orders from the Governor o?
No*"th Carn'i"a
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MANUFACTURERS OF
DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, MOULDING
AND
Building; Haterial.
Dealers in Sash Weighty
Cord, Hardware, Window glase,
etc.
We guarautee our work
superior to any sold in this cfty?
all being of our own manufacture.
E.n.HAGKER, Proprietor*
CHARLESTON, - 5. C.
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