The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 05, 1902, Image 3
MRS. ARP'S BIRTHDAY
I Bill's Wife Has Reached Three Score
Years and Ten.
4\n SHF k STlil VFRY ACTIVE.
Wllb msj w t .W
f A^p's Birthday Comes in Two Weeks
| From Now, and He Thinks lie Will
tiet a Nice Present.
Birthdays are very common things in
this sublunary world. There are sixty
millions cf them every year and that
means about one hundred and fiftythousand
every Jay or six thousand
every hour. Just think of it?every
I minute one hundred mortal souls come
into this world?to live and die, for
good or for evil?for happiness or misery.
As far back as we have any history.
sacred or profane, kings and
princes have eeiebrated their Dirtnuajo
with feasts and wine and song and
even the humble and the poor take
note of their annual return. Pharaoh
celebrated his in Joseph's day and it
was on Herod's birthday that the
daughter of Herodias danced before
him and asked him for the head of
John the Baptist.
I was ruminating about this because
today is a notable birthday in my fam.ily.
The matenial ancestor has at last
reached her tbree-3core years and ten
?the alloted age of man and woman
kind, and from now on every day she
lives will be one of grace. David says
that the days of our years are three
*core years and ten, but if by reason
of strength they be four score years ypt
is their strength labor and sorrow.
Poor old man. he did have a troubled
life. He sinned and he repented in
great anguish, as he exclaimed, ~yi?
sln is ever before me." Solomon saith,
"The day of one's death is better than
the day of his birth." And Job said,
"Cursed is the night when I was born."
Jeremiah's life was one of lamentation.
The maxims and precepts of these old
prophets and preachers are wonderfully
beautiful and have never been equalled,
but great men are not always wise,
and even Solomon fell from grace and
died accursed. The man who said. "Rejoice
in the wife of thy youth and be
thou always ravished with her love,"
forsook his own and consorted with a
thousand others of all Nations, creeds
and colors. He reigned eighty years
- and died ?. disappointed, dishonored,
degraded and miserable old man. But
old age is not neceessarily unhappy.
The poet speaks of
"An old age serene and bright,
.As lovely as a Lapland night,"
and another poet says: "The world is
very lovely. Oh, my God, I thank Thee
that I live." Our old age is very much
what we choose to make it. It is a sad
thing to be weary and tired with the
weight of years. It is pitiful to look
upon an old man who never smile3.
vrho Has outlived hii social yicaouicij
and whose company is neither sought
nor desired. For the sake of our neighbors
and friends it is our duty to be
cheerful in their company. We should
sometimes smile even if we have to
force it. Let us grow old gracefully. I
have now in mind just such an one?
a hale, healthy old time gentleman of
four score years, whose preserce is always
welcome and whose children,
grandchildren and neighbors and
friends give him glad greeting when he
comes. He will be missed when he
dies, for the world is better that he
lives in it. His Christian faith, his
moral conduct, his good example and
iixs eneeriui disposition aie a UCUCUU."
tion to the community.
But I was thinking about my wife's
birthday. There are thirty-seven birthdays
in our family, and she knows
them all and never forgets them.
They average about three a month, but
this one of hers is a very notable one,
for she is the materrnal ancestor, and
this day fulfills her years and crosses
the line. Seventy years ago she was
born, and not long '?fter that the stars
fell. Of course they did. Seventy is a
numeral of sacred significance. There
were seventy elders of Israel and seventy
wise men compiled the Old Testament.
The Jews were kept in captivity
seventy year3. The Lord sent
out seventy of his disciples
to preach and teach the people,
and seventy years is the allotted
age of mankind. But my wife is not old.
I Time has not written no wrinkles 011
her brow nor furrows on her cheek nor
silvered her raven hair. If the long war
had not intervened she would not look
-...a thnn nft vears now. But the wear
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and tear of the war and anxiety while
fleeing from the foul invader, with six
little hungry children tagging alter
her, made years of months and weeks
of days. But women, especially mothers.
can endure more distrees and suffering
than men. The maternal instinct
keeps them up. They can suffer and bo
strong. It looks like the motherhood of
ten children would v/ear a woman out,
but they seem to thrive on it, and late
In life they take on flesh and round up
all the corners. But thoy never stop
work. My wife has made over Ave
tLousand little garments and is still
making them, for the little grandchildren
keep coming on. Her reputation
for nice needlework and making buttonholes
has been long established, and
she is proud of it. She never stops sewing
until she loses her spectacles, and
then she borrows mine. No, she is not
old. James Russell Lowell said of Julia
WaTd Howe on her seventieth birthdav
that it was better to be 70 years young
than 40 years old. It is this endurance,
this cheerfulness in adversity that i
makes the woman outlive the men. j
There are three times as many widows !
in this community as widowers. There j
are seventeen in our little Presbyterian !
church and only four widowers, and
' *1 wnn n/.* fVirt nf it \ftl
me war vwic* uui n?v \uu^v w*. ..... (
. tcrnal love is .a preservative of health.
; It is a tcnie. a promoter of digestion, a i
panacea, whereas a man will pursue '
money until he loses his digestion. St. !
Paul said that "The 'ove of money is i
i the root of all evil,' but he had no
thought of applying it to women, for i
she has no love for money. If she gets
any she is not happy until she spends ;
I ,t. The girls said their mother wanted 1
j a new bonnet so they bought one for
i her birthday, and all I had to do was I
| to pay for it. She always lets me do
! that. She is a free trader and will keep
me in decent clothes whether I want
them or not. She always was a free
trader. I was a merchant before we
were married and she was my best customer.
She never asked the price of
anything, but just bought what she
wanted and trusted me to tote fair and
| deal justly.
Good gracious! What a long time ago
that was, and how trim and beautiful
j she was to me. She wore No. 2 shoos
' and stepped like a fawn and flashed
her Pocahontas eyes bewitchingly
when she said goodby. She can flash
' them yet. Seventy years old and gwine
on 71?trying to catch up. Maybe she <
will when I am dead, but not till then.
I remember when I was twice as old
I as she was, for I was 12 and she was
j 6, but she keeps gaining on me. I re*
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' "Hands Off, Forty Thousand Volts."
j One day one of the students, while
experimenting with a current of the
intense voltage of one hundred and
fifty thousand, was overcome by the
electrically-generated ozone, but a
little pure air restored him to con:
sciousness. In the testing department
the young engineers become familiar
with the completed product of the
shops: later, they take up the stuuy
! of construction, taking courses in
; other departments.
Power becomes a word of new
| meaning when the student begins his
investigations in the central station,
whose four great chimneys may be
seen from all the country hill-sides.
Every day two hundred and fifty tons
of coal are brought from the mines of
Pennsylvania to the shop's crushers,
whence the luel is carried by an end- i
; less chain of buckets to the roof of |
U1L' UUIICI lUUiil, nuwumuvuii; mc |
' fuel is fed to a score of furnaces, and [
1 by another system of buckets the
ashes are automatically taken away.
No stokers of flesh and blood are
i needed, for machines do the work of
i men. The engine room pulsates with
i energy. Here great generators, di!
rectly connected with the shafts of
j powerful steam engines, produce electric
currents of the combined
strength of six thousand horse power.
While all but three-hundredths of the
engine-energy is converted into electricity.
nearly nine-tenths of the energy
of the coal is lost, and here
every young engineer faces one of the
great problems of industry. How cau
all the latent energy of the coal be
! directly converted into electricity? An
ambitious student wouici give ms me a
work for this knowledge.?Frank Hix
Fayant, in Success.
In Russia no meetings of private
citizens for any purpose are permitted.
The privilege of holding meetings
is granted only to chartered corporations
or associations. All crowds,
except in places of amusement or worship,
are dispersed by the police. No
i premises can be hired for the purpose
of holding a meeting without a peri
mit from the police.
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memoer wnen sue woa m
teents and wore short dresses and pantalets
and rode a 'ast pacing horse
while her long black Indian hair hung
in tresses down her back. She was a
daisy then and sfie is a daisy yet sometimes.
But she can't climb 'siinmon
trees any more. She is 70?the mother
of ten children and twenty grandchildren.
and they ure scattered from New
York to the halls of the Montezumns.
She is troubled now about her bahy
boy. who lives under the dark shadows
of Popocatopetl, in Mexico, which
means the smoking mountain and is
smoking now and maybe will burst
forth in these volcanic times and dp
story the people as at Martinique. Two
weeks from today will be my birthday
and she will give me something, I
know?not a bonnet, hut perhaps a
' summer hat from Porto Rico. A bird
I in the air whispered that to me.?Bill
Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
A PHASE OF STUDENT LIFE.
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Where American Young Men Are
Made Electrical Engineers.
It is in the testing department that
the students begin their shop-work.
On the floor of one or tne big buifuings
is a maze of electrical machines
of various sizes and forms. Their
manufacture is completed, but they
must stand the most vigorous tests
before being shipped away. A special
i high-potential current enters the building
from the power house, and generators.
motors and transformers, of
from five to ten thousand horse
power, are subjected to voltages of
double their normal capacity. All
about the building are little switchhnards
some of them slacarded.
STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Articles of Faith Enunciated By the
Slate Convention.
The following is the full text of the
platform adopted by the State Demo- ,
eratie Convention at Columbia
It was presented by Col. J. A Hoyc
and was adopted unanimously.
Resolved, b/ the Democracy c? i
fcoiun Carolina m convenuon asseiablcd:
1. That we reaffirm and endorse the |
platform of principles enunciated by J
the Democratic convention of
1900, with especial stress upon the
following sections:
"That we view with alarm the pow- j
er which the trusts through the Ke- j
publican party are exercising over
legislation and national politics and i
their ability to control the prices of |
the necessities of life without regard
to the law of supply and demand. We
condemn the hypocritical attitude of
the Republican leaders who abus-1
trusts and combines while they use
the money obtained from them and
extorted from the people to debauch
the ignorant voters of the country.
"That we denounce the imperalistic
policy of the Republican administration
as contrary to the letter and
spirit of the Declaration of Independence
and the constitution of the
United States, and as dangerous to
the liberty and freedom not only of
the people of the Spanish islands, but
of the citizens of this country.as well."
The benevolent assimilation "of the I
Filipinos has proven to be the benevolence
of murder and the assimilation
of robbery. We denounce it as an
outrage upon the consciences of liberty-loving
Americans. Our free institutions
cannot long survive the destruction
of those principles upon
which they rest, and the spectacle of
subject peoples being held down by
the bayonet and robbed by the carpet
baggers but foreshadows the fate of
our country unless the people are
aroused to our danger. The unjust and
cruel war of subjugation now being
carried on in the Philippines should
be ended at once, with definite and
specific declarations to the natives
as to the Intentions of this country
to aid them in the establishment of a
free government of their own choice
under a protectorate by the United
States."
That we reaffirm and endorse the
correlated sections of the Kansas City
platform upon the subject of trusts
and imperialism as follows:
Private monopolies a.re indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy competition,
control the prices of material
and of the finished products, thus robbing
both producer and consumer.
They lessen the employment of labor
anu arourarny ua iue terms auu tun- i
ditions thereof, and aeprive Individual
energy and small capital of their opportunity
for betterment. They are
the most efficient means devised for
appropriating the fruits of industry
for the benefit of the few at the expense
of the many, and unless their
insatiate greed is checked all wealth
will be aggregated in a few hands and
the republic destroyed. The dishonest
paltering with the trusts evil by
the Republican party in State and national
platforms is conclusive proof
of the truth of the charges that trusts
are the legitimate products of Republican
policies, that they are fostered
by Republican laws and that
they are protected by Republican administration
in return for campaign
subscriptions and political support.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, State
and city against private monoply in
every form. Existing laws against
trusts must be enforced and more
stringent ones must be enacted providing
for publicity as to affairs of
AnnnnA/1 1?% tntAOfitAfn
C'Ui i-iui auuua cujagcu m ium o?*i,c
commerce and requiring all corporations
to show, before doing business
outside of the State of their origin,
that they have no water in their stock
and that they have not attempted and
are not attempting to monopolize any
branch of business or the production
of any article of merchandise, and the
whole constitutional power of congress
over interstate commerce, the
mails, and all modes of interstate
commerce, shall be exercised by the
enactment of comprehensive laws j
upon the subject of trusts. Tariff laws
should be amended by putting the pro- !
duct of trusts upon the free list to
prevent monopoly under the plea of
protection.
We are opposed to private monopoly
-ujodjoo ip iojjuoo o) opts J?
;jeci aqt no }qSjJ oqt uipp oa\ "ssou
-pnq o.utjt >dinoo uo SujXjjbo suoit
-t'jodjoo uodAttaq suoipuiquioo puu
stsnit ip jo suoipaAajd oqt joj pus
'tlSpJOJ PUB OIJSOUIOp 'SUOipjOdJOO
ip jo iojjcod joj savbi tuaSuuts
o.ioiu ssad opts SW J? XiqmossB
piauo2 oqt jo Xpp oqt s| tl 'sopts
Tenio Xa najouuno osoai Jo Xippod
-so 'suoiw-iodjoo jo aojjBujqtuoo oqj
Xq eidood oqj ;o qsojojnj oqj jo pjBSaj
-sip pue jo.ttod SujSBOJont oqj uoisuoq
-ojddB qjiai msja poB 'uijoj Xjoao hi
tions, wnetner domestic or foreign,
engaged in business within her borders.
We deny that congress has any
legitimate power to regulate corporations
except as they may be engaged
in foreign or interstate commerce;
and demand that the national government
confine itself in bestowing corporate
existence to such agencies as
are required to exercise such functions
as the constitution specifically
confers upon the United States. We
are ualterably opposed to any amend-'
ment of the federal constitution looking
to any enlargement of the powers
of congress in relation to the
regulation of contract by citizens of
the State, or in relation to the corporations,
and \ye demand that laws
be enacted further restricting the
nower of federal courts to interfere
/
with the internal affairs and administration
of justice in the State. We
condemn the Dingley taj iff law as a
trust breeding measure skillfully devised
to give the few fs.vors which
they do not deserve, and to place upon
the -many burdens which they should
not bear.
We reaffi-m our belief in a tariff for
revenue only, and that taxation should
be so regulated as to meet the needs
of an honest and economical government.
'V? condemn all class legislation
such as the shin subsidy bill, which we
believe to be a rich man's raid on the
n?hli* coffer, and we also condemn all
sectional legislation, such as the Crurapacher
bill, which we believe to be intended
to arouse sectional animosities.
We hold with the United States supreme
court that the declaration of independence
is the spirit of our government.
of which the constitution is the
form and letter
We declare again, that all government
instituted among men derive
their just powers from the consent of
the governed; that any government not
based upon the consent of the governed
is a tyranny, and that to impose upon
any people the government of force
is to substitute a method of imperialism
for those of a republic. We holfi
that the constitution follows the flag
and denounce the doctrine'that an executive
of congress, deriving their existence
and their powers from the constitution.
can exercise lawful authority
beyond it or In violation of it. We assert
that no nation can longer endure
half republic and half empire, and we
warn toe American peopie mat imperialism
abroad will lead quickly and inevitably
to despotism at home.
We condemn and denounce the Philippine
policy of the present administration.
It has involved the republic
in an unnecessary war, sacrificed the
lives of many of our noblest sons, and
placed the United States, previously
known and applauded throughout the
world as the cnampion or rreeaom, in
the false and unamerlcan position of
crushing with military force the efforts
of our former allies to achieve liberty
and self-government. The*. Filipinos
canot be citizens without endangering
our civilization, they cannot be subjects
without imperiling our 'form of
government; and as we are not willing
to surrender our civilization to" convert
the republic into an empire, we* favor
an immediate declaration of the nation's
purpose to give the Filipinos,
first, a stable form of government; second,
independence; and third, protection
from outside interference. We are
not opposed to territorial expansion
when it takes in _ desirable territory
which can be erected into States in the
union, and whose people are willing
and free to become American citizens.
We favor expansion by every
peaceful and legitimate means. But we
are unalterably opposed to the seizing
or purcnasing 01 msiani lsisuua iu i?t
governed outside the constitution, and
whose people can never become citizens.
We are in favor of extending the
republic's influence among the nations,
but believe that influence should be extended
not by force and violence, but
through persuasive power of a high
and honorable example. The burning
issue of imperialism growing out of the
Spanish war involves the very existence
of the republic and the destruction
of our free institutions.
We regard it as the paramount issue
of the campaign.
POPES OF HUMBLE BIRTH.
Uinjr of the Pontiffs Have Sprung from
Lower Banks of Life.
i Many of the popes have sprung from
low origin. Alexander V. (1490) was
also a beggar boy; Benedict XII. was
the son of a baker; Sixtus IV. (1471)
- ni_A Tf
was tue son or a nsnerman; dixius y.
(1585), whose name was Felix Perretti,
was a pig driver at Montalto, and attracted
the attention of a Franciscan
monk, who educated him. He rose to
be bishop of Fermo, soon after to be
cardinal, and was then elevated to the
papal throne, and celebrated his reign
by erecting many of the finest buildings
in Rome. Nathaniel Hawthorne,
writing of his tomb in the grand old
church of St Maria Maggiore, says:
"If anything can still the spectator to
silence and awaken him to great recollections
it is the monument of this astonishing
man, who as a child herded
swine, and as a man commanded kings
and filled Rome with so many works
4-1 * ?? m/ima Ulro fin
mui iiuixi every sum uia uaum, ??
echo, rings upon the traveler's ears."
Urban IV. (1261) was the son of a
French cobbler; Adrian VI. was the
son of a weaver; Boniface the Great
was a street gamin and held horses for
pennies. In recollection of his earlier
days he invited two kings to lead his
mule when he rode to his coronation as
pope of Rome. Hildrebrand, the great
orator monk, who became Pope Gregory
VII. (1703), was the son of a carpenter
from Tuscany and one of the
most brilliant statesmen of his age. He
practically revolutionized Europe.?
Chicago Record-Herald.
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Vermont is uui uhc ut mo
growing States of the Union. Its population
increased only three per cent,
from 1890 to 1900, and the total is
only 343.641. But the Green mountain
folks are thrifty, as their savings
banks show. Deposits in these institutions
increased ninety per cent during
the past decade. They average
nearly $100 for every man, woman
and child in he State, the whole
amount on deposit being $40,209,059.23.
Of this total $33,415,771 ade the savings
of 107,695 residents of Vermont,
the balance of about $7,000,000 being
deposited by 15,456 non-residents. ^
WILL TILLMAN OPPOSE?
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j Speculation as to Outcome of McLau*
rin's Appointment.
j A special from Washington says:
Since it became known that Senator
John L. McLaurin was being considered
by the President for the apI
pointment on the Court of Claims
there has been much speculation
over the probable attitude of his colleague.
Senator Tillman, cn the question
of confirmation. As it would be
| a departure prooaoiy wiuiout a precedent
to oppose the confirmation of a
United States Senator to an appointive
office, many were of the opinion
that the confirmation of the junior
Senator from the Palmetto State
would go without saying. It seems,
however, that those who share this
: view have underestimated the degree
| of hatred which the senior Senator
has for his colleague, for Mr. Tillman
has been heard to say: "McLauria Is
unfit to sit in judgment over the interests
of others and he will never be
appointed to a judicial position with
my consent." Senator McLaurln has
not as yet been formally tendered the
judgeship In question but the Presl- *
dent has finally disposed of the mat- s
ter, and it is known that the South
Carolina Senator now has the appointment
in so far as the Chief Execn- ,
live is concerned. Opposition from
Tillman to his confirmation will
create an exceedingly interesting
situation. Many influential South
Carolina politicians, friends of Tillman,
would favor confirmation, as
they desire an appointment from the
Governor to fill out the unexpired
term. All or toe naii-auzeu tauuiuaw
now in the field would be glad to "have
the place.
Anderson's New Mill.
Messrs. James A. Brock and R. E.
Ligon. announced last week as having
completed plans for establishing another
large cotton factory at Anderson, 8.
C., have incorporated company to carry
out the enterprise. Charter has been
filed under title of the Brogon Cotton
Mills, with capital stock placed at
$500,000,. and immediate arrangements
will be made for beginning work of
construction. The equipment will include
25,000 spindles and 700 to 800
looms for producing fancy-colored
goods. About 500 operatives wiH be
required. C. R. Makepeace & Co. of
Providence, R. I., are the engineers in
charge. The incorporators are Messrs.
Brock and Ligon, J. E. Barton, R. S.
Ligon, N. B. Sullivan and G. W. Evana *
A Sudden Death.
Anderson, Special.?Mt. David Green,
a well .known and respected citizen of
Hopewell township, died very suddenly
Saturday night while on his way home
from this city. He was in apparent
?~a rchon hft lpft town in the
guuu acaiui nuvu
buggy with his son-in-law, Mr. R. J.
Buchanan. He had been chatting on
different subjects, when, about four
miles from the city, he threw back his
head and suddenly expired. Mr. Green
was a quiet, unpretentious citizen, but
a man of splendid character and good
qualities. He was buried yesterday
afternoon at Lebanon church.
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Some New Enterprises.
Recently the Magnolia Traction.
Light and Power company, composed
tho northwest, se
VI gSULlCiUCU Hum ??? _ ,
cured a charter for an electric railway
line from Charleston to Summerville. _
Yesterday an application for a charter
for another company to be organized
for the same purpose, building a railroad
line 28 miles in length, to be
known as the Charleston Suburban and
Summerville Railway " company, was
filed with the Secretary of State. The
corporators are: John J. O'Connell, R.
P. Evans, J. W. Simmons and Jonathan
Lucas of Charleston, and Harlan Page
of Philadelphia. The capital stock is
to be half a million dollars, with the
privilege of increasing to one million.
I A commission was issued td D. S.
Matheson, N. T. Cobb and W. F. Stevenson
as corporators of the Cheraw
Building and Loan association of Che|
raw, which is to have a capital stock
! of $12,500.
Fought Over Primary.
Savannah, Ga., Special.?The white
county primaries here for representatives
to the Legislature and county officers
were attended by severe fighting
between the opposing factions at the
fnnrt house. Several people were In
jnrd but nobody was killed. Ishmael
Carter and Sam Davis, an ex-policeman,
had their heads cut open with
clubs. Alex Butler was shot in the
shoulder and John Murhen was arrested
charged with the shooting.
A Worthy Object.
At the annual meeting of the sctockholders
of the Newberry (S. C.) Cotton
Mills the point was brought out that
the operatives of the mills had -for
some time been operating on their own
account a textile school for acquiring
knowledge of the best methods of operating
machinery, as well as of the most
economic processes in the manufacture
of cotton goods. The stockholders
fnr t hoir
commenaeu mo ujicibw.vu ?? ~forts,
congratulated them upon their
success, and as a token of their appreciation
authorized the directors to give
tho textile school whatever assistance
they might at any time think necessary.
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