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E6SA ESTABLISHED 1865. __NEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MA\ ,19.____ --PIES.0AYA *AYPFEAL[NG TO THE PEOPLE. Pradeace and Moderation in Our Politii s,tzopgly trged By the Religious 'res:. B3aptist Courier.] Our editorial.gf last week, "Our DIt ty as Citizens," has be'u warmly cow mended and:endorsed by a number 4 our-brethren and fellow-citizen . W trust tbat those words, written af: muci thought and prayer, way t blessed of God in- doiug some good. I is time for thiuking, sober people I thiuk; it istime pray iua peupl" to prai 1.i "$be time has come for reliious peopl to'be .heard and felt. We are gla that .the other religious papers in tLb tate are speaking out along the saw Jateiu no uncertain sound. We at sure that. the editors of these papel have no other purpose in view tua the highest gooi of the people. Thee paperm are published in the interest c Smorality, righteousness, purity, justict peace-for the education and develol went of the people in the Ligh* st an .noblest sense of the word. While the ' ':re devoted to the furtheraice of thei .respective denominations, they a have at heart the welfare of the peopl at large.* We produce only a part < .hat these papers say. The Associate Reformed Presbyt( jian printed a large part of our editt rial, and.said, by way of introductiot The divisions in this State must be lamentation to all good citizens whatever faction. They ought to L healed. Surely there is enough gent We patriotism in the State to rise abov selfish interest and local jealousics. W heartily.endorse the calm words of tih Baptist Courier in the issue of thi week. They deserve the earnest an thoughtful consideration of every cit Zen. The Christian Neighbor, among oti er things, says: The present trouble in this State at peals 1o Carolina's "children of Is. char," if such there are, to come to th front and tell the people what the ought to do. The people are prepare( or ought to be prepared, to appreciat rest mrom strife and have peace througl out their beloved State. Refraining from adding "fuel to fire -from partisan strife in word or spiri -thiseditor would humbly assay t persuade the people so .o learn frot things written aforetime, not oni in the Scriptures, but ii: the page of history of our own State aun th United States, that the only way t have peace is to "follow after the thior which make peace,-and things where with one may edify another." Whit It may not be expected that diviu peace abound throughout the Com mlonwealth, yet it may be hoped tha such a type of peace may obtain tha will supersede overt acts of violenct and all unadvised language, spoket written or printed. A peace that i _.practicable, and certainly drsirable, i that which we would fain persuade th divided and disturbed people to accepi To realize order, quiet and peace, nt tual concessions must be made. All our people do not see alike, even whe. not excited, much less when irritate and striving against one another. Nc seeing alike they are tempted to thin hardly of one another. then to spea and act uncharitably, offensively, an so on, from bad to worse, until a grev matter is kindled from a small tirt illustrating the Scripture: "Where et vying and strife are, there is confusio and every evil work." Will not our harrassed people tur: away fo su.ch a state of thing and have peace at all hazzard: For what is the State without peace what a family without peace? and at F individual without peace? Now, as already stated concessior: must be made. Let those who hot estly think as they do remember th: those who differ from themi may equally honest -in their views. Lo them seon what point they can agree then let them see if they cannot concede to each other's views as t leave offstrife in words and deeds they can do no more. "Let not Ep! raimn envy Judah, nor vex Ephraiw. Isa. 11 :13. It will make for peace for men to et join their tongues, their pens, the presses, from irritating and inflamm: tory expressions. Let the more mai nanimous among citizens of differin: views be first, forem"st and liberal concession toward the ending of stril and the securing of a a law-abidiug, o der-observing and peace-loving Con manwealth. .Last but not least: Let all Chri tians pray for the peace of our Palmett "Jerusalem." "Except the Lord bul the house they labor in vain, th: build it; except the Lord keep the e-it; --Zhe watch man waketh but in vain. (.Ps. 127 :1. The Southern Presbyterian had a able editorial, only a part of which v cant give: Religious papers have no busines interfering with politics. But the: are times when polities may seriousl interfere with religion, and int such case it becomes thbe duty of the relil ions press to spealt ou t, and e-xbort1 unIty and peace. As we ap)proaebh ti season for another, political camipal; mn this State, religious and quiet p.eop may well look forward with apprehei sion to the stirring up of discord an bltterness that may intensi y for year ...Unless something is done1 mitigate the intense feeling which pr vails, and the utterance of bit ter sentl ments, the whbole State in w hich v live will suffer. Already it is get Iir a bad name for its unhappy divisin and the remedy for this State of thing can only come from the citizeus thet: selves. After all, the frot b and fo:: of political strife do not indicate: dire changes as extremists iike to pc tray. . . . There are good mten both sidest there are hotnest meni ber on ebanges which they are conivine are necessary, just as there se!is trickster on both sides, and w.orke whose sole (object is to get pe tyai for themselves. NothingtV will hteal th: u0uhappy strife so re-adtly as the tr umph of Christian brotherhood... V If every man would strive to be slo to speak and slow to wrath, wouldb lieve that his opponent,. was as hmote as himself in bis opinions. andi woui control his own feelings at:d their e: pression, we would see a great in provemet. t. .. The duty of every citizen is not on to be law-abiding andi peaceable hitm-o but to allow his neighbor tihe privites of differing from him in his opin; anic his vote. The prosperity of a State depem more on the intern-ti conditions peace and unity of action than on ar relation to external issues-. W\e hma seen enough of the wreck and ril caused by dissension carried to 1 point of war, and certainly th:e se of should be exterminat ed before thN bear such terrible fruit. If Christ:: men will use their inlumence toa itth prudence and moder: tbon, if tih . will frown downt viol.nt :'nd ;.-m ii: actions, if they will s-how respec: at: gnnd wil to those who di fler :rom the m:t.h may he done to so- h3 the f-el iirgs are ext"ited and a b-ing in a bette-r : sta:e of th:ng. And let all Christi.Lms pray for eate, ai%i seek fron Cod that quiet'ness of spir:t whith is Hi, own gift. It w -s a heathen historian who made the true statement, 'By concord little things g'ow into great ones, but by discord great States go to f pieces." And it was a Christiau apos e tie who wrote, "Sudy to be quiet ind r to do your ow;i bu,iness. And be at e peace amoig yourselves." t The Southern' (hri;tian Advocate 0 contains a ringing editorial. in which it says: ' Are the white puople of South Carn d lina irrevocably divided into two polit e cal faction.' Is there no possibility of e uniting the people again? If the two e political f..etions cainot come together . on a platform alike honorable to each, u is there no hove of bringing about. a e better state of feeling between them? o These are questions of tle gravest importance, and they deserve the calm, yea,t he prayerful consideration of every d Christian patriot. On the answers that may be given depend the future moral, r social, educational, industrial and cow I mereial prosperity of the common e wealth. It is not for un to say which fa lion is most t> b'amf. for this uu usual and deplorable condition oft bings in South Carolina. Both are greatly to i blame; and it is infinite folly to stop to a cavil over the measure of censure that f belongs to each, when each one is so evineutly culpable. It is enough for us to know that our State is in a deplora e bie condition; that our people are di e vid<d; that intolerance, abuse, misrep e resentation, anger and the intetsest s passion are the ruling spirits of the d hour; that father is against son and son . against father, brother quarreling witl brother and neighbor with neighbor; that under these adverse influences the cause of religion and morality suffers, the peace of the State is endangered, and anarchy and ruin are threatened. e Is there not patriolisrn and religion enough in South Carolina and among Sout b Carolinians to put a stop to this mad carnival of bitterness and hate? \VilI the fomentor of strife and the breeder of discord among neighbors and friend.s,wbether he occupies a high or low position-will such an enemy to 0 the peace and well oeing of society con u tinue to be made the hero of the hour? By tongue and pen, we have coun e seled moderation, unity, peace, the ob serv,'nce of law, wisdom and prudence in the execution of law, respect for those in authority, and all else that e tends to the happiness and well-being e of the people. To do other than this - to stir up had blood. toincite to faction t al wrangling, strife and blood-shed any ng friends end neighbors, is unpa triotie, sinful, <1evilish. ' There is too much of this spirit ' abroad in the State. Some of our utter aucs, verbal and printed, have too e much of the sulphurous odor. Though pjken of neighbors and friends, they bear the stamp of blind and bitter bate iustead of conciliao y love. We may not be able to revoiutionize the press, ve may not b'," able to sweeten the tone of debate ou tie bustings. we may not be able to control the utterances of :be k leaders of_the factions, but every ian d can and should set a watch over his own speech and action, and every man can counsel moderation, forbearance I and brotherly love. We believe the hour has come when the pulpit shou;d speak out with no uncertain sound ou the subject. WVe do not telieve in discussing politics in the b, ouse of Giod, but this is niot politics. It -> is always in order for the pulpit to cry, u"Peace, peace," to the angry passionis of men, anid to apply tihe principles of 5 Christianity and the Bible to political conduct. It is nit politics to remind the pi-ople that whoso hateth his broth er is a murderer; that rig titeounelCs ex .aleth ainationi, but sin is a reproach to any people; that when the wicked reigu ~the people mnourni; that it is a duty they Sowe both to G;od and main to be peace iable and law-abiding citiz?ns; that the . right of suffrage is a fearful responsi ii bility, to be exercised in the rear of God and not in the fear of "party or mien; that the peace and highest good of thbe r people should be more to every Chris .tiani and patriot than tihe triumph of .fact ion or party. These anid like lessons I teed to be taught with all the forces po-.sible from every pulpit in the land. (an the readers of the A dvocat e give an initelligent statement of the matters of political principle that divide our -peo'ple ito two hostile camips and cause so muc.h bitterness of speech and feel Iing'.' Is it necessary that these princi t pies of government should be estab lished in fire and b,lood? Are the lib erties of tuhe people endangered by tile ascend(aueyV of either faction? Are not nthe factious agreed in mcst things that eaeof the highest concern to tepeo p rle? Are their differences worth fight ing over? May not a more rational -and peaceful solution be the better way? How much of this party enthusiasm, aexei temeint anid bad tloed is born of the desire for ofiee, isnursed in seltishness arnl is m,aturedI in lust for gold arid S owr .Anid shal! Ibe intelligence, pa nit riotiismi and piety of South Carolinia be Smade a lylaything by desigiiiug politi - d Y ay the people open their eyes. may thie Holy Mpirit quicken their con a ciences, may they see t he dangers t hat .l theaten u-i, and mayi& they arise as one mii-' to brinrg aboiut again an erao gtood e feeling ansld brotherly iudi( ness. THii EDIT(RI AL. 0OF THE BAP'TIsTr s,cot ER. \s What we :-hall say ini this artie!e is a-not in tentded as p::rti san politics: Tihis ul is not aipitical tapler, it is niot putb i ihdin tihe interests oft any poli i cal r- par; or faction. We have avo>ledl nauyt'hing 'f tihe' kind, and shtail coni t tinue' to do so in thte ftuture. What we d shatl sayv, the-reforre, mlust not be under h stood as~ rI ilecti og up~oni any mani, or e Thatt there is a w idespread feeling of is unrc-st andi even of uurie-udlinless, and l- ahie of harmony. cbarity :andi for .eatanc onr the part of very. m-iny of 1 iu people, nlone canl deny'.. . Eki nd -toghIts h:ave be9lin indu!iged, iiin'is st moi - ha~ve been impurgined, tunkinid i irbgs hiav e been -poiken aund writ:ten, c-aiia tin hais led to strife and bit'er U- ness' and iv ision s. WeX do not unde Ir tke to lay the blamre for this sad ''on y ition of 1things upion any plerson or i -e0ons. We only: speak of the ciori'i I tion depiore' its exist-nce. amid ask, 'nhl it con.tinuel so alwayi'.' Is thlere no way oA(f birngimg our peole torrethi"r, i.s it ?re-torinlg uood feeling. qieit rnd of Cea.e w'itin our ordier.' To' this task y' we .'elreve tibe go -d and wi-ie meni of e ou:h (Carolinia should address threm n selve a this timle. 1eI iere is rio reaiani whby our people s i hould stand a a:. WVe : re one people vand ourr rimerests are the same. The ai phrostleri ty -itd hi; priness o f onie as :t 'f theC people. and lof one sectioin of the ta:e, d!.end,ii I pon thre prosperity, dethr eas mtaiideendtuon dachn other, and as long as we pull apart, stand apart, and find fault with each o: her, we cannot hope to he a prosp r ou5 arnd happy people. 'ie material a:-d religious and social interests of the people are sutlering all over the state on account ofthe present disturbed and strained relations. Ve can see and feel the unhappy eflets in our churches, our mission work, our sc.hool, our h')tnes and in almost every line of busi r ess. This ought not to be so. It is a rost unfortutnate condition of thing-A. and1 reed not exist. Of course every indivi dual is ettitled to his owin views, atni it is perf'ct:y natural that there should he divergent views and personal pre ference:. But these differences of opin ion sheuld not hmake the people think hard e each other, and say ugly things, th,:reny causing bitterness in all the relations of life. We believe our people can be brought together and be persuaded to make an end of strife. We must try to do it. To this end let every man regulate ltmself. Study his own heart, his thoughts and his desires; watch and weigh bis wordc, strive to bold his tongue, and cultivate patience, charity and toleranoe. Let us no longer atuse one another, and let us cease to impugn the motives of our fellowmen. It will be necessary for some folks to make concessions, not always an easy thing to do. Some of our public men, some of the leaders in both factions. should be willing to do this. We all must be willing to give and take. We cannot hope to force others to our way of thinking. Let us be willing to ac knowledge that, in some things at least, others may be right and we ourselves wrorg. It will he necessary, too, tofor get much of the past. Much of it ought to be forgotten and never spokpu of again. Mistakes have been made, no doubt wrongs committed. Let.it be in the past, 'let by-gones be by-gones." This must be done if the era of good feeling is restored. The past cannot be brought back and lived over again. But we are to live for the future; let us work for the future good of our beloved State, for the prosperity and happiness of our cbildren and children's children. We must not he extrentiss. Let us rather take a temperate view of men and measures, and pursue the middle course. There is a happy mean be tween the two extremes, let us try to find it and stand there. We must not be led by extremists; extreme leaders, speakers and papers have it in their power to do great harm. Moderate men, wise men, cautious men, safe nien, men who have been quiet ail through this turmoil, ought to be heard, and we will do well to ask tber to take the ead. There are such men in every corn munity and we should be willing for them to confer and shape a new line of policy. We believe there ought to be a great deal ofpraying on the part of God's people. Ve have not lost faith in God, and in his overruling providence. we have not lost faith in his promises, nor have we lost faith in prayer, though we fear that our people are not pleading with God for his help and his loving favor in our public affairs. We believe the time has come for fasting, humiliation and united prayer. We are sure that if the Christian peo ple of every name would make this a iatter of special, earnest and constant prayer, we would soon see signs fol lowing. We believe the tiwe is now here for our people to meet in their respective places of worship and pray for peace, good feeling, brotherly love and the returu of prosperity. Please let us be understood in all that has been said. We repeat: We are not writing in the interest of any party' or faction; we are not writing w ith any unkind feelings towards any man or set of men; we are writing in the interest of all, the whole people, the State which gave us birth. which has afforded protection to us and to our fathers, and which, we hope, will be the homre of our posterity. For the present good and for the future good of the people we know and love, for their highest good, we are pleading. Let it be known, once for all, that, colme what will, we shall be found among those who are willing to sub mit to the will of the majority, and we stand ready to render respect and obedience to the laws and to all con stituted authority. We shall, too, be obedient to that highest law: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher' powers . . . the powers that be are ordained of Godl. . . . Render there fore to all their dues: tribute to whomi tribute; custom to wbomr custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whonrn hon our." A Spartanburg Invention. The Southern Progress, an Augusta mnanazine, has the following: Christopher Brothers, of Spartan burg, S. C., have just completed a novelty in the way of a steam engine, which is destined to) create a revolutionr in mrotive powers. This strongest points of this enginze and the points that miake it superior to all other en ines is tire fact that there can no dead centre, whr le there is rut one cylinider; thus giving, with half the working parts, the samr'e resuits that are to be seomiplii.hed with a compound en gmeii. It grives live steam on one zside, with expansion on thbe other. There is high air lnw pressure. Having no dead cenitres it does away entirely with pistonls and rods, eccentric and ecceni trie rods; guides arid slides. It will run either way, being reversed by mieans of a throttle, which also cuts off steamr. It has no steam chest nor port valves, thus doing away with all of the mrost delicate and cornphneated parts of tire old engines. It can be operatedl by gas, steam or comlipressed air. Tire min working parts consist of only three pieces. The inventors are thinking about es tablishing a plant in Augusta for the mantifact ure of thre inivenrtion. The MIost Gorgeous Treasure of Arabia. What a splendid picture it brought befoire your miind! You read thre glow inrg descriptions of the secret treasures whl~ i the genrii oh the rinrg spread be foe Ahi:ddinr's gaze. You perused the faivorit Ictory of yoturs ini "Arabian N ights". whlen a boy, anid your imagn~ini ationr pirc ured brilliantly foryou every thing that the words suggested. That was when you were a boy. To day,poss ibly, you are tunale to do it. Shall wetell vou the reason why?. Mlost probably because your liver is sli2gth, an.l as a consequence you surrhr fromt sirk headache, dizziness, anid constipai ion. Doyvon want to cure all the-e troubles permanenrtly, make your liver active, your imiagination ively, and in general enjoy things as you did when a boy? All you have to do0 is to use Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets, pueyvegetable, perfectly harm l1-ss, the smallest and easiest to take, ndthey are tire cheapest because they .re gua -au teed to give satisfaction, or your money is returned. What more [TILLMAN AND) LIQUOR. The Stocks of Liquor Belg Held and the Hent of County Disper,raries at'd at Least Some Salaries Going on at a Great Expense to the Taxpayers. [special to News and Courier.] COLUMBIA, May 4.-Although two weeks have passed since the Supreme Court decided the dispensary law un constitutioual the State board of Con trol bas not yet held a formal meeting, so far as is known. If they had some thing would very probably have been done to indicate what disosition is to be made of the immense stock of goods on hand. As things now stand the State and counties are piling up expense accounts in rents and possibly salaries. Just here it might be a pertinent ques ti->n whether the counties will be responsible for any portion of the rents and other losses now accumulating. To say the least the people of the State are exceedingly interested in the ques tion and would like to know whether the State intends holding on to the liquor or disposing of it. Every now and then there is a little incident which would go to show that the Administration intends to make a fight for the dispensary law "as it stands." Governor Tillman is still of the opinion that when the people get a chance the law will be placed on the statute books and again become the law of the State. He evidently intends to make a light for the law, and his cue will most probably be followed without question by a very large pro portion of the "Refyrmers" of the State. There is, however, some division among the Reformers on the dispensary question, and it will be fouid when the campaign opens that some of them will support high license with regulations in preference to the dispensary plan, which has already occasioned-so much trouble and which has received a moral black eye from the Supreme Court which it will never be able to get over. The State dispensary has within the past few days had hauled from the Richmond and Danville Railroad sta tion a large quantity of liquor which had been stored there for some time. The railroad authorities did not care to have to pay the insurance any longer, and asked the dispensary authorities to have it removed. The lot consisted of about fifty barrels of corn liquor. The force at the dispensary has been reduced to a minimum, and about the only work that is now being done is on the quarterly and revenue reports. The cases of liquor have been neatly arranged on the first floor, and every thing is waiting on orders. THE PROPOSED TEST CASES. Governor Tillmau and Attorney General Buchanan and several visitors were in consultation this morning for quite a long time. It is thought they were considering the Floronce and Darling,on cases. So far as is known, up to this time, the State will not take any part in the test cases which are to be heard by the Supreme Court next Monday morning. This does not, however, indicate that the State will not try to hold off the effects of the decision of the Court in the pending habeas corpus and injunc tion proceedings. IfIGH LICENSE BY THE STATE. A suggestion in connection with the liquor traflic which is being very gen erally discussed is that of the State re c iving all of the license money from the saloons and passing some general law looking to the regulation of the trafic. By making the license some what high it is thought that the busi ness will be confined to the better class of saloon keepers, and by having the license money paid directly into the State treasury it will tend to reduce taxes and popularize the scheme, and with the general regulation feature satify those who are clamoring for "s<-mething like the dispensary." One gentleman, who was talking over the matter this morning, said thbat if such a law could be agreed on it would soon be popular among all classes, and would be the best way out of thbe present difliculty. He estimated that 500 saloon men would open up at an annual license of $500, and that this would mean a revenue of $250,000. The general taxes last year amounted to $735,000, and by turning this fund into the State treasury it would reduce taxes about a third. Thbere would be no extraordinary cost in collecting the license money, as it could be done by the county treasurer. He thought that, the entire matter could be amiicably arranged in some such way. It is probable that such a scheme will be discussed in the coming campaign. The National Demnocracy. [Special to the News and Courier.] FLORENCE, May 4.-In the last issue of thbe county papers the following call was issued: "A meeting of all Demo cra who are in sympathy with the prinici ples of Democracy as laid down by the National Democratic Convyen tion held in Chicago in 1892. is hereby called for Thursday night, May 3, at 8:30 o'clock at the Court Rouse. All De-mocrats are expected." Signed: "Many Democratic voters." In response to this call a meeting was hecld in the County Court House on Thursday night of the Democrats of Florence Township who could sub sc-ri be to the following principles. vis.: "We whose names are subscribed here to do hereby agree to form ourselves into a National Democrat ic Club, to be known as the Florence National Dem ocratic Club. The objlect of this asso ciatin are as follows: First, to foster the formation of permanent Demno cratic clubs and societies throughout the State of South Carolina and insure their a,o of co-operation in disseminat ing Jell'ersonian principles of govern. ment. Seconid, to preserve the Consti tution oif the United States, the ctomity of thbe Stat es. local sel f-governimeu t an d freedom of elections. Third. to resist revolutionary changes and the central ization of power. Fourth, to oppose the imiposition of taxes beyond the ne ce:Ssity of government economically administered. Fifth, to promote econ 'myp in branchesof the p)ublic service. Sixth, to oppose unnecessary comtmer - eil restrictions for the benefit of the fewv at the expense oif the mtany. Sev enth, to oppose class legislation which despoils labor and builds up mionoipoly. Fighth, to maintain inviolate the fun damiental principle of Democraoy, equtimy before the law. Peenliar to ltself Si, eminent ly successful has Hond's Sarsaparilla been that many leading citizens from all over the United States furnish testimonials of cures which seem almost miraculous. Hoodn Sarsaparilla is not an accident, but the ripe fruit of industry and studly. It possesses merit "peculiar to itself." Hoon's pILLS cure Nausea Sich Headache, Indigestion, Biliousness, Sld by all druggists. A MAN'S RIGHT TO 5E RICH. Mr. Hewitt in a Speech Says the Posses aon of Great Fortunes is an Indicatiou that Society ia Performing Its Work Successfully-This is the Golden Age. rNew York Sun, 3d.1 In the meeting room of the Genera Society of Mechanics and Tradesmer at 18 East Sixteenth street a hron zt tablet in honor of the founders of tlh society was unveiled last night. It wa: after a regular meeting of the society and a large assemblage was gathered not so much to take part in the meet. ing or to witness the unveiiing, whic was very simple and lasted but a few minutes, as to hear ex-Mayor Abrarm S. Hewitt, who bail been announced at one of the speakers. Mr. Hewitt', speech touched upon some of the eco nomic questions of the day. His views were set forth forcibly and were vigor ously applauded. Beginning with a brief description o1 the funeral of JesseSeligman, which be had attended in the morning, Mr. Hewitt said: "It is safe to say that the assemblage of men who came to do ionor to the memory of Mr. Seligman represented more wealth than all the accumulated property of the city of New York in 1785, when this society was founded. I doubt whether among all the twenty two men whose names appear upon this bronze tablet there was the ability to raise $1,000 at that time. "1 his society has accumulated a0 that it has to-day by what is called the unearned increment; very properly call-d unearned, for the growth in the value of its real ertate, which con stitutes, I suppose, the foundation 'ipon which the society now rests, has been contemporaueous with the growth of the city of New York; and it people were not allowed to get the ar vantage which comes to property from growth of population I take it that population would go somewhere else where the operation of its growth would be ad vantageous to the people. The first principle of the Constitution of the United States is the right of a man to control his own actions subject only to his not interfering with the rights of other men to control their own actions. Now what is the first right of an indi vidual? "It is to work in any direction to which he may see fit to direct his ener gies, and if be works he works for the purpose of producing something, and that something is property. Therefore, the essence of individual liberty is the right to property. Now, the right to have property involves and requir. the right to organize for the protection of property, and hence associations both of employers and of those who are recipients of wages. But the right to associate for the protection of property does not give the right to interfere with those who do not choose to associate themselves for that purpose. This prin ciple is absolutely embedded in the Constitution of the United States. "During the last twenty years there has been a disposition on the part of public men to overlook this fundamen tal principle, and to yield to clamor. In other w.,rds. from being statesmen many men in public life have become demagogues, and 'they have graudally stricken down in the law the protection which was afforded by it for the rights of citizens and individuals. The result is the conflict commonly called the conflict between capital and labor, the most deplorable result of which is that intimidation has become a part o'f the public economy of this country. and it has gradually got to be thought that it is right or may be right for emnployers to exercise force and violence by means of lockouts and other similar appli ances to coerce their workmen, anc that it is right for workmen by the use of force to compel the stoppage of en terprise and, what is worse tban all, to interfere with other men who are willing and desirous to work. "Calling names will do no good.I see no method of overcoming the evils which threaten us but to instruct the young in the principles of govern ment. It is mainly for thbat reason that I have brought the subject to the notice of thit society. I think that the work which' you are now doing in educating youne mechanics and artisans should be en larged. I think you should establish class in civics. Steps will be taken al the institution with which I am con nected-Coorer Union-to give thu instruction on a very considerable scale I am glad to say that the enlightened administration of Columbia College i~ prepared to co-operate in this move ment. The example of these great in stitutions should be performed on suet a large scale as to spread this instruc tion throtughout the length and bread tt of thbe land. It is the antidote to com. munism, to anarchism and to populism which are diseases so epidemic and sc fatal that uniess they are ebeeked it time they will destroy society. The small fraction wvhieb has made itself se conspicious5 and so noxious during the last tenl years must be chec<ed anc regulated to its proper position in thi social scale. I f thbey will wor k let thenx eat. If they wiil not work let then starve. "It is true that some men, not many, are born to fortune. It is true thal some men have a much larger fortune than they know well how to adinis ter, and it may seem to be an evil tha somte ot these great fortunes shouk exist, especially where they have beet gained by fraud, but it would be an in finitely greater evil if, in order to ge rid of the exceptioaal instances wbici are the subject, perhaps, of just criti cism, we were to undermine the secu rity of property, and take away froni the young the incentive which succes: alone <ifers to them for a life of indus try, of enterprise, and of honesty. "I want to give you an illustratiot on this particular point, because ther is so mueb miisapprehiension in tb public mind upon this subject. doubt not that it exists in the minds n most of the conscientious men in~ thi rooim, and I myself have often felt: sense of grievance, whieb almos amounted to impatience, that so'u men could have so mtuch more that other men. But that is only an indi cation that society is doing its worn successfully, for if these very rie men, the superfluously rich men did not exist there would be ver; few p)eople who would have: competence, and it so happens that th great mass of mankind enjoy more the comforts of life than they hay ossessed at any period of human his tErv. This is the golden age of mat kinId. Don't be misled by the fact tha there is misery and suffering in thi world. There is. But it is easier for tramp to get a lhving in this world te day than it was a hundred years ag for an honest man. "You all know about the Besseme invention of steel. It was madei 1.55 bv a student in his laboratori He propounded his idea to the work but it took fifteen years before it we sucocesfull put in opertion. I knol Mr. Bessemer very well. He isa mo est man who never sought to- make . fortune, but he has taken the rewar of his great invention, and be told n the last time I saw him in London th; that he had got out of his inventic 42,R000,000-nearly $10,000,000. Ti contribution which he made to ti world by that invention in the savir it has ettected in the ordinary oper I lions of society is simply incalcuiahl If I were to say we were saving $1,00+ 000,000 a year in this country alone the result of that invention applied 1 every branch of industry, particularl in the transportation of th- goods an the products of the country. I shoul certainly underestimate the amnoun And now I am going to say sometbin even wore surprising. Taking the worl together, the saving effected by th invention is greater than the toti value or all the movable capital of tt world one hundred years ago. "One man, by asingle invention, hi contributed to the aggregate wealth < the world more value than existe fifty years before his birth. Now h has got ten millions of dollars. It is great sum. He will leave it to h children, who have done nothing, has contributed nothing, to the acquisitio of this money. Whom has he robbec Whom will his children rob? Whot would be the gainer if he had never r ceived one penny for his great disco' ery? How much would the distribi tion of his $10,000,000 over the face < society add to the fortune of any sing] individual, and how much has his it vention added to the fortunes of a mankind? "Not that I would not impress upo the possessors of these great fortunE their obligations and duty, but, even men refused to perforn those duties, i is an extraordinary thing that the las of nature would step in and compo them to do it. A man with a fortun of $100,000,000 who locks it up in h vault gets nothing from it. It is on] by expenditure that he can get and thing out of it. Of course, I shoul like to see it expended on what we a regard as enlightened and philau thropic objects, but there is no expenc iture, that is not immortal, that doe not benefit society. "It is true that when he drives flue coach and gives a fine dinner may not be as productive a use of it a if he spent it in another way, but it i a use. I heard some one criticise on of my friends for paying $100,000 for picture. But the answer which I mad was: "It seems to me that he ought t commended for taking $100,000 of bi money and giving it to some one els Even supposing that the picture wa not worth a cent, the other man stil has the money, and will distribute i in his turn." CLEMSON ITEMS. Big Base Ball Game-A Serious Accidei -The Band-Dress Parade--Flag Pole, etc. The "manual of arms" is "aH the Q now," since we have our guns. W have two field peices but have not ha the pleasure of fixing them yet. A flag pole one hundred and fiftee feet high was cut in the woods, but h not been. moved to the college yet. I might be called a "long, slim, slidl sapling." Capt. 0. M. Pegues went to Wa haila week before last and organize a military company of sixty member We are glad to announce that M Dan Wicker has recovered from b recent illness and is in his usual pla< agaim. A match game of ball, between tl Clemson and Furman teams, wi played here last Saturday. The scot was eight to eleven in fav'r of Fu mtan. Our team hasn't been practicia but a w.eek and a half. One of ot men did not play and we had to tak one who had not practiced. Com. again boys, .we'll beat you next tin: sure. One of the Furman boys met wit a serious accident in going over to Cel tral that night where they were 1 take the Vestibuled. When about tsw iles from the station a wheel on oi of the wagons ran off. The boys g< off and two of them started abeal when they stepped ofi the edge of ti railroad cut, the night being very darn and fell thirty feet on the track be'os One of them fell on his feet, the oth< struck his head on thbe end of a '-rossa and broke the bone just above tl nose and between the eyes. He wa still unconscious whben put on the traii He receiv-ed medical attention befo leaving on the train. W ben the nev was brought back to college, it pr duced a general feeling of sadness, f< -the boys had won all of us over to ther they were such perfect gentlemen. Rough on single X. A reporter of The News and Couri recently met a prominent distilt fromi the West who is thorough] posted in the details of the intern revenue laws, and who presents son startling facts in connection with tI defunct dispensary law. HeI says that the commission wi cani'rolled the dispensing of all tI goods purchased from the MIill Cret Disi.illing company, of Cincinnati, at from other dealers, were obliged bottle and place in other small pac ages the entire p)urebases made I them, and which small packages we -distributed to the various dispensari a for sale. I he regulations of the internal re .enue department are very plain at . explicit regarding the change of pac iage, an(i every dealer, uo tuatter ha a large or small, is required to enter f . retail every original packsge whieb I desires to bottle or place in small pac Sages. The government keeps an of acial record of every barrel bearing a revenue stamp, from the moment thi [it come into existence until it is final f disposed of, and when a dealer en a for retail or bottling a package a liquor he is obliged to make a report t the goverumnen'. of the package, givi the serial number of the stamp, at when lie has drawn off the conter . and placed the same ini bottles he obliged to destroy the stamfr. Thef a goods havinr onice beeni bottled ca after wards only be sold in bottles, ai Sthere is no law or regulation by whi i they could be dumped back into b:: e rels. f As Tillman's X rye seems to ha e lost its flavor these bottled goods - practically worthless. The State e . no longer sell them as before, and u tless the goverinor could dump tho e goods back into barrels and thus p a them into shape where they wot .have some commerefal value he wot o I e unable to return them to the Y I Creek Distilling company or to otb r Icreditors of the State. The vario a Idispensaries all over the State are fi .of these bottled goods, which uno I thiP condition of affairs, are practica i worthless and wbich are certain c ase a great loss to the State. ci- A PROTEST AGAINST DELAY. a Is A Big Meeting in New York Urges the 1e Senate to Pass the Tariff Bill. it NEW YonK, May 4.-A great mass 1e tneeting, called by representatives of ie forty-two business houses of the city, to protest against the Senate's delay in tariff legislation, was held in Cooper Union last evening. Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary of the treasury, presided and made a speech in which hesaid that he thought the income tax an unwise measure, but that the-e were many things worse than it, one of which was to have no income at all. James C. Carter delivered the prinei Lt pal speech of the evening. He de i fended the income tax as the most just and equitable form of taxation. There e were manifestations of approval and disapproval when be said that. Mr. A Carter also denounced Senators Hill and Murphy for their attitudes toward e the Wilson bill. This seemed to please a the large audience hugely. A storm broke when Frederick R. Coudert took issue with James C. Car e ter and roundly denounced the income tax measure as bad, dishonest and un u democratic. One-half of the large crowd hissed and interrupted this ex pression of opinion, the others cheered and applauded and hurled back the epithets applied to Mr. Coudert by hisi e opponents from the body of the hall. Resolutions were adopted to the fol lowing effect: "That we should preffer a more con sistent and courageous measure of tarifi reform than is now pending, but we urge that it be passed to a final vote so that we may be relieved from the ex tortions and oppressions of the McKin ly tariff. e "That while we are opposed to the income tax provision we are luore op y posed to the existing system of tariff taxation, which casts on the working classes nine-tentbs of the burden of taxation, and extorts from them an eaormous tribute for the benefit of a . few. s "That we desire the income tax clauses be stricken out. We deem their a retention no excuse for the vote of any t Democrat against the bill as whole, s and demand that every Democratic s Senator and Representative vote for e the repeal of the McKinley law. a "That the defeat of the bill by Dem e ocrats would be a disaster to the Na tio and an act of treason to the Dei s ocratlc party." S THE RACING TRAINS. t The Fatest Speed Yet Made on any South ern Road. The third and- last race of trains ba k tween the R!chmond and Danville and Atlantic Coast Line roads took place April 29th, the victory falling to.the Richmond and Danville. The con test is for the purpose of ubtaining-from o the government the fast mnaiVeotrtract e between Washington and JackSonville, d Fla. The first race was won _ by the Richmond-and Danville, the second by n Coast Line, the latter, it is claimed orr account of hot boxes on- the ' Rich .t mond and Danville train, and now the: 4 third and deciding race has been won. by the Richmond and Danville. I- The Richmond and Danville flyer d left Jackson vile on the Florida Central 3- and Peninsular road at 10:35 in the -" morning with six coaches and a bag S gage car attached with 249 passengers. e and pulled into Washington at 6:10 o'clock the next morning. The dis e tance is 76.5 miles and ttie run was .made in 19 hours and 40 minutes-an e average of ab,out 40 miles per hour. The train ran from Columbia to g Charlotte, 106 miles, in two hours and r 12 minutes; from Rock Hill to Char .e lotte, 2.5 miles, in 26 minutes. e The distance from Jacksonville to .e Washington is 17 miles further by the Coast Line than by the Richmond and h Danville. Consequently the govern r ment ruled that the Coast Line should 0nave 353 minutes start of its competitor. 0 Under this regulation the Coast Line e left Jacksonville at 10 o'clock 35 min >t ues before the Richmond and Dan ~ville, but the Coast Line train did not e reach Washington until 7:05 the next Smorning, 5~> minutes aftertb. arrival of -. the Richmond and Danville. er The Coast Line train consisted of four le coaches and a baggage car and had Ie 125 persons aboard. Ls The Plant system showed up well in 3' the race. Out as far as they went the re run was particularly good, and the is men of the plant system, who have >- had things under control in this race yr have reason to be congratulated. The ri, average time of the Plant system in the race was 47.7 miles per hour; of the Atlantic Coast Line .48.4; of the Rich miond, Fredericksburg and Potomac 31l.9. If the lines north of Florence had ~kept up the speed that was made from eJacksonville to that-poin2t the train ewould have gone into New York at Y9 o'clock a. mn. inste.td of 1:17 p. mn. al e A Cure or Snake Eite. '* To the Editorof the Scientific Ameri ecin: Last fall, in company with Mr. H. kCar.o-, of Cape Gracias,, Nicaragua, I dwas comiug down the River Pis-pis in Sthe Sumo country, from'the Constaucia gold mine. Stopping one evening at a I Sumo Indian village, we found that re the chief had been bitten the foot by a a fomnagas, the most venomous snake in this country. The man was in the Smost pitiable condition. Thin, watery idjb!ood was' issuing from the mouth, k nose, ears, and even from th. tattoo~ marks on his arms and breast. His rurine was also discolored by blood. eThe people were all clamorous for uis to give him some Xferican seekia a(Amterican medicine),.knowing that we always carried a medicine chest witia aus'thapndthat we had been disusin tatsame day the various rI remedies for snake bites, and Mr. ofICarlos had said that he heard t hat to to eaterzethe wound with carbolic acid and give the same enternally was a ui ue cure. After explaining to themi tthat it had been so longr since he had been bitten it ruight not be possible to care him, we decided to try the above n cre. The questio)n was how mnuch to d give him. We decided upon three dlrops dissolved in glycerine, in half r-winegtlass of water. We gave him~ two (loses at an internal of half hour that ye evnn. Two hours atriescn re dose we gave himu an emetic that great inyI relieved him and lie soon went to n-l~eep. se The next morning we give him ut another (dose of the acid and left him. Id was on my way to the World's Farand have just returned. MIr. iCarlos has got back from another trip ert temie andi tells that our patient uit fully recovered and that he had s~uccessfully treated another one the 1same wvay. tO L GEO. B. PENSE, Se pt. LaConstabcia Gold Mine, Pis-pis, INicaragua, C. A. LOCUSTS TO APPEAR IN JUNE Two Creat Broods Due Next Month in Various Parts of the Country. \WASiINToX, May :t.-In a bulletin just i-sued by the Department of agriculture it is announced that no uuneessarv alarm need be felt on ac count of the predie-td appearance of two great brods sof :he periodical Cicada, or so-c::lled ":e enteen-year locust,'' ih year. The announcenmet,t that hey were to appear in various pIaris of the country this year waz made : short time ago, and the bu:e' in savs that the insects seem to la e been coinfounded with the true locu-ts, or so called "grass hoppers," and bene the alarm. The en,tomo'ogist of the department sass that the damage done by these insects is, as a rule, quite immaterial, consist ing in the slight cutting. breaking,and rIeadening of the terminal twigs of fruit and shade tres by the females in the act of laying, their eggs. The injury becomes serious only when the iusects :.re exceptionally numerons. According tothe entomologist's reckon ing these insects will make their ap peararce during the last week of this month. The last appearance of one of these broods was in 1877. It occurred in the immediate vicinuy of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, and along the Hudson River as far north as Troy, and in portions of Connecticut, Sew Jersey, Pennsylvania. Virginia, ind the District-of Columbia. Seventeen years perior to 1877 the insect was recorded in North Carolina, in Dearborn County, Ind., and in Kalamazoo County, Mich. In all of these localties it is said that the seven teen-year locust may be expected dur ing June of the present year. The other brood which is to appear this year belongs to the thirteen-year race, and its range is in the Southern States. Its last appearance was in 1881, in Southern Illinois, Missouri Arkansas, [ndian Territory, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama, Ueorgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The entomologist of the de partment says that this visitation of locusts will not last more than five or six weeks. IN A TORRENT OF DOLLARS. The Counters of the Silver in Philadelphia's Mint Flee for Safety. PHILADELPHIA, May 2.-The men engaged in counting the fifty mil lion - silver.- dollars that lie in the recentlypened w ith C of the mint had an exciting experience yesterday afternoon,. and narrowly escaped serious. injury. :The bags,- containing each one tbousand- dollars, have rotted so much during the four years they lay inthe- vault b:Lat 40-per cent. of the bags. have found to be unfit f6r their content;' When the men began work in: the vault they were careful, know ing the erratic ways of coin in bulk, to construct a darn -across the front of the piled-up mili4ns,- and they built it securely. With the dam in place, they felt reasonably safe. Several men were on the mountain hf silver yesterday afternoon and directly at the dam's base were several clerks weigbing the bags. Suddenly a bag beneath the foot of a man above burst. The men on the silver moun tain started to come down. The bags broke by the half dozen, and before the meni in the vault could realize what was coming over two hundred thousand silver dollars were pouring down upon them in a cataract. They jumped and ran for there was no knowing but that the millions above might follow. Fortunately no one was caught in the flood and no injury was sustair.ed. The Twenty-Five Rarest Books. [The New York Times.] The following is a list made in Paris of the twenty-five highest-priced books in the world: "L'Amnoureux Transi," by Jean Bouchet, printed on vellum, Quaritch paid $3,200 for it at the Sunderland sale in 1882. The "Psalter of Menz'" of 1457. Louis XVIII paid $2,400 for a copy of it, which he presented t-> the National library at Paris. Quaritch's price for the second edition of 1459 is -$23,000. The Valdarfer "Bocc,accio," printed at Venice in 1471, brought at the Blan ford sale $10,400. Boucher's "Figures de Mollere" brought $5,400 at the Pichon sale. The Caxtoin "Boccaccio," printed in 1476, brought $4,000 at the Techener sale in 1SSG. "L'Ottice de la Toussaint" brought. $:3,600 at the La Carelie sale, Baron Pichon paid $9 for it in 1S47. "'Boccaccio," first edlition of 1471, brought $11 ,300 at the Riox burgh sale. The works of Rabei is, printed by Dolet, brought $2,800 at the Techene-r sale in 1887. "Monument dn Costume," by, Freudeberg and Moreau, brought $4, 500 at the Behiguie sale in 1880. . . The works of Origene, bound witVE the arms of Henry 11I, and D)iane deC Poictiers, brought $2,600 at the Muller; sale iu 189-... Ovid's "Metamorphosis,'" ilhistr-at&d~ by Moreau. Boucherrandl Eisens, brought $2,600 at the Marqu'is saie in 1890. "Entree de Henri II, a Paris et- dei Charles IX" brough,t 54,000 at the Destailleous sale in 1891. "La Chia-se Royal.- dui Rol Cbarles JX," printed in 1'12>, brought $2,536 at the Behague sale. "Les Amours de Daphniis et Chloe." printed in 1718, bro'- -t $:.400 at the Qutentin-Bauchartsae. "Le Longet dlo Polyvphile.printed in 1409 by Aldu u,bro-ught $2,960- at the. G,osford sale, i-n 1882 "Les Quaitre Dern icres Choses." print- d by ( ax"-n in 1474 was sold by Qua:ritc-h for '-5' ". Tlhe works. of Vir:'ii. printed on vellum n Rome)I in ' ' , were sold by Qua rit ch for 50. Thle works- of Hor-r, printed hj Aldus in 1 ', weLre '-old by Quariten for 8, i0. The "-Rd omi of AriosMo, printed at Ferrara in l15: wa'-.sdid by Q uaritch for $2.5o0. The tir-=t edi"inA -1479, of Geiinq Au lu-. b:ro,ughr t 4( 0 ot the Sudr land sale in I ke2 The work< 'f4 Mon:st relet, printed on vellum in 500, briouight $-5,600 at the "Th' Ba:ke? of of St. Al bans," printed in 148!;, was sold by Quaritch for "Historiurum Romanorum," printed at Venice in 174o, was sold by Quaritch for $4,ng00. The first folio> of Sh akespeare's plays was sold by Qiariteh for $6,000. Gutenbe'ria Bible., second edition, 14~>0 or thereabouts, was sold by