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THOS. J. ADAMS, PBOPRD3TOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19,1893. VOL. LVII. NO. 51. JAY GOULD'S WHEREABOUTS. Mrs. Dr. Felton Puts the Lash to Two Eminent Georgia Preachers. tl 8 tl Editor Constitution : I read Dr. Candler's manifesto in the Wesleyan Advocate, and the re ports of both sermons, by Dr. Hawthorne upon this subject in j the Constitution. I have been amused as well as. t astonished that two doctors of j divinity should have entered up- fi on such a task in such a way, un- c less some one has come from the t dead to make the report veritable a and past contradiction, for such . declarations must be founded up- ^ on facts to make them tolerable to D sensible people. g Dr. Hawthorne modified his n assertions in his late sermons, and ? I hope he will finally see himself ^ as others sea him-sitting as a v judge over departed spirit a-when j he fails io give, his data for such j implacable judgment. Unless he is ^ become the Lord's vice regent for n the Baptist denomination and u speaks by inspiration, what right ^ has he to locate any dead man in Vhades" or in heaven, by his own ^ dictam? * . * When the Saviour was crucified, ^ i a thief, dying for his crime, called 8j ; Him Master and believed on Him. The suffering Christ said : "This ^ day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise." ' .Di. Candler, the great Methodist ? dictator, say : "Jay Gould cfied ?n: -? famously-" Ho iv does he kuow tI that .the Lord Almighty did not ^( giv? the money king a chance like cj the thief on the cross? JJ Perhaps these gentlemen may ^ consider me out of my sphere tb a* ask such qestions as these, for if I remember aright both of th em baye small opinions of women in public matters, but there lia 130 ^ much interest taken in the sub- j. jectthatl may, I hoj?e, be par- co doned for making inquiry for the ^ simple facts as to Mr. Gasnowe^?" whereabouts. I have b?en lil; entertained to hear them others discuss Mr. Ro?k?f? -te--CL. W^r^^r? ^ n, . college, aud their high appreci of those who give money to i continued entreaties-no ma.?. how the money was made. Mr. Rockefeller is a money king whocouut8 his cash in about the same number.of figures with which Mr. Jay Gould had onco counted his, and it is refreshing to noto that Mr. Rockefeller's gift to a Western Baptist college has won hear'y praise, and no rebuke from some of our ecclesiastical wise men. Mr. Rockefeller is the head of the great Standard Oil monopoly. He has gobbk d up tens of thous and of poor, men engaged in this oil business. While Mr. Gould's railroad wreckage bas been stupendous, Mr. Rockefeller's oil wreckage has been mammoth and terrific. I find myself constantly rec urring to this question, namely If Mr. Gould had bought some shares in Florence or Manchester or had besn one ten of to give a million to Emory College, would either of these doctors of divinity have ticketed Jay Gould to hades or that lower place? I suppose not; and there is another question that comes in right al >ng here, namely-Can men rob, cheat, swindle and defraud their weaker brethren to amass great fortunes and then buy sucha ticket to glory with this ill-gotten gain? The answer that is given to these questions will doubtless be patis factory to all sensible people who recognize in our Lord's gospel an evangel of - honesty and fair dealing to all men. I have no personal reason to defend Mr. Jay Gould to criticise Rocke feller, but I have the right as a membor of ihe Methodist Church to. question the right of any Methodist preacher to rise up aud tell the people of Georgia that a man died "infamously," who died peacefully in his own bed, surrounded and respected his own children, respected by his own neighbors and followed to his grave by men well known in this world's annals as men of reputa tion and good character; at the same time eulogizing the same sort of men who part with some of their ill gotten wealth, to secure the zealous praise of those who seek this wealth for uses dear to their vanity or their own financial success. It is told that, Mr. Gould gave co an fr< ex ch hs M nc ar d< th dc ht th th Pi Pi G h< w ii tl Pi w r ri d P P tl I w t< tl $1000 to Memphis in time of pestilence. It has also leaked out that he gave $5,000 to help a worthy cause in a nearer Southern city, asking that the bequest be kept a profound secret. These things are significant. They are suggestive. They indicate a desire :o help the suffering, as well as to seep the right hand from betray :ng what the left hand doeth. If he had seut a check to Oxford o endow a chair of theology, it is K>ssible there m ?gat have been ?orne readable' lectures upon j charity, instead of anathemas, hat smack of the time of . Luther nd the Pope ! What a difference , t makes as to our point of view. H 'ake a case in point. Old Com- h oodore Vanderbilt, in his old 'age, . ave to his young wife a lot ?f M louey to carry out the cherished rieh of her heart. No body supposes J J e would have given one dollar to [ashville without her influence. L [e made his money very much as ay Gould and Mr. Rockefeller * eve made theirs. Yet nobody ave the cheek to declare ho died , infamously," nor would he hava Ben located in hades after he gave 8 lis money to his. wife. And oh I 0 ow he is praised 1 The papers of yesterday tell of ^ [iss- Helen Gould's charities-a :ory that is not new by any means -and perhaps her father-made I er hand the dispenser of many a o?d and welcome gift. Whether ie father is roasting in Rev. Mr. andl?r's hell or cooling his heels D t Dr.., Hawthorne's '"hades," one ling is.pretty snre, that he knew JW to raise a good, worthy, modest ? iaritable daughter, whose young n fe should not be thus poisoned}0 7 ecclesiastical bombast and * I a leumacv^-not to mention bigotry ?down here in Georgia. I read an article in this week's r98leyan Advocate written by a ? acher, signed "Be Quiet," that ' would commend to all those who] ' py closely after Dr. Candler in | nuciatirig- rich men who do not cc vers all sins, condones al reni?e? d protects the rich scoundrels ?>m investigation and church pulsion-in the Methodist uren of the present time. If it LS become the mission of the ethodist Church to get money ) matter whe^e from or how made, ?d to send everybody to hell who )es not buy a ticket to glory xougn some of these enterprising ictors of divinity? Then the time is also come to divinity? Then ie tims has also come to advise iese wise men to clean up these revailing* abuses before they resch another funeral like Jay ould's-when their words cannot ?lp or harm the dead man, but ill be faithfully reported to his inocent children only to wound ?om. A different course might reduce different results. But the question of Jay Gould's hereabouts brings up the point I ish to emphasise, namely : "Can ich men that get their money . by efrauding other people make eace with heaven by donating a art of it; by such gifts swelling ie profits and funds of colleges? t so, let them go at it or th^y ill be consigned to "Hades" be jre the clods are rattling on heir coffins. Respectfully, Mrs. W. H. Felton. January 7, 1803. People Who Fall Safely. A fal!, as a rule, injures a drunk n man much less than a sober one, ?ecause, tho controlling power of he mind being rendered nil hrough intoxication, the body alls as an meTt mass, and thus he chances of injury are lessened, or, strange though it may appear, t is no less a fact that the most Numerous cases of injury arising xoni a fall are caused by the effort, voluntary or otherwise, to avert the jonsequences, thus straining the muscles and tendons. Very rarely ire . injurious effects from a fall Known in a lunatic asylum, for the same simple reason-the mind has no influence over the action of the body. And ibis a remarkable Mid well known fact to thoBe who have to deal with such cases, adds the Boston Herald, that whatever injuries are so caused hoal much more rapidly than in the case of sane people, tho mind having more to do with retardiug or assisting nature's efforts than ig generally known or realized. Our Newberry Letter. MR. EDITOR : The holidays have been spent, and the boys are all back in coll?ge, and with them came a number of new students, j The second term has opened with most flattering prospects. The stu dents ?fe all in good health, with cheerful spirits and determined resolution to carry out the ' work Bet before them. The professors seem as hopeful as any of the boys. Drs. Mayer and Houssal are giv ing US on every Thursday a lecture DD phjsology and hygiene, one in ape week and one the next. Although these are very dry .sub jects, the doctors are making them /ery practical, and at the same ;ime very instructive by perform ng many useful experiments be fore our eyes. Thus, another very iseful'branch,of instruction has )een attached to the college. ?. Our boarding-hall is still on a < )oom. Board at six, dollars per < nonth, think of it? We have been i orced tc-set a second table ?o ac- ' ommodate those who- wished to ? >oard with us. Our R. X M. is ' till the caterer, he maVes a good I ne. . i Th6 military company is still < coving on, we hope to have it iii < ull trim soon. We aim to make J success of our company if we an-and we can. . We will drill I h ree hours per week. So you see i re can't help but succeed. I I spent'a very pleasant- Christ- ? aas indeed, the most pleasant of c ay life. I visited my school-chil- i reh near Clintonward, and of 1 ourse, we had. a very pleasant ( leeting. Those people in these ld pine-woods are still moving 1 long in their usual quiet way, e ttending to their own business, t was. , telling one ot my Mine 1 reek friends, of our^expenses at o ewberry College and he remarked, i Grive a Dutchman a chance and v s will, if possible, have things c ahe up 'brown'and at a very Jit'tle y >st." . ?? '?? B. ' ii Newberry, S, C. s -?- ' piece than are ai pico?-. [r. Allen takes the position that aunting silver at ?5 cents per s ance, the intrinsic " value of a ] ilver dollar is only 65-71 cents. J [e would put in each dollar 400 j raine of pure silver, whereas the f resent dollar ouly contains 371? ( rains, and he would number and j jtter each coin, so that the govern- ^ lent would not be compelled to f edeem duplicates, a safeguard now j leglected. Mr. Allen says he { rould reap a profit in coining , rhile the price of silver was any where under 129-29. The letter .dds: "While it has always been posai )le to recognize counterfeit paper noney the present silver coin can )e produced at a profit of 53 per :ent, and a coin that cannot be letected. This is true of silver noney, whether foreign or Ameri can. Now, my proposition is cither to withdraw the present lilver money before the excess be ;oines 60 large that it will bankrupt ;he government to redeem it, or jombinewith foreign powers who ire equally in danger and make :he old standard of .value. ?1.2929, which will make a coin milich cannot be counterfeited ivithout the use of base metal alloy, rv-hich is easily . detected, and for which the government will never dave to pay a face value." Live Fence Posts. A willow stake set right end up in the spring, and with a few buds at its top, is almost certain to grow. In two or three years more its trunk will be large enough to nail a board on, and it can thus be used as a fencepost. Some who do thip Jet the tree grow as large as it will but it will bear shortening by cutting off its top and becoming an indestructible fencepost, taking little more room thou one that has no roots-Amorican Farmer. The word-wide reputation of Ayer's Hair Vigor is duo to its healthy fiction on the hair and seal)-. This incomparable prepara tion restores the original color to gray and faded hair, and imparte the gloss and freshness so much desired by all classes of people. Mr. Blinks-Hear that? The water pipes have burst again. Mrs. Blinks-No, dear; that ii Polly kissing George in the parlor Barley. . . p'^i Barley as a regular grain crop is; but little known in the South. V?. is, however, one of the standards in various parts oF thp world, in \ the i old world especially. All over ?-theft Pacific coast of North America-theff grain is extensively grown, taking'; the place of our Indian corn as an^ j element of food for.horses andi other live stock on the farm-or ranch. The California arop : of barley is immense, there being, as^ a rale, no corn cultivated in that' State except on a small-scale -in a ] few localities, and then the product is confined almost exclusively. to the roasting ear patch. Not- one] horse in a thousand in California! knows what corn is. It is a little remarkable that onj& Southern people have so ! long] neglected this valuable grain; It i more valuable as a horse food thaJ corn, and it is far more easil cultivated. There is also Imo economy in growing barley. Wit the majority of our 6outhernJ| farmers corn is one of the mos troublesome and expensive ef V.al the grains to cultivate. To grow rt 1 successfully requires long an<? jj :lose attention, the season of ittgfi julture and harvesting stretcoi from February to November. With the same expense of eui Ovation and labor generally pu' nto a barley crop, the barley wi De worth largely more, to tb Southern farmer than the cor$ srop gives on our average land^j vhile the period of cultivation an* larvesting .embraces only a few?< lays each in the fall and summer' i One of the great' advantage^:? )arley has over corn is that. i? f nables the farmers to dispose bf he employment and feeding of loe hands through the long months if summer. Another advantage lies n the fact .that one. of the most aluable features of the barley crop! ornes in.the rich pasturo.or soiling rhich. the plant afford? in the rinter time when green'food v4s carce and important; ;Bxpen_-Ji souffl made bv s?rn?r nt 1 - - The season or the year is now \ .pproaching for' sowing barley. 1 ?Ve would advise our plauters who ? lave not heretofore had experience 1 n growing the giain to plant a i ;ew acres aB an experimental .. ;rop. The ground should be well t prepared, well fertilized and i plowed deeply ; and then tho grain < sowed very thickly and harrowed i in, leaving the land so that a < 3cythe or mowing machine can 1 easly run oyer it.-M. V. M., in Houston Post. Aunt Scinda's Four Hundred. "An old negro woman has estab lished a new theocracy at Grenada. Miss," said J. H. B. Miller, of Coffeyville, to a St. Louis Re public writer. "Her name is Scinda' and her follows are called 'Scinda Band., They number about-four hundred. Scinda is their queen, and rules her flock with an iron rod. They use no rBible at: their meetings, for each member is sup posed to know iii . by heart. 'If Scinda aBkes them a biblical ques tion they are supposed to have an answer at once, They have .their meetings every Sunday evening, and they are interesting to observe. The congregation, men and women, are decked out in cosily ribbons and beads.-Their chants are as weird as the sobs and sighs of graveyatd trees. They dance to the music of the banjo and tamborine until they are nearly exhausted, and then they go home. -Scinda is a democrat and com pels each male member to vote that ticket. She insists that they shall be cleanly in person and pay their debts. No merchant in Grenada county will refuse credit to a member of her band for if they were to fail to pay it Scinda would dance their souls in to hell,' as she calls it. Mel J. Cheatham, the only white man ever executed in Mississippi, was hanged for murdering one of Scinda's members about three years ago." To preserve a youthful appearance as possible, it is indispensable that the hair should retain its natural color and fulness. There is nc preparation so effective as Ayer't Hair Vigor, It prevent baldness and keeps the scalp clean, cool and healthy. Is Religion Dead. j Learn to understand the signs* of the times. If you see the leaves turn yellow and red and shine in all colorB, know that autumn is at hand. The leaves -will ?fall to the ground and snow will soon cover thfi frees and woodlands and meadows. But when you see buds on the branches, although they may be few and the weather may bo old, still, know that spring is at the door, and will enter soon, 6II?1 jg our hemes with flowers, tvith joyous life, and^with love. The leaves of dogmatic opinion nr#falling thickly to . the ground. Sow dreary looks the landscape, bow bleak the sky I How cold and frosty, how forlorn are the Folds of the chuches ! There is the ind of religious life, you think; the future will be empty irreligios toy-without faith in the higher purposes of life, without ideals to ?farm and fill our hearts without hope, or anything except the material enjoyments of the present life. And yet, ray friends, observe the signs of the time! There are [rads on the dry branches of re ligious life which show that the sap is stirring in the roots of the ?ree of humanity. There are signs rhat the death-knell of the old jreeds forebodes the rise of a new religion. Every one who knows ?hat naturo is immortal can see md feel it. f. A new religion is growing in the aearts of men. The new religion viii either develop from the old ireeds which now stand leafless md without fruit, which seem use ess, as if dead, or it will rise from ;he- very opposition against the >ld creeds, from that opposition vhich is made not in the name of rrv?lous cynicism, but in the lame of honesty and truth. The >eautiful will not be destroyed to ?ether with the fantastic, nor.the tigher aspirations in life with su ?ematural errors. Though all the i reeds may crumble away, the Mv- i ug faith in ideals will last forever. ' -ating. It will be realistic, for it; oves truth. It will promote right tousness, for it demand? justice, it will ennoble human life, for it .epresents fharmony and beauty. The new religion that will replace ;heold creeds will be an ethical religion. And truly all the vital mestions of the day are at bottom religious, ' all are ethical. They cannot be" solved unless we dig down to their roots, which are buried in the deepest depths of our hearts-in .the realm of religious aspirations. Life would not be worth living if it were bare of all higher a? pirations, if we could not fill our soul with a divine enthusiasm for objects that are greater than our individual existence. We must be able to look ?bayoud the narrowness of our personal affairs. Our hopes and interests must be broader than life s short span ; they must not be kept within the bounds of egotism, or we shall never feel the thrill n higher life. For what is religion but the growth into the realm of a higher life? And what would the physical life be without religion?-Dr. Paul Canis. What the Evans Bill Means. We have yet to hear of a single farmer or God fearing man, vho is not in favor of the Evans dispen sary law after having thoroughly read it. The only kickers we have met as yet, are the barroom keep ers and those saintly deacons who have been accustomed to drinking on the sly and publicly preaching prohibition.-Aiken Times The flippant, merry style ol journalism is always delightful We admire the humorific reporte; on the New York World who, ir writing up a murder tragedy, sayi of the victim: "The old lad; sometimes iaid she couldn't afton to move. She moved out yestor day in a black casket." Thal light some touch will surely make th writer a great editor some daj Indeed, I think it will bo recog nized at once by Mr. Pulitzer an rowarded without delay. Thin or gray hair and bald head so displeasing to many people s marks of age, may be averted fe a long time by using Hall's Hai Renewer. Counterfeit Eggs. ? There has been quite a sensation in Washington recently on the, subject of artificial eggs. A per son who claims to have invented a process for making them-patent newly applied for-has been ex hibiting samples and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in the clubs, boiled, fried, poached, and scram bled, aDd. tho general verdict is that it would be- impossible for anybody to distinguish them from real ones. Externally they look exactly like the sort laid by hens. Break the shell of a raw specimen and the contents flop into a glass in as natural a manner as possible, the yolk and white unmingled. It has been claimed that no imitation could ever be made to "beat up" for cake, but these do perfectly. The inventor says that bia eggs are, mechanically speaking, a precise reproduction pf nature. Corn-meal is the b?&B of ' their material/ The white is a jDure albumen, of course, vrh?le the yolk is a more compli cated mixture of albumen and several other elements. Inside the shell is a lining of what looks somewhat like the delicate, filmy membrane formed by the hen, while the shell itself is stated to be made in two halves, stuck to gether so artfully that no one can discover the joining. The very germ of the chicken, with unnec essary faithfulness of imitation, as one might think, is counter feited. The eggs are made of va rious shapes and tints. One will be able to buy, as soon as they are placed on tho market, counterfeit pullets' eggs or es:gs laid by elderly hens; likewise select white eggs or dark-colored eggs, according to choice. Most surprising of all, they will be sold for only ten cents a dozen, and they never get : rotten. To confectioners and others who use larg* quantities of eggs the yolks and whites will be sold separately, put up in jars and hermfit.ically sealed. In this shape .?A-^|JCH5.LH ?IUUU. J.J. IO OLlCU1^5 remark to the effect that "after the presidential good bye is read1 we had better adjourn in memory of the departing," and the allusion to the message as a plea for a new trial which had already been overruled, were subjects of general gossip in corridors and commitiee rooms. But Reed, if the leader of this feeling in his party, is by no means alone therein. The number in the party who have long since learned to -feel that the White House had no longer any social attractions for them, and who have never crossed its portals un less backed by some strong party excuse, had become surprisingly large. This fact more than any other illustrates how fatal it was to the party to allow a lot of office holders, led by a railway magnate, in no sense in touch with the party's desires, to crowd a really unpopular man on the party. The secietof this BO general feeling was never better explained than Mr- Harrison himself in this re cent message, where he savs: "Perhaps no emotion cools sooner than that of gratitude." A man who can bring hsmeslf to believe that what really is, I am convinced, one of the most virile and lasting of emotions can be said to be one of the most evanescent, doubtless has that in his own character wheh unfits him in an eminent degree for succeeding himself in the presidential office.-Town Topics. English Politics. It appears that between the principal men of the English polit cal parties there must be, as it were a secret or tacit understand ing and unwritten compact thal the people shall be humored with the shadow of legislation, but de prived of the substance of it; tha' a puppet show, decorous if possi ble, but amusing at all hazards shall bo provided for their enter tainment, with the object of dis tracting thoir attention from sup posititious or real but immedica ble ills. I notice that each party while in opposition, exerts itsel strenuously to prevent the party i: office from legislating with effeel irrespectively of the goodness o badness of any particular prc posai. The party in power, on the other hand, while affecting impa tience of the opposition, appears to be secretly relieved at being prevented from committing itself to anything drastic or definite. Current Literature. Why, among all our charitable {.eople, is there not some kind lady to perpetrate a society called say, "The Society for the Progagation of Pate do Foie Gras Among Crim inals"? There are many less worthy objects daily gathering wealth from unburdened million aires. ISTotice. OFFICE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER, EOGEFIELD, S. C. . The public schools in Edgefie?d county will be.qrjeaed. on the 16th of Janua^flfl^^ rPORT, FS. C. E. C. THE BEST COUCH-CURE and anodyne expectorant, AYERS Cherry Pectoral soothes the inflamed membrane and induces sleep. Prompt to Act sure to cure. 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