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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

paper or silver or gold or copper
have in themselves any intrinsic value
makes fundamental error. Money
in itself has no value. It is valua-
BILE not in itself, but for what it sig
nifes in the community.
Suppose shat millionaire turn
his fortune into gold. Suppose MI.
Gould had liquidated all his posses
sions in business, placed the result,
S75,OOO,O00, in his yacht and started
around the world in a pleasure tour.
Suppose he had been cast on a
desert island, his vessel wrecked, he
alone surviving, having saved his
money. He piles it up in the sand;
there it lies. He sits down on it and
proceeds to starve to death. How
much is he worth as he sits on that
pile of yellow mold? He is worth
nothing. He is pauper; he is a
beggar. The gold is all there. The
coin is of due weight. It is not
short, has not been injured in the
transit; it does not tarnish in the
water. And yet he is worth nothing.
Suppose passing vessel takes him
aboard, transport him to New York
with his money and again lands him
in Wall street. He has his money
in the vaults of the Safe Deposit
company. How much low is he
worth? He is worth the face value
of his coin-S75,OOO,0OO. Why!
Because the community gives to this
metal the supposed value. Wealth
is power over men. Money is wealth
as it is power over men.
p The true value of money is COM.
munal value. It is one that is bound,
up with the heart blood Of the whole
community. 1t is one that comes in
and through the community. No
man therefore has the right to do
what he pleases with what he may
possess. A mans money is not sim
ply his own. 1t belongs in one sense
and a high sense-to the commu-
nifty. No man has right to do
what he pleases with what he may
possess. A man only has the right
to do not what he pleases, but
what ne ought to do. Money is
power. All power is trust.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

The Duke of Brunswick had ae-
cumulated his treasures. He had
his wealth in diamonds and gold.
He had room built whose windows
were of iron bars, whose doors were
of iron, double riveted. There was
an opening in the solid stone wall OF
the room in which there was an iron
-troosrrrce~-,vcrc- there
placed. He slept in an iron bed
stead rolled against this iron door.
There was only single window
through whose dim light the sun
greeted him. He slept with two
enormous pistols by his bedside and
with a light always in the room.
Was this man rich? Did he possess
his wealth, OF did his wealth possess
him? As matter of fact, he was a
miserable dog chained to his treas
ures. had rather be common cur
dog and wander through the streets
and highways than to be such man
shut up in dog kennel forever.
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AO YERTTSING! RATES:

Advertisements will DE inserted Mt the rate
of - cents per spare of one inch space for
first insertion, and 20 cent:; per square for
each subsequent Insertion.
Liberal contracts made with those wishing
to advertise for three, six or t. elve months.
Notices III the .ocal column 10 cents per
line each insertion.
Marriage notices inserted fr.e.
Obituaries over ten lire charged for At
regular advertising rates.
Address,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

TUDUILD U
both the flesh and
the strength OF
pale, puny, scrof.
ufous children, get
Dr.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Dis
covery. It's the
best thing known
for q wasted body
and q weakened
system. 1t thor
oughly purifes the
blood, enriches it,
and makes efec.
tive every natural
means Of cleans
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Sixth-As matter. of fact, money

Sixth-As matter. OF fact, money
is so weak that it does not touch The
heart range of real life. A million
aire died the other day and was
buried, and nobody cared as to where
he was buried. It was matter OF
no Importance. As to the incidents
of his death, they did not touch the
heart of the people. He owned
money enough to shake the financial
world from ocean to ocean.
A woman died in London recently
who had no money, but thousands
thronged to her bier and begged the
privilege of looking on her dead face.
For days and weeks the procession
filed by the body, Day and night,
an unceasing stream, thousands and
hundreds Of thousands of eagar faces,
looked into her face with love and
with infinite tenderness. Men who
had been lifted from the, ditch. and
the gutter and clothed and in their
right minds stood over the coffin and
cried like children. Women who
had been abandoned to all hope and
life and who had been snatched as a
brand from the burning stood with
tear stained faces and kissed the
cold lips with passionate love.
A mother passed by the bier and
looked with longing eyes into the
face of the dead. Those who were:
standing in line, impatient to see,
fearful lest the body would be re-
moved before they could have their
longed for look, cried to her that she
must move on. She lifted her
streaming eyes TO them and replied;
"Let others move on. [ have the
right to stay. I have the right to
look into her dead face. She saved
my child" Kings and princes and
mobiles, emperors and chiefs of the
race, have been buried in pomp.
Nations have done honor to their
honored dead. But this earth never
saw such funeral as that which was
spontaneously, was resistlessly given
to Mrs. Booth, the mother of the Sal
vation Army. Wealth has been de-
fined to be power over men. Money
does not touch the highest realm of
this power.
MANHOOD OR MONEY?
Seventh-A word from the lips of
man. backed by manhood, can do
what all the gold of earth cannot ac
complish.
Money is a mighty power, but
manhood is a mightier one.
Wealth is power over men. Let
US see what can be done with money.
When Napoleon was engaged in one
of his great wars, you remember that
the town of Ratisbon was taken.
He deputed his chief marshal to do
this work. Ratis5on was a walled
town, practically impregnable. Ma
poleon saw that it was the key to
the situation. The marshal com
missioned his officer to do the work.
He drew up his soldiers before the
town and called for volunteers. I'm
mediately the number of men called
for stepped forward. They were
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11
THE RUSSIANS BED.


Was the Russian nobleman rich
who owned his vast acres and his
millions, who proudly displayed his
treasures to his friends, in the pos
session of them? He took the
stranger through every room in his
house, showed him each art treasure,
while he wondered at their beauty
and value. He took him into his
bedchamber, showed him the magni-
6cant tapestries, wonderful eastern
rugs, the the marvellous bedstead,
with its quaint carving, its inlaid
precious stones. The Russian fairly
swelled with pride as he looked down
on this bed, the laces on which were
worth their weight in gold. But is
| it not magnificent" he asked his
guest. The guest replied that it
was certainly the most wonderful
bed he had ever seen. With sly
wink the Russian replied: "But you
do not suppose, man, that [ sleep on
top of that? I sleep under here"
He lifted the covering and showed a
mean trundle bed beneath the great
bed. You could not make a man
! like that rich. Put him in a palace;
give him bed worth a million dol
lars to sleep in; he would not sleep
in it; he would 60 out and sleep with
the dog. 1t is his nature. He has
not the capacity for riches.
Wealth is not question Of arith-
metic merely; it is a question Of
capacity, OF power in the possessor.
MONEY A FICTION.
Fifth-Money IN itself IS so
weak that it has no intrinsic value.
Money, whether it be of gold or of
silver OF of paper, has in itself no in
herent value. The goldbug believes
that gold is the cure for all ills. The
silver fanatic declares that the evils
of the financial world are due to the
demonetization of silver. And the
greenback dreamer declares that all
We need is for government to print
the money. Now, as matter of fact,
the mar who supposes that either
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

upon q text OF S57l per capita pub
lie and private debt, pleaded kzznn
$he volume OF currency
with which to meet it, by the means
proposed in the minority report.
For the majority of the committee
on resolutions, Governor Tillman Of
South Carolina spoke briefly, declar-
ing that it was the desire of his COM
mittee to concentrate the efforts of
the convention upon the central pur-
pose, bi-metailism, and for that rea-
son it seemed to them unwise to seek
more now, no matter how alluring
the prospect.
Governor Waite of Colorado beg
ged the Convention not to be diverted
from the one great issue. Until the
success of bi-metallism showed Wall
street to have lost its grip upon leg
islation it was impossible to secure
any other form of financial legisla-
ton. As to the West and South,
they could control the policies of the
country if it became necessary. He
declared his belief that there were
millions of money nowlin Washing
ton with which to buy Congress, and,
with such condition, the South and
West must unite.
Delegate Manning of Alabama de-
clared the readiness of the South for
union with the West in battle for
free coinage, but pleaded for the ex
clusion of extraneous matter from
the platform as a diversion of the
purposes of the convention.
Delegate Kaggs of the same State
spoke in a similar strain, also de-
nouncing President Cleveland as an
enemy and betrayer of the people.
Delegates Taylor, Waterbury and
Waite withdrew the minority report.
Then with a motion to adopt the ma
jority report pending, the convention
adjourned until 2 P. m.
At the afternoon session, pending
action upon the report Of the resolu-
tions committee, resolution was Of
fered providing in the event of a fail
ure of Congress to provide adequately
for the use of silver as money, for the
calling of a national convention in
January, 1894, under the auspices of
the Governors of Missouri, South
Carolina, Kansas and Colorado, in
Guiding delegates from every State
and Territory, labor and agricultural
organization, to take action looking
to a thorough agitation of the ques-
ton before another election.
Pending action upon this, the reg
ular order was called for, and S. S.
King of Kansas City, speakingto the
sixth clause of the resolution, called
attention to the doings of the recent
Gulf transportation conference at
Chicago, and pleaded for new route
to the old world, a relief from the
commercial tyranny of New York
and Chicago, as he said.
Governor Tillman of South Caro-
lima then took the floor to close the
debate on the resolutions report. He
declared that the financial question
presented but another form of slavery.
AS to sectionalism, every section had
and would vote as it's interest de-
mand. As to this he was not uneasy,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11
THE SOUTH AND WEST,
WILL WORK TOGETHER IN POLL.
TICS BEFORE LONG.

Very Significant Utterances in ST.
Louis-Gov. Tillman and Gov.
Lewellen Shake Hands Across the
Bloody Chasm-Scenes of Wild
Enthusiasm-Bi-metallism Pure
and Simple Declared for in the
Resolutions-Lewellen Says the
Chasm has Been Bridged.
st. Louis, October 5.-The last
day of the Pan-American BIN -tallic
Convention opened with the commit
tee on resolutions presenting a sup
Elemental report unfavorably passing
upon proposition by Thomas War
zen to take action looking to the en-
dorsement of the removal of the
national capitol farther West, also
favoring the printing and circulating
of the address of yesterday by Wal
ter NJ. Allen of Kansas, Upon the e1-
ception clause of the silver law. The
report was adopted without dissent.
The question came then upon the
adoption of the report Of the reso-'
lutions committee.
Delegate Waterbury of Kansas
moved amendment of the report by
the addition of a proposition pre-
sented by H. NJ. Taylor of Mexico
favoring the volume of currency by
the issue of legal tender notes Sc
cured by land values.
Upon this motion, Delegate Coch-
ran of Missouri took the floor in op-
position to any and all efforts to say
or do anything in this convention
upon the money question other than
to fully and entirely endorse the free
coinage of silver.
Taylor replied in defense Of his prop.
osition, urging that money based on
such security was as safe as the
money based upon the honor CT our
government, as are the S346,0O0,00O
of greenbacks.
Delegate Waterbury Of Kansas
upon text Of SSH per capita pub
Lie and private debt, pleaded flznn.
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sense Of duty and of the highest SER
vice TO the state, was recently left a
fortune, and few weeks after he
received his fortune-money suffi-
cient to lift him from poverty to
wealth and luxury and the things OF
this world-his body was found dead
in his room with pistol bullet in his
brain. Why should he slay himself
when he had been given release from
bis hard task, when he would be re-
quired no longer to tramp the streets
and brave the dangers of the storms
of winter and the sweltering suns of
summer, to 60 on his dark errand OF
arrest in the dangerous quarters of
the city, when he might have lived
his life of ease ard luxury! Simply
because there was a little country
girl whom he had learned to love
who died three weeks before, and he
declared that life was not worth iy-
ing because she had been taken from
him. He had money and all its
power, and life was not worth living.
MONEY VERSUS WEALTH.
Fourth-Money is so weak that it
cannot even give man wealth. We
are apt to confuse wealth with
money. A man may have money,
but not be rich. Real riches are one
thing, money another. I heard Of
grocer who was growing rich. They
said, by way Of parenthesis that he
was so stingy and mean that ne
would chase a fly all around the room
for a grain Of sugar, Riches are
impossible pnder such conditions.
Such mar may accumulate money
,.s.hs.sE possess it-Dut Nc not
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

If you're suffer
ing from Catarrh.
the proprietors of
DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy ask you to
trY their medicine.
Then, if you can't
be cured, they'll
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11

The little fellow dreW hlln-
self up, and handing back the money
Indignantly replied, @Take your pen
MICS and go and buy 9 book on eti-
auette and learn how to be a gen
tleman." The possession of money
does not even imply that man is a
gentleman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-10-11
Butler Takes a Stand.

He Favors a Fair Compromise, but
Will Vote Against Unconditional
. Repeal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

POPE LEo's family is very long lived.
PORFIERIo DIAz. JR-, son OF President
Diaz, is an attache of the Mexican Legation
at Washington.
THOUGH the Bishop of Chichester is ninety
years Of age. he attends to all the duties OF
his Office without a coadjutor.
THE youngest lady in the new cabnes
circle is Miss Herbert, who prestdes over the
home of The Secretary OF the Navy.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY had a warm friend in
the late Justice Lamar, who was always
willing to interest himself in lsr work.
If you want to pronounce the surname Of
Richard Olney, President Clevelands At
torney General, as he does himself, drop out
the al"
Mr.. OLNEY makes the sixth Attorney
General selected from the State OF Massa-
chusetts since the organic alton o. the Gov.
eminent.
J. STERLING MORTON, the new Secretary
of Agriculture. is said to have raised 1913
bushels of corn on a twenty-acre lot IN Ne
braska last year.
MRS. A. d. T. WHITNEY, the novelist. is g
sister Of George Francis Train. and one let
ter in her superhuity of initials stands for
her maiden name.
MARIE VAN ZANDT the famous prima
donna, is the granddaughter OF Siguor
BlitZ, a prestidi gitateur we'll known in his
day in New York and Philadelphia.
Ex-SECRErARY ELKINs has been 50 sue
cessful in his financial operations during the
past decade that he is already spoken of "a
the coming richest man IN the country
PRESIDENT BARRIos, of Guatemala. has
an American wife. 1t is said that she
practically rules the Republic. She Is the
leader of all woman movements In that
country.
DR.. TALMAGE is dissatisfied with tbs big
debt of the Brooklyn Tabernacle ami may
resign His stated salary is Sl2, 900, and
yet he says that in three years he has re-
ceived only 1923.
IT is said in .rlin that the relatives OF
the Emperor William are trying to lniuce
him to submit to an operation to relieve his
ear trouble. The operation would con sist OF
removing a number of small bones from the
lnSi lie of the ear.
SECRETARY GRESHAM Is both the premier
and the father Of the cabinet. de Is sixty
one and the oldest man in the lot. being just
a month older than Secretary Morton, wno
ranks next in point of age while Hoke
Smith and Dan Lamont are the babies.
COLONEL ALEXANDER c. BOsKIN. Lieu
tenant-Governor OF Montana, is paralyZ3d
from the waist down, and has not walked
for many years. The Colonel is an able
lawyer and held many positions OF trust
while Montana was a Territory He Is a
forcible speaker and his invalid'S cnar Is
familiar sight on the political platforms or
the State.
AT the news stands in Italian cities the
published sermons of Padre AgostinO sell
more readily than novels Wherever Agos-
tino appears preacher stenographers
take down his discourses, and they are sold
in pamphlet editions OF tens OF thousands.
In the pulpit the padre makes use OF con-
siderable theatrical display and bis con-
gregation frequently cheers him to thu
echo.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

GERMANY is worth S3I, Cox, 600, 900.
;. THERE are 80, 900 gypsies in Hungary.
URUGUAY has suppressed all her foreign
legations.
YELLOW FEVER is increasing at Guaya-
gull, Mexico.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has just had a be-
quest of 81, 100000.
SALVADOR and Nicaragua have adopted
gold standard.
MoRMoEs are receiving cold reception
from the Mcxicans.
VENEZUELA is believed to be about to re-
pudiate her British debt.
MORE than seventy-fve inches Of snow fell
in Massachusetts this winter.
CANNING factories are springing up in ali
the Georgia towns and villages.
CHICAGO brokers held jubiation over
the demise of the Anti-Option bill.
MASSACHUSETTS purposes to spend more
than IS, 0CU, 900 on grade crossings.
ECUADOR Is Offering tie Galapagos ISL
ands to Germany as coaling station.
In Western Russia and Eastern Germany
enormous loss of property from floods is re-
ported.
THERE are over two million bales Of cot
ton less in sight than there were at this time
last year.
TEXAS planters have made an orga nized
move toward planting less cotton and more
Of other crops.
WASHINGTON statisticians figure out that
the visitors at the Inauguration spent at
least So 500, 900.
A STRANGE malady that may be cholera is
killing thousands or people on the border
between Russia and Asia.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24

II ask you what shall be the glad hymn
OF this morning, l think there would
be thousand voices that would choose the
same hymn-the hymn that ilIunines So
many death chambers-the hymu that has
been the parting hymn in many an instance
the OLD hymn:
On Jordan's stormy banks l stand
And cast q wistful eye
To Canaan's fair and nanny land
Where my possessions lie
Oh, the transporting. rapturous sceas
That rises my sight!
Sweet fields arrayed In living green
And rixers OF delight
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
GERMANS VICTORIOUS.
Natives in East Africa Sustain a
Severe Defeat

Advices from East Africa state that the
German troops have won an important vic
tory over the hostile natives at Uniang-
wira. The German force was composed of
white soldiers and native levies. The hos
tile natives made stubborn resistance, but
were defeated after severe conflict with
heavy loss.
The German loss included a German SER
geant named Eittel and ten of the native
soldiers killed and Lieutenant Bother
wounded. The defeat has caused general
CONSERVATION among the hostile natives, and
it is believed will go far toward suppressiag
resistance to German authorize.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
A MURDERER LYNCHED:
He is Taken From the Sheriff by a
CoIored Mob.

Rufus Haywood, colored planter. was
assassnated by Lee Walton, a notorious
eoIored desperate, at Militia Yuma Miss.
After robbing his victim Walton fed, but
WIS run down by bloodhounds and captured
next morning He was taken to Nitta
Yuma, where he was guarded By the Sheriff
until the arrival of the train for Rolling
Fork the county seat Just before the train
arrived q mob Of 500 colored men overpow-
cred the Sheriff and took the murderer TO
the scene of his crime, where he WAS sanGed
TO limb and his body filled with bullets.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
WORLDS FAIR TROUBLE,

Control Ofthe Premium Fund TurncC
Over 10 the WOmcn's Board.
There is considerable excitement among
Worlds Fair people in Washington. By a
remarkable mistake in writing the final
draft OF the Worlds Fair appropriation the
Won1ens Board is given absolute control Of
the S570, 900 for all Worlds Fair premiums
and awards. and Also it would seem the
entire power to appoint all jurors, male anC
female.
In short. by all error, the entire system
of granting premiums at the Worlds Fair
is turned over by Congress to women.
The error came about by the clerk writ
ing the words "Lady Managers ia the
wrong blank space
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24

GREAT excitement is reoorted from Win.
field. Lake County, Ind, where worknen Ell.
gagged IN digging well struck a deposit OF
silver and iron ore ten feet below the sur
face. An expert, to whom a sample Of the
ore was submitted, says that il contains
sixty per cent. of pure silver. The bed is
about ten feet thick, aud the ora is mixed
a&ith CLAW and rta~E
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24

world puts nothing like Heaven in
the.air castles he builds
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-24
THE MARKETS.

Late Wholesale Prices OF Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
The Lamar register., 1893-12-02
VIII ne Taught Adaptabll,ty.

In the good time coming there will
be courses Of instruction in every
school for young women, teaching
them the gentle art of adaptability.
They will be put through severe and
systematic training in food. They
will be forced to cultivate toleration
if not liking for salt mackeral, boiled
Irish potatoes, corned beef and cab
bagc. Then when these simple viands
confront them on the tables of their
friends they will not drive the hostess
distracted by failing to eat anything.
They will be taught to endure blasts
Of cold air from open windows, and to
affect a stolid indifference to the tight
" closed ones. Then they will be able
to visit either a family of cold air
cranks or one Of warm room fiends,
with n moderate degree of enjoyment.
They will be instructed in the anus
ing of infants, in talking to the aged,
in being interested in jams with mid
dle-aged women and in politics with
middle-aged men. Thus the young
woman of the future will be trained to
be a guest whose coming will be hailed
with joy and whose departure will be
bewailed. Just at present she is a
person with too many "set" traits
'individualisms," she would call them,
but selfishness covers them as we'll
either to get much pleasure out of
visits or to give much.-Netc York
World.