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endowment of mankind. 1t matters
not whether the birthplace be house
with carved doors or rude log hut,
there is no defeasance of this inheri-
tance, as we lawyers would call it.
But these divine faculties must be
used; ono must learn to conquer,
unite and use his God-given powers !;
to send them out on his missions of
mind or matter, before they are of
any practical use or value to him,
The command written over the door
of the Temple at Delphi, "Know thy
SELF" has come sounding down the
ages, and is to-day the command Of
the same inexorable drill sergeant,
whose voice we, too, must heed.
There is no royal path to knowl-
edge. 1t is only by patient toll, by
hard knocks and severe losses that
one can win in this contcst-the con-
quest over self. But the victory is
the making Of manhood and woman
hood, and these are worth all the
pain, the toll, the hurdships, the
self-sacriiice. The highest victory
known to manhood and womanhood
is to conquer and have perfect COM
mand Of eelf. Alexander the Groat
conquered the whole world, but
shamofally failed in the conquest of
self. At the ago of thirty-threo he
fell an easy victim to his own de-
praved and vicious appetite. BY tho
force of his victorious arms he con-
quered other peoples and other
nations, but himself he could not
conquer; and in Babylon we find
him at the zenith of his military
renown literally taking up arms
against himself. And how shame
fully he was vunquisned in tho con-
ilict LET his last gasp as a debauohee
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dence mas been directing ii the re-
cent powerful protest by the Ameri-
can people against Spanish tyranny
aud oppression in Cuba and the
Philippines 2 It matters not how
opinions may differ as to the wisdom
Of the latter course pursued by our
nation toward the Filipinos, yet il is
plain to the casual observer that the
Anglo-Saxon is still doing battle for
q more glorious victory than that Of
race over race. 1t is he who to-day
shouts loud and clear the words of
truth and freedom /:
"He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat #
He is sitting out tho hearts of men be-
fore the judgment scat"
He is king of the old world and
king of the new, He is king by the
divine right of a noble manhood. 1t
has been reserved for him to teach
the world constitutional liberty and
government by the people; to con-
struct those eternal charters of free
dom, the Magma Charta of England
and the Constitution of the Ameri-
can Union. And as the Indian gave
way before his ponderous tread, 30
must the weak and decrepit races
continue to do. In the fulness of
time every nation is weighed in the
balances, and, if found wanting, its
days arc numbered and kingdom di-
vidcd. .... s....
OUR GREAT CIVILIZATION.
Consider now for moment the
state of our great civilization. Every
man has his own trade, his own oc-
cupatioD one after this kind and
another after that. On this cohti-
nent there are literally thousands
upon thousands of different trades,
occupations and professions, each in
its appointed sphere being neces-
sary component part of Our complex
social fabric. The rudeness and
simplicity of savage life have given
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whisper in our ear its solemn warm
ing. 5s., ., RI
Every man has his own organic
gift, his own gifto disposition, fac
ulty, ability, God has made us all
to differ no two are alike in either
physical or mental statur,and can
we not believe that He has appointed
these differences for wise ends2 I
sometimes think that one of the
wisest axioms, a saying that goes Ear
toward explaining the universe, is
that common proverb, cit takes all
sorts of people to make the world"
1t tells of the wonderful fullness and
richness of the world, with it's mani
fold differences and varieties, all
working together in one grand, har-
monious whole. If man had made
the world, a worry dull and stupid one
it would probably have been. How
plain that God abhors oneness and
uniformity, but loves variety, both
i'll mind and matter, in the spiritual
as well rs the material world. How
manifest, also, that God designs these
primal differences in men for the good
of human society.
DIVISION OF LABOR.
Civilization demands q division and
distribution of labor, both mental
and industrial. Who would impede
the march of tho world and chain
down each mans faculty and func-
tion on dead level with that of his
neighbor? Could such narrow and
ort-sighted policy prevail, it would
relegate the world to the level of the
savage and barbarian. 1t is only
among savages that there is found no
division or distribution of labor.
Take as an illustration the American
Indians as they roamed over these
hills and dales two hundred years
ago. Then every man was hunter
or fisherman, just like all the other
men of his tribe. The women were
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DIR. John A. Rico addressed the
Conference Friday morning in the
interest of Columbia Female College
and the cause of Christian education
generally, including the Twentieth
Century Movement.
Friday night, instead of preaching,
an address was delivered ~ DIR.
Samuel lander in the interest of
Williamston Female College and
Christian education, and Rev, Geo.
II. Waadell moved ua ell il 9 touch.
ing appeal in behalf of the Epworth
Orphanage. q subscription was
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AND IT MUST FOLLOW as THE THE DAY, THOU oANsT


achieve personal distinction. The
accumulation Of gigantic fortunes in
our day has fearfully increased this
tendency. Money is power, the
source of luxury and means of dis
play. Aman with brains, but with
out money. is too often made to feel
that he is person of very little
social or political consequence. The
great prizes of life are for the rich,
and he who would be successful, in
the modern sense of the term, must
adopt some money-making pursuit
and devote himself wholly to it. He
cannot afford to waste his time in
general culture. "Getting and spend
ing, we lay waste our powers" was
the just criticism of the poet Words
worth. Yet there are many who
lead beautiful iives--lives devoted TO
beauty, truth and goodness. But
the comparison is between the preva-
lent aim in modern and ancient civili-
cation, aDa the conclusion is forced
upon us that we have lost, in de-
gree, the secret of enjoyment and of
education. We have far more. in
struction, more knowledge, but less
true culture.
EVERY MAN HIS OWN GIFT.
believe in the doctrine that every
man has his own proper gift. No
two persons are exactly alike in either
physical or mental stature. While
we are all of the dust of tho ground,
into which, we are told, the Lord
God "breathed the breath of life and
man became living SOUL" yet how
different are human talents and cha
racteristics / But God has given to
us all stamps of His divinity. No
boy or girl, no man or woman, is
without stamps of divinity. He can
compare, reflect, reason, resolve, de-
eide and do, and grow in learning
and love 80 lc g as we can see and
observe him. This is the common
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pare for its acquisition; not to qualify
for any special pursuit, but to rem
der Capable Of adopting any. A lib
eral education trains the mind with
reference to what the mind shall be
the professional, with reference to
what the mind shall do. In the one
the mind is an end unto itself; in the
other it is Il means to an end tho
one is subjective, the other objective.
And just here will you permit me
to speak word of friendly admoni-
tion and sound note of warming I?
The teachers in our common schools
have to do with tho commencement
of the liberal, and not the profess
sional, side of education. Your bust
ness is with minds of plastic mold.
With you the mind of your pupil is
an end unto itself. You have moth
ing to do directly with the uses of
knowledge by your pupils. Your
calling commits you to the employ
ment Of science as an instrument for
the unfolding and development of
mind.
You are to teach your pupils the
use of their faculties, and impart
those habits of thought without
which their mental powers would be
useless. DO not make the mistake
of thinking your work. is done by
simply cramminG the mind Of year
pupils with certain sets of rules which
they can repeat as 50 many parrots.
Would you dare call this education ?
Again, do not be carried away with.
the idea of utility In education. You
have charge of your pupils during
the time when the earliest and most
lasting habits of thought are being
formed. See to it that you lay
broad and deep the foundations of
right thinking.
A LESSON FROM THE ANCIENT GREEKS
We are living in restless, impa-
tient age. Amid the din and heat and
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They Mourned Him as Dead.

COLUMBIA, S. O., July 26.-Eliiah
Bowcn created sensation by his
sudden appearance to-day in Ander-
son. Ihirty-eight years ago he was
soldier in Company G, Twenty
Second South Carolina regiment, and
was last seen by comrades at vi
dotte post on the firing line in front
of Petersburg. His family and
friends mourned him as dead. His
son Whitaker, man of forty, re-
cognized his resemblance to photo
graph. Many comrades also reoog-
nized him. Elijah came to Anderson
from New Jersey in buggy. He
was captured and sent to New York,
He spent three years in Connecticut,
three in Now York, and thirty-two
on a farm in New Jersey. l..
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A molasses combine was made in
New York last week with q capital
of $l0,000,000. With all the science
that money can purchase it may be
possible to make q syrup or molasses
that will look well and not have q
particle of sugar in it.
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way to all this varied and diversified
industry of enlightened civilization.
And while our material or indus
trial life has developed into all this
variety and combination into diff
ference and adaptation, 30, too, it
is in the moral and intellectual world.
Education and culture, instead of
making all men mentally and NOR
ally alike, develop differences. And
might not say that the more tho
rough the education, the greater the
culture, the more marked are the
differences2 As men and women
ascend in the scale of being they be-
come more personal, more individual,
and consequently more unlike. Edu-
cation draws forth and develops the
primal faculties of man, the powers
implanted by God in the birth of tho
child. Is it not true, then, that every
man has his own proper gift? Does
not God moan every man to be him
self, and not weak, miserable imi-
tation of any other man or creature
In the wide world ? God, who looked
on the world he had made, we are
told in the inspired record, said it
was all good; and he made each of
us to bo just what our own gifts and
powers fit US to be. BE that and do
that, is the divine injunction. Let
each be and do the best for which
God has given him capacity. Thus out
of seeming disoord will come the
sweetest harmony, tho bost affection
out of differences, the best of life out
of struggle. And education is the
means, tho instrument, by which this
high and holy end is to be attained.
"Kccp pushing. for tbs wiser than stand
ing aside,
And dreaming and waiting and Watching
.. tho tide;
In lifei's earnest battle, tsoy only prevail,
Who bravoly pross onward, and never
say fail"
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areonvllIe District Conference.

| This conference met according to
appointment at $50 A. NJ, on Goth
OF July, in the pleasant and hospita-
bic little town of Williamson. The
Conference was opened and presided
over the first day by Rev. j. B. Will
son, the Presiding Elder of this Dis
trict. Bishop Duncan came Thurs
day afternoon and presided from
Friday morning until the close of
the Conference. Every interest OF
the church was most carefully looked
into, especially matters concerning
Sunday schools and the cause of
education and Twentieth Century
Movement. .,H (" :
According to the reports made at
some points, the work is progressing
finely, but at some others the outlook
seemed not to be as encouraging as
one would like to see. A few good
revivals were reported with conside-
rable number added to the church.
The spiritual condition of the work
generally rather low. Considerable
interest seems to be manifested in
the cause Of education throughout
the district. A goodly number of
boys and girls aye attending college
and many more are preparing to 90
this fall. Many of them are attend
ing other institutions than our own.
The Sunday school work seems to
have improved very much this year
and we look for an increase in num-
Der of scholars instead of a decrease
of over two hundred, as reported last
year at the Annual Conference.
Sixty-nine members of the Con-
ference out of total membership of
ninety-eight were present part or
all of the time.
Five, local preachers licenses were
renewed.
Charles w. Burgess was recon-
mended for deacon's orders.
Loring Price McGhee, Charles
Leroy Mccain and Henry Lee Sim
gleton were granted licenses to
preach, and Henry Lee Singleton
was recommended to the Annual
Conference for admission on trial.
The following were elected dele
gates to the ensuing Annual Confer
ehce, wit j. A. Mccullough, J..
p. McGhee, w. d. Hutto and j. B.
Marshall!,, @. T.. Jones and w. II.
Austin were elected alternates.
Resolutions expressing the thanks
of the Conference to the people of
Williameton and vicinity for their
hospitable entertainment of the Con-
ference were unanimously passed.
Resolutions expressing the apprer
citation of the Conference of the
Presidency of Bishop Duncan and
extending to him cordial welcome
always among us were unanimously
passed by rising vote.
The Conference was addressed by
Rev. j. B. Wilson at the opening
and by Bishop Duncan from time to
time on the various interests of the
church as they came up. His talks
were always to The point and appre-
ciated by all. ..
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hurry by which we are surrounded
we might do well to pause and learn
q lesson from the ancient Crooks
the schoolmasters of the world.
Never has there lived people 80
devoted to what we call culture as
were the people of ancient Athens.
In their youth they were assiduously
taught their own language and its
classics; and here we would do well
to learn a lesson, for how many Eng
lish scholars are learned in the Eng
lish language and it's classics ? Later
on they studied rhetoric and philoso-
ply under special tutors. An old
time Greek cared very little about
any business of state, and gave his
life to culture. 81 think, O Socrates,
that the chief end Of life is the MAX
ing and hearing such discourses as
this of yours" His life was simple
and his wants comparatively few.
His ideal idleness was not intellec-
tual stagnation it was leisure for
thought, speech, debate and the
higher pleasures of the mind. Above
all else, he worshipped beauty. And
he advanced 80 far in this culture
that his love for the beautiful became
almost purely disintorested. Works
of art were public property. A
Greek could admire painting or o
statue without wishing to make it
his own. Thus it was that the poor
est people enjoyed the highest artis-
tic cultivation, and the highest ms-
theticism OF that time was wholly
devoid of selfishness. Contrast with
st'is the culture Of our own time.
ning aD~ G1 of every ten young Amer,
Rad % ii their business or profess
'sSsSsasss,s yIaars with scarcely any other
I 4 III \
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Thoro is moro catarrh in this section
of tho country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few years
it was supposed to be incurable. For
great many years doctors pronounced it
n local disease, and prescribed local rem
odies, and by constantly failing to euro
with local treatment, pronounced it inrf
ouiahlc. Science has proven catarrh ri
be a constitutional disease, andft there.
foro "Eequires constitutional treatment.
Halls otHttarrh Cure, manufactured by r.
j. Cheney toa Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on tho market.
1t is taken internally in doses from ten
drops to toaspoonful. It acts directly
on tho blood and mucous surfaces of tho
syston1. They offer ono hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
Sold by druggists, rs cents. i.
Halls Family Pills arc tho best.
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j. f. Griffin, Lancaster, S. c., says:
"For 1S years / havo ueed and recon-
mondcd Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medi-
cine to all painters as their best medi-
oino for painters collie and torpid livor.
I find it far superior to Zcilin's." For
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It's too late after August | s to SOW
anything that will give afull crop Of
fcsage. Eally. torn mixed with early
peas would, if sown on good land,
make a fair yield with plenty Of rain.
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ROYAL eAx!No powoga Cos nIw yoax.

| & .
taken for the Orphanage and $199.96
was raised, s100 Of which was given
by one brother, J.$A. Mccullough,
Esq, of Greeuville. Let others dc.
likewise. 2a,s &. e 81 {. 4 rs
Saturday DR.. John o. Wilson adj
dressed the Conference concerning
The Advocate ane its work, and
Prof. j. G. Clinkscales in behalf of
Wofford College and Christian edu-
cation. "a Is +
The preaching of the Conference
was done by J. G. Roper, M. B.
Kelley, J. L. Daniel, Alb. Watson,
Bishop Duncan, Or. John Q. Wilson,
J.P. Attaway and 7. N.NStone. 1
must say that the preaching and ad-
dresses delivered at this Conference
seemed to me to be the best I ever
heard at District Conference.
They certainly were far above the
average.
1t was stated on tho Conference
floor and plainly appeared to all that
the Williamson Female College was
doing good work and was a great
blessing to the community and the
church. I think this is due most
largely to the Christion life and in
fuence of its President.
Rev. j. B. Wilson, our Presiding
Elder, was present during the entire
session, though scarcely convalescent
from an attack of fever. He is much
loved and respected by the preachers
and people. ......' ......a
Rev. p. f. Kilgo, the host of the
Conference, was indefatigable in his
efforts to make the stay of the Con-
ference pleasant.
! The invitation of St. Paurs
Church, Greenville, S. O., extended
through its pastor, Rev. M. B. Kelley,
to hold the next session of this Dis
trict Conference there was unani-
mously accepted. 6
l will close this paper in the Ian
guage of Conductor "Billy" Smith
"Williamston Williamson is the
place where the water is good and
the schools are better and the people
arc better ll."--T. @. Ligon, Score
tary, Southern Christian Advocate,
July 9th. ..... .@"
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5 In diarrhUa Dr.. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine is inqaluable. Il gives tone to
the stomach, aids digestion and assists
naSure in carrying off allimpurities. For
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81, t of every ten young Amer
In their business or profess
~ y3sars with scarcely any oitilor
than to acquire wealth and
People's voice., 1899-07-06
School Board Meeting.

The school board met Monday night
and made the tax levieS for the next
year. The general fund levy is u
mills and the current expense fund
levy is mills.
1t was decided to hold an eight
months term of school next year,
beginning September IS.
ThecOntract for repairing the fur
naces Of the Third ward building was
let to Lewis & Kitchen Of Kansas
City, for $50. Five hundred dollars
was transferred from thelibrary fund,
ald 5000 from the building fund to
pay for it,
The duance committee was given
authority to pay off $1,000 worth of
the old First ward school building
bonds il they can be secured at a
satisfactory price.
Supt. Bear made bis sixth annual
report, and announced the result Of
the teachers examination. 1t was as
printed iu the JOURNAL.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
Assistant Division Master.

Richard Meade has been appointed
by the Santa Fe as assistant division
master, with headquarters at Wei
lington, His appointment takes
effect today. lhe news was received
late this afternoon. 1t is Of greas
Importance. Wellington has now re-
gained her prestige in the railroad
line, except in the Office OF division
superintendent. Meade's appoint
ment is step in that direction. A.
soon as the extension to Perry, o. T.
is completed, Meade will beappointes
division master, and Wellington wiz
doubtless soon thereafter be given 1
division superintendent.
The JOURNALS predictions tina.
the business of the entire Oklahom6
division Of the Santa Fe will in tins
be handled from Wellington will Os
verified. No one familiar with th.
situation can doubt it.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
The DR.. Smith Building Sold.

The DR.. s. Ewing Smith brick
building, occupied by the JOURNAL
and Voice offices, was sold late Mon.
day afternoon to Banker F. X. Rob.
bins for 81, 900 cash. The sale includes
the lot adjoining the building on the
east. The building will be extended
back to the alley and a cement floor
laid for press room. The addition
will cover the entire lot, and will
afford plenty Of room, The JOURNAL
aud Voice offices will continue TO oc-
cupy the building, and will not be
moved to East Harvey avenue, as
announced, The work of enlarging
the building will be commenced at
once.
People's voice., 1899-07-06
Public Notice.

More especially to the road OverseerS
OF each and all districts in Sumner
county Kansas
Section One Of Chapter $50 of the
session laws Of this state, makes it
the duty Of the road OverseerS OF
each and every district to remove or
cause to be removed, at least once in
each year, between the 18th day Of
June and the 18th day Of July, in the
public roads, all cookie burS, Noun
tain sandbur>, burdOCks, SuDhDwers,
Canada thistles and such other
obnoxious weeds as may be injurious
to the best interest Of the farming
community.
This law will be strictly enforced
and any road Overseer who fails to
comply with this law, will on COM
plaint of auy citizen Of his diStric'
be prosecuted.
The road oyerSeer in order TO carry
into effect this law may warn any
resident Of his district to perform
the work and TO bring such machinery
OF tools as is necessary to perform