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The Principal Of Associated
Effort.
Annual Address Before the Shi.
IOh Bible Society on Aug. 10,
1901, by Rev. w. A. M. PlaxcO.

FraendS OF the WGchaao and
Shiloh Bible Society IL beg you
to consider my appearance in the
sphere Of the lecturer as an ex-
preston OF my interest in this
and kindred institutions. You
are to be congratulated on having
a branch organization of The
a merican Bible Society that is
toth faithful, and efficient. l
shall be glad if a word or an effort
on my part may serve its interests.
For l consider it and similar in
stitutIons as signs of our times, as
harbingers of the truth and the
means of increased evangelistic
activity.
The subject to which we direct
your attention is The Principle of
Associated Effort.
That this subject is. worthy
your consideration no one who
observes the signs of the times
can doubt. Its Importance forces
itself on the rejecting. Indeed
one of the most remarkable
circumstances or features of our
times Is the energy with which
The Principle of Associated Eff
fort is manifesting itself. 1t may
be said without much exagger-
alton that all great enterprises
are founded upon and carried for
ward now by associated effort.
Men have learned what wonders
can be accomplished by associated
effort, and seem to think that
united effort is competent to
everything. Would men propagate
one set of opinions or suppress
another, they form a society.
Would they encourage agriculture
manufactures or science, they
form a society. Would they
manipulate the market and reg
ulate prices, they organize a trust.
Indeed, the whole world to- day is
organizing. We see artists and
artisans, the learned professions
and the mechanical arts, all kinds
OF men in all classes, all con-
ditions and grades of society or
ganizing. You can scarcely name
an object for which some institu
ton has not been formed. Thus
we have immense institutions
spreading over the country com
bining hosts for particular objects.
And we have minute ramifications
of these penetrating everywhere
conveying immense resources
to the parent society. This
Principle of Associated Effort is
worthy the consideration of the
philosopher who simply aims to
understand society and it's most
powerful springs. To the phi
lanthropist and the Christian it is
profoundly interesting; for it is an
incslculable source of power and
must act either Tor good or evil,
to an extent which no man can
divine, or comprehend. With the
poet then may we not sing?
I'VE are living we are dwelling,
In a grand and awful time,
In an age on ages telling
TO be living is sublime"
Nothing will await our con-
venience. Nothing is indulgent
to a dilatOry policy. Nothing is
tolerant of a somnolent enter
prise"
In considering this subject let
us seek first for an explanation
of "The Principle of Associated
Effort;" second, let us note the
advantages of associated effort ; !
third, seek to discover a principle
by which to distinguish good
from pernicious societies; and
then make an application of the
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Local nj alters.

Miss Minnie Pardue is visiting
relatives ut Richhurg.
Mrs. X T. Welsh is visiting
relatives in Columbia.
Bring IN your country produce,
Butter, Eggs and Chickens, espe-
ciaiiy. JB Macko.eli.
The Pleasant Grove camp meet
ng was begun last Wednesday.
1t will continue into next week.
Mr.. G. w. Jones will enlarge
and rcnovate his residence on Ca
taw ba street. Material is being
placed ON the ground.
Mr.. K. r. Riddle has begun
hauling lumber for his two. story
residence in West End to he erect
ed just West of Mr.. j F CIy-
burns.
Mrs. M X McCardell and her
daughter, Miss Sadie McCardelI,
are visiting relatives at Waxhaw,
n. e..
Mrs. r e Wylie and several of
the children are visiting friends ut
Sugar Creek, N. @.
MIR. l.. G.. Lazenby, with his
wife and sister left Thursday for q
visit to relatives at Bedford, Va.
Mr.. j. w. Tillman, member of
the State board of equalization
tor assessing cotton mills, ETC.,
attended meeting of the board
in Columbia this week.
Mr.. Frank Jordan of Fort
Lawn, Is visiting at his uncle's,
Mr.. NJ. e. Jordan's.
Mr.. Joe Heath of Richmond,
KY, has accepted position with
the Heath B. & M. Go. at this
place.
Married, on Thursday last, by
K. H. Sapp, N. P, Mr.. James
Neal and Miss Mamie Starnes, all
of Union county, N. G. Many
good wishes to the happy couple.
Mr.. A. j. Gregory was elected
cotton wsigher for Kershaw In
the election. last Tuesday.
Mrs. Mary McNeilI, her daught-
or, Miss Alice Mcneil. and little
grand daughter Joyce Clark, left
Wednesday for Lowrysvills to
spend while with relatives.
Rev. Jno. !. Spinks, of Van
Wyck circuit, is helping Rev. 2.
B. lngrahm, of Hickory Grove,
In meeting this week. His apr
pointments will be filled by Rev.
Eli Richardson.
The Lancaster Mercantile Co.,
are having their harness and re.
pair shops on the corner of Cs.aw.
ba and Church streets enlarged by
tearing away the piazzas and put
ting room or two instead.
Msssrs. A. Tripp and E. H.
Shaw, officials of tho S. G. & Ga.
Ex., made = trip from Heath
Syringe over to DR.. Straits valu.
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Baptist Church at Denmark Fired
by an lncendiary.
Special to The State.
Denmark, Aug. 13 The Bap-
tist church was burned last night
at O'Clock. 1t is thought to be
the work of an incendiary. The
church vas insured for 81, ,000.-
Possibly when the congregation
builds again they will locate the
new church in West Denmark.
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South Carolina is now the only
State in the nation with . larger
colOred than white population.
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BARGAINS IN
B u G G | E s
and
W A G 0 N s

We are now selling for $55.
BUGGIES that we have been sell
ing at $50; and Buggies hereto.
fore sold at $55. we are now SELL
ing at $50. So come and get you
a nice, new BUGGY while they
are CHEAP.
We are selling the Nissen round
and square hound wagons, also
the Owensboro wagon at surpris-
ingly low prices.
We keep on hand some good
HORSES some as fine animals
as you will find anywhere. If
you want a horse that will suit
you in every particular, don't
buy until you see our STOCK.
We also run a first-class livery,
and can give you as good teams as
can be had 10 town.
Yours to serve,
CLYBURN-HEATH MULE co.
~ Subscribe to The tLrpau
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iHk LtD.1LR.
F'1urlow s. Carter,
EDITOR AND NAN AGER.

SATURDAY, AUGUST II, 1901.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
NOTES OF WARNING

Under the caption of "The Dog in
the Manager" the Philadelphia Daily
Evening Telegraph says:
Addicks the gasman, is still standing
in the way OF Republican success in
She State of Delaware, and It is report-
ed that he has enlisted the support OF
Chairman Hanna in behalf of his per-
sonal candidate for the collectOrship OF
The port OF Wilmington. That place is
now filed by Dr. W. II. Cooper, a
Democrat, whose term expired months
ago. and whose successor the president
is prepared TO appoint as soon as the
way is clear But Addicks will not clear
the way, unless he is recognized as the
legitimate dispenser of the Federal pa
monage of the State. He insists on
the appointment of his henchman. Dan
iel p, Barnard, and Chairman Hanna
Whose vision has taken a strabismic
turn ever since he first espoused the
gasman's cause is reported to be back
ing him up in his demand for "recog-
nition."
Colonel DUPONT. who is regarded BY
Mr.. Hanna as the very incarnation pl
"obstinacy," has recommended the an
pointment of ex-Congressman Jonathan
S. Willis, a true and tried Republican
OF the old type, whose fitness for the
position cannot be questioned. lie /.
not, however, a factiOnal follower ol
the gasman, and would not consent tc
figure as the merely nominal collector
with Addicks as the actual incumbent
OF the office, as far as the appointment
Of subordinates is concerned. II Mr.
Hanna could be kept from interferins
In the affairs Of a State which are M
legitimate concern Of his, there Is lit.
lie doubt THAI the appointment Of Mr.
Willis. or some other equally capable
deserving and satisfactory man. woul,
quickly follow But the president hai
now LEFT Washington on his journey I,
the Pacific coast and DR. Cooper. tn
Democratic collector, will be left undIs
turDed for several weeks. II not for M
indefinite period
i Meanwhile, the rural districts of tn
lentire State of Delaware are being de
prived Of the benefits OF the free do
llivery system as another result Of th
og-in-the-manger tactics OF the Adj
dicksites. The postal officials AT Wash
) ington have made all the preliminar
! arrangements for introducing the ire
! delivery Of letters throughout Ken
p county. But when it came to the y
lection OF the carriers. the gasman az
! manded that only his own shoulei
J be given the places. II is said that IN
2 Regular Republicans were equally ir
, sistent upon their exclusive recogp
S ton; but that is the only attitude the
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
-FOUR YEARS OF BUSINESS
Wright & Davidson Company Rupert Sea
son Of Prosperity

The big store of the Wright and
Davidson Company is now enjoying a
season Of prosperity sucn as it never
before has. Business activity is
everywhere there. Four years ago the
store was opened for business, since
which time it has srOwn to its pres
ent condition, having won the conf
dence of the people Of the city because
of strict observance of the motto:
Good Goods for Low Prices" Messrs.
! Wright and Davidson are highly graft
fed over the success that has crowned
their efforts, and promise to make their
store even more popular to the clothing
buying public.
The store contains 5000 square feet
Of display room. The front of the first
floor is exclusively devoted to hats and
furnishing goods. This space has been
doubled. The rear of the first floor is
devoted to children's goods exclusively,
and so marked has been the increase
that this space has also been doubled.
In this department can be found the
most fetching things for children s
wear at moderate cost and in high
grades
Second floor is for the men. The
front portion is allotted to merchant
Tailoring and the other half to the
ready-made clothing The merchant
tailoring department cannot be ex-
cellel for designs and quality Of goods
in any city. The styles and patterns
Of materials are most exclusive. The
ready-made department is supplied
from the best makers in the country.
The new department, in the base
ment, just opened lowing to the pres
sure Of increased business) is for
mems pantaloOns, overalls, working
goods and wearing apparel for rainy
weather (mackintoshes, rubbers, etc).
All Of the third floor of this entire
establishment is used for storing sur
plus goods
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
sUCCEssFUL ADYERTIslNa

In order to attract attention an
advertisement should contain as many
interesting and newsy facts as it is
possible to display in the given space.
They should not be hidden away in
obscure corners but brought out plain
ly and clearly so that the eye will light
on them at a glance.
The advertiser who expects the
reader TO get out his spectacles to hunt
up interesting details will be disap-
pointed. II they are not so displayed
that he who runs may read, they might
as well not be there, for nobody viii
go to the trouble of digging them out.
1t is quite as much OF trick to make
an interesting display Of advertising
matter as it is to properly handle the
news, and in either case when II is
bnngled it is practically worthless.
The right sort Of advertising is the
life Of trade, but the clumsy, meaning
less kind QUITE as often results in its
death. 1t is always well to be on the
safe side and get the best
The advertiser who wants to cover
the Delaware field must use the col.
umns OF the Evening Journal
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

L BY obtaining a majority of the stock
Of the Concord Turnpike Company, the
Wilmington City Railway Company
has scored a point against the projec-
tors OF The Wilmington and West
Chester railway, and may. and doubt
less will, compel them to buy private
right of way or abandon their project
altogether. The people want the two
places connected by trolley. II matters
little to them who builds the road and
operates 1t. At the same time, the
hope is expressed generally that the
turnpike deal will not serve TO block
the enterprise.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
ARMIES HAVE QUIET DAY

Commander c. p. Perkins has been
detached from command of the Adams.
and ordered TO command the Alert
May II.
The president yesterday signed the
commissions OF Colonels Barlow, Rob
erts and Gillespie as chief engineers
and they will be issued on the 1st and
I'd of May. The same course was taken
with the commissions Of Colonels Barr.
Clous and Davis, who will become in
succession judge advocates general
upon the retirement of General Loeber.
.Colonels Roberts, Barr and Clous are
Ito so Immediately upon the retired list
upon receiving their appointments.
Tho secretary Of war has determined
TO discontinue the transport service
between the United States and Cuba
and Porto Rico, probably about the end
.of the fiscal year, June 30. The business
will be divided between the Ward and
Munson lines, as their bids were alike
for the carrying business.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
BLINDEp BY sELF-CoNCEIT

In his efforts TO defeat City Tax
Collector Thomas S. Lewis for renomi-
nation, Horace G. Knowles is over
reaching himself. and Mr.. Lewis is
profting thereby Mr.. Knowles aspires
TO be a leader in city politics. He is
pursuing a policy which will land him
far from uhe goal. BY an equivocal
course he has alienated from himself
both the Regular Republicans and the
Union Republicans, and is playing a
game OF solitaire which is becoming
laughable by reason of manifest dis
position on his part TO beat himself at
all hazards In his self-laudatory and
tiresome address he does not
scruple to miserpreseit exist
ing conditions. but those mis-
representations are so palpable that the
public understands them fully in all
their bearings. Mr. Lewis has made
a good collector. He has worked early
and late for the party from which he
asks another term in the tax Office
and we are sure that the voters in his
district win pay little attention TO the
personal and self-seeking fight which
MIR. Knowles is making against him.
Mr. Knowles complains that other
men are chronic office-holders and of
flee seekers. II we mistake net, he was
United States consul at Bordeaux for
four years at an annual salary OF S.,
Geo. or $4,000 in all. After he had re-
turned and been admitted to the bar ne
wanted to be city solicitor Then he
wanted to be United States district at
torney, deputy Encouragement, repre-
sentative in Congress, legislative attor-
ney, United States senator and judge Of
the Municipal Court and finally land
ed in the berth OF attorney for the
Levy Court OF New Castle county.
With such a record for office-holding
and office-seeking criticism Of otherand
more deserving men comes with poor
grace from such a self-seeking source.
AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Knowles is
weaker to-day in the Republican party
than he has been since he entered poll
tics. The trouble with him is that he
is blinded by his own self-conceit.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

Thus far President McKinleys jour
ney has been one continued ovation
and at every stage the people have
manifested their love and admiration
for the man who has made such an
ideal chief executive. The different
States will vie with each other in do
ing him honor, and when the long and
pleasant trip is over the ties existing
between the people and their president
will be stronger than ever In making
this tour he has no selfish political
ends TO serve. for he is on his second
term and cannot hope for a third; but
he wants 70 know the people and In,
people want to know him. The meet
ing and greeting will be mutual in cor
diality in ali parts Of the country.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
CRY FOR LABoRERs

From the Toledo Blade we clip the
following:
Already the cry is going up from the
great farming districts Of the North
west for men TO work on the farms.
They are not wanted for a few days or
for a month. but for the entire season.
The Spring work is about TO begin in
earnest, and there are not enough men
TO carry IL on.
Accordingto the Chicago Tribune farm
ers in the Northwest are offering from
SIS to S25 a month wages. with board
and washing, and are finding but
few workmen.
The general good times, the buildine
and conducting Of great enterprises, the
busy shops and factories, are giving
employment 10 all who want to work
Even the railroads are shcrt of men al
$3.50 a day
The cry that improved machinery In
shop and on farm would throw thou.
sands out Of employment was not wei
based. On the farm, perhaps. one.
fourth as many men can do the sam,
amount of work as was performed
twenty years ago. and yet farm hand,
are so scarce that last year th0usandl
of young women in the great Western
States. went into the fields and assist
ed in saving the crops.
In no way is The general prosperit,
OF the country more apparent than il
the scarcity OF labor. The great arm
Of employees are at work at good wage.
and many OF the men have short hour
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

can assume. unless they are prepared
TO abandon the contest against the gas
man and his vicious political methods,
and acknowledge that they have been
In the wrong from the beginning OF
their heroic fight against Addicksism.
| The net result Of the faCtional fight is
the indefinite postponement of the ex-
tension of the free delivery of postal
matter in every section of the State.
After this comes the following
from the editorial columns of the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger:
We print in the open
Court of Public Opinion" an ex-
tract from the editorial columns
of the New York Sun on the subject OF
Addicks and the presidential patronage
of Delaware. The sun, a firm friend
to the administration, gives sage adj
vice to the president. Some narrow
politicians who have a blunted percep-
tiOn of the difference between right
and wrong have been urging the presi-
dent 20 throw the patronage TO Adj
dicks, and thus aid in electing him and
in wiping out the resistance offered tO
him by the honorable and palrioticI
citizens of Delaware. known as the
Regular Republicans. If the gift oil
the patronage to the Addicks faction
would bring about the election of Ad-
dicks and some other senator, the Civ
ing of the patronage would stil be a
disgraceful act But even If the Ad-
dicks faction, which has prevented the
election Of senators, should be re-
warded for party wrecking, the Regu-
lars would not yield nor would har-
mony follow. The Regulars are not to
be dlsmayed nor caioled by patronage.
they are not self-seekers; they are hon
Orable citizens who stand for dece1cy
and cleanliness in politics. If the
president goes into the Addlcks camp
he will fail to elect senator's now, but
he will do more than any other mem
Der of the Republican party can do t0l
help elect two Democratic senators
year after next, and to place the State
Of Delaware firmly within the Demo- |
cratic column. The support of Addicks
by the administration would be an Of
fense without excuse.
It will be seen at a glance that Ad-
dicksism has become a national issue.
and that the best friends of the Nc
Kinley administration are insistent
that the president shall not identify
with such a base political sys-
tenn as that set up by the gasman.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
WILL INSTALL new MINISTER
The Rev. Arthur EIWOOd Arrived in vii
miBgtOn Yesterday

The Rev. Arthur ElwOod the newly
appointed pastor Of Olivet Presbyter-
ian Church, who has been transferred
by the Presby5ery from Absecom, N. j.
to this city arrived here yesterday af-
ternUOn and will preach his first ser
mon on Sunday morning.
The Rev ElwoOd will be formally
installed on Thursday evening in the
church, by the moderator, the Rev. W
Nj. Schall.
An interesting program, which fol-
lows. has been arranged: Charge to
pastor. the Rev. James l.. Vallandig-
ham, ID. d.. LII D.; solo and chorus,
Miss Matte Vinsinger and choir;
charge to people. Rev. W. W. Keigwin
ID. D.; hymn 597; benediciOn by the pas.
tor; voluntary. doxology, invocation
hymn. No. 964: scripture reading. an
them. church choir. sermon. the Rev
Joel 5. Gilhllan. d. D.; hymn. No. 951
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

compared with few years ago. and yet
IL is impossible to find men 10 do the
work necessary to be done.
And this widespread prosperity is
due 10 good crops, American ingenuity,
and the Republican party.
Tho cry for laborers is not confined
to the farmers In the Northwest Here
in Delaware there is such a scarcity
that in some sections there are two or
three jobs open for every man who
wants TO work. This is particularly
true Of Brandywine and other hum
dreds near Wilmington, and also Of
Delaware and Chester counties. Pa. In
fact, the benefcent influence of McKin-
ley prosperity is being felt every
where.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

Scranton supplies an instance Of hu-
man obstinacy seldom parallelcd. Sew
en- years ago a man was sent to Jail in
contempt of court, he having refused
10 sign a deed when ordered to do so
by the judge. Some weeks ago a bin
was introduced in the Pennsylvania
Legislature designed expressly for his
release. It was passed, and this week
Governor Stone approved it. Habeas
corpus proceedings were instituted to
get the man before the courts that an
order might be made for his release
When the papers were presented To
him he refused TO sign them and de-
clared that he would not raise a hand
to gain his freedom In order to make
the act effective It will be necessary
for the lawyers to take steps which will
ignore the wishes Of the prisoner and
make any action on his part unneces-
sary.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30
England Gets Impatient

Written for the Evening Journal.
Long before the Winter fed.
Bard of Dollar BILL" you said,
That you had the jolliest town
That would welcome England down
l replied that I'd appear
If you'd wait till shad were here.
Shad are here in great array,
And / wait from day to day,
Wait to hear yOu say, Come down.
We shall do the thing up brown"
Naught l hear, so still you keep;
Are you drunk or just asleep?
Every little frog and snake
In your marshes is awake.
Shake it up, awake, bedad,
Let us have that shad-planked shad
HOWELL S. ENGLAND.
Wilmington, April so, 1901.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

Reports which come from down the
State are to the effect that the pros
pect for a big crop of peaches is ex-
cellent, and that the condition oS the
trees and the number Of the buds indi-
cate that the fruit will be Of good
quality and easily marketable at pay
ing prices. While it is admittedly toe
early to predict with positiveness
what the crop will be, we hope the
growers will realize their most san
guine expectations, for a good crop OF
fruit viii result in many hundreds OF
thousands Of dollars being sent here
from other States and put in immedi-
ate circulation.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

Professor George d. Heron is to
marry a woman who has a fortune OF
Sl,000,O00 in her own name Like many
other professional wealth-haters. he
only waited his opportunity to get a
big share OF It, He reminds us OF GER
tain Democratic orators in Delaware
who spend their time on the stump rail-
ing against trusts, and their time at
home engineering combinations Of capi-
tai under the general corporation law.
Evening journal., 1901-04-30

That Harrington murder mystery is
still a mystery. BY a decisive vote the
grand jury OF Kent county has ignored
the bin charging Daniel Bending with
the killing of Hearn, and the State de-
teotives must begin the work all over
again or confess themselves baffled and
drop the case. In such small com
munity as that in which the murder
was committed. il should be an easy
matter to round up those who are capa-
bic OF committing such a crime and
from the number select the man who
did it, Il may be, however, that the
slayer was a tramp who had heard vii
lage gossip Of Hearn's habit OF carry
ing his savings on his person. In that
event the work of the detectives would
be extremely difficult.