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The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21
Notss in The Sonial Val

The young people (and Ga p",-,
tOo) OF the different Suiua :a:'' :
are making arrangements for their
Christmas trees during the upproa-
ching holidays.
A Three Nighls' Carnival for :
benefit Of the Taylor Lane Hospital
and Training School will be given
at the 7. Al. c. a. hall beginning
january 1st, 1902.
Emancipation Day will be appro-
p-iately observed in this city. All
necessary preparations are being
made by the Lincoln Memorial AS
ISOLATION, and the, day promises to
be n grand one.
The Dixie Queen Comedy cvnl-
pany's concert Mt the Lincoln Street
hall Monday night was not sue
cess Oh account of the freezing wea
tier. They are to repeat it during
the Christmas holidays.
Prof. J. Hartford Armstrong,
Magician. and impetsonutor, is here
arranging TO gve one Of his wonder
1ui exhibitions at au early date.
The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21
TIE CAPITAL CITY ITEMS.
Grand Order True Reformers
TO be Organized.
That H,s Happened, and Who Has Yls.
ited tho City During the Past
Weekr--0ther Mentions.

Weskr.-0ther Mentions.
a. ". BERRY. Local Editor.
No paper next week
--Rev. e. R. Roberts Of Flor.
ence was in the city Saturday
Warneks's Bakery for fresh bread.
Rev. @. w Davis Of Sumter,
was among city visitors this week
DIR. Chas. L. Walton took in
the Charleston exposition last week.
I his paper is on exhibition in the
Negro department Of the exposition
At Charleston.
Van Metres is the, place for poor
people to buy fnrnitule. His is The
chca pest furniture store in town.
There will be no paper from
this Office next week. Look for her
january 4th,' 1902.
The Ward One Furniture Co., is
the bust furniture store they sell
by cash or On credit. People in this
ward should pu;,onize them.
The State Executive Commit
'.tse OF the Baptist state Ucnrent,un
was in SESSION at Z!ou this week.
1t is reported h that Mr..
Butter Gilbert. formerly Of Ill is city
died in Washington last week. If
true, We hope he is ut rest.
Call physician quick! Well DR..
T.. =. Johnson Is capau.e, courteous
and attentive. Charges reasonable
Gall on him.
MIR. G. E.. Stuart Of Greenwood
sagnsssd through che city the other,
nTlH nome from the Mason-
iaess atsssi nnsooro,
& dVlmes spentziast Satur'
sAssaYS1L lTAIgtaAfg He left ;,g;.ii,.
~ estsfda S5alpkssaEiiat city where he
goes to lo0k after ''on Ia Claus acd
his interest,"" aud his store There.
Go running you and your boys to
the Flag ciotnlng store where you
will ba politely treated. Every thing
for Chr .stmas very cheap and salts
factory.
Rev. Richarl Carroll has been
chosen as orator Of Emancipation
Day atAiken January 1st. Look
fo- a good oration, rs Rev. Carroll
Is noted orator. Editor Holmes Is
invited to be present.
Furticks line Of fine dry goods.
clothing. gents furnishings an d
shoes are things Of beauty and, JOYS
fer ever. Try him and be conyined
that this is the cheapest dry good
SSoAS IL 'hC ~
DR.. c. @. Johnson is being con
gratuled by his host of friends on
account Of his re-election az State
Grand Master OF the Free ,nd Ac-
'cepted Masons at the meeting held
at Win..sboro last week.
Mr.. Anthony Eumilton, the
famous coored jockey of America
is on visit to relatives and friends
here. Mr. Hamilton has the distinc-
ton of being the only colored South
Carolinian who ever got salary OF
$4,000 a year.
When your loved one die be SUR
you 60 to Rev. D. Cooper the un-
dertaker and let him put them a.
way nicely. II . will not charg,
npr, n oo,,, ,,>1 <,,1S O.. -
The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21
lUR ROLL OF HONOR

Vi Zerick ESQ Lanrcns sl.50
Miss Ida T. Cowan Boston Mass | 90
Rev s MoSee Caldwell 2 90
" VI t'onmcn Eowmana 100
Rev u D l.ccphard Norway 90
Wm lfaker Ne"ces 90
| Is Parker Cordova 2 90
Or Dan Moorer OrungehuIg ! SO
|. Il Smell Middle Pen ! 90
Miss Al j Mcdaniel Owlr gsvllle ] -
q L Burrls Sarratt 200
-"1 enjoy reading Tie Peoples
Recorder and find it worthy Of our
attention. | hope it may live to be
old, and when coming Gown to die
(as everything must die(:) its head
may be white with honest toii o j.
the Negro races
(Miss) AbB1E f. GREELY.
Concord. n. c..
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
Alcohol md Crime.

The warden of the. Allegheny (Pa.) ) county prison board says in his report that during the 12 months ended De- cember 31, 1900, there were received 9,1S2 prisoners, as against $40 the previous year. The jail physician states that 95 per cent. of those com mitted were under his care for alco- holism, and out of 5,727 who were summarily convicted there was not one who was not victim of the alco- hol habit. Still there are people of moderate intelligence who look upon the saloon business as necessary to municipal prosperity, an evil to be tol- erated for the revenue it affords and for the commercial prosperity which is enormously supposed to attend it. Such ignorance is bound to be ban ished by the brighter light of the twentieth century, Pres byterian.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
GREAT THOUGHTS.

Character is the great credential that God gives his children.-Ram'., ;, Horn.
 The integrity of men is to be meas ured by their conduct, not by their rofessions.-Junius.
 Little minds are tanned and sub- dued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.-Washington Irving.
 There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.-Sophocles,
 Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.-Terence.
 To be vulgar is to do that which is not the best of it's kind. It is to do poor things in poor ways, and to be satisfied with that.-David Starr Jor- dan.
 There is no sense in always tele- graphing to Heaven for God to send a cargo of blessing, unless we are at the wharf to unload the vessel when it comes.-F. B. Meyer.
 Learning is a good thing, but it is better to learn few needful things we'll than to have a smattering of much, but to no profit. If we try to blow too large a field the weeds will overtake us before we can SOW for the harvest.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
TEMPERANCE POINTS.

Northumberland is the worst county for drunkenness in England.
 The most prolific source of strife is the wine glass.-C Christian Work.
 A bill has been introduced in the leg islature of Wisconsin providing home for inebriates.
 In Sweden and Norway it is crime to make any profit on the sale of liquor; it must be dispensed at cost price.
 The number of saloons in Ohio last year was 1O,348, an increase of 476 over 1899. The license receipts were $1,- 664, GAP.
 Nearly 500 saloons have gone out of of business in Cleveland, O., within the last six months, according to the re- port of the city treasurer.
 Some French physicians have dis covered what they call an anti-alco- hol serum, which they claim has cured 60 per cent. of drunkards treated.
 Makers of certain brands of whisky are industriously circulating advertis- ing matter, addressing letters to Chris tian people and all classes. A subsarib- Der who received such a letter writes: "Is there not some way this infamous business can be stopped?" We know of no other way than to make all such concerns outlaws, just as the lotteries were made outlaws.-Ram's Horn.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS THERE
Text in the BfbIe the Old Deacon Had Never Before Come
 Across.

A we11-to-do deacon in Connecticut was one day accosted by his pastor who said:
 'sPoor Widow Greens wood is out Can you not take her load?'
 ''We1l," answered the deacon, "l have the wood, and have the team, but who is to pay me for it?
 The pastor replied: "I will pay you for it, on condition that you read three verses of the forty-frst Psalm before you go to bed tonight" Z The deacon consented, delivered the wood, and at night opened the Word of God, and read the passage:
 'Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness ''
 A few days afterward the pastor met him again.
 ''How much do I owe you, deacon, for that load of wood?"
 "Oh," said the now enlightened man, "do not speak of payment; I did not know those promises were in the Bi- ble. I would not take money for sup plying the widows wants. ."-Christian Work
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
THE CHIEF PENALTY OF SIN.
Is That It Benumbs the Soul and Makes 1t Impossible to Dfs-
 cern the Right.

We are apt to think that the chiet penalty of sin is in the form of di- rect, positive punishment. If it fail to receive this in the present life, eternal exclusion from the Divine fellowship, if not also some distinct and painful personal infliction, long have been believed and taught to be the consequences of unrepented wrongdoing. And some, who for one or another reason doubt whether these beliefs are we'll founded, are persuaded that in his shame and re- morse, when at last his eyes have been opened fully to the known but never perfectly appreciated enormity of sin, the sinner nnds it's most inn portant consequence and penalty.
 The study of so grave subject de mands, the utmost reverence and mod esty, and the punishments of sin are so many and diversified that it is not easy to generalize about them safe ly. At the utmost we can know but little beyond the solemn fact that the penalty for sin IS certain in some form.
 Sin reaps harvest of punishment here, often in direct, positive and speedy external form, often in re- morse and shame, and often in both, and. that its consequences must con- tihue into the hereafter is not to be doubted. Nothing is more in accord with sound reason. Nothing is more plainly revealed. It would be the ex- treme of folly, and, indeed, in an im- portant sense, is itself a sin, to deny this: But 50 the reflective mind the worst penalty of wrongdoing can be neither the pain nor the shame in particular instances which it causes him who has been guilty. Rather it is his consciousness or moral deteri- oration, of growing unlikeness to God and good men, of increasing distaste for what is pure, lovely and of good report, of lessening susceptibility to holy motives, of diminishing power to resist temptation and of weakening concern for his spiritual condition alike here and in the future.
 To become morally numb and in- different is worse than to suffer bangs, however sharp, which stimu- late towards repentance and reform. To fall permanently to a lower level of aspiration and effort and to face the peril of falling still lower and lower continually is more lamenta ble than any other possible penalty now or hereafter, here or anywhere. To choose to sin not as the occasional exception nor even frequently, yet in spite of repeated, persistent strivings after better things, but as one's habit, accepted and admitted-this is the worst of all possible penalties which can befall anyone of us. And this form of punishment awaits all who neglect to accept the Divine in- yitatfon to turn from their evil ways z;xe Aeneel l<rth in the love anst fear of God Boston Congrega tiona1- isf
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
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A TRAGEDY OF DRINK.
Victim of Drink Unable to ''Brace Up'' Because Temptation Was on
 Every Hand.

It is amazing to what depths strong drink and a rowing. instinct will bring man. There walked into my town the other day a tramp printer who se- cured employment at his trade. He is young fellow under 30, but he tells a remarkable tale of his ups and downs, giving ample confirmation of all his story, which he related in modest manner after some questioning. This common tramp, now working daily at the case, is the son of a wealthy print CT and publisher, and has a luxurious home, if he would go to it. He is 8 graduate of Yale college, and has worked on nearly all the New York pa pers as reporter. He was once the editor of prosperous small town daily; he is machine operator, and understanding German, French and Spanish, can operate the machines in those languages, and besides this he knows the printing business from top to bottom. However, with all his tall ents, strong drink has mastered him, and he has degenerated into a tramp. It seems pity. The other day met him just as he was recovering from a
 spree. Why don't you brace up and
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
A LEGEND AND A LESSON.

An artist, with thought divine,
 Before the canvas stands, And tries the colors to combine,
 And holds with trembling hands The awkward brush, while here and there He rubs the colors out, Or makes a faded one more fair,
 And turns himself about To watch the picture as it grows,
 And vain1y tries to keep His fingers moving. Seei He goes
 While painting, fast asleep. He wakes. How changed the picture seems!
 How bright the coiors glow, Has he been painting in his dreams?
 Why is 1t altered so? 'Oh, finished picture. Art thou mine?' He cries in accents deep. 'Or has a hand unseen, divine,
 Been painting in my sleep?" Was it the painters master who
 Beside the picture crept, And did the work for him anew,
 While yet he Sweetly slept? Or did the Master glorified,
 Amid the twilight dim, Unto the sleeping artist glide,
 And paint awhile for him? know not but the legend saith,
 And sor1e believe the same, As did the artist till his death,
 Twas Jesus Christ who came. We may not work while fast asleep,
 Such miracles are rare. But the great Teacher still doth keep
 His children in His care. And when He finds the burning brain,
 With weariness opprest, He doth refresh His own again, And give them blessed rest. And when they wake to work at last.
 The work so good doth seem, It oft appeareth unto them,
 They did 1t in dream. Julia H. May, in Chicago Advance.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
"seIf-ControI Society,"

An organization has been formed in Scotland, at first called the Sober Scot society" but hereafter to be known as the Scottish elf-Control society,"" the purpose of which is to oppose the practice of treating with liquors and "nipping." Several mem bers of the aristocracy are giving the organization the support of their names and influence The object of the society is certainly worthy one. IN. x. Observer.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
Three-Year-o1d Cigarette Fiend.

Sammy" Keller, three years old, is tobacco fend, according to. his mother, and that is how her apart ments at 173 Orchard street, New York city, were set afre. sammy Mrs. Keller says, will smoke anything from a "butt'' to clay pipe, and she cannot break him of the habit. He got hold of cigarette and went into the bedroom to smoke it. After lighting the cigarette, his mother says, he threw the blazing match on the floor. With the baby on one arm and Sammy" hanging on to the oth- e. hand, Mrs. Keller ran into the street. Then the firemen came and put out the blaze. Sammy was spanked, not for the first time.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
Wall Paper Talk.

We carry the best the world produces French, German and English Wall Pa pers. Not few dozen patterns, but an immense and comprehensive line show. ing many hundred patterns.
 Rich handsome effects in Dark Reds, Greens, Blues, Tapestries. Burlaps, De nims, for library and dining rooms. dens and halls
 Silk and Satin Papers with Brocaded Effects for parlors and reception halls.
 Dainty Floral Designs in Chintz and Dresden Effects.
 Marie Antoinette Cretonnes and En- pire Stripes for bedrooms and boudoirs. These foreign goods have an air of ex- elusive elegance, with the entire absence of the gaudy show so often seen in richly colored papers.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
THE TUTORS TWO LESSONS.
sophomorcs Taught That Open and Honest Minds Can Relieve
 as We'll as Doubt

Will Rogers had been a bright stu- dent in college, had mad year of ex- l perience on the frontier in the service 1 of the government, had done post 1 graduate work in an eastern univer- sity, and was teaching a year or two
 to get money with which to go abroad
 and take his Ph, D. Everyone knew l that he would make his mark. The 1 faculty hoped that he would come 1 back as a professor; the students l liked him, and counted him both one ] of the faculty and one of themselves. There were in the college about a
 dozen young mendargely sophomores, who gathered together to discuss the
 Emancipation of the human mind from the dog1nas of past ages, and I to glory in their own Intellectual i greatness. To these young men it
 seemed a strange thing that Tutor 1 Rogers should be the brilliant scholar
 he was, the well-read man in all mod
 ern sciences, and yet a sincere and
 outspokeD Christian.
 One day they asked him about it,
 and suggested that he might be in.
 terested in attending a meeting of
 their club. He promptly accepted the invitation, and they proceeded with unwonted vigor in their ready denials of faith in God, Christ and the Bible Fellows" said Rogers, at length, | eff you are determined not to believe these things, why don't you get the best arguments there are? Those you l advance are the cheap oratorical bubbles of the lecture platform. There are much better arguments against the Bible than you have ad- vanced. Hold on, and I'll give you some.'
 Then they listened in amazement as he quoted from ancient writers, be- ginning with Celsius and Porphyry; from philosophers, such as Schopen- hauer, whose names they hardly knew;
 from scientists, Huxley and Tyndall
 He lowed them into the deep waters of thought, and plunged them into whirlpools of doubt deeper than they had known. and then he said Good night!" and offered to come again.
 The club sat silent for five minutes after he had gone. Then one member asked: "Can Tute Rogers know all this and still be a Christian? What arguments do you suppose he knows on the other side?''
 The next day they waited on him again, and asked: "Will you come again, and tell us the answers to those arguments ?''
 Certainly" said Rogers, eff you wish me to do so."
 It was quiet and thoughtful group of young men with whom he met next time, and Rogers began with few earnest words on the need of open and honest minds to discern the truth. Then he told them the reasons for his faith.
 It would make a long story if the whole were told, but the sum of it is this: The club continued it's organiza- tion, but with new spirit and pur- pose, and with Tutor Rogers as it's leader. Before the year ended. the membership had considerably in creased, and the original members. in- stead of shallow and argumentative skeptics, had become. earnest Chris tians.-YOuth'S COmDanion
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
DEXTER & co
Waterbury Steam and Gas
 ~ Pipe Works

553 and 555 Bank street.
 M. J. DAILY, Mechanical and Con-
 structive Engineer, Proprietor.
 Contractor for all kinds of Steam. Water and Gas Works; Steam Boilers furnished, set up and connected in the most thorough and workman like manner Private residences and public buildings heated bf low pressure steam and hof water Also dealer in all Ste am Appliances, Steam Pumps, Feed Water Heaters, Inject ors, DampeI Regulators, Etc. Aiarge stock of valve fittings and carloads of Steam and Water Pipes constant ly on hand, A full line of Engi- neers' Supplies. Best of facilities for handling light and heavy work Satisfaction guaranteed. Also plumbing. done. Telephone con- nection at office and residence
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
The Greatest Service

You will do the greatest services to the state if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens; for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses than for mean slaves to turk in great houses.-Epictetus.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11

be a man?" said I. Brace up," an- swFred he, ''vvhy, how can I when every one says: Come and have a drink, and saloon confronts me at every ateR I know was once top-notcher, and have the mental capacity to be so agHin, but I lack the strength; perhaps you call it the moral courage. ."Ihe J60Tnalfst.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
No Municipal Ownership for Kelly's Rooster.

A city that gives its people good streets and keeps them clean, first class sewerage system, police de- partment that we fear and respect, a school system well looked after, a fire department that sleeps with one eye open, and water plant that will furnish us with pure water is doing all the work that city was ever in tended to do.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
Need 0f Chriaf

Men need Christ to-day in their sins, sorrows, sufferings and disap- pointments. Only few can see the transfguration glory, but all can feel the uplifting service.-Rev. c. F. Smith.
The weekly examiner., 1901-05-11
KELLY'S

Chocolate Chips. You know alI about these so have only to men
 ton that-I have them fresh every afternoon. The snappy brittleness and well preserved flavor of these thin confections has given them an immense circulation. ~
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-03-30
CLYBURN-HEATH MULE CO.

McNssl, d E Finley, } Nj Starr,
j K Lindsay, Withers Adicke., j
A rstts, w w Lewis, j 5 Brics,
" Brown WyIis, G. w S Hart,
Harry | McCaw aud Thomas F
Mellow.
Exercises at tho graded school
and the Kings Mountain Military
school were suspended today and
the flags of two institutions was
placed at half mast in honor of
Judge Witherspoon. The Kings
Mountain Military accadsmy ca
diets attended the funeral in q
body with side arms A large
number of coIersd person, were
present, being mostly old servants
of the " itherspoon family and it.
connection.
Judge Witherspoon was laid
tenderly to rest in our city Gene
tory, and loft our community to
mourn the departure of = friend
indeed.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-03-30

Washington, March 27-Oficial
news of the capture Of AguinaIdo
had not reached the war depart
ment up to late hour tonight.
The president had retired before
the association Press bulletin ar
rived, and will hear the news for
the first time in tho morning.
The disposition of Aguin.ldo
will he an interesting one for the
administration to determine Tho
possibility of his capture at anv
time always has been kept in view
and that of his future has been a
matter of informal discussion bv
the off aials here. 1t is not be~
ueved, however, that any definite
line of action was ever determined
upon ia regard to the m ltt.r
The attitude OF tho government
for long time past has been one
of comparative indifference to
Agninaldo's capture, it having
been determined to crush the
rebellion without regard to his
whereabouts. His recent activity
IN directing the course OF opera
tions against the American forces
probably brought about the recent
change in this attitude.
As the leader OF an insurrection
against tho United States Aguinal> =
do may be tried and executed, 4
lesser punishment meted out to
him by executive clsmsncy or
complies amnesty sx.sndsd. While
the question of punishment rests
with the military authorities 1t is
believed the president will make
the natter one for determination
by tho authorities hsrs.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1901-03-30
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