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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1893. _ - r-? ----- 4> VOL. LVIII. NO. 39. JL J-J. \y Kym ry . AJLLMUVJ CORRESPONDENCE [For the ADVERTISER. Gov. Tillman the Hope of Farm ers all Over the South-Inter esting: Letter from, an Old Correspondent. PEABODY NORMAL COLLEGE, ) NASHVILLE, TENN*., March 19. ) MR. EDITOR: It gives me much satisfaction to again write you a few Hues for publication in your valuable paper, a paper which I value secon'l to none for its fair ness and truthfulness on all mat ters. Our college is moving smoothly along with its great work. The students are beginning so look for ward to their vacation which will come in a little over two months. They speak of returning home with joy in the ver}* utterance of the words. But notwithstanding these joyful anticipations there is in ever}* bosom a lingering fear of those hard examinations that will come before they are set free. The president of John Hopkins University came around the other day and gave us a lecture. He is a man of science and speaks well on educational subjects. The John Hopkins University is said to be the highest institution of learning in this country at present. I felt surprised when our chancellor in formed us that it ranked higher than Harvard or Yale. The outlook at this time isthat the whole of the Peabody funds will be centered upon this college in 1S97. The trustees are looking over the South for the best place -the place at which these fund* can be best utilized. If they choose this college as the most appropriate place, it will simply give her a "send-off," and make her a uni versity second to none in the .United States. The Peabody Col lege and University already has a fine reputation all over the South. A person can't get a diploma from this college unless he is able to stand under lb, r.nd this is what --bu Udsjinjhej?putation ..of an in-. stitution of learning. We have three literary societies for young men. Strict parliamen tary rules are observed in them ; this is of great advantage to young men, inasmuch as it trains them how to appear before public assem blies in the most graceful manner. I notice that politics is the agitating question in South Caro lina still. It seems as if our peo ple know not how to appreciate well doing. They must always have dissensions. When the negro remains silent they quarrel among themselves. Such is a deplorable condition of affairs. There has never been a Governor that worked harder for the people than Gov ernor Tillman. I acknowledge that he ha.3 tried to help the farmer and the poor man, but is this not what government is for? Do we not have a government iu order that the strong may not oppress the weak? There can be no nobler aim in any man's bosom than to do his best to promote "equal rights to all." There never was a man who began a great work that escaped the bitter tongue of those who lie in wait to malign anything that does not forward their own selfish ends. But Governor Till man has come to stay; if he him self does not, ho will live in his successor, He is not only known in South Carolina, but his name is familiar to farmers who are look ing forward to better times all over the South. May the good work continue ! VAN STAR. "An Unmitigated Falsehood." Greenville News. A friend of Senator Butler, living in Greenville count}-, re cently directed the Senator's atten tion to an editorial comment in this newspaper on an article pub lished in the News and Courier from a Northern newspaper ac cusing Senator Butler and Camer on of log-rolling, vote swapping, etc. The following reply has been received from Senator Butler : "It is amazing that a respecta ble newspaper will publish such absurd slanders on no other authority than that they are taken 'from a Northern newspaper. "The Greenville News and the News and Courier must be ex tremely .anxious to make a point against me by giving currency to such a falsehood. "I voted for Mr, Pecknm's con firmation for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court because he was shown to bo qualified for the posi tion. I had no patronage to ask the Pr?sident in exchange for r vote. The subject of the confira: tiau of Mr. Peckham was ne\ discussed betwsen the Preside and myself, and implies a ve poor opinion of the integrity ai honesty of the President and m self to suggest such a dishonorab transaction. The statement as Senator Cameron and myself is baseless a falsehood as the oth( Mr. Cameron voted according the dictates and judgment of h own conscience, and I did lik wise. Therefore, the author of tl charge, as to . both of us, is simp' au unmitigated falsehood, mat of the whole cloth. "If you see flt you may reque the Greenville News and the Cha leston News and Courier to pul lish this note. As they have bot been the medium of giving pul licity to a gratutious slander, I as sume they will comply with yoi request. Very truly 3'ours, M. C. BUTLER. A Rooster in tlie Pulpit. Ou a recent Sunday morning, s says the New York Tribune, "th Rev. Dr. Tyndall, of the Croom StJeet Tabernacle, in this citj decided to preach a sermon to hi flock showing how the dev: hypnotizes people. And it occure< to him that some striking illustra tion of this fact in demonolog would be very impressive. 0 course, th*? best possible illustra tion would be the devil himsei shown in the act of hypnotizing but for many reason the docto was unable to secure the service of that nether personage. He has however, been illustrating his ser mons for som^ months past and ii therefore, not easily daunted. S< he procured a large, able-bodie( rooster, and at the proper point i? his sermon placed it on a horizon tal blackboard. Then he held its bill down on the board, and fron it drew ach'alk line. Tho inciden mightily puzzled the rooster, which stood in a trance, looking'at.thc doctor, who then announced thal sinners were hypnotized by thc devil in just the same way. While this illustration doubtless im pressed the preacher's point on thc people, it is opeu to one criticism It made it necessary for Dr Tyndall, fer the time being, tc enact the part of the devil, s character which we are sure is ab horrent to that good man's nature. At Sea on an Ice Floe. Recently the lifeboat society at Cronstadt received news that to ward the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, about 30 miles from Cronstadt, some 200 fishermen and passants, with their horses and sleighs, had'been suddenly carried out to sea on a large ice floe, which had been detached apparently by a recent storm. The ice-cutting boats at Cronstadt were laid u.p for the winter, and could not be used. T Ken ty sailors, however, with two officers and assistant surgeons, were dispatched over the ice with two lifeboats on runners, and a similar party started to the rescue from Oranlenbaum, on the other side of the mouth of the Neva. The latest telegrams from Cronstadt state that the fishermen and others have been found and all rescued by means of a bridge made of poles and planks' which was thrown out from the firm ice. They had been rCut off from the mainland foi at least 48 hours, during the latter part of which provisions were passed over them by the inhabitants of the nearest shorn. The Columbia Register says that the coining campaign will be the hottest that the State has ever experienced. The main interest will settle around the contest be tween Butler and Tillman for the United States Senatorship. The Register says Senator Butler is re sorting to every means to secure his election, while Gov. Tillman is Hitting serent ly in his office let tiug things take their course. Till man, it says, will let Butler do the wire pulling and the mano-uvering while he will simply commit his case to his friends, those who fol low between the plow handles. It indeed promises to be a very in teresting campaigu. This is the soason of the year whor. the farmers' mind stubbornly contemplates the purchase of farming imptements, and other necessities in the hardware line. As usual Ramsey & Bland have prepared to meet pvery demand along that line. Visit their store before laying in your supply. THEY DANCED ALL MT. TILL DAY LIGHT AND COULD NOT CUT A FIGGER. THE FIDDLER ALWAYS GAVE NOTICE When There Was to be a Scrim . asre-A Few Incidents That Didn't Disturb Any body in Particular. The party was--given at a farm house, and about thirty couples were present, said the Toledo Blade. I told the farmer when I first arrived the ,1 should depend upon him to give me at least five minutes' notice before any shoot ing began, and be replied : .'I'll do it. I shall be watching out, and I thing I can give yo' plenty of time to get out of range." "There will be shooting, of course?" '.Oh, certainly. The boys would feel that they had slighted me if there waen't a row." "What do tho woman folks do when the shooting begins?" "Sit right down on the floor till it's all over. Don't be a bit oneasy. I'll give ye' plenty of warnin." There was only one fiddler, and he was also the caller, says the Detroit Free Press. His calls puzzled me at first, but no one else appearance to mind it as he drawled : "Right and left on the head, and Bill Taylor don't want to drop .that revolver on the floor! Balance four and half promenode, and Jim Henderson bas a knife in his boot leg! Ladies change, and Luke Wil iams is aching to pick a fuss with Tom Bebee! All balance to partners, and when the 6hootin' begins please remember that the fiddler never takes sides !" We had been dancing about au hour, and everybody seemed to be thoroughly good-natured and at peace with.all. mankind, when the rarrner necKonea to me ana wnis pered : "I said I'd give yo' five minutes' warnin,' but I'm two minutes' be hind time ! Break for the barn !" I broke, but was not over thirty thirty feet from the door when the shootiug began, It lasted about five minutes, and I cautiously re turned to the house to hear the fiddler calling in the same old monotonous voice : "Take partners for Virginia reel and don't make sich a fuss over three men wounded ! First lady and gent forward and back, and Bill Taylor has gone after a doctor ! Forward again and sasha, and somebody attend to that gal in hysterics ! Swing with the right now with the left, and if this isn't the most successful dance of the season, then you folks needn't pay me a cent!" An Interview with Gov. Tillman. Baltimore Sun. The Governor was asked if the report was true that he would be a candidate for the United States Senate against Senator Butler. "Most assuredly, I shall," he re plied. "I shall not be a candidate for renomination or re-election as Governor of the State. Whether there will be other., candidates be sides Gen. Butler and myself I cannot say. Politics is so uncer tain that it is difficult at this stage of the contest to say if there will be other aspirants." "Do you anticipate a lively cam paign?" "All campaigns in South Caro lina are lively and I assume that the next one will be no exception to the rule. The primaries for the election of the members of the Legislature which will elect the Senator will be held in August. The chief contest will occur I sup pose at the primaries. Gen Butler and myself not only reside in the sar^e county, but in the same town ship, and there will no doubt be a spirited contest by each of us to carry our county, "lt will not be a mud-slinging campaign. Gen Butler has declared his aversion to such a procedure. But if he or hi3 friends throw mud at me I guess I can find some to throw back." "Do you expect any bloodshed, as has been intimated?" .'Not at all. There is no ne cessity for any. We are getting along pretty well down in our State without it, and I see no reason why our amicable relations should not continue. I am not, however to be intimidated or bulldozed by any threats. I went through a campaign of that character when I was first elected Governor and es caped, notwithstanding the namer ous threats." "How is your State dispensary system succeeding?" "Very well, indeed. Thus far the ?tatehas derived about $100,000 and the several counties about $75.000. It is a magnificent plan and is bound to succeed in every respect. I wish vou to understand that all of our contests in South Carolina are conducted strictly within the lines of the Democratic party, and that we do not solicit any Republican or Populist aid or any aid from the Federal Govern ment." Governor Tillman left for homje to night. IT WAS IRBY WHO FAINTED. It was Senator Irby, and not thj Governor, who fainted at the Capitol yesterday. The Gover nor says he is not one of the fain ting kind. Knives and Forks. Thc Quarterly Review. As regards table furniture, forijs we know were not in general u^ until the seventeenth centnry/, thouglfas early as the thirteenth we find instances of gold and sil ver ones being kept for special purposes. Six silver forks and one of gold occur among the list of thfc valuables of Edward I. John Dukfe of Brittany is mentioned as using one to pick up "soppys," and Piers Gaveston had three for eating pears with. The custom, howevaLL was considered an effeminate^, one,'1 and ? for the general acconi modalion of' guests nothing biit trencherSjUapkins, and spoons were supplied ; knives-a broad knife': and a narrow one-were indeed, laid by tho pantler on the high table along with the bread and salt but these were for the use of tia! attendants only in cutting and re moving pieces of bred. For cutting up their own .me??i the guests ha,d. recourse to J????' ih?y Themselves wore, ana -?fie carver carried his. which were a particular pattern, in a case. A very handsome set of carver's knives, with handles of ivory and silver, may be seen in the British Museum. Monkeys and Snakes His Diet. The Rev. Keneira Vaughan, brother of the Cardinal of London and a member of a famous Eng lish family, has sailed for Liver pool after a flying visit in'the in terests of his religious society to ?l?xico. This priest spent fifteen years of his life in South America, being much of his time in the wilderness, where he slept in the tops of trees and dined on snakes, monkey soup, and jaguars. He numbered among his friends men like Garcia Moreno, of Ecuador, and the Archbishop of Quito, and lived to see the former etabbed to death in the streets of his own capital, and the latter poisoned at the altar from the sacred cup by the revolutionists. He was in prison as a spy, and barely escaped being shot as such more than once. Rev. Jasper, of Richmond, Va., the colored brother who believes that the "Sun do move," has been taking lessons of the Higher Critics and he is an apt scholar. We commend to Bro. Briggs and Dr. Harper, of Chicago, tho following original and unique explanation of the story of Jonah : "Dat country war a sea shoah, and' de hotels dey was named aftah de tings ob de 3ea, Dali was de Sailors' Rest, de Mariners' Rest de Seafarihg Man's Home, and a lot ob sich places as you kin find 'em at Norfolk now. Among dese places was one called de Whale's Belly. Jonah come along, an' he didn't bab no scrip in his purse. He staved there three days and when de landlady found ho didn't bab any money she spewed him out. It is gib to us to show how when we don't treat a man right kase he's pore wo may be kickin an angel unawars !" If. would delight you to view and review the boan ti ful lines of harness which Ramsey it Bland, received this week. Magnificent is the word. Don't forget that Ramsey & Bland deal in hard ware and farm implements. They defy competi tion. Their store is calculated lo please all tastes. An elegant lino of furniture al ways on hand and for sale at bottom ligures at Ramsey & Bland's. UNREST OF FARMERS IMPORTANT PAPER BY DR JOHN MERIWETHER, OF JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY He is an Edgeiield Boy-The Cas< Impartially Presented-Con flict Between Urban and Rural Communities. The farmer movement goes bael to the beginning of city life anc rests on the struggle between urbar and rural communities. Social eas? and readiness make the dwell er in towns ridicule the "country crackers" and "country jakes.' This raillery and contempt typify the contents always going on. The farmer is undoubtedly over reached by his city competitor, but he has no just ground for com plaint except in these cases where the governing powers aid the mu nicipalities to fleece him. He hag loudly sounded his grievance against middlemen-commission dealera-but he has here no cause to murmur except at his own ob stinacy and ruinous independence, He can co-operate with his neigh bors and ship to an appointed agent and reap all the profits him self. If he will not adopt this plan of combining against the tacit combinations of cities then he will have to stew in his ignorant fumes until poverty brings him to his senses. The standard of life is higher in cities and the man in town has a commanding position in the higgling in the markets. . Undoubtedly trusts are a heavy discrimination against the farmer. No "combine" can raise the price of his wheat, his beef, or his cattle for him, and yet nearly every im plement he buys has a fictitious value on it, and it is put there mainly through the aid of the gov erning power. Trusts rest on two i&mBa tho tari ff rjid D?tente; Both of these are a matter of legal regu lation. In such instances the farmer has his only genuine griev ance, a grievance against his gov ernment because it extends special favord to some. Legislation is sc often for special classes, with a sor. now and then to the great bulk ol the people-the patient agricul tural masses. The halls and corri dors of the capitol at Washingtoc are being worn smooth by the pro tectionists crowding and clamoring for pet schemes, but the solid tread of the plowman is never heard there. It is only when the supreme au thority that we all support tumf ita beneficent rays upon a chosei: few that the farmer should raise his voice in protest outside of gov ernment interference; his contesi with cities is on an unequal plane and if he is beaten by cunning and compact voluntary organiza' tion he can only blame himself foi not uniting into an industria! army. But when his representa' tives are hoodwinked and barn bcozled by shrewd lobbyists anc imposing delegations and cooked' up petitions to pass statutes tha' gently but mercilessly filch fron his pockets the hard earnings o: his labor, then he has a righteoui cause of indignation. He has mado an outcry abou his mortgages, but their amoun and number only show his distress Under our present social and in dustnal system he has no basis o attack in this matter, as ho freely assumed those obligations uncle the law of supply and demand The holding of these claims s< largely by Eastern capitalists 01 Southern and Western farms is ai unfortunate occasion for the de velopment of a sectional feeling But the farmer claims that hi chief burden comes from havinj to help carry other vocations tba the government looks on with par tial eye. The establishment o banks is peculiarly facilitated am great power is put iii their hands The expensive requirements m ak such a business hopelessly beyom the reach of nearly every farme in the land. Their control ove the volume of currency is com plete. Such sway is too potent fo evil to be delegated to anc t he agency. But it is on the silver questioi that thc farmer of tho South an< West is stirred most deeply am resentfully. Ho knows only toi well that there has been a sad fal in the prices of commodities sine the demonetization of silver by the . leading nations of the world. He argues that this fall >s because of . the previous government action, and no one can disprove this. He has not lost heart in his fight for . free silver. He has got his second wind. The repeal law last fall no more ended the strife than Cleve land's defeat in 188S was the death of tariff reform. But the strongest counts in his indictment against the govern ^ ment are connected with the gen 1 eral appropriations and the rail I road question. In the past cides . have been created by the breath of , rulers. St. Petersburg has sprung , out of the marshes of the Baltic. Berlin has taken on a second growth through the confederation of Germany. What is Washington . itself but the stroke of a Presi ; dent's pen? How much have the vast sums voted by Congress aided in the upbuilding of New York? 1 Then add millions that have been put into public buildings, into i river and harbor improvements, i The half million people in Balti I more have public buildings many times the value of such structures in a rural community of the samo population down South or out ? West. Of course in all wise inter . nal improvements the farmer in ? directly gets the benefits, but the . profits-which are sometimes enor I mons-all go to urban contractors and dwellers. We must have these expenditures, but they ought to be as widely distributed as possible. The congestion of people at a few points is a pretentious evil and the engine of domination should be careful not to encourage this cen tralization. In the postoifice there is much tender solicitude to serve the city patron. A carrier brings his mail before breakfast and keeps up his kind visits all through the day. But the farmer, who at bottom pays for at least half of this lux ury, can plod through slush and snow in winter, heat and dust in i summer for one, three, five, ten, is some need for an energetic wholesale merchant to receive his letters three or four times a day, I but no ono can eatisfnctorily ex plain why deliveries should be made oftener than once a day in . the resident portions of a large city. The average friendly letter is a very airy affair, and it is safe to say that not more than one in a million of them grows stale by be ing a day older. If a country j family can wait not one day, hui , one week, or one month for such gassamy nothings, surely a city family ought to be satisfied with one daily mail. The money thus i saved could be spread for botter 1 advantages in the farming dis tricls. I If a farmer wants a book he must pay postage at the rate of 8 cents r a pound. On cheap paper-bound volumes this is a very serious ad r ditional percentage. But people I in cities have the bookstore and . can buy without a cent of postage. . Efforts have been made to reduce I the postage, but the express lobbies . have always been strong enough to t head off the farmer. For millions 1 of these farmers the only higher f education they can get is to read 3 good literature. Literature is a university itself. Public schools are freo and the mails ought to be . as near free as possible. Thc farmer has absolutely no - safe means of sending money f through the mails. At his little ? neighborhood postoflice he can get r no money order. Ile musi trust [. his mojey to a registered letter, D and if this is lost the postal offi a cials complacently try to trace the a loss, but very seldom or ever do. - But in cities a man can obtain a ;. money order and be guaranteed s against even a shadow of loss. = But the evil of evils far the farmer is the railroad. It was against this enemy that he first organized, and this is the most i vulnerable point of assault to-day. The farmer ?stied to one spot and 6 sells all his crops at one eeason. Ho is bound hand and foot and r cast into the lion's den of shifting r railway rates. Compi tition in rates for him is a malodorous fail r ure. The grangers made the first r move for breaking up tho feudalis tic regime of transportation bose Q ism. Thc keynote sounded then 1 has furnished tho strain to the } present. The farmer's only salva 0 tion is in government ownership 1 or strict government supervision, e The railroads carno from the gov Brnment and they can be controll 3d by the government. The farmers'movement has been sneered at and abused as social istic and anarchistic. But the farmer is neither a socialist nor an anarchist. He is of all men the conservative member of so ciety. He does not ask for equality }f distribution, but he does ask for equity of treatment. He does ?ot want revolution, but he does vant reform. C. MERIWETHER. John Hopkins University. THE (ML WHO WAITS. How a Young Man ina Street Car Interested Seven Woman. In a street car the other day was i young man and seven women, iays the Detroit Free Press. The roung man was in that condition ?mown as befuddled, and as the :ar rolled along he began to con verse with himself, starting out nth: "It was a wild night The vind noaned and the raindrops had a lobbing sound. I was lonely and ?ould not rest. He spoke so loudly that all m he car could hear him. Three of he women at once became inter ned but the other four simply glanced at him and turned away igain. "At 8 o'clock I rung the door Dell" continued the young man, 'and was instantly admitted and ihown into the parlor and told hat Miss Sweetbrier would be down n a moment. The dear girl was fvidently expecting me." "Three woman were doubly in erested at this juncture while the >ther four pricked up their ears md prepared to pay attention and wondered if they had not lost a ;ood thing. "She came down-my darling 31ara. She never looked more )eautiful. She greeted me warmly -aye 1 lovingly-and I retained 1er hand as I led her to the sofa ; m which we had sat and passed lamanYiovingJiQujis..'.'^.^_ lire..entire seven women we^er ~ low so deeply interested lhat none >f them saw a runaway horse ;o by, and two of them hitched ?loser to the young man. "After awhile," he said in amus ing voice and his eyes on his toes. 'I put my arm around her slender ?vaist aud she laid her golden head jpon my shoulder with the sweet lonfidence of a child. It was a noment of supreme happiness." The two women who had hitched oefore now hitched again, and the 5ve others followed suit, and all }f them wanted to kill the news 3oy who opened the door and ?houted his wares. "I saw the light of love in her ?yes. I dared to press my lips to tier maiden eheek. I knew that she was mine-mine forever. That is she was mine if I wanted her. Ah ! that hour of happiness. Will [ ever forget it!" The conductor looked in to see ?even women craning their necks ind their eyes betraying the great est anxiety. They were now so ;lose to the young man that no me could hitch nearer. .'She waited for me to speak," be went on, opening and closing bis eyes, as if sleepy, "but I was too happy. I didn't want to break the spell. Besides, how can I sup port a wife on $8 per week? Be sices I don't want to get married. The dear girl is still waiting." "What ! Didn't you ask her to be your wife?" demanded ono of the fru?ales as she rose up with crimson face. "No'in. Too happy. Told her I'd call s'm'other night. Eight dollars a week only buys my soda water and cigars, and how'm I go in' to sup-?" Seven feminine hands motioned to the conductor to stop, and one after another seven women dropped off thc car and webt their ways with angry looks and compressed lips, while the young man nodded and nodded and muttered : "What happiness! She waited for me lo speak, but I was too hap py. She's waiting yet. Lot'er wait-I'm goin' to sleep !" WTI?T BURNETT Successor to GEO. B. LAKE, CYCLONE & FIRE INSURANCE. Office over Bank of Edgefield. Peterkin-Cluster. PETERKIN-CLUSTEK COTTON SEED, for sale or exchange. Ap ply to R. H. BUTLER, Edgefleld, S. C. or ADVERTISER Office. FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. SELECTED. There isn't a bit of religion in self piety. . The man who fears God. fears nothing else but sin. Temptations resisted are step ping stones to heaven. The sun is always shining to the man who walks by faith. We all hate self, when we see it crop out in somebody else. The man who will say a mean thing will sooner or later do one. To be coLtented with what we have is about the same as to own the earth. Don't worry about the opinions of others, but live so that you can always respect yourself. When the forenoons of life are wasted there is not much hope of a peaceful and faithful evening. When capital and labor come together at the cross then, and not till then, will the world have peace. Christianity says "Love .your neighbors as yourself." Society says "First find out what he is worth." There is nothing like the love of God for putting true courage in the heart. Every deed is the child of a creed. Love to God and love to man is the key to tb>, solution of all the vexed problems which confront the world at the close of the nineteenth 3entury. The most thrilling and majestic sight on earth is to see a soul turu round "face the light," confess its sins and acknowledge Christ as a Savior, even though the flesh re bels, tho affections clamor, the devil tempts, and the world sneers, . to see the will assert its supremacy and say 'I -will.' " Ah 1 that is the victorious battle ground ot the ?j Union Meetings. The Union meeking of first divi sion of the Edge leid Association will meet with the Gilgal Church at 10 A. M. on Saturday before the fifth Sunday in April. Introductorv sermon by Rev. J. L, Ouzts or P.*P. Blalock. Charity sermon by Rev. J. S. Jordan or J. P. Mealing. SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION. 1. The establishment of a high school in our Union. Speakers, Rev. P. P. Blalock and W. H. Yel dell. 2. Is singing given enough im portance in our church worship? Speakers, Rev. J. S. Jordan and R. T. Strom. The following were appointed to write essays on religious topics of their own selection : Mrs. Lula Thomas, Miss Kate Strom, E. E. McDowell, and J. C. Deunan. M. B. BYRD,JR., Clerk. The Union meeting of the 2nd division of the Edgefield Associa tion will convene with the Reho both Baptist Church of Christ on Saturday before the fifth Suuday in April, at 10 A. M. Mission sermon, by Rev. G. II. Burton; alternate, Rev. G. W. Bussey. Sunday-school mass meeting. Speakers, E. G. Morgan, Jimmie Gilchrist, W. P. Seigler, A. J. Mc Daniel, and P. H. Bussey. QUERIES. 1. Is it not calculated to do harm for a person who has led a wicked life to .repeat his past wicked ac tions? Speakers, P. H. Buspey. J1 M. Garnett, Chas. Quarles. 2. Does not moderate drinking impair a Christian's influence for good? Speakers, W. H. Nixon, 0. J. Prince. Jessie Prince. 3. Is not dishonesty among pro fessors of religion doing as much to hinder the progress of Chris tianity as any of the evils of our day? Speakers, J. F. Edmonds, A. J. McDaniel, T. P. Robertson. 4. Is it advisable for this Union to appoint speakers for each meet ing to discuss claims of thc Bap tist Orphanage and to take collec tions for same at the close of dis cussion? Speakers, W. R. Parks, T. P. Robertson, E. G. Morgan. 5. Have Baptist churches the right to require candidates for ad mission into church fellowship to claim regeneration before receiving them. Speakers, J. W. Johnson, Rev. G. H. Burton, Rev. G. W. Bussey. L. F. DORN, Mod'i. S. E. FREELAND, Sec'ty,