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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SIPTEME ALL CHAINS CAN BE BROKEN. DR. TALMAGE'S FERVID SERMON AT TB BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. 4iambling, Drinking, Smoking, Infidelity, Uncleanliness, Avarice and Irreligion Are All Links in the Chain of Sin Which Shackles the Mind and Soul. An unusually large congregation at tended the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sun day. The Rev. Dr. Talmage .never preached with greater vigor. He took for his text, Ezekiel vii., chap. 23, "Make a chain." Having spoken of the :many uses to which chains were adapted and its symbolic character, the golden chains that were used as gems of honor in older ages, he said: "What I wish to impress upon myself and upon you is the- strength in right and wrong directions, of consecutive forces, the superior power of a chain of influences above one influence, the great advantage of a congeries of links abve - one link, and in all family government and in all effort to rescue others and in all attempt to stop iniquity, take the on of my text and make a chain. which contains the greatest im portance, that which incloses the most tremendous opportunities, that which, 'of earthly things, is most watched by 'other worlds, that which has beating -against its two sides all the eternities, is the cradle. The grave is nothing in im portance compared with it, for that is 'only a gully that we step across in a :second; but the cradle has within it a new eternity, just born and never to ieesse. "When, three or four years ago, the <Ohio River overflowed its banks and the wild freshets swept down with them sharvests and.cities, one day was found ufloating on the bosom of the waters a cradle with a child in it, all unhurt, wrapped up sung and warm, and its blue eyes looking into the blue of the open heavens. It was mentioned as some thing extraordinary. But every cradle is, with its young passenger, floating on the swift current of the centuries, deep calling to deep, Ohios and St. Law rences and Mississippis of influence, bearing it onward." Having spoken of and pointed out the smeans of properly educating and in .-truoting the young, Dr. Talmage went ..oa to show that so great were the temptations to which young men were .open and the social follies of young " women that the first eighteen years of their life should be tenderly cared for, he illustrated it by picturing the wan dering of a young man through wild anes and dissipation, but the molding of whose home life and instruction still c.ling to him. "What a rough time that young man has in doing wrong," said Dr. Talmage, -"carefully nurtured as he was! His father and mother have been dead for years, or they are over in Scotland, or England or Ireland; but they have stood :in the doorway of every dram shop that he entered, and under the chandelier of every house of dissipation, saying: 'My eon, this is no place for you. Have you forgotten the old folks? Don't you recognize these wrinkles, and this stoop in the shoulder, and this tremulous hand? Go home, my boy, go home! By the God to whom we consecrated you, by the cradle in which we rocked you, by the grass-grown graves in the old country churchyard, by the heaven where we hope yet to meet you, go home! Go home, my boy, go home!' And some Sunday you will' be surprised to find that young man suddenly ang for the prayers of the church. Some Sunday you 'will see him at the Sacra ment, and, perhaps, drinking from the sege kind of chalice that the old folks drank out of years ago when they com meamorated the sufferings of the Lord. Yes, my lad, you do not have so much fun in am as yon seem to have. I know what spoils your fun. You cannot shake off the influences of those prayers long ago oflered, or of those kind admoni tions. "At last that yong man turns through the consecutive influences of a pious paetage, -who oa4- of prayers-an -dlties innumerable made a chain. That is the chain that pulls mightily this morning on five hundred of you. "~The-Arst chain bridge was built in Bcotland," said the pastor, after de scribing a weak link in the chain of life. "Walter Scott tells how the French -imitated it in a bridge across the River Seine. But there was one weak point in that chain bridge. There was a mid dle bolt that was of poor material, but theydid not know how much depended -on that middle bolt of the chain bridge. On the opening day a procekssion starited, led on by the builder of the bridge, and - 'when the mighty weight of the proces ~sion was fairly on it, the bridge broke and precipitated the multitudes. The i bridge was all right except in that mid ,dle bolt. So the bridge of character .may be made up of mighxty links strong enough to hold a mountain, but if there be one weak spot, that one point un looked after may oe the destruction of everything. "And what multitudes have gone down for all time and all eternity be eause in thechbain bridge of their char acter there was lacking a strong middle bolt. He had but one fault and that was avarice; hence, forgery. He had but one fault and that was a burning thirst for intaxicants; hence, his fatal debauch. She had but one fault and that an inordinate fondness for dress, and hence her own and her husband's bankruptcy. She had but one fault and that a quick temper; hence the disgrace ful outbulrst. What we all want is to have put around us a strong chain of good intinences. Christian anociation is a link. Good literature is a link. Church membership is a link. Habit of prayer isa link. Scripture research is a -ik Faith in God is alink. Put to gether all these infiuences. Make a chain!" 1)r. Talmage then spoke of how a link was made on the downward path, and with characteristic humor described it. "First let him smoke, he said. "It he cannot stand cigars, let him try cigarettes. Let him drink light wine or ale or lager, and gradually he will be able to take something stronger, and as all styles of strong drink are more and more adulterated, his progress will be facilitated. With the old-time drinks a man seldom got delirium tremens be fore 30 or 40 years of age; now he can get the madness by the time he is 18. Let him play cards, enough money put up always to add interest to the game. If the father and mother will play with him that will help by way of counten ancing the habit. Have a membership in some club where libertines go and tell about their victorious sins, and laugh as loud as any of them in derision of those who belong to the same sex as your sister and mother. "Pitch your Bible overboard as old fashioned and fit only for women and children. Read all the magazine articles that put Christianity at disadvantage, and go to hear all the lectures that malign Christ, who, they say, instead of being the Mighty One he pretended to be, was an imposter and the implanter of great delusion. Go, at first out of curiosity, to see all the houses of dissi pation, and then go because you have. felt the thrall of their fascination. Get ting along splendidly now. Become more defiant of all decency, more loud mouthed in your atheism, more thor oughly alcoholized, and instead of the small stakes that will do well enough for games of chance in a ladies' parlor, put up something worthy, put up more, put up you have. Well done. You have "You have made a chain-the tobacco habit one link, the rum habit one link, the impure club another link, infidelity another link, Sabbath desecration anoth er link, uncleanliness another link, and altogether they make a chain. And so there is a chain on your hand, and a chain on your foot, and a chain on your tongue, and a chain on your eye, and a chain on your brain, and a chain on your property, and a chain on your soul. Some day you wake up and you say, 'I am tired of this, and I am going to get loose from this shackle.' You pound away with the hammer of good resolution, but cannot break the thrall. Your friends join you in a conspiracy of help, but fall exhausted in the unavail ing attempt. "Now you begin, and with the writh ing of a Laoooon, to try to break away, and the muscles are distended, and the great beads of perspiration dot your forehead, and the eyes stand out from their sockets, and with all the concen trated energies of body, mind and soul you attempt to get loose, but have only made the chain sink deeper. All the devils that encamp in the wine flask and the rum jug and the decanter-for each one has a devil of its own-come out and sit around you and chatter. In some midnight you spring from your couch and cry: 'I am fast. 0 God, let me loose! 0 ye powers of darkness, let me loose! Father and mother and brothers and sisters, help me to get loose!' And you turn your prayer to blasphemy, and then blasphemy into prayer, and to all the din and uproar there is played an accompaniment, not an accompaniment by key and pedal, but the accompani ment is a rattle, and the rattle is that of a chain. For five years, for ten years, for twenty years you have been making a chain. "Is there a drunkard here?" asked Dr. Talmage. "You may, by the Saviour's grace, have that fire of thirst utterly extinguished. Is there a de frauder here? You may be made a saint. Is there a libertine here? You may be made as pure as the light. When a minister in an outdoor meeting in Scotland was eulogizing goodness there were hanging around the edge of the audience some of the most depraved men and women, and the minister said nothing about mercy for prodigals. And a depraved woman cried out: 'Yourrope is not long enough for the like of us.' Blssed be God, our Gospel can fathom the deepest depths and reach to the farthest wanderings, and here is a rope that is long enough to rescue the worst: 'Whosoever will.' "But why take extreme cases when we all have been or are now the captives of sin and death? And we may, through the great Emancipator, drop our shackles and take a throne. You have looked at your hand and arm only as being useful now and a curious piece of aatomy, but there is something about your hiand and arm that makes ime think they are an undeveloped wing. And if you would know what possibilities are uggeted by that, ask the eagle that has looked close into the eye of the noon dav sun. or ask the albatross that has struck its claw into the black locks of the tempest, or ask the condor that this morning is descending to the highest peak of Chimborazo. Your right hand and arm and your left hand and arm, two undeveloped wings, better getready for the empyrean." " ElIse, my soul, and stretch thy wing; Thy better portioni trace." The Wolf, the Fox and tha Lion. A Wolf one day Sought out a Fox who had been particularly Redommended to him for his Astuteness, and said: "I have passed the Lion on several Occasions, and he does not D)eign to Notice me." "And you want Revenge, of course?" "I do. I want to make His Heart Sad very Sad." "He is Honest in Business?" "Oh, yes." "Pays his Debts Promptly ?" "He does." "Goes to Church and keeps clear of Scandal?" "Yes." "And is too Strong for you to Attack?" "Exactly; you see howlI am Situated." "I do. There is but one way for yon to get Even. Pitch in and secure his Nomi nation for office, and then Lie about and Defeat him." It was shown during the Campaign that the Lion wasar Embezzler, Default er, Horse Thief, Liar and Sneak-that hit Father was a Convict and his Mother a Ballet D~ancer-thzat his Grandfathcr was Hung and his Brothers sent to Prison for Life, and he was duly Defeated. Detroit Free Press.__ The New York World observes: "The man who claims to be the young et war veteran in the country is Charles L. Stone, of Philadelphia. Ee was 14 years of age when he carried a gun at the battle of Gettysburg. At that battle he was woanded in the' arm by a rifle ball. Part of the 'funny bone' had to cut away, and he says that his apprecia tion of a joke is not as vivid as it should be. But he still has the humerus of his right arm. That ought to help him a good deal in keeping up with Ameri a wit." TALE OF A SAVAGE BRAVE. RED SHIRT TELLS OF MEN AND BABIES MURDERED. Right to Kill Women and Children in War-Bad Hearts from Troubled Brains A White Woman Captive--Wonderful In dian Revelation- Made to Whites. In reply to questions put up by a Post Dispatch correspondent, Red Shirt said his Indian's name was Ok-le-sa; that he was 41 years old and had been chief of his tribe elev -n years. When asked about the traditions of the Sioux he gave a brief outline of his tribe's history, 1 which was interpreted as follows: "The old men have told me that many ages ago the Lacotas (Sioux) lived here by the side of the great waters. They fought with other tribes who had many lodges a and great warriors, and long, long before the white men came they were driven toward the setting sun and made their homes beyond the Smoky Water (Mis- t sissippi River). How long ago this was I do not know; but I know it is true, for the old men have told me so. After a while the white men came into our ocuntry. They hunted buffalo and killed t antelope upon the plains. They came into the camps of the Lacotas and slept in their tepees. They were well treated, t for they were welcome. By and by more c white men came, and then they came thick. They took the Lacotas' land and 1 drove them from their hunting grounds. "Then the heart of the Lacotas got n bad, for their brains were troubled. They o thought everything would be taken from r them and their hearts were broken. They thought no land would be left for them t to live upon, so they began to fight. They took white men's scalps and the white men's tepees, and scalped their ' women and children. They fought for a many years, but the white men were too k strong. If an Indian got killed no Indian f came in his place; but the white men grew thicker all the time. The Lacotas a had no hope left, so they had to quit fighting and submit to the whites. There W will be no more wars between the white I men and the Lacotas, for the white men w are many and the Lacotas few." Bed Shirt then related how the trouble w began between the whites and his uncle, the noted Sioux chief, Young-Man- d Afraid-of-His-Horses. He said that about twenty-five years ago an emigrant train v was crossing the plains a short distance - from Fort Laramie. One of their steers a became lame, and it was left behind on the trail. In a short while a Sioux k hunting party came upon the abandoned steer and killed it. A few days after a e company of soldiers from Fort Larumie w came to the Sioux camp on the North 0 Platte to arrest the Indians who had k killed the steer. k The tribe refused to surrender them but offered to pay for the steer. A long wrangle followed, and finally the officer a in command of the troops made an f attempt to forcibly take the Indians s'4 whom he wanted. He charged upon the village; but he had miscalculated the i strength of the Sioux, for there were . many lodges behind a hill close-by which s he had not seen. The Indians fell upon n the troops on every side, and the com- I pany of thirty-two men were killed and scalped. The great Sioux chief Conq.uer- 0 ing Bear was killed in the fight, and the S interpreter, a Frenchman, was also killed. That night the Indians had a big scalp P ance, and a long, bloody war followed. g ed Shirt next told some of his personal 0 xperiences while on the warpath, and i poke of the men he had killed with as 0 uch apparent satisfaction as a hunter It would exhibit in relating his exploit~s. '* His first fight with the whites was twenty- E five years ago, and this was his version ~ f how the trouble came about. 0 A band of Cheyennes attacked an emi- Il grant train, and after killing all the men, k carried off a white woman captive. In u their wanderings over the plains they 8 met a party of Sioux, to whom the woman was sold, the chiefr, Two Face and Black f' Feet, paying two horses for her. After-|q ward a detachment of soldiers from Fort u Laramie came upon the Sioux band,.and, a: finding the woman in their possession,~ acused them of murdering the emigrants tl ad carrying off the woman. i T wo Face and Black Feet were tried ei nd hanged at Fort Laramnie, and the balance of the band to which they be- n longed were ordered to remove east of the Missouri River. They started out tl nder guard of two companies of sol- h diers, and got as far as the junction of aerse Creek and the North Platte before ny trouble occurred. Here some of the ~ndias who were in irons complained a of being tired, and that their legs were P swollen from the chafing of the iron ' bands. l They asked to be allowed to ride in one of the wagons, but the regnest was I refsed. Then all of the Indians gut angry and secretly concocted a plan to turn upon their guards at an unexpected moment. Just as the troops were pre-C paring to break camp on the following morning the Indians attacked them. Red Shirt killed the commandment of ~ the detachment, and this was the signal e for a general assault. The soldiers were completely taken by surprise, and five of their number wt re killed in the first a charge. The others saved themselves ~ by jumping in the river and swimming C ars. Two men were killed in the ~ water as they were trying to escape. After this fight the entire band of Sioux ! went on the warpath, and it was many ~ months before they surrende red. Red Shirt says he has made but one; attack upon a wagon train. This occurred at Pole Creek, in Montana, about nine teen years ago. A party of five men, t with three teams, were pushing their t way through the hostile country when they were discovered by Red Shirt's band. The Indians bore down on them, and, after their usual fashion, began to circle around to draw their fire. The doomed men abaadoned their teams and attempted to run to a high hill whichj was close by, but they were all shot down before they could reach the cover they were making for. Red Shirt thinks l the men were not experienced in Indian warfare or they would have kept under cover of their wagons instead of trying to reach the hill. The usually solemn looking chief smiled as he related thei easy task the Indians had in shootingj dow the men as they ran. T~he dad, men were scalped, the wagons destroyed md the mules driven off. Red Shirt has been in several bloody battles between his own tribe and the Dmahas on the Upper Missouri River, md he thinks they are better fighters han the white men. In speaking of ighters among his own people, he says hat Crazy Horse was the bravest man he )ver saw. He never went into a battle ithout taking a scalp, am daring his ife killed more than sixty men with his )wn hands. When asked about his own deeds, Red hirt seemed ashamed to admit that he iad no greater number of dead men on us list. He said that he had taken only light scalps in his life, five of these >eing of white men and the other three )maha Indians. His first scalp was that >f the officer whom he killed in the fight bt the junction of Horse Creek and the torth Platte River. When asked why the Sioux scalp those lain in battle, he gave the following easons: In former times the Sioux cut dff the heads of their viotmis, but when hey began to fight the white man they ook to scalping, the same as they saw he white man do. The scalp is taken as ndisputable evidence that a man has >een killed, and whenever an Indian rarrior recounts his bloody deeds he ust produce the scalp to prove that rhat he says is true. If he fails to do his he is not believed. The scalps are anally kept for a time and then thrown way. Some of the old men wear scalps n their shirts or leggings, and have hem buried with their bodies when they ie. In concluding his remarks on scalps, led Shirt said, with a touch of sadness a his expression: "I don't like to keep caps to look at them, for they always sake me think of fights in which some f my friends have been killed." In eply to the questions, "Are you sorry hat you have no opportunity to increase lie number of your sclps?" he said: "No, I am glad that war is at an end. 'hero are too many white men. The ndian must do as they say. I do not rant to see any more of my people illed. It is useless to shed their blood, >r in the end they must lose." "Why do you have scalp dances?" was sked. "When we come back from a big fight ith many scalps we make a big feast. ch man tells what he has done in the ar, and we rejoice. If we take no ;alps and have some of our people killed e come back sad and have no dance." "In the 'Omaha,' or war dance, what oes each man say in his song?" "He says: 'I have killed a man. I am ery glad. I have another scalp. I have - scalps now (mentioning the number), ad I am going to get some more.' " "Does an lndian feel bad when he ills a woman or child?" "No, not when he does it in war. Our aemies kill our wives and children and e do the same. If an Indian kills one f his own people he feels very bad, be mse it is wrong. It is not wrong to ill an enemy." "What is your idea of heaven?" At this question Red Shirt's face wsumed a very puzzled expression, and >r some minutes he seemed to be in a tdy. He then answered very slowly: I have heard the old men say that there a heaven somewhere above us. I have en many dead men; but all that I have en went down into the ground. I have aver seen any of them go up to heaven. don't know what becomes of them." This speech was greeted with grnnts approval all around the circle, and his >mark must have been funny in the ioux language, for all of the Indians resent laughed much more than they merally do. *Mr. William Irving, one the interpreters present, said that if e Sioux Indians had any conception heaven he had never been able to find out, although he is married to a Sioux oman and has lived for many years nong the tribe. He says they believe the existence of a God, and when one the tribe dies the relatives punish ~emselves by cutting their bodies with uives, and call on God to vent his wrath pen the living, to spare the departed irit5. Notwithstanding this, they tem to have no idea of any kind of ture existence. R~ed Shirt was last estioned as to the impressions made pon him during his stay in England, id his reply was a characteristic one. "I liked the people,".-said he, "because iey were good to me; I like them better an the people here, but this is my own >untry and I wanted to come back." During the interview Red Shirt did :t refuse to answer any of the questions hich were asked him, audit was evident at he tried to be accurate in everything a said. The Frenident Fishing. "He goes at it with ardor, rises early, 2d wants to be off as soon as necessary reparations are made. Frequently he ill run away, very early in the morning efore breakfast, while the other mem rs of the party are still in bed. And is luck in fishing is duec to the fact that e devotes his whole time to it, as he os to other things he tackles. He un erstanda the habits of game fish thor ughly, and takes as much pride in his ickle as the most devoted disciple of zaak Walton could desire. He knows Labout tackle, too, and insists on having verything just so, and once ho makes a at there is nothing in the world for im but fishing. He is never very talk ive, and af ter he has settled down for day's sport with rod and line he be oies even more silent than usual. Occa ionally he will look up and gaze around .im, especially if he is not getting many rikes, and make a remark in that sub ned, thoughtful tone habitual with uglers and hunters. When he gets a trike he seldom fails to land his fish. He Sa man of wonderfully steady nerve, s the politicians have learned, and when *e makes a move it usually means some ling. He is never reckless or willing to ike chances with a fish, but plays him arefully and skillfully, and when he :ets him just where he wants him it is I up with the Iish."-Waterbury Amen Captain Rlivers, of the ship A. G. topes, that recently left New York for ian Francisco reports from Providence own that while sailing with a six-knot ireeze from the east-northeast, the top pars suddenly began falling. There ras no perceptible change in the wind er atmosphere before or after the acci lent, and he can account for it only on he supposition that a whirlwind passed, ust high enough to strike the spars, of ibih he lost nineteen. CAUGHT BY TIlE COMBINE. THE PLANTERS CAN'T WHIP THE BAGGING TRUST THIS YEAR. Pine Straw and Osnaburgs May Take the Place of Jute in the Future-A Practical Test of Cotton Bagging for Cotton Bales at iew Orleans--A Factor's Advice to the Farmers. (From the News and Courier.) The cotton-growers of the South have certainly no reason to complain of the newspapers of the country, for, without exception, these have all taken sides against the Jute Bagging Trust. This is true of the newspapers North as well as those of the South. Even in distant Vermont the Legislature has called on Congress to abolish the duty on jute. The United States department of agri culture has interfered in their favor, the merchants generally are co-operating with them, the cotton factories have set to work to produce a cloth suitable for baling, and the underwriters suggest that more closely woven cotton bagging is superior to jute and less dangerous. The News and Courier has been at pains to describe every substitute for jute bagging that has been presented since the outrageous squeeze com menced, and has also given to its read ers the result of all the experiments that have been made. The only two substi tutes that have thus far given any promise of success are the osnaburg bagging from New Orleans and the pine straw fabric from Wilmington. As was stated in the News and Courier yester day, however, there is only one way in which these substitutes can be subjected to a thorough test, and the quicker this test is made the better for the farmer. In order to fill the bill a bale of cotton must be able to stand the compress, the cotton hook and the fire, and obviously the only way to test it is to try a bale of cotton baled with osnaburgs or pine straw. Alluding to the pine straw fabric, the Wilmington Star says: "An interesting experiment was made at the Exchange to test its inflammability as compared with jute bagging. A piece of each was igited at the same time with a match, sup left to burn. While the jute fibre burned freely and was entirely con sumed the pine fibre burned slowly, and inally the tire died out before scarcely any of it had been consumed." This was entirely at variance with the est made at the Cotton Exchange here, and the result of which was published in the News and Courier yesterday. In this experiment the conditions were ex atly reversed. The jute blazed up and went out at once, while the pine straw retained the fire which smouldered for ully fifteen minutes. It is proper to add that the experiment was conducted >y the representative of the News and Dourier, who visited Wilmington last rear, and wrote up the pine straw in lustry at Conly. But, it is repeated, the test was not a fair one. The pine straw will doubtless pass the compress and the cotton hook requirements. The only question now s as to its inflammability, and the only way in which that can be tested is to put up two bales of cotton, one in -jute ad one in pine straw; call in the under writers and apply the match. Of the Lane Mills osnaburgs the New )rleans Times-Democrat says: "The est made of the cotton bagging pro lued by the Lane Mills of this city, roved it to be the full equal in all re ~pects of the jute bagging, hitherto ~enerally used. It has been experi iented with until a material has finally een obtained, which will bear the oughest handling, can be jerked irond, headed and reheaded and ressed without danger of any :injury. )f its other advantages in keeping out he dirt and water we have already ipoken; while as to price it can and will e sold cheaper than the jute is now elling." The experiment is thus described by he Times-Democrat: "The trial began in the pickery. [here three bales of cotton were shorn )f their jute coverings and covered with ,otton cloth by means of an old hand worked press. The bagging was difl'er nt from that tried Wednesday. It was| ,omposd of heavier cords with largeri ~neshes, and averages thirteen ounces to the yard, After being reughly baled in the pickery it was rolled with hooks on to float and carted to the compress yard. kgain the ties were cut off. A bale was brucked into the jaws of the great ma ~hine. The jaws crunched together with mforce of 700 tons. The cotton was uade smaller and smaller, from four !eet to as ma~ny inches. Every thread as searched by anxious eyes for signs f bursting. There was no injury, and,~ is far as the pressing was concerned, the cloth was effective. But the tests were hardly begun. The bale was pulled from the press, rolled, headed, reheaded imost lifted by sheer muscle of stalwart negroes. Whore a hook was caught in the threads alone it at times, but not mlways, tore its way out; when the hook was gripped into the cotton staple, as is customary in handling it, the cords held irm, and and no unsightly tears re sulted, as is usually the case with jute bagging. Water was thrown on the sotton bagging. it rolled off, leaving ut little dampness behind. Another bucketful was emptied on a bale covered with jute. Every large mesh acted as a pore, through which the water got into the cotton and wet it to a depth much greater than in the case of the cotton overed bale. Then a practiced negro of magnificent strength planted his hook into the jute bagging of a bale, braced himself, and jerked. A long tear was the result. lie tried the same experi-. ment on the cotton cloth. It gave way, but the tear was only a few inches in length. All being satisfied with the uperiority of the Lane bagging, the bales, three in number, were carried to the scales and weighed. The first weighed 553 pounds, the second 427, the third 496. "The Lane Mills," says the Times Democrat, "can now turn out 12,000 yards a day, or 72,000 a week of this new bagging, enough to cover 7,000 bales. They alone can produce enough to break the power of the combine, and it is probable that Mr. Maginnis and others will begin the manufacture of the baging a early date. Samples of the cloth have been sent to some of thi planters in the country, in each cast enough to cover one bale, and it is like. ly that in a day or two some cotton will arrive dressed in the new.bagging. Ont of the beauties of the cloth that iti makers are proud of is the fact that after being used it is as useful as when new. Arrived in England it is already in the form of cord, and as such may be ap plied to many uses. It is good when second-hand for sacks of various kinds, and its utility becomes more appareni every day." As has been before said in the News and Courier, these substitutes, even if they are accepted by the powers that dictate the requirements of merchant able cotton, can hardly be available for this year's crop. There is but one power that cdh help the farmer now, and that is the Congress of the United States. If a resolution or bill could be passed at once admitting jute bagging free, the Trust would probably go to pieces. Like all other combines, it is an iniquitous and oppressive Trust, just one of those trusts which, according to the Plumed Knave from Maine, are pri vate enterprises, and not subject to Gov ernment control. Strange to say, too, a Democratic Congress seems to take the same view of E'he case. It is not probable that any relief can be had from any substitute bagging this year, at least, and hence the cotton merchants, factors and buyers who have at heart the interests of the farmers as well as their own, which interests every thinking man .will admit to be identical, are advising their correspondents to pay the tribute to the Trust, and send their cotton to market now when the prices are higher than they probably will be two or three months 'enec. Said a cotton man yesterday: "I have no hesitation in advising my corre spondents to submit to the squeeze, as outrageous as it is, and to buy jute bag ging and ship their cotton to market. Sentiment is a very good thing, but farmers don't plant cotton for senti ment. They plant it to get the best re turns they can for hard and honest labor; they get the best they can out of the soil they cultivate. The people with whom I deal know that I have no inter est in the Jute Bagging Trust, that their interests are mine, and that I am telling them the truth when I tell them to pay the tribute to these estimable gentlemen who now lord it over King Cotton, and send their cotton to the ports. The yellow fever in Florida and the rains and the floods seem to be a special dis pensation to help the farmers out of their troubles. Cotton is going up every day and will continue to go up, in my judgment, for a month or more to come. In my opinion it is better for a man to submit to this extortion and market his cotton now, when the market is on the flood tide, than to hold back for a sub stitute which, in the ordinary course of events, cannot possibly be available this year. We have learned a lesson and, of course, we have to pay for it, but it will be all the better for its cost. Next year, please God, we hope to be independent of the jute combine, with or without the aid of Congress." (From the News and Courier, Sept. 21 ) Another test was made at the Cotton Exchange here yesterday of the pine straw bagging sent from Wilmington, with results that were considerably more favorable than those attained at the first trial several days ago and published in the News and Courier at the time. The first experiment, it will be re membered, was made with a square foot of pine straw and a square foot of jute bagging. The first held the fire and the last threw it off. On that occasion a piece of jute bagging was cut from a bale of cotton lying on the wharf. It was perfectly new bagging. Yesterday several of the members of the Exchange repeated the test, taking a piece of the pine straw fibre and a piece of jute cut hap-hazard from one of the bales on the wharf. Fire was ap plied to both pieces and they were placed on the counter and watched. Both pieces retained the fire for some time. The conclusion was reached that so far as the inflammability of the two materials was concerned, the difference, if any, was too infinitesimal to take into onsideration. But, as has been said, there can be no fair test except such as was tried in New rleans with the oynaburgs, and an ac ount of which is given above. This est will be made to-day, at least so far s the cotton compress and cotton hook arc concerned. The roll of pine straw bagging will be taken to the Hydraulic Press, on Church street, and a bale of otton will be covered with it and then "handled." This will show whether the new covering will stand the compress and the hooks, and after that the under writers will be asked to apply the fire test. The factors and buyers of Charleston are anxious to aid the farmers in their just fight against the jnte bag combine, and should the pine straw fibre stand the test ill do their share in recoin mending it to the powers that have the regulation of cotton baling in their keeping. A Little Woman Did it. When Edison, genius and inventor as he is, had given two weeks of his valuble time to going up and down on the New York Elevated railroad, trying to dis over what caused its noise and cure for it, lhe gave up the job. Then a little woman took it. She rode on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed at for her uriosity and politely snubbed by the conductors and passengers. But she discvred what caused the noise, in vente a a remedy which was patented and she was paid a siun of $l0,t000( and a royalty forever. 1Her name is Mies. Mary Walton, and she lives in New York city. -New Orleans Picayune. The Silver Bags Rtotting. The large new silver vault in the Treasury l)epartment is so daump that the canvas bags containing the silver stored there are actually rotting away. Measures are being taken to improve the ventilation of the vault and arrange ments are also being made to substitute small rough pine boxes for the canvas bags for holding the silver. These boxes will each hold 3,000O silver dollars and it is proposed to store 39,000. of them in the vault. The silver is still cming in at the rate of 2500.000 a dlay. THE BIG SALMON WHEEL. The Laziest Scheme Ever Invented for Capturing the Finny Tribes. The man who invented the Columbia River salmon wheel was a genius, says the Livermore Herald. The laziest dsher man who ever baited a hook could ask no easier way of landing fish. And the only fact that it can only be used at cer tain points on the stream prevents this machine from exterminating the salmon in one season. Imagine a common under shot wheel with the buckets turned the wrong way about. This is set in a high, narrow flume near the bank of the river, where the current is very swift. From the down-stream end of this flume, ex tended outward an angle of forty-five degrees, are two upright fences, formed by pickets driven closely together into the bottom of the river, and wired to keep them from washing away. Just above the wheel-which is some ten feet in di.ameter-at the up-stream end, is a platform, from which a box flume runs to the shore. Now let us see how it works. When the salmon are running, as everybody knows, they come up in the Columuia Iiver by millions. The stream is very deep, and a large percentage always succeed in getting to the breedng grounds in safety. When the salmon are running up the river they are cn stantly on the lookout for siall streams in which to spawn. Also, where te current is very swift they are unable to make headway in the center of the stream, and consequently seek the more quiet water near the bank. Of there two instincts, the invention of the link wheel took a mean advantage. At the cascades, for instance, where the water is very swift, he sets his wheel. Here come the fish, hugging the bank by thousands-great black fellows, front two to four feet long, heading resolutely up stream. Nothing can turn them baca ward. That wonderful instinct of nature which insures the preservation of spe.aes is nowhere better developed than in -almon. But in this instanse it proves his destruction. Now they are just below that wide spread fence. The current which is rush ing through the flume and turring the big wheel at a lively pace attracts their attention. The upper fence, which sete nearly square across the stream, makes quiet water here and this flow seems to come from the bank. This, to the sad mon's mind, is evidently the mouth of a shallow creek. Here is a spawning ground to our liking and up this little stream we go. Si they crowd up between the two narrowing fences toward the fatal wheel. 'Tnle first lish reaches it, goes with a rush to overcome the current, is caught by a bucket and up he goes high in the air, while every bucket brings up another and another, tail there is a procession of ascending ish. At the top the velocity throws the lns violently on the platform, from which he shoots down the flame to a great tank on the shore. Here come the fish crowding each other forward to that busy wheel. None can go under nor to one side. None will go bac. And once a school starts for a wheel, the owner can consider that he has a title deep to the entire lot. One wheel will run a cannery. Day and night, while the run lasts, they come flying up the wheel and shooting down tue .lame in a continuous stream. Fortu nately there are but few places on the river where the wheels can be worked with this result. Where the fish can keep in the middle of the river few can be caught in this way. But the men who control these points are making fortunes. As it is, salmon are rapidly disappearing from the Columuia. Many canneries . are idle this season and the fisherman'a price per fish is raising every year. sure ly this engine of destruction is largemy tue cause. (5h e harpahoutera or MceowaO's Brigade. The following letter has been written by Captain W. S. Dunlop, State Auditor of Arkansas, to Mr. David Moore, of Columbia: I have been engaged for some time in writing up the campaigns of the &ttal ion of sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade, and have about completed the lirst dratt, which will have to be revised and re-written before publication. I re gret, at every step, that I cannot recall the names of the gallant corps, and have concluded to write to you and every Sharpshooter that I cIan near of in order to supply tis deficiency. I want you to put on your studying-cap and gatner up every name you can, and send the list to me, wi.h the rank and postofie address of each, it livig; and the date and circumstances of deatni, if dead, that I may be able to make a roll of the whole command. Every man of the Battalion was a hero, and his name shiouid be embalmed in the history of our struggle. Do this, and let me hear from you without delay. If you remem bor any incidents connected with our campaigns where any of our men be haved with distinguished gallantry or performed any feat of daring in any of our numerous fights, I would hias to have them. Sergeant B. K. Banson, of Brnson's company, calls to see me very of ten. He is a drummer, and lives in Dallas, Texas. Dr. L. K. Robertson, another member of the Battalion from Abbeville, is living in Scott county, this State. I spent two nights and a day with him last May. He is a successful physician and has accu mulated a good property in Scott con ty. TInese are the only Sharpshooters]. know of in Arkansas; I woul~d like to have a re-union of the B ittahion, what do you think of it? Any information responsive to the above may l-e sent to Mr. David Moore, Columbia, S. C., or to Captain W. S. Dunlop, Little Rock, Arkansas. The French sugar makers have com menced a campaign against saccharine extracted from coal tar. Experiments have shown that it is not noxtous, but the Society of Agriculturists have pe titioned the government to forbid its manufacture, as prejudicial to the beet root sugar trade. An Australian football club has ar ranged with an ac.:ident insurance com pany to pay any of its members who are disabled while playing the game $7.50 per week as long as they remain on the sick list, and $1000 to the relatives if the injuries received in the football field shonld terminate aitally.