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. -,'-* -_ YOL. XLV, WINNSBORO, S. C,, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1888. ~? ] NO. 4, TALMAGE W TEE SOUTH. "AND HTK WAS ANGRY, AND WOULD MOT GO IN." Thc_8?lf Congratulatory. Self Satisfied, Full of Faults. Two Kinds of Higher*tuS fieff-iietorned Prodlgali. Atlasta, Ga., Aug. 12.?The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., of Brooklyn, is in this region. He has spoken several times at the great Piedmont Chautauqua, and his public appearances are attended by vast multitudes everywhere. Preaching from the text (Luke xv, 28) "And ha was ansrv and would not go in," he said: Is the elder son of the parable so unsympathetic and so cold that he is not worthy of recognition? The fact is that we ministers pnrsne the younger son. You can hear the flapping of his rags in many a sermonic breeze, and the cranehing of the pods for which he was an unsuccessful contestant. I confess that for a long time I was unable to train -camera obeoura upon the elder son of the parable. I never could get a negative for a photograpr. There was not enough light m the gallery, or the chemicals were poor, or the sitter moved in the picture. But now I think I have him. Not a side face, or a three-quarters, or -the meie bust, but a full length portrait *e he appears to me. The father in the parable of the prodigal had nothing to brag of his two sons. The one was a rake and the other a curl. I find nothing admirable in the dissoluteness of the one and I find nothing attractive in acrid sobriety of the' other. The one goes down over the larboard side and the other goes down over the starboard side, bnt the both go down. From tixe old homestead bursts the minstrelsy. The floor quakes with the feet of the rustics, whose dance is always vigorous and resounding. The neighbors have heard of the return of the younger son from his wanderings, and they have gathered together. The house is full of congratulators. I suppose the tables are loaded with luxuries. Not only the one kind of meat mentioned, bat its concomitants. "Clap!" go the cymbals, "tham!" go the harps, "click!" T?*\ /nl/-VTTm flfA fKa gu UiO WUW9B> uy auu uvnu ?**w feet inside, while oatside, is a most sorry spectacle. The senior son stands at the corner of the house, a frigid phlegmatic. He has just come in from the fields in very substantial appareL Seeing some wild exhilarations around the old mansion, he aaksof a servant passing by with a goat skin of wine on his shoulders what all the fuss is about One would have thought that, on hearing that his younger brother had got back, he would have gone into the house and rejoiced, and if he were not oonseientiouely opposed to dancing, that he would nave joined in the oriental sehottische. No. There he stands. His brow lowers. His lip curls with contempt. He stamps the ground his appetite. The lively music doea^not put any spring into his step. He is in a terrible pont. He criticises the expense, the injustice and the mor. j of the entertainment. The father rushes out bareheaded and coaxes hi to come m. iie win not go in. He scolds toe father. He goes into a pasquinade against the younger brother, and he makes the most unoomely scene. He says, "Father, you put a premium on vagabondism. I stayed at home and worked on the farm. Yon never made a party for me; you didn't so much as kill a kid; that wouldn't have cost half as much as a calf; but the scapegrace went of in fine clothes and he comes back not fit to be seen, and what a time you make over him. He breaks I your heart and you pay him for it. Thf' calf to which we have been giving feed daring all these weeks wouW11 be so fat and sleek if I had kno"**1.^0 use you were going to put it! -vagabond deserves to be cowhidea-. stead of banqueted. veai is uw/ior him 1" That evening, while " ^er son sat telling his father ab^: ad" ventures, and asked about; "' nar QC~ tcurrad i>a .the place sinc^^, Hjfi?CO^V disgusted bra- That senior brother sti^Tf8, P,. ^ ^ him any Sund#^??^*^ ? week. At a meetu* ?* ^Tlin^e^ m Germany some to? question, "Who is th^^Ider son?" and &7uj?macher angered, "I know him; I saw hi? yestery day." And when they insisted upon . .knowing who he meant, he said "Jfyself; \ when I saw the acoonnt of the conversion ^ of a most obnoxious man, I was initiated." .First, this senior brother of the text stands for the self congratulatory, self satmfiefl, self worshipful man. With the same breath in which he vituperates against his younger brother he otters a panegyric for himself. The self righteous man of my text, like every other self righteous man, was full of faults. He was an ingrate, for he did not appre date the home blessings which he had all those years. He was disobedient, lor when the father told him to come in he stayed out He was a liar, for he * "? * .3 said that the recent son naa aevourea his lather's living, when the father, so far from being reduced to penury, had a homestead left, had instruments of masic, had jewels, and a mansion, and, instead of bang a pauper, was a prince. This senior brother, vith so many faults of his own, was merciless in his criticism of the younger brother. The only perfect people that I have ever known utterly obnoxious. I was never so badlj j cheated in all my life as by a perfect .man. He got so far up in his devotions that he was clear np above all the rules of common honesty. These men that >. go about prowling among prayer meet\ings and in places of business, telling gicw good they are, lookout for them; I^Mcr hand on your pocket book! noticed that just in proportion /that a man gets good he gets humble. / The deep Mississippi does not make as * much noise as the brawling mountain rivulet There has been many a store that had more goods in the show window than inside on the shelves. ThisEelf righteous man of the text stood at the corner of the house hugging himself in admiration. We hsar a great deal lii our day about the higher lifts. Now, there are two kinds of higher life men. The one are admirable, and the other are most repulsive. The one kind of higher life man is very lenient in hit; criticism of others, does not bore prayer -vv^afinfVH tn death with long harangues, ^ does not talk a great deal about himself, but much about Christ and heaven, gets kindlier and more gentle and more use fnl until one daj his soul spreads ? wing and he flies away to eternal rest, and eveiybody mourns his departure, The other higher life man goes arounc with a Bible conspicuously under his arm goes from church to church, a sort o geaaral evangelist, is a nuseace to hi pastor when he is at home, and a nusence to other pastors when he is away from home; runs up to some man who is counting out a roll of bank bills, or running up a difficult line of figures, and asks him how his soul is; makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha; standing iii a religious meeting making^ an ad&e&S, he " "hSJflr patronizing "way, as though ordinary Christians were clear away down below him, so he had to talk at the top of his voice in order to make them hear, but at the same time encouraging them to hope on; that by climbing many years they may after a while come up within sight of the place where he now stands. I tell you plainly that a roaring, roistering, bouncing sinner is not repulsive to me as that higher life malformation. The former may repent; the latter never gets over pharisaism. The younger brother of the parable came back, but the Benior brother stands outside entirely oblivious of his own delinquencies and deficits, pronouncing his own eulogium. Oh, how much easier it is to blame others thftTi to blame ourselves! Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpant the servant blamed the devil, the senior brother blamed the younger brother, and none of them blamed themselves. Again, the senior brother of my text stands for all those who are faithless about the reformation of the dissipated and the dissolute. In the very tones of his voice you can hear the fact that he has no faith that the reformation of the younger son is genuine. His entire manner seems to say: "That boy has come back for more money. He got a third of the property; now he has come back for anoteer third. He will never be contented to stay on the farm. He will fall away. I would go in, too, and rejoice with the others if I thought this thing was genuine; but it is a sham. That boy is confirmed inebriate and debauchee.", Alas! my men as, tor xue incredulity in the church of Clirist in reguard to the reclamation of the reaeant! Yon say a man has been a strong drinker. I say; "Yes; but he has reformed." "Oh" yon say, with a lugubrious face, "I hope you are not mistaken; I hope you are not mistaken." You say: "Don't rejoice too much over his conversion, for t. n he will be unconverted, I fear. Dou't make too big a party for that returned prodigal, or strike the timbres too loud; and if you kill a calf, kill the one that is on the commons, and not the one that has been luxuriating in the paddock." That is the the reason why nore prodigals do not come home to their father's house. It is the rank infidelity in the church of God on this subject. There is not a house on the streets of heaven that has not got a prodigal that has returned and stayed home. There oould be unrolled before you a scroll of a hundred thousand names?the names of prodigals whj came back forever reformed. Who was John Buyan? A returned prodigal. Who was Richard Baxter?! A returned prodigal. Who was George Whitefield, the thunderer? A returned prodigal. And I could go out in all directions in Eris audicnce and find on either side those who, once far astray for many years, have been faithful, and their eternal salvation is as sure as though they had been ten years in heaven. And vofi sntne.x>f-vx>u ha-va sot "08Si%a fJSSPmTEerrreturn. ioar do not know how to shake hands with a prodigal. You do not know how to pray for him. You do not know how to greet him. He wants to sail in the warm gulf stream of Christian sympathy. You are the iceberg against which he strikes and shivers. You say he has been a prodigpl. I knot it. But you are the sour, t nr^ponaive, censorious, satarnine, cran.-y, eidsr brother, and you are going tc heaven one would some people would be tempte^^^fhe e perdition to get a way frr ^..raKot the t hunters say that if 5^%ut of their other deer shog-- & rule is away s company, ag.-5 who-*"*- heen wounded j with the ^o^^r'say, the more bones s ^^i^has br^en the more need he has 1 jf a host)**1, that the more a man c ^9en b*1*66^ ^d cut with sin the more i nee^6 has to be carried into human 1 4 divine srmiiathv. But for such men t ? y ?X- * diere is not much room in this world? ( the men who want to come back after t wandering. Plenty of room for elegant c sinners?sinners in velvit, and satin, and 1 lace?for sinners high salaried, for kid i gloved and patent leather sinners; for f sinners fixed up by hair dresses, poma- j turned, and lavendered, and cologned, $ and frizzled, and crimped, and "banged" sinners?plenty of room. Such we meet i slegantly at the door of onr churches, t and we invite them into our best seats e with Chesterfieldinn gallantries; we 1 usher them into the house of God and i put soft ottomans under their feet and ( put a gilt edged prayer book in hand, and ] pass the contribution box befo.re them 1 with an air of apology, while they, the I generous souls, take out the exquisite j portemonnaie, and open it, and with 1 diamond finger push down beyond the ] ten dollar cold Dieces and delicately pick out as an offering to the Lord, of one j cent. For such sinners, plenty of room, i plenty of room. But for the Kan who 1 has been drinking until his coat is thread- j bare and his face is erysipelased, and ; his wife's wedding dress is in the pawn- ! broker's shop, and his children, instead i of being in school, are out begging broken bread at the basement doors oi < this city?the man, body, mind and soul j on fire with the flames that have looped from the scathing, scorching, blasting, consuming cup which the drunkard ,takes, trembling, and agonized, affrighted, and presses to his parched lip, and his cracked tongue, and his shrieking yet immortal spirit-no room. Oh, if this younger son of the parable had not gone so far off, of he had not dropped so low in wassail, the protest would not hat have been so severe; but going clear over the precipice as the younger son is angry and will not go in. nh nnt go hard in vour critiem of the fallen, lest thou thyself also be tempted. A stranger one Sunday staggered up and down the ailes of my church, disturbing the service had to stop until he was taken from the room. He was a minister of the Gospil of Jesus Christ of a sister denomination! That man had preached the Gospil, that man had broken the bread of the holy communion for the people. From what a height to what a depth! Oh, I was glad there was no smiling in the room when that man was taken out, his poor wife following him with his hat in her hand and his coat on her arm. It was as solemn to me as two funerals?the funeral of the body and ! the funeral of the son). Beware lest th.>u also be tempted. An invalid went to South America for ' his health, and one day sat sunning himi self on the beach, when h8 saw something i crawling up the beach, wriggling tok " * ?^ TT.i ward mm, anu utt auu^ui?u. | thought it was & wild beast or a reptile, and he took his pistol from his pocket, f Then he saw it was not a wild beast. It ; was a man an immortal man, a man made t I in God's own image; and the poor wretch , crawled up to the feet of the invalid . and asked for strong drink. The invalid 1 took his wine flask from his pocket and , gave the poor wretch something to drink, ? and under the stimulus he rose up and 5 gave his history. He had been a mer chant in Glasgow, Scotland. He had gone down under the power of strong drink until he was lying in a boat just off the beach. "Why," said the invalid, "I knew a merchant in Glasgow once," a merchant by such and such a name, and the poor_ wretch straightened himself and said, "I am that "man.'' ""Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall? Again I remark that the senior brother oi my cexi siancis ior ine spine oi envy and jealousy. The senior brother thought that all the honor they did to the returned brother was a wrong to him. He said: "I have stayed at home, and I ought to have had the ring, and I ought to have had the banquet, and I ought to have had the garlands." Alas for tliis spirit of envy and jealousy coming down through the ages! Cain and Able, Esau and Jacob, Saul and David, Haman and Mordecai, Othello and Iago, Orlando and Angelica, Cahgula and Torquatos, CaBsar and Pompey, Columbus and the Spanish courtiers, Cambyses and the brother he slew because he was a better marksmen. Dionysius and Philoxemus, whom he slew because he was a better singer. Jealousy among painters. Closterman and Geoffry Kneller, Hudson and Reynolds. Francia, anxious to see a picture of Raphael, Raphael sends him a picture. Francia, seeing it, falls in a fit of jealousy from which he dies. Jealousy among authors. How seldon contemporaries speak of each other. Xenophon and Plato living at the same time, but from their writings you never ~ u u wuuiu BuppuBW may uauu eacu umer. Keligious jealousies. The Mahommedans praying for rain during a drought, no rain coming. Then the Christians began to pray for rain, and the rain comes. Then the Mohommedans met together to account for this, and they resolved that God was so well pleased with their prayers he kept the drought on so as to keep them praying; but that the Christians began to pray, and the Lord was so disgusted with their prayers that he sent rain right away so he would not hear any more of their supplicants. Oh, this accused spirit of envy and jealousy! let us stamp it out from all our hearts. A wrestler was so envious of Theogenes, the prince of wrestlers, that he could not be consoled in any way; and after Theogenes died and a statute was lifted to him in a public place, his envious antagonist went out and wrestled with the statute until one night he threw it, and it fell on him and orushed him to death. So jealousy is not only absord, it is killing to the bodv and it is killing to the soul. How seldom it is vou find one merchant speaking well of a merchant in the same line of business. TTrvttr ool/lnm io t?An VtAon A r\V\ttco /?nr\ JL-J.W IT OdlUUUi All XO JVLL L1COL Ui & pJLLJ d.UUU speaking well of a physician on the same block. Oh, my friends the world is large enough for all of us. Lets reoice at the success of others. The nextjbest thing to owning a garden onrselves is to look over the fence and admire the flowers. The next best thing to riding in a fine equipage is to stand on the sireets and admire the prancing span. The next best thing to having a banquet given to ourselves is having a banquet given to our prodigal brother that has come home to his father's house. ISc-oides-tli&t, if we do not get as much honor and as much attention as others, we ought-to congratulate ourselves on what we escape in the way of assault. The French general, riding on hox&sf back at the head of his troops, T 1 soldier complain and say^Ji^ahd us ? easy for the generaLi*tfowe walk." 1 forward while he^J^f^nnted and com- ] Then the ?e?pfciining soldier to get on e pelle^JK Coming through a ravine, a ( ttjseffrom a sharp-shooter struck the ^ ider, and he fell dead. Then the gen- c xal said, "How much safer it is to walk han to ride!" i Once more I have to tell you that this enior brother of my text stands for the i.' /TL YT71_ *1 _ XI * >ouuug \^anatian. vvimo mere oh uu inch congratulation within doors, the lero of my text stands outside, the ?rners of his mouth drawn down, lool;ug as he felt?miserable. I am glad his 1 ugubrious physiognomy did not spoil he festivity within. How many pouting Christians there are in our day?Chia- e ians who do not like the music of our s shurches, Christians who do not like the lilarities of the young?pouting, poutng, pouting at society, pouting at the ashions, pouting at the newspapers!, routing at the church, pouting at" the government, pouting at the high heaven. Cheir spleen is too large, their liver does lot work, their digestion is broken down, here are two cruets in their caster always nareto be well supplied?vinegar and red peper! Oh, come away from that nood. Stir a little saccharine into your iisDosition. While vou avoid the disso uteness of the younger son, avoid also \ ;he irascibility and the petulance and ] ihe pouting spirit of the elder son, and ] imitate the father, who had embraces for the returning prodieal and coaxing words : tor the splenetic malcontent. < Ah! the face of this pouting elder son j is put before us that we might better ! see the radiant and forgiving face of 1 the father. Contrasts are mighty. The 1 artist in sketching the field of Waterloo, 1 fears after the battle, put a dove in the j mouth of the cannon. Raphael, in one 1 of his cartoons, beside the face of ft wretch put the face of a happy and inno- j sent child. And so the sour face of this , irascible and disgusted elder brother is j brought OUt il? f*rdor in tL-a. oorxtrqat we may better understand that forgiving and the radient faoe of God. That is the meaning of it?that God is ready to back anybody that is sorry, to take him clear back forever, and forever, and forever, to take him back with a loving hug, to put a kiss on his parched lip, and a ring on his bloated hand, an easy shoe on his chafed foot, a garland on his bleeding temples, and heaven in his soul. Oh, I fall flat on that merov! Come, my brother, and let us get down into the dust, resolved never to rise until the Father's forgiving hand shall lift us. a rirt/1 wa ViftTTftt "R?nnrr vATlf \Jll, vruav a uuu no uaio; uiuig jvvu doxologies. Come, earth and heaven, and join in the worship. Cry aloud. Lift the palm branches. Do yon feel the Father's arm around your neck? Do you not feel the warm breath of your father against your cheek? Surrender, younger son! Surrender eider son! Surrender, all! Oh, go in to-day and sit down at the I banqaet. Take a slice of the fatted calf, and afterward, when you are seated with one hand in the hand of the returned brother, and the other hand in the hand of the rejoicing father, let your heart beat time to the clapping of the cymbal and the mellow voice of the flute. "It is weet that we should make merry, and be giad; for this thy brother was dead and is aliro again and was lost and is found." The Klde to the Sparkling Catawba. The ride from the railroad to the Sparkling Catawba Springs is a very pleasant one?made especially so by the fact that Messrs. Brannon Bros, have established a regular hack line from Conover, N. C., the nearest station, to the Springs. In buying tickets and checking baggage, "remember that Conover is th6 station and that Brannon Bros. will supply comfortable transportation at reasonable figures. IN THE SHADE OF THE MOUNTAIN. A Place Where Health and Pleasure Meet, to Chase Disease With Waters Sweet. Al!l-Healin*g, N. C., August 17.? What an undertaking, thought our fathers and mothers less than a quarter of s century back, was s-tgp from the fair City by the Sea to the IoTSiy tains in the Land of the Sky. Now, starting at 7 a. m., we spin along over two hundred and fifty miles of smooth railroad tracks, with little interruption, till six in the evening finds us at Gastonia. Thenoe by carriage, with Cleveland and Thurman as mountain trotters, we are whirled along to Mountain View Hotel in time for a most enjoyable sup- i j 1)?j. i per cscrvou m cauciicui di.jiu. A oool night in very comfortable rooms refreshes us so that by moroing we are quite ready to explore the country, visit the springs and climb Crowder's Mountain rising two thousand feet in front of our hotel. Tempting us with its cool shade and waters isthepavillion sheItering__lh^^prf")gf&'~"rcTr~^wmfiii -tfarr place is noted. Of these springs?twelve in number?the All-Healing is of course the most popular?fathers, mothers, babies, sisters, cousins and aunts all drinking freely and with constant benefit. Arsenic, Iron and Sulphur are found in a greater or less quantity in all the waters, two of the Springs being largely Sulphur?Red and White?and one being very strong with iron. While AllHealing carries Arsenic to a greater degree than any of the others, it carries minerals in combination not to be found in any other spring, its principal ingredients being Arsenic, Sulphur, Iron, Lithia, Potash and Magnesia. Its temperature is 56 degrees?a sweet, pleasant water to drink?and it can b? taken in large quantities without any bad effect, while for bathing purposes it stands without an equal, leaving the skin soft and of a velvety feeling produoed by no other water known. These waters stand in high repute among the residents of this region, who give partioulars 6f some remarkable cures effected by them. Only a day or two since a gentleman came a distance of forty miles with his wagon and carried away a barrel of these waters for use in hia family, some of whom were then sick with fever. Tradition says that long before the Springs were analyzed families used to come and camp around them to benefit by their curative powers. It is further related that still earlier these waters were called Indian medicine, and there was a belief that they were untit lor use, except by the aborigines. This belief soon gave place to the knowledge that the waters were as good for the white man as for the red. A spacious ball room fianked by an amusement hall, comprising bowling alley, billiard and pool room, bycicle track and skating rink, furnishes sport for all testes. To drink the waters, enjoy the mountain scenery, feast on the fine fare and combine health and strength with a jolly good time, come many guests from m a tit nftrtq nf nnr own and the adioin-1 ing States. Once anxious mothers re J joice to meet the genial 4octojg>?LJ?ag|?f with powders and^li^^^te fc*?tatTr1 as with jokes as^^nfndges and amiMpybfille^.-t^idows and widowers?lads mttfcassies?make up a "merrie comSuiie." South Carolina has been well epresented by prominent people from leveral counties?Marion, York, Marlx>ro, Lancaster, Chester, Laurens, Barnwell, Lexington, Fairfield, Anderwn, Abbeville, Kichland, Chesterfield, Colleton, Beaufort, Edgefield, Greenrille and Orangeburg?with some from )ther counties expected. North Carolina and Georgia are also yell represented. The season promises well. Palmetto. SMASH-UP ON THE PLAINS. it&llway Officials Refuse to Allow the Use of the Wire to Injured Passengers. Albuquerque, N. M., August 15.?An kAim/1 A flonttn on/4 Portl^A troin /lufl ;ooi> uuunu Auauuu auu x b&txiu uug r it Albuquerque at 1 30 Monday morning ' iame in ten hours behind time. The delay ' vas caused by a wreck which occurred on ,he desert in California, at a point known 1 is Horse-Shoe Curve, two miles eist of 1 2ast Siberia. The train wa3 running very 1 ilowly, not more than eight miles an hour, 1 jut the trucks on the express car were not < n good working order, and refused to ad- < just themselves to the curve. The conse- ' juence was that the car was pulled off the. i rack, and breaking away from the tender | ind engine, which it left on the track, went ( umbling down a thirty-foot embankment, | Dulling after it the baggage, mail a,nd three , migrant coaches, and two sleepers well ? ailed with passengers, all of whom suf- ' fered injuries more or less severe. All the cars were badly wrecked and 1 jAmfl Af tliDm ^trAnH ronoir Tho moil vi luvm vuu i v^utt x uv uiuu ;'erk, who was badly bruised, tried to tele- 1 graph to Albuquerque for assistance, and ' some wounded passengers tried tn send < dispatches to friends and relatives; but the ' railway company controlled the only -wire * and poeitively forbid the operators sending j anything that would convey information : that there had been an accident. The passengers of the wrecked^1 were picked up by the special train of Super intendent Gaddis, which came along about twelve hours after the accident. The pas- ( Bengers were very indignant at the manner in. i>u-?h they were treated by tfce company, especially its refusal to permit them to send telegrams to friends and relatives. They expressed their condemnation of the company in a series of resolutions signed by every passenger on board the train, declaring that the accident was due to the no?alMonMa nr inr>r?mnptAnrv of the rail v^aiwlu^^uwwu \/k - _ road officers, and pronouncing the company inhuman and barbarous in refusing to permit the wounded passengers to telegraph to their friends and relatives. SENT TO DAVY JONES'S LOCKER By a Collision at Sea Between Two Danish Steamships. New York, August 16.?The steamship Wieland, Captain Albers, from Hamburg August 5, via Havre the 7th, with merchandise and 113 cabin and 45G steerage passengers, arrived today and reported that on the 14th of August, thirty miles south of Sable Island, about 12 M., she sighted the Danish steamship Thingvalla, from Copenhagen for New York, with signals i of distress hoisted. The Thingvalla reported that at 4 o'clock that morning she I bad collided with the steamship Geizer, of * 1* r XT^w Va.At Annpiiot 11 me same jine, iiulu * via, for Oopeohasen. The Geizer sank in five tniiiutes. Fourteen passengers and seventeen of ibe crew, among them Captain Meller, were saved. Seventy-two passengers and thirty-three of the crew were lost. The stealer Wieland brought 455 passen gers from the Thingvalla, and those saved from the steamer Geizer to New York, and the Thingvalla will endeavor to reach Halifax, N. S. Maiden Aunt (visiting family for the summer)?Gusaie, you shouldn't cry so when it thunders. The thunder can't hurt you. Don't you see it doesn't scare me any? Six-Year-Old (sobbing)?It won't? scarc me eitner, auntie, when?I've heard it?th?thunder as many summers as you hav*. f J ': EDUCATION FOR FARMERS. THK<NEEDS OF THE AGRICULTURAL MASSES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. An 'Address by Col. D. K. Norrts, President pt the State Fanners' Association, at tb? "Hessrs. Clemson, Hayne and Simpson, members of the Pendleton Farmer's Society, were appointed a committee by that body to solicit funds to build and put into operation a scientific school where the youths of tbe State might be trained and educated in the industrial paths of life. Sach men as Thomas Pinokney, Jr., Andrew Pickens, J? B. Earle, Josiah D. Gaillaift,*.^ Robert Anderson, Patrick Norti?; Jno. E. Oothran and others in TSHpt^rio. Maxwell, B. F, Perry, Warren B^Vupiav i?7YSioan and others in ISlST^ancifl Burt, Eichard Lewis and" [ others in 1817, and David Cheny, Jno. GailJard, Jas. Whitner, Thos. M. Sloan, D. K. Hamilton and others in 1818, all members of this sociefy and teachers of public opinion in agricultural affairs, as well as in shaping and. maintaining the political course of the State, were replaced in later times by others, equally noted for their patriotism and wisdom, among whom I may mention Hayne, i Simfgon, Seaborn, Clemson, Lewis and I a host of others. These gentlemen re- 1 alized the importance of technical train- ' ing as applied to agriculture, and al- 1 though we hear no more, for the time, 1 of the effort made in 1866 to inaugurate 1 a school for this purpose, the oonviction < of its necessity abided with the society, and 7e live to see one of them donating a large fortune to accomplish that which had|ailed before, it seems, because of the impoverished and disorganized condition of the State at that time. Ofiier efforts looking to improvement in agriculture were not wanting, such as the founding of the society for the promotion of agriculture in South Carolina in lB75in Charleston, the organization of the State Agricultural Society in Colombia in 1818, and the rapid mnltiplication of similar bodies afterwards/f1 throughout the State; but, so far as ? * am informed, this effort made by tf? ? Pendleton Agricultural Society was the ti first'in the State which directly pider- ? took to radically better our agr^^ura fi by educating and training the PJ6* the n farmers of the future, rather. by shows, fairs and such like.^t^^ting by Rivalries the spasmodi(v^orts ?* the thefc farmers. The their a effoita is witnessed by?e ^ colleges RT><j stations now in g^eeesaful operation . in Germany: by thfPaflsaSe the great educational W & 4116 Parliament of tl Great Britain af*T 4118 disappointment o of/that nation* 4116 world's contest at c< Paris in lr?* whereby science and e: technology^70 kaen assigned a larger a] nlftfA ^VBer schools and universities m before, and by the 57 agricul- cl gc^f alleges ar ^industrial institutes ia y, .' _!L^Jnited' ^ Jr?- " ^*i?~forisilab*=" ? yghinh ft >{ the yanous countngg in wines th6y- -5 ire located are enabled to educate them- sj selves for the profession in life which J. !alls to their lot by choice or necessity h ittests one truth, and it is this: that the E ipplication of science to agriculture is a u< laccessful fact. But what has SoutQ ti Carolina done? Has she recognized the tc preat wisdom of nurturing schools of a ihis kind, and their potency in building ti lp her waste places? A State, proud of ti ler history, glorious in lier many hi achievements and in whose exaltation qi ler every true son delights! Oh! that ai t were some other rather than one of w ler sons to tell the tale! I will not re- ai sount the half-hearted and disparaging di nanner in which her feeble efforts in bis direction were conceived and have ti aeen carried on, but would rather dwell ti xpon the awakened interest and zeal m low mamiestea m ug Denau oy an, irom in Jie doubting Thomases to the convinced d( riilmans on the one hand and designing n( politicians and the toiling masses on the to >ther. The oid idea of education was as ;hat it had no direct bearing on the in nan's work, and it is not only true that w< ;he education of the past did not at- th ^mpfc anything of this sort, but it is hi Uso true that the end and design of that h( education was in the opposite direction. H Che man was not educated to labor?he wl was in fact educated not to labor. In she habits of his life and the processes at }f hii thought the educated man was as E [ar & possible removed from sympathy of with what we term industrial pursuits, tii rhenarch of progress has well nigh ce refuted those ideas and to-day we are pi witnessing the advent of an education w which. will especially fit the individual sa who receives it for the only probable sti ieatmy in life which his antecedent cir- H jumitancea admit. It is also in harmony Si with the idea that the many should be tb sducfited in contradistinction to the old w; idea iBat it was only possible or necessa- fli ry to educate the few. This new de- df l^rttr*, T niav so speak, not in the w] irt/SruC in the science 01 agrioultare, promses many things. It will enlighten de the rinds of the tillers of the soil and of enabi them to comprehend the laws of Sf natur which govern animal and vegeta- th ble pjyaiology and at once dignify labor ~gc by raying it above drudgery and routine tla and taking it the scientific means of th accoiplislnng the ends of labor. It will th makcit possible for its possessor, for co himelf, and largely for his class, to en overome the social degradation which of has eer been the lot of the actual work- co er. llWAVAr flnd V>nn .ro/1 a erri cultue has been in the abstract. It giwill klically correct the defects of the wl past ?y planning the education with fo: teferice to the probable employment and cstLny of the individual who re- Ca ceivetfc, and not leaving him in igno- th rancef the things which above all oth- di< ers it; most important he should know, th It wi%ive to the educated mind a skill- th ful h?d and a trained eye, a discrimi- ha natinj judgment and an intelligent of opini<will revolutionize the negligent bo and uirofitable farming as now prac- ch tioed r the vast majority of our people, th and gd to them in-its stead a rational th< plan iding to general improvement. So Thoa^ho receive the benefits of this 0f educsm will be trained for work, and o3 abov^l trained in work, which makes pr the ifet complete man, physically, uii mentfr and morally. It will conserve c& manljlgor and inoreaiw both the en- in< joymeand length of life. It will make w? idleneintolerable, and welcome enter- np prised adventure as a delight. It th will pAote self respect and self reli- tii ance, a beget a manly independence, an The fhds of the Clemson College lig wonld re the literary institutions of the Sti liberally supported, and as rei fruits ctheir labor give to South hu Carolinj,ther McDuffies and Hamp- th< tons, in\ose hands the prestige of the thi State wByer safe. But they deserve hu mfrre. ky would see the agriculture ap of tie S\lifted to a plane of progress sts and probity which can only be done T1 by a tlifon 0f scientific knowledge evi i 1 I : li h applied te-the industrial arts and which cm emanate only from an institution, where agricultural education is the primary consideration. An institution in sympathy with the life of the masses, whose doors, ample as they may be, always crowded with the youths of the State, hungering and thirsting for the knowledge therein imparted, fnd as the legitimate spheres in life occupied by the attendants of these different institutions do not clash but that they together will work out for South Carolina a destiny, surpassing if possible, the glories of the past, so in their mutual regard for each other, friendliness aad Tespect 3hould be cherished. When this 1-A.JL U I la&rar nibubuuuii BUUIU imvo uau muo ihj imprint itself upon the agriculture of the State we shall hope to present to the world a brilliant example of what educated labor will accomplish in developing an agricultural system abounding in far-reaching enterprise, thrilling interest and abundant success. Thomas G. Clemson A name which be revered and honored, more and 0f Agricultaral edacation are made apparent by tne-unrnsion of such knowledgeat Fort Hill, and whose memory I shall hope to see erected a proud monument of enduring i gratitude at no distant day oh the historic spot, by those who will especially be benefitted by fiis munificent bequest, as well as perpetuated in the noble ma titration which his interest in the welfare of the agriculturist of the State prompted him to endow. It was he, who said, prophetically, eighteen years ago in an address before the Agicultural Meeting Society, of Oconee ,?that the exigencies of a new era are upon us, demanding the diffusion of the science of the development of our material resources and that the establishment of such schools sould not fail to give us ascendency and open up the only sure road to wealth and permanent prosperity." The wisiom of this sectiment is attested by the rapid multiplication of schools of this kind in Europe, where, for instance, in the little kingdom of Wustenburg, so atrial! as scarcely to reveal itself on our school phases, mere are sixteen colleges and twenty-six agricultural, associations; is w#*l as by the Congress of the United 3ta*as which has voted thousands of irilars annually to South Carolina in ommon with the other States, for the oangaration, encouragement and enargement of this very work. Finally: he people have spoken, and we are asured that nothing less than an Agricnlnral College built and conducted on the lost useful and liberal plan will satisfy hem, or meet the requirements of this ew education. TUB CHESHIRE CHEESE. . Kemlnlsceno? or J elr?jrsoa'8 Preslden- | tial Campaign. The town of Cheshire, situated among ! is 'Berkshire hills of Massachusetts, is \ ne of the pleasantest places in all the ; Dunty. The pasturage of this region is J toellent. The land is very productive, i ad the dairy farms have always been 1 oted for .the quality of their butter and 1 leeee. And here, about eighty-seven i Bare aero, savs p tha TfVftriMript, . unewent abroad throughout the United L j mm?jhg mtor, ana ' even 3read into foreign countries. Elder < ohn Leland, a celebrated preacher of < is time, was pastor of the village church, i [e was a vigorous and original thinker, < ntad frvr Viio oTivwitirtn nf (ho firtrin. < ires. People came from far and near 1 > listen to his sermons, m those days < minister's views upon all public qaes- { ons were received with respectful atten- f on and Elder Leland did not confine i '[?labors to parochial affairs. Any delin- ( aency among the select men of the town, < ly iailure in rigid adherence to duty, 1 as boldly attacked by him in the pulpit, ? id names were mentioned with startling irectness. Thomas Jefferson was nominated for t le Presidency of the United States in i Le fall of 1800. He was believed by 1 any to be an infidel, and the feeling of s ew England?the stronghold of Ortho- t >xy?was severe against him. An omi- I dus silence, that he preserved in regard t i his own religions belief, was regarded e i unfavorable, and it was even declared a . some country towns that churches 8 ould be closed, and the sacredness of a ie Sabbath day no longer proserved, if a 5 were elected. Elder John Leland i bid no share in this public opinion. I e had been a preacher in Virginia, a Liere he often met Mr. Jefferson. ti The two men were mutually attracted, id held long conversations together. ^ Iter Leland became an ardent admirer Jefferson. He recognized his ChrisMi character, in spite of a natural reti- ? nee, and he believed in his republican inciplea, When Jefferson was nomiited he becran to work for him. It was f id that the elder stood alone, but the to ardy opposition became his inspiration, v e preached politics in the pulpit on w inday; he rode to neighboring towns n rough the week; he was ready always ith an argament. So great was the in- ? lence that he exerted that when election \1 ty came there was not a member of the ^ hole county who failed to vote for sfferson. Great was Elder Leland's n (light over the victory^ and at the close n the afternoon service on the next a ibbath he proposed that, as a people, a gy fthr>nm Tvrpipfl*^ ^ -tak^n- at thair j, xxPwili to be sent to Washiagton after t] e new president had taken his place at tl e White House. It should be some- h ing in which women as well as men n uld participate, and he suggested an * ormous cheese, as the natural produot v their industry. Every man in the d unty who had voted for Jefferson " ould bring ail the curd he felt able to ?e. A committee of farmers' wives, 10 were skilled, should be appointed r the mixing. a Everybody was pleaeed with the idea, iptain John Brown, who was known as e first to suspect and denounce Bene3t Arnold as a traitor, was a member of is village. He offered his cider-mill as e best and largest in the town. We T d it thoroughly cleaned, a new bottom !. j wood set in, surrounded with an iron ^ op, and thus converted into a huge C( eese-nreas. It was a fine afternoon 0 crowd came in from all quirters of \ s connty to Captain Brown's firm, is me wealthy farmers brought quantities y< curd, others only a pailful, but the n erings were poured into the cider la ess. The matrons then came forward, tc xed and flavored it. The men stood idy for the pressing. Then, uncover- rc 2 their heads, all bower reverently, tc lile Elder Leland asked God's blessing 1 j >on their labor. They sang a hymn, e minister giving out two lines at a ae, and the people singing them, d a social season followed until twi- q ;ht dispersed the crowd. . lc When the cheese was ready to be moved it was found to weigh sixteen p, ndred pounds. The parish requested sir minister to convey it in person to a President. It was a journey of five ai ndred miles, but the sleighing at the ,j, pointed time was excellent, and he a] irted. He was three weeks on road. q\ te people thronged to meet him in ery town and village through which he di passed, for the news of the gift had spread, and such a cheese had never been seen before. When Elder Leland arrived in Washington he sent a note to Jefferson, who suggested that the members of his cabinet and of Congress, together wirii the foreign ministers and other distinguished guests, should be invited to attend and witness the presentation. Li the midst of this gathering Elder Lekind arose with great dignity, and proffered the' huge Cheshire cheese as a token of the deep respect of his county. The president closed his oourteous reply with these words: "I will cause this auspicious event to be placed upon the records of our nation, and it will ever shine amid its glorious archives. I shall ever esteem it among the most happy incidents of my life; ana. now, my muoh respected xevereSci friend, 1 will, by the consent and in the presence of my most honored council, have the cheese cut, and you' will take back with you a portion of ii. with my hearty thanks, and present ;it to your people, that they may all bate a teste. Tell' them never to falter in \?he pri lcipl?? thny hi?nn in iTiiffir.rLilivij -<w??y have successful come to the rescue of our beloved country in the time of her great peril. I wish them health *ad prosperity, and m&y milk in abundance never cease to flow to the latest posterity." As arrangements had previously been made, the Stewart of the White House j came forward and cat the cheese. A slice was presented to each guest. Every one tasted and declared it to be as near perfection as it was possible for a cheese to be. Elder Leland was greatly delighted with the whole enterprise. He spent a few days in Washington, and then left for home. Another large meeting was held at Captain John Brown's. The elder gave the whole occouot of his trip, auu luc ICUCWUUII U1 ULIOJX piWMUib Ul> the Capitol. One can imagine the eagerness and delight with which the people listened. Each one received a small piece of cheeee, for the whole region came to hear. This story is still treasured by those who received it from < parents or grand-parents. MANY USES OF EGG8. They Are Said to be Better for Scholars' I Brains Than Fish. * ' (From the Eastern Farmer.) Eggs are a meal in themselves. Every ' element that is necessary for the support j ot man is contained within the limit of 3 an egg-shell in the? best proportions and ? most palatable form. Plain boiled they are wholesome. The masters of French y cookery, however, affirm that it is easy c to dress them in five hundred different \ ways, each method not economical, but 1 salutary in the highest degree. ' No honest appetite ever rejected an ! egg in some guise. It is nutriment in the j most portable form and in the most con- ? centrated shape. Whole nations of 1 mankind rarely touch any other animal c food. Kings eat them plain as readily t as do the humble tradesmen. After the 8 battle of Muhidorf, when Kaiser Ludmg sat at a msal with his burggrafs and 1 srreat can tarns, he determined on a piece J 3f M ??VM> i&aUn<T 4 " ?.*uth^ excellently valiant Schewp- I iiet?eggsare the scholars' fare. contain phosphorus, which is brain food, and sulphur, which performs a variety j3 5f functions in the economy. And they ? ire the best of nutriment for children, ior in a compact form they contain 8 everything that is necessary to the * jrowth of the youthful frame. Eggs * ure, however, not only food?they are * medicine also. The white is the most $ jfficacious remedies for burns, and the a >il extracted from the yolk is regarded a jy the Russians as an almost miraculous c lalve for cuts, bruises and scratches. v A raw egg, if syallowed in time, will n effectually detach a fish-bone fastened in & he throat, and the whites of eggs will 11 ender the deadly corrosive sublimate as ^ larmless as a dose of calomel. They j* trengthen the consumptive, invigorate he feeble, and render the mosi suscepti- j1 3le all bnt proof against jaundice in its *? aost malignant phase. The merits of " iggs do not even end here. In France 61 lone the wine clarifiera use more than 10,000,000 a year, and the Alsatians conume fully 38,000,000 in calico printing ud for dressiug the leather that in used a makiDg the finest French kid gloves. E Iven egg-shells are valuable, for allopath nd homoepath alike agree in regarding bem the purest of the oarbonateof lime. "ROU8LE AMONG ALASKAN INDIANS. d Q( D fetlakahtla Indians Occupy an Island at Under a Trick. jy Ottawa, Ont, August 15.?Advices fa roui British Columbia appear to indicate 0; rouble for the United Slates authorities ci rllh the band of Metlakahtla Indians, tii rhlcb, under a man named Duncan, removed from British Columbia last summer 3*an island off the southwest coast of Alas- ii< a, after receiving permission from Wash- gi igton to do so. Tdese Indians, about five 1> undred in all, it will be remembered, left si tieir reserves in British Columbia on ac- fo ount, as they allege, of the severe treatlent they were subjected to from the Do- h< linion Government, to which they had Iwavs been a source of trouble. It now fa ppears that Duncan, who visited Wash- w igTony decerned the Indians In Inducing P< aem to emigrate to Alaska, by promising At lem that the United States Government O ad given them Annette and other adjacent ca lands on the southwest coast of Alaska, in rhich to them was to be a' freehold diided up among the tribe. They have just CI iscovered the fraud which has been perpe- re rated upon them, but Duncan, it is al- hj iged, throws the responsibility on the in 'nited States authorities. A gentleman hs rho has just returned from Alaska says lere is trouble brewing for the United ui tates. la th Canada'* New Mormon Settlement. V Ottawa, Ont., August 15 ?Senator 'ochrane, who has just returned from a ^ isit to the Mormon settlement near Port [cLeod, Northwest Territory, reports that I read 7 500 people have come over from rj alt Lake to settle in their new Canadian slony. Mr. Carr, the chief among them, ^ ad who is married to one of Brigham 'Dung's fifty-two children, says the pope- ln ition of the colony will be thousands next ^ ear. He states that they came to their ew home with a full knowledge of the iws of the country, and intend to conform m v lA7Ki 1 a tl.arr o*il 1 aPIiava *a Via^ ^ > lugui. i t uiic oiiii auucic w iuui elief in polygamy, they will make no at- ~ smpt to practice it. He informed the Sen- 1 )r that his people were well pleased with en le change, and with the prospects before lem of building up a colony which would ~l e a credit to the Dominion. They, howrer, found it a great sacrifice to be com- a'J elled to abandon forever the tenets of ra hurch, and will probably make an effort ) secure special legislation from Parlialent to allow them to continue to practice T! olygamy. !^] Yesterday?Oar demon or our good igel, as we neglected or improved it. To- lCj ay?A draft on the bank of Time that is ^ ways cashed at sight. Tomorrow?The rergreen tree in the garden of life. Now -The crown jewel in the coronet of en* javor. ba SILOS AND ENSILAGE. Ail Interesting Article on an Interesting Subject?Some Timely Suggestions. (Dr W. L. Jones, in the Atlanta Constitution J We have been noting carefully all the evidence for and against silos and ensilage and have become satisfied that they are valuable parts of a farm equipment. Tfcey are constantly gaining ground iu the dairy regions of the North, and though less tried at the South, the testimony is decidedly in their favor. When first introduced in the'United States ic was supposed the silo would have to b<j underground. Pite,withcemented wal's of brick, were considered indispensable. i. It is now well established that they can be built of wood and above ground ladeed, many have reached the conclusion, i that above ground silos are preferable to those underground. It was originally supposed that the temperature underground would be more favorable ??? \itfl ereat-Pir fw->lTiAs? in warm - WAftthftr But opinion is now. growing in favor of jpfcf above ground gilos, because the walls ara y -dxser and thad igposicon'df tbeeseifoge 1 to mould on'the outside Is less, for* I like reason the wooden silo is preferred to the brick?it is dryer. The objection to wood is that it rots quickly in contact with damp ensilage. To obviate thi* it has been suggested that the inside liningbe heavily coated with tar or pitch to prevent absorption of moisture. In building above ground, either pofets may be set in the ground or sills laid on tie surface and the house framed on them. The studding used should be not les; than six inches wide; eight inches would be better. The studding should be nicelv covered with tarred building paper, both on inside and outside, before the planks are put on. The outside may be weatherboarded oi*planks nailed on upright; the inside should be ceiled with thick flooring, tongue and grooved. This arrangement is practically air-tight, as much so as it can be made. The shape and dimensions of the silo are important. It should be Jong, narrow and deep and divided into several compartments. Thus?32r8xl2 feetwould be a good, convenient shape, or the height might be less, running down to eight feet. At the ends and in the dividing partitions, doors, in sections, say three of them, one above the other, would add to the facility of taking out !be ensilage when feeding it. The stuff should always be taken from the topi,J . ind, after it is taken down three or four 'eet, the upper section of door could be removed ana the remainder reached with ess climbing. These sections of doors l? -? - - 3 a urn. lu up ana uown grooves, so Uxej an be lilted oat The object in having t&rrow silos divided, into small sections s that one section maybe emptied before mother is disturbed, and thus as little rarface as possible exposed to the air. Susilage spoils quite rapidly on exposure o air. Wh6n it is taken oat byxemovng the top layer the surface exposed will some up with the next day's feed, and has will not be exposed long enough to poil. We omitted to say that a roof most be >uilt over the silo to exclude rain. Some mt a lavSr of straw on top of the ensimg? and etent planfcs?op this. Tarred taper should be put oh the, first set of " 1V wThdtLvftr nfnfanW rndprflrrmnr? with nin?t-in/?h hnntwa" horoughly cemented, and 16x8x12 feet; he other above ground, as described bove, 16x8x9 feet The cost of the two nil be $255. A farmer could get up 4 rooden one with home material in part, rhich would not coet more than $ob to 75. Now is a good time to build one nd have it ready to leceive pea-vines nd forage corn. Remember liow difficlt and troublesome it is to cure peainee; the silo removes all that. It lakes you independent of weather and sonomizes house-room. Ton can pat lore in a silo than in a barn live times 9 large if filled with dry forage; that is > say, silos are much cheaper than irns. Ensilage may contain no mote atriment than dry forage, but it is cer- ^ inly more relished by. stock, and por- . ons of plants (stalks) are eiten as isilage which are rejected when dried CALIFORNIA IS SAFE. ditor Hearst Says It Will Give. Cleveland 1,500 3Iajority. (N. Y. Star, August 15.) W. R. Hearst, proprietor and editor of te Sau Francisco Examiner, arrived in this ty last evening, accompanied by his buamanager, JE. W. Townsend, and H. : Bigelow, who will reinforce the political aff of the Examiner in the East. Mr. earst comes here to consult with his .tiier, Senator George Hearst, in regard to aliforoia politics and to assist the Demo aiic National Committee in organizing ie California campaign. "Before we left California we made a ireful survey of our local political situaan and I am confident that our State will ve Cleveland and Thurman a majority of 500 votes; a change of about 15,000 votes oce 1884," said Mr. Hearst to a reporter r the Star, last evening. "On what grounds do you base this be;f?" asked the reporter. "There are many influences at work that vor Democratic success. Blaine, in 1884, as the strongest man in America. Hia :rsonal t>nd political following and inlence in California were immense. The emocratic party was handicapped in that jnpaign with a standard-bearer unknown California. "Four years have changed this. Mr. [eveland's official course has gained the spect and confidence of our people. He is gone farther in the direction of restrictg Chinese immigration than Mr. Blaine id ever advocated. "Harrison, oa the other hand, is very ipopular. His record on the Chinese and bor questions will swing California into e triumphant Democratic column in Noimber." "How does the tariff question affect the sople of California?" "When it was first sprung, and the "Reiblicans set up the howl of free trade, it armed people. This fear is rapidly vatiling. The people of California begin to e tnatthe slight reduction proposed by e Mills bill?whiclyreduction is directly the line of theja* l" i n'lTM Hteftons of sucssive PresidentsTKepnKic>?i! inatorsand Republic.n Secretaries of the reasurfp?is in no degree a free trade easurt. They admit that free lumber ill materially assist the thousands of f.rlprs/ ihot ?n.\nrMir flri/vb ommii n,u*j / vaiaviuia. iey know tnat free tinware wiil h.i'p ormously in the development < ? our ormous canning industries. F.w s.'-t irts no one in CSifornia, and brtirjit-. ?!i. :ee wool will benefit botb wovi u :. v?,rc d wool manufacturer by ii?creM.-.tu!/ u?e oge ot our woolen manufacturers. IV.ntlly, I believe that free w??.:l wiil give ilii'ornia looms control vl' t!*; ido of the Pacific coast anil therriiories. Free dye stuffs is uuoibte >.tc^ t'ir same direction. 'Ymi mm f/?l! th? r>pm<v?r.i:o r,f NT^ tr jrf through the columns of th.; v. if," r?-i dec', "that they may count on i iice!ccrai Votea of California this year." Not to be lightly passed ove.r?Tny rbed wire fence.