The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 17, 1888, Image 1

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- ----- ^ VOL. XLY, WINNSBORO, S. 0, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1888. NO. 12. ? ^ I ? Mil II IM ?nam HIM MAN'S GREATEST EXPLOITS. . DR. TALMAGB TELLS HOW ALL MEK MAY BECOME HEROES. They May Not be Great Generals, or Statesmen, or Inventors, bat They Slay Save a Man or a Woman or a Child?The Terrible Perils of Friendless Girls. jv _a -ii?a. at.^ 'l'ne congregation inas sitenus mo Brooklyn Tabenaale turned out in large numbers Sunday to hear the sermon of theBev. Dr. Talmage. He chose for his subject: "The three greatest things to do." His text was Daniel xi. 32: "The people that go know their God shat be strong, and do exploits." ? Having spoken of the wars entered into in past ages by Antiochus Epiphanes against the Jews, and the stout resistance of the latter and their many great exploits, ne went on to nx^?m? what an exploit Tas. "An exploitable add, "would define to be a heroioaeti a brave feat, a great achievement. Well,' you say, 'I admire such things, but there is no chance fcr me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had- an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do exploits.' You are right so far as great wars are concerned. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier-generals of this country would never have been heard of had it not been for the war. General Grant would have remained in the useful work of tanning hides ai-Galena, and Stonewall Jackson dThave continued a quiet college professor in Virginia. And whatever military talents you have will probably lie dormant forever. Neither will you probably beoome a great inventor. VinatAAn Tm-ndrfld and Tiinfttv-nine out of every 2,000 inventions found in the Patent Office at Washington never yielded their authors enongh money to pay for the expenses of securing* the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse or an Edison, or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli "Whitney. But there are three great exploits which man can accomplish. He can save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, sits op the edge of some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be a financial, or a moral, or a domestic, or a social, or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in court rooms. A young man has got into bad company and he has offended the lav, and he is arraigned. All blushing and confused he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he is almost desperate. Let. the District Attorney overhaul him as though he were an old offender, let the ablest attorney? at the bar ref use.. to say a word for him becaus s hfiucaanSt >. i^S6gaKfe?abIe'fee,~ tec"the judge BK giye no opportunity for presenting fcte KB mitigating drcnmstances, hurry up the w case and hustle him up to Auburn or Hp Sing Sing. If he lives seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, B and each decade of his life will be K blacker than its predecessor. In the interregnums of prison life he can get no work, and he is glad to break a windowglass, or blow open a safe, or play the fc highwayman, so as to get back again B _ within the walls where he can get someHP -Shiner to eat and hide himself from the crtrel-gaze of the world. Why don't his W lather oome and help him? His father is dead. Why don't his mother oome and help him? She is dead. Where are S all the ameliorating and salutary infla enoesof society? They do not touch I |iim. "Why did not some one long ago in the case understand that there was an opportunity for an exploit which would be famous in Heaven a quadrillion of years after the earth has become scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the District Attorney take that young man into his private office and eay, 'My son, l see mat you are tne vie tim of circumstances. This is your first crime. You are sorry. I will bring the pexL^n you wronged into your presence and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chance.' / Or that young man is presented in the court room and he has no friends present and the judge says: 'Who is your counsel?' And he answers: 4I have none/ And the judge says: 'Who will take this young man's case?' And there is a dead halt and no one offers, and after a while the judge turns to some attorney who never had a good case in all his life, and never will, end whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of innocence itself. And the professional incompetent crawls up beeide the prisoner, helpless to rescue despair, when there ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help " i ?*?i T? ??u i ij ta&b UUiuriiLiiiaife. uu?r uiuuu jwuiuu , scah-an-attorney have received as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but much every way in a happy consciousness that would make his own life brighter and his own dying pillow softer and his own heaven happier?the consciousness that ho had saved a man. Dr. Talmage next scored unmercifully the practice of business men in seeking to grind eaoh other out of the trade and out of existence. A little helping hand, a little kindly feeling, he said, on the part of his fellows would keep many a man and many a family from ruin am. despair. **rhcr<5 sometimes como t x-gencics in the life of a woman," said Dr. Talmage. One moTuing about two years ago I saw I. V*- newsPaPer I nac mere was a young Bfcsn in New York whose pocketbook, HTtaraiog $37 and 33 cents, had been ftlea, aud she had been left without a Vrthicg at the beginning of winter in a Rrange city, and no work. And although she was a stranger, I did nut allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on our corner without carryiog tbo $37 ^nd 33 cjnte; and the case was proved gtouine. Now, 1 have read all Sbakespeai\s tragedies and all Victor Hugo's trugedjfc mid aU Alexander Smi' -.'s tracedi>-5 r>ut I cover mul tra,,. d nmn ti r :1 g t! .m t :>i; t\i? . I'tiOrcr ?to by t::e liuu<irt*ds and Uiousaucis in ail our large cities; young women without money and with oat home and withont work in these great maelstroms oi metropolitan life. When snch a case conies under your observation, how do you treat it? 'Get out of my way; we have no room in our establishment for any Eiore hands. I don't believe in women anyway; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please show this person out of the door.' Or do you compliment her pexsonai appearance and say things to her which, if any man said to your sister or daughter, you would Mil him on the spot? That is one way, and it is tried every day in ? ^ \ ' /A these large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in factories and for governesses in families have proved themselves unfit to be in any place outside of hell. "New York and Brooklyn ground np last year about thirty thousand young women, and would like to grind up about as many this year. Out of all that long procession of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed at and flung off the precipice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and Heaves;. But good men and good women are not in mas kind of business. Alas for that poor thing, nothing but the thread of that sewing girl's needle held her5 and the thread broke. I have heard men tell in public discourse what a man is, but what is a woman? Until some one shall give a better definition I frill tell you what a woman is. "Direct from God, a saored an~ delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short ot^'Shai of the infinite God can tell their bound; fash-! ioned to refine and soothe And lift and irradiate home and society and the world; of such value that .mo one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him undereiand it, or who, in some great crisis of life, when all else failed him, had a wife to re-enforce him with a faith in God that 1J ?v. LLVtiLLLUg KJAJ LLLXjL U-LCJLUXU. 5A ISU.I;, JO cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces tJiot hovered over you! Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christendom, and ye hom js, whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and : help me to define what woman is! If a man during all his life accomplish nothing else except to win the love and confidence and help and companionship of a good woman, he is a garlanded victor, and ought to have the hands of all people between here and the grave stretched out to him in congratulation. "But as geographers tell us that the depths of the sea correspond with the heights of the mountains, I have to tell you that good womanhood is not higher up than bad womanhood is deep down. The grander the palace, the more awful the conflagration that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon, the more fiimn r?l m SYnirt rt ^Anm incf aAT V9XX1MAV UV1 UUTTU J UOl VU VUO coast. Now, I should not wonder if you tremble a little with a sense of responsibility when t say that there is hardly a person in this honse but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in your case be done by good advice, or by financial help, or by trying to bring to bear some one of a thousand Christian influences. You would not have to go far. If, for instance, you know among your acquaintances a young woman who is apt to appear on the streets about the hour when men return from business, and you find her responding to the smile of entire strangers?hogs that lift their hats?then go you to her and plainly tell her that nearly all the destroyed womanhood in the world becan the downward Bath with that verv kind of behavior. "There is another exploit that you can do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at alk^ For the first year and a half it cannot ap $k a word. For the first ten years it wotud starve if it had to earn its own food. For the first fifteen years its opinion on any subject is absolutely valueless. And then there are so many of them. My! what lots of children! And some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear out the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights crying. Well, your estimate of a child is quite different from that mother's estimate who lost her child last summer. Xney took it to the salt air of tlie seashore and to the tonic air of the mountains,'but no help came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose that life could be restored by purchase, how much -would that bereaved mother give? She would take all the jewels from her lingers and neck and bureau and put them down. And if told that that waa not enough she would take her house and make over the deed for it, and if that were Dot enough she would call in all her investments, and put down all her mortgages and bonds; and if told that were not enough she would say: 4I have made over all my property, and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will toil with my own hands and carry with mv own shoulders in any kind of hard work, and live in a cellar and die in a garret. Only give me back that lost darling. "Ob, to save a child! Am I not right ii i ir _ j. 1 j ft in putting una! among me great expjouer Yea, it beats the other two, for if you save the child you save the man or you save the woman. Get the first twenty years of that boy or grl all right and I guess you. have got manhood or womanhood ail right and there entire earthly and eternal career all right. But what are going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father or mother had died the day they were born? There are tens of thousands of such. Their parentage was against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerves and muscles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness of their parents. They are practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in an equinoctial gale, and told to make for shore. The first greeting they get from the world is to be called a brat or a ragmufnn or a ^harf rat. What to do with them is the question often asked. There is another question quite as pertinent as that is, 'What are they goiug to with us?' They will, ten or eleven years from now, have as many votes as the same number of vrcil-born children, and they will band this land over to anarchy and political damnation just as bhuro as we neglect them. Supwe each one cf us save a boy or a girl. You can do it. Will you? 1 will. Take a cake of perfumed soap and a finetoothed comb and a New Testiment, and a little candy and prayer and a piece o? cake, and faith in God and common sense, and begin this afternoon. " R-if I xra orof rfl<i< !t fr>r nrip or all of these three exploits? We shail muke a dead failure if in our own strength wo try to savo a man or woman or child. But my text suggests "where we are to get tquipment. 'The people that do kuow their God shall be strong and do exploits.' We must know him through : it* I hriyt it! onr ?>?u salvation. hu?1 'fsiiiiii b>iv? ilis i:fi?> iu l he sal vatioa ui others. And while you are saving strangers you may save some of your own kin. You think your brothers and sisters and children and grandchildren all safe, but they are not dead, and no one is safe till he is dead. On the English coast there was a ^v*v? nr>/Q r> i *s i-U n wiiu awjiiu auu a y?icv)A in mo uxnii^, and the cry was, 'Man the lifeboat!' But Harry, the usual leader of the sailors' crew, was not to be found, and they went without him and brought back all the shipwrecked people except one. By this time Harry, the leader of the crew, appeared and said: 'Why did you leave that one?' The answer was: 'He could not help himself at all, and we could not get him into the boat.' " 'Man the life boat!' shouted Harry, 'and we will for that one.' 'No,' said his aged mother standing Vesido him, 'you must not go. I lost your father in a storm like this, and your brother Will went off six years ago and I have not heard a word from him since he left, and I don't know where he is, and I don't know what has happened to him, poor Will, and I cannot let you also go, for I am old and dependent on you.' His reply was, 'Mother, I must go and save that one man, and if I am lost God will take care of you in your old days.1 The lifeboat put out, and after an awful struggle with t.hn aoa tViour f.liA TIArtr fflllnw Onk of the rigging just in time to save liis life, and started for the shore. And as teey came within speaking distance, Harry, just before he fainted from the overexertion, cried out, 'We saved him, an-7 4 " mother it was brother Will.' vu, yes, my friend, let us start out to save some one for time and eternity; some man, some woman, some child. And who knows but it may, directly or indirectly, be the salvation of one of our own kindred; and that will be an exploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is shipwrecked and the sun has gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead." .Well, Why Is It? Why is a cat's tail like the earth? It is fur to the end. What kin is the doormat to a floor? A step farther. I * v . *i Ck rm_ _ *i it _ wnat is a waisc 01 umer xue miauxe of an hour-glass. Why is a doctor never seasick? He is used to see sickness. Why does an old maid wear mittens? To keep off the chaps. Why is a door in the potential mood? It's would, or should be. What is the board of education? The schoolmaster's shingle. What sticketh closer than a brother? A postage stamp, by gum. Why is a tin can tied to a dog's tail like death? It's bound to occn*. Why does a sailor know there's a man in the moon? He has been to sea. Why is the North Pole like an illicit whisky manufactory? It is a secret still. What is it that will give a cold, cure a cold and pay the doctor's bill? A draught. What does a man take when he has a mean wife? He takes an elixir (he licks her). Why is it easy to get in an old man's house? Because his gate is broken and his locks are few. Why is a man who makes pens very wicked? He makes people steel pins and then say they do write. Why is a city official like a church bell? One steals from the people and the other peals from the steeple. Why is it dangerous to go out in spring? Because the trees eiioot, the flowers have pistils and ths bulrush is out. What is the difference between a dog's tail and a rich man? One keeps a wagging and the other keeps a carriage. What is the difference between an engineer and a school teacher? One trains the mind and the other minds the train. What is the difference between a soldier and a pretty woman? One faces the powder and the other powders the face. Why is a sheet of writing paper like a lazy dog? A sheet of writing paper is an inclined plain and an inclined plane is a slope up. What is the difference between an apple and a pretty girl? One you squeeze to get cider and the other you get 'side t iier I><J D<-J[uocz*C.?x JL/upai^u. Strange History of an Old Building. Wben Mr. J. L. Duncan, the contractor, was prepairing the ground for the building of the Live Oak Hotel, a very aged colored man (James Black, we think) since dead came trotting along and asked what he was about. Being told, he said it was a bad thing, as it was an unlucky spot. That when he was a boy an old Indian pointed out the spot and told him that it was a place sacred to the Indians, and that no building would be safe upon it. The spot pointed out was a deep depression, which has since been filled up and is partly covered by the hotel buildings. Little more than passing heed was paid to what the old man said. Let us note what has occurred since the site was used for building purposes: The first frame was erected nearlv three times as large as the present building. One night just after the frame was completed along came a wind which did no damage otherwise, but seemed to concentrate its force at this one point, and the frame was prostrated. The ruins were cleared away and the building was erected again. This time it was tlmost completed and the painters were at work, when it was discovered on fire, and the most strenuous efforts could not save it from being entirely consumed. Then the third building, the present, on a much smaller scale, was raised anil completed. Before it was regularly rented for its present purposes, but was occupied by a private family, it was struck by lightning and slightly damaged. When J. D. Rountree ran the hotel it was again struck; and a chimney shattered and other damages inflcted. Then oame a stroke of lightning on Tuesday night, which seriously damaged the building. All in all, this is singular to say the least. ^Perhaps it is an uncanny spot, or has hidden beneath its surface that which attracts the lightning.?Port Royal Post. A Sweet Girl Evens Up Old Scores, j A young society lady of the West End, whose passion to be up with the pievailing ! styles leads her at times to go to extremes, brought home a most elaborate hat from a Fourth street modiste the other night. Mamma %vas wralhy, sisiers scolded, and the two elder brothers flew off into a rage. The young lady declared to fight it out on that line if it took all winter, and that she would wear that hat in the face of the family veto. A council of war was held between the two brothers, and with a sacrilegious hand and a sharp penknife they undid the artistic work of the milliner aud left the duck of a hat shorn of its rich plumage. Amanda Dext morning wept, stormed, relapsed into siljnceaud brooding thoughts, and the following morning one brother found his bicycle in sections, part of it in the cellar and part in the garret, and the other is looking for parts of his i.lio?i>un (iiV:>rct"(i ironi me siock. aiikwiuu siis .-v.rfliy >ni:li!i;r. lint picture <>f c-nUi iunon;:Kr.?Cincinnati .Enquirer. Drowned in a lieer Glaus. A man in Trenton was recently drowned in a beer glass. He had been drinking bard and was well under alcoholic influence when he entered a saloon and ordered a glass of beer, -which was brought to him. He sat down at the table and fell into a stupor, Iiis head dropping forward into the glass before him. When the barkeeper tried to arouse him half an hour later, it was found that he was dead, his nose being immersed in the liquor in such a wjuirTLat respiration was completely stopped 1 A" many as live hundred potato diggers have been patented. r POLLY IN A COURTROOM. A Learned Bird Makes an Interesting Witness Before a Judge. (From the San Francisco Examiner) "Oh, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad I'm?scat!" "Put that drunken man out, Mr. Bailiff," shouted Judge Lawley, we; -ily. "It's only Tom Sawyer," reajK d Mr. Neagle. "1 don't care the sneeze of a eo who it is?put him out." "Bat it's a parrot, your Honor." "Ah, there, my ; >refcty!" sung out the same voice. The Judge scratched his nose r *ectively and awaited developments. An officer hove in sight bearing a cage containing a dissipated-looking parrot. "Let me out." screamed the i-ircL "I'm Tom Sawyer. You're a thief, j You're a thief." "Order in Court," cried the bailiff. "Orderyourself,"retortedpolly. 'Tm the cock of the walk. Ho, Tom." "What crime has this gentleman com-, mittei?" queried his Honor, pointing to the lively bird. "He is here on a search warrant," replied Mr. Mott. "Mr. Sawyer, who is the original of the character in Mark Twin's famous book entitled 'Torn Sawyer," claims the bird and seeks to recover it." "Well let us hear the story." "To-wit-to-wee?to-whittie?to-wee?" "Polly, you must not whistle in court," warned Mr. Sawyer, as he took the stand. "It isn't dignified. "Oh, you're joking, I know," chuckled the bird. "I have had this parrot nine years or more," said the witness, "and it is the most intelligent and best educated bird in the State. What Polly dosen't know isn't worth knowing. I guess I have been offered $75 for him, but I would not take $100. "How did you lose it?" asked Mr. Mott. "Whew!" ejaculated the bailiff "Let go my finger, you little devil!" He had placed his finger thoughtlessly between the wires of the cage and Tom Sawyer had promptly punctured it. "1 guess you had better let him out of the cage," observed the owner. "He will be quiet then." Polly was released, and stepped out with a mien as stately as that ol Edgar Poe's "Raven." "I missed the bird on the 21st of last June," resumed Sawyer, "and I felt pretty bad over it. I have searched for it ever since, and I saw it yesterday in a store kept by a man named North, at the corner of Twelfth and Folsom streets. The parrot recognized me as soon as I came near, and sang out, "Tom Sawyer, take me home!" "You are right," remarked Polly, as he winked one eye and twisted his head on one side. "What a brain you've got, as Mark Twain used to say." "That seems a pretty knowing bird," said his honor. "I don't see why he should not be a witness in this case. Swear him, Mr. Clerk." "Oh I never swear, but I'm d hungry,' ejaculated the parrot. "Let us pray." "No levity, said Clerk Kaplan with gravity. "Take the stand and hold up your right hand." Polly muttered something that sounded like "I Owe Ten dollars to O'Grady" as he obeyed orders. Then he raised his foot and repeated the oath after the clerk. "Thank coodness that's over." he re marked, 4*Say, I'm dry. Let's adjourn to take a drink." 'What i? your name?" asked tho Court. "Tom Sawyer, and I'm a dandy, but I'm no dude. "flow did you stray away from home?" "Well, now, you're smart. Stray away ? I was carried away." "How was that?" Polly paused to scratch himself and then replied: "Well, I was sitting in front of my saloon and a boy grabbed me and ran. I swore at him, but he was a German and didu't understand me. At last he met a man and hfi tnld him ho hod fotmd a bird and wanted to sell it. The man bought me for four bits and took me to a place on Harrison street. Why, I almost committed snioide when I found myself there, for I tell you I have been iu select company in my days." 4 doubtless," said his Honor, laughingly. "But how did Mr. North get you?" "Oh, I bit the wires of the cage until I could get out and I flew until I got tired. Then North happened along and took me with him. Oil I have had a time, I assure you." "Ever know Mark Twain?" asked Mr. Mott. Well, I should remark. Know Mark! Why, bless your heart, I knew him wiien he was put in his first pants. You know thfi hnnk ha wrote about mv boss?" The oourt and officials nodded assent. "Well, you didn't know that I made him write it, did you? No? Yes. Sir; I said: 'Mark,' says I, 'you jost take your pen and write a story. He and my boss had made mud pies together and swopped chewing gum, dead cats and lies. He wrote the story and I edited it. See?" "Remember, you are under oath," remarked Mr. Mott. "Bless my soul. That's so. I take it all back," said the bird, nervously. While his Honor was tying his shoestring Polly hopped on to Clerk Kaplan's head and dug his claws into the clerk's skull. The man who administers oaths took some on his own account, and knocked Polly si 3k with a blow in the stomach. His Honer said he guessed Mr. Sawyer would have to train him afresh, as he wasgetfcin too fresh. He ordered the bird return to its legitimate owner. As they left the oourt one of the visitors remarked to the reporter: "Tom is a pretty good ventriloquist, ain't he? He has built up a reputation for that bird, and nobody knew that Poll did't do tho j talking just now. Tom is as big a joker as when he fooled the boys into -whitewashing his fence for him." Tom sent the bird to his saloon at No. 935 Mission street and then celebrated the return of the wanderer. When he got home he saw two birds and two cages. His hat was also much too small for him. The weather was warm, very warm. Corset Lac in*. ' The much abused ooreet has at last found a defender in a professor of patholcgv at Cambridge (England) University. He told the British Medical Association recently that "the slight pressure incident to wearing stays has a beneficial effect, and reasonable lacing increases physical and mental activity." But reasonable lacing will hardly justify tying a corset string to the bedpost and attempting to encircle a 26 waist with a 19 corset.?Chicago Times. The fine barn and stables of Mr. Samuel Jeffries, of Union county, were entirely consumed by fire last Saturday night, together with eleven mules, two horses, two fine milch cows and a large quantity of other personal property. CAROLINA'S CARNIVAL THE ANNUAL GATHERING OP HER PEOrLE AT THE FAIR. An Interesting Programme?Several New Feature*?PromUe ot a Splendid Time for Everybody. The Twentieth Annual Fair of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina will open on Monday the 12th of November, and close on the following Friday. All entries should be made in person or by letter to the Secretary, Thomas W. Holloway, at Pomaria, until the 4th day of November; after that date at Columbia. Entry books will close on Friday, the 9th November. This ftTinnnl gathering of orrr people is an occasion for the reunion of the farmers from all parts of the State. Decided improvements have been made on the grounds of the Society for the convenience and comfort of exhibitors. While in some sections the recent continued rains have injured the crops, esjwcially on tLe large streams, yet we believe the spirit and energy displayed by our people under even more adverse cir- | cnmstances, will warrant the conclusion that their slight loss will not deter them from the usual pleasant and instructive visit to our approaching Fair. The management is determined to j leave no effort untried to make the pres- t ent Fair second to none in its history. The usual courtesies will be extended to exhibitors by the railroads in the ] transportation of their exhibits. The ] rates of passage will be within the reach j ^11 a?VJ MW.A umll V\n *nn /laOvf ^ VI UU OllU Dpcvim IIOUIO VTXU kSV L uu Viuijr J for the accommodation of visitors. \ The City of Columbia, through a select committee, will furnish unusual attractions during Fair week. An intelligence office will be established, where visitors can apply for homes in private families at reasonable rates. With cheap rates of passage, comfortable accommodations for visitors and the magnificent attractions by the City of Columbia, together with the splendid exhibit of live stock, Agricultural impliments and Machinery, and a fine display of the handiwork of the fair daughters of our State; with full exhibits in every department, we, therefore, cordially invite all citizens of the State and especially the farmers, to share with us the pleasures and benefits of the occasion in mvimnfinff fho rronAral A orirvnlfcnrftl in- < te rests of the State. fROGBAMME FOR THE WEEK. Saturday, November 10th. Secretary Hollo way's office will be open at 8 A. M., when entries made under the rules and regulations will be aligned their proper positions. Monday, November 12th. Gates open at 9 A. M. From 10 to 11 an exhibition in the arena of all the cattle, under the direction of the Superintendent. From 11 to 2 a display of all the horses, beginning with those led by the halter, and closing with Baddle, single, and matched harness horses, as directed by the Supreintendent. Tueaday, November 13th. Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 11 a general display of cattle. The forenoon will be devoted to the ?xi. examination ill me mow* ui iuo cuugio harness horses and mules, as directed by the Superintendent. RACE PROGRAMME. j First race?Three-quarter mile dash? ] all ages. Purse $75?$50 to the first; $25 \ to second. ' ] Second race?Three-quarter mile heats < ?2 in 3 trotting race, S. C. owned. ; Purse $100-t-$75 to first; $25 to second. 1 Third race?Three-quarter mile dash < ?for three-year-olds, S. C. raised and : owned. Purse $75? $30 to the first $25 to second. j Wednesday, November 14th. ] Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 11 a general display of : stock. J From 11 to 12 a display, in the arena, of all the cattle. From 12 to 2 the same by the single J and double harness horses. At this con- ' test the Committees will tie the ribbons. ] BACKS. First race?Three-quarter mile Heats ?all ages. Purse $100?$70 to first; . to second. Second race?Mile heats -2 in 3 trot- j ting that never made a rocord under 3 minutes. Purse $100- $75 to first; $25 to second. Third race?Three-quarter mile dash ?two-year-olds, S. C. raised and owned. ( Parse $75?$50 to first; $25 to second. Fourth race?One-half mile dash? , saddle horses, S. C. raised and owned. 1 Purse $75?$50 to first; $25 to second. Thursday, November 15th. Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. , From 10 to 11 a general display of all llie picu-tiULu oi/uviv, miiu mo cattle. From 11 to 12 o'clock an exhibition in the arena of the saddle horses; after which contest the ribbons will be tied. RACES, First race?Seven-eighths mile dash? all ages. Purse $75?$50 to first; 25 to second. Second race?Mile heats?3 in 5, trotting race. Purse $100?$75 to first; $25 to second. Third race?Mile heats?all ages. Purse $100?$75 to first; $25 to second. Fourth race?Three-quaater mile dash ?ail ages. Purse $75?$50 to first; $25 to second. Friday, November 16th. Gates open 9 o'clock A, M. From 10 to 12 o'clock display ol all the premium harness horses. At 11 o'clook auction sales of live stock. At 2 P. M. the premiums 'will be awarded from the Secretary's office. At the conclusion of which the Fair will close. Each morning of the week, from 9 till 12 o'clock, will be devoted to testing by the Committees all kinds of implements. Exhibitors are expected to furnish thoir own teams. BACES. First race?three-quarttr mile dash? all ages. Purse $75.00?$50.00 to first; $25.00 to second. Second race?Lalf mile heatt?twoyear-olds. Purse?875.00?$50.00 to first; $25.00 to second. Third race?mile dash?all ages. Purse $100.00?$75.00 to first; $25.00 to seoond. J. 15. -H.UMiS.UIiT, l'res. Thos. W. HomiOway, Sec. ATTBACTIO.\fe IX COLUMBIA. Tuesday night?Fire works and Fire Department display, with music. ! Wednesday night?Calithumpian pa! rade of fancy costumes. Thursday night?Trades display with >j fire works. State Ball. Friday?Balloon ascension and fire works, i i BILL \KP'8 LETTEK. The Three Groat Evils to Mankind. War, pestilence and famine?the three great scourges oi mankind. We don't know much about the last, but we do know something of war and pestilence, and in some respects they are very much alike in their horrible results. It is death in its most unfeeling pitiless form. The great difference is that war is the work of man intentionally and provoked, instigated by bad passions that come straight from the devil, while pestilence is simply an inheritance of the curseone of the great afflictions that is for man to conquer and subdue?an affliction like thorns and weeds and poison, oak and devouring worms and mad dogs and measles and toothache and pains of all kinds and cold and neat and nre and flood. All of these have their remedies. Most of them have been overcome by man's ingenuity and all will be. The power of pestilence has already been broken by preventives just as the power of pain has been broken by anesthetics.? Our generation suffered more than its share?more from toothache and earache end colicaches and beestings and stonebruises and stumpedtoes. If a man had to have an arm or a leg amputated or a wen cut off he wasn't put to sleep but just had to be held like he was in a vice and take the excruciation just as it came. If he went blind there was no surgeon to remove the cataract. If he had the fever not a drop of water was given him to cool his parched tongue. 1 helped to hold a poor fellow once as he lay stretched upon a long table. I held his foot hard and strong while the surgeon was cutting off his leg just below the knee and when he sawed through the bone, the severed leg and I came down together for it made me sick before I knew it. He stood it better than I did.? rhe flow of human blood always makes ae sick, and I never got hardened to it luring the war. At the battle of Malvern ELill I saw more of the horrors of war than ever before or after. Most of the leaths were from shell and the dead were iwiully torn and mangled. I recall a soldier who eat leaning against a tree, lis rifle grasped with rigid hands and the uuzzle resting on the ground. He was sitting up just as he fell, but his head vas entirely gone and the blood still >ozing from his neck. I have seen ;he army wagons crossing the shallow tenches where the dead of the battle of Seven Pines had been buried a few days before, and as the wheels crushed down uto the soft wet clay, an arm or a leg vould be forced up and fall again, and sometimes a ghastly bloated face would ihow itself as the heavy wheels passed ipon the breast. But all this is nothing jompared with the silent helpless grief ;hat comes to a household when tlie . I M Xt 1.1* -A. 1 3 resilience is mere, r itsi one ioveu one is stricken and then another. Despair areads close upon the heels of Hope. The louse seems doomed. No cheerful voices, 10 happy songs; music and smiles have jone and sad whisperings and sadder iears have taken their places. These scenes are heart rending and no one wishes to give them thought; but all jught to, Jor the sufferers are our fellow jreatures, and but for our sympathy would bo more pitiless still. Tliat man who gave Mayor Hewitt twelve thousand lollars for the Jacksonville sufferers and would not give his name, did not turn iway from the picture. He thought of it by day and by night, and it followed aim about, and his great big heart opened wide.?I would like to have that man's picture in my parlor. How helpless these refugees from the iwful pestilence must have felt when they realized the full force of the quarantine that was against them. A scourge behind them relentless as death, and as they fled to find refuge the doors of humanity were closed. This is right of Bourse, in some measure, but it is awfuL [ saw it once in 1878 when hundreds of the poor and friendless were hurried out # ?? l:_ mi l DI lUempuiH. xiixeo iuug tr?inio ui uus freighted with women and children. I was at Grand Junction when they came &nd took passage with them for Chattanooga. Ail night long I sat npon the platform and hugged the iron post and nodded in my sleep, and when surprise found us a few miles from our destination we met the. quarantine and co.uld go no further. There wat no food and but little water. Mothers were worn out with anxiety, and the children in a piteous condition, for they had slept upon the floor and the foul air was fearful. After a long parley the humane doctors said they would go though the tVio flifir on/1 nn tn t.hfl mnnntftinfl rtf East Tennessee. When and where they stopped I never learned bnt heard they were scattered and dropped along the line and that the kind people gave them welcome. What fearful lessons have been given to make ua prudent and careful. Memphis had to be and she was purged of her filth and is now probably one of the healthiest cities in the South. Many years ago Savannah was purged and so was Charleston, and those cities seem to be proof against the birth of pestilence. Two centuries ago London had become almost stagnant with her own corruption, and suddenly the great plague came like a simoon, and in six weeks twenty-three thousand of her people perished. That there is a remedy for such visitation the modjrn civilization and modern science have demonstrated, and Jacksonville will yet rise above the r>estilence and defy it. \ Blackston< says there is no wrong "without a remedy, and so the doctors say there is no disease without an antidote. I believe this on general principles. I believe in what is called the Providence of God. As He gave King Solomon knowledge of ali the herbs that were useful to man for medicine so He has hidden in His wonderful storehouse remediesfor plague and pestilence and the men of science must find them. My wife, Mrs. Arp, reads the papers and she sighs and sympathizes with these poor refugees ana says it au reminds her of the war when she and half a dozen little children were running from the Yankees and never got fairly settled down at one place before she had to get up and hnnt another. Some didn't. The children were always hungry, and provisions were scarce, and Confederate money unpopular, and most everybody was in a condition to "welcome the coming and speed the parting guest" and sometimes the speed was more impressive than the welcome. The children wore out their clothes before and behind and .there was no more cloth, and t he had to patch and patch, and knit new socks out of the top of old ones, and make caps out of scraps, and have j some shoes made out of half tanned I leather, and the poor little things never I got a stick of candy nor a picture booK nor a Jews'-harp nor a pocket knife for a whole year. She says she never worked so hard in her life and never kept so well and the children got along splendidly so far as health was concerned. For the doctors were all off in the army. Running from the Yankees was not so bad as running from pestilence, for there was no quarantine and nobody was afraid thejYanfcees were sticking to your clothes. The great trouble was that the Yankees followed you and kept you trotting, but the pestilence is kind enough to stay in one place. May the good Lord deliver us from the Yankees in war and the pestilence in peace, for a thousand years, is my prayer. Bill Akt. SOME FOKMEK EPIDEMICS. Awful Ravages of Yellow Fever in New Orleans and Memphis. (From the Harper's Weekly.) Terrible as the present situation in Jacksonville seems and really is, the fever there is, thus far, of a mild form as compared with that of other great epi demies of the same dread disease. Up to this date of writing the death rate 1a only about 1 in 8 of tiie case3 reported. In New Orleans in 1853 there were 29,0 20 cases and 8,101 deaths, or 1 in 6.58, which was considered a low rate of mortality. The last epidemic of yellow fever that visited New York city was in 1822. It broke out on July 10 in Rector street, and ended' November 5. Such was the terror inspired by it that the entire business portion of the city was deserted. Merchants, insurance companies and banks transferred their business to Greenwich Village. There all the banks occupied temporary structures on one street, which, on that account beam the name of Bank street to this day. In the city the infected streets were t>arricaded and no one was allowed to leave them. Owing to these harsh measures, and to ignorance of treatment of the disease. the death rate was very high?1 in 1.7, or 243 deaths out of 414 cases. During the terrible epidemic ol 1878 there were 17,600 cases in Memphis out of a population reduced by the exodus of all who could get away to about 19,500. Of these, 5,160 died, the ratio of deaths to cases being 1 in 3.3. At that time four Memphis refugees died of the fever in New York, but no person contracted the disease from oontact with them and it did not spread. THE STATE BIBLE ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting to be Held in Columbia November 7 and 8. To tbe Friends of the Bible cause in South Carolina: The South Carolina Bible Association, at ils meeting in Columbia last wicter, resolved to hold another such meeting here tliis year, and the undersigned was made chairman of the executive committee, whose business it was to arrange for the same. This is to notify the friends of the Bible cause throughout our whole State that arrangements are being made for the annual meeting, and to ask that they will do all in their power to make it a grand success. The time chosen is November 7 and 8. On Wednesday evening, November 7, at 8 o'clock, the Association will convene in the hall of the Young Men's Christian As sociation, where there will be an address of welcome, devotional exercises and the enrollment of delegates. On Thursday, at 10 A. 31., the Association will meet at the same place, and reports will be received from the various Bible societies of the State, and any other business calling for consideration will be then attended to. On Thursday evening, at 8 o'clock, there will be a union mass meeting in one of the cuurcaes oi uie cuy, wusre auurtsses win be delivered by several piominent speakers of the State who have promised to attend. All who receive this circular letter are earnestly requested to see that county papers publish the notice it gives, and that Bible societies in their vicinity send up delegates and full reports of their work and condition. The lowest rates obtainable from the railroad companies will be secured for all who attend this meeting. Delegates will have to pay tbeir own expenses also at hotels and boarding houses, but special low rales will be gotten from them also, so as to make the expenses light. Respectfully, Neander. M Woods, Chairman Executive Committee. Columbia, S. C , Oct. 10, 1888. All papers in the State favorable to the Bible cause are requested to publish. The Cost of a Jury. It may be of interest to the people of the county to know what it o jsts to procure a jnry for the trial of a few petty cases such as those brought to trial during the term of the Court of General Session just closed. Fifteen grand jurors traveled 832 miles and all except one served 3 days, he served but one, making an - aggregate of 43 days. They were paid five cents a mile for travel and one dollar and a half a day for service?making the total cost of this jury $106.10. Thirty-six petit jurors summoned for service during the first week traveled 1150 miles served an average of five days each and in the aggregate 195 days, for which they received like pay as the grand jury, making a total cost of $350.00. TftrAnivr.oaTran On/^ ovfra? ATI X nOilVJ-CVf VUJ MMV4 VMWAVWJ T. ? V** the jury for the second week traveled 1113 miles, served one day eaoh or 27 days in the aggregate and paid as the first, cost $96,15. Tiie whole number of miles traveled by all the juries was 3 J95 miles, the whole number of days spent was 265 at total cost of $552.25, an average of 892,05 per day for the juries alone. Tne greatest distance traveled by any one juror was 110 miles by one of the petit jurors drawn for the first week. Two of the grand jurors traveled 104 miles each. If it was one man alone who had acted as the jury he would have lost nearly lAnwfUa a? o ttaoi* in inor f ha LLU.CTC iVUXUUO Vi ? J VtM AAA. ^/VAW??? MQ wuv duty.?Pee Dee Index. A Negro Killed at Branchvllle. Buaschvills, Oct. 9.?A negro was whs brutally murdered here yesterday. It was an outrageous affair, and reminded oue of the murders perpetrated by the cowboys on the frontiers of Texas. The facts are about as follows: Ctesar Stevens, the deceased, who was in the employ of Mr. A. F, H. Dukes, got into a difficulty with j another negro on Saturday last, who was driving a wagon for some folks from the country. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes succeeded in quieting these two negroes, but some white men, the friends of the country negro, re ucwed the quarrel with Cajsar and threatened to kill him. These men finally left here on Saturday night, but returned yesterday morning, fully armed with pistols and a shotgun. They found the deceased peaceably at work in Mr. Dukes's garden * -?-?An kim ok/wl. ailU lmUlUUlBiUljr upcucu uic v>u u.ui, ouuvx.ing at him at least twelve or fifteen times and striking him in nine places. The three men who did the shooting were W. L. McFail, T. ?3. Grumpier and J. A. Richardson. There were several others who were here as accessories. The negro lingered until 8 o'clock this morning when he died. The murderers as yet have not been arrested. The universal opinion of the town is that it was a most cold-bluoded and outrageous murder, and that the parlies ought to be puuished to the full extent of the law. The deceased was a quiet, inoffensive negro, and well thought of by both white and Crw?;a1 tn and (Courier. U1 "~~U|AA/4?i fcV A^vt. V ? ? The Episcopaiions of Marion have secured the services of Kev. Walter Guerry. a recent graduate of the Seminary. Mr. Guerry is a strong man and full of promise and the church in Marion is delighted with 1 their success in securing his services. -V THE CROPS IX SOUTH CAROLINA. The Report of the State Weather Servip# for the Month of September. The State Department of Agriculture"*" furnishes the following report on the weather and the crops;, October 1: THE WEATHEB. The sunshine for the month of September tvaa />nnsiHflrshlo Ka)aot tho otr^raoxa Tiie rainfall was excessive. Reports of observers to tue State Weather Service show tbat the rainfall for September, 1888, 9 8 inches, while for the same month in 1887 the rainfall was only 5.7 incbea. J? Frost was general in all the middle and -Mfj upper counties on the 30th of the month. m: Jf cotton. w0 The continuous rains in the latter part of ^ August, exten?iing io the middle of Septem- ^ \ ber, did great damage to the cotton crop.. The full loss cannot be accurately estimated / at this date, but in some sections it is stated j S?5gVT at 25 per cent. The average decline is j ?||A condition, as estimated from the reports of j correspondents since the 1st of September, | 0'^ is 10 per cent. The greater part of the | crop on bottom lands was destroyed by floods. On Edisto and Wadmalaw Islands the long staple cotton was injured h and caterpillars. The rains tnere were ex- V cessive. The yield on those islands is fcjti mated at 125 pounds lint to the acre. Oa V .lames Island the yield is estimatedat 250 pounds lint per acre. In Berkeley county the yield has been reduced 15 to 20 per cent, by the heavy rains and the worms. The average condition for the State is re- ^ ported at 77 and iudicated yield is given at . . f L65 pounds of lint per acre. > i CORN. A large part of the corn crop on bottom lands was totally destroyed by floods, and on uplands by excessive rainfall. In some sections the grain sprouted in the shuck. In parts of the mountain counties the fodder was seriously injured by the frost on the 3 )ih of September. The condition for the State is reported at 76; indicated yield 9 bushels per acre. BICE. The rice crop in the low country has been badly damaged by the floods, the rivers rising higher than ever known before. la weorgetown county, on tne aantee Kiver, the entire crop, covering over 4,000 acres, was injured 35 to 40 per cent. In some places in the county the crop is con-" s dered an entire loss,?one correspondent reporting that many planters will not save a grain. In Colleton one correspondent ?ays the crop is cut short one third, both in quantity and quality. In Berkeley highland rice is safe, but on North and South Santee River it is almoiit a total failure; possibly one-tenth of the crop will be saved in a damaged condition. Berkeley, Colleon and Georgetown counties prodnc: nearly 00 per cent, of the entire rice crop of the State. The condition for the Stale is reported at 88; indicated yield 22 bushels ^ j per acre. OTHER CHOPS. J The condition and prospective yield of J the smaller crops is reported as follows: M Peas?condition 72; indicated yield 5 buahels per acre; Irish potatoes?condition 91; yield oo Dusneis per acre; sweet potatoes? m condition 94; yield* 97 bushels per acre; fl sugar cane?condition 90; yield 94 gallons fl per acre; sorghum?condition 88; yield 64fl gallons per acre. Suicide of a Williamsburg Negro. Kingstree, Oct. 9.?Tom McKnight, colored, living on the Woodstock plantation, a few miie* southwest of the town, shot himself just before sunset Saturday afternoon. He used a shotgun heavily loaded with buckshot. He did the deed openly, several negroes being near him at the time. He evidently aimed for his heart, but in his effort to pull the trigger changed the direction of the barrel slightly / i . J:?-v t- - ->ii? i,.Jr Uizi > auu uie uiacuar^e uurriuijr imuigicu. wa shoulder. Tom died Sunday evening. It is said he killed himself for the love of a dusky Dulcinea, although himself a married man.?Special to Charleston World. Asleep on the Track. The train on the Ptetepce Raflrg&j^^Jhw^ while running backward oo^^^sIS Wednesday last ran ovecand instantlk killed a negro boy about fifteen years oT age uear Latta, but the accident was not discovered until the train returned on its down trip to Pee Dee several hours later. It s iems that the boy had been picking cotton in a field near by and laid himself down on the railroad to rest and fell atleep. As the cars were in front of the engine the engineer could not see him, and keeping hid eyes in the direction in which his train was moving he did not see the body wlien he passed over. His head was crushed and one leg completely severed from his body. ?Pee Dee Index. m + A Fair Financier. There is a certain young girl in Mississippi who bids fair to become a great fleaocier if she perseveres as she has Uegun. Some one gave her five cents. With it she l>ought a yard of calico and made it into a sun bonnet, which she sold for forty cents. She invested the forty cents in calico, made more bonnets, sold them, reinvested, made other garments, and pretty soon had $10. She put this money into potatoes, planted tbera, paid for the cultivation, harvesting and marketing of her crop and made a clear profit of $40. The Wages of Labor. ? r? v f , u <.vr?? in Ills L1C W UJU&, jlLcu auu mucuin l/L Half a Century," published by Charles Sciibacr's Sons, Hon. Hugh McCullough siys: "Wages depend ?f*?s4gmand and supply, and they will steadilyctecline iu the United States in consequenceo?_ the foreign immigration. Humane considers? ? tions are not apt to influence the action of ! business men. There is freetradeinlibor, and our manufacturers will employ, if they do not import, cheap laborers from the other side of the Atlantic, unless wages approach pretty near to the European standard. The outlook for laborers in the manufacturing districts of the United States, if ao check is put upon immigration, and no new markets are opened for our manufactured goods, is the reverse of encouraging." ?Atlanta Constitution. Tailors ten toeir aouonui customers mat checks are very popular for clothing th e fall. Canadian fishermen should not waste their salt trying to put it on the tail of the American eagle. It would be very ungallant to examine the assessment papers to ascertain the ages of women who have been assessed. There is one advantac^ the elephant has over other travelers. The hotel pater never tries to sell him a strap for his trunk. The population of Ireland is declining at the rate of nearly sixty thousand ;per annum. So reports the Registrar Geneial. A clergyman, having forgotten his ncles ino iSiinrlun orvVI/vriTpH tn his miun-WRCrm wuuuuj, ?l'v/*v6.?vv ? O--O ? by sayiog that he would have to depend upon the Lord that morning for what he might say, but in the afternoon he would coaie better prepared. Professor Gauthier, of Paiis, states that certain vital processes of the body develop putrefying substances in the tissues, which, if not speedily eliminated, produce disease. A.yer'8 Sareaparilla effects the removal of these substances, and thereby preserves health. Never before were there so many able, accomplisned, and earnest preachers in the pulpits of Christendom as there are today. Prpftrhinf never did more food than it is <Ioii?g now. Serm^yjteralui^m never more widely preciated. If of pitied.