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'. ? I * ? I I. . - " ? * ' .... ? | VOL. XLV. WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1888. NO. 18. ?^???? TALMAGE TALKS ON TALENT. ^ XT SHOULD BE USED IN ORDER TO BE IMPROVED. The Old Story of the Man Who Intrusted Mosey to his (jemats and Received Interest trom Some of Them?Rewards for the Doll as Well as the Brilliant. The Eev. Dr. Talmage preached to a large congregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sunday on "Bewards for the dull as well as the brilliant." He took for his text, "Unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every one according to his several ability." Matt xxv. 15. He said: "Many of the parables of Jeeus Christ were more graphio in the times in which he lived than they are now, because eircumstanoes have so much changed. In olden time, when a man wanted to wreak a grudge upon his neighbor, after the farmer had scattered the seed wheat over the field and was expecting the harvest, his avenger would go across the same field with a sack full of the seed of daznal grass, scattering that seed all over the field, and of coarse it would sprout up and spoil the whole crop; and it was to that Christ referred in parable when he spoke of the lares being sown . among the wheat. "In this land our farms are fenced off, and the wolves have been driven to the mountains, and we cannot fully understand the meaning of the parable in regard to the shepherd and thd lost sheep. But the parable from which I speak today is founded on something we all TiT?<3prR<ATid- It ir built on monev. and that means the same in Jerusalem as in New York. It means the same to the serf as to the Czar, and to the Chinese coolie as to the Emperor. Whether it is made out of bone or brass, or iron or copper, or gold or silver, it speaks all languages without a stammer. The parable of the text runs in this wise: ! The owner of a large estate was about to leave home, and he had some money that he wished properly invested, and 1 so he called together his servants and , said: ?*1 am going away now, and I wish . you would take this money and put it to the very best possible use, and when I come baok return to me the interest.' To one man he gave $9,400, to others he gave lesser soms of money; to the least 1 be gave $1,880. He left home and was ; gone for years, and then returned. On ; his arrival he was anxious to know about Worldly affiurs, and he called his servants 1 +/% iwkAvf IA Kim *T mcx W w mvv MW know/ said he, 'what you have been : doing with my property since 2 have been gone.' The roan who had received the $9.-i00 came up and said: 'I invested that money, i got good interest for it. ! | I have in other ways rightly employed ; ft it; and here are $18,800. You see I : have doubled what yon gave me.' 'That's ^gy ggod,'mid theowner ofthe estetor industry. I shalf re- ; Orard you. Well done; well done.' Br "Other servants came up with smaller accumulations. After a while I see a Knan dragging himself along, with his . Boghead hanging. I know from the way he Bbomes in that he is a lazy fellow. He , Hcomes up to the owner of the estate aua . Kays: 'Mere are thoee $1,880.' What!' : Kays the owner of,the property, 'haven't Hwou made it accumulate anything?' ! nothing?nothing.' 'Why. what have B>u been about all these years?' 'Oh, ' i lil??- * T " .l.JIl T I Rwas airaiu mat u ? xuvusbcu it, ? uu^wi mehow lose it. There are your $1,880.' any a man started oat "with only a ; own in his pocket, and achieved a rtune, bat this fellow of my text with .,880 has gained not one farthing. In- ! ead of confessing his indolence, he ' les to work to berate his master, for 1 indolence is most always impudent and ! impertinent. Of coarse he loses his place and is discharged from the service. ; "The owner who went out into a far ; country is Jesus Christ, going from . earth to Heaven. The servants spoken ; of in the text are members of the Church. ( The talents are our different qualifications of usefulness given in different . ^Vgroportions to different people. The ] coming back of the owner is the Lord Jesus returningat the judgement to final settlement. The raising of some of the3e j men to be rulers over five or two cities is the exaltation of the righteous at the last day, while the casting out of the idler is 1 the expulsion of all those who have mis- J improved their privileges. ' "Learn first from this subject, that 1 becoming a Christian is merely going ; out to serve. If yon have any romatic ^Siflfr^rsMreeoming a Christian, I want 1 now to scatter the romance. If you enter into the Kingdom of God, it will 1 be going into plain, practical, honsat, 1 continuous, persistent Christian work. I know there are a great many people 1 who have fantastic and romantic notions 1 about this Christian life, but he who serves God with all the energies of body, ' mind and roul is a worthy servant; and he who does not, is an unworthy servant. When the war trumpet sounds, all the 1 -EifcrcPs soldiers must march, however 1 deep the snow may be, or however fearful the odds against them. Under our i Government we may have colonels, and captains, and generals in time of peace; < bat in the Church of God there is no peace until the last great victory shall hare been achieved. Bnt I have to tell you, it is a voluntary service. People are not brought into it an slaves were dragged from Africa. "Learn also from this parable that different qualifications are given to different people. The teacher lifts a blackboard, and he draws a diagram, in order that by that diagram he may im-press the mind of the pupil with the has been uttering. And all the^fcths of this Bible are drawn vatM a?- in a. crpftr. VM? U4 I iwmu ?diagram. Here is a^vacre of ground that has ten talents. Under a little oulture it yields twenty bushels oi wheat to the acre. Here is another piece of ground that has only one talent. Yon may plow it, and harrow it, and culture it, year after year, but it yields a mere pittance. So here is a man with ten talents in the way of getting good and .doing good. He soon, under Christian .culture, yields great harvests of faith juad good work. Hare is another man who seams to have only one talent, and you may put upon him the greatest spiritual culture, but he yields but little -of the fruits of righteousness, You are to understand that there are different ,/TnaliScalionH for different individuals. "I learn also from this parable that the grace of God was intended to be accumulative. When God plants an acorn, he means an oak, and when He plants $ small amount of grace in the heart, He intends it to be growthful and enlarge until it overshadows the whole nature. There are parents who, at the birth of each child, lay aside a certain amount of money, investing it, expecting by accumulation and by compound interest, B??MM? a that by the time the child shall come to 1 mind-life, this small amount of money will be a fortune, showing how a small amount of moneywill roll up into a vast accumulation. Well, God sets aside a certain amout of grace for each one of his spiritual children at his birth, and it is to go on. and, as by compound in terest, accumulate until it shall become an eternal fortune. Can it be possible that you have been acquainted with the Lord Jesus for ten, twenty, or thirty years, and that you do not love Him more now than you ever did before? Can it be that you have been cultured in the Lord's vineyard, and that Christ finds on you nothing but sour grapes? "Again, I learn from the text that inferiority of gifts is no excuse for indolence. " This man, with the smaller amount of money, came growling into the presence of the ownex of the estate, as much as to say: 'If you had given me $9,400 I would have brought $18,800 as well as this other man. You gave me only $1,880, and I hardly thought it was worth while to use it at all. So I hid it in a napkin, and it produced no result. It's because you didn't give me enough.' But inferiority of faculties is no excuse for indolence. Let me say to the man - " i-L- 1 L i:i! T i-X- - who iiaa ult) leatst yutuiuuauiuiiB, uy uub grace of God he may be made almost omnipotent The merchant, whose cargoes come ont from every island of the sea, and who, by one stroke of the pen, can change the whole face of American commerce, ha? not so mnch power as you may have before God, in earnest, faithful and continuous prayer. "You say you have no faculty. Bo you not understand that you might this afternoon go into your place of prayer and kneel before God and bring down upon your soul and the souls of others a blessing so vast that it would take eternal ages to compute it? 'Oh,' you say, 'I haven't fleetness of speech; I can't talk well; I cant utter whst I want to say." My brother, can you not quote one passage of Scripture? Then take that one passage of Scripture; carry it with you every where; quoto it under all proper circumstances. With that one passage of Scripture you may harWAei A OAtllo rLftyl T om f vcu a mvurvii iu oviuc avjl v?vu? x oua glad that the chief work of the Choreh in this day is being done by the men of one talent. Onoe in a while when a great fortress is to be taken God will bring ont a great fieldpiece and rake all with the fiery hail of destruction, i "But the common muskets do most of the hard fighting. It took only one Joshua, and the thousands of common troops under him, to drive down the walls of the cities, and, under wrathful strokes, to make nations fly like sparks from the anvil. It only took one Luther for Germany, one Zwinglius for Switzerland, one John Knox for Schotland, one Calvin for France, and one John Wesley for England. Dorcas as certainly has a mission to serve as Paul has a mission to preach. The two minutes dropped by the window into the poorbox will be as mueh applauded as the endowment of a college, w hich gets a man's name into the newspapers. The oian who kindled the fire under the burnt offering in the ancient temple had adat^as imperative as, that of the high ^ies^^n~ESgm5cent ~ro& s, walking Into the Holy of Holies under: the cloud of Jehovah's presence. Yes, the men with one talent are to save ths world, or it will never be saved at all. The men with five or ten talents are tempted to toil chiefly for themselves, to build up their own great name, and work for their own aggrandizement, and do nothing for the alleviation of the world's woes. The oedar of Lebanon standing on the mountain seems to hand down the storms out of the heavens to the earth, but it bears no fruit, while some Swarf pear tree has more fruit on its branches than it can cirry. Better to have one talent and put It to full use than five hundred wickedly neglected. ' My subject teaches me that there is : ~ J gOUlg IAJ WUIO a U?JT UL avIVLULL fcCLLLWment. When the old farmer of the lext got home, he immediately called all the servants about him and said: 'Here is the little account I have been keeping. I want to see your account, and we will first compare them, and I'll pay you what i owe you and you'll pay me what you owe me. Let us have a settlement.' 'fhe day will come when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear and will say to you: 'What have you been doing with my property? What have you bean doing with my faculties? What have you been doing wi:h what I gave you for accumulative purposes?' There will be no escape from tl at settlement. "Now, in the last great aattlement there will be a correct account presented. Gcd has kept a long line of broken Sabbaths, a long line of profar 9 words, a long line of discarded sacraments, a Long line of misimproved privileges. Ihey will all be added up, and, before angels and devils and men the aggregate will be announced. Oh, thar, will be the great day of settlement. I have to ask the question: 'Am I ready for it?' It is of more importance to me vo answer that question in regard to jon; and it is of more importance for you to iinswer it in regard to yourself than in regard to me. Every man for himself in that day. Every woman for herself in that day. If thou ba wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself; if thou scornest, thou alone 9halt bear it. <?T loam a Ism fr/vm this na-roV.Ifl a? Hio text that our degrees of happiness in heaven will be graduated according to oar degrees of usefulness on earth. Several of the commentators agree in making this parable the same one as in Luke, where one man was made raler over five cities and another made ruler over two cities. Would it be fair and right that the professed Christian man who has lived very near the line between the world and the Church?the man who has often compromised Mr Christian character, the man who has never spoken out for God; the man who has been known as a Christian only on communion days; the man whose great struggle has been to see how much of the world he could get and yet win heaven?is it right to suppose that that man will have as grand and glorious a seat in heaven as the man who gave all his energies of of body, mind and soul to the service of God? The dying thief entered heaven, r>nt. tint with Th? r?ttia ctart liner as that which greeted Paul, who had gcae under scorchings, and across dungeons and through maltreatments into the kingdom of glory. One star differs from another in glory, and they who toil mightily for Christ on cartn shall have a far greater rewsrd than those who rendered only half a service. "Some of you are hastening on toward the reward of the righteous. I want to cheer you up at the thought that there will be some kind of a reward waiting for you. There are Christian people in this house who are very near heaven. This week some of you may pass into the light of the unsetting sun. I saw a blind man going along the road with his staff, and he kept pounding the earth and then stamping his foot. I said to him: 'What do you do that for?' Oh,' he said, 'I can tell by the sound of the ground when I am near a dwelling,' And some of you can tell by the sound of your earthly pathway that you are coming near your father's house. I congratulate you. Oh, weather-beaten voyagers, the storms are driving you into the harbor. "Just as when you were looking for a friend, you came up to the gate of his house, and you were talking with the servant, when your friend hoisted the window and shouted, 'Come in, come in!' Just so, when you come to the gate of the future world and you are talking with Death, the black porter at the gate, methinks Christ will hoist the W1UUUW OJUU D??J VUJJiO 4X1) WiUO m. JL will make thee ruler over ten cities.' In anticipation of that, and I do not wonder that Augustus Toplady, the author of Rock of Ages,' declared in his last moment: *1 have nothing more to pray for; God has given me everything. Surely no man oan live on earth after the glories I have "witnessed.' Oh, my brothers and sisters, how sweet it will be, after the long wilderness march, to get home. That was a bright moment for the tired dove in the tima of the deluge when it found its way safely into the window of the ark." A MILLION DOLLAR MANTLE. The Bed and Yellow Royal Cloak of tin Kamehameha Dynasty. "I don't care; I wouldn't wear it." 'But see what it cost. You don't mean to say you "vouldn't wear a cloak .that cost a million dollars!" said th? stout man in a satirical tone that indicated that the woman he addressed was his wife. The pair had stopped before the royal feather cloak from the Sandwich Islands that is spread out fan shaped in a casa in the National museum. This cloak it computed to have cost in labor $1,000,000. The native name for it is mams. In the days when a Hawaiian beau or belle wanted little clothing, but wanted that gorgeously colored, this cloak or mantle would have been considered of 1 . .3 ' ? ? 11 more vaiue, sestneucauy anu mtrinsn;.uiy, than a ship load of Worth costumes, arid its happy possessor might truly be said to be in high feather. Since the natives have adopted wide trousers, lawn tennis shirt3 and four-in-hand ties, ita value lie3 chiefly in the traditions that surround it. The mantle, which is semi-circular, is four feet long or deep, and it is 11 1-2 feet wide at the bottom and 28 inches at the top where it goes around the neck. The entire outer . surface is made of feathera of fine texture, giving the whole the appearance of plush. The prevailing colors are red and yellow or orange. The body is decorated with large figures, crescent shaped, of either red or yellow feathers. The upper and lateral borders are corded and decorated with alternate tufts of red, black and yellow feathers. A legend on a label states that this feather cloak formerly belonged to Ke.huarkaiani, one of the highest chiefs of the Sandwich Islands. After the abolition of idolatry in 1819 that chief rebelled against the reigning king and attempted to re-establish the ancient religions. A sanguinary battle was fought, and Kehuarkalani was slain, and this cloak, which he then had on. fell into the hands of the conquerors and thus became the property of King Kamehameha, by whom it was presented to Capt. J. H. Aulick, U. S. N., in 1841. The cloak is now the property of Capt. Aulick's grandson, Richmond Ogston Aulick, who deposited it in the National museum. The great value of the cloak is due to the long time required to secure the feathers that compose it and to manufacture the cloak. The foundation is a net work of olona, or native hemp, and to it are attached by fine thread of the same material the feathers of birds found only in the Hawaiian Islands, and very rare there. Recent writers have declared that the bird is now extinct. The feathers are woven in so as to lap each other and lie flat, forming a smooth, plush like surface. The inner surface is without lining and shows the olona net work and the quill ends of the feathers. The cord of the upper margin is prolonged so as to serve as a fastening at the throat. The ti - : j r\ yeuow learners are outaineu irurn uio uo or TTho, and, as stated, are of great value, as the bird is rare, very shy and difficult to capture, and it lias but a very small tuft of these feathers upon each shoulder. The black feathers are from the head and back of the same bird?its general plumage being a glossy black. Tha Oo is caught alive by means of bird lime; the yellow feathers are then plucked and the bird released. The red feathers are from the body and neck of the Drepanih Coccinea, the most abundant bird of the Sandwich Islands. The Hawaiian Spectator, a newspaper published in 1630. refers to this, or a m'milftr mantle, a- foJ'ows: . "Kawkeauli has the mams, u leather war cloak of fcia fnfhpr TA-M^hfl-Afpha. Tt wa? r>ot completed until his reign, having occupied eight preceding ones in its fabrication. A piece of nankeen, valued at $1.60, was formerly the prioe of five of the yellow feathers. By this estimate the value of the cloak would equal that of the purest diamonds in several of the European regalia, and, including the price of the feathers, not less than a million dollars' worth of labor was expended upon it at the present rate of oomputing wages." A bunch of the yellow feathers called hulu was received by the king from his subjects in payment of a poll tax, and it required many years to collect the material and manufacture one of these mantles. Until recent years these mantles were the royal robes of state and considered the principal treasures of the crown; but European clothing has entirely superseded them and they aro not now manufactured. A beautiful headdress for women, called leis, was made of these feathers. Another authority states that two yellow feather? only are obtained from each Oo, and these are found under the wings. rm. xv . v j wnen uie mucn prazea iearners are plucked the bird is set at liberty. The price of the feathers, according to this authority, was $1.50 for three, and the time occupied in making the cloak was estimated from fifty to one hundred years.?Washington Star. PIANOS Ai\l> ORGANS. One thousand Pianos and Organs to close out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from ?150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. Buy now and have the use of the instrument. Remember we pay freight both ways if the instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. C. The French National Legislature are called upon to consider a proposition mak ing it a duty of the citizen to vote. If a citizen neglect that duty his name will be erased from the electoral list for two years; and if he thereafter continue in his neglect his name will disappear forever from the list. LKE AND STONEWALL JACKSON. i An English Soldier's Estimate of their Soldierly Oualitie?. (Lord Wolseley, in the Fortnightly Review.) The Confederate commander-in-chief, Gen. J. E. Johnston, was so badly wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks that he was obliged to rea'gn his command WrtnfVio-m armiAs Two after Gen. Robert Lee was appointed to command the Army of Northern Virginia, upon whose fighting power the whole Southern Confederacy then depended. Gen. McClellan's army of over ninetytwo thousand men was on the Chickahominy River within a few miles of Richmond, the seat of the Confederate Government. Gen. McDowell's corps of about forty thousand. men, retained at Fredericksburg by President Lincoln for the protection of Washington, against all the principles of military science, was at last ordered to join McClellan's army. To prevent this junction, by again ak raring Mr. Lie coin and his civilian military advisers for the safety of the Union Capital, was Lee's first object. This he could only do by the action of the force beyond the Blue Mountains, under the command of that most brilliant of leaders and of tacticians, Gen. Stonewall Jackson. That hardfighting, clear-headed soldier of the Puritan stamp was then in the Shenandoah valley, near the village of Port Republic. Lee's army round Richmond was much inferior in strength to that of the army of the Potomac, directly under McClellan, without counting McDowell's corps as part of it. The Confederate commander had thus the difficult task before him of making Mr. Lincoln believe that Stonewall Jackson was about to move on Washington, while at the same time he drew that general with all possible rapidity and secrecy to join him near Richmond. It was designed that while making a flourish of trumpets in the Shenandoah valley, and threatening a move toward Washington, along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the Confederate army, covered by a screen cavalry on its left flank, should make a most rapid march behind it, and fall upon McClellan's right flank and rear, near Mechanicsville, on the Chickahominy River. The splended execution of this bold and well-planned movement does undying credit to Stonewall Jackson. His division was invincible because the leader, while thoroughly understanding the science of his profession, was further endowed with the power of carrying out the most difficult plans, the most farreaching"strategical conceptions of his great commander. Stonewall Jackson's troops were unconquerable because they had unbounded confidence in their Godfearing leader, who in his tarn trusted them most fully, and believed they could accomplish anything. Never was there in anv armv. or portion of an army, a more complete union of spirit and of mutual confidence than existed between Stonewall Jackson and all under his command. As I looked into his curiously blue eyes, and watched the movements of his calm, frank and charming face as the sentenoes came slowly out of th<*> firmly set and determined mouth, I felt and understood the influence he exercised over his soldiers. I shall not attempt in this short article to describe how this splendidly conceived project was as spendidiy executed. How McUiellan's right was rolled up, and how the Southern troops cut his line of communication and tuppiy with the White House on the Pamunky Biver; how the armv of the Potomac, driven from po sition to position, had to retreat, and after great losses in men, guns, materials of all sorts, and, above all tilings, in reputation, had to seek refuge at Harrison's Landing, on the Lower James Elver? these things are known to all men. Richmond, the Confederate Capital, was saved, and the Northern army, recalled from its vicinity, had soon to f'ght on Upper Potomac for the safety of Washington. Lee's strategy in this year, when he fought in defence of the Southern Capital, and threatened and strnck at that of the United States, marks him as one of the greatest captains of this or of any other age. No man has ever fought an up-hill and losing game with greater firmness, or ever displayed a higher order of true military genius than he did when in command of tue Confederate armv. The knowledge of his profession displayed by Gen. McClclian was considerable, and his strategic conceptions were admirable, bnt he lacked one attribute of a general, without which no man can ever succeed in war?he was never abie to estimate with any accuracy the numbors opposed to him. Before ho embarked on this disastrous campaign he believed the Confederate army at Centreville, (80,000 strong,) which then threatened Washington, wa3 about eqaal to his own of 150,000 men. It was the aarrifl with him all the wav throueh his military career. He thoroughly enjoyed, and 6ven in reverse never lo3t, the confidence of his soldiers. The civilian strategists at Washington dismissed him from his command after his disastrous campaign in the Peninsula, to the results of which their ignorance and folly had largely contributed. But when, some months afterward, everything looked very black indeed at Y/ashington, and the Northern armies had been driven back there helter skelter, it was to him they had to turn to save them. No other general in the Northern army could, I think, have got it together in the short time he did to fight at Antietam in defence of Washington. That battle alone saved the Northern Capital; if lost, Lee could have dated his dispatch from thence to announce the triumph of the Southern aims. Lee, then, possessed priceless qualities which were lacking to McClellan. It was the presence in him of intuitive genius for war which MaOIa]!**** Io/iVa/1 o era in or?rl oftain iU.^VJLWJLJ.AiI iaVAUU. HMiVU MMV? gave him victory, even when he was altogether outmatched in numbers. Dangerous Stock Food. Some residents of the neighborhood where deer, thought to have been killed by the black tongue, were found sometime since, give it as their opinion that the deaths were caused by their feeding upon frost-bitten pea vines. Only in the locali ties where the deer had access to such pasturage were any found dead and post mortems of those discovered revealed the fact that they had eaten of the frost bitten vines. If this be the cause of the deaths it would be well for the farmers to look to the graz ing of their stock. A horse or a cow is as "" ily Iriliusl hv cnrli fonri as a rlwr ?n<] 1)V little ihoughlfulness and care a serious loss may be evoided.?Marion Index. A Chicago cbemiet has analyzed cigarettes of various brands, and finds that they were generally made of tobacco "imper fectly fermented," which means that an unusually large amount of nicotine was present in them, and that they were impregnated with dirt in varying proportions. More strength and power lies in a sinfle dose of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood >alm) than in a hundred doses of sarsapariila extract, and other so-called blood remedies. Read of its miraculous cures I in other parts of our paper. TBK PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. A Vigorous Document ExpecUd?Tarlfl Keform Ideas to be Reiterated. (Special to the Baltimore Sun.) Washington, November 23.?Speculations that Mr. Cleveland will in his las L annual message to Congress reiterate nis tariff reform ideas, are quite safe. Mr. Cleveland is not the man to abandon any principle which he believes to be just and well founded because of temporary obstacles. It can be assumed confidently, therefore, that he will take back nothing he said in his message of December last. Bat unlike that paper, the forthcoming message will trcit of several other important topics in addition. It will be his aim to transmit to Congress as the last of his annual communicatKra* the best document that has ever emabjted from his pen. Those who | have wafcCcd his career and have followed the tenor of his state papers know that one of his peculiarities is ever to depart from the beaten track and to throw out suggestions that will set others to talking and thinking. This has been the case with the large majority of his communications to Congress, even thote on comparatively inconsequential matters. \Yfcat he has said and done during his whole term has been the cause of more comment in the public press and on the floor oi Congress than the utterances of any man who has sat in the White Hoiuie daring this generation, It is the beiiel that in his message, after giving what ever prominence Ue may consider due to the subject of tariff reform, he will, among other things, outline some bold and comprehensive ideas in reference to our foreign affairs, and the extension ol our commercial and in some decrree our political influence over the whole American continent, North and Soath. The message will be no note of the djing man, bat the ringing declarations of a self-reliant, undismayed, broad-minded man, with the utmost confidence in himself and in the future of his country. The President, now that he has had time to calmly survey the political field, feels every reason to be encouraged, and to anticipate that his retirement from the White House will not necessarily mean retirement from interest or participation in public affairs. He has not attempted in the least to conceal his great disappointment at the result of the election, for it is q<iite true that he felt not only certain u: New York and ' Indiana, but had the stro: gest hopes of ' other States in the Nortnwest. Since ; the election he has Laii assurances from 1 active and leading Democrats of the Nortiaweat that the recent election returns famish no reason for despair, but . that there is every cvnience to convince , one of the tendency to growth of Democratic principles and of "the prospect of J Democratic ascendancy in the not rt mote , tutare in a conaaeraoie portion 01 mat . section. It is jnst aa weii to say on that ! point that many leading Democrats of the East did not in the last campaign i share the enthusiasm of their Western , brothers as to party prospects in that . section, and their enthusiasm has not . l>een ttimulated since. However, as to < this the future can only determine. But ( now the President, not cast down by 1 his disappointment but ready to pick his . flint and try it again, is for the present J actuated only by the ambition to go out of cfiiae with the verdict of his country- ; men that he has given them an honest, upright, prudent administration of pub- J he affairs. His purpose is to hand over . to his successor the great trust which he , has held for four years without stain, ( and with no harassing or embarrassing ( legacies of his creation. With reference ( to his message, it may also be added, as a possibility, that he may make some allasions of importance with reference ' to Cuba. Bill Arp About Farming. Fanning is the nicest thing in the world as long as it is done right, but the trouble seems to be in the men who do i 5. For instance, when a man fails at everything else he goes to farming for a hvicg. He is still a failure. 1 don't care how rich the land is, it can't sprout brains in the man's head who cultivates it. Not much. When God fails to give a man good sense it is useless for him to try to gruw wise by farming, if you can't make a fortune farming, you can cosily gather in a good time and a fat living if you will only act wliely. All yon have to do is to plant on time and work it correctly, and your crop will be making you a living of nights and atodd times, while you are asleep or are talking politico. But be careful how you dabble in political squabbles. Crops don't do well when their owners talk Democracy too much. Bear that in mind. I knew several men who have talked themselves out of a good crop many a time. Crops are very sensitive kinds of creatures You must visit them in the friendliest ] manner once a week, or eise they will get mad and fail to m ike an} thing much. Crops are very cowardly, acd I never saw one do much when a mortgage, was drawn on it. It makes it weak and sickly, and the grass nearly always takes it sooner or larter. These mortgages have a wonderful effect. I hava known them to make honest men run their cotton off by the sackful and sell it. Don't mortgage your crops, or you may have to go to j lil on account of it. Be cireful how you monkey with a mortgage. It is a deadly weapon and it has killed its hundreds and thousands. It puts a prison house around you, 1:0 matter where you go. Better wear a ragged suit and be free, than to dress fine and feel like a thief and 3 rascal. Iron in Orangeburg. The St. Matthews correspondent of the Charleston Worid says: "There has been discovered on fhe estate of the late Lawrence 51. Keitt, which lies about four miles soul beast of St. Matthew's, Urge quantities of marl and phosphate rock, of which several specimens have teen sent to the jjg'ieubural department at Columbia t 1 c ?;! :,r.zad. Uu thisesJyte of nearly z,ovv> av.co a found alsoirun in large quantities, which Professor Shepard, State i chemist, pronounced, on analysis, to be 87 \ per cent, pure oxide of iron, with no trace ot prospnorus. me ncn ciay 01 me sou is so impregnated with iron that bricks made from it have the polish and solidity j of that metal. The value of these iron ] lands of the Congaree is little known. The j agent of the Smithsonian Institute, sent t-> , inspect the soils for planting purposes, pro nounced them unsurpassed by any in the 1 South, for unlike other rich soils the ' climate was entirel.v healthful. It i* to lolloped that the time is near at hand when these fine lands will be appreciated." Crashed Between Two Cart. Braschville, OrangeburglCo., Nov. 23.?A sad accident occurred at^St. Georges on Wednesday. Little Willie Sease, the 11-year old son of the railroad agent at that point, had his hand crushed between the bumpers of two freight cars. The physicians think that amputation will be necessary to save the little fellow's life.?Special to News and Courier. The Mother's Friend, used a lew weeks before confinement, lessens me pain ana > makes labor quick and comparatively} i easy. Sold by all druggists. I : * v * HARRISON AND THE SOUTH. GUESSES AT THE NEXT PRESIDENT'S POLICY. A Belief that he Will Kecognire the Liberal and Progressive Men in his Appoint* menu. (From the New York Times.) Indianapolis, November 22.?The eager discussion by the Southern newspapers oi what they call Gen. Harrison'* ^ 3 ooutnern policy is giving an uuaue relative importance to that subject all over the country. This importance ia magnified here by the importunity with which Gen. Harrison ia assailed, by letter and personal interview, to frame, define and declare a line of coLdnct which shall relieve the apprehensions with'which the Southern people look forward to his administration of the Government. His mail is burdened with ietters of advice, appeal, depreoation and proteet, and his daily callers include a larsjo St/u.i>?rn contingent, which corn's on the name errand?to implore him not to di^urb too violently the social status liuaiiy established in the S'juth and coi fi.-m~d under the last Administration; to reorganize the dominant classes in his appointments to office; not to subject the Southern people ag.iin to wh.tt they Ciil negro and carpel-bag rule, lo: to encourage any form of Federal interference in the local suairs of Southern States. Under these cir camstaLces it is impossible that the Southern qaeotioa bhould not fill a large apace in local discuesion of the policy of the new Administration, however reticent the President-elect and his intimates may desire to remain upon it. Those who undertake to speak for Gen. Harrison deprecate the assumption that he will have a Southern policy as distinct from his national policy of administration, declare that he will treat all sections alike and apply the same general principles of government to the South as to the North. It is pretty well understood, however, that the. President-elect has been coerced by the importunity of visitors and correspondents to give more consideration to this subject than to any other connected with his administration, and that he has arrived at quite definite conclusions as to his general coarse. APPOINTMENTS IN THE SOUTH iV.?MAUA?A^ Av\iv\inft?\Aftla f A lii UiC UldlibCl ui a^jA/miuiuuu; iv vxuw in the South, Gen. Harrison will probably look for guidance to the experience of his Republican predecessors in office, all of whom had to deal with the some problem of finding fit representatives of the Federal power and dignity and competent executors of the Federal law law outside of the ranks of the most intelligent, richest, most influential, and socially dominant classes. Gen. Harrison will not imitate Gen. Grant by seducing prominent Ex-Confederates from their Democratic fealty by appointments to office; nor Hayes by attempting to raise bhe ghost of the old Whig party. The element he will seek to recognize and foster in the South is that made up of the yonnger, more progressive, liberal, enterprising men of both parties, who have risen to prominence since the war and free from the narrow prejudices and radscal bitterness it engendered; who are identified with the material growth of the country and interested in its industrial development. So far as the party question is concerned, it is believed to be Gen. Harrison's judgment that President Arthur dealt with the problem oi appointments to office in the South rr\r\na oanoninnolff ond Cn^WMinfnl V f.hftri LUU1 OUgUViV UViJ j any other Republican President. Arthur, in his theory at least, made fitness the first and ibpablicanismn the second qualification to office in the South. He appointed good Republicans wherever tie could find them, and good Dtmoirats where he couldn't. The conditions rf the problem now existing make it a great deal simpler for Gen. Hariison than it was for Mr. Arthur. The Demoirats are now in office, and the civil 3erv:ce law, which it is believed he means Eaithfullv to obey in letter and spirit, is in full force. When Arthur had to fly in the face of party tradition by appointing Democrats to office in places where mitable Republicans could not be found, Harrison will only have to obey a law placed upon the statute books by his 5wn party by leaving Democrats in ?ffice. NO REVIVAL OF JTEGBO RULE. It is thought that the policy of the President-ekct will be about as indijated above; that he will make his Administration in the South as thoroughly Republican as is consistent with effieien>y and obedience to law, but that he ?nll neither bo precipitate nor violently partisan in his appointments; that there will be few removals, except for cause, ind that when vacancies occur they will a? filled with Republicans, where fit and competent Republicans can be found, out otherwise by reappointments. The personal character of the men upon >vhom Gen. Harrison will most rely to represent and sustain his Administration in the South has been hinted at. There will be no revival of negro or carpet-bag rule. It is believed that few negroes will be appointed to local office; that tha test of fitness and acceptability will be applied as rigidly to one racj as to the othc-r. Few of the political Darpet-bsggers of the old school are left in the South. The emigrants who have followed them?the capitalist*, maun [ac'urers, miners, unsiuesa men, wuu hsve identified themselves with the country, its progress ami prosperity? 3tand in the mos>t direct line of favor md recognition from the new Administration. They and those of the youDger :lass of native Southerners wuo havt :anght their spirit acd absre tLe.r benti merits and aspirations, iho men of the new JSouth as a whole, native and imported, will be the hope and reliance Df Gen. Harrison's Administration. LiaiSLATION TOUCHING THE SOUTH. There is less definiteness in the local forecast of Gen. Harrison's policy in relation to Republican legislation affecting the South, but it is not believed that it will be violent or aggressive. His speeches upon this subject have been carefully scanned without finding in their judicious eneralizations any warrant for the . pectation that he will favor or urge upon Congress what is called a vigorous Southern policy. He is known to feel strongly upon the inequality of actual representation in the Electoral College and House of Repre sentativea growing out of the suppression of suffrage in the South, and upon the practical nullification of the Federal laws for the collection of revenue in many Southern communities; but he is understood to believe that the permanent and effective remedy for those evils lies in the gradual growth of a more wholesome popular sentiment, inspiring a greater respect for pablic law and private rights, rather than in the attempt to enforce distasteful Federal laws in the E face of hostile Courts, juries and public opinion. It is known that Gen. Harrison will rely very hopefully upon the development of the industrial spirit in the South to foster and diffuse this more wholesome public sentiment; that he has faith in the power of the increased mental energy and greater personal independence that characterize industrial society to put an end to the evils growing out of the subjection of an ignorant majority to the arrogant minority in a primitively organized agricultural community. Accordingly, it is believed that the industrial development of the South will receive all possible encooragement and aid from his Administration, both in executive acts and through his influence upon legislation. firmbtirn Without Heat. Ironworkers^?||(^pflcBi? Asdr,others see constantly 'ekpbsed to a heat of 400 or 500 degs. F., and yet do not become burned, and there can be little donbt that tho enormous radiation from heated rocks and valleys. In addition to the direct rays of the sun, make up an amount of heat far greater than is ever experienced on oven a very sunny snow slope, and yet on3 does not become sunburned. No donbt the surface of the snow reflects and dis bnrses much heat, but certainly far less than it receives, as heat rays are absorbed and rendered latent by the snow melting and evaporation. Experience fully corroborates this,'for one may lie on one's back and freely expose the face for long periods to the sun and yet remains un burned. There must, therefore, be some one factor in sunburn than heat alone. In discussing the subject with Professor Tyndall he added the very interesting and significant fact that he was never more burnod on snow than while experimenting with the electric light at the North roreumu ii^utnouse, wueru iuer<? w*u? iiv heat sulflcieut to produce such an effect I am a-.vore that sometimes, in peculiar conditions of the atmosphere, the direct stui's rays will burn. I have met with some singular instances where several persons have been burned on the same day, even in England, who had never pre viously suffered in that way. I am fur ther aware that sometimes, not always, in a dead calm on a ship's deck, one may be severely sunburned, and that in boating the same may occasionally happen. Masks and veils have long been used as a protection on snow, and are more or less i successful, brown veils and glasses in my ( experience being the most efficient. As i bearing up this I may mention that a i friend of mine, after an ascent on snow. | had an enormously swollen face, and I ob servcu iuai m me geuerju. sncuiug ujuc 1 were rcanv pits and depressions, and that each pit corresponded to a freckle. The irritating rays had been intercepted by the brown color of the freckle.?Nature. ! i Two Sides of the Question. One thousand one hundred and eighty ' one young women and girls attended the free day and evening clasps connected with the Young Women's Christian as . sociation last year. There are free classes i in stenography, type writing, bookkeep . ing. commercial arithmetic, business training, drawing, modeling and design in^. retouching photo negatives, physical , culture, choir music and dressmaking Said a lady interested in the association to the writer: "Surely the women and girls of New York ought to embrace these advantages and make the most of them." One bright looking young woman, , though perhaps not patient and persev ering enough, looked rather dubiously at ' the "speaker as sho remarked: "But the market seems overstocked now with : stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers; ' i:i fact every department of woman's i work seems crowded to overflowing. At ! tho Cooper Union Free School of Tele ' graphy tney will not take pupils, unless ( some prominent man, or some person with 1 a good standing in the community, comes ' forward and guarantees them positions." ' "Mark Twain," said the lady, "with his characteristic force, on the other 1 hand, expresses himself as follows: 'All ' trades and occupations are cramped and 1 hindered for want of people to do the ( - ?s\? TT-ff\ Whftn v UVb IVi VTtUib V4 n via ?.v v*v. ? "v u people tell you the reverse they speak 1 that which is not true. If you desire to ' test this you need only hunt up a first < class editor, reporter, business manager, foreman of a shop, mechanic or artist ir < any branch of industry, and try to hir< < him. You will find that he is already ' hired.' It is the same with women as it is with men. The best, the most skillful, < arc ol ways in demand."?New York Press. < Keeclier and His Word Pictures. If I were reauired to sum up Eeecher, as he seemed to me during the first ' twenty years of his experience in Brook 5 lyn, as I grew up beneath his eye 1 from little boyhood to man's estate. 1 " T\r\+ /\r\?X in fltKTPr ' OiiUUlU uvv v**v wvv? ???.w .. w. ing, heartiness. He was hearty in every- \ thing he did; his aye meant aye, and his nay meant nay. He was peculiarly tenacious about his expressions, as, for in stance, one time he described a vision. Standing, in apparent rapture, at the very front of the platform, with his eyes thrown far beyond the horizon, he spoke of the goddess of Liberty with a diamond scepter in her hand. When he came home that night I said: "I had to laugh when you spoke about the goddess of Liberty with a diamond scepter in her hand. Of course you meant a diamond pointed scepter, there is no such thing as a diamond scepter." He was lying on a hair cloch sofa in mother's back parlor, but rising quickly, and resting himself on one elbow, with tremendous emphasis, he replied: "Nonsense! I guess I know what I saw." That of course led up to an interesting discussion as to the illustrations, pic- < torial, for which, his public utterances ! were noted. He lived in pictures, and '< dnring the discussion he said: 1 "Why, certainly, I see them. Else how ( couid I describe them?" In other words. ( his imagination caught with nervous < hand upon the tail of fancy, and drawing t it to him, enabled him to describe, in words, for the understanding of his hearers, that which to him was-an apparent reality.?Joe Howard in Once a "Week. The Old World's Railroads. S We are, as yet, only at tho edge of the 1 great projects of railway and other ! methods of intercommunication. The ' time will come when every remote hamlet ( will be centralized, and no land will be 1 out of easy reach to the tourist and to 5 commerce. The next great steps of pro- 1 gress are to be taken in Asia. Besides ( the roads projected and building in Siberia I and China, there is now a 1,400 mil'* road 1 proposed from Constantinople to Bagdad i This will open a new route to China ' shorter by ten days than that by the Suez > Canal. Americans understand very well ' the rapid changes that follow the opening ( of such a line. Science says: "ft vrill ' create a new Asia Minor." Then again * Bagdad will become one of the world's 1 rreat cities. Lovers of the Arabian J Slights will associate considerable ro- ' mance with this latest project of com- | xnerce.?Globe-Democrat. At the convention of National Grange. I Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, at Topeka, Kansas, the announcement was made that 193 granges had been organized during the year. It is well to lay up something against s , rainy day, but it is not well to lay up j another man's umh-ella. Where people sing off the key, it is probably because they are afraid of touching , pitch. : Most people need more encouragement than rebuke. i ? HARRISON AND THE SOUTH. The White People of this Section Intend to Control the Government. (Montgomery Harvester.) If Mr. Harrison is governed by patriotic impulses, and not by partisan and sectional ide 8, he will set his face resolutely against the men who threaten reconstruction of the South. {* ugusta, Ga., Chronicle.) The people of Georgia an i the people of the South must stand together ia favor of white supremacy and good government. In this rests our only hope for the development and civilization of the Southern Slates. (Savannah News.) President Harrison can relieve the Sooth- _ em people of a burden of apprehensions by announcing in his inaugural adores* that he will not pursue a policy calculated to breed race troubles, and that he recognizes that the race problem can be solved more readily by the Southern people themselves, and without omside interference. (Macon News) We bespeak for Southern men alive to the interest of their section and its possibilities a fair and manly receptiou of the administration to be inaugurated by Gen. Harrison. (Macon, Telegraph.) What the Republican policy towards the South will be is, of course, very uncertain. It is possible that it may be directed toward dividing the while vote rather than toward keeping the negro vote solid. The latter policy, pursued tor twenty-five years has deprived the party of all in power in the South. The solid negro vote has been a source of weakness instead of strength, because it forced sll white men into opposition. (Memphis Avalanche.) What course is left open to the Democratic party of the South? We must wait *od see. If it is shown that the policy at which we have hinted is to be pursued, che n< cessity for strict organization with fhp n^mA/?rnt? nf fha fi/\nfh Af paramount importance. If for no other reason tbau that of self-protection, it is in i be highest degree important that they should stand together to a man. (Brunswick, Ga., News.) The country has progressed too far from the era of the civil war to tolerate the jpeuing of old wounds. In spite of all the efforts of demagogues the several sections of the country have been drawn closer together by business interests, and it is not it all likely that these interests will permit the South to suffer. jSB (Jackson, Miss., Clai Ion-Ledger.) In matters not who is ihe President of :he United Slates, a large majority of the people down this way, white and black, aave got to work just the same for their iaily bread. (New Orleans Times-Democrat.) If the newly elected President goes wrong :he people will very soon put him straight igain; if the Republican party attempts to' play any fantastic tricks or disturb tbe peace and prosperity of the South and tbe country at large, it will be relegated by ;he people?its masters?to sudden and deserved obscurity. Counting the electoral Vote. By the Act of February 3, 1887, the day for the meeting of the Presidential Elect >rs in the several States is changed from .he first Wednesday of December to the second Monday of January following their ilection. Tne reason for ihis change was :o give the States ample time for determinng any dispuies that might arise concernog the legality of the choice of its Elect>rs, so that when the Electors meet there nay be no doubt of their right to cast the rote of the State for candidates for Presi lent and Vice President. Under the old law the Electors in each 5'ate were required to appoint a person to ake charge of the certificate setting forth ;heir action and deliver it to the President >f the Senate before the first Wednesday >1 January. In the Act of 1887, requirng the Electors to meet on the second Monday in January, Congress failed to Jiange the date of delivery to the Prefeilent of the Senate, thus leaving the Elect>rs in the anomalous position of being rejuireu to deliver the certificate of their inal action before that action was taken, fhis inconsistency was discovered, how ;ver, uuu ruiucuicu uy a auyujeujciiwiijr kct passed in the closing hours of the recent session, which provides that the cer.ificaies aud list of votes cast on the second VIonday of January shall be forwarded to* ,he President of the Senate as soon as pos sibie thereafter, and empowering the latter jffieial, in case the certificate from any atate fails to turn up by the fourth Moniay in January, to send a special messenjer to the District Judge, in whose custody >ne ceititicateis required to be left, for his *opy. This is to insure certificates from c^ery State by the time the two Houses of Congress meet to count and declare the vote, vhich is fixed by the fourth section of the aw of lt&7 at 1 P. M. on the second Wedjesday of February. The last three secions of the law prescribe the rules of procedure during the couot in the presence of he two Houses and are aimed to compel a conclusion of the count before the day fixed >y law for the inauguration of the Presi- lent. jp oriunaieiy, m ine nrsi couci 01 xae ilectoral vote undtr the new law no serious lispute or complication is likely to arise, as General Harrison's majority of tbe electoral ?oie is so nronunced as to leave no grounds >r excuse for a contest Tbe machinery of he new law will therefore be put in ope ation under favorable conditions and with)ul friction. While il is not all that could je desired in tbe matter of providing urjiinst anv nossible future eomolication. ike that arising in 1876, the law of 1887 is iertainly an improvement on former laws md rules governing the electoral count and vill, in ail probability, be found adequate o any necessities that may arise under it. -Philadelphia Times. Mad Dogn, Mad drgs, like death, seem to have all seasous for their own. The present fall las been prolific in the number of cased reported from various quarters. Our own mmediate neighborhood has furnished its juota, but fortunately no person, so far as ?e have heard, has yet been bitten, although several have had narrow escapes, among ;hem Sir. A. C. Mobley and two of his children. Mr. Mobley succeeded in dispatching the rabid brute, but not until he lad bitten two puppies and a cat. The puppies were killed at once, but it was not inown that the cat was bitten until last Monday, nine days after the dog was uiiea, wnen the animsi snoweu sympwius )f hydrophobia, and the shotgun was igain brought into requisition ana made to io effectual work. The dog may have sitten many other animals, as he was on he rampage for two days before being iilltd. It would therefore seem to be a proper act of precaution for all persons iiaving dogs to either kill them or keep ;hem chained for a season?the longer the t>etter.?Edgefield Monitor. Experience Teaches. We suspect that by the 1st of April next both Presiden Cleveland and his party will stand higher in General Harrison's estimation than they do now. Good Republicans who found fault with them for not living up to their professions about patronage, did not know what it was to deal with 200,000 or 300,000 ravenous office-seekers, and no Republican President since Lincoln has had any experience of it.