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" 3 I * ' - ' I. - -' I f VOL. XLV* WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 53 1888. NO, 19. " ~~~ " ' ? ! THEMODEKXCdlLD. | THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. IAN EXHAUSTIVE REVIEW OF PUBLIC MATTERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. S?CBestlons of the Chief Exeeutire to the General Assembly--Th? Various Interests of the State Which the Lawmakers Must tody and Fester. The annual message of Governor John Peter Richardson wan presented to each branch of the General Assembly ? on file 27th nit. It is a document of 28 ? TTk naeos wmlofo wit.h RT1 CffflStionS 5 DO I \ touching the different interests of the /' ?State. We give a synopsis of its statef ments and recommendations. f tttr 6TATB DEBT. The Deficiency Bonds and Stock maturing in July last amounting to $420,Iwere funded in new 4$ per cent, these latter being taken by inin South Carolina. The remaindon of the State debt, which has inded under the Consolidation 1873-78-79, consists of Consol J,161,140.26, Consol Bonds $3,and the Agricultural College k perpetual fund of $192,800. nounts added to the Blue 4$ per 3ckso' $183,000, and Blue 4$ >f $217,000, together with the! 5 att on/7 SfftAVo I r~ V|?IU J/QUWOUV7 OA/UUD (UiU k/wvvao B> be redeemed,* make the total fundBebt $6,599,127.99. The Consoi n Is and Stocks, amounting to $6,002,HBK6, are payable or redeemable in Bis Governor recommends that the Hblature take immediate steps to fund Bportion of the debt which matures Rd3. He further suggests that some H Bare be taken to induce the funding Bhat portion of the State debt still Bnded?amounting to $450,599.22. H FOBffBlTiiD LAKDS. Hi the subject of forfeited lands, Bthe enforcement of the collection of B, the Governor says: This serious Biscuit problen seems to have been Bially solved by the passage at the ^Eegisl&ture of "An Aot in Relation ! Mprfeited Lands, Delinquent; Lands, Collection of Taxes." As Chairman 1 Hie Sinking Fund Commission?a HH^nd largely charged with the superBa of its execution?my careful 1 K-ration of its practical operation Be the last vear has led me to the ! Horou that this law is practical and Rive as it relates to the collection of jf, |-pf "*-^7 &nd future levies, and Balso as it rela&c to the collection of back Waxes due the State prior to the levy of U887, estimated at present to be $377, 579, which is really a debt due by the elinquent to the taxpayer who has Bromptly paid his taxes. V It would be eminently vise, therefore, |Ho allow this law to remain upon the Kftatute books just as it now stands, Hrithont emasculation by amendment, Hbitn the single exception that it should gpe so altered as to require the County Sheriff to sell on some regular salesday fV?? /JircnHrtn r\f +.Ka rVimntrftllflr MliUUVt til \J uyui.^>muuui ! 4 H IHbHooLJi^H^i? 2 Rhe pub&LjSfr^*"i wK^Tft-l^aof ^086 [ Kd&noe, ?nd> proper- < yVHF^exs and /braidings, t |^Koi inorea^d interest ] ihools. in-H? improve- j Kmldingi lar8wr 8113 1 Kl^^ice, the hold- < and the greater j HL^-ss to tax them- < ^ehool-teim. The T School, in Columbia, j examination and the \ Haon of the General i Hog the education of ] Hor aays: < dividual enterprise, { Htering the many new i Kogreid, I hope you < Hnay ie done to have j fraphl-, photography, < ??* TAilyKt in these in- > I. reason why 1 Riled A to earn their j Km ijbpr, should be 2 Bool Bfcai. Their re- 1 B for ijwhing is simply < Ewhat they can do, and Kill do in other depart- ] ^eir sex. < Bfnther urges an earn- 1 Fpart of teachers and 1 I increase the people's ] >mmon schools and to t ustitutions as one means 1 evate the masses," and < hope that the day is not 1 > light of knowledge, fed , hnstian principle!, will t poeveiyTomeinoTTr 1 LtB -DNIVHSSITr. Haut the expansion of the ] Rv, effected by the Aot < last session, Governor , ' H>w 221 stndents in at- ] stroi? probability, from < by th? authorities, that j before the j Kcadftnic year. Of l Htering for the first < Hb large majority are j He courses oi study. i ^rocellent, and a spirit of j Km pervades the vhole in Boaxd of Trustees trill ] ttdnuance of last year's < Sbd 1 recommend that i ^^^hem. fc^/ostering "lor it your the firm conaer agency at ( the advance- ( sts, material, i loral, of our < JlSG3. ity of estabion of learno instruction 5 to agricnlogical studies >st important of man, has, ears, excited popleof this t behalf the i f : 4681; enorxs ox orthiest cifci itminds for principle, KV contiidpg wishes h ancNiiuporM the^tate. luch agitated Jast LegifilaSlaborate disIn disturbed notion of a feral bequest establish Lient bv a distin Hhe Hon. T. G. Hiring the spring Wplad with cerKnder the terms I H of the will, must attach to its acceptance by the State. Naturally, therefore, the whole matter has again been brought before the people and fnlly and exhaustively discussed in both the State and county campaigns immediately preceding the general elections. There can then be no doubt whatever that yon, th? chosen representatives of the people, are in accurate possession of their views and wishes, and being of all vocations in life, and more largely of the agricultural clai than any other, are prepared at all points to determine wisely this much vexed question. | While fully sensible that the whole responsibility of this determination rests with vnn T wnnlrl mnst rARTVW.fcfnllv null | to your attention a few considerations in j regard to this subject as necessarily affecting any conclusion to be reached. There can be no doubt, if it is the well ascertained desire of the agricultural | class of the State that such a college should be established, that there should ; be measures at once taken to that end as a just recognition of their importance in numbers, intelligence and the value of ; their productions. The farmers constitute the very bone and sinew of the land, ; and upon the result of their labors rest all other industries, which must, there- >; fore, be always best subserved and most , i effectually promoted when the occnpa- 'j tion of farming is most successfully and 2 intelligently conducted. Admitting the necessity of thorough education and technical instruction to ' the followers of this primal as of any other puriuit in life, which surely no j one in this age of progress can question, the duty of providing the means for such education and instruction becomes imperative, if not already existing. Considerations of economy become secondary where results are to be so amply compensating for the money expended. If, therefore, in the judgment of your honorable body, in addition to the splendid opportunities offered by our magnificent and superbly equipped University for the acquirement of agricultural knowledge in all its departments, from the ihost rudimental to the most scientific in character, there be need of further facilities in this direction, it would be both jusfe and wise to accede to the demand for a separate Agricultural College, and proceed by such steps as prudenee would dictate to establish auch an institution as would accomplish the purpose sought, and be a credic to the State. But this, I am clearly of the opinion, g should be done without injury to, or the r least disturbance of, the organization of i: % single institution now existing. There jould be no wisdom in, and therefore no r szcuse for, pulling down one institution 18 ilreaay established upon the broadest 1 ind most enlightened basis, and accom- 0 plishing a wondrous work towards the intellectual advancement of oui young J men, to ereofe another comparatively experimental in its system and far narrower in its field of instruction and use- v fulness. Nor 6hould the building of a a jeparate Agricultural College depend e ipon the acceptance of the Clemson or a my other bequest, for the State of South 8( Carolina is not as poor as some would ti represent her to be, and by a careful si wiuUBSaing of her resources and the g ionc. -ble"maintenance of her credit she a wtII, in the next few years, be amply b thlft to hnild and support such a college * without a dou&ir m incrcAbe ot taxation. r< Che refunding of her debt at the re- o: luced rate of interest, she has the right ? exoect bv the wise management of ?? ier finances will result in the annual 0 saving of a sum?$120,000 at least?that a] Till be more than sufficient to build, a( jquip and support in the most effective p, nanner a first-class institution. In this ^ ?nnection I would suggest the further tl ltilization of our Experiment Stations 8t tor the purpose* of agricultural educaion, bj gradually converting them into preparatory schools, where the manual abor of the pupils could be auocessfully v: employed in the cultivation of the farms ai md the conduot of experimentation, p irhile securing for themsalves, by their K )wn efforts and without cost to the State, e] he inestimable advantage of a technical p jducation. They would thus beoome f? raperb feeders of our higher institutions, 5, md the most worthy, industrious and b proficient among the pupils might be p awarded scholarships in our State Uni- s< rersitv as an incentive to ambition and $ jxertion. V I cannot, in fairness and frankness, t< pass from this subjeet without a brief * expression of my views on the matter of I' ;he "Clemaon bequest," already alluded ?' ;o, which, I presume, will be brought a before yon ia some shape for your con- *! jideration. Its acceptance or rejection ? ipon the conditions with which it is en- ^ mmbered is a matter solely for your delermination and in which uo executive ^ >f?cer has either voice 01 \'ote. But my t{ sense of duty compels me to say that C( irhile I would rejoice to see the State in ti possession of so handsome a property ind so large a donation, especially hal- a: owed as it is by the clustering memories p >f her grandest and greatest son, I am b lecidedly of the opinion that it would &< somport neither with her true interest a: mr Rov^reifim dicrnitv as an indeoondent Commonwealth to hastily and formally ? woept it before the validity of the will . a clearly and judicially established and 11 before a positive and unquestioned as- * :-ertainment of the fact is had that the nstitutioc, when established, shall be ^ md forever remain under the supreme a, md sole control of the 3tate. But upon your honorable body, a3 I 0 lave said, rests the responsibility of the s] letermiiiation of this question, and with b ;hese thoughts I leave it in your hands t< n full confidence of your reaching the o yises^anQ most righteous conclusion. e OTHER STATE SCHOOLS. J] The CitadeMxademy is in a flourishing * condition. Th&re i8 seed of additional quarters and addf^itinal equipment. The liovernor recommends Tifti.the amount recovered from the United State! government r for the uie of the buildings be applied to t the rebuilding ?f the west wing of the j. Citadel, and to the better equipment of th?r z Institution. Cadets are beginning to enter t from other States, and the Governor con- t curs in the opinion of the Board of Visit- i ors that the school should so enlarge its c facilities as to retain this patronage and la- t vite more of the same sort. j The institution for the education of the g deaf and dumb and the blind is admirably c managed, and continues to do a beneficent work for those children of the State who need its instruction. There are 102 inmates. There is need of a new building c for colored pupils and also some improve 1 merits in tbe water supply. For th?se the G .vernor concur* in the request of tbe ] Hoard of (Jomuiisijioners for u sptciul ap- s p:opriation. < Claflin University, for negroes of both i sexes, is reported as doing a good work for ] that race. < THE DEPARTMENT 0? AGRICULTURE.' ] The annual report of this department Is ] commended to the earnest consideration of ' the Legislature. The duties with which It is charged are of rital Interest to all the people of the State, and the manner in which these duties have been performed : amply justifies the wisdom of the Legislature in establishing this department of the j Stata Government. During the year just i closed the department has continued the experiments on the two agricultural experimental stations, located at Darlington and Spartanburg; conducted State and County Farmers' Institute*; inspected and analyzed commercial fertilizers on sale in the State; supervised the phosphate interests; investi gated contagious diseases among domestic animals, and adopted measures for their prevention; enforced the fish laws at various points; established observation stations, where climatic data are collected, and sent daily weather indications to the numerous ' display stations under its control; issued monthly reports containing matters of interest to the farmers, and weekly crop bulletins; collected, compiled and published 1 statistical information; published pam- 1 phlets, maps &e, showing the recources ] and industries of 8outh Carolina; placed on 1 exhibition a splendid collection of the pro- ! ducts of the State, and conducted an exten- 1 sive correspondence. 1 These are all matters of great importance, j and they are fully treated in the annual re- j ru-irta r\f tho 'Rnnrrl onrl P!nromi??iAnpr t The Commissioner urges the establishment of river observation stations, where 1 the rise of streams may be promptly noted s and flood warnings given for the benefit of * stock raisers and farmers. The recent disastrous floods prove the necessity for such stations. The Commissioner calls attention to the defects in the fish laws, and Bhows where they should be amended. He also endorses the recommendations of the special assistant of the department regard- c ing changes needed in the laws regulating ] phosphate mining. All of the3e matters ^ will doubtless receive your favorable consideration. v The Department of Agriculture asks for t qo appropriation from the Legislature. It g is supported entirely by the privilege tar I Dn commercial fertilizers and its finances e ire so managed that the income from this Jource is sufficient to meet all of its expenses. Its srood work ia aDDarent. and is 0 nore appreciated the more it 6 investigated v ind understood. t' EXPEBIMENTA.Ii STATIONS. ? The Experimental Stations, as now es _ ablished, comprise the following: A central >cientific staff at Columbia, with the neces- 15 ;ary offices and laboratories, and three ^ 'arms?one at Spartanburg, one at Colum- ti jia and ODe at DarliDgton. The upper a :arm contains 300 acres, the middle farm ^ 120 acres, and the lower 227 acres. Each ;arm is supplied with stock, implements md machinery, including engines, gins, ^ presses, mills, cutters &c. Besides the o vork of preparation required to bring these d 'arms into proper condition, a large num- g >er of field tests were planned and conlucted. There were 656 experimental plats r n cotton, 420 In corn, 56 in wheat, 48 in ** >ats, and about 50 in miscellaneous crops, R uch as grasses, clovers, peas, soja be&ns, si nillets, sorghums, &c., or upward of 1,200 & u all. j Each test was carefully duplicated and , epeated on each farm. The checking and 61 rf?rifio_Ation thus nhfjunpH crivf?crrpat wpifhr d o the results. About 50 different varieties a f cotton were tested. n In the laboratories at Columbia, analyses n rere made of typical soils of the State, of t arm crops at different stages of growth, or :iff( rent mannrial materials, &c. 11 Numersus varieties of commercial seeds n re re examined to determine their purity ai nd vitality. Rust, cholera, and other dis- 0j aees of plants and animals were studied, nd an elaborate series of meteorologic obervation bearing upon the physical proper- 81 :es of soils was begun. An account of ** 3me of these tests and analyses has been ol iven to the public in the quarterly bulletins p; nd the operations for the entire year will ^ e fully discussed in the annual report, , Inch will appear, In accordance With theof tbf* 4 M nn ttio rot "C f next FoWaarj. ' -* T The stations are ably officered, the farms ui re being rapidly brought into good condi- ei on for the work in hand, important lines f investigation have been entered upon, nd much valuable experience has been :quired, and results of the highest im- S< ortance to our agricultural interests may m e expected, in some time, to follow from p< le thorough establishment of these ^ ations. ag E*AL A>"D CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. The State penitentiary contains 894 conicts, of which number 843 are colored ad 51 are white; there being 4-5 colored od 2 white females. Of these Mr. R. S. ei ringle has 217 at work on phosphate jr lines near Summerville, S. C., 199 are mployed on shoe and hosiery inside the rison, and the balance on the various ni irms, with the exception of a small num- M er leased by the contractors of the Colum- a: ia Canal. The financial condition of the se rison is good, the collections from all >urces the past year having amounted to 3.444.23 more than it cost to sustain it. 81 Fhen the expected collections are applied ti > the liabilities, it is expected that there Sc rill be a clear balance of about $10,000. Sc q consequence of loss from floods and ther disasters, the Directors have been un* ble to repay the $25,000 loaned to them, 80 ad they ask an extension of one year, in le assured hope of repairing past losses us i that time. The physical condition of h< le convicts is satisfactory. ^ The annual report of the Regents of the unatic Asylum exhibits fully the operaons of the last year, and clearly states the w sndition and requirements of this icistitu- fe oa. The number of inmates increased cr :om 649 to 680. of whom 393 are white WJ Qd 287 are colored. It appears that the w. opulation would have been notably larger ut for the liberal resort to the policy of *? indin* home on trial such convalescents a* 3 it was thought might be trusted. Thus w; ist year, of the 155 released on probation, p? nly 27 returned, and all except 29 have to c*n aiscnargeu. mat me present ouuaig3 should be crowded is not surprising . 'hen we consider that the census of 1880 ^ ives the number of insane, epileptic, and li^ iiotic as 2,700, all of whom may", accord sh ig to our laws, be committed to the m sylum. ' The institution seems to have been cconmically conducted. There are tables to ** bow that the cost of maintenance has een gradually reduced from $202 in 1876 ) $140, and that the daily cost to the State ki f each patient is only 34 cents. The Gov- re rnor concurs with the Superintendent in he he opinion that further retrenchment is Sc npracticable without lowering the stand- w rd of the institution and impairing its use- tn ulnesa. v* TILE BAILKOAD COMMISSION. w On the subject of State supervision of w ailroadi the Governor recommends that p he powers of the Railroad Commissioners ie enlarged so a* to enable them to require a a :>vi. ? ? * Sliruau* TT1 lliLH OVUUI V^ltlVJJLLUO. LU JLC^UiatC heir rates of freight within the State so ^ hat the public shall derive the greatest jD >enefit possible consistent with the interest ? if the railroad corporations. He invites ai he attention of the Legislature to the sub ect of railroads in general, in order that uch legislation may be had as will suffi:iently protect the interests of the public. c. OTHER MATTERS, p The State militia is reported in excellent N :ondition. The Governor recommends a y< iberal support or ttie citizen soldiery. <j Attention is called to the report of the u of Pensions. Tbe total number of fc ipplications filed in the Comptroller's u office during the year and up to 30th Sep- p mber is 2.623. The Pension Board ap- ^ Droved 2,025 of the applications filed; 1,492 j; i)f these were in favor of widows of soldiers who lost their lives in the service of the State or Confederate States, and 533 in favor of soldiers wounded in said service. The Board disapproved 598 applications, of which 871 were for soldiers, and 227 for widows. Of the $50,000 applica E ble to pensions there is an unexpended bal- 0 ance ?f $212. ? The Governor saggesta such further ap- t propriations for the completion of the State House as the Legislature may deem consistent with the resources of the State. 1 The appropriation of $2500 for th^Sute Agricultural and Mechanical Society He Governor thinks should be continued. Attention is called to the suggestbnpf Major Harry Hammond, of Aiken,. t|it the Legislature co-operate with the Leg lature of Georgia in making an approprr. tion for a topographical survey of the & vannah river, with the vi?w to ask tb national government for the means to mali the stream safely navigable and to prevei disastrous overflows. CONCLTJHOX. .] The message concludes as follows: have thus presented for your informatiov md consideration as full and clear a state ment as possible of the condition of ths State in all the departments of the Govern] iient, with suggestion of such measures ai lave appeared to my mind expedient o; lecessary. In doing this I have endeav )red to discharge faithfully, and with loya leart, my whole duty under the Constity ion, and now invoke upon your deliber? ions_the guidance and blessing of the ^r fine Wisdom, tiie only true ana untaiiflttj ource of peace, happiness, prosperity ?nt*i >rogress to peoples and nation# "? DON'T TALK TOO MUCH. ; lints for Retail Salesmen Who Dealr/to Be Successful. To be a successful salesman one aust naintain a certain amount of rosrve. ?oo much talk has spoiled many a jood rade. It is tiresom? to purchcers, rho frequently prefer to be guidei by heir own judgment than by the suggestions of store clerks. People wio >uy goods, particularly the ladies, geoirally think over what they want aid Qake up their mindB before they start ut on a shopping expedition aboil rhat they want and what they m\ hey can afford te pay for it. hey enter a store and call for a ceniia [uality of good3 they expect th? safe* lan to place oeiore mem vraai way esire?not to suggest they know sco*> hing a good deal better, which tay re sure will give them far greater sad* lotion. Customers as a general thing dtnol .ke talkative and garrulous rare lerks, they prefer a quiet, obliging, ignified salesman, who will show ties oods without any ostentatious display f his person or intellectual imbecility. Herks should never be impertineit o* aappish, even to their inferiors. They aould learn to treat nil customers frith Durtesy and Impartial politerees. okes, stories and sloppy gentboent lould never by manner or expresioa o or say any thing to offend thedig* ity of a matron or bring a blush to a lodest maidens cheek. They should ever remind any homespun agriculirist of any unpleasant mistake h# lay have made in his past career, for j ich men are always more or leas sens* tive and do net like to be made 8 lraftt r. Many *a clerk by trying to say 8?m? nart thing has lost a good customer ! > his employer and made himself am, bject of subsequent aversion to tht arty whom ho has offended.. Sale#ten should talk just eno^h and lould have sufficient. <?- ? -> i know when they have talked enough, hey should be polite and patient ader provocation and use their utmost ideavors to make friends for employ's, thus aiding in building up and icoessfully carrying on business. ?me may think these remarks oomon-place, but they play a more im)rtant part in the success or failure of te retail storekeeper than many iza fine.?Grocer's Criterion. How to Crush Suspicions. There are many suspicions that need ushing in the bud. We fancy our iend is cool to us; we imagine som? le has slighted us; we suspect our jighbor of having spoken ill of us. bst likely we are mistaken, and. in 1 ly case, we could never probably sarch into the matter. Our trust in ir friend or our own self-respecfc tould lead us to put away such roughts, to abandon such suspicions. , )me one has, perhaps, dropped a poimous word of scandal into our ears, st us banish it from our thoughts with orn. Circumstances may tend to cast ispicion on one whom we honor, let i continue to trust him in our heart ot jarts. We may fear that some one is committed a fault, which, however, >es not concern us in the least, and in hich we are not called upon to interre; let U3 expel the idea as an unwelime intruder. In one of these two ays suspicion may be rightly dealt Lth. If as a warning it has a mission perform, it will do its work; if It is i unworthy or an idle conjecture, it ill be dismissed In eitiher case it will iss away, as all suspicions are meant do. As transient guests of the mind .ey may be useful in establishing the nocence which should be brought to jfht, or in proving the guilt which lOuld be purged away. But as permanent inmates of the mind their influice is most pernicious.?Philadelphia idaer. Death of Mr. John O'Xelll. Mr. John O'Neill, of late years a well-; lown merchant of this city, died at his sidence here on Wednesday night. He id been for years an employes of the >uth Carolina Railway Company. He *? - J 1 1ZC~ as a man wno, auncg a long me, n?u ade a multitude of friends. He was sry popular and died regretted both by i iose who knew him intimately and those ith whom he had business relations. He as one of the original founder of the Si. | atrick's Benevolent Society. Branch 152 of the Catholic Knights of meiica adjourned last during an lportant session when the news of the iath of Mr. O'Neill was announced. The formation was conveyed by Dr. Dennis ennedy in the most fee-ling terms.?News id Courier, Nov. 30. PIAX08 A.\D ORGANS. One thousand Pianos and Organs to ose out by October 1. All Organs and ianos sold at cash price, payable ovember 1?no interest?delivered to our nearest depc:. iinteen days tnau rgans from $24 up; Pianos from $150 p. All instruments warranted. Send >r circulars. Buy now and have the 86 of the instrument. Remember we ay freight both ways if the instrument on't suit. Prices guaranteed less than few York. N. W. TRUMP, Columbia, S. C. Gen. Scott Pudding. One cup of chopped suet, one cup of aelasses, one cup of sour milk, one cup f raisins, four cups of flour, one teaspoonul of salt, one teaspoonful of ooda; l#oil hree hours. Balances [on the credit side of the eager always look the bert. TALMAGE'S IDEAS OF FOOD. HK DISCOURSES ON THINGS THAT ARE TABOO0D. The Yultares of Society, the Bats of Re* liglon, the Chameleon In Church and Business, the Lugubrious Owl and the Slew and Boneleee Snail?Some Hard Hits. At the Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday the Ker. Dr. Talmage preached to a large audience on "Forbidden Diet." He took his text from Leviticus xi., 1330?"And these are they which Te shall i * \ have in abomination among the fowls: j the owl, the vulture and the bat. There j also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth, the chameleon and the snail." "The Bible offers very possible variety oi theme, of. argument and of illustration," said the preacher. ' 'We care not _nwich in what kind of a pitcher the water of life is brought, if it is only the clear, pure water. God gave the ancients a list of the animals that they might eat and a list of animals that they might not eat. These people lived in a hot climate, and certain forms of animal food corrupted their blood and disposed them to aorofnlons disorders, denraved their appetites and bemoaned their souls. A man's food, when he has the means and opportunity of selecting it, suggests his moral nature. "The reason the wild Indian is as cruel as the liou, is because he has food that gives him the blood of a lion. A missionary among the Indians says, that by obanging his style of food to correspond with theirs, his temperament was entirely changed. There are certain forms of food that have a tendency to affect the moral nature. Many a Christian is trying to do by prayer, that which cannot be done except through corrected diet. PORK A POOB DIET. For instance, he who uses swine's flesh for constant diet, will be diseased in bodand polluted 01 sow?an ma murgiea and catechisms notwithstanding. The Gadarene swine were possessed of the devil, and ran down a steep place into the sea, and all the swine ever since seem to have been similarly possessed. In Leviticus, God struck this meat off the table of his people, and placed before them a bill of fare, at once healthful, nutritious and generous. "But higher than this pnysioal reason, there was a spiritual reason why God chose certain forms of food for the ancients. God gives a peculiar diet to his people, not only because he wanted them to be diatinguised from the surrounding nations, but because certain birds and animals, by reason of their habits, have always been suggestive of moral qualities. By the list of things from wnich they were to abstain, God wished to prejudice their minds against certain evils; and in the list of lawful things given, he wished to suggest certain things given, he wished to suggest certain forms of good. When God -aoWaJy forbade.his people to eat the OWi, ine Yuiiure, uia uai, uie uiihiiioiouu, and the snail, He meant to drive ont of his people all the tins that were thus emblecuized. "I take the suggestion of the text, and saj that one of the first unclean things the Christian needs to drive out of his soul is the owl. The owl is the melancholy bird of night. It hatches out whole broods of superstitions. It is doleful and hideous. When it lings it sings through its nose. It loves the gloom of night better than the brightness of the day. Who has not slept in the cabin near the woods and been awakened in the night by the dismal "too-hoo" of the owl? Melancholy is the owl that is perched in many a Christian soul. It is an unclean bird, and needs to be driven away. STJNBKCfB 33 LlPfl. "A man whose sins are pardoned and who ia on the road to Heaven has no right to be gloomy; Ho says: 'I have so maDy doubts.' That ia because 'you are lazy.' Go aotively to work in Christ's cause and your doubts will vanish. You say: 'I have lost my property, but I reply: You have infinite treasures laid up in Heaven,' You say: 'I am weak and sickly and going to die.' Then be congratulated that you are so near eternal health and perpetual gladness. Catch a few morning larks lor your soul, and stone this owl off your premises. "As a little girl was eating the sun dashed upon her spoon, and she oried, O, mamma, I have swallowed a spoonful of sunshine!' Would God that we might all indulge in the same beverage! Cheerfulness; it makes the homliest face haudeome; it makes the hardest mattress soft; it runs the loom that weaves butteroapsand rainbows and auroras. God made the grass black? No; that would be too sombre. God made the grass red? No; that would be too gaudy. God made the grass green, that by this parable all the world might be led to a subdued cheerfulness. Bead jour Bible in the sunshine. Remamber that jour physical health is closely allied to jour spiritual. The heart and the liver are only a few inches apart, and what affects one effdcts the other. A historian records that by the sound of great laughter in Korne, Hannibal's assaulting army was frightened away in retreat. And there is in the great outbursting joy of a Christian soul that which can drive back any infernal bcs egement Bata love dark closets, and aatan loves to barrow in a gloomy soul. "Rejoice in the Lord, Oh je righteou-, and again I say, rejoice! "Hoiifc the window of your soul in this the 12 o'clock of spiritual night. Put the gun to jour shoulder and aim at tfc? black jungle from which the hoolui^ comes; pull the trigger and drop that croaking, lothaome, hideous ottI of religious melancholy into the bushes. DBTX8IASLB GOSSIPS. "The most loathsome, miserable, Godforsaken whretch on earth is a gossip. I can tell her on the street though I have ntrer seen her before. Site walks fast and has her bonnet strings loose, for she has not had time to tie them since she heard that last scandal. She looks both ways as she passes, hoping to see new aridenoss of dtprsrifcy is the windows. I thinb that when Satan has a job bo infinitely mean that in all the pit he cannot find a devil mean enough to do it, and all bribes and threats have failed to get one willing for infernal crusade, he says to one of his sergeants: 'Go np to Brooklyn, and in suoh a street, on such a corner, get that gossiping woman, and she will be glad to do it.' "And sure enough, like a hungry fish, she takes the hook in her mouth, and Satan slackens the line and lets her run out farther and farther, until after awhile he says: 'It is time to haul in that line.' and with a few strong pulls he brings her i to the beach of fire. What do you say? That she was a member of th$ Church? I cannot neip tnat. vvnen ;aacan goes a-fijshing he does not care what school the fiah belong to, whether it is a Presbyterian mackerel or an Episcopalian salmon. Amid the thunder crash of Sinai God said: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.' And in Leviticus he says: 'Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale bearer.' "Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hung?the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest, like a pleased dog, he put lis dirty paw upon you. Throw back the shutter of your soul, oh ChrisI TTTsvman an/1 CAA if there bum UlOU ouu nvmwuj M*v>. ? be within you a vulture with filthy talons and oruel beak. Let not this unclean thing roost in your soul, for my text Sftje: 'Ye shall hold in abomination amoDg the fowls, the vulture.' CHOOSB EARTH OB HEAVEN*. "But, my friends, your worldly fortunes will not last. I will bny out now all that you will be worth in worldly estate seventy-five years from now. I have the money in my pocket with whioh to do it. Here it is. Two cents! It is a large sum to t fi'-r for all yon will possess at the close of seventy-five years. Choose the world if you want to, but, if not, then choose heaven. That estate lies partly on this side of the river, but mostly on the other. It is ever accumulating. The prospect of it makes one independent of earthly misfortunes, so that Rogers, the martyr, slept so soundly the night before his burning they violently shook him in order to get him awake in time for the execution, and Paul exults at the thought of the %'joy I unsDeakable and full of glory.' THB CHANGING CHAMELEON. "Again, taking the suggestion of the text, drive out the chameleon from your soul. There is some difference between good men as to the name of this creeping thing which God pronounced unclean, but I shall take the opinion which seems best suited to my purpose. The chameleon is a reptile, chiefly known by its changeableness of color, taking the color of the thing next to it, sometimes brown, sometimes red and sometimes gray, but always the color of its surroundings, a type of that class of Christiana who are now one thing in religious faith and now another, just to suit circumstances, always taking their color of religious belief from the man they are TIiott cm tn nnA Iap.fi and | fcW# Ow X 1 are first-rate Unitarians. 'Jeeus was a i good man, but nothing more.' They go to Princeton and they are Trinitarians, almost willing to die for the divinity of Jesus. ADVICE TO A DAUGHTER. "An infidel was called to the bedside 1 of his daughter. The daughter said: 'Father, which shall I believe, you or mother? Mother took the religion of Christ, and died in its embrace; you say that religion is a humbug. Now I am going to die, and I am very much perplexed; shall I believe you, or take the belief of my mother?' The father said: 'Choose for yourself.' She said: 'No, I am too weak to choose for myself; I want you to choose for me.' "'Well,'said the father, after much hesitation and embarrassment-, 'Mary, I think yon had better take the religion of your mother.' The time will come when wo oV>olJ Viavo fr hftliAVA sftmflthinsT. Wfi cannot afford to be on the fence in religion. Truth and error are set opposite to each other. The one is infinitely right, and the other infinitely wrong. On the judgment day we must give an account of what we believed as well as for what we acted. The difference between believing truth and believing error is the difference between paradise and perdition. I beg yoo, in the light of the Bible, and on your kne?8 before God, to form your religious opinion and then stick to it, though business companions scoff, and wits caricature, and the air crackles with the fires of martyrdom. Surely truths in behalf of which Christ died, and angels of God trooped forth, and the whole universe is marshaled, are worth living for and worth dying for. Amidst the most unclean tilings is tins ever caangmg caameieou of religions theory. Away with the reptile! God abhors it with an ali-consnming abhorrence. SLOW AS A SNAIL. "Oc?9 more: Take the suggestion of the text, and drive out the snail from ycnr soul. God has declared it unclean, ft is an animal to be found everywhere between the coldest north and the hottest south. There are 1,500 species of the snaiL, They have no backbone, and they are so slow that their movement is almost imperceptible. You seo a snail in one plaoe to-day; go to morrow and you will find it has advanced only a few inches. It Decomes an emblem of that large class of Christian people who go to work with a slowness and sluggishness that is wonderful. They are stopped by | every little obstacle, because, like the I snail, they have no baakbone. Others mount up on eagles' wings, but they go at a snail's pace. "O child of God, arouse! We have apotheosized prudence and caution long enough. Prudence is a beautiful grace, but of all the family of Christian graces I like her the least because she has been married so often to laziness, sloth and stupidity. We have a million idlers in tbe Lord's vineyard who pride themse Ives on their prudence. 'Be prudent,' said the disciples to Christ, 'and stay away from Jerusalem,' but he went. 'Be prudent,' said Paul's friends, 'and look out for what you say to Felix;' but he thundered away until the ruler's knees knocked together. In the eyes of the world the most imprudent men that ever lived were Martin Luthfr ard John Oidcastle, and Wesley and K.110 JVIy opinion i3 that the most imprudent and reckless thing is to stand still. It is well to hear our commander's voio when he says 'Halt!' but quite so important to hear it when he says 'Forward!' This ~ " * * " 1 ' 1 -A 0 Gospel siup maao to plow tne sea at ruteen knots an hour, is not making three. Sometimes it is most prudent to ride your horse slowly and pick out the way for his feet, and not stake him with the apurs; but when a band of Shoshonee Indians are after you in full tilt, the most prudent thing for you to do is to plunge in the rowels and put your horse to a full run, shouting: 'Go 'long!' until the Kocky Mountain * echo it. The foes of God are pursuing us. The world, the fleah, and the Devil are after us, and oar -wisest course is to go ahead at swiftest speed. DBITB OUT A1X, UNCLEAN THINGS. "When the Church of God gets to advancing too fast, it will be time enough to nse cannon, pio neea 01 puuiug uu i the brakes while going np hill. Do not I let ns sit down waiting for something to turn np,' but go ahead in the name of God, and turn it up. The g^eat danger to the Churoh now is not sensation, but stagnation. Oh, that the Lord God would send a host of aroused and consecrated men to set the Church on fire, and to turn the world upside down! Let us go to work and eatch the last snail in our souus. "With Divine vehemence let us stamp its life out, ioc my text declares: 'These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the i earth; the chameleon and the snail.' 1 have thus tried to prejudice these Christian men and women against gloominess, and slander, and half-and-half experiences, and changeableness and sloth Oar opportunities for getting better are being rapidly swallowed up in the remorseless past. This golden Sabbath it dbout to drop out of the calendar. Thif moment may we drive out all the unclean things from our souls?the vulture, and the bat, and the owl, and the chameleoD and the snail; and in place thereof bring in the Lamb of God and the Dove ol the Spirifi The case is urgent Arouse! before it be eternally too late! 'Whatsoever thy hand findcth to do, do it'" HARBISON AND THE SOUTH. The Preeident-Blect Denies Being Inimical to Southern Interest.' Th- vrreenville Baily News prints & letter recently received by ifa editoi from General Harrison and published by his permission. It was written in reply to a letter urging that the Southern commercial interests would be relieved from obstruction caused by doubts and fears regarding the Southern policy ol the coming administration if General Harrison would make some general assurances of his purpose to follow * conservative coarse toward the South and is as follows: "Wv Dfar Sir: Tonr letter of Nbvem ber 10 has been received. I am not ready to make any public utterance .upon the question. Every day I am solicited by special correspondents of the pretus to speak on this subject or that, but 1 have iuvariably declined, and to youi appeal for some expressions upon the question that interests you I must for the present make the same answer. 1 understand that you have yourself been satisfied with expression made by me in my public utterances to visiting delegaduring the campaign. When the surprise and disappointment which some of your people have felt over the result hat passed away and they give some calm thought to the situation, I think the} will be as much surprised as I am that they should in thought or speech impute to me unfriendliness toward the South. The policies in legislation advised by the Bepublican party I believe are wholesome for the whole country, and if those who m their hearts oeneve wim us upon tbese questions would act with u?, some other qaestions that give you local concern would settle themselves. Very truly yours, "Benjamin Harbison." A SCANDALOUS SrOKY. Judge Wallace as the Tool of Claim Ageutrto Oppose Senator Butler-Who is Responsible for it? (Washington Special to Baltimore Sun.) The South Carolina Legislature, which meets at Columbia to-morrow, will be called upon to select the successor of Senator Matthew C. Butler, whose term expires on the third of March next. General Butler has twice been elected to the Senate, and his friends propose to again re-elect him. Up to within a few weeKs past it was supposed that he would have no opposition, as he is generally regarded as one of the most valuable of the members of Congress sent to Washington from the South. It is said that he will be opposed by Judge W. H. Wallace, member of the Circuit Court, who has long cherished a desire to come to the Senate, and who is said to have ?, considerable following in the Legislature, and also the support of Attorney General Earle, who is not regarded a* friendly to General Butler. The frends of the Senator are confident that he will succeed himself, as the opposition thus far seems to have made but a slight progress. The only allegation that has appeared against Gen. Butler is brought against ham by a class of claim agents who are interested in the repayment of the direct tax. It will be remembered that during the consideration of the direct tax bill in the Senate last winter he secured the adoption of an amendment which, if the bill becomes law, will prevent certain attorneys from receiving from 30 to 50 per cent of the claims oi certain States. South Carolina lawyers are interested in the claim of that State, and they propose to try and defeat Gen. Butler. Conservative South Carolinians do not believe they will be successful. Soath?rn Cotton Mills. A Boston correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: In cotton manufacturing, too, the South and the West art stealing our supremacy. It is said that more mills have been built in Georgia since the war than are in operation in New Hampshire. Certain it is that in view of the cheapness of cotton and the introduction of new ideas about labor, the manufficture of cotton is increasing faster at the South than in New England. There were 154 cotton mills in the Southern States in 1379, a year ago there were 219, and now 235 are in operation, with seventeen mort about ready to start up and forty other?building. Every steamship which now sails out of the ports of Charleston. Wilmington and Savannah is in no small part loaded with cotton fabrics, and Southern mills are exporting more goods to China than all New England. More attention is paid to improved methods of raising cotton than formerly. It is gathered and prepared for market with more care. Cotton is still king in the South, but its monarchy is less absolute than it has been, for it embies more common sense. It is asserted that 25 per cent, of the brown cottons made in the United States are manufactured in and around Augusta, Ga. Georgia has great natural advantages for the cotton industry. In the uplands the climate is more favorable than in the East. Tbe staple is right at the doors, and Northern capital has been invested almost by tbe wholesale Southern mills supply to a great extent Western markets, which were formerly controlled by New England manufacturers. This is the order of the day. There is no escape from It. Cotton manufacturing oc the whole, perhaps, is not declining east of Hudson River, but it is not gaining to anything like the extent it is advancing. Died at tbe Hospital. Mr. 0. B. Butler, of Newberry, died at the Hospital yesterday. The deceased had been living in Charleston for several years, having come down here to work on thicotton factory. lie was a member of St. Patrick's Benevolent Society, and was also a Mason. Tbe two societies will nke I charge of his remains.?Jiews and Courier I Xov. 28. Ham rattles. Chop bam fine; add sliced onion, salt ard pepper to taste, and half the quantity of soaked-bread, or cooked rice; mix together with two beaten eggs- make into f- * i - ?-*'i- n 3 x ? patties; spnuKie "wiui uuur, auu uy vu bake in one with butter on top. More strength and power ]ies in a single dose of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) than in a hundred doses of sarsaparilla extract, and other so-called blood remedies. Bead of its miraculous cures in other parts of our paper. Too Knowing: for Anything, Too WJ?e for His Parents?This World Hud All Its Charms Worn Out for Him at Twelve. (From Babyhood.) If in the former days of New England children were repressed and kept in the s back-ground, surely to-day that objeccion cannot be brought forward. On the other hand, our children East and West are nowadays encouraged to "speak their minds, " their opinions are listened to, and often their advice atked, as if their experience were fully equal if not superior to that of their elders. While the former method had its serious drawbacks, our modern custom certainly has its disadvantages. The pretty golden-haired girl toward whom your heart inclines as she enters your friend's sitting-room, fresh from her bath, rather checks your ardor when, in answer to your "How do yon do, my 1 AM ? _ _ * -T _ ?f aearr sne answers, *\l aon i ao at aii, but I feel pretty well," and nods her head and looks at yo<as if waiting for jour applauding laugh. The mother says reproachfully, :|0frhy, Maiflie, darling!" bat smiles approvingly. The little boy of another acquaintance is readings You ask him if he is fond of stories, and remembering your own and brothers' delight in certain famous books, mention them. "Oh! they're rather nice"?patronizingly?"but he made two or three mistakes I noticed"; or, "Tnac ^ book I iiked very well, but the last half has too httle adventure, and the hero grows rather stale on your hands." You open your ejes, and think of the labor spent and unusual talent displayed in cnese particular books, and have some curiosity to kaow what book the boy does like. You ask rather timidly in regard to this that, and the other, but all tiave their laults and drawbacks, and are dissected coolly and critically. The mother, who enters before you are through, sajs: "Yes, Stephen is so quick rr> spo *11 t.hn rtpfpfitfiin tha hnnkftth&t ha reads; his teacher sajs it is very remarkable m so joung a boy, and shows unusual quickness of perception," You say notiiing, but the thought will incrude itselt, is not the loss of warm enfc!msiasm.and keen delight over a book and author something? Will even such wonderful precociousness make up for this loss? We remember that even the great Macaulay dearly loy<ai certain not eery fine works of fiction,' and could not see their faults. It rather comforts us to think of tais. We remember how our childish heart glowed over some noble action, and how we longed to be better ourselves after reading of it. A child of an acquaintance of the writer sat in the room during a calL. After the visitor left the child said immediately: "That lady made one mistake in grammar while she sat there, and WAWIC " AnAfin/v UliO^lVUUUUV^U l? " v VTVXUOj UUUlUJg them. The same evening she overheats her mother sajing to che father: "It is remarkable how Elsie notices mistakes in language; it seems to jar upon her ' sensitive uar as diicord affecta a musician." The child fancies herself at once an exception and marvel and prides herself '.M upon it accordingly. How much better if that mother had said to the child alter her criticism upon her caller: "Yea: bat, my dear, ia that all you noticed? Just think of failing to hear that beautilul account Mrs. Clare gave of her trip down the St. Lawrence, and of the wonderful work of the Children's Aid dociety. You see you only half heard these, and they were worth many little slips in language, however important ? they may be." We remember, too, the little child who, amid a chorus of admiring relatives urging him on, goes the length of calling his grandfather an offensive <nicknamq. -The mother exclaims; "Oh, .Fredcfj!" in a shocked voice, but Freddy Hears main ma and aunts repeating it to callers next day amid peals of laughter. thinks ha is an eTtrfimfllv hrichfc boy* and longs for another opportunity of displaying his smart speeches. The young girl from schooi enters the parlor as you and the mother are dicusau)g matters of keen interest to you. Laura seats herself, alter bestowing on you.a good-humorecTnod of recognition, and immediately joins in the conversation. If' she interrupts, no matter, tier mother turns to her and waits to heajrJier opinion Urst. It gives the girl ease7in conversation; and timid girls are so afrkward and uninteresting! Your talk is interrupted, your little chat with your friend, to which you have looked forward for weeks, is spoiled, and you leave wondering if you are growing cross and critical, or what is the matter? Two little sons of a very wise and learned professor returning from church, the sermon, which was a very earnest and eloquent one, is discussed at the dinner table, when the eldest boy says: "Clason and I counted five mistakes be made, and we didn't think he amounted to very much." Then there is the child on thes treet car and railway train, showing off for the benefit of the passengers; and this is not always the child of vulgar, common people, but of the so-called "upper classes." And, as a rule, their efforts are aot checked, but encouraged by a sweet but silly smile. Nothing can be, nothing is, lovelier chan bWcet bright young girls, "or than natural, even if faulty, children; but do not let us encourage them to be sharp and pert. Very few young Americans need such encouragement. Bather do they need the restraint and wholesome neglect of mother and friends.'* Thus, vrithout being a whit less bright ana observing, they may gain the grace 6f modesty, and that unconsciousness than which nothing can be more charming and attractive. ; yuicK ?x>ai vaxe. Beat one egg, half a cap of butter, one cup of sugar together, and a cup of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of cream taicar, one of soda, two cups of flour, a cup of taisins, spice with nutmeg. French Cake. Beat thoroughly five eggs, add two cups of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of butter, one cup of milk, spice as taste may dictate, ihree cups of sifted flour, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one of soda. The Mother's Friend, used a few weeks before confinement, lessens the pain and makes labor quick and comparatively easy. Sold by all draggists. Too personal: They were goiDg to have company, and she was suggesting tue menu. 'We can have oysters on tongue for one course," she observed. "I never heard of -uch a dish," he remarked. "Didn't you? It's a very good one ail the same," she said. "I suppose if I get the oysters you can furnish the tongue?" he inquired, innocently. Then he wondered why she slammed the door so viciously. "It seems strange to me that you should engage your passage to Europe in such a slow steamer," remarked Wiggins, to his friend Grinder; "a lower fare certainly could be no inducement to a man of your niL-ans."' "My boy," replied Grinder, "I have amassed my fortune by always seeing that 1 got the full worth of my money, if i I can get fifteen days' board on the ocean I for less money than eight would cost, why ' shouldn't I take it?"