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' . - - ,-'-'Srift^r^^T*^frr a cavalry charge!-' REV. DR. TALMAGE OM THE NECESSITY OF REVIVALS. A. Su<vten Movameut to Capture the Worltl for Righteousness? He Holds That Sin Can Be Overcome by a Flank Movement. Washington, Dec. 27.?This sermon oi Dr. Talmage in behalf of a sudden movement to capture the world for righteousness strikes a chord that will vibrate through Christendom The text is II Kicgs xviii, 2:>. "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able on ;;hv nart to set riders upon them." Up by the waterworks, the upper reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of the besieging army and the generals of besieged Jerusalem are in consultation. Though General Eab-shakefi had been largely paid to stop the siege, he kept the money and continued the siege?the military miscreant! Rabshakeh derides the capacity of the city to defend itself and practically says: "You have not 2,000 men "who can manage horses. Produce 2,000 cavalrymen, and I will give you a present of 2.000 cavalry horses. You have not in all your besieged city of Jerusalem 2,000 men who can mount them and by bit and bridle control a horse." Rabshakeh realized that it is easier to find horses than skillful riders, and hence he makes the challenge of the text, "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them." liab-shakeh, like many another bad man, said ?. very suggestive thing. - --- The world is full of great energies and great opportunities, but few know how to bridle them and mount them and manage them. More spirited horses than competent riders. The fact is that in the church of God we have - - -? t J 3 plenty ot lortresses wen manneu, &uu plenty of heavy artillery, and plenty of solid columns of brave Christian soldiers, but what we most need is cavalry?mounted troops of God?for sudden charge that seems almost desperate. If Washington, if New York, if London, are ever taken for God, it will not be by slow bombardment of argumentation, or by regular unlimbering of great theological guns from the portholes of the churches, but by gallop of sudden assault and rush of holy energy that will astound and throw into panic the long line of drilled opposition armed to the teeth. Nothing so scares the forces of sin as a revival that comes, they know not whence, to do that which they cannot tell, to work in a way that they cannot understand. They will be overcome bv flank movement. The church of God must double up their right or left wing. If they expect us from the north, we will take them from the south. If they expect us at 12 o'clock o'clock at noon, we will come upon them at 12 o'clock at night. The opportunities for this assault are great and numerous, but where are the men? "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon tnem." The opportunities of saving America and saving the entire planet were never so many, never so urgent, never so tremendous, as now. Have you . not noticed the willingness of the printW& ing press o? the country to give the |||k subject of-.evangelism full swing in IIIIP costeiiin after column? Such work 11111^'"was formerly confined to tract distribution and religious journalism. Now the morning and evening newspapers, by hundreds and thousands of copies, print all religious intelligence and print most awakening discourses. Never since the world has stood has such, a force been offered to all engaged in the world's evangelization. Of the more than fifteen thousand newspapers on this continent I do not know one that is not alert to catch and distribute all matters of religious information. Oh, now I see a mighty suggestive ness in the fact that the Urst booJi oi any importance that was ever published after Johann Gutenberg: invested the art of printing was the BibleWell might that poor man toil on, polishing stones and manufacturing looking glasses and making ezperi- 1 ments that brought upon him the ; chaise of insanity and borrowing money, now from Martin Brether and now from Johann Faust, until he set : on foot the mightiest power for the : evangelization of the world. The ! statue in bronze which Thorwaldsen ; erected for Gutenberg in 1S37 and the ; statue commemorating him by David ' d'Angers in 1S40 and unveiled amid 1 all the pomp that military processions ! and German bands of best music could give the occasion were insignifi- ( cant compared with the fact, to be i demonstrated before all earth and all 1 heaven that Johann Gutenberg under ' God, inaugurated forces which will yet accomplish the world's redemp- ' tion. The newspaper press will yet ; announce nations born in a day. The J :7i 4.%* i ? newspaper press yyui lit a . sermons jet to be delivered and de- * scribe bis persona! appearance, if, as 1 some think, be shall come again to * reign on earth. The newspaper press ] ||a may yet publish Christ's proclama- ( ^^"^tion of the world's emancipation from 1 Ssq^and sorrow and death. Tens of ] thousands of good men in this and i other lands have been ordained by the ? laying on of hands to preach the gos- ( pel, but it seems to me that just now, ( by the laying on of the hands of the < Lord God Almighty, the newspaper t presses are being ordained for preach- I ing the gospel with wider sweep ana s mightier resound than we have ever i yet imagined. The iron horses of the printing press are all ready for the 1 battle, but where are the men good 1 enough and strong enough to mount f them? "I will deliver thee 2,U00 c horses if thou be able to set riders upon s ?. ? f. ' GrO cut to the ag>d_ talk with the men who in"*', the war, and they will gits^^right appreciation of what is the importance of the cavalry service in bars^e- -~?u hear the clatter of the hoofs,Vnd the n whir of the arrows, ana the c^k of v the shields, and the bang of the .car- r bines, as they ride up and dowu'^he is centuries. Clear back in time. OsT" tl mandas led 20,COO mounted troops ii\j 1 Bactriana. Josephus says that when tl the Israelites escaped from Egypt i* 50,000 cavalrymen rode through the tl parted Red sea. Three hundred and tc seventy-one years before Christ Epam- tr inondas headed his troops at full gal- tr lop. Alexander, on a horse that no ir othe^- i^an could ride, led his mounted cc f >TkOi nc _ SvOTOr> /*>? : eo -n n &-r> decided the struggle at Arbeia. Ai- tr though saddles were not invented un- ai til the time of Constantine, and stir- n< rups were unknown until about four a hundred and fifty years after Christ, tr you hear the neighing and snort- s: irtg of war chargers in the great- tb est battles of the ages. Austerlitz tb and Marengo and Solferino were th decided by the cavalry. The mount- gi ed Cossacks re-enforced the Russian io snow storms in the obliteration of the li] French army. Napoleon said if he e\ had only had suliicient cavalry at tu F Bautzen and Lutzel his wars would gi have triumphantly ended. I do not j tu wonder that the Duke of Wellington ti< had his old warhorse Copenhager j \\ turned out in best pasture, and "the j Duchess of Wellington wore a brace- j or let of ConenhagGn's hair. Not one drop of my blood but tingles as i look at the arched neck and pawing hoof and panting nostril of Job's cavalry horse: "Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? lie paweth in the valley. He goeth on to meet the armed men. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battl I afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." I think it is the cavalry of the Christian hosts, the grand men and women who, with bold dasb and holy recklessness and spurred on energies, are to take the world for God. To this army of Christian service belong the evangelists. It ought to be the business of the regular churches to multiply thrm, to support them, to cheer them, to clear the way for them. Some of them you like, some of them you do not like. \ou say some are too sensational, and some of them are not enough learned, and some of them are ' erratic, and some of them are too vehement, and some of them pray too I loud. Oh, fold up your criticism and let them do that which we, the pastors, can never do! I like all the evangelists I have ever seen or heard. They are busy now; they are busy every! day of the week. While we, the pastors, serve God by holding the fortress j of righteousness and drilling the rihri'sHan soliderv and bv marshaling anthems and sermons and ordinances J on the right side, they are out light- j ing the forces o? darkness "hip and i thigh -with great slaughter." All sue- J cess to them! The faster they gallop j the better I like it. The keener the : lances they iling the more I admire them. We care not what conventionality they infract if they only gain the victory. Moody and Chapman and Mills and Jones and Harrison and Munhall and Mapr Cole and ririttfvnden and a hundred others are now making the cavalry charge, and ihey are this moment taking New York and Philadelphia and Cincinnati for God, and I wish they might take our nation's capital. Hear the tremendous facts: There are now in this country nearly 1GG,000 church congragatiors, with nearly 21,000,000 communicants and seating capacity in church for more than 43,000,000 people?in other words, room in the churches for three-fourths of the population of this country, and about one-third of the population of this country already Christian. In other words, we will have only to averarge bringing two souls to God during the next three years and our country is redeemed. Who cannot, under the power of tne Holy Ghost, bring two souls to God in three years? As so many will bring hundreds and thousands to God, most of you have to bring only one soul to God and the gospel campaign for this continent will be ended. If you cannot bring one soul to God, or two souls, or three souls, in three years, you are no Christian and deserve yourself to be shut out oi heaven. The religious pessimists of this country are all the time depicting the obstacles as so great and our forces as so smal1 that we half of the time feel that we are attempting an impossibility. Take out o? your prayers and preaching some of your stuffing of groans and put in something of acclamation and triumph, and the United States will be gospelized, and if the United States be gospeliled America will be gospelized, and, America gospelized, we will take Asia from the Pacific beach and Europe from the Atlantic beach, and not far from now the lost star we live on "will lake its place among: the constellations that never fell. Let the more than 21,000,000 communicants, as they left the sacramental cup to their lips, take oath that they will not rest until the other 40,000,000 are saved. The opportunities are all saddled and bridled. "Where are the men and women to guide them ? "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to sel riders upon them." What two men can do for good or evil is impressed upon me by the fact that, two Scotchmen going to California, each took something that would remind him of his native country. The one took a thistle, the national emblem of Scotland. The other took a hive of bees. Years went by and the work of the two Scotchmen is widley seen. The curse of the Pacific slope is the thistle and the blessing of the Pacific slope is the honey found everywhere in woods and fields, In your life are you responsible for honey cr thistles, and, if one man can do "0 m.ich good and another so much evil, how much could be done for the ransom of this country by 21,000,000 people all consecrated? Get out of the way with your dolordus foreboding and change your dirges for what we have not done for the ^rand march of what we may do and will do. The woman at Sedan, in whose house Napoleon the Last was waiting to make surrender of himself ind his army, said to the overthrown French emperor, "What can I do for you?" And the despairing ex monirch replied, "Nothing but draw down :he blind so that I .cannot be stared it." In this gospel campaign we have plenty to draw down the blinds. In 3-od's'name I say pull the blinds and et the morning sun of the coming rictorv shine upon us. What we want n this campaign for God is the self abnegation and courage of the men of 3olin Campbell, who, as Lord Bishop 2owie of New Zealand, once chanlain >f his army, told me, said to the ,roops: "Hen, no retreat from this jlace. Die right here." And they shouted, "Yes, Sir Colin, we will do t!" And they did. Temporary defeats ou/ht not to dislearten. V7hat is Bunker Hill immanent? Monument or defeat. But rom that bloody mount American iniependence started for its grandest LChievement, and all the defeat5: of j he cause of God are incipient v' ' *-y. ( Thy saints in all this glorious vrar j ^ Shall conquer, though they die. \ see the triumph from afar , ^i^ljj&gyizc it -with their eye. And ^EH^anding as I do, in this 1 :ational ci^SpJet me say that what : re want in ??|^nate and house of ( epresentatives a^Lthe supreme court ? 5 a penteccstal biesSkig that will shake i ie conticient with, divine mercy, s 'here recently came inco my hands s Te rfr.nrds nr twri r>r>r,o"reccf.-1'v1o1 i ? - ~ ? ~ ~ yi aj ^J- i i leetings, on the rolls of wh>h Were! i ie names of tae most eminent;^*. ? ! 1 >ri? and representatives who the3?gs|^[ ol*?d *-he destinies of this repub5|||||?s is o^e congressional prayer meetijfpjlj 11S5? and the other in lS6t>. The re^s >rd is in the handwriting of the ^ ailanthr^pist, William E. Dodge, ti ien a member of congress. There o e new mo5^ Christian men in the s< ational legislature than ever before v religious movement which before r Le inauguration^ the next president ti lall enthrone Christ in the hearts of h ds nation? They have the brain, ii iey have the eloquence, they have y .e injraence. God gr*?nt them the r; ace sufficient! Who-in congress- a< nai circles will establisX the capito- w ae prayer meeting in 1S9?'^ Let the u; -ening of the last decade of this cen- ai ry be irradiated with such a reli- ir ous splendor. There are the oppor- w nities for a national ana interna- bl >nai charge, all bridled ana saddled- ot rhere are the riders to mount them? hi The cavalry suggests speed. Wheh a< ice the reins are gathered into the-aw hands of the soldiery horseman and , the spurs ans struck into the flanks, j you hear the rataplan of the hoofs. "Victory" is the word that describes the movement?acceleration, momentum? and whit we want in getting into the kingdom ol" God is celerity. You see, the years are so swift, and the days are so swift, and the hours are so swift, and the rninui.es are so swift, we need to be swift. For lack of this appropriate speed many do not get into heaven at ail. Here we are in the last Sabbath of the year. Did you ever know a twelfth month quicker to be gone? The golden rod of one autumn speaks to toe golden rod of the next autumn, and the crocus of one springtime to the crocus of another springtime, and the snowbanks of adjoining years almost reach each other in unbroken curve. We are in too much hurry about most things. Business men in too much hurry rush into speculations that ruin them and ruin others. People move from place to plscj in too great haste, and they wear out their nerve.-: and weaken the heart's action. But the only thing in which ?h?y are afraid of being too hasty is the matter of the soul's salvation. Yet did any one ever get damaged by too quick repentance or too quick pardon or too quick emancipation? The Bible recommends tardiness, deliberation and snaillike movement in somethings, as when it enjoins us to be slow to speak and slow to wrath and slow to do evil, but it tells us, '"The king's business requireth haste," and that our days are as the llight of a weaver's shuttle and ejaculates: "Escape for thy life. Look not behind thee; neither stay thou in all the plain." Other cavalry troops may fall back, but mounted years never retreat. They are always going ahead, not on an easy canter, but at full run. Other regiments hear the command of "Halt 1" and pitch j their tents for the^ night. Tne regiI ments of tne Tears never hear the command of "Halt!" and never pitch tent for the night. The century leads on its troop of 100 years, and the year leads on its ! troop of days, and the day leads on its troop of 24 hours, and the hour leads on its troop of CO minutes, aud all are dashiag out of sight. Perhaps there are two years in which we are most interested?our first and our last. Held up in our mothers arms, we watched the llight of the first. With wondering eyes we all watch the coming of the last- The name of that advancing year we cannot call. It may be in the nineties of this century, it may be in the tens or twenties or thirties of the next century, but it is coming at full gallop. With what mood will we meet it? In jocosity, as did Thomas Hood in his last moment, saying, t-I am dying out of charity to fl-ie- n -eclm wisViA1? t.n ftflrn a lively Hood." Or in. fear, as did Thomas Paine, saying in his last moment, "Ob, how I dread this mysterious leap in the dark!" Or in boastfulness, as did Vespasian, saying in his last moment, "Ah, methinks I am becoming a god." Or in frivolity, as did Demonex, the infidel philosopher, saying in his last moment, "You may go home; the show is over." Or conscience stricken, as did Charles IX of France, saying in his last moment: "Nurse, nurse! "Whatmurder! What blood!" Or shall we meet it in gladness of Christian hope, like that of Juliv.s Charles Hare, who said in his last moment, "Upward, upward!" Or like that of Richard Baxter in his last moment saving, "Almost well". Or like that of Martin of Tours, saying in his last moment, "I go to Abraham's bosom." Or like that of polished Addison, who said in his last moment,' See with what ease a Christian can die." Or like that of George Whitefield, who fell that he had said all that he could of Chiist, declaring in Viic lacf momonf *'T cViall rlia ci. AU Ui-J 4.WVOV UAUUJ^/U^ JL gauii OA lent " Or iilce that of Mrs. Schimmelhennich, who said in her last moment: "Do you not hear the voices? And the children's are the loudest". Or like that of Dragonnatti, saying in his last moment; "Standaside! I see my father and mother coming to kiss me." Or as did the dying girl who, having a few evenings before sat on a bench in a London mission, was seen to have tears of contrition rolling ' down her cheek, and who, departing from the room, had put in her hand by a Christian woman a Bible, with ' the passage marked, ' 'Tne blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." ' v. ^of +v.q ' JLIIUU?I1 IJCtViLlg ^lUAliiSCU U.U UAJ.O next meeting she did not come. The Christian woman who gave her the Bible was visiliag the hospital, and the nurse said to her: 'i wish you had been here a little while ago. We had a young woman who had been run over by a wagon. Poor tbins She was fearfully crushed and died almost at once. She had a Bible in her hahd,with your name in it, aad she said when she was brought in: "Thank God! I found Christ j as my Saviour last night. The ] blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, 1 cleanseth us from all sin." Oh, my 1 friends, if all right for the next world, j the years can not gallop past too rapidly. If it were possible lorthecen- , turies to take the speed of the years, and the years the speed of the days, ( and the days the speeed of the hours, they could do us no harm. The ( cV? All v? 1 ?"VV* r?)1V? ]*1 GO TTflM ] OI1UJL Lti yui IJikZ tug A \J\XL JLiUCVT\/ll, , The sooner we get out of the perils of J this life, if our work be done, the better. No man is safe till he is dead. * Better men than we have baen wreck- c ed and at all ages. Lord and Lady 1 Napier were on horse-back on a road c in India. Lord Napier suddenly said ' to Lady Napier, "ride on, and fetch 1 assistance, and do rot ask me why." * She sped on and was soon out of sight. The fact was, a tiger's eyes * glared on them from the thicket, and e he did not dare to tell her, lest, c afrighted, she fall in the danger and s perhaps lose her life. From all sides ;>f us "~v this roc.d of life there are j perils glaring on us, from tigers of :emptation, and tigers of accident, md tigers of death, and the sooner we * jet out of the perils of this life the \ setter. Let 1S97 take the pla^-e of 1 LS9G, and 1S9S the place of 1S37, and . )ur souls will be landed where there r shall be "nothing to hurt or destroy L n all God's holy mount." "No lion ;hall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon; it shall not be l ueep crimson amre. iiis e are told, is "dipped in biooc?p||l ood of human slaughter, as in3?ii .her coaquerers have their attire, ds|||||| is own blood, blood of crucifixion^! rony, the biood by which he redeem1 you and me. That deep red gar th wGmrrI wr wg? 'Hi?un1 ;i r muitm meat is ia viyid contrast with thirsnow white charter on which our Lord is seated. And no saved sinner can gaze on thai red and that white without remembering that though his sins were once red, like crimson, they have become whiter than snow. Oh, those celestial cavalcades whom our conqueror in scarlet shall lead on through the streets of hearen! Wide streets, hundreds of mounted troops abreast; long streets,-.thousand-s in sight, followed by coming thousands through the long day of heaven which hath no setting sun. Mind you, only the cavalry are in that shining procession, those who did work outside the forts, those who dared all things for God, those who had in them the spirit of holy dash. We who did easy work may look at that procession, but will not be a part of it. There they pass, the equestrians and equestriennes of heaven, regiments of evangensis, 01 iract aistnoutors, 01 street preachers, of salvation armies, of once half starved, home missionaries on the frontiers, of those who did inconspicuous service for Christ and never is ad their names in the newspapers but once, and that in the notice of their own obsequies, a notice not accompanied by the request, "Send no Mowers:," for there was no danger that there would bs a profusion of ilowers. As from the windows and doors of the "house of many mansions'' we look on the passing spectacle some of us will wish that on earth we had had less salary and more hardship, less | comfort and more exposure, less caution and more courage, less shelter and more storm, less smooth sailing and more cyclone and that we had dared all at the front instead of taking S'oodcare of ourselves in the rear. Forward, mounted troops! Favorites of heaven! Cavalrymen and cavalry women of the Lord God Almighty. No chargers of heaven too white or too arched of neck or too prancing of gait for those seated on them. If Job's warhorse, while the battle was going on, said, "Ha, ha!" shall not these chargers, now that the day is won, utter a more jubilant "Ha, ha?-" Forward, under arches of triump, by fountains rainbowed of eternal joy and amid gardens abloom with unfading efflorescence and along palace;; where, after they have dismounted, these souls shall reign forever and ever, they march, they brandish their weapons with -which they gained bloodless victory, and they riss in stirrups of gold to greet all the rest of heaven, gazing upon them from the amethystine balconies. A glorious heaven it will be for all of us who anywhere and anyhow served the Lord, but an especial heaven, a mounted heaven, a processional heaven, for those who have done outside work, exposed work, and belonged to the Lord's cavalry. "The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses.." Then let the creaking door of the closing year go shut. "When.^that closes, better doors -will open. The world's brightest and happiest years are yet to come. Toward them we cnood on in cT*r?ff<oc;+ efi-wnr* ^.QTral^-c Vil O n Aitbgu VW" ' J charge at lukerrnan was not so rapid. At last the equestrians equal the chargers. At last the riders are as many as the horses, DISEASE OF SWINE. Hog Cholera and Swine Plague?No Cure for These Diseases. Clemson College, S. C., Dec. 31.? The swine industry of this State is increasing daily in importance. Of the many diseases which are apt to interfere seriously with this profitable enterprise three are two which are of special interest to those engaged in that business, viz: Hog cholera and swine plague. Hog cholera and swine plague are two diseases which up to this moment are practicably incurable. These diseases are produced each by a particular microssopical plant, that is, a plant so small that it can only be seen with a powerful microscope. The animal becomes infected either by food or by inhaling the cause of cholera or swine plague and in due time succumbs to the attack of the disease while those not dying will never recover sufficiently to be of any value. There is little doubt that these two diseases have received more attention from the best veterinary talent, not only of this country, but of Europe also, than any other disease] of like character. In swine plague, the lungs are primarily attached due m nog cnoiera ine large intestines are especially diseased as in almost all cases "ulcers are found in them. This auction resembles Asiatic cholera, or dysentery of the human. While we can destroy the little germs, or plants causing those hog diseases theoretrically, it is impossible to reach them after they have once sntered the body of an animal, and prevention therefore, is of utmost importancs in this trouble. The following points if carefully executed will mostly prevent an outbreak of hog iholera even if in immediate neighoorhood of a herd. 1. No pig should be bought from a aerd until one year of the last case of cholera in that herd. 2. Hogs should not be allowed to 3rink from a stream on. the upper Dart of which a herd is located which aas had or has cholera. 3. Anything coming from infected jrouDds. that is, farm implements, logs, people, etc., must not be pernitted to enter premises free from jhoiera. This is necessary, as the jerms producing the diseases are conveyed bv them to the uninfected >iace. 4. Repeated disinfection of the premises best done by spreading slaksd lime about the premises and freiuent scouring of .all feeding uten- , ;ils with boiling water. Experiments have been made to >revent hog choJera by inoculating logs with a certain preparation known ishoo' cholera serum: but at the nres >nt momement the results obtained by hat rneihod of inoculation do net . warrant its general introduction, and he best way to prevent the introducion or spread of this disease is by the aeans mentioned above. W. E. A. Wyman, A*. S. A Family Asphyxiated. New York, Dec. 30.?A family of our persons were asphyxiated at their tome in the Northern portion of this ^s^ng ^?l38? -?viT "f--?p?' r "the citadel academy. ANAUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF VISITORS. i Health of the Boys Hag Been Good and Their Work Satisfactory?The Board Makes an Estimate that -S'iS.OOO Will ha Needed Next Year. The annual report of the Board of Visitors of the Citidel Academy has jast been issued by the State Printer and as the graduates and friends of the institution are scattered in every nook and corner of the State, some statements as to results in the past year, present condition and future needs and prospacts, will prove of interest. On cDmmencL-ment day there were upon the roll of cade's 10S. of which 17 graduated, G were dismissed and cne was discharged ou account of physical disability. Seuen others have left the Academy for various reasons and 4-1 were admitted since October 5, making: the present enrollment 121. Continuing this report along the same line, Superintendent Coward says: The work of the session has begun in a very satisfactory manner in all departments. I Lake great pleasure in stating that the older cadets seem to be carrying out in good faith the action, taken by them last year in reference to the ill-treatment of new cadets. I have had no reason even to suspect that there nasbeen any hazing done by them this year. The condition of the building and its equipment is mcst unsatisfactory. The roofing, especially of the West j wing, is in bad condition. The entire [ furniture of the class rooms and dorj mitorie?, the walls, ceilings, the wood i nvi i\ *%l i.y, auu lulo an 1 need overhauling, painting or renewing. In view of these things and of other important matters, I would earnestly recommend to the Board that the General Assembly be urged to appropriate for the support of t&e Academy the next fiscal year the sum of $23,00(J, to be expended as follows: For the support of OS beneficiary cadets $20,000 For equipment of drawing department 250 For equipment of physical department 500 For class room furniture SCO For library 500 For repairs 1,250 Total $23,000 General Johnson Hagood, Chairman of the Board cf Visitor, savs in his report: , The Association of Graduates con- : tinues to maintain one cadet in the Academy. He is borne upon the rolls and discharges all the duties of a pay , cadet. i Major C. L. Reese after long and hssH^/bie service as Professor of Chemistry and Physics resigned his . chair at the close of the last academic ! 5 ear. This led to the following rearrange ment: Lieutenant 0. .J'. Bond was appoint- J ed Professor of Drawing and Bookkeeping and Assistant Professor of ! Mathematics with the rank of Captain. 1 Lieutenant J. T. Coleman was an- 1 pointed Professor of Physics with the ( rank of Captain. Mr. F. L. Parker, Jr., a graduate of the Academy, was appointed Assistant I Professor, with the rank of First Lieu tenant and placed in charge of Chem- ' istry. ' The Superintendent's annual report , of receipts and disbursements up to ! November 1, the close of the academic ( year, is hereto appended. Vouchers, . as required by law, have been filed j with the Comptroller General. The , accounts for the remaining two ; TY"? A-M + V? V> TiArtAtviVvAvi O 1 A UIUULUO U.^ b\J JL/CVCUiUgi Ol, tULC tCiiXll" j ^ nation of the fiscal year as established ( by the new Constitution, will be filed j as a supplementary report. It becomes necessary to do this in order that the j present report be put into the State Printer's hand in time to be laid be- ] fere the Legislature at its assembly. 1 Attention is earnestly called to so j much of the Superintendent's report as relates to the public property at the school. It is here repeated and emphasized : ' 'The condition of the building and its equipment is most unsat- j isfactory. The roofing, especially of the West wing, is in bad condition. ] The entirefuruiture of the classrooms j and dormitories, the walls, ceilings, ( the woodwork generally, and the piping, all need overhauling, painting or j renewing." , The expenses per cadet, in full of all 2 charges whatever, remain as hereto- "( fore, ?300 per annum. This amount v is less than at any school of similar ( grade in the United States, andean c only be kept within that limit by rigid j. economy of disbursement. The pay c cadets meet. the charge in full, and ^ are at no exnense to the State. There - is no distinction ia maintenance and { education between these and the ben- j eficiaries and there can be none. The c whole scheme and spirit of the school j requires, and its regulations provide, a that no distinction between cadets c shall be known, except that arising j, from merit. Until the last two years a the General Assembly, by annual ap- c propriation, recognized this basis of c expenditure in full for the sixty-eight beneficiaries of the State it requires the Academy to receive. For three years the appropriation has been less J ?270 per cadet, and the beneficiaries s have necessarily been, required to pro- a vide for part of their maintenance out t of their own resources. t The small library was bought with p ^ a va/5 i c VL1KSJU.CJ UCIiVCU XXL/LUL tUCITUC.'di ? ernment. No appropriation has been v made by the State, at any time since, F for keeping it up. ? The same appropriation asked for v by Colonel Coward is repeated bv s him. " t The current policies of insurance * willjciot expire tiil 189S. * Whatever policy the wisdom of the tLegislature may adopt as to maintain- v ing in whole or in part the bene?.Oia: v ries, it appears to the Board that the ^ remaining" appropriations asked for ?' go without saying. The commonest " principles of business suggest the care J and preservation of the public proper- " ty by timely repairs, and supply cf actual loss by wear and tear. The officials of the school are faith- ^ ful and efficient, and the high stand- _ ard of instruction demanded is fully ? attained, a The discipline and esprit of the ca- ^ Jets is excellent. *1 The Board of Visitors are gratified ^ ,o report that the Academy is worthily ^ :'Jling its place in the State scheme of a aigher education. They commend it p A a -f avi n /v />rt xa a P t n a CiMOrol ,\J LLig lVOl&iiUg \sCLXU VI L A-IO sussem'oly. ^ Johnson Hagood, Chairman. s Dr. Parker reports that the health p )f the institution has been good, but 0 here was oae death, that of Cadet W. a 3. Hill, of Abbeville, who died of ^ terebro spina,1 meningetis. ^ The three cadets most distinguished md reported to the Adjutant General, Jnited Scates Army, are B. G. Mur- a: >hy, Union; T. W. C^rmichae], of si klatioa, and F. K. Hoimantof Sum- jc er. y The composition of the Board has P; >een changed by the resignation of ]$': aggMi .iw- gmrnria~rnr. ?Col. H. A.. Gaillaru of Wicnsboro, who has been succeeded by Col. J. J. McLucas. Pecan Grafts on Hickory Tree;;. The Greenville Xews notes a discovery of much interest and value to land owners in every part of South Carolina. A newly planted pecan grove, it is first explained, seldom yields a profitable crop before the age of ten years. W. W. Lyon, of Florida, obtained soft shell pecan grafts from a neighboring grove three years ago and grafted them on some hickory trees on his nlaee. The result of his experiment is a splendid crop of nuts this year, which means seven years saved in obtaining a paying crop. The News adds: ''Mr. Lyon states that his grafts stood a heavy freeze and were not injured. Whether the pecan will stand the climate of this section is the question. There are localities in this county where it is possible that pecans will live and thrive and pay handsomely. It wili not be an expensive experiment. Farmers should try it anyhow. It will be easy to secure grafts, hickory trees are to be found on every farm, and the work of grafting is simple. If it can be found that the pecan can be grown here it will pay a big profit. There are many farmers who could make the experiment, and any who feel an interest in the matter could write to Mr. Lyon, who wili doubtless give all necessary information. It would be a great triumph for Greenville county to have pecan groves. Why not try it?" There is no question about the pecan standing the climate of this State. They grow and thriye far north of this iatitude?as far north, we believe, as the Canada line. They will thrive in every county in South Carolina. It is_ easily practicable to repeat the Florida experiment, with like success, wherever there are hickorv trees, and they grow in every part of the State. It is not necessary to write to Mr. Ujvua 1\JL JLUIUX illiXCiUU. vvuiu IS necessary is for the owner of tne hickory trees to understand grafting, or to employ some one who does understand it, and to obtain the "grafts1' and use them. There are not a few pecan groves in the State, old and young and doubtless their owners will be willing to supply all the grafts that are wanted, for a consideration. It would be to the advantage of farmers and other land owners, we suppose, to graft the thin shell pecan on every hickory tree on their lands. The pecan nuts are valuable and can be readily sold anywhere, while the hickory nots are not much in demand except from squirrels. If the grafts can be obtained our more enterprising farmers in every county should lose no time in learning how to use them. They can doubtless get all the instruction they need from Clemson college or from some of the students at the college. Thirtysix boys have just been graduated from the institution and all of them who studied the agricultural course have been carefully instructed in this kind of work. OS go their Heads. San Francisco, CalM Dec. 31.?According to the latest advices from the Orient, Id Ka Chuch, the superinten dent of the Canton police, on November 23, seized a large Dumber of co:?jiterfeit;Chinese coins and materials for their manufacture. The chief coiner, Chang Tung, and his confederates, Chan Mui, Ise Sang and others, were arrested. An imperial decree from Pekin commanded the immediate de ?3riifafinn of fhp ihrpp <a'nnvp nflmP.d ! Dfficers and enjoined the envoy to deal , with, the others as he thought neces- i sary, according to law, as a warning in the future to the people. The o^B;ials who affected the seizure were ill promoted in rank. The Canton vice coy reported in another memorial the capture of two notorious pirate junks in the open sea near Tua Chow, by the ' military officials. In affecting the ; capture one military officer lost his iife. A dccree was issued on the 19 th jf November authorizing the execution of the captives and ordering the Dflicials concerned in the capture to oe promoted in rank and that the mater of the military officer having lost lis life be referred to the authorities ' concerning rewards and honors. A Convenient Invention. An Orangeburg farmer comes to the 'ront with a new invention in the : iiiape of a Lubricator for oiling ve- 3 aide wheels without taking them_ off ;he axle. It is inserted ia the hub Detween two of the spokes. When pou want to grease your wheel all you iave to do is to withdraw a plunger, . ,vhich operates with a spring, and put , is much oil as is needed on the axle. ^ Jpon being released the spring closes lp the oil hole until it is opened for )inng up again, it is a very mgeni>us and clever device, and is bound to ( >e used generally. With these lubri- j :ators a vehicle can be oiled up anywhere along the road in less than one ninute. Ttie patent for this valuable 1 nvention is owned by the National lubricator Company of Orangeburg, >. C. Mr. Jas. L. Sims, Editor and < Proprietor of the Orangeburg Times ( mcf Democrat, is the manager of the ] :ompany, which is a guarantee that it ] s all right. The company wants an 3 .gent in this county to sell the Lubri- , ators. See advertisement in another oiumn. j Alone "With Death. Egg Harbor Citt, N. J., Dec. 29.? 3 ohn Spoeral, 70 years old, operated a mall farm and lived with his aged .nd helpless wife in a little house in he dense woods near Pomerna. Yes- e erday afternoon a wood chopper was lassing the lonely farm, when he saw . handkerchief fluttering in a curious ? ray from one the windows. He stop'A/l ^ ? ' ? ?A A VI ^ VI A? 4" V* t \f T?C itu. i\j XLL\ CS W^<S.LG auu iyu.nu i<uav I jj Ipoeral, unable to leave 1 he house, had nanaged to crawl to a window. There he had kept up an unceasing vigil, tour after hour, for some one to pass he house to whom she could signal. L ler husband had died last Friday and he helpless woman had been alone riih her dead those four days. The " roman was almost starved tu death, i rhi;e trie house was in a deplorable ^ ondition. In the little barn were a orse and cow, turned loose, and so reek from hunger that thsy could 1 ardly stand. J Pianos by the Mile. See Ludden and Bates' new adversment of one thousand Mathushek ianos. Suppose them all loaded on > wagons in one grand procession, How 15 feet for each wagon and, A jam and the line would be nearly iree miles long. That is just the 'holesale way this great southern ouse does business. Having acquired a interest in the note'! Mathushek 'iano factory, they are now supply1 ' 1 : -11 ig purcnasers direct ana saving an itermediate profits. This means a iving of from $30 to $100 oil each iano, and the securing of one of the Idest and most reliable instruments at remarkably low figure. Better write lein at Savannah, Ga., or at 93 Fifth .ve., New York City. The New York Mail and Express aent a controversy about newspapers ? iys: "If you would rebuke unclean mrnalisai, encourage the clean. If ou would discountenance bad newsapers, give your support to the best lat is." - * -SB ~n ii i "i ? " ? jmiae Flood, Famine and Cliolara. Sax Francisco, Dec. 29.?The steamer Peru brings news that in addition to the small pox epidemic at Japanese ports, cholera has revived in Hong; Kong, and though there are not yet many deaths, the plague is increasing and serious results are expected. The disease had made headway in many Chinese cities and on the island of Formosa. The Japanese port have decared a quarantine against all chol era lanfected districts. A^severe famine is reported from western China. It is particularly severe in the citv of Chuantung, in Szechuen province, where there has oeen a prolonged rain, causing floods which has spread over vast areas of country, destroying almost the entire rice and vegetable crops. The inhabitants are dying by scores from starvation, and to add to the horror of it a large proportion of the city situated on a bluff at a bend of the Kinsha river, was carried under the ilood by a landslide and about 3,000 of the starving Chinese were drowned. The flood had undermined the base of the bluff and a portion of the hill, about five acres in extent, plunged into the water. It Is Said That of all the diseases that affect TM A vt VI/) /J ?<SAAC AO A^ V. /> 1?' vi Av?rt A WA JJUO.UM.AU.U.J U15WW VL LUC HAUJUCJ'd dlC the most dangerous and fatal If this be so, how important it is that the kidneys be kept in a healthy condition . The use of Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is the "ounce of prevention" in these 'roubles. The trustworthy cure for the Whiskey, Opium, Morphine and Tobacco Habits. For further information address The Keeley Institute, or Drawer 27, Columbia, C. A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY doesn't always mean a chance to get work. It's a business opportunity to have a chance to save money on the necessities of life. You can find a chance like that at our store. We are now offering WELCH & EASON'S PERFECTION FLOUR Superfine Quality at ....~?4.50 barrel Beat Patent Flour at 4-25 barrel Choice Family Floor at- H .(itH 4.00 barrel BEST GRANULATED SUGA.R In 100 pound sacks at -5c pound In smaller quantities at....?......55^c pound GOOD GRANULATED SUGAR In 224 pound sacks at 4^c pound i In 100 sacks at ?4Xc pound In smalller quantities at 5c pound RICE t At 40, 50, 64, 70 and 80 cants a peck. GOOD TOMATOES ( In 2 pound cans at ...5c a can...60c a dozen [n 3 pound cans at ...6c a can...72c a dozen ^ PURE LARD-BEST QUALITY. 50 pound cans per can 53,00 20 pound cans per can 1.25 L0 pound cans per can 75 5 pound cans per can...? 40 , Q Mno nup/?on - O.K COMPOUND LARD. 50 pound cans per can ?2.75 20 pound cans per can 1.15 .0 pound cans per can...? 70 5 pound cans per can 35 3 pound cans per can 25 *ood Rio Coffee 18c pound ? 3est Rio Coffee 20e pound i] Higher grade Coffees at very reasonable s )rices. t CANNED MttATi CHEAP. d Uorned B6ef 1 pound cans 10c & Jorned Beef 2 pound cans 20c ? ioast Beef 1 pound cans ...... 10c ioast Beef 2 pound cans 18c Potted Ham, 3maH cans, 5c can, 50c dozes * Potted Ham, lar ?e cans, 103 can, ?1.00 aoz. I Potted Tongue, smali, 5c can, 50c dozen o _)ried Beef, Armour's, 1 pound, ISe can, g 52.00 dozen. ^ Jried Beef, Armour's, K pound, 10c can, |1.20 dozen. * a Teas at 25' 50, 75 and ?1.00 pound. Kviry style and variety. We make it to your a-1vintage to buy UU1 V* 1 L\^D yJX. AiJ IW? Get a copy or our Prices List. It is a landy and newsy little book. WELCH & EASON, j UNIVERSAL PKOVXJDERS, 85 and 187 Meeting and in_J?ar&?r-?fe7' c^AjifcSsIm 7 a SE E e HERE. ISIYOUR LIVtR ALL RI3 IT ?J * xe your Kidneys in a healthy condition ? ."-A T TV?/% 4-'^/% f IfTrtr ? T.y* I XI OV, J_i.ilIA/Li O 1AU bUC -LilYCi a iiVi. JT Kidneys will beep theui so If t not, Hilton's Life fo the L ver and Kidneys will mate them so. A 25c bottle will convince you of this fact. aken regularly after mea!s it is an aid to digestion, cures habitual constipation, and thus refreshes and clears both tody and mind. SOLD WHOLESALE BY 7he Murray Drug Co. COLUMBIA, 8. C. AKD Dr. H. BAER, Charleston, S. 0, | WE I T 1 Ti ?-?-? ew w AIM 1 I A PARTNERI IN i EVERY 1 TOWN.. I Postmasters, Kailroad Agents, GerJH Store Keepers, Clerks, Ministers, or s||| otter reiscn, lady or geDtleman, vfho Ma devcfe a little or all of ttelr time to 9 busi ess. We do not want any mocey||g advance, aca pay large comc-issiOESW those who work for us. We have the Family Medicines on earth, and can pjw dace lots of testimonials from oar hoitfi people. Send for blank application and elrcula? Address j| BSAZILIAN MEDICINE CO., S Broaiway, Aa?mta, Ga|i 8 "MATHUSHEK"?The Piano for a Lifetircflj l mease stock ofj a Pianos on hand. J I LUDDEN & BATES, interested in 83 t.hifi Pnr?fr?rv. nmi* r>ffpr this ota^T. | at SoO to $100 less ili.-in former prices. >'o| a strictly IHsjh Grade Piauo ever sold so low. 1 ONE PROFIT from Factory to Consumer, f i Greater i ndacemcnts than ever in slight-1 ly used Pianos and Organs?many as 1 | ' good as new?sold under guarantee. 3 g Latest Styles. Elegant Cases. Also | | Hew STEIKWAY Pianos, $ason& Hamlin Organs. H Write for Factory Prices and Bargain Lists.' ILUDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH, 6A. All Sheet ilusic One-Half Price. EN&LEBERGr RICE | HULLER. . rhe only machine that fa one loperatioss win ? ? ?I CLEAN, HULL AND POLISH 9 ough rice, patting it in merchantable conjl aition, ready for table use. ^8 SIMPLE AND EA.SY o manage Write for prices and teraijjgj ALSO j| Jorn Mills, Saw Muls, Planlag KAchlJH and all kinds of Vood-working ^ Machinery. pi "albott and Liddell Engines and Boilers! on hand at factory prices. I V. O. Badham, General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C? Ad?ic8 to Mothers. ? * We take pleasure in calling your atten Ion to a remedy so long needed in carryag children safely through the critical tage of teething. It Is an Incalculable ilessing to mother and child. If you arew .Isturbed at ni*ht with a sick, freCfai jH sething child, use Pitts' Carminative. iraf rill give Instant relief, and re palate the? owels, and make teething safe and eisy jffl t will cure Dysentery and Diarrhea? 'itts Carminative is an instait relief fo3 olic of Infants. It will promote digestion, J ive tone and energy to the stomach and J owels. The sick, puny, suffering child J rill soon become the fat and frolicking lovjf f the honsehold. It is very pleasant tcfl je taste and only cost 25 cents per bottle? old by druggists and by II THE MURRAY DRUG CO,, -g Columbia, 8. C. || KWjjNjjS, "J ^miLERM SAW MILLb, J GRIST MILL J 1 ac tory jj p&iceM C. W. SOREVENH COL IX.M.JBIA, s. c. W '&r. '^r: '^ dSBI $ AGENTS WAXTiSliiffl $ la each county in South Carolina. <<MH jb to introduce a LUBRICATOR for^Sgi ? oiling vehicle wheels without re- 3|m ^ moving the wheel from the axle. It v is a reccnt South Carolina inven- 'CM* j? tion, and will sell rapidly, as it is jB 2|? a very convenient device. Exclu- $9 ^f.?ive territory given to the right fl 3> man. For particulars address, '$ NATIONAL LUBRICAT OR' g ORANGEBURG, S. CH