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' A BATTLE FOR BREAD. I j DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON FAitfiNES ! ! PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL. i 1 The Birds of the Bible?Zlijafa. and the ! ! Bavens That Fed Him?The Ksvtns That j the I>ord Eas Today?Th^ Ya*t Fa tali v ! i of God. i VT. Xaimage ux-> muiutu .. most remarkably successful tour through the west, and in behalf of the famine struck of India, speaking in The great corn centers i to vast multitudes of people and raising many : carloads of bre&dstuffs and many thou-an is ! of dollars. His subject was last Sunday to j the last degree appropriate to ail who are i trying to achieve a livelihojd. Tex:, f , Kings xvii, 0, "And the ravens brought him j bread and flesh in the morning and bread i and Sesh in the evening." j The ornithology of the Bible is a very in- j teresting study. The stork which kaoweth : her appointed time: the common sparrow j teaching the lesson of God's providence; the 1 ostriches of the desert, by careless incubation ! illustrating the recklessness of parents who ' do not take enough pains with their children; j the eagle symbolizing riches which take. wings and fly away: the pelican emblemizing solitude; the bat, a rlake oi" tne uarKne?s; ; the night hawk, the ossifrage. the cuckoo, the lap-wing, the osprey, by the command of God in Leviticus, ilung oat of the world's bill of fare. I would like to have been with Audubon as he went through the woods, with gun and pencil.bringing down and sketchingti.e fowls of heaven, his unfolded portfolio thrilling all Christendom. What wonderful creatures of God tbe birds are" Some of them, this morning, like the song* of heaven :et loose, bursting through the gates of heaven. Consider their feathers, which are clothing and conveyance at the same time; the nine vertebra; of the neck, the three eyelids to e.'.ch eye, the third eyelid an extra curtain for graduating the light of the sua. Some of these birds scavengers and some of them orchestra. Thank God for quail's whistle, and lark's carol, and the twine/ of the wren, called by the ancients the king of birds, because when the fowlso? heaven went into a contest as to who should tiy the highest, and the eagle swung nearest the sun, a wren on the back of the eagle, after the eagle was exhausted, sprang up much higher, and so was called by the ancients the king of birds. Consider those of them that have golden crowns and crests, showing them to be feathered imperials^ And iisten to the humming bird's serenade in the ear of the honeysuckle. Look at the belted kingfisher, striking like a dart from sky to water. Listen to the voice "* * * ~ ' Irav* 01 tixe 0W1, giving uie i^.e> uulc tv an uiijmii. And behold the condor among ihc Andes, battling with the reindeer. I do not know "whether an aquarium or aviary is the best altar from which to worship God. There is an incident in my text that baffles all the ornithological wonders of the world The grain crop had been cut off. famine was in the land. In a cave by the brook Cheriih sat a minister of God. Eiijah. waiting for something to eat. Why did he not go to the neighbors? There were no neighbors; it was a wilderness. Why did he not pick some of the berries? There were none. If there had been: ihey would have been Soo-Pf] nne morning at. the mouth U.k/? \;wrvvM. V? - - of his cave, the prophet sees a fiock of birds approaching. Oh, if they were only partridges, or if he only had an arrow with which to bring them down! Cut as they come nearer, he finds that they are not comestible, but unclean, and the eating of them would be spiritual death. The strength of their beak, the length of their wings, the blackness of their color, their loud, harsh "cruck, cruck,'' prove them to be ravens. They whir around about the prophet's head, and then they come on fluttering wing and pause on the level of his lips, and one of the ravens brings bread, and another raven brings meat, and after they have discharged - - -1 ?? ; ATir.vj tneir any cargo uiej ?ucb y?i, come, until after awhile the prophet has enough, and these black servants of the vrildemess table are gone. For six months, ana some say a -whole year, morning and evening, a breakfast and a supper bellsound ed as these ravens rang oat on the air their "crock, cruct!" Guess -where they got the food from. The old rabbis say they got ii from the kitchen of King Ahab. Others say that the ravens got their food from pious Obadiah, -who -eras in the habit of feeding the persecuted. Some say that the ravens brought the food to their young is the trees, and that .Elijah had only to climb up and get it. Some say that the "whole story is improbable, for these "were carnivorous birds, and the food they carried was the torn desh of living beasts, and therefore ceremonially unclean, or it was carrion, and would not have been Si for the prophet. Some say they "were not ravens at all, but that the; "word translated "ravens""*in my test ought i tn been translated "Arabs". So it j "would have read, "The Arabs brought bread j 3nd Se^'i in the morning and bread and flesh j in the evening."' Anything but admit the ' Bible to be true. Hew away at this m'raclc until all the miracle is gone. Go on with the depleting process, but know, my brother, that you are robbing only one man?and that is i yourself?of cne of the most comforting, beautiful, pathetic and triumphant les- j sons in all the age?. I can tell you who i these purveyors were. They were ravens. | I can tell you who freighted them with i provisions?God. I can tell you who j launched them?God. I can tell you who J * > - /""- I T ! taugnt tnem Silica way io ay?yw. j. wu j tell you who told them at what cave to swoop 3 ?God. I can tell you vrho introduced raves i to prophet and prophet to raven?God. j There is one passsage 1 will whisper in your ear, for I would not want to utter it aloud, lest some one should drop down under its power, "If any man shall take away from' the words of the prophecy ot this book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the Holy City." While, then, we watch the ravens feeding Eliiah. let the swift dove of God's spirit sweep down the sky with divine food, una on outspread wing pause at the lip of every soul hungering for comfort. On the banks of what rivers have been the great battles of the world': While you are looking over the map of the world to answer that I will tell you that the great conflict of today is cn the Potomac, cn the Hudson, on the Mississippi, on the Thames, on the Savannah, on the Rhine, on the >"i!c, on the Ganges, on the Hoang Ho. It is a battle that has been going on for C,000 years. The troops engaged in it are 1,600.000.000, and those who hwe fallen by the way are vaster in number than j those who march. It is a battle lor oreaa. , Sentimentalists sit in a cushioned chair, in their pictured suidv. with their slit>Tterc-l feet on a damask ottoman, and say that this 1 svorid is a great scene of avarice and greed. It does not seem so to me. If it were not for the absolute necessities of the cases, ninetenths of the stores factories, shopsand bank-; ing houses of the land would be closed tomorrow. Who is that man delving in the Colorado hills, cr toiling in a >*evr England factory, or going through a roll of bills in the bank, or measuring a taoric on tae counter. < He is a champion sent forth in behalf of some | home circle that has to be cared for, in be- S half of some church of God that has to be supported, in behalf of seme asylum of mercy that has to be sustained. Who is that woman bending over the sewing machine, or carrying the bundle, or sweeping the room, or mending the garment, or sweltering at the wash-tub'.' That is Deborah, one of the Lord s nerotnes, battling against AnialeiitisLi : want, which corses down with iron chariot to I crush her and hers. The great question with the vast majority o: people today :s not. I "hone rule," but whether there shall be uuy ! home to rule; not cue of tari'T, lut whether j there shall be anything to tax. The great! questions with the vast majority of people are: "How shall L support iuy family? How shall I meet my notes'.' How shall 1 pay my rent? How shall I give food, e'.othisg and ! education to tho?c who tire dependent upon me?"' Oh, if Gou weal J help me today to as Maijvuiu uic tuiwta'ii vu '-uui uiv happiest man in this house would be your preacher! I have gone cut on a co'd mc rning with expert sportsmen to hunt for pigeons. I have gone out on the meadows to hunt for quail. I have gone out on the marsh to hunt for reed birds: but today ' am out for ravens. Notice, in the first place in the story of ay test, that these winged caterers cvme to jLiijan ciircct from %%1 iiuvo coiiim.'iii'Icu ib.c ravens tiiov fe&a thee.' linu Go i ;ajing in anailjoia- i xii2: passage. TLor <jid not come on: of some other cave. The}7 -lid not just happen to alight there. i?od ireighteJ thcra, God ]uu:;ciK-i them sad God tuid thorn by what 1 C-1VC to SV'OOp. 'I'iifit is the same God that is ; going to supply you. lie is your Father. : You would have to make ati elaborate calcu- ; lailon before you could leilmeLow many] pottn-Js of food : ''! how many yards of clothing would be necr>icry tor j-ou and your family. But Go i knows without any calculation. You h -\'e a jiiare at his table, and } uu aregoitig to be watted on. unless you act like a tviu-jrht? c::i:u and kick and scraiabie and poun i s xudy the plate and try to upset I hisa vast fami-.y as-.! everything i-> i methodized. auu y?>u are going to i.e served if y...i will only wait yvur turn, God h*s aif u'lv (.rlered all the suits of clothes you ivili ever need down to the last suit in which you wll; be lai-1 out. God lias already ordersd ail the food you v.'iil ever eat down to ' the last crumb that will be put la your mouth | in ;he dying sacrament. It may not- be just thA kind of fvod or apparel we w-uld prefer, j The sensible parent depends or hL own judgi meat as to what oughr. to be tne ..,>parel and ' the food of the minor in the family. The I chill would say. "Give me sugars and confections." "Oh. no," says the parent, "i'ou must have something plainer firs " The child would say. "Oh, give me these great blotches of color in the garment." "iSfo." says the parent. "That wouldn't be suitable." }"ow God is our Father and we are minors, and he going to clothe us and feed us, al| though he may not always yield to our ini fantiie wish for the sweets and glitter, j These ravens of the text did not bring pome grauates from the glittering platter of King ! Ahab. They brought bread and meat. God ! >vi.i tho h?arens and the earth before him and under him, and yet he sends this plain food because it was best for Elijah to have it. Oh. be strong., my hearer, iu the fact that the same God is going to supply you! It is never "hard times" with him. Ills ships never break on the rocks. His banks never fail. He has the supply for you, and he has the means for sending it. He has not only the cargo, but the ship. If it were necessary, he would swing out from the heavens a flock of ravecs reaching from his gate to yours, until the food .vould be flung down the sky from beak to beak and from talon to Notice again in this story of the iczt that the ravens aid not allo^ Elijah, to hoard up a surplus. They did not bring enough cn Monday to last all the week. They did not bring enough one morning to last until the next morning. They cacue twice a day and brought just enough for one time. You knowas well as I that the great fret of the world is that we want a surplus; we want the ravens *o bring enough for 50 years. You have more confidence in the Washington banks or Bank of England than you have in trie roval bank-of heaven. You say: "All i | that is very poetic, but you may have the | black ravens. Give me the gold eagles." 5 We had better be content \rith. just enough. If in the morning your family cats up all the food there is in the house, do not sit down and cry and say, ilI don't know where the nest, meal is to come from." About 5 or G or 7 o'clock in the morning just look up i and you will see two black spots on the sky i and you will hear the flapping of wings, and j instead of Edgar A. Poe's insane raven i alighting on the chamber door, "only this | and nothing more," you will find Elijah's j two ravens, or two ravens of the Lord, the : one bringing bread and the other bringing ! meat?plumed butche: and baker. j God is infinite in resource. When the city , of Sochelie was besiecred and the inhabitants ! were dying of the- famine, the tides washed J up on the beach as never before, and as never since, enough shellfish to feed the whole city. God is gocd. There is no mistake about that. History tells us that ia 1555 in England there was a great drought. The crops failed, but in Essex, on the rocks, in a place where they had neither sown nor cultured, a great crop of peas grew until they filled a hundred measures, and there were blossoming vines enough, promising as much more. But why go so far? I can give you a family incident. .Sorue generations back there was a great drought in Connecticut, New England. The water disappeared from the hills, and the farmers living on the hills drove j their cattle down toward the valleys, and j had them supplied at the welL and fountains I of the neighbors. But these after awhile I began to fail, and the neighbors said to Mr. i Birdseye, of whom I shall speak: "You | must not send your flocks and herds down ? here any more:1 Our wells are giving out." { vlr. Birdseye, the old Christian maQ, gathJ ered his family at the altar and with his j family he gathered the slaves of the house I hold?tor boniage was then in vogue in ; Connecticut?ard on their knees before God j | they cried for w&tcr. and the family story is , j that there was weeping and great sobbing at j | tiiat altar that the family might not perish i i for lack of water and that the herds and) j tic "ks might not perish. | Tne family rose from the altar. Mr. Birds-; | eye. the old man, took his staff and walked ! j out over the hills, and in a place where he had been scores of times without noticing i anything particular he saw the ground was I very dark, and he took his staff and turned i up the ground, and water started, and he ] I beckoned to his servants, and they came and j I brought pails and buckets until all the fam- j ily and all the Hocks and the herds "were j cared for,and then they made troughs reacb- j ing from that place down to the house and j barn, and the water flowed, and it is a living fountain today. Now I call that old grandfather Elijah,and I call that brook that began to roll ihen. and ; is rolling still, the brook Cherith, and the lesson to me and to all who hear it is when | yon are in great stress of circumstances, j Pray and dig, dig and pray, and pray and J J:? t r j o i UI?. I1OY1 UUtD 1113.1, padd&g C Am? mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not | fail.'' If your merchandise, if your me; chanism, if your husbandry, fail, look out | for ravens, if you have in your despondency put God on trial and condemned him us guilty of cruelty, 1 move today for a new trial. If the biography of your life is ever written. 1 will tell you ivhat the iirst chapter, and the middle chapter, and the last chapter will be about if it is written accurately; the first- chapter about mercy, the middle chapter about mcrcy, the last chapter about mercy. The mcrcy that hovered over your cradlc. The mercy that will hov er over jour grave. The mercy mat -will cover all between. Again, this story of the text impresses ae that relief came to this prophet with the most uaexpccted and with seemingly impossible conveyance. If it had been a robin redbreast, or a musical meadow lark, or a meek turtle dove, or a sublime albatross that had brought the food to Elijah,it would j not have been so surprising. But, 110. It | v;as a bird so tierce and inauspicate that vre S have fashioned one of our most forceful and : repulsive v.'ords out of it?ravenous. That j bird has a passion for picking out the eyes I of men and of animals. It loves to maul the sick and the "lying. It swallows with, vulturous guzzle everything it can put its beak on, and yet all the food Elijah gets for uix months or a year is from ravens. So your supply is going to come from an unexpected source. You think some great hearted, generous man will come along and give you his name on the back of your note, or he will go security for you in some great enterprise. No, he will not. 'Jod will onen the heart of some Shylock toward you. Your relief will come j from the most unexpected quarter. The providence which seemed ominous will be to ! you more than that which seemed auspi-1 cious. It will not he a chalSnch with breast < and wing dash-id with white and brown and J chestnut; it will be a black raven. ilere is where we all make our mistake, j and that is in regard to the color of God's j providence. A white providence comes to ? us. and we say. "Oh, u is mercy!" Then a black p.'rvidecce coincs toward us, and; vre say. -uh. that is disaster:"' The j while providence comes to you, and yon J have great business succcss, aud you have I S-'and you get proud, and you get } independent of God, and you begin to j pray. ar> i tou be^in to feel that j tlio prayer, Give me this day mydnilyj bread, ' is Iu:> r>t?roritc for yea, for you have made provision for lUOyears. Then a J black provident"* comes, and it sweeps every- j thing :iv.-;>y, and :h;-n you begin to feei your j dependence, and bsgia to be humble before J Cod, and y/a cry out. lor treasures in heaven, j The blue:: providence brought you salvation, i The white providence brought yon ruin, i That which seemeu to he harsh and f.erce and | dissonant was jour greatest mercy. It was a I raven. There was a child born in your house. I All your friends congratulated you. The j other children of the ihmily stood amazed i looking at the newcomer and asked a great j many questions, genealogical and chrouo- j logical. Vou said?and you said truthfully j ? tnr.t n wW n >nir.'-l fl.-.-.r tVirnil<rVl ih,. rfififT! 1 " v "* 'O*" "v " * "' j ; ami left the little one there. That little one j ' stood v.ith its two feet in the very sanctuary ' ; of your aOeetion. and with its nvo hands it. : I took hoid of the altar of your soul Dut one I : day there came one of the three scourges of i . children?.-car:et fever, or croup, or diph- ; ; theria?and ail tint bright scene vanished. : The chattering, the strange questions. the ' puiliug attiitt dresses as you crossed the i j3.>or?all ceased. i As the great friend of children stooped j j down and leaned toward that cradle and j i took the little one in his arms and walked ; j away with it into the l?ower of eternal sum- j mer, j-our eye began to follow him, and you ! followed the treasure he carried, and you j ; have hecn fallowing them ever since, and in- j i stead Oi tninkiog of heaven only once a week. I as formerly, you are thinking of it ail the j i .a)e, and you arc more pure and tender ; > 1 .1 .. V.? ??? I ueiirieu niau juu UM:U iv> uc, u.u\i juu ; patiently waiting for the daybreak It is . not seit righteousness in you to acknowledge . that yoa area better man than you used to j j be, you are a better woman than you used to { i be. What was it that brought you the sane- j i ti tying blessing? Oh, it was a dark shadow | ; on the nursery: it was the dark shadow on j the short grave; it was the dark shadow on t your broken heart; it was the brooding of a i great black trouble; it was a raves; it was a j ' raven. Dear Lord, teach this people that | ; white providences do not always mean ad- j { vancen-.ent. and that black providences do j 1 not always mean retrogression, Children of God, get up out of your dc-j snmifJenrtc-. The Lord never had so many > ravens as he has tod;iy. Fling your fret and j worry to the wiaJs. Sometimes under the j ; vexations of life you feel like- my little girl j ! of 4 years, who said under some chiliisa i ! vexation, "Oh, I wish i could so to heaven ( ! and see God and pick flowers!" He will let j ' you go when the right time comes to pick : dowers. Until then, whatever you want, j ; pray for. I suppose Elijah prayed pretty j ' much all the time. Tremendous work be- < j hind him. Tremendous work before him. S GO'.l has no spare ravens lor idlers or for i { people who are prayerless. 1 put it in the ' i boldest shape possible, and i am willing to j | risk my eternity on it. Ask God iu the j i right way for what you want and you shall j ' hnvfi it if it is best for vou. j Mrs. Jane Pithey of Chicago, a well known j , Christian woman, wis left by her husband a ) j widow with one hall* dollar and a collage j j She was palsied and had a mother 90 years | : of age to support. The widowed sou) every j : day a?kei God for all that was needed iu the \ household, and the servant even was aston-j ; ished at the precision -with which God an-! swered the prayers of that woman, item by ! ! item, item by item. One day, rising from ; I the family altar, the servant said, "You j ; have no; asked for coal, and the coal is j (out." j j Then they stood and prayed for the coal, i j One hour after that the servant threw open j [ the door and said, "the coal has come.'' A j ! generous man, "whose name I could give you, | j had sent?as never before and never since ! ?a supply of coal. You cannot understand i i it. I Co. Ravens! Ravens! I I My friend you have aright to argue from j | precedents that God is going to take care of you. Has he not done it two or three times ! ! every day? That is most marvelous. 1 look j | back and -wonder that God has given me j food three times a day regularly all my life- J i lime, never missing but once, and then I: I "was lost in the mountains, but that very j - .1 -t-.i. :_l.i T ( j morning auu w \ cij' j. u?i, m ^ j vens. j Oh, the Lord is so good thai I wish alibis j | people would trust him with the two lives j f the life you are now living and that which ! | every tick of the watch and every struke of f ! the clock inform you is approaching. Bread ! t for your immortal soul cotncs today. See! j j They alight on the platform. They alight? | on the backs of all the pews. They swing j | among the arches. Ravens! Ravens! ?iBIess-1 j ed are they that hunger after righteousness, { ! for they shall be filled." To all the sin J ning. and the sorrowing, and the tempted. I ! deliverance comes this hour." Look down and you see nothing but yonr spiritual dc- j j formities. Look back, and you see nothing ' j but wasted opportunity. Cast your eye for t ward, and you have a fearful looking road j I for judgment and fiery indignation which; | shall devour the adversary. Bat look up, } i and youbehoM the whiped shoulders of an j ] interceding Christ, and the face of a par- j : (3ornn<* God. and the irradiation of an open- j i o ? . . i ing heaven. I hear the whirl of their | | wings. Do you not feci the rush of air on j ; yoar cheek? Ravens! Ravens! I The: c is only one question I want to ask: | j How many of this audience are willing to j | trust God for the supply of their bodies, and I j trust the Lord Jesus Christ for the redemp- J ! tion of their immortal souls? Amid the cki- j i ter of the hoofs and the clang of the wheels ' : of ihejuugmcut chariot, the whole matter j will be demonstrated. Aa Ugiy C?Bf. The sudden death o' Dorroh Johnson I colored,xiear Jalapa, Newberry County j Monday uader suspicious cireurnstan j ces, caused Coroner Lindsay to ko-d j au inquest Monday nig-ht, ana the j -rornrnpH s v.orriif;t that his death I J141.' -? , was caused by strychnine poisoning, j the drug being administered by An-1 drew Korton, white, it is supposed, i | a drink of ~h:sdey, on Sunday afr.-.r j noon, when Horton called Johnsr, j 3sice and handed him the bottle j Tnere is no positive proof of this 5 statement, but it is known that Hor ! ton had bought some strychnine, he! said, with which to kill crows, and 1 afterwards returned to the party from { whom he obtained the drug, and j begsed him not to mention the fact of j his getting the poison. Johnson be j came quire ill soon after he took the 5 social but deadly drink, and grew! worse until he died. The two men I were on unfriendly terms about a wo- J man, but no one thought it would dz- j velcp such an affair. The Weather and Crops. The United States Weather Bureau j in its report of crop conditions for th* j week ending May 11, says: In thej States of the Upper Mississippi and j Missouri vailejs the week ending May 10 has been the best of the sea- j, sorfasd exceptionally favorable for j farming operations and erowth of ( crops. In the Southern S'ates the j conditions have been less favorable, j being too cool, and in some sections j too dry. In the Southhern States corn | has very ganerally suffered from tbe j ravages of insects and from low iem j, perature. Cotton has not made favor j, able progress over ihe central and I, eastern portions of the cotton belt, the j weather being too cool, compbiats ! of injury by insects being quite gen- j ral, while rain is needed in some sections. v , Greece Makes a Haul. The Greek gunboat Penus and tie Greek torpedo boat No. 14 captured Friday, off the Island of Tenedos, on the coast of Asia Minor, a Turkish steamer having on board ICO Turkish ; soldiers, six ofScers, 300 Marti oi rifles, 1 several thousand cartridges, six quick . Sre guns, various military stores and j ^ Art ? /?">cn Tno a I't o r, 4 ' /.uv UAVUVf 1 wis found upon o Turkish major, who j1 was one of the cmcers captured. The j G.'-'-e!-: warship took the prize to the j Island of Skiatnes. Cyclone Caves. As a protection against the dreaded { cyclone, a mo^err^nt has bten [i augur&ted in many echcoi districts in j Kansas to build cyclone caves, so that 1 up.?n the approach of a tornado ehooi cniidren muy not be turned adrift upon the prairies. The natrons of the A!t?v:sm ctnar icnoois id Uintr&i Kansas will meet cn a giveu day ani Duiici a cyclone cave, ard. the teachers I are airecttd to house their pupils th.f re ; vrhen a storm approaches. . A FACULTY AT WAR. WANT OF HARMONY AT THE STATE COLORED COLLEGE. ^hs B.isrci 10 oa tlis 20th, p.sd it Is Possible that President JSUler and One or "More tVIembsr? ol tho Facultj' 2Isy b? y u. ? -u vuv, Although "ittle has heretofore bees ^aicl about h :.n the newspapers it has bcPix v.r-v.j v'cII kccwn that harrri.;-j r.sd ii '-rn fr:>m th? councils of Use facu' y ;/ Ilc SU-^e Colc-y a Cci'ese. srhk*.". i*. iccated at 0ran -eburj- To? ias'Jvii'ion b.,~ ov,Iy bef? in. esisiei^': for * **a?? and i-s it bad rec; !T*d a m".5l jibor:il ya-roosge ?ronr* toe negrc^s or'tbft State it bcosd that it v:cu]<? L iviih r.o obsiaci0? to mar its fiidc-r. cy r t d s access Wce a the cojl-^e bvd ;,carc.-]y beei) running twelve uiout'ns it h. d on its rolls no less than 1 100 students, a record ?o>sibly Lfevev ce-'ore equaled m this country. The cr.ciroeuceraect exercises of trc. iirst \c-.?r hare recently seec held, arc! e^erythis;? seemed to UrV? .V ?> i < k -? r> "P - V? ko r/Jrrrt v ?A/, r A I WZ ui~. \ I iyfi auvaiita^r VJ ; The i< sututicn. and its inmates. But recently a discordant ooie has corne from the faculty. It woaid seem thai thai b-jdj has divided itself into isro' faciions, and many pecpie fc&r that the ?j.'bt between tfce partisans vriIi serious'y rniiitutf- sgtdasi the future -asrfuloes: o:? the college. The Notts and Courier 32 ys the trouble seems to be over toe p^-esid^acy of the institution. That office has1 been a^d is 33o?* held by Mr. Tqooms i m _ l _ \ e . "> . iili e1*. wuo iu'5 ior mauj 3 ears okb^i a leading man among his n-.ce in Souih Carolina. His political record has gained for him many enemies ard has called down upon him much cor. demnavion at times, but no one has ever questioned his ability. Toe full import of the complaints a~ainst President Miller will doubtless cot be known unlii the meeting of the ooard of trustees of tne college, which is io be held on the 20th of this month, but there is no question of the fact that charges h3T,e been preferred against V.inr. Ti ic vc.r-.'-vwtv-r! t'n<3? tho mnnciiinn is composed of i-o less than fiVe me en- j hers of the facuJty of seven professors i axditis said >nat, it is led by P;of.i Pidrr.er, wbo fills'he chair of Latin and Greek. The complaints against President Miller were made to the local members of the board of trustees, and it is believed that the dissatisfied mem bsrs of tht; faculty will ask to have President Miller depose s and one of i w. A.'u Amw. W? Uam AI + ^ < . Vlir? UIJCi-L* vJVVii L umwu Civ. ILL JLXXO CIOUVI. ; At one time ii was thought that Prof. Palmer would be a candidate for the i place, but the latest reports sesm to indicate that Prof. Gilbert, who fills ; tir-.e modern language chair, will ba : put forward by his colleagues as the opponent of President Miller. At this distance it is hard to learn the esact : nature of the charges made by the faculty against their president. The | only accusation of a specific character I yet heard here is to the afreet that President Milier's deportment has no: ! been so dignified on occasions as some of the faculty thought that it should have been, arid it is also rumored that he hus used language on the campus and elsewhere which did not become a man in his position. These matters have all been laid before the beard of trustees, ncwever, and tcev will doubt7 VlVAV>AM '.fiiiVlt'AVl O t r* C. -AXv/wXVV J-'X UliliTJiJ c* v uuv meeting which is to fce held next weeic. Hearing much of these troubks a the Slate Colored College a reporter for the News ard Courier called jes terdz? ovt the Rev. J H. M. Pollard, rector cf St. Mirk's Caureh, aud asked him for an inter view on the sub ject. Mr. Pollard was kncsvn to have recently preached ine baccalaureate sermon b&i'ore Lhe students of the instiuUicn, and as he remained in Orangeburg throu2hout the cocomeQce- j ment week of the college it was sun- j posed that be could throw some usut en the subject. When spoken to yes- i terdity he s -id: "I was ii vited by the unanimous; rote of the president and faculty of I the State Colored College, OraDge-1 burg, to preach the baccalaureate str j raon to the first graduates on May 2. asd accepted tiie same without hesita- j tion That action on their part is sat-1 isfactory evidence of their confidence | in me, and consequently whatever I' may saj will be ssid as a friend of ail i and a well wisher of the college. I j had carefully noterl and s-udied this J school from its beginning and tried to j embody in my sermon such instruc ! t;nn whrsl^snme advice as would I be]p all interested iu its future. _ Ij steat tba entire closing week with | thera and participated ia some way iu ! almo>t all their exercises, and must confess that they met all my expectations snd reached, even beyond. It is wonderful to ste the amount of work in buildiDgs and other material ways and the addtd school accom p] is a men is. | "President Thomas E Miller has | manifest?*' business-like energy and | power far above the average man and (?r>cc>y?TTOo tno octocm t"hc- fr\]nrprl nAn. I pie of this State. The local board cf trustees, und^r the direction, of the board, must receive, as is justly due, their share cf the success of this greatundertaking. It is needless to multiply words. Their works speak for shem. '"But I am sorry to see friction between President Miller and certain I members of the faculty, which must, j in a measure, result disastrously to I the college, and especially to those j engaged in it. As a friend of the coll?^e. a member cf the race and a citi-1 z?n of the State, seeking the best in-1 terest of all within its borders, I de-1 plore the present cccdition of things1 and earnestly advise the disaffected j members of the faculty to adjust their differences without invoking a scandalous public trial before the board of trustees, as nothing bu, evil can come j out of it icr them and their future, i Th?v are young men with college i training and cannot afford to engage s in the methods of crossroad politicians, j Belter siik personality for the good j of all, than to seek elevation by the i downfall of a brother. lA house divided against iiself cannot stand,' and in j this esse, a defr-at means the public { j t. _ r ^ m; _ i _ ^ r > aea?n 01 tue ufcieaieu. ins people ui tjae State know President Miller 2nd syrnnathize with him under the great disadvantages of the past session, and wish to give him a fair chance to prove himself and then if htr fails, he must blame himself. He may have made some mistakes, bai where is the scan who has not? Let others judse him as they would be judged und^r similar circumstances and throw a msntle of charily over his mistakes, in remembrance of the great work ac j complisbed under so many and gre?.) difficulties.'' Exactly what ac'uoa ?riii be taken by the- b'ard of trustees it is hard to say. President Milier was largely i.n strumental in having the bill estab1 _ 1- : ^ ^ . 17 * 3 ^ 1 v _ I iisnijjg ine coiiege passcu, auu ne is | known to have some strong friends ! connected vriih the institution. A j majority of thefscuitj, however,hs.ve ] joined in making tiie charges against I rim, and it is not improbable that he ! uijy be forced out. should the urofesso^i refuse to take Mr. Poilard's advice ! acd harmonize their differences. It was preoic.ea yesieraay, nowever, oy | a well kao .vn colored man. that if J President jliJer bid to resign that a clean sweep would be mads ia the 1 i Kii inrnn ! - ; coiieg'tt, all of the other members of j t ie faculty beinsr dropped frooi tbe ! lis: with him. I: is possible tfca' this | is tne only soiuuon or a situsnon | whica appears to be badly com plica i ted. CUBANS WIN A BI3 VICTORY. | A 5pat)ish Cotvoj Captured acd tha ?acort Defeated. Tbf Ns^v York Herald F/idaj prict&d an important c^ble diiDatch. froai Havana, -via Key west, under cate of Tnu???'.vvy, ?rbicti .sivts apparently relisaie iris of the raoss o'-'cisiv*- ituur2?rt uccer-s in months. Herd's coxr'S 'Oiid-^t savs: Is appe*vs zhsz Gei-tra' Galixt.o Ga?eU ar.ri Gtre^.l Bibi f<?Il on a Spanish. vhich *" cii Cii' j jwi v iiiu i*zz> :;ciu Manz?.r?iilo to 2aj &mo early last we* k. c-.ptu.ei The convoy, routed General L'.nos' colamns and purs at a dim so visrorcuslj that 'oe fled to c x.-st wiLh th,, romr aut cf Lis brigade and took a ship at CUoccro.-uz f Maaza nillo. It is said t-aat so severe were < l?i> o/i tr.tr fo-iri ! izid w<.re his naeu that the Spanish | general did not dzre attempt to rs:r?ce i his slens to Manzj*mllo by land, teari in* that he would a<zain be attacked and this time wiped out o? existence What is knc^n of the affair ca-xe in a private letter to a Spanish oiScer in Hi'-viu.a. General L?:nos iaid a trap for the inUurg^nts. Believing ;.hat the convoy would be attacked, he seat bis mule itjain ahead with a scant cscort, in j tending to flank the rebels or :all%pan I * V? si vi y vtt i t '- ? / j ri >y\r P A'.UL .U.IO XU'AXIU y -oniie the escort held their firv. This : fo^ci. is said to have cetween 11.50C ar.a 2,000 u;cn. : General Garcia, with 1.C00 men. ajso waited for the convoy, three j leagues from Bsyctrto. He was tcld att hie c/iAnft? + rrro c c? j 1.7Jr xUO CWUW Li-ICXL V> (W wV j Spanish force following the poorly j pr rected mule train, and suspecting a i irick he allowed the pack mules and I smaller escort to pass." a. d placed hi? ! men in an advantageous position to S await the coming of General Lenos. i When the column -was within short j rarj^e the iusurgents oQeced fire. The ! Tflc T ia Krtflvs'ish rA turned ibs fire, but with little result. Then arose the eld cry, "El machete a?d before the ranks could be closed cr a square formed, Sarcia's veterans were upoii them. As has generally been the case, the Spanish infantry, having been sub! jected to a hea :j fire, did not long oopose the machete with the bayonet. | and broke and ran. Tde insurgent forces were then divided, one division j pursuicg General Lenos. and the oihj er going to capture tte arms ana oroi visions. The Spanish commander, J with the retreating main body, W3S ; harassed for ten miles. He decided | to abandon ihe regular road back to I Manzanillo, fearing he would be inter cepted, as General Key had been a lew j days before. The only way he saw j to save the remnant of his forces was | to mske for the coast at a point man? I ;1 * i,r ; i7? TT~ ULL1JLC5 i I'O LLL iUfcUi^AUiiJ U. JLLC JiiaJ j nearly forty miles, reached Cape Cruz, i and sent word to Manzanillo. A pasj se tiger steamer was pressed into ser| vice and carried the despondent scl| diers back to Maczicillo. So fierce j was the Qghting aed so swift the re: treat, that they were only able to carI ry off a few of their woundtd. Money la Wasps. j Along the banks of the Capi) Fear j river in North Carolina are lo.-Jands, ; behind which lies a higher l:v-l, or j bencn. The lowlands aresui-jtci to | more or less frequent ovajfl-iW by freshets, -which are destructive to crops planted-.thereon. A number of }ears sgo a farmer, resident in the vicinity, made a very comfortable ;urn of money by insuring his nei>-h1 bors crops against these freshets. His unvarying success as an insurer was ! for many years a prosfund mystery to 5 -xi mu 1.,i I :ne p^pie 01 me regions, auc years ; when he has declined to insure were] j invariably years of destructive over- j ; flo-v. The years when he was willing! ! injure ^ere equally cert-iia to b2 sea- j I sons o' exemptions *"rom disaster. In j i the earlier da>s ia New England this | 1 man's reading: of the future would have brought him some unpleasant experisnce as a dabbler, if not an adeot, j ia black art. Ic tbe middle aees cf j Europo he would have been revsred | as a prophet and saiat. Yet his infer-1 motion came from do cccuit source. ] Observation had shown him that cer- J tain species of wasp, which nuilt its; home in the grjuad, buili some years | in the Jowiands, and other je&rs upon ! the higher level. Exper. ,t t&ught; him that when tbe wasps b^iit on the lowlaDds there were no freshets, and when they built on the higher ground the lower would, some time during the seasen, be submerged. The man had j sircply noted an instance of that nine j understood prescince manifested by certain insects and animals, a better I knowledge of which. mi^ht even ba of i service to cur national weather bureau.! It was only at his death that he re-j v?a:.td his secret. Bcpubllcan Irjustice. The People Advocate of Anderson I very truly says the monstrous in jus- i tice and inequalities of the tariff is j shown in the refusal of the Rspubii- i cans to accede to the proposition? of j the Hon. J. L McLaurin to put a duty j on Egyptian otton in the interest cf ! -C . , ? toe growers ui joug s-awic xu. i the South. It was a fair a>--d jasi pro- 5 position based upon tbs tact that as J Lhe Republicans would control the j government for the next four years I at lease, and high protection was to j he the policy of the government for J that time, it should be applied fairly j and impartially to all the varied in - j teresis of the ccuatrv without aay dis > crimination against any class or aay j interest. But the Republicans, true] :o the interests of their special friends, j be manufacturers and true to the ? fundamental ide? of the protective policy, which is to guard the in teres! s of the manufacturing class at the expense of ail others, absolutely refused, at the demand of the manufacturers for * i free raw material, to protect tiiegro^- j srs of long staple cotton. The inequ-1 ality of the burdenis further shown t>y ] the fact that they protected the western { wool grower over the demand of tae j manufacturer for free wool, and why? j Because the Western wool prowers are generally Republicans and would j make trouble ir meir interests were j not taken care of, while the Southern j cotton grower is a Democrat and thvre I >vas nothing: to gain or lose in his j case. The whole system, is wron:T 5 and vicious in principle and equally ! as wrong and vicious in its application | asd McLauric was right in snowing s up the thicg ia its hiacousness. ">V?IIecl Tham up Alive. According to a dispatch to the London Daily NeivS from Si. Petersburg, a terrible crime, the result v.* superstition, has beeu committed at Xi;espol, in the government cf Kaher^go, F-nore a number of hermitages are inhabited bv sectarians. Recc-ntlv seven % - 1 J! ~ ~ J : xeeil ci cue cerixuLS uisapyc&reu, ?uu a.-, n was believed that they had emigrated m fear of the impending day cf judg rnent. Bnt a hermit named Kowaliad has confessed that he wailed them up alive in response to their earnest entreaties that they mi^ht receive the mvrtTjr's crown. The nnlics ezamin (id ttse spot and verified the confes I iions. ! | WOMAN'S RIGHTS LONG AGO. i About the "Weraan of cbe Seventeenth j Century. 1 The old-'st v-'OxaLs rights cccu i meat has been unearthed in the Univerj sitv Library of the ci^y Orako^. G-slii cia. Ir is dated !iom tbe year 1635 and is ir. the form of an address prese-ited to King Laaislaus IV of Poland by the "women commissioners" of Greater Poland and Lithuania- The "wo men commissioner.?,*' it seems, were eiecifcd ici .h'.-. tame by the female population, as the Deputies to tee Diet ^tre chosen. by their male i corcoatricis, --nth that difference, j he ".ever. xhc D pu:Ies h~.d th-3 right. ; su-.a, imxceo, me ciu'v, io mase mem jslices perr-jjuily he*rd, while th?1 5 wouiea cou-d tc ike their wishes known 01J j L-y peurions addressed .0 the kisg or the iegLaiLttive b:dy. The docaT-er t op'-ns with a broadside aga'nst lot-; courtship, as follows: Whereas. Tee you/ig men of this country i--av3 taken to indulging in almost, erdiejs courtships which are s liable to wear out a maid's patirnc-i. j vvirile at ihe same litce being a heavy ; fexre'-ss t'J xitT pLt.rc:ta. wuu i^ust JCUI eerily entertain aca feed tbe groom : wl'iil?: he pretends \o biocma betlei :: acquainted rith bis firu'e -wife, the>-ei fore, be it rs-solvtd, that the Diet inakc : it unlawful for any man to voo a ! maid longer than a twelvemonth; :tat ! is to say, llo man shall be allowed to ; defer marriage, after proposing to a j maid, more than a year's time. la i June of every year t'he parents of a I inaid sbail bave the Tight to demand i of any wooer of long shading ei-.De?! ! to declare himself as to his intentions i or withdraw bis suit. : Puisgraphs II and III. demand 2 j ! law which guarantees to every maid j I the vjght to choose her own husband, 1 i a id at the same time thunders agai/.st I j the oid-time practice of marrying lor | i mont-y. "During carnival man has ! I pien y of opportunity to become ac- j i quaiuted with the talents and charms , j of ary lady," says the memorial. '"A | gertliman ineeui-? a maid at that pe- j !pied of the jear should therefore be! j wril able to decide by June 1 whether 1 ! or not he wants to become her hus- j j band. I? he resfuses to do so it io j | clearly from ill-wiii, and the law j ; should fine him a thousand florins, j | whica money is to be applied! i toward tne maintenance cf orphan] \ maids." ! Paragraph VI. proposes a law pro j I Triri'r-t, f,-?? tlia ocf 5> KlicVim f. O* K. TTi JV- ! 1 riage mar!; 10 be held in each province I | every lour years. ''Men and women \ i having attained the proper age for j | marriage shall attend this mart and' | try to dispose of their heart and hand 1 unless they are engaged or hope to be ] be in the near future." The women j commissioners seem to assume that j Polish girls will gladlj emorace this j opportunity for choosing husbands j among great nunbers on parade, but I are nor so as to the men. They there fore propose that young men shall be I compelled to attend these fairs on | \ pain of being declared '"infamous." ; Paragraph X. speaks rather disre- ] j spectfully of widow? in tnis fashion: | : Whereas tee majority of widows, after 1 burying one, or even's wo, husbands,are ! so bold as to ensnare youag men who, | in point of a<?e, might be their sons, 1 therefore, be it resolved, that widows ! above ihe age of forty shall be prci hioited from marrying?once because | they should give maidens a chance, I and again because at their time of iif? | they ought to ihink of praving rasher j lhan courting." ( 4'Inasmuch as not all women," savs 1 u vrrr i. ?.? I psr;'j?riijju?IC wvuicu yyiiij. i I good icoiss, we earnestly recommend \ ' the Diet not to place duty on cosmet | ics and other stuffs for beautifyiug i the human face and form, for ever* ! wojaan should be allowed to make I herself as pretty as possible, so she i may secure a<, husbsca lor herself. [ This will be a well-nigh impossible I task if the state adds to the cost of [ cosmetics, etc., by burdening them j with taxation." i Paragraph XIX of the women com| misiontrs' memorial voices a long-felt j ; want in thcs^ warlike times, as fol I ! 1 ?.A LI. 1- ? J I iUI U'JU.CU. ii-LCix ate VYttu;tu I in the household, as the provider of [ large families, as husbaads of sturdy ! maidens able to propagate the noble ! Polish race. Nowadays the authorities appear to regard such persons as good enouih to inarca betiiad tht arum and life and spead tneir life's "oiood oa the battlefield. ^ We tnerefore pray thai a Ja* 5s promulgated ! caa^iag it a crime for recruiting oiE- j cers 10 engage any man for tae army ! Ui.'e;s he be a criminal or physically ! uafi: to serve as the iiusbanu of seme good woman " What Coaa wo .U&y ->orrow. Under ths tsrms of tine wceat Act allovviag the sinking fund. commission to gi^e th.3 p;ef<5*-ence in its lones i to the counties only an amount a^rgre-! gating one-third of the county tax ca;i i bo lent. Under this condition of af- j iairs the siskin? fund has made in-j quiry and has decided that toe various; counties tnat have made applications ! for loans can borrow up to the follow-! insr amounts: Sumter $6 237, Ches-i ter $S.578, Charleston, $15,500, FairSe'n. $4,934 Aiken, $7,151. Anderson, $S 579, Marlboro $3,117. Birnweil $5.--j 3S5, Marion $4,714, Ocoree $3,455, \V Jii?msburg$4 275, Hampton $3,085. Tee commiti.ee routed that it couid noi fis the amount that Cherokee County could legally bonow, as there has been no rax collection or assessment for that county. The committee Trill I leave it to the county officers to estab lishthe amount they are entitled to. Chester County ha3 given noiice that it wiil likely v^ithdra^ its application for a loan, and it has not been ssttlea whether the assignment mada to this county will oe asked for or not. The State looses. A dispatch from Washington say? the States Supreme Court has af?rm*d the decision of the Circuit Court for the Circuit of South Carolina in the < "Agricultural Hall1' case, involving tiio tihiP fn Aorri/?n?i.in*al TT^ll in Columbia, S. 0. Eivrard B. Wesie^ of New York, bought the properly of 1 the Commissioners of the State Sinking Fund, but there were aliened irregularities in the purchase and he brought suit against J. E. Tindal, the Secretary of the State and J. K. Bevies, who had b^en employed by the Secretary of the State to guard the property to secure possession. Tiuaal andBoyles, in the lower courts, con tended that they were mere custcdi ans o? the property and thai the State could not be sued, but the possession of the p-operty was ^ivea to Wesley. This judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court in an opinion by Jus tic-i Harlan, who held that the State wss not necessarily a pany to the suit. The buddies referred 10 in -he above dispatch is the oce in which the dis pensarv is in ColuTioia, <ji l>ji{htalns* Dnricga hard rain and thunder storm at hcacsviile. Inc., Jightmocr ; struck the home of I. N. Sanders. It first hit on the roof and then bounded to the eves, went down the corner of the house and entered the parlor, where the children were plavin^ cn mandolins. A. cnair on which one c' '.hem sat had a le? knocked off as also did a table in the room. The chilA ro * > it-Pi* rv. i " nnt iriinron The ?tsen escaped over a metal ciutoliae in the yard. A stable at the other end of the line Tvas badly damaged." > iiurnni nr~g r.a a I ?a? | The Cotton Crop of 1896. j The statements furnished the Dej partment of Agriculture by all the i railway ana water transportation I companies show that from September j 1, 1S96, to February 1, 1S97, the total actual movement cf cotton from the States of production to ports, Ncr hem and Western milJs, Canada, Mexico, and all other destinations, amounted to 6; 517 125 commercial bales. Reports from the officials of all cut five of the Southern, mills show actual purchases taken "from the current crop of 560,114 bales. The five mills not heard from purchased duriaz the same period last year 2 413. Daks. The Departments township and precinct agents show that on February 1. 1S97. there remained on j planlations362 268 bales; in ^arehous- j es, 598,727; at public sins, 161,569; at! compresses, 241,344; and at depots and1 j yards, 130,421, making the total amount held on plantations and in interior towns, not including any cotton held at ports. 1,494,329 bales. Tried to Kill Herself. Carrie Brown is a student of the Allen university, the well known colored institution of learning in Columbia. She is about 18 years of age and came irom vvmnsDoro. Tuesday J morning, having stood her examinai lions S3 vera! days ago, she went to the university to hear the results read j out. When the names of those who i were to graduate were announced her's i7as not among them; she failed to viiss her examinations. Instead o? ?f:iog back to her boarding house, she *-ent to a dru? store and purchased a b-:x of *'rougn oil rats," and took about two spoonfulis of the poison. 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C. : To tbe Public. : : : WE WILL OFFER FOR j j j sale during the nest six- j : : . . I/Jr UiiJD, iL? WC it ill iiifcve lAJ . : : : know -within the time above : : : : : : stated in order to arrange our : : : : i : business for another year, : : i : : : whether or not we will be able j : \ : : : to dispose of this valuable real : : : : : : estate. Having decided to go : : : , m : : : more extensively into the mer- : : : : : : cantile and rice mill business, j j | : : : and to reduce our farming in- : : : ; : : terest, we have decided to place : : : : : : upon the market one of the fin- : : : : i : est plantations for general pur-: : j : : : poses in Orangeburg County. : : ; : : : This property is situated in : : : : : Pine Grove Township, one mile \ I j : : from the town oliione Star,a sta- : : : : : tion on the Manchester and Au- : | : : : gusta R. R., and containing : j \ \ : : twenty-five hundred (2500) * ; : : acres, more or less, with a good : : : : : : part of same under a high state 'z , \ j : of cultivation. On the place is a y : : : good saw mill, grist mill, gin and : : : - _>* cotton press, a fine pasture, 8 or : : 1a li/tnaaa n att. Ill gVVVk ICiichUt UUU3W, AUU - : : ery other convenience a good j | | I farmer would want. "We offer j" j : : also for sale two lots and the j best store house in Lone Star. : : ; ; ; This is undoubtedly a fine open ing for anyone wishing to mer- ; ! ! ! frtww in rtAnnflMTAT* ! ! t * " OUXVA AO* i-LX XXX vviiiiVvvlvil ? : with each, other. All of which j . -j we offer you very cheap and on ; I : : : easy terms. Of course we won't ; ; : : be able to turn over to the pur- ; m I chaser the farm before first of ; * Jan., 1898. The store we can \ j j turn over for the fall business. j For further particulars address j TAYLOR & BULL, Lyons, S. 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O. , / mnn m n n ur 4 n 1M TuUJMd is the most complete system of elevating handling, cleaniBg and paciing cotton* Improves staple, saves Isbor, makes you money. Write for catalogaes, no other equals it. I handle the most irrproved COTTON G-1NS, PRESSES, ELEVATORS, ENGINES Ah"D BOILERS to be found on the market. % My Sergeant Log Beam Saw Mill is, in ? fiicpllclty and efficiency, a wonder. -aiiA CORtf MILLS, PLACERS, GAiSG PDGKES, and all wocd working machinery. LIDDELL AXD TALBOTT ENGINES**1 r \ the test. Write to me before baying. ? \ Y. 0. BadhaiSj General Agent, COLUMBIA. S. C. A ENGINES, $$ BOILEES, ^ A TY7 Hit FT T" < 3AW M.1L,U5, GRIST MILLS, 1 AT ' '^PeI PRICES, | E. W. SCREVEN* Jj COLUMBIA, S. O.