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"PURPOSE OF LIFE. ! Dr. Talmage on the Aim and Ob% ject of Existence, A MOST HELPFUL SERMON, j BJSjjJ _ ' V The End of Life Should Be Action. The Necessity of Specializing. > Paradise Shall Be the Reward of Labor. To all those who feel ih^y have no especial mission in the world, this sermon of Dr. Talmage will come as a cheering revalation; test, John xviii, 37, "To this end was I torn." After Pilate had suicided, tradition s . says that his body was thrown into' the ? > j E 'i'iDer, ana sucn storms eusucu vu. river that his body was taken out aud thrown into the Rhone aod similar disturbances swept that river and its banks. Then the body was taken out and moved to Lousanne. and put in a deeper pool, which immediately became the centre of similar atmospheric and on^istnrWnces. Though these are fanciful and fabe traditions, they show- the execration with which the world looked upon Pilate. It was before this man, when he was in full life and power; that Christ was arraigned as in a court of oyer and terminer. Pilate said to his prisoner, "Art thou a king, then?" and Jesus answered, ?lTo this end was I born." Sure enough, although all earth and hell arose to keep him down, he is today empalaced, enthroned and coroneted king of earth and of heaven. This is what he came for and that is what lie accomplished. By the time a child reaches 10 years of age the parents begin to discover that child's destiny, but by the time he or she reaches 15 years of age, the question is on the child's lips: ''"What shall I do? What am I going to be? , What was I made for?" It is a sensible and righteous question, and the youth ought to keep asking it until it is so fully answered that the young man or young woman can say with as much truth as its author, though on a less expansive scale, "To this end was I born. There is too much divine skill shown in the physical, mental and moral constitution of the ordinary human being . to suppose that he was constructed without any divine purpose. If you take me out on some vast plain and show me a pillared temple surmounted by a dome like St Peter's and having a floor of precious stones and arches that must have taxed the brain of the greatest draftsman to design, and walls scrolled and niched and paneled, and wainscotted and painted, and I should ask you what this building was put up " i ii*-. tor and you answered, ior uuuuug all," how could I believe you? And it is impossible for me to believe that any ordinary human being who has in his muscular, nervous and cerebral organization more wonders than Christopher "Wren lifted in St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much a ruin as the Parthenon?that such a being was constructed for no purpose, and to execute no mission, and without any divine intention toward some end. The object of this sermon is to help you to find out what .? . you are made for and help you find .. , your sphere and assist you into -that f condition where you can say with certainty and emphasis and enthusiasm k - - * it: j > ana cnumpn, jio iiuseuu nssiuuxu. First, I discharge yon from all responsibility for most of your environments. You are not responsible for your parentage or grandparentage. You are not responsible for any of the cranks that may have lived in your ancestral \ line and who a hundred years before you were born may have lived a style of life that more or less affects you today. You are not responsible for the fact that your temperament is sanguine, or melancholic, or bilious, or lymphatXT VI ic, ,or nervous, neitner are yuu responsible for the place of your nativity, whether among the granite hills of . New England, or the cotton plantations * of Louisiana, or on the banks of the v, Clyde, or the Dneiper, or the Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are you responsible for the religion taught in your father's house, or the irreligion. Do not bother yourself about what you cannot help or about circumstances that you did ifot decree. rase tilings as tney are ana aeciae the question so that you shall be able safely to say, "To this end was I born." How will^rou decide it? By direct application to the only Being in the_universe who is competent to tell you? the Lord Almighty. Do you koow the reason why he is the only one who can tell? Because he can see everything between your cradle and your grave, though the grave be 80 years off. And besides that he is the only Being who can see what has been happening in the last 500 years in your ancestral line, \ and for thousands of years clear back to Adam, and there is not one person in all that ancestral line of 6,000 years i?i T 1 ir?? ~ uui juas sumenuw aueutcu >uui viiiaiauter, and even old Adam himself will sometimes turn up in your disposition, i The only being who can take all things that pertain to you into consideration is God, and he is the one you can ask. Life is so short we have no time to experiment with occupations and professions. The reason we have so many dead failures is that parents decide for children what they shall do or children themselves, wought on by some whim - or fancy, decide for themselves, without anv imnloration of divine sruidance. So we have now in pulpits men making sermons who ought to be in blacksmith shops making plowshares, and we have in the law those who instead of ruining the cases of their clients ought to < be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are the worst hindrances to their patients' convalescence, and artists trying to paint landscapes who ought to be whitewashing board fences, wh I' there are others making bricks who ought to be remodeling constitutions or shoving planes who ought to be transforming ^ > literatures. Ask God about what worldlv business vou shall undertake until you are so positive you can in earnestness smite your hand on your plow handle or your carpenter's bench, or your Blackstone's ''Commentaries," or your medical dictionary, or your Dr. Dick's "Didactic Theology," saying, "For this end was I born." There are children who early develop natural affinities for certain styles of work. ... When the father of the astronomer ^ ^ Forbes was going to London, he asked - , his children what present he should A . bring each of them. The boy who was ^ to be an astronomer cried out, "Bring ... ,.m.e a telescope!1' Hut my subject now mounts into the . .momentous. Juet me say tnat ycu are made for usefulness and heaven. I judge this fronj|he way you are built. You go into where there is only one wheel tujAKB&i that by a workman's foot^B^^K?^in(i' say to Bl. SE? - ? yourself, ''Here ia gomething good being done, yet on a small scale," but if you go into a factory covering many acres and you find thousands of bands pulling on thousands of wheels and shuttles Sying and the whole scene bewildering with activities, driven by water or steam or electric power, you conclude that the factory was put up to ~ "> on/"] rtn o VO ^t". CC-AIA , uy Ot fylZfCl U YY \JX tV CfcLLVfc vu v% ?%wv wvwawo Now, I look at you, and if I should find that you had only one faculty of body, only one muscle, only one nerve, if you could see but not hear, or could hear and not see, if you had the use of only one foot or one hand, and, as to our higher nature, if vou had only one mental faculty and you had memory but no judgment, or judgment but no will, and if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would say not much is rv-P VA? Unf nnVi CA(HJUWU Ui \ VU. uui Ol-auu. ujy, man, and let me look you squarely in the face. Eyes capable seeiDg everything. Ears capable of hearing everything. Hands capable of grasping everything. Minds with more wheels than any factory ever turned, more power than any Corliss engine ever moved. A soui that will outlive all the universe except heaven, and would outlive all heaven if the life of the other immortals were a moment short of the eternal. Now, what has the world a right to expect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the greatest of economists in the universe, and he makes nothing uselessly, and for what purpose did he % * * *? ? 3 ? J 1 i.1 I Duiia your Doay, mina aau. suui a& mcj are built? There are only two beings in the universe who can answer that question. The angels do not know. The schools do not know. Your kindred cannot certainly know. God knows, and you ought to know. A factory running at an expense of $500,000 a year and turning out goods worth 70 cents a year would not be such an incongruity as you, O man, with such semi-infhnte equipment doing nothing, or next to nothing, in the way of usefttlnAcs "What, shall I do?" vou ask. My brethren, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask God. There's some path of Christian usefulness open. It may be a rough path or it may be a smooth path, a long path or a short path. It may be on a mount of conspicuity or in a valley unobserved, but it is a path on which you can start with such faith and such satisfaction and such certainty that you can cry out in the face of earth and hell and heaven, "To this end was I born." ^ . Do not wait for extraordinary qualifications. Philip the conqueror gained his greatest victories seated, on a muie and if you wait -for some caparisoned Bucephalus to ride into the conflict you will never get into the worldwide fight at all. Samson slew the Lord's enemies with the jawbone of the stupidest beast created. Shamgar slew 600 of the Lord's enemies with an ox goad. Under God spittle cured the blind mans eyes in the New Testamentstory. Take all the faculty you have and say: "Oh Lord, here is what I have! Show me the field and back me up by omnipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, any time for brod." Two men riding on horseback came to a trough to water the horses. While the horses were drinking one of the men said to the other a few words about the value of the soul, then they rode away and in opposite directions. But the words uttered were the salvation of the one to whom they were u-tered, and he became the Rev- Mr. Champion, one of the most distinguished missionaries in heathen lands, for years wondering who did for him the Christian kindness, and not finding out until in a bundle of books sent him to Africa he found the biography of Brainord Taylor and a picture of him and the missionary recognized the face in the oook as the man who at the watering trough for horses had said the thing that saved his soul. What rtrvrvvr+Tir>ifi?>a vnn Viatro Vi5?rl ir> T>ast! What opportunities you have now! What opportunities you will have in the days to come! Put on your hat, 0 womau, this afternoon and go and comfort that young mother who lost her babe last summer. Put on your hat, 0 man, and go over and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an assignment and tell him of the everlasting riches remaining for all those who serve the Lord. Can you sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you will help him into heaven. Let it be your brain, your tongue, your eyes, your ears, your heart your lungs, your hand, your feetf, your body, your mind, your soul, your life, your time, your eternity for God, feel- | mgm your soul. "To ttas ena was i born/' And now I come to the * climacteric consideration. As near as I can tell, you were built for a happy eternity, all the disaster which have happened to your nature to be overcome by the blood of the Lamb, if you will heartily accept that Christly arrangements. "We are all rejoiced at the increase in human longevity. People live, as near as I can observe, about ten years longer than they used to. The modern doctors do not bleed their patients on all occasions as did the former doctors. In those times if a man had fever they Tiim- i-P Tie Viov? oAnennrnfinn bled him; if he had rheumatism they bled him! and if they could not make out exactly what was the matter they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy was death's coadjutor. All this has changed. From the way I see people skipping about at 80 years of age I conclude that the life insurance companies will have to change their table of risks and charge a man ro more premium at 70 than they used to do when he was 60. and no more premium at 50 than wl en he was 40, By the advancement of medical science and the wider acquaintance with the laws of health and the fact that the people know better how to take care or themselves human lire is prolonged. But do you realize what, after all, is the brevity of our earthly state? In the t;mes when people lived 700 and 800 years the patriarch Jacob said his years were few. Looking at the life of the youngest person in this assembly and supposing that he will live to be a nonagenarian, how short the time and soon gone, while banked up in front of us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not figures enough 1 express its length, or breadth, or epth, or height. For a happy eternity you were born unless you run yourseli . against the divine intentions. If stand ing in your presence my eye should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets it up and heaven entrances it. I suppose I would be so overpowered that I should drop down as one dead. You have examined the family Bible and explored the family records, and you may have seen daguerreotypes of so^e of the kindred of previous gcner.nns vAn havp had r>hrttncranh<s taken of what you were in boyhood or . girlhood, and what you were ten years later, and it is very interesting to any one to be able to look back upon pictures of what he was 10. or 20, or 30 | years ago, but have you ever had a picture taken of what you may be and what you will be if you seek after God ; and feel tha spirit's regenerating power I "Where shall I plant the camera to take the picture? I plant itou this platform. | ' X direct it foward you. Sit still or [ stand still while 1 take the pictures. It j shall be an instantaneous picture. ^ There! I have it. It is done. You can see the picture in its imperfect state and get some idea of what it will be when thoroughly developed. There p ?b vnnr TP<s?rrAr?t^?d bodv. so brilliant that the noonday sun is a patch of midnight compared with it. There i? J your soul, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could not spot it with an imperfection. There is your [being, so mighty and so swift that flight from heaven to Mercury on Mars or Jupiter and back again to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shoul- ^ der would not crush you. An eye that * shall never shed a tear. An enegy that ^ shall never feel a fatigue. A brow that i 1? A A xr \ snail never tnroo wuu paiu. hju arc | young again, though you died of de- 3 crepitude. You are well again, though ? you coughed or shivered yourself into ? the tomb. Your everyday associates ~ are the apostles and prophets and martyrs and most exalted souls, masculine * and feminine, of all the centuries. The ? archangel to you no embarrassment. fl God himself your present and everlasting joy. That is an instantaneous pic- * ture of what you may be and what I am * sure some of you will be. If you realize that it is an imperfect ^ picture, my apology is what the apostle i John said, ''It doth not yet appear ^ what we shall be." "To this end was I born." If I did not think so, I would j be overwhelmed with melancholy. The r world does very well for a little while, ] 80 or 100 or 15U years, and I think that a human longevity may yet be improved ; up to that prolongation, for now there <j is so little room between our cradle and f our grave we cannot accomplish much, e but who would want to dwell in this world for all eternity. Some think this r earth will finally be turned into a hea- j ven. Perhaps it may, but it would j have to undergo radical repairs and s thorough eliminations and evolutions ^ and revolutions and transformations in- j finite to make it desirable for eternal } residence. All the east winds would have to become west winds and all the winters^ changed to springtides and all the volcanoes extinguished and the oceans chained to their beds and the epidemies forbidden entrance and the world so fixed up that it would take more to repair this old world than to make an entirely new one. But I must say I do not c.ire where heaven is, if we cs.n only got there, whether a gar- ; denized America or an emparadised Europe or a world central to the whole universe, "To this end was I born." If each one of us could say that, we would go with faces shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's worst misfortunes and trials. . Only a little while, and then the rapture. Only a little while, and then the reunion. Only a little while, and then the transfiguration. In the seventeenth century all En- j rope was threatened with a wave of * Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es- * pecially besieged. The kiDg and his \ cour;; had fled, and nothing could save 3 the city from being overwhelmed unless 11 the king of Poland, John Sobieski, to I whom they had sent for help, should * with his army come down for the relief s and from every roof and tower the inhabitants of Vienna watched and wait- J ed and hoped, until on the morning of 1 Sept. 11 the rising sun throw ah unusu- 4 al and unparalleled brilliancy. It was s the reflection of the sun on the swords J and shields and helmets of John Sobi- * eski and his army coming down over ? the hills to the rescue, and that day s t^T1Y*nr\a C COTTA/^ I C UUt UlliJ T JLCJiZI1<*J uuvxiuivyv T* c*w? ->** * %*%? And see you not, 0 ye souls, besieged * with sin and sorrow, that light breaks J in; the swords and the shields and the \ helmets"of divine rescue bathed in the J rising sun of heavenly deliverance? Let ] everything else go rather than let heaven go. What a strange thing it .must be to ' feel oneself born to'an earthly crown, but you have been born for a throne on which you may reign after the last monarch of all the earth shall have gone to dust I invite yon to start now f for your own coronation to come in and ] take the title deed to your everlasting j inheritance. Through an impassioned f prayer take heaven and all of its rap- tures. v c What a poor farthing is all that this * world can offer you compared with par* J Vl?kT7/*\T> A fKo I -i UUU JLLC1C auu 1UC liumvi uax uvj vuu vuv stars, unless this side of them there be a place' large enough and beautiful enough and grand enough for "all the ransomed. Wherever it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some other constellation, hail, home of light and love and blessedness! Through the atoning mercy of Christ, may we all get there. , SPANISH SOLDIERS MUTINY. c 1 { Threaten Life of Governor of Puerto <\ Principe Province. | Private reports from Puerto Principe 3 and Nuevitas, Cuba, says tliat 7,000 j regular soldiers mutinied, demanding c their pay before embarking for Spain, j About 4,000 armed soldiers, the re- ? ports add, presented themselves in a front of the palace, calling on the mili- ^ tar governor. Emilio March, for their overdue pay. * Thereupon General March drew his sword and ordered them. to disband. The soldiers, however re- t fused to obey, and some of them, armed W1 til lUctUCU liiiCSj buicai^ucu unu aaav* j of General March, who returned hi3 ? sword to its scabbard, crying out: "Do you wish to kill me? Well, kil , me!" J The soldiers in reply shouted: "No, no! We only want our pay before embarking for Spain!" General March promised them that they would be paid, and they returned a to their quarters peaceably. r, The steamer Aiava left Havana four o days ago with $150,000 with which to fj pay tnose soiaiers, who were to em- ij bark immediately for Spain. Ji Tbe Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII, 1< and the gunboats Conde de Yenadito si and Infanta- Isabel, have proceeded for t] Nuevitas to compel the soldiers to em- a bark, after which they will proceel to si Gribara for a like purpose, and will then si go to Spain, unless new orders are received. i a Blames Senator Tillman. ft* aa nf o in \ avfll s1 vvjuv;uu:u^ uug xav/'j AIVIO X li AWIUU and' i>outh Carolina T. Thomas Fortune, " editor of the New York Age, said: ':It P was hoped that the pleasant relations ?" of the races, which was a matter of pride with North Carolinians, would be h maintained and probably would have t< been but for the violent and revolution- tl ary speeches delivered by-.United States p Senator Tillman at Richmond, and t< points in North and South Carolina. si and at Yirden and Edna, III."' ^ Largest Planter in the World. Ja mes Richardson, the largest cotton ri planner in the world, died suddenly e Wednesday of heart disease, near his si residence at Benoit. Miss. n y Win m,i ?ii ' < IiHiwWiWWiljMi'i *ri iVHAT BRYAN SAYS.j Vhy Recent Election Results &re Not* Significant. ?EAL ISSUES ARE RESTINC. How a Republican Defeat Would Have Appeared in F:oreign Eyes. Chicago Platform Yet Solid. Col. "Wm. J. Bryan recently gave the Associated Press the following interiew relative to the late election: :'While I do not understand thatserice in the volunteer army prevents a oldier from expressing opilnion upon >olitical questions, I declined to take tart in the late campaign lust I should ie accused by partisan opponents ef atempting to embarrass the administraion. Now that the election is tover I hall exercise a citizen's privilege of Liscussmg tuc returns. "Compared with the election of 1896, he Republicans have gained in some >laces and lost in others. It was not a seeping Republican victory. On the rhole, the result is not surprising phen it is remembered that the adminstration is just concluding a successful rar. "While a majority of the soldiers are >robably anti-Republican, the manageaent of the war has been entirely in lepublican hands and the strongest argument used during the campaign yas that a Republican defeat would Liscredit the president in the eyes of oreign nations, while his commission;rs were engaged in making a treaty. "It was not a trial upon the issues iow before the people, but a successful >lea for a continuance of the case. The >eople have not accepted the gold tandard; they have not fallen in love nth the plan to give the banks a mono>oly of the issue of paper money; they lave not decided to retire the greenjacks; they have not surrendered to the rusts. "These questions were forced into he background by the declaration of vslt, but they must be faced again as oon as peace is restored. The Chica;o plaiform presents for public consignation certain vital, economic quesions. That platform has not been abandoned by those who endorsed it in .896. It will be reaffirmed in J900 be :ause it gives expression to the hopes ma aspirations of a large majority of he party. "When the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans favored Cuban inlependence, they understood that war TOuld give a temporary advantage to he party in power, but they were wiling to risk defeat in order to aid the >eople fighting to be free. "Neither can the election be regardid as an endorsement of any definite breign policy. Until a treaty of peace las been entered into and the terms * r ^ i. naae Known tae peopie uauuut pass udgement, upon it. Whether the war fill raise any question of sufficient imwrtance to turn public attention away rom domestic problems, remains to be ieen-" In regard to the Nebraska election, le said: UA light vote was cast in Ne>raska, but the Fusionists have elected he entire State ticket and carried the &me congressional districts they car iedinl896. If Senator Allen is de'eated for re-election it will be because lenators are elected by legislators initead of by the people. If a Republic jan senator is choseiuby the new legisature he will go to Washington to represent a minority of the people of the state and to thwart the will of the ma ority." CHEEE WHMDTGTOBf REFUGEES. rhe Sad Lamentations of Banning, Melton and Gilbert Three of the Wilmington, N. C., re'ugees have arrived in Washington and Wednesday called at the department of nstice and an appointment for a con'erence with the officials was made. Chey areR. H. Bnnning, United States jommissioner and justice of the peace; Ibhn R. Melton, chief of police, and C. 3. Gilbert, superintendent of city carts. According to their statements all were leized without warrant and escorted to he railroad station by an armed and cering mob, who shouted all sorts of nsults after them as they marched ilong. "White negroes" appeared to >e the least insultingjnames with whichhe crowd greeted them at every step. )nce on the train ti ay were told in orcible language that if again they set oot in Wilmington they would be shot in sight. When their train arrived at tfewberne it was boarded, they say, by ormer Mayor "Ellis and a lawyer named xuyon and they were informed that it r/vnl/1 tia+ Via ao-fo 4/vr i-.Tiom +/> Tomnin here any length of time, and so they ook the first, boat for Norfolk. Brown, j i Negro from Wilmington, who did not eave at the same time with them .they lad since heard, was set upon by a ?owd and terribly beaten in the city >ostoffice. At other points they were yarned not to stop. The three men ,re at present staying at a small hotel m Pennsylvania avenue, but what they vill do or where they will go from here s a serious question with them. They ay they dare not return to their homes n "Wilmington, as they feel certain he threats of the mob would be carried - _ J Ai u ui auu tucy wuuiu uo ouuu jlucj' lead not guilty to every charge against hem and insist that they were run out f the State for the simple reason that hey were Republicans and refused at he bidding of an irresponsible mob to urrender their right to the franchise. Eighteen Men Rescued. The British steamer Peaconic which rrived at New York from the Mediteranean Friday morning brought a crew f eighteen ship wrecked men saved mm hark Johanta. which bey found sinking. She was bound to few York from Honolulu. The men ;ft the bark and weathered a severe torm which disabled, in boats. After tie storm they returned to the bark ad set the distress signals, so were jen and picked up by the British earner. The throwing of air-slacked lime bout the poultry yards will often pre ent disease; the vermin will be de:royed by dusting roosts, walls and oors with this penetrating, purifying owder. It is also a benefit in the liter runs. Use it liberally. Mothers, train your boys to be neat 1 the house. They should be taught ) look after themselves, and to keep leir hats and coats in their proper laces. A boy can help clear away af;r a meal, sweep the floor, polish the tove, or wash dishes, just as eftectivei as a girl. He, as a rule, is stronger. *r n n 3 l.j. . _ . 1 hiie is 110 lQie aream, due a solemn jality based on and encompassed by ternity. Find ont your work, and tand to it; the night cometh when bo lan can work. EXPERIMENT WITH WHEAT. Some Valuable Suggestion* to]On? ; Earners. ' - The monthly bulletins sent out from Ciemson College are not only extreme ly interesting and entertaining, duc extremely valuable and instructive. The October bulletin is devoted to "Experiments with Wheat." by Professors Newman and Conner, Agriculturist and Assistant Agriculturist of Clemson. This paper?in view of present renewed interest'in wheat planting?is so valuable that we republish it in our this week's issue. These bulletins irom the South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station at Clemson. are sent free to all citizens of^the State requesting them. Here is the October bulletin: The slovenly way in which small graiu lands nave been prepared in+the past is giving pla^e to a moie thorough and farm-like practice. Wheat delights ill comparatively stiff soil, clay loam ranking first in adaptation, sandy loam second and sandy soils last. The latter, however, may be profitably cultivated in wheat if liberally supplied with humus and properly supplied with plant food. Wheat succeeds best upon soils which have previously been cultivated in some hoed crop. Previous treatment which renderc the soil verj porus is not favorable to wheat. Upon light soils the roller should be used after seeding and again early in the spring, just before the plants put forth the seed stalks. In southern climates wheat should not be sowed until cool weather,' since it will not germinate successfully at a high temperature. Early sown wheat is also liable to be attacked by the Hes sian fly. It is well, therefore, to defer sowing ur.til a killing frost occurs. Another danger to which very early sown wheat is liable is the bursting of the stems by a spring frost occurring after the stems have jointed. On the other hand very late ?owing increases the risk of winter killing if severe freezing occurs before the plants are securely rooted. Late sown wheat and late varieties incur the risk of injury from very warm weather accompanied with moisture, causing conditions favorable to the production of rust, while if the weather is very hot and dry, bleaching or premature ripening occurs. The depth to^which the seed^may be covered depends _ somewhat on the character of the soil and especially upon the porosity--and .consequent facilities ? ItATTTATTAI* ior aerauou. x^Apciujiciibs, uun?iw, conducted bo determine the best depth, showed that the percentage of grains that vegetated in a fertile sandy loam varied but little in seed covered from a half inch to three inches in depth. The number which vegetated at a depth greater than three inches diminished suddenly and rapidly to six inches, at which the few which vegetated at all were enfeebled by the obstacles which theyjhad overcome. The quantity of seed to be sown per acre depends upon the size of the grains, and consequently the number per bushel, and upon the fertility of the soil. The plants will tiller more upon fertile soil than upon that less fertile. The quantity of seed varies from three to five pecks per acre. Seed may be economized by the use of wheat drill, which deposits them at a uniform rate and denih. and consequently a larger I percentage of those i>own vegetate than if sown broadcast. NEGRO LAB0E;IN TfflTSOUTH. It Is Not Worth .What It Once Was. Getting Yery Worthless. The question of tie growing worthlessness and utter unreliability of the Negro farm labor of < the South is one that is obtruding itself upon the attention of the planting interests in no very pleasant way. The question has already practically settled itseii in many of the poorer hill sections, where white labor has in a great measure supplanted it. The Negroes have drifted away from the hills, some to the alluvial lands, but most of them to the cities; they have taken other employments, such as railroad work, jobbing about, or doing anything but farm la- i bor. It was thought that the Negro would remain on the rich bottom lands along the rivers, where, fays the Shreveport, La., Times, under a system of r.o nrnfifahta ban Alt vvruiu vu i died on the large plantations of cotton, sugar, rice, etc. But it :is beginning to dawn on the big planters that the Negro is gradually but surely slipping from under their control, and that he is becoming a very different kind of an individual from the Negro of former days. A glimpse of the world and a little education has destroyed the Negro's peace of mind, he is no longer contented and happy at his old plantation home. He is restless and moves around from place to place?dissatisfied here, there and everywhere. Along the railroads and rivers he is A/infinnaUt? travpliTiff. hither and wttv*uu?M^ wj-m w?-o; o? yon as long as he can beg, borrow or steal money to travel; first in the city and again in the country he scarcely knows which way to turn or what to do. Few of the present generation are at best worth their salt as farmers. They have obstinately refused to take a farmer's education or training. The-old, i ante-bellum farm Negro, who had been trained under his master's eye, and often was a better farmer than his owner, is out of the calculation?he is dead or too old and feeble to handle the plow and hoe. To dure Hoe' Cholera. An exchange says that every paper in the United States ought occasionally to keep the fact before its readers that burnt corn is a sure and speedy cure for hog cholera. The best way is to make a pile of corn on the cob, effectually scorch it, and then give the hogs free access to it. This remedy was discovered by E. E. Locke, Esq., at the time his distillery was burned in Columbus countv. Ohio, together with a large quantity of store corn, which was so much injured as to be unfit for use, and was hauled out and greedily eaten by the hogs, several of which were dying daily. After the second day not a single hog was lost, and the disease entirely disappeared. The remedy has been tried in a number of cases since and never failed. Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the pois"" tr-nm '!"P/%iann Tttt" nr "PniflOTl \JL1 XXV/liX JL Vijuu xs* ? Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes an stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is a superior remedy for all pains and ache?. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle A rnrni AccrDSSTT, * J A Misplaced Switch. Causes the Los* of j Twelve Lives. I A grand trunk express train, bound for Toronto, crashed into a moving freight train near Murray Hill crossing, two miles, west of Trenton, Ont., at 3:30 Wednesday morning, and several cars were smashed almost to splinters. So far as known, 12 persons were killed and a dozen or more seriously injured. A misplaced switch was the cause of the accident, the westbound train taking the wrong track, on which was the eastbound freight. The train which left Montreal at 8 o'clock Wednesday night consisted of an express, mail and baggage cars, a second class car. one first class coach and two Pullman sleepers. The second class car was next to the baggage car and ahead of the fa st class coach and sleepers. It was pretty well filled with people, there being 20 or more passengers in it, and hardly n 11 j r ? x any 01 mem escapeu wx_uout injury. Between BelJeville and Murray Hill , crossing the road is single tracked, the only piece of single track between Toronto and Montreal. Murray Hill crossing the westbound express, usually leaves the single track and takes the double track, and it was about a mile and a half west of this point where the accident occurred. Whether the signals' were right or not Wednesday morning will never be known from the engineer or fireman of the wrecked train, for they are both dead. Both engines were totally destroyed, and the : freight engine was thrown completely over the passenger engine into the ditch beyond. The engineer and fireman of the freight train, Thomas Ivens and i' Alexander Toppin, both of Toronto, ' inmned and escaned with slight iniu ries. W. H. Brady, engineer, cf Belleville and John McDonald, fireman, of Bellevilie, who were in charge of the passenger engine, were killed. The greatest destruction was wrought in the second class car. The baggage car was driven into and almost completely through it, the passengers being crushed and mangled underneath the timbers of the car. The mail car was forced right on top of the baggage car, and the express car was partially wrecked. The first class car was uninjured, as were also the two sleepers, although the passengers were awakened by the shock. The work of getting out the dead and injured was commenced immediately, but it was late in tho morning before ' all the bodies were gotten out. Some were so horribly mangled that recogni- ; nition was almost impossible. The in- ' jured were taken to the hospital at ; Belleville. THEY WAtfT PIE. South Carolina Republicans After Pap and Hot Vengeance. , The Washington correspondent of ; the News and Cburier says: "Federal patronage is more to the likiDg of the South Carolina Eepubli- ' tau lciugccD liurr uctt vuau ^vuv?? military assistance. From the vicinity of Phoenix the South Carolina colony of Republicans received several additions here today, but the postoffice pat- . ronage seems to be their mission. ; There are nine important postoffice ; appointments in South Carolina about to be made, and hence there is a struggle on the part of the faithful to j get up to the pie counter. I met Deputy ; Collector Deas, of Darlington, Thurs- j day, and he was very indignant because some of the newspapers have stated that he ran away from Darlington, fearing ; bodily harm. He repudiates the charge, and says the people of Darlington are ' ycavciuj, law-auiuiug v/iui<cucij ouu. has nothing to fear at their hands. He ! says the trouble at Phoenix has blown ' over, and there is no occasion for Fed- ' eral intervention. He says the Tolbert J family alone are still urging the admin- i istration to take some action to avenge ; the attack upon the members of that , numerous office-holding family./ The J recruits to the South Carolina contin- 1 gent are E. J. Crews and Capt Blue backer, candidates for the Spartanburg ' postoffice, the_ Rev. Wilson, former ! Congressman Tom Jttiller and S. JU. 1 Smith. There are nine postoffice cases under consideration, and the South ] Carolina Republicans swarms to the cor- : ridors of the postoffice department like ( flies around a fish wharf on a hot after- ] noon. The political fruit about to" ? ripen consists of the following offices: 1 Greenwood, with James Tolbert slated for appointment; Abbeville; James Collins; Florence, the Rev. J. Wilson; t Marion, L. R. Owens; Bennettsville, < E. J. Sawyer; Yorkville, A. Withers; " Rock Hill, Col. Pride; Spartanburg, ] four candidates, Bluebacker, Asker, j ?J "n ;a JL ctttJiJ <1UU V/JLLilbiJLClU* AO contested by Dr. Lnnney and Gr. H. McKee, with Webster for Joseph Hart. Several of these appointments have been kept waiting for some time, and "Boss" Webster as doing his best to i shake the administration tree, hoping j to bring down some of the fruit." j The Price of Cotton. j Some of the newspapers in the great i />rvttr>n nonfurfl OTfl trt KpHpVA 1 that there will soon be a rise in the | price of cotton. They believe that the \ general estimates of the crops are too l large. The New Orleans Picayune, ? one of the best posted and most relia- * ble of newspapers, has this to say. on f the subject: "There have been many fi indications from the countiy that the t farmers considered the price so low s that it no longer paid to pick the crop, 2 and the tenant farmers, feeling that \ they could not hope to pay out at cur- I rent figures, were disposed to simply ? * *? .* # mi. _ j_ .f S a Danclon titeir neias. jluis tnreat ox g not marketing a portion of the crop, | and the increasing tendency of farm- g ers to resist further declines by hold- ? ing back their cotton, have frightened jj the shorts and bears, and have caused many prudent operators to anticipate * a reaction. Spinners have been holding oS so far in the hope of replenish- ing their supplies at bottom prices. 1 When the demand for them commences ' in earnest, it is sure to be lively, and in the present position of the market it would not take very much encourage- ^ ment to start this purchasing move merit. At present prices cotton can be u9ed for many purposes to which it is not put at higher prices. The pres- . ent price for cotton is based upon the " belief that the crop will be from 11,- ^ 500,000 to 12,000,000 bales. Belief in v: such large figures is based merely upon t( the dictum of a few crop guessers, who however successful they may have been h in the past, are certainly not infallible, f While the movement indicates a large crop, it is scarcely an entirely reliable guide. Bad weather and extreme cold would make a difference in the yield onrt if ^erfainlv is nnf, Iikelv that we will experience again this year the mild weather that was enjoyed np to Christmas during the two proceeding seasons." There may be something in (] the view thus presented. .'i- :c.VlJ|i-7>. itfxmi! Ml! m ELEVEN MEN KIJLLED -v.. They Were Mewed Dowa Uke so Much Green Crass. AT wr?Dtf HM A D All DHAD n l vi vi\i\ wii n Terrible Accident!in a Fog on Ithe Pennsylvania Line Near Jersey City. Harrowing Scenes. In the gloom of smoke, storm and fog that darkened the rails of the Pennsylvania railroad early Friday morning between Jersey City and Harrison, a Kol-jtiirl cnknrhan train .Hajshpri intn a gang of workmen, killing '11 instantly and injuring 4. Others had remarkable escapes. All the victims lived in Jersey City. The dead are: Bodoski, Frank, aged 48. Oolasurdo, Giuseppi, 41, single. Doherty, Thomas, 47, single. Flannigan. Thomas, single. Faggea, Joseph, 48, single. Lawless, Michael, 34, single. i 04 l^ .utiuiy, xniHua, <J-r, ojLugic, Ludowski, Frank, 21, single. Puggo, Angelo, 25, single. Sluminsky, Frank, 30. Stinziano, Guiseppi, aged 23, single. INJURED. Hoffman, Lawrence, went home. Miller, Michael, went home. Swaskowski, Frank, St. Francis hospital, will die, Wangdon, John, St. Francis hospital. The accident happened about two and a half miles west of Jersey City, just beyond the Hackensack river nrirlcro At that, rwiinfc t.hprA ATP fnnr tracks, two devoted to passenger and two to freight traffic. At the north are the shops and tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad. Foreman Quirk saw that the fog might mean danger, so he sent two men. Lawless and Doherty, to give warning of approaching trains. Lawless was to go west and Doherty east and cover all the tracks. They yrere to shout warnings at the approach of trains. The passenger tracks were kept busy with incoming suburban trains, and the dense smoke from these trains helped to make the atmosphere moifc dense. Suddenly about 8:30 there was a shout from Lawless, who was the advance guard pf the gang. "Train, on No. 3," he cried. It was an eastbound Frieight train that came along slowly, leaving behind it a heaw nail of smoke. The men who were scattered along the track jumped out of the way. Almost all of them jumped over to track No. 1, the eastbonnd passenger track. The heavy smoke enveloped them. Lawless, too, had jumped axsross to track No. 1, keeping all the time a sharp lookout. Suddenly there was a rumble of wheels and the shriek of a whistle. The Millstone local, delayed by fog, was coming along at the rate of iO miles an hour. Lawless was struck and thrown 30 feet away, mangled and bleeding. On went the train. Engineer Vannostrand had^scarcely noticed the man's body flying"through the air when the engine struck Doherfcy; then it ploughed into the mass of cowering men, who stood huddled together on the track. UT+ TTTO O An UTTT^nl ^ C01/3 fll A jlu rt oro aa aniiu otuu wav vu gineer later. ''There was a mass of legs and arms and heads fying through the iir. I was drenched with blood. I biew that something terrible had happened and pat on the air-brakes as fast is possible." When the train came to a standstill the passengers rushed out. The track was drenched in blood. The meadows ind the track looked like a battlefield sovered with bodies. The shrieks of the dying men drowned the cries of the horrified passengers. Women fainted md men turned away in horror. Of the 19 men, nine were dead and tit wounded. Some one telephoned quick* lv t/i .Tatsav fHt.v Munv nf KniJifts atill writhing in mortal agony were placed on the train and borne to the jity. Two of the wounded men died 3n the way. A relief train brought back the others. An Oklahoma girl advertised for a husband and got him. The advertisement and wedding outfit cost eleven lollars. Within a year he died and left her five thousand dollars life insurance. And yet some people say advertising does not pay. TTT ,1 1 . . w earner propnets continue to say ;hat the coming winter will be the soidest experienced for years. ?)] From Maker Direct to Punkas*. fit | A Good 1 Piano ? Si) ^Pfi?SSrM'i4BSl will last a m I Sew mwir,-,,..inrmKTi i ^ 9n* III ! Mathushek I ?$ Is always Good, always Reliable, wl ?S aIttavb Sji.t.iiitu/?fftfv ?!?rov? ! u?t- ?^E2 I m ing. You take no chances In buy SH I M ln?1L w m SBa It costs somewbat more than a 368 SC cheap, poor piano. l>ot Is much the jHH h? cheapest In the end. a?# 18 No other High Grade Piano fold so M ?5 reasonable. Factory price* to retail Wm SE buyers. Easy payments. Write ns. 2K HIDDEN & BATES, ? jrjj Havcnmah, Ga., uid ?w York Oily. 9B Lddress: D. A. PRESSLET, Agent. Columbia. 3. C. fhe Keeley Institute, r. E. Corner Vanderhorst and Smith Streets, CHARLESTON, SO. CA, Atlantic Ocean Sort Bathing, Yatchlg, Boating and Fishing. Trolley and erry Rides, 1, 18 and 23 miles. Sulliin Island and The Isle' of Palms all ) be enjoyed while under treatment for fhiskey or Morphine Aic lion. >pens 3rd October ana lill be the only Keeley Institute in the State. 'A ** A Happy Oorrnt ^ ii> ?evfoW b* >jm M ; th* no*i \jt liO by yroc? -ia^ a fp*d VIA V<1 oK < M jf? as* h ? ?u?>nc?"> Keeft youi childrci- *i noca*. Vou wily in>?^? t-o ? j?r?? . f*' foil ?? ? ? ? I nr>"~ ! ? I CH.\LLENUK * ; 4nytivuu? ii> Atrvnt* to aiy pnct* TERM. M To ?hoe* aot p*Tjxr?<t u> x>+y &vtb r +ii rwMoo^lr time, w difrerrLCf Warranty, I fUJly ruarant-a# my limrumeBw told ?u DON'T FAIL fo wriso for pno? *od t*ra?. %- <1 for Hint fttad flrtriofgw. YOUB? FOB ?1A and orw \ NTg M. A/MALONE, 1509 MAIN STREET, 0W-0M6U. % Take Care of Your Property. Save money by .keeping your Gins in thorough repair. You get better results please the public and save your OWN TIME AND LABOR. Fourteen years practical experience in the ELLIOTT GIN SHOPS -at Winnsboro, S. C., ^81 is a guarantee of good work. Send your gius at once to the undersigned, W. J. E^IOTTCOLDMijlA, S. G. Located adjacent to the To zer Enjsrine Work July*? 3a Sold by dealers generally and by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. V; THE CITY BY THE SKA. Saw Mills. 2fyoanMdaiavBin,iay ait*, write M btfcw baying tUowkore l ton . tho mo*t oompljt# line of Bills of u; dealer or nuumft ctorw ia the South. Corn Mills. Vetj higkwtgndt 8toa??, at unaeaU* IT low prioet. Wood-Working Machinery. Ptuan. Mmtldm. Bdire*. fte-Savv Bnd Bum, L&*, Engines and XUbott aad Liddd?, Bngleberg fiioe Hooar, in stock, quick '>%? delivery, low prion. V,C. BADHA.ti, 1336 Miifc ? rfet. . COL^V A. 8. % GOME AND SEE IT ! We will exhibit at the State | Fair to be held here Nov, 13th to 19th, in operation a COMPLETE IfUBRAY CEDING OMPLETE mUERAY UlNtfING SYSTEM, System; y bnilt by Liddell] Co., i?Char: lotte, ST. C. . This wHl afford all inteste-i ?a opportunity of seeing the most modern ahd Mta? est of ' Ginning >*achinery, Ton cm't afford to " <:i miss it. '4 W. E GIBBES & CO# J Machinery and Mill supply fle^qiwtersf . O-ilumhia. d. C,, " :}jii Near Union Oepot, ' Oelnmbiw B. C. 8. C. Aa^nt* Lid4?H Co., Cbtriott*. S. <\ - ' ir t9HH KBQH KB UTT THN^S I KOR TH8 LIYSS , ANi H KIDNRYS, as it* name imparts, j MB t> a Httmiifttcr snd regulator to I ^ H sc~?e or*a-js. Is tbe beat after A meal* medHDft to aid diction HB JH H Frevento Head?.dies. CureeHR - lllloosnetw Acts on tte Kid-j^U nejn within Thirty mlnatea. after H taking, relieving aebei In the|H H tack from disorder of tbea eor.^B ,j|| 0 gv?. Relieves all stomaefc^B ~'W? H troutolea. It entirely vegetable, I Sola ^ ?M. 60c*nd?^' Tbt-I Cbar^?