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v ' -\ TALMAGE'S SERMON, Caleb's Wedding Present to His Daughter His Subject. AN OLD STORY RETOLD. Draws Inspiration from Table of ? r ID..UU Springs OT water. vveaiui Without Religion Worthless. Cod's Gift. Taking for his text an oratorical scene seldom noticed, Dr. Talmage discusses the supernal advantages of religion for this world and the next; text. Joshua, xv, 19: "Thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper and the nether springs." - ? i 'I- - T>?A The city or JJeDir was tne x>usum ui untiquity?a great place for brain and books. Caleb wanted it, and be offered his daughter Achsah as a prize to any one who would capture that city. It was a strange thing for Caleb to do, 1 and yet the man that could take the eity would have, at any rate, two elements of manhood?bravery and patriotism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb was as foolish in offering his daughter to the conqueror of Debir as thousands in this day seek alliances for their children with those who have large means without any reference to moral or mental acquirements. Of two evils I would rather measure happiness by the length of the sword than by the length of the pocketbook. In one case there is sure to be one good element of character; in the other there may be none at all. With Caleb's daughter as a prize to tight for txenerai vi-nmei rode into the battle. The gates of Debir were thundered, into the dust, and th? city of books lay at the feet of the 10$ ;uerors. The work done, Othniel Oiiies back to claim his bride. Having conquered the city, it is no great job for him to conqueror the girl's hear;, for, however, faint hearted a woman herself may be, she always loves courage in a man. I never saw an exception, in that. The wedding festivity having gone by, Othniel and Achsah are about to go to their new home. However loudly the cymbals may clash and the laughter ring, parents are always sad when a fondly cherished daughter goes off to stay, and Achsah, the daughter of Caleb, knows that now is the time to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good old man. had given as a wedding present to his caughter a piece of land that was mountainous and sloping southward toward the deserts of Arabia, swept with Ti. ? some very not winos. iowas tancu ? "south land," but Achssh wants an addition of property. She wants a piece of land that is well watered and fertile. Now, it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, his eyes so full of tears because she was going away that he could hardly see her at all, gives her more than she asks. She said to him: "Thou hast given me a south land. Give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether swings." The fact is, that as Caleb, the father, gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land, so God gives us his world. I am very thankful he has gjven it to us, but I am like Achsah in the fact that I am _ not satisfied with the portion. Trees and flowers and grass and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world for a portion has no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by fiery sirocess. It. is "a south land," a portion for any man that tries to put his trust m it What hss been your experience? What has been the experience of every man, of every woman that has * tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the surroundings of pomp, is unhappy because the painter sketches too minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indignantly cries out, "You must strike of my likeness without any shadows!" Hogarth, at the very height of his artistic triumph, is stung almost to death with chagrin beeause the painting he had dedicated to the king does not seem to be acceptable, for George II cries out: "Who is this Hogarth? Take his trumpery out of my presence!" Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth with his eloauence, but had for his last words, "I am absolutely undone." Walter Scott, fumbling around the inkstand, trying to write, says .to bis daughter: "Oh, take me back to my room! There is no rest for Sir "Walter but in the grave!" Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day or, at any rate, only second in wealth, says: "I live the life of a galley slave. When I arjpe in the morning, my one effort is to work so hard that I can sleep when it gets to be night" Charles Lamb, applauded of all the world, in the very midst of his literary triumph says: "Do vou remember, Bridget, when we used to laugh from the shilling galiery at the play? There are now no good plays to laugh at from the boxes." But why go so far as that? I need to go no farther than your street to find an illustration nf teTmt. T am savins'. Pick me out ten successful worldlings?and you know what I mean by thoroughly successful worldlings?pick fiie out ten successful worldlings, and you cannot find more than one that looks happy. Care drags him to business; care drags him back. Take your stand at 2 o'clock at the corner of the streets and see the agonized physiognomies. Your high officials, your bankers, your insurance men, your importers, your wholesalers and your retailers, as a class?as a class, are they happy? No. Care dogs their steps, and, making no appeal to God for help or comfort, many of them are tossed everywhither. How it been with you, - my hearer? Are you more contented - in the house of 14 rooms than you were "" in the two rooms yon had in a house when you started? Have you not had j more care and worriment since you won I that $50,000 than, you did before? Some ef the poorest men I had ever known have been those of great fortune. - A man of small means .nay be put in great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit suicide because of monetary losses are those who cannot bear . the burden any more, because they have only $50,000 left. On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house where Tallerand used to go. He was a favored man. All the world knew him, and he had wealth almost unlimited; yet at the close of his life he says, "Behold, S3 years have passed without any practical result, save fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, " great discouragement for the future and great disgust for the past/' Oh, * my friends, tUftie a 4'south land," and i slopes ojj^HB^^gserts o? sorrow, -v,n?-I, r-r- , and the prayer which Achsah made to her father Caleb we make this day to our Father God: "Thou has given me a south land; give me also springs of water. Ana he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs." Blessed be God, we have more advantages given us than we can really appreciate. We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall call the nether springs, and glories in the world to come which I shall call the upper springs. Where shall I find words enough threaded with light to set forth the pleasure of religion? David, unable to describe it in words, played it on a harp. Mrs. Hemans, not finding enough power in prose, sings thai praise in a canto. Christopher Wren, unable to describe it in language, sprung it into the arches of St. Paul's. John 13un3'aD, uuable to present it in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fascination of allegory. Handel, with ordinary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses it up in an oratorio. Oh, there is no life on earth so happy as a really Christian life! I do not mean a sham Christian life, but a real Christian life. Where there is a thorn, there is a whole garland of roses. Where there is one groan, there are three doxologies. Where there is one day of cloud, there is at,hole season of sunshine. Take the humblest Christian man that you know?angels of God canopy him with their white wings; the lightnings of heaven are his armed allies; the Lords is his Shepherd, picking out for him green pastures by still waters. If he walk forth, heaven is his bodyguard; if he lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angel blossoming, are let into his dreams; if he be thirsty, the potentates of heaven are his cup bearers; if he sit down to food, his plain table blooms * ' . >C into the Kings banquet. xuen say, ''Look at that old fellow with the wornout coat;" the angels of God cry, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let him come in!" Fastidious people cry, "Get off my front steps!" the doorkeepers of heaven cry, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!" "When he comes todie, though he may be carried out in a pine box to the potter's field, to that potter's field the chariots of Christ will come down, and the cavalcade will crowd all the boulevards of heaven. I bless Christ for the present satisfaction of religion. It makes a man all right with reference to the past. It makes a man all right with reference to the future. Oh, these nether springs of comfort! They are perennial. The P J.i.! r*>tfyr%A V? QtirA llOT iounuauuu ui vjuu dmuui/w ing this seal, "The Lordknoweth them that are his," "The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindneps shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, said the Lord, who hath mercy upon thee." Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold!* Oh, neather springs of comfort bursting through all the valley3 of trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what satisfaction there is on earth in religion, do you not thiist after it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after the water springs? It is no stagnant pond, scummed over with malaria, but springs of water leaping from the Rock of Ages! Take up one cup of that spring water and aeross the top of the chalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the yellow of jasper, the green of emerald, the blue of sardonyx, the fire of jacinth. I wish I could make you understand the joy religion is to some of us. It makes a man happy while he lives and glad when he dies. With two feet upon a chair and bursting with dropsie3, I heard an old man in the poorhouse cry out, "Bless the Lord, oh, my soul!" I looked around and said, "What has this man got to thank God for?" It makes the lame man leap as a hart and the dumb sing. They say that the old Puritan religion is a juiceless and joyless religion, JTbut I remember reading of Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in his last moment said: "Is this dying? Why, my bow abides in strength! Iam swallowed up in God!" "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Oh, yon who have been trying to satisfy yourselves with the "south land" of this world, do you not feel that you would this morning like to have access to the nether springs of spiritual comfort? Would you not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and bless your table and heal your wounds and strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your dead? 'Ti? religion that can give Sweettsi pleasures while we live. 'Tis religion can supply Sweetest comfort when we die. But I have something better to tell you, suggested by thi3 text. It seems that old Father Caleb on the wedding day of his daughter wanted to make her just as happy as possible. Though Othniel was taking her away, and his heart was almost borken because she was j going, yet he gives her a "south land." ! Not only that, but the nether springs, i Not only that, but the upper springs. 0 God, my Father, I thank thee that Vrtof mrfAm ma o 1 T>/3" T r? : bJJLV/U. uaou ^IT^u JUl^a gyuvu au this world, and the nether springs of spiritual comfort in this world, but more than all I thank thee for the upper springs in heaven! It is very fortunate that we cannot see heaven until we get into it. 0 Christian man, if you could see what a place it is, we would never get you back again to the office or store or shop and the duties you ? ought to perform would go neglected I am glad I shall not see that world until I enter it. Suppose we were allowed to go on an excursion into that good land with the idea of returning. When we got there and heard the song and looked at their raptured faces and mingled in the supernal society, we would cry out: "Let us stay! We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble of going back again to that old world? We are here now. Let us stay." And it would take angelic violence to put, us out of that world if once we got there. But as people who cannot afford to pay for an entertainment sometimes come around it and look through the door ajar or through the openings in the fence, so we come and look through the crevices into that good land which God has provided for us. We can just catch a crlinrnsp nf it. Wfi Romft near enrrasrh w 0-- - ~ C7 ? to hear the rumbling of the eternal orchestra, though nof near enough to know who blows the cornet or who fingers the harp. My soul spreads out both wings and clasps them in trumph at the thought of those upper springs. One r>f them breaks from beneath the throne, another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the temple, another at the door of "the house of many mansions." Upper springs of gladness! Upper springs of light! Upper springs of love! It is no fancy of mine. "The Lamb which is in the midst of the +liw\r>4? ckoll loofl t/\ 1 iT*incr fnnn tains of water." I wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts. 0 Christian man, to the highest possible exhilaration. The day of your deliverance is coming, is com iug rolling ou with the shining wheels ! of the day, and the jet wheels of the | night. Every thump of the heart is j only a hammer stroke striking off | another chain of clay. Better scour j the deck and coil the rope, for harbor ! is only six miles away. Jesus will i i coine down in the Narrows to meet you. j ':Xow is your salvation nearer than ! when you believed." Man of the world, will you not today make a choice between these two pori t vi r? tions, between "soutn iana 01 tms j world, with slopes to the desert, and j this glorious land which thy Father j offers thee, running with eternal water ; courses? Why let your tongue be consumed of thirst when there are the nether springs and the upper springs, comfort here and glory hereafter? You and I need something better than this world can give us. The fact is that it cannot give us anything after awhile. It is a changing world. Do you know that even the mountains on the back of a thousand streams are leaping into the valley? The Alleghanies are dying. The dews with crystalline mallet are hammering away the rocks. Frosts and showers and lightnings are sculpturing Mount Washington and the Catskills. Niagara every year is digging for itself a quicker plungs. The sea all around the earth on its shifting shores is making mighty changes in bar and bay and frith and I promontory. Some of the old seacoasts ; are midland now. Off Nantucket eight feet below low water mark, are found now the stumps of trees, showing that the waves are conquering the land. Parts of Nova Scotia are sinking. Ships today sail over what only a little while I aso was solid ground. Jsear tne moutn ' of the St. Croix river is an island which in the movements of the earth is slowly but certainly rotating. Ail the face of the earth changing?changing. In 1831 an island springs up in the Mediterranean sea. In 1866 another island comes up under the observation of the American consul as he looks off from the beach. The earth all the time changing, -she columns of a temple nearBizoli show that the water has risen nine feet above the place it was when these columns were put down. Changing! Our Colorado river, once vaster than the Mississiypi, flowing through the great American desert, which was then an Eden of luxuriance, has now dwindled to a small stream creeping down through a gorge. The earth itself, that was once vapor, afterward water? nothing but water?afterward molten rock, cooling off through the ages until plants might live, and animals might live, and men might live, changing all the while, now crumbling, now breaking off. The sun, burning down gradually in its socket. Changing, changing a intimation of the last great change to come over the world even infused into the mind of the heathen who has never seen the Bible. The Hindoos believe that Brahma, the creator, once made all things. He created the water, then moved over the water, ovt of it lifted the land, grew the plants and animals and men on it. Out of his eye went the sun. Out of his lips went the fire. Out of his ear went the air. Then Brahma laid down to ' sleep 4,320,000,000 years. After that, they say, he will wake up, and then the world will be destroyed, and he will make it over again, bringing up land, bringing up creatures upon it, then lying down again to sleep 4,320,000,000 years, then waking up and destroying ' ' j j the world again?creation auu. uemuntion following each other, until after 320 sleeps, each one of these slumbers 4,320,000,000 years long, Brahma will wake up and die, and the universe will die with him, an intimation, though very faint, of the great change to come upon this physical earth spoken of in the Bible. But while Brahma may sleep, our God never slumbers nor sleeps, and the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all things that are therein shall bs burned up. "Well," says someone, "if that is so, if the world is going from one change to another, then what is the use of my toiling for its betterment? That is the point on which I want to guard you. I do not want to become misanthropic. It is a great and glorious world. If Christ could afford to spend 33 years on it for its redemption, then yon can afford to toil and pray for the betterment of the nations, and for the bringing on of that glorious time when all people shall see the salvation of God. While therefore I want to guard you against misanthropic notions in respect to this subject I ? A _ l__ _ have presented, I want you to iase tins thought home with you: This world is a poor foundation to build on. It is a changing world, and it is a dying world. The shifting scenes and the changing sands are only emblems of all earthly expectation. Life is very much like this day through which we have passed. To many of us it is storm and darkness, then sunshine, storm and darkness, then afterward a little sunshine, now again darkness and storm. Oh, build not your hopes upon this uncertain world! Build on God. Confide in Jesns. Plan for an eternal residence at Christ's right hand. Then, come sickness or health, come joy or sorrow, come life or death, all is well, all is well. In the name of the God of Caleb and his daughter Achsah, I this day offer you the "upper springs" of unfading and everlasting rapture. Tobacco In Orangeburg. The Orangeburg correspondent of the Xews and Courier says an effort is being made to get the people of Orangeburg interested in the cultivafi/\n i\f TVio Tllart IS t.f) ?Tf>fc enough well-to-do farmers to obligate themselves to plant a certain acreage in tobacco during the coming year as an experiment to justify the employment of a practical tobacco expert to come to Orangeburg to render assistance both in the cultivation, the curing and the marketing of the crop. Some of the farmers who are leading the movement are willing to put up a tobacco ware house, so that the crop that may be made can be disposed of right at home if the farmers generally are willing to take hold of the matter, and enough of them will agree to plant tcbacoo to give a fair prospect for success for the experiment. A meeting of the farmers of the county has been called for today to discuss this matter. It is understood that there will be present at the meeting by invitation certain experienced tobacconists, who will be prepared to give the farmers present any information desired by them concerning this crop. Several of the farmers of Orangeburg county have planted small quantities of tobacco for several years past, but, owing to the inconvenience of marketing the leaf, they have never realized any special profit from their experimenting. The lands ! of Orangeburg ought to produce as fine tobacco as those of other sections of the State. There is almost every variety of soil in this county. It makes no difference how bad your dondition may be, it might be a great ceal worse. rr?>. ii T i ii'11i-r..iiri ' r^il" ' i'-iiiii'--'.'"-hi'ig TmnT^THE SOUTH. This Years's Crop Srows Cain ; of 14,000,000 Bushels. ( AS COMPARED WITH LAST. Also An Increase in Acreage Noted Ranging From I Per Cent in Georgia to 8 in Texas. The Southern Farm Magazine oi: Baltimore's compiled from advance official reports the total production of corn by States in the south in 1898. showing again, as compared with 1S^7, of over 114,000,000 bushels. In the south the average price for corn runs from 40 to 50 cents or more, as estimated by the United States agricultural department. On the basis of 40 cents, this means an increase of nearly ?50.000,000 in the corn crop of the south as; compared with last year. As gratify ing a3 this remarkable gain in total production J ? 1 ? - ?? ic V*,\TTraTTAf if ifl I dLIU value U1 CilC 10, u.'jn^r^L, xu 10 due mainly to an increase in the acreage itself. Compared with 1S97, most of the southern states show a small gain in acreage running from 1 per cent in Georgia to 8 per cent in Texas, though Maryland, Tennessee and Kentucky show a decreased acreage of from 2 per cent to 5 per cent. The gain in the average yield per acre was very marked in nearly all Southern states; except in Georgia, in which there was a decline in the average of 2 bushels per acre, thus cutting the total yield in that state down very materially. Adjacent states had a considerable increase in the average yield. The total crop by states, as compiled by the Southern Farm Magazine from advance government reports and as compared with 1897 was as sollows: States: 1897 1893 Bushels, Bushels. Kentucky 64,486,000 85, ."177,000; West Virginia..17,004,000 20,328,000 Tennessee 63,673,000 73, 526,000 Arkansas 35,5S1,000 53,709,000 Texas 72,175,000 105,461,000 Louisiana 21,576,000 27.718,000 Mississippi 30,346,000 39,331.000 Alabama 30,524,000 39,681,000 Florida 3,811,000 4,377,000 Georgia 32,173,000 26,580,000 South Carolina.. 15.308,000 17,500,000 North Carolina..31,324,000 34,170,000 Virginia 31,552,000 38,563.000 Maryland 20,3o4,UUU it>,4UD,uuu Total 406,687,000 583,127,000 The total corn crop of the United States for 1898 1,926,000,000 bushels, against 1,902,000,000 bushels in 1897, again of only23,000,000bushels; wheer as the gain in the routh alone was 114000,000 bushels. Omiting the south the figures would show a large decrease for the rest of the country. This is a very gratifying exhibit as a partial offset to the low price of cotton this year, but before the south congratulates itself too heartily upon these figures as evidence of the growth of the idea of the diversification of crops, it should remember that the central southern states have in this big corn crop just a little more than caught up with the corn crop of 1890, allowing nothing for the fact that in the meantime population has doubled. In fact, the corn crop of Georgia for 1898 is 4,000,000 bushels short of the crop of that in 1860. and if the average yield, per acre * ' ' * - j _iqqV Had. not deceased as compareu walu j.cwi the output in that state would have been about equal to the crop of 1860, In the adjacent states the figures for 1860 and 1898 compare as follows: States -I860 1898 North Carolina.. 30.074,56S 34,170,900 South Carolina. .15,065.606 27,500,000 Georgia 30,776,293 26,580.000 Florida 2,824,538 4,377,000 Alabama 32,761,194 39,681,000 Mississippi 29,563,735 39,931,000 Louisiana 16,205.856 27,718,000 Total 157,275,786 189,957,000 Compared with 1897 the yield for 1898 shows a gam in Kentucky of 26,000,000 bushels; West Virginia 3,000,000 bushels; Tennessee 10.000.000 bushels; Arkansas 18,000,000 bushels; Texas 32,000,000 bushels; Louisiana 6.000,000 bushels; Mississippi 9,600,000 bushels; Alabama 9,000,000 bushels; Florida 500,000 bushels; South | Carolina 2,000,000 bushels; North Car olina 3.000,000 bushels and Virginia 7,000,000 bushels; while Georgia shows a decrease of 5,500,000 bus'Mes, and Maryland 4,000,000 bushels. ! Prior to 1860 under the system then prevailing planters realized the importance of 'raising their own foodstuffs, and thus cotton was largely a surplus money crop. This is still pursued by the better class of farmers in the south, but under the tenantry system Negroes and many of the poorer whites, not being directed or controlled by someone else, give nearly all of their attention to cotton-r?ising, buying their foodstuffs for man and beast. This is not only destructive to individual prosperity, out at the same time necessarily retards the progress of the whole south. "What the sor;th did before the war in raising its own food stuffs can be done again. It is gratifying to know that slowly but surely the tendency is in the direction of diversified agriculture. Until the s.outh gives to diversified farming the attention which it demands, ceasing to give so large a proportion of its attention to cotton, its agricultural interests cannot attain the prosperity enjoyed under the old fcod producing system that prevailed prior to 1860. Although population has largely m?re than doubled between 1860 and 1898, the south has, as shown by these figures, but little more than caught up in its production of corn, while it still has less hogs than it had i860, the figures for 1860 being 16,900,000 hogs against 15,600.000 for 1898. Nothing could show the need of diversified farm crops more completely than these statistics. They emphasize the<need of an unceasing effort on the part of the whole south to develop a p ? ? ^ j_i.: I wider range 01 agricultural pruuuvnuiia. The Way to Farm. B. D. Srpings, of Charlotte, N. C., owns and operates several farms in York county. this State. This year his crop acreage consisted of of 160 acres of corn, 900 acrea of cotton and 100 to 150 acres in pea vines. He doesn't have fodder pulled any more, but cuts down his corn early in the fall, and after it is cured in shocks pulls off the ears and has the stalks, fodder and shucks cut up in a "shredder" and the mixture?"stover" it is called?is worth much more than fodder as stock food. Instead of sell ing or putting his cotton seed back on the land he buys 100 steers in North Carolina every year, swaps his cotton seed for meal and hulls on which he fattens the cattle. Last year after figur: : ing all expenses he had clared seven hundred dollars in c:ish on the steers, besides having oceans of manure all paid for. T.ii.ir-rt i SHSEDED CORN STALKS. Tliey Make Most Excellent Food for j Stock. R. T. >"esbitt, Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia, says in a recent report: As a matter of much importance to farmers, I have again called their attention to the immense value of the corn stalks usually left standing and wasting in the fields when they are shredded and used for forage. I have recently had a conversation wi#i a gentleman who is now selling all he can make of this forage at $10 a ton in carload lots, and $12 a ton in smaller quantities. His expe rience is that from 1^ to 2J tons of shredded fodder can be made to the acre, according to the size and number of plants, and that a large machine will cut each day a product from six to twelve acres. Of course in both cases the amount is determined by the quality and yield of the corn crop. It has been ascertained that the largest machines accomplish more profitable and more satisfactory work than the smaller ones, the stalk being more thoroughly cut and shredded. These machines being portable, if one farmer cannot afford the higher price for the laiger machine, a combination of farmers can invest in one, and thus by moving from one farm to another, the stalks for a neighborhood may be converted into a wholesome and nutritive food. Or, as suggested before, one man may own such a machine, and by working all farms in reach during the fall and winter, the entire crop of corn stalks may be shredded without expense to the owners. A strange proposition, but nevertheless true, because the toll may be paid in kind, and is taken from an otherwise worthless product. At the experiment station farm the stripped stalks, which had been left standing in the field until January, were hauled up and shredded. The product was not only readily eaten by the farm animals, but upon analysis was found to contain more nutriment than an equal amount of cotton seed hulls; now so popular popular as stock food. The shredded fodder has this additional advantage over the hulls, that it is much more relished by horses and mules, as well as cattle, and there is not the same precaution necessary in feeding it. It is well known by those who feed cotton seed hulls that there is danger of its becoming compacted, if fed in too large quantities, and that it is always safer to mix it with other more concentrated food stuffs. TVia n+iliratinn r>f srmh a trfimendrras quantity of forage will enable ns not only to raise more and better cattle and farm stock for home nse, but will give an impetus to stock raising for export. There is a growing demand from the West for Southern cattle, and with this enormous addition to our food stuffs, a comparatively large number of beeves | may be successfully raised to meet this market without drawing too heavily upon the other resources of the farm. Thus will be opened a new source of income for the South, and also the foundation be laid for a direct exportation to Europe of thousands of Southern raised beeves. "We have every advantage of climate and transportation, and once the business gets a firm foothold we can scarcely compute its benefits to the South. Our superior situation and environments will give us an immense leverage over our Western competitors. This plan of shredding and utilizing the otherwise useless cornstalks is growing in favor each day, and the time is coming when shredded fodder will be as much an article of commerce as the popular cotton seed hulls, once considered equally worthless. About Costing Lands. At a recent session, the general assembly made material changes in the statutes relating to the posting of lands. The law as it now stands is as follows: Section 175. Every entry upon the lands of another, after notice from the owner or tenant prohibiting the same, shall be a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment with hard labor on the public works of the county not exceeding thirty days. Provided, That whenever any owner or tenant of any lands shall post a notice in four conspicuous places on the borders of any land prohibiting entry thereon, and shall publish once a week for four successive weeks such notice in any newspaper circulating in the county where such lands are situate, a proof of the posting and of publishing of such notice within twelve months prior to the entry, shall be deemed and taken as notice conclusive against the person ' hn-nfiner | making tjuuji' do 4J.WCD<UU JLVI luuuug I and fishing. j Approved the 2nd day of February, A: J)., 1898. | More Time Heeded. ? The Columbia Record says "it is the policy of the state officials as well as the legislature never to encourage the idea that the time for the payment of taxes without a penalty will be extended. "Warnings have been sent out annually that such an extension would most positively not be granted. But legislators always look ahead and want to please their constituents. As a consequence the penalty has been remitted f.r the time extended from sessions im memorial. The prospects are that the time will have to be extended this year unless the authorities want to ruin hundreds o? good, honest men. They are not confined to any particular /class? the farmer, the merchant, the lawyer and everybody else are the victims of four cent cotton. They just haven't got the money to pay right now and that's all there is about it. This report comes from all over the state. The newspapers are full of it. Even in such a rich city as Charleston taxpayers are remarkably slow in settling. The time for the payment of taxes this year will have to be extended, or there will be a lot of iand to be sold at de- ] linquent land sale. J Very Poor Logic. t An exchange says abolish the lien ; law and there will be less cotton raised. ; The fact is the" lien law has but little to do with raisiDg cotton. All the mer- < chant wants is his pay for the supplies i furnished and he does not care whether < it comes out ol corn peas or couon. The truth of the whole matter is the- i cotton crop is in the land owners. "When 1 they say nothing else will do but cotton ] then the renter has no choice. When : the land owners are willing to take rent ! in whatever is raised on the rented land ] the farmers and renters combined can j reduce the cotton crop and not before, i The lien law is the poor man's dependence and should never be taken from him. Shot By a Negro. T - ^ A i XiCWIS WlCUj Ui.j Ct juuug ji xaas*\, ? man of the Pleasant Hill section of i Lancaster county, was sliot in the ah- ^ domen perhaps fatally Wednesday by a 1 Negro named Foster. Foster has been 1 arrested and is in jail. ( NEW GRAVES. Filled With Soldiers From First I South Carolina Regiment. OFFICIAL LIST OF DEAD. Only One Commissiod Officer Among the Number. Roll of the Unfortunate Towns where They Came From. As a result of t ne Hispano-American war there are 18 newly-made graves in South Carolina. When the First regirnant troc int.n and went to defend, the country's honor little did the soldiers anticipate decimation in their ranks. The one prevalent idea, the one uppermost in their minds, was duty and perhaps the thought of death of even one soldier never occurred to them. Several of the companies lost no men from illness and the heaviest misfortune to betall one company was the loss of five men. The first death to occur in the regiment was about six weeks after the regiment was mustered into service. In most of the instances death resulted from fever. Only one commissioned officei in the regiment is numbered with the dead. That is Col. Joseph K. Alston, whose recent death, is well remembered and is still lamented here. The majority of those who died in the line of duty were privates. There was only one death in company B. The victim was John 3VI. Kinard. \fAn*l\A?IMTV TTyl?A AP jjiivaie, iiuui ncwucnj, nu\j \xx^u. vi consumption on the 191. of July. Company C lost two men. The first death was tnat of Sergt. John S. Murray. of Anderson. He was taken s:sk with typhoid fever and died at his ho~ie on the 10th of September. Private John D. GumbreU, of Honea Path, was the next to succumb to fever and his death occurred on the 29th of October. In company F there was only one death and this was heart failure. Private Gary R. Vaughan, of Greenville, the victim, died on the 6th of September. There were three deaths in company i H. The first was Private William Mathews, of Greenville, who died with fever on August 6th. On the 17th of August Private Thos. J. Stines. of Greenville, died of meningetis. The third death was that ol! Private Lawrence L. Turner, of Greenville, from heart failure on September 25th. The largest list of the dead is that of company I. There were five who have answeied to the last roll call. They are: Private William D. 0wings, of Marion, who died with fever on the 17th c T i TV - i _j. 1 * 4.1. oi duiy; jrnvace .* rtnur n.. lucjuiraiiu, of Spartanburg, death caused from fever on the 16th of September; Private David H. Holstein, of Batesburg, with fever, September 24th; Private James 0. Eskew, of Greenville, congestiou of the brain, September 29th: Private Joseph A. Quick, of Columbia, fever, October 3rd. In company L there were three deaths as follows: Private John A. Best, of Ulmers, fever, June 9th; Private Samuel F. Colyar, of Edgefield, fever, July 19th; Private William E. 'turner, of Cope, fever, October 28th; Private Charles Nimman, Grover, fever, OctoI ber 28th. There was only one death in company M, and that was of Private Dwight M. Dick, of Sumter, who died with fever at Chicka manga, on the 9th of July.? Columbia Register. I Farmers Changing Flans. The Carolina Spartan says the price of cotton and the outlook for the future have set farmers to thinking and planning. Even in the famous cotton belt of this State where they make a bale to the acre, with the aid of $5 to $6 of commercial fertilizer they feel that they are losing by the operation. When the fertilizer and picking jerk $10 to $12 out of a 500-pound bale of cotton; the farmer will hardly have his seed clear. Many of the farmer of the cotton belt are turning their attention to oats, tobaeco and sugar cane. The Piedmont farmers should double their grain crop and raise more hogs and cattle. Just now fine beef cattle are quoted at $5.50 gross in the Northwest. Recently a Kentuckian bought' and shipned several carloads of cattle from the upper part of this county to his State. They will be turned into fine Kentucky beef after being fed awhile. This should be a hint to our people to raise; cattle. Bermuda grass pastures will feed them about half the year. The flooded lands on small streams could be set in this grass. It would give good pasturage and prevent washing. The reason that western beeve3 bring 4 to 5* cents gross is because they are pound and large. One of our ordinary cows, which has been milked several years will lose 50 to 60 per cent, in dressing. That is, a cow weighing 900 pounds gross will give about 400 pounds of beef when dressed. The Western two-years olds weighing 1,200 to 1,500 Will iUSti 1X0LXC 1UU1C wau Ui-iv vauuiv which are slaughtered here. When a butcher buys a young steer or heifer weighing 1,200 pounds he expects 700 to 800 pounds of beef. The farmers of the Piedmont should raise more beef. By getting the large breeds and crossing on native cattle they could bring up the size and the price. If the home market should be fully supplied there 1 would be no trouble selling thsm in , other States. They Are Learning. 'The Georgia farmers appear to. ] have learned something. The Monroe ) Advertize says: 'The hog and iiomi ny raisers ftre not worrying over the low price of cotton.' The Arlington Courier says: 'Unless the signs and seasons fail, there are not going to be any short provision crop in this section in 1899.' The Irwinton Bulletin says: ' More wheat will be raised in Wilkinson County next year than during any year in the history of the county.' The Gribson Record says: 'Every farmer in the county intends to plant ten acres, more or less, in wheat.' The Woodbury Messenger says: 'Merriwether is planting wheat and lots of it" Like J reports come from every part of the ' State. All the indications are that the largest wheat crop in its history will be I ?rown in theState next year, and hay ] md rnpco ropor tion.:' A Sad Death. One of Abbeville's most estimable ( poune gentlemen passed away recently, r Dr. Lambert J. White Tuesday after- ^ loon took a deadly*-poison thinking it s-as a headache powder. Everythinn I rTas done for him that could be. In le earlier part of the ^evening, he was lought better, but at about half-ptls ) hew as tno *xiore. TRAGEDY AT GAFFNEY. Deputy in Pursuit of a' Murderer Fatally Wouuds the Wrong Man. Having heard that Rhyne, the Xegfo who fatally stabbed T. G. Falls, was in the vicinity of Gaffney City, S. C. W. S. Shelor and Policeman P. N. Williams, of Charlotte, X. C., boarded the south bound train Saturday night for that point. Upon the arrival of the train at the stations, one would get oS one each side of the train to seo if he (Rhyne) boarded the train. At Gaffney they got off as they had been doing and on Mr. Shelor's side two Negroes anDroached the train and boarded the "blinded baggage.1' Mr. Shelor went to where the Negroes had boarded the train and caught one of them but the other fleet. He shouted three times for him to halt, but the Negro failed to respond, and then Mr. Shelor fired twice at the Negro, who was about 100 yards away, the second shot taking effect, entering the left side and passing upward through the kidney. When he fell Mr: Shelor, still holding the captured Negro, ran to the Negro that he had shot, and finding that it was not Rhyne, released the other Negro to go for medical aid. The Negro is alive, but in a very serious condition and not expected to live. His name could not be learned, but he is known around GafEney as a worthless Negro. Mr. Shelor, who shot the Negro, was deputized to go with Policeman Williams to} look for Rhyne, and is very highly esteemed by his employers, Gray & Love. Having heard of the shooting, many prominent citizens of Charlotte went over to render him all possible aid, but nothing could be done until after preliminary trial. Mr. Sheloralso had assistance offered him from Seneca, S. C., . his former home. He is now in the custody of the sheriff, awaiting trial. The reward for Rhyne has been raised to $500, and it is believed that he is still in the county. The Crime of Voting. The 2*ew York Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian church is in session at Newberry for the purpose of trying about a score of members who are alleged to have voted at the presidential election of 1896 in violation of the church law which prohibits voting. Starvation Imnendine. The Columbia Record says Governor Ellerbe has received a letter from Mr. Thomas Talbird, of Beaufort, in reference to the effects of the storms on the coast during August and October. He says most of the farmers in the damaged portion of the county on the tide water are in need of assistance. Biuffton township, which suffered most, is inhabited by white farmers. Prior to the storms their crops were fine. But all of this was changed by the hurricane. After giving details of the de struction in other parts of the county, Mr. Talbird concluded: "The people need food, clothing and medicine, and if something is not done to relieve their immediate necessities great suffering, if not actual starvation, will result.'" Governor Ellerbe says he has no funds of the state available foi their aid, but the fact that such conditions exist will doubtless appeal to the generosity of the people of the state and country. This is a terrible state of affairs, and should appeal to the sympathies of the charitable in all parts of the State. An organized movement should be started ~ ill An* ?\AAM1A L(j relieve wese Wants to Come Home. James W. Tolbert, who is now in Washington, wants to come home. He telegraphed Governor Ellerbe a few days ago asking that official if he wonld be protected by the State if he should return to Greenwood, saying that his wife and four year old daughter were there in poor health and without protection, that he had large property interests that needed his attention, and that he had committeed no crime against the laws of his country and done nothing to give offense to any one, save that he is a member of the Republican party. Governor Ellerbe re plied thai; he would give Tolbertall the protection in his power, but thought it would not be prudent for him to return t'll the excitement subsides. A Profitable Business. Little Miss Armour, granddaughter of Phil Armour. Sr., was kept two months in an incubator making a fight for life, and the old gentleman was so impressed with her "grit," as he expressed it, he gave her a half million dollars. We know of several grown people who would stay in an incubator for a longer time for less money. Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing rnito on/! mnmids nn Tnat.tpr hnw U.V0U VUVO UUU 1IVMUHWJ *-.V .. bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison 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 i3 a superior remedy for all pains and aches. Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents a bottle. I>"8 FJK Ittoi u- . SS KIDN JSY 6. ?s its anjtif Imparts, I Jtx i? a ?tfmil*tor una rt><ui?s</r toflg / iff nu^orrans. Lathe best afteiH Jg| fflwJc rredloma to aid dig? sticn 9 SB ?r?v?nt> rf?rt<i * cfe*w. OuceeMr'1 j hp -r,i:lw'i2e-t?* aci< --d tbc &?*- & i ? j'-ys within Tbtny minutes after *11 fl caking, relieving acbea in the^g I flff back from disorder of ttx?s eor-Htf I Bm .tans. Kelieves ad stomach j i &? troubles. 1b entirely ve^tmoxe, B j ifff s5c oOe and |1 OC a bottle. Sold Pf IMg y o eaieib generally, ana by Tbe ?Hp fcxnaj l;rug Co., Colombia, S.K i H L>r B Bear, Charleston, ml I jjjSgf jt/- ^ ! ^I We will exhibit at tlie State Fair to be held here Nov, 13th to 19th, in operation a [complete murray ijinning Complete Murray winning System, ystem, milt by Liddellj Co., * Charotte, K". C. This will afford all intested t.a opportunij of seeing the most modern shd simp est of ?* ' XT >i t? mining aiftcninery, 19u g*u 0 ?uum w MM it. ; V. H. GIBBES & CO. klacbinery and Mill supply Headquarters Colombia, S.C.,8 Near Union Depot, K. Colombia. 8 C * C, Agents Liddell Co,, Charlotte, A Happy Home (a increased tea-fold by good Mmic. Mt t the moat of life by procuring & geed PIANO OKOBGA24Mama haa a refinine influence, ted keep* your children u home. REMEMBEK. ?oo only invent omce .aie-tlme, previ ed yon eelect a gooo lnstnunen ( I CHALLENGE f '-S-m ' -v- i'^t inyhooae in America to best my prices TERM. ; /> TotkoM sot prepared to pay wn 1 1^^ give waaonabie time, at a ihgni differentt. a -V ; 'y^M. Warranty, ' fo'lj guarantee my ImtrumeaU <oto ? repreae&ted. ' Z-*i , =rl DON T FAIL * To write for prioet and term*" *; <i -orib nl tratad catalog*? ; -s TOURS FOB PI a v A v >-<w . v> M. A, MALONE, 1609 MAIN 8TbEST, Take Care of ? . Your Property. I Save money by keeping your Gins in thorough repair. Yon get better results :M please the public > ^ and save your r OWN TIME AND LABOE. v Fourteen years practical experience in the ELLIOTT GUN SHOPS at Winnsboro, S. C., ia a flmflmntpft of crood work. Send your gins at oace to the undersigned, W. J, ELLIOTTCOLTJMBIA, s. c. Located adjacent to the To -;a zer Engine Work July27 3m Sold by dealers generally and by ^ THE MURRAY DRUG C Colombia, S. 0. ; THE CITY BY THE SEA. The Keeley Instttoti^ . N. E. Corner Yandjrhorst and* Smith. Streets, CHARLESTON, SO. CA, Atlantic Ocean Surf Bathing. Yatch- . ?K>g, Boating and Fishing. Trolley and V aarry Bides, 1. 18 and 23 miles. Sulli- : J tvn Island ana The Isle of Palms all iFbe enjoyed while under treatment for Mr or Morphine lie tiea. 1 Opens 3rd October and lill be the only Keeley Institute in the State. *'% .. L .. .. HIS From Maker Direct to ftiirdm%rl^k . IA Good J I 1 ^^Fiano 1 ^ "* ' jSl ra TSrill lastafew j Si *1 MbHSb ?lve endl<? $08 S gg The ar? - ^ I Mathoshck S S Is always Good, always Reliable ? XZ always {Satisfactory. ?lw*>s Lmst- M * ?h lag. Yoq take no chances In buy* 38b ' ?S In* It. Sa sra ft costs somewhat more than a ? WC cheap, poor piano, but Is much the jaf oSh cheapezt in the end. JSC No other Hleh Grade P!ano sold so 3M ?? reasonable. Factory prtcc? to retail mm buyers. Easy payments. Write us. ?H OK LUOOEN & 0ATES, S N @5 tamaalk fit, %ad TwtOty. Address: D. A. PRESSLEY, Agent Columbia, S. C. Jg Saw Mills. &\M If you aeed a tav mill, uy sise, writ#. me before buying elsewhere. I bn ^ the most complete line of mills ef lay dealer or manufacturer in the South. Corn Mills. / J Very highest grade Stone*, at unusual* v fl It low prices. V Wood-Working | TkIT L! -'W maciiiiiery. PUtacra. Menlders. Edg*r, Be-ISaw* Wk Band 8awi, Laths, etc. Engines and 1 Boilers, j| Talbott and LiddeU, En^leberg Bioe Hmier, in ftoek, quick delivery, low pricee. V, C. BA.DHAM. I G?B*xmlA9rat, 1886 Main Street % oohtmpxa* s. c.