The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, November 30, 1898, Image 4
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TALMAGE'S SERMON,
Caleb's Wedding Present to His
Daughter His Subject.
AN OLD STORY RETOLD.
Draws Inspiration from Table of
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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."
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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TmnT^THE SOUTH.
This Years's Crop Srows Cain ;
of 14,000,000 Bushels.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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give waaonabie time, at a ihgni differentt.
a -V ; 'y^M.
Warranty,
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M. A, MALONE,
1609 MAIN 8TbEST,
Take Care of
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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 ^
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Colombia, S. 0. ;
THE CITY BY THE SEA.
The Keeley Instttoti^
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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. *'%
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HIS From Maker Direct to ftiirdm%rl^k .
IA Good J I
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Si *1 MbHSb ?lve endl<? $08 S
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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 |
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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.
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G?B*xmlA9rat,
1886 Main Street %
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