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|8ifsr- ' ' ? ?- -v? . -- . .. ii I mimra I ? ?i "ii II i bundleTfTiFe" The Rev. Dr. Talmage Inspired by Familiar Simile. THE DIVINE ECONOMY. The Things Which (jG to Make Up Man's Earthly and HeavenJy ExistenceUnder the familiar image of a bundle Dr. Talmage shows in this sermon the things which go to make up man?s earth ly and heavenly life; text, I Samuel ryr 29 "The soul of my Lord shall be bound ia the bundle of life with the Lord thy Gad." Beautiful Abigail, in her rhythmic plea for tne rcscuc of her inebriate hus band, who died within ten days addresses David the warrior ia the words of .the text. She suggests that his life, physically aac iatellectually and spiritually, is a valuable package or bundle, divinely bound up and to be diViaely protected. That phrase "bundle of life;' T heard many times in ruv lather's family prayers. Family payers, you kaow, have frpqueat repetitious, because day by day they acknowledge about the same blessing* and deplore about the same frailties and sympathize "with at>out tne same misfortunes, and I do not know why those who lead at household devotioDs should seek vaiiety of composition That familiar prayer becomes the house hold liturgy. I would not give one of my old father's prayers for 50 elocu> tionarv supplications. Again and again in the morning and evening prayer, I heard the request that we might all be bound up in the bundle of life, bot I did not know until a fe* days ago that the phrase was a Bible phrase. Now, the more I think of it the better like it. Bundle of life! It is such a simple and unpretending yet expressive compr Ison. There is nothing iikc grandiloquence in there are many sublime passages in Holy Writ, there are more passages homely and drawing illustrations from common observation and everyday life. In Christ's great sermons you hear a hen clucking hei eliiokeu.s together and see the photographs of hypocrites with a sad countenance and hear of the grass of the field, and the buck crows which our heavenly Father feeds, and the salt that is worthless, and the precious stones flung under the feet of swine, and the shifting sand that lets down the house with a great crash and hear the comparison of the text, the most uupoetical thing we can think of?a bundle. Ordinarily it is something tossed about, something thrown- under the table, something that suggests garrets or something on the shoulder of a poor wayfarer. But there are bundles of great value, bundles put up with great caution, bundles the loss of which means consternation and despair, and there have been bundles rep resenting the worth of a kingdom. During the last spell of cold weather there were bundles that attracted the attention and the plaudits of the high .^fe?avens?bundles of clothing on the x way from comfortable homes to the s" door of the mission room, and Christ stood in the snowbanks and said as the bundles passed: "Paired, and ye clothed me.. Inasmuch as j a have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done ic unto me." Those bundles are multiplying. Blessings on those who pack them! Blessing on those who distribute them! Blessings on those who receive them! With what beautiful aptitude did , - Abigail, in my text, speak of the bun, die of life! Oh, what a precious bundle is life! Bundle of memories, bun die of hopes, bundle of ambitions, Dundle of destinies! Once in a while a man writes his autobiography, and it is of thrilling interest. The 3tory of his birthplace, the story of his struggles, the story of his sufferings, the story of his triumphs! But if the autobiography of the most eventful life were well written it would make many chapters of adventure, of tragedy, of comedy, and there would not be an uninteresting step from cradle to grave. Bundles of memories are * *>u!* Boy hood memories, with all its injustices from playmates, with all its games with . . all its games with ball and bat and kite and sled. Manhood memories, with all your struggles in starting?obstacles, oppositions, accidents, misfortunes, losses, successes. Memories of the first marriage you ever saw solemnized, of the first grave you ever saw opened, of the first mighty wrong you ever suffered, of the first victory you ever gained. Memory of the hour when you were affianced, memory of the first advent n your home, memory of the roseate cneek faded and of blue eyes closed in the last ileep, memory of anthem and of dirge, memory of great pain and of slow convalescence, memory of times when all things were against you, memory of prosperities that came like the full tide of the sea, memories of a lifetime. What a bundle! I lift that bundle today and unloose > ?j v:?j_ :l me cora mat uiuus il} ?uu iui a mument you look in and see tears and smiles and laughter and groans and noondays and midnights of experience, and then I tie again the bundle with heartstrings that have some time vibrated with joy and anon been thrummed by fingers of woe. Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is almost every man and woman, especially at the starting. What gains he will harvest, or what reputation he will achieve, or what bliss he will reach or i * * ? TTT7 j 1 ' Vbat love He will win. ? nat maKes college commencement day so entrancing to all of ns as we see the students receive their diplomas and take up the garlands thrown to their feet? Oh, ' whit a bundle of hopes and ambitions! It is a bundle of garlands and scepters from which I would not take one sprig of mignonette nor extinguish one spark of brilliance. They who start life without bright hopes and inspiring ambitions might as well not start at all. for every step will be a failure. Rather would I add to the bundle, and if I open it now it will not be because I wish to take anything from it, but that I may put into it more coronets and hosannas. Bundle of faculties in every man and every woman! Power to think?to think of the past and through all the future, to think upward and higher than the highest pinnacle of heaven, or to tiisk'downward until there is no lower abysm to" fathom. Power to think v"""' right, power to think wrong, power to tkink forever, for. once having begun to think, there shall be no terminus for that exercise, and eternity itself shall have no power to bid it halt. Faculties to love?filial love, conjugal love, paternal love, maternal love, love of country, love of God. Faculty of judgment, with scales so delicate and yet j so mighty they can weigh arguments, j weigh emotions, weigh worlds, weigh heaven and hell. Faculty of will, that can climb mountains or tunnel them, T. f \ ^ ^ ? ;? waae s'eaS 6i* oridge tnelllj... accepting eternal enthronement or cEp^sing ever lasting exile. Oh. what it is t<, be i man! Oh, what it is to b<. a woman Sublime and infinite oundte /jf facul ties! The thought of it staggers me, swamps me, stuns me, bewilders me, | overwhelms me. Oh, what a bundle o! J life Abigail of my text saw in David j and which we ought to see in every hu I man, yet immortal, being! Know, also, that this boundle of lift was put with great care. Any merch ant and almost any faithful householde: will tell you how much depends on th< way a boundle is bound. The cord o rope must be strong enough to hold, th< knot must be well tied. You know no what rough hands may toss that bundle If not properly put together, though i may leave your hands in good order an< symmetrical, before it reaches its pro per destination it may ue loosened ii fragments for the winds to scatter or th< j rail train to lose. Now, I havre to tell you that thi | bundle of lift, is well put together?th body, the nica, the soul. Who bu the omnipotent God could bind such bundle? Anatomists physiologists physicists, logicians, metaphysicians declare that we are fearfully made That we a**e a bundle well put togethe I prove by the amount of journeyin ' we can endure without damage, by th amount of rough handling we can sui vive, by .the iact that the vast majorit of us go through iife without the losso an eye, or the crippling of a lamb, o the destruction of a single energy o body or' faculty of mind. I subpoeo for this trial that man ia yonder viei ! 70 or 80 years of age and ask him t testify that after all the st-orms aad ac cidents and vicissitudes of long life h still keeps his five senses, and, thoug all the lighthouses as old as h(? is hav been reconstructed' or ne>7 lanterns pu in, he has in under his forehead tli same two lanterns with which Go stated hLn, and, though the loeomc tives of 60 years* ago were long^ ag sold for old iron, he has the origins powers of locomotion in the limbs wit which God started him, and, though a! the electric, wires that carried message 25 years ago have been torn down, J hi nerves bring messages from all parts c , his body as well as when God strun | the-* 75 years ago. "Was there eve si^h a complete bundle put together a ' the human being? What a factory What an engine! What a mill race What a lighthouse! What a locomc 11 > C . IT LLCL-J 4PU IV WWVW . I ? a furnace! What a masterpiece of th Lord God Almighty! Or to employ th anticlimax aDd use the figure of th text, what a bundle! Know also that this bundle of life i properly directed. MaDy a bundle ha missed its way and disappeared becaus th.e address has dropped and no one ca find by examination for what city c town or neighborhood it was intended All great carrying companies ha^e s many misdirected packages that the appoint days of vendue to dispose c them. All intelligent people know th importance of' having a valuable pact age plainly directed, name of the on to whom it is to go plainly - writtcr Baggage master and expressman ough to know at the first glance to whom t take it. This bundle of life that Abigail, i my text, speaks of is plainly addressed By divine penmanship it i? directe heavenward. However lone mav b the earthly distance it travels, its des tination is the eternal city of God o high. Every mile it goes away froi that direction is by some human or in fernal fraud practiced against it. Ther are those who put it on some othe track, who misplace it in some wron conveyance, who send -it off or send i back by some diabolic miscarriage The' value of that bundle is so wel known all up and down the univers that there are a million dishonest hand which are trying to detain or divert it or to forever stop its progress in th< right direction There are so many in fiuences abroad io rr'n your body, min< and ssul that my wonder is not that s< many are destroyed for this world an< the next, but that there are not mori WUU uur 11 111 ^iiiguiak/Ajf . Every human beieg is assailed at thi start., Within an hour-of the tim< when this bundle of life is made up thi assault begins. First of all, there ar< the infantile disorders that threatei the body just launched upon earthl] existence. Scarlet fevefs and pneum onias, and diphtherias and influenzas and the whole pack of epidemics sur round'the cradle and threaten its occu pant, and infant Moses in the ark o: bulrushes was not more imperiled dj the monsters of the Nil* than ever] cradle is imperiled by ailments all ae vouring." In after years there are foes within and foes without. Evil appetite joined by outside allurements." Temp tations that have utterly destroyed more people than now inhabit the earth, Gambling saloons and rummeries, anc places where dissoluteness reigns su preme, enough in number to go rounc and round the earth. Discouragements, ioalmuips rovpnups TTialpVrtlAnrtAH disappointments, swindles, arsons, con flagrations and cruelties which make continued existence of the human race a wonderment. Was any valuable handle ever so imperiled as this bundle of life? Oh, look at the address and get that bundle going in the right way ';Thou shalt love the Lord thy Goo with all thy heart and soul, and mind and strength." Heaven with its 12 gates standing wide open with invitations. All the forces of the Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival if we will do the right thing. . All angeldom ready for our advance and guidance. All. the lightnings of heaven many drawn swords for our protection. What a pity, what an everlasting pity, if this bundle of life, so well bound and so plainly directed, does not eome out at the right station, but becomes a lost bundle, cast out amid the rubbish of the universel! Know also that this bundle of life will be gladly received when it comes to the door of the mansion for which it was bound and plainly directed. With what alacrity and glee we await some package that has been foretold by letter; some holiday presentation; something that will enrich and ornament aur i ^ : .1? i i? nome; some testimony 01 aamiration and affection! With what glow of expectation we untie the knot ahd take off the cord that holds it together in safety, and with what glad exclamation we unroll the covering and :see the gift or purchase in all its beauty of color and proportion. Well, what a day it will be when your precious bundle of life shall be opened in the "house of many mansions" amid saintly and angelic and divine inspection! The bundle may be spotted with the marks of much exposure. It may bear inscription after inscription to tell through what ordeal it has passed. Perhaps splashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it has within undamaged of the journey. And with what shouts of joy the bundle of life will be greeted by all the voices of the heavenly home circle! In our anxiety at last to reach heaven we are apt to lose sight of the glee or welcome that awaits us if we get in at all. We all have friends up there. i They will socieborf heat that we are \ ' coming. Such close and swift and conL hstant communication is there between ! j those uplands and these lowlaDds that . we will not surprise them by sudden ar rival. If loved ones on earth expect ; our coming visit and are at the depot I \ with carriage to meet us, surely vre j will be met at the shiuing gate by old 1 friends now sainted and kindred now glorified. If there were no angel of ; God to meet us and show us the pal. aces and guide, us to our everlasting r residence, these kindred would show ? us the way iDd point out the spJendors r and guide us to our celestial home, bow? ered and fountained and arched and ilf lumined by a sun that never sets. Will it not be glorious, the going in and the t settling down after all the moving i about and upsettings of earthly experi. ence? We will soon know all our 3 neighbors, kingly, queenly, prophetic, e apostolic, seraphic, arohangelic. The preoious bundle of life opened amid s palaces and grand marches and acclae mations. They will all be so glad we i have got safely through. They saw us a down here in the struggle. TJhey saw i us when we lost our way. They knew when we*got off the right course. None l# of the 32 ships that were overdue at r New York harbor in the storm of week, g before last was greeted so heartily by e friends on the dock or the steam tugs .. that went out to meet them at Sandy y Hook as we will be greeted in the hea'f venly world if by the pardouiug and pro,r tecting grace of God we come to celes,f tial wharfage. We shall have to tell a them of the many wrecks that we have X passed on the way across wild seas and 0 amid Carribbean cyclones. It will be like our arrival some years ago from e New Zealand at Sydney, people surh prised that we got in at all, because we e w?re two days late, and some of the it ghips esp^ctcd had gone to the bottom, e and we had priced derelicts and aband doned crafts all up and down that aw> ful channel?our arrival in heaven all o the more rapturously welcomed because il of the doubt as to whether we would evh er get there at all. 'I Once there it will be found that the ' safety of that precious bundle of life |? was assured because it was bound up with the life of God in Jesus Christ. ? Heaven could not afford to have . that ' bundle lost, because it had been said in ,, regard to its transportation and safe arki rival, "Kept by the power of God ' through faith unto complete salvation " The veracity of the heavens is i"\ _ ed in its arrival. If God siiould i g keep his promise to just one raDfom.-d soul . the pillars of Jehovah's t)?mue would fall, and the foundations of i?e 9 eternal city *ould crumble, and ii li lite g poverties would dash down all thi cha' lices and .close all the banqueting hulls, n and the river of life would change its course, sweeping everything with JesoI lation, aBd frost would blast all the gar 0 dens, and immeasurable sickness slay the immortals, and the new Jeru-alem (? become an abandoned city, with no chariot wheel on the streets and no worshipers in "the temple?a dead Pompeii of " the skies, a buried Herculaneum of the ' heavens. Lest any one should doubt, ,1 the God who cannot lie smites his om nipotient hand on the side of his throne, and tases affidavit, declaring. "As I live, said the Lord God, I have I ^ no pleasure in the death of him that ^ dieth." Oh! I cannot tell you how I feel about it, the thought is so glorious. Bound up -with God. Bonnd up with ^ infinite mercy. Bound up with infinite joy. Bound up with infinite purity. Bound up with infinite might. That ' thought is more beautiful and glorious r than was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot of the crags uttered it?"Bound in f the bundle of life with the Lord thy God! ] Now. my hearer and reader, apprecie ate the value of that bundle. See that g it is bound up with nothing mean, but with the unsullied and immaculate, e Not with a pebble of the shifting beach, . but with the kohinoor of the palace, cot 3 with some fading regalia of earthly 5 pomp, but with the robe washed and I made white in the blood of the Lamb, a Pray as you never prayed before, that by divine chiiography written all over your nature, you may be properly ada dressed for a glorious destination. Turn I not over a new leaf of the old book, but I by the grace of God open an entirely ^ new volume of experience and put into practice the advice contained in the peculiar but beautiful rhythm of some author whose name I know not: > * ' . a- . If you ye aoy task to do, Let me whisper, friend, to yon 1 TV - TL p- VO It. If you ve anything to say, 7 True and needed, jea or nay. Say it. If you've anjtbiog to lore As a-blessing from abova, Lore it. If you've anything to give, That another's joy maj live, " Give it. i If some hollow creed vou doubt, - '1 hough the whole worjd hoot and shout, j * * Doubt it. If you've any debt to pay, i < Rest you neither night nor .la; ? p Pay r. . If you've any joy to holcf, ' Near-your heart, lest it grow cold, i * ?-.' .<> * , Hold it. * Tf ?AM*?IA n*\TI iwvtiaf 4A maaf * ' xi jrvu * o ?uj iti uAWby J At a loving Father's feet L " Meet it! If you know what torch to light, [ Guidiug others in the nipht, [ Light it. Gen. Wheeler Left Out. [ A dispatch from Washington says ! the president has practical!}* made up l the list of the general officeis to be retained in the volunteer branch of the ' service. The basis of all the calcula; tions is an army of 65,000 men, for the i president has so far insisted that he i will not call for volunteers in addition i to that number unless an emergency , should arise. The reorganization act limits the number of major generals to be appointed to one for each 12,000 men and the brigadier generals to one i for every 4,000 men in actual service. On this basis, as there are already three major generals in the army in the persons of Gen. Miles, Gen. Brooke and Gen. Merrilt, there is room for but two more. To fill these two places the , president has selected Gen. Shafter and Gen. Otis, now in command at Manila. It is safe to say that the list of brigadiers to be appointed will include the j following names: Gen. Wood at Sautia go; Lten. Wilson at luarauzas; uen. Lee ill the province of Ilabana; Gen. Davis now on duty with the court of inquiry into the beef supplies; Gen. Ludlow in command of Habana city; Gen. Lawton nearing Manila; Gen. McArthur at Manila; Gen. Chaffee, and Gen. Frank. V 4. TTT /Tl ill us i wear uiuiju.es. The United States grovenment, or at least some of its agencies, have now engaged in that most difficult of all reforms. a dress reform. In San Juan, Porto Rico an cdicthas gone forth that the little children shall no longer run naked in-'the streets. It will require cotton goods to clothe the little ones, and the mills of the south are . very close to Porto Rico. This may , mean new business for themv li?-rTT"^-" THE COTTON MOVEMENT. What Secretary Hester, of New 0r: j leans, Says About It. ci ? TT .i. /? i xr i secretary nester. or me jiew urieans j Cottou Exchange, says the cotton movement for the six months of the season since September 1. to the close of February inclusive, shows, that compared with the crop movement last year, Texas, including the Indian territory, has brought into sight this season in round figures 425,462 bales more while other Gulf States, which include Arkansas, .Louisiana, .Mississippi, iennessee, Missouri; aod Oklahoma have marketed 476,492 less, and the crop of the Atlantic States, which' includes North and -South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia, shows a decrease of 136,696. In other words all of the States outside of Texas and Indian territory hare decreased 593, 18b bales, against an increase for Texas and the Indian territory of 425,462. leaving the net decrease in the total of the crop marketed of 167,727. Mr. Hester shows the amouut brought iato sight by groups of States for the six months of this season as i follows: Texas and Indiau territory 3,i 179,734 bales, an increase over same time last year of 425.492 bales. Other I Gulf States 2.707.570, a decrease under last year of 476,492: Atlantic States 3,523.238, a decrease under last year of 116 696. Total crop in sight' at close of February 9.410.541, a decrease under last year of 167.726. and an increaseover year before last of 1,798,545. In commenting on the above statement th& Columbia State says: Secretary Hester's cotton report for the first and heaviest six months of the cotton year shows that while the Atlantic States have marketed 116,000 bales less than in the same period of the preceding year and the Gulf States 476,000 bales less, Texas and Indian territory have marketed 425,000 bales more. Mr. R. H. Edmunds of the Manufacturers' Record mentioned tcr us the other day that in the Indian Territory he had been assured that 1,000,000 bales would be raised there within five years and in Texas that the crop of that State would soon reach 5,000,000. The rich black prairies of the transOIississippi region, where not a pound of fertilizers is used, can make a profit on cotton at 4 1-2 cents and will increase I their production rapiaiy even on tnat basis, keeping the price down permanently. We will be fools if we attempt to compete with them. The temporary rise in price usual at this season should delude no planter in South Carolina into dependence on cotton again. The price next fall will be made beyond the Mississippi and it will be to& low for our profit." HENS AffD THEIR FRUIT. / * Value of Chickens and Eggs Produced Last Year Was Fully $290,000,000. P. H. Sprague, a Chicago poultry dealer, read a paper before the farmers' institute at Princeton Wednesday, in which he stated that the production of chickens in the United States last year reached 3,350,000,000 and of eggs 130,000,000,000. The total value of chickens and eggs produced was $290,000,000. Accepting these figures as approximately correct, we must conclude that the hen olays an important part in our American life. But we will better understand* the relative importance of | that part when we comc to make some comparisons. The value of our tobacco crop has i rarely been as much as $43,000,000. | The value of our potato crop is less than ! $80,000,000 on an average. The value ! of our barley crop is not often as much as $30,000,000. An oat crop worth 59A0 nnn 000 is nnnsn&l. Our annual output of pig iron has rarely exceeded $130,000,000 in value. Coal, by far the most valuable of our mineral products. gives a total output of some $200,000,000. Raw cotton, wheat, hay and com are the only four products of our. country that exceed in value heus and hens' eggs, according to the above estimate, and cotton sometimes follows the latter in order of importance, the crop having exceeded $290,000,000 in value only three times and the highest having been not quite $310,000,000. The wheat ciop has ranged in value from $213,000.000 to $513,000,000 and the corn crop from about $140,000,000 to $783,00fo,000. The average value of the hay crop maybe stated at about $390,000,0U0. From this comparison the ifepoi t anc; of the hen, especially in our agric xltural economy, will be appreciated. 'n - "t.i I _ t if i>lr. Sprague stated rue vaiue 01 the egg product seperately the fact is not reported. It would be interesting to know the value of the egg output. Probably it exceeds the value of any farm product except corn, wheat, hay, cotton and oats, may even exceed oats. The hen is by no means to bis despised. A Gallant Rescue. The British steamer Cape Corrientc3, Capt. Metcaif, which arrived at Baltimore Wednesday from Shields, brought the information of a brave rescue made at sea. On Jan. 28. in about Lat, 40 and Long, 32, the steamer sighted a vessel in distress, which proved to be the Russian bark Barunga. Capt. Sundman, which had sailed from Ship island, Ira., on uecenioer 10, wnn a cargo of lumber for Dieppe. When Capt. Metcalf sighted the vessel she was waterlogged and partly dismasted. At 3 p. m., a life saving crew from the steamer, in charge of Chief Officer Charles Johnson, started to rescue the Barunga's crew. He first brought back Mrs. Sundman and three children. The little ones were a boy three and a half years old, a two-year-old girl and a fourmonths-old baby. It was 9 o'clock at night when the last of the Barunga's crew were on board the Cape Corrientes. The machinery of the steamer was out cf order when the rescue was made and Capt. Metcalf bore for St. Michael's, where he arrived Feb. 10. Capt. Sundman and the 17 others resT) rt ?^1 n rrn of UUCU 11 vIII LUC JLfGL Uli?><^5 tTCit xauuvu ?.*, that port. Killed by the Train. Mr. D C. Calvert, who resides between Abbeville and Hodges was accidentally killed by the Southern train Thursday. It seems that Mr. Calvert was attempting to board the train at Darraugh's turnout while it was in nation, lost his footing, and was thrown under the wheels. One of his legs was , severed above the knee and his back was badly bruised from being dragged quite a distance. Mr. James M. Smith of Columbia. S ! C. writes: Dear Sir?It eives me" ; great pleasure to say tnat tne Uld ; North State Ointment bought of you ^ has entirely cured me of eczema when ( everything I had used previously failed ( to giye any relief. It is a great ijedi- ^ cine, and I would not be without it in my house. I use it for almost every- ( thing, where any medicine is needed, ; and have gotten the best of result;* J every time. Respectfully, ( James M. Smith. 2 * * . '* .vJX, TOBACCO Vs, COTTON. What a Marion Comity Farmer Thinks About the Two. The following article puoiisnea in the Pee Dee Hustler, of Marion, S. C.. will no doubt be read with interest by our readers. The article was written by a Marion farmer. Here it is. The question agitating the minds of a great many farmers of Marion county as well as other sections of South Carolina at the present time is the difference as a money crop as between the cultivation of tobaeco and cotton, and this is a very important question to the fam ers at this time, hence it is that I wish to give them a few facts as I see them for their consideration, I will state in the outset that I am a tobacco man, but it is not my wish nor purpose to bring any undue influence to bear in favor of tobaeco that I cannot _ n?a t siciie IctClS LU SUSLiilLi. j. aumiu iu cut outset that when the farmers have cultivated for a long period of time any special crop as a money crop, it is well for them to consider and calculate before making a change, but when they know they are losing money every year on that crop has not the time come for them to stop, consider and calculate, if there is not some crop which they can cultivate that will pay them? I will now proceed to state as to the cultivation of cutton as given to me by quite a number of farmers and iudorsed by a great many others, if in error it is their mistake and not mine, as I do not claim to know from experience. I am informed that in the section mentioned that the average of lint cotton per acre will not exceed 250 lbs, we will put that at 5c which is more than last years crop was sold for, which would make $12.50. I am told to pick out, gin and bale will cost iuu lbs per acre, mat would leave $7.50 per acre to fertilize, to make it produce the average of 250 per acre, for the cultivation and hand rent. Farmers is it not a reasonable calculation* to make, to say that this would soon quit itself? Now, the first proposition I have to make on the side of tobacco, is that for every farmer in Marion county that can show liis cotton bill for the crop of 1898 with any profit, I will agree to produce fifty tobacco bills for the crop of 189S, showing ten times as much profit per acre. The tobacco bills oo unmmrwl in InrfA numbers show that in this section the land will produce on an average 1,000 pounds of tobacco per acre, if properly manured and cultivated. I know of very few farmers that got as low as $50.00 per acre for the last crop and from that to $250.00, and as I wish to be conservative on this side of the question I will say that I am satisfied that the tobacco bills in Marion county will show, an average of at least $75.00 per acre for all cultivated in 1898 but I do not advise the farmers to plant tobacco, baseing their calculations entirely on the crop of 1898, for no one knows what it will do this year: at the same time there is no room f J iT. ? ior any uuuulij. me id piujucuj cultivated, but what it will pay several times more profit than cotton, this fact is not only true for the crop of 1898; but for several years with large numbers of farmers in sections where they pay special attention to the cultivation of tobacco; unless they intend to do that in sections where none has ever been raised, it might be to the interest of those wishing to raise it to group together and get a good man that understands his business to show*them the first year. It would not cost one much, and in addition to the profit they would get in * ? .1 n the lirstcrop Dy drying time, cney wouia gain information that would enable them in many instances in the future to manage successfully for themselves.' I have heard some good farmers say the best investment they ever made on their crops was getting experienced men for thei) first crop in tobacco that : if ?Af AnltT in t.VlA QJjIaS XV uvu vtIk J yu-iu V.U.V".Ci I( V?V W?WW | of that crop but the information gained ' 1 for the future, was was worth more to 1 them than the amount paid out. I [ would not have any one to understand me to advise them to plant tobacco on any land that they would plant cottcn , on, for "that would not d?, but I am sat ] isfied from ^hat I have seen of the lands with some few exceptions, the j majority of the farmers have land that will produce good tobacco if properly cultivated; it is always best to select land that is so located as to have some 1 natural drainage, then run your rows '' the way to give them the advantage of 1 the drainage; by this, in the case of a : great deal of rain, you keep the fibre ! roots from dscaying which alway causes j the tobacco to damage and get in such J condition that there is no improvement in it by anything that you can do, that you may not fail to understand this, I will state that tobacco planted on land with no drainage in case of excess of i rain gets in what the tobacco men call > drowned out, and in such cases is of < very little value. I don't think any < man's experience has been sufficient to s ? X _ 1 J J , teu improvement id tooacco uamageu ; from the drouth, especially when prop- 1 erly managed when we do have seasons. < I' in error let me know. : THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. \ i The Jews Still Emigrating to the City i of Jerusalem. j In a recent report to the state de- ] partiuent Mr. Ravndal, United States consul at Beirut, Syria, refers to the j Zionist movement which was started two years ago and for a while was the ( subject of much discussion. This j movement aimed at the restoration of. the Jewish nation in Palestine with g Jerasalem as its capital. It looks to- ' ward the realization of a dream which c pious Jews have cherished for many centuries. Zionism seemed to subside as quickly as it sprang up, but it has * recently had a revival. I his is due mn'nlp trift Zinnist fionerress which was held at Basel. Switzerland last September, and in some degree to the recent ? visit of the German emperor 10 Palestine. Consul Ravndal gives some in- r teresting facts concerning the Jews in 0 that country. Out of a total popula- ' tion of 200.000, about 40,000 are Jews, S against only 14,000 twenty years ago. ^ In Jerusalem alone there are 22,000 ? Jews, half of whom have gone there from Europe and America in the last ^ twelve or fifteen years. It is evident kthat the tendency of Jews to return to ! their own land is growing. Whether Zionism shall grow or weaken it seems J ? certain that the Jewish population of [ 4 Palestine will be increased very largely. 0 [t is strange that this tendency has set ^ in at a time when the Tews in almost jvery country eDjoy a larger degree of E jivil and religious liberty than evei be- 13 :ore. It is estimated that there are 6.000.- v )00 of those remarkable people in the D s-orld, the great majority of them in g Europe. But they are found wherever jj ;ivilization has gone and wherever they g ire their influence is felt. 1 j I STATE PENSIONS. j There Was No Change in the law at! I the Late Session. i The legislature cid riot change the j pension law. Amendments were intro- I duced by Capt. A. II. Dean, of Spartan- j burg, and by 3Ir. Labau Mauldin, of Pickens, but neither bill passed the senate. The state board of pensions, through Miss Kate F. Maher, clerk, is sendiDg out instructions to township and county boards. The state board consists of M. K. Cooper, secretary of *tate. J. P. Derham, comptroller general, and G. Dancan Bellinger, attorney general. The following copy of instructions to county and township boards will be of general interest. All new applicants for pensions must appear in person before the township boards. Said application must haye the approval of the-township and county Krmrric Hofnro rliA Xi-af-A hr>?rd will an prove them. The township boards may drop from the roll of pensioners the name or names of any party or parties which, in their judgment, are not entitled to a pension under the law. They may add to the roll only such names of new applicants as may file applications. Those already on the pension roll need not file new applications, but must report to the board. .The board will prepare a list giving the name of each penvinnor vrVirt Vinoi^iori winr-P flip last Histfi bution of pension funds, and of those who participated in the distribution of 1898 who, in their judgment, are not now entitled to a pension. All new applications not properly and correctly filed in every particular, although approved by township and county boards, will be disapproved by the state board. The county boards are requested not to forward to the state board theaDDlications of new pensioners disapproved by township and county | boards. Township and county boards will notic.e that the law provides three classes, "A," "13,*' "C," with five sub-divisions of Class (J, as follows: Class A.?Those who have lost both hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or are totally disabled, and whose income does not exceed $250. This does not include soldiers whose disabilities arise a j: ? ii u:u Uisuasus u; uituaca anaiug the war. ' Class B.?Those who have lost one arm or one leg and whose income does not exceed $250, Class C, No. 1.-- -Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds, but not sufficient to be placed in Class B, whose income does not exceed $250. Class C. Xo. 2.?Those who have reached the age of 60 years, and whose income does not exceed $100. n \r ttT i C ,r T Uiass u, ?widows or tnose wuo have lost their lives while in the service of the State or Confederate States, and whose income' does not exceed $250. Class C, Xo. 4.?Widows above the age of 60 years, whose income does not exceed $100. Class C, No. 5.?Widows of pensioners. This class is not mentioned in the printed acts sent out, but by the act approved 9th December, 1894., Blanks for reports of township and county boards have been prepared and 3 TH- . 1 J UUtlJtJU. JL UU UUiUU UitU UU cavil UMUA write the township, and then give the pensioners in that township by classes alphabetically. Township boards cannot be too careful in these matters of '-'income" and ''physical condition." It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor, rent, and other sources, does not exceed $100, or poor lands, if any which will not produce this amount gross. Property sufficient to produce $100 in applicant's oi his wife's name debars him or her. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by giving or selling to their children they are debarred. widows of pensioners who re-marry are not entitled any longer to pensions. Pensioners who have moved to another State are no longer entitled to *a pennPkyye/% rrrV>/\ O T'/i mAr^^ tn QTlAt.ll 3XUU. X uuov nuv 11U "V tuv > vv sr county must have their name transferred and draw their pension from that county. Please note very carefully the following: Let township and county boards act promptly and fairly, giving the state board full information with complete reports by townships for each county, and writing'the names alphabetically, full ?nd clear, and beginning with Class A, md giving reasons for approving. Township boards must firs: approve in writing each new application, and then county boards, and afterwards the state board. In making reports to county boards, township'boards'reports should ' be signed by each member. A Constant GuestDid you ever observe that the manners of even the bestmannered families ire a little improved by the presence of company? Do you not realize in your Dwn case that you are less apt to give short answers, to be contentious, to speak sharply, to give way to selfish sii -J lence, to De mooay, or uuieiinuuttuic. ui lisagreeable, when there is a guest in Four household? Especially is this not so if the stranger is one of dignified and aoble bearing, of high position and jharacter, of sweet and winning manner, and Tery especially if it is one ivhom you love, and who loves you? Sow this thoueht seems to suggest a possibility of your wearing these '"eomsany manners1' always, for always you lave, or may have, such a guest with rou?One who is more majestic in bearng than the kings of the earth, yet nore tender and loving than a mother. )ne who is ? "crowned with glory and lonor," yet bears Himself toward you vith matchless tenderness otae whom lurely you must love, since He so loved 'ou as to give His life for you. There :an be no doubt of His willingness to j ibide with you, for He Himself has >romised, ':Lo! I am with you always, iven to the end of the world." The Round Bale. R. H. Edmunds, editor of the Manuacturers' Record, says in regard to his ecent Southern trip: "I have had fccasion to study carefully the actual rorkings of the round bale system of otton handling, which is being introluced by Mr.'Searles, and I- am more han ever convinced that while it means ; he development of probably the big- i ;est industrial enterprise since the , Standard Oil was brought into exist- , nee, it also means a saving of $30,- ; 'OO.OOO to $40,000,000 a year to the < South. The middlemen, the cotton i actors and compress people, who now j ake toil out of every bale or cotton, ao , iot like it. butthe farmers do; for un- ( [er it they are getting a dollar or two , Qore a bale for their cotten than if put ip in the old square bale." I European newspapers predict a long rar, costly in expenditure of life and i Qoney. before the United States shall mally subjugate the Filipinos. They :novf from the experience's of their own ;overnment the difficulties of carry- j og on foreign wars. HOW TO MAKE COTTON PAY. Some Good Advice From the Georgia Agricultural Department. In the cotton bulletin issued from the ! Georgia State experiment station. Col. j Reading, the director devotes a chap ter LU SUUiLUlU^ U.?J OUiliC Ul tlic ICOUIia of experiments on the farm during his nine years' administration. He says it is possible to make the mistake of planting too much corn or oats as well as too much cotiou, and whether a farmer is producing too much cotton depends on whether he is 'producing it at a profit andjaot on the number bales he makes. If a farmer is producing it at a cost less than the market price, and can sell at a profit, he is not producing too much, it does not-matter how many bales he makes. If on the contrary he is making fifty bales at a 'loss, he is making too much co.ton for his good. When a farmer finds .his crop is costing him more or as much as he can sell it for. then one of two things are necessary. . He mu^t either raise the price or lower the cost of production. The former is beyond his control and he had better address himself to the latter. In the opinion of Director Redding if he will select his best land, the best varieties of cotton seed, properly balanced fertilizers and manures and adopt the best methods of cultivation, the farmer can certainly reduce the cost of' producing his crop. He says: By these means, a farmer may not make so many bales of cotton as he has usually done; in fact, he certainly will not, but the smaller number will Vom V?AAn of O lofiC n/ir lia>^ pVUUV/\/U M www ^sv*. pound. If a farmer has been planting 90 acres of cotton to get 30 bales, and finds that these 30 bales have cost him six cents a pound, it would certainly be better to reduce his area to 15 acres and his output to 10 bal?g. if by so doing he can produce these 10 bales at a cost of 3 ? or 4 cents per pound. In the first case there is much work and worry without any profit; while in the second case there is not so much work and worry, and less than one-third as many bales; and there is some profit in > the 'atter course. When our farmers learn that ten bales of cctton, with a profit of $10 a bale are much better than thirty Tjales at no profit, they will be on the road to reform. They will not only make money, but they will save in labor, time * ^ * 1 1 - t. * -T_ and acreage, ana nave iana upon wmcn to make other crops for food. "We quote again from Director Redding: T he very same principle applies to every kind of crop. It is certainly not sound policy to expend $5 per acre in preparing, planting, cultivating and harvesting a crop of 8 or 10 bushels of corn. The true policy is to concentrate labor, fertilizers and skill, on smaller areas of better soil, for such crops as require the more expensive cultivation, and devote a larger area to small grain (especially oats and rye), cow peas, pasture, etc,?crops which cost little.labor and are essentially improvers of the soil.?Augusta Chronicle. THE COST OF THE WAB. Close to Five'Hundred Millions so Far and Other Expenses a Billion. The New York Sun says the Republican chairman of appropriations and the leader of the opposition on the committee concur as to the cost to the nation of the war with Spain in money a re d/ aj propriated. The total is^almost half a billion dollars. The exact figures, as stated both by Mr-. Cannon and Doekery, are $482,562,083. This is the cost to date of an idea, an intellectual conceplion; a sentiment; and r>i<? is worth pvp.rvr dollar it ha? cost or will cost. Last August after hostilities hid ceased, there was current an official statement apparently showing that the entire expenditure for military and naval operations up to that date had been $117,121,000; and this total was prematurely accepted in some quarters as representing approximately the cost to the nation of the war which the nation righteously undertook. At that time The San published an estimate of the several items of cost likely to be chargeable ultimately to the account of the war with Spain aud ifQ rfsnlt.iniT rftsnnnsibilities. The table is here repeated: 1. Current war expenses.. $400,000,000 2. State expenditures ... 15,000,000 3. Private contributions. 1-5,000,000 4. War claims 30,000,000 5. Loss of soldiers1 produc tivc labor 100,000,000 ' > 6. Interest on the war debt 90,000,000 7. Pensions 300.000,000 , 8. The Maine * 3.000,000 ^ Total.. $943,000,000 | This estimate was attacked as excessive by some conscientious statisticians, j particularly on account of the size of : the first item. How could the direct j appropriations for tlfe war itself possi- j bly reach $400,000,000, we were asked. : when the official accountants of the ! Treasury reported a total of only $117,121,000 at the end of four months of aciual operations? Yet the result shows that our estimate was so moderate that it hao already been exceeded by a nearly $100.000.000. IIow. many people remember "hat the corresponding item on account of the war for the preservation of the Union amounted to $3,348,372,904? "We therefore revise the table, leaving the other items of cost standing as they were, to be verified or discredited as time goes on: 1. Current war espensesS -182,562,083 2. State expenditures.. 15,000,000 , 3. Private contributions 15.000,000 4. War claims 20,000,000 5. Loss of soldiers pro- ductive labor 100.000.000 u. iuicicst uii tiic wax debt 90.000 OX) 7. Pensions 300,000.UUO i 8 The Maine 3,000.000 ?:? , Total $1,025,552,083 ' John* Barrett, United States minister to Siam, calls the attention of our cotton growers and merchants to the 1 fact that the opportunities for trade ^ which the east holds out to them are 3imply infinite. Out of the 500,000,D00 people who inhabit the Asiatic countries not fewer than 400,000,000 Df the number are clothed in cotton garments, and out of 5,000,000 square \ miles which these Asiatic countries contain, not more than 100,000 square miles are adapted to the production of :otton. In these facts may be promis2d much for the cotton growing states of North America. Braytox Ives, the famous Xew York collector, has brought suit against a London firm of booksellers to recover . $4,374, which he paid for what pur- " ported to be an original letter written I by Christopher Columbus, but which turned out to be only a skilful photo- { graphic reproduction of the original let- a ter. c _ " :. i . ,:' :"-m timUmmmi ? - -- MMtitgW * ^ Flour Mill Machinery. M CONTRACTS' TAKEN TO FURNISH COil? PLETE EQUIPMENT FOR? Roller Floor Mills. ?REPRESENTING T1IE ? kiiniciiu City Kill Works, One of the largest anadfAOtareri Flour Mill Machinery in fciie coaotry and having experienced Millwrights, I am prepared to build mills on the most improved plans and at prices to compete with any one ^ in the trade. We guarantee tVm irYrwrlrj/?+.a nnr mi lie equal the grades of the best Western mills. Before placing your orders write to me. I also handle a complete lio&of WoodWorkiDg Machinery: Saw Mills, En , gines and Boilera, Corn Mills and Machinery in general. Having been established in business here for sixteen years, I have built up * vmy trade by selling the very highest ^ class of machinery, aod am in a better position to serve the interest of my eustomers than ever before. 0 V. C. Badham, 2 ???? wrueuuicK ?TO THE ^ ' - COLUMBIA, S. C., J for catalogae. Free scholarships on easy conditions to those who write soon. Railroad fare paid. Cheap board. Notes accepted. Can pay part of expenses by working in the - *|jj college office. Address, mentioning, course desired, ? ttt rr r-n itrr* r?T\ T"% tt T\ _ _ i_ w.JH. jNiiiwrresc. "We are State Agents for and make a - _j| SPECIALTY of equipping improved - | modern ginneries with the celebrated? ii ft* a.?I ' V - 'M murray Binning aysieni, the simplest and best. Cotton ginned on this system commands a higher mar- . ket price than any other, and. the ma- v 3 chinery itself is a marvel of* simplicity."9^ We control for this State the improved Murray Cleaning Feeder, which is " unquestionably the best gin feeder ever *. *>^ yet invented. Parties contemplating J-'$M a purchase of machinery of this kind are invited to correspond with us. Machinery and Mill Supplies of- ^ all kinds at lowest manufacturers prices. Xow is the time to place your order 7 " for a threshing machine; buy the best, ^ we sell it?the FARQCJHAR. t * ' - | W. H. GIBBES & CO., J COLUMBIA, S. C. State Agents for:?Liddell Co., Eagle? > v Cotton Gin Co.,^L B. Farqnhar Co. From f.laker iS^-oct to Purchaser !?. 386 A tB . M- "'!? ? IjrOOfl H 1- Piano 1 Jfeg wllj lax't a i? la<:g;??rjg ?iKfc'^?'3 j i feti me' 3fc-.'gS 1 JBBfil gk.f'? * '->j A Pour Plane S I willtatafew ? @] give endless SI / ?k ThC . vexation. n 1 Mathushek | I ^ Is always Good, always Rellablei sft jSS alwava Satisfactory, always Last? JSK 3*5 jng. You take no chances in buy- m| ?; lDgit. m ?S It costs somewhat ^ore than a ?* SfB cheap, poor piano, bat is much tho (Si ?? cheapest in the end. *J? Ss? No other Hlsrh Grade Planosoldro M SB reasonable. Factory prices to retail 1BI , iSC buyers. Easy payments- Write u*. 2g* ^ ; ?? ? LUDDEN & BATES, %L ??! Savannah, Go-, and New York CHy. jjg? # .Mdr?ss: I). A.. PrtESSLKY, \centj Charleston, South Carolina, <? ?THE? Keeley I i insmuie, u Gcrngr Vaniierhorst & Smith Sts.E fiharloctnn until IUWLUII; J SouthCarolina | THE ONLY jM SEELEY iNSTITUTfl^H IN THE STATE. ME i) SEE IT! WM We will exhibit at theJ^J Fair to be held hei^^ to 19 th, ation a COMPLETE UURH COMPLETE m UjJ Sj] 3uilt by IjjM otte, N. 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