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S;/; ' . . '' ?ecsa?a? an rn'i'i i>j?? ' LIFE'S BITTERNESS.! Dr.Talmage Eloquently Contrasts ^Selfishness and Kindness. SOME HELPFUL THOUGHTS. t_ KA.|.a We Should Ail strive 10 mane , This World a Pleasant Place j and Not Scatter Worm wood. The contrast between a life of selfishness and a life of kindness is set forth by Dr. Tulmage wniie discounting upon the ba'eful character of a conqueror of olden tiio^; text. Revelation viii. 10, 11, "Th^re fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a j lamp, and.it fell upoo the third part of i the rivers and upon the fountains of { waters, aud the came of the star is j called Wormwood." Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes and some other commentators say that the star Wormwood of my text was a type of Attila, king of the Euns. He was j so called because he was brilliant as a j star, and like wormwood, he imbittercc j everything he touched. We have stu- i died the Star of Bethlehem and the j Morning Star of Revelation and the j Star of Peace, but my subject calls us to gaze at the star Wormwood, and my theme might be call "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary character hisHfiAs not furnish than this man Attila, the king of the Huns. The story goes that one day a wounded heifer came limpiDg along through the fields, and a herdsman followed its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer was wounded, and went on back farther and farther until he came to a sword fast in the earth, the point ^ downward, as though it had dropped from the heavens, ?nd against the edges of this sword the heifer had been cut. The herdsman pulled up that sword and presented it to Attila. Attila said that 1 frnm flip sword must nave mu^ru heavens from the grasp of the god Mars and its being given to him meant that Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called liberators, or the -Merciful, or the Good, but Attila called himself and demanded that others call him "the Scourge of God." . " At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted on Cappadocian horses, he swept everything, from the Adriatic to the Black sea. He put hi& iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and erona beg for mercy, which he bestowed not. The Byzantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction oii-roT tak1#?s and vases of solid jjuao&j. T iJJLJL 1 W* ? gold. "WTien a city was captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes. The first class, those who could bear arms, must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered: the second class, the beautiful women, were made captives to the Huns; the third class, the .aged-"men and women, were robbed of everything and Jet go back to tie city to pay a heavy tax. T' * o f fVl d ae was -a-wiifflwu s grass life ver grew where the hoof of At> tila's horse had trod. His armies redaened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle since the world stood ?300,000 dead left on the field. On and on until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, then a cloud of dust was seen in the distance and a bisnop cried,'*It is the aid of Godj" and all the people took up the cry, "It . is the aid of God." As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of reenforcing armies marched in to help against Attila, "the Scourge of God." The most unimportant occurrences he .--"''used as a supernatural resource. After - three months of failure to capture the oity of Aquileia, when his army had given up th* siege, the flight of a stork and her young from the tower of the city was taken by him as a sigo that he was to capture the city, and his army, inspired with the same occurrence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a rrrkirtk >1 a ctjirk k afi PllieTg y\JXU.\J liVUi ??i_L A VAJL I.UV ? w ed. So brilliant was the conqiurur iD attire that his enemies could not iook at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride, Udico, who was hired for the assassination, his followers bewailed him not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put into three coffins, the first of iron, the second of silver and the third of gold. He was buried by night, and into his grave were poured the most valuable coins and precious stones, amounting to the wealth of a kiBgdom. The gravediggers and all those who assisted at the burial were massacred, so that it would ^0"' o never be known where so much wealth was entombed. The Roman empire conquered the wnrln Knt Attila conouered the Roman " - ? -X -- empire. He was light in calling him.self a scourge, but instead of being ''the Scourge of God" he was the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitterness the commentators might well have supposed him to be the star Wormwood of the text. A3 the regions he devastated were parts most opulent with fountains and si reams and rivers, you see how graphic my tixt is: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the riveis and upon the foun tains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." k But are any of you the star Worm? wood? Do you scold and growl from ttiie thrones paternal or maternal : 3re your children everlastingly pecked at? Are you always crying '"Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet and to the laughter which occasionally trickles through at wrong times, and is suppressed by them until they can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and cachinnation, as in this weather the water has trickled ? through a slight opening in the milldam, but afterward makes wider and i wider breach until it carries ail before I it with irresistible freshet? Do not be j too much offended at the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand I: to hear one shout from the silent voice ~ or one step from the still foot. You will not any of you have to wait very long before your house is stiller than you want it. Alas, that there are so many homes not known to the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where children are whacked and cuffed and ear pulled, and senselessly -called to order, and answered sharply, -and suppressed, until it is a wonder . ' -r' "" ' that under such processes thtf/ do not I all turn out Xan?. Sahibs! What is your influence Upu'2 theneighborhood, the town or the city of your residence? I will suppose that you are a star of wit. What kibd of ra\s do you shoot forth? Do you use that splendid faculty to irradiate the world or to rankle it? I bless all the i apostolic college of humorist?. Th? .?r, tV.ot mal'M lauirh is mv bene iua u. i.uuv ? ? f-~ - - factor. I do not thank anybody to : make me cry. I can do that without 1 any assistance. We all cry enough and | have enough to cry about. God bless ] all skillful punsters, all reparteeists, all 1 propounaers of ingenious conundrums, ( all those who mirthfi lly surprise us ' with unusual juxtaposition of words. 1 Thomas Hood and Charles Pickens and Sidney Smith had a divine mission. ^ and so have their successors in these * times. They stir iuto the acid boverli'fo t'n/i cn.'-r-hsrinp. Thev make i ! the cup of earthly existence, which is J *ome*imes stale, effervesce arid bubble. 1 They placate animosities. They foster l?Dgevicy. They slay folits and absur- ' aities which all the sermons of all the ' pulpits cannot reach. Bat what use are you making of your wit? Is it be smirched with profanity and unclean ness? Do you employ it in amusement at physical defects for which the victims i are cot reponsible? Are your powers of mimicry used to put religion in con- \ contempt? Is it a bunch of nettiesome j T_- ;? n k.ilt- nf nninsf <5f?nrii? i j iUVCUUVCi XO i.V ?A MVAV v*. Is it fun at others' misfortune? Is it glee at their disappointment and defeat? Is it bitterness |.ut drop by drop into a cud? Is it like the squeezing of Artemisia absinthium into a draft already distastefully pungent? Then you are the stai Wormwood. Y ours is the fun of a rattlesnake trying how well it can sting. It is the fun of a hawk trying | how quick it c;-.n strike out the eye of a aover But I will change this and suppose you are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. You can encourage that artist by buying his picture. You can improve the fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing higher style of fo*l and horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomological achievement in the orchard. You can advance arboriculture and arrest the ueathful destruction of the American forests. You can put a piece of sculpture into the niche of that public academy, you can endow a college, you can stocking 1,000 bare feet from the winter frost, you can build a church, you can put a missionary of Christ on that foreign shore, you can help to ransom a world. A rich man with his heart right?can you tell me how much good a James Lenox or a George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or a. William ?). Dodge did while living or is doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighDorhood that has not glorious specimens of conse crated wealth. But suppose you grird the face of the poor. Suppose, when a man's wages are due, you make him wait for 1 i tnem Because ne cannot- ueiy mmacn. Suppose that, because his family is sick and he has had extra expenses, he should politely ask you to raise his wages for this year, and you roughly tell him if he want a better place to go and get it. Suppose, by your manner, you act as though he were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are selfish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to be ! a< ti 1 <j onil vivnr- last name Attila be cause you are the star Wormwood, and you have imbittered one-third if not three-thirds of the waters that roll past your employees and operatives and dependents and associates, and the long line of carriages which the undertaker orders for your funeral, in order to make the occasion respectable, will be filled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes as there are persons occupying the^=?. You will be in this world but a few minutes. As compared with eternity, the stay of the longest life on eartb is not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? Are we imbittering the domestic or social ur political fountains, or are we like Moses, who when the Israelites in the wilderness complaiued that the waters of T-vion/1 rlicc enillH ljasvc .Udiau ncic uiuiti not drink them their leader cut off the branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweet and slaked the thirst of the suffering host? Are we with a uranch of the tree of life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we can touch? Hundred gated Thebes, for all time to be the study of antiquarian and hieroglyphis; her nupendous ruins spread over 27 mile?; her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot the victories with which the now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the jnations; her obelisks and columns; Karnatr a?;d Luxor, the stupendous temples of her pride. Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days, when the hippodrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines and her avenues roared with the wheels of processions in the vrake of returning conquerors? "What dashed down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What hands pulled upon the columns of her glory? What ruthlessness deiaced her sculptured wall and broke obelisks, and left her indescribable temples great skeletons of granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair of wild beasts in her royal sepulch ers and taught tie miseraoie cottagers of today to build huts in the courts of her temples anc. sent desolation and ruin skulking behind the obelisks and dodging among the sarcophagi, and leaning against the columns, and stooping under the arches, and weeping in the waters which go mournfully by, as though they were carrying the tears of all ages? Let the mummies break their long silence and come up to shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues awd defaced sculpture, responding: "Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated righteousness and loved sin. Thebes wis a star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." Babylon, with her 250 towers and her brazen gates and her embattled walls. the st)lendor of t.he earth gathered with i i? i _ J??i?;n in ner gates, uer liaugiiig g&iueus uuun by Nebuchadnezzar to please His bride, Amytis, who had been brought up in a mountainous country and could not endure the fiat country round Babylon. These hanging gardens, built terrace above terrace, till at the height of 400 feet there were woods waving and fountains playing, the verdure, the foliage, the glory looking as if a mountain were on the wing. On the tiptop a king walking with his queen. Among the statues, snowy wnite, iooinng up ai birds brought from distant lands and i j drinking out of tankards of solid gold or looking off o\er rivers and lales upon nations subdued and tributary, crying i;Is not this great Babylon which I have built?" What battering ram smote the walls? . "What plowshare upturned the gardens? ! What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out this light which illuminated the world? What crash of discord drove down the : I music that poured from palace window ? I ... - and garden grove and Called the banqueters to their revel and the dancers to their feet?' I walk upon the scene of desolation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery, the remains of Babylon. I hear the wild waves saying. ^Babylon was proud, Babylon was impure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she . * J T _ 11 ._ 7' turned 10 woraiw )oaaau nas laneu. From the persecutions of the pilgrim fathers and the Hugenotsin other lands Grod set upon these shores a nation. J he council fires of the aborigines went out in the greater light of a free government. The sound of the warhoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and progress. Th^ mild winters, the fruitful summers, the healthful skies, charmed from other lands a race of hardy men, who loved Sod and wanted to be free. Before the ivoodman's ax forests fell and r^se igain into ships' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes began ti rival cities by the sea. The [and quakes with the rush of the rail ;ar. and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. Fabuloubuahels of western wheat meet oa the way fabulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from the north pass on the rivers fruits from '.he south, and trading in the fame mari et are Maine lumberman and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer, and churches and schools and asylums scatter light and-love and mercy and salvatijn upon 70,000,000 people. I pray that our nation may not cypy the crimes of nations that have perished; that our cup of blessing turn not to wormwood and we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will continue to advance until the world shall reach the millennial era. Uur only safety is in righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land and ' ~ ^ t -x break Jns-SattDatns, ana improve not uy the dire disasters that have agiin and again come to us as a people, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil 1 war nor raging epidemic, nor drought nor mildew, nor scourge of locust and grasshopper; if the political corruption which has poisoned the fountains of public virtue and beslimed the high places of authority, making free government at times a hissing and a byword in all the earth; if the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme in the streets of our great ci;vas though they were reaching aft<: . iiu a r\ t ^ fame of a Uorintn ana a aoaom, :;m repented of we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin; the pillarrof our national and state capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulled down Dagon, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with generous teras the story that the free nation of the west ajose in splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities; it forgot God; it hated justice; it hugged its crimes; it halted on its high march; it reeled under the blow of calamity; it fell, and as it was going down all the despotisms of ~ f-mnr>r, +T-i/\ ftTimilftS ea-1 tu AW 111 \JXX\J wvy V* ~ began to shout: "Aha! So would we have it!" while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these uniting in the exclamation: "Look yonder! There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called "Wormwood!" COTTON EXPANSIONISTS. Every Cottontot in the State Should Read This. The Augusta Herald fays "Old Jim Crow/1 of Chawrosum, Ga., is a philosopher in hi,4 way, and down there under the shade of the trees he has been holdine an Academy. He teaches by sarcasm, but it's all the same if he J gets there, and his latest contribution to the common good is well calculated j to do that same. He is the enemy < f the overproduction of cotton, and stare- I ed to organize a society to further Li-nds He has addressed a circular to faithful, which reads as follows: uYe<, 'whoop 'em up,' and let it come. Hani out the guano and buy all the mules you possibly can. Gret some merchant to 'run you.' Plant cotton all over creation, between your watermelon rows, in missing places in the corn; plant the garden just as soon as th?> vegetables are off. Put it in the; fence corners, and around wherever you can ~ !* !! iv> ttaiii. wiffl c flntrAT fror_ I atiUJ\ H liill 1U JV U1 VKilV O UUHVi den. Yes, plant cotton 'world without end.' Make it so low that a fellow won't pick it if you give him what he gathers, and furniih him 'free hash' while he picks. Go it boys, 'go it while you're young,' for when you get old you can't raise it. But. one consolalation; when you can no longerjine the boys in the job of keeping"on a first class case of poverty debt, and bankruptcy for the country, you can put in your contribution to the general ruin as a first class calamity howler. Cut this 11 ij. ?? i J c _ ?11 OUL alia Keep it iur reau> reiexcuuc an through the year. Don't go to bed tonight * without calling up all the children, with their mother and reading this to them. Then maybe, they will dream of cotton and devise methods for making more cotton even while they sleep. And hear brother! don't fail to take this to meeting next Sunday, and go soon, before the preacher gets there, so you can call up 'the nabors' and have every fellow understand plans for the current year. Then, if he don't go our way and lands next DIecember in plenty and peace, and can't 'jine the band' in the annual chorus of hunger, rags and debt he'll be without excuse and can't lay the blame of his condition at our door." Ten Steamers Lost. It is now practically certain that ten freight steamships have been lost on the Atlantic in recent storms. This involves the sacrifice of more than 300 ! . _ J TAA AAA ~ li.^1 rpu. lives ana ui uapntti. xuc rate of' reinsurance on them for the last three weeks has stood at 90 guioueas. All perhaps went down in the fca-ful hurricane of Feb. 2. Their Dames are: Allegheney, Arona, City of Wakefield. Croft, Dora Foster, Laughton, Minis ?* 1 1 /-VI j T>?_i. ter DiayDacn, UDeron, ncion ana run Milburn. Lost on the Biver. A special to The Commercial-Appeal from Chattanooga says: Two raftsmen one named Devoney and the other unknown, lost their lives in the river 80 miles above Memphis, Tuesday. They were, with a flat of a million feet of logs, coming down the river, and their raft went to pieces on one of the swilt shoals with which the upper river abounds. There has been over 20.000 applications for the 101 lieutenancies in the army. The officers' places do not go begging. NO EXEMPTION FROM TAXES. The Comptroller-General Rules That I Certain Property is Liable. Comptroller General Derliam lias brought to light a question of consider- '6 able importance and one which may en- t tail unexpected hardship upon some of a the charitable institutions in Columbia. t( His attention was called to the fact v that some such institutions were not a paying taxes in conformance with the p constitution, among them the Y. M. C. I A., the Masonic temple organization, the Ursuline convent and the Presbyte- ^ rian College for Women. Wednesday e he commuuicated with Auditor W. H t: Squier, telling him that this property ^ must be assessed for taxation for this D o year and for back taxes. He instruct- 3 ed Auditor Squier that "when any (_ il. ii'r.r uviets t<i r ri irh r <if anv as so.;iaiiou or society to exemption, un- 0 der tliis article and section, charge the.-n n on the additional duplicate of 1898. ^ with taxes 1398 and any years past due q and unpaid, informing this office, as j, provided in acts of 1898. pa^re 727." t( The section of the constitution re- 0 ferred to piovides tliat 'There shall be g exempted from taxation all county, t; township and municipal property, used ]j exclusively for public purposes and not c for revenue, and the propeity 'of all c schools, colleses and institutions of ? learning, all charitable institutions in ^ the nature of asylums for the infirm, a deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic and in- e digent persons, except where the profits ? of such institutions are applied lo prirate uses; all public libraries, churches 0 parsonages and burying grounds, but n property of associations and societies, t. although connected with benevolent ob- g jects, shall not be exempt from State, a county or municipal taxation: Provi- t ded, That as to real estate tnis exemp- t nm shall not extend beyond the build- ^ ings and- premises actually occupied by a such schools, colleges, institutions of f learning, asylums, libraries, churches, c "** ' i 1 - -1^1 1_ parsonages ana ouriai grounas, aiuiougu n connected with charitable objects." g Such a case as this came up once be- D fore, when the city was in litigation a over the payment of taxes on the city v hall property. The State supreme j court decided that the city should be ? assessed full value on all property on g which it obtained revenue, and, in ac- c cordance. it is today assessed $7,000 ] nn oil store rooms in the city hall which are rented out. From all ap- r pearances the comptroller general is ^ right in his interpretation of the con- T stitution, and some of these institutions ^ will be assessed for preceding years as T well as this year. When asked how j far back the back taxes should be lev- ^ ied, Mr. Derham said for no longer a t time than conld be avoided; possibly 3 no further back than the adoption of c the constitution of 1895. These may a not be the only institutions which will fall under the ban, and it may be found ihat other such property has hitherto * escaped taxation.?State. GOOD EOADS WANTED. c v The State Convicts Should be Employ- [ ed to Build Them, ? The condition of the public roads in J 1 the Piedmont after a rainy winter has * been an object-lesson not without ef- J feet. We take it that these expres- } sious by the Anderson People's Advo- * cate will be very generally endorsed: * We have heard several old men say ' recently that the roads of the county c | after all our expenditure of labor and J ? + nAt oo aq t}iAV ^ lilyilejf UU LUCW a.it U\J\. U.w> ? were 40 or 50 years ago. And we are c inclined to believe it, but it does not J prove that the system of working the j roads that prevailed then was superior * to the present plan by any means. v There were not one-fourth as many peo- s pie then and not one-tenth as many vehicles and not one-twentieth as much c traveling then as now, and then the s roads were newer and the clay had not I been disturbed. Neither does it prove c that either plan is the proper plan to c mei tthe conditions of the present day. 1 I . - 1 C ?Ml l? ? J I Any K1Q0. 01 curt win ma-tvc ^uuu iu?u | h; the summer when the farmers d<- n<>t i?e. -i roads much, but during the fa> 1 [ and winter when the farmers are hauling fheircrops to market and hauling their fertilizers back to the farm, they are practically without roads, as seen t lis winter. It is a basic proposition . tiat we cannot make good roads, permanent roadways, out of dirt. Thar, has been shown to a demonstration rhis winters. We must have something better. Tt has come to be an absolute necessity. The blame does not rest <with the of- * ficers, but with the law. We have before referred to the policy of the State with regard to the convicts, and we repeat it; we want to see a change in it. ? There are six convict farms in Anderson j? county, on which there are nearly 100 ' convicts employed. What are they a worth to the public? Nothing. But if jj Supervisor Snelgrove had those 100 con- * victs and a rock crusher he could build * 15 miles of macadamized roadway in a -j year, and ten years of such work would * fivft us 150 miles of nermanent roadway. | . \Ve would theD have macadamized roads branching out in every direction from 5 the court house toward the county line. a This would be of inestimable advantage * to the whole country and loads could be * hauled to and fro regardless of weather. s We want to see this agitation kept up * for good roads until something comes ? of it. We hope the people will make * it an issue in the campaign nest year ^ to abolish convict and State farms and let the counties have them to build roads with. t Put in Plenty of Corn- * This headline is not to be taken as ^ advice to mustered out soldiers, wheth- s er they be immunes or ordinary volun- t teers. Few soldiers are immune to too f much corn. But we were tajking about t the farmer, and it is to him that wc b give the advice "putin plenty of corn." { We want him to put it in the ground, f. If he has not already gotten in his seed p corn, the sooner he gets it in the better, ii \\\ called attention recently to the in- S cident of Carolina wagons loading with I corn in Augusta for use on a Carolina u farm. We are glad to have Edgefield h planters come to Augusta to trade, but ^ we do not want them to have to buy o Tr. -u.i; VN/V com. tre ueilC?C LUCH uaut Hill WW more valuable if they do not have to buy their corn. In its daily fable on agricultural subjects,, tie Macon Tele- v graph states the cause thus: "It is n time now to pitch the corn crop. It s: should be a large one in Georgia. Cot- o ton is the last and least consideration, a It should be the surplus crop. Com a fills its own sphere in the economy of r; the farm, and in the uses of man. It n A O 11 1 never goes to waste, a iuh Darn is an a earnest of a prosperous farm. Corn- ti fed- hogs yield tLe best pork. Corn-fed n horses and mules have firmer fat and it harder muscles. Nothing can take the n place of com." it KERSEAWS BRIGADE. L Most Interesting History Written of this Gallant Corps. Capt. (tus Dickert. formerly of the d South Carolina Regiment, has Tnriten, and has now ready for publication inin or V CI J 1 cauavit, auu vuvvuuxuiug ory of the old First Brigade First Diision First Army Corps, of the Army f Northern Virginia, known in the rmy aud elsewhere as Kershaw's Briade. It was commanded first by Gen. Sonham, and after Kershaw, by Genl's. lonnorand Kennedy respectively. But ' * - 1 il. . .! y ftis long connection witn me anade, the many campaigns, the bloody ngagements, under his leadership, the roops never gave up, throughout the ifferent changes of commanders, the ameof ''Kershaw," This Brigade was rigiuallv formed of the 2nd, Kershaw; <i, Williams; 7th. Bacon, and 8th, .'ash's Regiments South Carolina Volnteers, organized under the first call fthe State and were composed of com" T? ? 1 n T?ren,fi r. 1 & 1JICS UUtU liluuiauu, 4.1V/H errv. Laurens, Anderson. Abbeville, rreenville, Spartanburg, Union, Char;ston. Chesterfield, Darlington, Sumlt, Kershaw, Clarendon, and perhaps ther counties in different parts of the tate. It was afterward reinforced by he 15th, Col. DeSaussure; 3d Battalion, Col. Rice; and the 20th, Col. Keitt omposed of companies from different ounties of the State. Capt. Dickert, fter three years of unremitting toil, as gathered together materials, facts nd records, that can be found nowhere lse and would soon have been altoether lost. He traces the companies from their rigin, to their organization into regilents with the names of the first capains, until their formation of the briade. With the 15th the 3d batallion nd the 20th regiment he follows them hrough their services in ihe State, hen in Virginia, up to their joining the rigade with as much, faithfulness and ccuracy as he did those of the original our first regiments. While he directs lose attention to the brigade, he does r-v* AAwfiriA f A fViA r} flfoi 1 a 1VU IsVJLIUUC UlUiO^ix UV Vuv VA HUV South Carolina troops alone, but on the aarches and battles he gives the reader . history of the whole divisiDn which ras composed, besides the South Caroina Brigade Cobbs and Sims, Geor;ia, and Barksdalc. Mississippi Bri,ade, these troops being so long and losely connected throughout the war. ?he work is as much a history of the Livision as the brigade in its general nake up. He gives the reader graphic lescription of all the great battles in rhich they were engaged, not as a com>iler, nor spectator but as participant, rhere the author's blade was ever flashng in the thickest of the fray. Nor loes he confine himself to the dry de "? n 1 3-^. l_i A. ans or Historical aam, dus me wurn. .bounds is scenes of camp life, humorius and pathetic stories, acts of persoail heroism, &c. It is the intention of the author to ,ive in an appendix a complete roster >f the names of all officers arid men hat belonged to the command tnrough>ut the war, together with the killed, vounded and.discharged. This in it;elf is a valuable record. This book is lot published foi pay nor profit and >nly a limited number published just iufficient to pay for printing and bindng, as Capt. Dickert wants nothing for lis work. He says the three years dented to its composition has been a la)or of love and the most pleasant of his ife, and if he has added one- mite to he perpetuation of the memores, the leroism, the joys and triumphs of his :omrades in arms he is more than re >aid for his labors. The book will be iold by subscription to De paid for on lelivery. Those wishing copies of this lesirable work can write to the pubiaher, E. H. Aull, Newberry, S. C., 'or subscription blanks and the book nil be delivered in the order of the iubscription number. We would be glad to have the papers if the State copy this article or make iuch mention of it as their space will jermit. We want all who desire a c">py >f this book to send us their order at )oce so that sufficient number of copies nav be Drinted to supply the demand. '.i is not a money making scheme for lie publisher or author but an earnest ;ffort to preserve a history which if not )in in permanent shape now may never >e done as the great part of the mateial which this book will contain can be lad from no other source. If this hiiory is to be preserved it must be done >y individual effort. The newspapers if the State can be of great assistance o us in this work if they will lend us heir aid and we feel sure we will not ;all ou them in vain in this patriotic rork. Lend us a helping hand.?New>erry Xews and Herald. Jumped from a Bridge. Miss Lucy Fanz, twenty-year-old laughter of Joseph Fanz, a wealthy ,nd retired business man of Knoxville, Cenn., committed suicide Wednesday .fternoon. She jumped from the Tenlessee river bridge of the Atlanta, inoxville and Northern railroad, a disance of 100 feet to the water below. Che body came up once and floated a tundred yard?, when it went down near he east bank. The young lady had teen mentally afflicted for several ears, but has improved of late. She .ttempted self-destruction Tuesday light by taking a deadly drug, but her ather discovered the attempt before a ufficient quantity had been taken. ?ranz was walking with his daughter * ** . i ? 01_ ver tlie Dnage at tne time. one ran rom him and sought her terrible death, ^he body has not yet been recovered. Liberty or DeathA dispatch from New York says Sixo Lopez, the secretary of Agoncillo, he representative of Aguinaldo, leader /* % . .,1 TV T _ T 'i the iriiipinos, witn vr. joss uupsaa, a member of the Filipino junta, ailed for Southampton Wednesday on he American liner St. Paul. They reused to discuss national affairs within he jurisdiction of the United States, ut said that they were sorry the 'Americans, who boast so much about reedom, are trying to make their peole slaves." The Filipinos were fightag for liberty long before the United tates came into existence," remarked iopez, "and they are not going to give p the battle because the taskmasters are been changed from Spaniards to forth Americans. Our cry is liberty r death.'' No More ImmnnesEven the Sprinfield Republican, hich holds to its old Abolition sentilentality about the negro more peristently than any other paper we know f, is moved to remark: ''The Tenth olored 'immunes,' after their discharge t Macon, Ga., shot a man at one place, 1 1 T J-' -i. -4.1? naea a iiquor dispensary a,o ctuumci, early killed an old man farther on, nd started riots at various way staions at fheir pleasure all the way orth to Virginia. There will be no lore :immunes.' " 2s o, there will be o more. The public demands immun,y from such visitations. COST OF RAISING COTTON. Mr. Jordan Gives Some Interesting Figures in the Atlanta Journal. rn._ r.ii?:? rtT, JL li? XUliU>YXLi^ lUCClCSvlLlg U.U1U^ vu the cost of raising cotton we take from the Atlanta Journal: In a recent report prepared and submitted by the department of agriculture at Washington, careful estimates show that in 1896 it cost $15.42 to produce a bale of upland cotton, on land producing an average of 225 pounds of lint per acre. The price obtained was 6.7 cents per pound. The cost of picking was 44 cents per hundred, and the cost of producing the lint per pound 5.27 cents. It was also ascertained that in Texas, where irregation is being introduced in the cultivation of the crop, on land irrigated. 512 pounds of lint per acre was produeed, or donble the quantity -made on other lands. In the face of the above statistics, which are doubtless accurate, it is quite evidenl that the cotton crop of 1898 was marketed at a heavy loss to the producers. The almost entire crop of the past seasun left the farmers' hands at a price less than five cents. There has been but little improvement made in growing cotton within the past two years, hence the cost of making a bale in 1898 was doubtless as great as in 1896. We are, however, gradually reducing the cost of producing a pound of cotton as th> years roll round; for in 1876 statistics show that the net cost of marketing a pound of lint cotton was 8.32 cents in gold. The cost of transportation has likewise fallen proportionately. In 1840, . to ship a bale of cotton to Liverpool cost the neat sum of $18.15, while in 1897, it cost $7.89 for the same service. It may be -well enough for the farmers to know tha| the price for our cotton, which i3 fixed in Europe, is based upon the net: lint. Nothing is allowed for bagging and ties, their weight of 22 pounds being deducted is consequently a dead loss to the producer. There is also a certain amount taken off for wastage en route, and the farmer has to meet a good many little losses all along the line, from the moment his bag of cotton leaves the ginnery until it is landed in Europe. It is very evident then, that there is hardly a living profit in producing less than ? of a bale per acre. Indeed, with Texas and- Oklahoma rapidly going so largely into the cotton business, developing a successful sysx c :?:?? T_? ^y. as a profit. Tne extra ten acres can be sowed in grain or grasses, and the saystem of rotation perfected. Necessity will force a large number of our people to reduce cotton acreage in the future, others will reduce from the better reason of adapting their business in farming to meet the demands of the time. The day cannot be far distant when other resources of our southern country will be drawn upon and developed iu upbuilding to a higher degree of prosperity our agricultural interests. When the day of extensive cotton _n i j ?a it oi. pianuug suan uave j^asocu, auu ? ^ u most here, a diversity of crop cultivation will be introduced, and the progressive era of the country will have dawned. Our farmers cannot be much blamed for growing cotton so extensively in past years. It is unquestionably the most fascinating and easiest crop ever planted and cultivated. It is the only crop he can load on his wagons and have the big cotton buyers running after them to buy it, with a checkbook ready to plank down the cash. Tbe " TT./1..1/1 Trnnfc if if. Trill in VY1AVIU nunu TT AW ..... any market. The world will continue to want it, and the farmer must continue to supply the demand. What we must determine now to de, is to look upon our cotton of the future solely for the surplus money or profit crop. When our acreage of cotton is restricted by confining its cultivation to better land we will have more time to arrange for a better living at home. We can have more little side crops which means more hogs, better cows and less supply bills in the stores. "With more stock in the barns, fed upon rich grasses and clovers raised on the farm, more attention will be given to the saving of barnyard manures. All of which means that our lands arc to be more rapidly built up to a high and continued state of fertility. The farmer who lives at home, that is, raises all home supplies, rotates his crops, grows grasses and clovers enough for his own use, looks after his stock and takes care of ' the manure, is not buying commercial fertilizers, although he is raising as many bales of cotton to the plow as his less thrifty neighbor. Commercial guanos are only used when absolutely nothing else is provided, and they have paid under cotton heretofore. But the profit would Lave been larger had' the grower used in their stead the vegetable manures. What we desire particularly, is to see the many rather than the few prospering on the farm. That will also more quickly tend to the development ofbet| ter schools and roads, without either of I which no community can make much progress. The farming problems of to| day are being more conspicuously agitated, than perhaps at any time in the past. Farmers are reading more and thinking more of their present and fuI ture condition. "We used to go to town and listen for news on the street as to what was going on in the markets of -crm- Vnxr- TrarAl'c nnnn rmr own nvi ~? papers for information, and study out the details at home. This has caused home thinking and a development of independent action. It Trill eventually result in the successful solution of all the problems by which we are now beset. Our people are a sturdy, strong-, minded race, capable of meeting any / WtfT.T. ii-^iTrf-nfi fa > 1'^ emergency and orercoming any obstacle. They have hewn their way to success in rougher, stormier times than these, and'if our future prosperity de pends upon a clinnge of crop, method or system, that change will be made along , the lines of prudence and practical pathways. Then let us continue to agitate and commend those things which are for our best good, and condemn those which tead to injure and retard the great agricultural prosperity of our southern country. C. H. Jordan. TEE COMING REUNION. j Desired That All Old Confederate F.ags be Sent to Charleston. ti.- r.ii?t? i ' JLUU iUIIUWX-"g U? UCCU 133UCU UVUl the general headquarters of the United ' Confederate veterans; New Orleans, March 11, 1S99. To all Comrades: i 1. It has been suggested to tho gen- J eral commanding, and he heartily endorses .the request, that all department, division, brigade and camp commanders will take steps to collect as many of the old "battle flacs" and flaes of the Confederacy, and banners and ensigns of every description, which waved over the Confederate armies as possible, to be displayed at the Charleston reunion. There are a great many no doubt through the south in private hands, at the headpuarters of the different camps, and at the State capitals, etc., and it would be in keeping with the grandeur ( of the occasion, upon this visit of the old soldiers to the chief city of the great State which gave birth to the Confederacy, and where the first gun of the war was fired, to take with them . a J i.V tern ui imgaiiuu uy nuwu a ua?, acre can be averaged, we cannot expect to make two thirds of a bale per acre profitable very long. Georgia is also the largest user of commercial fertilizers of any state in the union for her cotton industry, consuming one-fourth of all commercial fertilizers manufactured in the United States, wlnle Texas is one or the smallest. No farmer can disregard these facts and figures, nor can he afford to fail to appreciate the bearing they have upon his future interests. We must of necessity begin some practical system of rotating crops and building up our land. That system must be inaugurated upon the cheapest, vet at the same time most durable and profitable plan. Every farmer knows that he should make his supplies at home, and it is almost a waste of words to endeavor to more forcibly impress that fact upon him. In raising those supplies on his farm he has the double advantage of introducing a system by which he may be able to grow cotton cheaper, at a better profit, and build up his depleted soil. Any farmer to be self-sustaining nowadays must of necessity, to a certain extent, restrict acreage and adopt the intensive system. When ten bales of cotton can be crown on ten acres of land-as an average crop, then the extra expense involved in producing the same number of bales from . twenty acres as at present will be saved tne nisroric nag wmcn wayeu over tucui there at Forts Moultrie and Sumter, and the other three, with all the other banners and ensigns which floated over them amidst the smoke and carnage of more than z,uuu Dattieneias Deiore iney were furled forever at Appomatox. The general commanding hopes that ' an effort will be made, through publi- I cation in the papers and otherwise, so as to secure the largest number possible for this purpose. Doubtless many flags will be taken care of by the delegates and others to whom they are entrusted, but where it is necessary that they should be sent by express they can be sent to the special care of Mai. Gen. C.* Irvine Walker. . commanding the South Carolina division*U. C. V.'s, Charleston, S. C., who ! will arrange a safe depository for them ' while there. ' 2. Col. Robt. P. Evans, chairman ' committee on information, Charleston, ] S. C., states that on and after the 15th < his committee will be in a position to 1 give information as to housing, quar- < ters, rates of board, etc., to delegates desiring -to attend the reunion. He states that his committee will undertake to engage quarters for and locate any of the Veterans in advance of their coming, but must have a positive guarantee of their coming by April the 35th. By order of J. B. Gordon, Geo. Moorman, Gen.. Com'g. Adjt. Gen. and Chief Staff. The Oldest Eailroad- 4 Tiie Hon. Uharles .Francis Adams, 01 Boston, Mass., in a book entitled "Railroads?Their Origin and Problems," in speaking of the Ola Reliable South Carolina and Georgia Railroad says: "At a later day many of her sister States were in advance of her, (Massachusetts.) and especially was this true of South Carolina. There is, indeed, some reason for believing that the South Carolina Railroad was first ever constructed in any country with a definite plan of operating it exclusively by locomotive steam power. On the 15th of January, 1831, exactly four months after the formal opening of the Manchester and Liverpool Road,) the first anniversary of the South Carolina Bail- ' road was celebrated with due honor. A j queer-looking machine, the outline of j which was sufficient in itslf to pove that I the inventor owed nothing to Stephenson, had been constructed at the West Point Foundry Works, in New York, during the summei of 1830?a first at tempt to supply that locomotiye. which ' the board had, with a sublime confidence in possibilities, unanimously voted on the 14th of the preceding Jan t uary should alone be used on the road. The name of "Best Friend" was given to this very simple product of native genius. In June, 1831, a second locomotive, cahed the "West Point." had arrived in Charleston; and this last , was constructed on the principle of v Stepenson's "Rocket." In its general aspect, indeed, it greatly resembled ' that already famous prototype. Theie is a very characteristic and suggestive cut representing a trial trip made with this locomotive on March 5, 1831. About sis months before there had actually been a trial speed . between a horse and one of the pioneer locomotives, which had not resulted in favor j oi the locomotive. It took place on < the present Baltimore and Ohio Road, upon the 28th of August, 1830^ The ' engine in this case was contrived by no 1 other than Mr. Peter Cooper." ] To Be Mustered Out. < It will not be long now before our ( crollant lirtva wlin wAnt tn t.hp war will 1 Q?? " be borne again. A dispatch from Washington says the war department has de- ? termined to muster out and bring home all the volunteers in Cuba with the ex- J ception of the volunteer engineers and i immunes. The necessity for immediate action has been brough to the attention of the war department on account of the quarantine regulations t against Cuba which go into effect about c the first of May, and which are especial- jj ly strict at all southern ports. When c the troops are brought to this country, they. must under the law be mustered } out in United States catnpi, a ad t hey v no doubt will be brought to camps near- .y est their homes. It is desired also to a have them brought to places where a fumigating can be done, and it "is possi blethat troops for the northern states ? may be brought to Moiitauk, and Camp p Wikoff aeain be established, although the present intention is to have all f, northern troops sent to Camp Meade in ^ Pennsylvania. Th? troops of North Carolina. South Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia will probably be brought to Savannah, the Texas troops to Gal- ' veston, and the Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia troops to Uld Point Comfort, Ya. 4-T a Topeka dinir-g table one day ? recently a member of the Kansas House made the remark that a certain memr ber must hare been drunk when he made ihe mjtion to strike out the en- a acting clause of a bill which was being F discussed by the diners. "I examined g the enacting clause carefully," he said, p "and found that it did not differ in any si other bill." And then he wondered b why the laugh started. a . >' //ar: -' 1?1| Oliarlestoii. South Carolina. ?THE?; Ifoofeu "I giuuauj Institute, Sornsr Vanderhorst ^ Smith Sis., ^ Charleston, SouthCarolina THE ONLY 1 KEELEY INSTITUTE IN THE STATE. Flour Mill . : *? Machinery. :ONTRACT? taken1 to furnish com?PLETE EQUIPMENT FOR? Roller Floor Mills. ?REPRESENTING THE?. ? * .v.Vtt Ricliinond City II Works, | 3ae of tha largest tania:u?r? "rFlour Mill Mishiaery ia th.3 ejiotr.y aad haviag experieaced Millwright , ZJI am prepared to build mills ori irv*?M?/\r^ TVIODQ an/? fit flic JXIVSOU ilU|/A VU W-. prices to compete with any one in the trade. We guarantee the products of our mills to *? equal the grades ef the b.est Western mills. Before placing your orders write to me. I also handle.a complete line of WcoJTVr?i?liirirtTO. Siw \fi11s Pin jines and Boilera, Corn Mills and Ma- . shinery in general. . Having been established in business bere for sixteen years, I have built up my trade by selling the very highest jlass of machinery, and am in a better position to serve the interest'of my customers than ever before. V. C. Badham, >? F?Oir, L'<;-:cr .Quest to Purchaser f?| 't A _tT~ "Iff* j el AV SI ^ m ss - $ * ^T* " " r -3 *MI JIM#-* ?? Stfc i- ;j:etime ?* ^ '^T. f * ; ; ' V? ana give mi > "- //.> endless ?* ? Iffc: v i"""- i ?f V'" " :^j ^PoorPiaw a? % 7'x .^tKsf<&3i?| willtestftfitr fit ic^r A 7^ ^* ?3 years and flB & give endleffl SB &g riii ">^^?6 vexation. ?? ? t P^nhiishffc? -M ^ Is atv:iy* Good, alwsys ReMahtei 88 SA always fxitlsfiuiiorj", tilways Last* 5g5 Wi ing. "Vou Lake uu chigoes In bay* aB| ^ ?? ft costs somewhat ^ore than t W ?S cheap, rrjor pi'ino, but is much the jm a? cheapest in tbe fend. W gS Koother H.izh Grade Planosoldso gB ?h reasonable. Factory prices to retail aH ay ouyers. pay men u>. niuc?w inv - ^ ?? LUDDEFJ & BATES* 3g M Savunnah, Gg., and Ji?w YorkCttjr. gj Iddress: D. A. PRESiSLifi i, Ag?. t ~ ? Columbia,' s. c.-: ''111 Write Quick ?TO TIT". COLUMBIA, S. C? | " :or catalogae. Free schola-iliips on easy conditi ins t'.j :hose who wrifce soon. Bailroad fare paid. Cheap board. Sotes accepted. Can pay part; ~.r )f expenses by working in the college office. Address, men;ioning course desired, W. H NEWBERRY, Prest We are State Agents for and make SPECIALTY of equipping improve nodern ginneries with, the celebrated? Mnrrav Oinninrr Qvofom mui i a] miming vjouHii) he simplest and best. Cotton ginm-1 in this system commands a higher ma:- ^ :et price than any other, and the nu- ' .. i : Lincry itself is a marvei of simplicity * ]| We control for this State the improv\.( tlarray Cleaning Feeder, which i? "3 ^questionably the best gin feeder eve pet invented.*- Parties contemplating . pnrciiase or machinery ot tms Kiu i ,re invitc-d to correspond tfith us. ; Machinery and, Mill Scppiies of . lLL kinds at lowest manufacture s rices. Now is the tim^ to place your or or a threshing machine: buy tfte M 'e sell it?the FARQUflAR. M V. H. 8I3BES COLUMBIA, SM tate Agents for:?Lid^fl Cotton Gin Co., A. ? The last instance r? human bping to dfl 'ersia in 1S90. Tifl uilty of stealing^ ut in a camroa lowly heated ones were dfl mong the n