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ti?i6m&mamatrii n 11 i?m miii vwr? ' mi-w NATIONAL DANGERSj Dr, Talmage Discusses the Re- j public's Destiny. MONOPOLY .THE CURSE Of the United States. Nihilism Also an Evil Power. Infidelity ? a Source of Weakness. In this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks of some of the perils tint threaten our American instituions, and points out the path of safety; test, Isaiah lxii, 4, "Thy land shall be married." As the greater includes the less, so ^uqcs the circle of future joy around our entireT^orld include the epicycle of our own republic, Bold, exhilarant, unique, divine imagery""^ our test. At the f>lnse of a -week in which for Jhree days our national capital was a pageant aj?d all that grand review and bannered procession. and national anthems conld do, celebrated peace, it may not be inapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and the heir of universal dominion shall take possession of this nation, and "thy land shall be married." la discussing me nuai ucsuuj v* nation it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in places of public concourse, I hear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though we were on the way to national interment,-and besides Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations our republic was to be enfnmhpr? that I wish vou to under stand it is not to be obsequies, but nuptials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; not requiem, bat wedding march; for ''thy land shall be married." I propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this republic. This land is so fair, so beautiful, so affluent that it has many suitors, and it will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be acnr rfliected. In the first place, I remark: There is a greedy, all grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of monopoly. His scepter is made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery ~of the people. Things went on from bad to worse until in the three legislatures, of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a long time monopoly decided everything. If monopoly favor a law, it passes; if-'monopoly oppose a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot putting into his T\A/?V#>fs in one vear $200,000,000 in ex cess for all reasonable charges for services. Monopoly hold in his one hand the steam power of locomotion and in the other the electricity of swift communication. Monopoly has the Repubcan party in one poeket and the Democratic party in the other pocket Monopoly decides nominations and elections?city elections, state elections, national elections. With bribes he se cures the votes of legislators, giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy relatives to lucrative positions, employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying their goods for 15 per cent, less if they are merchants, and if he find a case very stubborn as well as very important puts down before him the hard cash of bribery. But monopoly is not so easily caught now as when during the term of Mr. '1 ^ in -Buchanan tne iegisiai XVC Wlimuvgyy one of our states explored and exposed tie manner in which a certain railway csrapany had obtained a donation of public land. It was found out that 13 of the senators of that state received $175,000 among them, 60 members of the lower house of that state received between $5,000 and $10,000 each, the governor of that state received $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the lieutenant governor received $10,000, all the clerks of the legislature received $5,000 each, while $50,000 was divided among the lobby agents. That thing on a ? n ii _ x larger or smaller scale is an tne uiue going oil in some of the states of the Union, but it is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the overshadowing curse of the United States today is monopoly. He pu's his ? /vP unnn nana upon every uuauw vt ? every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in 24 states of the Union already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. God speed them in the work of liberation. I have nothing to say against capitalists; a man has a right to all the money he can make honestly. I have nothing to say against corporations as such; without them no great enterprise would be possible, but what I do say is I that the same principles are to be . applied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plainest laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for great corporations. If I take from yon your property without aDy adequate compensation, I am a thief, and, if a railway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on a small scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in England has " " ? i f* 1 ground hundreds ot tnousanas 01 ner best people into semistarvation, and in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness, and in the United States proposes to take the wealth of sixty or seventy millio :s of people and put it in a few silken wallets. Monopoly, brazen faced, iron angered, vulture hearted monopoly, offers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the great railroads and over the telegraph poles of the continent and says: "Here are my I heart and hand. Be mine forever."' j Let the millions of the people north, I south, east and west forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballet box, forbid them on the platform, forbid them by great organizations, for bid them by the overwhelming sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, forbidjthem by prayer to high heavenS That Herod shall not have this Abigail. It shall not be to all devouring monopoly that this land is to be married. Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for universal cutthroatcry and a nitroglycerin bomb for universal explosion. He believes in no God, no government, no heaven and no hell except what he can make on earth. He slew the czar of Russia, keeps many a king practically imprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would put to death every king and president on earth, and. if he had the ii C" m MIL fT~r 'iri 11 power, would climb up until he could drive the Gcd of heaven from his throne and take it himself, the universal 1?1 ? "I?if ?c r*r\rr\_ ouiccer. iu xiauuc n id wibu wu , munism; in the United States it is called anarchism; in Russia it is called nihilism, hut that is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smash up. It woula make the holding of property a crime, and it would drive a dagger through your heart and put a torch to your dwelling and turn over tbis whole Jana into me possession of theft and lust and rapine and murder. "Where does this monster live? In all the towns and cities of this land. It oSers its hand to this fair republic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, the legislative hail, the congressional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or rather, divide it down. It would give as much to the idler as to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Nihilism! This panther having prowled across other lands has set its paw on our soil, and it is ODly waiting for the time in which to spring upon its prey. It was nihilism that burned the railroad property at Pittsburg during the great riots; it was niozn that slew black people in our I northern cities during ine war; it was nihilism that mauled to death the Chinese immigrants years ago; it i? nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drunkeries upon sober people as they goby. Ah, its power has never yet been tested, i pray (ion its power may never be fully tested. It would, if it had the power, leave every church, chapel, cathedral, schoolhouse and college in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any country. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferation for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights, when their first right is the penitentiary?if they could be hushed up, and the downtrodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would be more bread for hungry children. In this land, riot and bloodshed never gained any wages foi the people or gathered up any prosperity. In this 'and the best weapon is not the club, not the shillalah, not firearms, but the ballot. Let not our oppressed laboring men be beguiled to coming under the bloody banner of nihilism. It will make your tases heavier, your wages smaller, your table scantier, your children hungrier, your suffering greater. Yet this nihilism, with feet red of slaughter, comes forth and offers its hand for this republic. Shall the banns be proclaimed? If so, where shall the marriage altar be? and who will be the officiating priest? and what will be the music? That altar will have to be white with bleached skulls, the officiating prie?t must be a dripping assassin the music must be the smothered groan of multitudinous victims, the garlands must be twisted of night shade, the " ?^ t- 1? .? oj?: iruits must De appiea ui uuuuu, wine must be the blood of St. Bartholomew's massacre. No! It is not to nihilism, the sanguinary monster,- that this land is to be married. Another suitor for the hand of this nation is infidelity. . When the midnight ruffians despoiled the grave of A. T. Scewart in St. Mark's churchyard everybody was shocked; but infidelity proposes something worse than that? the robbing of all the graves of Christendom of the hope of a resurrection. It proposes to chisel out from the tombstones of your Christian dead the words "Asleep in Jesus," and substitute the words, ' 'Obliteration?annihilation." -nronnsfts; to take the letter ?X" "X from the world's Father, inviting the nations to virtue and happiness, and tear it up into fragments so small that vou cannot read a word of it. It proposes to take the consolation from the brokenhearted, and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the president of the United States, and the supreme court, and the governors oi states, ana me witnesses in the courtroom with their right hand on Paine's Age of Reason," or Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." It proposes to "take away from this country the book that makes the difference between the United States and the kingdom of Dahomey, between American civilization and Bornesian cannibalism. If infidelity could destroj' the Scriptures, it would in 200 years turn the civilized nacions back to semibarbarism, and then from semibarbarism into mid i . ?i.:i ~ mgnt savagery, uuui wc uxuiais ui a, menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzes would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only impulse in the right direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. T*iat book has been the j mother of all reforms and all charities | ?mother of English magna charta and American declaration of independence. | BeDjamin Franklin, holding that holy j book in his band, stood, oerore an infidel club in Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Habakkuk, and the infidels, not knowing what book it was, declared it was tbe best poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow at V alley Jb'orge, and led the dying Prince Albert to ask some one to sing "Rock of Ages." I tell you that i;he worst attempted crime of the certury is the attempt to destroy this book. Yet infidelity, loathsome, stenchi'ul, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretches out its hand, ichorous wnh the second death, to take the hand of this republic. It stretches it out through seductive magazines, and through lyceum lectures, and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of the continent already fully settled and the two-thirds not yet occupied. It says: "Give me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of the church and with the Christian printing presses. Then give me Wyom " A Inrl'n m i ATAwfonO I IDg, V -LUC -TXIctOrwCl, ^|i* C JULL t/ i'JLVUUUUU^ give me Colorado, give me all the states j west of the Mississippi and I will take ! those places and keep them by right of I possession long before the gospel can be fully intrenched. And this suitor presses his case appallingly. Shall the banns of that marriage be proclaimed? {k2so!" say the home missionaries of the west, a martyr band of whom the world is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and malaria and starvation. "No. not if we can help it. T-. y J. j 1 ?(. i5y Wflat we iiUU UUX Uiiliuicu uavc omfered we forbid the banns of that marriage!" "No!" say all patriotic voices. "Our institutions were bought at too dear a price and were defended at too great a sacrifice to be so cheaply surrendered." "Xo!" says the God of Bunker Hill and Independence hall and Gettysburg. "I did not start this nation for such a farce.'' "Xo!" cry 10,000 voices. "To infidelity this land shall not be married!" ! But there is another suitor that pres! ents his claim for the hand of this rej public. He is mentioned in the verse following my ten where it says, "As j the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, I so shall thy God rejoice over thee." It ' is not my figure. It is the figure of the i?n iH"V inn mrtinn i i Bible. Christ is so desirous to hare this world love him that he stops at 110 humiliation of simile. He compares his grace to spittle on the eyes of the blind man. He compares himself to a hen Catherine' the chickens, and in my text O r-? - i he compares himself to a suitor begging a haod in marriage. Does this Christ, the King, deserve this land? Behold Pilate's hall andthe insulting expectoration on the face of Christ. Behold the Calvarean massacre and the awful hemorreage of five wounds. Jacob served 14 years for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the King, suffered in torture 33 years to win the love ot this world. As often princesses at their very birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so this nation at its birth was pledged to Christ for divine marriage. Before Columbus and his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pinta 1 VTCAn/1 Al^Pnl T7 It LIU. LUC XI lua 1U1 CJ-L^Al nuuuuiui .v; age what was the last thing they did? They sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first glimpse of this country and the gun of on? ship had announced it to the other vessels tha? lanr^ had Vipati discovered, what was ?ffe song t.h?t vent 1'^.from alLtter^ree decks? "Gloria in excelsis." After Columbus and his 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what did they do? They all knelt and consecrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots do after they landed in the Carolinas? What did the Holland refugees do after they had landed ;?* Vairr Vrv-rl-? WViof. fhfl t.TiA nilprim fathers do after they landed in New England? With bended knee and uplifted face and heaven besieging prayer, they took possession of this continent for God. How was the first American congress opened? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ.From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see how good God has been tio! Tncf iinon tlio mart of fche noil VV/ UO? V UUU V|/MM W**v ?v.^, v. tinent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling down on all sides into the sea, prophesying large manufactuies and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timbered with wealth on the top and sides, metaled with wealth under^ ** -1 xl neatii. une nunarea ana eigncy muusand square miles of coal. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron. The land so contoured tW extreme weather hardly ever lasts i .-tc than three days?extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery displaying an autuoiDal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival, ^o South American i .1 i? xt? | eartnquaKes. i.*u ouuwiii jcuioud. j.w London fogs. 2so Egpytian plagues. No Germanic divisions. Tho people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for the industries, more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and how good he has been to us and our children. To him?blessed be his mighty name?to him of cross and triumph to him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the pilgrim fathers?to him snail this land be married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your contributions and your prayers hasten on the fulfillment of the text. We have been turning an important leaf in the mighty tome of our national history. One year at the gates of this continent over 500,000 emigrants arrived. I was told by the commissioner ! of emigration that the probability was that in that year 600,000 emigrants 1 would arrive at the different gates of I commerce. Who were they? The pau! pers of Europe? Xo. At Kansas City I was told by a gentleman, who had opportunity for large investigation, - J it-, 1, tnata great mu.iut.uue u&u guuc umuu^u there, averaging in wordly estate $800. I was told by an officer of the government, who had opportunity for authentic investigation, that thousands and thousands had gone, averaging $1,000 in possession each. I was told by the commission of emigration that 20 families that had recently arrived brought $85,000 with them. Mark you, fami lies, not tramps. Additions to the national wealth, not subtractions therefrom. I saw some of them reading their Bibles and their hymnbooks, thanking God for his kindness in helping them cross the sea. Some of them had Christ in the steerage all across the waves and they will have Christ in the rail trains which at 5 o'clock every afternoon start for the great west. They are being taken by the commission of emigration in New York, taken from the vessels, protected from the Shylocks and the sharpers, and, in the name of God and humanity, passed on to their destination, and there they will turn your wilderness into gardens, if you will build for them churches and establishfor them schools and send to them Christian missionaries. Are you afraid this continent is going to be overcrowded with this population? Ah, that shows you have not been to California, that shows you have not been to Oregon, that shows that you have not been to Texas. A fishing smack today on Lake Ontario might as well be afraid of being crowded by other shipping before night as for any one of the next ten generations of Americans to be afraid of being overcrowded by foreign populations in this country. The one State of Texas is far larger than all the Austrian empire, yet the Austrian empire supports 35,000,000 people. The one State of Texas is larger than all France, and France supports 36,000,000 people. The one State of Texas far surpasses in size the German empire, yet the Germanic empire supports 41,000,000 people. I tell you the great want of the western states is more population. "While some people may stand at the gates of the city saying, "Stay back!" to foreign populations, I press out as far beyond those gates as I ^an press out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, saying, "Come, come, all ye people who are honest and industrious and God loving!" But say you, "lam so afraid that they will bring their pre judices for foreign governments and plant them here," Absurd. They are sick of tie governments that have oppressed them, and they want free Amer ica! Give them the great gospel of welcome. Throw around them all Christian hospitalities. mey will aaa their industry and hard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Christ and "thy land shall be married." But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be the Rocky mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be covered, a? they will be, with vineyards and orchards and grain fields. Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pacific coast come to the marriage altar on one side, and then let Bostons and the .New l ork and the Charlestons of the Atlantic come to the marriage altar on the other side, and there between them let this bride of nations kneel and then if the in W-H1V i MH'PH ?war-mm+rnmmm organ of the loudest thunders that ever | shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or moved the fundations of the Aiieghames on tne otner side snouia open full diapason of wedding march, that organ of thunders could not drown the voice of him who would take the hand of this bride of nations, saying, '"asa bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee.", At that marriage banquet the platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the chalices of California gold and the fruits of northern orchards and the spices of southern OTATA5 and tb fcanfistrv of American O* w ?X- * -- - manufacture and the congratulations from all the free nations of eartb and from all the triumphant armies of heav en. And so thv land ?hall be married." THE CROPS AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops of .the state issued Wednesday by '"Ore' South Carolina section of the climate and crop service;of^the_United States weather bureau: " The week ending May 29th averaged /J A/?I*AAO V? O T-? ncnol U V cr JLUUA. UCgiCW WUit* WUU.U uwuui, with an extreme minimum of 45 degrees at "Walhalla on the 25th. The rainfall for the week was heavy at a few widely separated points, hut was generally light and insufficient to relieve the prevailing drought. In some localities no rain fell. The need of rain is general and is indicated for all crops. Hail fell over the central and eastern counties on the 22d, but in Spartanburg, Unioj). Orangeburg and Colleton only was any considerable damage done, and over small areas in those counties. The dry weather was favorable for" cultivation; farm work make rapid progress and field crops are free from grass and weeds. Late planted seeds are not all nn and larffe areas remain to be planted to com and cotton should the ground become softened sufficiently to permit preparation within the next fortnight. Where moisture is lacking corn is " 1 A" turning yellow, ana iaie piaaungs are not up. Over about half the State the crop is in good condition, and over the more easterly counties is being laid by. Worms and grasshoppers have damaged corn in placc3. i The cool weather was unfavorable j for cotton, which is making slow growth, and in a lew localities is infested by lice. Late plantings not up. Sea island cotton has good stands. Late tobacco settings have poor stands, and in a few localities the plants are dying for want of moisture. Early plantings are doing well. Worms havei aDDeared in one county. Wheat is ripening and harvesting has begun. Wheat and oats are below former expectations, the latter being a short crop generally for fall sown and a failure for spring sown. The weather has been favorable for harvesting. Rice is doing well in most districts and has good stands. In Colleton some fields are infested by caterpillars Hoe ing has begun in the Georgetown district and is well advanced elsewhere. Melons, sugar cane and minor crops generally continue promising. Truck farms in the Charleston district were visited by heavy rains and are greatlv improved. Some few peas have been planted on stubble lands but the ground is generally too dry. No improvement in the fruit prospects. WILL BE PAIDT Volunteer Soldiers Certain of Getting Some Extra Money. Mr. W. Boyd Evans has received a leter from Judee C. P. Townsend which is of especial interest to those having claims against the government yet unadjusted as well as to volunteer soldiers of this State. Following is an ' extract from a letter dated at Benaettsviile and directed to Mr. Evans: "I returned from Washington last night. When I called on the auditor of the war department I found him examining the claims of South Carolina. He informs me that all are audited except four claims, one of them being for iU- ru?t. T.;?a flio fnr r>T?lv CLLC VUitSl XJIUI, auu vmv --- _?j small amounts. I have written the parties and informed them that unless they sign the papers and send them and thus perfect the vouchers their claims will be disallowed. "I asked the auditor to wait three or four days before he sent the check to Governor Ellerbe. I think vou will re ceive the checks in the course of ten days. "I exhibited to him the submitted copy of the act you sent me and he said this was all right, and $1.50 per day would be allowed by the government. He further informed me that when there was no special forms and none would be required for making out claims " - 11 L of officers and men. xne roiis musi shofothe names, number of days served between the entry into the service and the mu-jfer in, the amount due each with receipt from each man. 1 'He further said there must be the certificate of some military officer as to correctness of the rolls and also at tached to each a copy of tlie act sucn as you sent me. I think the form of roll adopted by Captain Carson, judging from the duplicate of it you sent to me, will do. The auditor said it must appear that the men actually volunteered ?that is, that they went to Colnmbia for this purpose. "This, I think, embraces all the information I received. If there is anything more you would like me to look into, I will promptly do so. "Sincerely, "C. P. Townsend." Captains of companies should go to work at once on the basis of this letter and get up the rolls. The men will get $1.50 per day, except officers, who will rrpt the reeralar armv nay. It is certain that both the accepted and rejected men will be paid for the time between enrollment for the service and the muster in or rejection from the United States army. But a receipt for each individual man must be had and the soomr the captains forward the rolls the sooner will the men be paid. An army officer, probably Captain Fuller, will be detailed to assist in getting up correct rolls. An effort will be made to secure a month;s extra pay for the First Regiment. But there is some doubt about it being obtained, as the regiment was mustered out before the law allowing extra pay was passed. j Five People JJrownea. Five people, three women and two men, were drowned "Wednesday at the foot of Madison street, Toledo, 0., in full view of a number of persons on the dock, and so far it has been impossible to locate the bodies or ascertain the names. The party was in a row boat and got in the way of a steamer. The boat upturned and all went under. The boat also sank. PRESS ASSOCIATION, Editors Will Spend Week at Harris Lithia Springs in July. The South Carolina State Press Association will meet this yea.- at Harris Lithia Springs, July 25-2S inclusive, and promises to be a most interesting occasion. The program tor tne weeic is as follows: TUESDAY, JULY 25?3 P. M. Organization. Miscellaneous business, appointment of committees, reports of officers, etc. A symposium, "The Newspaper.'' 1. How to Buy the Stock?J. L. Sims, Times and Democrat, Orangeburg. 2. How to Print It?Geo. E. Grist, Enquirer Yorkville. 3. How to Get the News?A. Kohn, News and Courier, Columbia. 4. How to Make it Readable?E. H. 1 11 TT_?U V^TrrVvrt^TT AUllj xieraiu auu iiewo, -icnuwij. 5. How to Circulate It?J. C. Gar lington,, jlerald. i?mrtankgj=ft>-? Greneral discussion of the above sul> jects. (Evening Session.) "Scraps of History of Journalism in South Carolina"?continued .from the session of two years ago?Yates Snowden, News and Courier, Charleston. WEDNESDAY?9 A. M. "Advantages and Disadvantages of a Semi-Weekly"?J. T. Bigham, Lan tern, unester. "The Relation of the Newspaper to Public Men"?J. C. Hemphill, Xews and Courier, Charleston. General discussion of the above subjects. Miscellaneous subjects. (Afternoon Session.) "For What Am I RunDing a Newspaper?"? E. W. Nolley. Herald, Conway. "The Future of the Southern "Woman in Journalism"?Mrs. Virginia D. Vrmnp. Enterorise. Fairfax. General discussion of tlie above subjects. Miscellaneous subjects. (Evening Session.) "The Editor as a Judge of the Good I Things of Life"?James T. Bacon, Chronicle, Edgefield. General discussion of the above subject. THURSDAY?9 A. M. "The Relation of the Daily to the Country Weekly"?N. G. Gonzales, The State, Uoiumoia. 'Newspaper Fakes and Fates"?C. W. Wolfe, Record, Kingstree. General discussion of the above subject. Miscellaneous subjects. (Afternoon Session) 4'The Importance of an Ideal in Journalism"?Rev W M G-rier, D D, A R, Presbyterian, Due West. General discussion of the above subject. (Evening Session) At 8:30 o'clock the annual address before the association will be delivered - ~ 1 i A Ol 11 ^ ^ Dy uoi JFieasant sx otuva.ii, cuiwi i.^v Press, Savannah, G-a. At the conclusion of Colonel StovaH's address, a banquet will be tendered the association by Mr Harris. FRIDAY?9 A. M. "Personal Reminiscences of South rumiin^ -Trtnmalism " to be onened by vaivuu?vuu. , , Col J A Hoyt, Mountaineer, Greenville, and followed by Col T B Crews, Herald, Laurens; L M Grist, Enquirer, Yorkville; Chas Petty, Spartan, Spartanburg; F Melchers, Zeitung, Charleston; Rev Sidi H Browne, Christian Neighbor, Columbia; Gen R R Hemphill, Medium, Abbeville; M B McSweeney, Guardian, Hampton; "W P 1 VAnr^ArrTT nouseai, v-/userver, Build Cotton Mills. Mr. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. C., is one of the most successful cotton manufacturers in the south, and is doing much to encourage and improve this industry. In a recent interview Mr. Tompkins advocates the building of cotton mills in small towns. He believes that this is the surest way to restore prosperity to the cotton districts, ' J -mills nmnorlr hnilt, and ciLLU. ILLcib OUUU rnixio **%? * * ~ managed, will prove excellent investments for their owners or stockholders. Mr. Tompkins believes that the erection of a cotton mill in a country community will promptly enhance the value of the cotton product of the immediate district by affording a home market for a large portion, if not all of the output of the farms. A home market means the saving of transportation charges, the cost of labor and tho profits of the middlemen. Moreover, the cotton turned into cloth is worth three times as much in the case of coarse cloth than I + V,? matflrial" lmnpo f.liA wrrrVinfr U10.Q iOiTT W-4UWIV/A j ?g into cloth of the raw cotton at home adds the profit and the wages of the mill in the price realized for the raw material. Another advantage of a local mill is the employment it affords to many who would otherwise be idle. This employment adds to the farmers' income and the industrial community which always springs up about a successful mill will furnish a ready market I for the minor products of the farms, . ...li.? c sucn as meat, poultry, Dui&er, nuns and vegetables, thus still further adding to the profits of the fanners. There is much idleness in the country towns of the south, due largely to the lack of paying development. Cotton mills in the small towns would absorb much of this idle labor, Mr. Tompkins contends with good reason that the benefit of a cotton mill to a town is both direct and far-reaching. It gives an air of business and thrift to the locality and the district. Money becomes more plentiful, the roads are improved and a contagious business briskness extends throughout the community. MaDy towns in both the Carolinas have taken on new life since cotton mills were built within their limits. Charlotte, tiie city of Mr. Tompkins' residence, is said to have doubled in population in ^aJbout ten years and its remarkable growth is due to the fact that it has become such a large manufacturing center. Some of the best paying cotton mills in the south are located in South Carolina towns, and there is room for many more. A Child's Horrible Death. An 18-months-old child of Mr. John H. Clegg. of Greenwood, met with a horrible death Wednesday afternoon. The little one was playing around the and cmt, hold of the kerosene A..L J-& MIMV* QVV can and drank a quantity of the fluid. Congestion followed and the little one died in a few hours. The child's mother died very suddenly about ten 1 aays agu. A girl's taste differs according to her age, says a cynic. At 16 she wants a dude with toothpick shoes and miscroscope mustache; at 20 a chief justice with a pile of tin; at 25 she'll be satisfied with a member of congress; at 30 a country doctor or a preacher will do; and at 35 anything in the male line from an editor down. mmmmmam? i iili i-i-ii i ' SHOULD BE LOOKED AFTER, f Violations of the Fish Law on the 1 Edi.sto River. I The Legislature at its recent session, as was recently recalled by Mr. August Kohn3 the wide-awake Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, refused to provide for a '"fish patrol." and there is now, therefore, no one whose special business it is to stop the wholesale and sensehss destruction ?>f fish in the waters of the State, even in those to which they resort for spawning -- 3 ij- : purposes, ana me result is cauiuilcu. iu the letter of Mr. Frank M. Stubbs to Governor Ellerbe. Writing in the in- j terest of the people living along the Edisto Kiver, Mr. Stubbs reports, in substance, that he spent an few days, recently, on the river, covering a dis tance of about twenty miles above and below Branchville, and adds: "All-the-outlets to lakes, slews, guts, in fact every opening where fish go out to spawn, bed and raise their young, is entirely closed with fine gauzenet^jsitiL, ^rapTnt%c""i?ftit7e, uKr~catches every fish that tries to pass and -prevents any from passing. These traps are put in and fished by a few men, two living at Edisto Station, four miles from Branch ** * mi . i? _T_ vilie, towards Augusta, iney are usning for market, of course, and against the wishes of the citizens and their interests; that is, of those living along the river, who like to have some sport some time with a hook and line. They will destroy the fish soon, if it is not stopped." In commenting on the matter The News and Courier says "there is ample law on the statute books to prevent the use of such destructive devices, and to punish the men who employ them, but there is no one to enforce it. The Legislature refused to make a specific appropriation for the purpose of a patrol, the Governor's contingent fund is not available for that purpose, and he has "no way of reaching the offenders.' It is suggested, therefore, that the only thing that can be done in the circumstances is for the people themselves to punish the offenders, and the matter must rest on that suggestion. The Governor is not at fault, certainly, and is powerless to .remedy the fault of the Legislature, which is wholly to blame for the condition described. That body will not meet again until next year, and there is no reason whatI .1 .1 ' ?11 J.-1 ever to expect or cope tnat it wm ias.e any action for the effective protection of the fisheries when it meets. It has paid little or no attention to the appeals and arguments for such action that have been addressed to it heretofore, and has allowed some of the most important fishing interests in the State to be practically ruined with the same indifference which it has so persistently manifested with regard to the destruc. tion of the equally important sheep and wool interest. It has seen the streams of the State, from the sea to the moun, tains, nearly denuded of all the varied tto 1 nnviln f/vn/1 flatma I <*JUVk TttlUftWiV 1VUU Uv^JUvw 71 v?w ; j | swarmed in them, without making one I adequate effort to arrest the evil, and! i finally, at its last session, turned over , every stream in the State to the greed of ignorant and unscrupulous maraud ers, by calling off the lonely and illpaid patrol before provided, and leaving . them free to prosecute their bad busi. ness at their pleasure and without fear of interruption. The people living along the streams can protect their own . interests in them if they will by re. perting and prosecuting the offenders of every class, and the grand juries of one or two of the upper counties have recently been induced to move in the > matter, in view of the wholesale and nearly complete destruction of the fish in the streams in their counties. The condition which has thus been forced on their attention threatens all the streams in the State above the tide water line, and will speedily obtain in them, if effective measures are not taken to avert it. No such measures will be taken, it is very plain, unless the people move actively and in earnest on their own behalf. Whether the end ?? Za o rrrVn IS YYUaILL CLLC CHU1C iO a umivw they must decide for themselves." ?LIFE A vegetable for Mild, , cure for Liv- the Pleasant, er, Kidney & LIVER Sure, stomach troubles, and 25, 50, $1. ?hi!)Dili IdSola wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co., Columbia. Dr. H. Baer, Charleston, S C I HON I I High Arm Sewin< I Fully guaranteed for ten J all the latest at*achinent?, i mented wood work. Price $I8.( Money refunded after 30 da is not as good as the $40.00 to sold by amenta. IStfad for dmdaxz and atact* W? an headquarters for Fern Mattings, e&fpets, Sew; BaJjy earretc. Address | IIIO & III2 Br / KILLED BY HIS CHILDSEST. A Cruel Father Shot and Killed by His Young Children. A remarkable murder case has develi i tv i. _"l ^ opea at JLiapia. uity, o. v., m wmuii a j 14-year-old girl, Lena Bouts and .her 10-year-old brother are charged with J the murder of their father, Frank Bouts. The murdored man was a prominent railroad contractor. The little girl admits the crime and the boy adds that he did whit he could to kill his father. The father is said to have been very cruel to his family and this appears to have been the' motive for the trime. It was committed while the mother was at a neighbor's, and after the killing the girl prepared lunch in the usual way, and when the mother returned the three sat down and ate, wnile tiie body of the father lay a few rods away in the rear of the house. The rifle of the father was used for the purpose. While the little boy steadied the weapon the girl fired it from a rear window. Her aim fi-as true, and a great hole was torn i^^^ather's back. Death must hawgrtflfl^feMneous. The gun~wa^^^wa^ana nnthine' said of the crime until the mother became alarmed at the long absence of the father, and the shooting was then admitted. The children are quite bright, and seem to think the cruelty of their parent warranted the murder. The girl spoke freely to the wife of the jailor in Kapid City the day of the crime. "You see," she said, "papa was very mean to mama and us, and Nicholas and I were talking about having him hanged, and he came in the house and kicked me. Nicholas ran to him, and he got kicked too. Then papa went out behind the house to fix a buggy whip, and we thought he was going to whip us, so Nicholas got the rifle and cocked it, as he had seen papa do, and ? " * 1 1 4.* I put it tnrougn tne winaow ciuae w where papa stood. I pulled the trigger and it kicked me dowa, but when I looked out papa was rolling on the ground, but did not speak." EffilEEllSSUB? ell From Maker o:recl to Purchaser MA feCbOCl |j :| Kasio 1 ^ ^feUme j ?f, and give ^ ?? : r^^*:,^Ec3 endless en- >?? f?| vriillastafew ?J ^ SSkSJ18 is 1 Matimshek I Wi Is always Good, always Reliably ?5 always Satisfactory, always Last* JgB ;$? ing. You take do chances to buy* ? ^ ' ft costs somewhat _^ore than a 18 gS cheapo poor piano, but is much th? MR 4ffi? cheap&jt in tbe end. W g? No other High Grade Piano soldco fgi ss? reasonable. Factory prices to reta^ 9H gj? buyers. Easy payments. Write a*. CSt g? <* LUBBEif a> GATES, S; M Savannah. Ca-. end New York City. i?y HSSHHMII Address: D. A. PRESSLEY, Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murray's Iron Mixture. Price 50c THE UNIT DRUG GO, f COLUMBIA, S. C. Macfeafs , School o? SHORTHAND . a %tt\ Zill V TYPEWRITING j COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has the reputation of being the beet business institution in the State. Graduates are holding reamnerative positions in mercantile uuubcp, uwui^, luouiauw, ?v~ estate, railroad offices, &c., in this and other etates. Write to W. H. Macfeat, CourtongtHPigr C)l ninbia, S C.forteroH , etc 1 Machine ^ $ars, fitted with beautifully orat dfldHflB ys tt#e if machin# ^HHj Jroi \f $50.00 machines ^ IS j?\s ItLr ; what yea want. XV I tare, Steves, tfJH jag jUtiiiies, The Padgett Pun oad Street, ' -v Ginning 4 Mnnhmnrif maoiiiuui j. m The Smith Pneumatic Suction fl Elevating, Ginning and Packing System Is the simplest and most efficient cnfl the market. Forty-eight complete outfits in South Carolina; each V||sfl one giving absolute A- J satisiacuon. mm ?? H Boilers anct Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light ana Heavy Log Beam Saw Mills cannot be equalled in design, efficiency or price by any dealer or manu- ^ facturer in the South. Write-for nrices and catalogues. V. C. Badham&Mf^fl 1 OOfi ITmn Q l'J-iU luaiu UV1WV) - va COLUMBIA, S. C. LL&K I \TOTHINTG LIKE IT J j FOR Constipation, J indigestion, ' Regulator ?, Kidnsys. V1 Wholesale by? m-f-n tfTTTlT> 1 Tr TVT>TT/1 nA I xnjii iiiunnax jjivuu w., Columbia, S. C. " Dr. H. BAER, Charleston, S. C. =Keeley j 126 SMITH STREET, ^ Cor. Vaxderhoest, || Ij |0 CHARLESTON, S. C. W J .-?92 ALCOHOL MORPHINE -M OPIUM %"'k? TOBACCO 3 CIGARETTE Jg USING 81 Produce each a disease having defin- ~ H ite pathology. The disease yields Ml easily to the Double Chloride of Gold vfl [ Treatment as administered at the above si Keeley Institute. | N. B.?The Keeleyi?&tment is I administered in South Carolina M ?l? CHARLESTON. I COTTON ELEVATING Jj SINNING MACHINERY H t We make a specialty of equipping II ! improved and modern ginneries with fl tke Murray Air Distributing System, jfl ; the simplest, most efficient and pracfci- 11 I cal cotton handling apparatus on the 41 [ market. No spike belt distributor, no II I overflow, no time lost between bales; jfl i improved sample of cotton, most dur- II j able machinery, nothing to get out of i order or break down. No expense for repairs. Write for catalogue.* - fl BUY A THRESHER NOW. WE fl SELL THE BEST?THE FARQUHAR. W. H. Gibbes &Co.. | j COLUMBIA, S. C. 1 *> A 8 BVBC I I 1MSW9! THIS ELEGAJTT No. 8 COOKING STOVE Only $1O.0?. Has 17x17 inch oven, four 8 iaeh & ot holes; large flues and frranur I a / Bed a good baker. We It tore up -with forty piece* of we I lcludiag the latest stove intra. I To advertise our tmsfctoi1 --^2 all sell this No. 8 Cootifcg Stow, itted with 40 pieces of wsre far $10.oo CASH. i V Jr-M fiV liture Co. | Augusta, 6a.