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MP' Dr. Ta Image Preaches on a Question of Domestic Interest. THE INFLUENCE OF HOME. Points Out the Disadvantages i of a Life Spent in Ho- j te! sand Boarding * Houses. Home life versus hotel life is the theme of Dr. Taimage's sermon for today, the disadvantages of a life spent at more or less temporary stopping places being sharply contrasted with the blessings that are found in the real home, however humble. The text is ' *. 3d d.n- "And brought him to Juuag w an inn and took care of him. An on j the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee." This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the un fortunate on a lonely, rocky road, where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers, and had put the injured man into the saddle, while this merciful and well to do man had walked till they got to the hotel, and the wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommodations, for, though in the country, the landlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be $4 or $5 a day, a penny being then a day's wages, and the two pennies paid in this case about two days' wages. Moreover it was one of those kind hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guegts, because the good Samaritan leaves the poor wounded fellow to his entire care, promising that when he came that way again he would pay all the bills until the invalid got well. Hotel and boarding houses are neces * xl sities. in very ancient times were unknown, because the world had comparatively few inhabitants, and those were not much given to travel, and private hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to invite the three men to sit down to a dinner of veal; as when the people were positively commanded to be given to hospitality; as in many of the places in the east these ancient customs are practiced today. But we have now hotels presided over ~ ~ * t i ! _ _ T by good landlords, ana Doaramg nouses presided over by excellent host or hostess in all neghborhoods, villages and cities, and it is our congratulation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become the permant residence of many people, such as those who are without families, such as those whose business keeps them migratory, such as those who ought not for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances, to take upon themselves the cares of hosekeeping. Jlany a man falling sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has ' been kindly watched and nursed; and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all mat a motner couiu do for a sick child, and the slumberless eye of God sees and appreciates her ^sacrifices in behalf of the stranger. Among the most marvelous cases of patience and Christian fidelity are many of those who keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment the unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equivalent?a lot of cranky men and women who are not worth to tie the shoe of their queenly caterer, The outrageous way in which boarders sometimes act to their landlords and landladies shows that these critical guests had bad early rearing and that in the making up of their natures all that constitutes the <Tanfl/>r??n anr? larlv was left nnt. Some ? of the most princely men and-some of the most elegant women that I know of today keep hotels and boarding houses. But one of the great evils of this day is found in the fact that a large population of our towns and cities are giving up and have give up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more freedom from domestic duties and ~ more time for social life and because j they like the whirl of publicity belter than the quiet and privacy of a resi- J dence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels anc ooaramg houses is for most people while they are in transitu, but as {terminus they are in many cases demoralizations, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to support and direct homes of their own. have struck tent and taken permanent abode in these public establishments. It is an evil wide as Christendom, ana by voice and through the newspaper press I utter warning and burning protest and ask Almighty God to bless the word, whether in the hearing or reading. In these public caravansaries the demon of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gantlet of general inspection?how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear and what they do not wear, and how they eat, and what they eat, and how much they eat, and how little they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: "Who is he? Where did he come from? How long is he going to stay? Has he paid his board? How much does he pay? Perhaps he has committed some crime and does not want to be known. There must be something wrong about him, or Lt . would speak. The whole house gt into the detective business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leaves his door unlocked by accident he will find that his rooms have been inspected, his trunk explored, his letters folded differently from the way they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked with inT . .A. T tenser interest until trie suDjeci uas become a monomania. The simple fact is that he is nobody in particular, but minds Ms own business. The best landlords and landladies cannot sometimes hinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whisperers, and reputations are torn to tatters, and evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was his English predecessor of srunpowdery reputation. The reason is that while in private homes families have so much to keep them busy in these promiscuous and muiiitudiflou f residence;! there are so many who have nothing to do, and that always makes mischief. They gather in each other's rooms anc. spend hours in consultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they got to willing ear of some listener to detraction, they * "* * ^ -i? T?rAo/^hincr WOUlCl DC OUt OX UrCiltil ucivig there and not feel in full glow of animosity or slander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20. 21. 22. 23, 24 and 25 are on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes "Caw! Caw!" all the other crows hear it and flock together over the same carcass. "Oh, I have heard something rich! Sit down and let me tell you all about it." And the first guffaw increases the gathering, and it has to be told all over again, and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of Gab to some other circle until, from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the garret, all are aware of the defamation and that eveEingall who leave the house "11 1 -L ^cnnfil o71 - I win Dear it -u umci ?? tumnal f.res sweeping across Illinois praries are less raging and swift than that flame of consuming reputation blazing across the village or city. Those of us who were brought up in the country know that the old fashioned hatching of eggs in the haymow required four or nve weeks of brooding, but there are new modes of hatching by machinery, which take less time and do the work by wholesale. So, while the private home may brood into life ail occasional falsity, and take a long time to do it, many of the boarding houses and family hotels afford a swifter and more multitudinous style of moral incubation and one old gossip will get off the nest after one hour's brooding, clucking a fiock of 30 lies after her, each one picking up its little worm of juicy regale ment. It is no advantage to hear too much about your neighbors, for your time will be so mueii occupied m tating care of their faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And while you are pulling the chickweed out of their garden, yours will get all overgrown with horse sorrel and mullenstalks. One of the <rorst damages that co me from the herding of so many people into boarding houses and family hotels is inflicted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. "While you have your own private house you can, for the most part, control their companionship and their whereabouts, but by 12 years of age in these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by the prurient mrnds ot dozens of people. They will overhear blasphemies and see quarrels and get precocious in sin, and what the bartender does not tell them the porter or host ler or bell boy will. Besides that, the children will go out into this world without the restraining, anchoring, steadying and all controlling memory of a home. From that none of us who have been blessed of such memory have escaped. It grips a man for 80 years, if he lives so long. It pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise would enter. It smites him with TTAwr?i/1ef UUU trjLHUil 1U IUC V J WA MAW VkAWW* pations. As the fish already surrounded by the long wide net swim out to sea. tlr'nking they can go as far as they p'.eas0, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the net hand over hand and hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins begin to feel the net, and then they dart this way and that, hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching the 1 ?^ f nrv f a "fT&VXT | Sliure auu aic viua^ut up i>v i.uv feet of the capcors, so the memory of an early home sometimes seems to relax and let men out farther and farther from God and farther and farther from shore?5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years?but some day they find an irresistible mesh drawing them back, and they are compelled to retreat from their prodigality anc. wandering, and, though they make desperate effort to escape the impression and try to dive deeper down in sin, after awhile are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages. If it be possible, oh father and mother! let your sons and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipotent memory of a good, pure homeAbout your two or three rooms in a boarding hons'i or a family hotel you can cast no such glorious sanctity. They will think of these public caravansaries as an early stopping place, maiadorous with old victuals, coffees perpetually steaming and meat3 in everlasting stew or broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid and corridors aloDg which drunken boarders come staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning, rapping at the door till the affrighted wue lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege nr K'ncnTiemtf nf rtallinp1 sufih a nlaee a home. A home is four walls inclosing one family with identity of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so complete that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission?bolted and barred and chained against all outside icquisitiveness. The phrase so often used in law books a.:d legal circles is mightily' suggestive?every man's house is his castle. As much so as though it had drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even the officer of the law may not enter to serve a writ except the door be voluntarily opened unto him. Burglary or the invasion of it a crime so often sive that the law clashes its iron jaws on any one who attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay for longer or shorter time in family hotel or hoarding house?and there are thousands of instances in which it is necessary, as I showed you at the beginning?unless this exceptional case, let neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband's time with public smoking or reading room or with some coquettish spider in* search of unwary flies, and if you do not entirely ]ose your husband it will be because he divinely protected from the disasters that have whelmed thousands of husbands with as good intentions as yours. Neither should the husband without imperative reason consent to such a life unless he is sure his wife can withstand the temptation of social dissipation cTTdons ar>rn<;<; snp.Vi nlaoes with the force of the Atlantic ocean when driven by a September exuinox. Many wives give up their homes for these public residences so that they may give their enti re .time to operas, theaters, balls, receptions and levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl, like a whiptop spinning round and round and round very prettily, until it loses its its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference is, in one case it is a top and in the other a soul. Besides this there is an assiduous accumulation of little things around the private home, which in the aggregate make a great attraction; while the denizen of one of these public residences is apt to say: "What is the use? I have no place to keep them if I should take them." Mementos, bric-a-brac, " "VI ' 1 i i i II I 'i III I " ^'"i I curiosotiesj duaint chair or eczy lounge i upholsteries, pictures and a thousand r things that accrete in a home are dis- f carded or neglected because there is no s homestead in which f.o arrange them, i And 3 et they are the case in which the e pearl of domestic happiness is set. You i can never become as attached to the ap- t pointments of a boarding house or fam- o ily hotel as to those things that you a can call your own and are associated with the different members of your C household or with scenes of thrilling c import in your domestic history. Bless- n ed is that home in which for a whole b lifetime they have been gathering nntil y every figure in the carpet and every b panel of the door and every casement of a the window has a chirography of its n own, speaking out something about 1< father or mothei or son or daughter or b friend that was with us awhile. What i a sacred place it becomes when one can 1; say: *'In that room such a one was y born; in that bed such a one died; in c that chair I sat on the night I heard t * ? i J. i~i:_ ; such a one naa received a great puunu * honor; by that stool my child knelt for o her last evening prayer; here I sat to t greet my son as he came back from sea a voyage: that was father's cane; that was t mother's rocking chair." What a joy- a ful and pathetic congress of reminis- 1: cences' a The public residence of hotel and 1 boarding house abolishes the grace of j. hospitality. Your guest does not want j. to come to such a table. No one wants to run such a gantlet of acute aad mer- ^ ciless hyperciticism. Unless you have I a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all tne = graces. For exercise of this grace what / blessing came to the Shunammite in ^ the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the wid- r ow of Zarephath in the perpetual oil well of the miraculous cruse because ^ she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab in the preservation of her life at j the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his rescue from the destroyed city because of his enter- t tainment of the angels, and to Mary and | Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual Vvlaeoint* V>of?onao f.ViAtr a n terrain p. d Christ ? _ and to Publius in the island of Melita in the healing of his father because of j the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumer- * able houses throughout Christen !n ij '' upon which have come blessings IV .m ' generation to generation because t air ^ doors swung easily open in the enl.irg- I iDg, ennobling, irradiating and divine ' grace of hospitality. I do not kuow J what your experience has been, bu* I j have had men and women visiting at ; my house who left a benediction on every room?in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered 1 at the family altar, in the good advice ' ? T-"i J xT tney gave ine cniiuren, m me j^uopcuzation that looked out from every lineament of their countenances, and their departure was the sword of bereavement. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves, or lips, each one having on it the name of the distinguished pei son who had drunk from it. And that cap which we offer to others in . Christian hospitality, though it be of the plainest earthenware, is a royal cup, and God can read on all sides the names of those who have taken from it refreshment, but all this is impossible unless you have a home of your own. It is the delusion as to what is nertoeearrr -fVvr a hfvmfi that hinders so many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor 20, nor 15, nor 10, nor 5, nor 3. In the right way plant a table, and conch, and knife, and fork, and a chair, and you can raise a young paradise. Just start a home on however small a scale> and it will grow. When Ki^g Cyrus was invited to dine with a humble friend, the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and the most imperial satisfactions have sometimes banqueted on the plainest fare. Do not be caught in the delusion of many thousands in postponing a home until they can have an expensive one. That idea is the /3aTr;i'a *ror? men and wo U^/ VIA Lj VAWr?/ vuw? men innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of America, build plain homes for the people. Let this tenement house system, in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing in the mire, be broken up by small homes, where people can have their own firesides and their own altars. In this great continent there .i3 room enough - *- 4-s\ VloTTA O lor every mzin nuu wumau iv ? home. Morals and civilization and religion demand it. We want done all over this land what George Peabody and Lady Burdett-Coutts did in. England and some of the large manufacturers of this country have done for the villages and cities in building small houses at low rents, so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The ' rich have their palaces, and the poor 1 have their poorhouses, and criminals have t ieir jails, but what about the ; honest middle classes, who are able ' and willing to work and yet have small , income? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism, rise and build whole streets of small residences. The laborer may have at the close of " the day to walk or ride farther than is desirable to reach it, but when he gets to his destination in the eventide he will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impassioned , and heaven descended word?"home." , Young married man, as soon as you can buy such a place, even if you have " to put on it a mortgage reaching from 1 base to capstone. The much abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent and provident is the beginning of a competoncy and a j fortune for the reason he will not be t satisfied until he has paid it off, and all c the household are put on stringent eco- \ nomics until then. Deny yourself all ] superfluities and all luxuries until you ] can say, "Everything in this house is f mine, thank God!?every timber, eveiy 4 brick, every foot of plumbing, every } doorsill." Do not have your children ] bom in a boarding house, and do not e yourself be buried from one. Have a g place where your children can shout a and sing and romp without being over- <3 hauled for the racket. Have a kitchen a where you can do something toward the t reformation of evil cookery and the les- f sening of this nation of dyspcptics. As i Napoleon lost one of his great battles p by an attack of indigestion, so many t men have such a daily wrestle with the t food swallowed that they have no e strength left for the battle of life; and p mo-C L~nflW llOW nlfl_V T liiyugu ?VU1 "AWJ ? W .. x J s on all musical instruments and rival a t prima dona, she is not well educaten s unless she can boil an Irish potato ana i broil a mutton chop, since the die s sometimes decides the fate of familie c and nations. e Hart <x siiuaf.room with at least one easy chair even though you have to take turns at sitting in it, and books out of ? the public library or of your own pur- T chase for the making of your family in- * telligent, and checker boaids and guess- c ng matches, with an occasional blind aan's bu5?which is of all games my avorite. Rouse up your home with all tyles of innocent mirth, and gather up n your children's nature a reservoir of xuberance that will pour down refreshng streams when life gets parched, and he dark days come, and the lights go ut, and the laughter is smothered into . _ SOD. First, last and all the time have Jhrist in your home. Julius Caesar aimed the fears of an affrighted boataan who was rowing him in a stream y saying, u6o long as Caesar is with ou in the same boat no harm can iappen." And whatever storm of dversity or bereavement or poverty aay strike your home all is well as ong as you have Christ the king on ioard. Make your home sofaneachng in its influence that down to the ast moment of your children's life ou may hold them with a heavenly harm. At 76 years of age the Demoshenes of the American senate lay dyng at Washington?I mean Henry Clay f Kentucky. His pastor sat at his ledside, and "the old man eloquent," fter a long and excitiDg public life, ransatlantic and cisatlantic, was back .gain in the scenes of his boyhcod, and le kept saying in his dream over and gain, "My mother, mother, mother!" rlay the parental influence we exert be lot only potential, but holy, and so the tome on earth be the vestibule of our lomc in heaven, in which place may we .11 meet?father, mother, son, daugher, brother, sister, grandfather, grandnother and grandchild and the entire ;roup of precious ones, of whom we nust say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: )ne family we dwell in him, One church above, beneath; rhough now divided bv the stream? The narrow stream of death; )oe army of the living God, To his command we bow; ^art of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. THE STOKY^iTPAEDON. Arrested and Sent to Serve Sentence After Thirty Year's Freedom. Sent back to serve out a sentence af;er having escaped from the State prison 31 years ago. Such was the fate if Hope Frazier, an agea Negro who .vis sent to the penitentiary from Colleton county two weeks ago. But the governor has pardoned him, and the old jx-slavecan go back to his children and his grand-children, born since he es* * ?">A japed trom prison over ou years agu. The members of the jury of 12 ignorant Negroes who convicted him are all dead. All others interested in the case are lead, and the governor pardoned the poor old fellow upan the petition of those who in latter years have found him an humble but good citizen. In January, 1867, the Negro was convicted of larceny of live stock and sentenced by Judge Piatt to two years in the State prison. The convict was brought to Columbia. For 11 months he served his sentence. There were no great, forbidding walls; there were no massive stone prison buildings; there was no great army of convicts there. The State prison was a wooden affair and the walls offered liLtle security. One day Hope found an ''easy" place on the wall s.nd quietly took his departure from a servitude qtiite different from that to which he had before been accustomed; for it was but two years after the close of the war, and Hope had been a slave. Back to Colleton county he went. As if nothing had happened he resumed his work on the Middleton and Burnett plantations. For 31 years he has followed the even tenor of his way until two week ago Thursdav. when he was arrested as an escaped convict. "It was an old grudge somebody had against me, marster," the poor old fellow said. > 'Foi 31 years 1 have gone right there to that cote house and paid my taxes without any one bothering me, and after this long time they arrested me. I didn't done go to tief dat hoss, and I didn't know it was wrong to leave the penitentiary." Poor old ex-slave, with his warped ideas of morality! With the weight of 72 years on his shoulders the prison^ life ill became him. Friends interested themselves in his behalf and the governor Thursday made him a free man.?The State. Dairy Rules. The Iowa Agricultural College creamery has promulgated the following rules, which could be profitably observed by all. 1. Nothing but tin pails should be used in the milkyard, as it is impossible to keep wooden pails sweet. 2. The cows' udders should be carefully washed before any milk is drawn. 3. Milk should be aired immediately by pouring or dripping from pail to nail heforft cooling. and then be cooled t .? 13 quickly as possible to at least 00 degress. 4. Milk should be kept where the surrounding air is pure and free from stable odors or taint of any kind. 5. Moraine's miik should be cooled before mixing with the evening's milk. 6. Cows should not be permitted to Irink stagnant or impure water, but should have an abundance of good ivater. 7. Cows should be driven quietly to md from pasture. 8. Cans and pails should be washed iarefully with warm water, but not lot, and care should be taken to clean ;he seams of the receptacles; tnen tney should be scalded thoroughly with hot vater and be aired. A Good Showing. Reliable poultry statistics that :ire of )ractical value are difficult to get, for he reason that not one poultry raiser tut of a hundred in this section even >retends to keep a record. Mr. Brooks inman. of Yorkville, however, gave the eporter of the Enquirer recently some igures that are quite interesting. 'Since January last up to today," said >Ir. Inman, "I have had 26 Brown jeghorn hens, and in the time mentionid they have laid 225 dozen egis. A ;reat many of these eggs, I have sold at , dollar a setting, but at 12J cents per [ozen the gross income would have .mounted to $28.12^. During this ime, the hens have cost on account of eed and other expenses $11.80, ieavng a net profit of $16.32, and the hens iracticallv of the same value as at tne leginning of the year." According to hese figures it would seem that chickn raising is a pretty good business, es>ecially if the chickens are leoked after >roperly, and accorded intelligent atention. The Enquirer says there are everal other poultry raisers in Yorkille who are in the business as estenively as Mr. Inman, and perhaps some if them may be able to report results ven more satisfactory. The Atlanta Journal says forty perons were killed and several hundred rounded this year by our barbarous nethods of celebrating independence lay. OLD TIME LAWS. j i ??? ] legislation That Would Seem Queer < Enough These Days < Iq 1U49 "irreligion"' was made an of- J fense against the law in Massachusetts. '< Absence from church was punished by '< fine. Denial of truth or inspiration of * any book of the Bible was punished by ^ fine, stripes, exile and death. In 1651 the Massachusetts legislature 1 prohibited persons whose estate did not ex(e:d ?200 ($1,000) from wearing lace ' costing over two shillings (48 cents) a 1 yard. ] In 1(157 Quakers who came to Ameri- 1 ca as a refuge from Puritan persecution 1 in England found a rude welcome. 1 They were fined, whipped and banished. ( On first conviction of the heinious ! crime of being a Quaker one ear was 1 ^ "1 rt* .1 j 1 " t af_ a _ , loppea on; on tne inira me tongue was < bored with a redhot iron. Any one en- 1 tering "the accursed sect" was fined. ; A London woman, lately over, rebuked a magistrate for imposing the penalty, , and was whipped with 20 stripes. In 1G59 two Quakers were hanged in the 1 Massachusetts colony for returning : there after benig punished. And Mary . *r\ 1 VI (* ? 1 xT_ l^yer missea a iiKe iaie Dy me narrowest of margins. She was equally guilty, and the rope was around her neck, < but she was reprieved. But the follow- , ing June she was hanged at Boston, . the charge of being a Quaker having been found sustained?and sufficient. Charles II was about all the friend in authoiity those plain people had. 'He ; ordered the persecutions in Xew Eng land to cease, and was but indifferently , obeyed. In Virginia John Burgess was expelled from the assembly for "being 1 well attectea toward t&e ^matters." A committee of the English house of , commons reported in 1708 that ''the slave trade was important and ought to be free." And another committee, three years later, reported that "the plantations ought to be supplied with negroes at reasonable rates," and recommended an increase in the trade. In 1712 the Pennsylvania assembly replied to a petition to emancipate the negroes that "it was neither just nor convenient to set them at liberty." South Carolina solemnly declared that baptism was "not inconsisent with slavery;" so that even negroes might be converted. Virginia had, however, set the example for that broad charity in 1667. Theatrical representations were prohibited in Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1749. Poultry Items. Give lime for growth of bone and for eg? shell material. A laying hen should have her food and drink at regular intervals. A 1 iff 1a <ra.vennfi nArmer in the food will generally stimulate laying If the hens show an inclination to pull feathers, feed them salt pork. Young ducks can be marketed at about five pouuds weight and should attain this weight in four weeks. The eggs of tha "White Leghorn, Black Minorca and Houdan are about of the same weight as those of the Light Brahma. One dollar a year is the average cost for keeping each fowl. If the fowls are of good strain each should give that much profit. In the selection of eggs for hatching purposes choose those from the hens that are tne Dest layers, most vigorou^attd best in form. Ten "tBren eggs is the average estimate given as the production of the hen. Ducks are said to average about ten dozen and turkeys four dozen. Eggs intended for hatching should not be kept over four weeks. They should be turned every day or two. Thirteen eggs are generally considered enough for a sitting, though many breeders now place under the hen as many as fifteen. Introduce new blood into your poulfrTnTif^ a vpar hut Hn nnfc fthan?re the J V?WW W J J ?- # breed by cross breeding. If dissatisfied with the breed you have don't try to cross it out by breeding. Sell it out and start with pure-breds, or a purebred cock and good, strong, healthy hens. A Heavy LoadSome of the Republican newspapers are beginning to realize that their party will find the administration's foreign policy a heavy load to carry next year. They are begging the president to call a halt in his imperialism and some of j-'-i iL.i rr T__ j j mem predict* mat ju lie uuea uui uu ou he will be rebuked by the people at the first opportunity. We quoted recently the comments of the Washington Post on the Philippine situation. While The Post claims to be an independent newsper it has been a staunch support- er of the administration and yet it practically admits that the president aas made a mess of the Philippine war. The Minneapolis Tribune, the leading Republican newspaper of the northwest, frankly tells the president that if the Philippine problem is not solved a year hence his re-election will be very doubt*1 mi J?? iill. JLuere are uiau^ luucpcuucuu nuu Republican newspapers who talk like the Washington Post and the Minneapolis Tribune. The Democratic press is almost solidly opposed to the imperialistic tendencies of the administration and in favor of making them as prominent an issue as possible in the campaign of next year. Nearly Wiped Out. All but one of the seven members of " n -r-r-r * 1 P 1 tiie family 01 \\ m. rteinnara 01 v^oiumbus Ohio, were killed and the remaining one was badly injured by a passenger train Sunday afternoon. The dead are: William Reinhard, aged 41. Ilachael Reinhard, aged 40. "William Reinhard, Jr, aged 14. Arthur Reinhard, aged 9. Karl Reinhard, aged 7. Edward Reinhard, aged 5. Injured: Clarence Reinhard, aged 14, collar bone broken. Mr. and Mrs. Reiniiard and their five children were out for an afternoon drive in a surrey. They were crossing the tracks just as the westbound passenger train, due at Columbus at 3:15 p. in., came along. The vehicle was knocked into splinters and Mrs. Rein hard and Arthur and Jtiari were killed outright. Edward and William were so badly injured that they died after being removed to a hospital. Clarence sustained a fractured collar bone and other lesser injuries, but it is believed he will recover. The horse which was attached to the surrey was literally grouud to pieces. The crossing has long been regarded as a dangerous one, the view of incoming trains being obscured by a high fence around the fair frrnrm^o TTia train was runnine at a ? j high speed. | fla \ _ . - j A Vigorous Protest. Mr. M. L. Swift, of XordhoS, Cal.. .3 not in agreement with Generals M. 3. Batler. Joseph Wheeler and Col. R. L. Berner, apparently. The Baltimore Sun has received an open letter from Mr. Swift, addressed to the president md his associated sovereign empire and irmy makers, in which he says: "It seems zo have become, within the past few months, a firmly grounded principle of Republican institutions that one crho does not agree with your august authority in these matters of conquest. and expansion savors of the traitor, and that one who fully speaks his disapproval is a traitor. If you are allowed to establish this abominable doctrine pre shall soon be, all of us, in chains; Dur right to discuss, our very right to flecide national polices for ourselves md by ourselves, unawed and undictated to by elected masters, will be torn away. You may be very confident that the luster which two tiny wars have given you will enabel you to confirm that doctrine, but you shall at least bear our version of the mysteries of treason. No doctrine could be more immoral or dangerous than that we must support our 'rulers' in every grossness of external policy or war for the appearance of national unity toward the outer world. There is no stopping place for such a creed short of complete mental and moral surrender of the whole people to the tyranny of one will, and the only antidote for such madness is to stop in the beginning. If all those who are piained and enraged at your violent criminal aggression were to pursue this enlightened resistance toward you, even you would soon be so enlightened as to acknowledge the horror of your performances and to graciously discon- j tinue them. It is now announced thit you will soon make new levies of soldi era to continue the assimilating massacre of our beloved Oriental godchildren. This is audacity inconceivable Was it not enough, having obtained volunteers under the false pretense of merely liberating Cuba, to cunningly dispatch these men, who never would have enlisted to crush and destroy Cubans, to do that very thing to another people in every respect similar to the Cubans? This is the quintessence of treachery and I marvel beyond words that an intelligent people has borne it at your hands." Royal Knees. The Prince of "Wales is the third m-ember of the royal family who has received an injury to the knee. The Queen slipped about fifteen years ago and hurt her knee?an occurrence which has caused her to refrain from unnecessary walking exercise ever since. The late Duke of Albany also fell and injured his knee, an accident which greatly tried his delicate health. Economy In Italy. Marvelous qponomy is practiced by the poor of Italy in looking after the wants of the inner man. Coffee grounds from the wealthy man's kitch J?* -3 -3 J T? en are aneu aim icauiu tv uic j^uur. iu i similar way oil is twice and sometimes three times used, the drippings after each successive frying being gathered from the pan and sold to the poor. The Caxhevr Kernel. A highly flavored nut, known as the cashew kernel, is being imported into Canada for dessert and confectionery uses. It is produced in India only, and its season is from May to November, but the production is not large, and importers must place their orders in advance. on tbe Trail of a Pension. A somewhat pathetic letter comes from an old colored citizen. It is as follows: "De rain has done beat down my cotton, an' most er my co'n is done mint My son wuz a sojer in de war wid de Spaniels. He lost two legs in it Do you reckon de guv-ment will give him ?2 a leg fer 'em?" Level Sea Bottom. The bottom of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is said to be so level that a railroad could be laid for 500 miles without grading anywhere. This fact was discovered by the United States surveying vessel engaged in making soundings with a view of laying cable. HON aa fiu . ji iTlCC J| Mmmmj **?nad?d titer SO -i I it B0t M ff*cd M tfe? M3 do 1 1 3L*tt?a&u Carpets, Se?t fiafty (ftin rtiijfiin ?tc. >iHn in I B00*IiI2 6i ? iww-jr* II ??an. .i I ii>nr.'ii li n~?n . ma A Good Tiling for farmers* In some parts of Pennsylvania, i where rural free mail delivery is in operation, it is said the merchants, tavern keepers and others are raising strenuous objections to the system. It is claimed that the farmers pay fewer visits to the towns and as a consequence nnrcha.se fewer of the commodities which the stores offer for sale and eat I! fewer meals at the taverns. There-may J be something in that view of the siatter still it is not likely that the legitimate wants of the farmers are decreased through haviDg their mails delivered at their doors. If the rural free delivery will save farmers from making unneccessary purchases, then it follows that it is a good thing for the farmers. l,l&k| NOTHING LIKE IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, And DfinrnMnr *or ftrltifiue as a ncguiaiui the iviuiiejo. i Wholesale by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. Dr. H. BAER, Charleston, S. C. All We Ask of v- uaii g^YUU ]?n?ANYTHING In the Machinery Mill Supply Une_ Is tnat you give us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this because we believe we can make it to YOUR advantage. TRY TJS. We make a specialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN GINNERIES OF ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING (APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE-THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purfa casers solicited. W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENCY Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, Pa. Eagle Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater, Mass. Stranb Machinery Co., Cincinnati. 0. To get strong and healthy use one bottle Mukt> a v'c Turnr Mty |AV?1lJL W -LTJLJ^Uk. ITURE. Price 50c THE MURRAY DRUS GO., ?LIFE? A vegetable for Mild, cure for Liv- the Pleasant, er, Kidney & LIYER Sore, stomach troubles, and 25, 50, $1. -KIDNEYSSold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co. Colum bia Dr. H. Baer. Charleston, S C, ^-- 5 j ?.?: ?**; | Es*e* xte*?' 4 L ?' i1 ? J ^ '--s " "^r ter^.4- ".->- "?* '.-. > r - -" " ' ve > '- " ? M&lgg.&M 'M- : TV . 5 *":* "-" *- ' ..." - "r.? - t" . v.c r* ,: j;. A *..?* r.^., 2 vV. ~ V - i . 4 -i r * ^ | 0 > . . - ? I*5 ^ I '- . k' > Vc -ay* a*e;f f.i: \/ i-'-i ? o +yj.CC i?-a ?'r /' 7 f ' r i ' ' /' ta . ?-;,/ la vhat T?" ? ? ,-y Bilartt, StOVi:*, t '.?* * csy?. \ . -5 riafl A vTr. ^ v> " -' S **? The Padgett Fur road Street, M nfl It is the=|j =CustoiH Bat a very poor one, to wait until the fl ning season is on before locking to mfl witai ax me gia is m. Now is the HURRY TOUR GIN TO THE I ELLIOT GW eta MUM Do not delay and thea ask as to have it at once, for thorough work cmH H be done in a hurry. 1 he attention gflj this matter now will more than repay when the cotton is white in the fipH and the gin house crowded. Tbe woxjjfl coming in already, so thip at once togH undersigned, located at the old electric 1M engine house. iH References by permission:?W. H. Gfl & Co , V C. Badham, Jno. A Willis. V B t- ? -tMA AM/1 oliinniikff iHL^_ nitrn j. our uauic ?U? 011 work seat and prepay the freight. The Elliott Gin Repair WorlaS W. J. 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This School has tie reputation of bein^J bett basiness institution in the State. uatea are holding re aunerative poaicioasH mercantile houses, binkiag, insurance, jmM estate, railroad oflie?s, &c., in this aai Otl^H , etates. Write to Vf. H. Mi:feat. Coafl Stenographer Comalbia, S.C. for , f'A. S COOKING STOVE | i r 'y SKXeQ. IT? I i> Mvftti, fow 8 \ii< No 8 Cookrtag Slew, K9 n; H-;c. 40 pieces of inrt far JKfl S/G.CO GASH. M niture Co. ;|j|| Hagnsta,Ga. ffl