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fill AGE ON BOOKS' The Noted Divine Gives Practical Hints on WHAT TO READ. The Greatest Bussing of a Nation is an Elevated Literature; Its Greatest Curse, an Impure Literature. Dr. Talmage, who has been spending a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following report of a discourse which win De neipiai 10 muse appetite for literature and would like \ . some rules to ?uide them in the selection of books and newspapers; text, Acts xix, 19, '"Many of them also which used curious arts brought their bosks together and burned them before all mea, and they counted the price of them and found it 50,000 pieoes of silver." Paul had been stirring up Ephescs with some lively sermons about tfce sins of that place. Among the more important results was the fact that the citizens brought out their bad books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. I see the people coming out with their arms full of Ephesian literature and tossing it into the dames. I hear aa economist who is standing by saying: "Stop this waste. Here are *7 "-AA ftf hivilra Do VOU DrO * pose to burn them ail up? If you don't want toread them yourselyes, sell them and let somebody else read them." "No," said the people; "if these books are not good for us, they are not good for anybody else, and we shall stand and watch until the last leaf has burned to ashes. They have done ue a world of harm, and they shall never do others harm." Hear the flames crackle and roar! Well, my friends, one of the wants of the cities is a great bonfire of bad books and newspapers. We have fuel enough to make a blaze 200 feet high. Many of the publishing houses would do well to throw into the blaze their entire stock of goods. Bring forth the insufferable trash and nut it into the fire and let it ta known in the presence of God and angels said men that yon are going to rid your homes of the overtopping and underlying curse of profligate literature. The printing press is the mightiest agenoy on earth for good and for e7il. The minister of the gospel, standing in a pulpit, has a responsible position, but I do not think it is as responsible as the position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant point of time, at what faroufc cycle of eternity, will cease the influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or a Horace Greeley, or a James Gordon Bennett, or a Watson Webb, or an ? ? t% _ ?_? mi 9 rasters x>rooKs, or a xwuiiu j.vujpcii<?i % Take the overwhelming statistics of the circulation of the daily acd weekly newspapers and then cipher if you can how far up and how far down and how far out reach the influences of the American printing press. What is to be the issue of all this? I believe the Lord intends the printing press to be the chief means for the world's rescue and evangelization, and j 1 think that the great last battle of the world will not be fought with swords and guns, but with types and presses, a purified and gospel literature triumph ing over, trimpimg down ana crusnmg out forever that which is. depraved. The only way to overcome unclean literature is by scattering abroad that which is healthful. May God speed the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christian printing press. I have to tell yon that the greatest blessing that ever came to the nationsis that of an elevated literature, and the greatest scourge has been that of unolean literature. This last has its victims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill insane asylums and penitentiaries and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this infection lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls are Demg tossed over into a lost etermiy, an avalanche of horror and despair: The London plagae was nothing to it. That counted its victims by thousands, but this modern pest has already shoveled its millions into the enamel house of the morally dead. Tb^ longest rail train that ever ran over ilie iracks wa-* not lon^ enough or large enough i<> carry the beastliness and the puirefa-: tion which have been gathered np iu bad books and newspapers in the last 9n XTOOffl * ?v J VUikll Now, it is amid such circumstances that I put a question of overmastering importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall we read? You see I group them together. A newspaper is only a book in a swifter and more portable shape, and the same rules which will apply to book reading will apply to newspaper reading. What shall we read? Saall our minds be the receptacle of everything that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction between the tree of life and the tree of death? Shall we stoop down and drink out of the trough which the wickedness of men has filled with pollution and shame? ShalJ we mire in impurity and chase fantastic will-o'the-wisps across the swamps, when we might walk in the blooming gardens of God? Oh, no! For the sake of cur present and everlasting welfare we must make an intelligent and Christian choice. Standing, as we do, chin deep in fictitious literature, the question that young people arc asking is, "Shall we read novels?" I reply, There are novels that are pure, good, Uhristian, elevating to the heart and ennobling to the life. But I have still further to say that I believe that 75 out of the 100 novels in this day are balefd and destructive to the last degree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry combined. It is a history of things around us with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the debt which it owes to such writers of fiction as Hawthorne and McKenzie and Landon and Hant and Arthur and others whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high life were never better exposed than by Miss Edgeworth. The memories of the past were never more faithfully embalmed than in the writings of Walter Ssott. Coopers's novels are hsaltfully redolent with the breath of the seaweed and the air of the American forest. Charles Kingsley has smitten the morbidity of the world and led a great many to appreciate the poetry of sound health, j strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand woik in carieaturing j the pretenders to gentility and high j blood. Dickens has bailt his o??n monument in his books, which are a plea for the poor and the anathema of injustice, and there are a score of noveli8tic pens today doing mighty work for God and righteousness. I say, bocks like these, read at m ' ^ r .'.V. right times sad read in right proportion I with other books, cannot help but be i ennobling and purifjiDg; but, alas, for j the loathsome and impure literature that has come in the shape of novels, like a freshet overflowing all the banks of decency and ccmmon sense! They are ccmiag from some of the most celebrated publishing houses. They are coming with recommendation of some of our religious newspapers. They lie on your center table to curse your children and blast with their infernal fires generations unborn. You find these books in the desk of the school miss, ?" +! ? ? ??r.-r.L- nf tVio mnnir man. in the steamboat cabin, on the table of the hotel reception room. You see a light in your child's room late at night. You suddenly go in and say, ''What are you doing?" "I am reading." What are you reading?" "A book." You look at the book. It is a bad book. "Where did you get it?" I borrowed it." Alas, there are always those abroad who would like to loan your son or daugh ter a bad book! Everywhere, everywhere, an unclean literature. I charge upon it the destruction of 10,000 im mortal souls, and 1 bid you wake up to the magnitude of the evil. I shall take all the world's literature ?good novels and bad, travels true and false, histories faithful and incorrect, legends beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, all chronicles, all poems, all family, city, state and national libraries? and pile them up in a pyramid of literature, and then I shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, unmistakable Christian prinoiplc?. God help me to speak with reference to my last account and help you to listen. I charge you in the first place to stand aloof from all books that give false pictures of life. Life is neither a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not all either knaves or heroes. Women are neither angels nor furies. And yet if you depended upon much of the literature of the day you would get idea that life-instead of being something earnest, some * % * m a 1 ?t a _ thing practical, is a ntim ana laniasuo and extravagant thing. How poorly prepared are that young man and woman for the duties of today who spent last night wading through' brilliant passages descriptive of magnificent knavery and wiebednesfc! The man will be looking all day long for his heroine in the offise, by the forge in the factory, in the counting room, and he will not find her, and he will be dissatisfied. A man who gives himself up to the indiscriminate reading of novels will be nerveless, inane and s nuisance. He will be fit neitherfor the store, nor the shop, nor the field. A woman who gives herself up to the indiscriminate ' * * 811 V reading 01 novels wiu db uqu^u ivi the duties of wife, mother, sister, daughter. There she is, hair disheveled, countenance vacant, cheeks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight over the fate of some unfortunate lover, in the daytime, when she ought to be busy, staring by the half hoar at nothing, biting her finger nails into the quick. The carpet that was plain before will be plainer after having wandered through a romance all night long ia tessellated halls of castles. -And your industrious companions will be more unattractive than now that vou have walked in the romance through parks with plumed princesses or lounged in the arbor with the polished desperado. Oh, these confirmed novel readers! They are unfitted for this life, which i3 a tremendous discipline. They know not how to go through the furnaces of trial through whish they must pass, and they are unfitted for a world where everything we gain we achieve by hard and long continuing work. Again, abstain from all those books which, while they have some good things, have also an admixture of evil. You have read books that had It*,/-. AUmnr(-3 in llionn tVio crnnf? ftnf? twi' CiCiUCUUO ILL VUVIU v?v ? the bad. Which stuck to you? The bad! The heart of most people is like a sieve, which lets the small particles of gold fall through, but keeps the great cinders. Oace ia awhile there is a mind like a loadstone which, plunged amid steel and bra^s fillings, gathers up the steel and repeis the brass. Bat it is generally esaetly the opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedge of burs to get one blackberry, you will get more bars instead. You cannot afford to read a bad book, however good you are. You say, "The inflaence is insignificant." I tell you that the scratch of a pin has sometimes produced lockjiw. Alas, if through curiosity, aa nm.y do. you pry into an evil book, your curiosity is as dangerous as that of the man who would take a torch into a gunpowder mill merely to see whether it would really blow up or not In a menagerie in Yew York a man put his arm through the bars of a black leopard's cage. The animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and beautifal. He jasfc stroked it once. The monster seized him, and he drew forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. Oh, touch not evil, even with the faintest stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touch it not, lest you pull forth your soul torn and bleeding under the clutch of the leopard. ''But," you say, "how can I find oat whether a book is good or bad without reading it? ' Tfcere is always something suspicious about a bad book. I never knew an exception?something ?~ A* OI>T?1A *llr?a_ 5U5piV?lUUD iU tllC 1UUCA VA tration. This venomous reptile always carries a warning rattle. Again, I charge you to stand o? from all tfc^se books which corrupt the imagination and inSame the passions. I do not refer now to that kind of book which the villain has under his coat wailing for the school to get out, and then, looking both ways to see that there is no policeman around the block, of ers the book to your son on his way home. I do not speak of that kind of literature, but that which evades the law and comes out in polished style, and with acute plot sounds the tocsin that rouses up an tne Daser passions of the soul. Today, under the nostrils of the people, there is a fetid, reeking, unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue and smite your sons and daughters as with the wing of a destroying angel, and it is time that the ministers ef the gospel blew the trumpet and rallied the forces of righteousness, all armed to this great battle agaiDst a depraved literature. Again, abstain from those books which are apologetic of crime. It is a sad thing that -some of the best and most beautiful bookbinaery and some -i? ^"L . c i. _i_ _i.?: _ t I i oi toe unssb rucioriu uavu ueeu uruugut to make sin attractive. Vice is a horrible thing anvhow. It is born in shame, and it dies howling in the darkness. In this world it is scourged with a whip of scorpions, but afterward the thunders of God's wrath pursue it across a boundless desert, beating it with rain and wee. When you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from behind embroidered curtains or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as writhing in the agonies of a city hospital. Cursed be the books that try to make impurity decent and crime attractive and hypocrisy noble! Cursed be the books that swarm with libertines and desperadoes, who make the brain i - rL\ h ?. I of the youcg people witn viiiaiuy: Ye authors who "write them, yc publishers who print them, ye booksellers who distribute them, shall be cat to pieces, if not by an aroused communi-. ty, then at last by the hail of divine vengeance, which shall sweep to the lowest pit of perdition all ye murderers of souls. I tell you, though you may escape in this world, you will be ground at last under the hoof of eternal calamities, and you will be chained to the rock, and you will have the vultures of despair clawing at your soul. and those whom you have destroyed will come around to torment you, and to pour hotter coals of fury upon your head, and rejoice eternally in the outcry of your pain, and the howl of your damnation. ' God shall wound the hairy scalp of him that goeth on in his trespasses." The clock strikes midnight. A fair form bendp over a romance. The eyes flash fire. The breath is quick and irregular. Occasiomlly the color dashes to the cheek and then dies out. The hands tremble as though a guardian spirit were tryiDg to shake the deadly book out of the grasp. Hot tears fall. f.i > l _ _i?:n one laugns wnu a sunu vuiw uuau drops dead at its own sound. The sweat on her brow is the spray dashed up'from the river of death. The dock strikes 4, and the rosy dawn soon after begin3 to look through the lattice upon the pale form that looks like a detained specter of the night Soon in a madhouse she will mistake her rioglets for ourling serpents and thrust her white hand through tne Dars 01 tne prison and smite her bead, rubbing it back as though to push the scalp from the skull, shrieking; ''My brain! My brain!" Oh, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs when there is such a vast ocean in which you may voyage, all sail set? Cherish g ol tojis and newspapers. Beware of bad ones. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led to into crime by reading one vivid romance. The consecrated JohnAngell James, than whom England never produced a better man, declared in his old o tKftfc had nAVftr vet eot over the evil effects of having for 15 minutes once read a bad book. Bat I need not go so far off. I could tell you of a comrade who was great hearted, noble and generous. He was studying for an honorable profession, bat he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day, "De Witt, would you like to read it?" I said, "Yes, I would." I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. I was really stariled with what I saw there, and I banded the book back to him and said, "You had better destroy that book." No, he kept it. He read it. He reread it. Afier awhile he gave up religion as a myth. He gave up God a&a nonentity. He gave up the Bible as a fable. He gave up the church of Christ as a useless institution. He gave up good morals as being unnecessarily stringent. I have heard of him but twice in many years. The time before the last I heard of him he was a confirmed inebriate. The last I heard of him he was coming out of an insane asylum?in body, mind and soul sn awful wrack. I believe that one infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go home today and look through your library, and then, having looked through your library, look on the stand where you keep your pictorials and newspapers and apply the Christian principles I have laid down this hour. If there is anything in your horns that cannot stand the test do not give it away, for it might spoil an immortal soul; do not sell it, for the money you get would be the price of blood; but ather kindle a fire on your kitchen hearth or in your back yard jmd then drop the poison in it, and the bonefire in your city shall be as consuming as that one in Ephesus. The Sons of Veterans. The Sons of Confederate Veterans met in Greenwood on Wednesday at the court house, where a large crowd of ladies and veterans had gathered with the Sons. The commander of the local camp?Camp James M. Perrin?Mr. David Aiken, calieti the assembly to order, and after prayer bv Rev. R. G. McLees Mr. "Aiken ictroduced Mr. F. B. Grier of CampPeriin, who extended a welcome on behalf of his camp. Mr. Grier's speech was eloquent and patriotic, and he was reqaeutly interrupted by applause. He lauded the Confederate soldier and his deeds and aroused the emotions of his hearers to a pitch. At the conclusion of Mr. Grier's speech Mr. Aiken introduced Mr. Francis H. TV eSLUlJ, UlViOiUU tvwuiauuu Ui wv Sons of Veterans for South Carolina, who responded very gracefally to the words of welcome and went on to make an earnest, solid, argument for the truthful perpetuation of history. At the conclusion of Mr. Weston's speech G-en. M. L Bon ham was called for and responded in one of his happy little talks, full of fervent patriotism. There were then calls for Mr. Geo. E, Prince, who responded very neatly, touching upon the matter of partisan histories, whioh is the question most prominently before both the veterans and the Sjus The business meeting of the Sons of veterans was called to order at 10 o'clock Thursday morning by the division commander, F. H. Weston, who made an eloquent appeal for greater interest in the order and its important work. The roll was then called and the camps responded by the presentation of the credentials. There were many camps who had delegates in town but there are so many sponsors here that the Sons could not make up their minds to devote themselves to business. The question which is agitating both the organizations is that of fair text v?i a U'JUAD ttLlU IUC uoivgawvo uiouuDovu vuiu very fully, the discussion being opened by Mr. Weston. The adjutant read a letter from Col. W. F. J ones, chairman of the historical oommittee of the U. S C. V. On motion of Gen. JSonham the South Carolina division pledged itself to raise its quota of any amount that might be necessary for the employment of a competent man to prosecute this work of securing fair histories. This question was further discussed by Comrades Bonham and Prince and a resolution was also adopted com mending the work of Gol. Jones. A committee was appointed to make arrangements for a presentation of the sponsors aDd they reported 4 o'clock as the hour set. The election of division commander was next entered into and by a;clama tion Mr. W. H. Huott of ftreen*ood was elected. Mr. Weston declined to serve another term Resolutions of thanks to Greenwood to Camp Perrin, to Mr. Weston and to his adjutant were then adopted and the convention adjourned. No Pebble at All. The Cedartown, Ga , Advance says: "Man that is boru of woman is of lew days and full of trouble. Hegoethout in the morning in all his glory and strength, thinking that he is the only pebble on th^ beach. Straightway he fallethinto politics ard in the morning finds out that he wasn't any pebble on the beach at all " & jg|| gf; ' . E&ts&sJ* ' J:.jgf" Z | THE OLD VETERANS ? Gathered by Thousands in Hos* pitable Greenwood IN SIXTH ANNUAL REUNION. j There Are Lirge Numbers of Vis* itors in Attendance, and the Littls City is Crowdad. Greenwood was gay and festive last week. There were veterans there by the hundred and sponsos by the score with just enough sons to make interesting for the sponsors. Tuesday afternoon the trains poured people into thi3 busy little town and Wednesday the throng has been coming in a steady stream. Greenwood is something of a railroad centre and every train has dumped its load iato the already filled town. trray coits, gray , hats, gray beards tell of their owners' sacrifices for the country they loved and the veterans do little but talk with each ether of the latter and the marches with Lee and Johnson and Jackson and Hampton. The veterans' convention, as. usual, is a side issue. These old soldiers have enough of business every day and on such occasions as this they prefer to deal in reminiscences, renewing old ac quaintances and grasping the hands of the comrades with whom they kept step and with whom they messed and slept 29 years ago. The sponsors?who say ought but mention that they are here? Victors by right, they are victors in fact. The * ? *1% A nAntk AMAA V* e% rr/% mcii Ul LUC DUUIU ilia J UUUC 1IAYC conqured bat the women are always conqaerors and so it is in Greenwood. The sponsors have not been enumerated but there are lots of them here. The lovely little Hotel Oregon is dedevoted almost entirely to their use and everybody else in town is at their service. The division sponsor for the veterans is Miss Louise McFadden of Chester, and for the Sons of Veterans the division sponsor is Miss Mary Orr, of Anderson. Then there are sponsors for the brigades and for the oamps and maids of honor galore. The veterans' convention was opened Wednesday morning in the court house, SeDator C. A. Waller presented the ilev. J. S. Jordan of Phoenix, who opened the meeting with a moat appropriate appeal to the God of Battles. Then c: j a very interesting address of welcome on behalt of the town of Greenwood by Mayor DuPre, who paid high tribute to the soldiers of the Confedercy and extended the survivors a <varm welcome on behalf of this thriving little city. Mr. D*vid Aiken, com a-ander of Camp James M. Perrin, Sons of Veterans, welcomed the visitors in the name of his organization and Senator Waller iD behalf of Camp D. Wyatt Aiken, U. C. V. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, the state commander, then responded for the veterans in one of the happiest speeohes he has ever made on any occasion. After these preliminary exercises there was read the annual memorial tribute to the comrades who have died since the hst reunion and to the women of i the Coofaderacv. A telegram was read from Wade Hampton, expressing his regret at being unable to come. The mention of the name of Hampton set the old soldiers wild and they cheered to the echo. Oq motion, it was ordered that a response be sent to Gen. Hampton telling him that he still occupies the first place in the hearts of his comrades. 1 A letter was read from Capt George Lake, now living in Louisville, expressing his regrets and a suitable response was ordered sent to Capt. Lake who is a prime favorite with his comrades. ' Next came the roll call of camps, a duty performed by Col. Jas. G. Holmes, division adjutant, in his usual graceful style. Dr. B. H. Teague presented the report of the committee on the Confederate abbey, which showed that the offerr of Charles Broadway Roms has been met and the $100,000 for the ab bey is now available. Oa motion of Col. Iredell Jones, a committee of three wag ordered ap pointed to memorialize the legislature for the creation of the office of commissioner of pensions. A committee of the same nnmber was appointed to report on the subject of text books, and jast at this point Hon. 0. L. Sohumpert of Newberry made a ringing speech in support of the plea for fair histories. * After this the convention adjourned and thfi veterans wandered off in search of something to eat. The hotels here are small, and most of the visitors are qiartered at private homes. The houses aod stores are decorated with flags and L l?l 4. 1J OUQUDSJ, UUb liUIlUCiU CAUCmiSlB UUU1U Dot take exception to the decorations, for the S.*r Swangled Banner and the red, white and blue are a great deal more in evidence than the Stars and Bar3 and the red, whito and red. The flag of the Third South Carolina regiment, tattered and torn, is here in the custody of Camp Garlington of Laurens, Commander T. B. Crews. Col. Todd was its last bearer. It was never captured. The flag of the Palmetto Sharpshooters, representing the upper counties of South Carolina. This flag was carried through the Seven Days' fight, the battle of Frazier's farm, the second battle of Manassas, at Antiotam, and was shot through at Boonesburg. It was surrendered at Appomattox and brought home. It is estimated that there *ere at least 8,000 or 10,000 visitors in town Wednesday, besides many from the surrounding country. Over 1,000 veterans are registered, and it is therefore likely that there ar.e more than 1,200 here. There are the same number of Sons, thongh not all are connected with the organization. The number of sponsors is estimated at from 3<M) to A fl A?TA? A^1 ^ All * V? i ^jP.JlOO cbug iiirTToi ui uuuuu va^viiuH womanhood. TVo old tl ?gs were presented to tbe coiiVcution, one of them being that of tbe Seventh regiment, which went from this section and the colonel of which was D. Wyatt Aiken, the lieutenant colonel being Elbert Bland. Messrs. W. L. Durst and C. A. C. Waller of G-reenTXTi-lA^ own tTlO TliofftPW nf fVlOSA fllfffl with some very interesting remarks, and then Col. Coward called for the rebel yell and it was given with a will. Dr. Teagae presented the report of the committee to memorialize the legislature on tbe subject of pensions. The commissioners of pensions selected by the convention in accordance with the recent act of the legislature are as follows: VY. ii.?iardin ot Ufcester, W. j D. Starling of Columbia, and W. E. < James of Palmetto, Darlington county. For the committee on text books Col. I W ' ) Ocffard liiSde Vzi rspoti requesting ths State board of education to adopt only southern books by aontbern authors and southern publishing houses. This was adopted without discussion and without dissent. The election of officers was next in Older and (xen. Uarwile nominated (jren. C. Irvine Walker for re-election as major general of the South Carolina I division. Gen. Walker thanked the veterans for the honor in a most happy little speech. I The two brigade commanders were also elected by acclamation, Col. Asbury Coward of Charleston o? the First brigade and Gen. T. W. Car wile of the Second brigade. Ihere are various estimates of the number in attendance, but Col. Holmes states that out of the 120 camp3 in this State fully, two-thirds, or about 80, were represented at this reunion This is much better than was expected, and speaks well for the organization, which seems to take on new life as its members grow old. The homes of the&e good people have been open to the visitors and the great majority have been entertained free of cost and have had the most abundant hospitality shown them. I cannot now give the committees who are responsible for all that has been J il.i J ^A.1 11 J. 1_ ^ 1 none in mat aau otner lines to inane ; the occasion pleasant but I would like J to name each one and to denominate ? each one as a most royal host. The veterans' convention having ad- ; journed shortly after noon, many visit- 1 ors left on the afternoon trains but \ there are plenty yet in town to make ] things lively Now the most interesting part of the ; story is to come?so far as Columbia is J concerned. The reunion next year is ^ to be held ia th'e mast progressive city ' in the south?the capital of the Seces- 1 sion State?Columbia. The vote to go * to Columbia was practically unanimous, there being a few voices raised for Sum- . ter and a few for Spartanburg. The survivors of the Ha upton L2- j gion met today and decided to hold a ( reuoion annually in Columbia on Wednesday and Thursday of fair we^k. The first reunion is to be held this fall. 1 P. A. Emanuel of Aiken is chairman j of the committee to make arrangements j for the occasion. ! Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr. i umuiTiufl UJT tuvra. 1 Resume of the Summaries for the i Several States 1 It is an open questior whether the recent generally favorable weather has ' caused ootton to recover in condition ; what it lost daring June. la spots it ] undoubtedly has done so, while on wet ' bottom lands in the States of Louisiana i and Mississippi it has continued to de- ( teriorate, and in these States the crop , will be smaller than usual. Texas and i Arkansas, and portions of the Atlantic \ States have average crops, but gener- , ally the crop averages low. Shedding is reported from all sections, but not t more than usual to the season. Cotton j is in some States opening prer.aturely, , but generally the crop is later than usual. In North Carolina cotton has revived wonderfully, and although the plants < are still late and small for the season, < the general abundance of blooms and ' free setting of fruit would indicate a ' good yield. Shedding and rust are re- ; ported in several counties, but no* f more than is usual at this period. Here 3 and there, fields of cotton on light and ' sandy soil were too much injured by J the drought to recover fully. I In South Carolina over a large por- i tion of the State, with numerous ex- 11 ceptions, however, in the eastern-conn- |' ties, ootton improved materially and 1 now looks promising, but comparative- 1 ly few sections report the crop heavily > fruited. Most of the reports indicate > that the plants are undersized and late, but fruiting normally, and some that < they are not fruitin? as they should at J this season. There are a few complaints 1 of rust and premature opening, more of shedding, and some of grassy fields, although cotton is generally laid by clean. In the western counties culti- < vation continues. In places cotton is < blooming to the top. Sea island is still 1 suffering from drought and blight. J In Georgia cotton shows steady im- , provement, but there is some complaint i of rust and shedding in a few coun- i * *? 'O e-mail Vinf io fmihinor nrptfv ^ bl^O) IV AO CiilOil MUb 4U well. In Florida reports continue, uniavor- 1 able to ootton. On some old lands the : planthas stopped growing; the bottom crop Is not promising and the frequent 1 rains are not conducive to a favorable 1 change. A report from Madison conn- ] ty, however, states that the crop ap- i pears to have improved some duriDg < the week. Picking has commenced on J uplands; the lint is light. ] In Alabama cotton, as a whole, has oontinued to improve slowly, and is j now fruiting more freely, though there J are very few full grown bolls, and 1 none are open; this staple is consider- J ably below the average for the season; < Y CI J UVUQ la Mississippi ootton lias made some advancement, bat is stalky, small and fruiting poorly. It is shedding quite ] freely in most sections because of ex- j cessive moisture. j In Louisiana cotton did not fare well , during the week; there was altogether , too much moisture, barring a few places ; in some of the northern parishes, , where the crop is reported as having j marJfl fairlv pood t>ro2r?ss. comolaints that the plant is shedding, running to stalk, and fruiting slowly, are becom- j ing more numerous; cotton on high and ( well drained lands may yet be saved by a timely change to dry and warmer weather, but on low lands crop pro3* pests are poor indeed. Boll worms and caterpillars are making their appearance in a few localities, and the 1 crop continues, as a rule, badly in grass ! owing to the rains, which render cleaning and laying by very difficult, if not impossible. In Tennessee cotton generally is small but growing well, some shedding of forms is reported in the western di vision. Tn T xis cotton continues to shed in i some localities. The showery weather , has caused the plant to take on a very ( rapid growth, and consequently it is j not fruiting well in many sections. ( Seme localities report that cotton is ] doing exceptionally well and fruiting ] nicely. The crop is generally in good condition, except some fields are J TTrtTwco-ar mriili r\f flip f*rOT> < giaoojt AAvnu ? VAj *uwkvu V* J has been worked out for the last time, j The boil worm and the Mexican weevil j are reported from many places, some ( such reports coming from the extreme 3 northern portion of the State, some < hoinir ilnrifl Thfinrnnis snotted uawagv ?v~v ... ? g- -and late. Some full grown bolls over the southern portion of the State, but opening will not be general for some 1 time yet. The crop ranges from poor 1 to very good. < In Arkansas cotton on the higher ground is doing very well, and in most cases promises a good yield, while in ] the lowlands it-irrerygrftssy and many ] gelds have been abandoned. i ... . .... ; BY A BIG MAJORITY. The Tar Heel Democrats Wins a Great Victory. OLD NORTH STATE IN LINE. Both Branches of Legislature Secure. The Amendment Goes a Whooping. The Election Quiet. A dispatch from Charlotte says the elections in North Carolina Thursday ieere for governor and State officers, nembers of the legislature and county jfficers and for an amendment to the State constitution looking to a practi:al elimination of the Negro from polices, as its adoption would disfranchise ;he bulk of the Negro vote. By far ;he greatest interest centered in the fight ?ras over the amendment. At Thurs lay's election a great many Negroes roted for it. The faculty of Livingstone college at Salisbury, one of the most prominent NTegro educational institutions in the south, voted for it. The amendment upas opposed bv the fusion forces of Populists and Republicans, headed by Senators Butler and Pritchard, and the campaign was the most bitter waged in the State since reconstruction days, rhere was a full poll of the Democratic strength, which, combined with a small tfogro vote and some Populist and Republics votes, rolled up an unprejedented majority. Returns indicate ;hat the amendment was carried by jver 40,000 majority. Spencer B. Adams, fu3ion nominee for governor, was defeated by Chas. B. Aycock, Demorcatic nominee, by fully 40,000 majority. All other State officers were elected by equal majorities. The legislature is Democratic in both branches, Mecklenburg county, [>f which Charlotte is the county seat, jives 3,500 majority for the county ticket. The election throughout the State wag generally quiet and peaceable, the Negroep, as a general thing, remaining away from the polls. A dispatch from Raleigh says the jlection passed off quietly. A heavy white vote was polied, but the Negroes took little interest m tne result,, ana generally remained away from the polls. En many instances they voted the Democratic ticket. Every eastern jounty was carried by the Democrats, the majorities in some of them being 3.000. Most of the central counties also are Democratic. Returns from the irest are incomplete, lhe indications, however, are that the State is Demojratio by 50,000 majority, the legislature three fouths Democratic and the franchise amendment adopted. At 11 D'clock Thursday night Democratic Chairman Simmons said: "I think we have a safe majority of 50,000 and at least four-fifths of the legislature. The returns so far are most satisfactory, and no surprises. ALMOST A CLEAN SWEEPS. The Democrats rejoiced quietly all jver North Carolina Friday.- The retains show that Democratic maiorities aggregate 54,678 and fusion majorities 3,125, maying the net Democratic majority 59,553 There will be contests in several counties, there being .gross irregularities in Randolph and Harnett and smaller ones in Wilkes and Chatham. In the latter county, at Congressman Atwater's preciuat, the fusion stronghold, the fusionist, finding chey were being out-voted assaulted ihe election officers, smashed the ballot boxes and burned the ballots. This is :he only outrage which occurred in the 3tate, so far as known. The returns show that to the senate there are elected 58 Democrats and 9 fusionists, with ;hree seats doubtful, and tc the house T\ < j io 7?j i^eLuucrais auu xo luoiuuiaio, nunc twelve seats are in doubt. To Develop Savannah River. The declaration was filed in the office )f the secretary of state Wednesday afternoon and a commission was issued to the Twin City Power "company. This means much for the development of the prater power aipBg the Savannah river ind of its several tributaries in EdgeSeld and Abbeville counties which has heretofore been going to waste. One million dollars is to be the capital of the company, and northern capitalists ire the promoters. One of them is Mr. K7 TT Hh c>tp vtin nrcankfirt the C!n- I lambia Water Powr company, which bought the Columbia canal. The corporators are '"Samuel Say lor. residing it 245 west 120th street, New iork jity in the State of New York; W. H. 3hew, residing at 1855 7th avenue, LVew York city, in the State of New fork, and D. M. Mackaye, 18 Neptune Place, New Rochelle, in the State of !few York." The principal place of ausineas is to bs located on the Savannah river near ParksviT.e, Elgge field jounty. State of Ohio, City op Toledo, ( Lucas County. s ' Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co , doing business in ihe City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay she sum of-ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of uararbh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. FftANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my my presence, tnis 6-.h day of Dejember, A. D. 188G. A. W. GLEASON, j seal > Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENE? & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75 Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Whole TruthIn a letter to the Philadelphia Press Brooker T. Washington speaks fery encouragingly of the treatment of jolored people by their white neighbors in the South. He says, among much jlse that is of interest: "In any cise I lave not seen a single colored man who lad secured intellectual and moral prosperities, and had a high character, yho did not have the respect and con" 1 -C A. laeucs ui me wiiice pcu^jic nunc uc ived." "On the whole," says the Philadelphia Keoord, "it has been long jbserved that well-behaved colored uen are much better treated in the South than in the North.'1 Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 3, 1899 A 7 r> rri (TrtM fnf K <iC JL ILLS AUUO^biV xu ? ijjViww/i *?-4 3een used in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, and will lo all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself, [t's doing me good.?Sold by Hie Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all Iruggists. if t * . r? --T.WT' ? aa.Vn^gfflQggg^ilrMTHm1 IW iHfilWBHwl MP ^ iSE fiJVoLMos afAfits. the Streets of Pekin Bail Sed With BloodA special to the Record from Victoria, B. C., says: 4' A letter received by a local Chinaman by the steamer Gienogle dated Chisan-fu, the capital of Shan-tung on July 2, says Cho Ta. a reformer who escaped irom Pekin on June 26, h^s given the writer, the following information from the capital to June 26: mere were over iUU,UDU .Boxers and Manchu troops in the oapital when I left, and numbers more were pouring in from all parts of the Chi li-shan, Lusi and Honan. Their main objeet seemed to be plunder and hatred of foreigner's. The 'gates of Pekin were constantly opened day and night to permit these reininforwmants to enter the city. Those in the city had attacked the foreign legations continuously for ten days, but were repulsed every time, although" they managed to set fire to a number of houses adjoining the for eign quarters. One or two foreign houses had already been destroyed when I left the city. No decent person could get anywhere near the place 1U1 1CA1 UVIU5 tallCU A iUiQigUVA UJ the mob. "Not counting the 2,000 to 3,000 converts who have been massacred by the Boxers inside Pekin, it was estimated when I left that over 4,000 peaceable oitizens had also been slain in the melee. The streets ran with blood; it was awful. The Tartar and forbidden cities were filled to overflowing with Boxers and Mamhu troops, which caused a panic among the princes, dukes, nobles and members of the imperial clan and their banner men who were afraid that they also would be plundered as soon as the Boxers got beyond control and so by dipl maoyothey managed to clean both cities of their dangerous friends, closed the gates and placed strong guards 01 banner men to prevent iur ther ingress of outsiders. "The Tartar city gates are now only opened a couple of hours a day to enable residents to purchase things from the other cities. "On the 19th of June YungLu, wko had always advocated the suppression of the Boxers, having received dispatches from the vioeroys and. govern ore south of the Yellow river urging the same step, thought to back up his policy by quoting the provincial dispatches at the grand council that morning. A great clamor arose among the other grand councillors held by Prince Ttxan and Yang Hu, who denounced. YungLu as a traitor ana literally overwhelmed him by tiieir numbers. Finally in spite of the ecdeavors of the empress dowager to restore order Princs Tuan and VoTirr TTn Anf f.liof. frlior WAnl/1 XAU W&1WU VUV VU0V UiVJ nv%uv take all the responsibility of the war against foreigners and rushed out of the grand council chamber, all decorum and etiquette being thrown to the winds. The empress dowager left the council clumber in despair and has not been heard of since, nor has the emperor. They are said to be under the restraint of Prince Tuan's men in the palace. When this was known to eunuchs and palace officials they raised theory: ''Up with the Ta Tsing-dynasty and down with the foreigners!" which was taken up by the populace io the Tartar city. An hour afterward began the reign of Prince Tuan and his clique. We-fear greatly for the safety of our beloved emperor. [Reserved for Measles Daring the past two years Danny Sweeney, of Hazelton, Pa., aged 8, has fallen twenty-five feet from a roof, been knocked down twice by trolley cars, run over by bicycles six times, thrown from a freight train once and knocked of the track by a yard engine ones. Yet Danny is as soaad as a dollar and mischievous as a kitten. Probably Fate is reserving Danny for a ease of the measles. Many ArrestsA dispatch from Rome says twentyfour persons have been arrested as eon4 aAam ?aa sif in 4-Vio oodftfllTiftiinn igugiauvo ui J>U WUV uuuauiunuwM of the King of Italy. Ooe is Teresa BragnoU, who was captured at Prate. He is believed to be the one who wrote the letter to Bresei from New York, asking, "Is all ready?" Six were arrested at Prato and the others in Milan. THE LEADER INDEED. The New Ball Bearing Domestic Sewing Machine Ti T 1 T*T _ 1 1 Tl x_ id Jjeaos in w orKmansmp, x>eauiy, Capacity, Strength, Light Bunning. Every Wernan Wants One. Attachments, Needles and Parts for Sewing Machines of all makes. When ordering needles send sample. Price 27c per dozen, postpaid. Agents ^Wanted in Unoccupied Territory. J. L. SHULL, 1 m A m 1 CI J ..i. ia?? Aajriur owrtwu, COLUMBIA, 3. C. Dissolution. The firm of Jno S. Reynolds & Co., Printers of Ready Prints to Newspapers, was dissolved by mutual consent on July 1, 1900. JNO. S. REYNOLDS, J AS. L. SIMS. Having purchased the interest of Mr. Jno. S. 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