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The Abbeville Press and Banner.! a __^_ _^__^ ^ ' >?ggp? * BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1890. VOLUME XXXV. NO. 8. |jj ? - ' ? Selections from the Christian Neighbor A Growing Evil. More than twice in the last few years the Neighbor has called attention to the evil referred to in the extract below. We repeat the warning and urge adherence to the better way? the original, the natural, the family, the more excellent wav of having par-! enta and children, (big and little) old people and young people all together in the church on ordinary occasions of J religious exercises including Sunday I schools. The Christian Witness says: 4,The church commited a great error when she separated the young people from the older members, arranging them into 'young people's prayer meetings,' 'young people's class meetings,' and young people's almost everything. We have now two churches in one. The young people do all their work by themselves, ana have little more to do with the older members tban tnougn they did not belong to the church. The evil which comes of this is twofold. The young people fail of the counsel which the more mature and experienced are qualified to impart, and the older members lose the inspiration which the young people are well fitted to inspire. ^ "As matters are now moving, the ' time is not distant when a young people's church will be demanded. The result is what might naturally be expected,?a shallow experience, with ephemeral results." "Business is business" is a saying which has both a good meaning and a bad. Business is business says one who would excusc a hard bargain ; business is business echoes auother who would take advantage of innocence or ignorance. But in a better sense is business business. In business matters (if we might say especially we would Mnonioiiv hptwppii relatives and paj vo^vviwj ij ? friends)?but in all business affairs let matters be done in a business like way. Always give and take receipts. Let no one have to ask for a receipt, but if it is not offered by the receiver of goods or money tben ask for it. No honest man's "honor" is hurt by giving a reciept, nor will an honest man resent being asked for one. Let all business contracts be clearly expressed in writing?it is only a "slippery fellow" that is afraid of such. Not that the smallest particulars can be specified in such a paper?but in these the very men who are clearest in written contracts are to be most trusted. Friendships obligations are another thing, so in generosity, charity, but * in business aflairs let business mean I business and nothing else. So Do. The country lost by fire last year $123,000,000 worth of property. The real Mocha coffee comes only from Yemen, and Arabian province. What a elorious world this would be If people would live up to Ihe epitaphs on their tombstones! Senator Hoar recently remarked that the Sunday newspapers were the greatest curse of modern times. The Prenbyterians in this country are reported as numbering 856,000, a gain of 103,000 during the year. Constantinople is about to have her first cotton mill. They expect to make cheaper goods than those furnished by Eugland. State Treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi, has been sent to the penitentiary for five years. He was convicted of stealing the State's money. Rev. D. C. Home, of the Holston Conference, pastor of Cooper's Mission, is dead. He was an excellent preacher. The death of Rev. L. M. Keith has brought sadness to mauy hearts in the bounds of the Little Rock Conference, of which he was a useful member. Rev. M. D. Robinson, a superannuated member of the Memphis Conference, died at Gardner Station, Tenn., June 24. He was a pioneer preacher in Western Tennessee. Santa Rosa, Cal., July 1.?Three shocks of earthquake were felt here yesterday. They were not so severe ^ as those of Sunday, George William Curtis gave a new grouping of the agents of civilization in his address at the New York Cham-} ber of Commerce dinner. "The Bible, the tea pot, the spelling book, and the bath tub," he said, have been the pioneers of progress on this coutiuent. The Secretary of the State of Iowa says: "Of the ninety counties in Iowa in 1888 there were flfty-flve which reported no commitments to county jails." Couple this with the fact that Iowa is a prohibition State, and match it if you can with the record of any V*?/VK{oAnon fitatA Woflf nr Fflaf. JUI^U-UWllOV K*?W%VVJ TT VW WA Wm, Penn gives the following hints about behavionr: "Be reserved, but not sour; grave, but not formal; bold butnotrasn; humble, but not cringing; patient, but not insensible ; constant, but not obstinate ; cheerful, but not light. Rather be sweet-tempered than familiar: familiar, rather than intimate, and intimate with very few. And with those few upon very good .grounds." Sent into the World.?If it be true?and who may doubt it??that the vast company of believers are sent by our Lord into the world on an errand similar to that with which He was charged, then surely the life of each one of us takes on a wondrous meaning. We are expected to promulgate Christ's Gospel by showing -1.. xtso k.r uciurc LJJC WUllU HiO opini) wj <-t?JV/uo efforts in behalf of others, and by overcoming the enemy of souls as ( hrist overcame. The ancients placed an immense value on their gems. In looking up the subjects one finds the following uuotaIf, tlons : The pearl given to Servillia by Julius Caesar was valued at $24,000; the gems on the scabbard of Mithri<la tea were valued at $37,860; the val ue of the pearl swallowed by Cleopatra is placed at $25,000; the gems worn by Lollia Paulina, wife of Caligula, were valued at $1,600,000. The Newspaper Lotteries. From Christian Statesman. (The gollowing timely communication, coming to hand too late for insertion elsewhere, is cordially "adopted" into our editorial columns.) It is well that the moral sense of the whole American community is stirred up in connection with the proposed re-| chartering of the Louisana Lottery. The general condemnation of the bad; scheme has become so pronounced, j that the newspaper press with one ac-| cord have declared against it. They | have doue so at least in the form of words, whatever mental reservation may have been made on the part of some of them. This qualification indeed, I feel bound to make, in view of the fact, that a great many dailies are now running their own lottery. These enterprising journals do not call their individual schemes playing lottery or playing policy: they are I 1 ? miDQainc* 9 A mi SlUlflly L'UUICS UI guvmiug . what is the whole ground-work of any lottery but just guessing ? Our papers wish to increase their circulation. They take up the popular base-ball craze. They print coupons, just as I might be printed by any lottery comIpany?with the exception that the coupons appear in the body of the paper? and they ask the buyers of the paper I to fill up these coupons with tbe names j of certain base-ball teams tbey guess will win the games, and take their chances in getting a prize of ten, fifty, or five hundred dollars, as the case may be. Here is the "Evening Bulletin," f>r instance, whose scheme was referred to some months ago in this paper. "This contest" says the announcement in the paper, "is open to every boy who buys the "Bulletin." And on the front of tbe publication building we find displayed the stimulating placard : "$500 for 2 ceuta." But the caution or seuse of shame of tbe proprietors, taking alarm, has operated to cause the removal of tbe $600 promise placard, as well as the palpably money-making consideration that the invitation is extended to those who buy the sheet. Tbe public are now invited ^1AAnnnno anH flPflf) UU1JT W III I up l/UV VVU|M/uw mmmm-mm ? them In, but all the same, they need to buy the papers and thus help enlarge the circulation. A scheme of like character and purpose is that of the "Inquirer," whose announcement promises that "extra coupons" can be obtained. The writer inquired at the counter of the paper in questiou what was the nature of these coupons. The clerk responded that he had not seen any. "Then it was expected that one would obtain tbem by buying the paper." "Yes, that is it." What a fall, thought I, is here, from the "Inquirer" of Jasper Harding, to which my father was an early subscriber and which lie continued to take, 88 being a good family paper, till the day of his death. Falling into the hands of the publisher of "Golden Days" and "Saturday," Night a Sunday edition of the daily is quickly announced (its own advertisement gives among its contents a serial story, fashions, a whist column, and so on) and following along with it eomes this cheap guessing or lottery scheme. To the managers of the "Bulletin" and "Inquirer," and all other papers engaged in this unworthy and (as I KckiioirM illofyo 1 KnslnMa mftv he com mended the outspoken words of Governor Nicbolls, of Louisana, in his late annual message. I will quote but a single sentence: "If the idea recently advanced that the presence among us of a lottery is a blessing and a boon, were eutained seriously and really by any large part of our population, we would not be entitled to rate very high in tbe scale of civilization or of morality, either private or public. That institution ought to be destroyed on both political and moral ground4. Lotteries not only fall under the classification of gambling, but of gambling of the very worst description. The Supreme Court of tbe United States, speaking on tbat subject, said : 'Experience has shown that the common form of gambling are inocuous when placed in contrast with the widespread pestilence of lotteries, The former is confined to a few persons aud places, but tbe latter infests the whole community. It en Airm*u iluMillinry it* ioo/>ni a pvpru IV! Vf ViJ UTTVlllMgl *? W v-J class, it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor and it plunders the ignorant and simple.'1 In the present instance, it is not expenditure of a cent or ten cents in the scheme that is of any particular consequence, but it is the principle which is involved of perchance getting a large return on a very small outlay. It is the mischief which is done when one so far loses his &ense of self-respect and integrity as to lend himself in the least to auy undertaking or scheme that bears the taint of gambliDg. And what ia to become of base-ball as a game, when it is thus brought into auch disreputable association 1 What, likewise, is the value to be placed on tne editorial condemnation of the Louisana lottery, wbeu it emanates from a paper which issues a prospectus of guessing or betting, with valuable prizes, to promote its circulation? J. W. Leeds. A man arose in one ot Moody's meetings and gave his experience. "I have been for five years on the Mount of Transfiguration." "How many souls did you lead to Christ last year?" was the sharp question that came from Mr. Moody in an instant. "Well, I don't know,'' was the astonished reply. "Have you saved any ?" persisted Mr. Moody. "I don't know I -X -r 1 II mat X Jiave, ' BiiSYvcicu iuc man. "Well, we don't want that kind of mountain-top experience. When a man gets so nigh that he can not reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong." A writer in a London journal calls attention to the unappreciated uses and preservative qualities ;of soapstone, a material which possesses what may be regarded as extraordinary qualities in withstanding atmospheric influences, those especially which have so much to do with the corrosion of iron and steel, and from experiments made it is said that no other material is capable of taking hold of the fibre or iron and steel so readily aud firmly as this. In China soapstone is largely used for preserving structures built of sandstone aud other stones liable to crumble from the effect of the atmosphere; and the covering with powdered soapstone in the form of paint on some obelisks in that country, composed of stone liable to atmospheric deterioration, has been the means of preserving them intact for hundreds of years. Ciyillzed War. General Walker, in a recent discussion at the United States Service Institution, gave some advice to Lancers which incidentally showed how utterly brutal is our civilized warfare. He told them to use their swords instead of their lances in a melee, and to cut their way out, "because if you attempt to follow the swordsmau's general rule of pointing or thrusting, you simply leave your sword in the man's body and he cuts you over the head before you can get it out again." He further advised them, when they saw a fellow lying on the ground, to reverse the lance and drop the point of it between his shoulder-blades. These are the glories of the battlefield l?S'el. . All Hope Given op. Dunbar, Pa., July 1.?The exploring party were driven back by smoke after advancing ten feet in the Hill Farm mine. Two dinner buckets and coats were found by the party. It is certain now that the mine is full and has bepn full of smoke and deadly black damp. There seems to be no aoUDC mat ine emomuea miners arc all dead, and it is now a question whether their bodies can be recovered. A carload of coffins arrived this morning. The question is, when will they be used? The thirty-one men in the slope were undoubtedly burned to death. The work of rescue has been abandoned. A Great Undertaking. The Board of Managers, in their Report to the American Bible Society, called attention to the "Work for the Future," and emphasized the importance of supplying every child who (San read with a Bible of its own, especially for Sunday school use. This was cordially indorsed by the Society at its Annua) Meeting, May 8th, 1890. It is estimated that there are over 8,000,000 children in the Sunday schools throughout the United States. Many of these are doubtless already supplied with Bibles, but it is safe to say that there are several millions who do not possess the sacred book. This enterprise calls for the earnest and active co-operation of Christian parents. Sunday school superintendents, ana teachers. No doubt, in response to this appeal, many parents who have neglected this duty will supply their own children, and the Sunday schools which have the means will see that every scholar _ tiiu? T>..i 4-utr, 11 UtVO LUC &UL UA tt DIUir. DUt LIJXO >TI1I still leave a great many who can only be supplied by the beneficence of this great Society and its numerous auxiliaries. To enable them to accomplish a work of such magnitude w ill require increased ?ifts to the Parent Society paints auxiliaries. Did Not Know it Was There.? A well to do deacon in Connecticut was one morning accosted by his pastor, who said, ''Poor Widow Green's wood is out. Can you not take her a cord?" "Well," answered the deacon, "I have the wood, and I have the team ; but who is to pay me for it?" The pastor, somewhat vexed, replied, "I will pay you for it, on the condition that you read the first three verses of the forty first Psalm before you go to bed to night." The deacon consented, delivered the wood, and at night opened the word of Goa and read the passage : "Rlesspd is ha that connidereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing ; thou wilt make his bed in his sickness." A few days afterward tbe pastor met him again. "How much do I owe you, deacon, for that cord of wood ?" "Oh !" said the now enlightened man, "do not speak of payment; I did not know those promises were in the Bible. I would not take money for supplying the old widow's wants." Paper is made in France from hop vines, and it is claimed that tbe fibre secured is the best substitute for rags vet obtained, as it possesses great lenpth. strength, flexibility, and delicacy. Dr. Abel Stevens, now seventy-six years old, will write another volume of the History of tbe M. E. Church, bringing it down to the present. He is in California, resting. A curious fact is noticed in connecfinn nrSfh fni>TYiufSnn Af* VtOMKinloQ IIVU TTIVU tuc lUiXUatll/U VI UH1 UttVIVO on ships' bottoms. In the majority of cases there is a much heavier growth of grass aud barnacles on one side than on the other, and in numerous instances one side will be almost free from marine growths, while the. other is as foul as possible. Rev. John McNeill, one of the most experienced open-air preachers in the British Islahds, has lately been speaking on the sudject in London. He says: "I never feel myself so near Jesus Christ as when I stand in the open air. I seem to have got rid of nineteen centuries, and to be standing close by the side of my Lord and Master." The New York World recently offered a prize of $100 for the best recipe for keeping a husband at home. Quite a number of ladies contested for the prize: but the one who won, wrote : "Keep him at home by encouraging him to go out occasionally. Employ no arts of coquetry. Become his choicest comrade. Keep the details and worries of the household from him; he has his full share of worry outside. If, after all this, he goes alscnrhoro Via ia nnf. v;nrH) kpAnin? at home." This is true, especially" the last clause. The Ideal Family?The first great essentials of the ideal home and the ideal family are constant love, confidence, devotion, unselfishness, willingness to spend and be spent in the services of one another. The ideal home is one where the children shall say?"When we marry and have homes of our own, we wish to love and be loved as our father and mother lovo each other." It is where the sons are taught respect for all women, by the deference aud kindness of their father to their mother; it is where daughters learn from their mother's patient example how beautiful a thing wifely and motherly affection is, learn the beauty of daily, unselfish devotion to the good of all. It is one where the atmosphere of love and kindness is so all-pervading, that it softens every privation, ennobles every humble duty, and stimulates constantly all noble and unselfish alms. If You LoTe Them, Tell Them So. eben e. rexford. Oh, my friend, it would be better < If to those we love we gave i Tender words while they were with us, Than to say them o'er a grave 1 Tbose who die no longer need them, l And the words they longed to know i While they lived, are only wasted On the cold, deaf ear below. Many a heart Is hungry, starving, , For a little word of love; Speak It, then, and as the sunshine Gilds the lofty peaks above, i So the Joy of those who hear It Sends its radiance down life's way, And the world brighter, better, < For the loving words we say. Tell the wife who walks beside you < Faithfully whate'er betide, That you love her, and the telling Makes the day seem glorified. Just the little, simple telling Of your love for her! Ah, me! If we knew each poor heart's longing How much kinder would we be! Tell the children how you love them, With a tender clasp and kiss. Tell your friend about your friendship; Let him know how warm It is. Loving words will cost us little, As nlong through life we go; Let us then, make others happy? If you love them, tell them ho. Mollie's Little Lesson. "O, how the sun shines !" said Mollie, as she got out of bed on a spring morning. i "I know the little wild flowers are peeping up in the grove. I know just * ? ? ft nA?v>AMAa n n WIIere U1C UIUIIU^ lituo aucuiuuca auu the bluebells grow. And there are violets, too. 0, dear! I dod't want to go to school." Mollie finished dressing and looked over the grove. "I don't believe I'm very well. I wonder if I don't look pale." She went to the glass, and was sorry to see how rosy her round cheeks were. "But I don't feel very well anyway." She put on a doleful face, and kept it so until she sat down to breakfast. It was hard work not to smile when her little kitty ran frolicking over the floor after a marble. "What is the matter, Mollie?" asked her mama. "I don't feel very well, mama. I think I'd better not go to school today. I need a little fresh air." Mollie looked more doleful than ever, as she passed up her plate for some beefsteak and paucakes. "If you are not well, my dear, you can only ent oatmeal," said mama. Mollie did not like oatmeal; but she thought of the anemones, and made the best of it. "I think you had better lie down," said mama, leading Mollie upstairs. "And you will be more comfortable with your clothes off." Ana before Mollie had time to think, there she was in bed that beautiful morning. "Can't I have my nicture-book or my paint-box?" she asked. "No, dear, not till yiu get well." O, what a long morning it was ! The sun shone, and the birds sang, and Mollie wished with all her heart that she was on the pleasant way to her pleasant school. When dinner-time came mamma brought her some toast though she was hungry for roast mutton. "Can't Hetty and Tom come into my room?" she asked, when they returned from school. "No; you must be kept quiet," said mamma. How she hated the quiet. She thought she would never again want a rest. As she had a great deal of time, she began to think that she had tried very hard to feel sick, but it was not quite true that she had been. 6he told mamma so when she came to her prayers. "Wheneveryou are tempted to tell what is not true, dear, think of this long day in bed," said mamma, kissing her. As mamma went down stairs, she smiled to herself, saying, "I think my dear little girlie has learned a lesson." {Sydney Dayre, in Our Little Folks. A Baneful Folly. We have taught our American boys that thev were cut out for Congress men instead of carpenters, for Presidents instead of painters and plumbers, for bankers instead of blacksmiths ?for a career instead of a calling. With these top-lofty notious the American youth would be slow to enter a trade, and then usually in that sullen and indocile mood which would make him undesirable to the the master mechanic. Theodore Roosevelt told the students of Harvard the other day that every young man "should have an ambition to make a name for himself in the world," and other such exalted and impossible, though quite conventional nonsense. Suppose every American boy should set out with that ambition?and an ambition is a sole, dominating purpose?it would not only be the source of selfish fivalry and endless rascality, but would lead to inevitable failure in all but one case in a T 4- Jo /-v /-\ n/1 no tliof IL1UU321IJU* i l 10 pwi uu v i\.v vu?4v makes every life a failure but the thousandth. How much more true and sensible was Edward Everett Hale in a recent sermon, when he insisted that "the humblest manual laborer, equally with his brother man, whose career abounds with the highest achievements of the intellect, is a fellow-worker with God." "To make a name!" Better learn to make a broom-handle, a horseshoe, or a loaf of bread. The world needs these vastly more than it does names. But make a name for himself. Ah! that snows the selfish, unchristian character of the ambition here included?an ambition that stands in the way of the brotherhood of man, of the self-denial necessary to real usefulness, and it is the baneful folly that has kept so many of our American youth out of the humble, but happy, useful lives of i n d ustrv.?Standard. The Lord Rejoices in Perfect Obedience.?More than once has prompt obedience to an earthly parent saved the life of a child. A boy once stood with his father beside an unfinished building, on which the men were still working. "Run!" cried the father suddenly, and the child ran at the sound of his voice, when, at the same moment, a large beam fell in the spot where he had stood. Had he delayed to ask, "Why ?" had he paused to look up, he would have been killed instantly. The habit of perfect obedience had saved his life. This is the way we should obey our heavenly Fa- < ther. He is all-wise, and can make no mistakes; he never gives a command which it is not necessary for us to follow. We should do exactly what we are j old, and we should do it cheerfully and at once. I - -v,. ; What a Woman Can Do. She can come to a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning an it, and no sane man can do that. Six of them can talk at once and get along first-rate, and no two men can do that. She can safely slick fifty pins in her dress while he i9 getting one under his thumb-nail. She is as cool as a cucumber in a half dozen tight dresses and skirts, while a man will sweat and fume and growl in one loose shirt. She can talk as sweet as peaches and cream to the woman she nates, while two men would be punching each other's head before they had exchanged ten words. She can throw a 9tone with a curve that would be a fortune to a baseball pitcher. She can say "no" in such a low voice tnat it means "yes." She can sharpen a lead-pencil if you give her plenty of time and plenty of lead-pencils. She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy-five years after the marriage ceremony is performed. ? ?? offanrarH one CUU gU IAJ tuuivu auu oii/oi ?? ?.? tell you what every woman in the con-1 gregation had on, and in some rare In-1 stances can give you some idea of what the text was. She can walk half the night with a colicky baby without once expressing the desire of murdering that infant. Complaints are often made by those who profit little by what they read in books or see when traveling that their memories are bad. It has often been remarked that every one remembers that on whicli he sets his mind. Those who cannot remember the preacher's text on Sunday can easily remember a bit of silly gossip or an unprofitable story. One who has not tried it will be amazed to find how the memory is auickened by any trifle that serves to x attention. It is related that a merchant's wife recently practiced a peculiar ruse in order to secure the attention of her husband to a little domestic mission which she was sure he would forget if only an ordinary request were preferred. Handing him a sealed letter, sho begged him not to open it until he reached his place of business. When he did so, he read with deep solimhirlA as follows : "I am forced to tell you something that I know will trouble you, but it is my duty to do so. I am determined you shall know it, let the result be what It may. I have known for a week that it was coming, and kept it to myself until to-day, when it has reached a crisis, and I cannot keep it any longer. You must not censure me too harshly, for you must reap the results as well as myself. I do hope it wont crush you." Here he turned the page, his hair slowly rising. "The flour is out. Please send me some this afternoon. I thought that by this method you would not forget it." The flour was sent. Forgetful husbands have good enough memorises if they can only be enlisted.?Ex. Grand Old Ocean. The sea occupies three-fifths of the surface of the earth. At the depth of about 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature is tbe same, varying i only a trifle from the ice of the pole to the burning sun of the equator. A| mile down the water has a pressure of over a ton to the square inch. If a box six feet deep was filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of sail on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer ot pure salt two hundred and thirtp feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In the many bays on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at them in a storm one would think the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms theee waves are forty feet high, and travel fifty miles on hnnr?morp ihan twice ttS fast E8 the swiftest steamer. The distance from valley to valley is generally fifteen times the height, hence a wave five feet high will extend over seventyfive feet of water. The force of the sea dashing on Bell Rock is said to be seventeen tons for each square yard. Evaporation is a wonderful power in drawing the water from the sea. Every year a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their burden into the land, and the water comes down in rain upon the fields, to flow back at last through rivers. The depth of the 6ea presents an interesting problem. If the Atlantic was lowerea 6,564 feet the distance from shore to shore would be half as great, or 1,500 miles. If lowered a little more than three milea, say 19,680 feet, there would be a road of dry land from Newfoundland to Ireland. This is the plane on which the great Atlantic cables were laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 660 foot wrmirt lpdve three different seas, and Africa would be joined with Italy. The British Channel is more like a pond, which accounts for its choppy waves.?Exchange. Do the Dying Suffer Pain?? The rule is that unconsciousness, not pain, attends the final act. A natural death is not more painful than birth. Painlessly we come, whence we know not. Painlessly we go; where we know not. Nature kindly provides an cestbetic for the body when the spirit leaves it. Previous to that moment, and in preparation for it, respiration becomes feeble, generally slow and short, often accompanied by long inspirations, and snort, sudden expiration, so that tbe blood is steadily less and le?s oxygenated. At the same time the heart acta with corresponding debility, producing a slow, feeble, and often irregular pulse. As this process goes on the blood is not only driven to the bead in diminished force and in less quantity, but what flows there is loaded wnn caroomc uciu gas, a punerful aniethetic, the same a9 derived from charcoal. Subjected to the influence of this cas the nerve centers lose counciousness and sensibility, apparent sleep creeps over the system; then conies stupor and then the end. S/. Louis Republic. God is in human life. He is more in it than man himself. He governs. His kingdom ruleth over all. His will a not ineffective. V ;i--T . THE PARMER'S PICNIC. GOSSIP FOB THE FIELD, AND THE PRODUCER OF THE FLEECY STAPLE. Fens and PoIltici~4li(R?*tloni and Advice as to Botb. Southern Cultivator. July Is the "half-way home" in the farmer's toilsome annual way. On the well ordered farm the demands of the crops lor cultivation have possibly slackened, corn being generally "laid by," and cotton sufficiently advanced to be out or the way of tbe farmer's traditional enemy?grass. Some farmers make it alpolnt to lay by cotton by the "fourth of July." It depends on the seasons and tbe general condition of the crop whether cultivation should continue. Experience and observation teach us that tbe crust that forms on the surface of the soil after a good rain should be destroyed within a week or less after the rainfall. It Ib Important to do this far two reasons: 1. That the air may have free access to tbe soil, and (2; that evaporation of the soil moisture may be Impeded as much as possible. Both these are believed to be effected by breaking the crust and pulverizing the soil to the depth of one Inch. It 1b true that this thin layer of soil soon dries?apparently quicker than if left unstirred, but nevertheless, it serves as a rauieh to prevent the rapid evaDoratlon of the Bublacent layers, and thus conserves ibe moisture Just wbero It Is needed?down among the roots of the crop. Assuming thai the cotton on well cultivated and well fertilized fields is now at an average height to "knee-high," or varying from one foot to three feet, the object of oultore in relation to the plant itself is to Induce a steady growth of weed while at the same time en[ couruglng the setting of young bolls. Unneecessarlly deep plowing at this Juncture will almost oertalnfy cause the plant to cast or "shed" Its young bolls, and even the forms. [ The roots being cut and mangled, roust be renewed by a fresh output and growth. The balance between foliage and fruit on the one hand, and the roots or feeders on the other being destroyed, tbe plant can no longer contain all of the former. It, therefore, throws off a portion of the Immature fruit, and often tbe leaves, and leisurely re-establishee its root system, and then commences to grow again. Tbe final result will be a larger development of stem and foliage and a belated crop of bolls. We have no doubt that such treatment of the plant (plowing deep in July) sometimes proves a real benefit, when It Is of dwarfed und susponded growth, and has taken on more fruit than the plant can mature, and yet continue at tbe same time to grow and set more fruit We have repeatedly tried the experiment of stripping from a number of plants every boll and vestige of form as late as July 4, with tbe Invariable result of greatly Increasing their yield as compared with those in adjacent rows not so robbed of their fruit. In such experiments tbe plants at once commence growing afresb, and generally grow fifty to one hundred per cent, taller. nt nnnrui ?.hi? wait hnt an exoeriment. and could not be practiced In detail on a large area, but we liave little doubt that there are many cotton fields of which tbe final yield would be materially Inoreased If every form boll now on tbe stalks could be cheaply removed, and tbe plants thereby be encouraged to a better development of weed. Whether It would be safe to secure tbe preliminary object?the casting or shedding of the present fruit?by plowing deeply, in any case, we are In doubt. It Is a matter of common observation and frequent remark that a field of cotton overbears; or that the plant Is too small, although heavily boiled, to make a satisfactory yield. This is apt to be the case on old and worn soils on which the planting was too early. In such fields the plaut development may have been greatly retarded by on favorable weatber, lloe. neglect, etc., while the blooming and fruiting period was very little delayed. Hence, tbe plant Is "old enough," but not "big enough" to go through the exhausting process of profitable reproduction. "Topping" of tbe plants has not yet been reduced to a rule ana probably will not, since experience shows that we cannot know beforehand whether or not the operation will prove a benefit. It Is a matter of common observation, however, that a plant that Is aocldently topped by the bite of a mule, or otherwise, early In tbe season, or before It Is kneeblgh, is often apparently benefited. If topped at all we are pretty confident that it should be done before tbe first of August. Before leaving the subject, we suggest that !<n ninninar cotton from this time nntil laid by, as a general role, the work should be done with a cultivator or a sweep that will very early If not quite "clean oat" a middle at one furrow. The shape or contour of a oross section of the rows should be preserved as early uniform as possible. The practloe of running a small sweep or a shovel and scrape twice In each middle heaps the mellow soil tlrst on one side and then on tbe other of the middle, only to be reversed at the next plowing, thus alternately shilling the mass of loose, mellow soli from oue side to the other, permitting It to remain at reet only long enough to be filled with the rootlets of tbe planufrom one row, to be then torn up and thrown to tbe other side. Whatever tbe lmfdement used tbe soil should be moved very It-tie sldewlse, but after being slightly lifted and stirred It should/lrop Into the same position as before, thus preserving tbe same general contour of surface. There are but few seeds that may be planted with advantage, except in the way of a succession of quick growing forage crops, until towards tbe last of tbe month. July Is the interim between the spring and early sum-J mer planting and the commencement of fall and seeding, and is generally too hot and dry for the germination and successful development of most seeds. in the altitude of Middle Georgia aud farther south, Held peas may yet be sown for Improving tbe soil. It Is an excellent plan to sow speckled peas on land that was In small grain or corn last year, and Is now covered with a growth of hog weeds and other vegeta lion. We have often done this. Start, say three one-horse turn plows, one after tbe other, each with a good drag-chain or weed hook attached, In very wide -moos.' a pea dropper following the third plow dropping eight or ten peas every step, the next furrow covering, ho cultivation will be required, and the result will be a fair crop of seed and a good coat of vines. It will be all the better 11 one hundred and fifty pounds of potash acid phosphate be applied to each acre, dropping it by the fide or the peas, or sowing it along the planting furrow. Of course the peas should be gathered, either by hand or by pasturing with hogs ; or the best parts may be mown with a mower, or scythe, and converted into hay. The land, if turned over In September, will make a fine crop of small grain, or if left unplowedall the wiuter will be in fine condition for cotton, corn, or any summer crop. After July It will rarely pay expenses to sow peas, as they will muke very little vine and but few peas, If any. This Is the month to commence pushing the growing hogs. The aim should be to induce a rapid development of bone and muscle. Give plenty of succulent food, fallen fruit, collards, refuse vegetables, sorghum, etc. we have often advised feeding green corn, stalk and all, to bogs. We know of no more profitable way to feed oorn than to cut It while in the rousting ear stage, and on until past fodder pulling stage. It Is good for hogs, horses and cattle, out especially for bogs. Sorghum, fed in the same way, commencing as soon as the heads are in bloom, is a most excellent hog food, almost as good as ool'ards. The last, we think, Jb one of the very best crops that can be grown and fed to growing stock of all kinds. Hogs that have plenty of collard leaves and plenty of cool, clean water, do not diefof cholera. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," Is a proverb that finds a convenient application to the farmer also. May Is the plonlc and fishing month for the city and town folks; let tbe farmer* nave nis season ui tuu, frolto and recreation, now that tbe "burden and beat of tbe day" are past. Tbe old time barbecue, or July dinner, was a bealtbful lnitltutlon under the old regime. There is no sufficient reason why the custom should fall into "desuetude." It is especially convenient and desirable to meet and break together, now that the farmers have organized so generally into Alliances. Oranges and Societies. "We be brethren," farmers, wives, sons and daughters, not to leave out the wel disposed and willing "brother in black." So let there be gatherings to eat, to talk and to speechify. The air is full of politics; let tbe farmer breathe his portion and perform his mission. The proposition that a farmer should have nothing to do with politics is all bosh. His. non-parllcipation for the last twenty-five years has resulted in tbe fastening upon the present iniquitous and oppressive system of finance and tAzatlon. Let the farmer step into tbe arena, not for tbe purpose of getting and holding office, but to reform tbe politics and tbe policy of the government. Let Aliiancemen see to It, Inside their party if possible, independent of It if necessary, that none but good and true men are elected to office, and that all legislative and executive offices be filled by men who are In full and disinterested sympatby with the farmers' movement, with ine eflort to break down and destroy class legislation, monopoly and undue money and corporate power. It is not necessary to insist that every candidate must be from our own ranks, oar own caning, u jl ue iuu uc ?i sincerely devoted to our cause and to the general good of bll. It were often better to select a man fot j>fflce who la trained lo speak and write, ana Hilled In legislative methods, than one who Is simply a good farmer and an up- j right citizen, provided the man selected be a . sincere and hearty sympathizer. Let us discard the Idea that office is a favor to be be- | stowed (except in some minor offices), and let us Impose It m a duty on the man who Is best qualified to fill it In a military campaign we don't select a man for the performance of a perlllous and responsible duty with reference to his popularity, his cleverness or his goodnature. We wanttbe man who stands guard between us and the enemy, or who Is to take part In storming a battery, or who Is to conduct Important negotiations, to be a man of oourage, unselfish devotion to duty. . S! and skilled lor the work In hand. So we want the best men in the country to make our laws 3 and execute tbem, upon which depend the present and future peace, happiness and prosperity of ourselves and our posterity. Primary or a Split. ;''M Newt and Courier. From first to last the Stralghout Democratic Conference, which met In Columbia on Thursday, was a convention of the people. Every county in the State, with the exception of . - i Pickens, was represented, and every man present was Inspired by motives of the highest patriotism. The delegates bad not been elected by packed conventions or oath bonnd organizations. They came from ail classes to ' speak and work for all classes, and to do good 7:3 service to the State. The President of the Conference war a farmer, fully one-half of the \ delegates were farmers and the committee on . - > resolutions was largely composed of farmers. A more thoroughly representative body has not assembled in South Carolina since the days of Seventy-Six, and there is no reason py to donbt that the deliberations of the Confer- ; ? ence and the plans agreed upon will result In lasting good to the State. Tbe spirit manifested by the Conference was admirable. There was noL enough flght In it, perhaps, to snit some of the more Tm- . petuous men present, but there was a very ' "S* deep and earnest feeling that tbe only hope in South Carolina for tbe preservation of white supremacy is in tbe unity of tbe Sfl Strlgbtout Democratic party. Tbls unity can only be preserved by the defeat of Tillman ;sot andTlllman methods, and to hla defeat tbe ft true-hearted sons of the State must devote 4 themselves from now until tbe end of the campaign. Opposition to him and bis metb* ods is service to tbe State. Tbe support of . . :r% blm and his ticket is an endorsement ot every ' slander that he has ever uttered, of every charge of dishonor and dishonesty that he has ever prelerred against tbe men who have represented tbe Democratic party in tbe pest. To endorse him is to condemn the party ; to elect blm would oe to discredit the 8talfe at borne and abroad, and to plead guilty to the vile charges which be has made against the ? Integrity of tbe party. Tbe Conference prov- -}'x ed beyond all question that tbe Democratio r.*r< party Is not committed to Tillman. The larg- a est Convention that has ever assembled in tbe State has utterly condemned blm and bis Movement It is not possible at this time to do more , than direct attention to the proceedings of the Conference composed of more than four / hundred of the best men In South Carolina ^ ?52 demand that tbe choice of delegates to tbe Democratic Convention in September, which will nominaie the candidate for Governor and tbe candidates lor other State offices, shall be determined bv a nrimarv election to 83 be conducted onder the moat, stringent regulatlons. Tbla demand cannot be disregarded. It ooniea with force and authority, and it must be respected. To select the delegates to-the September Convention by any other plan will cause a ; split In the party. Tbe Stralghtout Conference adjourned yeaterday subject to tbe call of the President. If the necessity shall arise, the Conference > ' will be called together again after the Con- /js ventlon In August. The fate of the party In the State and lta 'K unity and integrity will depend npon tbe actlon of the Convention in August. Capt. Tillman and bis followers have urged r'4> that the delegates to the September Convention shall be elected by primary. Tbe Demo- h. cratic State Exeentlve Committee have called tbe August Convention for tbe purpose of passing upon this question. The Conference of Stralghtout Democrats demand that tbeee delegates shall becbosen by primary. The responsibility rests with tbe Conventlon In Augost. '^3 If that Convention fail to respond to tbe de- f mand of all factions of tbe party it must take the consequences. Tri The work of tbe Stralgbtout Conference in Columbia should Inspire every Straigbtoat Democrat with fresh courage and fresh hope. < Capt. Tillman is not Governor yet by a long 5V; way. AH mPOBTAHT DUCOVBBY. _ . V . The CsoMt of Cholera Infantum and Typhoid Fever. a (uipauia irom ads Axuor, nigu., hujm : The regents of the University of Michigan last year ballt and equipped a laboratory of hygiene at the request of the State Board of Health. One of the objects of this laboratory was the Investigation of the causations of diseases, and this branch has been under the " supervision of Victor C. Vaughn, the eminent toxlcologlst, who a few years ago gave the world his discovery of tyrotozloon, the poison discovered in milk, cheese and Ice-cream. He has now, It is alleged, added another triumph to his former sucoess In the dlsoovery of the causes of cholera infantum and typhoid fever. He annonnces that theee dieeases are due to albuminous poisons, a theory which subverts all previous theories in regard to their origin. Dr. Vaughn discovered the first point last March and has slnoe added four more. He has Isolated three poisons, which were obtained from the germs In cholera infantum, and two from the germs In typbold fever. These poisons, he claims, are fatal In any quantity, and resemble closely fn their action J ilie venom of a rattlesnake. They are of the nature of ferments, and are the growth of germs. Dr. Vaughn took the germs from the Intestines or persons who had died from the disease*, and placed them in flasks contain- . Ing sterilized meat. The flash was then set in an Incubator, in which the temperature was the same as the human body. Along, complicated, and consequently inexpllcated, chemical process followed, and the poison, which resembles partially slaked lime, was extracted. Animals being Inoculated with the produce displayed the some symptoms as the persons suffering from one or the other of the diseases. A quuntlty the size of a pea killed a guinea pig In twelve hours, while a twentieth of a grain is fatal, but killed only after from fifteen to thirty day.". Dr. vaugnn has not named the^e poisons hs yet, and will now devote himself to endeavoring to discover antidotes for them. A Pound of Pork. : Prof. Hunt, of the Illinois College farm, after a series of tests, has the following to say regarding the amount of food required for a pound of pork. 1. It required 18.80 pounds of skim milk to produce 1 pound of pork when fed with corn i meal, ratio 1.147 to fattening hogs. 2. Skim milk could not be economically fed to fatteulng hogs unless It was a product which could not^be otherwise utilized. 8. It required on an average 4% pounds of shelled corn to produce one pound of pork during an average period of four weeks, or 1 bushel produced 13% pounds. , 4. It required 4}j pounds of corn meal to produce 1 pound or pork, or 1 bushel of corn made Into meal and fed wlil produce 12% pounds of pork. 5. When dry, shellod corn Is more economical than corn meal to feed fettening hogs. 6. It required 7% pounds, or % bushel of ground oats to produce 1 pound of pork when fed with equal parts, by weight, tf corn meal. 7. One bushel of corn meal Is worth nearly three bnshels of oats as food for fattening bogs. 8. Corn fed pigs gained pounds per week and ate about 21 pounds of corn per 100 pounds of live weight. 9. Pork was produced during the cold weather, with corn at 28 cents per bushel, for leas then three cents per pound. m indinn r.orn is the most economical pork producing material during the winter months In regions where extensively grown. ^ The more honestly a man has, the less be affects the air of a saint. Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, insuperable ones to the vain. It is with flowers as with moral qualities: the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I oelleve, never the sweet. Drop the thing that worries, that excites, that interests, that thwarts you ; let it fall like a sediment to the bottom, until the soul is no longer turbid, and say seoretly : 'Grant, I beseech Thee, Merciful Lord, to thy faithful servant pardon and peace, that I may be cleansed from all my sins and serve Thee with a quiet mind.'" The man who has learned how to Eut himself to work and keep at it, as reached a condition of mastery that promises him success in almost any situation. He bas then a possession infinitely better than the gift of genius, . ... . , _