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4> DR. WHITE BELIEVES IN PRAYER But Boll Weevil Situation Not Criti cal Enough Yet for Proclamation, (Anderson Dally Mail.) At tho First Baptist church Sun day, concerning tho attitude we should take lu reference to tho boll weevil, and whether Governor Coo per should call a day of fasting and prayer to stay tho coming and tho Increasing of this post, Dr. Whlto said, in part: The question has boen submitted j to mo hero by moro than ono person ? whether Governor Robert Cooper i should bo petitioned to appoint a day for prayer to God to arrest tho ravago of tho boll weevil. lt ls published-and many recall the event-that from 1873 to 1877 tho State of Minnesota, and five sur?! rounding States, woro menaced dos- ! peratoly hy the locust (grasshopper) i plague in October, 1876,, tho situa tion was so tragical In Minnesota,! and so threatening for Iowa, Dakota, i Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, that the Governors of these States assent- ? bled nt Oklahoma for consultation. Tito United States government sent its noted entomologists, who con fessed that their measures could not cope with tho conditions which were indicated for tho next year. In two years tho plague had extended from j three counties in Southern Minnesota to thirty-two counties, which wore swept bare of every green growth of every sort. At that rato the year 1877 would see 10,000,000 people without means of subsistence. The , conference of tho Governors broke , up without a hope of human means available against tho glgautic cnlam- j ity. A's tho conference drew to Its futile close tho Governor of Dakota j suggested that a day of prayer be appointed, that possible relief might como from a higher power than had yet been invoked; but no action was taken on the suggestion. It found lodgment, however, In the mind of the Minnesota Governor (Pillsbury.) Some ministers of the State impor tuned him to Issue a proclamation for the day of prayer. Everything else had been tried. Would the uni ted prayers of the people prevail? That was the question the Governor took into consideration. On April 9, 1877, he Issued the proclamation. I have a copy of lt before me. It was to be a day of fasting, humiliation und prayer. The people were to meet in their homes and places of worshln on the 26th day of April, withdraw? lng for that d ty from their ordinary pursuits, and "with mu tri to hearts to beseech tho morey of God tor the sins of the past and His blessing up on the worthier alms of the future." "Let us, moreover," the proclama tion said, "endeavor to deserve a new prosperity by a new realization of the opportunity vouchsafed us and a new consecration to those things which make for the well-being of men and the glory of God." The proclamation created a pro found impression. On the 26th Min nesota was stilled in prayer. The spirit of repentance and heart searching held the whole State In solemn thrall that day. Well, what happened? If nothing else, this happened: For one day the con sciousness of God reigned in the people-for one day the Kingdom of God came there In an American com monwealth something like it is in Heaven. But, listen: I qoute from the Saturday Evening Post: "The 27th day of April, the day following the day of prayor, the sun shone clear and hot over Minnesota, and an almost summer-like warmth penetrated that moist earth down to the larvae of the myriads of grass hoppers. Quickened by this genial warmth the young locusts crawled to the surface in numbers that made the countless swarms of the preced ing summer seem Insignificant-in numbers sufflclont to destroy tho crops and hopes of half a dozen D?NDERINE Stops Hair Coming Out; Thickens, Beautifies. 35 cents buys a bottlo of "Dan dorlno" at any drug store. After ono application you can not find a par tido of dandruff or a falling hair. Bosldes, evory hair shows now life, vigor, brightness, more color and abundance,-adv. States. For two days the mild and balmy weather lasted, drawing every hatched locust to the surface; then lt quickly turned cold, and one night the moist earth was frozen, and with it the unhatched larvae and also the young and crawling locusts above ground. And though the earth thaw ed again in a few days, the locusts, with tho exception of a scattered few, had disappeared. " 'And,' to quote Governory Pills bury, 'we have never soon any grass hoppers since'." You may be surprlsod ai the con clusion I draw now from this authen tic and recent record of God's an swer to a people's prayers, when I apply it to the boll weevil in South Carolina and In the South. I assert, without reserve of doubt or question, that God did hear and answer their prayers In that marvel ous case. I assert my conviction that in such a case ho would hear and answt.- the prayers of the people of South Carolina. Do I then advocato a proclamation of the Governor appointing a day of prayer about the boll weevil? No; not now-not yet. Why not? First. Because the boll weevil ls not as yet realized as a calamitous tact. Tho minds of the people are not united In sorrow and horror of ruin as was the case in Minnesota. Some hardly believe that the boll weevil ls not to bo considered a pest In the appalling sense at all; that benefit and not Injury follows In Its trail; that economically the boll wee vil is a blessing. Second. The cotton belt section is for the moment minded to put its problem in human hands for solu tion. Scientific devices and agricul tural ingenuities have not been ex hausted at this hour, though there appears little to show that they are effective anywhere. Man's extremity ia God's opportunity. We have not come to our extremity on account of or about the boll weevil In this oec i lion. There ls no mood of repent j ance, no sense of abject human de j spalr, no real fear upon the people I and they would not cry to God. j Third. The boll weevil ls a warn ; lng-not the only warning, but a ! great and powerful warning-that If ' unheeded, forbodes neither prosperl ! ty nor happiness to the people. "I do not understand this boll j weevil," said a certain farmer. "I ; planted my cotton in my best land, j put my best fertilizer under it, and I my hands and my mules worked lt t according to roy idea of how ir. ought i to bo worked. My cotton looked to ho good. I gol my seasons when 1 needed them, my rain whan it was dry, and my sunshine when it was I wet. But my cotton gave me only one bale to my ten acres; my ten ' ants did no better; my crop ls a fail ure-and just because of that little bug that carno from nowhere, and that nobody understands." Thou fool! It ls "my" this and "my" that and "my" everything. That little, mysterious bug has come to denounce thee. Here ls one preach er-a hundred thousand to the acre -you will have to listen to, and you shall support him well, too-not in the strained out dimes begrudgingly given to some church collection, hut In great dollars upon dollars. God ls out collecting for the benefit of auother one of His creatures what you, His dishonest steward, withheld that was His, and you considered God knew lt not. You were His part ner and played Him shabby and short, The boll weevil ls getting the plled-up arrears that was God's! No, lt ls not for a proclamation of the Governor we may yet look, but this'boll weevil - wonderful little thing that laughs Its way from the lt lo Grande to the mountains, mak ing monkeys of science and human contrivances-does tell us to pray just tho same. God brought the boll weevil hero, and God can s- nd him away. A pro minent bualneh^ man wrote me a let ter which 1 have now in my hand. "On tho boll weevil,'' he says, "back to Malachi, the las- of the prophets, ' In chapter 3:10-12. J d"ro you to read what the Bible says there about ? tho boll weevil, very farmer ought j to nail that verse on a take in tho center of every cotton : itch in An-j derson county. Every n?erohai t and j banker and business man >ugh to nail lt on the door of his office. "Ho lhat hath an oar to heat, let I him hear" what tho boll weevil lb , saying to tho people-In Malachi the last Book In the Old Testament Chapter 3, verses 10-12. Tho Luxury Tax Killed. Columbia, March 8.-Tho Senate this afternoon, by a voto of 30 to 10, killed tho luxury tax bill. The House, by a vote of 44 to 41, sustained tho veto ot Governor R. A. Cooper on tho bill to enlarge the board of trustees of tho University of South Carolina from seV|en to twenty-ono members. Tho act is now dead. - -- - ^ - - - - Subscribo for Tho Courier. (Best) GREATEST N??D OF SCHOOL* I? Competent, Consocn,^ Tenders. Truiiiiiig To?ichor? <?roat 'I i?.'i, York, -March 10.-'"t?j^ greatest, need of the Sunday schoolfto?<.Uvy ia competent^ consecrated ..teach(?da/* said Prof. W. S. Morrison, vi? H chair man of the evangelism committee o1( tho S?uth Carolina 'Sunday .School. Association, In an interview with the correspondent. "The greatest task of tho superintendent ls the training of his teachers. ?Many things go to make up a trained teacher. "Every Sunday school toucher who is really interested In giving boys and girls in his care the best relig ious training that ho can possibly give should attend Sunday school conventions and institutos; both de nominational and Interdenomina tional, whenever and wherever pos sible. "The convention is tho dyott mo of the Sunday school movement," Prof. Morrison continued. "The conven tion ls tho mother of the Sunday school movement. Tho Sou th Caro lina Sunday School Association rec ommends and urges 'hat each Sun day school worker take Hid or her denominational training cOur.se, and also tho reading cou i so bit'erod by the association." Prof. Morrison, who |s nt tho hoad of the department of history at Clemson College, ls ono of the best known Sunday school workers in South Carolinn. He hasa taken an active Interest In tho growth and progress of the State association for many years. IF STOMACH IS BAD, iiKT DiAPBPSiN mn GAS, INDIGESTION* "Pape's Dlapepsln" has p oven It self the surest relief for (pd Igest loni gases, flatulence, hear thur ?., sour ness, fermentation or stol dis tress caused by acidity. A few tab-' lets give almost immediate ntomachj relief and shortly the stoma li ls oor- . rected so you can eat favoi fte foods, without fear. Large case c st* only | few cents at drug store. .Millions helped annually.-adv. Norman Douthlt's Tragic K>mrlonce. (Pendleton Cor. Anderson Mall, 6th) Norman Douthlt ls here on a visit to his father, after a long und pain ful and tragic experience Mr. Dou thlt was in the army six yo rs-four In China and two in Me^l'o-?.Ver which ho wont to work orv . I.-M:'.;ve for tho Union Pacific in^U ?o to get caught In a wreck in QroftoVon Oct.: 24th last, in which he was badly smashed up, and for throo months he was in the hospital In a serious condition. He is now recovering, but unable to go back to wotk. He is a young man of 34 year.v with a pleas ing address, and hit family is well known In Anderson and Goonoo. Piles Cured Isl 6 te 14 Days DnaStflflts refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fofl* to cure Itching, Blind, niecdln*. or Vrotruillu? Pile?. Instantly relieves Itching Piles, and you ran Cet restful sleep after the first SDullcmioa. I'dce coo inoo mo TAX Exemption for Judges. Raleigh, N. C., 'Msrcii 9.-Super ior Court and Supreme Court judges of North Carolina cannot be required to pay State income taxoa on their salaries, the Supreme Court he'd In an opinion handed down to-day. The court'? opinion * as on the case sent up by Judge B, F. Long, of Statesvllle, in which tho Jurist naked for a decision on Commissioner of Revenue Watts'* rulli . that all the judges of tho State m; st pay tho In come tax. 8400,000 Worth of Honor Mel//*!. New York, March 9 -The Ameri can schooner Victor oaded with more than 3,600 case >< American and Scotch whiskeys whoee value ls nearly $400,000, as seized by customs Inspectors in ho lower bay to-day and tied up i tho JJfMtery pending court action. The Most Pr ofitable Acre on th Farm Tho garden spot I recognized by many ns tho hes paying part of tho farm, but is of i neglected, A good garden me . * money In your pockot, and fi n a health stnndpolnt, there is i hing bettor than green, fresh v .. tables. ALWAYS P ANT SEE Tho right variety f vegrtnl'les to ChOOSO for enrll -?s, ylold or fin vor is clonrly sim in our 1 !>2a Catalog, Malled fro n roquost. "WOOD'S CROP t r:OXAJi,, >'lv inK seasonable Infor tuon rot tho farm and current pr s ot' all Held Heeds, mnilcd fra?. T. W. WOGE & SONS SEEDSMI IN No. 17 S. 14th St., Ich.nond, Va. 4* ^* Sf*' *i* *i* *!" *fc H5* 4* .i* 4" * NOTES FROM TUB D. A. R. . * 4? V,' SCHOOL. ?gt r V 4* 4* Ta m a sse, March 4.-Special: We shall never forget how the little birds kept us filled with music dur ing the past week of rain. The articles which the boarding girls are making for sevoral confer ences to be held in different parts of tho United States are very beautiful. Some of these articles aro: Hand kerchiefs, organdie flowers, work boxes, Iron holders, leo bags and mal lets; also aprons are being made from several different patterns. Tho girls are also taking orders from in dividuals for these articles. The rec ord for one girl for last week goes down as fifteen bunches of organ die flowers and two handkerchiefs. Only those who have done work of this kind can appreciate this record. When a girl is commended for her beautiful work she immediately turns to Miss Hine, for she has been the director of handicraft." One of the most enjoyable events of the season was given by Mrs. .Hankinson and her Sunday school class on last Friday evening. For some time there had been a contost going on between the classes of Mrs. Hankinson and Miss Hine. The class having the best record at the close was to be entertained by the other class. Hence tho cheerful los ers entertained very beautifully in honor of the winners on last Fri day. Each girl wore a cap of a dif ferent color from that of her neigh bor, the caps being made of colored crepe paper, and gingham aprons. Soon after the guests arrived each gentleman was given an envelope containing a sample of cloth, a nee dle and thread. Then Mrs. Hankin son explained that he must find an apron to match his sample and then hem the girl's apron. Some of the hems were basted in, some whipped in, and some looked as though some ono had tried to feather-stitch the hem in! That wan certainly ono time that men worked while the ladies laughed. Last, but not least, were the re freshments. The plates were beau tiful. These contained Waldorf salad on lottuce leaf, saltines, Oxide daisy and (Russian tea. After the one hundred and fifty guests had told their hostesses good night and explained to them as how they had shown their ability to en tertain, thoy loft, all with smiles on their faces. Mrs. Robert Beattie, of Athens, Ala., has boon visiting her sister, Miss Henrietta ?Hine, of the I). A. R. School. We were all so sorry to see Mrs. Beattie leave, for her presence was like a ray of sunshine. MiSB Pearl Edwards spent the last week-end at her home in Seneca. The Daniel Morgan D. A. R. chap ter, Gaffney, S. C., has given to the school two small pigs. We do appre ciate these very much and thank the chapter in behalf of the board mem bers, faculty and students. The school is taking every precau tion against the epidemic of small pox which is in the country. Al though we hear of no cases near In our community, we are expecting to have all the students vaccinated. The song service on last Wednes day night was enjoyed by all. A quartet consisting ot C. Lusk and Charlie Crumpton and 'Miss Ellen Morgan and Miss Mary Nicholson furnished us with spoclal music. Catarrh Can Be Cured Catarrh ls a local disease, greatly Influenced by constitutional condi tions. It therefore requires constitu tional treatment BALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE ls taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE destroys the foundation of the disease, gives the pntlent strength hy improving the gen eral health and nastetp sature lu doiug its work, AU druggists. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Death Ends Unparalleled Romaneo. Rochester, Mass., March 9.-The death yesterday of Rev. Peter Mc Nab at York, a small village In Liv ingston county, ended a romance with few parallels. Rev. Mr. McNnb >n Jan. 5 last, celebrated his 100th birthday. Next April 4th, if she lives, tho swoethoart of his youth, Miss Charlotte Walker, also of York, will celohrato her 100th birthday. Their marriage, planned In early lifo, was postponed, and eventually aban doned because of Mr. McNab's ill health. They remained lntlmnto friends throughout their lives, how ever. Mr. McNab's health becamo im paired shortly af tor ho had entered tho ministry of tho United Presby terian church, and ho did not recovor for twenty-two years. After his ro covory ho did not re-ontor tho min istry. **m~ Subscribe for The courier. (Best) Are You Feeding Enough Whites? About one out of ten poultry raisers feeds a ration properly balanced for egg production, The common mistake is feeding too much yolk-m?king material and failing to feed for whites. Grains alone make lots of yolks but few whites. Purina Chows Balance Purina Chicken Chowder and Purina Hen Chow, fed in equal parts by weight, balance the whites and yolks by supplying an equal number of each. They make hens lay to the limit of their capacity. Purina Chows save time and trouble-no guess work, no trouble and uncertainty of mixing. Peed both Chows and keep the egg 'tsket full. C. W. ca J. E. BAURNIGHT, WALHALLA, S. C. Farming Under Boll Weevil Conditions. The Mexican Boll Weevil has invaded our County and has *giab<> llshed a home for himself on nearly every farm,where, If not destroyed, he will pass the winter safely, and will be ready early next spring to multiply and destroy all the yonna cotton squares as fast as they are grown. If we maintain our credit and present prosperity, conditions demand that wo change our present farming methods at once. A careful study of the habits of the BoU Weevil will show that he moves once a year, and that is In August. NT if wo wlU olaan np mir fields e^rly this fail by chop ping and turning uiulq/f all cotton stanks and huming off ?tt t<TTaco<i, ditch banks and other places where the Weevil bus hibernate! for tho winter, we can kill the Weevils ont and leave our fields free from the pest, and then, by the use of pro per farming methods, a good crop of grown bolls can be produced before the Weevil commences his annual movement In August. As a safe program for farming next year to combat the Weevil we would suggest 20 acres to the plow, planted as follows: Six acm to cotton, followed by small grain In the fail. Six acres to corn, with velvet beans and peas planted in corn. Six acres to small grain-two acres each to wheat, oats and rye. Two acres to track crops', eon* dinting of Irish potatoes, syrup cane, sweet potatoes, melons and boons? Preparo tho ground well, plant early, ticing an early-maturing va riety of cotton; fertilize liberally and cultivate intensively. Bank of Walhalla, Enterprise Bank, WalhaHa,,S. C. Walhalla, S. C. % The Bank of West Union, West Union, S. C. W. A. ORR SHOT BY SON-IN-LAW. Shot Three Times, but Neither of the Wounds Considered Serions. (Farm and Factory, 9th.) W. A. Orr, a middle-aged white man, was shot three times at the home of his son-in-law, C. Li. Aber crombie, near the VIctor->Managhan Mill yesterday afternoon. One bullet entered the chest and two grated Mr. Orr's wrist. All the wounds, though painful, are considered slight, and Orr, lt is believed, will recover in due time. Little of the actual circumstances leading up to the shooting could be learned In town this morning. The difficulty seems to have been the out growth of alleged domestic troubles. Abercrombie married Orr's daughter and at times the father has been making bia home at his daughter's. The Abercrombie home is not far from tho railroad crossing at Jor dania. The parties involved have been employed in tho mill and their reputation ls very good. Mr. Orr is known as a quiet and peaceable man and has made his homo here for a number of years. We could not learn before going to press if Abercrombie has been ar rested. Last night, several hours af ter the shooting, he was at liberty, and Magistrate Grant said this morn ing that so far as he was aware, no arrest had yet been made. A TOIVI? Grove's Tasteless chill Tonio restore? Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching th? Blood. When you feel its strengthening, Invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how it improves the appetite, you will then appreciate its true tonio value. Grove's Tasteless chill Tonio is simply Iron and Quinine suspended In syrup. So pleasant even children like lt. 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