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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SIPTEME
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DR. TALMAGE'S FERVID SERMON AT
TB BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
4iambling, Drinking, Smoking, Infidelity,
Uncleanliness, Avarice and Irreligion
Are All Links in the Chain of Sin Which
Shackles the Mind and Soul.
An unusually large congregation at
tended the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sun
day. The Rev. Dr. Talmage .never
preached with greater vigor. He took
for his text, Ezekiel vii., chap. 23,
"Make a chain." Having spoken of the
:many uses to which chains were adapted
and its symbolic character, the golden
chains that were used as gems of honor
in older ages, he said:
"What I wish to impress upon myself
and upon you is the- strength in right
and wrong directions, of consecutive
forces, the superior power of a chain of
influences above one influence, the great
advantage of a congeries of links abve
- one link, and in all family government
and in all effort to rescue others and in
all attempt to stop iniquity, take the
on of my text and make a chain.
which contains the greatest im
portance, that which incloses the most
tremendous opportunities, that which,
'of earthly things, is most watched by
'other worlds, that which has beating
-against its two sides all the eternities, is
the cradle. The grave is nothing in
im portance compared with it, for that is
'only a gully that we step across in a
:second; but the cradle has within it a
new eternity, just born and never to
ieesse.
"When, three or four years ago, the
<Ohio River overflowed its banks and the
wild freshets swept down with them
sharvests and.cities, one day was found
ufloating on the bosom of the waters a
cradle with a child in it, all unhurt,
wrapped up sung and warm, and its blue
eyes looking into the blue of the open
heavens. It was mentioned as some
thing extraordinary. But every cradle
is, with its young passenger, floating on
the swift current of the centuries, deep
calling to deep, Ohios and St. Law
rences and Mississippis of influence,
bearing it onward."
Having spoken of and pointed out the
smeans of properly educating and in
.-truoting the young, Dr. Talmage went
..oa to show that so great were the
temptations to which young men were
.open and the social follies of young
" women that the first eighteen years of
their life should be tenderly cared for,
he illustrated it by picturing the wan
dering of a young man through wild
anes and dissipation, but the molding of
whose home life and instruction still
c.ling to him.
"What a rough time that young man
has in doing wrong," said Dr. Talmage,
-"carefully nurtured as he was! His
father and mother have been dead for
years, or they are over in Scotland, or
England or Ireland; but they have stood
:in the doorway of every dram shop that
he entered, and under the chandelier of
every house of dissipation, saying: 'My
eon, this is no place for you. Have you
forgotten the old folks? Don't you
recognize these wrinkles, and this stoop
in the shoulder, and this tremulous
hand? Go home, my boy, go home!
By the God to whom we consecrated
you, by the cradle in which we rocked
you, by the grass-grown graves in the
old country churchyard, by the heaven
where we hope yet to meet you, go
home! Go home, my boy, go home!'
And some Sunday you will' be surprised
to find that young man suddenly ang
for the prayers of the church. Some
Sunday you 'will see him at the Sacra
ment, and, perhaps, drinking from the
sege kind of chalice that the old folks
drank out of years ago when they com
meamorated the sufferings of the Lord.
Yes, my lad, you do not have so much
fun in am as yon seem to have. I know
what spoils your fun. You cannot shake
off the influences of those prayers long
ago oflered, or of those kind admoni
tions.
"At last that yong man turns through
the consecutive influences of a pious
paetage, -who oa4- of prayers-an
-dlties innumerable made a chain.
That is the chain that pulls mightily
this morning on five hundred of you.
"~The-Arst chain bridge was built in
Bcotland," said the pastor, after de
scribing a weak link in the chain of life.
"Walter Scott tells how the French
-imitated it in a bridge across the River
Seine. But there was one weak point
in that chain bridge. There was a mid
dle bolt that was of poor material, but
theydid not know how much depended
-on that middle bolt of the chain bridge.
On the opening day a procekssion starited,
led on by the builder of the bridge, and
- 'when the mighty weight of the proces
~sion was fairly on it, the bridge broke
and precipitated the multitudes. The
i bridge was all right except in that mid
,dle bolt. So the bridge of character
.may be made up of mighxty links strong
enough to hold a mountain, but if there
be one weak spot, that one point un
looked after may oe the destruction of
everything.
"And what multitudes have gone
down for all time and all eternity be
eause in thechbain bridge of their char
acter there was lacking a strong middle
bolt. He had but one fault and that
was avarice; hence, forgery. He had
but one fault and that was a burning
thirst for intaxicants; hence, his fatal
debauch. She had but one fault and
that an inordinate fondness for dress,
and hence her own and her husband's
bankruptcy. She had but one fault and
that a quick temper; hence the disgrace
ful outbulrst. What we all want is to
have put around us a strong chain of
good intinences. Christian anociation
is a link. Good literature is a link.
Church membership is a link. Habit of
prayer isa link. Scripture research is a
-ik Faith in God is alink. Put to
gether all these infiuences. Make a
chain!"
1)r. Talmage then spoke of how a
link was made on the downward path,
and with characteristic humor described
it. "First let him smoke, he said. "It
he cannot stand cigars, let him try
cigarettes. Let him drink light wine
or ale or lager, and gradually he will be
able to take something stronger, and as
all styles of strong drink are more and
more adulterated, his progress will be
facilitated. With the old-time drinks a
man seldom got delirium tremens be
fore 30 or 40 years of age; now he can
get the madness by the time he is 18.
Let him play cards, enough money put
up always to add interest to the game.
If the father and mother will play with
him that will help by way of counten
ancing the habit. Have a membership
in some club where libertines go and
tell about their victorious sins, and
laugh as loud as any of them in derision
of those who belong to the same sex as
your sister and mother.
"Pitch your Bible overboard as old
fashioned and fit only for women and
children. Read all the magazine articles
that put Christianity at disadvantage,
and go to hear all the lectures that
malign Christ, who, they say, instead of
being the Mighty One he pretended to
be, was an imposter and the implanter
of great delusion. Go, at first out of
curiosity, to see all the houses of dissi
pation, and then go because you have.
felt the thrall of their fascination. Get
ting along splendidly now. Become
more defiant of all decency, more loud
mouthed in your atheism, more thor
oughly alcoholized, and instead of the
small stakes that will do well enough for
games of chance in a ladies' parlor, put
up something worthy, put up more, put
up you have. Well done. You have
"You have made a chain-the tobacco
habit one link, the rum habit one link,
the impure club another link, infidelity
another link, Sabbath desecration anoth
er link, uncleanliness another link, and
altogether they make a chain. And so
there is a chain on your hand, and a
chain on your foot, and a chain on your
tongue, and a chain on your eye, and a
chain on your brain, and a chain on
your property, and a chain on your
soul. Some day you wake up and you
say, 'I am tired of this, and I am going
to get loose from this shackle.' You
pound away with the hammer of good
resolution, but cannot break the thrall.
Your friends join you in a conspiracy of
help, but fall exhausted in the unavail
ing attempt.
"Now you begin, and with the writh
ing of a Laoooon, to try to break away,
and the muscles are distended, and the
great beads of perspiration dot your
forehead, and the eyes stand out from
their sockets, and with all the concen
trated energies of body, mind and soul
you attempt to get loose, but have only
made the chain sink deeper. All the
devils that encamp in the wine flask and
the rum jug and the decanter-for each
one has a devil of its own-come out
and sit around you and chatter. In some
midnight you spring from your couch
and cry: 'I am fast. 0 God, let me
loose! 0 ye powers of darkness, let me
loose! Father and mother and brothers
and sisters, help me to get loose!' And
you turn your prayer to blasphemy, and
then blasphemy into prayer, and to all
the din and uproar there is played an
accompaniment, not an accompaniment
by key and pedal, but the accompani
ment is a rattle, and the rattle is that of
a chain. For five years, for ten years,
for twenty years you have been making
a chain.
"Is there a drunkard here?" asked
Dr. Talmage. "You may, by the
Saviour's grace, have that fire of thirst
utterly extinguished. Is there a de
frauder here? You may be made a
saint. Is there a libertine here? You
may be made as pure as the light. When
a minister in an outdoor meeting in
Scotland was eulogizing goodness there
were hanging around the edge of the
audience some of the most depraved
men and women, and the minister said
nothing about mercy for prodigals. And
a depraved woman cried out: 'Yourrope
is not long enough for the like of us.'
Blssed be God, our Gospel can fathom
the deepest depths and reach to the
farthest wanderings, and here is a rope
that is long enough to rescue the worst:
'Whosoever will.'
"But why take extreme cases when
we all have been or are now the captives
of sin and death? And we may, through
the great Emancipator, drop our
shackles and take a throne. You have
looked at your hand and arm only as
being useful now and a curious piece of
aatomy, but there is something about
your hiand and arm that makes ime think
they are an undeveloped wing. And if
you would know what possibilities are
uggeted by that, ask the eagle that has
looked close into the eye of the noon
dav sun. or ask the albatross that has
struck its claw into the black locks of
the tempest, or ask the condor that this
morning is descending to the highest
peak of Chimborazo. Your right hand
and arm and your left hand and arm,
two undeveloped wings, better getready
for the empyrean."
" ElIse, my soul, and stretch thy wing;
Thy better portioni trace."
The Wolf, the Fox and tha Lion.
A Wolf one day Sought out a Fox who
had been particularly Redommended to
him for his Astuteness, and said:
"I have passed the Lion on several
Occasions, and he does not D)eign to
Notice me."
"And you want Revenge, of course?"
"I do. I want to make His Heart Sad
very Sad."
"He is Honest in Business?"
"Oh, yes."
"Pays his Debts Promptly ?"
"He does."
"Goes to Church and keeps clear of
Scandal?"
"Yes."
"And is too Strong for you to Attack?"
"Exactly; you see howlI am Situated."
"I do. There is but one way for yon to
get Even. Pitch in and secure his Nomi
nation for office, and then Lie about
and Defeat him."
It was shown during the Campaign
that the Lion wasar Embezzler, Default
er, Horse Thief, Liar and Sneak-that
hit Father was a Convict and his Mother
a Ballet D~ancer-thzat his Grandfathcr
was Hung and his Brothers sent to Prison
for Life, and he was duly Defeated.
Detroit Free Press.__
The New York World observes:
"The man who claims to be the young
et war veteran in the country is Charles
L. Stone, of Philadelphia. Ee was 14
years of age when he carried a gun at
the battle of Gettysburg. At that battle
he was woanded in the' arm by a rifle
ball. Part of the 'funny bone' had to
cut away, and he says that his apprecia
tion of a joke is not as vivid as it should
be. But he still has the humerus of
his right arm. That ought to help him
a good deal in keeping up with Ameri
a wit."
TALE OF A SAVAGE BRAVE.
RED SHIRT TELLS OF MEN AND
BABIES MURDERED.
Right to Kill Women and Children in
War-Bad Hearts from Troubled Brains
A White Woman Captive--Wonderful In
dian Revelation- Made to Whites.
In reply to questions put up by a Post
Dispatch correspondent, Red Shirt said
his Indian's name was Ok-le-sa; that he
was 41 years old and had been chief of
his tribe elev -n years. When asked
about the traditions of the Sioux he gave
a brief outline of his tribe's history, 1
which was interpreted as follows: "The
old men have told me that many ages
ago the Lacotas (Sioux) lived here by
the side of the great waters. They fought
with other tribes who had many lodges a
and great warriors, and long, long before
the white men came they were driven
toward the setting sun and made their
homes beyond the Smoky Water (Mis- t
sissippi River). How long ago this was
I do not know; but I know it is true, for
the old men have told me so. After a
while the white men came into our
ocuntry. They hunted buffalo and killed t
antelope upon the plains. They came
into the camps of the Lacotas and slept
in their tepees. They were well treated, t
for they were welcome. By and by more c
white men came, and then they came
thick. They took the Lacotas' land and 1
drove them from their hunting grounds.
"Then the heart of the Lacotas got n
bad, for their brains were troubled. They o
thought everything would be taken from r
them and their hearts were broken. They
thought no land would be left for them t
to live upon, so they began to fight.
They took white men's scalps and the
white men's tepees, and scalped their '
women and children. They fought for a
many years, but the white men were too k
strong. If an Indian got killed no Indian f
came in his place; but the white men
grew thicker all the time. The Lacotas a
had no hope left, so they had to quit
fighting and submit to the whites. There W
will be no more wars between the white I
men and the Lacotas, for the white men w
are many and the Lacotas few."
Bed Shirt then related how the trouble w
began between the whites and his uncle,
the noted Sioux chief, Young-Man- d
Afraid-of-His-Horses. He said that about
twenty-five years ago an emigrant train v
was crossing the plains a short distance -
from Fort Laramie. One of their steers a
became lame, and it was left behind on
the trail. In a short while a Sioux k
hunting party came upon the abandoned
steer and killed it. A few days after a e
company of soldiers from Fort Larumie w
came to the Sioux camp on the North 0
Platte to arrest the Indians who had k
killed the steer. k
The tribe refused to surrender them
but offered to pay for the steer. A long
wrangle followed, and finally the officer a
in command of the troops made an f
attempt to forcibly take the Indians s'4
whom he wanted. He charged upon the
village; but he had miscalculated the i
strength of the Sioux, for there were .
many lodges behind a hill close-by which s
he had not seen. The Indians fell upon n
the troops on every side, and the com- I
pany of thirty-two men were killed and
scalped. The great Sioux chief Conq.uer- 0
ing Bear was killed in the fight, and the S
interpreter, a Frenchman, was also killed.
That night the Indians had a big scalp P
ance, and a long, bloody war followed. g
ed Shirt next told some of his personal 0
xperiences while on the warpath, and i
poke of the men he had killed with as 0
uch apparent satisfaction as a hunter It
would exhibit in relating his exploit~s. '*
His first fight with the whites was twenty- E
five years ago, and this was his version ~
f how the trouble came about. 0
A band of Cheyennes attacked an emi- Il
grant train, and after killing all the men, k
carried off a white woman captive. In u
their wanderings over the plains they 8
met a party of Sioux, to whom the woman
was sold, the chiefr, Two Face and Black f'
Feet, paying two horses for her. After-|q
ward a detachment of soldiers from Fort u
Laramie came upon the Sioux band,.and, a:
finding the woman in their possession,~
acused them of murdering the emigrants tl
ad carrying off the woman. i
T wo Face and Black Feet were tried ei
nd hanged at Fort Laramnie, and the
balance of the band to which they be- n
longed were ordered to remove east of
the Missouri River. They started out tl
nder guard of two companies of sol- h
diers, and got as far as the junction of
aerse Creek and the North Platte before
ny trouble occurred. Here some of the
~ndias who were in irons complained a
of being tired, and that their legs were P
swollen from the chafing of the iron '
bands. l
They asked to be allowed to ride in
one of the wagons, but the regnest was I
refsed. Then all of the Indians gut
angry and secretly concocted a plan to
turn upon their guards at an unexpected
moment. Just as the troops were pre-C
paring to break camp on the following
morning the Indians attacked them.
Red Shirt killed the commandment of ~
the detachment, and this was the signal e
for a general assault. The soldiers were
completely taken by surprise, and five
of their number wt re killed in the first a
charge. The others saved themselves ~
by jumping in the river and swimming C
ars. Two men were killed in the ~
water as they were trying to escape.
After this fight the entire band of Sioux !
went on the warpath, and it was many ~
months before they surrende red.
Red Shirt says he has made but one;
attack upon a wagon train. This occurred
at Pole Creek, in Montana, about nine
teen years ago. A party of five men, t
with three teams, were pushing their t
way through the hostile country when
they were discovered by Red Shirt's
band. The Indians bore down on them,
and, after their usual fashion, began to
circle around to draw their fire. The
doomed men abaadoned their teams and
attempted to run to a high hill whichj
was close by, but they were all shot
down before they could reach the cover
they were making for. Red Shirt thinks l
the men were not experienced in Indian
warfare or they would have kept under
cover of their wagons instead of trying
to reach the hill. The usually solemn
looking chief smiled as he related thei
easy task the Indians had in shootingj
dow the men as they ran. T~he dad,
men were scalped, the wagons destroyed
md the mules driven off.
Red Shirt has been in several bloody
battles between his own tribe and the
Dmahas on the Upper Missouri River,
md he thinks they are better fighters
han the white men. In speaking of
ighters among his own people, he says
hat Crazy Horse was the bravest man he
)ver saw. He never went into a battle
ithout taking a scalp, am daring his
ife killed more than sixty men with his
)wn hands.
When asked about his own deeds, Red
hirt seemed ashamed to admit that he
iad no greater number of dead men on
us list. He said that he had taken only
light scalps in his life, five of these
>eing of white men and the other three
)maha Indians. His first scalp was that
>f the officer whom he killed in the fight
bt the junction of Horse Creek and the
torth Platte River.
When asked why the Sioux scalp those
lain in battle, he gave the following
easons: In former times the Sioux cut
dff the heads of their viotmis, but when
hey began to fight the white man they
ook to scalping, the same as they saw
he white man do. The scalp is taken as
ndisputable evidence that a man has
>een killed, and whenever an Indian
rarrior recounts his bloody deeds he
ust produce the scalp to prove that
rhat he says is true. If he fails to do
his he is not believed. The scalps are
anally kept for a time and then thrown
way. Some of the old men wear scalps
n their shirts or leggings, and have
hem buried with their bodies when they
ie. In concluding his remarks on scalps,
led Shirt said, with a touch of sadness
a his expression: "I don't like to keep
caps to look at them, for they always
sake me think of fights in which some
f my friends have been killed." In
eply to the questions, "Are you sorry
hat you have no opportunity to increase
lie number of your sclps?" he said:
"No, I am glad that war is at an end.
'hero are too many white men. The
ndian must do as they say. I do not
rant to see any more of my people
illed. It is useless to shed their blood,
>r in the end they must lose."
"Why do you have scalp dances?" was
sked.
"When we come back from a big fight
ith many scalps we make a big feast.
ch man tells what he has done in the
ar, and we rejoice. If we take no
;alps and have some of our people killed
e come back sad and have no dance."
"In the 'Omaha,' or war dance, what
oes each man say in his song?"
"He says: 'I have killed a man. I am
ery glad. I have another scalp. I have
- scalps now (mentioning the number),
ad I am going to get some more.' "
"Does an lndian feel bad when he
ills a woman or child?"
"No, not when he does it in war. Our
aemies kill our wives and children and
e do the same. If an Indian kills one
f his own people he feels very bad, be
mse it is wrong. It is not wrong to
ill an enemy."
"What is your idea of heaven?"
At this question Red Shirt's face
wsumed a very puzzled expression, and
>r some minutes he seemed to be in a
tdy. He then answered very slowly:
I have heard the old men say that there
a heaven somewhere above us. I have
en many dead men; but all that I have
en went down into the ground. I have
aver seen any of them go up to heaven.
don't know what becomes of them."
This speech was greeted with grnnts
approval all around the circle, and his
>mark must have been funny in the
ioux language, for all of the Indians
resent laughed much more than they
merally do. *Mr. William Irving, one
the interpreters present, said that if
e Sioux Indians had any conception
heaven he had never been able to find
out, although he is married to a Sioux
oman and has lived for many years
nong the tribe. He says they believe
the existence of a God, and when one
the tribe dies the relatives punish
~emselves by cutting their bodies with
uives, and call on God to vent his wrath
pen the living, to spare the departed
irit5. Notwithstanding this, they
tem to have no idea of any kind of
ture existence. R~ed Shirt was last
estioned as to the impressions made
pon him during his stay in England,
id his reply was a characteristic one.
"I liked the people,".-said he, "because
iey were good to me; I like them better
an the people here, but this is my own
>untry and I wanted to come back."
During the interview Red Shirt did
:t refuse to answer any of the questions
hich were asked him, audit was evident
at he tried to be accurate in everything
a said.
The Frenident Fishing.
"He goes at it with ardor, rises early,
2d wants to be off as soon as necessary
reparations are made. Frequently he
ill run away, very early in the morning
efore breakfast, while the other mem
rs of the party are still in bed. And
is luck in fishing is duec to the fact that
e devotes his whole time to it, as he
os to other things he tackles. He un
erstanda the habits of game fish thor
ughly, and takes as much pride in his
ickle as the most devoted disciple of
zaak Walton could desire. He knows
Labout tackle, too, and insists on having
verything just so, and once ho makes a
at there is nothing in the world for
im but fishing. He is never very talk
ive, and af ter he has settled down for
day's sport with rod and line he be
oies even more silent than usual. Occa
ionally he will look up and gaze around
.im, especially if he is not getting many
rikes, and make a remark in that sub
ned, thoughtful tone habitual with
uglers and hunters. When he gets a
trike he seldom fails to land his fish. He
Sa man of wonderfully steady nerve,
s the politicians have learned, and when
*e makes a move it usually means some
ling. He is never reckless or willing to
ike chances with a fish, but plays him
arefully and skillfully, and when he
:ets him just where he wants him it is
I up with the Iish."-Waterbury Amen
Captain Rlivers, of the ship A. G.
topes, that recently left New York for
ian Francisco reports from Providence
own that while sailing with a six-knot
ireeze from the east-northeast, the top
pars suddenly began falling. There
ras no perceptible change in the wind
er atmosphere before or after the acci
lent, and he can account for it only on
he supposition that a whirlwind passed,
ust high enough to strike the spars, of
ibih he lost nineteen.
CAUGHT BY TIlE COMBINE.
THE PLANTERS CAN'T WHIP THE
BAGGING TRUST THIS YEAR.
Pine Straw and Osnaburgs May Take the
Place of Jute in the Future-A Practical
Test of Cotton Bagging for Cotton Bales
at iew Orleans--A Factor's Advice to the
Farmers.
(From the News and Courier.)
The cotton-growers of the South have
certainly no reason to complain of the
newspapers of the country, for, without
exception, these have all taken sides
against the Jute Bagging Trust. This
is true of the newspapers North as well
as those of the South. Even in distant
Vermont the Legislature has called on
Congress to abolish the duty on jute.
The United States department of agri
culture has interfered in their favor, the
merchants generally are co-operating
with them, the cotton factories have set
to work to produce a cloth suitable for
baling, and the underwriters suggest
that more closely woven cotton bagging
is superior to jute and less dangerous.
The News and Courier has been at
pains to describe every substitute for
jute bagging that has been presented
since the outrageous squeeze com
menced, and has also given to its read
ers the result of all the experiments that
have been made. The only two substi
tutes that have thus far given any
promise of success are the osnaburg
bagging from New Orleans and the pine
straw fabric from Wilmington. As was
stated in the News and Courier yester
day, however, there is only one way in
which these substitutes can be subjected
to a thorough test, and the quicker this
test is made the better for the farmer.
In order to fill the bill a bale of cotton
must be able to stand the compress, the
cotton hook and the fire, and obviously
the only way to test it is to try a bale of
cotton baled with osnaburgs or pine
straw.
Alluding to the pine straw fabric, the
Wilmington Star says: "An interesting
experiment was made at the Exchange
to test its inflammability as compared
with jute bagging. A piece of each was
igited at the same time with a match,
sup left to burn. While the jute fibre
burned freely and was entirely con
sumed the pine fibre burned slowly, and
inally the tire died out before scarcely
any of it had been consumed."
This was entirely at variance with the
est made at the Cotton Exchange here,
and the result of which was published
in the News and Courier yesterday. In
this experiment the conditions were ex
atly reversed. The jute blazed up and
went out at once, while the pine straw
retained the fire which smouldered for
ully fifteen minutes. It is proper to
add that the experiment was conducted
>y the representative of the News and
Dourier, who visited Wilmington last
rear, and wrote up the pine straw in
lustry at Conly.
But, it is repeated, the test was not a
fair one. The pine straw will doubtless
pass the compress and the cotton hook
requirements. The only question now
s as to its inflammability, and the only
way in which that can be tested is to
put up two bales of cotton, one in -jute
ad one in pine straw; call in the under
writers and apply the match.
Of the Lane Mills osnaburgs the New
)rleans Times-Democrat says: "The
est made of the cotton bagging pro
lued by the Lane Mills of this city,
roved it to be the full equal in all re
~pects of the jute bagging, hitherto
~enerally used. It has been experi
iented with until a material has finally
een obtained, which will bear the
oughest handling, can be jerked
irond, headed and reheaded and
ressed without danger of any :injury.
)f its other advantages in keeping out
he dirt and water we have already
ipoken; while as to price it can and will
e sold cheaper than the jute is now
elling."
The experiment is thus described by
he Times-Democrat:
"The trial began in the pickery.
[here three bales of cotton were shorn
)f their jute coverings and covered with
,otton cloth by means of an old hand
worked press. The bagging was difl'er
nt from that tried Wednesday. It was|
,omposd of heavier cords with largeri
~neshes, and averages thirteen ounces to
the yard, After being reughly baled in
the pickery it was rolled with hooks on to
float and carted to the compress yard.
kgain the ties were cut off. A bale was
brucked into the jaws of the great ma
~hine. The jaws crunched together with
mforce of 700 tons. The cotton was
uade smaller and smaller, from four
!eet to as ma~ny inches. Every thread
as searched by anxious eyes for signs
f bursting. There was no injury, and,~
is far as the pressing was concerned,
the cloth was effective. But the tests
were hardly begun. The bale was pulled
from the press, rolled, headed, reheaded
imost lifted by sheer muscle of stalwart
negroes. Whore a hook was caught in
the threads alone it at times, but not
mlways, tore its way out; when the hook
was gripped into the cotton staple, as is
customary in handling it, the cords held
irm, and and no unsightly tears re
sulted, as is usually the case with jute
bagging. Water was thrown on the
sotton bagging. it rolled off, leaving
ut little dampness behind. Another
bucketful was emptied on a bale covered
with jute. Every large mesh acted as a
pore, through which the water got into
the cotton and wet it to a depth much
greater than in the case of the cotton
overed bale. Then a practiced negro
of magnificent strength planted his hook
into the jute bagging of a bale, braced
himself, and jerked. A long tear was
the result. lie tried the same experi-.
ment on the cotton cloth. It gave way,
but the tear was only a few inches in
length. All being satisfied with the
uperiority of the Lane bagging, the
bales, three in number, were carried to
the scales and weighed. The first
weighed 553 pounds, the second 427,
the third 496.
"The Lane Mills," says the Times
Democrat, "can now turn out 12,000
yards a day, or 72,000 a week of this
new bagging, enough to cover 7,000
bales. They alone can produce enough
to break the power of the combine, and
it is probable that Mr. Maginnis and
others will begin the manufacture of the
baging a early date. Samples of the
cloth have been sent to some of thi
planters in the country, in each cast
enough to cover one bale, and it is like.
ly that in a day or two some cotton will
arrive dressed in the new.bagging. Ont
of the beauties of the cloth that iti
makers are proud of is the fact that after
being used it is as useful as when new.
Arrived in England it is already in the
form of cord, and as such may be ap
plied to many uses. It is good when
second-hand for sacks of various kinds,
and its utility becomes more appareni
every day."
As has been before said in the News
and Courier, these substitutes, even if
they are accepted by the powers that
dictate the requirements of merchant
able cotton, can hardly be available for
this year's crop. There is but one
power that cdh help the farmer now,
and that is the Congress of the United
States. If a resolution or bill could be
passed at once admitting jute bagging
free, the Trust would probably go to
pieces. Like all other combines, it is
an iniquitous and oppressive Trust, just
one of those trusts which, according to
the Plumed Knave from Maine, are pri
vate enterprises, and not subject to Gov
ernment control. Strange to say, too, a
Democratic Congress seems to take the
same view of E'he case.
It is not probable that any relief can
be had from any substitute bagging this
year, at least, and hence the cotton
merchants, factors and buyers who have
at heart the interests of the farmers as
well as their own, which interests every
thinking man .will admit to be identical,
are advising their correspondents to pay
the tribute to the Trust, and send their
cotton to market now when the prices are
higher than they probably will be two
or three months 'enec.
Said a cotton man yesterday: "I have
no hesitation in advising my corre
spondents to submit to the squeeze, as
outrageous as it is, and to buy jute bag
ging and ship their cotton to market.
Sentiment is a very good thing, but
farmers don't plant cotton for senti
ment. They plant it to get the best re
turns they can for hard and honest
labor; they get the best they can out of
the soil they cultivate. The people with
whom I deal know that I have no inter
est in the Jute Bagging Trust, that their
interests are mine, and that I am telling
them the truth when I tell them to pay
the tribute to these estimable gentlemen
who now lord it over King Cotton, and
send their cotton to the ports. The
yellow fever in Florida and the rains
and the floods seem to be a special dis
pensation to help the farmers out of
their troubles. Cotton is going up every
day and will continue to go up, in my
judgment, for a month or more to come.
In my opinion it is better for a man to
submit to this extortion and market his
cotton now, when the market is on the
flood tide, than to hold back for a sub
stitute which, in the ordinary course of
events, cannot possibly be available this
year. We have learned a lesson and, of
course, we have to pay for it, but it will
be all the better for its cost. Next year,
please God, we hope to be independent
of the jute combine, with or without the
aid of Congress."
(From the News and Courier, Sept. 21 )
Another test was made at the Cotton
Exchange here yesterday of the pine
straw bagging sent from Wilmington,
with results that were considerably more
favorable than those attained at the first
trial several days ago and published in
the News and Courier at the time.
The first experiment, it will be re
membered, was made with a square foot
of pine straw and a square foot of jute
bagging. The first held the fire and
the last threw it off. On that occasion
a piece of jute bagging was cut from a
bale of cotton lying on the wharf. It
was perfectly new bagging.
Yesterday several of the members of
the Exchange repeated the test, taking
a piece of the pine straw fibre and a
piece of jute cut hap-hazard from one of
the bales on the wharf. Fire was ap
plied to both pieces and they were
placed on the counter and watched.
Both pieces retained the fire for some
time. The conclusion was reached that
so far as the inflammability of the two
materials was concerned, the difference,
if any, was too infinitesimal to take into
onsideration.
But, as has been said, there can be no
fair test except such as was tried in New
rleans with the oynaburgs, and an ac
ount of which is given above. This
est will be made to-day, at least so far
s the cotton compress and cotton hook
arc concerned. The roll of pine straw
bagging will be taken to the Hydraulic
Press, on Church street, and a bale of
otton will be covered with it and then
"handled." This will show whether the
new covering will stand the compress
and the hooks, and after that the under
writers will be asked to apply the fire
test.
The factors and buyers of Charleston
are anxious to aid the farmers in their
just fight against the jnte bag combine,
and should the pine straw fibre stand
the test ill do their share in recoin
mending it to the powers that have the
regulation of cotton baling in their
keeping.
A Little Woman Did it.
When Edison, genius and inventor as
he is, had given two weeks of his valuble
time to going up and down on the New
York Elevated railroad, trying to dis
over what caused its noise and cure for
it, lhe gave up the job. Then a little
woman took it. She rode on the cars
three days, was denied a place to stand
on the rear platform, laughed at for her
uriosity and politely snubbed by the
conductors and passengers. But she
discvred what caused the noise, in
vente a a remedy which was patented and
she was paid a siun of $l0,t000( and a
royalty forever. 1Her name is Mies. Mary
Walton, and she lives in New York city.
-New Orleans Picayune.
The Silver Bags Rtotting.
The large new silver vault in the
Treasury l)epartment is so daump that
the canvas bags containing the silver
stored there are actually rotting away.
Measures are being taken to improve
the ventilation of the vault and arrange
ments are also being made to substitute
small rough pine boxes for the canvas
bags for holding the silver. These
boxes will each hold 3,000O silver dollars
and it is proposed to store 39,000. of
them in the vault. The silver is still
cming in at the rate of 2500.000 a dlay.
THE BIG SALMON WHEEL.
The Laziest Scheme Ever Invented for
Capturing the Finny Tribes.
The man who invented the Columbia
River salmon wheel was a genius, says
the Livermore Herald. The laziest dsher
man who ever baited a hook could ask
no easier way of landing fish. And the
only fact that it can only be used at cer
tain points on the stream prevents this
machine from exterminating the salmon
in one season. Imagine a common under
shot wheel with the buckets turned the
wrong way about. This is set in a high,
narrow flume near the bank of the river,
where the current is very swift. From
the down-stream end of this flume, ex
tended outward an angle of forty-five
degrees, are two upright fences, formed
by pickets driven closely together into
the bottom of the river, and wired to
keep them from washing away. Just
above the wheel-which is some ten feet
in di.ameter-at the up-stream end, is a
platform, from which a box flume runs
to the shore.
Now let us see how it works. When
the salmon are running, as everybody
knows, they come up in the Columuia
Iiver by millions. The stream is very
deep, and a large percentage always
succeed in getting to the breedng
grounds in safety. When the salmon
are running up the river they are cn
stantly on the lookout for siall streams
in which to spawn. Also, where te
current is very swift they are unable
to make headway in the center of the
stream, and consequently seek the more
quiet water near the bank. Of there
two instincts, the invention of the link
wheel took a mean advantage. At the
cascades, for instance, where the water
is very swift, he sets his wheel. Here
come the fish, hugging the bank by
thousands-great black fellows, front
two to four feet long, heading resolutely
up stream. Nothing can turn them baca
ward. That wonderful instinct of nature
which insures the preservation of spe.aes
is nowhere better developed than in
-almon. But in this instanse it proves
his destruction.
Now they are just below that wide
spread fence. The current which is rush
ing through the flume and turring the
big wheel at a lively pace attracts their
attention. The upper fence, which sete
nearly square across the stream, makes
quiet water here and this flow seems to
come from the bank. This, to the sad
mon's mind, is evidently the mouth of a
shallow creek. Here is a spawning
ground to our liking and up this little
stream we go. Si they crowd up between
the two narrowing fences toward the
fatal wheel. 'Tnle first lish reaches it,
goes with a rush to overcome the current,
is caught by a bucket and up he goes
high in the air, while every bucket brings
up another and another, tail there is a
procession of ascending ish. At the top
the velocity throws the lns violently on
the platform, from which he shoots down
the flame to a great tank on the shore.
Here come the fish crowding each other
forward to that busy wheel.
None can go under nor to one side.
None will go bac. And once a school
starts for a wheel, the owner can consider
that he has a title deep to the entire lot.
One wheel will run a cannery. Day and
night, while the run lasts, they come
flying up the wheel and shooting down
tue .lame in a continuous stream. Fortu
nately there are but few places on the
river where the wheels can be worked
with this result. Where the fish can keep
in the middle of the river few can be
caught in this way. But the men who
control these points are making fortunes.
As it is, salmon are rapidly disappearing
from the Columuia. Many canneries .
are idle this season and the fisherman'a
price per fish is raising every year. sure
ly this engine of destruction is largemy
tue cause.
(5h e harpahoutera or MceowaO's Brigade.
The following letter has been written
by Captain W. S. Dunlop, State Auditor
of Arkansas, to Mr. David Moore, of
Columbia:
I have been engaged for some time in
writing up the campaigns of the &ttal
ion of sharpshooters of McGowan's
Brigade, and have about completed the
lirst dratt, which will have to be revised
and re-written before publication. I re
gret, at every step, that I cannot recall
the names of the gallant corps, and have
concluded to write to you and every
Sharpshooter that I cIan near of in order
to supply tis deficiency. I want you
to put on your studying-cap and gatner
up every name you can, and send the
list to me, wi.h the rank and postofie
address of each, it livig; and the date
and circumstances of deatni, if dead, that
I may be able to make a roll of the
whole command. Every man of the
Battalion was a hero, and his name
shiouid be embalmed in the history of
our struggle. Do this, and let me hear
from you without delay. If you remem
bor any incidents connected with our
campaigns where any of our men be
haved with distinguished gallantry or
performed any feat of daring in any of
our numerous fights, I would hias to
have them.
Sergeant B. K. Banson, of Brnson's
company, calls to see me very of ten. He
is a drummer, and lives in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. L. K. Robertson, another member
of the Battalion from Abbeville, is living
in Scott county, this State. I spent two
nights and a day with him last May. He
is a successful physician and has accu
mulated a good property in Scott con
ty. TInese are the only Sharpshooters].
know of in Arkansas; I woul~d like to
have a re-union of the B ittahion, what
do you think of it?
Any information responsive to the
above may l-e sent to Mr. David Moore,
Columbia, S. C., or to Captain W. S.
Dunlop, Little Rock, Arkansas.
The French sugar makers have com
menced a campaign against saccharine
extracted from coal tar. Experiments
have shown that it is not noxtous, but
the Society of Agriculturists have pe
titioned the government to forbid its
manufacture, as prejudicial to the beet
root sugar trade.
An Australian football club has ar
ranged with an ac.:ident insurance com
pany to pay any of its members who are
disabled while playing the game $7.50
per week as long as they remain on the
sick list, and $1000 to the relatives if the
injuries received in the football field
shonld terminate aitally.