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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1888. NO. 26 JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. TOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counseor at Lar, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INURACE AGENT, 'MANNING. S. C. A. LEI, ATTORNEY AT LA W. 3ANNLNGC. S. C. 1' Notary Public with seal. W L H. INGRAM. ATTOR EY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. me CLIFTON GALUCHAT, PRACTICES IN COURTS OF CHARLESTON and CLARENDON. Address Communications in care of Man ning Tnams. J OS. H. 3ONSTGOMERY, ATTOREY AT LAW Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. peCollections a specialty. W. F. B. HATNswoRTH, Sumter S, C. B. S. D).rxss, Manning, S. C. I AYXSWORTH & flINK.INS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. DR. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, . DENTIST. - OFFICES - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -OFFICE DAYS Kingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -OFFICE HOURS 9A. M. toi P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. J 3. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. ESTABLISHED 1852. Louis Cohen & Co. 284 King Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry and Fancy Goods. -o JWSamples and prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders entrusted to me will receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friends from Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORYEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., CHARL ESTO S. C. Max G. Bryant, JAs. M. LAD, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & TLTLAND, PEOPBIETons. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX AGT BUSINESS CENTER OF THE CITY, where all Street Car Lines pass -the door, and its MENUis not excelled by any in the "South. Win. Burmneste & Co. HAY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats, a Spe .cialty. Opposite Kerr's Wharf, CHARTETON S. C. THE BEUL.AH ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. C. '8. B. THOMPSON, Principal. .FaII Session Begins Monday, Oct. 29. --- TInstructionz thorough. government mild -and decisive, appe~ahng generally to the studeat'ssense of honor and judgment in ithe ~important matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence. &c. Moral and social indluences good. LOC A T I OX F INE. Tuition from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Board in good families~ $7.00 per month. Board from Monday to Friday pe~r muouth $3.00 to $4.00. pg For further particulars, address th Principal.. J. G. DINKINS, M. D. IR. B. LORTEA. 10.G Dinkins & Co., Drog|stS and Pharma8cists, PUR1E DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Full stock of PArsus, Orus, GuASS VEMsE and HITE LEAD, also, PArrT and WHrrEWA~SH BRUSHES. An elegant stock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. No charge made for fitting the eye. -Physicians Prescriptions carefully .comnpounded, day or night. J. 6. Dinkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, MA&NNING. S. C. 1OW TILE DEVIL TRAVELS. REV. T. DEW iT TALM AGE'S SUNDAY MOI NtNG DISCOURSE. His Satanic Majesty Marches to His Vic tims' Souls Throu:h. Avarice. Theft, Forgery, Jealousy, Murder. Arson. Adul tery and Every Other Crime. At the Tabernacle on Sunday morn ing the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D. took for the subject of his sermon: "Satan on his Travels." His test was, Job i., 7: "And the Lord said unto Satan: Wence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord and said: From going to and fro in the earth, and from walk ing up and down in it." "In my test," said Dr. Talmage, "we have Satan on his travels, and I am going to tell you some of the routes he is apt to take. On his way down from the palace where he reported himself in answer to the question: 'Whence comest thou?' the first range of mischief he may be expected to take is the air. It was not a witticism or a slip of the pen when Paul in his letter to the Ephesians called Satan the 'Prince of the Power of the Air.' I think that it means that Satan works through conditions of the atmos phere. The west wind is full of angels, the east wind is full of devils. Satan spreads abroad his black wings and hur ricanes andieuroclydons and Carribean whirlwinds and equinoctials are hatched out. He takes themiasmas that float up from swamps and hatches them into ty phoid fevers. He takes the cold blasts and hatches them into pneumonia and rheumatisms and consumptions. "Not only has he power in the upper air where highest clouds float, but power over the lower air which we breathe, and as we breathe nineteen times a minute and take in 350 cubic feet of air in every twenty-four hours, and much of thif air affects the arterial circulation, you see what opportunities the Prince of the Air has of contamina ting and despoiling and demoralizing a man. Through atmospheric influence he clouds the disposition and rasps the nerves and covers the best of people with religious despondency, as in the case of Edward Payson and William Cowper and that beloved apostle of Evangelism, James W. Alexander. Hi'. great delight is to have the air of churches vitiated, and in that way dulls the preacher and stupifies the people, and sees to it that the atmosphere of not more than one out of a hundred churches is fit to breathe, and whole congrega tions, Sabbath after Sabbath, are as phynxiated. Yes, he is worthy of the title St.'Paul gave him-'Prince of the Power of the Air.' "Another route he is apt to take is through domestic life. There is no greater sport for him than conjugal quarrels. He says to the husband: 'What a plain wife you have compared with what she once was. Don't you see that the color has gone out of her cheek, and there are several wrinkles about her temples and a sprinkling of frost on her locks? Besides that, you have advanced in intelligence, while she has stood still or gone back. How hard it is that you should be chained to such dullness and imbecility!' Then he turns and says to his wife: 'That man neglects you; you have a right to be jealous. He likes his cigar and his club and anything and everything better than you. Why not get a divorce? Marriage is only a civil contract anyhow, and not a divine alli ance. Let me have that ring. It means nothing, and you might as well give it to me.' The ring is handed over to Satan and he tosses it into the yawning gulf. "There are thousands ot marriage re lations strained almost to the breaking, and I commend to all men and women who are restless in the present marriage state that they resume the old time cortship and take as much pains to make themselves agreeable as they did five or ten or twenty years ago, before the wedding march announced to the flahed and fluttering crowd that the bride and groom were coming. Accord ing to the statistics of Professor Dikes, in one year in moral New Hampshire there were 241 divorces; in temperate Maine, 478 divorces; in good old Massa chsetts, 600 divorces, and in New Eng land of 'steady habits,' 2,113. In one county of Illinois 830 divorce suits were be gun in one year, and in many places it seems as if new arrangement had been made of the commandments, and instead of ten there were only nine, the seventh commaudment having been left out. When you see how many husbands and wives are parted by law, and know of so many who would like to dissolve conja gal partnershipr~ do you not come to the conclusion that Satan is engaged in mighty industries? "Another route that Satan is apt to take iin his active travels is the factoriEs and other establishments where capital sits in the oflitce or counting room and a good many hands of laborers are busy among wheels and spindles and fabrics. On this visit he will ?irat.step into the manufacturer's office and finding the owner and proprietor of the great estab lihnment all alone with his correspon ence and his account books, says to him: 'You are not making as much money as you ought. You furnish all the brains. Wre it not for your enterprise this es tablishment would not be in existence. These men and women in your employ are very common mold. TIheir appetite is coarser and they do not need the lux uries you require. Their comfort and happiness are of very little importance. Pat them down on the very verge of btrvation and tatkt all the prullis into your own possession, and if theyj do not ike it tell themi to go where they can do better.' "Having done his work in the count ing-room, Satan steps right out amiong the workmen. He says: 'You work toe many hours and you do your work bettei than it needs to be done. You art serving a bloated bond-holder, anyhow. He has no right to have any more that you have. Why should he ride and yeu walk? Why should he have tenderloin steak and you salt pork? CJaptial is th( enemy of labor. Let labor be the sworn foe oi capital. Why don't you strike and bring him to terms? Wait until het has a large order to till by contract, anc then he cannot help himself. Glo al. togeher without a moment's warning and tell him you are going to stop. If he has more resources than you know of and persists in going on and getting new men, give them a volley of brick bats or put a little dynamite in his office and blow him and his factory all up with the same explo.ion.' "Look out there on the night sky! Great fire somewhere. What is it? The night is cold and Satan has made a big bonfire of that factory to warm himself by. The capitalist has lost heavily and the workmen and their families are without bread and clothing. 'Whence comest thou, Satan?' 'From going to and fro among employers and employees, and walking up and down among them. Ha! ha! I was the only one that made any thing out of that strike. What a splen did fire and lots of smoke! Hi na! like smoke!' "Another route Satan is apt to take in his active travels is through the mercan tile establishments. He steps in and says to the clerks: 'How much salary do you get? Is that all? Why, you can't live on that! You have a right to enough for a livelihood. A few quarters out of the money drawer will never be missed, or here and there is a remnant of goods you could take home without being found out. Or you could change those account books a little, and you could make that figure eight a naught and that figure five a three, and if you do not feel exactly right about doing that you can some day pay it back, which you can do perfectly easy. Don't feel like running the risk? Well, then, you can't go to the theatre, and you can't go on that round with the boys, and you will have to wear that plain coat, whereas you could have your overcoat furlined, and take board at a tip-top place, and walk amid plush and tapestries positive ly Oriental. While you are making up your mind I will just go through the different parts of this great commercial establishment and try every one, from the wealthy firm down to the errand boyr.' "The result of that Satantic visit is that one of the partners has drawn so much out of the concern that the whole business is crippled, and a bright and promising boy is sent home to his mother in disgrace and a young man is in jail for embezzlement. Three lives ruined and three eternities. Whence comest thou, Satan? Satan would rather have one young man than twenty old ones. If he won the septuagenarians and the octogenarians he could do but little harm with them. Bat he says: 'Give me a young man, especially if he be bright and generous and social.' He sees that the young men have for good or bad been the mightiest in this world. Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico at 32. Gustavus Adolphus became immor tal in history so early that he died at 38. Raphae!, the most famous of paint ers, died at 37. William Pitt was Prime Minister of England at 24. Jesus Christ completed his earthly life at 33. Five years in a young man's life are of more power for good or evil than the last fifteen of an old man's life. So Satan is especially greedy for young men, and in going to and fro in the earth he has especial temptation for them. "Another route that Satan on his active travels is apt to take is for the dispoiling of the people's souls. It does tot pay him merely to destroy the bodies of men and women. Those bodies would soon be gone anyhow; but great treasures are involved in this Satanic ex cursion. On this route he meets a man who is aroused by something he has seen in the-Bible, and Satan says: 'Now I can settle all that. The Bible is an imposition. It has been deluding the world for centuries. ])o not let it de lude you. It has no more authority than the Koran of the Mohammedan or the Shaste. of the Hindoo, or the Zenda Vesta of the Persian!' He meets another man who is hastening toward the king domi of God and sas: 'Why all this pre cipitation ? Religion is right, but any tune nithin the next ten years will be soon e-nough for you. A man with a stout chest like yours and such muscular develop ment, need not be bothering himselt about the next world.' But Satan says nothing to him about the fact that the professor who gave3 his whole life to the study of health. and could lift, more poiuds than any American, died at about 4t1, and that another learned man who proved conclusively that if we observed all the laws of health we need never die, expirca before he got his book on that subj.et published. "$atau meets another man who has gone through a long course of profligacy and is beginning to pray God for for giveness, and Satan says to the man:; 'You arc too late; the Lord will not help such a wretch as you, you migut as well bravy ulp and fight your own. way through.' Aud so with a spite and an acuteLL'.s and a velocity that have been gaining for 6,000 years, he ranges up and down bfiling, disappointing, de feating, r fllicting, destroying the humn race. Hie hats instigated every war. He has u j.oiced in every pestilence. He has sixa t: d tvery groan. He has pressed out every sigh. Hie has hurled every ship wreek. Lararettoes, insane asylums, commercial panics, plagues, destroying angels, continental earthquakes, and world wide disasters are to him a perfect glee. Can you look upon the Comimunism and the Mormon ism, and the Mohammedanismi, and the wide sweep of drunkenness and fraud and libertinism, the France-Ger man War and Crimean War, the North and South United States War, and rivers of blood flowing across continents of misery into oceans of wretchedness,with out realizing the power of the evil one, who reported to the Lord Almighty, and when asked: Whence comest thou? answered: 'From going to and fro in tho earth. and from going up and'down in it.' "RT mamber, it is no sin at all to be tempted. -The best and the mightiest have be tempted. Milton describes a toad quat at the ear of Eve. The sin is in surrendering. Do not feel so secure in yourself as to think you cannot be overthrown. How do you account for the fact that there are so many old men in Sing Sing and Auburn and the other penitentiaries serving out their pro trasted sentences for frauds committed in midlife or advanced ages, although their early life had been good, and nothing had been suspected of them until at 50 or 60 years of age the whole land was struck dumb at their forgery or embezzlement. The clock in the steeple of old Trinity Church striking the hours id not remind the recreant Wall-streeter of the passage of time that would soon bring exposure to and doom. The explanation is that Mephistopheles, Apollyon, Satan got in his work at that time. The man was not naturally bad. He was as good as any of you are, but Satan, with whole battalions of infernals, swooped upon him unawares. Look oul for the wiles of the devil, not only those of you who are young, but the middle-aged and the old. Outside of God you are not safe a moment. But yield not to disheartenment. If we put our trust in God our best days are yet to come- days of victory, days of song, days of Heaven, and the best days of the cause of righteousness in all the earth are yet to come. As the ten thousand men of Zenophon's army when they came to the top of Mount Theches and saw the waters on which they were to sail to their homes, the soldiers with clapping hands and waving banners al together shouted: 'The sea, the sea!' So we to-day in our march toward oar heavenly home come up to the top of the mountain of holy anticipation and look off upon oceans of light, and ocoans of joy; and, thrilled as we never have been thrilled before, we clap our hands and wave our gospel ensigns, and cry one to another, and shout up to the re sponding an: re echoing heavens: 'The sea, the sea!'" DELIBERATIONS OF THE DOCTORS. President Talley's Address-Proceedings of the Meeting. (Columbia Record, Nov. 15.) The Association of Confederate Medical Survivors of the Army and Navy met in the Council Chamber at noon today. The following members were present: Messrs. A. N. Talley, W. B. Taylor, A. J. China, Win. Anderson, R. H. Edmunds, F. L. Frost, Middleton Michel, Thos. J. McKie, James McIntosh, A. S. Salley, George R. Todd. President Talley delivered an address of welcome as follows: "It is with sincere pleasure that I wel come you on this the first anniversary of our Association and my welcome waxes warmer with a knowledge of the sacrifices your presence here involves-sacrifices which none but the busy practitioner may appreciate or the patriotic citizen make. That our membership is not more largely represented we deeply regret, but censure is not an element of that regret, for we are far from suspecting our absent friends of waning interest in the objects of our meet mng. "In offering you the welcome which it is my province and pleasure to extend, per init me to give expression to a thought which I hope you will deem neither irrele vant nor ill-timed. It is true that ours is in no sense a political organization, and that with us the behests of party are sub :rdinate to the instincts of patriotism, but no loyal son of the South-with the recol lection of the humiliation, deep, dark and mainuing, to which he has been subjected, yet rankling in his heart and branded upon his memory-can fail to look with anxiety upon our political environment. The louds which once darkened our civiliza tion and threatened our extinction again appcar in our horizon and the listening ear may catch the stealthy steps of change and fear. "Do we not, my comrades and friends, il this menace find an incentive to closer union, the bands of a stronger brotherhood? Does it not admonish us to cherish the recollection of what we have done and suf fered in our country's cause that we may derive fresh inspiration from the recollec lion? True it is we may never again be called upon to forsake kindred and home for the perils of the battle-field-and God grant that we never mae ! But should the cll come, the experience of the past teaches that it will not fall upon deaf ears in this association. "But let us rather hope that the new era will not be one of stratagems and spoils, of sectional strife and vindictive persecu tion, but that a broad philanthropy and an ndghtened patriotism may shape the des linies of our commoncountry." On motion of Dr. Mcintosh a committee was appointed to select eminent surgeons. to address the association at the next meet ing. The committee con-ists of Doctors Michell, McIntosh and Talley. Oc motion of Dr. China the present offi eers were re-electel. The followin-i lineal descendants of members were elected mnembers of the as uciat ion: Doctors M. G. Salley, R. An :Iral Brattoni. WV. T. Edmunds and A. N. Talley, Jr.. Doctors F. P. Porcher and James McIn tosh were appointed a committee on Necro The association then adjourned to meet at 8.30 P. M. at the residence of Dr. Tay L.r, who has tenudere:l the body a collation. -The Shapshoroters. The Sharpshnoters of McGowan's Brig ide assembled again last night and effected a permanent organization with the follow inag as oflicers: President, Maj. W. S. Dun lop; Vice President, Lieut. N. I. Hasel; Secretary. John C. Squier; Treasurer, Da vid Moore. The following were enrolled as members: Maj. W. S. D~unlop, Arkansas, command ing battalion; Lieut. N. I. Hasel, Charles ton: Sergeant David Moore, Columbia; S. W. Ruff. Fairtield; Rufus Harling, Edge field; I. Dicks, Barnwell; Henry Bundrick, Fairtield; John C. Squier, Columbia; S. Thomas, Richland; Colonel A. C. Haskell, Columbia; 0. F. Chappell, Bookman's; WV. H. Brunson, Edgefield. Major Dunlop delivered an interesting recital of the wvar history of the brigade, and a vote of thanks was tendered him therefor. After the meeting the members met at Branigan's, where they partook of an ex cellent supper.-Columnbia Record, No vember 15. Rumnors of a Terribl~e Raitroad Accident. Gumc~vruLL. Nov. 12.--The North Carolina Air Line train, due here at 1.51 P. M. did not arrive on time, and the de pot officials have be':n notified that the train has been abandoned on account of a wreck between Toccoa and Tugaloo River trestle. Particulars of the accident are unauthenticated here, but it is learned re liably that the train was thrown from the track and afterwards caught fire and burned up. Horrible possibilities are sug gested. but reports are conflicting as to whether there was any loss of life or not. A generous patron was a lady who con trbuted to a fair held the other day. SI~e b -ought a large number of useful and fancy artcles to assist in the adornment of the tables, and after they had been accepted purchased them all herself. OLD BILL HINDSLEY. & Tennesseean Who Couldn't Tell the Truth If He Wanted To. A horseback traveler, in Tennessee, approached an old fellow who sat on a log, near Richland Station, and asked him if he had lived long in that neigh borhood. The old fellow scratched his grizzly beard, looked about him, whistled softly and then said: "I lived here when Andrew Jackson made his famous State Bank speech, standing right out there on that stump." "You don't say so!" . "Yes, I do." - "What is your name?" "Those who know me best and who consequently respect me most, refer to me as Hon. William Hindsley, but the more ignorant, and consequently more familar, call me old Bill." "Very productive land about here, I suppose?" the stranger said. "So do I." "Good place for watermelons?" "Tolerable. I raised a few last year that were putty good size. I know a passul of us took one, ripped it in two with old Uncle Jim McLaughlin's cross cut saw, hulled out the meat, and got in the shell and paddled across the high water." "You don't say so!" "Yes, I do." "Good place for corn?" "Only tolerable. I raised some last year, though, that was putty good size. Passul of us one day shelled one of the ears, put the cob on Wat Goosetree's wagon and hauled it to a saw-mill." ".Vhat for?" 'ro have it sawed into lumber." '-You don't--" 'Yes, I do," Mr. Hindsley broke in. "'That's a pretty big stump out there," said the stranger. "Yes, pretty good size." "Was the tree very tall?" "About two hundred feet." "You-" "Yes, I do." "How long has it been cut down?' ' "I cut it down last spring was a year ago." "Thought you said that Andrew Jackson stood on that stump." "Oh, no; I said he leaned against the tree." "Yes, I remember now. Timber grows very rapidly in this country, doesn't it?" "Yes, pretty peart. I neglected chop ping down some black oak sprouts in my field one day, and the next morning we chopped down several of them and split them into rails." "Well, that is remarkable. Now, that great tree that was so tall, how long was that growing?" "Well, I tell you. It came up sum mer before last and was grown by the next May." "I thought you said that Andrew Jackson leaned against that tree." "Oh, no; I said he used to own the land where the tree grew." The stranger rode away, and meet ing a man shortly afterward, asked him if he knew Hon. William Hinds 1oy. "Yes, I know old Bill." "Know him pretty well?" ' "Yes, well enough to know that out here at the station if a man repeats any thing that old Bill says, w'y, we fine him a bushel of meal." "Suppose the indiscreet man refuses to pay it?" "He can't help himself, for the mat ter has been decided by the Supreme Court. A fellow named Be'n Hardin contested the case, and it broke him up."-Arkansaw Traveler. * MOTELS IN JAVA. ' One of Mrs. Forbes' Experiences in the Eastern Archipelago. Hotels here are all similar in plan, a quadrangle. The front block is the reception hall, fronted by a veranda. The~ veranda is faced with marble,. and disposed in it are numerous small tables, chairs and lounges. Passing from the veranda through the recep tion hail you will find the dining room extended back into the square. It is simply roofed, and flowers in pots and pendant creepers fill the open sides. The bedrooms open into the court-yard, formed by the remaining three sides of the square, having each a veranda furnished with a table and a lounging chair, making, as it were, a parlor for the occupant of the bedroom behind. As I returned (from the bath) at every cottage door sat the occupants, the gentlemen lying back in their chairs, with their bare feet extended over the long ledges. Ladies sat by them and below, and "boys" hurried hither and thither. The sarong and kabia fgrm the native dress, adopted by the Euro pean ladies for comfort and conveni ence in the climate, and worn by them as sleeping attire, as also during the day in a richer form. Imagine a piece of calico two yards long cut from a web. Sew together the raw edges, and you have a petticoat without band or hen. Imagine it covered with floral patterns or curious devices of crawling creatures, or having a village with houses and scenes oif daily life de pited on it, and you see a sarong, or skirt. Put this o'ver youl- head, draw all the fullness in front, and form of this a large plait; put round your waist to hold it a cord with a rich tassel de pending, or a gay silk sash. Then put on a dressing jacket of finue lawn, trim med with lace; loosen your hair and let it fall down your back; slip your stockingless feet into Tnrdian-looking pantoffles, with gilt or silver embroid ery. Take now a fan in your hand and promenade before your mirror.--Ez perences in thec Eastemi 4apelage byj THE SULTAN'S COURT. Eow Abdul Hamid Lost the Respect of Him Partisan. and People. Round the Sultan moves a little world of marshals, chamberlains, secretaries, dragomans and eunuchs, who interfere in all matters of state. The principle which guides His Majesty in the selec tion of these officials may be guessed from the mixture of slavish flattery of his mental abilities and insolent trad ing on his weaknesses which alone en ables them to maintain their posts and influence. All of them have ups and downs of favoritism; but among t, em there are invariably two or three sufi ciently strong to get the most im portant measures blocked for weeks if it suits their purpose, and not unfre quently rejected entirely, even though unanimously recommended by the cabi net, the members of which have grad ually sunk into mere heads of depart mrents. Witness the recall of the Am 1 w-ador from Rome without the knowiedge of either the Grand Vizier or i'oreiga Minister, and an order for torpedo boats kept secret from the admiralty. Against the power of this secret council it is futile to struggle, and people dealing with the Govern ment and palace must accept things as they are, and pay court to the para sites, who rapidly acquire wealth by turning their influence to the worst account. Of the Sultan's nervousness, that tremendous lever in designing hands, enough has been written to the English journals, where every body has read of tne fortified seraglio and and the mosque built at its gates; of the elaborate precautions against imaginary conspiracies, and of the host of unscrupulous spies. To his fears and indulgence in costly folb lies Abdul Hamid owes the loss of his people's respect and much of the bad luck which is dogging his footsteps. At heart he means well, and is proba bly unconscious that his selfish whims and fancies are always allowed to out weigh the good of the nation, but the effect is nevertheless deplorable. He erroneously believes himself to be a reformer, though he may fairly claim to be an innovator. Pious he is, and sober, uxorious also, and squeamishly merciful toward non-political offend ers. He will not sanction the death of the vilest murderer, quite forgetting that, especially in Turkey, leniency to criminals entails misery on the law abiding. Music is his greatest pleas ure, though he does not despise conjuring tricks and puppet-dancing. But,to do him justice, these are the re laxations, not the business, of life, which is to plot and scheme and labor to restore the caliphate to its ancient splendor, and the Ottoman empire to the ranks of the leading powers. Ever dreaming, never acting. Abdul Hamid loiters in his chateaux en Espagne, hug ging himself in the illusion that he is a mighty monarch and spinning, with the aid of soothsayers and toadies, in. numerable~cobwebs of future triumphs, while the country over which he yet rules is reeling to its foundations, and threatens to overwhelm him and his projects in a common ruin.-Fortnight ly Retiew. A GOTHAM ROMANCE. An Auction .Sale Behind Which Lay tho Tra~gedy of a Life. A mysterious .and .striking auction sale took place in New York the other day, in an up-town nlat. It had evi dently been occupied by a woman, young, beautiful and refined, and she had.gone out of it without removing even her rings that lay::in the jewelb stand on the dainty dressing-table. Every thing was sold unreservedly. A piano, with a pile of songs and sheet after sheet of classical music; a library containing all the best of the modern authors, and many whom the verdict of the ages have consecrated; books finely bound and artistically illus trated, showing that the reader liked to have her mental food served up on dainty dishes; pictures that, while they were not, perhaps, very costly, showed the owner knew the best and appreciated it; brie-a-brac of all sorts and well selected; a table service, consisting of napery-like satin and china, showing the best of the Wedg wood, Sevres and Worcester manu factures. And wearing apparel dainty enough for a Princess-tiny Satin slip pers, five-and-a-half gloves, stockings like silk cobwebs and handkerchiefs as fine-quaint, picturesque, made evi dently for a tall, slim woman; Eastern shawls, delicate lace-trimmed lingerio -all the beautiful things with which a high-bred and luxurious woman sur rounds herself. Apparently no selec tions had been made, nothing kept back, and the woman had walked away beyond a doubt with nothing but the clothes she wore. The auctioneer said, briefly, in answer to all interrogations, that the owner h-ad suddenly deter mined to go into a convent, and had directed that the entire contents of the fat bc disposed of for the benefit of the institution she had entered. It was plain that the great tragedy; of a life lay behind it, but ivhat it was, the de-~ tails of it. will never be knzown.-N. Y. Cor. Swz Frmrici.c. Argowmut. -The other day a liostoa man re ceived a letter on the envelop of which were the words: "Blood! Blood! Blood!" in big red letters. Thinking that it contained a threat to kill him, he gave it unopened to the police. When they opened it they found it ws a harmless appeal from a Salva tion Army crank. -A citizen in Marietta, La., put some chestnuts on the roof to dry, and the rats gnawed holes through the roof to get the chestnuts, and when it rained the water camne through those hnles with a ruish. THE FARMERS' ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting in Columbia-The Presi dent's Address-The Legislature Request ed to Accept the Clemson Bequest-Other Matters. (Columbia Record, Nov. 15.) The Farmers' Association of South Caro lina met in Agricultural Hall last night, President D. K. Norris in the chair. He addressed the Association, setting forth the present aims and objects of the organiza tion, more especially with reference to the Clemson bequest. On this subject Mr. Norris said: "The munificent bequest of Mr. Clem son has eliminated the plea of poverty from the list of objeetions to the establishmeat of an agricultural college. The fund ac cruing to the State upon its acceptance of that bequest was, in the opinion of gentle men learned in the law, available for the erection of the necessary buildings. "The property is inagnificent, and the funds given by Congress for the advance ment of agriculture in this State should .be given to its support and diverted from the maintenance'of a systemas onceanpopu lar and unprofitable. More than thisthe State should cover every dollar.bequeathed ' by Mr. Clemson for the education. of the. sons of its sturdy yeomen. It has been said that the State should not accept the bequest because it could not cont-ol-the management of the college when erected. "The fallacy of this statement was ob vious. 'Mr. Clemson's executor was in structed to deed the property to the State, not to the seven trustees. Should the State accept the bequest in the time speci fied it will pass into the ownership and-ab solute control of the State; his seven trs ees, like the six chosen by the Legislature, will be in the hands of the State, and can do nothing without the 'consent of the Legislature. Whether the Clemson bequest is ac cepted or not, you should stand by your demand for a separate college, and the funds, not being spent, should be husband ed and allowed to accumulate until such time as the courts will pass upon this be quest or the Legislature has acceded to the aemands of the people for an agricultural college. Until we have this college for the education of the masses, and until a more economical administration .of State affairs is entered on, the Farmers' Association of South Carolina cannot, will not, must not die" The next business in order was the elec tion of officers. After several withdrawals, Capt. G. W. Shell, of Laurens, was unani mously elected president. Capt. Shell had himself declined to run against Col. Don aldson, of Greenville, who in turn would not oppose Captain Shell. The following-named gentlemen Were ele.ted vice presidents: M. L. Donaldson, of Greenville; G. Leaphart, of Lexington, and J. N. King, of Abbeville. A number of resolutions were offered ard referred to the committee on resolu tiois, who reported favorably upon the fol lowing, which were adopted. By J. C. Stribbling, of Oconee: Whereas the Hon. Thomas G. Clemson, deceased, did by his last will and testament donate to the State of South Carolina a large property for the purpose of establish ing an agricultural college at Fort Hill in said State; and whereas we, the farmers of South Carolina, feel the need of agricul tural education and very much desire the said college to be established; be it, there fore, Resolved, That the Legisluture be ir: gently requested to pass a joint resolution at its ensuing session to the effect that the State will acct pi, the .Clemson bequest whenever the will shall have been estab lished. . resolution was adopted commending certain newspapers [names not given] that had worked in the interest of the agricul tural movement to the members of the or ganization for their preference and support. Mr. B. 0. Duncan offered a resolution that this Convention suggest to the next Legislature the names of live gentlemen to till the vacancies about to occur on the Board of Agriculture, which was adopted and a committee appointed, who presented' the following names: For the First Cir cuit, W. T. C. Bates, of Orangeburg; Third Circuit, J. E. Tindall, of Clarendon; Fifth Circuit, B. 8. Tillman, of Edghfield: Seventh Circuit, J. A.Sli1gh, of Newtberry; State at large, D, K. Norris, of Anderson. The following resolutions by Mr. Norris were unfavorably reported by the commit tee, but adopted by the Convention: "That the President of this (Convention do appoint two of its members, who shalt forthwith visit the Agricultural College of Mississippi, located at Clarksville in that State, and investigate thoroughly and in partially the workings of said institution. "That for the information of the people . of this State said committee shall make, through a leading paper in each of: the citics of Charleston, Columbia and Green ville, a report upon the success or failure of said institution, according to the con clusions they shall have reached from ob servation. "That the two members at large of the Slate Board of Agriculture are hereby in vited to join with the two members of this Convention in making the investigation, and report as herein provided for." The Chair appointed as such committee D. K. Norris. "f Anderson, and J. E. Tin dal, of Clarendon. A resolution ny Mr. B. Odell Duncan, demanding the acceptance of the Clemson . bequest by the Legislature and diverting the land scrip fund and experimental sta tion fund from the State University, was - reported unfavorably and the report was adopted. Dr. J. 0. Byrd, of Darlington, offere4 a resolution calling a Constitutional Conven tion. It was unfavorably reported and finally laid on the tabfe. A resolution urging and requesting .the Legislature to so legislate as to secure a re duction of expenses in the State govern ment was reported unfavorably and the committee's report was sustained by the Convention. At 12.45 A. M. the Convention ad journed sice die, after appointing the ex ecutive committee as follows: Abbeville, G, N. Nicholls; Anderson, D. K Norris; Aiken, J. E. Hawlinson; Ches ter, J. H. Hardin; Clarendon, J. E. Tin L!11l; Darlington, J. 0. Byrd; Edgifield, B. R. Tillman; Fairfield, T. P. Mitchell; Kershaw, W. K. Thompson; Greenvalle. W. B. Buist; Lexington, J. M. Crine; Laurens, J. M. Hudgens; Pickens. W. T. Field; Newberry, Thompson Connor; Spartanburg, Moses Wood; Sumter. H. R. Thomas; Oconec, R. W. Shelor; Berkeley, J. B. Morrison; Marion, E. T. Stackhouse; Union, J. W. Gregory. The propagation of game should be taken up seriously and become a branch to be fostered and encouraged in the same man ner as the methods of the pisciculturists. That game can be successfully restored to depleted portions of the country is not a question of doubt. Experiments have shown that under proper conditions perfect suce is sure to result from the effort.