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TALMAGE ON THE WING. THE PASTOR OF THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE IN ITALY. Uwnzon preached Sunday, Nov. 17, 1889, at Brindisi-The Subject "A 31editerra mean Journey"-Ful Report of the Dis course at the Italian Port. BUND'is, Nov. 17.-The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in this Ialin ort today. His subject was "A Meterranean Voyage," and he took for his text Acts xxvii, 44: "And oit came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.' Dr. Talmage said: Having visited your historical city, which we desired to see because it was tie terminus of the most famous road of the ages, the Roman Appian Way, and for its mighty fortress overshadow ing a city which even Hannibal's hosts could not thunder down, we must to morrow morning leave your harbor, and after touching at Athens and Cot inth, voyage about the Mediterranean 'to Alexandria, Egypt. I have been reading this morning in my New Tes tament of a Mediterranean voyage in an Alexandrian ship. It Was this very month of I4ovember. The vessel was lying in a port not very far from here. dOn board that vessel were two distin gushed passengers: one, Josephus, the 'torian, as we have strong reasons to believe; the other, a convict, one Paul by name, who was geing to prison for upsetting things, or, as tney termed it, "turning the world upside down." This convict had gained the confidence of the captain. Indeed, I think that Paul knew almost as much about the sea as did the cap tain. He had been shipwrecked three times already; he had dwelt much of his life amidst capstans, and yardarms, and cables, and storms; and he knew what be was talking about. Seeing the equinoctial storm was coning, and perhaps noticing something unsea worthy in the vessel, he advised the captain to stay in the harbor. But I hear the captain and the first mate talking together. They say: "We cannot afford to take the advice; of this landsman, and he a minister. He may be able to preach very well, but I don't believe he knows a marlinespike from a luff tackle. All aboard! Cast off! Shift the helm for headway, Who fears the Mediterranean?" They had gone only a little way out when a whirlwind, called Eurtciydon, made the torn sail its turban, shook the mast as you would brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk into the heavens. 9verboard with the cargo! It is all washed with salt water, and worthless now; and there are no marine iisur ance companies. All hands ahoy, anli out with the anchors . FRIGHT 'AT THE STopl. Great consternation comes on crew and passengers. The sea monsters snort in the fpam, and the billows clap their hids in glee of destruc tion. In a lul of the storm I he'ar a lhain clank. It is the chain of the great apostle 's -he walks the deck, or holds fast to the rigging amidst the lurching of the ship-the spray drip pihg from his lone beard as he cries out to the crew: "Now I exhort you tobe of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, 1it of the ship. For there stood by * me this night the angel of God, whose -I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear *not, Paul; thou must be brought be ~fore Cosar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. Fourteen days have passed, and there is no abatement of the storm. it is midnight. Standing on the look out, the man ers into the darkness, ~~dby afl of lightning, sees the ~ line of the breakers, and -some co.untry, and fei~tin a few nimoments the vessel will be shivered on the rocks. The shipiflies like chaff in the tornado. They drop the sound inguline, and by the light of the lan rwn they see it is twenty fathoms. ~Bedng along a little farther, they drpthe line again, and by the light of thelantern they see it is fifteen fathoms. Two hundred and sev Senty-six souls within a few feet of awvful shipwreck ! The manag-ers 'of the vessel, pretending they Swant to look over the side of the ship, Sand undergird it, get into the small boat, expecting in it to escape; but Paul sees through the sham, and he tells them that if they go off in the boatdit will be the death of them.- The vessel strikes! The p lanks spring! The -timbers crack! The vessel parts in ~4he thundering surge! Oh, what wild ~struggling for life! Here they leap T~z opn plank, to plank. Here'they go "u~nd'er-as if they would never rise, but, batching hold of a timber, come float-. jng and panting on it to the beach. Bere, strong swimmers spread their .armis throuc-i the waves until tb" chine plow he smd, and they rise up and wring out their w~et locias on the beach. -When th' roll of the ship is called, two hundred and seventy-six .people answe: to their names. 'And ~vo" says '-. text, "it cameto pass that pdall safe to land." NS TO BE DRAwN. from this subject: - that those who get us into will not-stav to help us out. ' got P'aul out of Fair he storm; but-as soon as ppd upon them, they Sofin the small boat, g nothing-for what became of Paul and the passengers. Ah me! human nature is the -same in all ages. They who get us intb trouble never stop to help us out. They who tempt that young man into alifeof dissipa tion will be the first to laugh at his imbbecility, and to drop him out of de -cent society. Gamblers always make fun of the losses of gamblers. They who tempt you into the contest with fists. saying, "I'will back you," will be th~e first to i-un. Look-overall the predicam~nts of your life, and count the names of those who have got you into those predicaments, and tell me the name of one who ever helped -you out. They were glad enough to get you out fr-om Fair Havens, but when, with damaged rigging; you tr-ied to get into-harbor, did they hold for you a plank or throw you a rope! Not one. - Satan has got thousands of men into trouble, but he never got one out. He led them into theft. but he would not hide the goods or bail out -the defendant. The spider shows the fly the way over the gossamer bridge into the cobweb; but it never shows the fly the way out of the cobweb over -the gossamer bridge. I think that there were plent of fast ,voung men .- to help the prodigal spend 'nis money; but when he ha wasted his substance in riotous-living, they let him go to tlie swine pastures, while they betook themselves to some other new corner. They who took Paul out of Fair Ha vens will beof nohelp io him when he gets into the breakers of Melita. I remark again, as a lesson learned -from the text, that it is dangerous to refuse the counsel of competent advi seirs. Eaul told them not to go out 'with that ship. They thought he knzew nothing about it. They said: "He is only a minister:I" They went, and the ship was destroyed. There.I area great many peoplewho now say of ministers: "*They know nothing about thie world. They cannot talk to n~i.."' Ah,' my friends, it is not neces 9 ary tohave the Asiatic cholera before you can give it medibal treatment in! others. it is not necessary to have know how A spliir a l i:acums. Atal we who stand in the pulp:,:md in t'. ofiicc'of a Christian t:"e .w th::t there arc; crtaii styl:es (f L'iie and certain kinds of b ha:tvit ti::t will lead to destruction.as ce rta'i i as l'as l knew that if that ship w it out (f Fair iavens it wo'uld o to strue tion. "Rejoice, U youti; mn., in thy youth ; mnd le t :t thee i the days of th. !.. an ut know thou that for all tIhe hn; God will bring tiCe into We may not know miuch. ist we know that. Young people refuse the adice of parents. They say: "Father is over suspicious. and mother is gettin 1:old." But these parents have been on the sea of life. They know wh::ere the storms sleep, and during their voyage have seen a thousand b1atered haiks marking the place n here beauty burned, and intellect foundered, and morality sank. They are old sailors, having answered many a signal of distress, and endured great stress of weather, and gone scudding under bare poles; and the old folks lk;om what they are talking about. Lo,:h at that man-in his cheek the g'low of infernal fires. His eye flashes not as once with thought, but with low p's sion. His brain is a sewer throigh which imparity floats, and his heart the trough in which lust wallows and drinks. Men shudder as the leper -vsses, and parents cry, "Wolf! wolf !" et he once said the Lord's Prayer at his mother's knee, and against that in iquitous brow once pressed . a pure mothers lip. But he refused her counsel. He went where euroclydons have their lair. He foundered on the sea, while 41 hell echoed at the roar of the wreck: Lost Pacifies! Lost Pa cifies! CumRSTWAS ALWAYS SAIE. Another lesson from the subject is that Christians are always safe. There did not seem to be much chance for Paul getting out of that shipwreck. (lid there? They had not, in those days, rockets with which to throw ropes over foundering vessels. Their lifeboats were of but little worth. And yet, notwithstanding all the dan ger, my text says that Paul escaped safe to land. And so it will always be with God's children. They may be plunged into darkness and trouble, but by the throne of the eternal God, I assert it, "'they shall all escape safe to land." Sometimes there comes a storm of commercial disaster. The cables break.' The masts fall The cargoes are scattered over the sea. Oh ! what struggling and leaping on kegs and hogsheads and cornbns and store shelves! And yet, though they may have it so very hard in commercial circles, the good, trusting in God, all come safe to land. Wreckers go out on the ocean's beach and find the shattered hulks of vessels; and on the streets of our great cities there is many awreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen. Hulks abeam's end on insurance counters. Vastcred its sinking, having suddenly sprung a leak. Yet all of them who are God's children shall at last, through his good ness and mercy, escape safe to Tand. The Scandinavian warriors used to drink wine out of the skulls of the enemies they had slain. Even so God will help us, out of the conquered ills and disasters of life, to drink sweetness and strength for our souls. You have, my riends, had illustr-a tions, in your own life, of how God delivers his people. I have had illus trations in my own life of the same truth. I was once in what on your Mediterranean you call a Eurocly'don, but what on the Atlantic we call a cyclone, but the same storm. The steamer Greece of the National line, swung out into the river Mersev at rpooerl, bound for New Yor-k. \Ve bod-en-hundred, crew an passengers. We came together strangers-Italians~ Irishmen, Eng lishmen. Swedes, 1sorwegians, Ameri cans. Two flags floated from the maasts-British and American en signs. Wve had a new vessel, or one so thoroughly remodeled that the voy age had ~around it all the uncertain ties of a trial trip. The great steam er felt its way cautiously out into the sea. The pilot was discharged; and, commnitting ourselves to the carec of. him who holdeth the winds in his fiit, we were fairly started on our voy age of thm-ee thousand miles. It.was rough nearly all the way-the sea with strong buffeting disputn ou path. But one nig'ht, at eleven o cloek, after the lights hand been: put out, a cyclone --a wind just made to tear shiips to pieces-caught us in its clutches. It came down so suddenly that we had not time to take in the sails or to fasten the hatches. You may know that the botfom of the Atlantic is strewn with the ghastly wor-k of cyclones. Oh! they are cruel winds. They have hot breth,^as though they came up from riifernal furnaces. Their merriment isthe~cry of affrighted passengers. Their play is the foundering of steam ers. And, when a ship goes down, they laugh until both continents hear them. Thtey go in circles, or, as I describe them with my hand-rsll ing on! rol-ing on! with fing-er of terror writing on the white sheet of the wave this sentence of doonm: "Let all that come within this circle perish! Brigantines, go down! Clippers, go down! Steamships, go down!. And the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouch'es in the surf, and as the waters surgle through the hatches and port S?oles, it lowers away, thousands of feet down, farther and farther, until at last it strikes th'e bottom; and all is peace, for they have landed. Helms man, dead -at the wheel!I Engineer, dead amidst the extinguished furnaces! Captain, dead in the gangway! Pas sengers, dead in the cabin ! Buried in the great cemetery of dead steamers, beside the City of Boston, the Lexing ton, the President, the Cambi-ia--wait ing for the archangel's trumpet to split up the decks, and' wr-ench open the cabin doors, and unfasten the hatches. A I1GHT TO TU'RN ONE'S HAIR WBITE. I thought that I had seen storms on the sea before; but all of them toe-ether might have come under one wmng of that cyclone. We were only- eight or nine hundred miles from honie, and in high expectation of soon seeing our friends, for- ther-e was no one on board so poor as not to have a friend. But it seemed as if we were to be disap pointed. The most oIf us expected then and there to (lie. There wer-e none who made light of thme peril, save two. One was an'kngli~ishman, and lie was runk, and the other was an Ameri can, and he was a'fooi! Oh! what a ime it was! A nicht to make one's hair turn white. We came out of the berths, and stood in the gangway, and looked imto the steer-age, and sat in the abin. While seated there, we heard overhead something like minute guns. It was the bursting of the sails. We held on with bo0th hands to keep otu laces. Those who attenupted to cross the floor camne back fr'uised and ashed. Cups and glasses were dashed to fragments; pieces of the table get ing loo-e, swung aero~ss the saloon. It eemed as if the hurr-i-ane took that great shipl of thousands of tolls and tood it on end, and saidI: "Shall I sink t, or let it go this once:" And then it ame down wi-th suchi force that the illows tramoled( over it, each mounted >f a furyv. A e felt thiat ov'ery-thini' lepenided on the p:-opeling screw, if that stopped for anm instanlt we knew the vessel wouild fall o!i mito the trough >f the sea and sink, and so we prayed leavng Liverpool niaa aireaay stoppea, night not stop now. Oh I how anxious lv we listened for the regular thump of the maichincrv. upon which -ur lives seemed to depiend. After a while some one said: "The screw is stopped!" N6; its sound had only been overpowered by the uproar of the tempest, and we hreathed easier again when we heard the regular pulsations of the over tasktd machinery going thump,thump, thump. At 3 o'clock im the morning the water covered the ship from prow to stern, and the skylights gave way: The deluge rushed in, and we felt that one or two more waves like that must swamp us forever. As the water rolled back and forward in the cabins, and dashed against the wall, it sprang half way up to the ceiling. Rushin" through the skylights as it came in with such terrific roar, there went up from the cabin. a shriek of horror which I pray God I may never hear again. I have dreamed the whole scene over again, but God has mercifully kept me from hearing that one crv. Into it seemed to be com pressedl the agony of expected ship wreck. It seemed to say: "I shal never get home again !sv children shall be orphaned, and my vife shall be widowed! I am launching now into eternity ! In two minutes I shall meet my God !" There were about five hundred and tifty passengers in the steerage, and as the water rushed in and touched the furnaces, and began ,ioiently to hiss, the poor creaturs in the steerage-m agined that the boilers were giving way. Those passengers writhed in the water and in the mud, some ray ing, some crying, all terrified. They made a rush for the deck. An officer stood on deck and beat them back with blow after blow. It was neces sary. They would not have stood an instant on the deck. Oh! how they begged to get out of the hold of the ship! One woman, with a child in her arms, rushed up and caught hold of one of the officers and cried: "Do let me out! I will help you! Do let me out! I cannot die here!" Some got down and prayed to the Virgin Mary, saying: "0 blessed :other! keep us! Have mercy on us!" Some stood with white lips and fixed gaze, silent in their terror. Some wrung their hands and cried out: "0 God! what shall I do? What shall I do?" The time came when the erew could no longer stay on the deck, anid the cry of the officers was: "Be low! all hands below l" Our brave and sympathetic Capt. Andrews whose praise I shall not cease to speak while I live-had been swept by the hurricane from his bridge, and bad escaped very narrowly with his life. The cyclone seemed to stand on the deck, waving its wing, crying: "This ship is mine! I have captured it! Ha! ha! I will command it! If God will peimit, I will sink it here and now! By a thousand shipwrecks, I swear the doom of this vessel I" There was a.lull in the storm; but only that it might gain additional fury. Crash! went the lifeboat on one side. Crash! went the lifeboat on the other side. The great booms got loose, and, as with the heft of a thunderbolt, pound ed the deck and beat the mast-the jib boom, studding sail boop, and square sail boom, with their strong arms beating time to the awful march and music of the hurricane. Meanwhile the ocean became phos phorescent. The whole scene looked like fire. The water dripping from the rigging, ther3 were ropes of fire; and there were masts of fire; and there was a deck of fire. A shiy of fire, sail ing on a sea of fire, through a night of fire. MIay I never see anything like it again ! Everybody prayed. A lad of 12 years of age got down and prayed for his mother. "If Ishould give up," he said, "I do not know what-would bec.ome of mother." There we-;e men who, I think, had not prayed for thirty years, who then got down on their knees. When a man whc-has neglebied God all his life feels that he lias cume to his last time, it makes a very busy night. All of our sins anid shortcom ings passed through. our minds. My own life seemed utterly unsatisfactory. I could only say, "Here, Lord, take me as I am. I cannot mend matters now. Lord Jesus, thou didst die for the chief of sinners. That's me! It seems, Lord, as if my work is done, and poorly done, and upon thy in finite mercy I cast myself, and in this hour of shipwreck and darkness com mit myself and her whom I hold by the hand to thee, 0 Lord Jesus!pry ing that it may be a short struggle im the water, and that at the same in stant we may both arrive in glory!" Oh! I tell you a man prays straight to the mark when he has a dyclone above him, an ocean beneath him, and eter nity so close to him that he can feel its breath on his cheek. The night was long. At last we saw the ~dawn looking through the port holes. As in the olden time.mi the fourth watch of the night2 Jesus came walking on the sea, from wave cliff to wave cliff; and when he puts-hls foot upon a billow, though it may be tossed up with might it ,goes down. He cried to the winds, Hush! They knew his voice. The waves knew his foot. They died away. And in the shining track of his feet I read these letters on scrolls of foam and fire, "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea." The ocean cahned. The path of the steamer became more and more mild; until, on the last morning out, the sun threw round about us a glory such as I never witnessed before. God made a pve ment of mosaic, reaching from hori zon to horizon, for all the splendors of earth and heaven to walk upon-a pavement brioht enough forthe foot of a seraph-Yright enough for the wheels of the'archangel's chiariot. As a parent embraces a child, and kisses away its grief, so over that sea, that had been writhing in agony in the tempest, the morming threw its arms of beauty and of benediction, and the lips of earth anctheaven met. As I came on deck-it was very early, and we were nearing the shore -I saw a few sails against the s'ky. Thiey seemed like the spirits of the night walkin" the billows. I leaned over the ta 'rail of the vessel, an,~d said, "Thy way, 0 God, is in the sea. and thy path in the great waters." It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in purpl.e clusters aldng the sky; and, as if those purple clusters were pressed into red wine and poured out upon the sea, every wave turned into crison. Yonder, fire cleft stood op posite to fire cleft; and here, a 'clond, rent and tinged with light, seemend like a palaice, with flames bursting from the windlows. The whole scene lighted uip until it seemed as if the angels of God were ascending and descending upon stairs of fire, and the wave crests, changed into jasper, anid crys tal, and amethyst, as they were flung toward the beach, made me think of the crowns of heaven cast before the throne of the great Jehovah. Ilearied over the taff'rail again, and said, with more emotion than before: "Th* 'way, O God, is in th-e sea, and thf path in the great waters !" So, I thought, will be the going o ff of the st,>rm and nieht of the Chis tian's life., Tlie darmess will fold its tents and aiyayy! The golden feet, of the risimg mhorn will come sk ppyttg upon , the mountains, and all the wrathful billows of .the worl''s woe break into the splendor of eternal jipy. And so we come into the harbpor. The rate US. uo4, who IS miwatys gooa, C all around us. And if the roll of the crew and the passengers had been called, seven hundred souls would have answered to their names. "And so it came to pass that we all escaped safe to land." And may God grant that, when all our Sabbaths on earth i are ended, we may find that, throught the ridh mercy of our Lord Jesus t Christ, we all have weathered the gale! Into the harbor of h~eaven now we glide. Houe at last: Softly we drift on the bright silver tide. Home at last: Glory to God All our dangers are.c'er; we stand secure on the glorified shore. Glory to God: we will shgut evermore. Home at last. p) Home at last: A Big British War Ship. it The new British war ship, Royal Soverein, work upon which has be- a gun at Portsmouth dockyard, will, it p is said, be the largest war ship in the world. The vessel is to be completed i for sea, with all guns and stores on v board, by 1893. The Royal Sovereign is one of the four arnored battle ships t" of 14,000 tons burden which are to be t, built under the special programme. t She is to carry four sixty-seven ton a guns of thirteen and one-half inch c caliber, arranged in two barbettes and supported by a powerful battery of six inch and quick firing guns. The Royal Sovereign will be 380 feet 1i in length, 75 feet in beam, and 27i it feet in draught, with a displacement a of 14,150 tons. She will far exceed in weight any ship hitherto built for the n British navy. At the water line she s will be protected by an armor belt eight and one-half feet broad, extend- e ing.over two-thirds of her length, and a having a raximui thickness of a eighteen inches. The armor on the barbettes will be seventeen inches b thick while the protection of the guns r and their crews in the auxiliary arma ment as well as 'the ammtunition sup- e ply has been devised to meet the de- t velopment in high c:losives and e quick firing guns. The snip's engines will have a maximum power of 13,000 horses under forced draught and 9,000 f under natural draught. Ti:e speed with closed stokeholes is estiinated at seventeen knots an hour; witlh open stokeholes at sixteen kn:ots an hour. e The coal sunply of the RoyaIi Sever I eign will be 900 tons. cnabling her te cruise 5,000 miles at the rate of ter knots an hour.-Daroit Free Press. 0 The Highest Developmot. Make the marriage right and the off spring will tend to be right. Perhaps I it may be true that we need a new ideal of the marriage relation. The old one in which the woman promises 9 to obey the man is perishing visibly 1 before our modern eyes. Often she ought not to do so, for the man may be a fool or a brute. And the theory 1 adopted by many i.l mated couples that marriage is a discipline is too cynical to be either true or attractive. The theory of easy divorce and fre quent change as a remedy for ordina ry disagreements has also serious dis advantages, and is no sound. remedy. It is only a poor refuge from imme diate sdffering. But a new and per haps useful attitude may be gained by looking upon matrimony, as it is, in truth, the only complete condition of humanity. In no other relation can man or woman reach their highest develop ment. No character is full till it corn prises its opposite. The very divergen cies at which each party frets are thle lacking necessities of its own nature. Each would be partial and narrow without the other, and the neCw motto we may propose for matrimony is the new word, development. Marriage is development. If nlot quite happy, it is still generously educational. if love dies out from it, yet charity, wisdom, i taet and liberality of mind may re main in ft. Blind love may indeed t remain and leave tile happy lovers without its best effects, since even love f may remain narrow and selfish. But a the man who has learned to compre- a hend the feminine nature with its ~ delicate, sprightly, graceful qualities a in his own, and the woman who has ado pted something of masculine inde pendence, liberality and courage intoi her constitution, will be far better than the sole endowment nature would ~ have given either to be alone.-Cor. Woman's Cycle. How sho Was Foole4. I have never said anything disre- A spectful of a woman, and I am not n going to break over the rule now ; but 'I I heard a story on a Chicago woman b in high standing which I think is too good to keep. She hlad been to St. e Paul with a party of both sexes. At c the conclusion of their visit they e boarded a sleeper, and, as they were .a somewhat weary, thley retired early. a In less than a ~half. hour there was a' some sort of accident, the result of ei which was the train remained all o, night in almost the exact spot where the party boarded the sl'eeper. On the a following morning the woman of f whom I spoke at first met her corn- a panions, and, as is generally the case with passengers who are acquainted n on a sleeper, the question, "How did ai youslepi"was passed around. The S herineofmy story said she had b passed a miserable night. Well, one p may pass a miserable night without t< being on a sleeper. But the woman was not content withl the statement, for she added: "I niever could sleep 11 on the cars. The noise and continuous J rattle and bumping of the train make b me nervous. And on this road, espe- q cially, which is so ,rough and full of r; curves, you know." Well, they had the -laugh on her when the situation was explained, and she begged the party to say nothing about it in Chicago, as her husband was such a tease. The . party kept S their word. They didn't say anlythinlg about it in Chicago, but one of them 15 told it in St. Paul.-Interview in Chi- t1 cago Tribune. Mrs. southworth's Start. 5 Mrs. B. D. B. N. Southworth, who has probably written mo're books than G any other American author, living or is dead, found her first publisher under a singular circumstances. Some forty years ago Mrs. Southworth, then a y young womnx~ was almost a daily vis r< itor at the store of Joe Shillington, - who for nearly half a century has been a bookseller in Washington. She never spoke to any one, and Shillin~gton and his clerks came in time to regard her as a little queer. One day she timidlye approached him and handing him a large bundle, told him that it was the ' manuscript of a story she had written n and which she wished he would send to some of the papers of which lie was ca the agent. The bookseller' complied d; with her request and sent it to a ]Ba1. a] tinore literary weekly, wvhose editor r1 was so favorably impressed with the tI story that he brought it to the atten- 5] ton of Dr. Bailey of The National Er-a. Dr. Bailey Pequested Shillington to n arrange an interview with the young 18 author, but the latter did not know n her name, and it was only after a long p search that it wais found-Z that it was b Southworth, and that she was teacher hi of a small private school in George- T~ town. The story was finally printed p as.a serial by DI-. Bailey, anid inter' re published by Peter-son in book form, having atn imense sale. Later Rob- ~ ert Bonner secured Mrs. Sou~th worth's ~ ser-ices for- The Ledger, to which she t has ever since remained a contributor. d -Culren Lieraure I UI: BU13AU UF AGRICULTURE. '..:, i tIa vo,, far thle Ft iiir . of eanrt: (:naolinn. The nuuni Report of the com,,,;ijm iiners.. The tent 'l annuai report ',f Col. A. Battler. Comimisioner uf Agrical. r, w bit h has just been handed to ae ateI pinters, contains some in, resting information. Th report of the State chemist shows ivt ,-s ;r cys of o licial samples f feri-ers ::d 54 analyses of sam '. e in by farmers have been (e !during the pa-t year. The an h* ..:w that. a smeller number of fir below the guarantee the resent season than last, and very few f these deficiencies included any of ae well-knowu brands, which have, a nearly every case, been above th. uarantiee of the manufacturers. The naly as have been printed in pam hiet form for distribution. J:tri . e. year ending August 31, 212.101 tons of phosphate rock :e removed from the navigable trc ti:s of the State, against, 190,224 ,.. lst year, an increase of 21,S27 :s. The royalty actualiy paid into he sate treasury was $212,101 96, gaiinst 1:d,9'. S7 last , ear, an in rease of $25,108 09. The veterinary surgeon of the do ar:iment ha: done much to check the pread of contagious diseases among .e stock and by advising the farmers 2 regard to the treatment of their nimals. Since the last report of the depart ient the United States fish :ommis io has distributed through this de artment 900,000 shad that were hatch d in the commission car at Columbia nd hasdistributed a number of carp ud gold fih in the State. During the last year the department as disti ibated 132,500 miscellaneous uhiieations containing valuable sta istical and other information for the ncouragement of immigration and ie restering of the agricultural inter sts of the State. THE CROPS. The season were generally favorable :r cotton. The estimated yield for 1888 was 53S.642 bales. For ISS9 the yield is stirated at 639,998 bales; it is hardly robable that the estimate for 1889 viii be reached, however. The yield of corn in 1889 has proba ly never been excelled in South Car lino. The yield in 1889 is estimated t 20,751,133 bushels, agairst 13,916, 83 bushels in 1888, an increase of ,831,501. bushels. The yield of wheat in 1889 was 1, 75,595 bushels, against 836,061 in 888. The yield of oats in 1889 was 3,571, 52 bushels, against 4,059,836 in SSS. Rice 'ield in 1889 was 93,134,508 ounds, against 57,752,374 pounds in sss. The yield of sweet potttoes was 3, 37.579 bnshels. The yield of Irish potatoes for 1889 as 428,354 bushels. The yield of tobacco was 377,897 ,ounds. The yield of sugarcane syrup was 55,740 gallons. The yield of sorghum was 896,483 allons. The yield of pens was 1,051,500 bush Is. The estimated value of the princi al crops in South Carolina for 1889 is ;.,211,447, an increase over 1888 of THE SPARTANB3URG STORY. -i~ Truth Confirmed by observation Near Saenr.r, Where Mr. Pinckney Found Cotton Without Seed and Seed Without Cot ton. To the Editor of Tbe News and Co.ur r: Last year Mr. J. C. Pinckney, who lauts near Stateburg, discovered a cot n plant in his field, well boiled, with he li'nt hanging from the open boils om which tll of the seed had fallen, nd other stalks. also well boiled, with oting but seed in the bolIs. He gath red so'me of the seed from both kinds nd plaintedl them by themselves, with ac result of large well balled stalks ith rothing but seed in tbe bolls, no nt at all-like that described fromn Spat aburg the otber day. I also know of a olored man whbo has found stalks with ntless boils full of ordinary looking ~ed. .So that if it be a valuable "find" will not be a monopoly. The gin. akers bad better look sharp that the liance does not take them in hand by iiing cotton lint and seed .separately. erily, there is no knowing :he possi lities of cottoni or'the Alliance. The trial justice's office is still crowd :, with the constables raking ;n ex w e r, when nothing else can be gather :: and many a farmer regrets his sum c -lime biasts of those "first blooms" ud "xell-growro bt'lls" when his lien as lowv-boasts that, likeCchickens, are hg home to roost, but in the shape f a constable. OAts are beginning to make a show, ad I thiok more are being planted than r several years past. otbing to be wished for. Cotton sted brings 18 cents at Clare ount and Wedgetield, our two depots, ad c.tton about the same price as at umpter. Cotton sold to the factory, owver, in Sumter still brings 10 cents r hundred extra, if covered with cot a bagging. _____ Ex-President Cleveland, on Thursday .id the corn'r stone of "the Tbornas -llersn,"' a1 han::ome new huilding to Sput in Brooklyn and used as head aarters by the Kings County Democ Lev. ODDS AND ENDS. The p< pulation of Berlin has reach I a il.on and a half. In the past six mionths there were h births in Norristown, and 163 of ese were females. After Oct. 1 the French soldier's pay as 27 centimes a day, or a little over cents. It is reportedl that the Marquis Carlo in, of Florence, has bought the land of Monte Cristo, and will build house worthy of its associations. "An early winter:" exclaimed an oldest inh'abitant" who was given to >mancinlg. "Pooh! I've seen six eeks of snow in the month of No amber!" Tec secret service officers of the nted States treasury last year arrest. 1 47 persons, most of whom were in me way connected with counterfeft ior the passing of coun-terfeit oney. A fiock of wild geese became be une bewildered by Morgantown's zzling gaslights the other nih >out 10 o'clock, and alighted iu the e necar the suspension bridge,where icy raised a great commotion for a ort time. The Pan-American delegates wit ssed an Judian dance out on the 'ebraskia plains the other day. They aturally desired to carry away bail cornammes as souvenirs, but thie [:uiketed Ompahas and Wiannebagos adnt provided any programmes. hat a a seriouts oversight on their irt.--Chicago News. Oliver Wendell 'Holmes calls trees vast beings endowed with li-fe, but ot withi soul-which outgrows us and tlives us, but stand helpless--poor tings!-whiile nature dresses a.ndI un resses them, like so many full sized t nderwittd childxen." SOIE RECIPES CLEAR SOUP. Five pounds of beef c:it from the low er part of the round, live quarts of cold water; cut the beef into small pieces, add the water, and let it come to a boil gradually; skim it carefuily, and place where it will keep at the boiling point six or eight hours; then strain it and set it away to cool; in the morning skim off all the fat, pour the soup into a kettle, using care to keep back all sediment; add to this liquor one onion sliced, one large stock of celery, two sprigs of pars ley, half a teaspoonful of sage, six whole cloves, one large tomato siced, a tea spoonful of pepper, and .alt to suit taste; boil gently for half an hour, then strain through a napkin and serve with toasted crackers. FRIED CELERY. Cut firm white celery into pieces two inch. s long, put them in to boil in salted water, and cook fifteen minutes; remove tleu from the boiling water with a split sp >oo, and drop into ice water; let them rema:n there ten minutes, then take them out en to a dish, and sprinkle with salt arnd paper; dip each piece in beaten egg, then in cracker crumbs, and fry in salted lard; drain well and serve hot. BREAKFAST DISII. Core and slice tart apples, but do not peel them; fry thin slices for breakfast bacon until clear and ruffled, take them up and keep them warm while fryiug the sliced apples in the liacon fat to a light brown; place the apples in the center of r. warm platter, and garnish with the slices of bacon; drain both ap ples and meat in a hot colander before dishing; serve with baked potatoes and hot muffins. COLLEGE CROQUETTES. Put a large tablespoonful of butter into a stew pan, add mushrooms and parsley chapped very fine, two table spoonfuls of flour,'salt, pepper and grat ed nutmeg, and a little sage or summer savory; let this boil until it thickens, then add a third of a cupful of cream and two tablespoonfuls of broth or gravy; let this mixture be of the consist ency of griddle eke batter, then take cold fowl or veat, cut it into dice-like pieces, and add to this sauce and let it stand until cold; then pour into shapes in the bowl of a spoon, roll them in bread or cracker crumbs, and fry until nicely browned; serve garnished with fried parsley. SAVORY EGGS. Hard boil four eggs and cut them in two; cut a bi, from the ends to allow them to stand; remove the yolks and fill the centre with a mixture cf chopped tongue, olives, beet and capers; moisten with salad oil or butter, season with salt and pepper; after filling the cavities grate over the top the yolks of the eggs; serve on some crisp dry toast cut in tiny squares or circles. OLANGE CREAM SPONGE CAKE. One and one-half cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, one-half a cupful of cold water, yolks of five eggs, whites of two, rind and juice of one orange, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; bake in thin sheets; whip o .c cupful of thick cream to a stiff froth, and stir into it gradually one half a cupful of powdered sugar; grate into it the yellow of one orange rind; spread this thickly between the cakes. BCACKBERRY SPONGE. Cover an ounce of gelatine with half a cupful of cold water, and soak for twenty minutes; then pour over it a pint of boiling water, add half a cupful of sugar, and stir until dissolved; mash half a gallon of ripe blackberries, strain the juice, and add it to the gelatine; put in a pan, and place on ice until thick; then beat to a froth the whites of four eggs, and stir in; mix all together until smooth, and turn into a fancy mould, and set on ice to harden; serve with whipped cream flavored with vanilla. TEA ICE CREAM. Make a pint of vcdy strong green tea; mix it with half a gallon of new milk and a teaspoonful of exiract of cinna mon; set over a fire, and let simmer, sweeten with a pound of sugar; when the sugar is dissolved, set aside to cool, and then freeze. TO CAN LIMA BEANs. Shell them freshly gathered, cook u-n til tender; put them into cans with scald ing hot water to cover and a little salt, and seal immediately. Tbe mixture for the filling of chocolate cakes should be stiff enough to be kept from running, and is best when prepared with milk. GENERAL RULE FOR JELLY MAKING. Sufficient water to cover fruit; stew until thoroughly softe a porous bag of cheese cloth, or something equally thin or strong; drain fruit through it without squezing the pulp, so that the je~ly may be clear; after all the juice has been ob tamed th~at is possible, measure it; meas ure also an equal quantity of sugar; boil the juice fifteen minutes, then add su gar, having previously warmed it; allow all to boll ten minutes longer, and the jelly is ready for the glasses. THE ARIZONA KlCKER. some~ Everv Dn1. IIa ppenings. In Ed.itorilaI Life. Detroit Free Press. The last issue of the Arizona Kicker <ontain the following: GONE IHOME.--During the past week Maj O'Cennor, Judge Peegram and the Hon. Taeumy Jones, shining lights of this neighborhood and leading members of society, have bee.. c'd ed for by eas tern detectives and returned to their several homeq towards the sunrise to be tried for various crimes While we are sorry to see our population thus depleted we know that justice must be done. The only wonder is that so few are called for. We are certain that at least twen t-iv-e of our leading citizens break int~o a cold sweat every time a stranger strikes our town. No REBATE.-We aesire to state in the most eplicit manner that no rebate will be allowed to any of our subscribers who may lbe obliged to leave town for the benefit of the community, or who may be hung and b~uried for the same reason. In several laTe instances friends of such subscribers have called on us and asked us to cash up for the unex pired term, but we have invariably re fused. Subscriptiomns to The Kicker run for one year. We contract to deliver the paper for that time. If the subscri er is arrested, ariven off or hung, it is to fault .uf ours.- Please bear ii in mind and save yourself trouble. HE MISsED.--Our esteemed c.ontempo rary down the avenue didn't like the way we showed him up last wtek, and un'Monday he borowed a revolver from Sam Adams as long as his leg and lay in ambush for us at the corner of Apache and Cactus avenues. As we appeared, on our way to the postoflice, he opened fire, and six shots were fired at us at a distance of no more than ten feet. Not one of them came within a foot of us, but the shooter did manage to wound a $200 mule belonging to Lew Baker, and to kill a $50 dog belonging to Judge Stoker. When he was through shooting we knocked him down and hammered him until he hollered. We understand that he has settled with the others for $150 and that he thinks of leaving town. He'd better. If he ever b~.d any stand ing here he's lost it now for sure. A man who holds a gun in both hands and sLuts his eyes to shoot is of no account to this district. The coyotes wouldn't een birk at him. ME MORIES OF CALHOUN. A Youn:: Abolitiouint Who Thought the A saoutl. Carolininn a Devil but Learned to Love hin. Irom the, iharlotte Chronicle, og Obver Dyer w:t; the official reporter by of the United States Senate ;n 1845; and a, recently, he has written a book, publish- ' ofl ed by i)tle r JBouuer's Sons, entitled "Geat Senato'rs of the United States." a In this hook Mr. Dyer gives many new bt fa::ts aii r:a iab!u .tories concerning 9 such "giants in those days" as Calhoun, i Benton, Clay, Well-ter, Houston and th Jefferson Davis. e: The :u:bor dero:,4 c,,nid'rat''e psp*re Eh to his reminiscences of John L. Calhoun. et Mr. Dyer wan an A, lhtionist. and when tu he went to Vashington to accept his no- w sition as reporter of the Senate. he had, bi as be frankly con:as-es, such a hatred u di aid violent prejudice against Mr. Cal- ti houn, "as Southern neu who hated Abol- te itionist with exual virulence, fel toward to William Loyd Garrison." 'The ;mpression at first made upon the a young atenographer by the great South crm Senator was even more exaggerated at than we in this day of mild opinions with a "subdued tints" of thoughts, can imag ine real; and yet Mr. Dyer's conversion d to Calhoun if not to Calhounism, is com- f pensation for his first violent conception He says: i "I was naturally eager to get a sight o the great South Carclina nullifier and dis- a unionist; and when he was poinied outf fr to me, in the Senate Chamber, I gave u a him a searching scrutiny. His appear- a ance satisfied moe completely. He seem- li ed to be a perfect image and embodiment ti of the devil. Had Icome across his like S ness in a copy of Milton's Paradise Loat I should at once have accepted it as a picture of Satan, and as a master piece a' of some great artist who had peculiar a genius for Satanic portraiture. He was it tall and gaunt. His complexion was w dark and Indian like, and there seemed b to be an inner complexion of a dark A soul shining through the skin of the face. 0 [[is eyes were large, black, piercing, n scintillant. His hair was irou gray, c and rising nearly straight from his scalp, m fell over on all sides, andhung down in thick masos like a lion's mane. His ti features were strongly marked, and their b expression was firm, stern, aggressive, ' threatening," C Mr. Dyer's frankness in this regard is C< not surpassed by his subsequent and b equally frank confession of conversion, B The power of Mr. Calhoun in the foram' y his mastery over men, his greatness as a et polemic speaker, his power of sincerity, a are seen in what Mr. Myer says after ti having heard the great South Carolinian st speak. He says: "I was much impressed by the clear- rs ness of Calnoun's views, by the bell-like Ic sweetness and resonance of his voice, J the elegance of his demeanor. Such a u combination of attractive qualities was a revelation to me, and I spontaneously a wished that Calhoun was an Abolitionist rc so we could have him talk on our side. e: "At the beginiog of the contest my to feelings were gainst Calhoun and I wan- ra ted him to be worsted; but at the close di although I was opposed to the principle te which he advocated, my personal feel- bt ings were in his favor, and his physiog- e nomny seemed to have undergone a ia change. Instead of looking like a devil, e he impresei m-e as a high-toned, elegant i entleman. with a brilliant intellect, a It aw-et disposition, a sound heart, and a fa cooncientious devotion to- what he he- ti lieved to be right." i That the authur should have come to ' esteem Mr. Calhoun personally highly after such admissions as those quoted, P will not surprise any one, but all will w be interested in reading Mr. Dyer's al careful summary of the-character of - the y3 great nullifier as he saw him daily in the t' active field of his great intellect: r: "He was by all odds the most fasci- d nating man in private intercourse that I ever met. is conversational powers at were marvelous. His voice was clear, h: sweet and mellow, with a musical, me. d tallie ring in it which gave it strength without diminishing its sweetness. His le pronunciation and enuncIation were per ' fcct. His manner was simple and un- b: pretending. e "Calhoun's kindness of heart was in. exhaustible. He impressed me as being deeply but unobtrusively religious, and was'so morally clear and spiritually pure that it was a pleasure to have one's soul get close to his soul-a feeling that I c0 never had for any other man," He adds: il " admired Benton; I admired Clay still gi more; I admired Webster, on the intel. h lecual side, moat of all, but I loved Cal- tt heun; and as I came to know him well, G and saw his exquisitely beautiful nature Pl mirrored in his face, his countenance es no longer seemed satanic. b'ut angelic, di and his benignau t greeting in the morn- di in.? was like a benediction that lasted o the whole day." Elsew here in the book, the author tells o0 of the blunder he made in asking Mr. W Calhoun what he thought of ,)ackson re For the moment, the young reporter W had forgotten the 'unfortunate contro- es v:rsy or dIfference between Calhoun and Jackson; but he says that "as soon as the question was put, Calhoun sank into V profound quitscence, seemed to be un-l conscious of my presence and was ap parently absorbed in introspective mem o-ries. Soon he looked at me benignant ly and said: '"General Jackson was a . great man." The surprisingly beautifne expression of Calhoun's luminous eyes W and the sweet, gentle tone of his voice, t a he thus answ ered my que:,tion arer now present with me as I write, al though that answer was given more than forty years ago." T~at the Senator must have possessed marvelous magnetism, a magnet sm of purity of purpose, sincerity of profession, ch briliancy of conception and greatness of ogic, to have so won an Abolitionist, as sai the author says that he was, will be svy conceded. ' h'e As tempting as it is to dwell on theti ~ersolnal charcacteristics of the great son in of the Palmetto State, is is more profit- bt able to notice briefly 'what Mr. Dyer w, ays abu t Calhoun and nullification. Mr. nc Dver o,'It:- .ut that as a matter nf tact the Massachusetts and not S->uth Carolina fe1 was the State that introduced the seces- loc tun heresy, Josiah Quincy having, in yo 111, opposed the admission of Louisiana (then called the Orleans Terrory) on precisely the same grounds as irere af ter wards taken by Calhoun. On that occa sion Mr. Quine) said: "If this biil passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States Sa from their moral obligation, and as it pe will be the right of all, so it will lhe the g duyof somre, definitely to prepare for th a separation, amicably if they can, vio- di lently if they must." A Woman on bsl I , a In the vicinity of Fourth avenue and af wenty-fifth street, Necw York, is a pe womat, locksmith. She is a short, sturdy, tel quick and nervous little worman, and she of carries a lit'le kit of tools for doing the 'ui small jobs for which locksmiths are call by ed in. Hecr husband has a shop, and tim they take turns in attending to the sta calls. Any big piece of work is turned tel< over to tile manl, but the wife is quite in us expert as he in fitting keys, putting lea new locks on trunks, 1,utting on window is fastenigs, and attending to the count-go lets other details of household manage ani n ent. t 1 TERRACING BOILED DOWN.' Succinct Presentation of a Very portant Suljects. To' -rH Err. us or -~r Ht Co-r-roN Pr.A i indil ih t n :-e:' many of our fa ark ..t! their se.i:,Ce lines, throw up a ,nk of tow,- ; i', then leave the wok a inishe.1 jose, anu call it "terraced," bien in rc:lty they have merely marked E a piece of work that ordinarily will and ten or fifteen years before ti-e land av be called ":erraced." There are it two ways mainly of terracing landsj te iv artfcily. bay plowing with hill le plows or working the earth down te level otherwise;-- and the other is to row up a banK or other obsttuction to 'ch the earth as nature moves it down e hill by heaving frosts, waslhiug tains, c. For just as sure as rain falls upon allow pl'w cd lia , where ct an cul re is practiced, c.n sloping ground, ashing will occur; and no one with a g head and a small pocketbook need idertake to plow ti.ese hard hill lands ep enough to prevent washing at btuie me. Therefore, the better 'plan in rraciog. as well a- everything elec, is wora with nature; tbat is, let tiatuie ork while you while you plan or'd keep good obatructiona below to catch the nth as .he moves it down, and thus tp ropriate her labor. Acd if your oh ructions should brcak, why, juat,go id build it up again atrung: than ever' it same as you would your water-gyps i your fence, or the b:eaks in your itches that had washed away, or your ;nee that had blown down. Many years before the war, I heard a ery successlul farmer say that the most ' aportant and moat difficult problems of i's life were to know how to make smart e- of his boys and to prevent his land -om washing away, and the way he hit pon to prevent his land from washirng way was very simple, viz.: On all oping lands he wotwid mark off tectun nes upon a level at intervals of about tree feet fall between, much on the tine plan as terraeieg now a-days; but istead of cultivating the whole field in ie same crop, he planted one land or, ction between his marks.in small grain, id the other in corn or cotton, alternat ig them every year, which prevented sahing in a way satisfactory tohim,.for e had no dryiln j -rm. ,n idea occurs to me here, that if all ir terraced lands were planted in alter. te sections of small grain and hoed ops, the terracing plan would work ore satisfactory to many. Loose stones placed in a line on top of te ground make a first-class terrace ank (notwithstanding the opinion of me at the Pendleton meeting to the )ntrary) for we can show banks in this unty four or five feet high in places, Hilt with loose stones taken off the land. ut these banks were not made In one tar; they were raised higher as the irth filled in above, or the water washed -ound the ends, with stones that con nue to appear on the surface after each :aon's plowing. About twenty years ago I saw a ter ice bank about three feet.high on the ewer side of a garden that belonged to idge Norton's mother, that was built p by sowing a row of what she called border grass," which caught the earth it worked down, by catching new >ots and climbing to the top of the irth as fast as it accumulated. At in rvals since then I have made good ter ce banks by sowing rows. of this bor er grass after the fashion of laying out rrace baaks, which I found proved good anks, and in addition gave fine crops of ~rly grass, which have been cut in the tter part of Match, where fertized, for lItes and colts. This plan of terrac g is the only sy~tem that has no loss of ted space, in trying to prevent land om washing by either ditching or rowing up banks of the richest earth field growing noxious weed seeds that ill infest the crops. The best system of ditching uplands revents a small amount of land from ashing away at the rexpense of a large mount of waste space of land, and a early expenditure that is nearly equal ythat which is required to keep up ter ice banks, and at the same time these itches do not entirely prevent the land ashing. To prove this assertion, look rthe accumulated sand in the streams, ighways, and at the outlets of these itches. Until the land is washed. down to a vel, washing may occur at times, but hen the land is terraced-that is, rought up to a level-it will not wash, ran when half plowed. F A'n's SoN. W. H. Perry for Governo.. Sumter Watchman. We have been informed from sources msidered reliable that the above gen eman will resign his office as Con ressman from this State, will give-up is law practice in Greenville, and re-' re to his farm in the County of reenville, only to come out more rominently before the people as their tdidate for Governor. This candi cy on the part of Mr. Perry is tobe stinctively and pronouncedly as that ~the Farmers' Alliance of this State. r. Perry's resignation of the high ice he now holds, might strike those ho do not know the motive of his - isignation, as not only a cause for onder and surprise, but as well a tse for conjecture and speculation. e are in a position to explain,, and doing so, we can't deem that we are olating any confidence. Mr. Perry, er consultation with those in au Lority with the Alliance people, has at his mantle upon the shoulders ot r. Ball,. of his own County, and. >pes, through his retirement to his rm, to supply what the farmers have anted-a leader, who, like Cincinna s, can quit the plowshares for the in of grovernment. Electoral Reform tn vir gla. Notwithstanding the large Democratie ijoity, the Democratic leaders'in 'Vr ia intend to have tho Legisle'uro aige the election laws Senator John . Daniel while in the city this week id to me that he favored the Australian stem, with certain modifications, but declined to say what the moddfica is were. Governor Lee says a change the presenrt laws is doubtless needed the is not prepared to say whether he I recomimendI the Australian system set t. -lHe is rather inclined to think at ihe Australian plan, with., ia w changes, might answer. Several al managers express themselves in f::. r o the South Carolina plan. A GREAT GOLD FINNr .rge vein. Located In Montgomery Cown. mr, Northa Carolina. lhe Carolina Watchman, published at lisbtury N. C., has sent a mining ex rt to Montgomery county to investi e rumors of an important gold find re, and he reports that all statements out the fabulous wealth having been covered there are true. The find Ia d to be the richest ever discovered in te. Therc parallel veins were found >ut half an mn in thickness and orily ew feet apart, The ore pans a large rcent or pur gold. The Watch'man'sj >resentativye ascertairned that' a bushel solid gold had already been taken tof the deposit. The place is owned three Sanders brothers. Two Qf mn have been living in Texas, but have red for Salisbury in response to a agram. Greal excitement is reported the neighborhood and people are ving their wotk to search for gold. It tated that one man in two hours work out 2,000 pennyweights of pure gold I was then compelled by the owners leave off wo:~