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MIN S A S 1 VOL. VIE. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST1.19._ O 5 A POUN IN EST1ENT. YOU HAVE BARGAINED YOUR SOU AWAY FOR NOUGHT. Dr. Tasluanr bhb-us low t he Foolish Sal l Made aLd INow It May Be teuedted. Christ's Blorcd 1 ill Buy Yout. Ba:k. TOPEKA. KAN.. Au2ust 9.-Dr. Ta mage reached tlis citv yesterday in ih course of his Western trip. le wa warmly welcomed 1)y the citizens wb came inlar.e tnmbers to hear the fa motus lrookl3n divine. The subject < the sea mon or this week is: "A pot investment." aid the text Isaiah lii: 0 "Ye have sold yourselves for nouthi and ye shall be redeemed withot money." The Lord's people had goue head logia into sin, and as a .unishment the had been carried captive to BabNlo They tiunL that 3ibquity did not pay Cyrus seized Baby lon. and felt so sorr for these poor captives that, without dollar of compeun ation, he let them g home. So that, literally, my text wa fultilled: "Ye have sold Yourselves fc noiiht; and ye shall be redet-med with out money." There is enour.; Gospel in this f r tift sermons. There aie persons here wh have, like the people ofithe text, sol out. You do not seem to belong tithe toy ( urselves or to God. The tiriedeed have Let t passed over to "the world the flesh, and :he devil," but the p' chaser never paid up. "Ye have sol yourselves ;or nought." ta n a man passes himselt over t the n orld he expects to get some ade quate compersation. le has heard th .;reat things that the world does for uau. and ie believes it. le wants tw hundr-u and fifty thousand dollars. Tha will e horses and houses, and a summe resort. and jolly companionship. Toge it he parts with his physical bealt by over work. Ie parts with his con scic rae. le parts with much domesti njo ment. le parts with opportuni ties for literary culture. He parts witl his soul. And so he aaks oyer hi entiie nature to the world. He does it i: tour insta llents. He pays down th first installment, and one fourth of hi nature is goue. He pay down the see ond installment. and one-half of hi nature is gone. le pay down the thir installment, and three quarters of hi nature are gone; and ater many year have gone by he pays down the fourt: installment. and lo! his entire natur is gone. Whtn lie comes up to th world and saN s. "Good morning. I bav delivered to uu the gou.ds. I have pas ed over to you my body, my mind, an( ay soul and I have come down to collec the two hundred and tifty thousan( <tollars." "Two hundred and fifty thous and doliars?'' says the world. "Wha do you mean?" "Well" you say, " come to collect the money you owe me and I expect -ou to fulfill your part o the contract." "But," says the world "1 have flled. I am bank rupt. I can not possibby pa) that debt. ,have no for a long w hilt expected to~ pay it.' "Well," yu then say, "give me bacd the goods." "Oh, no," says the world "they are all gone. I cannot give then back to xou." And there y ou stand 01 the confines of eternity, sour spiritua Caracter ;:one staggering under the con sideration that "you have sold yoursel for nought." I tell y ou the world is a liar; it doe not keep its promises. It is a cheat and it fleeces every thing it can put it hands on. it is a hogus world. It is : six-thousand-year-.old swindler. Even it pay s the two houndred and tifty thous and dollars for which you contracted. pass them in bonds that will not b~ worth anything in a little while. Just a a man may pay down ten thousani dollas in hard cash and get for it worth less scrip-so the world passes over ti ',eu the two hundred and fifty thousani dollars in that shape which will not b~ worth a larthing to y ou a thousandth par of a second after you are dead. "Oh,' y ou say, "it will help to bury me any bow." Oh, my brother! you need no worry about that. The world will hur: you soon enough for sanitary conside'ra tions. Postmortem emoluments are ol'uo us to 3 on. The treasures of this worlo wil not pass current mn the luture world; ant if all the we alth of the Bank of Eng land were put in the pocket ot y ou shroud, and y ou in the midst o1 th Jordan of death were asked to pay thre' cents for your lerriage, you could not d~ it. There comes a moment in y our e'x istence beyond whicha all carthly value Jail; and rnany a man has wakened u] in such a tite to find that he has solt out for eternity. anad has not hingt to shov lfor it. I shxould as soon think of' goin: to Chatham street to buy silk pocket handkerchiefs with no cotton in them as to go to 'dais world expecting to tin< any permanent happiness, it has de cexved and deluded every man who ha every put his trust in it. ilsiory tells us of one who resolve< that he would have all his senses grati tied at one atnd the same tine, and h expvende rlthusanns of dollars on eaed sense. lie entered a room, and thea were the dcst musicians cet the laud pleas ing his ear, and there were tine picture lascinatmng his ey e, and there were costl: aroamatics regalhng his nostrii, anid titer were the richest meats and wines aun fruits. and coulections, pleasing the ap petite, andl there was a soft couch ot' sin tul mndulgenace on wbhieb he recliied and the man declared afterward that h would give ten times whathle had give1 if he could have one week of such en'joy mn t, even though lie lost his soul by i1 Ah! that was the rut! lie did lose hi soul by it! Cy rus ihec Conqueror tinuih for a little whbile that he was maknug tine thing out of this world, and yet be lore he caiue to his grave he wrote ou this pitiful eyitaph for his monumeul "I am Cyrus. I occupied th~e Persial empire, I was king over Asia. Begr.. dg me nout this mo. ument." But the worI in aitt r years plowed up his SepuilhrS The worid ciappedl its hands aut stamped its feet mn honor o1 Charle Laint, but what does he say? "I wal up and down, thinking I am happy, bu feeling I aim not." Call the roil, an: be quick about it. Samuel Johnson, th learned! Ilappiy! "No. I am afraid shall some day get crazy." Williar Hzzitt, the great essa',ist! H~app', "No. I have :)een for two hours and halt' going up and down Paternoste Row with a volcano in my breast.' 5mollet, the witty author! Happy "No. I am sick of praase and blame and I wish to God tbat I had such cui cumistances around mne that I coul throv any pen into oblivion." Buchau an, the wor.d-renowned writer, exile from his own country, appealing t Henry VIII. for protection! Happy --No. Over mountains covered wit snow', and through valleys flooded wit rain, I come a Jugitive." Moliere, th popnlar dramatic-author! Happy? "N< That wretch of an actcr iust now recited four of my lines without the proper ac cent and gesture. To have the chilren of my brain so hung. drawn. and quar tered, tortures me bke a condemned spirit." I went to sec a wordliug die. As I went into the hall I saw its floor was - tessellated, an i its wall was a picture gallery. I fcund his death-chamber adorned with tapestry un,.il it seemed as - if the clouds of the settinur sun had set tIed in the room. The man had given forty e:trs to the world-his wit, his time, his genius. his talent, his soul. Did the world come in to stand by his death-bed, and clearing of' the vials (n bitter medicine, put down any compen sation? Oh, no! The world does not like sick and dying people. and leaves them in the lurch. It ruined this man, and then left him. He had a magniti cent funeral. All the ministers wore scarfs, and there were forty-three car riages in a row; but the departed man appreciated not the obsequies. I want to persuade my audience that this world is a poor investment; that it does not pay ninety per cent of satis faction, nor eighty per cent nor twenty 3 per cent nor two per cent, nor one; that ri gives no solace when a dead babe lies on your lap; that it ives no peace when conscience rings its alarm; that it :-ives no explanation in the day of dire trou ble; and at the time of your decease it A takes hold of the pillow case, and shakes out the feathers, and then jolts down in the place thereof sighs, and groans, and execrations, and then makes you put your head on it. Oh. Ie who have tried this world, Is it a satisfactory portion? Would you advise your friends to make the investment? No; "Ye have sold :ourselves fir nought." Your con science went. Your hope went. Your Bible went. Your heaven went. Your God went. When a sheriff'under a writ from the courts sells a man out, the offi cer generally leaves a few chairs and a bed, and a few cups and knives; but in ibis awful vendue in which you have been engaged the auctioneer's mallet has come down upon body, mind and soul: Going! Gone! "Ye have sold yourselves for nought." How could you do so? Did you think that your soul was a mere trinklet which for a few pennies you could buy in a toy shpp? Did you think that your soul, if once lost, might be found again it you went out with torches and lanterns? Did you think that your soul was short lived, and that, panting, it would soon lie down for extinction? Or had you no idea what your soul was worth? Did you ever put your forefingers on its eter nal pulses? Have you not felt the quiver of its peerless wing? Have you not known that after leaving the body, the first step of your soul reaches to the stars, and the next step to the tartherest outposts of God's universe, and that it will not die until the day when the ever lasting Jehovah expires? Oh, my broth er, what possessed you that you should part with your soul so cheap? "You have sold yourself for nought." But I have some good news to tell you. I want to engaze in a litigation for the recovery of that soul of yours. I want to show that you have been cheat ed out of it. I want to prove, as I will, that you were crazy on that subject, and that the world, under such circum stances, had no right to take the title deed from you; and if you will join me I shall get a decree from the high abancery court ft Ileaveu reinstating you into the possession of your soul. 'Oh, you say, "I am afraid of lawsuits, they are so expensive, and I cannot pay the cost." Then have y ou forgotten the last half of my text? "Ye have sold yourself for nought; and ye shall be re deemed without money." Money is good for a great many things, but it cannot do anything in this Imatter of the soul. You can not buy your way through. Dollars and p unds sterling mean nothing at the gate of mercy. If you could buy ybur salva tion, heaven would be a great specula tion, an extension of Wall street. Bad men would go up and buy out the idlace and leave us to shift for onrselves. But as money is not a lawful tender, what is? I will answer: Blood! Whose? Are we to go through the slaughter? Oh, no; .t wants richer blood than ours. It wants a king's olood. It must be poured from royal arteries. It must be Ia sinless tortrent. But where is the king? I seet a great many thrones and agreat many occupants, yet none seem to be comins. down to the rescue. But after a while the clock of night in Beth lehem strikes twelve, anu the silver pendulum of a star swings across the sky, and I see the King of Ileaven ris ing u., and he descends, and steps down iromz star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lo ser and lower, until he touches the shie p-covered lills, and then on to another hill, this last skull-sazaped, and tirre, at t e sbarpi stroke of' persecu ion, a ril incarnadine trickles down, and we who could no.t be redeemed by money are redeeme d by precious and im periail blood. We have in this day pirofessed Clhris -tianis who are so ratetied and ethereal ized that they do not want a religion of blood \Vhat (do 'lou w ant? You seem to want a religion oh brams. The Bible says: "In the blood is the ife." No atonement althout bhood. Ought not the apostle to know? What did he say? "Ye are redeemed niot with corruptible Ithings, such us silver and gold, but by the precious blcood of Christ." You put your lancet into the arm of our holy re lig-ion andl withdraw the blood, and you leave it a were corpse, fit only far the grave. W hy did God command the . ~priests of old to strike the knife into the kid, andl the goat, and the pigeon, and Sthe bullock, and the lamby It was so Sthat when the blo d rushed out from Sthese aunials on thme floor of the ancient tabernacle thze peop~le should be comn t pelled to think of the comning carnage oi ,the Son of God. No blood no atone rlment, SI think that G od iutiended to impress us Swith a vividluess of that color. The green ,of the yrass, tihe blue of the e.k), would I cot have stairtled anid iarousedl us like Sthis deep crimson. It is as if God had Ssaid: "Now, sinner, wake up and see t what the Saviour endured for y ou. This is not water. This is not wine. It is i,lood. It is the blood of my own Son. It is the blood of the Immaculate. It is ithe blood of' God. " Without the suied e ding of blood is no remission. Trhere m has bee n many a man whbo in courts of r law has pleaded -'not guilty," who nev 'ertheless has been condemned because ? there was blood found on his hands, or ,blood found in his room; find what shall - we do in the last day ii it be sound that 1 we have recrueitied the Lordl o. glory - and have never repented of' ity- You I must believe in the blood or die. No yescape. Unless you let the sacriuine of y Jesus go in your stead you yourself must i suffer. It is either Christ's blood or a your blood. a "Oh," says some one, "the thought of bloo sikns me." Good. God in tended it to sicken 3ou with )our sin. Do not act as though you had n0thinlu! to do with that Calvarian massacre. You had. Your sins were the implements ot torture. Those implements were not made of steel, and iron, and wood. so much as out o your sins. Guilty of tlis homicide, and this regicide, and this deicide, confess your guilt today. Ten thousand voices of heaven bring in the verd:ct against ) ou of guilty, auilty. Pre pare to die, or believe in that blood. Stretch yourself out for the sacriti.e, or accept the Saviour's sacriice. Do not Iting away your one chance. It seems to me as if all heaven were tryinig to bid in pour soul. The first bid in makes is the tears of Christ at the tomb of Lazarus; but that is not a high enough price. The next bid heaven makes is the sweat of Gatlisemant: but it is too cheap a price, The next bid heaven makes see s to be the whipped back of Piate's hall; but it is not a high enough price. Can it be .possible that heaven cannot buy you in? IIaven tries once more. It savs; "I bid this to:ne for t iat man's soul the tortures o1 Christ's martyrdom, the blood on his temp*e, the blood ou his cheek, the blood on his ciu, the blood on his trand, the blood on his side, the blood olt his knee, the blood on his foot-the blood in drops, the blood in rills, the blood in pools coagulated beneath the cross; the blood tbat wet the tips of the soldiers' spears. the blood that plashed warm in the fac es of his enemies." Giory to God, that bid wins it! The highest price that was ever paid for anything was paid for your soul. Nothing could buy it but bloou! The estranged property is bougut back. Take it. -You have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money." 0, atoning blood, cleansing blood, life-giving blood, sau etifying blood, glorifying blood of Jesus! Why not burst into tears at the thought hat for thee he, shed it. "No," says some one, -I will have nothlng to do with it except that, like thet enemies of Curist, I put both my hands into that carnage and scoop u,, both palms lull. and throw It on my head and cry: "ilis blood be on us and on our children!' Can you do such a shocking thing as that? Just rub your handkerchief across your brow and look at it. It is the blood of the Son of God, whom you have despised and driven back all these years. Oh, do not do that any longer! Come out boldly and frankly and honestly, and tell Christ you are sorry. You cannot afford to so roughly treat him, upon whom everything de pends. I do not know how you will getaway from this sucject. You see that you are sold out, and that Christ wants to buy you back. There are three persons who come after you today: God. the Father; God, the Son; God, the Holy Ghost. They unite their three omnipotences in one movement for your salvation. You will not take up arms against the Triune God, will you? Is there enough mus cle in your arms for such a combat? By the higest throne in heaven. and by the deepest chasm in hell, I beg you look out. Unless you allow Christ to carry away your sins, they will carry you away. Unless you allow Christ to lift you up, they will drag you down. There is only one hope for you, and that is the blood. Christ, the sin-offering, bearing your tranressions. Christ. the surety, p tying your debts. Christ, the divine Cyrus. loosening your Babylonish cap tivitv. WVould you not like to be free? Here is the price of your liberation-not money, but blood. I tremble from head to foot, not because I fear your pres ence, but because I fear that you will miss your chance of immortal rescue. This 'is the alternative divinely put: 'He that believth on the Son shall have everlasting life; and be that believth not on the Son shall not sce life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." In the last day if you now reject Christ, every drop of that sacridecial blood, instead of pleading for your release, as it would have pleaded if you had repented, will plead against you. O) Lord God of the judgz sent day! avert that calamit3! Let us see the quick flash of the cimeter that slays the sin but saves the sinner. Strike, o ..nip oens God, for the soul's deliverance! Beat, 0 eternal sea! with all thy waves again the barren beach of that rocky soul, and make it tremble. Oh! the oppressiveness of the hour, the minute, the second, on which the .oul's destiny quivers, and this is that hour, that min ute, that second! Some years ago there came do-vn a ierce storm on the seacoast, and a ves sel i.ot in the breakers and was going to pieces. They threw up some signals of distress, and the people on shore saw them. They put out in a lifeboat. They came on. and they saw the ptoor sailors. almost exhausted. el nging to a rati; anti so afraid were the boatmen that the men would give up before they got to them, they gave them three rounds of cheers, and3( cried: "Hold on there! hold on! We'll save you!" After awhile the boat came up. One man was saved by hav ing the boat-hook put in the collar of his coat; and some in one way and some in another, but they all got Iuto the boat. "Now," says the captain, "for the shore. Pull away no*, pull!" The people on the land were afraid the life boat hind gone dowu. They said: "How long the boat sta~s. Why, it miust have been swamped and they have all per ished together." And there were men and women on the pier-heads and on the beach wringing their hands; and while they waited and watched, they saw something loomimg up through the mist, and it turned out to be the life boat. As soon as it came within speak ing distance the people on shore cried out: "Did you save any of them? bid you save any of them? And as the boat swept through the boiling surf and caiii to tile pier-head, the captain waved his hand over the exhausted sailors that lay lat on the bottom of' the bottom of the boat. and cried: '"All saved! Thauk God! All saved!" So may it be today. The waves of your sin run high,. the st'rm is on l ou, but I cheer you with this Gospel hope. God grant that with n the next ten minutes we may row with you into the harber of God's nmer cy. And when these Christian men gather around to sev the result of this service, and the gloried gathering on the pier-beads of hieaven to watch and to listen. may we be able to rep~ort atll saved! Young and old, good and bad! All saved! Saved for time. Saved for eternity. -And so it camne to pass that they all escaped safe to land." Eieicted P'resident. CoLU MBIA, S C, Aug. 6.-The trus tees of the South Carolina college to~ialy unanimously elected Dr. Jae Wood row president of that institut ion. Ills name was presented to the board by the committee on nominations, and no oth er was proposed for that ollice. Dr. W oodrow was also elected professor of biloy geningy and mineralogrv. THE NE\ EJUCATwN. CLEMSON COLLEGE-ITS ORIGIN AND OBJECTS. An Addrebs Delivered by Preshlent Strode Before the State Agricultural and Me chanical Society at its Summer Meeting in Oraogeburg W hen I received from your secretary the honor of the invitation to address you I might very well have asked to be Excused in view of the enarossioz nature of the great work at Fort Hill, the daily superintend(lene of which is my duty. But as I did not then beg to be excused, in my great dezire to meet you I must uow proffer as an excuse for the study and care tha t is lacking in my pa per, and which should be due this body in any matter presented for its consideration, that the work there is so full of perplex ities and responsibilities tbat only mo ments of snatched opportunities could be used for this service, and these mo ments have been all too rare for the prop er preparation of a paper 'or this occa sion. Too fresh In the minds of all are the events whlch led to the founding of Clem son Col'ege to need now a minute histo ry of its beginning. Thomas G. Clem son, the son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, died in April, 1888. leaving by his will 814 acres of land, with Fort Hill, the old home of John C. Calhoun. and about $80,000 in money and interest bearing sto:,k as a bequest to the. S:ate for the founding of an agricultural college. if ertain conditions were accepted by the Legislature. THE REVENUES OF THE COLLEGE. Finally the bequest was formally accepted, and, in sympathy with the eeling of many in the State, the Legis lature furthermore granted certain funds oming from the General Government, 2nd the proceeds of a certain small tax evied on those interested in fertilizers. as n annual income to sustain the Col lee. These combined sources of rev enue were found to yield between meventy and sventy-i ie thousand dollars annually, and to place the College at once on a footing o equality with the richest institutions of learning in the South. The matter of a building fund as not at once arranged. as the ample annual revenue, part of which might be lealy used for buildings, was thought utilient to provide against immediate embarrassment. TILE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. The boa d of trustees, compesed of even gentlemen appointed by Mr. Clem son as a selfperpetuating body, and of six others elected by the Legislature for terms of four years each, met, organized mnd took up their great responsibility. )ue of their tirst acts was tae election f an executive committee to represent he board in the intervals between their reguar meetings. which could not be aquenL with the board composed of entlemen living in widely separated parts of the State. The next act was e electIon of a president of the College ,o be a representative of the executive ommittee for all current business wbich hiad to be transacted in the two weeks' ntervals, which finally became the set periods between the meetings of the com ailttee. Thus the plans of the College long all its lines of growth and pro 'ress represent by the organization the work of the members of the full board, who have given their time and devotion to the great task. Provided for by the 'ar-seeing mind of Mr. Clemson against .he dangers of sudden changes in the oard of trustees, the College has been *rom the beginning under the influence f a steady policy which has had as its uling princible the foundh g of one of .e greatest institutions of its character the Socth. A COOD FOUNDATION. As the representativeol the executive committee, which in its turn represents the fuller management. I am by your courtesy here today to tell you what words of hope and promise they wish to io out through you to the expectant y outh of the otate; to tell you by what methods they expect that the sentiments of honor, the spirit of thoroughness, and the cultivation of a pure ambition may be made to blend in an educational sys ;emn with that training of the hand, the ye and the brain that is to :orm the new aucation. As all must recognize that to institution in the South can aspire to he first rank that ignores as the basic 'lement of Southern manhooud a love of rith and honor, pejiaps it is needless 0 issure you that this will be a founda ion stone in Clemson Coliege. Along xith this more chivairouis clement will o hand in hand in the character build g attempted there the forming of those iabits -f promptness, accuracy, thoroug aess and reliability in regard to all re sponsibiities that make the auccessful man. Tile cultivation of the esprit (1e :orps will be looked to as the safeguard >f the College. Its graduates will go 'orth with that tie still attaching thiem o the alma mater that wilt teach thiem 0 point with honorable pride to the ionrce of the instruction that moulded .hem for usefulness; and on her so thcm ts her most precious childrea destined o0 bring honorable reputation ibe her athful work. THLE 3IILITARLY FEATURE. In the military system, which becomes Spart of the College in connection with le Federal grant, will be plantedl the liscipline of the institution. There vill be no loss here to the student, boy n hiose farm exercises will grow into 11anly shape in the exerei~ses ct the daily -oute whilst the mind of Southern oth .sill naturally turn to thioughts ot that pst o. his country's hIstory that ield much l to stir the blood and to tend .0 the enrriching of thieir nobler impulses. l'hey will not be t augh t to be the uutnink ug mabines to prop the supzjports of lu-. tile tranny whilst they draw their in spiratio from the record of that citizen soldiery thatt has reddened the turf on man dII fileldl in America iin patriotic coni t(-'s fo constitutlinal liberty. In the buttoning into the tight unitorm will be felt the college training that braces imto erectness and takes the slouchk out of the pou~rh'oy's step, and with it the slouch out of the mental gait that encumbers ill prgtres. TIwo LIxes- o1. sTUO>. In its irand (dp .rtmuents the Collegze s to be ~shaped on two disticet hues of ntrution, leaving a ioice between igricultue and mechauics. The latter vilhl naturally precedle a development into dl the diflicult forms of technolo2:cal in. nruction that m'ay terminate in the uigh technical p~rofessionial lines that may offer careers of the greatest distine 1n to the~ talented sons of firmers or THE PLACE FoRl FARMERZiS' SoYS On the aizric'ltural sidle will be tound the widest field that can be arranged to gratify the Iarmer's aspirations in that seems to be unlimited s hen science anc practical arLs are to be applied to agri culture. The field opens with the study of animal and vegetable life in all theit forms, the broad field of biology, In the vegetable world we have the plante both useful and noxious and the ways of nursing the one into thrifty life and stif ling the other to an untimely end. Theu come the various methods of propaga tion of plants, where their life and rapid multiplication are to be desired, by seed, by budding, by grafting, etc. In these practical arts of the delds the farmer boys will indeed feel at home. Their growth in scientific thought will go hand in hand with the applications in the fiehl itself. If they learn to bud and graft, for instance. they will learn it in a way that will enable them to use it practically and to transfer their knowledge from the College fields to the home orchards. Thus they wil I be the mediums for the transfer of the sciences and arts taught 'at the College to the people in .heir dis tant homes. MISSIONARIES OF PROGRESS. 1 six hundred boys return from col lege to their homes each year, thinL what missionaries of progress will be spread over the State to orighten al the ideas of these homes. These farm er boys will have heard with quickened pulse the lectures on agricultural science that will brighten as on a backgroun( all the dark ages of their past life. THE MAKING OF A MAN. Let us follow one typical farmer boy from field to college and through its courses. IHe loves the dear old home, with its tender-faced mother and gran ite-souled father. Ile passes along the couatryside where war has perhaps left its cruel stains, and by the cities where silent streams proclaim the absence of the genius of progress. le sets In the distance the blue hills that mark Caro !ina's western boundary. Ile reaches Fort- Hill and is on ihe ground once hal lowed by the tread of the areat Calhoun. Ile joins hio zadet comrades, already a noble six hundred. In all the stir airound him he notes eaznestness iu the features and bearing of those who ad dress him. There are echoes of the -"Psalm of Life" in the air he breathes. Other Lt mes in Carolina, as sacred as his, have sent their jewels most precious to the State's shrine of the new educa tion. Ue feels the quickened pulse of a new life. He begius to grow With a new growth. His letters home tell the dear ones that the separation which brings such onportunities is robbed of its pangs. Noble buildings buoy up his aspirations. Ardent, thoughtful, re ponsive natures in teachers and com rades bear up the burden of home-sick ness. Re enters his classes and begins the great work of his life, the changing of an unthinking man into a machine of intellectual por er. Ile loves with a new love the uuselfish hearts at home which may have planned through g'reat privations for the hope of the house, From year to year the same home sacri: fiees keep the boy. of whom they grow but prouder, amid the scenes that nur ture high intellectual and moral growth. Finally the man, no longer a boy, re turns to the old homestead. If he .is still a farmer, what a power for good to the old people at home. If lie has bud ded into splendid development along some o the high lines of technological education, who will regret the money in snaping the rude country mind into such new powers for usefulness? THE NEW EDUCATION. The new education will be scholarly in its own line, and will breathe with new hope and endeavor. The man is made a scientific farmer, but learns to use his bramn according to the methods of reason. We will not search the pages of Virgil for farming directions of today, or turn back to even more recent times In the South fo.r experience that is to direct us in the future. When we turn to the pathetic past, with its recent pie. tures of affectionate loyalty on the part oh our late slaves, we are touched with a feeling of sympathy for the w eaknesses of these our old helpers in the old way. Neessity is upon us with harsh changzes, and we must find new substitutes f or the old dull serfdom that encumbered the cultivation of the soil in turning to the new agents which are claiming the mas tery of the world and opening new realms of enchantment. Slavery is gone, and, whilst there still remains as its product that master race which has won the admiration of the world and forced the respect of its enemies, we know that the South must look to its youth, iilled 'with the inspiration and ambitions of the new education, to sustain the old ame. A FORTUNATE LOCATION. Fortunate was it for the youth of the State that it catne into the mind o1 the owner of the old nome of John C. al~d hon to ded~cate that spot of all othecrs to the use that would m ike it horever thi most affective agency in marking the character of the State's noblest son <n those who wer~e to hear the burden sustaining her name in the world of thought and action. Ihis was the life of he tarmer of that day with all the dis udvantages of slavery upon it. While it ruined the soil we see that it mcight make the noblest of men. THE MECHANICAL ARTS. With the agricultural trust as its hirdt cud highest tihe board has properly Placed its empharttec iupress also uo the second department of the Collegie, which calls upi in the resources of the mechanical arts for that mental disci~ lhine andc tramning which are tm mnake~ a race of most useful men to co-operate2 with thoswe of the field to press the State ) the foremost ranks of success. Aui eulture and mnanufaicturing should always o hand in hand. The field and facct'r~ must co operate where the best condh; tiuns for lprosperity are sought. The tedeneles of a purely agricultural pe' pe to conlcentraite on the trade coinnectedi with the raw products of the fields are~ to be striveni against by edluenting the whole people imto twvo great industria! lines of human effort. Thec resuilting ace t.iou and reaction betwveen the two forces will he a wonderfucl stimulant for' both. n the diivisioin of bramn labor and ini the2 eat (hlversity of human talent as com-W nmnly displayed is thund the arcat up pmortunty of hiealthful progros for incdi viduas and States. MANUAL LanoR ItEuUIRE1>. Stronir is the State~ as is a braced strue ture which has within its own framing the tootings far its bracing. S. the board. in the broadest lib~erality that the ue os at their disposal will hermit. aimi to make the College all it shouldl be. as the place where the youth of the State may learu the mechanical arts along witht the agricultural. Mr. Clemson in: th eldice of his will named two col lee as patterns to) be followed where the manual labor 5)stem is an mtegral ~art of the courses. The boarcd oh tins tees have followed the~ spirit. of the will and have directed mnaunal labor to he excted of all students, with pay for all work not simply educatonal. The two. us of l.aor eacteacrh dav of all I students will in the a.ricultuial depart ment yield nearly a dollar a week am thus bear about half the expense o board. A student may thus safely at tend the Collcge who can but buy hi clothin- and books and pay half the ne cost of h:s borird. With this manua feature will be preached the iospel o work and that hiigh above all ignobl< thins stands the dignity of labor. Ther< I is no le6sson that our Southern peoph can more protitably learn than that ti ennoblement of labor will 1ill their field with noble workers. May we not tin( to min.;le in the song of the reaper, it the hot days of his labor. the spirit of ( I sentiment that mighlit emblazon a shielt in heraldrv, and that with the ring of th anvil there may chime the ring of th< evul of the humblest artisan? EDUCATIONAL MISSIONARIES. It is contemplated by the board t( call apou all members ot the faculty t( assist in spieading the sciences an( arts of its curricuumi over the stato through the medium of various insti tu s throughout the year. In the usat ter of drawing, for instance, which i: the very basis of technology, the publu schools of the State can,as a rule, provid( no preparation, as the teachers them selves aPe without the necessary train ing that wotld enable them to give in structisa on this line. This instructior may be given in a most economical for _ through the medium, of institutee I'hus lat~er preparation in this and othei lines may be exacted of pupils who com up to the College, and valuable timt way be saved in the higher institution Clemson Collulae mun. take as its pre paratory sohools mala y the puuli< schools in the country. This is a low state of preparation as a basis, and wil throw an immense amount of work or ot:rlower departments at tirAt. We c:a not exact of the tarner boys a prepara tion they have no chance of getting a. matters now stand. A better grade o public scnools in the country is a crying want that %e must all recognize, anc must liel, to better. As long as th neceessity the College itself must pro vice a way to bring its students up to v colleiae basis. So far as is required by the rule. adopted for registration, it is only ne cessary to write to the president o: Clemson College Fort Hill, S. C., thE name and age of student desiring tc enter, his parent or guardian, with post office, couity or State. A fair appor tionment will be made amnong the coun ties in adopting any rules to limit thE number of students to bt taken. No more stringent rules will be adopt ed in regard to tentrauce into the prep aratory department than would be rea sonable for boys who have had no high er opportunlties than those of the ordin ary public schools in the country. But no merely primary work will be done at the College. All who register will be duly informed by circular of al changes made by the board affecting their in terests." The College will be distinctly agricultural an i mechanical, and not a rival of the purely literary institutions of the State. The board bas yet to pass on the details of the curriculum before they can be published authoritatively. OVER SIX IIUNDRED APPLICANTS. It was generally made known, I be lieve, by the late speech of the Gover nor at the laying of the corner-stone, that applications for registry on the books of the College, even then, six months before the opening, exceeded six hundred. A large number have been entere-! since, and persons well-posted predict that even one thousand may ap piy by t;,(e time the College opens its doors. All names will he continued to be registered until the board adopts some plan of discrimination or pre scribes a limit. As has been said by high authority the record is unparaileled in the history of colleges, aod shows a union of the whole people of the State and argues well for their highest inter ests. Not only for the State but for her neighbors also will this picture of a united front in the cause of industrial education prov'e the lesson, teaching by example, that in union there is strength. A GRIEAT MIssION. If Carolina, the fair beauty of the South btut thirty years ago, as an elo quent tongue once said, "set us the path to Stygian horrors with the splen don of her smile," she may now redeem the trust of leadership she then placed in pawn by lighting the way to the Ely siaiu lields oi- a radiant prosperity. - TilE FIELiD EEFORtE THE sHoP,. The appropriations on the part of the State by no means covered the crowd now to b~e considered. If this should unexpectedly in the end reduce to a lower number the crowding throng now seeking to enter college, we can be sure that still enough will be left to make the first year's work at least a brdliant experiment. At tirst the me chanic~d side of the College may not be fully appreciated, buit as the years go by there will he growing interest there. The labor in the shops must re classed it Lrst as purely edutcational and not clliug for pay. Those enitering on tlh sid.- shuuld tuud; rstand this diiference and avoid d~sappoint meat. The coun try boys who maiy mos. nel help from the prostration of all the agricultural idustri-s at t:is time will rind the ar rangemnuts of thec College to favor tnicir nie s. rTi E* FAi:MEmn.' coL LEGE. It is well that the natural conditions at iirst will tendl to throwing a much greater number into the agricultural de partment than the mechanmcal. Tis~ will relieve the apprehensions of the f triners who mignt tiuk that there wais a dauger of losing their special college after all their work to secure it. The farmeirs wibi soon see that the mecnanicil features of the inrstitutionl mean onlyI gain to them, whten they pen ceive that the new openl:ngs thus ar rugedl for the overcrowding workers ini agriculture can only result in great er- opportnity for all. Thle great imo pen~ that will be given to factories o1 ll kini will relieve the ranks of the ag iculi urists whikt thuey increase the ranks of those wilo wvill bie oni tne other hnd consiuimers of their prnodulcts. TilE NELI> o1r TIECicAL Tu'1AINING. it how the youta of Soiuth Carolian i-is sulfered ini the p:ewt and must still -nife0r for the. lack of technrological edut eation for nei d of a sa:iiint sit port froim the Mt'e er enrdowmnent'iAvery dei n at .~ial coliege should beg 1rom as frienids for a duepartmLient ol lhis kit' lhers caonot be to-> inanyu fadicieslit i 1this I ih ne'w ediucai. T his sut7sssto meL to state tna~t amrong he manyi noble wonrers at Clemson is one whi>) bms the highest respect o! those in charge there, and it is almosta dabiv remara. as to what that mn woiid Ie won il to u~s and to himself it he hiad hmad the training of a technolog ical school. tle wilt have it, thanks t': the good fortumne thlat pi:seed Clemisou: at is door~ axlni adte hlim one of ir builders On Fetbruary 1. 182 the zoard of trustees pr:>pose to throw open the doors of the institution to welcome the y outh of the sate. Thiey have recently elected a partial faculty from material of which they could safely judge, and postponed a fe w chairs to another oe casion wheii their importanice nughit be alio we d the f uller range of choice due I them. In this and all previous work tese gentlemen have shown themselve:S sially nselmih, anrd thev will cn tinue to bear all urjiist eriticism with that nobl patience tuat in the past has best attested the purity of their inten tions. AN APPEAL TO TIlE FAIMERsi. Farmers of the State, in your hands, where lies the power of numbers, is placed the great trust to Clemson Col lege. Guard it as a sacred trust that promises a future for your children, which would not hold them unwilling serfs to the soil when their tastes and talents, which are God-given, may point to other lines. If your boy be a born I inventor, oh, grant him, I pray you, the opportunity to obey God's will! Crush not the bud, when but liftins the crust, and destry the plant whose riper years might till with plenty the garners of home and State. Appeals will be made you in darkened hours to turn and rend the pre-sent nursling ot your care. Pray God that in no hour of blind distress your insanity, if it comes. may raise your hand to strike that cruel blow. Think not that I name an impossiole evil. It is the history of these institu tions. If any people ever have cause to act in madaenng despair it is the op pressed farmers bearing the burdens of all classes. In the hour of your fond nursing guard yourselves against that other hour that may come with its tempests of despair. SACKED BY THE HEATHEN. Chrisjiana .1issionarjes in China in Danaer from the Mob. SAN FRANcIsCo, August 12.-The steamship Oceanic arrived last evening from Hong Kong and Yokohama. Ad vices from Hong Kong, up to July 15, state that the tire of discoitent is still smouldering in North China. Occasion al riots are reported. The mission sta tions near Canton are said to have been attacked, but no particulars were receiv ed. Two of the Wusuch rioters on trial voluntarily confessed that they murdered two foreigners during the Wusuch riots. The pr:soners were accordingly sent back to the Kuang Chi district and executed on July 5. Their heads are hung up at Wusu 1. as a warning to other evil doers. A correspondent at Tiensten writes un der date of June 29 tl.at ail is qu'et there and no trouble is anticipated. A correspondent at Tseing Kiang, un der date ot June 27, writes that the viceroy wrote to -officials here that the residences of foreigners should be search ed to see if they had any bodies or dead people's bones about. The Presbyterian mission was searched by an official, while a crowd of excited natives waited out side. Mob broke into the Catholic mis sion, but wt ere put out by the occupants, Mgre Challant holding the rioters at bay with his revolver. The authorities final ly sent the military to the scene and the soldiers guarded the company all night. On July 4 news came by telegraph from the southern part of the province of serious rioting. In this section the Catholics have large property interests, many fine churches and a large orphan age. Several of these have been des tro. ed by the mob. At Fuchea Fu the rioters wrecked houses, eniered churches and priests' houses, and sacked everything, but did not burn any buildings. The amount of damage done Is not known, but it is learned that the orphange was not touched. Soldiers have been ordered out. and they now patrol the streets at night, guarding the Roman Catholic Church's property. The town is now left without a gunboat, and . feeling of uneasiness prevails. A telegram from Tientsin states that the French and British ministers in China have opened nogotiations with Tsungli Yanmen in regard to their claim for in demnity on account of the recent riots. Thbesum claimed is $1,500,000 Advices from Yokchama give partic ulars of the sinking of the steamer Tam aye Marn and the drowning of the hun dred and sixty passengers. The Tam aye Maru and another steamer, the Myoshi Main, were racing, when the latter steeredl across the Tamaye's course and the vessels collided. The Tamays Maru sunk immediatelv, and only about sixty peop'e, who were on deck, were rscuedI. Earthquake Phenomena. YCAt. Arizona, Aug. 11.-Daily arr vals from the region of Sonora. on the Colorado River, report a most wonder ful change in the topograpny and ap pearance of the country. Many old landmarks are obliterated, prommnent natural objects a're wiped off the face of the earth, and new ones created irs unexpected places. The damage done is principally to stocknmen, who have lostc many head of cattle. The small stream tour miles north of Lerdo, which prior to the earthquake was readily forded, has become impassable, owing~ to its depth. It is no w necessary to cross the watercourse six miles back from the Colorado. The Cocopah In dians now predict another earthquake lable to occur soon. They say natural signs indicate it. Georgia's Thirsty Senat ors. ATLnmT.A, GA.. August 12.-Some thing of a sensation in the shape of a "blind tiger" was unearthed in the State capitol this morning, when the chief of police of the c:ity with two de tectives arrested Peter McMichael, a porter in the State Senate, tor sellng liquor without a license. Tfhe chief of police states that he has evidence con clusively proving that McMichael. who is a negro, had a large trade with the mnembers of the Assembly. The mem bers of the Ilouse are very indignant and the matter has created great ex citment. Governor Northern gave the chief o1 police authority to make the raid in the aute-room w here the wmhs key was sold. The detectives found fourteen bottles ojf whiskey and a lot of neer. -'rhe Holy Coat ot Traves." LoNiooN, Aug. 13.-it is stated on high ecelesiastical authority in Ger many that there is L'o obligation on Ger~an Catnolics to believe that the lyl ('oat ofi Treves is a garment that w~~worn by the 5;aviour, everybo~dy beiu perfectly free to termu his opinion on the testimioniy. Duirmig the last two iiass th-re has ljeen a considerable mu crease in the number of pilgrims, all anxiously awaiting the public exhiibi tioni ot the holy coat. A number of sick people have also airrive-d. who are anxious to be permitte l to touch the relic.in the hope of being hiealedl. These people expect a repititionji of the nuira ees which are said to have happened on previous occasIons of the kin~d. Ainecrican. armers on Top. LonDON, Auag. 12-The IDaiiy News this mnoroing comimenti'igon the action of Russia in probinitina export of rye, sas that it is reassurinug to learn that crops in the U.nited Statesi promaise to v~-Id an exce-ptionally large hatrvest. ~he larmers of America, the papers de clares, are iiiasters of the situation, and it is to be hioped that they wilt use their strength mercifully. The making of corners in the necessaries of life is never laudable anid in the present junc ue it w uds be litt-1e short of fiendish. WINDS' WILD WORK. WASHBURN VISITED BY A DESTRUC TIVE TORNADO.' Two People Killed and Scores Iojured in a Circus-The Animals Escape From Their Cages-Great Damage to Pro perty. ASrLAND, Wis., Aug. 8.-A terrible tornado struck this place at 4 o'clock this afternoon, demoralizing buildings and tearing things up in general. A heavy rain accompanied it, flooding the streets for hours after. At Washburn, across the bay from Ashland, the tornado's force was more furious. Business blocks were serious ly damaged and seven people in one building were slightly injured. JProf. Williams's circus was giving a per formnance, the tents were torn to shat ters and scores of people were injured, but, fortunately, only two were killed George Dedbell and Louis Wilson. The animals escaped from their cages and are still running wild in the streets. About 60,000 bushels is damaged in the Chicago, St. Paul, Minnesota and Omaha elevator. Several pleasure yachts were caught on Chequamegon Bay and have not been heard from as yet. The roof was stripped from the Fitield block. Tr: Sweedish Baptist Church was lifted four feet from its foundations and turned around, and numerous small buildings were twisted about. Out on the bay front half a dozen lit tle yachts were moored. They all broke away from their fastenings and were wrecked upon the shore. The to tal damage amounts to $10,000. The worst effects of the storm were experienced at Washburn, on the oppo site side of the bay. The p.)stoffice building, a frame structure on Main street, in which were half a dozen per sons, collapsed and caught the inmates in what seemed to be a death trap, but' by a fortunate lodgment of timbers, they all escaped without injury, except two women, one of whom sufferea a broken leg and the other a contusion of the head Half a dozen other buildings are badly wrecked. rhe roof of the Omaha elevator was lifted up and dashed into the bay, exposing the stock of wheat to the rain. The dry docks and hoisting engines at the coal dock were blown over and ruined, and many thousand feet of lumber piled in thke yards of the Bigelow mills were biawn into the water. Several sail boats are reported lost on the Chequamengo Bay, but the reports are not veritied, and until the full extent of the storm is known the damage to marine interests cannot be estimated. The loss at Wash burn is probably $50,000. The Weather and the Cropa. The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of the South Carolina weather ser vice, in co-operation with the United States Signal Service, for the past week was issued Saturday afternoon and itis as follows, giving much information to the farmers in the various sections of the State. The weather conditions for the past week have been generally favorable in most sections of the State to the cotton crop. The rainfall has-been about the normal, with temperature and sunshine about the average. The cotton crop is reported in much better condition on the clay lands than those on sandy lands. The excessive rains of the previous week do not appear to have injured the former to the extent of those of the latter; while it is true - that the plant has sned some of the forms on the clay lands, but the shed ding has been much greater and tbe in jury much more extensive on the sandy lands; besides rust is reported and greater injury must necessarily follow.1 In some sections of the State, where the crop was well cultivated and no ex cessive rains have fallen, the crop isun exceptionally 6 ne, and a large yield may be looked for, but the area is not large and is confined to thcse particular sec tions. Cotton caterpillars have made their appearence on the coast, but as yet no damage reported. The corn crop is very fine, and as the early corn is now about matured, a large yield must follow. Some little damage has been sustamned by some of the larmers from overflows on creek bottoms. The crops on the river bottoms were never better, but are later than usual, and if favorable seasons continue for a fe w weeks, the yield will be larger than fur years. The rice crop on the rivers and up ands is looking remaikably well, stands good and in fine condition. A Fusion Formed. NEW ORLEANs, Aug. .-A confer enee of the Farmers' Alliances and the aft-loLdery Democrats at La Fayette as resulted in an agreement by which joint ticket will be nominated. The Farmers' Alliance will name the Gover or, TIreasurer and Superintendent of Public Education, and the antilottery leauie the Lieutenant Governor. Audi t>r, A ttorney General and Secretary of State. These nominations are to be rade by a convention elected by all the white voters who are opposed to the lot tery, and afterward submitted to the Demnocratic State Convention. The Al lance accepted this agreement, and at once nominated Thomas F. Adams, i's President and State Commissioner o)r Agriculture, for Governor. The cam-. paign will be almost altogether on the lottery issue. Alance sensation. ATLANTA, Aug. 10-The Jodrnal this afternoon prints a sensation in Al liance circles. J. 0. Wynn, business agent of the Georgia State Alliance ex hange, is said to be S20.000 short in his accounts. The directors appointed W. A. Broughtoni, treasurer or the ex hage, to examine his books, and the shotage was discovered. Mr. Wynn is under $5,0c00 bond. His bondsmen met this alternoon aiid have arranged to pay all the shortage. The exchange claims the shortage is out-and-out de falcation. Wynn makes the statement tat the shiortage is due to a clerica.l er ror and a loss ut v'ouchers. Shot Two MIen. ATLANTA, GA, August 10.-Ileze kiah Arp, nephew to the original BBil Arp, shut two men to death near the State line in Fannin Cousy yesterday Arp held a claim against W. Hi. Bram let, who was about to leave the State. and had a vokv of steers attacied. This prd da quarrel and Arp shot iUram et through the heart. Bra,,iet's broth er thmen t mk a hand in the row arid was s ot through the chest, subsequently dying of nis wound. Arp belougs to ofe of the leading tamilies of ibis sec tion. mlew mis Brains out. 1:-roN, S. C., Aug. 6.-Mr. Louis. ttie agnt anid operator of the Georgia, Car olina and Northern Rlailroad at Car lisle. (Fish Dam) committed suicide to day by blowing-out his brains with a gun. Tfhe cause is unknown. The cor r-'- has gone to hold an inquest.