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A CAVALRY CHARGE. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE NECESSI TY OF REVIVALS. A Sudden Movemniat to Capture the World for R!ghteousuess-He Holds That Sin Can Be Overcome by a Flank Movement. WAsiNGTo2, Dec. 27.-This ser mon of Dr. Talmage in behalf of a sudden movement to capture the world for righteousness strikes a chord that will vibrate through Christendom The text is II Kiugs xviii, 2 .4I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them." Up by the waterworks, the upper reservoir of Jerusalem, the general of the besieging army and the generals of besieged Jerusalem are in consul tation. Thouoh General Rab-siakeh had been largety paid to stop the siege, he kept the money and continued the siege-the military miscreant: Rab shakeh derides the capacity of the city to defend itself and practically says: "You have not 2,000 men who can manage horses. Produce 2,000 c0.val rymen, and I will give you a present of 2,000 cavalry horses. You have not in all your besieged city of Jerusa lem 2,000 men who can mount them and by bit and bridle control a horse." Rab-shakeh realized that it is easier to find horses than skillful riders, and hence he makes the challenge of the text, "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them." Rab-shakeh, like many another bad man, said a very suggestive thing. The world is full of great energies and great opportunities, but few know how to bridle them and mount them and manage them. More spirited horses than competent riders. The fact is that in the church of God we have plenty of fortresses well manned, and plenty of heavy a y, and ple!y of solid columns Christian soldiers, but ot need is cavalry-M ouMroops of God-for e that seems almost des perate. If Washington. if New York, if London, are ever taken for God, it will not be by slow bombardment of argumentation, or by regular unlim bering of great theological guns from the portholes of the churches, but by gallop of sudden assault and rush of holy energy that will astound and throw into panic the long Fne of drilled opposition armed to the teeth. Nothing so scares the forces of sin as a revival that comes, they know not whence, to do that which they cannot tell, to work in a way that they can not understand. They will be over come by flank movement. The church of God-must double up their right or left wing. If they expect us from the north, we will take them from the south. If they expect us at 12 o'clock o'clock at noon, we will come upon them at 12 o'clock at night. The op portunities for this assault are great and numerous, but where are the men? "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them." The opportunities of saving America and saving the entire planet were never so many, never so urgent, nev er so tremendous, as now. Have you not noticed the willingness of the print ing press of the country to give the subject of evangelism full swing in column after column? Such work was formerly confined to tract d' bution and religious journ ' the morning and evening a paipers, lMy hundrd/b thdusands of copies, priisii religious intelligence and print most awakening discourses. Never since the world has stood has such a force been offered to all engaged in the world's evangelization. Of the more than fifteen thousand newspa pers on this continent I do not know one that is not alert to catch and dis tribute all matters of religious infor mation. Oh, now I see a mighty suggestive ness in the fact that the first book of any importance that was ever publish ed after Johann Gutenber invented the art of printing was te Bible. Well might that poor man toil on, poihn stones and manufacturing lookmng glasses and making experi ments that brought upon him the charge of insanity and borrowing money, now from Martin Brether and now from Johann Faust, until he set on foot the mightiest power for the evangelization of the world. The statue in bronze which Thorwaldsen erected for Gutenberg in 1837 and the statue commemorating him by David d'Angers in 140 and unveiled amid all the pomp mat military processions and German bands of best music could give the occasion were insignifi cant compared with the fact, to be demonstrated before all earth and all heaven that Johann Gutenberg under God, inaugurated forces which will yet accomplish the world's redemp ti The newspaper press will yet announce nt-ions born in a day. The newspaper press will report Christ's sermons yet to be delivered and de scribe his personal appearance, if, as some think, he shall come again to reign on earth. The newspaper press may yet publish Christ's proclama tion of the 'world's emancipation from sin and sorrow and death. Tens of thousands of good men in this and other lands have been ordained by the laying on of hands to preach the gos pel, but it seems to me that just now, by the laying on of the hands of tne Lord God Almighty, the newspaper presses are being ordained for preach ing the gospel with wider sweep and mightier resound than we have ever yet imagined. The iron horses of the printing press are all ready for the battle, but where are the men good enough and strong enough to mount them? "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them." Go out to the Soldiers' home :.nd talk with the men who have been in the war, and they will give you right appreciation of what is the importance of the cavalry service in battle. You hear the clatter of the hoofs, and the whir of the arrows, and the clash of the shields, and the bang of the car bines, as they ride up and down the centuries. Clear back in time, Osy mandas led 20,000 mounted troorns in Bactriana. Josephus says that .qhen the Israelites escaped from ..igypt 50,000 cavalrymen rode thro.u.h the parted Red sea. Three hundred and seventy-one years before Christ Epamn nondas headed his troops at fidl gal lop. Alexander, on a horse that no other man could ride, led his mounted troos Seven thousand horsemen dcddthe struggle at Arbela. Al though saddles were not invented un til the time of Constantine, and stir rups were unknown until about four hundred and fifty years after Christ, you hear the neighing and snort ing of war chargers in the great est battles of the ages. Austerlitz and Marengo and Solferino were decided by the cavalry. The mount ed Cossacks re-enforced the Russian snow storms in the obliteration of the French army. Napoleon said if he had only had suftlicient cavalry at Bautzen and Lutzel his wars would have triumphantly ended. I do not wonder that the Duke of Wellington had his old warhorse Copenhager turned out in best pasture, and the let of Copenhagen's hair. Not One drop of my blood but tingles as I look at the arched neck and pawing hoof and panting nostril of Job's cavalry horse: "Hast thou clthed his neck with thunders le paweth in the val ley. He goeth on to meet the armed men. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. le saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the batti afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting ." I think it is the cavalry of the Chris tian hosts, the grand men and women who, with bold dasb and holy reck lessness and spurred on energies. are to take the world for God. To this army of Christian service belong the evangelists. It ought to be the busi ness of the reular churches to multi ply them, to support them, to cheer them, to clear the way for them. Some of them you like, some of them you do not like. ' oa say some are too sensational, and some of them are not enough learned, and some of them are erratic, and some of them are too vehement, and some of them pray too loud. 0h, fold up your criticism and let them do that which we, the pastors, can never do: I like all the evange lists I have ever seen or heard. They are busy now: they are busy every day of the week. While we, the pas tors, serve God by holding the fortress of righteousness and drilling the Christian solidery and by marshaling anthems and sermonsand ordinances on the right side, they are out fight ing the forces of darkness "hip and thigh with great slaughter." Al suc cess to them: The faster they gallop the better I like it. The keener the lances they fWng the more I admire theni. We care not what convention fAity they infract if they only gain the victory. Moody and Chapman and Mills and Jones and IHarcison and Munhall and Majr Cole and Crittenden and a hundred others are now making the cavalry charge, and they are . this moment taking New Ynrk-at Philadelphia and Cincinnati for God, and I -wish they might take our nation's capital. Hear the tremendous facts: There are now in this country nearly 166, 000 church congregatiors, with near ly 21,000,000 communicants and seat ing capacity in church for more than 43,000,000 people-in other words, room in the churches for three-fourths of the population of this country, and about one-third of the population of this country already Christian. In other words, we will have only to aver arge bringing two souls to God during the next three years and our country is redeemed. Who cannot, under the power of tne Holy Ghost, bring two souls to God in three years? As so many will bring hundreds and thous ands to God, most of you have to bring only one soul to God and the gospel campaign for this continent will be ended. - If you cannot bring one soul to God, or two souls, or three souls, in three years, you are no Christian and deserve yourself to be shut out o! heaven. The religious pessimists of this coun try are all the time depicting the ob stacles as so great and our forces as so small that we half of the time feel that we are attempting an impossibility. Tai't of your prayers and preach n 3of your stuffing of groans a in so '' of acciamtion 1 aumph, and the United States gospelized, and if the United sbe gospeliled America will bej ,elized, and, .Aaierica gospelized,( vill take Asia from the Pacific I ..nd.Europe frxzche unfiw beach, and not far from now the lost star we live on will take its place among the constellations tniat never fell. Let the more than 21,000,000 communicants, as they left the sacra mental cup to their lips, take oath that they will not rest until the other 40, 00,000 are saved. The opportunities are all saddled and bridled. Where are the men and women to guide them? "I will deliver thee 2,000 horses if thou be able to set riders upon them." What two men can do for good or evil is impressed upon me by the fact that, two Scotchmen going to California, each took something that would re ind him of his native country. The ne took a thistle, the national emblem f Scotland. The other took a hive f bees. Years went by and the work f the two Scotchmen is widley seen. T'he curse of the Pacific slope is the histle and the blessing of the Pacific slope is the horney found everywhere n woods and fields. [n your life are you responsible for honey or thistles, and, if one man can do so much good adt another so much evil, how much ould be done for the ransom of this ountry by 21,000,000 people all con ecrated ? Get out of the way with your dolor-1 us foreboding and change your dir gs for what we have not done for the rand march of what we may do and] vill do. Tne woman at Sedan, in hose house Napoleon the Last was aiting to make surrender of himself nd his army, said to the overthrown1 rench emperor, "What can I do for< ou?" And the despairing ex mon-j rch replied, "Nothing but draw down 1 he blind so that Icannot be staredj t." In this gospel campaign we have1 lenty to draw down the blinds. In od's name I say pull the blinds and et the morning sun of the coming ictory shine upon us. What we want n this campaign for God is the self bnegation and courage of the men of1 oin Campbell. who, as Lord Bishop 1 owie of New Zealand, once chaplain] f his army, told me, said to the roops: "Men, no retreat from this: lace. Die right here." And theyi houted, "Yes, Sir Colin, we will do t!" And they did. Temporary defeats ou :ht not to dis earten. What is Bunker- Hill monu ent? Monument ot defeat. But rom that bloody mount American in ependence started for its grandest chievement, and all the defeats of ie cau:;e of God are incipient victory. Tbi saints in all this glorious war Shall coniuer, though they die-. They see the triumph from afar ArA seize itwith their eye. And now, standing as 1 do, in this I stional capital, let me say that what I e want in the senate and house of c epresentatives and the supreme court s a pentecostal blessing that will shakei he contiment with divine mercy. s here recently came into my hands s de records of t wo congressional prayer f 2eetings, on the rolls of which were o he names of t le most eminent sena- 1 ors and representatives who then con- v rolled the destinies of this republic- t he one congressional prayer meeting a a1S57 and the other in 1800. The re- s ~ord is in the handwriting of the hilanthropist, William E. Dodge, t ;en a member of congress. There c re now more Christian men in the s ational legistature than ever before v~ religious movement which before r he inauguration of the next president bal enthrone Christ in the hearts of 1 his nation? They have the brain, hey have the eloquence, they hare y he influence. God grant them the r ~race sufficient! .Who in congr-ess- 1 onal circles will establish the capito- v~ ine prayer meeting in 1897i Let the vening of the last decade of this cen- a ury be irradiated with such a reli-i ious splendor. There are the oppor-v unities for a national and interna- I tional charge, all bridled and saddled. c \here are the riders to mount them? 1 The cavalry suggests speed. When a hands of the soldiery hcrsetnan an the spurs are struck into the hank you hear the rataplan of the hoof. "V-ictcy" is he wor1 that describ' the miovermient -acceleration, im:omnez tum---and what we want in gettin into the kingdomot of* God ;s ederit; You see, the years are so s-vift, an the days are so svift, and the hou: are so swift, and the miuates are swift, we need to be sjift. For lac of this appropriate speed miny do m get into heaven at all. Here we ai in the last Sabbith of the vear. D vou ever know a twelfth mont quicker to be gone The golden rc of one autumn speaks to the golde rod of the next autumn, and tY crozus of one springtime O the croct of another springtime, atd tne snov banks of adjoining years almost reac each other in unbro'Ken carve. \ are in to:) munc hurrv about ne things. Iasiness men in tio muc hurry rush into speculations that rui them and rnau others. People mos from place to p:.i' in tDo oreat hasti and thenev oot teir nerves an weae-1 t:e heart's action. Bit ti! only thing in wx hich they are afrai of being too hasty is the tter of til soul's salvation. Yet did any on ever get damaged by too quick repen ance or too quick pardon or too quic emarnipation? The Bible recommend tardiness, deliberation and snaillik movement in somethings, as when en )ins us to be slow to speak an slow to wrath and slow to do evi but it tells us, "The king's busine: requireth haste," and that our day are as the ilight of a weaver's shuttl and ejaculates: "Escape for thy lifi Look not behind thee; neither sta thou in all the plain." Other cavalr troops may fall back, but mounte years never retreat. They are alwv going ahead, not on auiiid but at full run. Oh the commaud of their hni for~ the night. Tne reg ments of tne years never hear th command of "talt! and never pite tent for I- night. The c' .ury leads on its troop c 100 years, and the year leads on it troop of :h5 days, and the day leaa on its troop of 24 hours, and the hou leads on its troop of 6() minutes, an< all are dashing out of sight. Perhap there are two years in which we ar most interested-our first and ou last. Held up in our mother's arms we watched the -ight of the tirst With wondering eyes we all watcl the coming of the last. The'name o that advancing year we cannot call It may be in the nineties of this cen tury, it may be in the tens or twentie: or thirties of the next century, but i is coming at full gallop. With wha mood will we meet it? in jocosity, a lid Thomas Hood in his last moment aying, "I am dying out of charity t( the undertaker who wishes to earn, lively Hood." Or in fear, as dic 'homas Paine, saying in his last mo ment, "Oh, how I dread this myste 'ious leaD in the dark !" Or in boast ulness, as did Vespasian, saying ir uis last moment, "A h, inethinks I a: becoming a god." Or in frivolity, a lid Demonex, the infidel philosopher, aying in his last moment, "You may o home; the show is over." Or con cience stricken, as did Charles IX ol ?rance, saying in his last moment: 'Nurse, nurse! What murder! What >lood !" Or shall we meet it in glad. itess of Christian hope, like that of rulius Charles Hare, who said in his ast moment, "Upward, upward! )r like that of Richard Baxter in his asi moment minct. "A lmost well" br'flike that of Martin of Tours, say ing in his last moment, "I go to Abra ham's bosom." Or like that of pol ished Addison, who said in his las moment,' See with what ease a Chris tian can die." Or like that of Georg< Whitefield, who felt that he had sait all that he could of Christ, declarin; in his last moment, "I shall die si lent-*" Or like that of Mrs. Schim melhennich, who said in her last mo mnent: "Do you not hear the voices and the children's are the loudest" Dr like that of Dragonnatti, saying ii bis last moment; "Stand aside! I set my father and mother coming to kis! me." O~e as did the dying girl who having a few evenings before sat on bench in a London mission, was seer to have tears of contrition rolling Iown her cheek, and who, departing ~rom the room, had put in her hant by a Christian woman a Bible, witl .he passage marked, "Thre blood o: Testus Christ cleanseth from all sin.' Phough having promised to be at the aext meeting she did not come. The Christian woman who gave hei .he Bible was visiting the hospital mud the nurse said to her: "I wish rou had been here a little while ago. WVe had a young woman who hac >eenl run over by a wagon. Poor thins she was fearfully crushed and died al nost at once. She had a Bible in he, iahd, with your name in it, and she aid when she was brought in: Thank God: I found Chrisi LS my Saviour lhst night. The~ >lood of Jesus Christ, his Son. leanseth us from all sin." Oh, my riends, if all right for the next world, he years can not gallop past too rap dly. If it were possible bor the cen uries to take the speed of the years, tnd the years the speed of the days, Lnd the days the speeed of thre hours, hey could do us no harm. The ;horter our li fe the longer our heaven. Che sooner we get out of the perils of his life, if our work be done. the bet em. No man is safe till he is dead. 3etter men than we have b~enr wreck d and at all ages. Lord and Lady \apier were on horse-back on a road n India. Lord Napier suddenly said o Lady Napier, "ride on, and fetch ssistance, and do r ot ask me why.' he sped on and was soon out of ight. The fact was, a tiger's eyes ~lared on them from the thicket, and ie did not dare to tell her, lest, frighted, she fall in the danger' and ierhaps lose her life. F~rom all sides f us on this rosad of life there are ierils glaring on us, from tigers of emptation, and tigers of accident, nd tigers of death, and the sooner we et-'out of the perils of this life the etter. Let 1897 take the place of 89t;, and 1898S the place of 18)7, and ur souls will be landed where there hail be "nothing to hurt or destroy n all God's holy mount." "No lion hall be there, nor any ravenous beast hall go up thereon; it shall not be ound there, but the redeemed shall raik there. And the ransomed of the aord shall return and come to Zion rithi songs and everlasting joy upon heir heads. They shall obtain joy nd gladness, and sorrow and sighing hall tiee away. Oh, will it not be grand when from he windows and doors of the "house f many mansions" we look out and se passing along the golden boule ards of heavea the white horse caval y that St. John describes in Rlevela on? J ohn Wesley said he thought orses had soub1; but, take tue story 2 Revelatiou as iigurative or literal, ou must admit that none but caval y' horses is mentioned as being in eaven, John xix, 14, "The armies ~hich were in heaven followe d 1 m pon white horses." You see. they re mounted troops. Their leader i's a deep crimson attire. His vesture, ~e are told, is "dipped in blood," not lood of human slaughter, as many ther conquerers have their attire, but .is own blood, lloo' of crucifixion gony, the blood by ~vhichi he redeem d1 ment is in vir'id contrast with the snow white charger on which our . Lord is seated. And no saved sinner F can ga7- on that red and that white L without remembering that though his g sins were once re., like crimson, they -. have become whiter than snow. d o fh, those celostial cavalcades whom s our conqueror in scarlet shall lead on o through the streets of hea-en ! Wide k streets. hundreds of mounted troops >t abreast: Iong streets,.thousand s in ,e sight. followed by coming thousands d through the long day of heaven which ii hath no setting sun. Mind you, only d the cavalry are in that shining pro a cession, thise who did work outside e the forts, those who dared all things s for God, those who had in them the spirit of holy dash. We who did n easy work may look at that proces e sion, but will not be a part of it. :t Tnere imhey pass, the equestrians and h equestrien nes of heaven, regiments of a evangelists, of tract distributors, of e street preachers, of salvation armies, of once half starved home mlissiona dL ries on the frontiers, of those who did e inconspicuous service for Christ and d never nad their names in the Pewspa e pers but once, and that in the notice e of their own obsequies, a notice not accompanied by the request. "Send no k tiowers," for there was no danger s that there would be a profusion of e Ilowers. t As from the windows and doors of d the "house of many mansions" we , look on the passing spectacle some of s us will wish that on earth we had had s less salary and more hardship, less e comfort and more exposure, less cau tion and more courage, less sheiter v and more storm, less smooth sailing y and more cycione, and that we had d dared all at the front instead of taking care of ourselves in the rear. ard. mounted troops! Favorites aven' C 12irymen and caval Sryw men of the Lord God Almighty. No chargers of heave a too white or e too frched of neck or too prancing of gaiti for those seated on them. If Job warhorse, while the battle was goi g on, said, "Ha, ha:" shall not the chargers, now that the day is Swo utter a more jubilant "Ia, ha?" s For ard. under arches of triump, by foutains rainbowed of eternal joy andt amid gardens abloom with unfad E ing .eiliorescence and along palaces wh re, after they have dismounted, thes souls shall reign forever and ever: they march, they brandish their wesions with which they gained blooless victory, and they rise in stirrguPs of gcld to greet all the rest of hea.ven, gazing upon them from the amothystine balconies. A glorious hea4eit will be for all of us who any, here and anyhow served the LorA1, but an especial heaven, a mo nted heaven, a processional heapenl, for those who have done out sid work, exposed work, and belong ed o the Lord's cavalry. "The ar mie I which were in heaven followed hi upon white horses." T en let the creaking door of the clos ng year go shut. When that cl es, better doors will open. The wo Id's brightest and happiest years are yet to come. Toward them we spe d on in swiftest stirrup. Cavalry cha e at Inkerman was not so rapid. At la. t the equestrians equalt the chargers . At last the riders ar. as many as he horses, DIS. SE OF SWINE. H og Choler a an. Swine Plague--No Cure fr'ihese Diseases. ,CLEMSON CoL EGE, S. C., Dec. 2 . Th' ~a..:..stry of this State is in creasing daily in importance. Of the .many diseases which are apt to inter tfere seriously with this profitable en .terprise three are two which are of Sspecial interast to those engaged in [that business, viz: Hog cholera and ,swine plague. Hog cholera and swine plague are two diseases which up to .this moment are practicably incura ble. These diseases are produced each by a particular micros::opical plant, thtis, a plant so small that it can only be seen with a powerful micro scope. The animal becomes infect ed either by food- or by inhaling the cause of cholera or swine plague and in due time succumbs to the at tack of the disease while those not dying will never recover sufficiently to be of any value. There is little doubt that these two diseases have re ceived more attention from the best veterinary talent, not only of this country, but of Europe also, than any other diseases of like character. In swine plague, the lungs are primarily attacked but in hog cholera the large intestines are esnecially diseased as in almost all cases ulcers are found in them. This affection resembles Asiat ic cholera, or dysentery of the hu man. While we can destroy the lit tle germs, or plants causing those hog diseases theoretrically, it is impossible to reach them after they have once entered the body of an animal, and prevention therefore, is of utmost im portance in this trouble. The follow ing points if carefully executed will mostly prevent an outbreak of hog cholera even if in immediate neigh borhood of a herd. 1. No pig should be bought from a herd until one year of the last case of cholera in that herd. 2. Hogs should not be allowed to drink from a stream on the upper part of which a herd is located which has had or has cholera. 3. Anything coming from infected grounds. that is, farm implements, dogs, people, etc., must not be per mitted to enter premises free from cholera. This is necessary, as the germs producing the diseases are con veyed bv them to tile uninfected place. 4. Reoeated disinfection of the premises best done by spreading slak ed lime about the premises and fre quent se~aring of all feeding uteni sils with boiling water. Experiments have been made to prevent hog cholera by inoculating hogs with a certain preparation known as hog cholera serum. but at the pres ent miomemient the results obtained by that method of inculation do not warrant its general introduction, and the best way to prevent the introduc tion or spread of this disease is by the means mentioned above. W. E. A. WMAN, N. S. A Family Asphyxiated. NEw Yonx, Dec. 30.-A family of four persons were asphyxiated at their home in the Northern portion of this city tcdiav. Two are dead and an other is likely to die. John Lichten her, a cabinet maker, his wife Lizzie and their two children, Willis, 22 months old, and Jacob, 12 weeks old, comp.'ised the family, who occupied four rooms at the rear of Ackersport IMorris hotel. When Lichtenberg was missed from his bench todaysa messenger was sett to his rooms to learn tihe cause. 'lihere the t so chil 'dren were found dead and the parents unconscious. The physicians who were called decided that asphyxiation was the cause, and that Mrs. Lichten berg would probably die. The origin of the noxious gas, however, hai not been discovered. Killed by a Bog. DeuBL, Dec. 2S.--A f.nil- of ten persons and anumber of caf e have been engulfed by the subsidi:ng of a bog of one hundred acres ne~r Castle Island, County Kerry. It i-e stated that other persons were drowned at the same time andi place THE CITADEL ACADEMY. ANAUAL REPORT OF TriE SAD OF VIS!TORS. Halthit of the ISops Has Been Good aud Their Work satisfactory-The ltoard Mak- an E4timqto that .;,0o0 Will h Needed Next Year. The annual report of the Board of Visitors of the Citidel Academy has just been issued by the State Printer and as the graduates and friends of the institution are scattered in every nook and corner of the State, some statements as to results in the past year, present condition and future needs and prospects, will prove of in terest. On commencement day there were upon the roll of cadets loS, of which 17 graduated, 6 were dismissed and cne was discharged on account of phy sical disability. Seuen others have left the Academy for various reasons and 41 were admitted since October 5, making the present enrollment 121. Continuing this report along the same line, Superintendent Coward savs: The work of the session has begun in a very satisfactory manner in all departments. I take great pleasure in stating that the older cadets seem to be carrying out in good faith the action taken by them last year in ref erence to the ill-treatment of new ca dets. I have had no reason even to suspect that there nas been any hazing done by them this year. The condition of the building and its equipinent is most unsatisfactory. The roofing, especially of the West wing, is in bad condition. The entire furniture of the class rooms and dor mitories, the walls, ceilings, the wood work generally, and the piping, all need overhauling, painting or renew ing. In view of these things and of oth er important matters, I would earnest ly reccmmend to the Board that the General Assembly be urged to appro priate for the support of the Academy the next fiscal year the sum of $23,000, to be expended as follows: For the support of 6S beneficia ry cadets.................. $30,0) t For equipment of drawing C.e- t partment................ 250 1 For equipment of physical de partment............... .500 For class room furniture...... 500 For library................... 500 For repairs................... 1,250 Total.....................$23,000 t General Johnson Hagood, Chair- I man of the Board of Visitor, says in t his report: The Association of Graduates con tinues to maintain one cadet in the Academy. He is borne upon the rolls f and discharges all the duties of a pay cadet. t Major C. L. Reese after long and honorable service as Professor of Chemistry and Physics resigned his chair at the close of the last academic year. t This ledito the following rearrange ment: f Lieutenasnt 0. J. Bond was appoint ed. Professgr of Drawing and Book- - keeping and Assistant Professor of Mathematics with the rank of Captain. Lieutensat J. T. Coleman was an-a pointed Professor of Physics with the rank of Captain. Mr. F. L. Parker, Jr., a graduate of the Academy, was appointed Assistant Professor, with the rank of First Lieu tenant and placed in charge of Chem- ~ istry. The Superintendent's annual report a of receipts and disbursements up to November 1, the close of the academic 7 year, is hereto appended. Vouchers, n as required by law, have been filed n with the Comptroller General. The I accounts for the remaining t wo a months up to December 31, the termi- ~ nation of the fiscal year as established f by the new Constitution, will be filed r as a supplementary report. It becomes I necersary to do this in order that the r present report be put into the State 1 Printer's hand in time to be laid be- c fore the Legislature at its assembly. f< Attention is earnestly called to so much of the Superintendent's report j as relates to the public property at the o school. It is here repeated and em- a; phasized: "The condition of the build- r; ing and its equipment is most unsat- p isfactory. The roofing, especially of is the West wing, is in bad condition. o The entire furuiture of the class roomns a and dormitories, the walls, ceilings, is the woodwork generally, and the pip- p ing, all need overhiauling, painting or t: renewing." n The expenses per cadet, in full of all a charges whatever, remain as hereto- o fore, $300 per annum. This amount c is less than at any school of similar ti grade in the United States, and can only be kept within that limit by rigid I economy- of disbursement. The pay 51 cadets meet the chtargze in ful,. and ig are at no expense to the State. There si is no distinction in maintenance and n educatio. between these and the ben- le eficiaries and there can be none. The sj whole scheme and spirit of the school oj rEquires, and its regulations provide, n, that no distinction between cadets e: shall be known, except that arising be from merit. Until the last two years a' the General Assembly, by annual ap- a' propriation, recognized this basis of m expenditure in full for the sixty-eight L beneliciaries of the State it requires the Academy to receive. For three years the appropriation has been less fr $270 per cadet, and the beneficiaries te have necessarily been required to pro- at vide for part of their maintenance out of their own resources-.r The small library was bought with p money derived from the Federal gov- ci ernmient. No appropriation has been ci made by the State, at any time since, d< for keeping it up. r The same appropriation asked for by Colonel Coward is repeated by a< him. to The current policies of insurance re will not ex pire till 1898. h. Whatever policy the wisdom of the H Legislature may adopt as to maintain- to ing in whole or in part the beneficia- vi ries, it appears to the Board that the remaining appropriations asked for go without saying. The commionest principles of business suggest the care cc and preservation of the public proper- 0. ty by timely repairs, and supply of d actual loss by wear and tear- bc The otlicials of the school are faith- te ful and eilicient, and the high stand- th ard of instruction demanded is fully Cl attained, C1 The discipline and esprit of the ca- at dets is excellent. 'The Board of Visitors are gratified ca to report that the Academy is worthily o! filling its place in the State scheme of w: highier eduacation. They commend it sa to the fostering care of the General in Assembly. ci; Johnson Hagood, Chair.nan. pt Dr. Paaer reports that the health ro of the institution has been good, but ca there was one death, that of Cadet W. in I. Hill, of Abbeville, who died of mn cerebro spinal meningetis. ca The three cadets most distinguished il and reported to the Adjutant General, of United States Army, are B. G. Mar- ti< phy, Union: T. W. Carmichael, of of Marion, and F. K. Hlolmant of Sami- be ter. le The composition of the Board has hi been chned by the resii-nnfinn of cce Col. H. A. Gaillard of Winnsboro. who has been suecceded by (ol. J. J. McLucas. BRYAN CANCELLED HiS CONTRACT lt- ieun of the Senmatoinal Mainer of Ad. verthing it. The Journal can :ire with positive authority the actual facts in connec tion with William J Bryan's lecture tour contract. Although the first and last lecture at De Give's ope house. in Atlanta. brought receipts amount ing to $2.300, Mr. Bryan was induced to cancel his contract by the actions of his mansgers, who insistEd on mak ing a hippodrome of his appearances. Rather thin depart from the digni:ied position he maintained throughout the carnpaign, he decided to return to his home in Lincoln. Mr. Bryan was led to believe fr)m the very start that his tour was to have been of the most non-sensation il. He understood that he was to be taken strictly on his merits, and that 'he most formal and modest method >f billing was to be used in announc ing his coming. Instead of this, he was confronted in Atlanta with huge xsters stuck indiscriminately through >ut the city and picturin- him in nost vulgar and distateful manner. )ne bill showed him in lithograph ;tanding beside Jackson. Jefferson, Fincoln and Washington. This par icular bill was most obnoxious to the iefeated candidate and most inimical o his sense of judgment. He was so Eisheartened at the course display hat had been made of him that he ?vas tempted to refuse to enter the >pera house. Kindly consideration 'or the enthusiastic audience booked or the house only deterred him from -efusal. However, when he went upon the tage, he had fully determined to peak no more under the contract he lad made. He so announced himself o his managers, Roache, and Com tock. next day. It had come to Mr. Bryan's ears pre rious to his entry into Atlai -a that loache and Comstock had quarrelled n an ugly manner over the notoriety hat each was to get out of his afilia ion with him. This he was willing o pass over, as it had not then be :ome public, but the vulgar display >f posters and the wording of the ad rertisements offended him to the soul. Here is a copy of the original tele ,ram sent to Mr. Bryan by V. E. Mc. 3ee, who was the financial backer of he lecture tour and with whom he vas induced to enter into the con ract: "Congratulate you on your magnifi ent endeavor. Will you entertain Lon-sensational business proposition or 50 lectures for $50,00?" Mr. Bryan answered by telegram in he aUirmative. Mr. McBee was ,bout to close a contract on this basis ;ith Mr. Bryan when he was told that here were not enough houses south f Washington big enough to hold he people who would want to attend. le then arranged with Mr. Bryan o pay him $10,000 cash in advance or 10 lectures, and to plan for the fu ure on a basis satisfactory to both. 'his was agreed to after Mr. McBee ad sent Mr. Bryan this letter: "Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9,18S90. -Hon. William J. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.: "Referring to the telegraphic corre pondence in regard to your lecturing. ~his is quite a departure from my egular vocation, but, being both per onally and politically interested in our most magnificent campaign, I in prompted to make the offer. "In reply to your telegram of Nov. I wired you last night, giving a umber of references as to my busi ess qualifications and social standing. t may not be improper for me to give brief statement of who I am, that ou may satisfy yourself by making arther inquiries outside of the gentle ien named in my message. My oflice at Portsmouth, Va., am general su eriatendent of the Seaboard Air Line tailway. Have been prominently onnected with railroads in the South r the past thirty years. See bio raphical direct ry of railway officials. [ave extensive acquaintance through ut south and east. First, I wish to ssure you that the element of admi stion enters into the motive that compts the offe~r referred to. There , of course, a speculative idea, but nly from the stand point of legitimate, onest and sincere endeavor belong 2g to the highest class of work in resenting you before the people on I ie lecture platform. This work shall t tost emphatically be free from all r lvertising of any personal interests e enterprise whatever, and in this I nnection I am agreeable that con 'act shall be most explicit. "Offer in brief, detailed, to wit: j ou select territory and subject for s ) lectures. Will deliver you certi- j ed check for ten thousand dollars on gning contract. This is to be ply ient for the first ten lectures, other ctures paid for on delivery, whicht iall be guaranteed. Eintire details tour arranged to your satisfaction, ~ at more than three lectures a week tpected. Urgent that tour should agin within fortnight. Wire me here Kimball house as to particulars, d id if further entertained will send n y attorney and representative to V incoln to close matter at once. c V. E. McBee." Mr. Bryan had the close advice of 3 iends before he shid ott his tour af- c r the lecture in Atlanta. and they b treed with him that he would be v ise to discountenance any such out- a geous sensationalism. Mr. Bryan a -omptiy gave Mr. McBee a certitied teck for the ten thausand he had re- b ived. Hie was paid one thousand a yllars for his night's work and his b ilroad expeL~ses. Far from being compelled to quit on * count of discouragement in respect s' audiences, Mr. Bryan had every ason to believe that the tour would e tve been a great financial success. e valued his dignity and standing g o highly to submit to vaudeville ad- C 'rtisement.-New York Journal. 0 0ngO their Head.. Sa Fnxx-sco, Cal., Dec. 31.--Ac- f rding to the latest advices from the a ~ient, Id Ka Chuch, the superinten n at of the Canton police, on Novem- b r 23, seized a large number of cor.n- ti efeit Chinese coins and materials for b eir mar ufacture. The chief coiner, lang Tung, and his confederates, jca ian Mui, Ise Sang and others, wvere il rested. An imperial decree from i skin commanded the immecdiate de- ii pitation of the three above named 0' Eicers and enjoined the envoy to deal a ith the others as he thought neces- tI ry, according to law, as a warning ns the future to the people. The otli- se als who affected the sei:-ure were all n omoted in rank. The Canton vice- u y reported in ancther memorial the pture of two notorious pirate junks f< the open sea near Tua Chow. by the t: ilitarv officials. In aiectinig the a: pture one military o:licer lost his b e. A decree was issued on the 19n a November authorizing the execu.- 1K mn of the captives and orderina the 1K Ecials concerned in the capture to i promoted in rank and that the mat- 1] r of the military oticer having lost1t s life be referred to the authorites POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Hig-hest of all in leavening strength. -Lait Uinitei Stvates Gohre-runent F I Jlu Iyt. RYAT BAKING POwrtn Co., New York. reporter. If any name is neglected, ascribe it to ignorarce and not to in tention. The negroes also deserve credit for their bravery. John Green in particu lar. le was the very shadow of Chief Dargan, and the checking of the flames where they did may be attributed to Chief Dargaj and John Green, who both stood on a ladder and threw wa ter into the Byrd building for about two hours. Chief Dargan says that but for John he could not have held out The fire department did some of the best work it his ever done. The en g-ne thre w four streams of water for three solid hours. There was a great strain on the artesian well, but it was found to be inexhaustible. The first lasted for about two hours and a half. Ali of the buildings were lighted up by elect:icity, and there were no oil lamos auout.-State. Pecan Grafrs on Hickory Trees. The Greenville News notes a discov ery of much interest and value to land o vners in every part of South C iro lina. A newly planted pecan grove, it is first explained, seldom yield3 a profitable crop before the age of ten years. W. W. Lyon, of Fiorida. ob. tained soft shell pecan grafts from a neighboring grove three years ago and grafted them on some hickory trees on his place. Tne result of his experiment is a splendid crop of nut.s this year, which means seven years saved in obtaining a paying crop. The News adds: 'Mr. Lyon states that his grafts stood a heavy freeze and were not in jured. Whether the pecan will stand the cihmate of this section is the ques tion. There are localities in this coun ty where it is possible that pecans will live and thrive and pay handsomely. It will not be an expensive experiment. Farmers should try it anyhow. It will be easy to secure grafts, hickory4 trees are to be found on every farm, and the work of grafting is simple. I it can be found that the pecan can grown here it will pay a big There are many farmers w make the experiment, an feel an interest in the write to Mr. Lyon, wh~ give all necessary would be a great tr' yille county to hi Why not try it?" There is no ques can stanu~tirhe ci They grow and thriye far no this latitude-as far north, we belie as the Canada line. They will thrive in every county in South Carolina. It is easily practicable to repeat the Florida experiment, with like success, wherever there are hickory trees, and they grow in every part of the State.' It is not necessary to write to Mr. 3 Lyons "for information." What is necessary is for the owner of tue hick ory trees to understand grafting, or tod employ some one who does under-? stand it, and to obtain the "grafts"'. and use them. There are not a few - pecan groves in the State, old -and young and doubtless their owners will be willing to supply all the grafts; that are wanted, for a consideration. It would be to the advantage of fa ers and other land-owners, we sup pose, to graft the thin shell pecan o every hickory tree on their lan The pecan nuts are valuable and es be readily sold anywhere, while th hickory nots are not minch in dema except from squirrels. If the grafts can be obtained more enterprising farmers in county should lose no time in ing how to use them. They ca less get all the ins from Clemron col e~ or fro or the students at the college. six boys have just been g from the institution and all who studied the agricultural have byeen carefully instructe kind of work. Flood, Famine and1 Choi.era. axxicisco, Dec. 22.-Tb mer Peru brings news that in ads to the small pox epidemic at Jap ports, cholera has revived in Kong, and though there are ni many deaths, the plague is incr and serious results are expected. disease had made headway in Chinese cities and on the islan Formosa. The Japanese port decared a quarantine against all era lanfected districts. Aisevere famn. ine is reported from western China. I is particailarly severe in the city of Chuantung, in Szechuen province. where there has tmeen a prolonged rain, causing !loods which has spread over vast areas of country, destroy ing almost the entire rice anid vegeta ble crops. The inhabitants are dying by scores from stairvation, and to add L' the horror of it a large proportionl of the-city situated on a blurfa bend of the Kinsha river, was carri under the flood by a lac'dslide an about ;3u0 of the starving~ (hi were drowned. The 11lod had unde miced the base of the biutf and a por tion of the hill, about five acres in ex tent. iluinced inito the water. A Convenient Invenutlon. Au Urangeburg farmer comes to the front with a new iuvention in th shaue of a Lubricator for oiling ve hiciefinecs w+ot't taking them off the axi>. It is inserted 17 9' hub between two of the sookes. When y ou waat 'o grease your wt'eel all you niave. to de is to withdraw a plunger, svhich ope i'tes witha spring, and p as much oi. as is needed on ta. axle Upon bein:: released the:.pring close up the o:u hole a ul it is opeued it oiling up again. l'. avr ingen os andt clever ci:c. and is sound to be used generally. W t ese lubri cators a 'ele can bef oiled up any where alo'n th roa la~ less than one minute. In au o i valuable invention is c s o -d by :'-: National Labrica;er c. upanyu ofO geug S. C., e .s. L- S. E iitor and Pr~ee~r ofth i rneburgr Times jysuous, ' :sut nan er of the a7. aielis)a f :iee that itj . Th e uy wants anN -oanty >- ei! the Lubri DARLINGTON BURNED. TENzS OF THOUSANCS OF DOLLAR: LOsT N A CONFLAGRATION. One F.reiuan Kill-d and Another Seri"Us ly li jared- List ot the Sofrerers and TheI Several Lonms. DanLIs;ToN. S. C . Dec. 31.-Th west side of the public square, whic! yesterday was a beautit al block o two story brick stores, now lies P ashes. About 1l::) last night t21 slumbers of the citizens were broke' by the shooting of pisto!s and th sound of the town Dell. They aros to fird that the heavens were aglow and that the flames were licking higi up into the air. A watchman on thi square discovered the fire and prompt ly gave the alarm. The ,lames wer< found io be in the rear of the dri goods store of Messrs. Blackwell Bros and they had made such headway tha nothing could be saved. Tne citizen: rushed up, broke the door open to try and save a little of the stock, but thej were helpless. Only t.vo show case. were taken from tne building, ant these were so badly Lr.ken and tht goods in them so badly damaged tha they are practically worthless. Th( stock here was worth about $14,U0 and the insurance was about SI. 500. This is a great loss to the firm. In the same building and with onlv a plaster wall between was the stor of Messrs. Strauss & Rosen, which was also soon in fh imes. The doot was broken in and all the stick taken out but about $150 worth. This was only a branch of the larger store on Pearl street for the fall trade, and as the stcck;was to be moved back to the Pearl street store today it had gotten low. There was no insurance. Immediately auove the store of Blackwell Bros., was the law otlices of Messrs. Boyd and Bro.xn. These wore a total loss. Mr. Boyd, being n old, lawyer. had one of the best libraries in the Pee Dee section. The loss here is unestimable: papers. lib rary and fixtures. some of whicn are very valuable, were all consumed. rhe firm carried a light insurance. .Just above the store of Messrs. trauss c Rosen was the law otlice of essrs. Nettles & Nettles. The lib rary, fixtures and papers here were all lestroyed. Nothing was saved. The loss was about $3,500, and there was no insurance. Mr. C. S. Nettle the junior partner of the firm, had his re idence burned on Christmas day. These firms were all in one building, >wned b7 Mr. S. Marco, wuose loss is 10,000, with an insurance of only '5,750. This is the second time that Mr. Marco has been burnt out in the ast few years. Next door to the Marco building was the building of Mr. J. II. Early. [n this were two stores, one occu-)ied y Mr. Early himself. who was in the ardware business, and the other by :he county dispensary. The hardware store was not opened as soon as the :rowd gathered, and after it caught ery little could be saved. What lit le stock that was saved was so badly lamaged by water that it is practical. y a total loss. Mr. Early's ouilding vas worth about $10,000 and his stock Lbout $S,000. He carried no insur Lnce and consequently was the great st loser. The county dispensary, which was n the same building as the hardware tore, was also consumed by the flames. dfr. W. F. 'Wilkes, the dispenser, owed great presence of mind and ef used to let the door be opened. A pard was placed at both the front Lnd rear door and no one was allowel o enter and none of the liquors were aved. Some of the old twners are amenting today that their ti ->ats are ry. The artesian well does not tuench thirst of every kind. Before te guard was stationed at the rear loor several persons got in and flled heir pockets. so it is rumored. with 'hat they thought was champagne, ut behold !when they got to the ligsht nd examined it it was gin. The dis ensary was a total loss. There was bout j2,500 worth liquor in the build g, which was entirety covered by in urance. The dispenser has rented the tore recently occupied by Parrott lros., in the Manuel Marco building, in Pearl street, and will be ready to atisfy the thirst of the toners in a few .ays. He expects a shipment tomor ow Over the hardware store was the aw otlice of Messrs. Townsend & Soyd, who lost most of their library, xtures and papers in the otlice. A art of the effects were taken from be building, but they can't be found .ow. Dr. C. B. Graham had his dental arlors in the Early building. im 1ediately over the dispensary. He >st in instruments, etc., about $190, nd had no insurance. The doctor ys he will b3 ready for business in bout 10 day. The building of Mrs. M. J. Byrd, e xt door to the Early building caught Sthe roof. By the heoric efforts of ae citizens and fire department this ras ut out, but not until the iron ront was ruined anid the building ooded with water. Her stcek of noi nery was taken out, but it was 'ery adly damanged by water. Her resi ence was over the stcre and the fuar iture was not taken out. It is soaked -ith water. Mrs. Byrd is out of the ity, having gone to iharleston to ury her husband who died here last uesday, and her loss and insurance innot bc gotten accurately. Hecr uilding, which is a practical wreck, 'as worth ab:out $5,t000, and her stock nd furniture about $:t,5 . 8he had insurance of .j3.5'. The Peoples' bank vsn 'red also y water, ~and by tearin.g C, the roof nd pulling out the fixtures. The loss ere was between $200 and $2:' and 'as cexered by insurance. Ti - banlk as moved temporarily into old and in the Enterprise hotel. The terror of the flames was bid ough in itself, but D)arlington was ot to be let ottr with on ly'uw~ emn ration. When the brook and X-oider >mpany put its ladders up four men egan to climb them. The iirst to go p the ladder were two negroes, Jim tay and Sam Nettles. Tnrese wereI lowed by Chief of i'tlice Dargan ad Mr. M. T. Li'>. Mr. lide had ot gotten very he -i the ladder roke and the for n:- re orecioi ted to the grouud. Mr. ) :rgan was ruised slightly, but the o!- e's -far-ed orse then he did. Mr. i. dewasi nsiderably bruised and '(91. yd) te fall, but it is hoped thL o. 1 wteh Sserious. Jim May, 'hho w.,ih rst to go up the ladder, lw.,s thro sui i his had. IHis skull gas a.:I ed id he da~ e this miorainn.- aNe es had his leg broken an1 '.was other ise bruised. The doutor dosen't em to tibuk that h:e ~s seriously ounded. Tne citizens re making a purse to bury May. 'The citizens are to be :ommended r the way they fought i e fire. At mes many of themn riske- tneir limbs d lives t) check the tiat es. Nota v amnone those who tid gallant ori- were Messrs. C. W. illing, A. . Dr an. Briht Willia ing, F-rank Mauldrow, Ri , W F.Eriy, J. D). Gi oard- Normlent. There at did eq-uaiy as good ubas these, but it did