The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 15, 1899, Image 4

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A BUNDLE OF LIFE. The Rev. Dr. Talmage Inspired by Familiar Simile. THE DIVINE ECONOMY. The Things Which Go to Make Up Man's Earthly and Hea venly Existence. Ujnder the familiar image of a bundle Dr. Talmage shows in this sermon the things which go to make up man's earth ly and heavenly life; text, I Samuel xxv. 29. "The soul of my Lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God. Beautiful Abigail, in her rhythmic plea for tne rescue of her inebriate hus band, who died within ten days ad dresses David the warrior in the words of the text. She suggests that his life, ph3 sically an,; intellectually and spirit ually, is a valuable package or bundle. divinely bound up and to be divinely protected. That phrase "bundle of life" i heard many tiues in my father's family pray ers. Family prayers. you kiow. have frequent re etitions, because day by day they aeknow'ledge about the same blessingA and deplore about the same frailties and sympathize with about the same misfortunes, and I do not know why those who lead at household devo tions should seek vaiiety of composition That familiar prayer becomes the house hold liturgy. I would not give one of my old father's prayers for 50 elocu tionary supplications. Again and again in the morning and evening prayer, I heard the request that we might all be bound up in the bundle of life, bat I did not know until a few days ago that the phrase was a Bible phrase. Now, the more I-think of it the bet ter like it. Bundle of life! It is such a simple and unpretending yet expressive comparison. There is nothing like grandiloquence in there arc many sub lime passages in Holy Writ, there are more passages homely-and drawing il lustrations from common observation and everyday life. In Christ's great ser mons NOu hear a hen clucking her ebikeu together and see the photo graphs of hypocrites with a sad counte nance and hear of the grass of the field. and the biack crows which our heavenly Father feeds, and the salt that is worth less, and the precious stones flung un der the feet of swinejand the shifting sand that lets down the house with a great crash and hear the comparison of the text, the most unpoetical thing we can think of-a bundle. Ordinarily it is something tossed about, something thrown under the table, something that suggests garrets or something on the shoulder of a poor wayfarer. But there are bundles of great value, bundles put up with great caution, bundles the loss of which means consternation and de spair, and there have been bundles rep resentirg the worth of a kingdom. During the last spell of cold weather there were bundles that attracted the attention and the plaudits of the high heavens-bundles of clothing on the way from comfortable homes to the door of the mission room, and Christ stood in the snowbanks and said as the bundles passed: "Naked, and ye cloth ed me. Inasmuch~ as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren. ye have done it unto me." Those bundles are multiplying. Bless ings on those who pack them! Bless ing on those who distribute them! Blessings on those who receive them! With what beautiful aptitude did Abigail, in my text, speak of the bun dle of life! Oh, what a precious bun dle is life! Bundle of memories, bun dle of hopes,-bundle of ambiti.ons, bun dle of destinies! Once in a while a man writes his autobiography, and it is of thrilling interest- The story of his birthplace, the story of his struggles, the story of his sufferings, the story of his triumphs! But if the autobiogra phy of the most eventful life were well written it would make many chapters of adventure, of tragedy, of comedy, and there would not be an uninteresting step from cradle to grave. Bundles of memories are you! Boy had memories, with all its injustices from playmates, with all its games with all its games with ball sad bat and kite and sled. Manhood memories, with all your struggles in starting-obstaclet-, oppositions, accidents, misfort unes, losses, successes. Memories of the first marriage you ever saw solemnized. of the first grave you ever saw opened, of the first mighty wrong you ever suf fered, of the first victory you ever gain ed. Memory of the hour when you were affianced, memory of the first ad vent in your home, memory of the roseate cheek faded and of blue eyes closed in the last sleep, memory of an them and of dirge, memory of great pain and of slow convalescence, memo ry of times when all things were against you, memory of prosperities that came like the full tide of the sea, memories of a lifetime. What a bundle! I lift that bundle today and unloose the cerd that binds it, and for a mo ment you look in and see tears and smiles an'd laughter and groans and noondays and midnights of experience, and then I tie again the bundle with heartstrings that have some time vi brated with joy and anon been thrum med by fingers of woe. Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is almost every man and woman. espe cially at the starting. What gains he will harvest, or what reputation he will achieve, or what bliss he will reach or what love he will win. What makes college commencement day so entranc ing to all of us as we see the students receive their diplomas and take up the garlands thrown to their feet? Oh. wh..t a bund> of hopes and ambitions! *It is a bundle of garlands and scepters from which I would not take one sprig of mignonette nor extinguish one spark of brilliance. They who start life with out bright hopes and inspiring ambi tions might as well not start at all, for every step will be a failure. Rather would I add to the bundle, and if I open it now it will not be because I wish to take anything from it, but that I may put into it more coronets and hosan nas. Bundle of faculties in every man and every woman! Power to think-to think of the past and through all the future, to think upward and higher than the highest pinnacle of heaven, or to thirnk downward until there is no lowe: abysm to fathom. Power to thing: right, power to think wrong, power to think forever, for, once having lbegun to think, there shall be no terminus for that exercise, and eternity itself shall have no power to bid it halt. Faculties to love-filial love, conjugal love, pater nal love, maternal love, love of coun try, love of God. Faculty of judg ment, with scales so delicate and yet so mighty they can weigh arguments, weigh emotions, weigh worlds, weigh heaven and hell. Faculty of will, that can climb mounnins or tunnel them, waue seas or uridge rnem. accepting eternal enthronement or choosing 7er lasting exile. Oh. what it is to b a man! Oh, what it is to b, a woman! Sublime and infinite bundle of facul ties! The thought of it staggers me, swamps ine, stuns me. bewilders me, overwhelnis ne. Oh. what a bundle of life Abigail of my text saw in David, and which we ought to see in every hu man. yet immortal, being! Know, also. that this boundle of life was put with great care. Any nierch ant and almost any faithful householder will tell you how much depends on the way a boundle is bound. The cord or rope must be strong enough to hold., the knot must be well tied. You know not what rough hands may toss that bundle. If not properly put together. though it may leave your hands in good order and svmmetri-!' before it reaches its pro per destination it may ve loosened in frazments for the winds to seatter or the raif train to lose. Now, I have to tell you that this bundle of lift. is well put together-the body. the mind. the soul. Who but the omnipotent God could bind such a bundle? Anatomists piysiologists, physicists. logicians, metaphysicians. declare that we are fearfully wade. That we are a bundle well put together I prove by the anout of journeying we can endure without damage, by the amount of rough handling we can sur vive, by the tact that the vast majority of us go through life without the loss of an eye, or the crippling of a lamb, or the destruction of a single energy of body or faculty of mind. I subpona for this trial that n~an in yonder view I 70 or 80 years of age and ask him to testify that after all the storms and ac cidents and vicissitudes of long life be still keeps his five senses, and, though all the lighthouses as old as he is have been reconstructed or new lanterns put in, he has in under his forehead the same two lanterns with which God btated hi.., and, though the locomo tives of 60 years ago were long ago sold for old iron, he has the original powers of locomotion in the limbs with which God started him, and, though all the electric wires that carried messages 25 years ago have been torn down, 'his nerves bring messages from all parts of his body as well as when God strung then, 75 years ago. Was there ever such a complete bundle put together as the human being? What a factory! What an engine! What a mill race! What a lighthouse! What a locomo tive! What in electric battery! What a fuinace! What a master piece of the Lord God Almighty! Or to employ the antielimax and use the figure of the text, what a bundle! Know also that this bundle of life is properly direeted. Many a bundle has missed its way and disappeared because the address has dropped and no one can find by examination for what city or town or neighborhood it was intended. All great carrying companies ha-e so many misdirected packages that they appoint days of vendue to dispose of them. All intelligent people know the importance of having a valuable pack age plainly directed, name of the one to whom it is to go plainly written., Baggage master and expressman ought to know at the first glance to whom to take it. This bundle of life that Abigail, in my text, speaks of is plainly addressed. By divine penmanship it iP directed heavenward. However long may be the earthly distance it travels, its des tination is the eternal city of G.d on high. Every mile it goes away from that direction is by some human or in fernal fraud practiced against it. There are those who put it on some other track, who misplace it in some wrong conveyance, who send it off or send it back by some diabolic miscarriage. The value of that bundle is so well known all up and down the universe that there are a million dishonest hands which are trying to detain or divert it, or to forever stop its progress in the right direction There are so many in fluences abroad to ruin your body, mind and saul that my wonder is not that so many are destroyed for this world and the next, but that there are not more who go down irremediably. Every human being is assailed at the start. Within an hour of the time when this bundle of life is made up the assault begins. First of all, there are the infantile disorders that threaten the body just launched upon earthly existence. Scarlet fevers and pneum onias, and diphtherias and influenzas, and the whole pack of epidemics sur round the cradle and threaten its occu pant, and infant Moses in the ark of bulrushes was not more imperiled by the monsters of the Nile than every cradle is imperiled by ailments all de vouring. In after years there are foes within and foes without. Evil appetite joined by outside allurements. Temp tations that have utterly destroyed more people than now inhabit the earth. Gambling saloons and rummeries, and places where dissoluteness reigns su preme, enough in number to go round and round the earth. Discouragements, jealousies, revenges, malevolences, disappointments, swindles, arsons, con flagraions and cruelties which make continued existence of the human race a wonderment. Was any valuable bandle ever so imperiled as this bundle of life? Oh, look at the address and get that bundle going in the right way! "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul, and mind and strength." Heaven with its 12 gates standing wide open with invita tions. All the forces of the Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival if we will do the right thing. All angeldom ready for our advance and guidance. All the lightnings of heaven many drawn swords for our protection. W~hat a pity, what an everlasting pity. if this bundle of life, so well bound and so plainly directed, does not eome out at the right station, but becomes a lost bundle, cast out amid the rubbish of the universel! Know also that this bundle of life will be gladly received when it comes to the door of the mansion for which it was bound and plainly directed. With what alacrity and glee we await some package that has been foretold by letter; some holiday presentation; something that will enrich and ornament our home; some testimony of admiration and affection! With what glow of ex pectation we untie the knot and take off the cord that holds it together in safe ty, and with what glad exclamation we unroll the covering and see the gift or purchase in all its beauty of color and proportion. Well, what a day it will be when your precious bundle of life shall be opened in the "house of many mansions" amid saintly and angelic and divine inspection! The bundle may be spotted with the marks of much expo sure. It way bear inscr-iption after in scription to tell through what ordeal it has passed. Perhaps srashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it has within undamaged of the journey. And with what shouts of joy the bundle of life will be greeted by all the voices of the heavenly home circle! In our anxiety at last to reach heav en we are apt to lose sight of the glee or welcome that awaits us if we get in at all. We all hoa frienrds up there. They will somehos hear that we are coming. Such close and swift and con stant communication is there between those upiands and these lowlands that we will not surprise them by sudden ar rival. if loved ones on earth expect our coming visit and are at the depot with carriage to mceet us, surely we will be met at ths shining gate by old friends now sainted and kindred now glorified. If there were no angel of God to meet us and show us the pal aces and guide us to our everlasting residence, these kindred would show us the way and point out the sp'endors and guide us to our celestial home, bow cred and fountained and arched and il lumined by a sun that never sets. Will it not be glorious, the going in and the settling down after all the moving about and upsettings of earthly experi ence? We will soon know all our neighbors, kingly, queenly, prophetic, apostolic, seraphic, archangelic. The precious bundle of life opened amid palaces and grand marches and accla mations. They will all be so glad we have got safely through. They saw us down here in the struggle. They saw us when we lost our way. They knew when we got off the right course. None of the 32 ships that were overdue at New York harbor in the storm of week before last was greeted so heartily by friends on the dock or the steam tugs that went out to meet them at Sandy Hook as we will be greeted in the hea venly world if by the pardoning and pro tecting grace of God we come to celes tial wharfage. We shall have to tell them of the many wrecks that we have passed on the way across wild seas and amid Carribbean cyclones. It will be like our arrival some years ago from New Zealand at Sydney, people sur prised that we got in at all, because we were two days late, and some of the ships expected had gone to the bottom, and we had passed derelicts and aban doned crafts all up and down that aw ful channel-our arrival in heaven all the more rapturously welcomed because of the doubt as to whether we would ev er get there at all. Once there it will be found that the safety of that precious bundle of life was assured because it was bound up with tha life of God in Jesus Christ. Heaven could not afford to have that bundle lost, because it had been said in regard to its transportation and safe ar rival, "Kept by tie poweraf God through faith unto complete salva t: The veracity of the heavens is i ed in its arrival. If God should i.- t,. keep his promise to just one ran.--'::d soul the pillars of Jehovah's throne would fall, and the foundations - 'he eternal city %ould crumble, and ii:,ite poverties would dash down all the cha lices and close all the banqueting h:alls, and the river of life would change its course, sweeping everything with deso lation, and frost would blast all the gar dens, and immeasurable sicknes- slay the immortals, and the new Jeru-alem become an abandoned city, with no char iot wheel on the streets and no worship ers in the temple-a dead Pompeii of the skies, a buried Herculaneum of the heavens. Lest any one should doubt. the God who cannot lie smites his om nipotient hand on the side of his throne, and tages affidavit. declaring, "As I live, said the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth." Oh! I cannot tell you how I feel about it, the thought is so glorious. Bound up with God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Bound up with inminite joy. Bound up with infinite purity. Bound up with infinite might. That thought is more beautiful and glorious than was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot of the crags uttered it--"Bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God! Now, my hearer and reader, appreci ate the value of that bundle. See that it is bound up with nothing mean, but with the unsullied and immaculate. Not with a pebble of the shifting beach, but with the kohinoor of the palace, not with some fading regalia of earthly pomp, but with the robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Pray as you never prayed before, that by divine chirography written all over your nature, you may be~ properly ad dressed for a glorious destination. Turn not over a new leaf of the old book, but by the grace of God open an entirely new volume of experience and put into practice the advice contained in the pe culiar but beautiful rhythm of some au thor whose name I know not: If you've any task to do, Let me whisper, friend, to you. Do it. If you've anything to say, True .aid needed, yes or nay, Say it. If you've anything to love As a blessing from above, Love it. If you've anything to give, That anothersjoy may lhve, Give it. If some hollow creed you doubt, 'I hough the whole world hoot and shout, Doubt it. If you've any debt to pay. Rest you neither night nor day Pay it. If you'ye any joy to hold. Near your heart, lest it grow cold, Ho d it. If you've any grief to meet, At a loving Father's feet Meet it If you know what torch to light, Guiding otbers in thbe ni.gh , Lght it. Gen.-Wheeler Left Out.' A dispatch from Washington says the president has practically made up the list of the general officers to be re tained in the volunteer branch of the service. The basis of all the calcula tions is an army of 65,000 men, for the president has so far insisted that he will not call for volunteers in addition to that number unless an emergency should arise. The reorganization ac~ limits the number of major generals to be appointed to one for each 12,000 men and the brigadier generals to one for every 4.000 men in actual service. On this basis, as there are already three major generals in the army in the per sons of Gen. 3Iiles, Gen. 1Brooke and Gen. Merritt, there is room for but two more. To till these two places the president has selected Gen. Shafter and Gen. Otis, now in command at Manila. It is safe to say that the list of briga diers to be appointed will ineind- t'o following names: Gen. Wood at Saatia go; Gen. Wilson at M;eanzas: Gen. Lee in the province of ii ana; Gen. Davis now on duty with the court of in quiry into the beef supplies; Gen. Lud low in command of Habana city; Gen. Lawton nearing Manila; Gen. McAr thur at Manila; Gen. Chaffee, and Gen. Frank. Must Wear Clothes. The United States govenment, or at least some of its agencies, have now en gaged in that most difficult of all re forms, a dress reform. In San Juan, Porto Rico an edict has gone forth that the little children shall no longer run naked in the streets. It will re uire cotton goods to clothe the little ones, and the mills of the south are very close to Porto Rico. This may THE COTTON MOVEMENT. What Secretary Hester, of New Or leans. Says About It. Secretary Ilester. of the New (rlans Cotton Exchange, says the cotton movement for the six montlhs of the season since September 1. to the close of February inclusive. shows that com pared with the crop movement last year, Texas, including the Indian ter ritory, has brought into sight this sea son in round figures 425,462 bales more while other Gulf States. w'hieli include Arkansas. Louisiana. Nlississippi, Ten nessee, 31issouri; and Oklahoma have marketed 476.492 less, and the crop of the Atlantic States, which includes North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia, shows a decrease of 136,696. In other words all of the States outside of Texas and Indian territory have decreased 593, 188 bales, against an increase for Texas and the Indian territory of 425,462, leaving the net decrease in the total of the crop marketed of 167.727. 31r. Hester shovs the amount brought into sight by groups of States for the six months of this season as follows: Texas and Indian territory 3, 179,734 bales, an increase over same time last year of 425,492 bales. Other Gulf States 2.707,570. a decrease under last year of 476,492; Atlantic States 3, 523,238, adecrease under last year of 116 696. Total crop in sight at close of February 9.410,541, a decrease un der last year of 167.726. and an increase over year before last of 1,798,545. In commenting on the above state ment the Columbia State says: Secre: tary Hester's cotton report for the first and heaviest six months of the cotton year shows that while the Atlantic States have marketed 116.000 bales less than in the same period of the preced ing year and the Gulf States 476,000 bales less, Texas and Indian territory have marketed 425.000 bales more. 31r. R. H. Edmunds of the Manufac turers' Record mentioned to us the otler day that in the Indian Territory he had been assured that 1.0u0,000 bales would be raised there within five years and in Texas that the crop of that State would soon reach 5,000,000. The rich black prairies of the trans-1issis sippi region, where not a pound of fer tilizers is used, can make a profit on cotton at 4 1-2 cents and will increase heir productionrapidly even on that basis, keeping the price down perma nently. We will be fools if we attempt to compete with them. The temporary rise in price usual at this season should delude no planter in South Carolina into dependence on cotton again. The price next fall will be made beyond the 31ississippi and it will be to, low for our profit." HENS AND THEIR FRUIT. Value of Chickens and Eggs Produced Last Year Was Fully $290,000.000. P. H. Sprague, a Chicago poultry dealer, read a paper before the farmers' institute ,at Princeton Wednesday, in which he stated that the production of chickens in the United States last year reached 3.350,00,000 and of eggs 130, 000,000,000. The total value of chick ens and' eggs produced was $290,000, 000. Accepting these figures as ap proximately correct, we must conclude that the hen plays an important part in our American life. But we will better understand the relative importance of that part when we come to make some comparisons. The value of our tcaneco crop has rarely been as much as $43,000.000. The value of our potato crop is less than $80,000,000 on an average. The value of our barley crop is not often as much as $30,000,000. An oat crop worth $200,000,000 is unusual. Our annual output of pig iron has rarely exceeded $130,000,000 in value. Coal, by far the most' valuable of our mineral pro ducts, gives a total output of some $200,000,000. Raw cotton, wheat, hay and corn are the only four products of our countrg, that exceed in value hens and hens' eggs, according to the above estimate, and cotton sometimes follows the latter in order of importance, the crop having exceeeed $290,000,000 in value only three times and the highest having been not quite $310,000,004). The wheat ciop has ranged in value from $213, 000,000 to S513,000,000 and the corn rop from about $440,000,000 to $783, 000,000. The average value of the hay crop may be stated at about $390,000, 000. From this comparison the impoi t ance of the hen, especially in our ag ricultural economy, will be appreciated. If M1r. Sprague stated the value of the egg product seperately t he fact is not reported. It would be interesting to know the value of the egg output. Probably it exceeds the value of any farm product except corn, wheat, hay, cotton and oats, may even exceed oats. The hen is by no means to be despised. A Gallant Rescue. The British steamer Cape Corriente", Capt. Metcalf, which arrived at Balri umre WedAnesday from Shields, brought the information of a brave rescue mad" at sea. On .Jan. 28. in about Lat. 44) and Long. 32. the steamer sighted a vesel in distress. which proved to be te Russian bark Barunga. Capt. Sudm~an, which had sailed from Ship Island, Ga., on December 18, with a cargo of lumber for D~ieppe. When Capt. 3Metcalf sighted the vessel she was waterlogged and partly dismiaated. At 3 p. in., a life saving crew from the steamer, in charge of Chief Officer Charles Johnson, started-to rescue the Barunga's crew. He first brought back 1rs. Sund-man and three children. The little ones were a boy three and a half years old, a two-year-old girl and a four months- old baby. It was 9 o'clock at night when the last of the Barunga's rew were on board the Cape Corri entes. The machinery of the steamer was out cf'order when the rescue was made and Capt. 3Metcalf bore for St. ihal's, where he arrived Feb. 10. Capt. Sundmnan and the 17 others res ued fronm the Barunga, were landed at that port. Killed by the Train. MIr. D). C. Carlvert, who resides be tween Abbeville and Hodges was acci d&ntally killed by the Southern train Thursday. It seems that MIr. Calvert was attemipting to board the train at Darraugh's turnout while it was in mo tion, lost his footing, and was thrown under the wheels. One of his legs was severed above the knee and his back was badly bruised from being dragged quite distance. Mr. James 31. Smith of Columbia. S . writes: Dear Sir-it eires me great pleasure to say tnat tne uid North State Ointment bought of you has entirely cured me of eczema whent verything I had used previously failed o giye any relief. It is a great medi cine, and I would not be without it ini y house. I use it for almost every thing, where any medicine is needed, nd have gotten the best of results every time. Respectfully, -TamesM. Smitk. TOBACCO Vs. COTTON. What a Marion County Farmer Thinks About the Two. The fo)l i 'wi ng article published in the Pee Dee Hustler. of 3!arion. S. C.. will no doubt he read with interest by oir riaders. The arti-le was written by a Marion farmer. Here it is. The question agitating the minds of a great many farmers of Marion county as well as other sections of Soath Car olina at the present time is the differ ence as a imoney crop as between the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, and this is a very important question to the farn ers at this time, hence it is that I wish to give them a few facts as I see them for their consideration. I will state in the outset that I am a to bacco man, but it is not my wish nor purpose to bring any undue influence to bear in favor of tobacco that I cannot state facts to sustain. I admit in the outset that when the farmers have culti vatted for a long period of time any special crop as a money crop. it is well for them to consider and calculate be fore making a change, but when they know they are losing money every year on that crop has not the time come for them to stop, ecnsider and calculate, if there is not some crop which they can cultivate that will pay them? I will now proceed to state as to the cultiva tion of cotton as given to me by quite a number of farmers and indorsed by a great many others, if in error it is their mistake and not mine, as I do not claim to know from experience. I am in formed that in the section mentioned that the average of lint cotton per acre will not exceed 250 lbs, we will put that at 5c which is more than last years crop was sold for, which would make $12 50. 1 am told to pick out, gin and bale will cost 100 lbs per acre, that would leave Q7.50 per acre to fertilize, to make it produce the average of 250 per acre, for the cultivation and hand rent. Farmers is it not a reasonable calculation to make, to say that this would soon quit itself? Now, the first proposition I have to make on the side of tobacco, is that for every farmer in Marion county that can show his cotton bill for the crop' of 1898 with any profit, I will agree to produce fifty tobacco bills for the crop of 1898, showing ten times as much profit per acre. The. tobacco bills as compared in large numbers show that in this section the land will pro duce on an average 1,000 pounds of to bacco per acre, if properly manured and cultivated. I know of very few farm ers that got as low as $50.00 per acre for the last crop and from that to $250. .00, and as I wish to be conservative on this side of the question I will say that I am satisfied that the tobacco bills in Marion county will show, an average of at least $75.00 per acre for all cultivat ed in 1898 but I do not advise the farm ers to plant tobacco, baseing their cal culations entirely on the crop of 1898, for no one knows what it will do this ycar: at the same time there is no room for any doubt if the crop is properly cultivated, but what it will pay several times more profit than cotton, this fact is not only true for the crop of 1898j but for several years with large nunm bers of farmers in sections where they pay special attention to the cultivation of' tobacco; unless they intend o do that in sections where none has ever been raised, it might be to the interest of those, wishing to raise it to group togeth er and get a good man that understands his business to show them the first year. It would not cost one much, and in addition to the profit they would get in the first crop by drying time, they would gain information that would enable them in many instances in the future to manage successfully for themselves. I have heard some good farmers say the best investment- they ever made on their crops was getting experienced men for theih first crop in tobacco that it not only paid them well in the sales of that crop but the information gained for the future, was was worth more to them than the amount paid out. I would not have any one to understand me to advise them to plant tobacco on any land that they would plant cotte~n on, for that would not d'o, but I am sat isfied from what I have seen of the lands with some few exceptions, the majority of the farmers have land that will produce good tobacco if properly cultivated; it is always best to select land that is so located as to have some natural firainage, then run your rows the way to give them the advantage of the drainage; by this, in the case of a great deal of rain, you keep the fibre roots from dscaying which alway causes the tobacco to damage and get in such condition that there is no improvement in it by anything that you can do, that you may not fail to understand this, I will state that tobacco planted on land with no drainage in case of excess of rain gets in what the tobacco men call drowned out, and in such cases is of very little value. I don't think any man's experience has been sufficient to tell improvement in tobacco damaged from the drouth, especially when prop erly managed when we do have seasons. [f in error let mec know. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. The Jews Still Emigrating to the City of Jerusalem. ia recent report to the state de partent Mr. Ravndal, United States onsul at Beirut, Syria, refers to the Zionist movement which was started two years ago and for a while was the subject of much discussion. This movement aimed at the restoration of the Jewish nation in Palestine with erusalem as its capital. It looks to ward the realization of a dream which pious Jews have cherished for many enturies. Zionism seem-d to subside s quickly as it sprang up. but it has reently had a revival. I his is due nr.l. t' a Zionist congress which was hecu at Basel. Switzerland last Septem er. and in some degree to the recent isit of the German emperor to Pales ine. Consul Ravndal gives some in eresting facts concerning the Jews in hat country. Out of a total popula ion of 201.000. about 40,000 are Jews, gainst only 14,000 twenty years ago. n .Jerusalem alone there are 22.000 Jews. half of whom have gone there from Europe and America in the last welve or fifteen years. It is evident hat the tendency of Jews to return to heir own land is growing. Whether ienism shall grow or weaken it seems ertain that the Jewish population of Palestine will be increased very largely. t is strange that this tendency has set in at a time when the Tews in almost very country enjoy a larger degree of ivil and religious liberty than eve1 be fore. It is estimated that there are 6.000, 00 of those remarkable people in the orld, the great majority of them in urope. But they are found wherever ivilization has gone and wherever they STATE PENSIONS. There Was No Change in the Law at the Late Session. 'The leigislhture did not ciauIge the pension law. Anindaneuts were iutro duced by Capt. A. 11. Dean. of-Spartan burg, and by Mr. Laban Mauldin. of Pick ns, but neither bill passed the sen ate. The state board of pcnsion:s. through Miss Kate F. Maher. clerk, is sending out instructions to township and county boards. The state board consists of M. R. Cooper, secretary of state, J. P. Der ham, comptroller general, and G. Dun can Bellinger. attorney general. The following copy of instructions to county and township boards widl be of general interest. All new applicants for pensions must appear in person before the township boards. Said application must have the approval of the township an4 county boards before the State board will ap prove them. The township boards may drop from the roll of pensioners the name or names of any party or parties which, in their judgment, are not en titled to a pension under the law. They may add to the roll only such names of new applicants as may file applications. Those already on the pension roll need not file new applications, but must re port to the board. The board will pre pare a list giving the name of each pen sioner who has died since the last distri bution of pension funds, and of those who participated in the distribution of 1898 who, in their judgment, are not now entitled to a pension. All new applications not properly and correctly filed in every particular. al though approved by township and coun ty boards, will be disapproved by the state board. The county boards are re quested not to forward to the state board the applications of new pensioners disapproved by township and county boards. Township and county boards will no tice that the law provides three classes, "A, " B," "C. with five sub-divisions of Class C, as follows: Class*A.-Those who have lost both hands, or both legs, or both eyes, or are totally disabled, and whose income does not exceed $250. This does not includp soldier, whose disabilities arise from diseases or causes arising since the war. Class B.-Those who have lost one arm or one leg and whose income does not exceed $250, Class C, No. 1.-- -Those soldiers and sailors disabled by wounds, but notsuf ficient to be placed in Class B, whose income does not exceed $250. Class C, No. 2.-Those who have reached the age of 60 years, and whose income does not exceed $100. Class C, No.3.-Widows of those who have lost their lives while in the ser vice of the State or Confederate States. and whose income does not exceed $250. Class C, No. 4.-Widows above the age of 60 years, whose income does not exceed $100. Class C, No. 5.-Widows of pension ers. This class is not mentioned in the printed acts sent out, but by the act ap proved 9th December, 1894. Blanks for reports of township and county boards have been prepared and mailed. The board can on each blank write the township, and then give the pensioners in that township by classes alphabetically. Township boards cannot be too care ful in these matters of "income" and "physical condition." It is a very poor man whose gross income from labor, rent, and other sources, does not exceed $100, or poorjands, if any which will not produce this amount gross. Prop erty sufficient to produce $100 in appli cant's or his wife's name dlebars him er her. Where soldiers or widows dispose of their property by giving or sellingr to their children they'are debarred. Widows of pensioners who re-marry are not entitled any longer to pensions. Pensioners who have moved to another State are no longer entitled to 'a pen sion. Those who have nioved to anoth er county must have their name trans lerred and draw their pension from that county. Please note very carefully the follow Let township and county boards act promptly and fairly. giving the state board full informa ion with complete re ports by townships for each county, and writing the names alphabetically, full and clear, and beginning with Class A, and giving reasons for approving. Town ship boards must first approve in writ ing each new application, and then county boards, and afterwards the state board. In making reports to county boards, township b~oards' reports should be signed by each member. A Constant Guest. Did you ever observe that the man ners of even the best mannered families are a little improved by the presence of company? lb you not realize'in your own case that you are less apt to give short answers, to be contentious, to speak sharply, to give way to selfish si lence, to be moody, or unreasonable, or disagreeable, when there is a grucst in y our household? Especially is this not so if the stranger is one of- dignified and noble bearing, of high position and caracter, of sweet'aud winning rmaa ner, and very especially if it is onie whom you love, and wno loves you? Now this thouebt seems to suggest a possibility of your wearing these "eom pany manners" always, for always you have, or may have, such a guest with you-One who is more ma jestic in hear ing than the kings of the earth, yet more tender and loving than a muother. One who is "crowned with glory and honor,"' yet becars Hlimself toward yomu with matchless tenderness one whom surely you must love, since lIe so loved you as to give His life for you. TI'here an be no doubt of Ihis willingness to bide with you, for ie Himself has promised, -.Lo! I am with you always. ven to the endt of the world. The Round Bale. Rt. HI. Edmunds. editor of the Manu facturcrs' Record. says in regard to his recent Southern trip: "I have had casion to study carefully the actual orkings of the round bale system of otton handling, which is being intro uced by Mr. Searles. and I am more han ever convinced that while it means he developnment of probably the big est industrial enterprise einee the Standard Oil was brought into exist nce, it also meins a saving of $ 30, 00.000 to $40,000,000 a year to the South. The middlemen, the cotton factors and compress people, who now ake toll out of every bale of cotton, do ot like it, but the fa:-mers do: for un er it they are getting a dollar or two ore a bale for their cotten than if put p in the old siuare bale. ECrtormA newspapers predict a longl ar, costly in expenditure of life an d oney, befor-e the United States shall finally subjugate the Filipinos. They now from the experiencs of their own overnnent the difficulties of carry ABwSLUTELY P Makes the food more del ROYAL oAKINO POWr HOW TO MAKE COTTON PAY. Some Good Advice From the Georgia Agricultural Department. In the cotton bulletin issued from the Georgia State experiment station, Col. Redding, the director devotes a chap ter to summing up some of the results of experiments on the farm duriug his nine years' administration. Ile says it is possible to make the mistake of planting too much corn or oats as well as too much cotton, and whether a far imer is producing too much cotton de pends on whether he is producing it at a profit and not on the number 2f bales he makes. If a farmer is produaing it at - cost less than the market price, and can sell at a profit, he is not pro ducing too much, it does not mattar how many bales he makes. If on the contrary he is making fifty bales at a loss, he is making too much co.ton for his good. When a farmer finds .his crop is costing him more or as. much as he can sell it for, then one of two things are necessary. He must either raise the price or lower the cost of production. The former is beyond his control and he had better address himself to the latter. In the opinion of Director Red dingdf he will select his best land, the best varieties of cotton seed, properly balanced fertilizers and manures and adopt the best methods of cultivation. the farmer can certainly reduce the cost of produciog his crop. Ee says: By these means, a farmer may not make so many bales of cotton as he has usually done; in fact, he certainly will aot, but the snaller number will have been produced at a less cost per pound. If a farmer has been planting 90 acres of cotton to get 30 bales, and finds that these 30 bales have cost him six cents a pound, it would certainly be better to reduce his area to 15 acres and his output to 10 bales. if by so do ing he can produce these 10 bales at a cost of 3 i or 4 cents per pound. In the first case there is much work and worry without any profit; while in the second case there ib not so much work and worry, and less than one-third as many bales; and there is some profit in tLe latter course. When our farmers learn that ten bales of cotton, with a profit of $10 a bale are much better than thirty bales at no profit. they will be on the road to reform. Tey will not only make money. but they willseve in 'abor, tifne and acreage, and have land upon which to make other crops for food. We quote again from Director Redding: The very same principle applies to every kind of crop. It is certainly not sound policy to expend $5 per acre in prepar ing, planting, cultivating and harvest ing a crop of 8 or 10 bushels of corn. The true policy is to concentrate labor, fertilizers and skilr, on smaller areas of better soil, for such crops as require the more exjpensive cultivation, and devote a larger area to small grain (especially oats and rye), cow peas, pas ture, etc.-crops which cost little labor and are essentially improvers of the soil. -Augusta Chronicle. ,THE COST OF THE WAR. Close to Five Hundred Millions so Far and Other Expenses a Billion. The New York Sun says the Repub lian cha?irman of appropriations and the leader of the opposition on the committee concur as to the cost to the nation of the war with Spain in money a re d; ai p.opriated. The total is al most half a billion dollars. The exact figures, as stated both by Mr. Cannon and Dockery, are $482,562,0S83. This is the cost to date of an idea, an intellectual conception; a sentiment; and the idea is worth every dollar it has cost or will cost. Last August, after hostilities had ceased, there was current an offieial statement apparently showing that the entire expenditure for military and naval operations up to that date had been s11,121,o00; and this total was prenaturely accepted in some quarters as represea~ing approximately the co:.t to the nation of the war which the na tion righteously undertook. At that time The Sun published an estimate of the several items of coat likely to be chargeable ultimately to the account of the war with Spain and its resulting responsibilities. The table is here repeated: 1. Current war expenses. .$100,000,000 2. State expenditures ... 15.000.000) 3. Private contributions. 15. 000,00011 4. War claims......... 30000.0000 5. Loss of soldiers' produc tive labor...........00.000.000 6. Interest on the war debt 90.000,000 7. Pensions.......... 000tn0,)0 I . The Maiue... ...... .3.00.000 Total.. .. .. .. . . . . . 43.000,000X This estimate was attacked as exces sive by some conscientious stat isticians, particularly on account 3f the size of the first item. How could the direct appropriations for the war itself possi bly reach $400,000.000, we were ask:ed, when the official accountants of the Treasury reported a total of only $117. 121.0001 at the end of four months of' actual operations? Yet the result shows that our esti mate was so moderate that it has al ready been exceeded by a nearly S 810, 000000. llovw many people remember .hat the corresponding item on account of the war for the preservation of the Union amounted to $3,:348.;372.904? We therefore revise the table. leav in the other items of cost standing as they were, to be verified or discredited as time roes on: 1. Curre'nt war expensess 482.562.083 2. State expenditures 15J.0.00 :3. Private contributions 15,000.000 4. War claims. .. .. .. ...200,000 . Loss of soldiers pro ductive labor........ O00.0iI~000 G. Interest on the war debt......... ...... 90,000,90l) 7. Pensions. .. .. .. .. .. 30000,000 S The Maine...........30.0000 Total.............1.025,552,083. B3aYrvON Ives, the famous New York oflector, has brought suit against a London firm of booksellers to recover 4,:374, which he p~aid for what pu ported to be an original letter writte n y Christopher Columbus, but which turned out to be only a skilful photo-| graphic ,.epr.duntion of the original let-I FOWDER URE icious and wholesome R CO., NEW YORM. Some of the Legends and Tra ditions of This Once Great Race. FRIENDLY TO THE WHITES Until the Late Uprising They Were Docile and Not So Easily Aroused. To This Day They Are Great BeUeverm In Their Legendary Lore-Polygamy Wag Once Practiced Among Them-Theb Great Regard For the Aged and Helplem Likened to Chinese Ancestral- Worship To those acquainted with the Chip: pewa Indians the recent uprising came as a surprise. For almost a century they have boasted of their friendshil for the white man. One of their prin cipal chiefs, old Na-gan-ab, who died not long ago at the age of at least 95 always spoke of it as if that friendshi; proved the possession of a superior sor of astuteness. In his youth the did man demonstrated the reality of the sentiment, or of his conversion, as the priests preferred to put it, to the extent of- discarding three wives, retaining the oldest and ugliest of the quartet he possessed. This was In 1856, and may be properly taken as the dividing pofni between civilized and uncivilized CkIp pewa history. Just before this the Chippewas had held their customary celebration at the head of Lake Su perior, which was then a favorite spoi for curing detachedl scalps and dis playing of these trophies. Although regeneration followed se quickly is was not deep enough to cure all at once the Chippewa desire- fox scalps of the Sioux. From time tradi tional these two, the Chippewas, or *Ojibways, and Sioux, or Dacotahs, had been enemies, The former, from thei docile, almost childlike nature, fisher men rather than hunters, farmers more than warriors, were the pastoral people of the redmen, not easily aroused and often imposed upon. Polygamy was practiced among them, and their re gard for the aged and helpless was akin to the Chinese ancestral worship. Once thoroughly provoked, their en mity was Inplacable. They drove the Sioux westward from Sault Ste. Marie and the head of Lake Superior to the Dakotas. This shows how strong the hatred of the Chippewas to the Sioux still continues. The Chippewas show their superior imagination in the richness of their legendary lore. Categorically spegking there are 101 of these legends that have no other repository than the mem ory of a few old medicine women who have failed to feel the charm of the new order of things and are rapidly p ssing away, their dreams with them. Their account of the beg'inningof things is very similar to the Bible story of the fiood. Storms came and rains fell until there was no dry spot anywhere. Then Wey-nah-bo-zoh-who) he was or whence he camne the story says not climbed the highest mountain. The waters ascended after him. Then he climbed a tree to the very topmost branch. His companions in tight were the otter, the "enfant du diabie' not tc mention the more odoriferous name, and the fox. av hen the storm abated Wey-nah-bo-zoh sent down first onie and then the other. Finally the second came back with a bit of earth. This his master sprinkled upon the tail of the fox with the injunction that it de scend and run around the tree until further orders. Now, It happened that, in obeying, Reynards bushy tail scat. tered the small particles of earth in every direction to give place to more earth. Presently the tree was in the centre of what might have answered for a bonanza ranch, and Reynard has not been seen since. All these legends seem to be of- an allegorical nature. having their origin in the physical changes of the earth. For instance, there is the one of O-jeeg-ah-nun-nunlg-o-quay. or the wo. main of the fishing star. She lived far north: her cousin to the southward. Now this cousin' was keeping-in-chief of the sunshine. Not unlike other mo nopolists, he was willing that his poor relation should have a slight share of it. U'sually he renewed her supply once a year, but there came a time when either he iorgot it or had been declaring too many dividends for such prodigality. At any rate, 0- jeeg, with the patience of her sex, got tired of waiting. She sent petition. after peti. tion without success. Indeed, it was altogether too cold for comfort, and more sunshine became a necessity. Have--it she would, even if she hadJ to steal it. So sending couriers ahead to decoy her husband with baiting tales of buffalo i> the near distance, she awaited thm propitious moment. When he andl all his band were gone she slipped into the wigwam, got the main supply qf sunshine, which, it woudd appear. had been in cold storage, and started on her way rejoicing. But her cousin, not hiaving found the buffa 1. had become suspicious, and at this inopportune moment appeared upon the scene. Insta rt ly comprehending what had halmoned and not wishing to kill his own tiesh and blood, he drew an arrow and shot her into theheavens, where as the star of the handle of the Big Dipper she has been compelled to serve fishermen to this day. What be came of sunshine, the narrative, with Indian lack of continuity, does not dis close. These traditions still hold,. great sway over the ChiTppewa mind. A min ister of the tribe who has been preach. lg Christianity for more than twenty five year~s speaks of the Mesabi with the same faith that he does of the Christ. Mesabi. be it said, is a mythi cal giant who was finally overcome by Wey-no-bo-zoh, and whose grave in cludes all northwestern Minnesota above Lake Superior, his wampum h~elt being Identical with the wonder ful iron deposits of the Mesaba Range, his head corresponding to the Vermil ion mines, and his feet and legs taking in the minor spurs and regions of that State's great iron deposit. The Women Were Displaced. In the reign of Edward III. all the brewers and bakers were women, and when men first began to engage in these occupations It was thought so strange that they were called men brewers and men bakers. Jorsx Barrett. United States minis ter to Siam, calls the attention of our co:ton growers and merchants to the fact that the opportunities for trade which the east holds out to them are simply infinite. Oat of the 500,003, 000 people who inhabit the Asiatic countries not fewer than 400,000,000 if the number are clothed in cotton gar hents, and out of 5,000,000 square 'niles which these Asiatic countries cons ain. not more than 100,000 square niles are adapted to the production of cotton. In these facts may be promis ed much for the cotton growing states of ort A merica.