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LIFE3S BITTERNE Dr. Talmage Eloquently Contrasts Selfishness and Kindness.i SOME HELPFUL THOUGHTS. We Should A! Strive to M This World a Pileasant ?iace and Not Scatter Worm The contrat heaeen a life of -i fishness and a life "t kind; :S iS set forth b. Dr. T.iln-a w& i u ing upon t ' conqueror f i .t. lvca tionl viii, i1). 11. -T a d ra star from heav 1.. :s it wer-: a lamp, and it fell upon the tiird p:rt 4: the rivers and uioi he fouins of waters. and the name vf te !tar is called Wornwood. Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott. Matthew Henry. Alb rt Barncs anu6 some other commemator, say that the star Worniwod of my text was a tp of Attila. kine of the llius. ie Nai so called because he was briint as a star, and Ike vwrunwood, he inIi;ttcrec everythinr lie tou*-hed. We hive :u died the Star of Beth'lhem and the Morning Star of Revciat:o ard the Star of Peace. but my subject calls us to gaze at the star Woritwoed. and my theme might be call -Briil!ant Bitter ness. A more extraordinary charatr r his tory does not furnish than this man Attila, the king of the Huns. The story goes that one day : Wo'ii,:. heifer came limping alog throun the fields, and a herdsman foliiowed its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer was wuunded, and went en back farther and farther until he came to a sword fast in the earth, the point downward, as though it had dropped from the beavens, .nd against the edges of this icord the heifer had been cut. The herdsman pulled up that sword aid presented it to Attila. Attila sa, d that sword must have dropped from the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars and its being given to him m-tnt that Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at being called libera tors, or the Merciful. or the Good. but Attila called himself and demanded that others call him 'the Seourze of God." At the head of 700.000 troops. mounted on Cappadocian horses. he swept everything, from the Adriatic to the Black sea. He put his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for mercy, which he be stowed not. The Byzantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. When a city was captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes. The first class, those who could bear arms, must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered: the second class, the beau tiful women, were made captives to the Huns: the third class, the aged men and women, were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay a heavy tax. It was a common saying that the grass never grew where the hoof of At tila's horse had trod. His armies red dened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with earnage and fought on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle since the world stood -300,000 dead left on the field. On and on until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, then a cloud of dust was seen in the distance and a bisnop cried, "It is the aid of Goa.' and all the people took up the cry, 1It is the aid of God." As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re enforcing armies marched in to help against Attila, "the Scourge of God. The most unimportant occurrences he used as a supernatural resource. After three months of failure to capture the city of Aquileia, when his army hai given up thp siege, the flight of a stork and her young from the tower of the city was taken by him as a sign that he was to capture the city, and his army, inspired with the same occurrence, re sumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerg ed. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not iook at him, bnit shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his ,marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired b r the assassination. his followers be si not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put into three cof fins, the first of iron, the second of sil ver and the third of gold. He was buried by night. and into his grave were poured the most valuable coins and precious stones, amounting to the wealth of a kingdom. The gravedig gers and all those who assisted at the burial were massacred. so that it would never be known where so much wealth was entombed. TIhe Roman empire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire. He was ight in calling him self a scourge, but instead of being "the Scourge of God" he was the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitter ness the commentators might well have supposed him to be the star Wormwood of the text. As the regions he dlevas tated Were parts most opulent with founntains and streams and rivers. you see how graphic my text is: "Therc fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rive:s and upon the foun tains of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood.' CBut are any of you the star Worm w'ood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones ptaternal or maternal? Are your children everlastingly peeked at? Are you always crying "Hushn '. to the merry voices and swift feet and to tile laughter which oceasi onally trickles through at wrong times, and is sup pressed by them until th ey can hold it no longer, and all the biarriers ourst into unlimited guffaw and eahnnation, as in this weather the watcr hias trckled through a slight openng in the mil' dam, but afterward miakes wider and wider breach until it carries all befor it with irresistible freshet IDo not be too much offendeu at 'h n-ie your children now make .. wil bestl enough when eneotem ,da. Then you would give your rih han to hear one shout from th e in vee or one step from te stl "ot 'u will not any of v-ou have to wat vry long before your hos is tille than you want it. Alas tt hre ar many homes not known to the Society For the Prevention of C'ruelty to (Chi dren, where children -~' are whaced and uffed and ear pull.l an 3.ensel' i called to order. and answered sharply. t a di : i I U.. t .Qi '0s. Th stiri di ij ib'Ser te of lie~. tI ar hes 'e tof e athl exZe, kach1 -411 t u "alT ev a i t u*'le -V vty . T" ey :-h i fol i id Uite'- W ih ail the s 0ron : i ail the umain . r wit? iS it be ircI d with~ prcz:ldtO :2:d unctean ne.. Dotot) po it, in :-u ment at Pu.- .ii rw h the vietimd ae C nt reIne* e Are your iowers coh.T&mT: T'". it a bu1c iofiiT iie Ln' ineiv i, it a bolt f injust sTrn? i f va 1"r' iit lee aIt theib diap - an at? Is ~ ~ 11 itbttn I ;u rop b~y drop into a cu:I? 1s ;t lie the o:ng uf Arte Iisia abs it IIuI into a drL t ::heady distastefully puiient Te ylt i are the stai Wormwood. X 'dLrs 1 tie N of a- rattleznake trying ho wcli :- can ting." i :he. full of a wki triig I ui"N IZ e" 1.i o L, ut 'i t e ..t a !dove'! But I willihang this aiai uppose vou are a ,ar c.: worldly proSl-erity. 'then you have large opportunity. You I can encoura1e that artist by buying his p7icture. You can improve the fields, the stable;. tL hiahway, by introeuc ing hi"her style ci f.l and horse and cow and sheep. You .an bless the world vith po)aolical achier2eLt In th o:cha-d. You .i advance arbort culture ind arres: the ucathful destrue tiion of thC Aerica!, forests. You can put a pece o)f sculpturZ irnto the niche of that public academy. you can enuow a college. you can s:oeking 1,000 bare feet froin the winter frost, you can build a church, voua can put a missionary 01 C .hr- ot that foreign shore, you can help to rausom a world. A rich man with his heart righii can you tell me how 'eh good a James i. L..x or a Georze Fededy or a Peter Cooper or I William E. Dodge did while iiving or is doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighoorhood that has not glorious specimens of conse crated wealth. But Suppose you grind the face of the poor. Suppose, when a man's wages are due, you make him wait for them because he cannot help himself. Suppose that. because hisfamily is sick Iand he has had extra erpenses, he should politely ask you to rause his wages for this year. and you roughly tell him if he want a better place to go and get it. Suppose by your manner, ou act as though he were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are seltish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to be Attila and your last name Attila be cause you are the star Wormwood. and you have imibittered one-third if not three-thirds of the waters that roll past yotr employees and orn :atives and de penents and :.sociates. and the long line of carriagzes which the undertaker orders for your funeral, in order to make the ocaasion respetable. will be filled with twice as many dry. tearless eyes as there are persons occupying them. You will be in this world but a few minutes. As compared with eternity. the stay of the longest life on eartu is not more than a nanrute. WVhat are we doing with that minute? Are we im bittering the domestic or social or poli tical fountains, or are we like M1oses. who when the Israelites in the wilder ness complained that the w.aters of Lake Marahi 'ere bitter and they could not drink them their leader cut off the branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweet and slaked the thirst of the suf fering host? Are we with a oranch of the tree of life sweetening all the brack ish fountains that we can touch? Hundred gated Thebes, for alltime to be the study of antiquarian and hierog lyphis; her etupendous ruins spread over 27 miles; her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot the victories with which the now forgotten kings of Esy pt shook the nations: her obelisks and columns: Karnak and Luxor, the stupendous temples of her pride. Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days. when the hip podrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her Thtines and her av'enIus roared with the wheels of procesions in the wake of returning conluerors? What dashed down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What hands pulled upon the column s of her glory? What ruthless ness dei:aced hcr sculptured wall and broke obehisks. anld left her indescrib able temp.les great skeletons of granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair of wild beasts in her royal sepulleih ers and tauizht the miserable cottagers of today to build iut-: in the 3-arts of her temples and sent desolation and ruin skulking behind the obeliks ad dodging among the sarcophagi and leaing against the colnns. and stoop ing under the arches. a'd weecing' in th'e waters which go miourinfully by, as thogh they were carryin th le tears of all ages? Let tihe mummies break their long silence and comie up to smtver im the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and dcefaced sculp ture. responding: --Tebes built not one tenmple to God. The'behated Irightc' usness anda lovedti. ThI ebes w -t a tr, but she turned to worrnwood and' la- falen Ba lon. with her 2d towers and her ren *.tes and her embattled walls. th cplindor of: the earthi athlerecd with n er gates. her hanging gardens built by Neucadnezzar to please his bride, Amy~tis. w.'ho had been brought up in a nontaintus c-ountry and~ could not endure thte Bat country rounid Babylot:. Thse han.:ine ?'ard~eres built terrace above te'rrace. til at the hight of do fett thiere were woods wt ain ant foun tans playing, the verdure.I th oliage. the~ tlor. lookinz as if a mIount'an 'Iwere n te 2in. On the ti'.top a in .alking with hi' queen. Am~ong~ the e a~ues, w:: hite, loking ip-at tirds brou::ht f roma distnt lands and a lane asnrrers andti laikes un nt a ' ne mitribuitary, cry * -~ I nott ' sa: Bablo wich. I Ea: aar eram m t'th wal'ls? Wht l thre uptur'w the tardens? Wh~at army. :htterec the birazenI 2atesf W hat long. Itie hinst of~ st.orm ptut ouit t *is iht wh-.ich ilumnate th wold What crash of discord drove down tile anu 1arn eunaaca L b an: r t r rve and tIe dancers i t w t a C ; w a ta. 1ut by sit] he turned~ to; warn :od and has iallenl. From iI1.r-eeti ns of the pilgr'n 'It U1, ih - hores a naion. 'I lie muci freofthe aoi inevent out :In the vnat( r ight ('11a free govern meL-nt. 'Th0 sounid of the wtarhc-op was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enttcrilrise and proZress. The mild winters. the fruitful summers, the healthful skies. charmcd from other lands a race of hardy men, who loved d and w anttd ct'o be free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes began t- rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail car, and the waters are churned whit with the steamwr's wheel. Fabulous buhelk of western wheat meet on the waY fabulous tons of eastern coal. Furs fromi the north pass on the rive rs fruits fromn the south, and trading in the :ame malrket are Maine lumberman and Soutl Carolina rice merchant and hio fari er and A Lska fur iealer. and chure s and schools and ax u n atter lt and love and in': ey and :-alvationi Upon)I 70.u00.(;00 people. I pray that our nat(in mi y not eypy the crimes of nations that have perish ed: that omr cup of blessing turn not to wormwood amid we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optinist. and I expect that thi:, country will continue to advance unti the world shall reach the mninciial era. uur only safety is inri"hteouse.: twaard God and jus tice toward man. If we forget the ooduness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths. *2d improve not by the dire isasters that have again and a,-ain colc to us as a people, and we learn saving lesson neither fron: Civil war nor raging epidemic, nor droug ht unr mildew rnor scourge of locust and grasshopper; if the political corruption wvbich has noisoned th- fountains of public virtue and besliied the high p'.aces Df authority, making free govern ment at times a hiszing and a by word in all the earth; if the drunLenness and licentiousness that stagger and blas pheqie in the streets of our great as though they were reac hing aft fame of a Corinth and a iodom, L t repented of we will yet ee t our natioa's ruin; the pillars of a tional and state capitois will fal. :unre di:,astrously than when Sam,.-:,-n led down lagon. and future hisoriar will record upon the page bedewed xith generous te-a. the story that tl-; free nation of the west aroc in sp;:ntaor which made the world stare. I- had magnificent nossibilities; it forgot God; it hated justice; it bugged its crimes; it halted on its high march; it reeled un der the blow of calamity; it fell, and as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from the top of bloody thrones began to shout: "Aha! So would we have it:" while struggling and oppress ed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tears and groans and cries of Iuntold agony, te scorn of those and the woe of these uniting in the excla mation: 'Look yonder! There fell a goeat star from heaven, burning as it ere a lamrp, and it fell upon the third part of the~ rivers and upon the foun tains of waters. and the namec of the star is caled Wormwood' COT TON EXPANSIONISTS. Every Cottontot in the State Should Read This. The Augusta Herald says "Old Jim Crow,'' of Chawrosum,. Ga., is a phi losopher in his way, and down there under the shade of the trees he has been holding an Academy. Hie teaches by sarcasm, but it's all the same if he gets there, and his latest contribution to the comimon good is well calculated to do that sam~e. He is the enemy d Ithe overproduction'of cotton, and start ed to organize a society to further his ends. He has addressed a circular to faithful, which reads as follows: "Yes, 'whoop 'em up,' and let it come. Haul out the guano and buy all the mules you possibly can. Get some merchant to 'run you.' Plant cotton all over creation, between your watermelon rows, in missing places in the corn; plant the garden just as soon as the vegetables are off. Put it in tk fence corners, and around wherever -,ou can stiek' a bill in your wife's flower gar den. Yes. plant cotton 'world without end.' 3Make it so low that a fellow won't pick it if you give him what he gathers. and furnish him 'free hash' while he picks. Go it boys. 'go it while you're young,' for when you get old ou can't raise it. But. one cton-la lation: when you can no longer jine the boys in the job of keeping on afit class ease of poverty debt. atid bank ruptcy for the country. you can put in your contribution to the general ruin as a first class calamity howler. Cut this out and keep it for 'ready ref'erence' all through the year. Don't go to bed to niht without calling up all the chil dren. with their mother and reading this to them. Then maybe, they will dream of cotton and devise methods for making mnore cotton even while they sleep. And irear brother! don't fail to take this to meeting! next Sunday. and o soon, before tile preacher gets there. so you can call up 'the nabors' and have every fellow understand plans for thte current year. T1hen, if lie don't go our way and lands next IIcember inl plenty and peace. and .:an't 'jine the band' in the annual chorus of hunger. ras and debt he'll be without excuse and can't lay the blame of htis condition at or door." Ten Steamers Lost. It is now practically crtain that ten freiht steaumlhips have been lost on the Atlantie in recent storms. Tis in volves the sacrifice of more than :20 lives and S2A300.000 of capital. Thte rate of reinsurane on thenm for the last three weeks has stood at 90 guinueas All perhaps went down in the fensu hurricane of Feb. 2. TIde n:tires are: Allegheny, Arona. C'ity if Wnkefichi. Croft, I)-ra Foster, L:mhghton, Minis tr Mabacht. Oberon. Picton and P ort Milburni. Lost on the River. A special to Thme Commercial-Appeal front Chtattanroog'a says. Two raftsmen one name D- levoney and the other un known. lost their lives in the river 80 mlsa-box e Mempihis, Tuesday. They ~er. wih a fiat of a million feet of o' coming dtown the river, and their rftt weCnt to pieces on one of the swift hol i- th which the upper river abounds. TIEE has been over 20.000 appli-a tions for the 101 lieutenancies in the army. The oflicers' places do not go "he comptr;oner-Geuera Rules T it Certaiu Property is Liable. utrler Inra DI Irham has br hit liht a mstin of consider able import nce ::.c ii which nav en t unex ced hardship upon s ne of we charit able instianiOrs in Columbia. llis attention was called to the fact that some 11such1 iistitutions were not pay-ing taxecs in conformance with tie constitution, among them the Y. 31. C. I A., the Iasomie tenmple organization. the Ursuline convent and the Presbyte rian College for Women. Wednesday he communicated with Auditor W. II. Squier. telling him that this property mu-t he assessed for taxation for this ar and for ek taxes. Ile instruet ed uir u.ie1r that -%hen any dbt xist s a to ih an e r soc1.6iano oit t' exmpi uul der thi- article- i section, charge them on teaddtitional duiciate of 1898, with taxes1 9 and any years past ute an]d unpaidi, in f-or..mi' this oiliee. as pr ovie inatjf18.pg 2." The sectin (if the constitution re ferre2d to p ovIes that Therc shall be exempted fr em taxation all counitv. toshp ndii m'unicilial property. used exclus'velv for public purp0e-1s naA not fr revenue. and the prope-ty of all %chools, eolleus and iistitutions of learnia, haritible inntitutions in the nature of as lunas f07 the iliirm. deaf and dumb. bind, idiotic anid in digent iierons. except where the profits of suenhin-tiui ns are appi lied to pri vate uses: all uieiU libraris, ehurche parsonages a!nd burying arounds, but propertv of assoeuldions and societies. altlou conoc ted w ict bnevolent -b jects, shall nt e exemupt from tate, county or inumepal taxation: Provi ded, That as to real estate tnis exemp tion shall not extend bevodri the build ings and- prei-se a tially oceupied by such schools, college, iistitutOins or learning, asylum-', Ibraries, elurches, parsonages and burial grounds, although connected with eharitable object.." Such a cas as this came up once be fore. when the city was in litigation over the payment of tixcs on the city hall pron rty. The State supreme _o-urt dc.i-ed that the city liould be assessed full value on all %roperty on which it obtained revenue. and, in ac coruance, it is today assessed $7.000 on all the store rooms in the city hail which are rented out. Vron all ap pearances the comptroller general is right in his interpretation of the con stitution, and sone of these institutions will be assessed for preceding years as well as this year. When asked how I far bak the back taxes should be lev ied, 'Mr. Perham said for no longer a time than could be avNised; :oss'bly no further back than the adoption of the constitution of 1S95. These may not be the culy institutions which will fall under the bau, and it may bo found that other such property has hitherov escaped taxation.-Staze. GOOD ROADS WANTED. The State Convicts Should be Employ ed to Baiid Then. The eordition of the public roads in the Piedmont after a rainy winter has been an object-lesson not without ef feet. We take it that these expres sions by thc Andsrson Peccnie's Advo cate will be very genuerally endorsed We have heard several old men say recently that the roads of' the county after all our exp, nditure of labor and money on them are not as good as they were 40 or 50) years ago. And we are inclined to believe it. but it does not prove that the system of working the roads that prevailed then was superior to the present plan by any means. T here were not one-fourth as many peo ple then and not one-tenth as many vehicles and not one-twentieth as much traveling then as now, and then the roads were newer and the clay had not bcon disturbed. Neither does it prove that either plian is the proper plan to meet the conditions of the present day. Any- kind of dirt will make a good road in the summer when the farmers do not need roads much. hut during the fall and winter when the farmers are haul ing their crops to market and hauling their fertilizers back to the farm, they are practically without roads, as seen this winter. It is a basic proposition that we cannot make good roads, per manent roadways. out of dirt.. That has been shown to a demonstration this winters. Wec must have' something better. it has come to be an abjsolute necessity. The blame does not rest with the of ficers. but with the law. We have be fore referred to the policy of the State with regard to the convicts, and we re peat it; we .watit to see: a chance in it There arc six convict farms in A nderson county, on which there are nearly 100 convicts employed. What are they wirt h to tile piubbe? Nothing. But if Suervisoir snelgrrove had those 100 e->n - vits and a reek crusher he conicd build 15 miles of macadamuized roaidway iin a year, add tin year of uch work would nive us 150) miles i permianeuit road way. We would then hav mi.iacadamnized roads branchine out mn e very direction from the eourt'house toward the county line. This would be of inestimable advantagec to thme whole country and loads co uld bie hauled to and frot rega~rdless of weather. We want to see this agitation kept up for good roads until somecthinar conies of it. We hope the people will make it an issue in the camp~aign next year to abolish convict and State farms and let the counties have them to build roads with. Put in Plenty of Corn. This hecadline is not to be taken as advice to mustered out soldiers. wheth r tey be imm unec or orin'ary volun teers. Fee: soliaers arte annuiine to too muh corn. But we were talking about txe tarer and i: t hi htw Ae wa'nt him o ti in the .1. Ii he I no ald oten in hi seed cirn, me --iie he gesit initheLbette-r. I e:\e au ti. rec :.tly to the in cn n A\ugusta f or u-e on aL Caroiu firm.\ We are ladt to have E dgetield planters comeC to Aiugusta to trade, but w e do not want thaemi to havet to buy corn. We believe their tad w ~ill be m iore vai rble ifthe 'ii no 5t hlave ti) u v theirecirn. Ina its dily f ablei on aicutural suibjects. the 31aconi Taele raph states the cause thus: --It is tme nIow to pitch the corn crop, it shculd be a lange on1e in G eorgia. Cot ou is the last and least coniderationl. It hould be the surplus erop. Corn tlls its own sphere in the economy of the farmt, and in tile uses of man. It never goes to waste. A full barn is an earnest of a prnosperous farml. Corn fed hogs yield the best pork. Corn-fed horses and mules have firmer fat and harder muscles. Nothing can take the place af carn.4 A IMost Interesting History Written of this Gallant Corps. Capt. Gas liekcrt. formerly of the 3d South Carolina Regimient, hL wnist ten. and has now ready for publication a very readable. and entertaining His tory of the old First Brigade First Di vision First Army Corps, of the Army of Northeirn Virginia, known in the army and elsewhere as Kershaw's Bri gade. It was commanded first by Gen. Bunhani. and after Kershaw, by Genl's. ConInor and Kennedy respectively. But by his long connection with the Bri gade. the ruany campaigns, the bloody engagements, under his leadership, the troops never gave up, throughout the different changes of commanders, the name of "Kershaw," This Brigade was originally formed of the 2nd, Kershaw: d W ilhams: 7th. Bacon. and 8th, Cash's llegiments South Carolina Vol untecrs, organiz2d under the first call of the State and were composed of comi panies from Rihland, Edgefield. New hrry Laurens, Anderson. Abbeville, Greenville, Spartinburv, Union, Char leston. Chesterfield, Darlington, Sum ter Kershaw, Clarendon. and perhaps other counties in different parts of the State. [t was afterward reinforced by the 15th, Col. DeSaussure; 3d Battal lion, Col. Rice; and the 20th, Col. Keitt composed of companies from difierent counties of the State. Capt. Dickert. after three years of unremitting toil, has gathered together materials, facts and records, that can be found nowhere else and would soon have been alto -ether lost. le traces the companies from their origin, to their organization into regi meuta with the names of the first cap tains. until their formation of the bri cade. With the 15th the 3d batallion and the 20th regiment he follows them through their services in the State, then in Virginia, up to their joining the brigade with as much faithfulness and aceilracy as he did those of the original four first regiments. While he directs close attention to the brigade, he does not confine himself to the details of the South Carolina troops alone, but on the marches and battles he gives the reader a history of the whole divisin which was composed, basides the South Caro lina Brigade Cobbs and Sims, Geor cia. and Barksdale. Mississippi Bri gade, these troopa being so long and closely ,onncted throughout the war. The work is as much a history of the division as the brigade in its general make up. He gives the reader graphic description of all the great battles in which they were engaged, not as a com nilor. uor spec:ator but as participant. where the author's blade was ever flash ing in the thickest of the fray. Nor does he confine himself to the dry de tails of historical data, but the work .abounds in scenes Qf camp life, humor ous and pathetic stories, acts of persoa al heroism, &c. It is the intention of the author to give in an appendix a complete roster of the names of all officers and men that belonged, to the command through out the war. together with the killed, wounded and discharged. This in it self is a valuable record. This book is not published fot pay nor profit and only a limited number published .iust surffiint to pay for printing and bind ing, as Capt.' Dickert wantsnothing for his work. lie says the three years de voted to its composition has been a la bor of love and the most pleasant of his lif". and if he has added one mite to the perpetuation of the memor'es, the heroism, the joys and triumphs of his comrades in arms he is more than re paid for his labors. The book will be sold by subscription to oe paid for on delivery. Those wishing copies of this desirable work can write to the pub lisher, E. II. Aull, Newberry, S. C., for sub~cription blanks and the book will be delivered in the order of the subseription number. IWe would be glad to have the papers of the State copy this article or make such mention of it as their space will permit. We want all who desire a cipy of this book to send ias their order at once so that suf~cient number of copies may be printed to supply the demand. It is not a money making ,cheme for the publisher or author but an earnest effort to preserve a history which if not put in permanent shape now may never be done as the great part of the mate rial which this book will contain can be had from no other source. If this hi. tory is to be preserved it must be done by individual effort. The newspapers of the State can be of great assistance to us in this work if they will lend us their aid and we feel sure we will not call on them in vain in this patriotic work. Lend us a helping-hand.-New berry News and Herald. Jumped from a Bridge. Miss Lucy Fanz. twenty-year-old daughter of Joseph Fanz, a wealthy and retired business man of Knoxville, Tnu., committed suicide Wednesday afternoon. She jumped from the Ten nessee river bridge of the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern railroad, a dis tance of-100 foet to the water below. The body came up once and floated a hundred yarde, when it went down near the east bank. The young lady had been mentally affliceted for several years. but h a~ improved of late. She attemipted self-destruction Tuesday night by taking a deadly drug, but her fathecr discovered the attempt before a suffiient quantity had been taken. Franz was wvalking with his daughter over the bridge at the time. She ran from him and sought her terrible death. The body has not yet been recovered. Liberty or Death. A dispatch from New York says Six to Lopez, the secretary of Agoncillo, the representative of Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipinos. with Dr. Joss Lopsa da. a member of the Filipino junta, sailed f'or Southlampton Wednesday on the American liner St. Paul. They re fused to discuss national affairs within the juidiction of the United States, i't .sid that they were sorry the -A mricans. who boast so much about fredom, are trying to make their peo pe slaves. The Filipinos were fight ing for liberty long before the United Staes came into existence,", remarked Lopez.?"and they arc not going to give u the battle because the taskmasters have been changed from Spaniards to North Americans. ')ur cry is liberty or deathi. .No MIore Immunes. Even the Sprinfield Republican. which holds to its old Abolition senti mentality about the negro more per sistntly than any other paper we know of. is nioved to remark: "The Tenth colored 'immiunes,' after their discharge at Macon, Ga.. shot a man at one place. raided a liquor dispensary at another, nearly killed an old man farther on, and started riots at various way sta tions at their pleasure all the way north to Virginia'. There will be no more immunes.' "No, there will be no more. The public demands immun 0OST OF RAISING COTTON. Mr. Jordan Gives Some Interesting Figures in the Atlanta Journal. The following interesting article on the cost of raising cotton we take from the Atlanta Journal: In a recent report prepared and sub mitted by the department of agriculture at Washington, careful estimates show that in 1896 it cost $15.42 to produce a bale of upland cotton, on land produe ing an average of 225 pounds of lint per acre. The price obtained was 6.7 cents per pound. The cost of picking was 44 cents per hundred, and the cost of producing the lint per pound 5.27 cents. It was also ascertained that in Texas, where irregation is being introduced in the cultivation of the crop, on land ir rigated. 512 pounds of lint per acre was produced, or double the quantity made on other lands. In tle face of the above statihties, which are doubtless accurate, it is quite evident that the cotton crop of 1698 was marketed at a heavy loss to the producers. The al tiost entire crop of the past season left the farmers' hands at, a price less than five cents. There has been but little improvemeit made in growing cotton within the past two years, hence the cost of making a bale in 1S98 was doubtless as great as in 1896. We are, however, gradually reducing the cost of producing a pound of cotton as th years roll round; for in 1876 sta tistics show that the net cost of mark eting a pound of lint cotton was 8.32 cents in gold. The cost of transporta tion has likewise fallen proportionate ly. In 1840, to ship a bale of cotton to Liverpool cost the neat sum of $18.15, while in 1897, it cost $7.89 for the same service. It may be well enough for the farmers to know that the price for our cotton, which is fixed in Europe, is based upon the net lint. Nothing is allowed for bagging and ties, their weight of 22 pounds being deduct ed is consequently a dead loss to the producer. There is also a certain amount taken off for wastage en route, and the farmer has to meet a good many little losses all along the line, from the moment his bag of cotton leaves the ginnery until it is larded in Europe. It is very evident then, that there is hardly 4 living prQfit in pro ducing less than i of a bale per acre. Indeed, with Texas and Oklahoma rap idly going so largely into the cotton business, developing a successful sys tem of irrigation by which a bale per acre can be averaged, we cannot expect to make two thirds of a bale per acre profitable very long. Georgia is also the-largest user of commercial fertilizers of any state in the union for her cotton industry, consuming ^ne-fourth of all commercial fertilizers manufactured in the United States, while Texas is one of the smallest. No farmer can disregard these facts and figures, nor can he af ford to fail to appreciate the bearing they have upon his future interests. We must of necessity begin some practical system of rotating crops and building up our land. That system must be inaugurated upon the cheapest, yet at the same time most durable and profitable plan. Every farmer knows that he should make his supplies at home, and it is almost a waste of words to endeavor to more forcibly impress that fact upon him. In raising those supplies on his farm he has the double advantage of introducing a system by which he may be able to grow cotton cheaper, at a better profit, and build up his depleted soil. Any farmer to be self-sustaining nowadays must .of necessity, to a certain extent, restrict acreage and adopt the intensive system. When ten bales of cotton can be grown on ten acres of land as an average crop. then the extra expense involved in pro ducing the same number of bales from twenty acres as at present will be saved as a profit. The extra ten acres can be sowed in grain or grasses, and the saystem of rotation perfected. Necessi ty will force a large number of our peo ple to reduce cotton acreage in the fu ture, others will reduce from the bet ter reason of adapting their business in farming to meet the demands of the time. The day cannot be far distant when other resources of our southern country will be drawn upon and de. veloped ia upbuilding to a higher de gree of prosperity our agricultural in terests. When the day of extensive cotton planting shall have passed, and it is al most here, a diversity of crop cultiva tion will be introduced, and the pro gressive era of the country will have dawned. Our farmers cannot be much blamed for growing cotton so extensive ly in past years. It is unquestionably the mos t fascinating and easiest crop ever planted and cultivated. It is the only crop he can load on his wagons and have the big cotton buyers running after them to buy it, with a check book ready to plank down the cash. The whole world wants it and it will sell in any market. The world will continue to want it, and the farmer must con tinue to supply the demand. What we must determine now to do, is to look upon our cotton of the future solely for the surplus money or profit crop. When our acreage of cotton is restricted by confining its cultivation to better land we will have more time to arrange for a better living at home. - We can have more little side crops which means more hogs, better cows and less supply bills in the stores. 'With more stock in the barns, fed upon rich grasses and clovers raised on the farm, more attention will be given to the sav ing of barnyard manures. All of which means that our lands are to be muore rapidly built up to a high and continu ed state of fertility. The farmer who lives at home, that 4, raises all home supplies, rotates his crops, grows grass es and clovers enough for his own use. looks after his stock and takes care of the manure, is not buying commercial fertilizers, although he is raising as many bales of cotton to the plo0w as his less thrifty neighbor. Commercial guanos are only used when absolutely nothing else is provided, and they have paid under cotton heretofore. But the profit would have been larger had the grower used in their stead the vegetable manures. What we desire particularly, in to see the many rather than the few prosper ing on the farm. That will also more quickly tend to the development of bet ter schools and roads. without either of which no community can make much progress. The farming problems of to day are being more conspicuously agi tated, than perhaps at any time in the past. Farmers are reading miore and thinking more of their present and fu ture condition. We used to go to town and listen for news on the street as to what was going on in the markets of the world. Now we rely u:en our own papeis for information, and study out the details at home. This has caused home thinking and a development of independent action. It wvill eventually result in the successful solution of all the problems by which we are now be set. Oar peorie arc a sturdy, strong mnded rae capable of meeting any Asw0WDER ABSOLUTELY NUEE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ROYAL CAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK. ciergency and overcomingarly obtEsta cle. They have hewn their way t:o success in ro- her. storniier times than do these. and if our future prosperity de pends upon a chunge of crop. me thod or e3stemu, that changc will be made alon n the lines of prudence and practical pathways. Then let us continue toI o 1) ck ul SpInish dollars which itat an ii endthos tlin~t wl ia ~ve been washedI ashore from the itate and commnendI those thiin,.s whichi are for our best good, and ctslem n vrec of a galleon which went down in those which te.id to injure and reta.rd 1i wth a large amount of bullion on the great agricultural prosperity of' our board. southern country. C. 1l. .jo), It is srprising that with all the -milern hpliances for diving system THE COMING REUNION. !lem attempts are ot more frequently made to recover treasore from the Desired That All Old Confedera te Flags As carly as lar8 agrut deal of treas ure was recovered, including the his be Sent to Charleston. toricni golden cup which once belonged to Frederick, king of Sicily, from the The olloi~ghas eenissud ~ wreck of one bf the ships of the "In The followi-g has been iasued f da. the general headquarters of the Unit jmed i Confederate veterans; hipps came over from Virginia to this New rleas, arch11. s~. country, and craved the assistance of -New O'rleans, MIarch 11, 1899. To all Comrades:Charles I. toward recovering some To al Corade: ;wrecked treasure on the coast of His 1. It has been suggested to the gen 1. It as be n ugse tot Ie- paniola. Charle.-- provided him with a eral commanding, and he heartily en- shi and the necessary funds, but the dorses the request, that all department. first attempt proved unsuccessful. d'vision, brigade and camp command- In a econd effort he was financed ers will take sters to collect as many of ty beduke of Alb ernd thie the old "battle fags" atid fags of the theoil oatle lag flgs to the value of ?200,000, and after pay Confederacy, and banners and ensigns ing all expenses he was ible to give of every description, which waved over the duke the sum of ?80,000 as his the Confeddrate armies as possiblf., to share in the venture. The specie on board H. M. S. Lutine, be displayed at the Charleston reunion. wrecked in 1799 off the coast of Hol There are agreat miany no doubt Thre, are agrt an y iaebns dout land, amounted to ?.1, 200,000, and the through the south in private hands, atat the ot the head puarters of the different camps, and at the State capi-als. etc., and it would be in keeping with the grandeur of the occasion, upon this visit of the tet to e old soldiers to the chief city of the i ing made. great State which gave birth to the Dving oeratin rsld in the Confederacy, and where the first gun of cover of ?00 in gol frte the war was fired, to take with them the histori- flag which wayed over them which took place close to Moelfra, off there at Forts Moultrieand Sumter, and the Anglesen coast, but a vast number the other three, with all the other ban- of diamonds are still lying about the ners and ensigns which floated over wreck. them amidst the smoke and carnage of Forty thousand pounds in specie was more than 2.000 battlefields before they recovered from the wreck of the Ha were furled forever at Appomatox. milla Mitchell, in the Chinese sea, af The general commanding hopes that ter lying in twenty-three fathoms of an effort will be made, through publi water for upwards of twenty years, and cation in the papers and otherwise, so ?90,000 in gold was saved from the as to secure the largest number possi- wreck of the Alphonso XII., which was ble for this purpose. sunk in tenty-six and one-half fath Doubtless many flags will be taken oms of water off the Canary Islands in care of by the delegates and others to 1885. whom they are entrusted, but where it Some of the French ships sunk at is necessary that they should be sent by Trafalga contained vast treasure. Five express they can be sent to the special tons of silver plate, excluding the fa care of Mal. Gen. C. Irvine Walker. mous silver gates of St. John's Oathe commanding thg South Carolina divis- dralMaita, and a ton and a half of gold ion U. C. V.'s, Charleston, S. C., who plate, mostly studded with jewels, the will arrange a safe depository for them plunder of the Maltese churches, were while there. on board one of these ships. 2. Col. Robt. P. Evans. chairman Not an ounce of this treasure has committee on information, Charleston,benrcved S. C., states that on and after The 15th his committee will be in a position to Gra paigYges give information as to housink, quar Teei emnngocln i ters, rates of board, etc., to delegatesPenyviawhspknoigbu desiring to attend the reunion. HeGemn Th plc isnLbao states that his committee will under- cutadtengoswn hr take to engage quarters for and locatetwnythryadftyersgoad any of the Veterans in advance of their stldain h ue:Pnslai coming, but must have a positive guar-GemnfrrsothBle ouai antee of their coming by April the dsrcs h ooe hlrnge 15th.upothfamweetewokd By order of J. B. Gordon, adhadntigbtGra pkn Geo. Moorman, Gen. Com'g. Te onfro eryalteEg Adjt. Gen. and IChief Staff. lshteknwadno teyrey The Oldest Railroad.chlrngtoEgihouyshos The Hion. Charles Francis Adams, ofinwtebtaquclashyar Boston, MIass., in a book entitled "Rail-ouofsgtfthitecrshyb roads-Their Origin and Problems," inohgel. speaking of the Old Reliable South- _______ Carolina and Georgia Railroad says: EesTa $fkUp Wl. "At a later day many of her sister Bleadgyeesremeefctv States were in advance of her, (Massa-ontesaehnvrydkoe. A chusetts.) and especially was this trueparobleysdictyshedn of South Carolina. There is, indeed,.h pe is ih h ylse ae some reason for believing that the Southfulbacedanatrwdsom d Carolina Railroad was first ever con- ot gtoe h otih"i e structed in any country with a definite mral a;weeslreadnt plan of operating it exclusively by l'oral adoebakee r p comotive steam power. On the l15th (nesbu rbakmk-pb rc of January, 1831, exactly four months tcal shwdadtecmlxo after the formal opening of the Mat.- L otcrfytnd oloi chester and Liverpool Road.) the fir~iageprac.lk brthlsi anniversary of the South Carolina lBail- int. road wah celebrated with due honor. A--------- - queer-looking machine, the outline olfnEpnieRiwy which was sufficient in itslf'to p)ove that h negon ala nLn the inventor owed nothing to Stephen-wath moteesieocntrt son, had been constructed at the We-tofnynthwrd.Sm pasofi Point Foundry Works, in New York.cstamuhs1,0ginspeyrd dur ing the sumnmer of 1S30-a first at of?0oreryic.Teosofon tempt to supply thatlocomotive, whichsrcigth ietWbtr ala the board had, with a sublime confi- wsas eyget nsn~si os cenec in possibilities, unanimouil truhtevry hly dsrcs voted on the 14th of the preceding Jan DenadCowl. uary should alone be used on the ro)ad The name of "Best Friend" was .pveC~-rOses to this very simple trodue: of native- Pcfccatbvavsmyb akn genius. In June, 1S31, a second lo nfavrcuote-ee ob mr p motive, cahied the "West Point." h-a od aeisoewythnhse e arrived in Charleston; and this lastgeinteasswtesthsdvr was constructed on the principle oftieetfrmheM nngOgoa: Stepenson's "Rocket." in its gencra!''atd malbyodeiroses aspect, indeed, it greatly resembledthtcnrdawel. that already famous prototype. Tlheie is a very characteristic and suggiestiveA oeFlwr cut representing a trial trip made wi h oanclwrl siteetdi this locomotive on March 5. 193 ovlfowrwic1. be oudi About six months before there had at-e ishuofeantpcadwih tually been a trial speed between a~i -dwe h uni pnIwiei horse and one of the pioneer locomno- temrigadbu nteeeig tives, which hai not resulted in favor TePeietsCp of the locomotive. It took place on TePe~eto h ntdSae the present Baltimore and Ohio Road, ~sabekatcpwihi ot upon the 28th of August, 1830. Thesemaetorr engine in this case was contrived by $no I elnst othe tha Mr.Por~ ~ fo theay as htt 8 Hue grat al of $5,00s To B ~ erureot.wa's reovredinluin At tshe his It wll nt belon nowbefo torIa th en w hich not cenvelo~ed t gallnt bys wo wnt t thewar w r csieko te ofthemsprtr o the n intn sas th wardepatmen hasd n-ibwe arenhe." erind o userou ad rigIom 1 an Amrian name Wlla all he vluneersin Cba ithPhe ippsA caever fromr gina thlogest ceptin of he vounteeengieersund tdy, is crMayved till Juyistando immnes Th neessty or mndi-I i~pwr ee tresue ongt ios treeHis ate action hasiben.broughlto thevt-eadhalm mottha tenio o te ar eprtenhoia -nd _henecssay_ fndsbuth agaist ubawhih g ino efec abut her ar cndefrly he stics inae thefistof ay ai hic ac spcia- abyo th ueo eal.and-senhists ly trct t ll ouher prta ' l~n ti ahe sucee ddni rcrng t specie thetropsarebrogh tothi cunty rcto the valuer the,00 a-nafte pay theymustunde thelaw e mutere aduke the sum tha a8,0 c asthi s out n UntedStats cap;,a-i t hy hbre mun thae b-nture. kwh no dubt illbe bougt tocams ne maecke in1799i off trhe ost tfi o est their homes. Itlanis desired alotto'n li 21,b~ 200,000 and he hae he bouhttopacs hee whotil bf th sti-reains at thebo fumgatngcanbedon. nd t s os the ofi te~ sea witlthe epino ble hattroos fr th notherst te mptsn toi recoverl t reminer are may b broght o Monaukand amp stilr being mad e le~ Wikffaran e stalihed athu..h D~vin th e ra t irn reuledi te-e theeckrefetheiile-tatediRoyalhaharter, nortern roop sen to amp e wdicn h took h~ pla ecoe Moefra of Caroina Souh Crolia. ~o-isia te- Angese ct, bu a vastn number and eorga wil prbabl be ro of diamond , are sill lying aboeut th to Svannh. te Teas toopsto ~ Forpty ~l~ t ousn poudstr inpciewa vestnnd he Tnnesee Kentuc resov ee from the bwreck oithe Ha and irgnia roos toldPoitCo milone wielr , distibthed ahse san af fort, ter aing epvincialnt-coleefthoso