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EITSSIONi OF INKIORN Power for Good or Evil Its Contents May Wield. Dr Talmage Discourses on Influenee Broaght to Bear for World's Improvement-The Inkliora of God's Mercy. [Copyright. 1901. by Louis Kiopsch, N. Y.] Washington, March 17. In a newway and froma peculiar text Dr. Talmage discourses of good influ ences brought to bear for the world's improvement. The text is Ezekiel 9:2: "And one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's ink torn by his side." The poem from which my text is taken is epic, lyric, dramatic, weird and overpowering. It is more than Homeric or Dantesque. No one ever had such divine dreams as Ezekiel. In a vidion this prophet had seen wrath ful angels, destroying angels, each with a sword, but in my text he sees a merciful angel with an inkhorn. 'he receptacle for the ink in olden time was made out of the horn of a CQw or a ram or a roebuck, as now it Is made out of metal or glass, and therefore was called the inkhorn, as now we say inkstand. We have all spoken of the power of the sword, of the power of wealth, of the power of office, of the power of social influence, but to-day I speak of the power for good or evil in the inkstand. It is upon your tables, holding a black or blue or red liquid. It is a fortress, an armory, a gateway, a ransom or a demolition. "You mistake," says some one; "it is the pen that has the power." No my friend. What is the influence of a dry pen? Pass it up and down a sheet of paper, and it leaves no mark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no intel ligence. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inkstand that does the work. Here and there a celebrated pen, with which a Declaration of Inde pendence or a Magna Charta or a treay was signed has been kept in lit erary museum or national archives, but for the most part the pens, whether, as of old, made out of reed or tilfl later of wing of bird or still later of metario substance, have disap peared, while the liquid which the pens took from the inkstand remains In scrolls which, if put together, would be large enough to enwrap the world. For practical, for moral, for religious, for eternal' purposes, I speak of the mission of "the writer's inkhorn." Pfirst, I mention that which is pure ly domestic. The inkstand is in every household. It awaits the opportunity to express affection or condolence or advice. Father uses it; mother uses it; the sons and daughters use it. It tells the home news; it announces the marriage, the birth, the departure, the accident, the last sickness, the 3 death. That home inkstand, what a mission It has already executed, and what other mission will it yet fulfill! Kay It stand off from all insincerity] and all querulousness. Let it tell only that which It would be well to read after the hand that wrote it and the1 hand that received it cani write no1 more. Dip out of that inkstand only] that which is paternal, maternal, filial, sisterly, brotherly. Sacred let it be' not to what are sometimes called the< whousehold gods," but to the one and the only God who "setteth the solitary in families." Dip out of it solace for parents on the descending grade of years and encouragement for those who are climbing the steeps. Futthermore, the inlcstand of the business man has its mission. Be tween now and the hour of your de zuise, 0 commercial man, 0 profes slonal man, there will not be a dayi 'when you cannot dip from the ink horn a message that will Influence] temporal and eternal destiny. There Is a rash young man running into wild speculation, and with as much1 Ink as you can put on the pen at one time you may save him from the Nilagara rapids of a ruined life. On the next street there is a young man itarted in business who, through lack of pattronage or mistake in purchase iof goods or want of adaptation, is on the brink ef collapse. One line of ink from your pen will save him from being an underling all his life and start him on a career that will win him a fortune which will enable him i to become an endower of libraries, an opener of art galleries and builder of churches. Furthermore, great are the re sponsibilities of the author's inkhorn. Anl the people, or nearly all the people, read, and that which they ( read decides their morals or im-1 morals, their prosperity or failure,J their faith or their unbelief, their l1 piurity or corruption, their heaven or hell. Show me any man's library, great or small, and after examining the books, finding those with leaves ament, but displayed for sake of the] binding, and those worn with fre quent perusal, and, without ever see-1 tig the man or knowing his name, I will tell you his likes and his dis-] likes; his morals, good or bad or in different; his qualification for busi ness or artistic or professional or1 mneanical life. The best index to any man's character is the book he1 prefers aboveefl others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil! Abraham Lincoln in early life read Paine's "Age of Reason," and it so1 Influenced him that he wrote an es-1 say against Christianity, but after-< ward some Christian books came into his hands and gloriously changed his< mind and made him a most ardenti griend4 of the Bible and a man of prayer. A letter in Mr. Lincoln's own handwriting Is in my house, the let-1 .tar in response to some resolutions passed by a Methodist conference, saying: "In response to your ad-1 dress, allow me to attest the ac-1 Burned to Death. Jeff Hill, his wife and five children were burned to death. They lived in aC log house west of Wellston, Ohio. I About 9 o'clock when the familya was asleep the kitchen csught the whole 1 house was soon in flames. When the neighbor. hurried to the assistanec, they saw through the open door, the charred remains of the family. Will Hill was 50 L and was a well known mine worker. The coroner at once held an inquest and found that the fire started from a stove, which was near to the only door to the house and escape was therefore cut off. Hill was almost blind snd prac tically helpless. Humane Mill Men. The representatives of 150 cotton mills in Northa Carolina have agreed that no child under 10 years shall be permitted to work in the mills in anye circumstance nor in any capacity; that I no child under 12 year3, except thet child of a widow or of afflicted parents,i should be permitted to work in the mills I during the term of available school; I that the mills will do all in their powerc to promote public schools., Buraey oI its historical saieimenis, ! Indorse the sentiments it expresses E and thank you in the nation's name for the sure promise it gives. Nobly sustained as the government has E been by all the churches, I would 1 utter nothing which might in the least appear invidious against any. Yet without this it may fairly be said that the Methodist Episcopal church, not less devoted than the 1 best, is by its great numbers the % most important of all. It is no fault in others that the Methodist church sends more soldiers to the field, more t nurses to the hospital and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist church-bless all the churches--and blessed be GodE who in this our great trial giveth us the.churches." What a great thing it was that the Christian books which Mr. Lincoln read obliterated froimhis mind the infi del literature! William Carey became a missionary by reading "The Voyages 1 of Captain Cook." John Wesley's life was shaped by reading Jereny Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying." There are books in your library or ly- t Ig on your parlor table or secreted In some place by your child that will decide for two worlds, this and the next, the character of its reader. F Through books we sit down and talk c frith the mightiest spirits of all the ages. We accompany Tennyson on his 1 spring-time walk as he falls upon his knees in the meadows, crying to his v companion: "Violets, man, violets! Smell them." Or we ride with Trajan in his triumphal march, or stand with < Godfrey at the taking of Jerusalem, or with arctic explorer hear the crash 1 of the icebergs, or are received with Hernando Cortes in the halls of Montezuma, or watch in the observa tory as Herschel with his telescope captures another star, or the ink in I the inkhorn turns red as blood, and 1 nwe are at Marengo and Arbela and 1 Eylau and lorodino and Leipsic; or we sail with Hamilcar from Carthage 1 to Palermo, or we see Galileo fighting for the solar system, and around us gather for conversation Aristotle and Plato and Robert South and Sydney f Smith and Locke and Samuel Rogers and Chaucer and Paul Richter and l Swift and Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and T Talleyrand and Burke and Edward Irving, while to make music for us 1 Handel and Mozart and Mendelssohn < come in, and we watch Columbus land ng and see John Harvard's legacy of 900 paid over for the founding of c Harvard university, and Joshua Rey- I olds and David Wilkie and Rem brandt tell us of their pictures. Oh, t the books! Thank God for the books, and thanks be to all the authors! May the inkhorn ever be under divine i inspiration! A wrong theory is abroad that the = newspaper impression is ephemeral. Because we read and cast it aside in an hour and never see it again we are t not to judge that we are parted from its influence. No volume of 500 pages = makes such impression upon the peo ple as the daily newspaper. It is not what we put away carefully upon the shelf and once in awhile refer to that has as close relation to our welfare as the story of what the world is ow doing or has recently do:.e. Yes erday has more to do with to-day than something occurring a century previous. The engineers who now guide the rail trains, the sea captains I who now command the ships, the ar hitects who now design the build- c ngs, the batons that now control the i archestras, the legislators who now nake the laws, the generals who now march-the hosts, the rulers who now 2 overn the nations, the inkhorns thatt aow flood the world with intelligence1 -these are what we have most to do wth. You have all seen what is called ndelible ink, which is a weak solu dion of silver nitrate, and that ink you cannot rub out or wash out. y Put it there, and it stays. Well, the , iquid of the editorial and reportorial i nkstands is an indelible ink. It puts , ipon the souls of the passing gener- t tions characters of light or dark :ess that time cannot wash out and aternity cannot efface. Forever in elible. Be careful how you use it. E'he impression made with it will be resplendent cr repulsive on the day or which all other days were made. But how shall I speak of the ink orn of the world's evangelization? ? Dh, how may loving and brilliant and ~lorious pens have been dipped into tI Thomas a Kenipis dipped into it Lnd brought up his "Imitation of hrist." Horace Bushnell dipped into t and brought up "Every Man's Life Plan of God." Thomas Binney ~ lipped into it and brought up his 'Weigh House Chapel Discourses." Donybeare dipped into it and brought t ip the "Life and Epistles of Paul." trchbishop Trench dipped into it and rought up the "Epistles to the Seven hurches." Stuart Robinson dipped into it and brought up "Discourses of Redemption." Austin Phelps dipped nto it 'and brought up "The Still Eour." Mary Hopkins dipped into it md brought up "Evidences of Chri: tianity." Thomas Guthrie dipped ito it and brought up "The Gospel in Ezekiel." John Cumming dipped into t and brought u~p "The Apocalypse.'' h, the opulence of Christian litera-I ure! Oh, the mighty streams of evan 'elistic power that have poured from the writer's inkhorn that appeared in Ezekiel's visicon! While you recognize the distin uished ones who have dipped into the inkstand of the world's evangeliza tion do not forget that there are hun reds of thousands of unknown men md women who are engaged in in :onspicuous ways doirg tlfe same thing! How many anxious mothers writing to the boys in town! How many sisters writing encouragement o brothers far away! How many in mlds bolstered up in bed, the inkhorn ~ en the stand at their side, writing let ers of condolence to those worse off than themselves! TIhey are flying all Death of Judge Wallace. Judge William H. Wallace, Speaker if the Wallace House in 1876, died at is home in Union Thursday of an httack of grip, He had been ill, but was ip again and thoughtto be doing niceivks vhen he suddenly passed away. He If id been expecting death for some tim elo ma said so. It will be a great grief pr md sorrow to many hearts to learn of tp is demise. Too much praise and honor n annot be bestoward upon the man who t; erved his State so well. The town of ia Jnion is mourning, as sill all South si arolina, when it is known that this a toble Carolinan is no more. Two Killed. Depu'y Marshall Alex. S. Whitely r< as killed in attempting to arrest Len ~ scott for illicit distilling in Lincoln p 'ounty, Ga., TFhursday. Saott was also si :iled. The officer with his posse found pa he distillera in a barricaded house and c< n attempting to make the arrests a a1 ight ensued. Several others of the C >osse were hurt but not seriously. The ti ither members of the Scott crowd were h he time kind words, gospel words, elpful words, saving words. Call the evangelistic inkhorn into service in he early morning, when you feel well .nd you are grateful for the protec ion during your sleeping hours, and rite before you retire at close of dar o those who all night long will be say ng: "Would to God it were morn ng!" How many bruised and disap ointed and wronged souls of earth could be glad to get a letter from you! tir up that consolatory inkhorn. All Christendom has been waiting or great revivals of religion to start rom the pulpits and prayer meet ugs. I now suggest that the ;reatest revival of all time may tart a concerted and organized novement through the inkhorns >f all Christendom, each writer dip >ing from the inkhorn nearest him a etter of gospel invitation, gospel Lope, gospel warning, gospel in trction. The ink is all ready on a iundred thousand tables, and beside t are the implements with which to lip it out. Why not, through such irocess, have millions of souls brought o God before next summer? By let er you could make the invitation noro effective than by word of mouth. ['he invitation from your lips may be Lrgucd back, may evoke querulous eply, may be answered by a joke, but good, warm, gospel letter, written in )rayer and started with prayer and ollowed by prayer, will be read over end over again and cannot be an wered in a frivolous way. It will peak from the table by day and night r, if pettishly torn up, will, in its cattered fragments, speak louder han when it remained whole. Within irm's reach of where you sit there nay be a fluid that you may put on ving with message of light and love. The other angels spoken of in my ext were destroying angels, and each tad what the Bible calls a "slaugh er weapon" in his hand. It was a ance or a battleax or a sword. God Casten the time when the last lance hall be shivered and the last bat leax dulled and the last sword heathed, never again to leave the cabbard, and the angel of the text, vho, Matthew Henry says, was the ord Jesus Christ, shall, from the ull inkhorn of His mercy, give a sav ng call to all nations. That day may 'e far -off, but it is helpful to think f its coming. As Dr. Raleigh de lared that when 50 miles at sea ff the coast of New England -the attle on board the ship, as well as imself, scented the clover on the cew England hills, so we, amid all he tossing waves of the world's con roversies, inhale the redolence of the white lilies of universal peace. Is t not time that the boasted inven ion of new and more explosive and nore widely devastating weapons of leath be stopped forever and the ospel have a chance and the ques ion be not asked: "ow many shots an be fired in a minute?" but "IHow nany souls may be ransomed in a lay?" The world needs less powder .nd more grace, fewer fortresses and nore churches, less power to destroy .nd more power to save. Oh, I am ick of the war cries and the extin ~uished eyesight and the splintered ones and the grave trenches and he widowhood and orphanage and hildlssness which sob and groan .nd die in the wake of the armies on oth sides of the seal Oh, for less f the slaughter weapon and more f the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh, or the stopping of the science of ssassination, that erime of crimes, hat woe of woes, that horror of hor 'ors, that hell of hells-war, which his moment stands reeking with >ood and washing itself in tears ,d blaspheming the heavens and ushing off the edge of this life men rho have as much right to live as ou and I have and blasting homes a which there dwells as much loveli tess as in our own! Would that the erciful angel of my text take the Rst weapon of war and fling It of! nd fling it down with such force hat it shall clang on the lowest ound of the perdition where the Erst keen edge -of human strife was harpened! War! In the name of L~mighty God and of all the home teads it has destroyed and Is now eatroyng, I .hate it, I denounce it, curse it! If our Bible is true-and no other look that was ever printed Is ,as rue as that book, which Moses be *an and John finished-then the time ril come when all the weapons of ruelty w'ill stop and the inkhorns .f evangelization will have their way. the museums of the world the arbine and the cannon and the bomb rll be kept as curiosities, and chil ren will be incredulous as parents ell them that civilized nations once mployed such instruments of death nd more incredulous when told by heir parents that the army that illed the most men was considered he most glorious army. The red .orse of carnage that St. John saw vision, and the black horse of amine, and the pale horse of death :'ill be stabled, and the white horse f prosperity and peace, mounted by he King of Kings, will lead the reat army wit~h banners. Through he convicting, converting, sanctify g power of the Eternal Spirit may e all march In that processioni fail, th Mighty Rider of the white .orse in the final triumph! Sweep own and sweep by, thou Angel of he New Covenant, with the inlkhorn f the world's evangelization! "The 2ountans and the hills shall break orth into singing, and all the trees if the field shall clap their hands. stead of the thorn shall come up he fir tree, and instead of the brier hal come up the myrtle tree and it hall be to the Lord for a name, for . everlasting sign that shall not be ut off." Cold Coffee for Cookieu. Mix ginger cookies with cold coffee astead of water; it will improve I he-:n India's Population. Complete census returns give the opulation of Ind'a as 294,000,000. an icrease in the last decade of 7,000, 00. Dediiating the papulation of the alueistan, Shaustaks, Chinhills and kkim territory, enumerated for the rst time, a not increase is shown of aly 1 4 per cent, which is due to im roved cnsus methods. Thus, the opulation is for the first time statijo ary. O~ving to the two famines, mor iity from disease and a great decline 2 the birth rate, the native States iows excessive declines. These resuxlts ere quite unexpected. A Negro Pensioner. Comptroller General Derham Friday eived a letter from Abbeville county, costesting against a negro drawing a snuion in that county. Mr. Derham Lid the negro had been placed on the aneion roll in I 897 by the Abbeville >untry pension board and the records lowed he had been a good and faithful onfederae soildier and was entitled to ie pension. He will continue to draw s pesin despit the little-minded OLUR DEAl) HIEROES e:.nt'nted from page 1.] the 10th South Carolina regiment, tyrewritten manuscr'pt. 3 Sketch of 10U ard 19.h b C. rolina reg-m nis, Gen Ellisen Ca ers for Acjotant G neral of South Carc l ine. 4 Sketch of 15.1 and 24th South Carolina regiments, by Gen Ellison Capers 5. Sketch of Culpepper's battery. 6 Rolls of 19.h and 24th South Carolina regim-nts and Culpepper's battery-the roils cf Kershaw's brigade being in Capt Dickert's book and of 10th South Carolina regimentin Col I Walker's book. 7. Commmissio as as followb: Commissions appointed under authority of the State of South Carolina to locate p- sitiocE of South Carolina trcops, and to erect a m:onument and markers to the same, on the battlefield of (hickamauga. First commission, to locate positions of South Carolina ;troops, visited the battlefield, May IS.h, 1894, and locat edthe position thereof: Gen Hugh L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General, Souch Carolina; Major C. K Henderson, CaptE. J Goggans, MAjor J. D MoLucis, ve:erans Kershaw's irigade. Gen G. I. Walker, Capt R F. McCaslan, L P. Harling, veterans of 10th and 19th Scuth Carolina regi ments. rapt Thcs J. Appleby, veteran of 24:h South Carolina regiment; Capt J, F. Culpepper, Lieut Perry Moses, veterans of Culpepper's battery. The above ccmi-ission recommended that suitable monument and markers be erected. In response thereto the Sceond cc.mmission was appointed under authority of a join resolution of the Genoral Assembly, December 22, 1894, to selec designs and secure esti mates for said mon.ument and markers. Gzn C. Irvine Walker, Msjor J. D. McLucss, Major C. K Henderson. The above second ecmmision select ed designs, secured estimates and re ported to the next seassion of the Gen eral Assembly, but no appiopriation waa made. A; its Convention of 1899 the S uth Carolina Division, United Confederate Veterans, decided to memorialize the General Assemblyr and urge that proper respect be pail sons who fought who fought and who died at Chick amauga. In respont.e thereto the Third commission was authorized by General Assembly at its session of 1900, and an appropriation of $10,000 was made for the erection of said monument and markers, to be erected by the com mission, at such places as it may decide on. The commission was to consist of the Governor, Adjutant and Inspector General and three Confederate Vete rans. It was as :ollows: Governor Miles B. McSweeney, chairman; Gen C. Irvine Walker, se.. cretary, Veteran; Gen J. W. Floyd, Adjutant and Intspector General, South Carolina, Veteran, but appointed ex offiio; Major C. K Henderson, Co. J. Barvey Wilson, Veterans. Under the sup)ervision of the above third commission the Sauth Carolina monument, in the corner stone of which this record is deposited, was erected. It was dedicated, unveiled and turned over to the commissioners of the Chick amauga and Cha ttanooga Nitional Park this 27th day of May, A. D. 1901. Also were erec-ed the granite markers for the various commands of Souta Carolinans, as follows: (One to Kershaw's brigade and one to each of its regiments, i. e., 2d, 3i, 7th, Sth and 15th South Carclina regiments, and James's South Carolina Battalion on Snodgrass Range. One to the 10t h and 19th South Cara lina regiment eon Snodgrass Range. One to the 24 :h South Carolina reg iment on the Kclly farm, near the Shell monument, to Col Oolquitt. One to Culpepper's battery, in the 1 Poe field.C All of which is duly certified to byC M;les B. McSweeney, Governor of South Carolina, and chairman of the commission; C. Irvine -Walker, Se ere tary of commission. The daughters of the Confederacy, through Mrs. Thomas Taylor, presi dera of South Carolina Divison, haveC been invited, in accepting Mrs Taylor r ays: "I hope many of us may have the distinguished happiness of showing I homage to our soldiery en that occa sion." It is hoppd that all the Daughters will attend. A Law Breaking Judge. The announcement has already been made in The State that the court ata Marion was adjourned because of the appearance of a case of smsllpox in at hotel there. A Columbian who has just returned from Marion recites interest ing details omitted in the dispatches. The judge, ho says, was staying at the hotel in which the suspicious case deve-a loped; he arose in the morning to find 1 the vigilant health officer had been up ahead of him, hung out yellow flags, 1 put the hotel under quarantine and plac-t ed gua ds arounds it. The i judge did not relish the idea of being, held a prisoner and he escaped from the house, proceeding to the depot. The sheriff was sent to detain him. ~ This that offieial courteously did and thea transferred his prisoner to the town marshal. The train came and went, and on it went the judge. The State's informant says the marshal was fied $5 for permitting a prisoner to escap.-Colum bin S .ate. Two Officers Shot. A dispatch to The State from Char-d lson says news was received in the o city on Tuesday, 19th instant, of the shooting of Trainmaster C J. Young- q blood and Detective Witzell of theo Plant System last night at Ashley t: Junction. The wounded men were c brought to ther city, and later carried to t the Plant System hospital at Yemassee. n The detective was shot through the t right lung, and the trainmaster in the ij breast. It appears that the Plant Sys- a tem officials were endeavoring to entrap ti several negro thieves, who have been o robbing the railroad- station for some time. Youngblood and Witzell sud- c denly came upon the thieves, when one t of the number drew his pistol and shot u both men before they could defend f, themselves. The negro took to the .t] swamp immediately after the shooting, e and has not since been seen. A Foolish Girl.e The body of May Comstock, who, it t1 is believed, committed suicide by jump ing int) the lake at Sixty-third street, o Chicago was found Thursday afternoon e: buried in the sand on the beach near t< the Fifty-ninth street pier. The cause 33 of the girl's suicide was the fact that a: she had run into debt to the extent of f: $7 and dreaded to ask her father for p money. Miss Comstock was the daugh t: ter of John Comstock, a retired fruit d grower, formerly a resident of Florida si and California, but now living at Ben-E ton Harbor. .The girl was studying g A PROFITABLE CROP Broom Corn Bxints One Hundred ; Dollars a Ton in Columbia C The C.lumbia Rcord sa;s the far mers of Ecuth Carolina have been urged or :uany years to plant broom corn, h' h is a very pr fi able crop :h C .1 De griwn to advantage in many sections >f this state. O.e trouble has been c he distance of the markets, but this is )eiag remedi' d by the establishment f small broom factories in this state. )ne of these has been started in Co umbia by John H. Sims, wt o thus practically demonstrates his faith in he small industries so necessary to ound out Columbia's prosperity. His actory is at present on M rion street, s5 but he Expects to shortly build more a] uitable quarters near the Branding be street depot. His fae'ory now turns >ut about fifteen dczai fine house h >rooms daily. Mr. C. M. Timmons started a broom Fl actory on Assembly street, near Lim- ze er, several years ago. It was bought s, ibout ten months ago by Mr. Moore, ho has bt en s' eadi y pushing his busi-W 2es. He turns out a very fine pro- se luet, for which there is a large demand, tl Lie having no trouble is selliitg all the of )rooms he can make According to the Yorkville Y ofr an, er Hiram Maseey. of Tirzah, is the only fr an in York county who has tried C plantirg broom corn. Mr. Massey was in Yorkville a day ti yr two ago and informed the Yeoman reporter that he land just returned rom Columbia, where he had sold his s, ct of oroom corn at $100 a too, cash. b< A broom factory located in Columbia bought the lot. The superintendent of te te factory seemed surprised at the fine tI iuality of this lot of etrn, and inform ,d Mr Massey that he would take all Ee could get is good at the same price. Asked for some information as to his experience in plantiog, cultivatirg ,tc , Mr. Massey said broom corn was ittle more trouble than other corn, be ng cultivat' d in much the same way as m ;org.um, fetiiizing the same as for cot ton. F. rtilizing of course increases she yield. That which is intended for ale, for manufacture into brooms, is -4 at just before the plant ripens, so t ;hat it retains toughness in the straw m nd a pale green color. It is nccessary A :o have a seed patch. whtre the c ern is ti llowed to ripen. That which is cut m or market is dried and packed into v ales of convenient size for shipping. g: The yield averages a thousand pounds b of cured straw to the acre. Some more si td some less, owing to the condition et f land, season, fertilization and atten- b ion given It is ready for market in b August, af ter two to three weeks our 'ng, at the elackest and dul!est season o )f the year, when the farmer has plenty VI )f time to attend to it, and at a time vhen a good money crop would mean a ai ;reat deal to him. Mr. Massey is much pleased with D? room cern, and is making preparations d :o plant 25 to 30 acres this year. d His suecess .ill doubtless lead other to armcrs in South Catolina to put some b >f their land in broom corn, instead of soninuing to bend all their energies to ni aising cotton. I n< CENSUS OF COTTON GINNING ra i Very Important Work Undertak- n by the C~nsus BureauJ The Greenville Meu tainter says rarious efforts have been made to per- di eet agencies for securing early and in rutworthy information as to the quan- ti tity of cotton annually grown in the Jaitta States. with a 1:ew to reducing er to a minimum the fluctuations incident 0 an industry so greatly dependentC spon supply and demand. C Statistics of this crop used in cor.n M nrcial centers have to do with the fr otton as marketed during each year e1 mding August 31, and are gathered rery largely through repcs of trans- le ortation lines touching the cotton ra elds. So long as it was safe to as- g{ amie that practically the whole of the of jotton crop reached its market through ax he - common carriers, their reports onsitituted a fairly trustworthy basis ra or estimates of the commercial crop, 21 >ut, s much cotton now goes directly C1 ro the fields to the mills without cc assing through the hands of tranpor- p: ation companies, this means of gather- ni g cotton statistics is annually becom ng more and more unfatisfactory. All M eturns are made in commnerc:al bales, a rhich is an unsatisfactory unit of mess- th ire. During the iast century the to verage weight of the commercial bale ni nore than doubled. in some sections he cottan bale now means the equare ackage averaging in weight 498 ounds. In other regions it means a Ja iale of 400 pounds, while in still other ocalities is found the round bale aver ging 259 pounds. None of the means itherto employed has reported the umber and weight of these divers in inds of commeretal bales. The rela- go ive number of square and round bales no s banging and with this the average bt r-ight of the ordinary unit, the com- sti ercial bale, is being modified. Hence sh he importance of substituting a fixed mi nit like a pound for a variable unit of foi neasure like a bale, thus enabling fhe je; oun try to know the actual quantity of wi otton produced. -w Blieving that the reports of cotton he inners, showing the number and aver-j< g weight of the bales passing through co: hei: hands du:ing a given year, would re< iford trustworthy staustics, the United of tates Census Office has by correspon- cia ene and through the enumerators fif1 bained from each ginning establish- ye: ient of the country a report of the tic uantity of cotton handled of the crop op f 199. The attempt to obtain the statis ab: ins of the cotton crop through this agen of y .as been so successful, and the me- an hod promises to dtvelop statistics so faE inch more complete and satisfactory sei ban those heretofore adopted that the tra )irector of the Census has decided to sui .ndertake an annual census of the cot wc n crop through the direct cooperation gii f the ginners. ma The success cf this annual cotton rop report must depend altogether pon the promptness arnd accuracy with !hich reports are received. As the in- ed rmation solicited is very largely for an< e benefit of the cotton ginners and sic tton growers, it is believed -that the for inners will cordially respond to the na: ifrts of the Census Office to render coi is service to the South and to all th< ose interested in its great staple- bei The Census Oiice is now undertaking the btain the facts regarding the cotten coa rap of 1900, through blanks mailed to sp, >the cotton gin ners. These inquires fin hould be promptly and accurately wl nwered and returned at once in the no *anked envelop,, which requires no an< ostage. Gjinners will not fail to see ca. iat the success of this inquiry will re- on ound greattyjto their benefit, and they deo hould be promapt to report to the go, ureau the nam.e and addresses of new Th inning estaolishments, as well as any sg< OUR OLD HEROES. onfederate R -unit ns in Colum bia arid Memphis IVISION SPONSOR NAMED fficial Circulars Issued by Gen eral Walker in Reference to Both Meetings The Railroad Rates. The Columbia State says on every de the work of those charged with the rangements for the State reunion to held there early in May is going for ard. The local finance committee is been receiving subscriptions in re ,onee to its circular letter to the citi us, and is well satisfied with the re ilts preliminary to the canvass. The rk of the committee charged with curing homes has been delayed a let e, but not materially, by the sickness the chairman, Col S. W. Vance. Below is given the copy of the gen al order of Gen. C. I. Walker, issued om the headquarters of the South arolina division United Confederate eterans, in Charleston, in regard to fe State reunion: eneral Order No. 52: 1. The seventh annual reunion of the )uth Carolina division, U. C V., will held at Columbia, S. C., commencing aV 8th, 1901, at 8 p. m. A large at ndance of comrades is expected, and fe good people of Columbia will do all their power to make the occasion easant and profitable. 2. Railroad rates on the most onomical basis have been sccured. 3. Miss Elizabeth C. Teague of Aiken, C., has been appointed sponsor, and Liss Annie Norwood of Greenville, aid of honor, for the division for the irrent year. 4 All camps, regiments and brigades the division are earnestly requested appoint, each, one sponsor and as any maids of honor as they see fit. most beautiful and appreciated fea re of our reunions has been the igling of- the daughters with the old -terans, and it is hoped that each or nization will do itself the honor of ping represented by a sponsor. When )onsora and maids are received by the nvention, each will march in, carry g the camp, regimental or brigade inner. 5. Each camp will please bring its imp banner and come into the con ution hall with the same. 6. The Ladies' Confederate Memorial sociation, of Columbia, has asked the vision t3 participate in the solemn emorial services of May 10th, and the vitation has been accepted. The vision, with its escert, will move out the cemetery, where the tribute will paid to our dead. Details of the parade will be an )nced hereafter. Capt, W. D. Star g, the commander of the local camp, ampton, No. 389 U. C. V , is an >unced as grand marshal of the pa By order. C. Irvine Walker, Commdr. S. C. Div., U C. V. imes (1. Holmes, A jt. Gen. Chief of Staff N. B. Camps that have not paid their se for two (2) or more years are not "good standing," and are not en ded to delegates. The following has also been issued SGen. Walker in regard to the gen al reunion at Memphis: Gen Order No. 53: 1 The 11th annual reunion of the U. V , will be held at Memphis, Tenn., y 28, 29 and 30, 1901 Delegates om all the campsocf this division are ,etly desired to be present. 2 The Southern railway has been se eted as the offiial route, and all erm des are asked to go by that rou e and together. The details of the hours leaving various points have been nounc~d in general order No, 54 3. The offcial trains of the Southern iway will reach Chattanooga, May , at 7 a. in., and run down to the iikamauga battlefield, so that the mrades will hate t be ~opportunity of rticipating in the unveling ceremo es of the South Carolina monument. 4. The South Carolina Chickamsuga onument comnmission have extended ordial invitatioD to the veterans of e South Carolina division U. C. V , participate in the unvelling ceremo By order, C. Irvine Walker, Comdr. 8, C. Div., U. C. V. mes G. Holmes, Adjt. Gen. Chief of Staff.. War on the Long Skirts %ort skirts for women are coming to greater favor every day and for od reasons. They are not only more venient than long, dragging skirts, ,t are much more serviceable.-The ~ongest argument in favor of the ort skirt, however is that it is so ich easier to keep clean and is there ce much more healthful. The sub. t of dress reform is being discussed th great interest in Canada, not by men alone but by physicians and alth authrities. O. e of the sub-| :ts most fully considered at a large vention of physicians in Ottawa ently was tubarculosis and the mans its transmission. Au eminent physi i gave it as his opinion that one .h of all the deaths in Canada last r resulted fromnpulmonary consump n. There was a consensus of inion that trailing skirts were verit le germ traps and that their use out dor3 should be strongly discsunten aed. It is very difficult to make hions conform to rules of common ise, but the reasons for abolishing iling skirts for street wear should be icient to appeal effectively to every man who values her health. Drag ig dresses are not necessary to wo n's attractiveness. Revoked the cmmissions. Wednesday, Gov. McSweeney issu a prclamation announcing that on after January 1 next all commis s held by commissioners of deeds South Carolina, issued prior to Jan ry 1, 1896, will be revoked. These nmissions are held at the pleasure of governor. The proclamation has an issued because of the fact that re is no official record as to who are nmissioners of deeds up to the time cified, and the secretary of state d it impossible to let anyone know 0 holds a commission and who does t. These officials live in other States cuntries, and they are frequently led upon to probate papers that later require official records. It is in or to obtain such a record that the ernor has issued the proclamation. e same thing was done some years >in regard to the notaries public in PLAYER CONVICTED. His Story of Being Held Up and Rob bed Not Believed. The case of the State against Frank i M. Player, dispenstr at Kingstree, who v claimed to have been held up and rob- I bed cf two thousand dollars last Christ- k mas, was called for trial at Kingstree last Thursday morning in the court of general session. Judge Watts was on the bench and Solicitor Wilson for prosecution. W. F. Clayton, E-q , of 1 Florence, and LeRoy Lie, Esq , were N for the defense. Ex-Dispenser Player was indicted < for breach of trust with fraudulent in tent, the definite elreumstance being C the alleged Christmas dispensary rob bery of more than two thousand dollars. It was claimed by the prosecution that there was no robbery except by the dis penser. Exceptional interest was manifested i all through the trial and sentiment was i strongly against the defendant. The number of robberies committed during d the past year had justly caused the , feeling that something was wrong, and frequent shortages conficmed the fact Though the evidence was entirely I circumstantial, yet Solicitor Wilson skilfully satisfied the jury of Player's C guilt. The defense worked hard and 3 well. The argument lasted four hours. j All the attorneys in the case are en- 1 titled to great praise. At 1 o'clock J adge Watts chargcd the j iry, commenting on the strength of circumstantiai cvideacc. lie gave the record to the jury at 1:30 p. m. The jory on the first ballot stood eight for conviction, four For acquittal. The ( second ballot resulted in ten for con- g viction and two for acquittal. At 7.40 r p. m., the jury rendered a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy. On motion of W. F. Clayton, E q., the court will consider the matter oi a new trial Friday. It is the general opinion that a ne v trial will not be granted. I Williamsburg convicts the first dis penser for irregularity and this upholds the law. I When court reass m'iled this morn ing the motion to consider a new trial f was withdrawn, and the defendant's attorneys told in touching words the circumstances attendant on the sen tence, and b.gd all mercy crneis:ent r withthe law. Judge Watts heard the t story, aid, then senenced Player to t three years and six months in the peni- ( tentiary. Player's family has elicited < much sympathy. He has a wife and i fourteen children, his youngest an in- c fans, his oldest an invalid from birth. And these are to suffer the shame of their father's sio, and work for their daily bread.-Tne State. April Weather. d The following data, covering a period < of thirty .years, have been compiled from the weather bureau records at Charleston for the r.enth of April: Mean or normal temperature, 65 de- a gress. The wa: meat month was that g of 1871, with an average of 70 degrees. - The coldest month was that of 1881, with an average of 603 degrees. The highest temi erature a as 89 degrees, on Aprn1 16, 1888; the lowest tempjerature was 32 dlegrees, on April 2, 1881. Aver- 1 age date on which first "killing'frost E occurred in au umn, November 30; i ave age date on which last * killg" f frost oclurred in spring, March 3. c Average precipitation for the month, jp 3.39) incnes. Average number of days ~ with .01 of an inah or more, 8. The greatest monshly precipitatin was 15 ~ irnches, in 1877; the least monthly pre cipitation was 0.51 inches, in 1892. The t greatest amount of precipitatio.1 in any E t wenty-four consecutive hours was 8 30 s inches, on April 13, 1877. c ,Average numb~er of clear days, 13; a partly cloudy days, 12; cloudy days, 5. s a The p.revailing winas have been from the south 'est, 31 per cent; the hig .est velocity of the wind was 66 miles, from the south, on April 20, 1893. The Czar's Hard Lot. t The news from St. Petersburg in- 12 dicate a'terrible state of affairs. It is I said that sums of money are being die- 12 tributed to the faatory hands in SL. I Petersburg and vicinity to induce i them to jn1n hands wmth the disaffscted students. It has not been learned whence this money comes, but indica- 1 tions point to high sources of the court. Tne fact is, the secret police no longer 1 trust even the highest entourage of- the ezar. New precautions for protection s of the ezar's life have been taken; r namely, a mechanism which allows no a one to open the doers of the room in d which the czar happens at the momerit to be. The czar now has five desks in b his study, which he uses one after. the other Tne walls of the cz ar's study and bedroom are lined with steel armor. S The correspondent finds that evidence tl of the new plots was general. OJrders were given Saturday nigaf, to keep all the troops in Sr. Petersburg ready. Sunday the police were distributed in force on all main stree's of the city. ii A military commander of St. Petersburg la M. Kleigels, received a number of warngs. A .A Queer Story.y Astartling kidnaping story comes. from Honea Path, Anderson county, tc incident to the returning home of young Arthur McGee, whose mysterious die- h appeararca last October, created such in a sensation, says the Anderson corres pondent of the Augusta-Caronicle. It ci will be remembered that McGee was r last seen in Anderson last October at di Forepaugh and Sdlls Bros.' circus and m efforts to locate him since then have been in vain. He returned home Fri day and declares he remembers nothing until a fortnight ago, when he came to himself and .tearned he was about 20 miles from Atlanta. He believes he m was sandbagged and spirited away and awakened in bondage while under the C. influence of some drug or occult power. to His story has created much excitement. n< McGee is a son of Rev. Mike McGee, St one of the most prominent Baptist - ministers in Anderson county and has t always been a most exemplary young ex Forest Fires.a A special from Meridian, Miss., save: tb News reached here Friday from Pauld- to ing, in Jasper county, that forest fires in are doing thousands of dollars worth of le damage in that section. Jasper has no railroad cnnection. An arrival from there Friday says the high winds have swept the flames over miles of the dry pire country, burning fences, homes, to girns and outhouses. He is Right. ot re The Rev. John L. Sewall, pastor ti< of the First Congregational church in by N{orth Brookfield, Mass., has announced se t> his psrshioners that he will accept 1)c a reduction of 10 per cent, of his sal- th ary of $1,500 a year, inasmuch as many 20 tf the congregation are facing a 10 per th cent. reduction in their wages earned a< ' Responsibility of Employers. "Employers who think they we their employees nothing but vages, and whose relations o them are far less personal han many a slaveowner's to vard his slaves, are not often >randed as a dangerous class, >ut as a matter of fact, however tndesigning their- idifference, hey are among the allies of ice," says Bishop Potter in EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE. "Such re the employers who overlook he indecency -of conveniences which oblige the sexss to use hem in common; whose theory >f gain will brook the perpetual resence of an immoral foreman >r floorwalker, provided only he makes business go;' who do not Lesitate to impose the extreme imit of labor under the -maxi num of ameliorative conditions, End whose employees are de noralized'amid an industrialism which is indifferent alike to the testruction and developement >f individuality. The heartless Less of the church which is only 6 religious club was once satir zed by a cartoon showing a hurch vestibule, with a nickel n-the-slot, dummy usher, whose phonographic pharynx, set in o vibration by the fall of coin, aid: 'Very glad to see you. rake any seat. Come again; nd the heartlessness of some nanufactories is of the same tripe. At the door of them ught to be an automatic bar ain-maker, as well as an auto natic ' time-recorder, and it hould say, 'Come in, young la lies. We want you because you vork cheaper than men. All ocial customs to be left at home. )eats for every three of you till he law favors you less, and ifty plus fifteen equals sixty when we come to count your tours per week.' The time must :ome when every mill will rein orce the righteousness of the tome, as does the school to-day. kchools that should foster im. norality among their pupils, or_ hat should even be indifferent o its presence,.would be batter d down by.an outraged public. pinion; why should the girl in - he school be more sacred in the'. ommunity's eyes than the girl n the mill? Shall schools be de eloped as civilization-makers vhile mills remain civilization estroyers, through moral con itions, while civilization-aid rs in material things?" The Story of a Bucker. The Anniston Hot Blasttells of man who smokes four cigars a lay and chews twenty cents rorth oftotacco a week, saidhe was too poor totakealocalpaper. le is a smart man, too. And eco-' iomical, Ishouldsmile.This say rig fellow was getting a Maine' tory paper, and found by send rig a dollar he could get a -cure or drunkeness. Sure enough he id. It was"take a pledge and :eep it." Later he sent 50 two ent stamps to find out ,how to aise beets successfully. He. ound out. The answer ."ust ake hold and - pull." Beii~g ingle he wished to marry and en.t 34 one-cent stampsto a Ci ago firm to learn how to makre n impression. When the an wer came it read; "Sit down n a pan of dough." That was little tough, but he was a pa ient man and thought he would *et succeed. ~The next adver- - isement he read, '-how to dou le his money in six months." [e was told to convert ' his ioney into bills, fold them and' e would see his money doubled. ~ut he was bound to get some. seful secret by which -he could iake money, so he sent $5 to nd out how to write without a en and ink. The answer was, try a lead pencil." Then he mnt a dollar to learn how to get Lch-"work like the devil and ever spend a cent." - This was iscouraging; but he decided to -y once more and sent a dollar ill to learn how 'to live without rork and was told to "fish for ickers as we do."He now takes ie home paper and is happy. Teiegram of Sympathy. Governor McSweeney Friday sent te following telegram to~ D. H. Wal ce, ai Union: "I have read1 with sorrow this morn g the annoiaacsment of the desa of >ur distinguishe,d father. The entire ,ople of S.au:h Caroina mjurn his ,ath. Convey my deepest sympathies all the members of your family." The' flags on the sta:e to is. were at hlf-m ist Friday out of respect to the emory of Judge Wallace. Col. Wade H. Manning said the door the headquarters of the Confederate union executive committee would be 'aped as a tribute of respect to the emory of Judge Wallace, who was a neral of the Uonfederacy. Getting Readly. The Columbia State says Friday orning when Mr. James D. Lewis, a nductor on the C. N & [L was about leave his home on iElmwood avenue arny opposite the fair grounds, to irt out on his run, he looked for his stol but could not find it. An invis ~ation showed that the ho3use had been. tered by thieves during the night and at besides the pistol, a gun, a Bible, dictionary and other property had en taken away. It is supposed that e teief has started for the Philippines educate, convert and shoot Filipinos, licating his real patriotism by h-is se stion of articles. Equalization of Mill Taxes. Comptroller Genera! Derham is going work at once to get up the returns on tton mills, cotton seed factories and lier property which, comes under the sent Act, which provides for equaliza in of the assessmant on such property a State board. e wants the returns at into his office at the very earliest esible moment and expects to have s State boardi meet here about the th of May for the purpose of maing assessments. Mr. Derham sent out lircular letter to that effect to all