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TALMAGE'S SERMOi In Which He Corrects False Notions Ab mt Religion. In this discourse Dr. Talmage cor rects some of the false notions about religion and represents it as being joy inspiring instead of dolorous; text II Chronicles ix, 9. "OU spices great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave KDn Solomon." What is that building out yonder glittering in the sun? Have you not heard? It is the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has jas! taken to it his bride, the princess o Egypt. You see the pillars of the por tiro and a great tower, alorned with 1,000 shields (of gold hung on the out side of the tower-500 of the hiel: of gold manufactured at S.lomon's or der, 500 were captured ly )avid, hi father, in battle. S.e bow they blaz: in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs o his throne between 12 lions in statuar3 and sits down on the back of the gol den bull, the head of the huge beas1 turned toward the people. The fam.l3 and the attendants of the king are s< many that the caterers of the palaoe have to provide every day 100 sheer and 13 oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and paw ing of 4,000 fine horses in the royal stables. There were important cfi 3ial! who had charge of the work of gather ing the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an earl3 riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when, in hi white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realim and followed b3 mounted archers in purple, as the caval cade dashed through. the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in th< morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day-crowned im beeility. All the splendors of his pal ace and retinue were eclipsed by his in, tellectual power. Why, he seemed tc know everything. He was the firs: great naturalist the world ever saw Peacocks from India strutted the bas altic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, ani there were aquariums with foreign fill and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradition says these birds Were so wel tamed that Solemon might walk clear across the city under the shadow o their wings as they hovered and flitte about him. More than this. He had a grea reputation for the conundrums and rid dies that he made and gassed. He an King Hiram, his neighbor, used to si by the hour and ask riddles, each on paying in money if he could not an swer or guess the riddle. The SAc monic navy visited all the world, an the sailors, of course, talked about-th wealth of their king and about the rid dies and enigmas that he made an, solved, and the news spread unti Qaeen Balkis, away off south, heard o is and sent messengers with a few rid dies that she would like to have Solc mon solve and a few puzzles that sh would like to have him find out. Shk sent, among other things, to King Sol omen a diamond with a hole so sinal that a needle could not penetrate it asking him to thread that diamond, ani Solomon took a worm and put it at th opening in the diamond, and the worn crawled through, leaving the thread il the diamond. The queen also sent goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill with water that did not pour from th sky and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put slave on the back of a s wift horse an< galloped him .round and around the park until the horse was nigh exhaustet and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent ti King Solomon 500 boys ia girls' dres: and 500 girls in boys' dress, wondering if he would be acute enough to find oul the deception. Immediately Solomon when he saw them wash their faces knew from the way they applied the water that it was all a cheat, How any woman keeps house withou the religion of Christ to help her is mystery to me. 'io have to spend the greater part of one's life, as many wo men do, in planning for the meals anc stitching garments that will soon b rent again and deploring break ages an supervising tardy subordinates, an driving off dust that soon again will set tie an.d doing the same thing day in and day out and year ii and year onl until the hair silvers and the badl stoops and the spectacles crawl to the eyes and the grave breaks open unde! the thin sole of the shoe-oh, it is long monotony! But when Christ comes to the drawing room and come! to the kitchen and comes to the nurs ery and comes to the dwelling, ther how cherry become all womanly duties She is never alone now. Martha get! through fretting and joins Mary at she feet of Jesus. All day long Deboral is happy because she can help Lspi doth, Hannah because she can makea coat for young Samuel, Miriam because she can watch her infant brother, Rachel because she can help her fathe! water the stock, the widow of Sarepts beeause the cruse of oil is being rejlon ished. O woman, having in your on try a nest of boxes containing all kindi of condiments, why have you not tried in your heart and life the spicery of our holy religion? "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away fron her." I must confess that a great deal d: the religion of this day is utterly in sipid. There is nothing piquant 01 elevating about it. Men and women gt around humming psalms in a minoi key and cultivating melancholy, and their worship has in it more sighs that raptures. We do not doubt thei2 piety. Oh, no! But they are sitting at a feast where the eook has forgot ten to season the food. Everything is fiat in their experience and is their conversation. .2mancipated from sin and death and hell and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlasting Botany Bay. Rleligios does not seem to agree with them. Il seems to catch in the windpipe and be come a tight strangulation instead of as exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire dowi to Herbert Spencer, have not done 5c much damage to our Christianity ai lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion woven out of the shadows ol the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of Rtighteous ness. Away with your odes to melan choly and Hervey's "Mreditations Among the Tombs." Then let our songs abound And every tear be dry; We're marching throughi Emmanuer's ground To fairer worlds on high. I ha o sa also that we need tc put more spice and enmiveme :.n ur I reigion teaaJin'g, whether it e in the prayer meeting or in the Sunday ] school or in the church. We ministers i need more fresh air and sanshine in our I lungs at.d our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from I being converted when you fid so little E vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew? 1 We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exherratibns more lillies of the fieli. We want fewer rhetorical 1 elaborations and fewer se'qcipendalisn I words, and when we talk about shadows { we do not want to say ad ambration, and when we mean queerness we do not want to talk about idiosynorasises, or if 1 a stitch in the back we do not want to 1 ta k about lumbago; but, in the plain vercacular of the great masses, preach thatp ospel which proposes to make all toen happy, honest, viotorious and free. In orsher words, we want mory cinna mon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lords calls us. Let us be pian. Lot us be earnest. Let us be common sensical. When we talk to the p ;ople is a vernacular they can under stand, they will be very glad to come and recsive the truth we present. Would to God that Q teen Balkis would drive her spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons and prayer meeting ex hortations! More than that, we want more life and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread and medicines and garments you give them let there be an accompaniment of smiles and brisk encouragement. Do not stand and :elk to them about the wretch d 2ese of their abode, and the hunger of their looks. and the hardness of their lot. Ah, they know it better than you can tell them. Show them the bright ride of the thing, if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will come. Tell them that for the children of God there is immcrzal rescue. Wake them up cut of their stolidity by an inspiring laugh, while you send in help, like the queen of Sheba, also send in the spices There are two ways of meeting the poor. One is to co&e into their house with a nose elevated in disgust, as much as to say: "I don't see how you live here in this neighborhood. It actually makes me sick. There is that bundle. Take it, you poor, miserable wretch, and make the most of it." Another way is to go into. the abode of the poor in a manner which seems to say: "The blessed Lord sent me, He was poor himself. It is not more for the good I am going to try to do you than it is for the good that you can do me." Coming in that spirit, the gift will be as aromatic as the spike nard on the feet of Christ, and all the hovels on that alley will be fragrant with the spice. We neeh more spice and enlivenment t in our church music. Churches sit dis cussing whether they shall have choirs or precentors or organs or bass viols or - cornets. I say take that which will i bring out the most inspiring music. If we bad half as much zeal and spirit in our churches as we have in the songs of our Sunday schools, it would not be f long before the whole earth would quske with the coming God. Why, nine-tenths of the people in church do not sing, or they sing so feebly that the Speople at their elbows do not know they Sare singing. People mouth and mumble hepassof God, but there is not more than one out of a hundred who makes a joyful noise unto the Rock of SOur Salvation. Sometimes, when the Scongregation forgets itself and is all 1absorbed in the goodness of God or the Sglories of heaven, I get as intimation Iof what church music will oe 3 hundred years from now, when the coming gen eration shall wake up to its duty. Why did you look so sad this morn igweyou came in? Alas, for -the loeins and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soull Some of you go about feeling like IMacaulay when hie wrote, "If I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient ta get down into my little, narrow crib in te ground, like a weary factory child." Ana, there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said, "0Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley l" and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the cover let of green grass and daisies. Y' ou have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb! I wish I was there." I see all around about me widowhood at d orphanage and childlessness; sad ness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in and audience who have felt no sorrow any been buffeted by no disappointment-If I could ask all such to rnee, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went west, hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken eick and died. Tne overbeer of the poor got her body and put it in a box and put in a wagon and started down the street to ward the cemetery at full trot. The lit te child-the only chid-ran after it though the streets bareheaded, crying: " Bring me back my mother! Bring me baar my mother!" And it was said that as the people iooke d on and saw her cry ing after that which lay in the box in the wagon, all she loved on earth-it is said the whole viil age was in tears. And tazt is whas a gr'eat many of you are doing-- chasing rrne dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sor row that I see about me? Y es; the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them ror any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the< throne shall lead them to living foun- I tains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Across the I couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Q ieen Balkis, driving < up to the pillared of the house of cedar carried no such pungency of perfume as exhaes today from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction, this gospel I commend to you. Some one could not understand why - an old German Christian scholar used I to be always so calm and happy and hopeful when he had so many trials and sicknesses and ailements. A man secreted himself in the house. He said, "Imean to watch this old scholar and I Christian." And he saw the old Chris- 1 tian man go to his room and sit down < on the charbeside the stand and open t the Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter after chapter, houri after hour, until his face was all aglow with the tidings from heaven, and when t the clock struck 12 he arose and shut his Bible and said: "Blessed Lord,( we are on the same old terms yet. Good night. Good night." Oh, you sin parched and you trouble pounded, heret is comfort, here is satisfaction! Will y ou come and get it? I cannot tell you I what the Lord offers you itereafter soI Iwell as I can tell you what he offrs( now. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." Have you read of the Taj Mahal, in 7 ic building on earth? ! wanty thous nd m n were 20 years in building it. :t cost about $16,000.000. The walls re of marble inland with carnelian rom Bagdad and turquoise from Tibet Id jasper from Punjab and amethyst rom Persia and all manner of precious tones. A traveler said that it seemed ,o him like the shining of the enchant d castle of burnished silver. The walls re 245 feet high, and from the- top of hese springs a dome 30 more feet high, hat dome containing the most wonder A echo the world has kno an, so that "-er and anon travelers standing below :th flutes and drums and harps are :estiog that echo, and the sounds from Below strikes up, and then come down, is it were, the voices of anghs all round about the building. There is iround it a garden of tamarind and banyan and paim and all the f.oral lories of the ransacktd earth. Bit that is only a tomb of a daad empress, ad it is tame compared with the pandeurs which God has builded for your laving and immortal spirit. 0 2 home of the blessed! Foundations f gold! Arches of victory! Capstones f prais.J And a dome in which there are echoing and re-echoing the hal leluiahs of the ages! And around about that mansion is a garden. The garden of Gad, and all the springing foun tains are the bottled tears of the church in the wiliness and all the crimson of the flowers is the deep hue that was eught up from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms and the fragrance is the prayer of all the saints and the aroma puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia and the spikenard and the frankincense and the world renowned spices which 2 teen Balkis of Abyssina fling at the teet of King Solomon. When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates beheld, Thy bulwarks. with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold? Through obduracy on our part and through the rejection of that Christ who makes heaven possible I wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle? Tae neen of the south will rise up in jadg ment against this generation and con demn it because she came from the ut termost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here! May God grant that through your own practical experience von m iy fiad that religion's ways are ways of pleasant ness and that all her paths are paths of peace--that it is perfume now and per fame forever. And there was an abun dance of spice; "neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to K n.g Solomon." HIS LAST REQUE iT. Tell Them I Was Not Crazy. Hip Letter. A special from Bremen, Ga. , Thurg day says. It now develops that J. E. Jollie, the agent of the Central railroad there who committed suicide Tues day was worried by financial troubles, having been dealing in futures. It is not thought, however, that he is short in his aceounts as the money he used was borrowed Daring the funeral Thursday after noon all the stores of IBremnen were closed and the Methodist church was crowded to the doors. Mr. Jollie was one of the most popular and beloved residents of the town. That he had deliberately planned the r#sh deed and counted the cost is shown by the following letter left to his wife: "My Dear Precious Ella.-I regret to tell you that in an ifirt to get back what I lost last fall I have lost every dollar I had, and allI. could borrow, and now I am ruined and have debts star ing at me everywhere I go. I have not the courage to meet them or to make i known to you while Iam alive, know ing you will for give me when I am dead. "Now, I ask that you pay, as soon as you can, the following amounts that I Here rollows an itemized statement if indebtedness, amounting to $854, 1450 of this consists of notes due on house and lot and $454 is principally borrowed money, all or which was used to buy futures in sugar, rubber etc. "I told Mr. Hunter the other night had paid the land note, which was my first lie. Ask him to for give me ad I also ask yours. "I also owe $20 on the piano note and the part of tthe note due Septem ber 1st. "This statement is made for your protection after I am go 2e. You can oas you like about paying for the bome. You know there has ooly been $85 paid. It would not be much loss to count off the rent, though it is a ice, cheap place, and you might get some discount to pay it. "I leave y ou $1,750 insurance. Of ourse there will not be very much left you to pay my debts, and the place, but mough I hope to keep you from work ng teo hard at too rough work. "I have prayed God to forgive me for he taking of my own life, but I don't now how it will be. Fternity looks ong and I can't say how it will be with ne, though I hope to meet you in ieaven. Now good bye, my sweet, rue love, and don't think took hard of "Tell people I am not crazy. Don't ell anyone why, it might injure you in ~etting your insurance. I gave Pro essor Holland my notes for a policy a ew days ago. Don't suppose theywill e any good now, but 1 had no idea his would happen then. Get the notes r poicy. "Jim." Short Cotton Crop The monthly report of the statistician if the department of agriculture shows he average condition of cotton on July 15 to have been 77 2 as compared with 11. 1 on the 25th of the preceding nonth; 76 on.August 1. 1900; 84 on Lugust 1, 1899, and a 10 year average i 84. There was an improvement of condi ion during July amounting to 6 points n Georgia, 5 points in South Carolina, in Alabama and Mississippi and 8 in irginia. On the other hand, there was decline of 19 points in Missoutri, 15 in arkansas and Tennessee, 13 in Okla soma and Indian Territory, 12 in Texas, in Florida, 4 in North Carolina and 2 n L ouisiana. The impairment in condition is argely due to drought, but in a per io of the eastern section of the cotton >elt it is attributable to the prevalence i excessive rain during a large part of he month. While the condition in Mississippi is points above the St at e's 10 years aver ge, every other State reports a condi ion below such average, Virginia being Louisiana 2, Alabama 3, Texas 7, ~eorgia 8, South Carolina and Florida ;North Carolina 12; Arkansas, Ten essee and Missouri 16 points below heir respective 10 year averages. The averages of condition in the dif erent States are reported as follows: irginia 86; North Carolina 73; South arolina 75; Georgia 78; Flornda 79; labama 82; Mississippi 88; Louisiana 2; Texas 74; Arkansas 69; Tennessee 0; Missouri 71; Oklahoma 78; Indian POLITICAL MEETING n 11 Dsmocratic Doctrines Ex.)fnded c i and Pounded. li y o: TILLMAN W.LL BE HEARD. a 1t 81 They M set for the Purpose of Let- ci w ling the People Hear the tt b: Discussion of I mpor- tc - tant isu its. A special from The State correspond ent at Union Friday says: The South s Carolin Summer School of Damooraey t opened its session here on the rolling F eidei of the Piedmont foothills Taur:i- 0 day. Practically the Entire openiag w session was devoted to the teaching of S the principles of the old time Demoo racy. Prof. B. R. Tillman, the dean of el the school of engineering, did not reach tl Union Thursday, but will be here al Friday. Prof. John L McLaurin, who is in charge of the commercial school, 01 likewise failed to get to Union and will s. not come. From the Jefferson school o1 there were such lecturers as Daniel S. Henderson, John J. Hemphill, Joseph si T. Johnson was at Union to address to those attending the school on the sub- I j ,at of philosophy. Prof. A. C. Lui- gj mer, in charge of the department of mining and metalurgy, accorling to til recent announcemeats, was heard Thursday as was the Hon. Robert Ald rica in charge of the departments of agricultire and literature, and Mr. F Cleveland, the head of the textile de partment. These alone were heard Thursday, but there are otters of the faculty here Prof. John Gary Evans in charge of the department of fine ars; Prof. W. J. Talbert, instructor in Im oratory and civics; Prof. Gorge Le- ti gare, trainer of the chorus; and Col. b George Johnstone, lecturer in political science and expounder of the plain t English language. The students listened intensely to the it lectures on the opening day and seemed p much impressed with what was heard. The pupils were receptive and well be haved tnroughout. p The commercial school was not much fa in evidence on the opening day, but the sole lecturer in that department was n full of en-brgy. His delivery was im- t pressive and none interrupted to ask p qu'estions. He presented views and b doctrines in a plain, straightforward t] manner, and freqaently he ahswered p arguments in opposition to them pre- c1 viously made. ti The political meeting Thurday was I for the avowed purpose of letting the C people hear the discussion of great is- u sues by public men in a calm manner a when no heat of campaign enters in to al interfere. The speeches Thursday were of a high q order all being better than expected. t] They consumed all the day from 10:45 a, a. m. till' p. m., save 45 min ute3 for d dinner. p Congressman Johnsto n's effort was n regarded as a splendid one, and many is compliments were paid the able ad- fi dresses of Messrs. H ,nderson and Hemphill. Col. Aldrich also made a ir good impression. o: The crowd was respectful throughout w and very undemonstrative till Con- n: g.essman Latimer begsn his speech. w Up to that time it had been impossible oe to tell whether it was a McLaurin or g: an antiMebaurin :erowd. When Mr. ft Latimer opened, however, ha stirred ec the boys up and it was not many mo ments btfore it was manifest from .the L endorsement of the severe handling he p: gave tue 'senator with the curls" sha:, w enere-were was precious few, if any, Mc- 91 Laurin sympathizers in the c.:owd. ai There were no untoward incidents dur- p ing the day.s The speaking took place in Gage's 7 grove, a new political oaittlegrounid in9 Union, a picturesque shady and pleas- 2 ant place. The stand was beneath the 2 bows of oak trees. It was well ar ranged. All the invited guests acca pied seats thereon. The crowd num bered about 500, there being fully 150 ladies and girls in the audience. The grove was only one block from Main street and from down the hill beyond th6 stand camo the appetizing odors of the baroecured meats in course of pre paration. Probate Judge J. M. G3r.or,n the chairman of the commnittee inh charge, was here, there and everywhere making all visitors feel at home. It is hard. to tell how many of the 2,500n voters of Union county were present,h but those who were there were close listeners,.a It was arranged that the speakers ofV the day would be Senator D. S8' Henderson, Congressman J. T. John- t ston, Hon. J. J. Hemphill, J. B. Cleve land, Congressman A. C. Latimer and Col. Robert Aldrich, Mayor M~cBeth t Young and opening with an address of welcome. There were 12 speaiters in vied, the others,. which c ama Friday a were as follows: Senator Tiliman, c Congressman Talbert, who wants it un stood that he is a candidate for gover- 1 nor and not for the senate; Col. Geo. ~ Johnsone of New berry, Ex Governor ai Joe. Gary Evans of Spartanbu-g; Ex Congressman Stanyarne Wilson of c Sprtanburg and bir. George S. Legare of Charleston exposition. 01 these all a but the senators. Messrs. Evans, Wil- 0o son and Lvgare were at Union before the meeting started. Preliminary to 0 the meeting a band discoursed music, playing a warm cakewalk just before hi the meeting was called to order. As the speaking progressed the crowd ci rapidly increased in siza. It was a re- t markably orderly one. Many had comne from other towns with the hope of see- t ing and hearing Tillman and Mc[aurin, but they were disappointed. Neither " of the senators were here. Tillman T. will be tomorrow. - a Mr. W. D. Mayfield of the Mc;Laurin fo advisers, came up from Colum ia this morning to stay through the meeting. pr Many expected that if the senators met en there will be some spectacular va- fig riety work of an interesting ciareter. in During the progress of the :meeting at a telegram was received by Mayor p Young from Senator Tillman saying 'pr that he would arrive tomorrow mormng Ti via Columbia on the early train. n It was 10.45 when Secretary W. W. en Dixon, in charge of the meeting, call ed the gathering to order and introdued the Rev. Crosswell Mc Bee, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, who in oked the D.vine blessing, asking that anger, pride and prejudice be taken out Lt Iof all assembled,.d Mayor McBath Young was then in- hil troduced and welcomed the visitors to wi te the city in a neat speech. His wel- pe ome was most hearty. He referred to fo: the growth of Ujnion. He then said: wi "This gathering of the citizenship of th Union county is the o-utcome of an in- wi vitation extended to our oratorical gi- in ats who aspire to repr esent us in the th senate of our Federal congress; or, m rather those who have been mere promi- Bt anentl spoken of by the people and the ta :ess of the S.ate for that great and ex ted honor. "Some of us thought it no bad idea i these piping times of peace' to re live our political learning and lesssons a the duties of the citiz n from the ps of niossible candidates in an c$f ear. R tceive it without the rancor f partisan strife, when our blood is a cool as conditions will permit dur ig the mid-summer after the great rain of making and laying by the coo-when feelirg at peace with all orld and with love for all and malice >ward none-and not wait until the attle is on and the sparks are fanned flhme and each have taken sides in 3litical fuel, and forgetful of all plat arms and issues, fight far our man. .nd as I have said, we thought is a y d idea to invite our great patriotic atesmen to come and speak to us and give us lectures on the great issues ederal issuei teat have been fought ver sinca the days of the great Jeffer in on down to the issues been cf cur ar war with Spain or issues the panish war his revitalized. We do not want vituperation, mud inging, insults or ungentlemanly epi let3 hurled at any man or men cr oy man's motives impugned "We ask for enlightmont of you as ir professor in S:atecraft-we as your ulente. and I believe you all will >serve the request. "To you my fellow citizens, each )esker desires you close undivided at rtion, and knowing you as I do, I guar.ntee to them that they will t it." He closed with some remarks about t Charleston expcsition. THE COTTON SEED PROBLEME armers Advised to D.mand a Fair Exchang for Them. To the Editor of the News and Cou ez: The farmers of this State are yore interested in the cotton seed qies on that they are in the Tillman and [cLaurin wrangle as to the purity of ieir Darocraoy and the degeneracy their manhood. These two men, portaut as they seem to be, will soon ass and be forgotton but cotton seed here to stay and play an important art in the business problems of the irmers. The purchase of m st of the large oil oils in this and adjoining States by ie Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com any may not tend to a monopoly of the usiness, but it has a sort of leaning in iat direction. E ien before this cor oration came into existence there were ertain combinations amongst mill men iat endeavored to fix the price of seed. t stands to reason that the Virginia arolina Chemical Company will keep p the same plan. That leaves the far ter in the condition that he has to sell the fixed price or hold his seed Seed is worth as much for manure ,hen not crushed as wnen crushed. At e Mississippi experiment station ntualy experiene and chemical analysis emonstrate that the raw seed fed pro erly is worth eqally as much as the eal and hulls. The farmers by keep ig and properly using their seed get ll value. Mills generally charge toll for grind ig productsof the fiarm. They charge ae- tenth or one twelth for grinding heat and corn. Even the roller fb ur ills,~ that exchange flour and bran for heat, place the exchange on the- basis one-tenth for toil. In grinding sor hum and making syrup the toll is one urth or perhaps one-third in some ses. How is it with crushing cotton seed ? et us take recoant quotitions of the rodunts: A tun of sound cotton seed ill make about 750 pounds of meal, 50 pounds of hulls, 25 pounds of dirt ad linterd, and 275 paunds of oil. At resent prices athe product of one ton of ,od will be as follows: 5 pounds of meal..........$9 37 50) pounds of hulls ... ...... - 2 38 i pounds of Iinters............ 25 5pounds of oil (37 gallons). .14 80) Total........ ......... .$2680 Now, one third of that amount, or 3 93, wou.d be large compensation ir the oil mill, which would leave 17 87 for the farmer's ton of eeed. hat is equal to ab'ut 27 cents a shel. The mill men will say that is too tuh to pay for seed. But consider ow ii works: When the farmers bu s Sthe shape of fertiliz ers he will pay te manufacture $15 93 for the ammo la in one Lonl of seed. Besides this awill pay acout $1 to $6 for the pot ih and phosphoric acid in a ton. then the farmer sells his seed to the ill at $10 to $14 a ton and buys from e fertilizer manufacturer the plant od in a ton he will pay at least $20 e it. No farmer can afford to trade at way. What can he do about it? In the st place, he is not obliged to se'll his ed. The oil in it does not irdure it a fertiliz~r or fetd. Properly and ~refully applied, nine bushels of seed worth more to the farmer than 100 unds of meal. IL requires that nount to make 103 pouads of meal. The remedy is to demand a fair ex ange in hulls and meal. Let the ill men understand at once that they e to r:eceive full v~lue for their seed they will not sell. At the present ices of ammonia, potash and phos oric acid q ior~ed at Clemson College, e ton of seed is worth all $20 as a rtiliscr. That is, the farmer will be to pay that much for the same ant-food in any fertizr he may pur ase, no odds what is the .sou:ce of ese elements. Let the farmers of the State consider is question from a rational stand int. Let them d mund full value r their seed or keep them at home. ie only loss will be in the oil, but the rmr will not saffer in that resp:c t, r e gets no benefit from the oil. The figures given above are only ap oximately correct, but they are near ough to exactness to form a basis fcr uring a little on the problem. Lead g farmers could even call a meeting d ask representative mill men to be esent and in a business way talk the oblem over. It would dc no harm. e mill men have their meetings and ver invite farmers to attend and dis ss the price of seed. C. P. Spartanburg, July 29. Killed His Daughter. Clements Buchter, a chairmaker, at >uisville Thursday shot and killed his ughter, Irene, aged 19, and wounded s wife. It is alleged that Buchter, to it is said had been making impro r advances to his child had tried to ce her to accede to his demands, ie she called her mother. Together e woman tried to restrain the father, io drew his revolver and began shoot g. The daughter was shot through e heart and instantly killed and the ther was shot through the hand. BUSHELS OF GOLD Stolen from the Strong Room of Smsitirig Works. NO CLUE TO THE THIEVES. Cleaned Up About Seventeen Theusar d Ounces of Gol, Worth Over Three Hu ndred Thousand Dollars. Gold bricks valured at $340,000 were stolen during Tuesday night from the Sel by Smelting works at Vali jo, Col. The robbers evidently had been work ing on the job for two or three months. Tnay had dug a tunnel from outside the house, beginning with a shaft about three feet deep. Thence they worked underneath the vault and striking up wards, bored a hole in the strong room floor. The hole was shaped like the manhole of a boi'er. Part of the holes were bored two months ago, it is thought, and the last one was com pleted during the night. Through that hole they took the gold bricks and near the mouth of the tunnel east of the works, where they were evidently placed in a boat. In their hurry the robbers left two of the bricks on the bank. During the night one of the work men reported to one of hii fellows that he heard a noise in the strong room and declared it was a ghost. The oth ers ridiculed him for his superst.ition, but no investigation was made to see what caused the noise. The entrance to the tunnel was covered with a frame, over which the employes of the smelt ers passed Every day. but no one seemed to notice anything out of the way. Sheriff Veale of Contra Costa coanty, his deputies and Chief of Police San ford of Vellejo have been notified and are now at the works. The police of San Francisco and all the bay cities are all at work on the case, but so far there is not the slightest clue to the robbers. The work was that of skilled men and their elaborate plans were carried out without a hitch. They got all the bul lion in the vault, leaving'behind only the two bricks which were dropped on the shore. Only one day's accumula tion of refined gold was kept at the works. The tunnel that the robbers exca vated was about three feet in diameter and gave them plenty of room in which to work. It is supposed the dirt from the tunnel was taken out at night and dropped in the bay. First reports stated that the tunnel was two or three hundred feet long, but according to late advices it is only about ten feet in length. The shaft was started close to the wall and was sunk below the foundation. Thence it was only a short distance under the floor of the vault. It is thought the men who committed the robbery took their plunder away in a launch and made off directly for San Francisco. There are plenty of places, however, to which they may have gone -either up the Sacramento riyver or to the shore of any of the numerous bays. Following is a list of the property stoien: Four fine gold bricks, all nuni bered and containing as follows: No. 1236-i.190 ounces and a fraction. No. 1237-3,300 oances. No. 1238-1,123 ounces and a fraction. No. 1239-1,037 ounces and a fraction. Also 10,000 ounces of gold in various.shapes an-. a little silver. The gold in the~ bricks is worth $20 an ounce. South Carolina Leads South Carolina leads all the states in the increase of cotton spindles during the year ending June 30, 1901. Georgia also made a very fine showing as did North Carolina and Alabama. The lat ter state was slow in taking ad vantage of her opportunities for cotton manufacturing, but she has at last gone into the busi ness with a vim and during the past two years has made re markable strides towards great ness in textile production. Ala bama now has mills which turn out as high class cotton goods as any that are made anywhere in the south and the number of her spindles is increasing very fast. More than 61 per cent of all the new spindles in the Unit ed States, that is spindles which have been put in since July 1, 1900, are to be found in the south. South Carolina has not only led in recent cotton enlargement, but in the extent of her cotton manufactures is excelled by only one state, Massachusetts. In 1900 Rhode Island stood se cond but South Carolina has pas sed her. South Carolina's 1, 794,657 spindles in 1900 have in creased in one year to 2,185,020, a rate of growth which the tex tile industry of no other state has ever shown. The increase of cotton spindles and looms for the whole country during the past twelve months was 7 1-2 per cent., but the increase in the south was 16 7-10 per cent. The south says the Atlanta Journal is marching steadily to the fulfillment of her mani Eest destiny in cotton manufac turing. It will not be long be Eore she will leave New England ~ behind in this great industry.~ With such facts, as the above - before us, it is nonsense to claim that South Carolina or the South needs go over bag and ' baggage with the Republican - party to prosper. South Carolina mnd the whole South has pros Dered marvelously under Demo- g 3ratic doctrines, a.u d we see no il 2eed of her following McLaurin t mnd other pie county politicians e: .nto the Republican camp. Great Floods in China. Great filoods caused by the ovei fb wing 5' >f the Yang Tse have caused the death t >f many thousands in China. The river :) ias risen 40 feet and for hundreds of niles the country is a great lake with nly tops of . trees and an occasional 'oof showing. At Anking the town is looded, some of the houses to theirh 'oofs. At Kiu Kiang, the native town h s flooded and two feet of water stands a n the foreign settlements. Lower - own the river towards Swu Hue, the estruction was greater and boatmen stimate that 20.000 were drowned in he district. Chong The was wiped ~ way by flbods and 10,000 drowned y here and many other points have beenp nundated involving awful loss of lifep ,nd great destruction to property. It isy eared an embankment buiit by Chong )heh Tung near Wa; Ohang would break a Lord Wolseley having lately re iarked upon the good sight of the oers as one cause at least of their ood shooting, and having ascribed his good sight to its constant exer se in the open air, Mr. Brudenell arter has pointed out that it is not ierely a question of open air, but f the training of the sight upon pings that are afar off and difficult : see. "Vision," he says, "like every ther nerve function, must be culti ated for the attainment of a high de ree of excellence. The visual pow r of London children is not culti ated by their environment. They ee the other side of the street in rhich they live, and the carts and mnibuses of the thoroughfares. They carcely ever have the visual atten ion directed- strongly to any ob ect which is difficult to see, or which ubtends a visual angle approaching he limits of visuality; hence the see-. ag function is never exerted to any hing like what should be the extent f its powers. With a country child he case is widely different." Mr. arter would like to see a place given o excellence of vision among the va icus physical qualifications which re habitually tested by competition, nd for which prizes are awarded. ,ondon Hospital. Birth Rappers. In some of the towns of Holland, specially those which in past times uffered much from the Spanish in aders under King Philip II. of Spain, here is prevailing the strange cus om of announcing the birth of a hild by hanging to the front door a apper or knocker, called "klopper," nveloped in linen, lace or cloth. his usage, still observed, particular y by the patrician families, is said o derive its origin from a Spanish rdinance, according to which sol iers seeking quarters were forbid en to be billetted at houses where ew-born children had arrived. A alf-wrapped up "klopper" -announces he birth of a girl; one wholly envel ped that of a boy. Moder-n fashion emands costly lace, which in some ases is inherited from generation to -eneration, and, again, the lace em loyed to be wound round the moth r's wedding bouquet is often used. or this purpose. A rapper's red hield denotes the birth of a son; ne half red and half white that of daughter. The good Hollanders vill, in time, be looking for a "klop per" at "ons Willeminje's" . door. altimore Sun. Scientific ~arming in Germany. Recent reports to 'our. department if agriculture indicate that farming s conducted in G'irmany on more im proved and scientific principles tlian anywhere else in the world. The:Ger nan farmers emulof less ma ery ut more chemistry. They payvery lose attention te the fertilization of he soil. Yet with all their efforts, Lnd all the advantageis-of their ad-;u< raned science, they are unable to lly supply the demand of the popes ation of Germany for 'bredstuff. 'hey do supply seven-eighths of t Lemand, but the remaining one ighth, which has to be imported rom abroad,' amounted in' 1899 't nore than 50,000,00)0 bushels of-wrheat lone.-Youth's Companion. Boston's Washington N4ea. Locked up in a safe at the Bon: ublic library is the gold' warded George Washington'bthz ontinental congress by a voteMae-# '7, 1776, for his services in .~1ig~ he British from -Boston, March 1, 776. As a souvenir of the ame-" ary of evacuati-n day about 80,00O~ nedals, made from this, design an& ne-half the size of the original, wr istributed to the school childhren o soston recently. The medal f.wu >ought from one of Washingtons eirs 25 years ago.-Indianapolga f'ews. Bored Holes with Builets. A novel method of boringholesins lat bar of iron was recentlyadpe n a ship where a breakdown oere [o repair the breakage it was neces ary to make bolt holesin a spar br Lnd as the engineer was without te Lppliances required for the purpose ie marked the exact places in hl, Lnd then fired a 30- caliber. u~t :rough each frcm a new pateW.~~ hester rifle.-Cincinnatl Enquirer' Wise Beyond His Years. Anxious Mother - Tommy,'7u eacher says you are thepors, cholar in your class.'. Tommy-That's nothing. It is >eause I don't answer all the ques-. ions she is asking every day. It isnt' rise to tell all you know to a woman' en if she does happen to be a school eacher.-Boston Transcript. iNeeded Another Dog. Stockcman - You remember that pointer" you gave me on the street resterday? Bonds-Yes; what about it? "Why, I tried it, and as a consequence 'e come around to see if you couldn't ret me a retriever."-Richmond Dis matce. One Advantage. - She (at the museum)-I wish I wer He-And why, pray? "Then I could wear two hats and e1 myself if they were on straight." -Chicago Daily News. Discovered at Last. Tom-Say, what is a 'bachelor maid; .nyway? Jack-Oh, it's merely a term a girl pplies to herself after she loses all Lope of becoming a wife. - Chicago )aily News. Verdict of a Jury. A GeorgIa fury recently brought in he following vernict: "We, the jury~ Lnd the prisoner almost guilty." 'hicago Daily News. der advertising a force by which he to directly increase bis business, but a kind of legpulling proposition on e part of the local newspaper. Any d thing will do him in the way of an mouncement, and the smaller the ae the editor will let him down with, Le better the bargain he imagines he ii made. 80me merchants carry thing but a stereotype card, year in id year out, yet if they stop to think, .ey find they have dozens of things Ley could sell at less than regular ices and which, if made known would tract many buyers from their custom s who would other wise send to the g cities for them. The secret of .e mail orde r business is simply be use their advertisement tell some ing. Any kind of advertisement is course better than none. All ad rtising pays in e o-ne way or another, it the merchant who does no adver ring at all, because he is not able to ord big pages, makes one large mis c. If you can't do the best adver- . ing, do the best you can What the at is that you can do many seem very all but advertising is something that ' ys for itself, and it increases right Sg Tin? Anvitg. The anvil that rings to the sturdy blacksmith's sledge may weigh 200,300, a t0o pounds, but there are anvils whose B eight is counted in ounces. These g ire used by jewelers, silversmiths t] and various other workers. Counting c shapes, sizes, styles of finish, and so C on, these little anvils are made in n scores of varieties, ranging in weight o rom 15 ounces to a number of pounds t) ach. Some of these little anvils, t weighing perhaps two pounds, are o shaped precisely like big anvils. 0th- r ers have shapes adapted to their spe- g eial uses. All the little anvils are of e the finest steel. They are all trimly v fnished, often nickel-plated, and those s surfaces that are brought into use are v finished with what is called a mirror o polish, the surface being made as s smooth as glass. These little anvils t are made up to five pounds and some j of them up to ten pounds in weight. s They are made some in the United t States and some in Germany.-N. Y. i Sun. t C Didn't Work. t Swindler--Madam, I have called for C the suit of clothes which needs brush- t ing and pressing. r Lady of the House-What suit? a "Your husband's Sunday suit, a na'am. He called at the shop as he j went down this morning." "And he said I was to let you have them?" "Did he appear in good health and = spirits?" "Why, certainly." "Look and act naturally?" "Of course. Why?" "Because he has been dead 18 years. . nd I have some curiosity on the sub lect." "I-I have made a mistake, per- i flaps!" "Perhaps you have. The man you a saw go out of here an hour ago is my d rother. Good morning."-N. Y. d World. b Already Cooked. t The city boy in the country also has o "experiences." A little lad, by spending the summer on a farm, learned many things. It was a new experience for the little Fellow, and everything was delightful- e ly unfamiliar. He found out for the f first time that hens made eggs, and s this knowledge filled him with a de- o sire to see one of them at. work. Being a patient waiter, the ]ad final ly had his wish gratified, and exult ugly seizing the product of the cack Ling fowl, he marched into the house with his prize. "Let me have it," said the farnier's wife, "and I'll cook it for your din- C er." "Oh, I guess tl'e hen cooked it, all right," said Master Carl. "It's warm." -Portland Argus. In Insect with a Spring-Boaird Nose. Among the curious insects of the Malay peninsula recently studied by Mr. Nelson Annandale, of the Lon don Zoological society, is one called the lantern fly, which is remarkable for its sudden leaps, made without the aid of its wings. It was only after he had carried a specimen back to Lon don and carefully examined it that Mr. Annandale discovered that a cu rious projection on the front of its head, a kind of nose with a crease in it, was the leaping organ. When bent back under the abdomen and sudden ly releasedl it sent the insect flying. outh's Companion. Skulls as Personal Effects. A missionary returning to Basle1 from Patagonia brought with him a :ollection of ancient Patagonian skulls. The custom house oi~eers at Us Verres opened the chest, inspect ad the contents and informed the own ar that the consignment must be elassed as animal bones and taxed at1 so much a pound. The missionary was indignant, and eventually the offcers agreed to reconsider the question. When the waybill had been revised it appeared in the following form: Chest of native skulls. Personal ef ects already worn."-London Chron cle. Jumping Fly. A curious lant'-rn fly, discovered by naturalists in the Malay archipelago, possesses the poyver of jumping a dis ance of several feet without opening ts wings. It has a projection on its 2ead which, whe'i bent back and sud ienly released, throws the insect into ;he air. This fly was seen to jump Erom the ground to the roof of a hut. -Science. The Magnet. "Look here, Dunwell, how do you t nanage to bring out all your apart nent house debtors? When I ring the 1ell no one shows up." "It's'dead easy! I go down dis used as a health food sample distrib ater. In two minutes every .>ccupant >f the house is in the hall."-Chicago aily News. A Bad Sign. Clara-I am afraid that Charley - stretcher isn't going to make a good susband for Sadie. Maud-Why not? "She tells me that when they came >ak from their wedding trip he had one money left."-Puck.s A Serious Oversight. Dooley-What's the matter wid ye nyhow, Mick-all tattered an' cratched all over? Mick-Ay, an' me own dog done it! went home sober last noight, an' he baste didn't know me!-Punch. To Prepare for Trouble. After all there appears to be only j no way in which to prepare for trou- j le, and that is to save your money. -Atchison Globe. A Stage Fright. Why isnt a homely actriess a case f stage fright?-Chicago Daily News. ( The Country Merchant'.s The count ry merchant is making a is ret talk about the mail order housei as the big cities who are getting his ade away from him,, but with his out oa y he ia really making no serious ef- si >rt to prevent it, says A. E. Sweet, in ti se Advertising World. You can't h op people buying where they think ey can buy th cheapest, simply by ti t use of invective. The only way i s country merchant can hope to comn- pi ete with the mail order houses is by al eeting them on their own ground--by ei Ivertising There is absoiutely nob ,pe for the country merchant until ti e corrects a few of his timeworn views 01 out advertising. Advertising is t mply telling what you have to sell, o1 id the price. It makes no difference v you ads are not written by an expert b illustrated by a high priced artist, ti u can make them effective and result af roducing, if von bear in mind the one ta iunt that an ad should tell about what tii s have to sell and not simply your be 'If. The advertising done by the 'e rerage country merchant is usually pa mehing frigtf1ul. He1doesnt oon- lC