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I MISSION Otf INKHOHN " H Power for Good or Evil Its Contents Si Dr Talnmce Ularonriti on Inflnrnooa B Brought to Dear (or World'* laproTrment?The Inkliora I ' , of Uod'a Mercy. I [Copyright, 1901. by I.ouls Ktopsch, N. Y.] Washington, March 17. B In a new way and from u peculiar text B Dr. T&lmagc discourses of good influB ?ncea brought to bear for the world's B Improvement. Tho text i? Ezekiel 9:2: B "And one man among them was 9 clothed with linen, with a writer's iukB horn by his side." The poem from which my text is taken is epic, lyric, drumatic, weird and overpowering. It is more thuu aouiono or JL/iiniusquw. i>u uuu uvcr had such diviuo dreams ns Ezckiel. In a rliilou this prophet hud seen wrathful angels, destroying ungcls, each with a sword, but in my text he sees ? merciful angel with an inlthorn. iTha receptacle for the ink in olden time was made out of the horn of a cow or a ram or a roebuck, as now it Is made out of metal or glass, utid therefore was called the inkhorn, as now we say inkstand. Wo huvo all spoken of the power of tho sword, of, the power of weulth, of the power of office, of tho power of social influence, but to-day I speak of tho power for good or evil in tho 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 u demolition. "You mistake," says some one; "it is the pen that lins the power." No my friend. What is the influence of a dry pen? l'ass it up and down a sheet of paper, and it leaves no mark. It expresses no opinion. It gives no warning. It spreads no intelligence. It is the liquid which the pen dips out of the inkstand that docs the work. Hero and there a celebrated pen, with which a Declaration of Independence or a Magna Charta or a treay was signed has been kept in literary museum or national archives, but for tho most part the pons, whether, ns of old, made out of reed or till later of wing of bird or still Inter of metallic substance, have disappeared, while tho liquid which tho pens took from the inkstand remains - ? In scrolls which, if put together, 1 would be large enough to enwrap tho world. For practical, for moral, for religious, for eternal purposes, J peak of the mission of "tho writer's inkhorn." First, I mention that which is pure- j ly domestic. Tho inkstand is in every I household. It awaits tho opportunity to express affection or condolence or advice. Father uses it; mother uses it; the sons and daughters use it. It tells the homo news; it announces the i marriage, tho birth, the departure, tho accident, tho last sickness, the death. That home inkstand, what a mission it has already executed, and what other mission will it yet fulfill! May it stand off from all insincerity I and all querulousncss. Let it tell only that which it would bo well to read after tho hand that wrote it nnd the hand that received it can write no ^ more. Dip out of that inkstand only that which is paternal, maternal, filial, sisterly, brotherly. Sacred let it bo not to what are sometimes called tho gods," but one tho solitary the the has 33 eI the hour def uHH^^^Hinmorcial man, O profosL eional man, there will not be a da}^ when you cannot dip from tho ink^ horn a message that will influence temporal and eternal destiny. There is a rash young man running into wild speculation, and with as much inlc as you can put on the pen at ono time you may savo him from the Niagara rapids of a ruined life. On tho next street there is a young man started in business who, through lack of patronago or mistake in purchase of goods or want of adaptation, is on tho brink of collapse. Ono line of ink from your pen win Rave mm ircnu r being an underling nil his life and start him on n career that will win him.* fortune which will enable him Jto become an endower of libraries, an " opener of art galleries and builder of churches. Furthermore, great are the responsibilities of the author's inkhorn All the people, or nearly all the people, read, nnd that which they read decides their morals or immoralc, their prosperity or failure, their faith or their unbelief, their purity or corruption, their heaven or hell. Show mo any man's library, great or small, and after examining the books, finding those with leaves uncut, but displayed for sak?S of the binding, and those worn with frequent perusal, nnd, without ever seeing the man or knowing his name, I will tell you his likes nnd his dislikes; his morals, good or bad or indifferent; his qualification for busirness or artistic or professional or mechanical life. Tho best index to any man's character is the book he prefers abovo all others. Oh, the power of a book for good or evil! Abraham Lincoln in enrlv life read Paine's "Ago of Keason," and it so Influenced him that ho wrote an essay against Christianity, hut after his hands and gloriously changed hi nind and mada him a most ardent liiand of the 1 tibio and a man <>l prayer. A letter in Mr. Lincoln's own handwriting is in my house, the lettar In response to tomn resolutionpassed by a Methodist conference aayingt "In response to your nd dress, allow mo to attest the n<Burned to Death, Jeff Hill, his wifo and five ohildrc were burned to death. They lived in V log house west of Wollston, Ohio About 9 o'olook when tho famil was asloep tho kitohen caught tho whol house was soon in flamos. When th ^^al^^^^fe^f s-^M^mighhors hurried to the assistanoc, tho tho open door, the oharre family. Will Hill was f) nuino workei held an inquoi BWEBHPSMBBBMHM^PTOpSBBW^H^^^^^Btartod from only do< therefo suracy of its historical stattmeaiS, || Indorse tho sontlments It expresses h< and thank you in the nation's name e> for tho sure promise it gives. Nobly ti sustained as the government has ai been by all tho churches, I would ti utter nothing which might in the w least appear invidious against any. tc Yet without this it may fairly bo In said that tho Methodist Episcopal in church, not less devoted than tho pi best, is by its great numbers the w most important of all. It is no fault Si in others that the Methodist church sends more soldiers to the field, more fc nurses to the hospital and more fi prayers to Heaven than auy. God ir bless the Methodist church?bless all gi the churches?and blessed bo God st who in this our great trial givcth us un tho churches." ol What a great thing it was that the pi Christian books which Mr. Lincoln lc read obliterated froinhis mind the in?i- h< del literature! William Carey became b1 a missionary by reading "The Voyages hi of Captain Cook." John Wesley's it lifo was shaped bv reading Jeremy <11 Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying." f i There are books in your library or ly- tc Ing on your purlor table or secreted tu in some place by your child that will m decide for two worlds, this and the '? next, the character of its reader. ni Through books wc sit down and talk re with the mightiest spirits of all the a nges. We accompany Tennyson on his pi spring-time walk as he fulls upon his ft knees in tho meadows, crying to his at companion: "Violets, man, violets! s\ Smell tliein." Or wo ride with Trajan sj in liis triumphal march, or stand with 01 Godfrey at. t lie taking of Jerusalem, or sc with arctic explorer hear tho crash tl: of tho icebergs, or are received with ni Hernando Cortes in tlio halls of ni Montezuma, or watch in flic observa- w tory as Hcrschel with his telescope captures another siar, or the ink in tr the inkliorn turns red as blood, and hi wo are at Marengo and Arbcla and te Eylau and Dnrodino and l.cipsic; or la we sail with Hamilcar from Carthago hi to Palermo, or wc sec Galileo lighting Bi for the solar system, and nrouud us tj gather for conversation Aristotle and b1 Plato and Robert South and Sydney Bc Smith and Locke and Samuel lingers w and Chaucer and Paul Kichtcr and jJ( Swift aud liazlitt and Leigh Hunt and f ti Talleyrand and Hurko and Edward jn Irving, while to make music for us b< Handel and Mozart and Mendelssohn 0( come in, and we wateli Columbus land- cl ing and see John Harvard's legacy of cf ?000 paid over for the founding of ca Harvard university, and Joshua Itey- hi nolds and David Wilkio and Rembrandt tell us of their pictures. Oh, th the l^ooks! Thank God for the books, timid thanks be to nil tho authors! ^ May the inkliorn ever be under divine inspiration! tii A wronp fhnnrr in nlirnml thnf *!?? ? newspaper impression is ephemeral. de Because wo read and east it aside in c< an hour and never see it again we are ti< not to judge that we are parted from ca its influence. No volume of 500 pages jn makes such impression upon the peo- d.i plo as the daily newspaper. It is not nr what we put away carefully upon the ni shelf and once in awhilo refer to that Qr has as close relation to our welfare sj( as the story of what tlio world is pi now doing or has recently done. Yes t1c terday has more to do with to-day tj, than something occurring a century cj, previous. Tho engineers who now nr guide the rail trains, the sea captains who now command the ships, the ar- n* chitects who now design tho build- Qf ings, the batons that now control the fn orchestras, the legislators who now ns march the hosts, the rulers who now rf govern the nations, the inkhorns that now flood the world with intelligence jq ?these are what we have most to do n, with. pi You have' all seen what is called w indelible ink, which is a weak sola- j tion ol silver nitrate, and that ink jr you cannot rub out or wash out. T, Put it there, and it stays. Well, the n liquid of the editorial and reportorial j. inkstands is an indelible ink. It puts R upon the souls of the passing gener- t alious characters of light or dark- r nesa that time cannot wash out and f, eternity cannot efface. Forever in- p delible. Be careful how you use It. The impression made with it will be p resplendent rr repulsive on tlie dny for which all other days were made, j But how shall 1 speak of the inkhorn of tho world's evangelization? , Oh, how may loving1 ami brilliant and ^ glorious pens have been dipped into it! Thomas a Kempis dipped into it * nnd brought tip his "Imitation of Christ." iloraeo Rushnell dipped into it and brought tip "F.very Man's Life ^ a Plan of (Jod." Thomas Rinrioy dipped into it and brought up his i "Weigh House Chapel Discourses." I Conybeare dipped into it and brought up the "Life anil Kpistles of Paul." Archbishop Trench dipped into it nnd ! brought up tho "Kpistles to the Sever. Churches." Stuart Ilobinson dipped j into it nnd brought up "Discourses of Redemption." Austin Phelps dipped into it and brought up "The Still Hour." Mary Hopkins dipped into it and brought up "Evidences of Chris; tianity." Thomas Guthrie dipped ; into it and brought up "The Gospel in I Kzekiel." John Cumniing dipped into it and brought up "The Apocalypse." j Oh, tho opulence of Christian literuI ture! Oh, the. mighty streams of evan! pelistic power that have poured from the writer's inkliorn that appeared I in Ezckiel's vision! While you recognize tlin distin guislied ones who have dipped into j the inkstand of the world's evangeli/aj tion do not forget that there arc hundreds of thousands of unknown inon and women who are engaged in in; conspicuous ways doing tho same tbingl Ilow many anxious mothers ' | writing to the boys in town! How i . many sisters writing encouragement to brothers far away! How many ini valids bolstered up in bed, the iukhorn , on the stand at their side, writing letters of condolence to thoso worse off thuu themselves! 'J'hey are lining all Death of Judge Wallace. | q Judge William II. Wallace, Speaker a of tho Wallaco House in lH7t>, died at i. his homo in Union Thursday of an y altaok of grip, Ilo had heen ill, but was 0 up again and thoughtto bo doing nicely 0 whon ho suddenly passed away. He ? had bcon expoctingdeath for some time ' and said so. It will bo a great grief and sorrow to many hearts to learn of r" his demise. Too much praise and honor cannot bobestoward upon tho man who a served his State so well. Tho town of )r Union is mourning, as will all South 0 Carolina, when it is known that this noblo Carolinan is no uaoro. Two Killed. ??Pg|g|fetaMarBhall Aloz. S. Whitoly n^raffig&flh^ttempticg to arrest Lon 3SaggB|^ggn^|Bfe^pUllinK in Linooln Naott was also his posso found ulcd house and arrests a of tho <^^aj^SBa|WfflB^^^K8Wpti8ly. Tho 0 * w<r0 >? i? ?j" n i - - ' IS tlratf kind Words, gospel words, ilpful words, saving words. Call the rangellstlc inkhoru into service in re early morning', when you feel well id you uro grateful for the protceou during your sleeping hours, and rite before you retiro at close of day ? those who all night long will be sayig: "Would to God it were mornig!" How many bruised and disapointed and wronged souls of earth ould be glad to get a letter from youl Lir up that consolatory inkhoru. All .Christendom has been waiting >r great revivals of religion to start om the pulpits and prayer mcetigs. I now suggest that the reatcst revival of all time may art a concerted nnd organized ; lovement through tha inkhorns t all Christendom, each writer dip ing lrom the inkiioru nearest him a tter of gospel invitation, gospel :>pe, gospel warning, gospel induction. The ink is all ready on n undrcd thousand tables, and beside 1 ure the implements with which to ' p it out. Why not, through such rocess, have millions of souls brought J > God before next summer? By let- ' r you could make the invitation ' oro effective than by word of mouth, he invitation from your lips may be rgucd buck, may evoko querulous ply, may be answered by a joke, but 1 good, warm, gospel letter, written in raver and started with prayer and illowcd by prayer, will be read over 1 id over again and cannot be an- < vercd in a frivolous way. It will 1 icak from the table by day and night r, if pettishly torn up, will, in its ! attered fragments, speak louder lan when it remained whole. Within m's reach of where you sit thero 1 lay be a fluid that you may put on ing with message of light ntul love. I Tlio other angels spoken of in my I ixt were destroying angels, and each id what the Bible calls a "shinglir weapon" in his hand. It was a nee or a battleax or a sword. God isten the time when the last lance tall bo shivered and tlio last bateax dulled and tlio last sword leathed, never again to leave the abbard, and the angel of the text, ho, Matthew llenry says, was tlio ard* Jesus Christ, shall, from the ill inkhorn of His mercy, give a savg call to all nations. That day may * far off, but it is helpful to think ! its coming. As Dr. Raleigh deared that when 50 miles at sea Y tho coast of New Kngland the ittle on board tho ship, as well as mself, scented tho clover on tho ew Kngland hills, so we, amid all ic tossing waves of the world's conoversies, inhale tho redolence of tho hito lilies of universal peace. Is not time that tho boasted invenon of new and inoro explosive and ore widely devastating weapons of ath bo stopped forever and tlio Dspel have a chaneo and the queson be not asked: "llow many shots n bo fired in a minute?" but "How any souls may bo ransomed in a ty?" The world needs less powder id more grace, fewer fortresses and ore churches, less power to destroy ( id more power Jo save. Oh, I am sk of the war cries and the extin ashed eyesight and the splintered 1 mes and the grave trendies and e widowhood and orphanage and * lildlcssness which sob and groan * id die in the wake of the armies on ! ith sides of the seal Oil, for less ' the slaughter weapon and more c the evangelizing inkhorn! Oh, a r tlio stopping of the seienee of * snssinntion, that crime of crimes, ^ ?rs, that hell of hells?war, which ' lis moment stands reeking with lood and washing itself in tears J ad blaspheming the heavens nnd ' ashing off the edgo of this life men 1 ho have as much right to live as ou and I have nnd blasting homes v which there dwells as much loveliess ns in our own! Would that the lerciful angel of my text take the ist weapon of war and fling it off nd fling it down with such foreo hat it shall clang on the lowest ound of the perdition where the rst keen edge of human strifo was harpened! War! In the name of klmiglity Ood nnd of all the home* tends it has destroyed nnd is now [estroying, 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 vill come when all the weapons of iruelty will stop and the inkhorna if evangelization will have their way. In the museums of the world the firhine nnil the cannon and the bomb will bo kept as curiosities, and children will l>c incredulous as parents tell them that, civilized nations once employed such instruments of death and more incredulous when told by their parents that the army that killed the most men was considered the most glorious army. The red horse of carnage that St. John saw in vision, and the black horse of famine, and the palo horse of death will he staliled, and the white horse of prosperity and peace, mounted by the King of Kings, will lead the great army with banners. Through the convicting, converting, sanctifying power of the Eternal Spirit may we all march in that procession! Hail, thou Mighty Itider of the whito horse in the final triumph! Sweep down and sw<y-p by, thou Angel of the New Covenant, with the inkhorn of the world's evangelization! "The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and nil the trees of the Held shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier slinl come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not he cut otT." Cold Coffee fop Cooklea. Mix ginger cookies with cold coffee instead of water; it will improve tlicin. India's Population. Complete census returns give the population of Ind'a as 21)4,000,000. an | increase in tho last decade of 7,000,1000. Deducting tho population of the Baluoistan, Shaustaks, Chinhills and Sikkim territory, enumerated for the first time, a not inoreaso in shown ol only 1.4 per cent, whioh is duo to im proved consus methods. Thus, the population is for tho first timo statio nary. Owing to tho two famines, mor tality from disease and a great decline in the birth rato, tho nativo Statci shows excessive declines. These ri sulti wero quito unexpected. A Negro Pensioner. Comptroller General Porham Frida] reocivod a letter from Abbeville county prostesting against a nrgro drawing i pension in that county. Mr. Porhan said tho negro had been placod on thi pension roll in 1897 by tho Abbevill country pension board and tho record showed ho had been a good and faithfu Confederate soildicr and was entitled t tho pension, lie will oontinueto dra* his ponsion, despite tho littlc-mindc protost. OUR DEAD HEjfes^ fcontinuod from P*g4g B Lho 10th South Carolina : jimcnt, prewritten manuscript, X 3. Sketch of 10th and 10,\South Dirolina rcg m -nts, Gen Kllisk *P? u tor Adjutant General of SoutiPcfo- f( linn. 4 Sketch of 15th and 24th &th Carolina regiments, by Gon Ebon b Uavrrs. o 5. Skctoh of Culpepper's . tl 6 Rolls of 19th and 24th luth u Carolina regiments and Culpcjer'B Q battery?tho rolls of Kershaw's b;ade ^ boing in Capt Diokort's book at of ^ LUth South Carolina regiment-ifCol _ Walker's book. J] 7. Commiuissions as follows: |( Commissions appointed odor f tuthcrity of tho Stato of South Calina ^ to looato p:sitions of South Cwlina R troops, and to oreot a monumet and markers to tho same, on tho bat'.ficld Q jf Chickamauga. First oemmission, to looato posions jf South Carolina Jtroops, visiti tho r battlefield, May 18th, 1894, andioat j id tho position thorcof: a Gen Hugh L. Farley, Adjuta: and v luBpootor General, South Cailina; Major C. K. Henderson, CapC. J ^ Qoggaus, Major J. D. MoUoas, j veterans Kershaw's brigade. Gen C. I. Walker, Capt ] F. MoCaslan, L P. Ilerling, vrvrans , of 10th and 19th South Carolin rcgi t monts. CaptThooJ. Appleby, voUan of 24th South Carolina regiment; Capt J. F. Culpepper, Lieut Ferry Mosos, veterans of Culpopcr'B j battery. Tbo abovo commission rccomwndod that euitable monument and mrkcrr j be crcoted In rcrpooso thereto tho , Second oemmission was appintcd ( under authority of a j rin rcsoluion of the G vnoral Assembly, Dcoetn'cr 22, 1894, to seleot designs and seouo estimates for said monument and makers Gen C. Irvino Walker, M?jor?. D. MoLucas, Major C. K llendpson. The abovo second eommision .clectid designs, secured estimates aid re ported to the next seassion of th Gen?ral Assembly, but no appiop iation tvaa made. At its Convcntioh of 1899 the S.uth ['arolina Division, United Confiderate Veterans, decided to momorialip the Jcncr&l Assembly and urge that proper espcet bo paid sons who fought vho fought and who died at'Chicktmauga. In response thereto fiio Third commission was authorized by General Assembly at its sossion o 1900, ind an appropriation of $10,0>0 was nade for the erection of said miouuicnl ind markers, to be erected by coraniesion, at Euoh plaoes as it mijrt decide ) . The commission was to c^hsist of ho Governor, Adjutant and Ioip?otor Jeneral and three Confederate j Voteans. It was as follows: Governor Miles B. McSUccncy, ihairmaD; Gen C. Irvine Walter, 6Cjretary, Veteran; Gen J. W. ,\l'"loyd, \djutant ana Inspeotor General,!South Jarolina, Veteran, but appointri cxiffijio; Major C. K Henderjqn, Col J. Harvey Wilson, Veterans. ) Under tho supervision of thi abovo hird commission tho South Carolina nonument, in the corner stone oOwhich *u:s record is deposited, was ejreoted. it Wmh dedicated, unveiled andtturned ?vcr to tho commissioners of theVjhickimauira and Chattanooga NatioiAl Park his 27th day of May, A. D. ly>01. Also were erected the granite jktarkcrs Uarolinans, as follows: One to Kershaw's brigade a#*, one to each of its regiments, i. o., 2d^31, 7th, Bih and loth South Carolina regiments, and James's South Carolina Hrjltalion on Snod grass Range. Ono to the 10th and l'Jtb S )uth Carolina regiment on Snodgrass Range. One to tho 24th South Carolina regiment on tho Kelly farm, near the Shell monument, to Col Colquitt.Ono to Culpepper's battery, in tho Poo fiold. All of which is duly certified to by Milos B. MoSwecnoy, Governor of South Carolina, and chairman of the commission; C. Irvine Walker, Score t&ry of commission. Tho daughters of the Confederacy, through Mrs. Thomas Taylor, president of South Carolina Divison, have been invited. In accepting Mrs Taylor iayt: "I hope many of us may have the distinguished happiness of showing homago to our soldiery cn that occasion." It is hopped that all the Daughters will attend. A Law Breaking Judge. The announcement has already been made in The Stale that the court at Marion was adjourned beoau'e of the appearance 01 a oiki oi smallpox in a bold there. A Columbian who haa jast returned from Marion rooites interesting details omitted in tho dispatches. The judge, ha says, was staying at tho hotel in which tho suspicious ease developed; he atom in tho morning to find the vigilant health oflicor had heen up ahead of him, hung out yellow flags, I ut tho hotel under quarantine and placed guads arounds it. The judge did not relish tho idea of being held a prisoner and he escaped from the house, proceeding to tho depot. Tho sheriff was sent to detain him This that official courteously did and then transfeir<.d his prisoner to th< town marshal. Tho train otmo ant went, and on it wont the judge. Tht State's informant says tho marshal was fined $f> for permitting a prisoner t< escape. Columbia Stato. Two Officers Shot. A dispatch to Tho Stato from Char loston t-^tys news was received in th city on Tuesday, 19th instant, of th shooting of Trainmaster C ?J. Young blood and Doteotivc Witzol) of th Plant System last night at Ashle .junction. Tho wounded men wor brought to tho city, and later oarried t the Haul System hospital at YcmaBser The detective was shot through th 1 right iimg, and tho trainmaster in th breatt. li appears that tho 1'lant Syi tcm officials wcro endeavoring to entra 1 several uegro thieves, who havo bee robbing the railroad station for sou J time. Youngblood and VYitzoll su< denly came upon tho thieves, when or of tho number drew his pistol and sh< 1 both ruon before thoy could defer themselves. Tho negro took to tl swamp immediately aftor tho shootin 1 and has not sinoo been seen.' i ? i A Foolish Girl. The body of May Conistook, who, is bolicvcd, oommitted tuioido by jum ing into tho lako at Sixty third strec . Chicago was found Thursday aftorno< buried in tho sand on tho beach no ^ tho Kifiv-ninth street pier. Tho oau j of tho girl's suioide was the fact th B she had run into debt to the extent p 17 and dreaded to ask her father f H moDoy. M iss Comslook was the daug I tcr of John Comstook, a retired frt 0 grower, formerly a resident c.f Flori v and California, but now living at He j ton Harbor. Tho girl wai, studyi musio in Chicago. 1 / J. ' 1*1 A PROFITABLE CROP Iroom Corn Bringa Ono Honored Dollars a Ton in Columbia The Columbia Heoord saj s tho far tors of South Carolina have Leon urged >r many years to p'ant broom ooro, hioh is a very profi:able orop thit o . e grown toadvautago iu manyseotions f this state. Ono trouble has been bo distance of tho markots, but this is eiug remedied by tho cBtablishmont f small broom faotorios in this stato. )qo of those has boon started in Ooimbia by John H. Sims, who thus raotioally demonstratos his faith in he small industries so nooossary to i\na/l aii f (InlumKin'a ?\rnunnri t it Ilio aotory iB at pre >cnt on Marion street, iut bo expeotp o chcrtly build more uitablo quart.rs near the Blanding trcot depot. Eiis factory new turnB ut about . ft on * zan fine house nonius daily. Mr. C. M fimmoud started a bToom aotory on Assembly street, near Lum?er, several years ago. It was bought ,bout ten months ago by Mr. Moore, rho ban bcoo s'cadily pushing his busiief s. Ho turns out a very fine proluot, for wbioh thero is a largo demand, 10 having no trouhlo is selliing all tho >rooms ho can make According to tho YerkvUlo Yeoman, liraiii Masecy, of Tirzah, is tho only nan in Y ork county who has tried planting broom corn. Mr. Majscy was in Yorkville a day )r two ago and informed tho Yeoman reporter that bo land just returned 'rorn Columbia, whero be Pad sold his ot of troom corn at $101) a too, oasb. A broom factory located in Columbia bought tho lot. Tho superintendent of tho factory seemed surprised at the fine quality of this lot of otrn, and inform ed Mr Massey that ho would take all he could get 48 good at the siino prioo. Asked for some infc rin&tion as to his experience in planting, oultivatirg, etc , Mr. Ma^soy said broom corn was little more trouble than other oorn, be ing cultivated in much the same way as sorghum, fctilizing the samo as for cot ton. Fertilizing of oourso increases the yield. That wbioh is intended for sale, for manufacture into brooms, is out just before the plant ripens, so that it retains toughness in the straw and a pale green oolor. It is necessary to have a seed patch, where the corn ia allowed to ripen. That which is cut for markot is dried and (arked into bales of convenient sizo for shipping. Tho yield averages a thousand pounds of cured straw to the aero. Some more and somo less, owing to the condition of land, season, fertilization and attention given It is ready for market in August, after two to three weeks ouring, at the slackest and dullest season of tho year, when the farmer has plenty of time to attend to it, and at a time when a good money crop would mean a orrnt rloul to him. d" Mr. Massey is much pleased with broom cirn, and is miking preparations to plant 25 to 30 acres this year. Hiasuootss will doubtless lead othor farmers in bouth Carolina to put ecmc of their land in broom corn, instead of continuing to bend ail their energies to raising cotton. CENbUS OF COTTON GINNING AVery Important Work Undertaken by the Census Bureau/ Mi.uat%ityyr savs various efforts havo been made to perfect sgenoies for scouring early and trustworthy information as to the quantity of cotton annually grown in the Unitid States, with a v.ew to rcduoing to a minimum the fluctuations incident to an industry so greatly depondent upon supply and demand. Statistics of this crop used in commercial centers have to do with the ootton as markotcd during eaoh year ending August 31, and are gathered very largely through rcpcrisof transportation Hdcs touching tho ootton fields. So long as it was safe to assume that practically tho whole of the ootton crop reached its market through tho oommon carriers, their reports ooositiiuicd a fairly trustworthy basis for estimates of tho commercial crop, but, as much ootton now goes directly from the fields to tho mills without passing through tho hands of tranpor tation com panics, this means of gathering cotton statistics is annually bcooui ing more and more uufatisfactory. All returns are mado in couimeic'al bales, which is an unsatisfactory unit of mcas nr? lOnrinc the last centurv tk( average weight of the commercial bah more than doubled, in noma section: the cotUn bale uow means iho tquari package averaging ia weight 41)! pounds, lu other regions it means i balo of 400 pounds, while in still othe localities is lound the round kale aver aging 'JoO pounds. None of tho mean hitherto employed has reported th ' number and weight of these diver kinds of commeictal bales. Tho rota tive number of square and round bale is changing and with this the averag '< w ughl of the oruiuary unit, the com 1 mercial balo, is being modified, lleno the importance ot substituting a fixe ; unit like a pound for a variable unit o 1 uua-uro like a bale, thus enabling th ' country to know the actual quantity c 1 ooiton produced. Believing that the reports of eotto 1 ginncrs, showing tho number and avci } age weight of tfie bales passing throug their haods during a given ycarL woul afford trustworthy statistics, thj Unite States Census Office has by correspoi ' denoe and through tho enumerate c obtained from each ginning establisl o moot of thuoouutry a report of tl [- quantity of eoitou handled of tho crt o of 181)1). The attempt to obtain the stati y lioBof ihocotton crop through this age o oy has boon so successful, and the m o thod promises to develop statistics ) much more oouiplctc and satisfaoto 0 than those horotoforo adopted that t! 10 Ihrcotor of tho Consul has deoided ' undertake an annual census of tho cc P ton crop through tho direct ooopcrati n of the ginncrs. >G Tho success of this r.nnual cott *' orop report must depend altogctl 10 upon the promptness and aocuraoy wi which reports aro rcceivod. As the i 'd formation solicited is very largely i 10 the benefit of tho cotton ginncrs a K> otton growers, it is believed that t ginncrs will oordially respond to t efforts of the Census Offioo to ront this service to tho South and to 11 thoso interested in its great staple. P' Tho Census Office is now undortaki obtain the facts regarding the coll )n orop of 1900, through blanks mailed *r to the ootton ginnors. Thoso inqui 80 should bo promptly and acourat answered and roturnt d at onoo in i ?' franked envelop;, whioh requires or postage, dinners will not fail to that tho success of this inquiry will yt dound greatly to thoir boncfit, and tl u* should bo prompt to report to n* Bureau tho names and addressos of i DS ginning ostaDlishments, as well as changes in tho managomont of old oi i ?...... ^ ... . '-I. *- ---.I. -- .^.> . THE BEST PREi Grove's Tastele The formula is plainly pnnte know just what you are taking wh< do not advertise their formula kno their medicine it you knew what Iron and Quinine put up in correct form. The Iron acts as a tonic malaria out of the system. Any re Grove's is the Original and tha Chill Tonics are imitations. An ai that Grove's is superior to all are not experimenting when you and excellence having long bet only Chill Cure sold throughout the United States. No Cure, Nc OUR OLD HEROES. 'T?Tl a"0' Wednesday, Gov. ed a proclamation am Confederate Reunions In Columsions held by commi bla and Memphis for St;u\haE"ol-.niVB K uary 1, 189b, will bo commissions are held DIVISION SPONSOR NAMED lho K?vcruor- Tho been usued because there is no official re< r\ts % ( a . , , _ commissioners of doe Official Circular, t.auad by Can- ,pcol6cdi ,?d lbc , ml Waller in R.f.r.nc, 6adB il impoiblo to who holds a ernimiss to Both Meetings The sot. The bo c ffioials li aod countries, and tb Railroad Rates. called upon to prohai on require official rec Tho Colnmbia State says on every der to obtiin suoh side the work of those charged with tho The'same thing was* arrangements for tho State reunion to ag) in regard to the bo held thcro early in May iB going for- the S:atc. ward. Tho looal finance committee " - ^ . has been roce ving subscriptions in rcsponec to its circular letter to the citi- f ^?lVv' ' zona, and is well satisfied with the re- v ' . , _. North Brookfield, Ma bults preliminary to the canvass. Tho tJ hi(, pmhioners t work of tho oommittee charged with a reduction of 10 | c securing homes has boon dolayed a let- ar>* of $1 .>00 a year, tie, but not materially, by the Bickness ot lhc oonJ?rfft*Bon a of lh. chairmma, Col 3. W. Va.cc loll?.ho? Below ib given tho copy of the gen eral order of Gen C. I. Walker, indued from tho headquarters of the South Carolina division United Confederate 11 t*T|VIQ II Veterans, in Charleston, in regard to |^| lllldll the State reuaion: General Order No. 52: 1. Tho seventh annual reunion of tho lL . f South Carolina division, U. C V., will TIjO > Jf II lll.W k#l|j Steam Dj description. oWtefffcit lor our new circular. 1 an teed or at , 4 All oamps, regiments and brigades Oilman's Q^OQII of the division aro earnestly requested UniiiAn S uiwfltl to appoint, caoh, one sponsor and as many maids of honor as they see fit. 1310 Mai A most beautiful and appreciated fea turo of our reunions has been the OOI.UMB mingling of the daughters with the old veterans, and it is hoped that each or- A. L. OrtmaE ganization will do itself the honor of . being represented by a sponsor. When TIIP Ifftlir sponsors and maids aro received by the TUt {'Villi convention, eaoh will maroh in, carry- ,lfc ing tho camp, regimental or brigade 5. Eaoh camp will please bring its TheNewB, camp banner and come into the oon vention hall with the same. 6 Tho Ladies'Confederate Memorial 110111 association, of Columbia, has asked the division to participate in the solemn | memorial services of May 10th, and tho ^ . invitation has been aoceptcd. The fjt [ division, with its esoort, will move out O 5 to tho cemetery, whero the tribute will jt in Wor % ho Paid to OUT dead. Pin*m?v 9frAr?f , Details of the parade will bo an- KvoVv~Wom?a a nounoed hereafter. Capt. W. D. Star y " j ling, the oommandor of the local oaoip, ^ Hampton, No. 389 II. C. V , is an- Attachments, r nounoed as grand marshal of the pa- Parts for tie? s By order. C. Irvine Walker, e Commdr. S. C. Div., U C. V. V\ hen orderin si n II l sample. Pri< s James G. Holmes, / . , Adjt. Gen. Chief of Staff postpaid. 11 N. B. Camps that havo not paid their e dues for two (2) or moro years aro not a-eBti Wanted ii '* in "good standing," and are not en * vvanien ii " titled to delegates " Tho following has also been issued . . . '* by Gen. Walker in regard to tho gen- ' DhULL, ? eral reunion at Memphis: ,?1(1 m?r Gon Order No 53: ldl9 Taj 1 The llth annual reunion of tho U. rjr n C. V , will be held at Memphis, Tcdo., "* May 28, 29 and 30, 1901 Delegates " from all the oampsof this division are PI ** earnestly desired to be present. 2 The Southern rail way has beon so IMTIQCpTj a" lectod as tho offioia' route, and all WIIIULI III! rB rades aro atked to go by that rou'o and Curea La Onppe, tl" go together. The details of the hours *nd atomach an.i 16 of leaving various points havo bsen t? 'P announced in general order No 54 children, kidney tr s ? t , . . . all aorta of ?orca, ria 3. I ho official trains of tho Southern burna. It ia aa good " railway will reach Chattanooga, May applied, aa anything c" 27, at 7 a. m., and run down to tho Try it aud yon i 80 Chiokamauga battlefield, so that the 1/your druggiat doe ,ri comrades will havo the opportunity of mitpDV TH* '* pirticipating in tho unveling ocrcmo- JnUrvIvx Utl V nies of tho South Carolina monument rOLIIM I. Tho South Carolina Chiokamauga 00 Monument oommission havo extended h cordial invitation to the veterans of MftUrV Tfl tho South Carolina division IJ. C. V., IslUFlLi IU to participate in tho unveiling corcmo * nics. On Imp lly ordor, Interea j C. Irvine \\ alkor, ?d Comdr. S. C. Div., U. C. V. P*y ,! James G. Holmes, Time 3 Adjt. Gen. Chief of Staff. No con Equalisation of Mill Taxes. R, KL. ing Comptroller Goncral Derham is going CentralNatioc Un to work at once to got up the returns on r . Q to cotton mills, ootton socd factories and " ' lalt> res other property which comes under tho oly reoent Aot, which provides for cqualiea- j^kHQIfin tho tion of tho assessment on such property | j no by a Slate board. He wants the returns W0 Pledge to s soo sent into his offioo at tho vory earliest I tions backed ro- possible moment and expeots to have celled, tiooc hoy tho State board moot horo about tbo nine. Open to bo tho 20th of May for tho purpose of making froe oataloguo. Ai low tho assessments. Mr. Derham sont out COLUMBIA B1 any a oitcular letter to that effect to all OOLU ios. the oounty cfhoers. W. H. N< * \ A '''a''' I , . 1... . ?...! -ii -I ?IT 1 .,-> -. ...... ? J is ss Chill Tonic. jf d on every bottle?hence you :n you take Grovr's. Imitators wing that you would not buy it contained. Grove's contains proportions and is in a Tasteless while the Quinine drives the 1 liable druggist will tell you that t all other so-called Tasteless aalysis of other chill tonics shows others in every respect. You take Grove's?its superiority :n established. Grove's is the the entire malarial sections of > Pay. Price. $oc. MeSweeney issu|Saw Mills, Corn Mills, sBiooera of deeds -|a/r*n "ivoUdJVh". Cane Mills, procl.moioQ b.s Rice Hullers, Of the flOt thlt -w-v ? -y ? -m soul ?b to who arc j*ea llullers, ds up to the time ' leoretary of state rvj ?-? let anyone know Ej IlgTIlt??y ion and who does -pa *1 vein other States ljOllGl*S? oy are frequen-ly ' SKu'ir Planers and a record that the "n*" a 1_ ho proolamation. j\J B/tCllCrSa done some years DOUrira publio in SWUlgSaWS, :igM. Rip Saws, v. 3?wt"i P*st?r and all other kinds of wood atiooal ohuroh in ,. . . o ??., has announced working machinery. My 8erhat be will accpt geant Log Beam Saw mill is r cent, of his sal the heaviest, strongest, and icarmuah as many most efficient mill for the thnLl?!LlI1Lr.CI money on the market, quick, their wigos o?rned a . ' ? ip. accurate. State Agent for H. ? B. Smith Machine Company wood working machinery, O f% if Q For high grade engines, plain | djf g slide valve?Automatic, and * Corliss, write me: Atlas, Watertown, and Struthers tVAA4* and Wells. II CSS v- c- BAD HAM, 1326 Main St., Columbia, S. G. eing of every ^Steam, Nap % A ) charge. n?Moe wawc; n Street . OLD NORTH STATE OINT MENT, the Great Antiseptic 1A' ? Healer, cures Piles, Eczema, u Proprietor Sore Eyes, Giannlated Eyelids, J Carbuncles, Boils, Cuts, BroisD lunccn 68' ^1(i Bores, Burns, Corns, iH INuLlII. Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Aches and Pains, Chapped all Beariner Hands and Lips, Erysipelas. It is something everybody + needs. Once used always used. R ST III For sale by all druggists and V W a1U dealers. At wholesale by n m i THE MURRAY DRUG CO., iVI Qt'hinti Onlnn.KU ft CI JLULMVJUlJLXXV vv?umM??. ? ^ hmugUKun"ei'r Ginning Machinery, ,nw.nuon.. Saw Mill Machinery, ,ing Miec'hinea.nd Planing Mill ,rn??diea .ead Machinery, 27c per dozen, Brick Machinery, i Unocoopied Terri Engines, all Types; Boilers, all Kinds. rlor Street, . , . These are our Specia lties )LUMBIA, 8. C and we have the most complete and best lines TTS' to oiler. INVIGORATOR! H. fiibbes & Co., bJwrtVoaubiiidi^.o0oDT MACHINERY and MILL SUPPLIES >ething trouble* with C?r' f^.Wo2i OK EVERY DESCRIPTION. antiaeptio, when looall} on the market. COLUMBIA, 8. C. will praise it to other* n't keep it, write to ug company, Murray's BIA. 8. 0 . " m Aromatic LOAN Mouth roved real estate Wash t eight per cent. e semi-annually. - ? to 5 years. imissions charged Whitens the Teeth I Cleanses the Mouth 1 aimer, Sweetens the Breath i*l Bank Building, . Columbia. 8. C. NCM Positions!! The? No Object. \f iiffQ y ecu re our graduates poei- * *-* ** * * J hy $5000 Course? unex- -w-v I hoard cheap. Cater any I 11*11 (JF I (t th sexes. Send now for V>V.f Jdrera, [J8INESS COLLEGE, twborry, President. JttB