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\ A I CTO I! IKS OF J’EA( E. THANKSGIVING THE SUBJECT OF DR. 1 AlMAGl S SERMON. Il«? I''tiumorntpx «f the HIoks- lnjis l\. r W hit'll We Nhoulil l f e 'rimii!t;’•;—>■ nelilnery fin* l,Iuhtoii- e<l Bui detiH—Gi:<1 Sent the Wheel. |<Y>|i): i;_ , lil, I.ouls Kloi'sch. WAfiiliNOTo.v, Nov. 2t!.—This dis- conm* of 1 >r. Tjilnuijro is a sonnon of jiroparation for tho national olssorv- sinot* of this week and in an nr.n ual way i .11s for tlu* gratitude of l!n* jm*o- 1)1»'; (In* U*M, lizckiol x, 13, “As for (ho ! AvUeo! •. it was 11 io<l unto theiu in my j lioai i!!;X. <) whovl!’’ Next Thursila} will, by proclamation | of president and governors, be ob- j served in thanksgiving for temporal j mercies. V.Tth what si>irit shall wo | <>ntor upon it? For nearly a year and j a half this nation lias been celebrating j tin* triumph of the sword and gun and battery. We have sung martial airs and cheered returning heroes and sounded the requiem for the slain in battle. Mcthlnks it will be a healthful change if tills Thanksgiving w ek, in ehuroh and homestead, we celebrate the victories of peace, for nothing was done at Santiago or Manila that was of more importance than that wliieh in the last year lias been done in ’armer’s field ami meehanie’s shop ami authors study by those who never wore an ; epaulet or shot a Spaniard or wont a | hundred miles from their own doorsill. j And tmw 1 call your attention to the j wheel of the text. Man, a small speck in the universe, I was set down in a big world, high I mountains rising before him, deep seas | arresting his pathway and wild beasts j capable of ids destruction, yet be was \ to conquer, it cnuld not lie by physical ! force, for compare Ids arm with the i ox’s horn and the elephant's tusk, and ' how weak he is! It could not tie by j physical speed, for compare him to the 1 antelope’s foot and ptarmigan's win;' and how slow lie is! It could not be by ! physical capacity to soar or plunge, for j the condor heats him in one direction | and the porpoise in the other. Yet no j was to con*pier the world. Two eyes, ! two hands and two feet were insutli- s cient. He must be re-enforced, so (bid | sent the wheel. Twenty-two times is the wheel men- ! Honed in the Ilildo. sometimes, as in Ezekiel, illustrating providential move ment; sometimes, as in the Psalms, crushing the bad; sometimes, as in Judges, representing God’s, charioted | 3to tin* agricultural the wheel lias ne at the stalks of the one bead for ed institutions, like the New Jersey State Normal school, and Uutgcrs Fe male institute, and Eimiru Female col lege, acquaintance with the sewing ma chine is a requisition, a young lady not being considered educated until she understands it. Winter is coining on, and the household imust bo warmly clad. “The Last Hose of Summer’’ will sound la tter played on u sewing ma chine than on a piano. . Hull on. o wheel of the sewing machine, until the I: ; aha 1 i on an of toll shall be emancipated! Foil on! Secondly, 1 look i world to see what complished. Look wheat and oa man, the other bread foi off and with a eradi • in or six lingers of wood at steel, the harvester wc field, stroke after stroke*, p;n spiratioa rolling down forehead and cheek and chest, head blistered by the consuming sun and lip parched by tiie merciless August air, at noon the workmen lying half dead under the tret -,. One of my most painful boyhood memories is that of my father in harvest time reeling from exhaustion over the doorstep, too tired to eat, pale and fainting as ho sat dow’ii. The grain brought to the barn, the sheaves were unbound and spread ou a thrashing floor, and two men with flails stood opposite each other, hour after hour ami day aft r day, pounding the wheat out of the stalk. Two strokes, .'aid then a cessa tion of sound. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump! Founded once and then turned over to lie pound; 1 again, slow, very slow. The le-us cackled and clucked by the door mid picked up the loose grants and the horses half asleep and dozing over the mangers where the hay had Iks u. W'Iio<*3 oi Pci?g»i*r. Hut hark to the buzz of the distance! The binder his throne ou a reaper. lie ed; now lie rides; < nee wo \\ die this lias been doing oa the water Janies Watt’s wheel ins done as much on the land. How well I re member Sanderson’s stagecoach, run ning from New Hninswiek to Easton, ns he drove through Somerville, N. .1., turning up' to the postolHce and drop- plug the mail bags with ten letters and two or three newspapers, Sander son himself on the box, <! feet ‘J inches and well proportioned, long lash whip iu his han 1. the reins of six horses in the other, the “leaders” lathered along the line of the traces, foam dripping from the bits! It was the event of the day when the stage came. It was our highest ambition to become a stage driver. vention lias crowded invention and wheel jostled wheel, stereotyping, electrotyping, taking their places, Ben jamin Franklin’s press giving way to the Lord Stanhope press, and the Washington press and the Victory press and the Hoe perfecting press have been set up. Together with the newspapers conics the publication of innumerable books of history, of poetry, of romance, of art, of travel, of biography, of religion, dietionaries, en cyclopedias and Bibles.. Some of these presses send forth the most aecur.ed stuff, but the good predominates. Turn on with wider sweep and ity, O whec civilization. -wheel of Ii wheel of .rreater veloe- ,'ht. wheel of Christianity, onu* of the boys climbed on the great j wheel of divine momentum! w i IlKCl progress. Exodus through through through gatlicrlni i’iie wheel that started in in my But <! i ng and ibc m-.. rolls on through Proverbs, Isaiah, through Jeremiah, Daniel, through Nahum, the centuries, all the time momentum and splendor, until, seeing what it lias done for the world’s progress and happiness, we dap our hands in thanksgiving and empli y the apostrophe of the text, crying, “O wheel!” TrlumiiitN of Mncliinery. I call on you in this Thanksgiving week to praise God for the triumphs of machinery, which have revolutionized the world and multiplied its attrac tions. Even paradise, though very pic turesque, must have been comparative ly dull, hardly anything going on, no agriculture needed, for the harvest was spontaneous; no architecture required, for they slept under the trees; no man ufacturer's loom necessary for the weaving of apparel, for the fashions were exceedingly simple. To dress the garden could not have requir.-:! ten minutes a day. Having nothing to do, they got into mischief and ruined themselves and the race. It was a sad thing to lie turned out of paradise, but, once turn ed out, a beneficent tiling to be com pelled to work. To help man up and on God sent the wheel. If turned ahead, the race advances; if turned back, the race retreats. To arouse your gratitude ami exalt your praise 1 would show you what the wheel lias done for the domestic world, for the agricultural world, for the traveling world, for the literary world. “As for the wheels, it was cried unto them jn my hearing, O wheel!” 1 In domestic life the wheel lias wrought revolution. Behold the sew ing machine! It lias shattered the housewife's bondage and prolonged woman's life and added immeasurable advantages. Tin 1 needle for ages laid punctured the eyes and pierced the side and made terrible massacre. To prepare the garments of a whole house hold in tiie spring for summer and in the autumn for winter was an ex hausting process. “Stitch,stitch,stitch!” Thomas Hood set it to poetry, but mil lions of persons have found it agoniz ing prose. Blain by the sword, we buried the hero with “Dead Mareli" in “Saul” am* flags at half mast. Slain by the reed!.*, no one knew it but the household Biat watched her health giving way. The winter after that tin* children were ragged and cold and hungry or iu the almshouse. The hand that wielded the needle had forgotten*Its cunning. Soul and body bad parted at the seam. The thimhlc had dropped from tin* palsied linger. Tiie thread of life hud snapped and let a suffering human lift' drop into tin* grave. The spool was all unwound. Her sepulcher was digged not with sexton’s spade, but with a sharper and shorter Implement — a needle. Federal and Confederate dead have ornamented graves at Arlington Heights and Hlchuiond and Gettysburg, thousands by thousands, but it will lake the archangel's trumpet to llud the million graves of the vaster army of women needle slain. Besides all tin* sewing done fur the household at homo, there are hundreds of thousands of sewing women. The tragedy of the needle Is'tlie tragedy <>f hunger and cold and insult and home sickness and suicide—five acts. A Cticcrfiil Klu\<*. 1 But 1 hear tin* rash an nuts on tin* huiu lustrumeat, puts Ii els m taken waik- with arm of flesh, now with arm of iron. He starts at (lie end of tin* whoaUield, heaVl.; ins horses to the opposite end- of the field, rides on. At the stroke of his iron chariot the gul l of the grain is surrendered, the machine rolling this way and rolling that, (ids way and that, until tiie work which would have been accomplished in many days is ac complished in a few hours, the grain- held prostrate before the liarvesi ns. < an you imagine anything more beautiful than the sea island cotton? I take up the unmeited r; hand. How beautiful it i you know by what pains tedious toil it passed into at practicality? If you examined that cotton, you would find it full of seeds. It was a severe process by which the seed was to be extiacted from the liber. Vast populations were having the south because they could not make any living out of this product. One pound of green seed cotton was all that a man could prepare iu one day, but Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts Yankee, woke up, got a handful of cotton and went to constructing a wheel for the parting of the fiber and the seed. Teeth on cylinders, brushes on cylin ders, wheels on wheels. South Caro lina gave him $511,000 for his inven tion, and, instead of one* man taking a whole day to prepare a pound of cot ton for the market, now he may pre pare three hundredweight, and the south is enriched, and t'ne commerce of the world is revolutionized, and over 8,000JX;0 bales of cotton were prepar ed tliis year, cnofgb to keep at work in this country l b"0<U i! »0 spindies, em ploying 2Td,0(i(i hands and enlisting $2S1,100,000 of capital. Thank you, Eli Whitney, and L. »S. Chichester of New York, his successor. Above all, thank God for their invent ive genius, that has done so much for the prosperity of the world. ( :iii.st- I’or TIiatiKm, Thirdly, i look to see what tin* wheel has done for tiie traveling world. No one can tell how' many noble and self sacrificing inventors Lave been crush ed between tin; coach wheel and tin* leathern boot of (lie stage, and those of us who could not get on shouted, “Cut behind!” I saw the old stage driver not long ago, and I expressed to him my surprise that one around whoso head I had seen a halo of glory in my boyhood time was only a man like the rest of us. Between Sander son's stagecoach and a Chicago express train what a difference, all (lie great cities of tiie nation strung ou an iron thread of railways! At Doncaster. England. I saw George* Stephenson's first locomotive. If in good repair, it could run yet, but be- eawse of its make and size it would lie the burlesque of all railroaders. Be tween that rude* machine, crawling down the iron track, followed by a clumsy and bouncing train, and one* of cur Rocky mountain locomotives, with a village of palace cars, becoming draw ing rooms by day and princely d'Umitories by night, what bewitching progress! ' . s*n IVoinI**!**. y.the (lain move* out of one of our gn at dep .Is for a thousand mile* jour- ii. q All nb":wd! T ickets clipped and I tgo checked niu! porters attentive to every want, under tunnels dripping with daiupm ns that never saw the light; along ledges where an inch off the* track would be* the* dilTeretiee be- tw on a hundred nun living and a hundred dead, full head of steam and two nun in the locomotive charged with all the responsibility of whistle and Westinghoitse brake. Clank! dank! go the wheels. Clank! clank! echo the rooks. Small villages only hoar the thunder and see the whirl wind as the train shoots past, a city ou the wing. Thrilling, startling, sublime, magnificent spectacle a rail train In lightning procession. When years ago the railroad men struck for wages, our country was threatened with annihilation, and we ii uiized what the railroad wheel had done for ihd country- over one hun dred and eighty thou-and miles of rail road in tin' Edited States; iu one year over a billion dollars received from p'V -•••ngers and freight; White moun tains, Allco'uiny mountains. Hooky mountains, Sierra Nevadas. bowing to the iron yoke; all the rolling stock of >: >\v York Central, Erie, I’ennsylvania. Michigan Central. Georgia, Great Southern, Union Pacific and all the other wheels of tiie tens of thousands of freight cars, wrecking cars, ca booses, drawing room cars, sleeping cars, passenger cars, of all the accom modation, o press and special trains, started by the wheel of the grotesque locomotive tint i s For what it lias don del i I ejaculate in t! text, “O wheel!” While the world It: Hi fo of t he ro;,p-r. On those four wheels—that sewing machine, that of the that of the railroad locomotive, that of tiie printing press—tiie world liar, mov ed up to Its present prosperity. And now I gather on an imaginary platform, as I literally did when I i preached in Brooklyn, specimens of I our American products. Bountiful Harvests. Here is corn from the west, a fore- | taste of the great harvest that Is to | come down to our seaboard, enough for ourselves and for foreign shipment, j Here is rice from tiie south, never a | more beautiful product grown on the i planet, mingling the gold and green. Here are two sheaves, a sheaf of uorlii- A ‘‘Get Rick Quick” Concern of New York Fails. ITS MANAGER DISAPPEARS D positors Kia tit Maine to Florida Are Now Clamoring For the Money THE N. G. H. SCHOOL. TliU Wan the First Auftnelational HHiooi in the Slate. This school was established in lS!i2 by the North Greenville Assiation. It has the honor of bingjthe first as- Bcciational school established in the State, Its establishment was first sug gested by Brother John Bnllenger, one of its present patrons, in a topic for discussion in the Union. The discussion at the subsequent Union no school house worth counting, nor has she at any time during tiie five years had any desire to build one. U. From the beginning there was op position to the use of public money in any way which made a good school possible. 4, At hr >t the school had to open as a public school in order to make sure of a beginning, and then (here wos much uneasiness created by the charge of an insignificant amount of tuition. 5. Contrary to the judgment and ex pressed will of his own trustees and aroused u great deal ol interest and ; ^f a large majority ot the patrons of They I’m Up With the Kxprctiitiou | led to the appointtiK nt*of a commit* ee to recommend a location for the es tablishment of a high school in the bounds of the association. During the session of the association in ISbl this committee reported several lo calities contesting for the school. The report on education, presented at that session by Dr. M. S. West dealt largely with the need and plausibility of establishing an ussu- ciational school. We quote from the report: “We can have within the hounds of this association, a school of high grade, equal to any in the country, in which our boys and giris may receive such an education, as will fit them for any ordinary busi ness in life, or to enter any of our of Kcc.-iving F.tbulous Inter; st. New Yoke, Nov. 28.—The Herald says: Yv'hito’s bureau, Bometimo^ known as “Charles H. White’s bu reau,’’a “get rich quick” concern, lo cated iu tho Cotton Exchange building, vanished with its managers on Sunday and it is estimated that credulous de positors are out of pocket more than $200,000. White’s bureau was in many respects similar to the Franklin syndicate, ope rated by William F. Miller. Like tho Franklin syndicate, it offered 1 , tremend ous dividends to depositors, proiossedto be legitimate and to bo au c d estab lished concern, professed to have tho eru win at and a shea f of southern rice. boil ml i Log* tiier. Ma y tiie 1 ami never bre: ik! 13* re is coit! on. the wealthiest pro; luct of Amorh a lb re is sugar cam *, c: JOUl! li to swei •ten the beverages of in o mp: re. W li would think G-. t out Of ii. ii ft huitihh* stalk there \vo .! i com nd) a In S product? Here so arc palmetto ticis that inve in tin pulses tin* warmth i-f so::’kern cliim Here is the cactus of the south beautiful and s<> templing it ntii.d ;<> armed. Here ni American mines, coal, the iron repr< the pro iiicl of This is iron, tills is senting a vast \ icld. cm* country sending forth om 800.000 tons of ft, the coal renres 10;MX;!) square prying out the iron. year ding les of it, the iron tiie coal, the coal snicltiug I’his is silver, silver from 11J-l W. V A \ ’KJ kA WX. A * A f M* * 'J J 4 A* V • Ak VJ r strongest kind of recommendation from - colleges should they desire to further pursue their studies, We can do this; wo have tho money, we huve tiie wealth, we have the boys and giris. Have we the moral courage to go forwardV” Pending the discussion of the re port thus ending, Rev. B. P. Robert son brotlierjto tin J ranc-r horn wh > 1 ad been the privileges of a delegate, of- fered the following resolutions: “Resolved, That this association organize a high school on the fol lowing articles.” There followed a series of tight articles on name, gov- White’s bureau was operated by two | eminent, duties of trustees, real estate, admittance, curriculum, banks and bankers. Like the Franklin syndicate, it managed its buiinoss with out any inquiries being made bv the po lice. It had accounts in sever il down town banks, ami drafts from its cus tomers pasted through the banks with out any questions being asked, except in tho instance of ono bank. Like tho Franklin syndicate, it paid out “dividends” to depositors presuma bly from the money placed oa deposit in order to iuro larger gudjeons. Fi nally, like the Franklin syndicate, ns backers took alarm and disappeared with a largo quantity of other people’s nionov. mi j Colorado and Nevada, those places j able yet to yield silve r napkin rings - and silver knives and silver ca. j and silver platters for all our people, j Here is mica from the quarries of New ; Hampshire*. How beautiful it looks in the sunlight! Here is copper from Lake Superior, so heavy I dare not lift It. line Is gold from Virginia and Georgia. I look around me on this imaginary platform, and it seems :rs if the waves of agricultural, mineralogicnl. porno- logical wealth dash to tho platform, and there are four beautiful 1 icings that walk in, and they are all gar landed. and one Is garlanded witli wheat and blossoms of snow, and I find she is the north, and another comes in. and her brow is garlanded with rice and blossoms of magnolia, and 1 find she is the south, and another comes in. w at Doncaster, for all Christon- - language of tiie ; been rolling on eight wluvls of the rail car or tin* ■ whci Is of tiie carriage or Hie two and I find she is garlanded with sea- wheels of the gig it at (lie <’entenn;aI ( . delphia, that the m teolith c Mtury r .ii. vus not unii’. IKTfl, position at Pliila- racie of tin* iiine- -I in i lie bk-yclo. The world could not believe its own eyes, and not until quite far on in the eighties were the continents enchanted with the whirling, flashing, dominat ing spectacle of a machine that was to do so much for tin* pleasure, the busi ness, the health and tin* profit of na tions. The world had needed it for 0,000 years. Man’s slowness of loco motion was « mystery. Was it of more modern locomotive, between (lie pad- i Importance that tiie reindeer or tiie die and the ocean steamer. eagle rapidly exchanged jangle* or I will not cuter into the controversy 1 ernes than that man should get swift- as to whether John Fitch or Robert j b’ I'l-ice to place? Was tho busl- ITilton or Thomas Somoruet was the ' ness of the bird or the roebuck more inventor of Hie steamboat. They all ! urgent than that of the incarnated Im- suffered and were martyrs of tin* I mortal? No. At last we have the wheel, and the; Joim Fitch wroli ha!! lie honored. ! obliteration of distance's by pneumatic t-ri MV '.ill! .11' (1 I tuil.i.l. .it v.ife amt (TH.-d (lie forn.rr ; 1 cn iu iny i j rl.t S( treat ! the latter in Hi ono ni.-in to lio t<;:- I 1 Mjkoil tigon a . the mosl world. Surely John Fitch was in a bad pre dicament. If the steamboat boiler did not blow him up, ids wife would. In igcs there are those* to prophesy vea 1 ! i!i - fatal time rf j I I:now of nothing ; ■ > j o a i-lui <-f i- in ? aa a ! mat building. I cup ii- | 1 In w ■ i, and had I j .tmutd undoubtedly have K-ime niaiiiirr; but, for ,itli tooth, tic nr.-.st to* ' iinfuilunote man in the j i tire. At last we have wings. And : ; what lias tins invention done for wo man? Tho cynics and constitutional growlers would deny her this eman cipation and say. “What better exer cise can she have than a broom or a duster or n churn or rocking a cradle or rumiiittr up and down stairs or a walk to church with a prayer book tin- weed ami blossoms of spray, and I find the is the east, and another comes in. and I find she is garlanded with silk of coni and radiant with California gold, and 1 find she is tin* west, and, coming face to face, they take off their garlands, ami they twist them together into something that looks like a wre.it!i. hut ii is a wheel, tiie wheel of national pro perity, and I say in an oi’thiMTt of Thanksgiving joy for what God has (Line for Hie north and the s-uitii and the east and the west. “O wile d!” At different times in rope they liav.* tried to g< t a congress of kings at Berlin or at Haris or at St. Peters burg. but ii inis always boon a failure. Only a low kings have come. But on this imaginary platform that ! have built wo have a convention of nil tiie kings—King Rico. King Iron, King Gold a nd 11 of kings, to this year's wonderful production! GOVERNOR WILL ATTEND. Annual Parmlo uml Inspection ot ( htirh'fcton Mllitiu. Cbaklesto.v, Nov. 27.—The annual pnr.ido and inspection of tho Charleston militia will take piuco next Tnursday afternoon. For the first time in many years the soldiers will be reviewed by tho governor of South Carolina and his staff. Governor MeSwccney and his staff will spend the day in Charle (’orn. King Cotton, King Win at. King Oats. King Coal. King Silver. King ey all Is ow before tin • King whom 1 he all tin* gl< >ry of all tin* failure of any useful invention, j You do not know what the inventors of j the day suffer. When it was proposed | to light London with gas, Sir Hum- j phry Davy, tin* great philosopher, said • that he should as soon think of cutting | n slice from the moon and setting it j upon a pole to light the city. Through | till abuse and caricature I-Ttch mil 1 Fulton went until yonder tbe wheel f is in motion, and the Clermont, the ! first steamboat, is going up river,'running the distance- hreuth while I toll you— York to Albany in 72 hour. I stoaiuboMt wheel multiplied ties iimil tin* Lucania of t lint* and the M.'ij ; lie of I Star line and the New Y( I American line ami tin- KaU North < antic Oi uh'i ii rn S ( th 11 i.ii n t ion 1 >t- tv.ccn tin* tw o comi ipid til 1 so eolistai lt that K e Iho nc who had 1 -cell to >1; mi ; drs for the rest of ,1 llv* s and to me fo r many d Befi III ; ami f ft wheel. Worn- and nd lusts tin* on tin! the whir eolismnpl ions, heartache.-), are die, once tin oppress* ns a cheerful slave— nd roar until the fain- llhclcd, ami winter is welcomed, and i of tlie seasons ; tho bobbin, ( king, ituilting, teli, a oi the coni trie, who Europe to their luorti yetil i tiie mostdlsngreenble mail I emud meet was (lie mat) who had been to Europe, despising all American pie tures ami American music and Ameri- enn society beeau-o they had i-eon Eu ropean pictures and heard European music and mingled in European so ciety-now a transatlantic voyage* is so common Unit a sensible mail woui I «!(*r tier anu?’ And Inoy rather re joice to find her disabled with broken pedal or punctured lire half way out to Chevy Chase or Coney Island. But all sensible people who know the tonic of fresh air and the health in deep respiration and the awakening of dis used muscles and the exhilaration of velocity will rejoice that wife and mother and daughter may have this m-w recreation. Indeed life to so many is so hard a grind that I am glad at the arrival of any new mode of health ful recreation. We need have no anx iety about this invasion of the world’s stupidity by the vivacious and laugh ing and jubilant whei I, except that we always want it to roll in tiie right di- ■ \ .\ev/ m-lion, toward place of business, to- i-iit Lie | ward good recreation, toward phihin- vi j thropy, toward usefulness, toward < unnrd | places of divine worship, and never to- \\ lute : ward immortality or Sabbath deseera- ol the (ion. My friend Will Carlcton, the A ilin !:.i poet, said what I like when he wrote: ' ‘ '' s Ws t-laiin n ru nt utility tliat daily must Inrrciigo; ol le.'K, | < .| a j„| from inuctivity a scii-il k- nli-asp; A constant mental, plivsical a;uj moral help wt* to North old your (T nut no more boast of H than if he been to New York or Boston. I.uiximnrk* "f l > i*iiur>-HN. M hat a diherenco between 1 itch's steamboat, (ill foot long, am Oceanic, 7o 1 feet long! The o wheel turn-i swifter ami swifter, ti tin I lie ilixtillu n between tin.' In pbcics uml hastening the lime mi ha< wonder that ut soute of the leuru- | of In the book of Revelation when there shall he no more sea. feel, Tint bids us turn cnlliUMa :*s ami cry, God Lil.'ri tin- wheel t Never yet having mounted one of tlm o rolling wonders, I stand by the wayside, far enough off to avoid be ing run over, and in amazement and eongi at illation cry out, in Ezekiel’s phraseology of the text, “O wheel!” Mii’ticiiloiiM riliitiliK I’rcss. Fourthly, 1 look Into tin* literary world and sej what tiie wheel lias ac complished. I nni more astounded with lids than anything that has pre ceded. Behold the almost miraculous printing press! Do you not fed (lie ground slialu* with the machinery of tin* New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Fhil ndclphla, Washington and western dailies? Some of us rcmcuihcr when • lie hand ink roller was run over tho cylinder, and by gn at haste 8'mj copies of (lie village' newspaper were Issued in one day and no lives lost. But in- toa as tho guests of tho ofli ers of tho Charleston militia ami wiii bo uiiicii at night at the Frenudgcbaftsbund hall. Tho inspection will cover no! only iho j four infantry companies, comm tnded by Major Henry Schachte, but the Gorman artillery, Lafayette artillery, first di- j vision of tuo South Carolina naval re- ! serves, the Charleston Light Dragoons 1 and tho German Hussars. The parade t will be commanded by Major Sdmehte. Tiie parade will bo reviewed by the gov ern or and stuff'. Tne inspection will lie very thorough. The companies will not only t erequ red *o parade their full enlisted comnlo- ; menr, but every company will bo dn l *d separately for 10 minutes, which will be followed by a battalion drill. Governor McSweeney and his staff will be handsomely entertained at a dinner iu the oveuiug. HEAD CRUSHED TO A PULP. | Intoxicated Youth Went to Sleep on : the It ni I road Truck. Pen si cot. a, Fla., Nov. 27.—The mangled body of Welch Hobby was ; found on tho railroad track between Molino and Pino Barren yesterday. Tho entire top of his head was crushed to a pulp and ho had boon dead several hours when the body was found. Hobby was Id years old, his parents being prominent residents of Pine Bar- ! rou. lie had been to Mol no and while | tlmro drank koiiio tanglefoot whisky. He was walking home Saturday night and it is supposed that ho became ex* | hausted and lay down ou tho track to rest, a freight train running over aud killing him. Anniston L me Plant Burns. Anniston, Ala., Nov. 27.—Tho lime futnacjs and plant of the Anniston Lime and Coal company, in West An niston, operated under lease by tho La Garde Lime and Stone company, were destroyed by fire at il o’clock this morn ing. The plant had a daily capacity of young men v. no went under the uanio ot Hvman. One of thorn gave the uauie of C. 11 Hyman, uml bo s understood to be (he “C. II. \\ Into” wm so bureau tho ei ijc-ern purported to be The “bureau” began business in tbe latter part of Sept mber P sub -ot two rooms from another tenant on too first fi or. The i liicas are verv haailaomely funiMn d and are partitions 1 off into hii.a er rooms. M-iny typo-vritors were employed and when tiie i u-.mess was fir.-'t established an enormous quantity of letters and circulars were sent forth The firm inserted advertisements iu newspapers a!i over the eouuiry. prom ising that White’s bureau wonid make money for anybody who would send bis cash on to New York. The advertise ments were as alluring as greeugoods circulars. These circulars and advertisements soon began to have tho usual effect. Letters began to come in from all over tiie country. The mail to the bureau grow to such proportions that tho sus picions of the superintendent of the Cotton Exchange building became aroused and ho mado an investigation. DEWEY FAVORS M’KINLEY. Admiral 8ays lie Doesn’t Want to Be President. New Your, Nov. 28—Admiral Dewey lias repeated his former assertions that ho is not a candidate for the presi dential nomination, say, a Wa^brnglou correspondent of The* lb raid. “President McKinley a a good friend of mine and 1 hope to see him secure a second term,” the admiral said. “I hope my friends will not continue to talk of my being a candidate. The American people have too much sense to do anything of that kind. It seems to me that these soealled battle scarred heroes, as a rule, have made poor presi dents. “President McKinley is a good friend of mine, aud 1 shall never forget those noble, cheering messages that ho sent mo at Manila. 1 have preserved them all and shall keep them as long as 1 live.” Tho admiral expresses much satisfnc tion w’i:h the news from tho Philip pines. He considers tho insurrection practically at an end. MEETS AT DECATUR NEXT. North Alabama MotliodlKt Conference II as Adjourned. Bikmingham, Ala., Nov. 28.—Tbe North Alabama conferenco of the Meth odist Episcopal church, south, which convened hero last Wednesday, has con cluded its labors aud adjourned to meet next year in Decatur. Tho report t-f tho committoo oa Up- worth leagues noted that much good work had been done by tho leaguers during the year, it recommended a conference yearly ot all tho leagues in the southern Methodist church. There was some opposition to this proposition under the apprehension that it might mean withdrawal fro n the in- , ternational conference. This purpose, however, was denied by the members of ! the committee, ono of whom -rated that some thing, did happen at the interna- ; tioual meetings which the south* rn peo ple old not approve of. Tho report was aborted ; The appoin moms for the ensuing year were- announced by B>h< p Candler. NEW MILL FOR LCU 3IANA. S'linb CiirolliDi • .\j» i-i I- E gaged as ill' fv.tf'ucrr. Mo Niton, La. Zi *v 2S —-D. A. Tomp kins, the cotton nuil expert of South j Carolina, met tiie directors of tho Oua- ; chita cotton nulls m this city yesterday ' at their office and discussed tho p’an ; adopted by tho home company. After hearing his address tho board ! adopted a resolution to the effect that they engage him as engineer and nr- j range with the D. A. Tompkins com- i puny to purchase machinery for a 3,W0- bpindlo mill. Mr. Tompkins will visit Monroeagaiu within a short while, and ihe probabili ties are that the company will increase tho size of tho mill to a lO.OOO-spindlo one, as sut scriptions are still coming in, and if they continue the capital stock will be increased. Mr. Tompkins left for Mississippi on tho noon train, where ho goes to deliver addresses to the stockholders of some of the recently organized cotton mills. 'TIm; .’McvUuk. Tiio ladies will meet at the Presby terian church this morning ut 10 o’clock. Mrs. B 1’. Robertson will make the address of welcome. Miss M. L. Coker is the president of the ludii s association and it is expected that she will make the response on training and tuition. These articles were referred to a special committee, consisting of Dr. S. B. Crawley, then a resident of North Greenville, Rev. H. K. U/.eil, W. A. Nesbitt, J. (). Wingo, and Rev. B. J’. Robertson. This committee made an early report, and the as;o- ciation adopted, without change, each article us presented by Gaffney’s pastor. The selection of tho location was left to a committee ol nine, one of whom was your Dr. Crawley. This committee, having visited the cun- L sting places, and having heard the | and business men. propositions of each, decided in favor of Tigerviile. Brother B. F. Neves, whose daughter is now at Limestone, did more than any other to secure the sciiool for Tigerviile. The com munity virtually presented tiie grounds and building to tiie associa tion. The school opened in.January 18b.t, 1’rof. 11. L. Brock, of Georgia, was tiie lirst principal. Tho opening was auspicious, but tiie interest of its patrons, summoned so suddenly into being, was too volatile, so that ere long the prospects began to wane. I’rof. Brock resigned after two and one-half years and was succeeded by Rev. J. S. M. Finch, a Furman and Seminary graduate. Still tliu school waned and its friends feared its de mise. It hud reaciud the li st stage when I’rof. Finch gave it up in April ’US. The trustees next chone tiie pres ent principal, O. J. 1’eterson, a North Carolinian and a Wake Forest grad uate, to undertake the revival of tho school. He confesses that there was very little encouragement. Every body away from Tigerviile thought the school schould have been in this neighborhood. Tho local patrons were listless. He talked everywhere and on every occasion he advertised; he begged—it all seemed of little avail. The session opened with twenty-two pupils. But the 4 day of small things” is not to be despised. The smallness of the number enabled the principal to do his best work. He began to publish tiie North Greenville Courier. Ho visited church after church. Finally tiie tide£began to turn. The enrollment j kept growing till May, and reached sixty-eight, about thirty being from beyond the neighborhood. Tho in terest steadily grew tiil the opening of this session when sixty-eight were present the first day, thirty-eight of whom were now residents. Still the number is growing. The enrollment has now reached the hundred mark, with about sixty of thc-e non-resi dents, This marvelous development hits taken place in less than two years, and that too, in the faeo of the very poor crop year of our section. The school is now doing the work for which it was intend- d. We need a good dormitory building and must have one before we can reach tiie highest point attainable. The principal has associated with him in the work Miss Ida Keys, daughter of Editor Keys, and a grad uate of Limestone. Miss Keys has already displayed talent of a higli order, and gives promise of taking highfank in tho teaching profession. the school tiie school commissioner of Spartanburg county lias built a sciiool house near the Campobdlo High School buildings, and that, too, out of money drawn on tiie enroll ment of the Campobelio High School. In this little sciiool house there are a few pupils being taught free while 10U pupils through their parents have petitioned the school commissioner in vuin that their prorata share of public money may be given them in the (b H S. The success indicated above is due to the following facts : 1. Five years ago all the people of Campobelio felt something of the deep need of a good school; and they r were therefore led to unite upon a teacher, whom Providence had forced into their midst, and who felt tills need more than they all, and who de termined, by the grace of God, to supply t hat need so' far as he was able. In order to do this he iiad to build, at his own expense, ail houses necessary t) a-good school and to pay aii teach ers out of small tuition fees and a li.'ie public money doled out spar ingly. 2. No teacher has ever been em ployed who was not known to tho principal personally as competent. Three of these teachers have been trained at YVinthrop; others have been trained in schools that rank above W’int lirope. 3. Board was put at very low figures, and boys and girls were en couraged to make these iigures yet lower by useful labor. 4. The good common sense of a large majority of the people in Camp- ubc-llo enables them to know a good thing, and they show their loyally to the C. II. S. by refusing to send their children to Mr. Chapman's opposing school. The good land surrounding Campobelio, the good water, and good churches have conspired to bring to the town many of tiie best farmers i'he whole social anil religious atmosphere is being purified, so that the good results of tiie school are reacting hopefully on her own success. ti. A large number of tiie pupils of the school have been boys and girls of fine character, and these have helped the school wherever liiey have gone. <juite a number of young preachers have found in this school what they needed as a preparation for college. 7. The bar-al fact and explanation of this success is this: The work was undertaken and lias been prosecuted for God’s glory and for tbe good of pupils with limited means. Under her present business mana ger, Rev. G. T. Gresham, tho school is pluming her wings for a nobier itege was organ- flighfc. Or‘.i:iK«-l>(irt; College. The Orangeburg Coil ixed in 1S!)4. More than fiOO students have been matriculated since its be ginning. The institution was char tered by the Orangeburg, Charleston, Edisto, Colleton and Santee Baptisf associations, as Hie Orangeburg Col legiate Institute. In 1898 the name was changed to the Orangeburg Col lege, tiie primary department elimi nated and the full college course offered. In the past twelve months funds have been donated and im provement mado to the amount of about $5,000. Tho college property is now valued at $25,000. The collegi is out of debt, and now plans are being matured to buy in additional property and erect new buildings. The faculty at present is eleven, and represents the best colleges and uni versities of the land. The student body stands 109 males and 40 females. Optional courses are offered in art, vocal and instrumental music, elocu tion, business^ stenography and type writing A ministerial coups-* is offered. These departments are well patronized. Boarding patronage amounts to 119 students. There is progress. n H* spi‘(l!ic 400 barrels and was running lull time, behalf of tho visitors. There will be Loss, $15,000, partly insured. Coghlitiq lh'* Actor, Dead. Galveston, Nov. 27.—Charles Cogh- lau, tho actor, who has boon ill bore since Oct. 00 with acute gastritis, died this marking. addresses by different ladies and gentlemen during tho meeting. A cordial invitation is extended to nil the ladies of Gaffney to attend this meeting and it is to be hop(d that they will do so as fur us possible. CAMPOBELLO HIGH SCHOOL. A l-’lourlHliing School I'mlcr tlx* IHrcction Of M ChKTH, WIiiko A tirt'Hlllllll. This school is located at Campo- bello, a nourishing little town in the upper part of Spartanburg county, near the mountains of western North Carolina. Only a few lines are need ed to write its history, so short has been its life; but pages are desired by its friemis to tell of ali its good work. It lias been a successful school from its bumble beginning, Jan. 7tli, 1895, to tbe present session, when 1. \V. Wingo and G. T. Gresham wre asso ciated as coprincipals. Added totho principals are five lady teachers: Misses McClain, Boll, and Earle, in the literary department. Miss Cov ington in tiie department of music— vocal and instrumental—and Miss Kendrick In the department of art. The school Inis enrolled eighty one pupils this session, nineteen of whom aie boarders. Tho kucc* ss indicated t.bovo is re markable in view of tliu following facts: 1. Five years ego Campobelio had never been known to have much am bition for education, refinement, or culture. 2. Five years ago Campobelio hud substantial work of the Drang, burg College is to piaci* a tborough Christian education within the reach of the masses of lower South Carolina. South of Columbia this is the only college outside the city of Charleston. The college stands upon its own merits, with broad charity to ail institutions of learning, its work is not to op pose any, but to assist in protecting iht'iu. With nearly ten thousand Baptist young people in South Caro lina Hie Orangeburg College has an inviting field, allowing all other Bap tist institutions u decided increase in their attendance. 'Iho management proposes to make* of the Orangeburg College an institution that will be tbe pride of our great denomination, u blessing to our Baptist young peo ple and others who may care to como within our wails, and above all, to the glory of God. T<mI ly’x Pn»i;r;»iii The following us tho program for tiie exercises of Hie minister’s con ference which takes place this morn ing and afternoon: 9 :d(J., Devotional ex* icipc*. By the president. 5): 15. The preacher and bis pur chase of books. Conversation, led by Rev. J. A. Brown. 10:15. What is salvation? Paper by A. C. Wilkins, 1). D 11 :00. How u> deal with inquirers. Discussion opened by Rev. Jabez Ferris. 11:45. Exegesis and expository plan. E J. Forrester, 1). I). 3 dlO.-Tho place of hymns ami pub lic prayer In the service. 1’uper by R* v. J. 1). Bailey. I no Tin* examination and recep tion of members. Discussion led by Rev. F (> S Curl is. I 15 'luc length of sermons. 15 per by Rev. R. \V. Sanders.