The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, April 14, 1887, Image 1

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Slyt~ K em19tab x ts ?? EA bLIsHL>) IN 18(55. NE:1ERRY. s. C.. THURSI)AY, APRIL 14, 1887. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR. TiHE FOLLIES OF OUR YOUT.I The Last Article from the Pen of Henry Ward Beecher-The Great Preacher's Opinion on Dancing --A Prophecy. The following article. from the pen of the late lien;;y Ward Beecher, was written by him only a fortnight previous to his death. Ile had lpromised that he would contribute an article to the last number of the -1rooklytt Mal,rine under its old name, and in accordance therewith the paper given below was written by him. It is probably one of his latest, if not the last, contribution tt periodical literature -Old age has the foundation of its joy or its sorrow laid in youth. Every stone laid in the foundation takes hold of every stone in the wall up to the very eaves of the building; and every deed, right or wrong, that transpires in youth reaches forward, and has a relation to all the after part of man's life. A man's life is not like the contiguous cells in a bee's honeycomb, it is more like the separate parts of a plant which un folds out of itself, every part bearing relation to all that antecede. That which one does in youth is the root, and all the afterparts, middle age and old age, are the branches and the fruits, whose character the root will determine. -Every man belongs to an econo my in l.hich he has a right to calcu late, or his friends for him, on eighty years as a fair term of life. His body is placed in a world adapted to nourish and protect it. Nature is congenial. There are elements enough of mischief in it if a man pleases to find them out. A man can wear his body out as quickly as he pleases. destroy it if he wi:i; but., after all, the great laws of nature are nourish ing laws, and, comprehensively re garded, nature is the universal nurse, the universal physician of our race, guarding us against evil, warning us of it by incipient pains, setting up signals of danger-not outwardly, but inwardly, and cautioning us by sorrows and by pains for our benefit. Every immoderate draft which is made by the appetites and passions is so much sent forward to be cashed in old age. We may sin at one end, but God takes it off the other. Every man has stored up for him some -eighty years, if he knows how to keep) them, and those eighty years, lJke a bank of deposit, are full of treasures; but youth, through ignor ance or through immoderate passion, is wont continually to draw checks on old age. Men do not suppose that they are doing it, although told that the wicked shall not live out half their days. "Men arc accustomed to look upon the excesses of youth as something that belongs to that time. They say that of course the young, like colts unbridled, will thsport themselves. There is no harm in colts disporting themselves but a colt never gets drunk. I do not object to any amount of gayety or vivacity that lies within the bounds of reason, or of health; but I (1o reject and abhor, as worthy to be stigmatized as dishonorable and un manly, ev-ery such course in youth as it takes away strength, vigor and purity from old age. I do not be lieve that any man should take the candle of his old age and light it by the vices of his youth. Every man e4that transcends nature's laws in youth is taking beforehand those, treast'es that are stored up for his old age; he is taking the food that should have been his sustenance in old age. and exhausting it in riotous living in his youth.- Mere gayety andl exhilaration are wholesome; they violate no law, moral or physical. --I do not object to mirth or gayety, but I do object to any muan's making ant animal of himself by livin'g for the gratification of his own animal - passions. People frequently think that to require in the conduct of youth that which we expect in later lifre, has somiething (of Puritanism in it. Me'n have ani imp'ression that ve,uth is varv nouch like wine, crude :and in!s:pid until it has ferriented; timn whn it has fermented and th'rowu down the lees, andi the scum has~ been dirawn (i!T, the gtreat body * between i sound and wholesome, and beQautitl. I am ni ot one that think so. I think that youth is the beg inning of the plant life, and that every wart or excresen ce is so much enfeeblement of its fruit-hearing aower. I do not believe that an' mnan is the better for having learned the whole career of dIrunkenness 0r of lust, or the dallyings or indulgen cies that belong to a morbid life. A young man that has gone through these things may be saved at last; but in after life he has not the sen siity no th prity nor the moral stamina that he ought to have. He has gone through an experience but for which his manhood would have been both stronger and nobler. I thoroughly disbelieve that a man is any better for having in his youth passed through an experience that developed his animal nature and his lustful appetite. Excess in youth. in regard to animal indulgencies,. is bankruptcy in old age. --For this reason I depreciate late hours, irregular hours or irregular sleep. People ask me frequently. 'Do you think that there is any harm in dancing ?' No, I do not. There is much good in it. ')o you, then. '>bject to dancing parties ?' No; in themselves I do not. But where un knit youth, unripe muscle, unsettled and unhardened nerves are put through an excess of excitement, treated with stimuh.nts, fed ii regu. ularly and with unwholesome food, surrounded with gayety which is ex cessive and which is protracted through hours when they should be asleep, I object, not because of the dancing but because of the dissipa tion. It is takii' the timetbat un questionably was intended for sleep, and spending it in the highest state of exhilaration and excitement. The ,arm is not in the dancing itself; for if they danced as do the peasants, in the open air, upon the grass under the trees, and in the day, it might be commended, not as virtuous, but as still belonging to those negative things that may be beautiful. But the wassail in the night, the waste fulness--I will not say of precious hours, for hours are not half so pre cious as nerves are-the dissipation, continued night after night and week after week through the whole season, it is this I deprecate as eating out the very life. I am not superstitious of observances, but I am always thank ful that there are forty days of Lent in the year when folks can rest from their debauches and dissipations; when no round of excessive excite ment in the pursuit of pleasure is permitted to come in and ruin the health and cripple the natural pow ers of the young. "I rejoice to say that I was brought up from my youth to abstain from tobacco. It is unhealthy; it is filthy from beginning to end. In rare cases, where there is already some unhealthy or morbid tendency in the system, it is possible that it may be used with some benefit: but ordi narily it is unhealthy. I believe that the day will come when a young man will be proud of not being ad dicted to the use of stimulants of any kind. I believe that the day will come when not to dIrink, not to use tobacco, not to waste one's strength in the secret indulgence of passion, but to b)e true to one's na ture, true to God's law, to be sound, robust, cheerful. and to be conscious that these elements of health and strength are derived from the rev erent ob)edience of the command ments of God, will be a matter of ambition and endeavor among men." IIENRY WVARD BEECIIER. The C., N. &L R. R. Tro be Consolidated with the Glenn Springs R~ailroad. Colufmbia Rkco'rd, Apjrii (. 'rhe board of directors of the Col umnbia, Newberry and Laureus rail road held their regular monthly meeting in the private rooms of the Commercial Bank last night. ThueI citizens' committee, which is obtain ing names of property.owners so that a vote may be taken as to whether there will be a township subscription of $40,000, reported that progress was being made in getting up the list. President Moseley authorized the immediate consolidation of the Columbia, Newberry and Lau rens with the Glenn Springs railroad. This consolidation will be effected at Ias early a (lay as the law will allow. The President reported that the work of gradling the second division of the road, a line five miles long from the teruminatio,n of the first 15 miles. had beguin. The finance comnmitttee was instructed io close the subscription for the .?0,000 first subscribed and to issue stock. The meeting ad journed( at 11 o'clock. "She )Di't Pull off the Bustle E'4qield Chkronil. We hear from .Johnston, that, during the late Holiness meeting there, a rather fashionable young lady professed to Mr. Leitch that she had been sanctified; and that lie re plied to lher, with considerable em phasis: '-Ohi, no you havent; nio, vou he.vent; no you havent. Be cause if you had, you would have nnlled off that bustle !" THE HERO OF SHILOH. th ter Jeff Davis' Tribute to Albert Sidney Johnston. -. Inc The following is an extract of the speech delivered by Jeffer-n Davis in New Orleans on Gth April, on the er. occasion of the unveiling of a statue p in memory of Albert Sidney John- of ston: ne, '"It' words could add anything to St, the effect which this scene produces, ate then I should regret that my physi- e1, cal ability does not allow me to ad- hoi dress so large an audience as this. tor Sidney Johnston's fame rests on his Ne deeds. It requires no embellishments ma from any one. and if it did the able poj orator you have heard has done what col the occasion requires. To you, my me brethren of the Louisiana Division of offi the Army of Tennessee, I wish to tw( offer my congratulations for your th eminent success in the task you un- wh dertook. Despite the jeers of evil prophecy of those who said you could cot not succeed, you have succeeded, and i c (pointing to t: e statue) -there is to- fro day, I believe, the best equestrian u statue, man and horse, that is to be found in any country. [Applause.] an, There is the head and neck, familiar r to all of you, of the horse he rode n a when he-received his death wound, w copied, I know not how, but instinct isi with resemblance. There is the R. grand figure of our hero as we have le seen him on horseback, a perfect cav alier as well as the fearless soldier. wa You have,done well to embody this vet hero's:statue_in material more endur- ara ing than granite. Not that his fame wit was likely to diminish, nor that you car required any visible sign to remind res you of his greatness or warm your af p fection for him, but that, in coming time,'as the youths of our country cor pass by, they may look at that statue 1 and say, Well, who is this? and learn pct the story of the man who was as good art as he was great and as great as hu ing manity permits man to be. I knew to Sidney Johnston, I believe, better the than I knew any other man, perhaps att because his character was written so the legibly that it was easy to compre- tlt bend it. Be that as it may, we had art been associated in college, from col- les lege we went to the Military Acad- mi emy, and from tnere we went into the army. I pause for a moment on the coI period when at college together. I fac believe as a rule that boys are better wit judges of each other than their pro- wit fessors of themi. Johnston stood em- to inent ini the corps of cadets always the courteous, always ready for duty, al ways proficient. I believe that if youti will go among cadets who were in the corps with him, and ask which was ita the grandest character they knew in wo the corps, the answer would be gene- e rally, if not universally, Albert Sid ney Johnston. That is my opinion, So and I have l:eard it expressed by many; among others, by the man who , was at the head of his class, and who - is one of the greatest .sawant this of country has ever produced. n "We entered the army together andW were in the same branch of service. T We were together in barracks and in "n I,dian campaigns, and I remember art now the time, when a deadly disease pe was sp)reading among the men in c camp, Sidney Johnston was there o. himself, suffering, yet calm and at- " tentive to those who were suffering co more than himself. IIe showed no of treiation. It was not ini his na- B ture to do so. rThe man had been as a lion in battles, and when lie stoopedl co over a suffering comrade his eyes t moistened with more than a mother's o weakness. Such was the nature of se this man. Then we served in a for- ani eign war together. J could not tell seI you munch of that period without be- to in subject to the charge of egotism, mm for singly andl alone we two have i stoodl where death seemed to come thm every moment, and there Sidney rt Johnston was as calm as'I ever saw 0 him.in camp. Ilis decision was as cr quick as rifle p)owder. (1 speak to in infantrymen who know how quick re' that is.) Then there was one charac- al teristic of him which p)revailed(l throuhout the whole course of his ri life, and that was his chivalric teum- h per. IJe never deserted a friend, and I i was prone to step in front of a friend when lhe saw him assailed. He was t knightly. but not errant. WXhen lie saw Texas struggYlingr for righit. that ag lie thought belonged to all tmn -the right of self-governmnent--he went to -- volunteer, without recommnendation; co taking his place in the ranks to fight w for thme liberty of Texas in order that she might have a govertnent of her own. As time wore on his morit was discovered and he was raised to rank At and position. When the war with in Mexico began we had but few troops ni: on the Rio Grande, and in the begin wi ning of the war there seemed littled probability o,f success. Johnston or- so ganized a regiment of which lie was th olnl, nde marched immcdiately to st1 support of Zachary Tavlor. A wards he was on the staff of Gen. ylor. I will not worry you by go into details [Voice in the crowd > on !'] after the war with Mexico friends, I will go on a little long [Applause.] lie was appointed rmaster under the adnuistratior Franklin Pierce, a yankee whc ,er faltered in the maintenance of Ltes' right, a man who in the Sen of the United States voted foi ry one of the resolutions of Cal in, though many Southern Sena s did so reluctantly. Thanks tc w Hampshire for breeding such t n as Franklin Pierce. Pierce ap nted Johnston )ayuast(r and lector of the 2d cavalry, a regi ut which gave more distingu:shec cers to both armies in the war be :en the States than any other ir United States army. Buchanan en President, sent to mne to ask ho do you think ought to havc unand of the Utah expeditiou? id not choose to select one only m my army acquaintances, and I - him three names. lie said, 'l)c i and Gen. Scott ever agree aboul ,thing?" I said, 'I think so.' IIe lied, 'In this instance you havc ned the same three men.' They -e these: Persifer Smith, of Lou. a, Albert Sidney Johnston and E. Lee. Johnston was selected was the best selection. le com nded the expedition to Utah, and s made brigadier general by bre So he had gone to the highesi de next to commander-in chiel bin a short period after the Mexi. i war. Previously to that he had igned from the army and lost hi; iition. 'When the war between the States omenced his rank and reputation 'e him the right to believe and ex :t all tlat would be given in the uv of the United States, but see a few States asserting their rights a form of government resting on consent of the governed, and the empt of the majority to deprive in of that right, he sacrificed all ,t he had made in the United States ay and travelled across the track s desert to offer his service&to the ority struggling for the right ne who knew Sidney Johnstor ild imagine him ignorant of thc t that this smaller body of men bout arms, without workshops ,hout material of war, would have :ontend against terrible odds. Or field of Shiloh he made but ont take. He had planned that bat and sent me a telegram (whici s lost) which described it just a: vas fought, the only battle in th< rds history that was taught as: eral expected." e Pensioner of thme Revolutionar: War. Ul'c sole surviving representativ< the revolutionary war, as recog ;ed by the government, says: ishington dispatch, is Abigail S ton, of North Wood bridge. Rock ~hamn County, N. 1L. Out of th< ny of persons who are entitled t< isions she is the only one who re es such as thme wife of a soldiel the revolution. Mrs. Tilton is th< low of Benjamin Stev;ns, who, ac -ding to the musty records of thn c, particip)ated in the battle o nnmington. as a member of Captaim ~ConneWs complhany, under thi nmand of Gen. Stark. Mrs. Til is now a trifle more than one hun d years old. She was married: :ond time in 1831, but was divorce assumed her maiden name, iIe: ond1( marriage in validated her righ a pension as the widow of Benja n Stevens but the State of Ney mshire subsequently granted he: allowance of $2 a week for th' nainder of her natural life. Abou it years ago Congress further in asedl this by the addition of $1G: intm to be paid to her as a specia olutionary pension, it having beem eged that she was "houseless, home s and chidless." The old ladyi resented as5 being in excellen lh and inm full possession of al menitalI anid physical faculties itil at year ago three other relics o lev'ol utiona :ry hmei rs dr,ew singi< sions through the Knoxvill' ncy. But they hamve all died with tme past twelve months, and Mrs ton is the only link that is lef i necti ng the government of to-d1a2 L the stormy scenes of 1776. Velow Snow in WIsconMinl. Cmm.vo, Aprili.-A special fron gusta, Wis., says: About ai :h of snow fell here on Tuesda: ;ht, the surface of which is coveretn th a thick layer of what seems to bi st or ashes. This whole section far as heard from, is covered witl Ssame yellowish snow. It is: an phmenoinm'mon. A Sketch of D. Wyatt Aiken. a Col. Aiken was born at Winns boro', in Fairfield County, S. C.I March 17, 1828, and was therefore in a his 59th year. He was graduated at the South Carolina College with the t class of 1849, and after teaching o school he married Miss Virginia e Smith, a sister of Mr. W. Joel Smith, s of Abbeville, and settled on the Stony 14 Point farm in 1852. le was.a suc cessful farmer, the best evidences of which is furnished in the fact that he o supported comfortably and highly o educated a large family of children t from the profits in agriculture. Dur ing the time that he was farmer he a edited the Rural Carolinian and the s agricultural department of the News and Courier. p Soon after the war he bought a dwe!ling in Cokesbury, where he re- d sided. In 1861 he volunteered as a a private in the 7th South Carolina regiment but was appointed Adjutant of the command. At the reorganiza- t tion of the regiment in the spring of t 1862, Mr. Aiken was elected to its command, succeeding Col. Bacon. b In September 1862, while gallantly t commanding his regiment at Harp- t, er's Ferry, in the battle of Antietam, I where the Confederate forces won a most signal victory, Col. Aiken re ceived a wound through the body, b which was deemed mortal. Being un able for duty, with no prospect of ever recovering, he was discharged V from the service, when he returned e to his family to receive their care and attention. After a long and painful illness, he regained somewhat of his former strength, and the people, ap- d preciating his gallantry in the army, b and needing his services in the Legis- ; lature, elected hirj to represent them in that body in 1864. He was again i elected to the same trust in 1866, and in 1867 distinguished himself by his Q able and vigorous opposition to a tax measure then before the House, and s which afterwards became a law, levy- tj ing a tax of 10 per cent. on the gross sales that may have been. made by whiskey dealer;, as well as taxing the gross incomes of hotel keepers and other business occupations in a like manner t Col. Aiken was Master of the State 8 Grange for two years and was presi- t dent of the Abbeville Agricultural a Society for several years, and under t his management were had some of r the most excellent exhibitions that t were ever seen in any county. He t has always been distinguished for his ~ pronounced Democratic principles and was a delegate to the National1 Convention at St. Louis in 1876, which nominated Tilden and Hen dricks for P'resident and Vice-Presi dent. lie was chosen as the Demo cratic Congressional standard bearer in the historic campaign in 1876. In those days of .darkness and gloom, it was difficult to get suitable candi dates for the different loffices. The D)emocracy was in such a hopeless minority, and had so often suffered defeat that few men cared to be made targets. The Democratic Club at Abbeville on the motion of [Ion. A. ( Burt, than whom none were more wise and sagacious, gave Col. Aiken a unanimous call to the position of Congressional leader of the forlorni hope. This'nominlationl was a sur prise to Col. Aiken. He had not ex pected~ it, but he really accepted the position and went to work with ener gy and boldness, carrying discom fiture, discouragement and final de feat to Chamberlain and his crew. He was appointed to reply to Gover- t ernor Chamberlain at a mass meeting of citizens on Secession Hill, at A bbe. ville, on Big Tuesday. Chamberlain and his associates abandoned thei canvass after that day and1 returnedi to Columbia by thle 'next train ande never again appeared in public to discuss State politics In 1878 lie was re-elected over Stolbrand, the Republican candidate,t by a majority of nearly twenty thou-. Isand votes at the general election. Col. Ai ken ,was his own successor ever since, until at the.last election, owing to ill-health, lie laid down the Congressional duties after having erved his constituency for ten years. Thie Negro and the Interstate Commerce -I Bill. I Atlauta Constitution. The New York Beraldd calls atten -tion to a matter that has already been 1 broached in the Constitutiont, namely, the civil rights provision to be found! in the interstate conmmerce bill. That 1bill, as our readers will probably dis cover, before they are thirough with1 Sit, covers a great deal of territory. It not only persists in regarding the States as-commercial and geographi cal entities, but it revives a feature of the civil rights bill; which created some commnmotion in the South sev We may inter from this that it is very grand and statesmanlike meas re, and that:its author intends to be candidate for president. The round covered by the measure is im iense. It not only erects barriers bat do not exist either in geography r commerce, but it resurrects one nd of the civil rights bill. For in tance, section 3 of the law is as fol )WS: "It shall be unlawful for any com ion carrier subject to the provisions f this act to make or give any undue r unreasonable preference or advan %ge to any particular person, com any, firm, corporation or locality, or ny description of tratiie in any re pect whatsoever, or to subject any articular person, company, firm, cor oration or locality, or any particu ir description of traffic, to any un ne or unreasonable prejudice or dis dvantage in any respect whatsoever." Whether the abie Southern con ressmen who lobbied and voted for bis measure were aware of the fact bat they were engaged in resurrect ig the Sumner bill, we do not know, ut if they are as able as they claim be, and as patriotic as they ought D be, there can be no doubt that they ad carefully studied the measure efore they cast their votes for it, nd, as a matter of course, they must ave known its far-reaching effects. )therwise they would stand con emned before their constituents in oting for a bill which they had not yen read. The section we have quoted is perative, and as all the important Dads of the South will be necessarily riven into interstate combinations y the very terms of the bill, it must !low that section 3 will be operative i all. There is no escaping from ;s provisions. Its language is clear nd unmistakable. and there is no etting around it. As we have said before, the inter tate commerce bill is a very big Ling. Calhoun Day. The unveiling of the magnificent tatue to Calhoun, in Charleston, on he 26th April inst., will be a grand ffair. The unveiling of this statue o this, the grandest and greatest f southern statesmen, will be made he occasicn for showing the reve ence ant honor in which he is held iy his own loved Carolina. Among he invited guests, the following per. ons are expected to be present. isecretary Lamar will deliver .the. nemorial address. 1. The President of the United tates and his Cabinet. 2. The Governor of the State and tate officers. 3. The Governors of each State and erritory in the Union. 4. Ex-President Jefferson Davis. 5. Hon. W. F. Colcock and wife, rho were at the deathbed of the ;reat statesmuain. 6. Prof. Rivers and family. 7. Hon. Mr. Venable, of North Caro u, who was in Congress with Cal ioun. 8. Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Vir ~inia, who was in the Senate with 3alhoun. 9. The survivors of the committee rho had charge of the Calhoun >bsequies. 10. The corps of Citadel cadets, rho will of course join the military ring of the procession. Canning Factory for Columbia. Xeu-s and Courier. ComnIUaa, April 7.-Mr. J. C. urner, of this city, has bought a omplete canning outfit capable of urning out at present from 3,000 to ,000) two and three-pound fruit and egetable cans a (day. The capacity nay be readily increased to 10,000 a lay. The works will soon be p)ut to operation. Mr. Turner has rent d lands near the city from Col. rhomas Taylor, and will raise vege. ables for canning purposes. Others vil follow the example, and the ruck raising industry in this section nll receive a great impetus. sick and 'ired of the Whole Subject. Edgqeicld Cihronicle. .Jones, the slayer of the l'ressleys -we are heartily sick of tile name, fd of the muan. and of the thought, nd of the subject !-is still in cur ail. His ap)plication for bail before udge Norton, in Columbia, last eek, was withdrawn-"without prej udice," as they say in law-to be re. ewed at some future day before the supreme Court. The name and late of this day rest in the bosoms f his never-flagging and frantically ~athiful attorneys. There is no telling what is goina o happen next. The democrat: arried Rhode Island on Wednesday lecting their candidate for governo1 nd the whole ticket by 1,500 plural ty. This is the first democratic vic try there in fortyyvars. j Experimental Stations on the Farm. { .crs aw Courier. The complaint has been freely made that the last two seasons were particularly unfavorable to the cotton and corn crops in this part of the country, and unsuccessful farmers have generally attributed their f' ure to this cause. What can be ac complished, however, even in such seasons, by intelligent methods, in cluding deep ploughing and thorough cultivation, has been strikingly de monstrated by a number of farmers in Middle Georgia. the results of whose experiments have been record ed in the Atlanta (untitution, and have attracted widespread attention. The facts tell their own story, and are as follows: Two or three years ago a proimi nent fertilizer manufacturing house of Atlanta offered premiums for the best yield of cotton and corn on one acre and five acres. In 1885 four of the leading contestants made 06 bales of cotton on twenty acres, an average of 3.L bales of 450 pounds per acre. The names of the four farmers, the amount'of fertilizer used by each on the five acres cultivated by him, and the yield of lint ob tained from the five acres were as follows : Amount of fer- Yield of 't"izer-:bs. lint-lbs. Geo. W. Truitt, LaGrange. .3.000 7,898 D- :'. Ponder, Ha:spton..... 3,500 7,557 G. 'M Davis&Son, Pope's Ferry 2,000 7,544 R. W. Terry, Fairburn............1,500 677 To:al on 20 acres........ 10,600 29,87 Average per acre 530 pounds of fertilizer; 1,493 pounds of lint cotton. This result,was considered to be so remarkable that it was said by the farmers who were interested in the contest that it could never be beaten. It was badly beaten the next year, when the four leading contestants made the following record on twenty acres : Amount of fer- Yield of lilizer-lbs. lint-lbs. J. C. Sims Iiogansville.........2.000 10,887 R. o. Ray, Palmetto ........ 2,600 10,(9 M. C. Pyson, Palmetto....... 3,200 10,793 G. W. Truitt, LaGrange......... 7,550 s,s33 Total on 20 acres........15,350 41,322 Average per acre, 767 pounds of fertilizer; 2,066 pounds of lint. The enorm-ous yield of 1885 was thus increased nearly 50 per cent. in 1886, the record of 66J bales on 20 acres being .raised to 92 bales, or from 3) bales to nearly 5 bales per acre. These figures cannot be ques tioned, nor can their importance be readily overestimated. Every farm er cannot raise 5 bales of cotton to the acre, nor even 3) bales, but if any farmer continues to raise one third of a bale to the acre, as is about the average perhaps throughout the South, the fault is plainly in his man agement, or lack of management, and not in the land which he neglects, and then blames for his own faults and failures. In the contcst which led to the re suits we have published, about two hundred farmers took part, the num ber being distributed, it is stated, throughout the three States of Geor gia, Alabama and Carolina. The averaige yield obtained by the two hundred, in 1885, was 782 pounds of lint to the acre, or more than 1) bales. The average obtained by the same number of contestants last year was 960 pounds of lint to the acre, or considera'ly over two bales. It will be noticed at once that the total increase from 66) bales in 1885 to 92 bales in 1886, obtained from 20 acres by the four heading contest ants, followed a corresponding in crease in the.total number of pounds of fertilizer used. It would be a mistake to conclude from this fact, however, that success was determined or measured in any case by the amount of fertilizer applied. The largest yield obtained in 1886 from five acres was obtained by Mr. J. C. Sims, of Hlogansville, Ga., who used 400 pounds of fertilizer per acre; and the smallest yield obtained by any of the four leading contestants in that year was that obtained by Mr. George W. Truitt, of LaGrange, Ga., who used 1,510 pounds per acre. One tonon five acres gave Mr. Sims 10, 87 pounds of lint. The whole cost of the fertilizer in this case $30, and the cotton obtained was worth $902. Neaaly equally good results were ob taned by Messrs. Ray and Pyson, who used but little more fertilizer. Mr. Truitt applied nearly four tons, and did not reach as goiod a result by about 2,000 pounds. Another conclusion to be devived from the record, as a whole, is that the success obtained did not depend upon locality. Two hundred farms, scattered throughout three States, made an average of two bales to the acre on five acre patches. "This demonstrates," as the Constitution well says, "that the average lands throughout the South, taken any where and properly treated, will pro duce two bales of eotton to the acre, itad of one bale to three acres," as is now the rule, and that "no man has a patent on the process." This would seem to be sufflicient to putevery farmer in the South to think ing, and to encourage them to try new methods in the management of their old fields, but there is still more to be told, to the same purpose. The ex periments were not confined to cot ton production alone, and the results obtained in corn planting were quite as remarkable as those already nar rated. In 1885 a number of Geor gia farmers contested for premiums offered for the largest corn crops to be obtained from a single acre. The entire acreage planted by 300 farm ers in that year averaged 81 bushels of shelled coen to the acre. In 18 6 a large number of contestants entered for the prize, and the average was advanced from 81 bushels to 102 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. The premium was won by a farmer who raised 164 bushels of shelled corn to t he acre. The lesson of these facts and fig. ures is too plain to require to be stated in terms. He is no farmer who does not understand it, and who will not know how to profit by it. It has been shown that, by a little pru dent outlay, and by the exercise of ordinary intelligence in the study and conduct of his business, a tiller of the soil in these favored States of the South "can get from five acres as much cotton as he has been accu5 tomed to get from sixty acres," at a smaller cost of cultivation, and leave the remainder of his land to be de voted to other purposes. It has also been shown that corn can be profitably raised at home, and these two facts, taken together, afford a sufficient answer to all the com plaints that are heard year after year of the failure of agricultural opera tions in South Carolina and the neigh boring States. The fau:t in n'early every case is with the farmer him self, not with the seasons or the land. Poor crops are simply the protest of a starved and justly indignant soil against poor treatment. The time will come, as we have said before, when, instead of proclaining his re newed failures every ye:r, at the crossroads and in the country towns. the farmer in South Carolina will be ashamed to acknowledge that he has failed, because of the confession, in extricably involved in such acknowl edgment, that he is only less intelli gent than his neighbors. Rhode Island Won for the Democrata. PROVIDENCE, April 7.-The last returns were not in until after day light this morning. The results of the contest may be summarized as follows: John W. Davis (Dew.) is elected Governor by 973 majority. There is no election for Lieuten-G~ov ernor or Secretary of State. Zieba 0. Slocum (Dem.) is elected Attor ney General by 2,518 majority, and J. G. Perry (Dem.) General Treasu rer by 2,609 majority. Thc majority against the woman suffrage amend ment is 15,123. In the city the en tire Democratic Assembly ticket is elected. The Senate stands: Re publicans 19, Democrats 12, and there was no election in five cases. The House will.comprise 27 Republi. cans and 33 Democrats, with twelve, districts yet to be heard from. The vote for Lieutenant-Governor was as follows : Homey (Dem.) 17,285:' Dar ling (Rep.) 15,915. Kimbler (Prohib.) 1,853. An Indiwcreet Preacher. Cnieioo, April 4.-A special from Morris,* fI., says: "The trial of the alleged train robbers, Schwartz and Watt, was given a most unexpected turn yesterday by an incident that will probably destroy the worth of all the work so far done. By con sent of counsel and the Court, the jurors were permitted to attend divine service at the Methodist Church. Dr. Axtell, the officiating clergyman. learned of their presence, and, taking 'as his text the power of little things, before the astonished congregation or jury could realize it, he was in the midst of an address upon the im portance of apparently trivial cir cumstances when rightly viewed. As the train robbers' conviction depends largely upon circumstantial evidence, the surprise was great, but Dr. Ax tell proceeded to tell how a cele brated criminal'-had once been con victed after long years by a tell-tale scrap of paper. A torn checkfigures largely in the Rock Island case, and much feeling was expressed after the services at the singular remarks of the preacher. If the prisoners are convicted their attorneys will demand a new trial on the ground of undue influence upon the jury.