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ESTABLISIHED18.EW3RY .C,TTUDA.IUY2,18.PIE$50AER E: J ,. B 1:! lIE It30 1 NEWB1ERR"Y, S." C. T ErSl r.DAY. JULY2,88 CLEMsON's I ILL. A Verb>atim Copy of the Instrume-nt by which the Fort HIll Property was ne que:athed to the State of South Caro lizaa for the Purpose of Esta1>lish ing an Agricultural [News and Courier.] ().t'm i., July L5.-As great inter est has recently been mlanhitsted in the provisions of t lie no%w famous Uleln son will, and as the entire will Ias never been published, a copy of the document is given below. It is an in teresting paper for the study of every taxpayer and voter in South Carolina at the present time. Every eiiupaigl speech, whether by the candidates for (,:>overnor and Lieutenant Governor or by ('apt. B. R. Tillman. the spokesman of the "Iteform"l1 party," w%ill contain solletIling about the "Clemsoni be quest." h ere is the will: SrAT: o SorT[ C.AnoLINA, (orNt' OF O'oN::. Ihre:is r, Thomilas G. ('leImson, of tie cunty :m I State a drsaid, did, oi the 14th dayoi .\ugu-t, IS. execute mhy last will and testaent, wherein I soughtto protitle for the establislhment of a scientific institution upon the Fort Hill Place, and therein provided what sciences should be taught in said inst i tution; and whereas, I ann row satis tied that my intention and purpose therein may be misunderstood as in tending that no other studies or sciences should be taught in said insti tution than those mentioned in said will, which was not my purpose or intention. Now, desiring to make my purpx)se plain, as well as to make some other -hanges in the disposition of my property than made in said will, I do now make, publish and declare this instrument as and for my last will and testament, hereby revoking all previ ous wills and codieil by me made, es pecially the will above referred to, dated August 14, 1S83. Feeling a great sympathy for the farmers of this State, and the difficulties with which they have had to contend in their efforts to establish the business of agriculture upon a prosperous basis, and believing that there can be no permanent im proveient in agriculture without a knowledge of those sciences which per tain particularly thereto, I have de termined to devote the bulk of mny property to the establishment of an agricultural college upon the Fort Hill place. This institution I desire to be under the control and management ofa board of trustees, a part -of whom are hereinafter appointed, and to be modelled after the agricultural college of Mississippi as far as practicable. My purpose is to establish an agricultural college w ci will a%)rd useful infor mlation to the farmhlers and mechanics; therefore it sho uldl afiord tihorough instructioIn in agriculture and the natural se-iece.s conniected therewith. It should comibine, if practicable, phy sicalI with hmit eletuli educat ion, and should be a high seminary of learning in which the graduate of the comm~nn schOOls can commnIee to pursue and finish a course of studies teraminatinga ill thorough, theoretic anid p)ractical in s truetion in those sciences and arts which lear dhirectly upon atrriculture; but I desire to state plainly that I wish the trustees of said institution to have full authority andl power to regulate all matters pertaninig to .said institution, to fix the course of studies. to make rules for the government of the same and to change themi as in their judg ment experience may prove necessary; but to always bear in mind tihat the beniefits therein sought to be besto'-edl are intended to benietit agricultural and mechanical industries. I trust that I do not exaggerate the importance of such an institution for developing the miaterial resources of the state, by affording to its youth the advantages of scientific culture, and that I do not overrate the intelligence of the Legisla ture of South Carolina, ever distini gruishedi for liberality, in asserting that such appnropriations will be made as will be necessary to supplement the fund resulting fromi the bequest herein Item 1. .I therefore give and devise to my executor, hereinafter named, the aforesaid Fort Hill place, where I ni..wV dj(e, formierly the hoii.-~-2nfy father v, Joh2&. , . iflnconsidimng of eigt~ - . noreiee,mr or.less, i trust thist whenever the State of South Cnrqlna: may accept said Property2 a a&nation from me, for the purpose -of thereupon founding an agricultural college, in accordance with the views I have hereinbefore ex p)ressed, (of which the Chief Justice of south Carolina shall be the judge,) then liy executor shall execute a deed of t he said p)roperty to the said State. and turn over to the same all property hiereinlafter given as an endowment of saidl institution, to be held as such by thle said State, so long as it in good faith devotes said property to the purposes of lhe donait ion: p)rovided, however, that this,acceptance by the 1Btate shall be s:ggnitied anid a practical carrying out bie connnmienced withinl three years from the (late of the p)robatt&of this my will. During this term of three years, or as much thereof as may elapse before the~ accep~tanlc or refusal of this donation, my executor shall invest the net pr duce' oft thet Jumd anid other p)roperty, s-uch illvted fund awaiting thle act ionl of the Le-gislature, and to forrn a pairt oft the erndowmient of said inlstitutionl, if aceptedl, or to forni a part of th enidowmnent of the college or schoo: hereinafter hpovidedl for, shlould th<( donlat ion no t Ibe ac'-epted by thle State I temr 2. The followinrg inamedi gen. tlceen. Seveni ill number, shall be of truste("- to a iiinmer greater ull:ut thirtent:t inl all, .nor shall the duti''s o :1aid board be taken :"aay or (con1:eirec" upon atNy ;t,ther men or buody of men-t The seven: tnrustecs appoait+d by tm abv shall ahvays have the right, am t be powt er i.. hetrt"by given thenm a n. htin-r successors, v, ieh rigit the IL lart re shall never take away or abridge to fill all vacancies which may occur it their number by death, resignation refusal to act or otherwise. But the Legisllr ay provide as it s((' proper for the appointment or electior of the other six trustees, if it aceel)ts tlht lollatin. And I do hereby request tht sevel trustees al,ove named or such o the11 or may be living, or may b willing to act, to Ileet as soon after Illv decat h as practieable, and organize and' at omce to 1ll all vacan:-ies that l:t\ have tc"urred :ni to exert thelimselve: to (tli-tn:,t: V: purpose?-s as he"reini sel ortl. A nd I liereyi.I instruct myF exc etI o n'otif te'm of their appI ":11)it lln:t he're'inl a ;is -(nt: after Iy dlth a praelice. The nati:e of the institu tion shall be the "Clemson A gricultuil College of Sout 11 (airolina." Itei 3. Should the three vear. expire without the State accepting th donation in manner as hereinbefort proVitel for, and if accepted at the ex piration of three years fromi my death no practical beginning has been mad to carry into efl'ct the purposes of the donation, or if before the three year, expire the Legislature shall refuse t:: accept said donation, then the donation to the State is hereby revoked, and ill executor shall execute his trust by eon veying the said Fort Hill place arid the aceumulated fund arising therefrom, together with all other property, real or personal, hereinafter disposed of and intendekd to be given to the said agri cultural college as an endowment, t( the said seven trustees named a!)ove, or their successors, who shall creet upon the Fort Hill place such a school or o1 lege for the youths of South Carolina as in their judgment will be for their 1best initerest, provided that said school or college shall be for the benefit of the agricult ural and mleehani("al elasse' principi ly, and shall be free of costs to the pupils as far as the neals derived from the endowment hereinafter pro vided, and the use of the law may per mit. The trustees shall securely inve'cst the fund, hereinafter provided and given to s:111 institution, and hold them as a perpetual endowment, and shall only use the interest derived therefrom and the incollle of the land to Support and mlailtall said school or vollege, except that the ac(uu11[tlated fund (e rived fi l th lands, and the interest derived frm the fund h'reinafter givenl said inlstitution2 from theltim of)1. myi (eaIth, and14 as5 muclh as tve tos' beused]. ifill thet judgmet!l of the truts' ble4. b4ui2lmr for ,aidi school or' 'ollegre. the Tlem151on -'ient i fi' Schlool"' "' Iteml 4. It is my: desire that thle be torn'l down 01r alitered', but shall beh kept inl repalir with~ all thet articles of furniture' and vii'tu1 wichl I heeI'.inalter be open~ for tihe inlspetion (If v'isitor's; suhl of the professo5~rs as5 the1 tusit grandI-daughlter1, Florida Isabelila L'e, rl f ysVer plate and1( talble silver, atlsoali of the family pictures, excetpt thet large picture of John C. Calhoun, nlow~ hianging iln my1 sitting room, also4 any one14 article in my present residenceit' 51he mayIX select as aL mernenltot of me, atlso mly decorations, andi also the sum11 of fifteen thousand dlollars, ($15,0un,0t be paid to her on the day of marriage, or when she becomes 21 years of alge, if unltuarried. Priovided, that if my said granlddalughte'rshould die unmiar ried, and before she is 21 years of age, thlenll 1 of the said4. property mlenltionled iln thlis iteml shall revert to anid beome 'a part of the residtteWsay .stte, and become subject to the trusts and cond(i tionls of itemls 1, 2 and :3 of this my will. Item11 6. I give anld bequeath to amy faithful housekeeper, Mfrs. Jane Prin(e, one y'ears p)rovisions for her a2nd daughlter, and furnitture anid bedding suitalet. to her 'oniditioni, suillitcienit to furnish two rooms, and4. tIhe sum1 0f three thlousandt dollars, ($S3,000), to be paid to lher at thed exp)iraltion of on1e year aftter thet prob)ate of this myl will, and I also0 detsire myI exec'utor to pe'rmIit hler to live at1 Fort Hill unitil lie is-~ poses of the propert'ry as herein (directed. 1Item2 7. I give and1( bequeIathl to Hes ter Prince the daughter of myl faithlful housekeeper as aforesaid, thle sumRl of three thousand dollars, (S3,000J,) to bet paid to her or such persons as miay be selecte.d by her and appointted her guar dian, at the( expiration (If one4. year! fromi tilte probate oif this myI will. Item 8. I give to myl~ executor, Jamies H. Rioni as a memenllutoi (If my friend ship. the antique antaglio, Mfarcus~ Aurelius Antonuius sealin~g, whiuch I hiabitnlally' wvear. 14nd4 121so suchl onet oft 1my I'e pictres ats h2e m:ay' sel'ct, i' the samle is 10 ot.'eletedtt4 by myIselfI. Item119'. I;giv'eat1 u'gut'athl tio ml exeuEtor, to) lit heIld by~ im, subi'rt te thle tru'ts and1( conidit ionls of iten 15 1, - :md11( 3 of' Ellis, lmy will, andt for the plur 14(st' of adorningml' the Fort Hill r'esl wvill, all o.f l:y pe'rmanent furnlituare jrelics and artit'les of virtu, p)ittures anc14 paintings ineing, l arg pi.n o r picture of .John C. Calhoun, now hanging in Iy sitting room1, and not otherwise disposed of herein, and all my books. ItenI l. I direct my executor to sell at public or private sale, as he may decm best, all the balance of my per sonal property upon my Fort Hill place not herein1 disposed of, and to sell and on vey all of Imy real estate lying and -ituated outsiuleof the state of South Caroolinia, either at private or public sale, as he may deem best, and to hold the proceeds derived therefrom, togetlh er with the proceeds of the personal property herein directed to be sold, subject to the trusts and conditions of items 1, 2 and 3 of this, my will. Item 11. All the residue and remain der of my property of every kind and description whatever, after paying oft' the legacies above provided for, to gether with the property which may revert to my estate, should it revert thereto, and the proceeds of all my real and personal property herein directed to be sold and all accumulated funds derived from the Fort Hill place and interest on my investments, I give and beuceath to lly executor to be held by h6im1 subject to the trusts and conditions of items 1, 2 and 3 of this, my will. I tent 12. 1 nominate, constitute and appoint my friend, James 11. Rion, the executor of this my will. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal before the witnesses below sub scribed, this, the 6th day of November, A. D)., 1886. Thos. G. Clemson. [L. s.] The above written instrument was subscribed by the said Thos. (. Clenm son in our presence and acknowledged by him to each one of us, and he at the same time published and declared the same to be his last will and testament, and we, at his request, and in his pres ence, and in the presence of each other, have signed our names as witnesses hereto. James Hunter, T. 0. Jenkins, E. L. C. Terrie. ST.TE of SOUTH CABnOLINA, ) COUNTY OF OCONEE. 1. Thomas G. Clemson, of Fort Hill, in the State and county aforesaid, do make this my codicil to my last. will and testament, dated the 6th day of November, 1886, hereby confirnihg my said last will and testament so far as the same is not inconsistent with this my codicil. Item 1. 1 will and direct my execu tor to pay my debts and funeral ex penses as soon after my death as prac ticable, out of the proceeds of any part of my estate that is the most available. Item 2. 1 hereby revoke the 11th item of my last will and testament as aforesaid in which I appointed James H. lRion my executor of my will, he having recently departed this life, and I now do nomiinate and apjpoint my tru.4ed!t friend, Richard W. simplson, of Penudleton, South Carolina, my exccen tor of my said last will and testament, and( of thbis miy co dicil thereto, an d in my said last will and testamient thme namle of James HI. Ition, wherever it appleaLrs, shall be stricken ouIt, and stichard WV. Simpson shall be inserted in pliace theeeof. Itenm 3. I revoke the 8th item of my said last will and testament ini which I give to James H. ion my sealing ring and one of my pictures which he may select, and I (10 now give and bequeath to it. W. Simpson my sealing ring which I habitually w~ear, and such one of my p)iet.ures as he may select. Item 4. 1 do hereby revoke item 6 of amy said last will and testament wvhich contains a bequest to my faithful housekeeper, Mrs. Jane Prince, she having been otherwise provided for. Item 5. It is my will and I do direct that neither the legacy to my grand (daughter in the .5th item of my said last will and testament, or the legacy to Hester Prince in the 7th item of may satid will, shall bear any interest until the sanme are due and payable, as pro vided in the said items of my said will. Item 6. I authorize my executor to p)urchiase that portion of the original Fort Hill tract of land which set of to Gideon Lee, guardian of Florida Isa bella Lee, and the same if so purchased shall become a part of Fort Hill tract of land, and shall go with and be dis posed of as I have in my said will (is p)osed of the Fort Hill tract. Item 7. I will and direct nmy execu tor to sell either at private or public sale, and for cash or upon a credit, both as he may think best all the real estate of which I may die seized and p)ossessed, excepit the Fort Hill tract of land, whether the same be situate in the State of South Carolina or outside of it. Item 8. Should the Chief Justice of South Carolina decline to deccide when the State of Soutn Carolina has, or has niot, accpted the donation given to it in the first item of my said will, then I give to my executor the same power as I, in the said first item of my will, gave to the said Chief Justice, and his dlecisionl shall be final. Itemx 9. 1 hereby authorize and direct my executor to employ such personis as he may deeim necessary to take charge of the Fort Hill dwelling house and tihe articles therein donated, and to manage the farm and to pay the said persons such sunms of money for their services as hie may deem right and Item 10. Ini view of the great re sponsilility andu labor whicn may exe cutor~ will encounlter in managing the af fairs or may estate, as directed in my said will, and in consideration of the g.reat kindness lhe has showvn to me, anid of the assistanice inl taking care of mym business when I had no other per I onl or friend to helpn mc. T will and shall have, take and receive in atdd!i1,1n to the usual commnuission alliwed by law to executors as for c"onlnisi,>on1 f1 receiving and paying ou money, 5)). . cent of the appraised value of imv entire e-tate, both real and person:-l. Item 11. 1 desire to state ler:i- that my granddaughter, Florida S.aiella Le, has received the onc-fourt h par in value of the original Fort I l traet of lanc, the part which her m:1ot hfar, un:der the will of3Mrs..!ohln C. C'alhln,:m was entitled to, the same havin; been appraised and set oft to her by colunlis sions appointed by Mrs. Clemson, and by Gideon Lee, her fatherand guardian, and she has also received, thr<omgh Gideon Lee, the said guttardian, her mother's share of the estate of iny son, John C. Clemson. Not witlistaiilg this fact, from a letter received by ie soie tine ago from Gideon Lee, I an led to believe that as guardian of iny said granddaughter he will Imtake claii of my estate, a large balance alleged by him to be due ny said grandda ugh ter by Ie. 1, therefore, desire and illreet my executor to exailinie close!y intu such Claim, if so IIade, amc i' lie, ,iy said executor, is satisfied that the cIaimli so made is justly due by me to my said granddaughter, to pay the same; but on the other hand, if he is not "ati-iiel that the said claim or clai:ns are ju4i lv due by me, then lie shall not pay it or them, unless compelled by law to do so, in which case I hereby revoke so much of the bequest of fifteen thousald dollars given in the 5th item of my said last will and testament to my granddaughter as will be equal to the amount which my said granddaughter may recover against my estate. Item 12. The desire to establish such a school or college as I have provided in my said last will and testament has existed with me for many years past, and many years ago I determined to devote the bulk of my property to the establishment of an agricultural school or college; to accomplish this purpose IS the one great desire of my life. I have not beei unmindful of the interest of said granddaughter, nor have i acted in this matter through prejudice to an y one. It may be possible that the dis p1sition of my property asherein1 m:0le may not give satisfaction to Imiy s:id granddaughter, or to ( ideon Lee, her father and guardian, but I trust that neither one or the other or any other person lawfully authorized by law to represent my said granddauglter will ever attempt to frustrate or defeat the purposes which I have herein sought to accomplish, but will respect the settled desire of my life as contained in this Tmy will; but should my desire and re quest as herein expressed he ignored, and should Gideon Lee, as gua:;ian of my said granddaughter, or should my said granddaughter hersel for a:iv t her person lawfully authorizel by law to represent her, or any person :is her legatee oirdistribuitee of myi: saisl granid dlaugh ter ini the'ir right as5 suIh. at1 tempTt to contest miy wvihl, or aittemp:i ti iin validate it or' at temipt to eban;Tir .1r alter it ini any particu!lar whaitever, it iii vn willaniud 1 direct thait suchi attemlpt or attemnpts to contest, alter, chaniige or invalidate my said last will and iiiTesta mnent, or codicil hereof, shall, as soon a commTTenceed, work anu abhsoltute revocat tion of miy enltire and1( of all inyv be quests to miy saidi granl Idaughter Florida Isabella Lee as made ina the fifth item of my said last will and1( tes tamlenlt, aiid thien and ini that ease :ny said granddaughter, Florida I sab)ella Lee, shalt receive nol part oif miy estate whatever, and the money and' airticles men~itione~d in the fifth itemu of myI said will, shall go to Tiyi executor andl be held by hlimi subject to the truTsts arid conditionis cointained in items 1. 2 anid 3 of my13 said last will and( testamlenit, p)rov'idled that my executor may sell in mannier aIs to himii miay seemi pioper' any of the articles menTt ionied ini the saidl fifth item of miy saiid last will anid testamient, except thle famrily picturies. These shall b>e held by myi executor subject to the trusts anid conidit ions5 of itemns 1, 2 and 8 of my said hrst will, and kept with the other articles men tioned in tihe eighth item of miy said last will and testament to adorn the Fort Hill house. Iteml 13. It is myv will and I direct that my executor shall not be held liable for or responsible f'or any losses to niy estate by reason oIf any errors of judgment or mistake, as I aii ftully aware of the varied and responsible duties I herein have requiiredl of himi. This codicil is written ini part on the fourth page of my said last will and testament to which this sheet is at tached and which is dated Novembel r theC 6th, 1886. Itm1.I authorize al)(nd emowerinig executor to spend such sums of mioney as he nmay deem necessary to keep tihe Fort Hill dwelling house and premnise's in good repair and the Fort H ill farm11 in good condition. Ini witnes's whereof I have hereunto subscribed my namie and1( affixed my1 seal before the witnesses below subiscrib ing this the twvenity-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lordl one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, l18s7.1 Thlos. G. Clemoson. [ L. s.] The above written instrumieint was subscribed by the said Thomas (. Clemison in our presence. anid ac knowledged bly him to each one of us, andc lhe at the same timle published and declared the same to be his codicil to his last will and testamnenlt, and we, at his request and in his p)resence and ini the presence of each other, have signed our names as witnesses thereto. Ri. M. Jeukins, C. Wi. Younlg, J. H. Molunce(. the college--if the State givs it thous .1111-, or hund4redls of tht(uwiatltis, w\ill the State it" ale to cettrol t ie institu t l-ln with a in.intrity ;f ti trustees?" \\. 1-:. 1. "'vinag the 1'reaceor:." j cthrn!t Yl!'bristian :\d'voce:. 1;\tr.:vn :stl it(.h1 i stii at work'i ":tvi'g ti 'renehrs." In the ilast ^1 of the \:ty of Lift., speaking of the 'uiter Inectiug, he says: "We are greatly helped and encouraged by the Presiding Elder, Brother Beasley, who claimed during the meeting to be saved, ilirougl anl through; also, the beloved 1 Pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. C. C. I;rown." All Christi:ns ough t to rejoice in the salvation of any one-1)ore espeeially should jo\ aboud1 i whei a mniuster of the G;ospel is saved. \Ve rejoice to know, therefore, that the la'ors of Ir. Leitch in Sumlter resaulted in the salva ion-"'through and through"--of two Sich elintilt ministers as Rev. J. Sid to lIeasey, I'resii Ej I"1tler of Sumter Di-trict, and Iter. C. C. l:rown, I'astor of the Stumttr Baptlti-t Church. But wha1.t was the spiritual eoi.itionl of these geiitleenbiei ifore tihe coling of Ir . Leiteh? \\ere l tley Ilindl leaders of the llinl' Were they still in the gall of bitternes and the bonds of ilniquity?' Th:oughll iinisters of salva tion to others, we"re ther unsaved thcmusel\ves? ( wVere t'rhey oliy par tially savedi? If so. we rejoice that their eyes have been opened at last. and that the Lord directed Mr. Leitch to Sumter to liad them into the experi eice of a c01SiouiS salvationl. But how about Mr. Beaslev's record of eighteen years of faithful and sue cessful ministerial labor ? Long be fore Mr. Leitch was ever heard of in South Carolina, 'Mr. Beusley not only profe"ssedl salvation, but witnessed it by a holy and consistent life. The saue may be sail of MIr. Brown. Are we to' sip pose that duri.ig all of these years these gentleiienl wcere self-deceived? And were they onllv aroused to their trie conlitionl under the preaeliing of this new apeo-tle of salvation ?' So the l:Inguag:e of iMr. Leitch would imply. But who believes it - Certainly no one who knows anvtlhing at all of the char nter and ret"o rd of thle gentlemen l:ilcli. Mr. Leitch is doubt-ss doing much good by his evangelistic labors. We would not put a straw in the way of his doing all the g+ol ptossille. But we do protest against such statenelts as the ole quoted above. ley are mislead ing and tltrue, and are Cilbtilated to do a thousand tines more lamnage than Mr. Leitch can hope to undo by a life time of faithful labor. The ministers of our churches are not unconverted, unsaved uen, waitia for the agency of ir. L eitch to bringt t hem to a k nowl eldge of tic htrt hl!. Tbhey :noe as sounid in1 the fa',ith :ui h avye ev wvh i as c'leani rDcords as~ Mr. Lein-h oir any ot her eangelist. They will comi:pare favora bly with hlini in every pa:rticular, andl their pie.ty alie1 loyalty to tihe chuarch h ave niever 1beenl ustiS onedl. It is worsL~e thlan Ioly, then, e, i i a downiiright imniper iinece, for any evan elist to go' fromi place to1 plac~e holding meetings oiiil setting up the claim of 'Naving t lhe preachers." Thiank (God, the prehers are already saved(, and( the Lord is using themi daily inl the salvation oft scores andi hiund(reds of sin ners. Hie Liked Exercise. [From the Troy Times.] A goodl stoIry is related at the exp~ense of a ho(tel1 proprietoir oIf Tacomia, Wash igton Territory. A stranger, who had been stopp~ing at tihe hlouse for a few weeks, asked tihe propr)ietori how far it was tol Mount lhaniier, whlieh aplpeared to be (only a cotle of miles distant,. alt hough, in fact, it was nea rly 100. The prioprietor winked at the hystand ers, anId said( that pIerhIaps it was a mlile away. Thle hoarder said lhe believed he woiuld walk outt to it for exercise. Th'le landlord encouraged the "'tenderfoot,'" whlo, after hodrrowinIg thle p)roprietor's finie field glass, im mediately started. The ioke was tIo rich for the hotel moan to, keen, and he treated all hands. But the pedestrian did( not return. The landlord at last became suspicious amnd found11 that the valise which the "ten derfoot'' had left was filled with birick bats, arnd that hIe had carried ofT seven teen t owels and every thing else that lhe could get into his pockets, besides this hIe owedl a twoI-week's board bill]. He is pIrobably still walki ng. Silenced, butt no(t subduiied. [Amnerian Mlagazine.] A 'Smiall Ohio boy rejoiced in a fair butt shalrp-tonlgued miothier and a gentle giant ofa father. who was qutite dis posed to "spIare the rod" on all occa One night the hoy bIecamhe, for some1 reason0i, uproiarious ini thle hours of darkniess; and his molither, who usually did "hisquiettus miake" being too sleepiy to get ump, said fretfully: "Samuel I should think you mlighit muake that boy stop~ his nisei5 once in a while." A few miiore howls from the erib), anoIther remhonstrancee from the sleepy wife, and Samuel arose qiuietIy, and inI tile mlidst olf 0one her'uie screech b'roughlt dolwnl his hand ini a siniig.le slap oni the lyving lemzs. TIhe yell bro ke in Iwo sharplyi. I )-ad silence fo'r a muomient-in which the ailready penitenit fathe'r thougtht, hiear ens, if lie had inuimed him': 1Then a small, calm, p)iinl voice: "You jtust wait till moi'rnlin', Dle felow. ani' see if I don't heave a chin at you." A GREAT INDUSTR1Y. Uti;izing a Product Which Southern Farm- - er. Once Threw Away-31illiois to be Mlade Out of Cotton Seed. [\ew York Sun.] For n""arly a century the Southern ftrmhhers destroyed their cotton seed. Die of the farii probleins was how to .ret rid f it A 1w year L gu some bedy di-covr"l that Cotton seed was the ';ne perlect fer:iiizer for the cot tou lands that the seed held . essential elements that the cotton crop took from the soil. Then everybody was ashamed of having destroyed the seed for so many generations. Slowly1 but surely every ton was utilized as a f'ertilizer. Later somebody discovered that it was an excellent food for stock. T'hen the farmers began feeding with t.1; trt Along in '70 an objection was found * to cotton seed as a fertilizer and stock food. it was too rich. The excess of h i iiin the seed prevented quiek decomli position in the soil, and made the wool D if sheep too kinky. At the same time soImhebody discovered that the objee tiounable oil would sell well in market, o the first cotton seed oil mill was es tabiishcd. The industry was inmmentse ly prolitable, and in less than five years . ti AN En.N00'>US NDUSTRY. al A ton ofcotton seeds yields forty gal- tr loils of oil, worth in its crude state $10. g fTie hulls of the seed are used as fuel w to run the furnace, and the ashes there, e if sold for potash, and cotton seed meal ti stripped of its oil is miore valuable to 01 the farmer as a fertilizer and stock food fc than it was when it held the t II. This season 500,000 tons of cot ton seed have gone through the it wills, froi which $3,000,000 worth of I eLude oil has been taken. The meal a cake returned to the soil without the r oil has lost nothing. while the South ti has gained $5.000,000. The crude oil, sl however, is refined, which quadruples U its value. It is sold mostly for export, aI 111d returns to Anierica as olive oil. di The lnlills Iay the farmer about $io a ; ton for cotton seed, three tons of which i will nalke one ton of cotton meal, b: which they sell back to the far- h moer for $1S for fertilizing or feeding ti l,tulpoSes. Now, see the progress. Twenty yeafs in ugo cotton seed was burned or destroyed Dl Southern farms. Then it began to be used as a fertilizer or stock food. Last year $5,000,000 worth of crude oil was taken out of 500,000 tons of seed without injuring its value for other purposes; which oil was refined up to a value of perhaps $2U,000.000. ai This enormous industry, which as fc ret treats but 300,000 tons out of 3,000,- CI tl(0 tons of the full crop of cotton seed, f has lately attracted the attention of ir iiortiherni cap)italists, it is said, especially " the Standardi Oil comipany, and a re narkable company lhas been formed.h L.ast scason produced acid seed, very C' toftavorale for,~ 'il puploses. The mills, wlhIh had beenCi making immense profits, loist imoney. S'everal of theam appied to New Yiork for money. D)thers were oil'ered for sale. T1he American Cotton Oil Trust wadrgn ] iz.ed. A scoret of mills were pooled, and 9 agents of thme companyil went to buying S uip unItil out of the 150 oil mills in the soun try the commpany owns ab)out 126. These imnills represent a cash value of 9:3,000,00i0. The stock of the company is 3,000l,000. It is listed in the New York Stock Exchange, and is now sell ing at about It0, so that tile $:3,00,000) wor'th of miill property now has a sell ing value ofl2,00.000)(. Thelm possible ex pansioni of thlis busi ness is startling.Lestaon-ih of the annuital supply of cotton seedI is U nowv being treated ,nd yet thle crude oil ~ alone yields $~>,000,000), and tile cotton tI mleal S3,00))0,(0 aind imore. Tile oil when refined will yieldi $20,00m ,000. Multip)ly these figures by six, andl you see what be. Th.le mionopoly oniice established, P the comlpanhy canl make its ownl pricesn for cottonl seedl. Already the prnice has a been reduced about $2 a toil. By shut- P Ling up) thme small mills and concen Lrating machinery and nmanagenment in the large ones the process can bec :-heapened. The demand for oil is linmit less. The exp)ort trade alone would Lake the product of the entire cotton seed crop. The demand for cotton meal t n England alone wvould exhaust the pre resent annual sulpply, but the farmers a )bstinate about letting it go from their land, and buy it readily at $18 a ton, whlich is $12 less than they receive for the three tons of seed necessary to make ' it, and out of which $:20 worth of crude Dil has been taken. Without counting ~ the sale of potash, tihe mills now get ' without refining the oil $48 out of three tons of seed, for which they pay $24. e' A short time ago the company paid 1:1,000,000 for an inivention of a western chap for stripping the lint from the seed by a sulphuric acid bath. The pur pose was to make export of the seed in bulk, the lint left on the seed by the gin . making it sweat and spoil in the shiip's tl hold. The sulphuric acid burns into h the qlack of the seed which holds the ili. After being tried the project was s< abandoned, but tile western chap still holds1 his $1,.0,00worth ofstock. The c: ginl makers have imlproved their ma- a i'hiinery, unt il the seed is denuded en tirely of lint. Ano~ther process which the comlpany wvill probably buy is that of treating'the cot tonl seed with naph tha:. as finx seed is tre-atedl in the west. Th istpnrocs, it is said, will yield a larger a piereentage of ('il at imutch smaller cost. i iths been tried in a casual way in the ~ 'ntiem mil,bu isb+andnedse PULLEDJ OUT OF THE PULPIT. S()b.jectionable Pastor Attacked In the Church. Bosvox, July 17.-Church troubles oe ofcoinmon occurrence in this section <t now, but it is not often that a pas r is forcibly ejected from pulpit and turch. This is what happened last -enin at (ity Point, a little country lht t forning part cof the town of 11inc y. The 'Rev. 1. N. Allen has been Istor of the Baptist Church there ice last October. About five months o the ladies of the church held a ciable, and a feature of the evening as the presentation to the pastor of a irse containing the munificent sum of 0. Of course the pastor made a eech, and in the course of his remarks 3said that was as much money as he id received since he took charge of his -nerous flock. To receive only $10 in the course of ur months, out of which to support niself, a wife and a horse, was some ing that needed investigation, and eacon Bills, who had charge of dhe lances of the church, was called upon the Conference to give an account. rother Bills maintained that he had iid the pastor5200, but he could not 'ove it, and so handed in his resigna )n. For a time money poured in upon e pastor. His family lived in clover, id the horse's diet was changed from acts to hay. But the pastor failed to ve satisfaction, and his resignation as asked for time and again. He de ied to take the hint and contribu ms ceased. As it became a question starvation, Mr. Allen yesterday rmally tendered his resignation, to ke effect Sunday next. Then he made a speech containing sinuations against two prominent embers. Brothers Collier and Hard ick were meant, and these gentlemen sented the attack. They started for e pulpit in a bellicose mood, and Look their fists in the parson's face, ing language that was not strictly propriate to the place. The parson opped into pugilistic attitude, and a ht was imminent, when one stalwart ember of the church seized the pastor the coat collar and unceremoniously istled him down the aisle and out of .e church. Mr. Allen's farewell ser on on Sunday next is awaited witil terest by his congregation. The Best Snake Story Yet. [From the Kansas City Times.] While at a neighbor's a few days ago :r. George W. Fisher, of Independence, an., heard a racket out in the kitchen, id going out to investigate the cause, und that a large rattlesnake had awled into the kitchen and was stened in the handle of a jug the following manner: There ere some eggs and a jug on the or when the snake crawied into the >us5e, andI it swallowed one of the gs. and as the jug was lying on its le, had crawled through the handle far as the egg he had swallowed ould admitp and finding another egg nvenient as lie crawled through the mndle of the jug, swallowed that egg so, and as the egg was too large to t$s through the handle of the jr'g, Mr. Siake was fastened so lie could neither ove forward nor b)ackward, there be .g an egg inside of him on either side the jug handle. Trinity's Imported Clergyman. NE-W YonK, Jluly 20.-In the Un.ted ates Circuit Court t<-day Judge Wal ce, on application of United States istrict Attorney Walker, signed a de -ce overruling the dlemulrrer of the'rec r, church warden, &c., of the Church the Holy Trinity in the action rought against them by the United tates. The suit was brought under ie alien contract law to exact the pre ribed penialty for bringing the Rev. Walpole Warren to this country onm England to preach under con 'aet. Judgment for $1,000, the full analty, and costs will be entered im ediately on behalf of the United States ainst the church. The case will robably be appealed to the United tates Supreme Court. ntract Awarded for the Columbia Canal. The canal trustees awarded the eon net for the masonry work in the canal Rice & Coleman, well known railroad mntractors'of this State, at S92,738.62. his is within the engineers' estimates ad is considered a favorable contract. iith the $69,440 at which the section ork has been let out the total cost for >mpleti.ng the c-anal will be $1 62,178.62. he masonry contract includes the eon ruction of a crib dami, masonry abut ients and stone culvert, waste weir, >ck and bulk-heads. The contract )ntains specification that the work xall be completed by December, 1889., he work will soon be commenced. Our Only Encouragement Yesterday. [From the Texas Siftings.] First man with fan-Didn't you say e other (lay that the sun was losing its eat? Second man with fan-Yes, all the dientists agree on that. "WVell, I believe it now. The sun mn't keep this up very long and have av left." But He Will Have Just as Much Fun. [Fronm the Texas Siftings.] The "roof garden," with its music aid high-priced refreshments, is all ery well, but the young man of ioderate income who patronizes it too Uen will nee hae a roof of his own. A FEW SCRAPS. A farmer near Waipole, N. H., re cently ploughed up what is declared to 1:e the skeleton of an Indian who was ki!led in the famous "Kilburn fight" in 1-)5. It was at this fight that two men, two women and -two boys defended themselves for six hourr against 400 Indians. The other evening the inhabitants of Deering, Me., were much interested in a luminous cloud that hung over the - town, floating hither and thither. It slowly settled, and thus gave a citizen who got on a roof a chance to report that the cloud was composed of mil lions of fireflies. There have been twenty-six s:-eides from the Clifton bridge in England in the twenty-four years since it was built. The jump is 2i(0 feet, and death is pre suniably easy, which accounts fur the popularity of the route. The last per son who went over it was a young man who was to be married in a week. tays Sam Jones : "Thank God it is no crime to be ugly. When God wants a good woman He makes her as sym metrical as an angel, but when He wants a good man he makes him as ugly as a mud fence. I never saw a pretty mtan yet who was worth kill ing."r, The Duke of Marlborough, during his recent visit here, sent to Engrland several of our best made trotting bug gies and light wagons. He has also made arrangements to transfer to Blen hein a number of fine-trotting brood mares. He thinks it about time for England to wake up in the matter of roadsters. The club of forty Buffaloians who voted for William Henry Harrison in 1840 and now propose to vote for his distinguished grandson is one of the picturesque features of the republicau campaign. Still more pieturesque-is - the circumstance that the club'spresi dent, the Hon. Louis F. Allen, is an uncle of Mr. Cleveland. A New York house which ten.years ago employed 100 traveling salesmen now does its business entirely by illus trated catalogues and correspondence, and its trade is ahead of what it used to be. Others are moving the same way, and in a few years hence the drummer will drum less numerously. Isaiah Williamson, of Philadelphia, ' is renorted to be the wealthiest bache lor intheUnitedStates. Hehas a fortune gff0,000,o00 and gives .away. a portion of it annually iu charities. He is a plainly dressed old gentleman, very modest and retiring in his ways.. A novelty in the way' of commence ment exercises was seen at a New York grammar school. After the singing and recitations the girls made straw berry shortcake and poached eggs In the presence of their guests and disti- ' buted theni among their friends. 'One of the trustees said in a speech that the time would come when, if any one wanted a cook, he wouid come straight to the school to get one. One of the brightest and most earnest of the students at the Baptist Theologi cal seminary, at Louisville, was former ly what is known as a "street fakir." He finds that his experience in landnng the virtues of patent medicines before 'i street crowds has been a great help in developing his oratorical powers for the. - pulpit. -' Professor Charles Richel, of Bridge port, Cornn., is comipleting a seemingly wvondlerful mechanical figure~. It's about the size of the average sixteen-year-old youth. An exhibition of its ability was given to a number of New York gentlemen, which included the removal - of a wvatch from its pocket, and then, after listening for the tick, the an nouncement in an audible tone that "It's just 8.3;0, gentlemen." After that - the time piece is returned to the pocket. Titles Wh'ch Deceive You. The tuberose is no rose, but a species of olyanth. Pompey's pillar had no historical con- . nection with Pompey in any way. Cleopatra's needle was not erected by the Egyptian queen, nor in her hon or. Whalebone is not bone and is said not to possess a sing le property of bone. Turkish baths did not originate in Turkey, and are not baths, only healed chambers. German silver was not invented in Germany, and does not contain a particle of silver. Black lead is not lead at all, but a -- compound of carbon and a small quan- - tity of iron. Brazilian grass never grew in Brazil,- - and is not grass ; it is nothing but strips - of palm leaf. Burgundy pitch is not pitch, and does not come from Burgundy ; the greater part of it is resin and palm oil. Sealing wax does not contain a par tic-lc of wax, but is composed of Venice turpentine, shellac and cinnabar. Practically a Suicide. [From the Journal of Education The only man who was- ever known to keep a cash account of his private expenses absolutely straight for a year, died the year afterward, and the doe tors said his death was caused by men tal overwork. All Right, If You Know How to ranage Them. [From the Journal of Education.] A birch-bark canoe and a girl wl;o loves to fight, are two of the several things in this world that a man can never safely trust.