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ARP ON MILLENNIUM I % Sill Does Not Think Happy Time Near At Hand VERY SLOW WORK IN CONVERTING If All the World is to Come to Christ Better Progress Will Have to Ke Hade By Us. I believe the millennium craze has ubsided for awhile. Within my recollection it bobbed up three or four times and excited good people all over the country, for good people wish it to come and live in hope and expectation. I remember when William Miller, of Massachusetts, had all New England excited, for he was a very learned man and a slncerer Christian and believed all that he professed. For ten years he exhorted the people to be reaay ior me coming of Christ in 1843 and even fixed the day when they would see Him descending from heaven in magnificent ' glory and escorted by Moses and Elijah I and a retinue of angels. He had over 50,000 devoted converts and the night ' ' before the promised day they arrayed themselves In white raiment and sang * and shouted and prayed until morning and then climbed the high hills and the iree tops and the spires of the churches to meet Him as He neared the earth, fhit He dldent come and it nearly broke their hearts and they liked to have perished to death, for they had given away all their earthly possessions. Next came Dr. John Cummings, a very learned minister of London, who wrote a book on It and fixed the millennial year at 1863. We were fighting >ver here about that time and the millennium had to be postponed. The millenlum means the reign of Christ upon Ihe earth for a thousand years, when everybody will be good and there shall be no more aeatn nor pain nor sorru**, i and there has not been a century since J Hl3 crucifixion that the religious people have not been looking for His coming. The Christians got their belief from the prophets of Daniel and from St. John and St. Peter and later on from Irenaeus and Justin Martyr and they delighted themselves with dreams of glory that was near at hand. Some of them declared there would be no more winters, no more nights and everlasting welfs would run with honey- and milk and wine. Jerusalem would be rebuilt and the fruits of the earth would be colossal and never dying. One notable writer said that every grape vine would have 10.000 branches and every branch 10,000 shoots and every shoot 10,000 bunches and every bunch 10.000 grapes and every grape would maae z.y ra4tens of wine. Good gracious! how ^-thirsty that fellow must have been. But the millennium dldent ccme and by and by Origen, a very wise and good man. r came along in the third century and declared that there would be no such grapes, but that Christ's coming would be altogether spiritual.Still His coming . fcept on being predicted and when the reformation of Luther and Calvin came about they said that the pope was the anti-Christ and the millennium was near at hand. Next came Oliver Cromwell. who excited his followers with a prediction of the millenium?and so it ^ - goes on and on and now it is about tome for another just as soon as we have done killing off the Phillipines and England has killed out all the Boere. wen, now ail wese ruminations about the millennium were provoked by what I have been reading about the , recent discoveries of oil all over the country. One thought brings on another and if the coming of Christ is near at | hand and His reign is to be a sDirltual ; one for a thousand years and there i3 : to be no winter or night or sickness or pain or sorrow we won't need all this i oil. neither for fuel or light. And so I i jaw don't believe the millennium is very near. If all the people are to be couverted and become good it will be a long time off, for it is a slow process and all the coal and oil that is in the bowels of the earth will be needed. It vrasent put there for nothing. Mission- 1 arv work is going on more rapidly than ever before, but it is like a drop in i 1 bucket of water. We have got 20.000 1 missionaries in heathen lands and they < are aided by 80,000 native preachers and teachers, but these 100,000 will | bave to convert an average for each of < 'ten a year to make a million, and there < are over a thousand millions cf hesth^ ens now and more coming on. But they , v do not convert half a million a year. for the last report gives only 4.000.000 ( all tola. L?a?t year we.spent 92u.11w.unu , on them and have now ever 1,000.000 children rolng to Christian schools and have 23,000 churches and over 1.000 sec- < ondarv schools besides medical colleges J and training schools and hospitals end asylums for orphans and the blind and 1 the irsane and the lepers. They have got almost everything that we have j got and now have protection in Con- j 8tantinoole ?Dd Pckin end Beirut and * other great heathen centers. The work * fH? they have done in the last ton years is" amazing and the abduction of :diss < Stone has increased their zeal. Thirty 1 million dollars has been promised for ] this year and they say that if we can- f not convert them we can at least civil- 1 Ize them and teach them the doctrine of a clean shirt and a comfortable , home, and these are the first lessons I11 , ' religion. The last official report tells j us that more than half the pupils are girls. For centuries women and girl? have been under the ban and were of ' no more consequence in the household than dogs or beasts of burden, but now they are being lftted up and treated with humanity and respect. If the work c of our missionaries accomplished no 0 I ->tnH Jut the rescuing of woman froM iegredation of ages It if wortMu^times its cost. Cost! what 'he (VfcTbut the surplus of our wealth *nd t?Jri surplus is not ours, but God's Libraries and colleges are good things 'o build nn and f03ter. but how much do the millionaires give to the cause of missions? Most of this charity wo are told came from those who are not ama a# o miliinn Tf io o 1 o _ WU1LI1 uut"uain Ul a aiiii.vii. n to u iu nentable fact that the more a man has the more he Wants and the less he gives away in proportion to his wealth. The parable of Dives and Lazarus was intended tt> alarm the rich and selfish, but most of them say give me a littl* more money and I will take the risk of losing heaven. Paul said to Timothy: "Gain is not godliness, but godliness with contentment is great gain. IVe brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out and they who would be rich fall into temptation and into foolish and heartful lusts that cast men into perdition: The love of money is the root of al! evil." There is a sermon to live by, but it is hard to do. Somehow I can't help wishing I had a little more than I have got?not for myself, but my wife would like a carriage and horses and ride iround and take the grand children, and she would like to have some money jf her own to give away and buy little presents without asking me every now *nd then for a dollar or two. She docs J- T /I r\n ' t lot h PT naie iu uu iuai, uuu * % .v? ? when I have any to spare.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. ?? NEWSY CLEANINCC. London lias an army of io.SOO police* men. Sugar duties have hern abolished in San Domingo. A street railway sirikc at IJoinc, Italy, lias been averted. The Indiauit Democratic State convention has been called for June ;J. A new salmon combine of forty-five firms is contemplated in British Columbia. Several German steamship companies have reported a laree decrease in dividends. General satisfaction lias been expressed in Austria over the intention to send an Ambassador to Washington. A Swedish Count will put Odd acres of laud in Michigan into peat beds, an entirely new industry for the United States. The Swiss Federal Council will contribute to Harvard's Germain? Miis.um vl.ictoi. (..v;lc I\C l'i?li:-PSOtll:ltilV Swiss .scuipturcs. A llefercndtim League has luei: formed in Chicago to further that feature of municipal rule all over the United Slates. Harvard University will probably send an.expedition to explore Ug.vpt. Babylonia. Assyria ami ralesliue for Semitic relies. Nearly S10.000.000 was expended by Belgium last year in establishing new (iovernmenl railroads and increasing traffic aud transportation conveniences. Tiie proposed gigantic coal combine of Indiana and Illinois miners lias goue up in smoke. The operators of the latter State demanded too high a price for holdings. The San Jose scale has wrought great havoc in ihc orchards of Ohio, and it lias been necessary to dig up and burn thousands of infected trees. Next season's fruit crop will be short as a consequence. LABOR WORLD. The iron mines In Germany give employment to over 40,000 men. Blast furnace workers all over the country will ask for three eight-hour shifts instead of two twelve-hour cues per day. Fall Itiver (Mass.) manufacturers have agreed to raise the wages of employes. The coal miners and operators of the Pittsburg district have adopted the wage scale of last year. A special commission has been appointed in France to codify the laws concerning working-class legislation. Helena (Mont.) labor unions have appointed a committee to make plaus for the erection of a labor temple in that lily. Slate Labor Commissioner McMackin favors a law in New York requiring nf In"!!! h<>fnri> ? child :an be employed in :i factory. The Conciliation Hoard of the North Df England iron and steel trade has appealed to English workmen to support employers in the eCort to rccapiure the virorld's trade. < The Sduthcfo PaciGc Road has inaugurated a system of merit and demerit , narks for the detention of freight cars, rrain masters and train, dispatchers will be held responsible. After nine and a half months the ^rvai SUIUf Ul lue IIUU ?uiivcir> <ii :?an Francisco, Cal., 1ms ended, and $000 machinists, who have been idle since last May, have returned to work. The Supreme Court of California declares unconstitutional an act passed l>y the Stale Legislature of 1SSI) regulating the sanitary condition of workshops, asserting that it is arbitrary and special legislation. The American Tin-Flate Company ind the Amalgamated Association 01 Metal Workers have harmoniously lgreed upon a scale of wages for the coining year, thus preventing all danlit of a strike or lockout. King Edward has deeided that here shall be no official Jester at the oronation. ' Some of Mr. i.ustin's oetry ig fuany enough. REMARKABLE ADVANCEMENT ! I Shown By South Carolina's Industries A-, Given in Census Report. [From An Editorial in Columbia Stn:e.] We have at last received census bul- t letln No. 140 containing statistical 1 summaries of the manufacturing and mechanical industries in South Caroli- , na for tho census year 1900. It is fell of interest for those who have followed 1 the rapid development of our mechani- ! I cal industries. Nine tables of statls- j j tics are presented. The first shows j comparative figures for the State at the several censuses. The second snows ?.u the industries of the State divided between hand trades and the manufac- ! tures, proper, ahd also the statistics of the governmental establishments educational and elemosynary institutions, and establishments with a product of less than $500, which three latter classes were not reported at previous censuses. The third shows statistics of the eight leading industries of the state 1 for 1800 and 1900. The fourth shows the totals for the city of Charleston at , the censuses of 1880, 1S90 and 1900. The fifth shows the urban manufac- j tures of the State In comparison with the totals for the entire State and the State exclusive of the 12 cities and towns withdrawn from the enumerators. The sixth shows the manufactures of the State by counties. The " -l- ~of the ; seveuui BUUV?o iuc v..? State by specified industries, ue eighth shows the statistics for the j cities of Charleston and Columbia by specified industries. The ninth shows the totals for all industries in each of the cities and towns withdrawn from the enumerators, except of those shown in the eighth table. It is impracticable, of course, to summarize In a form suited to popular di- , ge3tion the mass of Information con- j ! tained in these tables; but we shall I present some salient figures which may I be readily grasped and which it is dej slraHe that the public should assirnij late. For the entire State the following I figures of 50 years' manufacturing de- ( j velcpment are presented: The number j f of establishments increased from 1.330 ; in 1850 to 2.3S2 in 1890 and 3.762 in ; 1900". The capital increased from $8.-! 053.265 in 1850 to $29,276,261, in 189.) ma in iQno. The average number of wage-earners increase'] : from 7.066 in 1830 to 22,748 in 1830 and | 4S.135 in 1900. The total wages in-, creased from $1,127,712 in 1850 to 55,- ! 474.729 in 1S90 and $9,455,900 in 1900 The employed men of 1G years and : , over increased from 5,992 in 1850 tc J | 1G.GC4 in 1S90 and 29.823 in 1900. The j employed women of 16 years and over \ i increased from 1,074 in 1S50 to 3,775 , j in 1890 and 9,752 in 1900. The em; ployed children under 16 years were j not separately reported in 1850. They j were reported as numbering 464 in 1870, 2,309 in 1890 and 8,560 in 1900 j The cost of materials used was $2,787,- | 534 in 1850. $18,873,066 in 1890 and $34.027.795 in 1900. The value of products, j including: custom work and repairing:. | Increased from $7,043,477 in 1830 to $31.920,681 in 1SD0 and *58,748,731 in 1900. The bulletin shows that during the half century the population increased , 100.5 per cent, while the average num- j ber of wage-earners employed in man- i ufacturing establishments increased ! 581.2 per cent., embracing in 1900 3.0 ; per cent, of the entire population, com-: pared with 1.1 per cent in 1850. "ProbI ably the best indication of the impor- I I tance of the wage-earning class," it i says, "is afforded by the greatest num-! ber employed at any one time during the year. In 1900 this was 62.90$. or 4.7 per cent, of the population of the entire State." Thar, is to say,, in 1900 i nearly one-twentietl of the inhabitants | of the State_were employed in manu-!, racturing. rnis percentage, or course, j has been greatly increased since that j time by reason of the increase in the manufacture cf cotton, and in the lumber. cotton seed oil#and fertilizer industries, t At this time the percentage of thev whole population so employed should be 7.5. During the decade frorr 1890 to 1900 the value of lands and building invested in manufacturing increased from $8,573 or 9.5 per cent, of the total value of real estate to $15,31C.413, or 15 per cent, of such assessed , value. Because of the iarge additions to our manufactures since the census j year and the reassessment of manufacturing properties It is probable that the figure is now 110 per cent, i A significant fa.ct which will have Its effect upon the public mind and should be freely circulated In next snmmer's campaign, is that during the i decade 1890-1900 the number of children employed !n manufacturing Increased 270.7 per cent, while the number of men (16 years and over) Increased only 79 per cent. The number of women (16 years and over) increased 158.3 per cent. Th s shows the ! grqwing tendency of our cotton manu- < facturcrs to employ cheaper classes of labor. In the very cheapest class, J children, the increase is more than double that in the next cheapest, wo- j ] men; and the employment of women ] has increased almost twice as fast as i that of men. < The "hand trades"?including such | Occupations as bicycle repairing, black- , < smithing, plumbing, watch repairing. ; ] etc.. etc., do not make a large showing, j < There were 7S5 establishments of this | 1 sort, employing $840,607 capital and i c I I ? l.asv wage-earners. The value of products was~?2.323.574. The manufacturing prosperity of tho State in 1900 is shown by the fact that while there were 7.930 active establishments with a capital of $70,056,299 there were 55 idle ones, with a capital of $115,115. The eight leading industries of tho State were cotton goods, fertilizers, flouring and gTist mill products, lumber and timber products, planing mill products. Including sn3h. doors and blinds, cotton seed products rice cleanf rt cr pnH nnlieliinor on/1 no vol nfofor "3 OliU IUT C*1 ObUI VO. I These embraced 1.640 establishments j or 43.6 per cent, of the total number in j the State; used a capital of $58,538,373. or 86.9 per cent, of the total; gave | employment to 39.0G6 wnugo-carners or ' 81.2 per cent, of the total number; and paid $6,965,935 or 73.7 per cent, of the total wages. The valus of their products were $48,941,940 or 81.8 per cent of the total. Some details are as follows: The number of establishments increased during the decade 1890-1900 from 1,169. to 1,640; the capital Increased from $21.771.,113 to $58,538,373; the average number of wage-earners in creased from 15,565 to 39,036; the total wages paid increased from $3,008,722 to j $6,965,935; the miscellaneous expenses Increased from $1,278,679 to $2,472,263; The cost of material used iner&asea j from $14,301,942 to $29,272,774; and the ; value of the products Increased from j $21,927,098 to $48,041,940. The percentages of gain (excluding the numbers of estaolishments) ranged from 93.3 in miscellaneous expenses to 168.9 in capital. Duriner the decade the capital invest ed in the manufacture of cotton goods Increased from $11,141,833 to $39,259- \ 948; the average number of wage-earners from 8,071 to 30,201; the wages J from $1,510,494 to $5,066,840; the C03i of materials used from $6,819,320 to 1 $17,263,822; and the value of the pro- , ducts from $9,800,798 to $29,723,919. The fertilizer industry showed only a small Increase except in capital, the enlargement here being from $5,920,- [ 218 to $10,505,043. The number o f | wage-earners increased only from 1,102 to 1.772 and the value of products from ! $4,417,658 to $4,882,506. The flouring and grist mills showed a contrary tendency 33 io capital, the reduction in this direction being over onej-third and the number of waeeearners increasing nearly two-thirds, while the value of products increased from $2,083,126 to $2,247,790. The lumber and timber products showed these increase: Number of es-1 tablishments. from 352 to 729; capital j from $1,348,155 to $5.!S7.727; wage-! earners from 2.590 to 4,585; wages from $420,588 to fS97.SC9; cost of material! from $996,289 to $2,692,835; and value of products from $2,146,753 to $5,297,184. The value of planing mills products. etc., increased from $711,838 to * /M/? 000 The number of cotton seed oil mills Increased from 17 to 50: their capital from $563,372 to $1,959,872: their wngcearners from 416 to 734: their wages paid from $36,354 to $143,932: their co*t of materials from $740,003 to $2.362.S37: and their value of products from $927,772 to $3,103,425. There was a decrease in the naval stores industry; In the number of es-1 tablishments from 201 to 132; in eapi- j tal from $605,873 to $268,719; in wage-' earners from 2,243 to 836; In wages , paid from $378,768 to $135,575; in cost' of materials from $677,3S3 to $471,261, and In value of products from $1,524,000 to $787,656. Apparently the naval stores industry is disappearing from South Carolina?and with it a good many negro "turpentine hands" who can well be spared. In considering these figures one can- i not but be impressed by the lack of diversification in our manufactures. I Deduct cotton goods, fertilizers, lumber and cotton seed from the list and there ( is very little left. The cotton mill! | alope employed in 1900 over two-third? of the capital, three-fourth3 of tN; wage-earners and furnished nearly | two-third3 of the products. We should aDply our energies henceforth in othei.! directions. The fifth table gives statistics of the ' consolidated manufactures of the l! leading manufacturing citie3 and i towns: Anderson, Beaufort. Camden, I Charleston. Chester. Columbia. Green- i eille, Newberry. Orangeburg. Rock Hill. I Spartanburg and Sumter. These 12 i cajiital. employed 23.7 per cent, of tht;i number of manufacturing establish-! raents in the State. 41.2 per cent, of the , capital, employed 3S.7 per cent, of the , wage earners, paid 39.S per cent, of the , wages and 39.7 per cent, of the cost ol j materials used. Their establishments! ; yielded 39.2 per cent, of th? vil'-e nj, products, while they contained 10.2 pet cent, of South Carolina's population. In; the amount of capital invested thoy 1 stand as follows: Charleston $12,373.-; 187: Columbia $5,277,306: Greenville | 52.858,388: Spartanburg $2,351,175. New- ( berry $1,336,625; Anderson $1,280,111; Rock Hill $826,941; Chester $480,624;) Sumter $308,272; Camden $304,289; Orangeburg $239,635; Beaufort $24.- 1 331. The wage-earners In the more > considerable of these were as fol- 1 lows: Charleston 5,027: Columbia 3,250; j Greenville 2.153; Spartanburg 1.- , 375; Rock Hill 1.050; Anderson 910; , Newberry 811. The wages paid show ed these totals: Charleston $1,489,966; Columbia $759,200; Greenville $370,-j 392; Spartanburg $270,042; Rock Hill; $197,080; Newberry $175,178; Anderson $166,313. Their products were thus valued: Charleston $9,562,387; Columbia $4,243,030; Greenville $2. 224.990; Spartanburg $1,630,275; New berry $1,200,892; Anderson $1.127.4S3; Rock Hill $1,007,216; Chester $645,444; Sumter $590,337; .Orangeburg $193,860; Camden $241,622; Beaufort $46,981. Charleston is the largest city in ihe State with 4.2 per cent, of the total mpulation. and furnishes*16.3 per cent. 1 3f the manufactured products. Colum- . i!a is the second city, with 1.6 per cent. ( >f the total population, and furnishes * ? ; v r n ?r 'tv . T-35W?, 52 7.2 per cent, of the manufactured pro aucw. ureenvuK.* is me iiuru cilj,. with .9 per cent, of the total population. and furnishes 3.8 per cent, of the manufactured products. Spartanburg is the fourth city in the State, with .9 per cent, of the total population, and furnishes 2.8 per cent, of the total produets. Sumter is the fifth city, with 4 per cent, of the total population, and furnishes 1 per cent of the total products. Anderson is the sixth city, witb .4 per cent, of the total population, and furnishes 1.9 per cent of the total products. Rock Hill is the seventh city_ with .4 per cent, of the total population and furniahes 1.7 per cent, of the total products. Newberry is the eighth city with .3 per cent of the total population. and furnishes 2.1 per cent of the total products. Orangeburg Ls the ninth city, with .3 per cent, of the total' population, and furnishes .8 per cent, of the total products. The table of manufactures b7 counties is very full, but need not be considered except to show the rank of cer tain leading counties. Charleston* county has 417 establishments wlth^ J13.217.940 invested in manufacturing and the value of its products is $9,714.495. S?artanburg county has 178 establishments with $11,059,468 invested capital and $8,308,778 products. Richland has 130 establishments with $3.422,615 invested capital and $4,454,991 products. Greenville county has 18i establlshu.cr.t3 with $4,698,325 invested capital and $4,559,329 products. Anderson county has 167 establishments with $3,622,904 capital and $4,005,526products. Aiken has 85 establishments, with $3,559,745 capital and $2,998,274 products. York county has 103 establishments, with $2,129,685 capital and $2,066,257 products. Cherokee has 48 establishments with $2,374,353 invested capital and $1,58S,258 products. Unioa VWWUlf/ UMO W* CO^Mt/ligilUiV.UVg M tk,u fl?, , 287,134 capital and $1,976,397 product*. Newberry has 86 establishments with. $1,416,868 capital and $1,339,455 products. Marlboro has 112 establishment* * with $1,129,980 invested capital and $1,06J>,285 products. Darlington has 07 establishments with $1,471,839 capital and $1.181.60S products. Lexington has. 154 establishments with $1,271,491 capital and $923,571 products. Beaufort has 41 establishments with $1,138,332 capital and $703,957 products. Laurens has 90 establishments with $540,506 capital and $1,027,473 products. Oconee has 133 establishments with $902,143 capital and $775,153 products. Orangeburg has 171 establishments with $495,347 invested capital and $830,167 products. Sumter has 143 establishments with $502,114 capital and $922,230 products. * PROMINENT PEOPLE. * RIclinrd Croker is reported to be bayig more land in England. A bra 111 Garfield, youngest son of the Ate President, lias entered politics ioDhio. / King Edward VII. and Queen Alexindra have been married thirty-nine fears. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson lir.a returned to Washington from a Western speeeiunaking tour. M. Snutos-Duniont, it is reported, intends to visit New York City next snmaicr and 11 y about the Brooklyn Bridge. Congressman Ciiester I. Long lias been renoiniiialed by the Republican ?ouveution of the Seventh Kansas District. \ Senator Piatt, of New York, has goneto Florida for a stay of several weeks, rho trip is taken for the benefit of his health. J. Pierpont Morgan thrives oo lorued beef :iud cabbage, Senator MarMis A. llaiLua ou corned beef hash anil buckwheats. James Dick, the Scotch rubber importer and manufacturer, who died a. few days ago iu Glasgow, left ,v>.OO0.>00 to charities of that city. President ltoosevclt has found timeto prepare the manuscript of a new book on the deer of North Americai'he volume is one of a series, and will be issued in the early summer. Senator Gnllinger, of New Hampshire, sent to the library of Congress the other day for a Bible, which, unejf the oldest employes says, in tortyIwo years is only the second time such l request has been made by a member )f Congress. Archibald Hard Darragh, a Congressnan front Michigan, and Thomas ltob? ?rt Bard, a Senator from California, ;reat-graudsous of ltichard Bard, a sollier of the F inch and Euglish war of 175G-17U0, m.t for the lirst lime iu 'A'ashiugion recently. Telephones and Passenger Traffic. It is an odd fact that may fittingly be mentioned that some st?am railroads have complained of the harm done to their best class of passenger iraffic by the long-dls.ance telephone, while hotels in Western cities havealso attributed a redu-.tlon of patronpgc to the same catne. Travel between St. Louis and Chicago, for example. is said to have been appre* - *KA alnrViAno Qpph ClILUiy tUl UUrru U? luv^uwuv. a. result would seem difficult to trace langibly, although one meets people daily who, to avoid weary trips, haregoverned themselves on the injunction: "Don't travel; telephone-." But the telegraph and the mail have alsobeen deterrents, and if there is any validity to the alleged reason, the highspeed electric travel of the future may restore th^ former conditions. It is,, indeed, hard to conceive thai with travel methods thus perfected the reads would not enjoy to the utmost degree the patronage of a public tvhich, after all. likes to be in motion, ind loves dearly to taste and see jverything. everywhere, with its c^rn physical senses.?Review of Reviews. * \