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THE UNION TUBS. UNION, 8. C. mho siiu m. WINANT PAYS UP. ( rami Jury Vlmls Several ImportMt True Hills. Tbo case of ?. L Winant, the "chief cook and bottle -washer" of the fraudulent and now delunct "Citiuna' Fire Insurance Company, of Colnmbia, S. C.who was indicted for fraudulent representation of facts in securing a charter from the Secretary of State for aaid coin tinny, was called for trial in the Court of Goneral Sessions for Hichlaml county, at Colombia. Tuesday of last week. By advice of his counsel. Col. John T. Sloan, Winuut pleaded guilty, whereupon Judge Buchanan, tempering mercy with justice, imposed upon the culprit a tine of $1(10, with the alternative of six mouths' imprisonment iu the penitentiary. Winant, who appoared to be quite "Hush," immediately pulled n "wail" front bin pocket, paid hia fino to the clerk of court nud obtained hia discharge. Thia occurred about 4:30 in the afternoon nud half an hour later the notorious insurance fakir, whoso exploits in Columbia have been fully detailed in thcao columns, was speeding Northward ovci the Sontheui Hail way at the rate of forty utiles an hour. Tho case was so quietly managed that but fow people outside of the court bouse knew anything about tho proceedings until after Wily Winaut was well out of reach of legal process, and so the greater nunt ber ofhis creditors will simply have to charge up their hills uguinst him to profit and loss account. During tho day tho grand jury returned true bills in tbo cases again?.! ex-Dispenser T. A. Scott for violation of Dispensary law and breach of trust, aud ex-clerk W. A. Cartledgo foi forgery, and also in tho cases agaimt It. J. McCarley and A. T. McCantr, for breach of trust and obtaiuine mouey under false protonseR. The action of the grand jury in tho case o. Mr. McCants occasioned no little but ?;.... .1. .... tl?, prise, iu?niiiin.u "" "' ' fS'"" ? ?> " "1'. held the preliminary hearing fully exonerated Mr. Met-ants and dismissed the proceedings in his case. The Secretary of State has itumcd a commission to the Paris Mountain Land Co., of Greenville. It proposes to build a railroad through Greenville to Paris Mountain and to (develop tho property. Cupitnl stock, $10,000, divided into 100 shurcs. Tho corporators are all of Greonvillo. <? - Dispensers Warned. Tho Stato Board of Control lias issued the following circular: To Count'/ Dixpcnsr.rs: At a roccni meeting of the State Bo?rd gf that''some C ounty Dispensers are ignoring that section of tho Dispensary law requiring a request be tdgucd by applicants for liquors. This is to ad nionish you that you must enforce tl.c law under which you hold oflice, and any neglect on your part to see thai each purchaser signs a request before purchasing, or should you sell to itieberntes or miuors, will bo considered sufficient chuho for your summary removal from ollico and this Board will act accordingly. Respectfully, W i i.i.n: Jonks, Chairman S. \V. SeniMc:;, Clerk. -? ?The Wire Ties. The export from the factory which makes ihu wire ties that tho Alliance exchange has been selling, after inak ing a trip to Charleston and investigating the cause of the trouble with the cotton compresses in that city, has returned to the factory. He states that he was pleasantly received uud ,1 ? 1.1.. ?... : i.. minus iiiu nnoiu iiiMiuit' cull UO UUBliy nettled by a blight change in tho tica used. <>uo of, the compress men told him ho would rather handle tho wire tie, if it wero only a little more pliable. The twelfth auuual conference of trhurcb workers among tho colored people of tho United States was held in Charleston last week. Itev. II. C. Bishop, rector of St. Phillip's church, New York, delivered the opening bit in on. The legislative examining committee has not yet eotnphtid tlie inspection of the books and u Hairs of the State I ?.s; >? usury. the eommittee is still at work, but expects to get out the report for the last ipiarter at an early date. Young Kurnest llazeltine, who speculated in the funds ef tho JiAUca.s ter bank was sent up for tweuty-oue months, has been received at tho penitentiary. lie has boon assigned to the commissary department. ? ? The constable of .Magistrate Allen, of llidgcville, who was shot by John I l.'-.l e i.:_ - i ? unn mi-ii in iiih uiMlDUH. |>HX* ter has not been captured mm yet. ? The I'almer-1?u?-knor electoral ticket has been e,.nipleted by Mr. Nat (list being put on it from tiiuThird Cou::reuaioniil District. Kx-Senator M. Ibitlor has boon admitted to practico bsforo the Supreme Court of tbo United Stntea. First Wheelman "I always get rattled when I see a woman erossing t lust rt^et ahead of me." Second Wheelman?"So do I. They have so many pins in their clothes that if a fellow collides with them he Is almost sure to puncture a tire."?New York Mercury. REY. DR. TALIAGB. r?f* voted onrrari budoay tmrnow. - iT^i. f *1 Tbxt: "My Father I* the husbandman."? John > ., 1. Thl* last summer, bavins gone in different directions over between Are and six thousand miles of harvest ilelde, I una hardly open my Bible without smelling the breath of newmown hay and seeing the golden light of the wheat field. And when I open my Bibje to take my text, the ftortpture leaf rustles like ?l>a tsaanla nf (hit AilPn We were nearly all of us born la the country. We dropped corn in the hill, and went on Saturday to the mill, tying the grist in the oentre of the saok so that the contents on either side the horse bainnoed each other; and drove the cuttle afield, our bare feet wet with the dew, and rode the horses with the haltor to the brook until wo fell off, and hunted the mow for nests until the feathered oooupants went cackling away. We were nearly all of us born In the country, and all would have stayed there hud not some adventurous lad on his vacation oome back with bettor clothes and softer hands and set the whole village on (ire with ambition for city life, bo we all understand rustic allusions. The Itible is full of tliern. In Christ's Bermou on the Mount you could see the fullblown lilies and the glossy back of the <yow's wings as It dies oyer Mount Ollvot. David and John. Paul aud Isaiah find in country life a source of frequent illustration, while Christ iu the text takes the responsibility of calling Ood a farmer, declaring: -'My Father is the husbandman.'' Noah was Iho tlrst farmer. We say nothing about Cain, the tiller of the soil. Adam was a gardener on a large scale, but to Noah was given nil the acres of the earth. Etisha was an agriculturist, not cultivating a ten-acre lot, for we 11 ud him plowing with twelve yoke of oxen. In Bible times the land was so plenty nnd the inhabitants so lew that Nouli was riirht when lie gave to every In habitant 11 certain portion of land, that land if cultivated ever after to bo Ills own possession. ! Thev were not small crops raised in those times, for though the arts were rude, the plow turned up very rich soil, and barley and cotton and llax and all klnas of grain came up at the call ofthe harvesters. Pliny lolls of one st ilk of >rrniu that bad on it between three and four hundred ears. The rivers and tho brooks, through artificial channels, were brought down to the roots of the corn, and to this habit-of turning a river wherever it was wanted. Solomon refers when he says: "The kin it's heart is in the hand of the Lord, and He turneih it as the rivers of water are turned, whithersoever Ho will.' Tho wild beasts were caught, and then a hook was put into their nose, and then they were led over the liehl, and to that God refors when Ho says to wicked Sennacherib: "1 will put a hook in thy nose and I will bring thee back hv tho way which thou earnest." And God has a hook in every bad man's nose, whether it bo Nebuchadnezzar or Ahab or Herod. Ho may think himself very Independent, but some time iu his life, or in the hour <>f his death, ho will llnd that tne Lord Almighty lias a hook In his uose. This was the rule in regard to the culture ofthe ground- "1'liou shult not plow with an ox and an ass together." illustrating the folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with the stubborn and unmanageable. The vast majority of troubles iu tho churches and in reformatory institutions comes from the disregard of this command of the Lord, "l'hou shall not plow with an o.v and an ass together." Tbtro were large amounts of property invested in cattle. Tho Moabites paid liio,000 sheop as an annual tax. Job bad 7000sheep, 3000 camels 500 yoke of oxod. The time of vintage was ushered in IQH? fno wiViln "preW.'Snli then nve men would get into the press and tr.miple out the juice from tht grape until their gurnionta were saturated with the wino and had becomo the emblems of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until covered with the blood of crucifixion, making use >f this allusion when the- que-l.on was asked: "Wherefore art Thou r. d in Thine apparel and Thy garments like one wh<> t r>*adeth ! h wine vat r" Ife re. soonded "1 have to 11 m '.ho .wine pro-s alone. lu all ages there has hee.n great hon^r paid to agriultur*. Seven-eights of the people in every centntry are di.-aipfes of the plow A government is strong in proportion as it is supported by an athletic and industrious yeomaury. Si long ago as before the fall of Carthage, Strnho wrote twenty-cignt hooks on agriculture; He.siod wrote a poem on the same subject?'*'1 he Weeks an l Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of all his military conquests. Hut I must not be tempted into a discussion of agricultural eouque.-ts. Slnndingn mid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of the Jiible. and standing amid the harvests nud orchards and vineyards of our own country?larger harvests than have ever before been gathered I want to run out the analogy between the production of crops and the growth of grace in tlfe soul-ail these snored writers making, use of that analogy. in the Hr>t place, I remark, in grace as in the fields there must be a plow. That which theologians call conviction is ou'.y the plowshare turning up the sins that have been rootol and matted in the soul. A farmer paid tc Ids indolent son: "There are a hundred dollars burled deep iu that field.' The son went to work and plowed the field from fence to fence, and ho plowed it very deep, and then complained that he had not found the money: but when the crop had been gathered and sold for a hundred dollars more than any prevh us year, then the young man took the hint as to what his fa'her meant when he said there were a hundred dollars .burled down in that Hold. Deep plowing for a wop. Deep plowing fur a soul. lie who makes li*ht of sin will never amount to anything in the church or In tii-* world. If a n an speak." sin as though it ; were an iim<vuru -y or mistake, in-tea'I of the Keiths mi : ou.lm.ble consuming it.-. I ' d.'ri. 1:i::-* Ihing that 0 1 ha*'-, that mail ' will a i >ie| ! a m.rve.-jt ?.' a- '-i11? } -. W'aen I wits a h y I plowed a field with rt team ol .! l ii 1 p' -' .1 very <|iiioki\ . Oi. in ;i 'vi i i' I )?i - 1 over lie- - <! without turning if. i ut 1 did I lift J<-rk ,i< !. tin- i ! > w with it- iMIIin.r de, \ ;? -i. I tl: :?iTi I it ma 'e no (iilT'T. nee. After while isiy >;\11i?*r e.;n:o ah. rg and sai I , NVi?* . this will w-ver .! >. this isn't plowed I deep enough tin-re y m have ?r?-?.- I iiii< , an I y hi have 1 tha*. ' \mi !i 1 piowel it iht: again. Til'1 dilileulry with a great 1 many ] -I?? is tha. tliey are only a.'rata I I with "nvn'ti-'D whoa tlm stih.soii pi >w of I (ioil'- truth ought t' bojo.it in iij> t< ?>i?t boa mi. My wor?l is t" all Sabbat h-aeho..i teachers, to nil parents to all Christian workers ? I'Jow dt'ej?. Plow leep! 1 I5u. what niiMin.s ill1 this'TOo^o 1 plowing, I th?t<?'Took'vl furrow^, th? repentance that I amounts to nothing'' .M n groan over their i silts but get no better They weep, but their t- u- iir<* not u.itej. Th<*y C"t e.f.ivi-ted, bit* not e uivett" I Wi it . tho p-a-on'.' i roii. nil", tiuit on the . icii. wn sot a stun Iar<l wiib il re I d.-g .it the ether en I of the ; II i*l '. We kept i: i-y on tin'. We linos I ! nt t lap. W |?! -n\ in I uj> to tu.it. L >sing ' sight that WO liill'le a crooked furrow. , Keeping our eye on that we ma le a straight i furrow Now in this matter of eonvietion I we must have some standard to guide Us. It , is a red standard that ("Soil has set at tin' other end >f the Ib'lil. ft Is the Cross Keeping your eye on that yon will tuiiko a straight furrow. 1. >stng sight of it von i w in iniis-j a rrwKi'u lurrow now 111> I > tli<> ('! >?? ?. Aim not ut fllhpr uml of tli? Ilioriz ntul plei' of tli" Cro.s.-i, but ut th?? upritflit pit'w, at tli? ""titro of it tit" tmart of tli" S"ii of CiO'l \tiio boro your sin* .ui'l J innilo ?uti<f i"tion. Orvini? un<l wpopint; will not Inug you tlir ugli. "Hint liuth GoJ exalted to be a Prtooe and a Saviour to give repentance." Ob, plow up to the Crone! Again, I remark. In grace m in the fieM. there must bo a sowing. In the autumnal 'we?tbar you flad the farmer going, aoroae the field at a stride of about tweak-three inches, and at uverv stride he puts Ma land ! into the sack of grata and bo sprinkle# the 1 seed-corn over the tleld. It loon silly to a man who doee not know whet he ^ doing. He is doing a Yery important work. Ha la shattering the winter grain, and though the snow may oome. the aext year there will be a great crop. Now. that is what we are doing when we are preaching the Qoepel?we are scattering the seed. It Is the foolishness of preuebtng, bat it It the winter grain; and though the snows of worldliness may oome down upon It, it will yield after awhile glorious harvest. Let us be sure we sow the right kind of seed. Sow muliea stalk and mnllen stalk will come up. Sow Canada thistles and Canada thistles will oome up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us distinguish between truth and error. Let us know the difference between wheat and hellebore, oat and henbane. Again, I remark, in grace as in the farm there must he a harrowing. I refer now not to a harrow that goes over the Held in order to prepare the ground for the seed, but a harrow wnlch goes over after the seed is sown, lest the birds plok up the seed, sinking It d )wn into the earth so that it can take root. You know a harrow. It is made of bars of wood ualle t across each other, and the underside of oaoh bar is furnished with sharp teeth, and the horses are hitched to It. it goes tearing and leaping across the field, driving the seed down into the earth until it spr'ngs up in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow, persecution are the Lord's harrows to aink the Gospel truth in your heart. These were truths thaf you hoard thlrtv I years Rico; they have uot affected you until rocently. Some gre it trouble came over you, ami the truth was harrowed In, and It has come up. What did God mean In this country in IH57? For a centurv there wus the Gospel preached, but a great deal of It produced no result. Then God harnessed a wild panic to a harrow of commercial disaster. I and that harrow went down Wall street, and up Wall street, down Third street, and up Third street, down State street, and up State street, down Pennsylvania avenue, and up Pennsylvania avenue, until the whole land was torn to pieces as it had never been before. What followed the harrow/ A great awakening in which there were 500,000 souls brought into the Kingdom of our Lord. No harrow, no crop. Again, I remark, in grace as iu the farm there must be a reaping. Many Christians speak of religion as though it were h matter of economics or Insurance. They expect to reap in the next world. Oh no! Now Is the time to reap. Gather up the joy of the Christian religion this morning, this afternoon, this night. If yiu have not as much | grace as you would like to have, thank God for what you have, and pray for mom You are no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse troubled thau was David, no worse scourged than was Paul. Yet, amid the rattling of fetters and amid the gloom of dungeons, and amid tho horror of shipwreck, they t rlumphed in the grace of Ood. The weakest man in the house to-day has 500 nores of spiritual joy all ripe. Why do you not go at)d reap it? You have been groaning over your infirmities for thirty years. Now give ??e ro.:ud shout over vour emancipation. You say you have it so hard; you might have it worse. You wonder why this great cold trouble keeps revolving through your soul, turning and turning with a blaek hand on the crank. Ah, that trouble is the grindstone on which vou are to sharpen your - rn . ??-- a .1 l-l ,.?l T.lra V i SICK M*. H? UIO Ileitis; vr? up. *??au vu | your green spectacle!1, your blue spectacles, I your black spectacles. Pull up the corners of your mouth as far as you pull them down. To the Ileitis! Ileup! reap! Again, I remark. In grace as In farming, there is a time for threshing. I tell you bluntly that Is death. Just as the farmer with a Hail bents the wheat out of tlio straw, so death beats the soul out of the body. Every sickness is a stoke of the Anil, and the sick-bod is the threshing floor. What, say VOll Is denH iu?n Only taktug the kuJm'out of iho straw? That is all. An aged mau has fallen asleep. Only yesterday you saw him in the sunny porch playing with his grandchildren. Calmly he received the message to leavo this world. Ho bade a pleasant good-bye to his old friends. The telegraph carries the tidings, and on swift rail trains the kindred come, wanting once morn to look on the face of dear old grand* I fa'hor, llrush back the gray hairs from his brow, it will never ache again. Put him i away in the slumber ol' the tomb. He will n >1 bo nfrai'l of that night. OrandfHlher was 1 never afraid of anything, lis will rise in , the morning of the resurrection. Granufathj or Wiis always tle< ;lr-t to rise. His voice has already mingle I in the nosology of Heaven. 'Grandfather always did sing in church. | Anything ghastly 111 that? No. The thresh! ing of the wheat oat of the straw. That is | all. I The Saviour folds a lamb in His bosom. The little child filled all the house with her I j music, ami her toys arc scattered all up and | down the stairs just as she left thorn. What i if the hand that plucked four-o'elocks out I of the men low is still? It will wave in the j eternal triumph. What if the voice that , made music in tho home Isslill? It willsing i the eternal hosunnn. Put a white roso in one j hand, a rod rose in tho other hand, and a j wreath of orange blossoms on tho brow-, tho i white llower for tho victory, the red llower J for tho Saviour's saorillec, the orange blossoms ior her marriage day. Anything ghnst; ly about that/ Oh, uo! Tho sua went down and the llower shut. The wheat threshed out of tho straw. "Dear Lord, give mo sleep," said a dying boy. tho son of one of my elders, "dear Lord, give me sleep." And ho closed his eyes and awoke in glory. Henry W. Longfellow, writing a loiter of I condolence to those parents, said, "Those last words were beautifully pod!"." And Mr. Longfellow knew what is poetic. "Dear Lor 1. give me sleep." Twas not in cruelty, not in wrath L That the reaper came that day; 'Twas an angel that visited the eanli And took the flower away. Where is tho garner? Nee I I loll you? Oil. fi?i. >vi liiiiM -fciii Anf fn \.n t>Aii? j ...... /... .! /.! JUHI I I own ( ir-'li*-'?yoa. fr->m your own family, that y >ii lriv ha i your ??>v? <m th it -jarii >.* , 1 f w many a v tr. Wlmt a ha. 1 tin" sorno I ' of th":o !rt l! la (' -th if'ma'i - > stiT'riiijf, ! ; t!."v swat i?i" .t <:r i - f-t !>! , J. Tho.v : to !; th" of trembling" nn?l they put j at tl. i : hut lit a ai d ;hoy ono I, "If ;t >*> i 'v-'il.uo, lot th'.< ? ?} p ia fr >ni mo." NVitli ; t'uitrufs of burnim; i;<ony ti: y oriod, () ; i.jril, tloiivr :ny .? n!"' Itut lit v >t ovr . it. Thoy all t if. ?' rnoro1' Thoir ! j t \trs wip <1 aw.tv. ti. ir lai'l'.os r.li (Midoii; i i tlu'ir t?ur !<>u> 11fi 1. (larnorol! Tho I,or.I f th" harv '-t will no; all v thoso -hcavaa to pi-ri*h in tho vipiinox. t. trn t?*?I! Somo of us romi'aihor, on tho far.n, that tho I >lti'iv.*s wT" |?ut on th" ton oi tho raolc I wiiii?h surmoanto I tho w.i^m, an I thoso .-h'-avivo w to jilh'tl hi^h"r ami hiirntw, an 1 ift-r a vvinl" tho hor-"i starto I for tho harn; an-l t invs" sti'-aviva swayo I to ami fro in tho v,0111.1, and th" old wa^on oro ikod, and tho [ h. r-"s inado a -trn r^lo, an I pulio I .? > hard tho harno?s eant" up in loops of loathor on ! hi th"ir bncitn and wo-n tlio front whonl struck tho ii'ii'vatol door id tho barn it m'i'iii^ I as if tho loa I would ito no faithor, until iho w. rk'i.on jjnv" a jrroat shout, ami tli"!' Wit!'. Oil" 1:?-T t! !!-! StWlill, the ii t-'1- pittl?*.i in tii.* 1 nl, ilii-y worn iiiitiiirI ne.ssed .in I f. >r f ii I after forkful >f icraln ! loll i tii" mow. Oli. my friends. our icottiinc to ho'ivou lunv I"' a pull, ii hard pull, ii wry hurl pull, luit Hi -so sheaves uro bound to K'? in. I'll" l.ord of tli" harvest has promise I it. I see tho load at last coming to tlio uoor of the heavenly (earner. The -tio.ivos of tli Christian soul sway to and fro in tint wind of death, and the old body creaks I undertho load, and as tho load strikes tho ' Uoor of tli" oelcstinl tfaru'T. it seems as if It I j ran ifo no farther. It Is the last strutricle, | until the voices of anicels and the videos of j I our departed kindred and the welcoming j voice of (>o I shall send the harvest rolIinvc | into the eternal triumph, while all up ami . down the sky tho cry is heard: 'Harvest | . Lome! harvest home!" pILL ARP'S LETTER. ^ jy s PHtLOSOPlRR MASKS KARNK9T k PLEA FOR PATHRiLiSSS ONK9. a BmuU of a Vlstt to th? Decatur Orphan*' House. Wbj don't some rich man give no endowment to tfie orphans' home at Deoatnr?whj don't somebody leave it a good lot of monej in his will, and then die Boon after? And there is the orphanage at Clinton, 8. C., that right now is on a strain to provide food and olothing for the winter. I am satisfied thai if oar good people ooald visit those institutions and see the children and realize their condition,they wonUi help them. It is all right, of coarse, for the millionaires to give millions to the universities aud colleges, and so provide cheap education for the poor; bat thero is a class of helpless, friendless children eoattered over the land * who will never get to college, and who would be gratefnl for bread and olothes and shelter. Tho scriptures make no montion of schools or colleges, but the fatherless are mentioned over and over again, and woo and curses are threatened those who neglect or oppress them. I hnvo long believed that good people would give more to charity if they wero face to face with those who snfFor. It is not a pleasant business to hunt up tho poor and look npon want and rags and pale faces, bnt it onght to be done sometimes, evon by tho rich and busy people. The good St. .Tames said that trne religion was to visit tho widow and tho fatherless?yep, to visit them. It will not do to sit in the parlor or counting room and wait till somebody calls for charity. Little orphans can't nnme ' thov don't Ifnnw tlin wnv Ttioir father is dead or their mother, or both, or perhaps one or the other is in the asylum or down with chronic sickness. It is a pitiful Btory, and every ease is dilT ront, but all pitiful. They are all children of misery baptized in tears. I have been ruminating about this,and must write about it, though to most peoplo it is an unwelcome subject. A few days ago I rode out to the orphans home near Decatur just to seo how the children were getting on. My good friend, Robert Hemphill, went with me. Ho is the business man of that busy paper, The Constitution, but next to his family his heart's affections are absorbed in the orphans' home. He is the president of the board, and ought to be. He goes there OTery few days, and the children smile when he comes. On the way we never talked politics? not a word?it was all orphans and the homo. The farm wagon met ns at Decatnr and took ns out a mile in the country. I didn't mind the rough riding, for it did me good to have mv okSoro?i?j tumbled up n little; bnt I <Yu. mind getting in and ont of that high-swung wagon that had no stepR. 1 tried to show my activity, bnt T couldn't, and almost fell ilown befor* I got up. For aged orphans like m> incy ougni 10 navo n comiortalilo car ryul), but Mr. Hemphill tays the haven't pot tho money to buy if Where is tho carriage mnn that lie don' send one ripht away? Mr. Brumby, ?. Marietta cent six dozen good, stroii chairs for tho boys building, that Iim just been completed. Now, where i the big-hearted carriage man ? It is beautiful building, and will bo dedicated soon ; and I'vo a notion of takin. my wifo down with me if tho carryall is there; sho can't rido in a road wag on any more. But that building ami tho girls' building need water?plenty of water. There is a little lake of clear spring water not far away, and Mr. llemphill says there is fall enough for a water ram, but it will cost about $500 to fix everything and put water in the upper stories?but the money is all out. It has taken all to complete the now building. "Where are you going to got the $500 ?" I asked. " I have no idea," he said, and ho looked distressed; " but I reckon it will come. Three men have given us $500 each with tho last twelve months, and I reckon there is one moro somewhere. I know that there are severul, if they knew how badly wo needed it." Then he told me about what Georee Muse, Mr. Er Lawshe and Mr. G. V. Gross and others bad dono for the home. For about three hours I wont about ] the premises and mingled with the orphan*:. Some of the boys were digging i and wheoling dirt to atop a leak in the j dam at iho lake. Two had to go after tho cows. Half a dozen came trotting dowu to tho barn with their milk I buckets. Tho milch cows marched to their stalls and tho stanchions closed upon them, while tho boys sat .upon . thoir stools and talked merrily as they drew down the milk from their ud- \ dors. Tho oldest of these milkers wus not more than 12 and tho youngest j about eight. Noar tho house, in tho back yard, there were two boys swing- ' ing at tho ends of a large rocking ! churn, and in 20 T?inutes they had : gathered soveral pounds of nice yellow butter. I saw the girls washing and > ironing iu tho laundry, and other* preparing the evening moal, ?f which 'i Uiih invited to partake. There wore no idle hands, nave, perhaps, tho two j youngest, one of whom was an infant : in arms and nnn only threo years old. j All had some duty to perform, and ; wore doing it willingly, and all were ' comfortably clothed. lint there wero two master spirits about tho place?Mr. Taylor and his wife lim 1 plonty to do. The outdoors find farm work and tho cattle and getting wood and keeping the boys employed in th ?ir working honrs took all his time, Hut Mm. Taylor has tho greater responsibility, and she meets 1 it. She looks after the needs of al!. joth boy* end girls, their food sod. ilotbes end health end eondnot. She tea one of those large, benevolent faces hat a obild could not help loving. Her tender oere of the little ones end ;heir affection for her was plainly viai3te. The little boy of sixteen months sea in her arms aa she walked aronnd vith na end oalled up the tnrkeys and thickens. "I don't believe I oan ever give np this one," she said. "These trpheus are oomiug and going ell the ;imo. As feat as they get old euongh die Lord seems to find pleoes for them, snd it always grieves me to see them go, bnt I em going to keep this ouo ind adopt it as my own. We have no thildren. and this one will be a com- j Tort to ma when I ffat old and have to leave the home." He was a prettj boj ?the jonngast of four that came there from one family. Their mother was lead and the father the same as dead; bat they are better off now, and all of them seem oontented and happy. Eviry one there has a sad history, bnt they do not realize it now. Several unndred have oume and gone within twenty-five years, and nearly all of Ihom have done well. Many revisit the spot in after years; many write affectionate, grateful letters, and some tend tokens of their kind remembranoe. One yonng man who has ' prospered and receives good wages lends $5 monthly ont of his earnings to belp maintain seme other orphan. That is abont what it takes?$250 to $300 a month for the sixty who aro there. At twilight there was a onrfow bell, and the children gathered in the parlor and we had music. Tho girls aud boys lang some sweet songs to the lead of the piano, a gift from Mr. M. R. Berry, and then tho sapper bell rang. The elder persons and tho visitors were seated at ono table and tho children nt three others, and at a signal from Mrs. Taylor there was silence, 'aud there was reverence, too, for sho mado one of the sweetest and most motherly prayers I ever heard. It was brief, bat it was beautiful. Then came the feast?not a display of good things, bat good bread, good butter, good coffee, and at our table a good, fat, well roasted turkey, that the girls had cooked for Mr. Hemphill and ho lot me havo somo?yes, I got a plenty. That was the second turkey, Mrs. Taylor said, and sho bad mnny more that she had raised?about one apiece for each child. Good gracious ! Feeding orphans on tnrkey 1 Well, why not nti/w in a while? T never maw An or phan who didn't like turkey. There are lots of good thingR about thcro. While down in tho field I found some ripe mnypops, and I have not panned liking them yet, and black haws and red haws were in eight, and these boys knew every tree, and where tho chestnuts and chinquapins grow. But tho homo needs money, and its wants must bo kept before the public. It is a blessed charity to give it, a charity that is full of promises in scriptures. It should be eularged and more orphans sent there, for I believe that it is the best training school in th? state, and its inmates will all make good citizens. Old Father Jesse Boring founded it, and if there is a heaven he is iu it. He wns a pioneer in good works. That's the kind of paternalism I believo iu?being a father to the fatherless. My good mother lost hei parents when she was a little child. Tho pestilence swept them into one grave and she wns sent to an orphanage in Savannah. They were good to her there aud she used to tell us the sad story, and wo would stand by her side and listeD, and our heurts get fullunil our eyes oveillow. But one day iflad^ camo and chose her from among tht children aud took her away. It is th? same way at this orpliauago now. Thej come aud they go, aud nro scattered from Georgia to Texas. Good people, this is tho noblest and sweetest kind of charity. Let us help it.?Binii Aid', iu Atlanta Constitu**on mm - ~ A SCHOOL fROTKST. The First Complaint Under the D!i? pensury Lair. Not ainoe the Diapeasary lew tu enacted hae there been any co^pplaiat about etilla or Diapesaariaa beiag faceted near eehool honaea or ebmaohee, but one kaa now come np from ($asen ille County. Tke law ie explicit om the anbject and no doubt the following petition will reoeire dut eonaideralfon: ConrvBia, B. C., <3ok 19, IMtfl. Cut. Willie Jnoej, Chairman Board of Control, C(ilupihia. S. C. Dear Sir: I encloat herewith a petition riguod by ? aufy-mren ->l the patrons of lleody Ford School. Austin Township, School District No. 6 C, Greouville County, and endorsed by County School f'ommiaaioner, ankinr to huvc prevented tho erection of mtistillery within ono hundred and tifty yard* of thwr school ho nee. I respectfully request that you transmit this petitiwu to the State Board of Control for their consideration atthoir next meeting. 1 further request, if permission hae been granted for the erection of thie distillery, that you notify the parties ?."..i i.. ,1 _? * i it ii i i niri ii 111 i?n i i i uiivu 117 UTMIV iiiiui further work until tlie petition can ho hoard by theStatr Hoard of Control. 1 further request that you acknowledge receipt, ot this petition and tetter Ami will thank you to furnish mo wiith a eopy of your letter restraing tiie distillers from proceeding further uutil the jietition can he heard. Ifuither riipu st t hut tho Hoard of Control grant me permission t-? appear in hehalf of the petitioners when tho petition is considered. Yours very trnly, W. D. Maypikld. State Superintendent of 1'Alucation. The best way to remove anna ana *xr!t from small fruit, when washing is necessary, is to lay the fniit loosely In a clean basket and dip the basket into freeh, clean water. FARMERS GOJOSPI CLKMSON PROFESSORS ' HOLD AN AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. Instructive Lrrtnres to Oconee Farmera. Other] Counties Want to Hear These Professors Lecture--A Free Veterinary Clinic. A Farmers' Institnte tinder the auspices of Clemson College was held at Walhalla on Friday, the 16th of October. It was well attended. The farmers are manifesting considerable interest in the work of these institutes* They are daily growing in popular favor. President Craighead has more applications to hold institutes in the various sections of the State than he has time at his command. Fouror five communities have already been favored with interesting and profitable ses ainnanl llio '-istitntH. Thev are fillirm a long felt need and doing a good work in diffusing among the people of the different sections of the State useful and practical information ou subjects connected with agriculture, as will be seen by a brief synopsis, given below, of the addresses delivered: President Craighed made two short addresses discussing the work of the college and the experiment station. He was anxious to seo the college brought into closo touch with the people. II* showed the necessity of trainiug for the agricultural olasses, and the kiud of education furnished at Clemson. He claimed thatthe government appropriations were not suflicient for the needa of tho college and deplored the constant agitation of the fertilizer tax. In the great educational work of the State ho wauted to see a forward and not a backward movemeut. He made a pica for hotter roads, better country schools, and enlarged opportunities for tho farmer and his children, tho farmer's family. For this purpose tho farmors* institutes wero inaugurated. Professor McGoe spoko ou "Fertilizers for Corn." After elaborating tho advantages of thorough drainage and preparation of tho soil, he urged especially on our uplands, tho growing and plowing under of pea vines anil tlio application of barn yard measuro as a means of putting tbo soil in good condition. Ho then said when tlio soil was in the proper mechanical condition commercial fertilizers could bo applied with a hope of profitable returns, and the followiug wero recommended: on the bottom soils, which wero usually well supplied with humus, nitrogen and phosphorio acid in the proportion of one to three, with possibly one-half as much potash as nitrogen; on the avcrogo clay soils, nitrogen,phosphoric acid and potash in tho proportion of four, two and one; on the sandy soils, nitrogen and phosphoric acid in equal parts. Tho quantity of tho mixture to be applied will be indicated by local conditions. Prof. M. B. Ilnrdin, chief chemist at Clciuson College, discussed the analyses of commercial fertilizers with | his usual efficiency and acceptability. Professor Dupve spoke (extempore) ( on the subject of horticulture, llorti) culture, as defined by Webster, was ! the cultivating of a garden (vegetables) or gardens, but it now included pom- * i ology, viticulture, floricultures Arc. To bo a successful horticulturist, 0110 must have some knowledge of gcoleigy, chemistry, botany,entomology, biology and zoology; ho should also bo a good mechanic. Plants, like animals, ate, drank, digested their food, married and raised families. He cxplaiucel the process of their eating, drinking, and digesting and how the food wai elistrihutcii thrcuurh the ldnnt. Plants worn divided into classes, orders, general, species and varieties. Eacb species, genera, etc., had properties ami wants peculiar to tbeuisolvos and re(|iiired ditTercnt foods, soils, cultivation, otc. IMauts were propagated by seeds, roots, cuttings aud leaves, by layers, grafts, buils, etc. Ho explained tbo process of growing onions from seed, and the raising of a second or fall crop of potatoes. At tbo closo of bis romarks bo was asked many questions wbiek bo readily auswored witli soomiug satisfaction to tbosc interested. Dr. \V. H. A. Wyinun spoke on "Foundor of tbe Ilorse." Main stress was laid upon tbo preventative measures, be pointing out bow improper j feeding aiid faulty shoeing must bo i looked upon aa tbo two main causes of ; "founder" in the rural districts of i this Stato. Ho advis.d to feed more j oats and less coru. His treatment , recommended was blood letting in I horses foundered no longer lb m six I i :?> i ... iw i-i^iii UUIII M, Willi corn WilU'r Dlllll to the fuel; in horses foundered longer thnn eight hours, ho recommended three ouueeH of saltpeter 111 one pint of water every live or six hours, deertasmg the dose if urination becomes excessive, at the name time the inflamed feet are to lie put into hottinh water. I>r. Wyinnn devoted the balanee of his time to a free clinic, treating forty-seven cases in all. Cncoiiacioun lliim??r. It Is not always safe to resort to sol phrases when wishing to eonipliinent, A story Is told of a certain lawyer, I xtrenielv studious, hut iu eouversation notoriously dull, who was showing oft his newly built liotise. The bookworm prided himself espeeiaily on a sai.etum he had contrived for his own use, so (collided from the rest of the building /hat he could pore over his books in private, quite secure from disturbance. "And this is capital," exclaimed tho visitor, with unconscious Irony. "You can 'cad and study here all day, and no human being be one bit the wiser." Rome women are bound to bo slaves; as soon as they lose one master they huut up another one.