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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15
Recent Publications.

FRANK LEsLEs SUNDAY MAGAZINE for Qc-
tober. Contains:
The Christians in the Turkish Empire Coptic
Community in Egypt The Church Month
Poems; Chinese Social Customs; The Day Of
Blowing; Oaths Among the Israelites; The
Hidden Gem and Unseen Rose-Poem The
Place of Skull; October-Poem The Rose Of
Jericho; Stand up to Your Work The Colo
RADIO Cafon Miss Johnson Motto: "Be not
Rash with thy Mouth The Church and Rock
of Castelluzzo Felicia Dorothea Hemans; The
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers-Poem Pic.
lures Of Swedish Life God will Know my
Name; The Character of the Gospels; The Love
of Mother; Petticoat Lane, London, Sunday
Morning. ETC., etc., etc.
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street, Philadelphia
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mond, Va. Subscription, 50 year.
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September 4th and 18th.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

THE following is the list of delegates
from the (Southern) Presbyterian Church
in the United States to the -Presby-
terrain Council.
Revs. j. R. Wilson, D. D., Wilmington, N. C.
Joseph B. Stratton, D. D., Natchez, Miss Ben
jamin M. Palmer, D. D.. New Orleans, La
James Woodrow, D. D.. Columbia, s. c.; Chas.
A. Stillman, D. D., Tuscaloosa, Ala. John
Leighton Wilson, D. D.: Baltimore, Nd. Jas. A.
Lefevre D. D., Baltimore, Md; Allen Wright,
Choctaw Nation; George D. Armstrong, D. D.
Norfolk, Va; William U. Murkland, D. I.
Baltimore, Md. William E. Boggs, D. D., At.
lanta. Ca. William Brown, D, D., Fredericks.
burg Va; Charles H. Read, D. D., Richmond,
Va j. Henry Smith, D. D., Greensboro, N. c;
Hon. John L. Mayre, Fredericksburg, Va;
Judge Thomas Thompson South Carolina Will
liam P. Webb, Esq, Eutaw, Ala; William NJ.
Mcpherson, Esq, NJ. D., Missouri; Hon. I. D.
Jones, Baltimore, Nd. T. A. Hamilton Mobile,
Ala; P. Joyce, Esq, Louisville, Ky; Professor
W. G. Kerr, North Carolina; D. c. Anderson,
Esq, Alabama; Prof.C. s. Venable, Virginia ;
Hon. G. B. Moore, Little Rock, Ark. Judge .
NJ. Baker, Jacksonville, Fla; ]. J. Gresham,
ESQ., Macon Ga. A. P. Mccormick, Esq, Texas.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

HERE is now scarcely large town
In Italy which has not been penetrated
by the missionary spirit of the Walden
sian church This community of ever
faithful men and women during the long
apostacy of the Church, numbers fifteen
parishes in the Alpine valleys, and about
$4,000 church members. Says a cores
pendent of the N. Y. Evangelist, this lit
tie native church among the mountains,
with its shepherds, and -dressers,
and workers in the field, have so spread
the gospel during the past twenty years
in Italy, that the mission churches
planted by them exceed nine times over
the number of parishes in the mother
church. The correspondent adds:
|, In the afternoon of each Lords day, the
Waldensian minister, after having preached in
Rome, goes out few miles to village, preach
es in private apartment probably kitchen)
to congregation of perhaps twenty or thirty
people. One hearer brings another, and SO the
little company grows, and is formed ere long
into church of Christ
In village south of Naples Roman Catho
lie had long possessed a Bible which he had
never read. Persuaded by letter from friend
to read it. he soon became deeply interested.
and induced his neighbors to read it with him.
One after another joined the circle, until forty
left the Romish Church, invited Waldensian
pastor to teach them, and were in due time
formed into church"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

A LITTLE less heat and all the streams
would be frozen, and we should have a
return to the Glacial Age little more
heat and all the streams would be dried
up, and the earth would become de-
sert waste. Now how is the exact eaui-
librium preserved, which makes the
earth habitable for beast and plant?
Does "a fortuitous concourse of atoms
accomplish it? or is there REASON that
has something to do with it2
And so if the chemical energies in the
elements that constitute carbonic acid
gas, which nourishes plants, were not
precisely what they are-if their equili-
brium were disturbed-the present sys-
tenn of organic life would be impossible.
And suppose the atmosphere were not
maintained, with its proportions of oxygen
and nitrogen just as they are, what
would become of man? How is Order
preserved in the Universe?
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

IT is not generally known that the
rights of primogeniture were abolished a
few years ago in Italy, the law, however,
not to take effect until the next genera
ton. And very recently another law
has been passed imposing tax of 81, 800
on an inheritance of the title Of prince,
$500 (or thereabouts) on that of mar
quis, and so on for other titles. These
laws will undoubtedly put an end to the
Italian aristocracy, as similar laws did
to the nobility of France. Who is able
to forecast the future of single Euro
pean country? Politicians statesmen,
if you choose-are busy with this meas
ure and that, but there are mighty, cur
rents running in European society which
they do not appreciably inAuence-re-
ligious, political, and social and after all,
hO'o little man does in shaping the course
of human history
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

DEATH OF Rev. JAMES A. WALLACE
We have received the following note
from Union Springs, Ala, dated Sep
TENDER 9th:
l am sorry to announce the death of Pew.
James A. Wallace. He was stricken down with
the third attack of paralysis yesterday evening
and died in about two hours He has been
preaching only once month for the past six or
eight months, and filled his appointment last
Sabbath, thus laboring until the Master called
him.up higher. Yours fraternally,
F. B. WEBB"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15
Ii Northern Europe. in the

IF Northern Europe, in the second
century, had been unmolested by the Ro-
mans, the quantity of rainfall in Britain,
Germany, etc., would have remained
probably about the same that it had
been for some centuries previous. But
when the Roman generals discovered that
the barbarians took refuge in their i'm
penetrable and marshy forests, they or
dered wholesale destruction of the for
ests Gas in Hatfield, Mass. This must
have diminished the amount of rainfall.
Here is an instance in which " the course
of nature was Interrupted and modified.
The mental determination of a Roman
emperor exerted an influence on the
amount of rain which fell in Britain, and
on the amount of marsh land in that
country. God might have originated
did originate that mental determine
ton of the Roman emperor; therefore
God interfered in this instance with "the
course of nature; spirit operated on mat
ter, and the activity of matter received a
new impulse or repression. God might
have done this in answer to prayer.
Therefore the course of nature" may be
altered by prayer. Therefore it is not
unphilosophical to believe that the char
acter of the seasons may be influenced by
prayer. This establishes the principle;
how far this may be permitted is only a
question of degree, and depends on the
welfare of the creation as whole, which
will not be sacrificed for mere individual
convenience. And when God answers
the prayers Of his people for rain, it will
not be done by miracle; he will employ
the laws of nature to execute his will.
We shall detect no departure from the
ordinary. operation of natural causes.
If the French engineers can re-estab-
lish the great interior sea which formerly
stretched across Northern Africa, they
will interfere with 'the course of nature"
in both Europe and Africa. They will
modify the climates of both Europe and
North Africa, the temperature as we'll as
the winds and rainfall. Therefore, WILL
may turn the course of natural law, and
put an entirely new aspect on nature.
But Will is an indeterminate quantity !;
therefore Science can only predict with
exactness the course of physical events
within those limits which are not invaded
by the power of Whitman or Divine
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

So RAPID is the progress of Christiani-
ty in China that DR.. Legge, the Professor
Of Chinese at Oxford England, says if the
present rate of conversion of the Chinese
to Christianity continues, by the year
1913 there will be 100000 of church
members, and 100000 of protesting
Christians in the Chinese Empire.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

congregations, sometimes in ,Roman Catho-
lie buildings, and sometimes by Roman
Catholic priests.
Liberty of worship was secured in
Spain at the accession of Alphonsus
MI, son of Isabella, by the interposition
OF England and Prussia, whose govern
ments refused to recognize the new king
unless this was guaranteed.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

AUGUSTA FEMALE SEM1NARY.-The
session Of this seminary commenced on Wednes
day the LIST, inst, with more than 100 pupils
brighter.
The Baldwin Augusta Fair will be
held four days, the 9Th, 6th, 9Th, 8th of October
The officers say the prospects for a good exhibit
ton were never better
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

Rev. WM. A. CAMPBELL, of Manchester,
who was compelled to desst from labor early in
the summer on account Of impaired health has
been sojourning with his friends in Rockbridge
county Va and has, in a great measure, re-
gained his strength. He expects to return TO
his charge in few weeks.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-15

PROF. HAssELEFF will reopen his school of
modern languages on Grace street to-day. He
is a most accomplished scholar, and those who
wish 10 write and speak as well as read the mod.
ern languages will find this school all that they
need.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
The Castor Bean I'm Texas.

The castor-oil plant is a neglected crop in
Texas. In states north of us it is grown as
an article of commerce, here as garden and
yard ornament, attaining full maturity. 1t
grows luxuriantly in Texas soil, as is proven
on almost every lot in our city. The oil
from the seed, WHEN boiled makes an excel
lent lubricator for coarse machinery, and
nothing is better for greasng wagons and
buggies. Instead of buying their axle grease
at the store our farmers might as well at
least plant enough Of this bean to save this
expenditure,
As to raising it for market, the farmer
must find out "What will he do with it"
Like 5erything else it grows to greater per-
lection in Texas than in any Of the tates,
and the presumption is, if it pays anywhere
it will pay better here than anywhere else
A Dallas farmer has two acres growing, and
we hope he will report to us, for the benefit
of the whole house, the net results. We
see no reason why Texas should not speedily
become the castor-oil center of the world.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
Another Crop of Miliet.

STEVENS COUNTY, Aug, 8, lSS0,
To the Editor OF the Herald
Having heard, through your columns of
the wonderful growth OF millet in Dallas
county, thought would give you chance
10 see what Stevens county has done this
year. send you by mail three heads, 7, u
and 81 inches long, and one stalk FIVE feet
and one inch long, with the head. The
heads, think, are over twelve inches
through. | moved out from Dallas county
the first Of last April, and sowed ono hun
dred and FIVE (l05) acres, besides having a
good deal of other business on hand, and
have raised crop that went head of my
expectations. 1t ranges from (3) to five and
half (bl) feet high, and though | can't form
an idea yet as to what the yield Is las have
not finished harvesting,) agood many seem
to think have made over four hundred 4OO\
tons. L. w. SAVAGE.
Worth, in the Dallas market TO. dav. 81.
$780, or 81 per ton. In November, Decem.
Der and January, $40 or Sl2 per ton, or from
$4,000 to $4,000. And when we get in al.
rect railway communication with Now Or.
leans, as we will in few weeks, II will be
worth more. Tell us farming don't paw in
Texas. With some people, no, II don't, but
there are folks who would starve in a smoke
house-grow poor as cooks, They are not,
however, Of the order Of the ingenious car
penter OF Horace, who had piece Of timber
unns 70 make a work bench, and manufac
Mreo BOD, but the kind who do their plowipp
svw,'ng and moving with a shotgun and
pv'n.cs uog and report progress every hou,
TIM .M w cross roads or village grocery
'S'r 'ney ought 10 raise oncrmou,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25

and stock from starving, or at least did do so
the past season, and may any day have to do
so again. That the country has not yet be n
developed to its full capacity we do not
doubt, but to talk Of Texas supporting 49,
100000, or even one half that number of in
habitants, Is sheer nonsense to any ere who
has ever visited that hct and drougthy re-
gion."
"Sheer nonsense indeed The
only error we find in the figures of the "sta
tistician,' whoever he may be, he should have
said, ifTexss had the density of population
of Massachusetts il would contain 100000
people, and said it is far more able to sup
port that number of people than Massachu-
sets or any other New England state 20 sup
port the present population. The soil Of
Texas is not near so poor in proportion as
Massachusetts,.
THAT hot and droughty region" quoth the
Sun. 1t was an ass who had never been in
Texas who wrote that. 1t is true it differs
materially from Massachusetts in that its
climate is not nine months frozen winter and
three months late in the fall. While it is
just the reverse of this, its mean temperature
is "A d, with the extremes of the thermome-
ter 1919 and 96o.
The Sun man has not found out that nine
teen out of every twenty people in Massa-
chusetts make their living out of their wits
instead of the soil. Buying raw beans for
five cents and selling them BAKED to
him for a quarter, and charging
him two dollars for a receipt
how to bake them, is one
way they farm to say nothing of charging
him ten cents a bunch for toothpicks to eject
scrapings from his incisors and molars.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
THE DAt2AS DAILY HERALD,
FARM AND HOME.
THE FIELD, GARDEN AND STABLE

what IL Patent Flour Tea In Texas
And the Williams still Pursue Our
Cotton The Crop of Hancock
and Garfield TOO Large-Cider,
Wool, Axle Grease, Bees,
Texas Cultivated by
New York ASS, APP.
pies and Labor.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
IpRppAREp II THE HERALD.
The stone Which the Builder Rejected


or. Patent new process lour, has become
ouite favorite and an important article OF
merchandise Not many know, however, how
is made, and the following will be OF inter-
est to.such:
"The pest -four used to be made of winter
wheat. Spring wheat yield d either much
ess in quantity, or else so much OF the bran
got into the -four in its manufacture that It's
Color was intolerably dark. In the refuse
the bran and iddlings-would be included
large proportion of the weight of the spring
wheat, and this would sell more particularly
for iced for horses. Now the best of -four,
and the most expensive, is made of this very
refuse of the od.fashoned process. 1t all
came out of the discovery of way to draw
out the bran. Under the new process the
wheat is ground about as before. The first
result is an ordinary flour sold for exporta'
ton. Then the remainder is taken and put
upon great horizontal sieves, and while agi-
tation is going on there an ingenious system
of draft is rushing up through, and carries OIL
the bran. What is left is the glutlnous por-
ton of the wheat, the most nutritious and
most productive, and out Of this, purified
now by the drawing off OF the bran, we get
our new process -four. The result OF the
discovery Of the process has been to make the
poor spring wheat of Minnesota and upper
Wisconsin the most valuable kind of grain"
Or what the writer of the above was trying
to say, "the stone which the builder rejected
has become the corner of the temple" Or
ike charcoal, the very touch of which spoils
our beauty, when transformed by processes of
m AZURE yet s:hiddtn secret, into the diamond,
becomes our most brilliant ornament.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25

Commissioner Le Due has recently been
selecting sites for tea farms in Georgia, and
has returned to Washington, leaving an
assistant to complete the work. He thinks
that he will have no difficulty, as the problem
of tea culture at the south, or at least in
Georgia, has been already solved Aquality
of tea equal to that imported from Asia is
raised in quantities in that state at a cost of
not more than 20 cents pound, and readily
finds market at from 40 to so cents. Com
missioner LIE Due is requested to make an
experiment of this kind in Texas. This is an
aggregation of all soils, and it is therefore
certain that he can. here lind the kind he Is
ooking for, If he will tell US the kind ro-
ouired Texas will undertake to furnisl b.
But whilst waiting for the commission, >
beheard from let some one begin the business
Perhaps experiments have already been
made.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
The labor Question

The boil worm has, and is to a more or less
extent solved the labor question in this
country. They have performed the work of
many hands, and it is now thought we will
notneed so many by a great deal, rs was at first
thought. Be that as it may we havnt half
enough steady farm laborers anyway, and if
the committee appointed to got them carry
out the original intention, there will be en-
ployment found for al, AS stated in the
daily HEBALD few days ago, Dr. Turner
brought out twenty from Columbia, Tenn,
and reports he could have obtained 100 more
by paying their passage. They are negroes,
used to cotton, used to southern farm life,
and whatever else may be said, are the best
help we can get So that no matter how the
present crop problem is worked out, let them
come slong. There is plenty of room in
Texas for a million or two more tillers of
the soil. Yes five million more. These are
exactly the kind of people we most want.
The little mat Ter now under consideration
hardly amounts to "a nine days wonder"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
OF What are Apples Made.


DR.. True, of Massachusetts, some time ago
delivered lecture before the Pathological
society of Maine, in which he referred to
the different elements found in the fruit tree
also. An extract made from it in the Ameri-
can Cultivator represents him az saying, land
no doubt correctly) that 1000 pounds of
russell apples when reduced to ashes will
weigh about 100 pounds and these ashes will
be found upon analysis to contain fourteen
pounds of phosphoric acid, seven pounds of
sulphuric acid, thirty eight pounds of soda,
and a little lime, iron and magnesia.
But the ash of the wood of russell apple
tree contains but 10 per cent. of potash
against SO per cent in the fruit, and the
wood shows only trace of soda against %
per cent. in the fruit.
On the other hand, while the fruit contains
but per cent of lime the wood ash shows SO
per cent. The fruit demands Is per cent of
phosphorous and the tree but per cent.
These facts suggest that if we have young
orchard in which it was desirable to make
wood the treatment should be very different
from that in an old ore where the trees are
fully grown and the object is to make them
bear
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
Ravaees of the Boil worm,

Since the last report in this column the
boil worm has made frightful ravages among
tho cotton patches Of North Texas. 1t is now
impossible to give an approximate idea of
the extent of the destruction. Each
planter has different report to make. Thus
the Hon. John Daniel, in the southern part
Of this county, says IS per cent. of his crop
has been cut off, and Nj. Caruth, in the
northern part, reports half, while DR.. Jones
is we'll convinced he has fully lost one
third. Thus we have about an average loss
Of one-half in the prospects before the worm
attacked it. This is no doubt near the TRUTH
or will be before the worms run their race,
for they are still there at full length and
vigor, and each day it takes millions of bolls
70 satiate their rapacious maws. It is useless
TO talk of remedies now, all the hapless
armer can do is to fold his hands and see
$50 and 500 worth of cotton disappear
or day down the throats of his fatal enemy.
So far as we have learned the calamity has
fallen upon all the counties of north Texas,
with as great severity as our own. The pros
poets one month ago we're certainly one bale
to the acre. In fields where the worm Is at
work there is no chance now for getting more
I han half Of that amount. Mr.. Daniel says
ne mas Oue ueiu Vi twenty ucreS amy one can
have for the price of one bale OF cotton. A
f cid near the Collin county line is reported
as not having one dozen bolls left in it. These
are extreme cases.
These worms made their general appear
ance on the 7th to the 1O.h inst, and have
been here fifteen days. Their average life is
twenty-five days, but in damp weather they
hold out indefinitely. Fortunately we have
had no general rain since the first week in
this month, and since the 10Th the thermom-
stor has rarely failed TO reach SO ., and some
days 1929 in the shade. This is all favor
able for their dying out in their allotted time
j ( the rains keep away. But jus. here is a
fact in their favor: the stalks are high and
stems long and matted between the rows, large
leaves and hence dense shade is underneath
in which the worm takes shelter with immu-
nifty from the direct rays of the sun.
Perhaps in another week something more
definite can be given the reader All that
can be said is the boil worm is with us in ex-
trsordinary number, that certainly one-thirC
and perhaps one-half the crop is already
gone.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-25
Truth wiunowed from Wool.

An old farmer takes "my pen in hand"
to say "How absurd are the stories Of
heeces of wool weighing all the way from
20 to 40 pounds, shorn from animals not
weighing perhaps over 100 to $50 | Won
der any agricultural paper that has the least
regard for its reputation will ever allow
such weights to be recorded in its columns.
Such reports ere grossly false, and ought to
be scoute by the whole community. These
Aeeces are full of filth, dirt, yolk and grease !;
cleanse them thoroughly, which must be
done before the wool can be manufactured,
and they will not give over one-fourth to
one-ffth the weight of the fleece in the dirt.
That is to say, one represented by the owner
of the sheep as weighing 20 pounds will not
turn out of clean wool over 4 to pounds /;
one of 80 pounds, to pound; and one of
40 pounds, s to 10 pounds. On the strength
of the reports of such heavy aeeces breeders
oftrn sci their sheep to the ignorant and I'M
suspecting AT extra high prices. Is this any
better than rank swindling."