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HUSEMANN, GUN AND LOCKSMITH, and dealer in 'GUNS PiSTOLS, PISTOL CARTRIDGES F.'SHING TACKLE, >and all kinds of Sportsmen's Articles, which he Las uow on exhibition and for ale at his store. JMain Street, Near the Central Bank, Columbia, S. C. BASEST FOR HAZARD POWDER CO. Repairing done at short notice. ' JTWALTER MITCHELL,j ATTORNEY AT LAW, JBATESBUEG, - - S. C., 1 -YT7ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE i V V State Courts. offer his professional services to the citizens of Lexington and Edgefi^ll counties. Special attention given to claims and set' ^lenient of estates. ^auuarj 30 -3:n. j ?a?? ? i mi i 11 mm>iA SERMON FOR WOMEN REV. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE NEW WOMAN. lie Has Faith In Evangelistic Triumph and Progress la tho Right Direction. This Is a. Good World For Girls? Mothers Too Often Forgotten. Washington, Nov. 17.?Rev. Dr. TalI wage took for the subject of today's sermon ilA Word With Women,*' tho test for the occasion being the following let ter received by the distinguished preach! er: Rkveuend Si a?You delivcrc-l n, discourse in answer to a letter from six young men of Fayette, O., requesting you to jircach a .sermon on "Advice to Young Men." Are we justified in asking you to preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Women?" Letter Signed ijy Six Young Women. Christ, who took his text from a flock of birds flying overhead, saying, "Behold the fowls of tho air," and from the flowers in the valley, saying, "Consider the lilies cf the field," and from tli3 clucking of a barnyard fowl, saying, "As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing, "and from a crystal of salt picked up by the roadside, saying,"Salt is good," will grant us a blessing if, instead of taking a text frcm the Bible, I lake for my text this letter from Cincinnati, which is only one of many letters which I have received frcm young women in New York. New Orleans, San Francisco,London, Edinburgh, and from the ends of the earth, all implying that, having some months ago preached the sermon on "Advice to Young Men," I could not, without neglect cf duty, refuse to preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Women." It is tho more important that the pulpit be heard cu this subject at this time when we aro having such an illimitable discussion about what is called the new woman, as though some new creature cf God had arrived on earth or were about to arrive. One theory is that she will c.?rl oIiiva rmrl Lit' an aujiciv'i niivt ....x. football and pugilistic encounter will characterize her. Another theory is that she will superintend ballet boxes, sit in congressional hall and through improved politics bring the millennium by the evil she will extirpate and the good sho will install. Another theory is that she will adopt masculine attire and make sacred a vulgarianisin positively horrific. Another theory is that she will be so aesthetic that broom handle and rolling pin and coal scuttlewill be pictorializcd with tints from soft skiescr suggestions of Rembrandt and Raphael. Tho Nctt Woman Will Be Good. Heaven deliver tho church and the world from any one cf these styles of new woman! She will never como. I have so much faith in the evangelistic triumph and in the progress of all things in the right direction that I prophesy that style of new woman will never arrive.. She would handover this world to diabolism, and from being, as she is now, the mightiest agency for the world's xtplifting, she would be tho mightiest forco f:>r its downthrnst. I will tell you who the new woman will be. It will bo tho good woman cf all the ages past. Here and there a difference of attire, as the temporary custom may command, but tho same gcod, honest, lovely, Christian, all influential being that your mother and mine was. . Of that kind of woman was Christian Eddy, who, talking to a man who was so much of an unbeliever he had named his two children Voltaire and Tom Paine nevertheless saw him converted, ho breaking down with emotion as he said to her. "I cannot stand you, you talk like my mother." And telling the story of his conversion to 12 companions who had been blatant opposcrs of religion they asked her to come and see them also and tell them of Christ, and lour of them wore converted, and all the ethers greatly changed, and the leader cf the baud, departing for heaven, shouted: "Joyful! Joyful! Joyful!" If you know any better style of woman than that, where is she? The world cannot improve on that kind. The new woman may have more knowledge because she will have more books, but she will havo no more common sense than that which tried to manage and discipline and educate us, and did as well as she could with such unpromising material. She may have more health than the woman of other days, for the sewing machine and the sanitary regulations and added intelligence on the subjects of diet, ventilation and exercise and rescue from many forms of drudgery may allow her more longevity, but she will havo the same characteristics which God gave her in paradise, with the exception of the nervous shock and moral jolt cf the fall , she got that day when, not noticing where she stepped, she looked up into : the branches of the fruit tree. But I must be specific. This letter before me wants advice to young women. Get Kisht With God. Advice the first: Get your soul right witii God and you will be in the best i attitude for everything that comes. New ways of voyaging by sea, new ways of traveling by land, new ways of thrashing the harvests, new ways of priuting J books?and the patent office is enough to j enchant a man who has mechanical ingenuity and knows a good deal of levers | and wheels.?and we hardly do anything as it used to bo done; invention after I invention, invention on top of inven* i tion. Eut in the matter of getting right with God there has net been an iuven; tion for (1,000 years. It is on the same | line of repentance that David exercised ohnnf hie cilK Illtf] 1 llA SaTllfi old Stvlp of prayer that the publican used when l he emphasized it by an inward stroke of both hands, and the same faith in ; Christ that Paul suggested to the jailer I the night the penitentiary broke down. Aye, that is the reason I have more confidence in it. It has been tried by more millions than I dare testate lest I come far short of the brilliant facts. All who through Christ earnestly tried to get right with 'jod are right and always will bo right. That gives the young woman who gets that position superior* ity over all rivalries, all jealousies, all misfortunes, all health failings, all social disasters, and all the combined troubles cf 80 years, if she shall live to 1? ' " "Mvivvin Tf 1 vnrld frn'ls urz Uii VA,lU^VAiUi4H4i. to uppreciato her, she sr.}'?, "God loves rue, the angels in heaven arc in sympathy with u;e, and I can alTord to bo patient until the day when the imperial chariot shall wheel to my doer to take me up to my coronation." If health goes, she say*, "I can endure the present distrcsr, for I am on (lie way to a climate the first breath of which will make me proof against even the slight| est discomfort." If she be jostled with | uerturjatitT.s of social life, she can say. t J wcii, V. ill 11 J. DCg::l l:.y J..0 among tne thrones of heaven and i ho kings ar.d I queens unto (icd fhaJl be n;y associates, j it will net make much difference who i j on ciji*111 forgot wewhen the invitations ; j to that reception were made out." All , 1 right with God, yen ate all right with j j everything. This Is a Good Wort si l-"or Girts. Martin Luther, writing a letter of j I condolence to one cf his friends who i j hael lost his daughter, began by saying, I j "This is a haid world for girls." It is J | for those who are dependent upon their j j own wits, and the whims of the world, i ! and the preferences cf human favor, j but those who take the Eternal God for j their portion not later than 15 years cf j age, and that is ten years later than it- j ought to be, will find that while Martin I ! Luther's letter tf condolence was true ! in ronnrrt tn mnilV. if Oct UlCSt. V.it'l I respect to those who have the wisdom arid promptitude and the earnestness to get right with God, I declare that this is a good world for girls. Advice the record: Make it a matter cf religion to take care ( f year physical health. I do not wonder that ihe Greeks deified health and hailed Ilygcia as a goddess. I lejoico that there have been so many males of maintaining and lestoring young womanly health invented in ov.r time. They may have been known a long time back, but :liey have been popularized in cur day?lawn tennis, croquet arid golf and the bicycle. It always seemed strange and inscrutable that enr human race should bo so slow of locomotion, when creatures of less importance have powers of velocity, wjng of bird or foot cf antelope, leaving us far behind, and while it seems so important that we be in many places in a short while we were weighed down with incapacities, and met men if they run a mile arc exhausted or dead from the exhaustion. It was left until the last decade of the nineteenth century to give the speed which wo see whirling through all our cities and along the country roads, and with that speed comes health. The women of the next decade will be healthier than at ! any time since the world was created, j while the invalidism which has so often | characterized womanhood will pass over to manhood, which by its pestnro on the wheel is coming to curved spino and cramped chest and a deformity for which another 50 years will net have power to make rescue. Young man, sit up straight when you ride. Darwin says tho human raco is descended from the mbnkey, but the bicycle will turn a hundred thousand men cf the present generation in physical condition from man to monkey. For good womanhood, I thank God that, this mode of recreation has been invented. Use it wisely, modestly, Christianly. No good woman needs to bo told what attire is proper and what behavior is right. If anything be doubtful, reject it. A hoydenish, boisterous, masculine woman is the detestation of all, and every revolution of the wheel she rides is toward depreciation at:d downfall. Take care of your health, O woman; of your nerves in not reading ;*:c trash which makes up 99 oat cf 100 novels, or by eating too many cornucopias cf confectionery ! Take care cf your eyes by net reading at hours when you ought to be sleeping. Take care cf your ears by stopping them against the tides cf gossip that surge through every neighborhood. Health! Only those know its value who have lost it. The earth is girdled with pain, and a vast proportion of it is the price paid for early recklessness. I ! close this thought with the salutation in j ! Macbeth: Now good digestion wait on appetite And health on both. Appreciate Your Mother. Advice the third: Appreciate your mother while yen have her. It is the almost universal testimony of young women who have lost mother that they did not realize what sho was to them until after her exit from this life. Indeed mother is in the appreciation of many a young lady a hindrance. Tho maternal inspection is often considered an obstacle. Mother has so many notions | about that which is proper and that j ' * ' * * Ti ^ 1 ! wind) is improper, n isusxuuuujug nu>\ j much more many girls know at 18 than ; their mothers at 45. With what an elaborate argument, perl taps spiced with ; some temper, tho youngling tries to re- j verse the opiirou cf the ohlling. The ! sprinkle of gray on tho maternal forehead is lather an indication tothe recent graduate cf the female seminary that the circumstances of today or tonight i ! are net fully appreciated. What a wise bearding school that j would be if the motherswero the pupils and the daughters tho teachers! How well the teens could chaperon the fifties! Then mothers do not amount to much anyhow. They are it) the way and arc always asking questions about postage j marks of letters, and asking, "Who is ! that Mary D. ?" and "Where did you form that acquaintance, Flora?" and "Where did you get tha* ring, Myra?" For mothers have such unprecedented means cf knowing everything?they say "it was a bird in the air" that told them. Alas, for that bird in the air! Will not some one lift his gun and shoot , it? It would take whole libraries to hold j the wisdom which the daughter knows I more than her mother. "Why cannot I have this?" "Why cannot I do that?" And the question in many a group lias | been,although not plainly stated : "What ; shall we do with the mothers anyhow? j They are so far b> hind the times.55 Per- j mit me to suggest that if the mother | | bad given mere time to locking after i herself and less time to locking after j you she would have been as fully up to ! date as you, in music, in style cf gait, j in aesthetic taste and in all sorts cf in- I formation. 1 expect unit wilt to you were j I studying botany and chemistry and cm- j j broidery and the new opera she was i ! studying household cr< nornics. But one j day from overwoik, cr sitting up of j flights with a neighbor's sick child, or a j ; blast of the west wind, on which pneumonias are horsed, mother is sick. Yet i the family think she will seen be well, j for she has been sick so often, and al- , ways has got well, and the physician : I ccnies three times a day, and there is a j ! consultation of the doctors, and the news is gradually broken 1 hat recovery : j is impossible, given in the words "While i there is life there is hope." And the ! white pillow over which are strewn the locks n little tinted with snow becomes the point around which nil the family | gather, some standing, seme kneeling, and the pulse brats the last throb, and the bosom trembles with the last breath, j j and the question is asked in a whisper j ! by all the group, "Is she goner" And ' ; ail i? over. The Disinterested Friend. Now come the regrets Now the j 1 i nMnHBHHi daughter reviews her former criticism of maternal supervision." For the first time she realizes v.l:at it is to have a mother ami v. hat it is to lose a mother. Toil me, men and tvciuen, yon nit r.rnl old, did any cf us appreciate how much mother was to us until she was gene? Young woman, you will probably never have a mere disinterested friend than your mother. When .< lie ray.; anything is unsafe or imprudent, you had better believe it is unsafe or in prudent. When ilio declares it is something yen ought to do, I think you had 1 otter do it. bho l.as seen mere rf the we rid than you JiMvn T")r? vc n iliii-.lr >} p fr.nld have nnv mercenary or contemptible motive in what she advises yen? .She would givo her life fi?i* j on if it were called for. D<? yon know of any one else who would do mere tlum that for yen? Do yen know cf any ojc who would do as much? Again and again she lias already endangored that life during six weeks of diphtheria er scarlet fever, and she never thee 1 -rought up the question of whether she had "Lett u* stay, breathing day oid night t lie contagion. Thegraveyaids are full < f mothers who died taking care of their children. Hotter appreciate yor.r mother before your appreciation of her will be no kindness to her, and the post inert era regrets will bo mere and more cf an agony as the years pass on. Big headstones of polished Aberdeen, and the bear epitaphs which the family put together could compose, and a garland cf whitest roses from the conservatory aro often the attempt to atone for the thanks wc ought to have uttered in living ears, and the kind words that would have done more good than all iho calla lilies ev(r piled up on the silent mounds of the cemeteries. Tho world makes applauditcry ado over tho work of mothers who have raised boys to be great men, and I could turn to my bookshelves and find tho names cf 50 distinguished men who had great mothers?Cuvier's mother, Walter Mcott's mother, Sr. Bernard's mother, Benjamin West's mother. But who praises mothers for what they do fcr daughters who make tho homes cf America? I clo not know cf an instance of rrvwr-iitimv T rlonJare to von that I believe I am uttering the first word that has ever been uttered in appreciation of the self denial, of the fatigues and good sense and prayers which those mothers go through who navigato a family of girls from the edge of the cradle to the schcolhcuso door, and from the schoolhouse door up to the marriage altar. That is an achievement which the eternal God celebrates high up in (he heavens, though for it human hands so seldom clap tho faintest applause. My! My! What a time that mother had with those youngsters, and if she had relaxed care and work and acvico and solicitation of heavenly help, that next generation would have landed in tiro poorhouse, idiot asylum or penitentiary. It is whilo she is living, but never whilo she is dead, that some girls call their mother "maternal ancestor" or "tho old woman." Divine Sympathy. And if yen liavo a grief already, and somo of the keenest sorrows cf a woman's life ccnre early, roll it over on Christ and you will find him more sympathetic than was Queen Victoria, who, when her children, the princes and princesses, came cut of the schoolroom after the morning lesson had been given up by their governess and told how her voice had trembled in the morning prayer because it was the anniversary of her mother's death, and that she had put her head down on the desk and sobbed "Mother! Mother!" the queen went in and said to the governess: "My poor child ! I am soriy the children disturbed you this morning. I will hear their lessens today, and to show you that I have not forgotten the sad anniversary, I bring you this gift." And tho queen clasped o;i the girl's wrist a mourning bracelet with a lock cf l:cr mother's hair. All you young women the world around who mourn a like sorrow, and sometimes in your loneliness and sorrow and loss burst cut crying, "Mother! Mother!" put on your wrist this gulden clasp of divine sympathy, "As one whom his mother ccmfortetli so will I comfort you.'' Advico ihc fourth: Allow no time to p:?ss without brightening some cue's life. Within five minutes' v." a Ik of yen there is someone in a tragedy compared with which Shakespeare's "King Lear" or Victor Hugo's "Jean Vol jean" has no power. (Jo cut and brighten somebody's life with a cheering word or smile or a flower. Take a good book and read a chapter to that blind man. Go up that dark alley and make that invalid woman laugh with seme good story. Go to that house from which that child has been taken by death and tell the father and mother what an escape the child has had from the winter cf earth into the springtime cf heaven. For God's sake make seme one happy for ten minutes if for no lenger a time. A young woman bound en such a mission?what might she not accomplish i Oh, there are thousands cf there manufacturers of sunshine. tJ'hcv are "King's Daughters" whether inside cr outside that delightful organization. They do more good before they are 20 years of ago than selfish women who live 00, and they are so happy just because they 2nake others happy. Compare such a young wemau who feels she has such a mission with cue who lives a round cf vanities, cardeasc in hand, calling en people for wh< in she dees not care except for some social advantage, and insufferably bored when the call is returned, and trying to lock young after she is old, and living a life of insincerity and hollowness and dramatization and sham. Young woman, live to make others happy, and 3*011 will be happy. Live for yourself, and you will bo miserable. There nev< r has been an oxj - 1.1 I t_ ^ cc-puon 10 u;e ruie; more never wm ov an exception. I have noticed en many of 1 he railroads that the porter will go around and light the lamps while it is broad daylight, and I am at first surprised, but I afterward hud that we are about to (titer a tnuijc), and its darkness is thus illuminated. Oh, kindle a light for these who tiro plunging into financial or domestic cr spiritual midnight. Tlie Scale of Life. Advice the fifth: Plan cut your life on a big scale, whether yon are a farmer's daughu r,( r a shepherdess among the hills, or the flattered pet < f a drawing room filled with statuary and pictures and bric-a-brac. ?t(>i> where yen arc rial make a plan for your lifetime. You cannot bo satisfied with a life of frivolity and giggle and indirection. Trust the world, and it will chcu you if it does not destroy you. The Redoubtable was the name of an enemv's <d :i> <-tuifr m ? ?k ? ! Lord Nelson spared twice from demolition, but that sumo ship afterward scut the ball that killed him, and the world 011 which yen smile may aim at you its* deadliest weapon. Pea God's womau. ] This me mr-nt make as mighty a change i as did a college student < f England. He had neglected his studies, rioting at night with dissipated companions and sleeping-in the classroom when heci"ght Vo have been listening. A fellow student came into his room c ue morning before the young man 1 am : peaking of had j.riien frcui his pillow and said to him: ''Pale y, you are a fcol! You are wasting your opportunities. Do not throw away your life."' Paley said: "I was so struck with what lie said that I lay in bed until 1 had formed my plan for life, i 1 oicJerca my lire to do always i:tiu over night. I arose at 5 anl read steadily all day, allotted to each portion of the day its proper branch of study and became the senior wrangler." What an hour i that was when a resolution definitely I placed changed a young man from a reckless and time wasting student to a consecrated man who stopped not until all limo and all eternity shall be debtor to liis pen and influence! Clasp Hands With the Almighty. Young woman, draw out and deeido what you will be and do, God helping. Write it out in a plain band, not like iho letters which Josephine received from Napoleon in Italy, the writing so scrawling and scattered that it was sometimes taken as a map of the seat of war. Put the plan cn the wall of your room, or write it in the opening of a blank book, or put it where j*on will be compelled often to see it. A thousand questions cf your coming life yon cannot set tie now, but thero is one question you can settle independent of man, woman, angel and devil, and that is that you will bo a God's woman now, henceforth and fcrcver. Clasp hands with the Almighty. Pythagoras represented life by the letter Y, because it early divides into two ways. Look out for opportunities cf chc-ering, inspiring, rescuing and saving all the people you can. Mako a league with the eternities. I seek your j present and everlasting safety. David Brewsfer said that a comet belonging to our system called Lexell's comet is lest, as it ought to have appeared 13 times and has not appeared at all. Alas, it is not only the lost comets, but the lost 1 ? A SiUiS, iiJiU Y? liUl/ NVtlU UUUSiUClLU UAUt stars. Some of the most brilliant and steady seals havo disappeared. The world wonders at the charge of the Light brigade, immortalized by Tennyson. Only a few of the GOO get hack from the charge, under Lord Cardigan, of the Muscovite guns, and all the havoc was done in 25 minutes, the charge beginning at 10 minutes past 11 o'clock, and closing at 85 minutes^iast 11, and yet nothing left on the field but dying ; and dead men, dying and dead horses. But a smaller proportion of the men and women who go into tho battle cf life ecme cut uuwounded. The slaughter has been and will be terrific, and wo all need God and wo need him now and wo need him all the time. And let me say there is a new woman, as there is a new man, and that is tho regenerated woman made such by tho ransacking, transforming, upbuilding, triumphant power of the spirit who is so superior to all other spirits that he has been called for ages the Holy Spirit. Quicker than wheel ever turned en its axis; quicker than fleetest hoof ever struck tho pavement; quicker than zigzag lightning ever dropped down the sky, the ransoming power I speak of will revolutionize j-our entire nature. Then you can start out on a voyage cf life, defying both calm and cyclone, saying with Dean Alford: One who has known in storms to sail I have on board; Above the roaring of the gale 1 hear my Lord. lie holds me when the billows smile; I shall not fall; If short 'tis sharp, if long 'tis light; He tempers all. The Subject Suited. Visitor?But this portrait of Mr. | Bulger is a good deal more than life size? I Artist?I know it. That is the size ho thinks ho is.?Boston Commercial Bulletin. - ?. Electric Bitters. | This remedy is becoming so well K11UWI1 UUU :>U pujJU lui as iu nctu jliw i special mention. All who have used | I Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine dees not I exist and it is guaranteed to do all j that is claimed. Electric Bitters ; will cure all diseases of the Liver I and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, I Boils, Salt Rheum and other atTecJ lions caused by impure blood.?Will i drive Malaria from the system and | prevent as well as cure all Malaria I fevers.?For cure of Headache, C011i stipation and Iudiges-Pon try ElecI trie Bitters?Entire satisfaction j guaranteed, or money refunded.? | Pi ice 50 cts. and si 00 per bottle at j the Bazaar. The Salary Grab. Senator Tillman fought hard to J j defeat the salary grab, but was un j I able to stem the tide. The members i i of toe convention are virtually under ' a contract with the people of South ; | Carolina to serve them for $2 a day. i : Their repudiation of that contract j should be punished by the peopP. If ; j any man was unwilling to serve for [ I S2 a day lie should not have stood i I for election, as that was the known j ! salary of the position. And the j j salary grab members selfishly in1 creased their own pay and left out in the cold the clerks and employes ! who deserved the raise more than j they did.?Columbia Register. If the Baby is CuttingTeeth,1 Be sure and use that old and well- I | tried remedy, Mrs. AVinslow's Sooth- j J iug Syrup for children teething. It I i soothes the child, softens the gums, j : allays all pain, cures wind colic and : is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a be t e. It is the best of all. A fresh arrival of tine French cant 'soip just received at the Bazaar. A Peculiar Case. (From the Record, Philadelphia, Fa ) Last July the Episcopal hospital admitted a woman whose pale and emaciated face and racking cough proclaimed her the victim of consumption. She gave her name as Mrs. "Win. Ct. Bowen, residence, 1819 lllt'iyiiUil Ol.f -i JL uc Cise was diagnosed and the was told plainly that she was in an advanced stages of consumption. The examining physician even showed her the sunken place in her breast where the cavity in her lung was supposed to exist. She went home to her family a broken, disheartened woman with death staring her in the face. That was the beginning o? the st>ry, the end as told by Mrs. Bo wen, who no longer expects to die, to a repot tor follows: "The first symptoms of consumption came in the form of teriible sweats, both night and day. From April until September I was constantly cold aEd kept wrapped up in blankets through the hottest weather. A terrible cough took possession of me, my breast was sore to the slightest touch, and my limbs were like cold clay. The hardest rubbing with the coarsest towel would not create the slightest flush, and the least exertion would so exhaust me that I could barely gasp for water. "I went to the hospital in July and they diagnosed my case as above stated. It was when the clouds were the darkest that t he first glint of sunshine came. Mr. Shelmerdiue, a friend who lives around at 1814 Clementine St., said to me one day, 'Mrs. Bo wen did you ever try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People?' I had never heard of the medicine but in my condition could not turn a deaf ear to anything that offered relief. It was alter considerable thought and investigation that I concluded to discontinue all the medicine I was taking, including cod liver oil, and depend entirely upon Piik Pills. I began t > take the pills, at first with but little encouragement. The first sign of improvement was a warmth and a tingling sensation in my limbs. Finally the cough disappeared, my chest lost its soreness and I began to gain llesh until I was fifteen pounds heavier. All this I owe to Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills and I cannot praise them too highly." Mrs. Bowen is a lady of middle age, a church member well-known and highly esteemed. She looks today, well and strong and it seems almost impossible that she was ever given up by eminent physicians as an incurable consumptive. YYtsuch is the case beyond all dispute. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, X. Y., for 50c. per box, or G boxes for $2 50. Ths IT07; CcRaty Ordinance. After considerable discussion fighting almost over the same ground, and some trying to still extend the limit 9 and 10 miles from the old cmrt houses, Ac., on Wednesday the whole article as below, received its third reading and was sent to the committee on style, and revissicn which tically settled the matter. Section 1. The General Assembly may from time to time, establish new counties in the following manner: Whenever one-third of the qualified voters withm the area 01 each section of an old county proposed to be cut off to form a new county shall peti tion the governor for the creation of a new county, setting forth the boundaries and showing compliance with the requirements of this article, the governor shall order an election with in a reasonable time thereafter by the qualified voters within the proposed area, in which election they shall vote "yesv or "nov upon the question of creating said county, and at the same election the question of a name and county seat for such county shall be submitted to the elec tors. Section 2. If two thirds of the qualified electors voting at such dec tion shall vote "yes" upon such question, then the General Assembly at flio Tir-vt spssirm shall establish such new county: provided, no section of a county proposed to be dismembered shall be thus cut off without consent of a two-thirds vote of those voting in such section and no county shall be formed without complying with all conditions imposed in this article. An election upon the question of forming the same proposed new county shall not be held oftener th; n once in four rears. f * Sec. o. No new county hereafter formed shall contain less than one j hundred and twenty fourth pait of the whole number of the inhabitants of the State,^or shall it have less assessed taxable property than one and one-half millions of dollars, as shown by the last tax returns, nor shall it contain less than four hundred square miles, i Sec. 4. No old county shall be rcj dueed to less aiea fan 500 square j j miles, to less assessed taxable prop erty than ?ii,i)Uiy)Unor to a smaller ! | population tbau 15,000-inhabitaLt-3. Sec. 5. In the formation of new counties no old county shall be cut within eight miles of its county ourt house. Sec. G All new counties hereafter formed shall bear a just nppoitiouuent of the valid indebtedness of the j old county or counties from uhich they have been formed. Sec. 7. The General Assembly ! shall have the power to alter county lines at any time; provided, that bej fore any existing county line is ul! tered the question shall be first sub1 mitted to the qualified voters of the j territory proposed tj be taken from one county and given to another aud j shall have received two-thirds of the j vote cast; provided, further, that the chaugc shul not reduced the county | from which the territory is taken below the limits prescribed in sections 3 and -x of this aiticlc; provided, that j the proper proportions of the exist ing county indebtedness of the section so transferred shall be assumed I by the county to which territory is ; so transferred. i Sec. 8. No county seat shall be removed except by. a vote of two-thirds ' of the qualified electors of said county voting at such election in an election ? held for that puipose, but such olec lion shall not be held in any county oftc-ner than once in five years. See 9. That each county shall con stitute an election district. Sec. 10. The General Assembly ! may provide for the consolidation of j two or more existing counties if a | majority of the qualified electors of such counties, voting at an election ! held for that purpose, shall vote sep arately therefor, but such election shall not be held oftener than once in four years in the same counties. Sec. 11. Each of the several townships of this State with names and j boundaries as now established by | law, sball constitute a body politic | and corporate, but this shall not preI vent the General Assembly from orj ganiz'mg other townships or changJ ing the boundaries of those already established, and the General Assembly may provide such system of township government as they shall j think proper in any and all the counties, and may m?ke special provision for municipal government and for the protection of chartered rights and powers of municipalities. Sec. 12. Until changed by the General Assembly as allowed by this constitution, the boundaries of the several counties shall remain as they are now established, except that the j boundaries of the county of Edgefield shall undergo such changes as are made necessary by the formation of a new county from a poition of Edgefield, to be known as Saluda, the boundaries of which are set forth in a constitutional ordinance. Sec. IS. The General Assembly may at any time arrange the various counties into judicial circuits and into congressional districts including the county of Saluda, as it may deem wise and proper, aud may establish j or alter the location cf voting pre-' | cincts in any county. Eight of "Suffrage. Section* 1. All elections by the people shall be by ballot and elections shall never be held or the ballots counted in secrrt. Stc. *2. Every qualified elector shall be eligible to any cflice to be voted for. unless disqualified by age, : as prescribed in this constitution. I But no person shall hold two offices j of honor or profit at the same time, ! except an officer in the militia and a notary public. , Sec. 3. Every male citizen of this ; State and of the United States, twen- j ty-one years of age and upwards, not j laboring under the disabilities named I in this constitution, and possessing J the qualifications required by it, shall i | bo an elector. Sec. 4. The qualifications for suffrage shall be as follows: (a.) Residence in the State for j two years, and in the county one year, in the polling precinct in which I the elector offers to vote four months 1 and the payment six months before ; auy election of any poll tax then due j ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be Inserted at the rate of 75 cents per square of one inoh space for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch lor each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 10 cents per line each inser ion Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word. Address G. II. RAHMAN, Editor. And payable: Provided, however, That ministers in charge of an organized church.and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six mouths' residence in the State, if otherwise qualified. (b ) legislation, which shall provide for the enrollment cf every elector once in 10 years, and also an enrollment daring each and every year of every elector not previously registered under the provisions of this article. (c.) Up to January 1st, 1898, all male persons of voting age applying for registration, who can read any section in this constitution submitted to them by the registration officer, or understand and explain it when read to them by the registration officer, shall be eutitled to register and become electors. A separate record of all persons registered before January 1st, 189S, sworn to by the registration officer, shall be filed, one copy with the clerk of court and one in the office of the secretary of State, on or before February 1st, 1898, and such persons shall remain duriDg life qualified electors, unless disqualified by the other provisions of this article. The certificate of the clerk of court or secretary of State shall be sufficient evidence to establish the light of said citizens to any future registration and the franchise under the limitation herein imposed. (d.) Any person who shall apply for registration after January 1, 1898, if otherwise qualified shall be regis tered: Provided, That he can both read and write any section of this constitution, or can show that he owns and has paid all taxes collectible during the previous year on prop crty in this h'tite asse.-eed at $300 or more. (e.) Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing hiih to vote, proof of the payment of all taxes, includmg poll tax, assessed against him and collectible for the previous year. The production of a ceitificate, or of the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes, shall he conclusive proof of the payment thereof. (f.) The General Assembly shall provided for issuing to each duly registered elector a certificate of reg- ? istralion, and shall provide for the renewal of such certificate when lost, mutilated or destroyed, if the applicant is still a qualified elector uudtr the provisions of this constitution, or if he has been registered as provided in subsection (c.) Sec. 5. Adj person denied registra- - * tion shall have the right to appeal to the court of common pleas, or any judge thereof, and thence to the supreme court, to determine his ligLt to vote under the limitations imposed iu this article, and on such* appeal the hearing shall be de novo; and the General Assembly shall provide by law for such appeal and for the correction of illegal and fraudulent registration, nting and all other crimes against the election laws. A Thp fnllnwino1 nprsons aro *^v-" 0 r disqu ilified from being registered or voting: First?Persons convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pri tense, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, v\ ife beating, bouse breaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with fraudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, incest, assault with in tent to ravish, miscegenation and larceny or crimes against the election laws: Provided, That the pardon of the governor shall remove such disqualification. Second?Person- who are idiots, iusane, paupers supported at the public expense, and persons confined in any public prison. Sec. 7. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained or lo>t a residence bv reason o cf his preset ce or ab-ence while employed in the service of the United States, nor wliile cr.gagcd in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas, nor while a student of aoy institution of learning. r> 8 Thp Of Tierf.! Assen h!v shall provide by law for the registralion of all qualified electors, arid shall prescribe the manner of hcldii g elections and of asceilaining the results of the same: Provided, At the first registration under tbis constitution and until the 1st of January, 1808, the icgistration shall be conducted by a board of three discreet persons in each county, to be appciuted by the governor, by and with the advice, md consent of the senate. For the first registration to be provided for under this constitution the registration books shall be (To be continued on second page.)