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> THE LORD PROVIDES, i DR! TALMACE DISCOURSES ONI THE j Dc-wrcipcwrr nr Psnvmfsir.r. OLI1i?r IVWUVt. Vi nv > IV-.W. 4 The Eloquent Divine,Takes His Text From j the Fall of Manna In the Wilderness and ! Interest* His Hearers. At Long Branch, N. J.. on Sunday. | the great Brooklyn preacher, dis- j . coursed on the gospel provision for j ordinary and extraordinary needs.! " -L 10. +V,n I His text was o osnua >? io- 1 m. mv, rnftnria. oeased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land." Only those who have had some- j thing to do with the commissariat of an army known what a job it is to feed and clothe five or six hundred mon "WaII. there is such a UUVyU.E7CUO.Vfc . host as that marching across the desert. They are cut off from all army supplies. There are no rail trains bringing down food or blankets. Shall they all perish? Xo. The Lord comes from heaven to rescue, and he touches the shoes and the coats which in a year or two would have been worn to rags and tatters, and they become storm-proof and time-proof, so that, after forty years of wearing, the coats and shoes are as good as new. Besides that, eveiy morning there is a shower of bread, not sour and soggy, for the rising of that bread is made in heaven, and celestial fingers have mixed it, and rolled it into balls, light, laky, and sweet, as though they were erumbs thrown out from a heavenly bonquet. Two batches otDreaamaae every day in the upper mansion?one for those why sit at the table 'with ? the king, and the other for the marching Israelites in the wilderness. I do not very much pity the Israelites for the fact that they had only manna to eat. It was. I suppose, the best food ever provided. I know that the ravens brought food to hungry Elijah; but I should not so well have liked those black waiters. Rather would I have the face that came down every morning in the buckets of dew elean, sweet, God-provided edible. But now the Israelites have taken the last bit of it in their fingers and put the last delicate morsel of it to their 1:? l.-w-vt- rtnf or>rt fViprA is no JL 1U v iV.'VA VUVJ (UJ.VL W mauna. Why tins cessation of heavly supply? It was because the Israelites had arrived in Canaan, and they siaellod the breath of the harvest fit-Ids, and the crowded barns of the country were thrown open to them. AH the inhabitants had fled, and in the name of the Lord of Hosts the I-iraelites took posession of everything. Weil, the threshing-iioor is cleared, the corn is scattered over it, the oxen are brought around in lazy and perpetual circuit until the com is trampled loose; then it is winnowed with a fan. and it is ground and it is baked, and, lo! there is enough bread for all the worn-out host. "Ana me manna ceased on the morrow after thev had eaten of the old corn of the land." From among the mummies of Egypt and Canaan have been brought grains of com, exactly like our Indian eorn, and recently planted they ha^ JPrQ&wpdthe sam^g^g^orgm not ~"sure which kina my text refers to, but all the same is the meaning. The bisection of this subject leads me, first, to speak of especial relief for especial emergency; and, secondly, of the old com of the gospel for or dinary circumstances. If these Israelites crossing the wilderness had not received bread from the heavenly bakeries, there would, first, have been a long line of dead children half buried in the sand: then, there would have been a long line of dead women waiting for tlie jackals; then, there would have been a long line of dead men unburied,' because there would have been no one bury them. I would have been told m tiie history of the world that a # - - 1 1 _ L - .1 great company 01 gooa peopie suubeu out from Egypt for Canaan, and were never heard of, as thoroughly lost in the wilderness of sand as the City of Boston and the President were lost in the wilderness of waters. What use vras it to them, there was plenty of co:m in Canaan, or plenty of com in Egypt? What they wanted was something to eat right there, where there was not so much as a grass-blade. In other words, an especial supply for an especial emergency. That is what some of you want. The ordinary comfort, the ordinary counsel, do not seem to meet your case. There are those who feel that they must have an omnipotent and immediate supply, and you shall have it. It is a pain and physical distress through which you must go? Does not Jesus know all about pain- Did he not suffer it in the most sensitive part of head and hand and foot? He . - has a mixture of comfort, one drop j of which shall cure the worst ?paroxysm. It is the same grace that soothed Robert Hall when, after \V'f l\ IH I I I Xf \JLX UU.C liJi J^-^J o^vua tor tares, he cried out: "Oh! I suffered terribly? but I didn't cry out while I was suffering, did I? Did I cry out?" There is no such nurse as Jesus?Kis hand the gentlest, his foot the lightest, his arm the strongest. For especial pang especial help. Is it approaching sorrow? Is it long, shadowing bereavement that you know is coming, because the breath is short, and the voice is faint, and the cheek is paler Jiave you | been calculating your capacity or incapacity to endure widowhood or childlessness or a disbanded home, and cried, *;'I cannot endure it?" Oh, worried soul, you will wake up amidst ail your troubles, and find around about you the sweet consolation of the gospel as thickly strewed as was the manna around about the Israelitish encampment! Especial solace for especial distress. Or is it a trouble past, yet present? A^silent nursery? A vacant cbair opposite you at the table? A musing upon a broken family circle never again to be reunited? A choking 3ense of loneliness? A blot of grief i n-i 4-1.? SO large mitt/ it mc nguo of sun, and puts out bloom of Sower, and rnabes you reckless as to whether you live or die? Especial comfort for that especial trial. Your appetite has failed for everything els*. Oh. try a little of this wilderness manna; "I will never leave thee, I will never forsake thee." "Like as a father ? pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear fiim." "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb' Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.' - | Or is it the grief of a dissipated i companion? There are those here who have it, so I am not speaking in the abstract, but to the point. You have not whispered it. perhaps, to your most intimate friend: but you s BMP!!! ..rA.AM?15gW?"aC<y sec your home- going away gradually j from you. and unless tilings cii&ngc ! soon it tvill be entirely destroyed, j Y^ur grief was well depicted by a ; W.'J. JLU. i'.i .1 v i/uijlij. .-. v.v ins in Ohio, when her iiitosicated; husband staggered up to the plat- j form, to her overwhelming mortitica- j tion and the disturbance of the j audience, and sh.i pulled a protrud- j ing bottle iron: her husband's j pocket, and held it up before the ' audience, and cried out. "There is j the cause of my woe! There are the tears and the life-blood of a drunkard's wife!" And then, looking up to i heaven, she said, "How long, 0 Lord! I cin?1 flinn IrtnlrillSr floWTl I UUH iuuj5- """ 0 , to the audience, cried, "Do you \vo:ii der I feel strongly on this subject? Sisters, will you help me?" and hundreds of voices responded. "Yes, yes, we will help you." After fourteen thousand six hundred consecutive days of falling manna?Sundays excepted?the manna ceased. Some of them were glad of it. You know the}* had complained to their leader, and wondered that that they had to eat manna instead of onions. Now the fare is changed. Those people in that army under forty years of age never seen a cornfield, and now, when they hear the leaves rustling and see the tassels waving and the billows of green flowing over the plain as a wind touched them, it must have been a new and lively sensation. "Corn!" " ~ - * T cried the old man as lie openeu an ear. "Corn!" cried the children as they counted the shinning grains. "Corn!" shouted the vanguard of the host as they burst open the graneries of the affrighted population, the graneries that had been left iu the possession of the victorious Isrealites. Then the lire was kindled, and the ears of com were thrust in it. and. fresh and crisp and tender, were devoured of the hungry victors and bread was prepared, and many things that can be made out of ilour regaled the appetites that had been sharpened by the long march. "And the manna ceased on the morrow after thej* had eaten of the old com of the land." The infidel scientists of this day are offering us a different kind of soul food; but they are, of an men, the most miserable. I have known many of them, but I never knew one of them who came within a thousand miles of Joeing happy. The great John Stuart Mill provided for himself a new kind of porridge; but yet, when he come3 to die, he acknowledges that his philosophy never gave him any comfort ia days of bereavement. and in a roundabout wav he acinars muu hi?s iuc who & lu/aiu^. it is with all scientists. They are trying to live on telescopes and crucibles and protoplasms, and they charge us with cant, not' realizing that there is no such intolerable cant in all the world as this perpetual talk we are hearing about ''positive philosophy" and the "absolute," and the "great to be." and "the everlasting no," asx! ' the higher unity." and "the latent potentialities," and "the cathedra*^ the immensities." I havr have *beer lating what^these^een translating ^Si^g^^Xo-ft^nave been doing and Twill tell you whnt it all means ?it means that they want to kill God! And my only wonder is that Got" J >>?<; T?r?f, them. I have.in othe: days, tasted of their confections, and I come back to-day and tell you there i3 no nutriment of life or health ir anything but the bread made out oJ the old corn of the gospel. "What dc I mean by that? I mean that Chrisi is the bread of life, and taking hin1 you live and live forever. But, you say, com is of but little practical use unless it is threshed and ground and baked. I answer, this gospel com has gone through that process. "When on Calvary all the . hoofs of human scorn cams down on the heart of Christ, and all the Hails of satanic fury beat Him long and fast, was not the com threshed;! YOien the mills of God's indignation against sin caught Christ between the upper and neither rollers, was not the com ground'- Yv'hen Jesus descended into hell, and the flames of the lost world wrapped Him al] about, was not the com baked ? Oh yes! Christ is ready. His pardon all readv: evervfchinsr readv in Christ. Are you ready for Him * You say, "That is such a simple gospel V I know it is. You say you thought religion was a strange mixture of elaborate compounds. No; it is so plain hat any abecedarian may understand it. In its simplicity is its power. If you could, this morning, realize that Christ died to save from sin and hell, not only your minister and your neighbor and your father and your child, but you, it would make this hour like the j. j. .. ?? ?;i?t; j uugLueut uttv iui nuu, no longer able to keep your seat, you would leap up, crying, "For me! for me!" God grant that you, my brother, j may see this gospel with your own ! eyes and hear it with your own ears, and feel with your own heart that you are a lost soul, but that Christ x? ? vjuuutrs ivi j. uui c.vLj.iuaijJLwii. v^uai v>cu not take that truth and digest it, and make it a part of your immortal life? It is only bread. You have noticed that invalids cannot take all kinds of food. The food that will do for one will not do for another. There are kinds of food which will produce in cases of invalidism, very speedy death. But you i a.i In u LLuve uuuceu mm LULL peiau-Lid, J^V?ever weak they may be, can take bread. Oh, soul, sick with sin. invalid in your transgressions. I think this gospel willgagree with you! I think if you cannot take anything else, you can take this. Lost?found Sunken?raised! Condemned?pardoned ! Cast out?invited in! That is the old corn of the gospel. There is another characteristic about bread, and that is, you never get tired of it. There are people here seventy years old who find it just as appropriate tor tiieir appetite as tiiev did when, in boyhood, their mother cut a slice of it clear around the baf. You have not got tired of bread, and that is a characteristic of the gospel. Old Christian man, are you tired of Jesus ? If so. let us take His name eut of our Bible, and let us with pen and ink erase that nam;- wherever we see it. Let us cast it out of our hymnology, and let "There is a Fountain" and ''liock of Ages" go into forg -tfulness. Lot us tear down the orm i.m.j ninn bible whore we eelelvrn to His love. Let us clash down the baptismal bovl where we were consecrated to Him. Let us hurl Jesus from our heart, and ask some other hero to come in. Let us say, "Go away, -Jesus; I want another friend, another companion than thou art." Could you do it ? The years of your past life, aged man, would utter a i protest against it, and the graves of your Christian dead would charge you with being an ingrate, and your little grandchildren would say, 4L : Grjaitliathoi' don't Jo that. Jesus is the one- to whom wc say our pruyor.s at night, and who is to c j :n Leaven j J whc-n \ve die. Grandfather. don't ; ! ; : tn.-.f " Tirwl of - Jssns? The Lur- i 1 jruticly rose- you pluck from ike gni-' ( den is not so fresh and fair ami beau- ( t;ful. Tired of Jesus? As well get f weary of the spring morning. and the voices of the mountain runnel, and < i the quiet of your own home, and the 1 j gladness of your own ehildaen. Je- i sus is bread, and the appetite for \ that is never obliterated. , I notic?, in regard to this article of ] food, you take it three times a day , It is on your table morning, noon J and night: and if it is forgotten, you \ say, "Where is the breadJust so: ] certainly you need Jesus three times ' a day. Oh, do not start out without i | Him: do not dare go out the front , 1 - "* ? 1 J! _ * 1 door ; QO not aare go on me iioui : j the front steps, without having first . j communed with Him! Before noon ! there may he perils that will destroy ' j body, mind and soul forever. You cannot afford to do without Him. You will, during the day, be amidst sharp hoofs and swift wheels and dangerous scaffoldings threatening the body, and traps for the soul that have talcen some who are more wily than you. When they launch a ship they break against it a bottle of wine. Ihot is a sort of superstition awoug sailors. But oh, on t^e launching of every day, that we might strike against it at least one earnest prayer for divine protection! That would not bo superstion: that would be fThvisHnri Then at the apex of the day, at the tiptop of the'jhours, equidistant from morning and night, look three ways. Look backward to the forenoon; look ahead to the afternoon: look up to that Savior who presides over all. You want bread at noon. You may Hud no place in which to kneel amidst the cotton bales and the tierces of lice: but if Jonah could find room to pray in the whale's belly, most certainly you w;ll never be in such a crowded place that you cannot pray. Bread at noon! When the evening hour comes, and your head is buzzing with the day's engagements, and your whole nature is sore from the abra sinn of vrmor"h lift*, and von sefi ncreat ! many duties you have neglected, then commune rwith Christ, asking His pardon, thanking Him for His love. That would be a queer evening re; past at which there was no bread. This is the nutriment and life of the plain gospel that I recommend . you. I do not know how some of our ministers make it so intricate and elaborate and mystifying a thing. : It seems as if they had a sort of moni grelism in religion?part humanitarii anisni, part spiritualism, part noth. ingarianism: and [sometimes you think ^ 1-* ?AAIA Allf nf tULCvY cl/IC V UUlUiiQ UUCJ-L VUU Vi the "Rock of Ages," but you find there is no rock in it at all. It is ! stucco. The gospel is plain. It is ' bread. There are no fogs hovering ; over the marsh of human speculation. [ If you cannot tell when you hear a ; man preach, whether or not he NSi^' " 7-^ -nlenarj ipo-*** ( ^ - the scriptures, E^jAi^iusG he does l not believe in it. ^^Blien you hear ; a man preach, you carPnot tellwlieth, er or not he believes that sin is inborn, ; it is because he docs not think it con! genital. If. when you hear a man t talk in pulpit or prayer-meeting, you cannot make up your mind whether I nv nnf lip in vccr^nwnfirm if, ! is because lie does not believe in it. l If, when you liear a man speak on [ religious themes, you cannot make up > your mind whether or not he thinks ; the righteous and the wicked will l come out at the same place, then it is because he really believes their des, tinies are conterminous. [ Do not talk to me about a man be. ing doubtful about the doctrines of grace. He is not doubtful to me at ' n t> i i /i i t i?~ > illl. JL>ieitU 13 UitTilU, UIIU JL iUIU.Y 11 i the moment I see it. I had a com| lieid which I cultured with my own i hand. I did not ask once in all the > summer, "Is this com?*' I did not L hunt up the Agriculturalist to get a , picture of corn. 1 was born in sight | of a corn-field, and 1 know all about ! it. When these Israelites came to J Canaan and ] ooked off upon the fields, the cry was "Com! com! " And if a man has once tasted of this heavenly bread, he knows it right away. He can tell this com of the gospel Canaan from "th e chaff which the wind driveth away.'' I bless God so many have 1 fliio rr/"\cv\?il /?nvn T+. ic flm J.V^U~LXll LUIO V- X VViJ-L. .4. U AkJ CAAU bread of whien if a man eat lie shall never hunger. I set the gladness of your soul to the tunes of "Ariel" and "Antioch." I ring the wedding bells, for Christ and your souls are married, and there is no power on earlh or in h:ll to get out letters of divorcement. Unf. for thp f;rmine-st,viir*k! Enough corn, yet it seems you have no sickle to cut it, no mill ta grind it, no fire to bake it, no appetite to eat it. Starving to death when the plain is golden with a magnificent harvest. I rode some thirteen miles to see the Alexander, a large steamship that was beached near Southampton, Long Island. It was a splendid vessel. As I walked up and down the decks and in the cabins, I said: "What a pity that this vessel should go to pieces, or be lying here idle!" The coast wreckers had spent ?30,000 trying to get her off, and they succeeded once, but she came back again to the old glace. While I was walking 011 deck every part of the vessel trembled with ii i _ Ll .2 xI. ? uie Dealing 01 mu sun uu uui- siue. Since then I heard that that vessel, which was worth hundreds of thousand of dollars, was sold for ?3,500, and knocked to pieces. They kad given up the idea of getting her to sail again. How suggestive all that is to me! There are those here who are aground in religious things. Once you started for heaven, but you are now aground. Several times it was thought you had started again heavenward, but you soon got back to the old place, and there is not much prospect you will ever reach the harbors ' - 1-1 J ,.^1-^,.^, T Oi^tXlU UlCSStru- \-ryu. ? ? J. o, JL fear, will pronounce you a hopeless case. Beached for eternity! And then it will be written in heaven concerning some one of your size, and complexion, and age, and name, that he was invited to be saved, but refused the offer, and starved to death within sight of the fields and granaries full of the old corn of Canaan. Congressman Tillman's answer to the questions pronounced by the Alliance are plain and pointed. "Uncle ; J George" is never guilty of evasion ' ; or indirection. He says what he ! ! on/I cfl tVlftlTllv f)iat fllPl'G IS T)r> ciiance i'or misconstruction. He thus 3 sets an example winch other aspirants ; ivn'orlif fr?llriTc with ad vantasre to them ' and to the people whom they seek to * represent. < ' < For corns, warts and bunions, use ] only Abbott's East Indian Corn i Plant. I ] A J ' - - G.f.3?.CI TALKS EiNlCLiSH. ; . i*2ai:<; Answers to the Qae^tioiis A<ke<l l>v i * t !>?? Alli:?5!cc. ' ' Washington. ?>. C.. Au;/. 21.? i Representative Tiiiman. of South | i 'InvfilnM l'.:K wri H ??Ti !. .)!n>riTi?r ! ... jilicmi letter to the Farmers' Alii- c mce of Barnwell county: j. "I have received your official letter, t is the organ of the B.irnwcll County n Fanners' Alliance, requesting my c riews as a candidate for Congress in t :he Second South Carolina district y )n certain measures of proposed + ;egislation, indicated in live interro- t Rations. "Understanding from your v communications transmitting the in i ;errogations that you do not want a a .ong letter, but only categorical replies, r [ shall be as brief as possible,Jin order } to dcline my position without equivo- t nation, by merely quoting each inter- a rogatory separately and making an i absolute answer thereto. r (.Question?Will you. uninfluenced ] by party caucus or otherwise, sup- i port the following proposition in the f national Consrress: First interrogatory?The abolition i of the national banks, raid the sub- ] stitution of legal teuder treasury ^ notes m iieu of national bank notes j issued in sufficient volume to do the i business of the country on a cash } basis. c Answer?Yes. t Second interrogatory?The free and \ unlimited coinage of silver.' i Aiiswer?Yes, ? Third interrogatory?That Con- ( gress issue fractional paper cuirency ] in cnffirvipnt. mmnf.ifv to fucintn.f.o PX- ^ change through the mails' Answer?Yes. < Fourth interrogatory?Do you ap- 1 prove and will you support the linan- cial system knows as the ;sub-treas- ( ury" plan, adopted by the National Alliance and Industrial Union at St. Louis on December 7, 1889' Answer?No. Fifth interrogatory?The enactment of such laws as will prevent the ownership ol lands by aliens? Answer?Yes. But this has already been done bv the act of March 3. 1887. Permit me to add that for thirty years I have had no industrial occupation but cotton planting, which ought to identify me zealously with the welfare of the cotton planters. a i? /->F \vIJU nui uuij cuiisuiiutc me UUIIY. ui my constituents, but liave repeatedly honored me with high commission, and that, if re-elected to Congress, I shall continue in the future as I have in the past, to support what; ever I believe to be best for the ini terest of my class and section. ;,I myself am a member of the Farmers' Alliance and deeply sympathize with the purposes and efforts of the organization to relieve the widespread and continual agricultural depression. But the South alone can not remedy the fiscal and financial iVncoe /vf +V>r> -For? dm 1 o-nvPITimPnt. which is now and has been dominated by the Eastern States ever since the war. The West must cov;'~ "In conclusion, let me take the liberty of advising the Southern wing of the Alliancc to move a little more cautiously till it shall have been demonstrated that the Western wing are in earnest about taking the proposed new departure of abandoning sectionalism and uniting with the South for a redress of mutual grievances. "Very respectfully, George D. Tillman." A MYSTERIOUS MURDERFound Dying Alone at Midnight?An Axe rielve the Weapon?Evidence Before the Coroner?Two Men IT eld on Suspicion. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 13.?At 1 o'clock this morning Henry Gardner, 1 a young Gorman who keeps a grocery store in the northwestern suburbs of the city, was found dying in his store by a negro who passed the place at the time. A doctor was summoned, but the man died without making a sign. His head had -iSeen crushed in by an axe handle which was found near the scene of the murder with traces of blood and hair clinging to it. The murder is wrapped in mystery.' At the coroner's inquest the following facts were developed: A whiteJnan named John Mclnerny was seen talking with Gardner, and left his store about 9:20 p. m. A negro named Curtis Shecutt later heard groans in Gardner's store. With some of the neighbors, he went in and found Gardner lying on the floor with a fearful wound on the head. His skull was crushed in. Peter Hogan, a fisherman, and Wiley Pitts, a scavenger cart driver, both colored, were examined by the coroner. ?neir siatemenis were very confused. Tliey were committed to jail on suspicion tliat they committed the foul deed. Schecutt was committed to jail as a material witness. It is believed that he knows more than he has told. Hogan and Pitts were held. Both had had difficulties with Gardner, and Pitts has been heard to say that he would get even with him. Hogan was recently roughly handled by Gardner, whom he cursed tn his own store. The verdict of the jury was that Gardner met his death at the hands of some person to it unknown. Mclnemey has not yet turned up. although there arc no suspicions aerainst him. Killed in Bed by a Snake. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 12.?Jasper Keith, a farmer living in Winston count}*, awoke yesterday morning and found his wife and 8-months'-old babe dead in his bed by his side. : Their bodies were badly swollen, and coiled in one corner of the bed was a moccasin snake, whose bite is as : fatal as that of a rattlesnake. Dur- 1 ing the night the snake had crawled ; into the bed and had bitten Mrs. ttt-oo on JLXtMUJl 4.WUL1A LUC V^JJ.IIV.1. XX^XCJ-L TT CIO OV overcome v/ith grief and horror that ' he fell prostrate acsoss the dead < bodies of his wife and babe. i This aroused the snake and it i struck at Keith; but its fangs caught ! in his night shirt and he escaped the fatal sting. Realizing his peril,Keith ! caught the snake in his hand and ] hurled it to the floor before it could 1 strike again. ] 1 Pianos and Organs. j N. W. Tp.ump, 134 Main Street, 1 Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Or- i ^ans, direct from factor}-. No agents' i commissions. The celebrated Chick- < mnsr Piano. Mathushek Piano, cele- f brated for its clearness of tone, liglit- ( iiess of touch and lasting qualities, i Mason & Hamlin Upright Piano, i Sterling Upright Pianos, from $22 up. c irion Pianos, from $200 up. Mason s Hamlin Organs, surpassed by none, s Sterling Organs, ?50 up. Every In- r. strument guaranteed for six years. 1 Fifteen daj's' trial, expenses both \ ;vays, if not satisfactory. Sold on t [nstalments. j BwaaKawytfigpg as?aw ?n*i DISTRESS IN OKLAHOMA"2;e President Jl"co2n::iend3 thai Coii:?reMS j Provide Relief for the Sul'ferhis. Y>'as3ixg7u>\ D. C.. Aug. 13.?The; resident lias sc-nv to Congress a; aes?;:g?- coutuiiiing extracts from a omiuunication sent to him by Gov. ! Steele, of Oklahoma, to the elfect that | wenty-eight families in one township | re in actual need of the necessaries j if life: that this township is no excep-! ion. and that in the near future it rill be necessary for a large nropor - -i.-i.i-- l-j.:? -f 4.1.:..' T ; IOH Oi my pv/pUIilUUil LUI> Afiilorry to have assistance. A great aany people have not the necessary neans of subsistence from day to day, .nd are being helped by their very poor teighbors. The Governor says that ie realizes the utter helplessness of urning to the Legislature for relief, .s there is bat little taxable property a the Territory and very many deaands to be made. Therefore he >egs that the attention of Congress >e called to the very great suffering :mong the people. The President says: "Information eceived by iiic from other sources eads me to believe that Governor Steele is altogether right in his imjressior. that there vail be, unless reief is aii'ord-d either by public approwofinn /-iv li-r nvfMiiiyprl individual ifFort, widespread suffering among :lie settlers in Oklahoma. Many of :hese people expended in travel and n providing shelter for their families ill of their accumulated means. The ;rop prospects for this year are, by ;eason of drought, unfavorable, and :he ability Of the Territory itself to provide relief must be inadequate :luring this year. I am advised that there is an unexpended balance of about $-15,000 of the fund appropriated for the relief of the suffers by flood upon the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and I recommend that authority be green to use this fund to meet the most urgent necessities of 1- -? tiie poorer peopie m v^jiuuxumu.. S'rps have been taken to ascertain more particularly the condition of the people throughout the Territory, and if a large relief should seem to be necessary the facts will be submitted to Congress. If the fund to which I have referred should be made available for relief in Oklahoma, care will be taken that so much of it as is necessary to bo expended shall be judiciously applied to the most worthy and necessitous cases/' MissDavis's Marriage Postponed. Beauvoir, La., Aug. 13.?On acJ -e xi-- I-?-.... r? COUIIl 01 till? tiysil t" 'JL _u_i.:5. y vutuwu Davis, Miss Tv innic Las consented to wait until next June before marrying. This is done for the reason that Miss Winnie does not want to marry until one year after her father's death, which occurred 011 the Gth of last December. Mrs. Davis and her daughter are busy making a fish-scale necklace, which will be set with diamonds. The nec' ^cc is to be worn at the wedding, which has been fixed foi June 25, 1891. \ A Man Receives 2.000 Volts. \Y ashingiv-n. auijus'v jlm.? \v aiian: Ross, an employed of the Unitec States Electric Light Company, while charging carbons in one of the citj electric lights to-night, received ? shock of 2.000 volts. He was almosl instantly rendered insensible, but soor recovered, although the flesh on the right hand where the current entered and on his left arm where it passec off, was badly burned. He said thai for four or five seconds before he became insensible liu suffered greai pain. Cancer. To B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm] has been given the credit of curing that terrible symptom of hereditary blood poison called cancer. Allan Grant, Sparta, Ga.. writes: "A painful sore came on 2113- lip which was pronounced epithelial cancer b\ prominent physichins. I also had much pain and great weakness in the back. Eight bottles of B. B. B. healed the sore, gave me strength and made me well." G. F. Kellar, Whrightsville, Ga.: writes: "B. B. B. is curing an ulcei on my nose, said by all to be a cancer." James A. Greer, Athens, Ga.. writes: "For ten years I have been a sufferer from a cancer on my face, which discharged offensive matter. Nothing I tried gave relief. Finally I gave B. 33. B. a trial. The discharge gradually decreased and the cancer grew less until now there is nothing left except a scar." ?The fact that the boycott is n two-edged weapon will probably receive vivid illustration in New York. The Building Trades Unions declared a boycott against certain brick made by non-union workmen, refusing to work on buildings in which they are.used. Therefore the brick m^nnfjifij-nrsrs united in the boycott against New York and will refuse to send any brick there until the other boycott is removed. The result will be suspension of all building and the enforced idleness of a good many thousands of men with the resulting deprivation and suffering among their familiesCommenting 011 the action of the House on the Force Bill, the Baltimore Sun says: "The bill passed by Speaker Heed and his friends in the House of Representative was properly called the Force Bill, because its successful operation involved the employment of soldiers and of a largo number ot deputy marshals and supervisors to overawe voters and frighten honest citizens. The Republican majority in the Senate?more diplomatic and crafty than that in the House?has substituted fraud for force in the measure they have agreed upon. The ba3*onets and some other features suggestive of violence and open oppression have been withdrawn, and while it is made the duty of supervisors to inspect and witness the election, the registration, the election find the certification thereof are left in the hands of the local authorities. But when inspection is provided for a whole Congressional district three State commissioners are to be appointed by the court, not more than two of whom shall be of one political party, who sball issue a certificate of the result of the election in that dis;rict. What need will there be of bayonets when Congressional returnng boards are at hand to accomplish ill and more than the bayonets could effect? "With this provision for "three State commissioners," the Republican mnioritv can afford to let voters n the South play a politics and inline that they are controlling their >wn elections, conscious that they can itep in after the election and have such results certified as they please. Che claws in the force bill were visiyki to the dullest vision, but the fraud )31 with its smoother front gjid pre,ense of honesty, is scarcely^; Adan ajrogyw .I mai'^.ce?o?rai rirrwac FiDDLiNiG FOR SHAKES! Ji'fi Mciia Had Clianuii t?> Sarround Him i With Keptil"s. Paul Krister, r. loc:il musician. re- j ports an exciting1 and novel experi- j cnce with a pair of rattlesnakes in the Sonoma mountains. Keister's services are in demand as a violinist in the country, where old-fashioned parties are given. On Saturday evening he played at a farmhouse back of Yulupa mountain, He slept at the farmhouse. The trail to his Lome leads through a deep canyon. At one point the path winds around a sharp and narrow spur of the mountain. Keiser had reached this point when his attention was attracted by the warning clatter of a rattlesnake. When ho saw a formidable rattler in his path he took to his heels. A few feet farther along still another rattler rose up before him. There was not sufficient room to pass the snakes without running the risk of being bitten, and the frightened musician backed up against the ledge and eyed the advancing reptiles. It suddenly occurred to him that in India magicians charm such things with music, and. pulling out his violin, he began desperately to play. The music had the desired effect. The snakes gradually uncoiled and glided slowly toward the player. This movement of the snakes was anything but pleasant to Keister. j who kept sawing away at his riddle, Cijmy CU UCVI9C JJJ.tTiWJ.WUHU IL nuucuiv I for escaping'. Closer and closer tame the snakes, and faster and faster Hew the bow over the strings as Iveisters nerves quivered and shook. At last the snakes reached a point within two feet of the terrified fiddler, and winding themselves up they lifted their heads closely together and fixed their shining eyes on the musician. Keister's nerves were now utterly uncontrollable. "With a yell he grabbed his fiddle by the neck and brought it down with crushing force on the heads of the snakes. The blows SlUiXLieil IJJL.' J. CJJtULCa U.U.CI HCiO iti xivj/u hammering away until they were dead. He broke his beloved violin, but he saved his life. The snakes measured six and seven feet respectively. One earned ten rattles and the other seven.?Dallas News. How the Doctor Got Even. If a prominent physician over in the northwest hasn't got eveii with one pratieal joker, then it doesn't lie in the telling. The physician livesOn ' a very modern establishment. .-JSot only is there a special night-berl, but a speaking tube connects the' doorstep with the head of his bed. The . practical joker has had fun with this. -*-? > * -1 J. on ? Jtie lias oeen coming aiung v.. m., and stnncliricr or> *hft owP??%?*or >--ci, and laughing until his L ached, thinking how funny he ^ and what a good time he was having k Then he would cross over and ring ; the night-bell, and howl up the speaking tube as if a whole regiment o: . mothers-in-law on the next block hac '' ten-minute cholera, and were dyins 1"" 4-1 ? /> Iaa^J A r>/l 111 A UJ LJ1U ? UgUii 1VCLU.. XXI IU. OJ-LC ]/VVA ' tired doctor would rouse out of his [ first sweet sleep, and "hello"' dowi . tlie tube. Then the funny man woulc ; say: l "Does Dr. J. live here?" K "Yes." "Have you lived here iong?:" "For twenty years. "Who are you: , What the blazes do you want?" p "Jest want to know why you don'i \ move. That's all. Ta! ta."' And then the funny man bounces . down into the street and scoots home. | where he laughs for half an hour . straight. I He didn't laugh half so much the , other night. The doctor was loaded lor Jiim. He imew tliat iaugii anci ^ that yell, and he stuck a funnel in the tube, and poured in two quarts oi aquafortis, Stafford's indehble ink ! liquid lye, and a few chemical whiffs of torment. It gurgled and gurgled for one second, and then struck Dofunny in the mug just as he opened | his mouth for another howl. It came with a thirty-foot fall, and a ten pound pressure to the square inch. He swallowed a pint before he could , get his mouth shut, and the ini' promptu hose played away all over . his face aud silk hat and shirt front and dress-suit. It was a roof raiser. and. curled iiirn iLke a cocHroacn 011 a , hot shovel. It will cost tlic doctor forty dollars for plumbing, but he grins every time he thinks of it. Kentucky's Answer to the Force Bill. The latest returns from the recent Kentucky elections show a Democratic majority that is constantly increasing as the count goes on. There is little doubt that the Democratic majority will be between 40,000 and iO.OOO. the returns exhibiting decided gains throughout the State, even in those districts where disaffpofirm tv-d2 Tn Retmblican strongholds, such as "Whitney and Laurel counties, there are large Democratic gains, the reduced Republican majorities being accepted as equivalent to Democratic -victories. It Tvas in these counties that Republicans expected to poll a very large vote. "Thus/" says the Louisville Cornier-Journal, "does old Kentucky take her appeal from Republican despotism, sectionalism and government by the bayonet." Malaria and Broken-Down Constitution. Waycross. Ga. Dr. W. H. Whitehead: i Plnr Qtt>- Af va11v VP/WPS} T Will V J \y <^4. * WJ^V?V./V ? state my case. Some years ago I contracted malaria m its most violent form while living at Newark, N. J. I consulted various physicians and took numberless preparations recommended as "sure cures," but it stuck to me like a brother?or more like a mother-in-law. I finally came South, and while here tried new rem-I edies, said to always cure malaria, and it atill stuck to me, and you know the broken-down condition I was in when I came to you. You put me to taking your P. P. P. (Prickly. Ash, Poke Iioot and Potassium), and I improved rapidly, and am to-day in as good health as I ever was?in fact, better. As a remedy for a brokendown constitution, it has no equal. I Yours, etc., T. P. Cottle. Diseases peculiar to women, especially monthly disorders^are cured by the timely use oi Umdfieict s I Female Regulator. Sold by all | di*us gists. ^Ir. O.N.Flanders, the well and the favorably known local man of Columbia Register, lias retired from journalism and will engage to tlit life inmrrnr/' ItjTiirifti - > .ncuwK?ur^u^ ?. * i.'nggrwcg^^jx^<aBfc8/^i11 mwmm V* *~~j ? ~"\ r *:? r. f ^gp&k-C'fy&IF i?Uia ?=? P 5/ S ^ ?=? ?|(f-E.M/tL&' ^C if 5 p ff f* 31 s litap i ISASPECiHC 'Jh: i fo^puk-fiiiy i pA^ Pr- SC- SUHfi?? MENSTRUATION OR MCMTKIV E'.CKNESS \r -VK.S.K OUUANS. CVr.P.N.fiS. SvnJ\T .EKK3 S\tf? WAS'&ii BE. WBfflBl JBODK TOW 0 M WMM37R& SRAuFiELO BEGVLATOZ CO. ATLAHTAGA. SilLO BT/:J. DrtltailZTii. 1.4^ Great Offer Ihut may not axain lse-3 g repeated, so do not rte hi v. "Strike g 5j vrliile the Iron is Hot." ts ? ~Vrite for Catalogue: new, and ?.;y whfttlj fjp.ipw you saw '.hi* Advertisement in. S H Remember that I spi,' everything that & Hjross to tnr"S?h!nK^ home?mr-.nuiaeiiirit)2g gsome thing* anci buyiax others iu theft 0 largest possible Mis, which (i:~d!9c n:e tog swipe out ail competition. 1 Hsi 3R i Ss of 57 Eta?tlisg ?argaias. | jsj A No. 7 Flat top booking Stove, full six?, j a 15 X 17 Inch oven* flttfd with Ci pieces c:'| aware; delivered at. j'our own depot, alii jwfreijrht rharzes paid by me, for only! BTWELVE DOLLARS. Jg Again, I will sell yon a 5 hole CookiDgl iKange 10 x 13 inch o ren, 18 x 2(5 iuch top, j fitted with 21 pieces of ware, for TriCIR-J TEEN DOLL Ail*, aal pay the freight tog v.'iur depot. ,j| I Do Etl pij two pra fin j? goods, |' I I will sc.id you a nice plash Parlor suit.! | walnut frame either la combination org 13 b'>r>de<!, : ho styHsh colors, for 833.506 St.. jot'r liaiiroad st-.ition. irelscht all paid.g p- I wii! also sell yoa a r.ico Bedroom suiig jgcrsisiiij^ of Bureau Willi glass. I hlgbg |g be a'. 3Ji:;!stcad. l Y/ashstai;d, 1 Centre? ?2 tat>!e. i Cane sear. chairs, 1 Cane Spat and! gbiifk ro-'.'cr, all for SUG.50, and pay freight? to>our d-pot. ffl Or 1 will send you an elegant UedroomH gsuit with largo glass, full marble top, forS ^30, and pay freight. [|Nice window shade on spring roller S .40* ?Elegant large walnuts da; clock, 4 |j\Va!nut lounge, 7.0')9 HLacc curtains per window, 1X0 8 I cannot describe everything in a small 3 sndvertiscnient. but have an lmmease store? SSco^taining 22,600 ft. of floor room, with? gsware bouses and factory buildiags in otherB ptparts of Augusta, making in all tbe largest 1 EBusiness of this kind under one manage- w gmentin the Southern States. These store?B Sand warehouse* are crowded w-th theB g choicest productions of the best factories.* My ca'aiozue containing illustrations of* goods will be mailed ifyou will kindly say S I where you saw this advertisement. I payfl freight. Address, 9 L. F. PADGETT, | hp tataSws ! Cirpsi Ml 1110-1:12 BROAD STREET, | S! AUGUSTA, GA. ?DR. GROSVEXOR'S? ai iseii-cap-sic nasiers J ARE THE BEST .POROUS PLASTERS IS V THE tfORLD. r \>ey are the best plasters in every way foi tliV^iick relief of p lam^tjack, pain ix the chest Kb^VMATISM, neuralgia. r Unlike alrother plasters, tbese are Purel: > Vegetable and Harmless. Relieve instantl: , and never fail to cure. 5 safe, quick a>'d sure. 1 Sold by druggists or mailed on receipt o I 2.1c. by GKoSVENOR <?: RrCHARDS, Boston, Mass. Aumnviri PianosS30. Catalogue free Ulc3/HS i>- F. Beaty, Washington, N. J Hindercorns. The only sure Care for Corns. Stops all pait nsunxl comfort to the feet. 15c. a? druggists JL XT V i.^vyA a w.t x. A?oc Consumptive. ' Ka\e you Cough. Bronchitis, Asthma. In ii > jwstion? Use PARKER'S GINGER TONIC It has curel the worst cases and ii the ues remedy for a'! iils crisis? from defective ' nutrition Take in time. 50?. and 51. ' FINE SHOW OASIS, ?3 "Ask for caialoene. TERRY M'F'G CO.. Nashville. Ten v TAUTEftT & SftTT'S & ?CWI ^ ^ v*a ENGINES AND BOILERS, SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS Aiv acknowledged to be tlie best ever sold in this ^State. When you buy one of thern you are s-atissfled that you have made no mistake. Write for our prices. COTTON UINS AND COTTON Pi (ESSES AT BOTTOM FIGURE?. I can savo you money. Y. . BADHAM, Gen. Agt., COLUMBIA. S. C. ?If-Home officeand Factory: llicumond Va, [ C -'v KSSXESS & HEAD *01555 C5K3'.* 3 tfSa S3 rtcfc'a INVISIBLE TJKLtS EA3 | ?2G 3 COSHiOXS. V.*lii?pcrs fcsard. 0>2Jfor;a'?!f. Sufec*sfu!whPrca!l Un.i**!lc?fail. St'Iilb.' Y* Hl.^t OXr Culj. 6i3 Ur'ilway, Sow York. Wriio far boo* el prooCi FHIitf PITT'S CAR31INATIVE! For correcting nausea dysentery Diarrhoea and Cholera Infantum. A Eleasan! medicine of incalcuable merit in the ornc circle for child or adult. It is popular, pleasant and efficient. Truly a mother's frien-'. it soothes and heals the mucous membranes; and checks the mucous discharge from head, stomach and bowels. The mucous discharge from the head and lungs are as prompiiy relieved by it as the mucouH discharge from the b*ve'.s. It is made to relieva the mucous system and cure nausea, and it d?>es it. It makes the Cnsical period of teeih* ing children <-afe and easy, it invigorates and builds t>p the system while it is relieving and cui lng the wasted tissue. It is recommended on/I reed lorc^lv hv r?hT"S?/*?anS. FOP bv Wannamaker & Murray Co., Columbia, S. C., and wholesale by Howard & Willelt, Augusta, Ga. LIPPEAN BBOS., Wholesale Druggists, 3olo Proprietors, Lippman's Block, SaTsnr^GK - - ' -T~ ' ^ ; .> '?* "->; : * ^ ;. -y * ??i .in " T'irri1^-. ,j.??m i "Ml Fhg W r ks (?u vector to Dial Ji -^i? ? W'or"a.) ??r. %.' ? ?sr 1 5(0 J II 3i A. V! 1 jl'i.o c!ui x?-9 117 West Gervais Street, ft ^ N2L1K H 11 iiilFf | ?j ESS MANUF VCTUEEH3 OF g Tozei' Steam Engines, a And all sizts of both Locomotives and return Tublar Boilers. JH ?3~Foundry work in iron atid Brass He- JBM eairinz r romptly executed. CHARLOTTE MM FE MALE IN 8TITUT jB The building is now modernized and H improved as a boarding school until it fl is second to none in the South in com- V jj fort and conveniences. The Corp9 of fl I Teachers engaged for the coining see S sion is the best the Institute has ever had. ]So other institute in the South can ofier advantages superior to those offered here in the Literary, Music and fl Art Departments. H Mr. Maclean continues to be the Director of Music. The patrons of the mk Institute, whose daughters were taught u.. xy? xTo/?icor? Hnrinjr the nasi ses uy m i <*?< ? -? j sion, are referred to in proof of the statement tlat he is the best teacher of Music who has ever taught in Charlotte. As originator and director' o the June Musical Festival in this city, jHH his reputation has extended throughout flH the South. Wm. B. Atkinson, fl i Prin Jpai. W nruimiiiiitt irsl For Estimates on STEAM SAW~MILLS, J Ginning, Harvesting and other Machinery write to the undersigned^/' wno will guarantee the goods they may offer in all respects, and make matters interesting both to consumers and competitors. We will also furnish everything needed in the line of supplies: Belt- i ing, Oils, Piping, Fittings, Valves, flj Inspirators, injectors, .Tumps, &zc. W. H. GIBBES, Jr., & Co., M Columbia, S. C. ?3B5BE3558S5Ma??1 r": j 8 na>t B 1.1 MAH MP WOMAN. ? 2^ "P "P P wf?1 rwrrtfrr <vnA vftelfan rmTf 5 blood, create a good apprtiteand give your t sj whole system tone an< strength. ? A prominent railroad superintendent at ? i4 Savannah, suffering with talaria, Dyroep3 sia, and Rheumatismsaj *t5ing> 3 P. P.P. he never felt so well in his life, and i af feels as if he could live forever, if ho could, ' - g always get P. P. P." Mi 1! p. p. pf V, F| If you are feeling bftd]y In tho spring y and out of sorts, take A i|p.p.p. I I s '< $ If j our digestive orgeissEeed toning np, B * IK p. p. in R If you suffer with headache, Indigestion, | debility and weakness, take P. P. P. If you suffer with rervous prostration, nerves unstrung and a general let down of the system, take P. P. P. I For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrofula, Old Sores. Malaria, Chronic Female Complaints, take V ? P. P. P. I I Prickly Ash, Poke Root B | and Potassium. I g The best blood purifier in the world. j? LIPPMAN BROS., Wholesalo Druggists, 6 5 Sole Proprietors, S ? j Lippsux's Block, Savannah, Ga. DETECTIVES- | Wanted In every County. Sfcrcird mea to act coder iaatruetlocj in our Secret 3errtcc. Experieooe Dot neeeaaary. Particular* fiee. . GrannanDetectlre Bureau Co. 44 AKale,8adss?iJtQ, ~ llSISfiS HASf? BALSAM | Iaad f.-astitles tco halr.f i foatfrrowot".* a riant trroirth. f Fail.- ;r> doctors Grsy H^jr is it* V"'.'H?fut Color,ilndf?'??. <E hnirfalH* fljjg7?-?y<s? yt 5<v;. anH ?> ? -*c Dwarat*. ??WRITE-TO? HOLLEll & ANDERSON BUGGY CO., ROCK HILL, * - , - S.C, For their Catalogue giving Prices, Terms and References of Buggies, M Carriages, Wagons,Road and Phaeton Carts, Harness, etc. All first-class work made by hand and warranted. Prices lower than ai?y other of same j^k grade. Our Vehicles are running in M | every county in South Carolina, and I in many counties of .North Carolina, i Georgia and Florida. All inquiries M promptly answered. In writing pleaee^B mention this paper and. doni forge? H to give your Postoffice address an<^B sign yoiir name plainly. V Holler Anderson Boggy Co., V ?iUMJFACTTBZSS,? T?nPTT TTTT.T. Q n xvvvxi. ill uu, vyr DEPOSIT " M IOUB SURPLUS MONEY IN TH5 1 COMMERCIAL BANK', 1 -OFCOLUMBIA. S, C. Olio dollar and .upwards rectiv^B interest at tne rate 01 i per cent tM annum, paid quarterly, on the fjfl days of February, May, August November. Married women M minors can keep account in their? name. Higher rates of intere^H lowed by special arrangement. H C. J. Iredell, President V Jm 3. Leaphaet, 'James LaqgM Yice-Presidpnt- jfl