The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, February 14, 1894, Image 4
AT THE TABLKNACLF. j
REV. bR TALMAGE PREACHES ON A j
ViSION OF HEAVEN.
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The Eloquent Pres*ch;r Sp'-fck't 01 Impreu- J
sloas of Heavan?What lie Saw Jn a
I>reani?A Glowing Dei-crlptlou?The
L?880d and the Exportation.
Brcxklyn. Feb. 4.?Ia the Brooklyn
Tabernacle thi3 forenoon the
hymns, the Scripture lesson and the
prayers, as well as the sermon, were
about the future world more than about
this world. liev Dr. Talmage took for
his subject "A Vision ot Heaven," the
text being Ezekiel i,l, "Now it came to
passa3 I was among the captives by the
river of Che'oar that the heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God."
Expatriated and in far exile on the
banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of
the Euphrates, sat EzskieL It was
there he had an immortal dream, and it
is given to us in the Holy Scriptures.
He dreamed oi Tyre and E?vpi. He
dreamed of Christ and the coming heaven
This exile seated by that river Chebar
had a more wonderful dream than vou
or I ever have had or ever will have
seated on the banks of the Hudson or
Alabama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber
or Danube.
But we all have had memorable dreams
?-* ?~ "-ava ho ] f I
some ux luciu v*u=u nc ?> w
and half awake, so that we did not know
whether ttey were bom of shadow or
sunlight; ^whether they were thoughts I
let loose and disarranged as in slumber
or the imagination ef laculties awake.
Such a dream I had this morning! Ii
was half past 5, and the day was breaking.
It was a dream of God?a dream
of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on
the baks of the Chebar. I had my dream
not far from the banks of the Hudson.
The most of the stories of heaven were
written many centuries a?o, and they
tell us how the place looked then cr
how it will look centuries ahead. Would
you not like to know how it looks now?
That is what I am going to tell you. I
was thfre this morning. I have jist
got back. How I got into that city oi
the sun I know not.
Which of the 12 ?ates I entered is U
me uncertain. But my first remembrance
of the scene is that I stood one of the
main avenues, looking this way and that,
lost in raptures, and the air so full of
mui'c and redolence and laughter and
light that I knew not which street to
take, when an anael of God accosted me
and offered to show me the objects of
greatest interest, and to conduct me from
street to street, and from mansion to
mansion, and from tempie to temple,
and form all to wall. I said to the
angel, k,Eow lonjj hast thou been in
heaven?" and the answer came, "Thir
ty two years, according to the earthly
calendar."
There was a secret about thii an^ei's
name that was not given me, but from
the tenderness and sweetness and afiVc
tion and interest takm in my walk
through heaven, and more than all in the
fact of 32 years' residence?the number
of years since she ascended?I think it
was my mother. Old a^e and decrepitude
and the tired look "were all gone,
but I think it wa3 she. You see, I was
only on a visit to the city and had not
yet taken up residence, and I could
know only in part.
Hooked in for a few moments at the
great temple. Our brilliant and lovely
Scotch essayist, Mr. Drummond, bj.js
there is no church in heaven, but he did
not look lor it on the right street. St.
John was rieht when in his Fatmosic
vision, recorded in the third chapter of
Revelatioa, he speaks of "the temple oi
my God." I saw it this morning?the
largest church I ever saw, as big as all
the churches and cathedrals of the earth
pot together?aod it was ihronsjed. Oh.
what a multitude! I had never seen so
many people together. All the audiences
of all the churches of all the earth put together
would make a poor attendance
compared with that assemblage.
There was a fashion in attire and
headdress that immediately took my attention.
The fashion was white. All
in white save one. And the headdress
was a garland of ro3e and lily and mignonette,
mingled with green leaves culled
from the royal gardens and bound together
with binds of goid.
And I saw some young men with a
ring on Snger of the right hand and said
to my accompanying angel, '-Why those
rings on the lingers ox the right hands?"
and I was told that those who were them
were prodigal sons and once fed swine in
the wilderness and lived on husks, but
they came home, and the rejoicing father
said, "Put a ring on bis hand."
But I said there was one exception to
this lashion of white pervading all the
auditorium and clear up throu2h all the
galleries. It was the attire of the one
who presided in that immense temple?
the chiefest, the mighte3t the loveliest
person in all the place. Hi*
cheeks seemed to be flashed
wttb MnUnlte beauty, ana qis^.u-ss-r
were eloquence omaigot???r~'But his
attire^as-ofjleefrcoiores. They sag- i
"^^"^eSted the carnage through wh'ch he
had passed, and I said to my attending
angle, "What is that crimson robe that
that he wears?" and I was told, "They
are dyed garm ents form Bozrah," and (
"He trod the wine press a lone." ,
Scon after I entered tais temple they (
began to chant the celestial litany. It 5
was unlike anything I had ever heard j
for sweetness or power and I have heard ,
the most of the great organs and the <
most of the great oratorios. I said to .
my* accompanying angel, "Who is that 5
standing yonder with the harp?" and <
the answer was, "David." And I said ,
"Who is that sounding that trumoei?" j
and the answer was, Gabriel." And I ?
said, "Who is that at the organ?" and
the answer was, "Handle'' And the ,
music rolled on till it came -) a dosology j
extolling Chri3t himself, when ali the r
worshipers lower down and higher up (
a thousand galleries of them, suddenly (
dropped on their knees and chanted. ]
\ "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." ,
Under the overpoweing harmony I fell f
back. I said: "Let us go This !s toy ?
much fcfor mortal ears. I cannot bear s
the overwhelming symphony." 2
But 1 noticed as I was about to turn j
away that on the steps of the altar was (
something like the lachrymal, or tear >
bottle, as I had seen it in the earthly t
museums, the lachrymals, or tear bot- j
ties, into which the. orientals used to (
weep their griefs and set them away as :
sacred. But this lachrymal, or tear hot- t
tie, instead of earthenware as those the s
orientals used, was lustrous and fiery,
with many splendors, and it vras tower* i
mg and of great capacity. And I said 1
to my attending angel, "what is tfeat i
great lachrymal or tear bottle, standing 1
on the step of the altar?'' and the an- (
gel said: "Why, do you not know? That <
is the bottle to which David, t::e psalm- [
1st, referred In his fifty-sixth psalm '
when he said, 'Put thou my tears into (
thybotth.' It is full of tears from earth
?tears of repentance, tars of bereave
ment, tears of joy, tears of ninny cen '
tunes." Ana thee I saw now sacred to
the sympathetic God are earthly sor- i
rows.
As I was coming cut of the temple I
- x. saw ail along the pictured walls there
Were shelves, and golden vials were being
seS; up on all those shelves. And 1
said: "Why the setting up ot these vials
at this time? They seem jast.now to
have seen filled,"aud the attending angel
saici.. "The week cf prayer all around
the earth has just closed, and more sup
plications have been made than have
been for a long while, and these new
f
v.als, neviy set us. are what tbe B.ole c
speaks of as lgo]dtn yiai3 lull of odors, <
wbich are the prayers of saiots.'" ATd '
I said to the accon3;)aa\icz asgel, k*Cau
It ce posaiDle thdt the frayers of earth ; '
are worthy o! beioc kf-pt in sach heav- J ,
en!v 3hap;i'" "Why," said tbe anael, M
"tliere is nothing that so c-oves heaver;
a? the prajers o! earth, and the? are set ij
rm in ew/hr nf ihcue inhnitf* millritlldeS. I ,
*" - - ? ? J
and, more ibun all. in the sigbt oi
Christ, and be cannot forget them, and
they are before him world without end." ;
Then we jame out, and a3 the temple 1
is always open, and some worship a* '
one hour and o.bers at other hours, we '
passed duwn the street amid the thrones
coming and going from the grea*. temple 1
And we passed through a street called ,
Mart\r place, and we met there or saw ;
sitting at the windows the souls of those '
who ou earth went through Ore and flood j
and under swcrJ and rack. We saw ,
John Wiclif. whose ashes were by decree |
of the council of Constance thrown into <
the river; and Rogers, who bathed his i
bands in tne tire as though it had been j
water; and Bishop Hooper and McKail !
andLitimer and Hid ley aud Polycarp, 1
whom the flames refused to destroy as J
tbey bent outward till a spear did the
work, and some of the AlbigeDses and 1
Huguenots and consecrated Quaker? who
were slain for their religion. Tbey
h'id ou them maEv scars, but their scars j j
were illuminated, and they had on their J
faces a look of especial triumph. (
Then we passed along Song row, and
we met some of the old gospel singers'
' That is Isaac Watts," said my atten i- <
ant. As we came up to him he asked ]
me it the churches on earth were still <
singing the hymns he composed at the I
house ot Lord aod Lady Abney, to 1
whom he paid a visit of 36 Years, and I 1
told him that many ot the churches op- ;
ened t'ueir Sabbath morning services '
wiih bis old hym, ''Welcome Sweet Day
cf Rest," and celebrated their gospel :
triumphs with hi3hymn, '-Salvation. 0
the Jojfiu Song!" and often roused their (
devotions; by bis hymn' "Come W? :
TtatLove the Lord."
While we were talking: be introduced
me to another th? song writers ;>nd
said, 'This is Caarle3 W;sley, who belonged
ca earth to a different churcu
fro u mice, but we are all now members
of the same church, the temple ot God |
and the Lamb." And I told Charles j
Wesley that almost every Sabbath we 1
saug ODe of bis old hymns, "Arm of
the L^rd Awake!" or "Come. Lit us
Join Our Friends Above," or "Love D;
vine, Aii .Love Jt.xceuing." .aaiu wuuo
we were talking on that street called (
Sons row Kirk White, the consumptive
college student, now everlastingly well,
and we talked over his old Chris'mas
hymn, '-When Marshaled on the Xinht i
ly Plain." And William Cowper came
up, nowentiielv recovered from hi3 re- 1
ligious melancholy and not looking as it
he bad ever in dementia attempted sui 1
cide, and we talked over the wide earthly
celebrity and heavenly power ? f his ,
old fcnmns, "When I Can Read My Title
Clear" and "Toere is a Fountain
Filled With Biood."
And there we met George W. Bethuoe
or wondrous Brooklyn pastorate,
and I told him of how his comforting
hymn had been sung at oosequies all
around tae world--"It is not Death to
Die." And Topiady came up and :
asfced about whether the church was
still making U3e of his old hymn, "Rvck
of Ages Cleft For Me." And we met
also on S^ng row Newton and Hastings |
ana Montgomery and Horatio B mar and
we heard floating from window to win
dow snatches of the old tymu3 which
they started on earth and started never ,
to die.
"But" says some of my hearers "did ^
you see anything of our friends in heavec*""
Oh, yes I did. "Did you see mv
children there'r" says some one, "and j
are there any marks of their last sick ;
ne3s still upou them?" I did see them.
but there was no pallor, no cough, no
fever, no languor about them. They
are all well an<t ruddv and songful and
bounding with eternal mirth. They ]
told me to give their love to you that J
they thought of you hour by hour and ,
that when they could be excused from j
the heavenly playgrounds they came <
down and hovere.l over, and kissed your <
cheek, acd filled your dreams with their j
slad faces, and that they would be at the <
gate to greet you when you ascended to 1
be with them forever.
"But," sav other voices, "did you see ^
our glorified friends?" Yes, I saw them and
they are well m the land across *
^hich no pneumonias or palsies or drop- '
sies or typhoids ever sweep. The aro- j
ma blows over from orchards with trees }
bearing 12 manner ol fru.its, and gardens ?
compared with which Chats worth is a
desert. The climate is a mingling ot an (
earthly June and October, the balm of '
the one and the tonic of tbe other. The {
social life in that realm where they are :
is superb and perfect. No controversies
or jealousies or hates, but love, univer- t
sal love, everlasting love. And they J
told me to tell you not to weep for them 1
for their happine33 knows no bound, \
urul ^ io o r-nootirsn nf fitnp whfin
you shall reign with themTaNtil'e"sanie ^
palace and join with them in the same t
exploration of planets and the same r
bur of worlds. c
But vonder in this assembly is an up- ^
turned face that seems to ask how abcut 1
the ages of those in heaven. "Do my 1
departed children remain children or have e
Lhey lo3t their childish vivacity? Do my F
departed parents remain aged, or have J,
they lost the venerable out cf their na- _
Lure?" Well, from what I saw I ibir.k g
childhood bud advancedie full maturity ;
J faculty, rt dicing all the resilience rf < ^
;hildaood, ati'.i that the aged had re* i
treated to mi<1';fe, freed from all decad- j fc
;nce, but stilt retaining the charm of | n
he venerable. In other words, it was i:
:ully developed and complete life of all ii
souls, whether young or old. a
Some one says, "Will you tell us J
what most impressed you in heaven?" *
[ will. I was most impressed wah the jreversal
of earthl? conditions. I knew ^
)f course that there would be diflerences ^
)f attire and residence in heaven, for ^
Paul had declared long ago that souls ^
would tfcen difi'er "as one star differetb <3
or?AfKA?? *7 rtp. k
auuiuci, ao -XLLIAO jlvlu xrivtv?** r j u
is Saturn from Jupiter. But at every h
step m cay dream m heaven E was
imszed to see that some who were ex t(
?ected to be hi?h in heaven were low P
iown, and some who were expected to a
)e low down were hiah up. You y.
.bought, for instance, that those bom o{ ~
dious parentage, and of naturally good ^
disposition, and of brilliant {acuities,
;ad of all styles of attractiveness will t(
noye in tbe highest rarige ot celestial
splendor aod pomp. .N >, uo! t!
I found the highest throne?, the c
brightest coronets,the richest mansions h
svere occupied by those who had repro- t<
Date father or bad mother, and who in- f,
lerittd the twisted nat-ures of 10 gen- Sl
?rat*ons or miscreants, and wno had a
lompressed In their body all depraved
ippetitts and all evil propensities, but
:hey laid hold of God's arm, they cried
[or especial mercy, they conquered sevsn
devils wi'hin and TO desils without d
*nd were washed in the blood of the t1
Lamb, aud by so much as their contest r;
was territlc r.ud awful and prolix tneir >
ri(>tftrr vd 'cs mrKnmmats unil n-srslond
ent, and thev nave taken piaces uu- u
measurably higher than Those of good t
parentage,"who could hardly help being a
good because they had 10 generations t
of preceding piety to :iid them. t
The steps by wnich many have
mounted to the highest places in heav- c
en were made out of the cradles of a J
corrupt parentage. When I saw that, i
I sa:d to my attending angei: "That is i
fair: that is right. The Harder the ]
struggle, the more gloriou3 the re- ]
ward." i
Then I pointed to one of the most i
?olonaded and grandly domed residents
in ail the city aod said, "Who iiv-s
>ere'r" an1 the answer wac, 'Tne
widow who gave two mites."' "And
?rho lives there?" and the answer was,
The penitent thier' to whom Christ
said, 'This aay shalt thou be with me
n paradise." '-And who livtrs ther.; V'
[ said, and the answer was, "The biind
-H'ggar who proved, :Lord,that my eyes
nay be opened."
borne of those professars of religion
who were famous on earth I asked
about, but no one could tell me anyLhing1
concerning them. Their names
ivere not even in the city directory of
rhe New Jerusalem. The fact is that
L suspected some of them had not got
Lhere at all. Many who had 10 talents
litrinor r?n fhp hsif?lr nf
heaven, while many with one talent
bad residences fronting on the King's
park atjd a back lawn sloping to the
river Clear as Crystal, and the highest
nobility of heaven were guests at their
table, and often the white horse of him
who "hath the moon under his feet"
;hainped its bit at their doorway. InUDite
capsize of earthly conditions! All
social life in heaven graded according
to earthly struggle and usefulness as
proportioned to talents given!
As I walked through those streets I
appreciated for the first time what
Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffer,
we shall also reign with him." It surprised
me beyond description that all
:he great of heaven were great sufferers.
".Not all?" Yes, all. Moses.him
Df the Re sea, a great sufferer. David,
bim of Absalom's unfilial behavior and
Anithophel's betrayal, and a nation's
dethronement, a great sufferer. Ezetuei,
him of the captivity, who had the
Iream on the banks of the Chebar, a
?reat sufferer. Paul, him of the diseased
eyes, and the Mediterranean
shipwreck, and the Mars H.i!l derision,
and the Mamertine eDdungeonment,
and the whipped back, and the head
mail's ax on the road to Us'.ia, a great
3ufferer. Yea, all the apostles after
lives of suffering died by violence,
beaten to desth with fuller's club, or
dragged to death by mobs, or from the
t'-.rust of the sword, or by exposure on
barren island, or by decapitation.
All the hign up in heaven great suifert-rs
and women mc^re than men?
Felicitas and .St. Cecelia and at. Agnes
and St. Agatha and St. Lucia and
women never heard of outside their
own neighborhood, queens of needle,
and the broom,and the scrubbiog brush,
and the wash-tub, and the diary, rewarded
according to how well they
iiia their work, whether to set a tea table
or govern a nation, whether empress
or milkmaid.
I could not get over it as in my
dream I saw all this, and that some of
the most unknown of earti were the
most famous in heaven, and that many
who seamed the greatest failures of
earth were the greatest successes of
heaven. And as we passed along one
of rhe grandest boulevards ot heaven
there approached us a group ot persons
so radiant in countenance and apparel
I had to shade my eyes with botn hands
because I cnuld not endure the luster,
and L said, ''Angel! do tell me who they
are?" and the answer was, "T:iese are
they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the L-imb!"
My walk through the city explained
a thousand things on earth that had
been to me inexplicable. When I saw
up there the superior delight and the
superior heaveu of m-iny who had on
earth had it hard with cancers and
bankruptcies and prosecutions and
trials nf all snrts T said: "ftod has
equalised it all at last. Excess of enchantment
in heaven has more than
made -'p for the deficits on eartn."
"Bat," I said to my angelic e-cort, "1
mu<5tgono*\ It is Sabbath morning
on earth, and I must preach toJav and
be in my pulpit by half past 10 o'clock,
Goodby" I said to the attendiu* ansrel.
i'hanKs tor vvhat you have shown me.
I kuow I have seen only in part, but I
hops to return again through the atoning
mercy of our Lord Jesus Chri3t."
;'Goodby."
Then I passed on amid chariots of
3alvation, and along by conquerors'
Lhrones, and amid pillared majesties,
ind by windows of agate, and under
arches that had been hoisted for returned
victers. And as I came toward
:,he walls with the gates, the walls
lashed upon me with emeralds and
sapphires and chrysoprases and amithysts
until I trembled under the
?lory, and then I heard a bolt shove and
i latch lift and a gate swing, and they
tvere all of pearl, and I passed out
loaded with raptures, and down by
worlds lower and lower and lower still
[came within sight of the city of my
iarthly residence, and until through
;he window of mv earthly home the
nrvrvn nrttr nillrvrr
IUL1 pjUiCU OU awiUU^ u.y^i_L uuj i/iiiw u
;hat my eyelids felt it, and in bewilderment
as to where 1 was and what I had
;een 1 awoke.
Reflection the first: The superiority
)f our heaven to all other heavens.
The Scandinivian heaven. The departed
are in everlasting battle except as
restored after being cut to pieces.
They drink wine out of the skulls of
heir enemies. The Moslem heaven as
described by the Koran. "There shail
)e houris with large black eyes like
>earls hidden in their shells." The
Slav's heaven: After death the soul
ipversjsix weeks about the body and
hen climbb^-^teaj^'^untaia^on the
op of which is paradise. The Tasrnlf*
nan's heaven: A spear is placed by the
lead that may have something to fight
vith, and after awhile they go into a
one- chase for game of all sorts. The i
Dahitiaa's heaven: The departed are
atc-u up of the gods. The native Ai>
ican heaven: A land of shadows, and
n speaking of the departed they say,
All is done forever.'' The American
.borigine's heaven: Happy tinning
'rounds, to which the soul goes on a
>r Lus?e of snake. The philosophe-'s
i^aven: Made out of ; :hick fog or an
[.finite don'c know, ilut hearken and
/.up hu-.-TTcn ?.hoilPh
'CJLLVS411 .'C4J. vu, 0_
Qostly described by figures Df speech
q the Bible aod by parab'.e ot' a dream
a this discourse, has for its chief charcreristics
saparation from all that is
ile, absence from all that can discomort,
presence of all tbat can gratulate.
i^o mountains to climb, no chasms to
ridge, no night to illp.mine.no tears to
ripe. Scandinavian heaven, Slav's
eaven, Tasmanian heaven, Tahitian
eaven, African heaven, aborigine's
eaven, scattered into tam^ness and
isgust by i glimpse of St. John's
eaven, of Paul's heaven, of Christ's
eav^-n, of your heaven, of my heaven!
Il-flection the second: You had betiv
take patiently aod cheerfully all
angs, affronts, hardsnips, persecutions
ad trials of earth, since if rightly born
ley insure beverilv payments of ecstasy
Ivery twinge of physical distre-s.
very lie told about you, every earthly
attraction if meekly born,will be heavily
addition. If you want to amount
) anything in heaven and mjve in irs
est society, you must be "perfected I
trough salfering-." T&e only earthly
uirency worth any thing.at the gate or
eaven is the silver of tear?. At the
Dp of all heaven sits the greatest suf
V_/iiri3o Ul '-lit- UCVUICUCUJ v^aicnc* i*ry
and of Pilate's oyer and terminer
nd of the C-ilvarean assassination.
What he endured, oh, who can tell,
To save our souisfrom death and heil.
On, yt ;f :h" broaken heart, and the
isaupointrd ambition, and the shat
?red fortune, and the blighted life,
ake omfort from what I ?aw in my
iJ^batb morning dream.
Rejection the third and last: How
esirable that we all get there! Start
his moment with prayer and peuitence
,nd fai'h in Christ, who came Irotu
leaven to earth to take us from earth
o heaven.
Last summer a year ago 1 preached
meSahbath afternuon in Hyde park,
j mdon. to a great muitude that no
nan could number. But I heard nothng
from it until a few weeks ago, when
Rev. Air, Cook, who for 22 sears has
presided over that Hyde park outdoor
ineetiDg, told me that last winter, going
through a hospital in London, he
i saw a G7ing man whose face brightened
I as he told him that his heart was chang{ed
that afternoon under my sermm in <
j Ilyde p nk, and all was bright now at
j his departure from earth *o heaven.
I Why may not the Lord b'.ess this as
Wi:l] a? that: Heaven as 1 dreamed ,
about it and as I real about it i? ?o be- :
niD? a realm you cannot any of you at'- '
ford to mis3 it. * * <
Oh, will it not be transcendently glor- s
ious after tne struggle of this life is :
over to stand in that eternal safety? \
Samuel Kutherford, though thev vie- i
lously burned bis books and unjustly ]
arrested him for treasoo, wrote of that >
celestial spectacle:
The Kins; there in his beauty, i
Without a veil, is seen; " I
It were a well spent journeyi
Though seven deaths lay between.
The Lamb with his fair army
Doth on Mount Zion stand, (
And glory, glory dwelleth
In iunnanuel's land.
Sta'-tllus Figures.
George K. Ilolires, special census
agent on mortgage statistics, ap- ,
proaches the concentration of weaith ,
in a recent number of the Political '
Science Quarterly. Instead of attempting
to compute the property holdings 1
of the rich he strives to ascertain how 1
much of the national wealth the masse3
of the people possess. The census bu- 1
reau took fiom every family in twenty- 1
two states avl territories answers to 1
the questions whether it owned or hired '
the farm or home occupied, and the ex- <
tent of the incumbrance on owned <
iarms and homes, if any, with the value i
of the property. The results are be
lieved to be fairly representative of the
whole conntrv. Assuming this to be
so, 32 per cent of the farm families and
63 per cent of the home families in the
country are tenants. Among f irmowning
families 30 per cent carry mort- 1
gage debts averaging $1,130 on farms 1
whose average value i- 83,180; among :
home-owning families 29 per cent carry !
incumbrances averaging 31,139 on i
homes valued on the average at 83,254. ;
The census will show th* number of <
1 iarms to ne about -1.300,000, leaving (
I 8,19'3,152 families occupying fc mestbat j
:?i? auG farms. Mr. Holmes conlints I
his wealth estimates here to proper-its
valued at less than 65,000. Such farms .
incumbered constitute 80 per cent in ,
numoer and 52 per cent in value of all
incumbered farms; and such mcum- 1
bered homes constitute 82 per cent in '
number and 46 per cent in value of all 1
incumbered homes. The census did 1
not take the values of unincumbered i
farms and homes and the percentages
in the other case are adopted here as |
probably the trutn. According to the
estimate tabulated by Mr. Iloimes 91 ,
per cent of the families of the country ,
own no more than about 29 percent (
of the wealth, and 9 per cent own 71
per cent of the wealth. Aod Mr.
Holmes believes hi3 estimates do not
overstate the case against the poor. '
These conclusions are about as dubious !
as any that bave ever been reached in 1
the study of this question. l'roceeding
to divide the ncn^r 9 per cent of the
families as between the rich and the i
moderatetv well off, Mr. Holmes takes
the New York Tribune's list of million- ,
aires (4.047) and eives them an average
of about ?3,000.000, this estimate being
also partly based upon Thomas G. ,
Shearman's claims in the same line. (
This giws to the 4,047 very rich fami- (
lies,or three hundredths of one oer cent
of all the families, about .-512,000,000, or
20oercentof all the natiou's wealth;
and leaves the remaining property of :
the nation (51 per cent) to 9 per sent of '
the families, including the very lew i
millionaires. The result seems incred- ]
ible to Mr. Holmes. That 4,047 families
should possess nearly as much
wealth?spven-tenths as much, at least
?as 11,593,837 families, is indeed, rawer
startling. But it is probable, he coil- ,
tends, that the statement is approxi
mately correct. Excluding the million- 1
Hires, the wealth of the 1,092,218 fami- 1
lies lying between them and t.he great 1
mass of people holding property valued ]
at iess than So,000, becomes an average ;
of .$23,000 a family, which seems large '
for so many, but which, Mr. Holmes '
goes on to demonstrate, must be about 1
the case. J
The Farmer Boys' College.
Columb a, S. C., Feb. 1.?The ]
board of trustees of Clemson Collese
met tonight at Wright's Hotel. The j
session was a long one and considerable (
business was transacted. At 11 o'clock .
it was announced that the board would ]
continue in session until 2 A. M. A j
sreat deal cf time was spent discussing i
financial matters and subdividing and <
arranging the work of the committees 1
on experimental station and executive. ?
The trustees decided to elect a board '
of visitors, consisting of one from each 1
Congressional district, to be elected 1
every two years by the board of trustees 1
at their December meetins. The board ]
ot visitors are to visit the College the ]
flrst Wednesday in August and institute J
a rigid inquiry into its working condition <
and suggest to the board ot trustees what
changes, if any, they may deem neces* i
sary. The first board of visitors con- I
sist3 cf: 1st district, Theo. T). Jervery; i
2d, B. B. Watson; 3d, D. F. Bradley; I
4th, T. L. Brice; 5tb, W. H. Edvards; 1
6ih, W. D. Evans: ~th. R. Waiter. <
The-, members ot the board have read
"svith agreat deal of interest the interview
of Prol. Newman. They must have (
thought a good deal about what was so i
tersely said by him, but were not talking f
for publication It has been learned th-u f
a movement was on loot to bring the mat- ?
ter up to-night, and have the action of t
the board reconsidered and a general \
reconciliation. The interview no t
doubt put an end to all such plans. c
Prof. Newman is how in Atlanta, where ]
he owns a valuable tract of land in the (
oub irbi, wh'.c*. be will develop into a fc
horticultural garien. He will devote s
considerable imie to the writing ot text v
book? and general literature on South- r
J em agriculture. [
The board has a stack of applications l
from which to make selection. Several g
of the candidates are here. The follow- r
ing directors are at the meeting: 11. E. a
Bowen. J. E. Bradley, D. X. X 'rris, j
the theltev. Mr. Simpson, J. E Wauna- t
maker, Jesse II Hardin, D T. lied- v
fearn, W. II. Mauldin, M. L Donald- v
son, Governor Tillman, Secretary of r
State Tindal, II. M. Stackhou3e. President
Craihead and Secretary Sloan are
also here. I ^
G?d. Ke'hhitv to Da If. S
I Columbia. S. C., Feb. 8.?For the *
past year Adjt. Gen. Farley, wi",h a ?
I small* appropriation and with the as- 1
sistance of miuy Confederate veterans ]
interested In securing an accurate re- 2
vised list of the rolls of the various *
companies representing South Carolina x
in the late war has been hard at work J
trying to pet such a list. A3 was
shown by his iast annual report to the .*
General Assembly he has the work well *
advanced. Within the next twelve '
mouth? ic is safe to say that these val- (
uable his! one records will be complet- *
ed aud printed. along with a sketcn of ?
the most valuable historic incidents 1
pertaining to thec'vil war and the part
South Carolina played therein, from
the pen of Gen John 13. Kershaw of
Camden. At its las: session, the Le<?- )
islature appro pr ated 81,300 for the ]
purpose of employing Judge Kershaw ,
anu a clerk to superintend and prepare ;
these rolls and write such a sketch as \
has been outlined. Gen. Kershaw
will verv shortly enter upon the work. '
?State.
A T??rr< r 10 Moonshiners. S
Little Rock, Ark., Feo. 7.?Collect <
or Cook today received a telegram from
i... / >?!! r at?t
lyepiuj Ju. iui.juutc ax, j. 1/1'. ]
Smith, who report ed that he had just ]
returned from'a tii'teen days raid on ]
moonshiners in Polk and Servier coun
ties capturing fifteen wild wild catters i
and nine illicit stills. This makes fifty (
illicit stills captured in Arkansas under <
Cook's administration.
I
iNTERiSHNS TO ASSESSORSBorne
C-rrespontleccd as to !hs YFork of
T.>-WE3h?]> TiJftrds.
Columbia. S. C-, Feb. 8.?Comptroller
General E'.lerbs Is making every effort.
to jet ail of the work possible out
}f the varioj? township boards of assessors
in t.hp. .S ar.f? F-Tf? is In hava
Lhera make au itemzed list of all real and
pssrot-al property in the State, and with
that view has had printed a number cf
blaGki which have been sent over the
State with instruction tor their use.
It appears that one of the members
}f a twonship board m Xewosrry county
has sounded an alarm, and so a3 to
:;uiet i'. elsewhere Comptroller General
Eilerbe today gave but the following
jorre?pondence, wtrch will be self-explanatory:
St. Luke's, Feb, G. 189-4.
Elon. W. H. Ellerb?, Comptroller Genera):
D^ar Sir: I see that you ha e sent
out abstracts for the twonshio board ol
assessors. I want to know it the board
Will have to lili out the blanks with the
name of each taxpayer and add up the
i nouot and f ben turn them over to the
auditor, or will the auditor have to lili
them out and the board sizn them. It
the townsbip board has to fill out the
blank* it will take our board at least two
weeks to do it, and as the township board
;ets no pay, it is more time than I can
?iye without pav. Piease let me know
what is the duty ot the board, and oblige.
Yours truly, 11. T. C. Hunter.
The follo>vins is the reply:
Mr. II. T. C. Hunter, St. Luke's:
Dear S.r: Replying to yours of the
j:h instant, I beg :.o say that I cannot
fully understand how or why it vri'.l take
Lwo weeks to fill cu: these blanks. Ii
your board do thuir work ihoroueniv they
mu.it of necessity evamine each sepcate
tern a'ld piece of properly, personai and
real, returned in their township or tax
district, and a this is done h;>w easy f )t
jue member ot the b >ard to *-nter the
item of property as afsessed under the
uead as assayed.
This don^; in a line with name of tax
payer and you will have "your work, as
you pnvrtss, before you in an in? eili^eat
ind concrete from, which will enable or
lid you in aojusune and fixing the proper
vaiue3 unou the property ot your
township. If, however, your board of
assessors can do this work better aod
with more accuracy in the assessing 01
property without the aid of the blanks,
then, ot course, do not use them. Our
purposoe was to aid these boards, aod
that purpose to aid is based upon actual
sxperieuce and observations iu this work
A the township board cf assessors.
The auditor !s not expected to have
inything to do with the work except
3uch aid as his position and information
:an civs, which we are assured such aid
will be cheerfully rendered.
The Campt.roller seeks the co-operaLion,
aid and full sympathy of these
board* cf assessors in the proper assessment
an<i equalization of the taxable property
of the State, and has confidence in
their intelligence, patriotism and devo
tton to djty, ri^ht aud justice to do
their work in a most thorough and satis
I Al A iU..
'aclory mauaer rj i/jeuiaeivcs auu luc
interested poablic.
With the dope tbat you may understand
and appreciate the efiorts of tbis
jCicc, and act in tbe matter as judgment
ol your board indicates and tbe
public interest demands, I am, Yours
respectfully, W. H. Ellerbe.
f omptroller General.
A Sew Commission.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 8 ?Governo r
Tiilman today appointed li. E. Youn g
Charleston, R. W. Boyd, of Darlington,
and J. H. Earl, of Greenville, commissioners
under the act Xo. 286, approved
D-'camber 18, 1893, entitled an
act'' for the promotion of legislation in
the United States." These gentlemen
are to serve four years without emolument,
and as this is a new commission
created, and not generally understood
eve quote the law on the subject, defining
their duties, which reads as follows:
"It shall be the duty of said board to
examine the subject of insolvency, the
the form of national certificates
and other subjects; to
iscertain the best means to effecct an
issimilation and uniformity in the
laws of the States an act with the other
States of theUnion in the same endeav
Dr in a convention to draft uniform
.aws to be submitted for the approval
md adoption of the several States, and
;o devise and to recommend such meas
.ires as shall best accompli3 the purpose
of this act. That until the Senate
ineets in 1894 the Governor shall ap
point such -commissioners with lull
power to act, subject, nevertheless, to
;he consent of the Senate at its next
neeting. That such commissioners
shall serve without pay or emolument
md shall continue In office for the period
of four years. The governor, in
ike manner, shall fill all the vacancies
tfhich shall at any time occur in said
joard by the death, resignation or
withdrawal of any one or more of said
jommisioners."?Journal.
A Devastating Storm.
Memphis. l>.b. 8.?A cyclone passed
)ver th<; noithwestem portion ol Missssippi
late this afLernoon and laid waste
iverything in its path. Plantations were
levastated, farm houses were wrecked
tnd the debris scattered over tnecounty
for miles around. The telegraph
vire3 were prostrated and it is impossi)lc
to obtain particulars from the stricken
iislrict tonight, but it is known that one
ife bas been lost. On the plantation of
Jol. W. L. Nugent, four mJes north:astof
GreeaviUe, Miss., William JBrady
Lnd wife, colored, were in their cabin,
vhich was blown down, killing the wonun
instantly. Wi-en found s'ie was
>icg underneath the wrecked cabin, her
lead being wedged between the sills and
i?veral logs, which mangled her beyond
eeosnitiou. Her husband was blown
everal hundred teetand received serious,
[ not fatal injures. The gin bouse and
enernent houses on the Xugent place
vere all blown down and larga trees
vere twisted Irom their stumps and carled
away.
A side show attached to a circus
vbich snowed iD a country town in
tVest Virginia this wimer had a big
;ign: "Only ten cents to see the most
vonderful thing in the world." Persons
curious enough to pay the dime
bund a man sitting in a chair inside
vhutling a piece ot wood. As he cut
iway, with an outward sweep of his
cuife, he remarked: '"Gentlemen, always
whittle iike tr>is and you will be
n no danger ot cutting yourselves/'
Chis was the whole show. People who
lad been duped were so anxious to
lave company that they weDt out and
idvised thsir friends to go in, and it is
:laimed that the side show did m^re
jusiness than the circus. Thus du we
;te how "man's inhumanity to man
nakes countless thousands mourn."
Wrecked. :
Washington, Feb. 8?The old corvette
Kearsarge was wrecked on Iliniador
reef Feb. 2 while an rour.e from
L\>rt an Prince, Hayti, to Biuelieid
Nicaragua. T^e otlicers and crew were
5*ved. This news reached the Navy
Deparment this mordiDg in a cable
ntS3age dated Colon and sicned by
Lieut. Brainard of the Kearsarge who
eacbed Colon this morning. The Kearsarge
sailed from Port au rrince.IIayti
Jan.30, for Bluelield, Nicaragua.
A "woman was killed lately on the
railroad near St. Joseph, Mo., and her
husband has written to the company
reciting her virtues as a helpful wife,
with a special word as to her qualifications
as a cook, and saying that the
company ought to pay him at least ten
dollars damages. He might have got
fifteen dollars if he had struck for it..
/
Fif-y Million Taken.
j Washington', Feb. 4.? S-crerary I
Carlisle today authorized the following!
statements regarding the allotment of;
the bonds: The Secretary of the Treasury
has considered the proposals submitted
for the new 5 per cent loan, and
has accepted all bids naming a hig'ier
nrice than 117,223. The proposals
submitted at the upset price have been ;
scaled dosvn 5 331 per cent, and the j
amount of bonds allotted under this j
reduction, together with the subscrip*!
t'.oo3 accepted in full, is $50,000,000. A
notice will be sent to each subscriber,
advising him ot the acceptance ol his
subscription, intormin-z h m when the
nnmk wiii be readv and sLatin<? the
amount to be deposited io payment of
the principal and premium. The accrued
interest to date of deposit at the
rate of interest realizid by the subscription
will bs added t,y the ; ssistant
treasurer with whom the deposits are to
be made. The bonds will delivered by
the department after payment is made
to the address given by the 3ubs -.riher
or they may be sent to the assistant
treasurer with whom deposit is made
for delivery. There were several bids
which were not considered, some of them
not having been received in time, some
were irregular and others were conditional.
An Awful Experience.
Columbus, Miss., Feb. 8-?William.
Purvis, the young negro, who was sentenced
to hang here yesterday, for the
alleged assassination last July of William
Buckley of Marion county. He
was duly hanged, hut is yet alive. Tne
noose parted and Purvis neck, Instead
of being broken, was only slightly ab-1
raised by the rope. He fell on his back
and remainel perfectly still for a few
moments A man rushed forward and
bending over the negro asked: "Are
Yoannrcr ' i'romuiiuer ms utacs. cap
Purvis replied: "For God's sake get
me out of this." Others came up and
Sheriff-Hagee made ready to conduct
Purvis back to the scaffold for a second ;
attempt. Four of tf'e brard of super-!
visors were prescor, and liii-.y called the |
sheriff into the court bouse for a con- j
ference. Rev. Mr. Silsley of the Coluic-!
bia Methudist Chucb, made an impas- j
sioned plea to the spectators aDd it was j
decided by unaninmous vote that the
execution be postponed. The negro i
was today taken to Meridian and the.
facts telegraphed to Governor Stone.
Sworn In.
Columbia. S. C., Feb. 4.?Internal
llsveous Collector Webster turned over
bi3 office yesterday to the now Collector.
Capt. S. A. Towne3.
There was not mnch ceremony about
the transfer. General Sewelt, chiet of
the revenue bureau at Washington, was
piesent and superintended the change.
Mr. To wees was swora in by W. A.
Carr, a government commissioner. The
-wearing tn took place at2 o'clock in the
afternoon. The affairs of the ex-collector
were found to be in good shape
and the new officer lakes charge with
things running smoothly. There will
be no change in the office force for a
short time, it is understood. Captain
Little will continue to act as chief
deputv. Mr. Webster will remain around
the office for several days to give the
new appointee any assistance he can in
getting "the run" of the business.?
<LbC?lSLCi
For Science.
Columbus, 0., Feb. 3?Dr. C. S.
P>le, of Canton, appeared before the
nouse committee on prison reform in
support of hisjbill to appropriate condemned
persons for the uses'of science,
ile argued this would be a proper way
for the feion to pay his debt to society.
To illustrate his idea, Dr. Fyie said
he would take an appropriated criminal
cut open his stomach, put him under
the influence of the drug till the open
ing healed, and keep him a'uve for a
time, studying the process of diges:lon
by direct observation, or he would remove
a portion of the skull, and pressing
on the brain, note the sensations.
Such sensations, he held, would not necessarily
be accompanied by pain, and
facts concerning the brain, never to be
secured in any other way, would be
secured. Finally, the subject should be
T
&_uieu uy uyiaico.
Convicted.
Atlanta, Ga.,Feb. 3.?Harry Hill,
Atlanta's beauty, was convicted of forgery
tonight. The jury was out only a
few minutes. The verdict was made so
quickly that the defendant had not returned
from taking a drink at a neighboring
bar when the l'urors filed into
the court ro:m. Bill was suiprlsed, for
he had expacted either a mistrial or an
acquittal. He was seat to jail. for the
night. A motion will. be made for a
new trial. Hill was indicted for forging
the name of Mrs. FaDnv Porter,
wife of a bank president, to notes. His
defense was that she authorized him to
sign her name. She admitted that she
had ?iven him money to aid him and had
signed some notes for him, but denied
having signed six no'es which Hill had
discounted.
The Silver Qaestlon Again.
Washington, Feb. 3.?The silver
question agaiu presented itself to the
House today, when Representative
Bland, chairman of the House committee
on coinage, weights and measures,
made a tavorable report on his bill to
coin the silver seiguorase in the Treasury.
At the same time Charles W.
Sione of Pennsylvania presented au ad nana
ror>nrf from +hf? minfiritv fif t.hfi I
committee. Bland's proposition is ad-!
vanced with a view to supplying tbe '
Treasury with $56 000.000 ot silver cer- j
uScates to mes* current -spenses. It
was originally intended ihit the coinage
ot this amount of silver se'gnora^e
would prevent Secretary Carlisle from
issuing "onds. The reports are voluminous,
and deal with the silver question
broadly as well as its relatto-j to the
sei^norage and bonds.
"Gen. Thomas O. Smith," according
to tne Philaneipbia Press,"is tbe most
noted and picturesque lunatic in Tennessee.
He is confiined in an asylum
not tar from Memphis. He was at one
time the youngest bridgadier general
in the Confederate army. While making
a charge at the battle of Franklin
ne received a sabre cut from a Federal
trooper which wreckled his mind. His
hobby to-day is that he is an Indian
chief constantly on the war path." As
maters of fact there was no Confederate
brigadier named Thomas O.Smith, and
the youngest brigadir general in the
Confederate army was Gen. T'nomas
Muldrup LiOgau, 01 oouro \j*roiiua.
DENSI
"THE WORLD'S GREAT
3 THE MACHINE
The O n1 ;
FOR TYPEWRITERS AT THE ST
"NO MACHINE COULD;
BE ANY BETTER. IT Id t48N
privave statement of ont
oft e udges.
Responsible Oount]
J. W. Grit)
GJSNEBaX AGBN[TS.<
B?g?j??M??B?1^???
KILLED HIS FATHER
To Prevent] Him from Beating Hla
M >the~.
COLU3IBUS, Ga., Feb. 4.?East
Highlands, a suburb of Columbu3, was
the scene of a terrible trazedv earlv
tbis morning. James Thompson, a machinist,
returned home last nu:ht considerably
under tbe influence of liquor,
quarrelled with his wi!e, and finally
drove her out into a furious rain storm
at midnight. She sought refuge at a
neighbos's house, with three little children.
About 3 o'clock, a son, Cliff
Thompson, ag^d 23 years, who is a
printer by 'rade, returned from his work
and went to bed knowing nothing of the
treatment of his mother. Chff is deaf
and dumb. This morning at 6 o'clock
Mrs. Thompson returned to her home,
and attended to her children, who returned
with her. Thompson was
aroused and finding hi3 wife in the house
renewed his quarrel with her and ordered !
her to get out. The woman pleaded
with her brutal husbaad, who, losing
control of himself, made a savage attack
on her. At this juncture, Cliff,
the deat muie son, appeared in the room
and sprang to the assistance of his mother.
His father turned on him to drive him
off. The boy ierked his mother away, ,
when Thompson reached for a pistol, |
intending, it is presumed, to shoot either i
his wife or son, possibly both. Cliff
grabbed a razor from the top ot a bu?
reau and a deadly struggle ensued between
him and his father. Ths boy
made a lunge at the infuriated man.
slashing him across the throat, severing
the carotid artery and cutting him se
veieiy in several other places. Thompson,
the elder, tell to the floor in a pool
of blood and expired in a few minutes.
The son proceeded at once to the police
station, wrote a statement of the tragedy
cn apiece of paper and (surrendered
bimself and was placed under arrest.
The affair has created intense excitement
and hunareds of people surround
the place. Public sentiment Is with the
sou, who was an industrious man and
was for:ed to commit the horrible act
in defense of his mother.
'Horse Talk:
Don't ask me to "back" with blinds
on I am afraid to.
Don't lend me to some block head
that has less sance than I have.
Don't think because I am a horse
that iron weed3 and briars wont hurt
my hav.
Don't be so careless with my harness
as to find a great sore on me before you
attend to it.
Don'c run me down a steep hill, for
if anything should give away I might
break your neck.
Don't whip me when I get frightened
along the road or I will expect it next
time and may make trouble.
Don't think because I go free under
the whip X dont get tired. You would
move up if under Jthe whip.
Don't put my blind bridle so that it
irritates my eye so leave my fore lock
that it will be in my eyes.
Don't leave me hitched in my stal
all night with a big cob right 'where I
must lie down. I am tired and cant,
select a smooth place.
Don't forget to file my teeth when
they are gaged and I cannot chew my
food. When I get lean it Is a sign my
teeth wants filing.
Don't mane me drink ice cold water
or put a frosty bit in my mouty. Warm
the bit by holdiDg it a half minute
against my body.
Don't compel me to eat more salt
than 1 want by mixtag it with my oats
I know better than any other &Eimal
how much I need.
Don't say whoa unless you mean it
Teach me to stop at the word. It may
checs me if the lines break anp save a
runaway and smashup.
Don't trot me up hili, for I have to
cary you and a buggy and myself, too. ,
Try it yourself sometimes. Run up bill
with a big load.
Don't forget the old Baok that is a
friend of all the oppressed, and says
"The righteous man is meicif all to his
beast,"
A Political Rnmor.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 8.?Col. F.
M. Mixson has returned from a trip to
P am well County. In talking yesterday
with the newspaper men he said
that there has been no diminution m the
Reform ranks in Barnwell County, which
he says, is the banner Reform county oi
the State. He says that while the Dis? (
pensary has caused a lew people to leave
the ranks many more Conservatiyes 1
have become Tillmanites because of the
law. Then he said: "There are many t
Reformers who want to see Governor
Tillman put back in office for a third <
term and if he wants the place again he
can get it wimum tuiuiu^ uio uugcia> j
These Reformers feel that the Governor's
strong hand will be needed m this
State lor several years to come. This it
the leeling. It is a spontaneous one, .
ana the Reformers hate to see the Governor
release the reins ol his office."
i
Scock ThatCtll'ze Waste.
Sheep and hogs may be considered as
utilizers of waste upon the farm, says ,
Rural Y7orld. The sheep eat weeds
that other animals reject, gather them
for themselves and enrlcn the land
where they are kept. The swine will
eat food of nearly all kinds that would
be rejected by anything else, possibly
excepting hens, and they will leave beQind
them a rich legacy in the form of
fertilizer for the land. And both convert
all they eat into profitable products.
But it does not follow because
of this that farm animals are only
scavengers, or that the best results are
obtained .,y using them as such. What
the farmer wants in live stock Is a machine
that will take the raw material
on his farm and convert it Into manufactured
goods. He can utilize the
weeds, briers and alJ other by-products .
in doing this, but as by-products and
not as stable food. The most successful
stockman is a heavy feeder.
Pianors and Organs.
Xow is the time to buy summer plan
S25 cash balance November 15th 1893.
"""" * * ?w am
yy iju uuy a nauu ao apuu uoau ynv,o
cash, balance November lofn 1893 (
Will buy a organ at spot cash price. <
See the list to choose from, Steinway, I
Mason & Hamlin, Mathushek ana Stir- '
ling Pianos, Mason & Hamlin and j
Stirling Organs. Fifteen days test .
trial and freight both ways if n*>t satis- ;
factory. A large lot of nearly new and
sttfond hand Pianos and Organs at bargains.
Good as new. Write for prices
W.N. Trump. Columbia, S. C.
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ATE FAIR,-;N'OVEMBER]8> 1893.
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r Agents Wanted.
bes & Co.,
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Fatal Explosion.
Chicago, Feb. 7.?A special from
Indianapolis says: At 1 o'clock this
morning the residence of Louis Kuehier ^
on South Msdision street was wrecked
by a natural gas explosion. ?
The building had brick front and frame M
rear, lower floor front being occupied
aa a saloon with sleenincr rooms over
head. There were eight people in the
house; Kuehier, his wife, three sons
and daughter and two boarders. The
two boarders escaped unhurt. Eosa
the twelve-year-old daughter, was taken
out dead; Charles seven-year-old boy
was taken out unconscious and will
probably die; Julious, twelve-years-old
son, worked his way out apparently
unhurt; Lewis, fifteen-year-old son,
was taken out badly crippled, being
unable to walk.
A Buk Burglarized,
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 7.?Burglars entered
the Deshler Bank building last
night, broke open the vault, and, with
dynamite, blew open the safe and got
away with $1,200 in gold and S300 in
silver. The exyiosion tore S500 in pa- per
money into fragments. Besides
they obtained $100 in stamps and S100
in cash belonging to the Deshler postoffice.
Their tracks sho iyed that three
persoas were in the gang.
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A decision was lately reported from
Iowa which may interest owners of
dogs. The supreme court of that
State sustained a decision of a lower
court whereby damages to the amount
of SI,500 were awarded a man who was
injured by being thrown from his buggy
in a runaway caused by the barking
of a neighbor's do2.
ADGETT FAYS THE PREi&Hl
v fij "3j ?xireme Prices for Goods!
'find for atalogue and Sea Wb2t Yea Caa Sn! ^
v-'5 E.KAST0AX ,?-reT^)t v=?J?
rr:as? s-Jii 53^1
iJ"r ?<u, p i?f
'-ftiC? now $15 =? <c.fli
A) other Hftiroom 5^ fc; t~'*'
-nits. all prices.
J5?? $69?~ $37
jfijf' tiwi Just t?; intr<Hi'.?ce thfin.
^ -H No freigtitpaid on thic* *)rjg%S>rr:-"J7jr]
gan. Guarav.t-eed 10 t>e a ^
good organ or money reFunded.
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EJojrant Phish PARLOR -SUITS, consi?t!n?
vrt Sofa, Arm (.'hair, Rocking Chair, Divan
und 2 *ide Chairs?w?>rtb $4-5. Wilidelivct
a to your depot for SB33. ? ??"
. 'Jl1J18>0.:
_xrS^x H?iK
STTO
with a
I pieces Of
-y? Cflt HI 3 ware, win
V?: Kk'^CJZi y *deliver
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price $16.
A AOS ST?2?3 ILiCESTJ
?rttn all attachments. for (Gfen^nOL
ONLY $18.50 ?gs288to
delivered to vour depot.
'I*The regular price of this
BUGGY is 65 to 75 dollars. ggsn j?8
The manufacturer pays all w v/ls
the expenses and I sell Them g W?
to you for &4S3.75?
RUU (UHicvci) uuc m
sargaln. No freight paid
n this Bag?y ~ -w?'
A $6SO PIA1W
dslivered at your depot ? ?:~3iC"~ Jtf
til freight paid for $130
Send for catalogues of furniture, Cooking
Stores, Baby Carriages, Bicycles, Organs, Fianoa,
Tea Sets. Dinner Sets, Lamps, Ac., and
SAVE NEONEY. Address
L.F.PADGETTt,15X8Sw
Machinery
Commission
i Agents,
?o j
With ft view to mutual advantage, we
nvlte all parties who intend buying maihinery
to correspond with us before piac
ng their orders. We are confident or our
ibiiity to save money to our customers, ana
mly ask the opportunity of proving the
bet. A
Besides machinery of all kinds, we
leal largely In 25aggies, Wagons, ana ot&er A
renicles. Write to us. fl
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W, H. Gibbes Jr., & J^H|
COLUMBIA.
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Jj^ICE j?ULLER^.;
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Rice Platers and Rice Millers can J
bny a sinfle machine that will clean,
hull and polish rice ready for market I
forS350?J. . I
Corr Millefs can buy the best French I
honrmill. in iron frame, fully guaranteed,
capacity ten bushels meal per
dour, for 3115.00.
Saw Millers can buy the variable
fiiction feed DeLoach Mill from
8190.00 up to the largest sizs.
Also Gang Rip Saws, Edgers, Swing i
Saws, PJaning Machines, and all kinds rs. |
of wood working machinery. j+t
"Talboct" Engines and Boilers.
Special discounts made for cash.
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COLUMBIA. S.C,
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