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' m . 6;: ' E " ' . 8?T " ?m * * ?r f T1 f> If / V \7 TAJJilAtitid . CHARACTERISTIC AND ELCQ'JENT SERMON BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. He Takes For His Subject From Conquest to Conquest?Is Christianity Ketr< erad Jus: and tbeB ble Losing Its An Enconrasmc 3>l*cours?. Brooklyn. March 18.?In the Tabernacle today lt-v. Dr. Talma^ep each ed a most elf quent andcharacteristicallv yigorus sermon in refutation of the ot? renewed a?sertion of the enemies of re licioD that Christianity is retroarsdioi: th? Piih'p lns.lu2 its hold upoc th* hea'ts and c>n*cierces cf men. Tbe subject of the discourse as announce*1 was, *\Fr>m Conquest to Conquest." tbe u-X'. beins tak n f rm Alios is. 13. "Beboid, tbe days come. saith the L>r^ that tbe plowman shall overtake the reaper." Picture cf a tropical c'ims with a sea sen to prosperous tba the barves' reaches c'ear over to o^nnns time, and the swarthy bus^andcuaa swains tbe sickle iu the tliiofc grain aimosi fee's the breath of the boreeson his should* r? the horses hitched to tbe pV?w prep-inns for a new crop. "Behold the days come saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaoer." When is tha'? That is now. That is th;s day when hardly have tou done reaping one har vest before the plowmpcis getting ready for another. I know that many dfclare that Christianity has ct llapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian cburch is on the retreat. I will here and now show that the opposite of that is true. An Arab guide was leading a French infidel across a desert, and ever and an<- n the Arab guide would get down in the - T - : > T J I sand ana pray to me -uora. xt ui^uswu the French iofidel, and after awhile as the Arab got up from one of his prayers the infidel said, "How do you kDow there is any God?" and the Arab guide said: "How do I know that a man au d a.caael passed along our tent last night? I know it by the footprints in the sand. And jou want to knew how I know . whether there is any God. Look at .* that sunset: Is that the footstep of a man?" And by the same process you and I have come to understand thau this book is the footstep of a God. "Rnt nnw na see whether the Bible is a last .year's almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is m a Ball Bun retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewin2 all the way. The great Eoglish historian, Sharon Tomer, a man of vast learning and of great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, give this over ??; ivAUiU ?a/va?/< fr\ PhricH. wnejmiQ^ iu ic^aiu w vuitu?? < anity and in resard to tbe number of I Christians in the different centuries; In the first century, 500,000 Christians; in the second century, 2,000,000 Christians; in the third century, 5,000 000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000 000 Christians; in the fifth century, 15, -i 000 000 Christians; in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Chrittians; in the seventh 'century, 24,000,000 Christians; in the ^ eighth century, 30 000 0U0 C ristians; 1 i in the ninth century, 40,000,000 Christ tansi; in the tenth century, 50.000 000 Christians; in the eleventh century, 70,- ' 000 000 Christians; in the twelfth centnry, 80,000 000 Christians; in the thirteenth century, 75 000,000 Christians; 1 in the fourteenth century, 80,000 000 Christians; in thefii'eenth ceniury, iuu000,000 Christian'; in thesix'eemh cen tury, 125.000,000 Christians; in the 1 seventeenth century 155 000 000 Christ- 1 tans; in the eighteenth century, 200 000, 1 000 Christians?a decadence, as you observe, is? only one century and more ' than made up in the followins centuries while it is the usual commutation that there will be, when the record of the nineteenth is made up, at leaat 300,000. s, 000 Christians. J^oor UDmtianit}: w oat a puy it u^ no friends! Eow lonesome it must be! Who will lake it out of tbe pnorbousst ? Poor (Jhristi init\! Tbree baGdred mil lions in one cntorv. In a few weeks of the year 1881 2,500 000 copies of tbe New Testament oisiribu.ed. Why, the earth is like an oid castle with 20 nates and a park of artillery ready to encoder down ev?-ry gate. Lay aside all Christ endom and see Dow ntainenaom n asing surrounded and honeycombed and attacked bv this all conquering gospel. At ihe beginning of this cemurv there were onl\ 150 missionaries. Now there are 25 000 missionaries and native Helpers and tvangeliats. At the bejjinnlno of this century there were only 50.000 heathen converts. Now there are 1,750, 000 converts from heathendom. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the gospel is planed and ready to march on north, south. moct VAn oil tnr.oo- that the chief rr wow* a. vu um-v . -? work ot an army is to plant the batteries. It may tafce many dajs to plam the batteries, aDd tbev may do all their > work in 10 minutes. Tbe.se batienes are being planted all aloog the seacosts and in all nations. It may take a sood while lo plant tbem, ana they may do ail tbeir work in one day. They will. Nations are to be born in a day, Bat just come back to Christendom and recognize the fact that during the last 10 years as many people bave connected themselves with evangelical churches as connected themselves with the cburches in the first 50 years ol tnis century. So Christianity is falling back, and tbe Bible, they say, is becoming an obeo lete book. I go into a court, and whereever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desklfind a Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? WLa- book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves lor city lite? The Bible. What shall I find in nice cut of every ten homes in Brooklyt ? The Bible. In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The "Rihlft. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bibie in the nineteenth century would become extinct. The century is nearly gone, and as there "nave been more-Bibles published in the latter part of the century than in th<; former part of the century do you think the Bible will become extinct in the next six years? 1 have to tell you that the rocm in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy was crowded from floor to ceiling with Bibles from Swiizerland. Suppose the congress nf th* TTnir#??l Krafts shnnld r>?sa a law that there should be no more Biblas printed in America and no more Bibles read. It th=?re are 40 000,000 grown people mtbe United States, there would be 40,000.000 people in an army to put down such a law snd defend their risht to read the Bible. But suppose the congress of the United States should make a law against the reading or publi cation of any other book, how many people would go out on such a crusade? Could you get 40.000 000 people to go out and risk their lives in defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts, or Macauley's "History of England?" You know that there are a thousand men who wcuid die in defense ot this beok where there is not more than one man who would "ie m de fense ot any other book. Y' U try to lDsnlt my common sense by tell ing me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the century. How do I know ii? I know it iust as I know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that book are published? Well, you sav, 5,OOOv How many cop:e3 of that book are published? A huadred thousand. .. ... ; ..., , . ...... __ - Which 13 *he more papula:? Why. ot course the one that has 100.000 circula tion. And if this book has more copies abroad in the world, i! there are five times as manv Bibles abroad as anv other boob, does net that show vou thai >he most poplar book on the planet todav is the Word ot Goc? "Ob," say people, "the church is a collection ot bypocr;te3, and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world." Is it? A bishop of the Meth - .1 u t. 1 J 4.1 UU1SL coureu IKUU LUC iiuaHuaiucKuuuiuatton averages two Dew churches even nav the year. There are at leasr. 1.5D0 new Christian churches built id Amercan every year. D >es that lo<k -is though the church were tad'Dg ou\ as though it wereadtfuDct mstnution? Which institution stands Dearest the ">ear s of the peopl ot America toda>? T do not care in what, city, ot whatneighborhood you 20. Which institution is ii? Is it the pofioffic? In it the hole'? Is it the If-ciurmg hall? Ah, you feoow it is not. You know thai the institution which stands nearest to the beans ot 'be American people is the Christian church. tf>ou have ever seen a c?urch __ . - - .V ^urn down, v>u nave sem mousauus people standing ^nd looking at it?pw>. pie who n?-ver no into a chu-ch?'be tears raining d >wn their cheeks. The whole storv is told. You may talk a? cut the church bsioa a collection ot hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children ofl whom do you send foi? The postmas ter, the attornev general, the hotel keeper, alderman? No, ycu send for a minis ter of this Biole religion. And if you have not a room in your house for the e?b sequies what building do you solicit? D > vou say. "Give me the fiBest room in the hotel?" Do you say, "Give me that theater?" Do you say, *Give me a place in that public building where I can lay my dead for a little while until we pay a praver over it?" ]Xo. You say, "ixive us the bouse of God." And it mere is a song to be suns at tbe obsequies what do vou want? What does anybody want? "The Marseillaise" bym&! "God save the Qaeeo?" Our own grand national air? No, They want the hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or tbey want sung the Sabbath school hymn which their little girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she wa8 oat before she got that awful sickness which broke your jeart. I appeal to your common sense. You know the mo3t endear iDg institution on eartn, tne most popular Insti uuon on earth today, 13 the church of the Lord Jeeus Christ. The infidels say, "Infidelity shows its success from ths fact that it is everywhere accepted, and it can say what it will." Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day a3 it was in the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of ocr fathers there were pronounced infidels in public au thority, andlthey could get any political position? Let a man to^ay declare him* self antagonistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what state wants him tor governor, what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of onrfgloriou3 Christianity, and he cannot get a majority of anry ofof? in cnt? (>itv in ftllV tuko iu auj w?wj ^ ? v county. ia anv ward of America. Do you think that such a scene could be enacted now as was enacted In the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elevated as a goddess and was carried in a golf en chair to a cathedral, where incense was burned to ber and people bowed down before her a3 a flivine being, she taking the place of the Bible and God Aimig&ty, while in the corridor of tbat cathedral were enacted such scenes of drunkenness and debaucb ery and ob3ceni'.y as have never been witnessed? Do you believe such a thiDg r>nonihli7 <ifv*nr in nhristendom to da>? No, sir. The police, whether of Paris or New York, would swoop on it I'kajw infidelity makes a good 3eal of talk in our dav. It is on the principle tnat it a man jumps overboard Irom u Canard steamer he makes more ex citement than all tue 500 people that Htay on the decks. Bui the fid tbat be jumps overboard?do*s that stop the ship? Loes that wreck the 500 paasen gert? It makes great excitement wben a man :umps from a lecturing platf >rm or f om tbe pulpit into infidelity. Boi d->es >,bat keep the Bible and the churcb from earning their millions ot passengers iato the skieB? Tbev say?these men?that science is overcoming reliaion in our day. They look ihrough tne spectacles of the mhdel scientists, aod tney sav: "it is impos sible that this book can be true. Peo pie are finding it out. The Btble has got to go overboard. Science is going to ihrow it overboard.1' Do you believe that the Bible's accouat of the origin of li'e will be overthrown by infidel scientists who have 50 different theories atx uc the origin of Lfc? It they should C'ime up m solid phalanx, all agreeing on one sentiment and one theory, per haps Christianity might be damaged, but there are not so many d ff.-rences of opinion inside the church as outside the churca. People used to say: "There are so mmy different denominations of ChiiB lians. Tbat shows there is nothing in religion." I have to tell yon that all denominations agree on the two or three or fjur radical doctrines of the Christian religion. They are unanimous In regard to Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous in regard to the divinity of the Scriptures'. How is it on the other side all split up. You cannot find two of them alike. Oh, it makes me sick to see these literary fop3 going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, telling about the "survival of the fittest" and Huxley's protoplasm and the nebular hypothesis! The fact is that some naturalists, just ? ?~ aiif fKa OS 8UULI HJ3 WiCJ 11 LIU uUb buo vauuivuw between the feelers cf a wasp and the horns of a beetle, begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any pretensions to being a Christian, puts his feet on the doctrine of evolution and say3, "I see that many cf the naturalists of our day are adopting facts whijh do not bear observation or have not passed under observation." These men warring with each other?Darwin warring against Lamarche, Wallace warring against Cope, even Herschel denouncing Ferguson. Tbey do not agree about anything. They do not agree on embryology; do not agree on the gradation of the species. What do they agree on? Eerschel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was not put in the right place. He says that if it been put four times farhter from the earth than it is cow there would be more harmony in the uniyerse, but Lionville come3 up just in time to prove that the moon was put in the right place. How many colors woven into the light? Seven says Isaac Newton. Three says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and a half miles says Lias. One hundred and six'yeight miles says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six mil miiu<a cgtQ T.?/?an? "Eiffhf.V fcWO million mues says Humboldt. Ninety million miles says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles savs Mayer. Oalv a liule difference of 28,000,000 miles! All split up among themselves, not agreeing on anything. They come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on th9 great doctrines. All united they are in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While they come up and propose to render their verdicr, no two j of them aeree on that verdict. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you 1 agreed on a verdict ?" asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in after haviDg speut tb6 whole nigbr. in deliberating. If the jury say, "Yes, we have agreed," tbe verdict is recorded. But suppose one of the jarvmen s*ys, "I think tbe man was guilty of murder," and another says, "i tbiDk he was guilty of manslaughter in tbe second degree," aud another man 5ivs, "I think he was guilt}' of assault and oattery within-eot to km," tb9 judtfe would say: *'G" back to your room and brintf- in a verdicr. Aeree on some ih" e. Tb*t is no v*>rmcr. H-re these 11 fidti) sci-n ists have i?n paneled themselv s as -* jiry to decide this trial be' ween lulid-try, *be plaintiff. aiid Christ ianitv, th? defendant, ai d after beine our, for centuries they come io to render their verd'ct G ntlemen of 'he jury, h-^ve you aeree ->n a veroic ? N<>, no. Then go back for another 500 y-ars and df-littera'e a: d agree on something. I?he e is n?t a poor, miserable wretch in thu Tomhs court tomorrow that could bs condemned by a jury that did not agre** on tne verdict, and yet you expect us to etve ud our elorious Christianity to please 'hese men who cannot agree on auy thing Ah, my friend*, the church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling bac&.is oa the advance. I am certain it is on the advance, O Lord God, take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the victory. 1 am mightily encouraged because I find amoDg other things that while this Christianity ha3 been bombarded for centuries infidelity has not destroyed one church, or crippled one minister, or uprooted one verse or one chapter of all the Bible. The church all the limo cfottino fhc* and thp shnf. and shell of its euemies nearly exhausted I have been examining their ammunition lately. I have looked all through thetr cartridge boxes. They have not in the last 20 years advanced one new idea* They have utterly exhausted their ammunition in the battle against the church and against the Scriptures, while the sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen as it ever was. We are just getting our troops into line. They are coming up in companies, and iu regiments, and in brigades, and you will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake and the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" It will be this, "Forward, the whole line!" And then I find another most en couraging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and pulpit seem harnessed in tne same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every Wall street banker tomorrow in New York, every State street banker tomorrow in Boston, every Third street banker tomorrow in Philadelphia,every banker in the United States and every merchant will have in his pocket a treatise on Christianitv, a call to repentance?10, 20 or 30 passages of Scriptures in the reports of sennons preached throughout these cities and throughout the land todav. It will be so in Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so in P&iladelpbia, so everywhere. I know the tract societies are doiDer a grand and glorious work, but I tell jou there is no power on earth today equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Monday morning and Monday evening, in the morninz and evening papers, scat tering that truth to the millions. What a thought it is! What an encouragement to every Christian man! Besides that have you noticed that during tbe past few yenrs every one of the doctrines of the Bible came under discussion in the secular press ? Do vou not remember a fe^ years ago when every paper in the Uoited States had an editorial on the subject, "I3 There Such a Thing as Future Punishment?" It was the strangest thing that there ahould be a discussion in the secular papers od taat subject, out every paper in the United States aDd in Christendom discussed, "Is There Sued a Thing as Xtetrination?" I kno* 'h-re were small wits who made sport of the discussion, but there was not an intelligent mau on earth who. as the result of that discission, did not ask himself the question, uWbat is going ro t>e mv eternal destiny ?" So it was in regard to Tyndal's praver gauge. About 12 years ago, yoa remember, the secular papers discussed that witn jast as much earnestness a3 the religious papers, aad tbere was not a mau in C&ristendom who did not ask himooif t hft f!no?rinrn- "Ts There auvthing m prayer? M*y the creature impress the Creator?" O'o, what a mighty fact, what a glorious fact?the secular printing press and toe pulpit of the cnurch of Jesus Christ harnessed lnihe S:ime team! Then look at the international series of Sunday school lessons. Do you know that every SabDath between 3 aod 5 o'clock there are 5,000,000 children studying the same lesson?a lesson prepared by the leadiDg minds of the country and printed in the paper3?and then these subjects are discussed and given over te the teachers, who give them over to tne conaren, so wnereas uucb? and within our memory?tbe children nibbled here and ihere at a story in the Bible, now they are taken tbrougb from Genesis to Revelation, and we shall have 5.000,000 children forestalled for Christianity. My soul Is full of exultation. I feel as if I could sbout?I will shout, "Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" Then you notice a more significant fact, if you have talked with people on the subject, that they are getting dissatisfied with philosophy and science ? "-C ? ?* ?~ rnw? AT* OUO 4 t* as X UiclblOr U1 UUUUIUl 0. iuc; oaj iu | does not amount to anytbiog ivben you have a dead child in the house, j They tell you when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening the only comfort they could find was in the gospel. People are haying demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy cannot solace the trouble aDd woes of tbe world, and they want some other religion, and they are taking Christianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world. You just take your scientific consolation into that room where a mother has lost her child. Try in that case your splendid doctrine of the "suryival of the fittest." Tell her that child died because it was not woith as much as Afhflu That-, is vnnr "siir LUC UltUCl UUllUi^u. AWMW J vival of the fittest." Go to tbat dyiDg mail and tell him to pluck up courage for the future. Use your transcendental phraseology upon him. Tell him he ousrht to be conconfident in the to be," and the "everlasting now" and the "eternal what is it." Just try your transcendentalism and vonrscience on him. Go to that widowed soul and tell her it was a geological necessity that ber companion should be taken away from her, just as in the course of the world's history the megatherium had to pass out of existence, and then you go on in your scientific consolation until you i?et to the sublime fact that 50,000,000 years from now we ourselves may be scientific specimens on a geological shelf?petrified specimens of an extinct human race. And after you have got all though with your consolation, if the poor afn ? 1 1 ? ?-* ??- ~ ~ A it- T mill niciea soui is uut cia^cu uj iu, j. ?ui send forth from this church the plainest Christain we have, and with onehalf hour of prayer and reading of Scripture promises the tears will be wiped away, and the houes frooi floor to cupola will be flooded with the calmness of an Indian sum mer sunset. There is where I see the triumph of Cnristlanity. People are dissatisfied with everything else. They want <xod. Tney want Je3ns Chrisn Talk about tne exact scmces; there is only one exact scieoce. Ir. is not mathematics. Taylor's logarithms have many imperftctions. The French metric syaiecu ius oa-iay iraps-rfecticos. ! | Tfie only exact sciuce i3 Constmanity ?the on'.y tom? under which you can appropriately write, "Qiod etas demonstrandum " You tell iue that two and two make four. 1 do not dispute it, bat It is not so plain that two and two make foar as that th- Lord God Almighty made this world, and for a man the smaer he sent his only begotten Son to die. T nnr. on t> e wirneS3 stand to tfsiifv in behalf of Chrisri-inry ?he church <>q e-mh and h!1 the church in h^avm X??t 50. not 1,000, no' 1,000 000, hur. all t.ne c iUrch <m eirih and nil the re d-? rn*cl iu h^av>n. ; You'?ll tn?-J idles A. GirQ-M ? '*<* inaugurated president r ir>*? Uoiff-u Sr.a'f-s ou the 4 h "f M-ucb, 1881 (I -v d;. T ki.inv 1- ? You 'ell me iie-r^ vvtr20.000 persons wq.) distinctly tiered bis lii-iugural addtesd. I !le?tV tb?x tie \vas in^tuc-iri:ed. I amy m-it nis in*u?ur il ad T-ss was delivered. Y >u vhv. I did not see ir. I did not rt-<)0 .n. R'it von Sdv lb.*' \h-r* vverr 20U1 p*-rs >ad who tfid s?-e and h^.r hi a. a s*y I cannot take if anynow; I d: 1 nor , see and near him. Wnis* tes inonv **ill you tak~? Y >u will not s.akH rnv testimony. Y ?n say: * 1* -u know nothing ahou<- it. lrou w-re not tb.?-r?-. L-r us hive the restiaou / of the 20,000 p-rs ?us wno s ood b f >re the c-ipnoi aud heard that magmlicient inaugural i way of course thar. is a-j y ur cjmuoa i sense dictates. Now, here are some men who say i they never seen Chriat crowned in the i heart, and they do uor. believe it, is ever i done. Toere is a group of men wno ( say they have never heard the voice of i Const." They have never heard the ; voice of G:)d. Tney do not believe it i ever transpire or was ever head?that j anything like it ever occurred. I point . to 20,100.000 or 1,000,000 people who j say: "Christ was crowned \n our hearts i affections. We hav? seen him and < rein bim in our soul, and we have heard < u j ~ ?1 ir\ ofnrrti U13 VUIUC. KO uac uviu iu IU aui/iui aad daakness. We have heard it agaia i andagaio." Whose testimor.v will yen take? These meQ wbo say they have j not heard the voice of Christ, have not ( seen the coronation, or will you take i the.thousands and mulions of Cnris- ] tiahs who testify of what they saw j with their own e>es and heard with their own ears? I Yonder is an agred Christian after 50 i years experience of the Dower of god- i liness in his soul.. Ask this man ; crrhQt-ViQr mhan ho h? hnriftri his TlU^UUVl, ?? UVU MV VV V ?-w , the religon of Jesus Christ was not a < consolation. Ask him if through the : long years of his pilgrimage if.e L-jrd i ever forsook him. Ask him when he I looks for ward to the future if he has 3 not a paece, and joy, and a consolation i ihe world cannot take away. Put his 1 testimony of what he has seen and 1 what he has felt opposite the testimony ] of a man who says he has not seea i anythiagon the subject or felt any 1 thing on the subject. Will you take < the testimony of people woo have not seen or people who have seen V i You say morph'a puts one to sleep. 1 10U Say ILL ULLie Ui 3ii;a.uc33 it JO ?CiJ useful. I deny it. Morphia never I puts aDybody to sleep. It never al- ] leviates pain. You ask me why I say i that. I have never tried it. I never took it. I deny that morphia is aay J soothiDg to the nerves or aav quiet in ' times of sickness. I deny that morphia i ever pat anybody to sleep. But here ] are 20 persous who say they have all i felt the soothing effects of a physiciao's 1 prescribing morphine. Whose te.-timony will you take?those who took the medicine or my testimony, I never haviDg I taken the medicine? Here is the gospel i of Jesus Christ?an anodyne for all i trouble, the mightiest medicine that < everv came down to earn. Here is < a man who s^ys: "1 done believe in it. ? There is no power, in it" Here are 1 other people who say: "We have found * oat IW puwer clLtU liLLU-jr ioo jlift Influence. It Has cured us" Whose 1 testimony will you take ia regard to this healing medicine? < I feel tnat I have convinced every < man In this house that i?. is utter folly ' to take the testimony of those wno I have never tried the gospel of Jesus Christ in tbeir own heart and i life. We have tens of thousands of witnesses. I believe y?u are ready fo < taKe their testimony. Young man, do not be ashnme i to be a frieud of trie i Bible. Do not put your thurab 1 in your vesr, as young aien i som-tioaes do and swagger about \ tilting of the glorious light of toe i olnef.ee.uth century &ad of there bt-i'ig ; no need of a rSiole. Thry have th** . liffht of nature in India and Crana and itTa-.l the dark places on earth. Did you ev>r hear tha^ the li^nt of na?ur~ i trave tbem comfort for their trouble? They have lance's to cur a!Jd j jgg-ruauts to crush, but no comt'or.. Ab, i my friends, you had Getter stop your .-kepticism. SuppoSrt you are put iu this crisis: Ch, father, your child is dvioe! What are yea going to say to her ? Colooe) Ethan Allen was a famous tr-fidel in bis day. His wife waaa very coasecrated woman. The mother in- 1 sTuc'ed the daughter in the trunns ot 1 Caristianity. The daughter sickened and was about die, and she said to her father: "Father, 3hall I take your instruction, or sball I rake mother's instruct! on? I am going to die now, 1 mu t have this matter decided." Tn^f, man. who had been loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter. I "My dear, you had better take your mother's relieion." My advice is the same to you, 0 young man?you had better take your mother's religion. You know how it comforted her. You know what she said to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother's religion. A. Slick Compsuy, Columbia, S. 0., March 17 .?There appeared a tew days ago in The State l/\A.itinn htT tha HU (iCC<)UUl< Ui tUO iuoaiiuuj k/j uuv State's fertilizer inspectors, of a large amount of fertilizers in Marlboro couutv, near tfce North Carolina line, to which the South Carolina tax tags had not been affixed. The officers who came acros3 the fertilizers,thought that the North Carolina company could be held liable for the violation of the laws of this State. But the company was too sharp. Had it delivered the stuff in < Sontb Carolina to the purchasers then it would have been liable. But instead of delivering it, it got the South Carolina Farmers, who live near the liae, to come across to tne factory with their wagons and the fertilizers were thus - ' TKo f'.irm . aenvereu iu x>urtu ^diunua, xuo?aim ers brought tne stuff in themselves, and If the State gets its tax it will have to collect it from them. Governor Tillman says the compmy sirnpiy duped and fooled the poor farmers of tnis State into breaking She law. The Si ate will, however, try to collect the tax from the farmers, who have the fertilizers in their possession.?State, Alvlco to a Girl, George W. Ohild3onc3sala to a girl from me vesl, who went to him with letters and th'3 hops of getting sufficient, influence ",o do something in the arable field oi journalism: "Little wo man, if you can do something, go ahead and do it. The world is hungry for something new. It is an omnivorous creature, but it wants a chacee constantly. Keep as quiet as jou can. Keep out of men's ways as mucii as you can, for it is trespassing to ^ ;.-n private property. K-ep yourself in good health, gooc spirits and good clotnes, and don't try to be a e<s(Jd fallow or one of the boy,?, save h ;h of your earnings. Go to church. agreeable, but reserved, and if some hooable man ofEers you his name ar d bis protection give it all up, marry him j and devote your eufiyiej to no me mining. The business world :s no place for a woman. It is a rough plae~, and people have to get rougb to succeed in it. I know hundreds of eenfle womea in^usiDess, but they alwa s semi to me like going fishing in a dre.?s suit and white glovers. Exq'iisi e l-thrics are not Intended for ruugh and ready i wear." J CuXfcY AND his CKEW. WASHINGTON TO BE INVADED BY 500,000 UNEMPLOYED. Thr-r* 1* l>*cser I-urkmg In Sach an Army ?Tli- M^rch Wqst B-? Stopped or Blcnd?-h->d May R mult? Danger of RavoluTi<>3. Washington, March 17.?Tbf> c*pif.dl will ?ooti on invested with 500,000 uneor-pliyed if steps are not taie-n to 3'op C?>x?-y io his mid intensions. Tb* uruiy <-vnicd be thr-areoeard to rmsnoT a nnth, and there is socq^? citation visitije on u-ual cai'u exterior of tim cry w-.icn I'ti -r^n" so cireiauy jaiu iitr ro prev-n' rrv tiufioQs. I'his aro;} ?o br omposed of cranks, an>?rcusts an1 tramps is f<st being ' nu'd. It, contemplates sra'tinjf for W-s'nugton E?ii?-r Monday wirh the vjuipo-" of d*-m<nd>'!<? from Congress rhe issue of 3500 000,000 of non interest bf-an:>g b >mis. Lur.it; attention was paid ar first to Coxev's fulminations, ^'s proclamations ai.d general orders. EI- ?vas simolv regardei as a mm with wh-Hs, comm -niy called a crank. fhtSH have evolved fasten and more <-ff-cuaily than L-imont even imagined possiole, and tne great fear now istnat with a ducIus srarted, every v*?-ibofd tramp and desperate character m th* country will swarm down upon Washington" and the movement, tvul get bevnoa control of the officers sf peace. Wnar. is feared most 13 that :.he mob will fall a prey to red handed in ircbists who woul i welcome such an uprising. T;jsucha mob they would apply the torch of their inflammatory speeches. Dynamite and nitroglycerine would do tbe rest. No civil auihorities could cope with a great army Df desperate and reckless men under jo.ch leaders. Oace the standard of anarchy was raised much destruction of property, ind probably loss of many lives, would follow before the disorder could be put. lown. If the route marked out by 3oxey is followed it will be through the region around Pittsburg where there ire thousands upon thousands of Poles, [luos and other non-Eagllsh speaking people, most of whom at present are unemployed, and all whom are by nah **?ATT/vlnfi,rt*?<ofo o onamiaa nf law LUIC 1CV KJX U ClUUlOtO C*W4 vuvu^i\aj vai ** ?> ind order. They are the material from which Ooxey's recruits would naturally come, stiould toe army start and swell into ilarming proportions the authorities aere would of course expect the Governor of Pennslvama to call out troops, if aec-ssarv, to disperse them. But if no nolens demous-ration were made no legal means could be used to dispel a peaceful gathering and some fine morning in the letter part of April, the whole UUliUCOUipu VV/uwvwv, vj p CJoxey and bis crew, might marcb into Washington. Long before they could reacb here, However, the National Capital would have become tbe paradise for :ag-tag and bob-tail ot tbe country. If by a miracle, the leaders are able to prevent riot, bloodshed arson and robbery enroute, ail control would be lost when the army balked at. its failure to force Cuneress to Issue S500,000,000 for their benefit, without funds, driven to the walls, would in its despair aod desperation become the easy prey of anarchistsjandjbomu-tbrowers. The leaders if they counciled peace, if there were any would be swept asidp, and the army would become a fi .ming, furious mob howiiDg for blood and plunder. The awful scenes of ihe French revolution and tne reign of terror might be resnae'ed in the enlightened capital of the American R-punlic. Coxey little Ireams, in his Don Quixotic scheme to Furnish t-mnlovment for all those with jut work that he may be inciting arebeilion, that may shake the Republic from turret to foundation stone. It is worrhy of comment tbat Coxey In tbe ^rganizition '>r bis army has followed 3losely the plan of the French revolution. His divisions, commune and canteen are tboseof the French revolution. He has even goue to tbe excent of borrowing thelir.ile"cir. z-n and cetiZeene," whi-jb obfain^d in Paris in tne dark 3ays when tne victims of tne revolution were carted .over tne cibie stones of guillotine by t.he hundred, wneo a prostitute was enthroned as tbe god 't-s* of reason and all tbe mouarcbs of Europe damped and trembled Id horror at the 3irfbi.. That was a revolt <^f vppresion against royalty and caste, this might be a revolt of poverty against entrenched wealth. Were sucb an unfortunate state of affairs to be the result of Goxey's senseless descent, upon tne capltai, no cif.y la tbe country i3 so well situated to Stamp out sucb a riot as Washingrcn. n,e cuy was laid out by L'Eofant a Fseueb engineer employed by Washington with tbe special object of defence in view. From several central points, the Opitol, the White House, Dupoot Slnnrf P.irr?l?j hrn^H JLVpntlPS v;n wo, auu ijovuu v?tv4? } radiate in every direction. From tht-se central poiDts cannon and Gailing suns could command tne entire c<ty. L'Eqfmt wbo experienced ali the horrors of the French revolution with all its c-untles's barracades in long crooked narrow streets, drew the map of Washington with an eye to preventing a repetition of such horrors here. At Fort Meyer, on Arlington Heights, opposite Washington there are several regiments of cavalry and infantry which could be thrown into Washington at a moment's notice, and at the Marine barracks are quartered a thousand tried ana trained marines. With cannon, gun and sabre thev could pla> sad navoc with Ooxey's army, and the Congrt-ss of the United states, Desiegeu In its citadel, would not hesitate to authorize the use of every man and gun at Uncle Sam's command to put down anarchy and lawlessness. The general impression here is that the State of Ohio, where this incipient rebellion is being nnrsedand cradled to ho sent. nnr. nn its work of bloocl and de vastatlon, owes it to itself to stamp it j out with an iron heel. Secretary La moat has received a communication from G-en. Frye, saying that he had organized an army of 800 men at Los Angles, and proceeded to serve notice on the Secretary of War that the army whs readv to march on Washington, and demanded transportation and rations. While this bluff was being played another interesting episode was oceuring about the capita). Representative Sweet, of Idado, had hHPn an Dialed to persistency to intro dace a bill of financial relief. ComiDg j trom a silver producing state and desi- ! rous of aiding his people Mr. Sweet agreed to offer the bill. A few days a*u it was handed t o him. Expecting to find something looking to the further coinage of silver he was astonished I to fiod in it a demand or tae most extravagant nature. Having promised to present it he did so, Out wrote the ominous words, "by request" on the back of the bill. After numerous; sections about boDd i3sues, the bill eaded with tiiis s'gQifieaot sentence: "And all citizens making application for labor suall be employed."?Augusta CnroQicle. Harmony Wanted* ? 1 ** Austin, 'JLVxas. Marcel/.? iuc mu S'ate t x*--cutive committees of the two Democratic tactions will meet in Dallas Monday to bring about harmony in the pi; v in Texas, and to fix a date and f.ir the aext meeting ?f tbe State D.;a.<;:;itic convention. Prominent Dcn> c,ats fr-'m both factions will so f m :Mi? city, and Governor Host? will ly.tve t > morrow do what be can do ib u . i-rcHtinz harmony and uniting the yank:.*. It is recosaized that unity cjast b> secured or tne St*te Treasure m i\ kill into the hands of .he Populisms, u? t* hfoiu'ht to toe condition of Colo rad > iud Kansas. A stroag effort is b-iu'i here aDd all oeer the Srate o have F.'hqk Jooes head the Podu ist f.ccec this >ear, >*nd he has accepted an invitation to make a sneech here. ELlERBE mustcome down. What a Promlceat Alllascc Leader Says About If. Columbia. S. C., March 20.?The Sta<e, wtiicti some how or other, seems to stand in well with some prominent alliancemen, published yesterday the following political gossip: The manipulation of the political chessboard of Reform jast now seems to be pfbductive of some new surprise everv day. Tbe practical withdrawal of S?cretary of S ate Tmdal from the race f >r Governor was no little surprise of itself, and ir was m uch talked of yes erdav. but there is aoo'.her fu-prisiat? condnion of kff^irs whith ha- arisen sicca the L-xington campaign meeting. *bich will liicolv >-fi\jct the coming cam paigG aod fight for the nomination, boih in ttie convention and in the pri oary far more thnn Mr. Tindal's withdrawal. The State has already predicted tha' 'he fight was golEg to be narrowed down to a battle between one man from the Irby R firm side and one man from the Alliance Reform side, and it was seated that the two leaders who would so battle would be John Gary Evans and ompirolle-General EUerbe. This was the case up to the time of the Lcx inaton meeting on Saturday, bnt now it begins to appear that some one else will be at the head of the Alliance Reform aa' n m T-? VU'U'iJUl Ye3terday, a verv prominent leader on the Alliance Befjrm side had a long talk with representative of The State and he gave some information of a very surprising character. It is all the more surprising because he has all along been a warm supporter of Comptroller General Ellerbe against ail the other candidates whose name have been suggested. Qe states that at the Lexington meeting the Comptroller (reneral disappointed his friends terribly. Ellerbe, it appears, failed to develop as a stump speaker and afcer getting half way with what this man term 3 his "school boy" oration, he faltered, got mixed up and finally gave up com' - ' ? ' - ? L- i. -VT L? pieueiy ana toox um pcau. j^uw uc s?jo unless Eilerbe retrieves himself, and shows up more strength 'as a stump speaker at the Spartanburg meetiDg, on Saturday dext. as much as they wish to push blm through, they will select some other leapsr. He states that thev have no idea that John Gary Evans is going to abide by the nomination of the coming nominating campaign, in which they will be able to do as they please, and they must have a man, who, as soon as he has to go bnfore the people and make the fight, can tackle John Gary Evans on "the stump and give mm as good or better than he sends. He states further that they are alreadv looking about for another leader. He says that some ace anxious to take W. D. E^ans up. This man has had fioe training as a stump speaker and can more than match his youthful opponent, but the objection to him is raised that he is president of the State Farmers' Aliiance, and that organization wishes to keep its officers out of active politics. He says, however, that Mr. Evans can lesign the presidency. Some ot the other men ;n this faction, be says, are very anxiou3 to have Congressman Mc Lsurin come back from Washington ?nd euter ihe list asainst John Gary Erans, as the leader of the Alliance Reform faction. The trouble with this, he states, is that McL urin is practically + Anln r?nn CnorH PornHno nnco hOQ in LUC UL11JT mau UVUdU vaivaud uv*? Congress aDd it won d come bard to tak?him oat of chat body. He regards McLau rin as the ablest fighter in the Retorm party and savs that he could easily meet and handle Tillman on the stamp. Such is the si'nation now. Thing? are unsettled, bat in two or three days after the Spartanburg meeting the lea der will be definitely decided upon aod lor chat time on the figut will be ma<ie ;o the fiuish between the two factions of uiugs that Secretary of State Tindaldescribed in his letter yesterday and deplored the fact that such a condition vas imminent, exist. It seems that the anticipation of the (act tbat John Gary JBvans will no? abide the decision on the convention is *ell grounded Thomas Cleveland, the white ne gro, *ho has been exhibited before medical men in Philadelphia, is going to New Yors, and will probably appeir in the C ?uejre of Paysiciaos and Surgeons. H'3 case is a moat extraordinary one. Although a fall-blooded negro Jhe coloring pigment in his epidermis is entirely absent. He is the only living negro who is completely white without s olack spot on any part of his ooay. The teller of the Merchaats' National Bank of Middletown, Ohio, one of the richest eouatry banks in the West and the depository of the great tobacco! section of the Miama Valley, is Miss Louisa Smitb, a remarkably pretty young girl. At a dinner in Berlin jtfven by Count J Schoubaloff Emperor William appeared in a Russian uniform and cordially drank the Czar's health. It is taken as a sign that the friendly relations between Germany and Russia are sincere. While a grave crisis in Belgian political affairs is transpiring at Brussels. King Leopold is absent,having skipped the town and gone to Geneva without explaining the why or wherefore. jgg WE SELL PUWOS "Reliable. Durable. Musically Perfc ,'JSj because best We can save you moi <&> times. Write us. Mention this pap< LUDDEN i Southern IHusic Hoi "tvfwst "THE WORLD'S GREA1 THE MACHINE The O n 1 ; FOR TYPEWRITERS AT THE ST "NO MACHINE COULD.' Ngggg BE ANY BETTER. IT.H PERFECT." jfeWiS privave statement cf out of the Judges. Responsible Oountj J. W. Grib GENERAL AOS\Tks i Wld?*p-<?sd Ram. Memphis. Term.. March 20.?The damage to property in the Mississippi 1 V ?ll-v by storms and floods during the < past forty-eight hours is beyond calcu- ; latioQ. Bridges have been washed 1 away, houses wrecked, railrcad tracks ; displaced, rarm laud has been flattened ( out, especially in the bottoms, and i crops that have been promising are i ruined. During the two days tne pre- < cipitation at Memphis reacbed about ] eight inches. There are eleven rail- < roads entering Memphis, and every one ' of them has been sut jected to washouts. Two m?Jes of the track of th- Cnesa- ; peake, 0 no and Southwes'em Railroad i whs swr-pt away at the Hatchle river, Shvpo miles north of Memphis. The 1 St. L'?uis and Southwestern and the i Tennrs.see Midland each report, five : washouts, whi:e the track of tne former is submerged for several miles in < White river swamp. The stormin Arkansas was accompanied by high winds 1 and more damage was done in that ' S ate than in Tennessee. A dispatch : from Helena, Aransas, sajs that a cy- < clone struck that place Inst night, un- < roofed houses, uprooting trees, blowing down fences, splintering telephone pelfs and doing other damage. The roofs were blown off two stores. Scores ' of trees were uprooted and innumeradie fences blown down. A row of ne- ; gro shanties located on the levee cear the Mississippi Yalley depot was com- ' pletely demolished. Great excitement 1 prevailed among business men who ] were cut off from their homes by the i fury of the storm. So far as can te learned there was ro loss of life in the I city. The country a few miles south of Helena was greatlv damaged, as the storm seemed to have bjen more furi * - i - - fck/s ous down tne river lu?u xu mc uy. A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., says the tail of a cyclone struck that place this afternoon and wrecked a number of buildings. The wind was followed by a terrific rain and hail storm, which flooded the streets and smashed Windows and sky-lights. In toe vicinity of Popular Grove and Marvel, Ark., the cyclone wrecked a dozen or more farm houses and scattered the debris over the country for miles around. The cyclone crossed the river into Mississippi near Helena, Ark, sDreadins ruin In every direction. Tel t-graph wires are prostrated and details are slow coming in, but no loss of life is reporten so far. Mast Pay Up. Columbia, S. C., March 23.?Judge Simonton nas rendered another decision which shows that all the railroad tax cases in thi* State are to bs jndged ex actly as in the ca se ot the South Carolina Road, decided last week. The following in the decision in the case of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Road: "The bill in this case was filed to res'rain certain persons filling the offices of shenft and Couuty Treasurer in the State of South Carolina from proceeding to levy tax executions upon the ground of illegal assessment of the property of complainant. The allegations ot the bill And tha iflsnea made bv the answer are almost, if not en irely, ideDtical with those in the case of Chamberlain, receiver, vs Walter et all., the opinion in wbich was filed on 13 h March current. This case varies from that in other feaures. The bill of the receiver was anc Uarv to F. '?V. Bound vs South Carolioa Railway Company, and oar jur'^diciion did nVt depend upon ^itiz-jnship or amount in controversy. This case i? an original bill and the fi *8t question i? aa to the ju-isdicti<m. Fnc persons actiu ' as Couai> Treasurer and as sheriff . f fi /e Ci uniies are defendants. After tn-* tender and payment i f so much i f tlie taxes as are admitted to have been the result ot lawful a8!?e*sment, there is due in the couav ?.f Fl< r?*ic- $2,734.39; in the county !if EE >rrv $328 23; iu the o< uatv ot Mar$1 685 23; u. the CouotvotRchla d 62.724 29. aud in the County oJ Sumter $L 683 72 Under Walter v? 2T iriheas^ro Rti' oad Company, 147 U.S., 370, and Northern P^c'fic Rilroad Company vs talker, 48 U S., this ourt ha3 no inriaAiotinn the nru?atinri8 raised (UHOUiWiV agalns., tbe Treasurers and sheriffs < f E >rry, Marion and Sumter, sod as to iLese tbe bill snould be dismissed Witb regard tot be Treasurer and sheriff ot the County ? f R cbland, and of tbe (Jountv ot Fioreace, this case is controlled bv , Lhe case if Chamberlain vs Walter, ibove referred to. "Lei; an order ba prepared dismissing 1 ihe bill. "CHAS, H. SlStOSTTON. ' "Circui', Judge." March 19,1894. " ' A Vend-tti?. ( Birmingham, Ala, March 21.?In a gene- al ft^nt between the Cobb and . King fimiiie3 at Three Notches, Ala, this Morcing Jhon (Cobb's throat was cut and be died ia a tew minutea. Brad KiLg and his brother Dave were badly wounded. Warrants were issued for 1 1 the entire King family, consisting of the lather and three sons. The ft?bt was the result of an old feud, and is the fourth murder ia .tea days in Bullock County. Gen. Howard, after examining the defences of our Atlantic seaboard cities reports that not one has any modern means of defence. Washington will probably be the first city properly protected. " Work is now going on at old Fort Washington, ten miles down the \rvcr. H PANS ONLY $1501 PIANOS?So-Called. ?? 'TIN PANS" IN TONES. QUALI- W, LND MUSICALLY YALUKijKbS. || nean the Pianos so glaring^ adver- $5$ under "Grand Offers," "Factory " "Agen s' Profits Saved," for $150, &g| <xuu Ui'OI tovx tfcO auwg IZOkV t," "Best Made," "Same as Sold at j Regular Dealers." |S| .-.KOT Tl^f PAWS. j|| set?Only $225, ?260. $300?Cheapest b? aey. Specially easy terms for close 'it BATES 9 ase, Savannah, tta VIOKE. :est typewriter.* I THAT TOOK y award ate fair, november^, 1893. ? TflE ONLY" AWAKU j L ALSO MADE TO US p tfOR TYPEWRITER'S **" % r Agents Wanted. bes & Co., COLUMBIA, c; S.J i ? 1 me A M?d Love. < ";^r Duraxgo, Mexico, M*reh 21?There is nmca excicement among the pecDie 3t" the little town of Cacaria, situated abo it sixty miles Xorth of here, over a terrible tragedy that has jast been enacted there. The perpetrator of the 4L V seed was a well known man of the ^ town named Rafal Lopez. He was en- S jaged to tnarrv Miss Forina, the pretty * daughter of Martin Parenza, a wealthy -A ranchero of that section. Having re* || cently heard reports very aegratory co 'ha character of Lopez, the young lady .! wrote him a letter break'ng their engagement. Shortly af<erhe received ijj the letter, Lopez called upon her aud pleaded to be reinstated In her aftections. but she refused. The father of the girl, with true Spanish hospitality, lovi-ed the discarded lover to remain ? for dirner aDd the invitation was accepted . The three sat down to eat and Lopez, in a seceret manner, pnt poison in several dishes of food and then par-. ^ rook of the fatal mixtures also. In a rew minutes au ujree were ia&eu ieatbly lil and all died before a physician could be summoned. H?ns?d, Charleston, March 16.?Jerry Horlbeck was haogea in Berkeley county 4 Uil yard this morninsr for the murder :>f Bob Hrz-1, a constable, last spring. Early this morning, the prisoner alternated to commit suicide, and succeed JL in gashiag his neck and wrist with a piece of tio, but he was discovered in time and he was quickly rivived and haDged. He died protesting that he bad ktilpq the constable in self-defnse mmnnmmm M &hj Paj arane Pricw for Goods! ' end for C ataSogse a&d Sea What Yis Cm Sflif ^ ^ 5" : 'li* ?r; c ? now $15 c?saic^y" " ' silt ini otiier Bedroom iff "*11 F ' *=t:its, all prices. ''SwH jm $69?r=f^$37 j55^"?2!9! Just to tatroduce them. .?? No freight paid on thw Or- ? Sr*? ^ J",j| gan. (iuara^teed to be * A pw^orgaa-or money r?Elegant Plush PARLOR SUITS, conditio* '; I of Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking Chain Divan. ? und 2 side Chairs ?w^rth $45. Wili d?lir?i it to your depot for $83. TMTsroTi mK C3?&3ttb'- "*%? :-*J A $SS SP72& ItACEISI , '^HH with ail attachments. for CGbnaa ONLY $18.50? delivered to your depot. "/The regular price of thli BUGGY is 65 to 75 dollars. HR M A The manufacturer pays all Vw9 the expenses and I sell them ~ M LJB lo you for 842.70- Wf jm ma (uart' ie every one ft rXBg^ ff6lght ^ -ff A PlAlW aellvereo .-uyour depor ^ Send for catalogues of Furniture, Coofctef Stoves, Bs.hy'Carriages, Bicycle*, Organ*, P*?cos, Tea Set*. Dinner Sets, Lamp*, Ac-, and UVK MONEY. Addre** 4 L.F.PADGBTT"S?St^r ; j Machinery Commission ; Agents, 1 o ? Wlm With a view to mutual advantage, wc invite all parties who intend baying m* shineiy to correspond with ns before placing their orders. We are confident or out - ~ j - m ihlllhr tnQavo mnnav tn fflirmsbimnra. *nff only ask the opportunity of proving the ^ [act. Besides machinery of all kinds, we :~'p-j leal largely in Buggies, Wagons, ana otker ronicles. Wrnetous. W. H. Gibljes Jr? & Co \ COLUMBIA. S' C. -THE- ' ':Mm frill ? * I tjpgt sums -J For AgifculHira^S tural andf Gin/ ffPf* I?eral Plantation / / ail iir^l^ii Uae?l*av8eann ^ I T s&l ed their reputa- < / / T?t l~=?-s# tionasthe best / / ft Bi r-^lis on tne market. A // For Simplicity, M I / M&~ar "DnrahiHcv *tmI B 3?i||* fael vol water THE TOZSB 4 * 1 Has no Egu&L IS Rice ttullers. m - n (j?h m? ~ j m? Rice Planters and Rice Millers can bay a single machine that will clean, hull and polish rice ready for market fd $350.00. Corn Millers can buy the best French burr null, in iron frame, fully goaran eed, capacity ten bushels meal per qout, for 8115.00. Saw Millers can buy the variable friction feed DeLoach Mill from 3190.00 up to the largest sizs. Also Gang Rip Saws, Edgers, Swing Saws, Planing Machines, and all kinds ^f wood working machinery. "Talbott" Engines and Boilers. Special discounts made for cash. .:v V. C. SiOBiMt COLUMBIA. IS. C,