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,V\ . / GOLDEN HOURS, GOLUis.> i Everything has beauty in it In the world that 'round us iies, Lifting up cach waking minute, Giving joy to longing eyes, That shall fillthe hours with praise? Golden hours made golden days. By us joys are e\er flying, Let us make our hearts their snare, Let us share the sweetness lying All about us everywhere! Let us walk in happy waysGolden hours make golden days. Troubles come but they are fleeting; Soon their shadows will go by, * - 1 mnnfinr* ASLIKJUIUuU^ viic ouuii^uu uivv??"n1 Pass and show the azure sky. Life is full of sunny raysGolden hours make golden da\s. UVES WORTH"LIVINGThose Tbat LpkcI t > ?u Ex)?!<sro Tbst 3ibV*r Eod8. Brooklyn, July 22 ? lltv. Dr. Talmas;e, who is now touring in the Australian cities, has chosen as the subject for today'8 sermon through the press "Worth Living," the l?ct beinir tsken from Lamentations lii, 39, "Wherefore doth a iivine man complaii?" If we live to the crciutiomsis w guess wbere we came from and to ihe theologians to propbesy wbere we arc going to, we still have left for consideration the important fact that we are here. There may be some donbt about where the river rises and some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no dcabt abcut the fact that we are sailing on it, so I am not surprised that everybody a*ks the qus3tion, "is life worth living?" z' Solomon in bis unhappy moments says it is not. "Vanity," "vesation of spirit," "no 'sood," are hi3 estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at one time a polysramist, and that scured his disposition. One wife makes a man hap* * j - r_ _ .t PT; more than one mases mm wreicaea. But Solomon was converted from polygamy to monogamy, and the last words he ever wrote, as far a3 we can read them, were the words, "Mountains of spices." But Jeremiah says in my t;xt life is worth living. Ia a book supposed to be doleful and lugubrious and sepulchral and entitled "Lamentations" he plainly intimates tbat the blessing of merely living is no great and grand a blessing that though a man have piled on bim all misfortunes ana disasters he has no right to complain. The author tf my text crie3 cut in start ling intonation toauianas ana iu an centuries. ''Wherefore doth a living man complain?" A diversity of opinion in our times as well as in olden time. Here is a ycung man cf light hair and blue eyes and sonnd digestion and generous salary and happily sTfianced and on the way to become a partner it a ccmmercial firm of which he is an important clerk. Aek him whether life is wcrih living. Me will laugh in your face and say, Yes, yes, yee!" Here is a man who has come to the forties. He is at the tiptop of the hill of life. Eecry step has been a stumble an<* a bruiae. The people he trusted have turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made he has been cheaten out o;. His nerves are cut of tune. He has a poor appetite, and all the food he eat does not assimi late. Forty miles climbing up the hill of lite have been to him like climbing the Matterhor, and there are 40 mile3 yet to ?o down, and descent is always more dangerous than ascent. Ask him whether life is worth living, and he will drawl out in sbivermg and lugubrious and appalling negative, "No, no, no!" How are we to decide this matter t'ghtecusly and intelligently? You will find the same man vacillating, oscillating in his opinion from dejection to exubsrance, and it he be very mercurial in his temperament it will depend very much upon which way the wind blows. ? . If the wind blow from the northwest, ? -y ~ and jouask him, he will say "Ye3," and if it blow from tbe northeast, and ycu ask him, he will say "No." How are we, then, to get the question righteouly answered? Suppose we call all nations together in a srest convention .\w* cocf.T-n nr Tcofern anrl >;u V4 irvw?iv4u v. ? ? let all those who are in the affirmative say "Aye" and all those who are in the negative say uXo." While there would he hundreds of lhou3and8 who would answer in the affirmative there would be more millions who would answer in the negative, aad because of the greater number who hnve sorrow and misfortune and trouble the "noes" would have it. The answer I shall give will be different from either, and yet it will commend itself to all who hear me this day as the right answer. If jcu ask me, "Is life worth living?" I answer, it all depends upon the kind of life you live. In the first place, I remark that a life ?i mere money getting is always a failfore, because you will never get as much as Jf '-JU WtUil. JL UD yvvizau pcvpio 1U this country are the richest and next to them ihose who are half as rich. There is not a scissors grinder on the streets of New York or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money as these men who have piled up fortunes year after year in storehouses, in government securities, in tenement houses, in whole city blocks. You ought to see them jump when they hear the lire bell ring. You ought to see them in their excitement when some bank explodes. You ought to see their agitation when there fs proposed a reformation in the tarifi. Their nerves tremble like harp strings but no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall street in the morniag with a concernment that threatens paralysis or apoplexy, or more probably they A + AjMm+rtr\V> r\y o 4ViAir uav v a vi n bviwpuvuv m owa house, so they catch every breath of change in the money market. The disease of accumulation has eaten into them?eaten into their heart, into their longs, into their spleen, into their liver, into their bones. Chemists have sometimes analyzed the human body, and they say it is so much magnesia, 30 much time, so much chlorate of potassium. If some Christian chemiat wculd analyze one of these financial kb?hemoths, he would find he is made up of copper and gold aud silver and zinc and lead and coal and iron. That is not a Ufa worth livinsj. There are too many earthquakes in it; too many perditions In it too many agonies in it. They build their castles, and they open their picture galleries. and thev summon nrima donnas. and they ofier e'er inducement tor happiness to come and live there, but happiness will not come. They send footmanned and por tilioned eqaipage to bring her. She will not . ride to their door. They send princely escort. She will not take their arm. They make their gateways triumphal arches. She wili not ride under them. They set a golden throne before a golden plate. She turns away frc-m the banquet. They call to her from upholstered balcony. She will not listen. Mars jcu, tms is tne taiiure 01 tnose wno have bad large accumulation. And then you must take is to consideration that the vasl majority of those who make the dominant idea of life money getting fall far short of aflhecce. It is estimated that only but two cut of a hundred business men have anything worthy the name of success. A man who spends his hie with the one dominant idea of financial accumulation spends a life not worth living. So the idea of worldly approval. If that be dominant in a man's iile, be is miserable. The two most unfortunate men m this country for the six months of next presidential campaign will bet"vo men nominated for the presidency. The resr rvonss ' f nnd diatribe and ma] ? diction ** ili sriida&liv Gil ur-, - ca'il* -j above aa'ioa hogshead above hogshead, and abcut t-u'uDc tbe?fc two r- sc-r.'oirs will be iuij, ?u.*r a un-se wu; uc tached to escli or;e, aud :t will play away on these noniioeea, snd they will bhVft to s>tat\J k and tsks the abuse, and the falsehood, anj ;be caricature, and tic aosthenia, ard the caterwauling, and t';t CI h, acd they will be rolled in it acu relied over and over in it, uoiil they sr* chcked and submerged and stnii;^u!ai.ed, -n I n: every r:g.-j r-f roturrrn? conse" uyjtss i>ey V:ll be barked 8t ny ail lbs hccutia c.i political parties 'r- m w ccesn. And yet there are u hundred :rc-u today atrridling for that privilege, aud ther* are thousands of men who are helping them in the struggle, Now, that i?. not a life worth living. Von can <ret slandered and a'cu^ed che iper than that. Take it ou a smalltr scale. Do not be so ambitious to have a whole reservoir rolled over ou joc. Eat what \on set in iho matter oft htgh political proferment you see in every community jn the struggle for what is callcd social position. Tens of thousands of people trying (o get into that realm, and they aru under terri?c tension. What i3 social position? It is n difficult tuieg to deGue but we all know what it is. Good morals and in leliigimce are not necessary, but wealth or sh >w of wealth is absolutely indispensable. There are men today as noiori ous for their libertinism as the night is famous for it3 darkn683 who move in what is called high eocial position. There are hundreds of cut snl out rakes in American society whose names are mentioned among the distinguished guests at the great levee3. They have annexed ail the known vices and are lon?:ng for other worlds of diabolism to corquer. Good morals are not necessary in many of tLe exalted circles of society. Neither is intelligence necess *ry. You find m that realm men who would not know an adverb from an adjective if they met it a hundred times a day, and who cculd not write a letter of acceptance or regrets without the aid of a secretary. They buy their libraries by the square yard, only anx.oua to have the binding Russian. Their ignorance is positively sublime, making English grammar al most disreputable. And yet the finest parlors open seiore them. liooa morais and intelligence are not necessary, but wealth or a show of wealth 13 absolutely indispensable. It does not raase any difference how you got your wealth if you only got it. The best way lor you to get into social position is for you to buy a large amount on credit, then put your property in your wifts'a name, have a few preferred creditors and then make an assignment. Then disappear from the community until the breezj is over, and then ccme back aDd start in ttie same business. Lo v(u not see how beaatifuily that will put out all the people who are in competition with you and trying to make ao hone3t living? How quickly it will get you Into high social position. What is the use ol 40 or 50" years of hard work when you can by two or three bright strokes make a great fortune? Ah, my fciends, when you really lose your money, how quick they will let you drop, and the higher yon get the harder you will drop. There are thousands in that realm to day who are atxtou3 to keep it. There are thousands in that realm who are nervous for fear they will fall cut of it, ^AViiswrrfif. /YAiniY Art ATTArTT &L1L uliCi.C aic vu vivij year, and every mouth, aud every hour which involve heartbreaks that are never reported. High social life is constantly in a flatter about the delicate questun as ix) whom tbey shall let in and whom thev shall push out, and the battle is going on?pier mirror against pier mirror, chandelier against chandelier, wine cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe asainst wardrobe, equipage against equipage. Uncertainty and insecurity dominant in that realm, wretchedne33 enthroned, torture at a premium, and a life not worth living. A life of sin, a life oi pride, a life ot indulgence, a lite of worldiness, a life devoted to the world, Lhe flesh and the devil is a failure, a dead failure, an infinite failure. I care not how many presents ycu 3ent that cradle or how many garlands you send to that grave, you ^ A fVia n sma An f UCTU IV puu UUUCi bug U(XIXA\, \SLl vuv tombstone this inscription: l,Better for that man if he bad never been born." But I shall show you a life that is worth living. A young man says: "I am here. I am not responsible lor ancestry, Others decided that. I am not responsible for my temperament. God gave me that. But here I am in the afternoon of the nineteenth century at 20 years cf age. I am here, and I must take an account cf my stock. Here I have a body which is a divinely constructed engine. I must put it to the very best uses, and I must allow nothing to damage this rarest of machinery. Two feet, and .they mean locomotion. Two eye3, and they mean capacity to pick out my own way. Two ears, and they are telephones of communication with all the outside world, and they mean capacity to catch sweetest music and the voices of friendship?the /ery best music. A tODgue, with almost infln.iy ot articulation. Yes, hand3 with which to welcome or resist or life or suite or wave or bless? hand3 to help myself and help others. "Here is a world which after 0,000 jear3 cf battling with tempest and accident is still grander than any architect, human or angelic could have drafted. I have twc lamps to light me?a colden lamp and a silver lamp, a golden lamp set on the sapphire mantel of the day, a silver lamp set on the jet mantle of the night. Yea, I havathat at 20 _>ear3 of age which defies all inventory of valuables?a soul, with capacity to choose 01 reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or to hate. Plato says it is immorfal. Seneca says it is immortal. Confucius says it is immortal. "An old book among the family relics a oook with leathern cover almost worn fat ana pages aimost ODiueratea 07 on l^rusal, joins tbe other books in saying I km immortal. I have 80 years for a lifetime, CO years yet to live. I may not live an hoar, but then I must lay out my plans intelligently and for a long iih. &xly years a'dded to the 201 have al:aady lived, that will bring me to 80. I must remember that these 80 years are only a brief preface to the live hundred thousand millions of qumthlion3,of years which will zz my chief residence and existence. ITow 1 understand my opportunities aud my responsibilities. "It there is any being in the universe all wise and all beneficient who can help a man in such a juncture, I want him. The old book found among the family relics tells me there is a G-od, and that for the sake of hi3 son, one Jesus, Le will give help to a man. To him I appeal. God help me! - Here I have yet 60 year? to do for myself and to do for others. I must develop this body by all industries, by all gymnastic-, by all sunshine, by all fresh air, by all good habits. And this scul I must have swept and /vftrnioVio.J onri illnmmo/1 r>rl r? 1 /\**i? A/-1 Kt? i;aiL?outu auu uxum;u^u CILIU ^j.u4iutu u y all that I can do for it and all that I can get God to do for it. It shall be a Luxemburg of tine pictures. It shall bs an orchestra of grand harmonies. It shall be a palace for God and righteousness to reign in. I wonder how many kind wcrd31 can utter in the next GO years. I will try. I wonder how many good deeds I can do in the next GO years. I will try. God help mt!" Thatyonng man enters life. He is buffeted; he is tried; he is perplexed. A grave t peas on this side, and a grave opens on that side. He falls, but he rises again. He i'otfi iato a bard baU'e, but hs ire's lbs victor--. The mua coar-c < f h;s lif-s is Id the ri- ht direction. Kc blesses ovorvVi.-.riv in r.'-ir.fapA wr::h. God forgives his mistakes and makes everlasting re c )rd of his holy mdfcavors, and at lbs eloss of it God says to him, "Well r:oac, <rood and faithful servant; eaier into thejsyaof thy Lord." Mv brother, my sister. I do not care whether that d'?fs at 30, 40, 50, CO, 70 or 80 years of sge. You can cb'sii right under h:.3 name on ihe tomb?tonn tuese word?: "Uielife was worth '.ivincr." Amid ihe hills cf New Hampshire iu clden limes there s>ts a mother.. T.'iere are six children in the household? loubo>s aud t<?r< girls. S ?;a)l firm. Very rough, hard work to c ~>a>: u ilviuic out of U. Mighty tugs to make two ends of the >ear meet. Toe b)vs <ro to school iu winter and work the farm in summer. Mother is the chief presiding spirit. With her handa she knits all the stockings for the little fact, and she is the mantua maker for the boys, and she is the milliner for the girls. There 13 only one mu ieal insLrument in the hoase?the j sninmn? wheel. The food is verv plain. bat it is always well provide-!. The winters are very con!, bul are kepi oul by the blankets sh? quilted. Oi Sanday wheo she appears iu the village eburch, her children around her, the ministn* looks down and i3 reminded ot the bible descrition of a good housewife: 4,IIer children arise up and call her blessed. Her husband also, and he praiseih her." Some years 20 by, and two eldest boys want a collegiate education, and ihe household economies are severer, and the calculations are cbser, and until those two bojs get their ?ducat:on there i3 a hard battle for bread. Oae of these boys enters the university, stands in a pulpit widely influential and preaches righteousness, judgment and temperance and thousands during his ministry are blessed. The other lad who got the collegiate education goes into the law, and thecc* into legislative hills, and after awhile he commands listening senates a3 be makes a plea for the downtrodden and the outcast. One of the younger boys becomes a merchants, starting at the loot ot" tbe ladder, but climbing on up uatil his succsess and his philanthropies are recognized all over the land. The other son sta^s at home because he prefers farming life, and then he thinks he will be able to lake e^re ^of lather and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters, when the war broke out, one went through the hospitals of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheericg up the dying and homesick and taking the last message to kiu dred far away, so that every time Christ thicught oi her ha said, a? of old, "The same is my sister and mother." The other daughter has a bright home of h?r own, and in the afternoon of the forenoon when she has been devoted to her household she goes forth to huut up the sick and to encorage, the dicouraged, leaving smiles cud benediction all along ths way. 7?ut or.fi ila? there start Aire telegrams from ths village for these live absent ones savins "Come; mother is dangerously ill." Bat before they can bo ready to start they receive another telegram, saying, 4-Come; mother Is dead." The old neighbors gather in the old farmhouse to do the last cfficas of respset. But as that larmmg son, and the clergyman the senator, and the merchant, aad the two daughters stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look or lifting their little children to see once more the face of dear old grandma I want io a3k that group around the casket one que3iion, "Do you really think her life was worth living?" A life for God, a life for others, a lite of unselfishness, a useful life, a Christian lift*,, 13 always worth living. I would not fiad it bard to parsuade you that the poor lad Peter Cooper, making glue for a living and then amassing a gyreat fortune until he could build a philanthropy which has had its echo in 10,000 philanthropies all over the country?I would not Audit hard to persuade you that his life wa3 worth living. Neither would I find it hard to persuade you iL.L 4L. irr^ Midi Luu iny ui ou-sauuau r? osie_y wa? worth living. She sent, out one son to to organizj Methodism and the other son to bring his anthems all through the ages. 1 would not find it hard work to persuaed yon that t'ie lifs of Frances Leere was worth living, a3 she established in England a school for the scientific nursing of the sick and thea when the war broke out between Franc? and Germany went to the front, and with her own hund3 scraped the mud oil the bodies of the soldiers djing in the trenches, with her weak arm, standing one night the hospital, pushing back a German soldkr to his couch as, all frenzied with nis wounds, he rushed toward the door and said: "L^t me go! L^t me go to myliebe mutter." Major generals standing back to let pass this ansrel of mercy. Neither would I have hard work to persuade you that Grace Darling lived a life worth living, the heroino of the lifeboat. You are not wondering that the Duchess of Northumbsrland came to see her, and that people of all lands asked for her lightnousc, and that the proprietor of the Adelphi theater in London cflfared her $100 a night just to sit in the liteboat-"hile some shipwreck sseae wa3 beins enacted. But I know the .thought in the minds of hundreas who read this. You say, "While I know all these liyed lives worth living. I don't think my life amounts to much." Ah, my friend, whether you live a life conspicuous or inconspicuous it is worth living if you 'ive aright. And I want my nex t sentence to go down into the deaths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded not according to the greatness of your ??ork, but; according to the holy industries with which you employed the talents you really possessed. The majority of the ol the crowns of heaven will not be given io people wim iu laieais, ior moss 01 them were tempted only to serve themselves. The vast majority of the crowns of heaven will be given to people who had one talent, but gava it all to God. And remember tbat our life here is introductory to another. It 13 the vestibule to a palace. But who despise3 the door of the Madeleioe because there arc grander glories withit? Your lite, if rightly lived is the first bar of an eternal oratorio, and who despises the note of Haydn's symphonies? And the lite you live now 13 all the more worth living because it opens into a life that shall never end, and the last letter of the word "time" is the first letter of the word "eternity !r' Killed ITonr Peopl?. Los Angeles, Cal., July 2G.?John Craig last hight drove to Glendale, five miles from this city, where his wife, from whom he was divorced three moncDs ago, was stopping wica ner brother, George Ilunter, and deliberately shot and killed both. He then returned to the city, went to the home or" his fathPr-in-law Wm. Hunter, and killed him stepped over the body and walk3d to the dining room and shot and killed his mother-in-law. He then Gredjtwo stots into his own forehead, but failed to kiil himself. Trouble over the settlement of theScommunity property was the case. Mine I>li&st?r. WiLKESBARRE,l'a.( July 20 ? An exploring party of prominent men was descending a mine in West ritt3ton this morning when the cage fell to the bottom. Col. A. G. Mason, superintendent of the Lehigh- Valley Company, was instantly killed and three others are believed to be fatally injured. ag?casM?Bca aa mw mini win ! ! THE BUTE ALLIANCE. j | PRESIDENT LVAN VS AB'_E AND P!UCTICAL ADDRESS. Hi IJUca?sfrt the W?lftrool the Alllarce in a m-istorlv m<nrer?Important Sokg?atfon? SI<4tIe?Allailans t<~. tu?i Ofllclal Orjc?tn of the Order, Aiken, S. 0,, July 25.?When the Alliance this morning in the Aiken county cxirt house at 11 o'clock there was a full attendance of the members. President Evans was in the chair and secretary Iteid was in his place. The other cllicers of the order present were Vice-President J. S. Xeitt Treasurer F. J'. Taylor, State Lecturer J. Wm. Stokes, bteward E. Ji. Taylor, Sergeant-at-Arms .1. E. Jarnegan, District Lecturer J. K. JJlake, Jr., of the Third District and W. 0. Tatum of the new Seventh; and executive committeemen T. r. Mitchell, E. It. Walter and n fll T\ T ;.wJ.yvJ/x o. x. x/. . ?uu juuiuirti.v twitimitteemtn W. X. Klder, D. Iv. Norris and John T.Gaston. Tne absent officers were Chaplain James E. Douglass, Doorkeeper J. W. Kennedy and Assistant Doorkeeper L. E. I'arler. The following delegates appeared ana presented their credentials and were enrolled: Abbeville?J. T. Ilobertson; Aiken? J. S. McKie; Anderson?J. M. Glenn; Barnwell?W. L Bamberg; Berkeley? T. fc>. Browning; Chester?S. T. MeKeown; Chesterfield?R. E. .Rivers; Clarendon?James E. Davis; Colleton? D. M. Varn; Darlington?II. A. Josey; Fairfield?J. M. Galloway; Florence? J. E. Pettigrew; Georgetown?R. J. Donaldson; Greenville?J. H. L3timer; Ilorry?James A. Lswis; Lancaster?J C. Elliott; Laurens?A. 1\ Goodwyn; Lexington?D. F. EQrd; Marion?J. D. Montgomery; Marlboro?G. W. HearI \r 1 TXT T ?l.n. say; -Attwuvjrrv?>v. xi.xjin.c; ujuucc? J. L. Smitb; Orangeburg?S. C.Kennedy; Pickens?Joel H. Miller; Richland ?Jame3 Norton; Spartanburg?M. 0. Lowland; Sumter?H. T. Abbott; Uuion?H. 0. Little; Williamsburg?J. D. Daniel; York?W. J. Millar. Among the other Alliancemen present were Col. W. A. Neal, Prof. W. N. Marchant, Senator Reagan, D. W. McLaurin, D. K. Xorri?, R. E. Ktrven, W. H". Elder and others. There were in all about forty iive members of the Alliance in attendance. A few more are expected in tomorrow morning. The body is composed for the most partthi3 year of new blood Mr. D. W. McLaurln, who attended the first meeting of the State Alliance of South Carolina, said to me: "Phis is as good a body as 1 haye ever seen and I have been to every meeting the State Alliance has ever held. After the organization had been completed President W. D. Evans proceeded to deliver his annual address. It was a strong one and seemed to great 1 -.r? 4-t_ ~ a 11 x ly impress au cne memuerd ui ujb finance. He urged the Alliancs in the strongest terms to stand to its guns, reiterated all of its demands, etc. The copy of the addres3 was placed in the hands of the committee to be reported npou and I've had some difllculty in getting at it. Here, however, is the address: Gantlemen of the State Farmers Alliance of South Carolina: Six years have come and gone since the Alliance has been organized in this State. These years have been spent by us in advocating measures burdened with the preservation of the liberties of the people and freighted with the responsibilities of perpetuating our republican form of government, a legacy handed down to us by our revolutionary ancestors as a sacred trust for generations yet unborn. Let us ask ourselves today if we are faithfully and honestly discharging our duty as trustees of this noble estate. From 1888 to 1889, the agricultural and industrial classes were aroused to knowledge of the fact that the props were being knocked from under them, and that they had not only to stand alr>n? hparincr nnnn their shoulders the legitimate superstructure of maintaining the professional and non-producing classes in their necessary and honorable calling, of producing bread for the eater and raw materials to clothe the naked, but that a horde of gamblers and speculators under the forms of legalized monstrosities, had' fastened themselves upon them, and had placed burdens upon their shoulders grevious to be tolerated. Iq fact there was an uprising of the people protesting against a financial system that was first destroying the resources of the farm, and sweeping all the proGts of the laborer into the coffers of the legalized robber,-5. The result of Investigation and consultation showed that unless a different and better system of finance was adopted by the government, ruin auu uisaiuei wuuiu unguo tuc ^cauc auu -prosperity and happiness of the people. To avert this calamity, the Aliiaace formulated and set forth what are known as the Ocala demands, and boldly predicted that unless these demands were inacted into law, the country would witness the most disastrous panic ever known in its history. This prediction has been more than verllied, for not only the government itself, but every kind of legitimate business has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the past twelve months. The Alliance being nude up of members of all the political partle?, these demands were made in a strictly nonpartisan spirit, and therefore every political party was appealed to to give relief to the country through a better and just financial system that would give the wealth producers equal change under the law. "We have stood by these demands from 1890 to the present time, believing them to be founded upon justice, demanded in equity upon the broad Democratic principle of equal rights to all, special privileges to none. Until experience teaches us something better, we must stand squarely by aad advocate these demands.supporting for office only those who are with us and who will use their political influence to advance and build up our interests. If we do no less than this we will be recreant to the high duty of citizenship, traitors to our country, to our homes and to our families. While the membership of the order is not as large as it should 'oe,it is gratifying to know that a large majority of the people of the State are with us?in fact in every wState. In this union thousands of voices are preaching from the same text, and earnest men are working for the success of the same measure. Th8re i3 no longer a yawning gulf separating the !North from the soutn, dug me iarmers 01 tae entire country are banded together in a common brotherhood, having the same patriotic purposs to rescue this land of ours from the desecrating grasp of the Shylock. One in heart, one in purpose, they will be invincible in the struggle which is to decide whether the man or the dollar shall be the ruler in this American government. The time is past when sentiment should bind us to man or party. He that is not tor us is against us, and we should have sense enough to know it, anl courage enough to show it. The Chief Executive of this great nation today is a puppet in the hand3 of organized monopoly, and we are in a large measure responsible by our votes for it. I have spoken thus plainly, T ? ' * ?:?.t? ??rr 1 tonfiAn nf UrtJlUlttU UUli VV1UU etuj luwuuuu <-> *. stirriDg up passions, for I see the fires of indignation already burning in your eyes; sold out, betrayed by the so-called Eastern Democracy, let us seek political affiliation with the great West, where the dawn of empire is fast brighteniDg in the full power of the Doonday sun. II has been brought to my attention, by a resolution passed by tbe subordinate Alliance in Columbia,that charges of mismanagement, had been m3de by the editor of the Piedmont Headlight against the manager of the Exchange and askiDg for an investigation. I called upon the Judiciary Committee to mmm???jilj - makelh? investigation, bat owing to the failure of Brother T. L. Gantt, who had made the charges,to respond to the Qnrnnnnns of the fonimittee. and the ;ib secee of Brother j. T. Gascon,who was an important member or the committee the work was necessarily unsatisfactory and incomplete. X herewith band in the testimony of the witnesses examined, and would urge that the Alliance take such action in the matter as to thoroughly investigate and publish the investigation. If there is anything wrong in the management of the Exchange, it is due to the Alliance that it should be known, and on the other hand if the charges are without foundation, it is due to the Exchange Manager that he should be vindicated. It is much to be regretted that the editor of the Headlight, who is a member of tho Alliance, did not prefer the charges through the proper Alliance authorities instead of through his newspaper. The Exchange is a most potent factor in forcing prices down, and therefore looked upon with disfavor generally by merchants and manufacturers. It has broken up the old order of dealing through middlemen m a large measure and undertakes to bring the producer ? ? ana consumer nearer wjgeunu jiu uuainess relations, thereby getting rid of the heretofore unreasonable profits demanded by middlemen. If the membership of the order could arrange their business affairs to buy fertilizers, bagging, ties and heavy groceries through this channel, it would soon become a still more useful agency in accomplishing the purpose for which it was inaugurated. In connection with this I will call your attention to the fact that the National Alliance has decided to establish a national exchange in the city of Baltimore, which Is destined to become great and useful te farmers in providing a channel through which they can with the least expense and greatest profit dispose of their produce and purchaie such things as they may need to great advantage. V?ith a national exchange and a system of State exchanges there is no reason why the producer and consumer will not be brought into business relations which would be mutually beneficial but especially so to the farmer. The State organ of the Farmers Alii- | ance, lor some unaccouutaoie reasvu, does not receive the support it is entitled to. This paper should be in the home of every Alliance family iu the State. I am satisfied that any one will be a more useful member of the order by reading it. Iu fact I don't see how any true Allianceman can afford to do without it. I earnestly recon. aaend to this body and be3paak for it a more liberal patronage. To educate is one of the chief missions of the Alliance and it is through the press that the people are most easily reached and taught the science of government and the evil or good effects this or that system of legislation bears in relation to prosperity. It is necessary, therefore, for a man to become an intelligent voter that h6 must become a constant reader. The capital stock of the Cotton riant should be increased to place it upon sure and permanent basis, and I suggest that you take proper steps to accomplish the end. The second means of educating the people is through the system of lecturing, and it is.very important that faithful, intelligent lecturers should adArcaa tha rtartnlo Vmt. nwinor tn t.h#? fdflfc that the treasury was ia depleted condition, we have been forced to do without a great deal of lecturing that should have been done with profit. 1 submit herewith for your consideration a communication from Marion Butler, President of the National Alliance, snowing the conditions of the finances of the national order and suggest the adoption of the plan gotten up by J.W. Rled, State Secreary, which, I think, will give the desired relief. It is as followers: Change the system reporting so that subordinate Alliances should report semi-annually intread of quarterly, sending to the county secretary 35 cents for each member, male and female, reported in good standing, March 31st and September 30 of each year. Let county secretaries report semi-annually, tabulating reports and sending to the secretary of the State Alliance each member,male and female. Let the State Secretary then tabulate and send to the National Secrtary 5 cents for each male and female, from March 31st'to July 1, and from September 30 to January 1. This will in each case give three months for the reports to come in and the State and national dues to be collected. x xms wm enaoie us uu yay uic u?tional due3 at the time required by the National Alliance. This, you will observe, divides a dollar for the year as follows: National Aliiancemen dues, 10 cents; State Alliance dues, 30 cents; Subordinate Alliance dues, 30 cents, total, SI. Let all initiation fees be returned by the subordinate Alliance. No part to be sent to the county secretaries with the report. Require County Alliances to pay the mileage of delegates to the State Alliauce meeting and let the State Alliance papper deem. This, 1 think, a better plan than the system under which we are operating. If you adopt this plan there will be no use to consider the proposed amendments to the constitution, embodied in the circular letter sent out some time back to county secretaries. I have received two letters from cotton associations, one in Liverpool and nrh?r in Phfiarifllnhia. calling atten tlon of the Alliance to the evil parctlce of over-taring cotton bales and requesting that you take such steps as will, In your judgment, put a stop to the practice. The letters are herewith submitted and I hope you will give the subject the attention it is intitled to. The future as well a3 present condi-. tion of the cotton grower in the State is not a very enviable one with cotton now below the cost of production. What is the outlook for the future ? With the rapid increase of acre3ge planted in Texas and the Western States, we will be forced to turn our attention to something else and I would recommend that the South Carolina farmer would diversify his crops and make his provisions at home. Homemade provisions, more stock, more home-made manure, this moans less debt and more independence. The Alliance is naving a wonaeriui influence in the politics of the State. Though constantly told tfiat tae Alliance is dead, yet it is a fact when I siy there is no candidate who stands thu least change of being elected to the office which he aspires in the campaign going on, who does not either stand upon the Alliance platform or has made the people believe he does. We have reached the period in the life of the order where the most serious forces are drawn up in battle array. The fight will be fought out along financial lines. The issue have been made up and the result of the contest will decide whether the people shall be the rulers of this country or the vicious financial system devised and fastened upon us by the moziey kings of Lombad and Wai] gf.rpfifs shall Drevail and con tinue to rob the people of their hone3t earnings. We must fight this fight to the finish. There is no compromise ground for us to stand upon. We must be true to our principles, true to the country, true to ourselves, believing in the j ixstice of our cause. Having faith in a just Arbiter of the affairs of men, let us acquit ourselves like men worthy of the trust reposed in us, having evqry confidence that victory will crown our efforts. May the God of nations direct your minds, control your deliberations and lead you on to a higher and nobler appreciation of the work that is before you. At the afternoon session the Alii ance took up t&e committee's report in regard to making the candidates for the State Legislature declare themselves as standing flat footed on the Alliance platform and pledging themselves to vote for no men who did not so declare themselves. After quite a fight the Alliance passed the resolution . - ^ BMBan?rm?aw? im ?ai??pa | which is considered stronger than that di ! recently passed by M;iri:a County pi Alliance. th ^c ?v *.-k f-Vi OU11IC Ui Otic nauvcu vw con?promise and vots for candidates cow before the peopU; who came nearest to standing upon the Alliance platform, bat no compromise' would be agreed to. A few wanted to leave the !j9 matter alone entirely. Others said they D were tired of being considered a3 only tb Ot to do what Tillman told them to do, th and angered considerably by the Gov ernor's statement at Winnsboro, were vi all for fight from the jump, and won gc the day by a good majority. The key ij; note was sounded in i'resi lent Evan's 3li speech this morning, and Governor ja Tillman's Winnsboro speech only added a fuel to the llame. Sl The question is now a plain one. J? Having passed the resolution, the Alii- " ance cannot vote for erther Tillman or Butler delegates. Their members of the Legislature will have to vote for 571 somebody?but who ? That's the ques- U? tion. I hear that Iveitt will be the co man. be Another important matter was the as passage of a resolution reenactiog the he Alliance catechism of last year. The he judiciary committee in the afternoon ra( also submitted a report in the Gantt matter. I understand that it gives 8(l Gantt a pretty heavy do?e. Of all tbe surprising iniugs, laougu, mau j. uavc found in this campaign, is the way the p Alliancemen spea& of Governor Till- l0 man. They are hot, and they make no attempt to coaccal it. One listening at la: most of them talk would think he was w: listening to a crowd of r92 Conserva- vi: tives. The dispensary situation is not ac being talked of at all. The committee &s to whom was referred the address of Co the president, submitted a report which t,h was adopted, in which it is said; (j; "We would emphasize shat part of the message in which we are urged to r stand firmly by each and every demand made by the Alliance."?State. second day's proceedings. c0 Aiken, S.. C., July 26.?The first e3 event of today was the meeting of the ?r State Farmers' Alliance exchange, in; This meeting was held about 9 o'clock, th in the Park Avenue Hotel. Tne prin- ac fV* A TY> AAfl f! J"# TTTOO f ho in mpax ICOUUIC VI LUC Ul^OUUg nciJ tuv ILL exoneration and then the re-election of re Col. D. P. Duncan as the manager of ic the State Alliance exchange. All the -pi old officers were re-elected. The board j8l as elected consists of the folio wing: ^ First Congressional Diatrict?0. 13. ,a lliley. Second -Dr. W. H. Timmerman. *?e Third-J. M. Glenn. f Fourth?John R. Harrison. dL Fifth-A. H. White. be Sixth?S. T. McKewn. aj Seventh?name not given. of The officers elected are as follows: le; President?J. A. Sligh. ra Secretary?W. II. Tim merman, er Treasurer?J. W. Furgason. st The financial report showed the ex- ?j; change to be in line condition. The 8e exchange has $17,000 invested in the b stock of the Farmers' and Mechanics' J Bank of Columbia, holding the major- . ity of the stock and having five out of the nine directors. The entire capital tG of the exchange now is about S225.000. V? A resolution was unanimously passed at instructing the executive committee of Jt the State Alliance to submit the in- ot terrogatories framed by this Alliance b* at its last meeting to all candidates S! for Congress in thi3 State and publish 4.1 : 4-Ua Uieir answers IU IUD oi-auc uigau* Urgent and cordial invitations were extended from Lexington and other . places for the next meeting of the f. State Alliance, but Columbia was the ft most favored in this matter, and the " next session of the State Alliance will be held in the Capital city on the fourth Wednesday in July, 1895. j?1 Resolutions were adopted commem- Yl orating the death of J. A Jefferies, ex- ^ State Lecturer. ^ This resolution was unanimously ? adopted. J Resolved. That we approve the general course of our members of Con- f* gress who have been directed in their ijf efforts for relief by Alliance policy, but ? express deep regret and condemnation ^ of tbeir vo;e upon the bill to repeal 83 unconditionally the tax on State banks as being a repudiation of the demands J* of the Alliance upon the vital question m at issue. h, Messrs. W. A. Neal, of Anderson; J. A. Sligb, of Newberry; D. P.Duncan, e? of Union; T. J. Cunningham, of Ches- . ter, and W. H. Timmerman, of Edge- ? field, were made a permanent committee to take charge of the Cotton Plant J? and put it on a firm foundation by reorganization and placing new men at ^ the helm. Tbis action was taken be cause of the fact that J. W. Bowden was impelled to give up its management on account of ill health. He has ?. given the utmost satisfaction in all nis work and the Alliance "regrets ,F very much that ha is so situated that " he has to sever his connection." The ?* fact is that Mr. Bowden nas been running the Cotton Plant under a lease. He nas give up his lease, being physically unable to attend to all tne work. I understand he is to be continued as jr editor, however. ** The sensation of the day was the up- r* shot of the Duncan-Gantt matter. ! The judiciary committee made the following report which was adopted unanimously: "The committee, after repeated efforts, due notice having been given, j?r failing to get Mr. Gantt before them in r person or with testimony, finds the j:' charges alleged are groundless and the committee fully exonerates Manager Jr Duncan of said charges. r: W. N. Elder, Chairman. Si There was also a report from a spec- n ial committee to consider th9 conduct f* nf Mr rianff. Thpv mnrtfl fhft follnwinc . Ul ?" --O nf report, which was adopted by a rising :L vote: J "The committee to whom was re- "t ferred the resolution to investigate the ^ conduct ofT. L. Gantt, editor of the Piedmont Headlight, and a member o? z: the Farmers Alliance, would respect- Z, fully submit: "That as such editor he has persistently used the columns of his paper in preferring promiscuous charges against jr a brother-member, D. P. Duncan, the ^ State Exchange agent, instead of proceeding according to the provisions as expressed by the Constitution, Section 4, Article 15. That in thus using the el< co) umns of his paper he not only vio- m lates the spirit and letter of the Alii- hj ance law,and brings discredit upon the br order, but forfeits the conditions upon at which editors are eligible to member- ve ship under Section 1, Article 10. cfc "la view of the above violations of gl the constitution we recommend that bl I- - 1 ll.J ? 3 | ne us espeueu iruuu uuo wiuw. kj "(Signed.) W. 0. Tatum, J. II. Blake, le: Jr., J. D. Montgomery,!. C. Elliott and st: J. L. Smith." tb Reports from a member of the board tb of directors of the Alliance Exchange cr and from Manager Duncan were heard sb and gave entire satisfaction, and lit showed the management to be conducted on business principles and the exchange to be in a good financial conditlon. The annual election .of officers jr was then entered upon. The following ,,, officers were elected: ... President?\V. D. Evans. ,, Vice President?J. L. Keitt. zt Secretary?J. W. lleid. 9n Treasurer?F. 1'. Taylor. State Lecturer?119V. J. A. Sligh. * Steward?E. 13. Tyler. fj: Doorkeeper?H. C. Little. iD Assistant Doorkeeper?D. M. Varn. Sergeant at Arms?J. E. Jarnigan. t0 T. P. Mitchell was chosen a member of the executive committee for a thteo hf year's terra. jr W. N. Elder was elected for a three year's term to the executive committee. D. K. Xorris was elected delegate to the national convention. sp John T. Gaston was elected alternate M J. William Stokes's name was pro- w posed for reel^c.i m ::s lecturer, but it la; was with-ir ; vM, he asking all hi3 V* fnend3 to vot? lor Sligh. hi After dinner the Alliance reassem- -at bled, the new oGicers rere installed, J1 | some resolutions of thanks were adoptI ed, and then the body adjourned sine H L . V e. All of the delegates are much eased with wh*fc thay have done, and ey have been handsomely treated by ie people of Aiken. A Xr,ts o 1 W*rntcs. Washington, Jaly 24.?"The most ringent measu-^s mavuee-i lobe iKken protect the United States," wii es c. Stuart E'.drldge from Yokohama to e marme hospital bureau in regard to black planus. Particular care, h sas^esls, is adsable la adoaittine .eertaia classes ot >ods from Cain* likely to convey infec>n?rag?, oM cotton, etc., and also Cu manufactured article* a* are made t-.e native woik^ii-*, with, perhaps, ca3e ot plague dy;n? m the same room, tch tiling ar*. straw matting, emoideries and every sort o> textile brie. Recognizing the difficulties in the iv of obtaining accurate information >ou sanitary matters from oriental untries, Dr. Eldridge, who is the i?lth ciliccr o: tbs port o? Yokohama id a member or the imperial board of ;alth of Tokio, has seat to the Marine ? *-. t ? r IspiiHi UUlQau it oc^ui-viuviai ouvvent of the epidemic in southern Chun. It appears from his report that this our^i 13 one of the most fearful on cord, haying its greatest hold a', thj >rt of Hong-Kong, where mnstof the reign commerce touches. The disease broke out in Canton late st February, and about the same time as epidemic at Pakboi, a port not oiten sited bv Europeans. Duri-ig March id April it stead'!increased until it sumed gieautic proportions, yet, acrdicg to Dr. Eldridse. the eastern auorities manifested their customary inftereccj. "Although Hoag-Koag is ihi csnter trade in the east," he writes, 4'but a ilf day's jDurney from Canton and in instant communication therewith, the :!stence of danser was ignored. S37ITaw/v ITre /^nt? di uaoca ttppcfacu IU uvug xxvu^ uuig the first days of May, bat Dot until e tenth o' that month was any official lion taken. It has steadily increased that place until the mortality ha3 ached 100 a day, despite the exodas of 10,000 Chinese and many Europeans, be natives, in mo3t ca3es, have leto on sling the first symptoms of the disease the hops of dying in their native vilges, while a dcz?n Europeans have sen attacked and most o' them have ed. From Canton and Hong Kong the sease is spreading through the neigh>ricg country and will probably soon >pear in the coast towns ot Chlaa north Hong Kong, because from the care3snes3 in thoss parts no effective qnantine is likely to be established. Sev al cases have already occurred on earners trading from Hong Kong to Siineae ports but without serious con quences on account of prompt action 7 thfl shin*' anr^eone. 'A quarantine system has been put operation in Japan holding sbip3 from e infeeted districts nine days after arri il or after the last ca32 has been abated id only one infested ship baa reached ipan. As Ion* as the dissase is kept it of Japan, so Ion? will this country ; tue b;st bulwalk for the Unintei> &le3 a^insl ths importation of the sease." Horrible Experience. liONDOUT, N. Y., July 25.?At Sprairs, a village not far from here, Miss le-mor Markham complained of heart ouble, and was treated by a physician le j?rew weaker gradually, and appartly breathed hsr last. The doctor onounced her dead, and furnished ie usual burial certificate. Miss .arkham was put in the coffin, the lid as fastened, aud the undertaker and is assistant took the coffin to the sarse waiting outside. As they ap :oached the hearse a noise was heard id the coffin was put down and opened t short order. Behold, there was poor leanor Markham lying on her back, ir face white and distored and her res distended. "My God!" she cried in broken acints, "w&ere am IV You are burying e alive!" "Hush, child," said Dr. Howard, who ippened to be present. "It is a mistake isily rectified." The girl was then taken into the )use and placed on the bed, when she untea. vv flue me aocior was aannuteriog stimulating restoratives the appingsofwoe were removed, and in hearse drove away withjmore cheeril rapidity tnan a hearse was ever iven before. The cordials had the ?sired effect, and Miss Markham grew Utile stronger. As it was evident lat her nerves were suffering from te terrible shock they had received, le doctor ordered the doors thrown' >en, and told the girl's mother and amediate friends to stay with her itil she completely recovered, and say 1 do not nothing in her hearing or ghtthat was.not cheerful andstimulaQg. and, above all, not to refer to the te sensational episoia. Bat this Elinor would not h?ve ejus spoke of it ;rself, and seemed relieved, and pass1 into a refreshing sleep when she had lburdaned her mind. "I was conscious all the time you ere making preparations to bury rae" le said, "and the horror o? my situaon is altogether beyond description, could hear everything that was going ?, even a whisper outside the door and tough I exerted all my will power aDd ade a supreme physical effort to cry it, I was powerless. I had read ia a ew York paper lately about how the everend Docior Kand died and went Knf fzjlf thof mo fafa xrroa tn ' LLUAT Ciij uuu luu vu(*u AUUV IT UU WW j buried alive, and the frightful idea as the saving of me, for as I was >rne to the hearse I prayed to God for rength and, making another attempt, icceeded in rapping on the lid of the iffin. At first I fancied the bearers ould not hear me, but when I felt one id of the coffin falling suddenly I lew that I had been heard." Miss Markham is in a fair way to revery, and what is strange, is ttiat the ltterings of her heart that brought on sr illnes3 are gone. Died from Hydrophobia. Moctntville, S. C., July 26.?An 3veu-year old son of Mr. Robert Cole?.n died near here this morning of -drophobi^ He together with an older other, was bitten by a rabid dog lout three months ago. The case desloped about two days ago, and the tild became rapidly worse. His struges and screams are described as horrie and heart-rending. Dr. T. D. Hairsn treated the case, with Dr. A. E. Fulr in consultation. Here again is a rong plea for the extermination of e worthless curs. Let a law ba passed at will heavily tax the dogs. The y heretofore has been "protect the eep" and now let it be save human 'e.?Register. Three Firem an Killed. Washington, July 25?At 2:20 this ornlng fire was discovered in the nrehouse and stables of the George Knox Express Company, occupying er a quarter of blocs at Second and streets, northwest. The building :d its contents were destroyed, and 5 horses were burned to death. Three omon nroro tilled hv falling walls and ur were seriously iDjured. One of e Knox 3table emyloyes was badly jured and will probably die. The irehouse was packed from basement loof with furnltnre and merchanse, many families having their entire >usehold goods stored in the building. oss about SSOQ.QQO. Bload Thirsty. Washington, l). <j., Juiy zr>.?a iecial from Chattanooga says: "E. W atson, editor of a local evening paper as calied to bis door and assaulted st night by County Judge Hugh rhiteside, whom Matson attacked in s paper. The Judge struck Matson id attempted to draw a revolver, but !atson escaped, liscentiy Judge rhiteside attempted to kill Dr.George unt for a similar cause." / / / - - >?^il ! i . BXae'ol Homes are H?ppr Hanoi. ' H-ive you ever noticed it? Call / . - mind the homes of your frieads wife " # havt- a good Piano or Organ In til hou-^. Are they not brighter ai:_ more attractive than those wh?;re t&r aivii e art of music never enters? To be sure it costs to buy a good instrai ment, but it lasts many years, and win - fr ! pay its costs many a thousand times * * over by interesting the young folks In J their homes. Don't make the mfatakft, J though, of investing haphazard. Poet m yourself thoroughly by writing Ladden ' & Bates Southern Music House, Savahnah, Ga., the great music house of the South, established in 1870. They have supplied 50,000 instruments to. South em home3. and have a reputation for fair prices and honorable treatment"?* customers; and they represent the leading pianos and organs of America They take pleasure in corresponding W with you, sending free catalogues, etc Write them. ; "M V?a?el I>oit Jj Han Francisco C*I, J uly 25.?Word was recaived n$r33f the total wreck of -jjfl theBrltish bark William Le LacdurJB off Cape St. James, on Frovostjsland^ 600 miles from SiQ?ap?re. The vessel B left Singapore for Hong Kong May 4, loaded for San Francisco. Her bones J9 are now bleaching on the rock off Cape St. James, while the bodies of the crews are strewn along the shore. Oat of & crew of twelve not a man lives to teljfl the tale. The crew consisted of fou^H Englishmen and four Chinese. W:Er? PATS THE HUTCH ?f aim hint far Gnfel | tStf ftr CSftiog? Sat Wtat 1m Cm Sail J hov $is Baflfe; .:?hfcr Iseterooaa - -.??* v.! <ss? $69?r?f^$37 Just to introduce them. No freight paid on tbl? Or* M Jv-5?-. v vr>; can. Gnaraataod to bt s J tood oraran M wOnoy r*> ^ j iuniseo. ? ? t= ^ JfefeSg ?Mf Kicsrant PVjsh PARLOR SUITS, conrtKtiin c >:o.'a, Ana Chair, Rocking Chair. Divan, * <;: 2 <;h*ir: ?worth 446. Will daHvM ! ^ourdapct >cr $88. v TMi No. 1 i^"A $53 sxnsa xicsai / ^ with all attachment*, for / ONLY $18.50?V delivered tg your depot. %*The~reffular priep of/dtiiM > BUGG V U 5 to 75 dollar*. The manufacturer pays all the ex penses and I sell them tlM lojou for 649.78 fcarjaln. No freight paid es 1BU Baggy ^ ~ojr<S?po$ 4 54nd for catalog.:?* of Kuroitur*, OwU*C 4tov*a. 8*ivy Carriages, Blcyelea, Oqui, IV fexos, T?a Ssts, Dinner HMm, Lamy, Ao.. tai BAVT WO^fcY. AUKM L. F.FADeElTniSSLSr ftionSttob^ ^ on too aarirefc ? a " . NfOW IS TtiE TIME_ TO PLACE TOUR OKDKSS FOK | Ttireshsrs! ^ And I Sell the Bast in the Marfcet, Write te me Before Baying. Shingle Machines, < Stave Machines, Brick Machines, Jfea T5!an<nnf Uiu>nlnA4 ^Hl Swing Saw3, Band saws, GangK'pSiws, V and all kinds of Vr wood working msc^fa8s. *4rist Mills $115 to $250. / Saw Mills $190 to $400. * Watertown Engines and Boilers/ Talbott Engines and Bo!lecs. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gins and Presses. HIGH and LOW GRADE. Y. C, 81991V, COLUMBIA S.C, ? ~ /4 v fins *.?? bapw i! a g$ U1&U1I11U _ H ?5 only ISO for a Saperb Mjjbon * ( 9 CO > Uaxux Organ. 4 set* Reeds, {9 M ) lo Stop*, Rich Cue. IS cash i 3 ? > and K monthly. Reduced < 9| jfc I from Ills. Writs Us. < 3 N > BeautlfalSTSRLiNQ Mirror Top < 9 K> only$fiO. 4 sets Reed*, U Stop*, J M ^ s> Writs Us. ]J S Lovely New Styles at 965 and 9 J j *75. Writs us. ( 9 lc I Eleeant New Plasoe only $225. < 9 t i wokd2rtt7l at the Prics. i 9 ci Writs Us. (ja 5 [ . Tremendous bargain* In nearly ) & n J new Piano* and Organs, used H ~^Sc I I- a trifle only. Writs Ds. J ? s-. - :1 If yon want a Piano or Organ ^ 33 now Is the time to bay It < 3 sight. Writs Us. ,3 I Write ax anyhow. Tr*de is I 3 J dull and yon can't auk more < 1 questions about Pianos and < 0 . Omni than we want to aa-JHl I I!