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t,T,"m??rTTanrrrjrari~trrr .k , ... UNFAILING FRIENDS | A SERMON FULL GFTHE B3EVTH Or j THE rihLUj Showing How the Attachment oi TJuaz for ; Kuth. Wa? Full of L'a-Jj.'tiK Interest jo the Church o* God la All Ages. Washington*, April 23.?The sermon of L?r. Talmage which we scut out today could cut have been prepared >>y ar.y cue not born in the country. It is full of the breath cf the fields. The text is Ruth ii, Z. "And she went and came ana gienneu iu tac nc. the reapers, and her hap w.is to light on ;i part 01 the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of ?limelech." The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive .-it Bethlehem is harvest time, it was the custom when a sheaf fell from a lc\d in. the harvest field for the reapers to refuse to gather i: up. That was to be left for the poor who might happen to come along that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it. as farmers do now, it was by the custom of the land left in its placc, so that the poor coming along that way might glean it and get their bread. But you say. "What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and >"aoui7 Xaoai is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun, and can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister her hand* in the harvest field?" Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in the grain. Coming there right behind the swarthy, sun browned reapers, he beholds a beautiful woman gleaning?a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a'throne than to stoop among the i N sheaves. Ah. that was an evenuui . It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner?an attachment full of undying interest to the church of God in all ages, while Ruth; with an ephah, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Ruth who left her native land of Moab in darkness and traveled, through an undying alrection for her mother-in-law. is in the harvest neld of Boaz, is aSianced to one of the best families in Judah and becomes in aftenime the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Oat of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning'/ I leam, in the first place, from this subject how trouble develops character. It was bereavement, poverty and exile that developed, illustrated and announced to all ages the sublimity of Ruth's character. That is a very unfortunate man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Bunyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better ; noet. and O'Connell the better orator, and Bishop Hall tb? better preachcr, and Havelock the better sc^er, and Kitto the better encyclopedist, and Ruth the better daughter-in-law. I once asked an aged man in regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant man, "Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems to have so little heart and tenderness in his sermons?7' "Well," he replied "the reason is that our pastor has never had any trouble. When misfortune comes upon him, his style will be different." Afror awhile rfio fAnv ??. rthiitl out of that pastors house, and, though the preacher was just as brilliant as he was before, oh, the warmth, the tenderness of his discourse The fact is that trouble is a great educator. You see sometimes a musician sit down at an instrument, and his execution is cold and formal and unfeeling. The reason is that all his life he has been prospered. But let misfortune or bereavement come to that man. and he sits down at the instrument, and you discover the pathos in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune and trials are great educators. A young doctor comes into a sickroom where there is a dying child. Perhaps he is very rough in his prescription, and very rough in his manner, and rough in the feeling of the pulse, and rough in his answer to the ?- mother's anxious question. Uut years roil on, and there has been one dead in his own house, and now he conies into the sickroom, and with tearful eje he looks at the dying child, and he says, "Oh, how this reminds me of my Charlie!" Trouble, the great educator. Sorrow?I see its touch in the grandest painting: I hear its tremor in the sweetest song; I feel its power in the mightiest argument. Grecian mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I" have often noticed in life that the brightest and most "k/vrm-f/\v>r?fQ?y>c r\f* f!V? r* fin ff>mfind wtautixui. v* . ww?-- - spiritual life have been struck out by the iron shod hoof of disaster and calamity.. I I see Daniel's courage best by the iiush of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. I see Paul's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship under the glare of the lightning in the breakers of Mclita. God croons his children amid the howling of wild beasts and the chopping of blood splashed guilliine and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It took the persecutions of Marcus Aureiius to develop Polycarp and Justin Martyr. It took all the hostilities against the Scotch Convenauters and the fury - *** * "> T T> ox ivOra oiaveriioiisc 10 ueveioa nwwick and Andrew Melville and Hugh McKail, the glorious martyrs on Scotch history. It took the stormy sea, and the December blast, and the desolate New England coast, and the Warwhoop or savages, to show forth the prowess of the pilgrim fathers? "When amid the sterms they sang. And the stars heard, and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim wood j T> tV?A tVoa XVvLU^ IU i-i-LC Vi IAVV. I It took all our past national distresses j and it takes all our present national sorrow to lift our nation on that high career -where ! it will march long after the foreign aristocracies that have mocked and tyrannies that have jeered shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God, who hates despotism, and who, by the strength of his own red right arm! will make all men free. And so it is individually, and in the family, and in the church, and in the world, that, through darxness and storm and trouble, men, women, ch?rches nations, are developed. Again, I sec in my test the beauty of unfaltering friendship, I suppose there wer< plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity, but of all her acquaintances how many were willing to trudge of: with her toward Judah when she had to make that lonely journey'.' One, the heroine of my text. oV-nlirolr n>w T rr h or, Virv. V/-LV, v^v. * ,.~>.~.....v [ Kii's husband vras living-, ana they had plen- | ty of money, and all things went well, they j had a great many callers, but I suppose that after her husband died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled very much with callcrs. All the birds thai sung in the bower while the sun shone have gone to their nests, now the night has fallen. Oh, these beautiful snowtiowers that spread out their color in the morning hour! But they are always asleep when the sun i? going down: Job had plenty of friends j v. hen he was therichcst man in Uz. but when i his property went and the trials came, then j there were none so much that pestered as J Eliphaz the Temaniteand lUldad the Shuhite ] and Zophar the >"aamath:te. . Life often seems to be a mere game, where j the successful player pulls down ail the other I men into ais own lap. JL,et suspicion. arisu about amaa's character, and he becomes like a bank in a panic, an J all the imputations rush on hini and break down in a uay that j character -which in due time would have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been half a century in building which go down under one push, as a vast temple is consumed by the touch of a sulphurous match. A hog can uproot u century plant. In this world, so full of heartlessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity! David ha5 such a friend in Hushci; the Jews had such a- friend in | Mcrdecai, vrho never forgot tIieir cause; j Paul had such a fricad in Mnesipborus, -who j visited him in jail: Christ had such in the Marys, "who adhered to hira on the cross, Xaoiai had such a one in. iluth, "who cried uuv. ?.v 4-kVv Avu ? v vHvV v. iu .v" turn from following after thee, for whither thou goest I will go, and whither thou lodge;? 1 will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou dies: wili I die, and there will I bo buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught f c'Aorn >\r+y+ t n AA ? w.J ?. w-? %J uuv VAVauu Ua\.. Az-tin. I k-.irn from this subject that path: j ; v.-L:ch opou in hardship and darkness often I ' conie out ia places of joy. When Kutli started i from >Ioab toward Jerusalem, to go along! w;;h her mother-;a law. I suppose the people 1 ; said: "(Jh, what a foolish creature to go j away from hsr father'9 house. to go oti'with a [ rocr old woman toward the land of Judah! i They wou'tlivcto get across the desert. They will be drowned in the sea or the jackals of the wilderness will destroy them." It was a very dark morning when Ruth started ' n'V icir'n X.-irtmi. but behold her ia my test ia I he harvest f;--M of l'>y..z. to be afliunced to ! one of the lor J- oi iiie land and become one of iiic grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of giory. And -o i' often is that a path which often starts very darkly ends very brightly. When you started out for heaven, oli, how .hvk \r;.s the hour of conviction! How Sinai ihuct.-re-l, and devils tormented, and the darkness thickened! All the sins of your life pouueei upon you, and it was the darkest hour you ever saw when yen first found out your sIls. After awhile 3*011 went into the harvest field of'icd's mercy. Vou began to glean in the r.eids of divine promise, and you had more sheaves than you could carry, as ttie voice of (I jd addressed you, ! : " LTIIIO/. (nniTMs. j Saying, 'i ;3 i.ic u^u I 5;oiic arc forgiven and whose sins are covI ercl/' A very dark starling in conviction, a very bright endiog in the pardon and the hope pud the triumph oi'the gospel. io very often ia our worldly business or in our spiritual career we start oil' on a very dark path. We must go. The ilesh may shrink back, but there is a voice within, or a voice from above, saying. "You must go." i and we have to drink the gall, and we have ! 4,-. ?],< . ^v.isc nml wa have to traverse the desert, and -we are poaaded and bailed of misrepresentation and abuse, and we have to urge our way through lO.UUU obstacles that huve been slain by our own right arm. We have lo ford the river, we have to climb the mountain, we have to storm the castle: but, blessed be God. the day of rest and r ward will come. On the tiptop of the cap1ured battlements we will shout the victory, i: not in this world, then in that world where there is no gall to driak, no burdens to carry, nc battles to fight. How do I know it? Know it! I know ii because God says so, t "They sUall hunger no more, neither tnirst ] any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst, of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." h was very hard for Noah to endure the scoffing of the people in his day, while he was trying to build the ark. and was every AHT7-/P.1 nnnnr ni< nhi nn-,r. th?t [ would never be of any practical use. But when the deluge came and the tops of the ! mountains disappeared like the backs of sea monsters, and the elements. lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced iu his own safety and in the safety of his family, and looked out. on the wreck of a ruined earth. ' ' " f - 1 ~ ? A J jurist, nounueu 01 persecutors, uemeu n pillow, worse maltreated thrvn the thieves cn either side of the cross humeri hate smacking its lips in satisfaction afte- it had been draining his last drop of blood, the sheeted dead bursting from the sepulchres at his crucifixion. Tell me, 0 Gethsemane and | Golgotha, were there ever darker times than those? Like the booming of the midnight j sea against the rock, the surges of Christ's j anguish beat against the gates of eternity, to be echoed back by all the thrones of * * - ? -11 -r _ > ? _ - jc T>-,i j neav^n acu an me uimgeons 01 iieu. i>ut I the day of reward comes for Christ. All the pomp and dominion of this world are to be hung on his throne, crowned heads are to bow before him on whose head are many crowns, and all the celestial worship i3 to come up at his feet, like tne humming of the foresc/like the rushiag of the waters, like the thundering of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters, ' Halleluiah,-for the Lord God omnipotent reigncth." That song of love, now low and far, x-re ioag snaa sweu iron: star to star: | That light, the breaking day -which tips The golden spired Apocalypse. Again, I learn from my subject that events I which seem to be most insignificant may be j momentous. Can you imagine anything i more unimportant than the coming of a poor ! woman from Moab to Judah? Can you im| agine anything more trivial than the fact ! that this Ruth just happened to alight?as I they say?iuSt happened to alight on that ] field of BoazV Yet all ages, all generations, i have an interest in the fact that Lhe was to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one little incident rith a thrill of unspeakable and eternal sa ' <"tion. So it is in your history and in mine, events that | you thought of no importance at all have j been of very great moment. That casual con-1 versation; that accidental meeting?you did j not think of it again for a long whii.-. But | how it changed all the phases of your life! It seemed to be of no importance that Ju oai invented ruue instruments 01 music, calling them harp and organ, but they "were the 'ntroduetion of all the world's minstrelsy, a id as you hear the vibration of a stringed instrument, even after the fingers have been taken away from it. so all music now of lute and drum and cornet is only the long continued strains ofJubai's harp and Jubal's organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importance that Jubal Cain learned the u.<;s of copper and iron, but that rude foundry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle of Lirmingham machinery and the roar and bang of factories on the Merrimac. [ X l scciiivu. c'J uc ci i-Li.ii ivj. vi ?i.\J iixiy vi iau^(< that Luther found a Bible in a monastery, [ "out as he opened that Bible and the brass l bound lids fell back they jarred everything, and the rustling of the wormed leaves was the sound of the wings of the angel of the reformation- It seemed to be a matter of no : ^ T,?? ILuI ic-uvu iuai cl v>u;.:au nuo been forgotten dropped a tract in the Tray of a bad nan by the name of Richard Caster, lie picked up the tract and read it, and it was the means of his salvation. In after days that man wrote a book called "The Call to the Unconverted," that ?as the means of bringing a multitude to God,among others Philip Doddridge wrote a book called "The Rise and Progress of Religion," which has brought thousands and tens of thousands' into the kingdom of God, and among others fVir* r \V?1 Wil nnrfnrr-A xt'rnfo o 9 book called -'A Practical View of Christianity," which was the means of bringing a great multitude to Christ, among others Legh Richmond. Legh Richmond wrote a tract called '-The Dairyman's Daughter,'1 vrliicb. has bee" the means of salvation of an converted multitudes. And that tide of influences started from the fact that cne Christian woman dropped a Christian tract in the way of Richard Baxter, the tide of influence rolling on through Richard Baxter, through I'hiliu L>odddrid:re. through the <rreat Yv'il berforcc, through Legh Richmond, on, on. on, forever, forever, ijo the insignificant of this world seem, after all, to be most momentous. Again. I sec in my subject an illustration of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling in the ban _st field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Ho a/, handed to her. The customs of society, cf course, have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to which Until was subjectco. every intelligent wo- j man wili {iad something to do. I know there is a sickly sentimentality on j this subject. In some families there are j persons of no practical service to the house- j hold or community, and though there are so j many woes au urouau u.:.>oui meui in me world, they spend their time languishing I over a new patter or bursting into tears at j midnight over the story of seme lover who shot himself. They would not, deign to ! look at iiuth carrying back the barley on her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. All this fastidiousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father's house; but w'wa the sharp winter of misfortune comes, what, of these butteriiies'.' Persons under indulgent parentage may get upon themselves habits o:' indolence, but when they come out into praci tic.il life their soul will recoil with disgust and clisgriu. Thvy will i'eel in their hearts ivhat the poet so severely satirized -when he said: bulk.- are so awkward, things so impolite, 'i h?"?v tVrtni mrkr'nincr | Through the gats of indolence Iiott many I i.;cn and women have inarched, useless on | earth, to a destroyed eternity. Spinola said ?-r-;.La? 11--- -i " 'in ' -?j to Sir Horace Ncre. "Of what did your broth- } cr die?'' '*01' having nothing to do."' wr>s j the answer. "Ah!" said Spinola, "that's j enough to kill any general of us."' Oil. can { it be possible in this world, where there is so | much suffering to be alleviated, so muck | darkness to he enlightened and so many j burdens to be carried, that there is any per- I I son who cannot find anything to do? j Mme. de Stael did a world of work in her | ! time, and one day, while she was seated ami J instruments of music, all of which she hud mastered, and amid manuscript hooks which she had written, some oce said to iter. ! How do you f:nd time to attend to all these | things?" "Oh," sh-i replied, -'these are ! not the things 1 am proud of. My chief | boast is ia the fact, that I have 17 trades, by j any one of which I could make a livelihood ; if necessary.'" And if in secular spheres j there is so much to be done, in spiritua' | work bow vast, the field! How many dying ' all around about us without one word of j comfort! "We want more Abigails, more! I Hannahs, more llebeccas. more M.-irys, more j j Deborahs consecrated?body. mind, soul?to | the Lord who bought them. Once more 1 learn from my subject the j I value of gleaniDg. IRuth going into that harvest field might | havo said: "There is a straw, and there is j ! rrr Voif Tflint I c ? ? <ifrou''' 1 M T1" r. 0"0t I j 14 CH^TT, UUV f* ao ~ O"" I j any barley for myself or my mother-in-law | i out of these straws '' Not so eaiu beautiful j Ilutli. She gathered two straws, and she i put them together, and more straws, until ! she got er.ough to make sheaf. Putting that i down, she went and gathered more straws until she had another sheaf, and another, ; and another, and another, and then she brought tlem altogether. and she thrasheJ ?Wr>, A,if .inri lini) .in f>T)h:lh of b:irlv. , -x _ -- v , j nigli a bushel. Oh, that wc might all be ! gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while ; ioili .g in a blacksmith's shop. Abercrom- j bie, the world renowned philosopher, was j a philosopher in Scotland, aad he got his philosophy, or the chicf part of it, while as a physiciin he was waiting for ;he door of the sickroom to open. Yet how many there ( are in th:.s day who say they are so busy j they have time for mental or spiritual ixn- i 1 provements. The great duties of life cross j the field like strong reapers and carry all i | the hours, and there >- only here and there j | a fragment left that is not worth gleaning. Ah. my friends, you could go | into the busiest day and busiest week of your j life^md lind golden opportunities which, I gathered, might at last make a whole sheaf | for the Lord's garner. It is the stray opporj tunities and the stray privileges which, i taken up and bound together and beatea out. 'will a last fill you with much joy. There are a few moments left -worth the gleaning, Now, Ruth, to the field: May each one have a measure full and running over! Oh, you gleaners, to the field.' And if there be in your household an aged one or { a sick relative that is not strong enough to j come forth and toil in this lie'.d, then let i Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheaf j of gleaning: "lie that goeth forth and j f weepeth. bearing precious seed, shall doubt- I | less come again with rejoicing, bringing hif I S lilmoTPs xitli Viim " "W.ttr thft Lnrrl God so I Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever." TVhat are "Farmers Institutes?" The i'cilowiag answer of President Craighead of ClemsOD College to the question ''What are Farmers' Institutes?" should be of considerable inter est to our readers: "Our object is to bring the practical results of science within reach of the people. We are aiming to give to the farmer the advantage of expert knowledge, espesv I'V. /JAV\fi*fvV\AYl fc 1 .<111 V iu, Ll_iUdC LLLi^ULO VI lVIVUV'v which are closely related to agriculture. We wish to bring to his aid the : work of the chemist, the geologist, the botanist, the veterinary surgeon? in short, of the vast army of workers in all lands who a^e toiling to subdue the earth arid to make it minister to 5 human needs and comforts- What | the farmer needs?as we all need?is j knowledge. Better methods of culti-! j vating and improving the soil, the | best and most improved form of imple| ments, the kind of fertilizer best adaptj ed to each variety of soil, the best I breeds of domestic animals, the cultivation of farm crops, theresultsof experiments with new varieties of fruits and j vegetables?these are subjects in which ] all intelligent farmers are interested, j Our institutes are perfectly imformai. I We hope both to give and to receive information. We invite inquiry.; We pass around the "question box," and thus give every man an opportunity to find out just what is of special interest to him. At every institute we ?,<tther information that proves to be I valuable at succeeding institutes ' fPVi 11 r. rv\ r\ -rrr/i Vi r\r\Ck f A crs + 1. JJ. UO iu tlXjLJL^ *y XX\J UV/ ov CJ^kVLUiiiU our -work as to make each roan's special i knowledge the property of all. * The institutes has a still higher purpose. It brings the people together. It awakens the powers of investigation. It ought in time raise up an army of investigators. It does something to relieve the dull monotony, which j more than aught eke is making farm life distasteful to the rising generation. It can be made an immense factor in the life of the Southern farmer." 3Iaa Slopes With His Niece. A special to the Greenville News ! from Williamston says: A case that has excited the indignation as well as | the sympathy of our town was brought to notice a few days ago when it wai ascertained that Mrs. K. A. B^ss and her j our little helpless children, r,he ; youngest an infant of six months, had been deserted by the husband and father, who had eloped with his o xm I niece and gone_to parts unknown- { Bass moved to Williamston with ais j family about four mouths ago (from no one knows where) claiming to be a veterinary surgeon, but proved to be a failure in that line. He then parchased a graphophone, mortgaged ais wift's household goods for tiie payment of it, boarded the train with a girl named Emma Lyerby, his own sister's daughter, of Statesville, N. 0., and left his wife and children without a single penny or anythiag on which to subsist. When the facts of the cise " ?- 1 i_1_ ^ were raaae Known Mrs. i^ass ana ;ne little children were actually found to . be suffering for the necesaries of life. Our town council has taken the case in hand and provided relief-. In the , meautime Bass should be punished to the extent of the law. It is said that he is nosomewhere in this state ?.na can be easily identified from the out-; fit above described. The girl with j, whom he eloped is about 19 years of j, age. Ueb'd New Scheme. Eugene V. Debs is out with a brand Dew scheme for abolishing poverty and bringing happiness and plenty. The idea itself is not new, but the propsai to nut it into practice is. The idea seems to be to begin by getting control of thp mflr-.hinerv of a State and estab- 1 lishing there a co-operative common wealth. Having gotten control of a. State'by popular vote, he says: "We will then establish the co-operative commonwealth and the State government will be in harmony with them, j The idea forces itself that Mr. Debs has been studying the rebate and comj mission feature of the South CaroJina [dispensary la?r. As a scheme for | abolishing poverty so far as those who j are believed to have "pulls" are c^n cerned, tne plan is uouna 10 osai howling success A Clesr C350. President McKinlev is said to have j helped cut a young friend who was j courting a girl he knew by telling; him to tell tne young lady that if she j would like a Eurooeari bridal trio he i j would appoint the young man to a j consulate as a wedding present. Tais j j fixed me business, for the President j j has been notified that the wedding will take place in June. This is a clear case of bribery, but everything I is fair in love and war. THE LIST QUARTER j ?-? I REPORT CF TS'E DISPENSARY FOR J THAT PERIOD. _ i Fiaanci:*! Showing?A Prclit of Over j *:;3,C00 Has Been 3Iade?Figures of In- J CCl^Sl L\j L1IO Jt Below is given in complete form the quarterly report of the State dispensary *?hich was prepared by the legislative examining committee and presented to Governor Eilerbe for trapsmission ic tbe general assembly at i;.s next session. The leUtr of transmissal reads as fellows: Columbia. April 27, 1S97. To His Excellenc?, W. H. Eilerbe, fi-nvprrifr: Sir: We have met per suae t to act of i tbe general assemoly and have made j an examination of the books and vouchers of the Slate dispensary for j the quarter ending 31st of M*rch, 1S97. We found the books written up ; tc date and neatly and correctly kept. We checked ctf all the accounts and vouchers and fouid them correct according to the books of tbe original entry. We found vouchers for all payments made and invoices for ad goods purchased. We also examined the rec ords of ss.les made to dispensers and j checked cU the statements showing the remittances made by county dis-j pensers to State treasurer. We ap- j. pend hereto the balance sheet showing balances on March 31st, 1897, alsc the following statements: 1. Statement of asset? and liabilities. | 2 Profit ana less accounts. 3. Cash.. 4. Unearned profit. The difference between the State treasurer's cash balance and the cash balance upon the dispensary books is ?2,129. CS, the former be ng greater than the latter by that amount. This diiferance is within $16 04 of the amount of outstanding warrants rlr-fl-wn r?rim* t.f5 Arvril 1. and nrroaid I by the State treasurer at that date. The above statements are correct, according to the books, vouchers and records. Respectfully submitted, Altamont Moses, John P. Thomas, Jr., C. R D Burns, Legislative Committee. The report reads as follows: Comparative statement for quarter ending March 31, 1897: ASSETS. Cash in State treasury,....$ 73,234 53 Supplies (inventerj) 54.52S.25 Merchandise 98,653.93 Machinery and office fixtures...... 2,857 47 Teams and wagons 1,294.19 Personal accounts 3,2S1 23 Unexpired insurance 504 93 Ex-dispensers' balances.... 7,513 SO Merchandise in hands of county dispensers....... 221,449 54 Total assets..... $163,31S.03 LIABILITIES. Personal accounts due by State 59,2SS.7o ] Unearned profits on $221,449 54, amount of goods ic harids of county dispensers end of this quarter..., 44.289 91 School fund 269,580 00 General fund 90,i59 37 To'.al liabilities $463,318.03 Statement ot prcnt and loss account for quarter ending March 31st, 1S97: profits. Rebates $ 13,676.83 Profits from beer dispensaries 6,042.34 Contraband ;..v 2,355.55 Permit fees 40.50 Gross profit on merchandise sales . 73..721.11 Total gross profits $100..S36.33 LOSSES. Breakage and leakage 3S0.07 Constabulary............. 12,023 SO j Freight and express 19,174 85 Labor....,............... 4,25S 56 Expense... 3,930.64 i License 18 75 Sunnlies 26 S67 74 Jk A " " ' Total expenses 67.554.41 Net profit on sales of this quarter 33,2S1.97 Total $100,S36.3S Cash statement for quarter ending March 3ist, 1897: RECEIPTS. Balance in State frAse'Tvir of last quarter. $ 7S,265.41 January rece:pts.$118,257.47 Feb. receipts.... 102,100.43 ilarch receipts.. 111,997.05 Total receipts for quarter 332,355.00 Total to account for quarter$410,fc'^0.41 DISBURSEMENTS Tan disbursements$150,003 07 Feb disbursements S9,061.96 March disbursements 9S,320.85 Total disbursements for quarter........ $337,385.83 Balance in S'ate treasury March 31 73.23153 Total 8410,620.53 STATEMENT OF UNEARNED PjROFIT linearaed profit Dec- 31.....$57,650.63 Net accrued profit for the present quarter 46,012 69 Balance unearned last quarter $11,007.91 Net profit on sales for present quarter.. 33,281. S7 j Total ur-sarned profit this quarter , $4-1,289.19 A Pc'iceir-.aii a Burglar. A queer complication in burglaries developed in Washington. D. C., recently, when Policeman James E. Pierce of ths metropolitan force was arrested for robbing two houses on his beat. The sufferers were M.rs. Fannie McMillan and Mrs. M. Cooke. Both houses are in the fashionable residence section. The families were away at j the lime and Pierce improved trie opportunity to carry away a large j amount of glass, clothing, porcelain i and ether portable valuables. Detect- j iv&s searched his house and today recovered. about $1,500 worth of plunder. Pierce has been on the force four years. He confessed his guilt, but refused to say where his booty was secreted. of Gen. Karlee. A special from Florence. S. C., to the Col Jimbia State says Gen. Wm. W. Harlee died at half-past 7 o'clock Taursday night at the ripe old age of 34 years. His health had net been good for some time, cut for only a week had he been confined to his bed. He sank rapidly during the day, and the end was painless. Victim of a Feud. West Oliver went into Martin Kathiel'S Geld near Dcnaldsville,G-a, Frid ay morning, armed with a Winchester ritie, and shot Eathiei to dsath. Both parties are white, and were near neighbors, residing only a short distance from Donaidsvilie. The feud nas ex.sled. between tnem icr a iDcgi while. { FORECASTS FOR MAY. ] The Rev. Irl X.. Ulck-s Predicts Greac At- j tao.-yherlc Disturbances. A rfctionarj storm period is central! on the 1st and 23 of Hay, with moon | in apogee and new on the 1st. 0^ and j next to these dates look for general j storm conditions to p&ss eastward]}- j over the country. Alt should under- j stand when we use the word "storm" i we do not always mean to convey the j idea that danger is to be apprehended. An ordinary rain, with higher xemperature and moderate dtpression cf the barcm.-ter, meteorologically speaking, vre c&ll a "storm." A very warm wave is apt to attend the disturbances the iwocr three first da.:s cf 3L:y. ending ia some rcpid sicrms. Sluch CO' ler nights vrii-. follow the disturbances, being attended by possible fr-jsis in many parts between the 3d and 6!h. A Mercury equinox is central on tli? 7th thi> samp f!siv as thft rftv?nlar ! Vulcar, storm p&ricd. There will be i marked tendency to cloudy, unsettled ; weather much ofthetimeof Mercury's period, which runs from the 3d to 12rh, I buL the time of greatest asd heaviest j storm probabilities will be about Friday, the 7tb, to Tuesday. the 11th If the temperature is high, air sultry, winds easterly to southerly and barometer low and failing, dangerous storms should not surprise ai'V section At the same time, the disturbances may be bs.rmless 2nd gentle. Anr?ple time and unmistakable indications will be given those who watch, if tordaaic and dangerous storms sre brewing. We again remicd the public of the fact that storms about this time of the year are much inclined to repeat themselves in cycles, or intervals, of about 12 and 21 hours for several days .-? 1 _ 1 . _i_ .r _ in succession, me nours in wnicn me ; two periods culminate gradually ap-! proaching each other until tne two j cycles come together and the ? en era! i disturbance breaks up in a great and j and violent storm. Very cool nights j and some heavy frosts to the north ] will follow with the high barometer that succeeds these disturbances. About the 13th begins a reactionary period of change and storm that will more than likely continue over the, full moon on the 16.h, and into the Vulcan period central on the ISth. J There are several reasons to believe j that storms of much violence may ap- j pear between the 14th and 21st. Thej moon is at perigee on the lt>.h. and at extreme South declination on the i 17ih, all of which are favorable to a I marked degree for great atmospheric ! disturbances. This is also at the centre j of abnormal electrical and atmospheric j nerturbations almost sure to result i from the opposition of the planets, \ Saturn and Uranus. It is alsc the! time of year when the central path of; the sun's magnetic power, in its swing i from the equator Northward, lies in \ an East and West direction through j the central parts of our continent. We therefore admonish the people that j they should be watchful and cautious j at the approach of all threatening | storm clouds through all the central I parts of May, Do not worry or suifer . alarm, however?no danger may re-! 'suit, but if it should go quietly to your j cellar or other safe refuge. At such times as this a perfectly reli-1 able barometer is of incalculable value, j Storm clouds may be appalling in appearance and at the same time be perfectly harmless. If the barometer j does not fall decidedly there may be i heavy rain and thunder, but daDger-1 ous wind or tornadic storms will net 1 result. In Northerly sections it will j be prudent to anticipate frosts during j nights following the passage of siorrn j areas. Earthquake shocks need not} surprise or alarm any one, especially j in this ftftuntrv. during this month. On and about the 24th and 25th, reactionary storm conditions will appear with rain and bluster in many sections. The month goes out in a regular storm period with the moon at "new" on the 31st, being the second new moon in May. A very warm wave will be in progress with storms ' moving from Western extremes as the ; month goes out. But for the oonosi- j tions of Saturn and Uranus in May, i we should expect a month of placid- j ness. Look for much fine weather any way and push your belated agricultural work. Plursed Through a Bridge. An electric car in the city of Port-1 Isnd, Ore., left the track Friday mor-1 nine and plunged threugh a bridge j which spans the slough on E'.st Mor-1 rison street. Thres people were drowned and fifteen more or less injured." There were thirty-four people ia the ! car. It was running down hill at a speec: of fifteen miles an hour, ^.nd on reaching a curve fifty feet from the bridge left the track. The momentum j the car had gained carried it about 150 .feet upon the bridge, when the j timbers of the structure gave way and i precipitated the car into the lagoon j twenty feet below. The conductor, ] who was on the rear platform,shouted \ to jump, but onlv a few were able to i ?- " - > i? i get out. TJtie motorman jampea wnen j he sa w he couid not stop the car. The f water where the car struck was only ! eight feet deep, and the car was notj submerged. In the fall the trucks j were broken from the superstructure i of the car, which fact saved a number J of lives, as the upper portion soon ; floated and allowed those who had iot j been stunned to escape. After the car j had been raised it was found that an ? axle had been broken, which was pro i bablj the cause nf the accident. Mo j torman Keifer left the wreck soon j after it occurred ana nas not oeea: seen since. He will be arrested. Georgia's Cotton King. Hon. James M. Smith, -of Ogle- j thorpe, Georgia's greatest farmer, has j just broken all records of cotton sales from a single plantation, by selling to ; Macon cotton buyers, in one let, over 2,000 bales of cotton of his own raising, cnTslhft Ano-ustaChronicle. Tiaecot- j ton was soid on a basis of 7 cents for j middling, and when it is ail weighed j and shipptd, Mr. Smith will receive a j check for about $70,000. i'his would j be a tremendous crop, e^en if Mr. I Smith raised nothing but cotton, but when it is remembered that he grows j large crops of grain and hay, and that cotton is his surplus money crop, after producing ali the provision crops! ne neeas, men one g-usp su^c i idea of the scale cn ^hica Col. Smith t farms, and see the justice of calling j him Georgia's cotton king. A Dastardly Deed. Train wreckers Wednesday ni^ht j threw the switch at Fairbanks, on the ; Houston and Texas Central Road, I twenty miles North of Houston ana j the Southbound passenger train ran into it, causing; a smasn up of the for- I war.I coaches and derailment of the i others. The dead are: H. S- G-old- i berg, of Houston, badly injured; Dr. j E. C. Winn, of Sherman, back and j ieg hurt; Walter Giles, Porter, baek j injured. Ten others were more cr j less seriously hurt. Mr. Goldberg wss j found about 200 feet from whsre the | coach in which he was riding slopped. He was lying in the diich szd died! within thirty minutes. Three atiemp:s ! at wrecking have been frustrated at j this place within the last yeiir, this time the bolts of the switching apparatus) had. been carefully removed, so thai the rails were left entirely loose, t though they remained in their places, t [a t\t? a tit txt: a r i n nnn ! ia jjaaiii ruui/y. 'A C!TY SWcPT BY WATER RUSHING UKd A TIDAL WAV2. j ; ! Over One Hurdred Liv<a Lost aud Two j i Tboasacd P??ci>l3 Made Homeless?Cotton Wood R!v?r Saddaply Swelled by a Cicud Burst. Where at daylight Wednesday J morning; siojci tcr muse uwamui rrs>:- i dc-nce pcrtiou of Gu;hrie, 0. T., new I is a fl-icd devastated, stricken ana de j mclisbt-d dis'r;ct. The houses that | are left are lepoied about like card-j beard l-:x s after vricd storm arid ! ceaseless o-avts of resistless waters j roll thro ash or over half a thousand : .! j v.. t>-^ ' UC>r ncu 8.1; u i uUJica. JL .-? yj ihous iccJ homeless people are gathered shivering on :he biuifa west of the city or housed in the homes or the part of the city which lies, high aad dry on the hills. A hundred or more have s;one down to eatery graves ana ihousr.rds have lost their a!i. Fiom coon Tuesday till midnight there was an incessant downpour ir *nd shout this citv. and it was feared that Th<$ Cotton Wood river, which was already very high, would do much damage. But the watchers at the bridges were surprised to .-ee the river go down and bv daylight it had fallen 10 feet. Just as they were about to go off j duty at 6 o'clock, they were startled i by a terrific roar from the top of the i river v&iiry and were soon convinced j that a terrific flood was coming. Tne fire alarm was given and policemen and others rode all over town near the river, rousing families and warning them to flee for their lives. Some thought the roar was a cyclone and sought their cave?, only to perish a few moments later; others stopped to i save things until it was too late, ana j very few would at first believe that any great danger was threatened. With a mio-hiv roar the flood came i down the valley a mile wide, 20 feei J deep in the channel and four feet across the entire valley. It struck the J city at 6;30 in the extreme southwest, j where the negroes mostly live, and in I a few moments hundreds of their lit-1 tie homes were carried away and many lives were lost. The railroad tracks are on the east bank of the river for three quarters of a mile. Across is the valley running through the j western part of the city, and in it is S much of the finest residence portion ! ~ n i : I ana a sma.ii ousmcss stouuu, wucrc j there were about 20 stores, several mills, warehouses, etc. In less than j 20 minutes from the time the flood i struck the city the entire section was ] inundated, and within an hour the j water was 10 feet deep and hundreds j of buildings were floating away. Not j only the meaner stiustures, but fine? residences, store builc3,'ogs, a large cotton gin and other large structures went into ruins or floated down the stream.- Oa many buildings were men, women and children. From hundreds of trees c*me piteous calls * ~i? i TTT: vt. c u iur neirj. vviiu. llic mat rusu wcui/j every bridge in the city. The few boats were crushed or car-1 ried away and nothing could be done ? to help many who fell or were swept from places of refuge and were drowned before tbe eyes of tbe horri fied but powerless spectators. By 9 o'clock the water was 30 feet above the normal level of tbe river, and the once placid stream was a raging torrent across 'he entire valley. It seemed soon that people in trees ortfl f\y> c xnilM f> WST' ar.H i desperate measures were taken to help j them. George Willis and H. A. Piatt, both prominent business men, stripped and leaping into the torrent swam the main channel of the river and secured an old flat boat which was moored to a tree. With thi? boat they saved over 30 people. Eugene Gill and Walter Olds attempted to save a family on a raft, but ware carried awav and barelv es cap^d with-their lives. George Ok en, a bu'-oher, headed a rescue party in. a nastily constructed fiaiboat. The boat capsized in the current and he died a here's death. Scores of men were at work at the lumber yards constructing boats, and by 10 o'clock six scows were launched. Severe! capsized and were cerried away, and it is believed that two of the men manning them perished. AtlOo'ciccktbe flood was at a stand still, a half hcur it was beginning to j recede and by dark ii had gone down < 5 feet. Early in the day the telephone wires went do^n; and as none of the boats which crossed tne main chan nel were able to get back, it was impossible to get any facts as to who had perished. This evening a line was shot across with a rocket and a cable drawn across; boats are bfting ferried back ana forth, and food is being taken to the hundreds of famished people on the bluffs and the 200 or 300 negroes in the large brick school house, who have had nothing- to eat since yesterday. Fully a score of boats have been constructed and every part of the flooded district is being: patrolled and all the people taken from places of danger. It is impossible to correct ly esumate tne numoar or arowcec. | It is generally conceded that the death list will reach 100. A cumber of bodies were seen goin^ down 3foe river and tonight calls can be heard for heiD. The property loss will be fully $i00,000 in the city and will reach hundreds of thousands in the coudtry. Up and down the Cottonwood valley for miles everything is swept away and it is believed many rrtrtrp nprishffi in thft flfiUIltrV. rvvf*w x | The railway tracks are swept away s south of here arsd badly damaged north, and there have been 110 trains since yesterday. laths city all biisiness was suspended today. The home less are ail oeing housed as well as possible and the city aDd ccuatyare feeding ail free at hotels and restaurants, where over a thousand dollars have been subscribed by business men. The Cameron river, two miles north, is higher than ever before and is risinrr v jrvd!rr mnicrht and il is fparpd the railroad bridges will go. While this rise is due to the general rise of the Cottonwood, a cloudburst at 1 o'clock this morning near Seward, southwest of here, caused tae great fijod. Has Only Fif:y "Wives. T'Xfi "hoe cr> JL i-it- OUU11 harem for an eastern monarch, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. There are not above six:y ladies, arid he has four sons and twenty-three daughters. The only occasion any of the shah's wives are 10 be seen is in the streets of Teheran, when they pass in carriages. Wnea the ladies go out driving they are preceded by a gang of farasiies, vrho caper ahead on their horses, shouting: '"Goaad hide yourselves!"' And all the men have to scamper up side streets or be inrasnea. Indigestion. From which springs, directly or indirecily, nearly every forcn of headache, and sick neadache never seperated therefrom, is surely and speedily relieved and cared by the use of ' Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys." One 25c bottle will convince of its merit. Try it. Sold by dealers generally. I i Tried to Jfind His Life. A dispatch from Lake City, S. 0., to the Columbia State says that Idr. Wm. D. Shaw, editor of Tbe Times, | of that place, attempted suicide Wednesday morning. Mr. Sbavr was rooming over Dr. Williams, drug store. He got up as usual Wednesday morning, talked with some friends and went in The Times office ana wrote the letter below. He then went into his room, drank 1570 or three ounces cf laudanum and then shot himself, the ball penetrating the body just above and to the right of the left nipple and was cut out by Dr. T. B. Hinnant just below the shoulder blade. T\7"k?ri -5nn-?v-)<aol>crl Ktt fl friArtf? nft said he was only sorry he did not irake an end or it; that being dazed by the laudanun? he had i.he pistol in his left hand when he thought he had it in his right hand, thereby shooting himself in the rijrht instead of in the ieft breast. At this writing there is r'Trarcr />hpnr*ftfr?? Vil5 Tf Inflow is the letter: "Must I do the deed? Oh, Godsend down thine angel of mercy tob3a,rmv troubled soul avray. Can it be a sin ? Oh! spare me, forgive me, Father, to do away a life that is felled with pain and miseiiry. Is there anything for me to live for? All is dark and dismal. I have no hope. Is there rest and peace in the grave? In a world so large, beautifui and wealthy, and yet I must starve?no money, no work. Cheerless and cold seems every heart to me. 1 cannot stand this strain. I nave iiramtu every urixiii ucrvc. mur cle and vein in thinking of what to do and all I can see before me is dismal distress. Death does away with all this. I have someftiends here, I believe. I have endeavored to co my duty towards them. I hope that they will be kiud enough to dispose of my body. Place it in "any old place," I care not where, 3?y trunk aod clothes Vviii go io my two orotners ana sister. Mv watch at Columbia will go to Mrs. M. A. Emlyn, 1107 Pendleton straet, Columbia, S, C., in consideration of kindnesses extended to me by herself and family. William David Shaw. 0, tempora; 0, mores." Mr. Shaw is a sou of J. Duncan Shaw, who -was killed in Bishopville ssv<iral years ago by the well known Kelly brothers. Mr. Shaw has been for several years connected with the ^uium-jia jTvcgisuci-. 2 Woman Suffrage. Miss Phoebe Couzens, who for twenty years has been going from one end of the country to the other preaching female suffrage, has suddenly changed her opinion. "The movement is bound to fail. Three times X have seen women under fire, and as many times I have seen them fall, and that ignominiously. I presume this will be looked upon as treason, but the conclusion is reached from long ex perience, close observation and rare opportunities such as have been accorded to few women. Moreover, 1 look upon tiaa outside me, lmpenea by necessity, as in a majority of cases to be simply experimental. It cannot be cos elusive, for the vast majority of cornea prefer the quiet domestic life, while man by nature seeks the conflicts of the outer world and its theories and grows therein. Woman in public life will never prove satisfac tory. She is naturally a housekeeper. I would advise all young women to marry and become housekeepers. After twenty years of close observation and exoerience. I have come to the conclusion that women are no better than men. I find that they are about equally balanced; that there are as many good women as good men in the world, and no more. This true, not alone in regard to the relation of the srzes, but in integrity cf word, in unyielding ad&erencs to principles they believe to be right, ana loyalty to the highest in man." Just as Usual. Mr. Randall's letter from Washington in the Augusta Chronicle states that the usual antagonisms are cropping out in the Democratic party. Mr. Randall says: "Personal antagonisms, ?m political lines, have become manifest among the house Democrats, since my last letter, but I trust that all differences will be headed to such a degree at least as not to impair the usefulness of what should be a united minority. Some people seem to think tbat the several prominent men who aspire to leadership are preparing for the nest congress, but this is counting iiv* AUiAlvAvin /?>?rvooi* ?rr o UiiJaaiOUCll AiAV4. ^ m bridge before coming to it. Mr. Bailey is a little wanting in tact, perhaps, but his position is a delicate and difficult one. With a more dexterous management, he might have gained his chief point and created no particular friction in either quarters. I am hopeful that all matters of difference will presently adjust themselves." The Xaval MaHtla. The secretary of the navy has made the annual allotment fuad of $50,000 appropriated by congress for the nav- j al militia of the states. Deducting j C-0 AAA ^/m* 4-Via I ! to, ICdwl V CU iUL fcHV w text books, the remainder of the ap- : propriaticn is alotted among the sister i having naval militia organizations is j proportion to the number of uniform- i ed petit oScars a a a men they had on 1 their roils on January l,last.Tue result j in this state is as follows: 165 officers o v /-} rrnan Qlntnr.orst SU ft 14. egt mmm, o No Daxgeb, is Ccbisg One Habit, of Forming Asothee. OPIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) Etc., Curid in from Four to Six Weeks. LIQUOR DISEASE Cured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco j Habit and Nervous Diseases The Cure has been endorsed by the Legis I lature of sis States and oue Territ-.ry; by the National Government in the Ss-r. iiers' Homes and in the regular army; by imny local authorities in the cure of indigeut drunkards (morphine and liquor); by Miss Wallard, the W. C. T. U.; Francis Murphy, Neal Dow and the I. 0. G. T.; by prominent men ail over the land; by 300,000 cured patients, more than 20,000 of these being physicians. The Leslie E. Keeley Company and the Keeley Institute of S. C. are responsible corporations which could not afford to put forth any claim that the} are unaMe to prove, for printed matter and u-r as. address, THE KEELEY LNol'lilTE, or Drawer 27. Columbia, S. C. Mention this paper. ENGINES' BOILERS, SAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, AT FACTORY PRICES. ! ? ?^ f n. -r-* nrmxT i E. W. bUJKiiiVJii>? COLUMBIA, S. C. HAPPY HOME 1 IS INCREASED TEN FOLD BY GOOD MUSIC. Make the most of life by procuring a gocd ** PIANO or ORGAN. Music has a refining inflaence and keeps yonr children at home. REMEMBER You only invest once in a life lime prcviled you select a &ood instrument. i mum 1 any house to bpat my pric?s?QUALIT5T | and i>r 5 rUJN oioiLlT x considered. ^ TERMS: To tfcore not prepared to p*y cssh I will give reasonable time at a slight ^ diffeerence in pric9. WARRANTY. * r fnllr cnarantflft Pianos and Orcans as ? J O O ? represented, placing them on test triaL I Kepresent tie IMte Hence CAS and WILL save yoi money. ^ Prices Rasp as follows: Orga*s from ?43.00 ud. Piaros from ?185.00 up. DON'T FaIL to write for catalogue. _ Tours for Piano? and Organs, M.A. M A LONE, COLUMBIA, S. C. Machinery AND Supplies s * Engines, Boilers; Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Wheat Mills, Planers, Brick Machines, Moulders, Gang Edgers. And all kinds o' Wood Working i5a chinery. No one in the South can offer you higher grade go cds, or at lower prices. Talbott, Llddell and Watertown Eunices. We are only a few hours ride from you. Write for prices. Light, Variable Feed Plantation Saw M ills a Specialty. v. u. isacmam, General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. SEE r HERE. j IS YOUR LIVER ALL SIS IF? Axe your Klinays in a^aeillhy condition If so, Hilton's Life for toe Liver and Kidneys will keep them so. If . not, Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will make them so. A 25c bottle will convince yon of this, ^ fact. Taken regularly after meals it is an aid to _ _ digestion, cures habitual constipation, V and thus refreshes and clears both body and mind. SOLD WHOLESALES BY Ths M. array Drug Co COLUMBIA, 8. C. AND Dr. E. SAEB. Charleston, S. C. lIATHUSHfiK gj 8 * a . Tie Piano for a Lifetime, 1 The Piano of tie Soati, | Tie Piano Sold Host Seasonably. | I 1 The old, original Mathushek, sold by tis I a for over a quarter of a century and the | 1 delight, of thousands of Southern homes. P More Mathcsheks used South than of >. gj any other one make. \ 1 Lovely New Styles at Reduced Prices, 1 cheaper than ever before knownStyles once $43S, no-w $325. i $100 saved every fcuyer. U How, because we are now Interested In ? |j the great Matftushek factory, supply j a purchasers direct, and save thern all in- j 1 termedlate prolix. Weite us. LUDDEX <fc BATES, S~ a Savannah, Go,, and Xew Yorlc City. Advice to Mothers. & Wo tsfce pleasure Id calling your atten Hon to a remedy so long needed in carry- ^ trig children safely thrcngfc the critics 1 stage of teething. It is as incalculable ?8 leasing to mother and child. If ycu arc disturbed at night with a sick, fretful, i teething child, use Pitts' Canals at! 7e, it wiil give Instant relief, and regulate the bowels, and make teething safe and e*sy. It irill cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea, ^ ifcltw V./AliiUi-icoiYU 1 o OU rnouiu*' OUCl 1UI ^ colic of infants. It will p roino?e digestion, give tone and energy to the stomach and bowels. The sick. puny, suSering child will soon become the fat and frolic tin? jo/ . of the household. It -a very pleasant w /y the tas'.e and on'y cost 25 cents per bottls \ Soli by dmggists sni b~ ^ THE MUBS&Y DESG CO., .Columbia, EL C. 3 Mb :M ' -