The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, May 05, 1897, Image 4
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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| Through the gats of indolence Iiott many
I i.;cn and women have inarched, useless on
| earth, to a destroyed eternity. Spinola said
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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