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AN APPEAL FOR INDIA. REV. DR. TALLAGE !N SEHALF CP A FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE. ' Bless 3d Io ??'. Tha* Considerslh tiie Poor; ti! r. > i ?* 1U Deliver Kim la TJ:n? of Trouble*'?i Turllliss Story of a Prostrate People. Dr. Talmage is on a nisrioc of bread for the famine sufferers of India. lie is speaking every day to vast audiences in Iowa and Illinois, helping to ?11 the ships provided the Inked States governmer.i for carrying corn to India. The following sermon was preached on last Sunday. Text, Esther i, 1, "This is Ahasuerus vruich reigned from India unto Ethiopia.' """ '*A'** 7 - ? Amongtne i woras wu;vu .i;. the Bible once occurs ihe word "India." In this part of the Scriptures, which the rabbis call "Megillah Esther,'" or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against because the word "Gud" is not even cnce mentioned in it, although one right!;,* disposed can see <iod in it from the first chapter to the last, ve have it set fjrrh that Xerxes, or Ahasueras, who invaded Greccc with L'.000,000 men, but returned in a poor f'sher's boat, had a vast dominion, among other regions, Inula. In my text India tal'es it? place 5a Bible geography, ana tne >n rivesi :n in that land has continued unti1 vita more and more enthusiasm all around the world Bishop Ileber's hymn about "India's coral strand," is being sung. Never will i forget the thrill of anticipatioa that went through my body and miad and soul whea after two weeks' tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India?for the winds did not, according to the old hymn. ;'blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle" ?our ship sailed up oae of tuc mouths of fhe Ganges, past James and Mary island. ! so n~med because a royal ship of that name was wrecked there, and I stepped ashore at t<!in'np^ 'and temtiles and sculptures of that City of Palaces, the strange physiognomies of the living and the cremations of the dea<3. I had never expected to be there, because the sea and I long ago had a serious falling out . but the facilities of travel are so increas-' ing that you or your children will probably visit that land of boundless fascination. Us configuration is such as no one but God could have architected, and it seems as if a man who had no religion going there would be obliged to acknowledge a Cod, as did the cowboy in Colorado. Jfis companion, a a atheist, had about persuaded the cowboy that there was no God, but coming amid some of that tremendous scenery of high rocks and awful chasms, and depths dug under depths, and mountains piled on mountains, the cowboy said to his atheistic com- j panion, "Jack, if there is no God, 1 guess ; from the looks of things around here there j musthave been a God some time." Xo one ' but the Omniscient could have planned India, and no one but the omnipotent could have built it. It is a great triangle, its base the Himilayas, a word meaning '-the dwelling place of snows,'' those mountains pouring out of their crystal cup the Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake the thrist ot the vast population of India. That coun try is the home of 240,000,001) souls. v> nai-; ever be one's taste, going there his taste is | gratified. Some go as hunters of great game, i and there is no end to their entertainment, j Mighty fauna?bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, ! elephant, panther, lion, tiger, this last to be ! the perpetual game for Americans and Euro- j peans because he comes up from the malarial I swamps "where no human being dare enter, ! the deer and antelope his accustomed food, ! but once having obtained the taste of human j blood he 'wants nothiog else and is called ! "the man eater." You caunot see the tiger's j natural ferocity after he has been humiliated j by a voyage across the sea. You need to , hear his growl as he presses his iron paw j against the cage in Calcutta. Thirteen! towns have been abandoned as residence be-! cause of the work of this cruel invader. In India, in the year 1*77, S19 people i were slain by the tiger and 10,000 cattle de- ; stroyed. Prom the back of the elephant or , from galleries built among the trees 1,500 ti- j gers went down and *1S,0U0 of government j reward was paid the snortsmen. I advise i - - - - _ j _ s ail tnose wno in America ana oiaer :uuu? ; 2nd amusement in shooting singing birds, j coming home at night w;.:h empty powder i flask and a whole choir of heaven slung over their shoulder, to absent themselves awhile i and attack the justifiable game of India. Or ! if you go as botanists, oh, what opulence of j flora! With no distinct flora of its own, it's the chorus of all the flora of Persia and Siberia and China and Arabia and Egypt. The Baptist missionary Carey, who did infinite good to India, had two great passions?first, a passion for souls, and, next, a passion for flowers?and he adorned his Asiatic home and the American homes of his friends and museums on either side the sea j with the results of hi? floral expeditions in j India. To prepare himself for morning < **~ ~ /%.-! f/% yt-o 11r nmwl 1 Ui?LJ. ClD WC (.V ntkia aui-M ? Sowers and trees. It is the heaven of the i maguclio aDd abelmosk and palm tree. The i ethnologist going there will find endless cn-} tertainmeni in the study of tae races now | living there and the races of whose blood j they are a commingling. The historian goingihere will find his the- j orv oi warren iiasungs government :a iuua \ the reverse from that which Edmund Burke gave him in the most famous address ever made in a courtroom, its two characteristics matchless eloquence and onesidedness of statement. The archaeologist will be thrown into a frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi of India and digs down and Snds seven dead cities underneath the now living city. All success to the hunters, and the botanists, and the ethnologists who visit India, each one on his or errand. But we today visit India as Christian women and men to hear the full meaning of a groan of hunger that has traveled 14,000 miles, yet gets louder and more agonizing as the days go by. But why have any interest in people so ftr away that it is | vUCiU ? iiCU lO tucxi J complexion darker, their language to us a jargon, their attire unlike that found in any American wardrobe, their memory and their ambition unlike anything that we recall or hope for. With more emphasis than you .put into the interrogatory '-Why?" I answer, first, j because our Christ was an Asiatic. ?gypt gave to us its monuments, Rome gave to us its law, Germany gave to us its philosophy, but Asia gave to us its Christ, ilis mother an Asiatic; the mountains that looked dewn upon him, Asiatic: the lakes on whose pebbly banks he rested and on whose chopped waves he walked, Asiatic: i the apostles whom he first commissioned, j Asiatic; the audiences he whelmed with his j illustrations drawn from blooming lillies and salt crystals and great rainfalls and bellow- j in? temr>tv??s and hvnocrites Ion? faces und croaking ravens?aljjthose auuiences Asiatic. ; Christ during his earthly stay was never out-j side of Asia. When he had lf'? or IS years to ! spare from his active work, instead of spend ing that time in Europe. I think he goes far- j ther toward the heart of Asia?namely. In- j dia. The Bible says nothing of Christ from j 12 years of age until So, but there are re-; cords in India and traditions in India which i represent a strange, wonderful, most excel-' lent and supernatural being as staying in in-; dia about that time. 1 think Christ vrus i there much cf the time between his tweluh j auu J VJiii, Uwii. laai 4iiav? ; be, Christ vras born in Asia, suffered in Asia. : die?I in Asia and asccnded from Asia, and all ; that makes me turn my car more attentively toward that continent as I hear its cry of dis- j tress. .Besides that, 1 remember that some of the j most splendid achievements for the cause of ! that Asiati; Christ have been made in India. How the heart of every intelligent Christian. beats with admiration a: the mere mention of the name of iier.ry Manyc! Having read the life of our American David Brainerd. vho gave his life to evangelizing our American savages. Henry Martyu gves forward to give his life for the salvation of India, dying from exhaustion of service at 1 years of ! age. Lord Macaulay, '.vriiing of him. says: j HereMartyn lies. In manho: V' early tvjoiu ; T't- - * 1 i/urisuuu nvru iuuua n. vii?^u u>i:i;.?. Religion, sorrowing o'er her favorite son. i Points to the glorious trophies which he won. j Immortal trophies! 5o: with slaughter ted, s Nor stained with tears by friendies.- orphans shed. But trophies cf the cross. In that dear came, Through every scene e: danger, toil and shame, Onward he journeyed to that happy shore. Where danger, toil and shame are known no more. i Is there in a'l his tor v. secular or relisiI ou.s, :i more* wos?irou? character than "Ij ii-iTn Carey, the conferred shoemaker of Eng'and, uariag ail tilings :or * o-i in iuuia. translating the Bible iu:c many dialects, building chapc-ls ana opening mis-ion Louses and laying foundations for the redemption of the country, end although Sydney Smith, who sometime* laughed at tilings he ought no to have satirized, had in the learned lllinlur^a ileview seotfed at the idea of what he called "lowborn, lowbred mechanics' like Carey attempting to convert the Brahmans, Care}* stopped not until he had started in*!uet:ccs that eternity, no more than time, shall have power to arrest. ?1:>,000 Bibles going forth from his printing presses at serampore. 11 is sublime humility showing itself in the epitaph he ordered from the old gospel hymn: ! A wretched. poor and helpless worn:, On tby kind arms I fall. Need I tell you of Alphcc.se Lacroix, the Swiss missionary in luuia, or of William Sutler, the glorious American Methodist missionary in India, or of the royal family of the Seudders, of the Reformed Church of America, my dear mother church to whom I give a kiss of love in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Jjuli". the Scotch missionary whose visit to this country some of us will remember forever? "When he steod ia the old Broadway tabernacle, New York, and pleaded for India until there was no other depth of religious emotion for him to stir and no loftier height of Christian eloquence for him to scale. and closed in a whirlwind of halleluiahs. 1 could easily believe that which was said of him. that while pleading the cau.se of India in one of the churches of Scotland he got so overwrought that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon and was carried into the vestry to be resusciated, and when restored to his senses and preparation was being made to carry I him out to some dwelling where he could be ; put to bed, he compelled his friends to take | him back to the pulpit to complete his plea j for the salvation of India, no sooner getting on his feet than he began where he left off, j but with more gigantic povrer than before he [ fainted. Cut just as noble as any I have mentioned are the men ami women who arc there now for Christ's sake and the redemption of that people. Far away from their native land, famine on one side and black plague on the other side, swamps breathing on them malaria and jungles howling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras: the Dames of those missionaries of all denominations to be written so high on the roll ot martyrs that no names of the last 1,800 years shall be nWo fliom Will nr>f>il fnwp ihem at their -work in schools and churches and lazarettos to appreciate them. All honor i upon them and their hou-eholds. -while I ! smite the lying lips of their slanderers! I Most interesting are the people of India, j At Calcutta. 1 said to one of their leaders, ; "who spoke English Avell: ! "Have these idols which I see anv power ! of themselves to help or destroy'.1'' i lie said: '-No: they only represent God. There is but one God." "When people die, where do they go to?" "That depends upon what they have been doing; if they have been doing good, to heaven, and if they have been doing evil, to I 1*~11 ?> Aicli. "But do you not believe in the transmigration of souls, and that after death we go 5 into birds or animals, of some sort?" j "Yes; the last creature a man is ihinking of while dying is the one into which he will [ go. If he is thinking of a bird, he will go | into a bird; if he is thinking of a beast, he will go into a beust.'' ' I thought you said that at death the soul | goes to heaven or hell?"' I "He goes there by a gradual process. It ; may take him years and years." -Can any oac become a Hindoo? Could I ! become a Hindoo?'' "Yes, you could." J "Hovr could I become a Hind:*?" ' By doing as the Hindoos do." From the walls of one of their museums at i t.: t ,>.1 [ -J vll^> Ul JL ilUV*. tx iv/4. JOiV bilVOV iJVuUiii UJ. i sentiments: ! The wise make failure equal to success. | Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads, let lo"e through good deads show, i Do not to others that which if done to thee ! would cause thee pain. And this is the sum I of duty. j A man obtains a proper rule of action by | ico-ung on ms neignoors as nimseu. | From that continent of interesting folk, | from that continent that gave the Christ, ! from that continent \7h;ch has been endear! ed by so many missl *>ary heroics, there | comes a groan of 80,000,01 >0 people in hun: ger. More people are in danger of starving | to death in India today than the entire pops' ulation of the United States. In the famine | in India in the year 1877 about C.000,000 ! people starved to death. That is more than ! all the people of Washington, of New York, I of Philadelphia, of Chicazo put tocether. Bat that famine was not a tenth, part as aw- j ful as the one there now raging Twenty thousand are dying there of famine every j day. Whole villages and towns have died ?every man, woman, and child: none left to bury the dead. The vultures and the jackals are the only pallbearers. Though some help has been sent, before full relief can reach them I suppose there will be at least 10,000,000 dead. Starvation, even for one person, is an awful process. No food, the vicals gnaw upon themselves, and faininess and languor and pangs from head to foot, and horror and despair and insanity take full possession. One handful of wheat j or corn or rice per day would keep life going, but they cannot get a handful. The crops failed and the millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to be hungry in a world where there are enough grain and no it to fill all the hungry mouths on the planet! But, alas, that the sufferer and the supply ca.nnot be brought together. There stands India today. Look :<.t her. Her face dusky from the hot suns of many centuh-es. Under her turban such achings of brow as only a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow with unutterable woe; the tears rolling d^wn her sunken cheek; her j back bent, with more agonies than she knows ? how to carry; the ovens containing nothin" i but ashes. Gaunt, ghastly, wasted, the dew j of death upon her forehead and a pallor such as the last hour bring*, she stretches forth her trembling hand toward us and with hoarse "whimper she says: "I am dying! Give me bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give it to me quick. (live it to me now. Bread, bread, bread!" America has heard the cry. Many thousands of dollars have already been contributed. One ship laden with breadstuUs has j sailed from San Francisco for India. Our j senate and house of representatives in a bill | signed by our sympathetic president have authorized the secretary of the navy to char-1 ter a vessel to carry food to the famine suf- j ferers, and you may help till that ship. We j want to send at least GOO.OOO bushels of corn, j That will save the lives of at least GOO,WO j people. Many wat respond In contributions j of money, and the barns and corncribs of the ; entire United States will pour forth their j treasures of food. When that shin is laden [ till it can carry no more, we will ask him who holds the winds in his list and plants his triumphant foot on stormy waves to let nothing but good happen to the ship till it anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters. They who help by contributions of money or breadstuifs toward tilling that relief ship will Savor th-nr own food for their lifetime with appetizing qualities and insure their own welfare through the promise of him who said, "Blessed is he that, considercth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time j of trouble.'' Oh. whit a relief that ship will be! It i shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until > we have had something to do with its cargo. | Just 17 years ago from these Easier times a ! slr.p on a similar errand went out from >*ew York harbor?the old war frigate Constella-' i:on. !t had once carried runs of death, but there was famine in Irelaud. and liie Con-j stellation ttos loaded with -300 teas of food, j That ship, once covered with smoke of battle. hen covered with Jvost-ir hosannas! That ship, constructed to battle England, going forth over the waters to carry relief to some yf her starviag subjects. Bciter than sword into plowshare, better than spear into pruning hook, was that old war frigate turned | itno a white winged angel of resurrection to j roll away the stone from the mouth of Ireland's sepulchcr. 'Jn a like errand five years ago the ship Leo put out with many ioks of food for famine struck Kusiia. une Saturday afternoon, j on the deck of thai stealer as she lay at J Brooklyn wharf, a wcnderous scene took ' r . "vn r j"" . ? f ) r.!.*.^ft A /?rir?*?*?.it. ?%rv rtt t?*.rk U'inrr'e 7)<;n<Th? i ters had decorated the ship with streamers i iioJ hunt:c?*. American and Russian JSags ia- i tertwimng. Thousands of people 0:1 the J wharfs and on the decks joined us in invok-{ ing God's blessing on the cargo, and the long meter L?oxoiogy in o]d Hundred ' sounded grandly up amid the masts and ratlines. Having had the joy of seeing that ship thus consecrated, we had :he addition-1 joy of standing on the docks of Si. Petersburg when the planks of the relief ship v.'cre thrown out and the representees of the municipalities and of royalty went aboard her. the long freight tram at the same time rolling down to take the food tu the starving, and on alternate cars of that train American and Russian i'.asrs iioatinir. But now the hunger in India is mightier than any tlia.t Ireland or Russia ever suffered. Quicker oug ht 10 be the response and on so vast a i scale that the one ship would become a whole flotilla?New i'ork sending one. Boston another, Philadelphia another, Charleston another, ,\*ew Orleans another. Then let them all meet in some harbor in India. What a peroration of mercy for the nineteenth century! I would like to stand on the wharf at Calcutta or Bombay and see i such a lleet come in. With what joy it would be welcomed! The ema<*Uted would lift I their heads on shriveled hands and elbows and with thin lips ask, "Is it coming?some-1 I Thin? to eat?" * And whole, villages and j towns, too weak to waik, would !crawl out on J bands and knees to get the first grain of! corn they could reach and put it to their famished lips. May I cry out for you and : for others to those sufferers: 'Wait a litttle longer, bear up a little more, 0 dying men of India! 0 starving women! 0 emaciated babes! Relief is on the way. and more relief will soon be coming. We send it in the name of the Asiatic Christ, who said. '1 was hungry and ve fed me; insomuch as ;* ; have J done it unto one of the least of these, my j l-vorl.-rnn T*rt Vl if lintO HIP.' " Christian people of America: I call jour j attention to the fact that we may now, as i never before, by one magnificent stroke j open the widest door for the evangeliza-1 ! tion of Asia A stupendous obstacle in j the way of Christianizing Asia as been j tiie difference of language, but all those peo- j pie understand the gospel of bread. Another j obstacle has been the law of caste, but in I what better way can we teach them the { brotherhood cf man'.' Another huge difficul- j ty in the way of Christianizing Asia has been | that those people thought the religion we i would have them take was no better than j j their Hindooisci or Mohammedanism, but j | they will now sec by this crusaue for the re- j j lief of people 1,400 miles away that t>>e j j Christian religion is of a higher, better and | ^iauuv.1 V r^ *.luj vinvii i wi j when did the followers of Brahma, or Vish- j uu, or Buddha, or Confucius, or Mohammed ever demonstrate like interest in people on j the opposite side of the world'.' Having) taken the bread of this life from our hands, j J they will be more apt to take from us the j i bread of eternal life. The missionaries of | | different denominations in India at 40 sta-1 j tions are already distributing relief sent j J through the Christian Herald. Is it not plain j j that those missionaries, after feeding the I ] hunger of the body, will t>e at better advan-1 I tirrA to f.'pd thf> h'infpr of snul'' When ' j Christ, before preaching to the -3,000 in the {-wilderness broke for them the miraculous ! loaves, he indicated that the best way to prepare the world for spiritual and eternal j considerations is first to lookafter their tern- i poral interests. Oh, church of God in Ame-1 rica and Europe! This i^ your opportunity, j Vv'e have 0:1 occasions of Christian patriotism j cried, "America for God!" Now let us add { the battle shout, "Asia for God!-' In this j I movement to give food to starving India I j hear the rustling of the wrings of the Apocaj lyptic angel, ready to tly through the midst < of heaven proclaiming to all the kingdoms I and people and tongues the unsearchable | riches of Jesus Christ. | And now L bethink myself of something 1 j ( never thought of before. I had noticed th:>.t { I the circle is God's favorite figure, and upon | that subject I addressed you some time ago, * | but it did not occur to me until new that tnc| gospel seems to be moving in a circle. It f1 j started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic vil- j lage; .joruan, an Asiatic river; uaivary, an i | Asiatic mountain. Then this gospel moved j on to Europe; witness the chapels and i i churches and cathedrals and Christian uui- j [ versities of that continent. Then it crossed | tc America. It has prayed and preached | and sung its way aeross our continent.. It j has crossed to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands in its way, and now in all the great cities on the coast of Cliina people are singing "Rock of Ages'' and "There Is a Fountain Filled V. ith Blood," for you must know ? that not only have the Scriptures been trans- j < lated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the 1 evangelical hymns My missionary brother John translated some of them into Chinese, and Mr. Glad stone gave me a copy of the hymn, "Jesus ' Lover of My Soul," which he had himself translated into Greek- The Christ who it seems spent 10 or IS years of his life in India is there now "in spirit, converting and saving the people by the hundreds of thous- < snds. and the gospel will move right on , i cia a efAUT* ^ VUlVUj^U IXJXUI l4.Ul.Al Jiv. J VX IUV VliTlUUl C j > birth will anew be made known in Bethle-! r hem, and the story of a Saviours sacrifice j \ be told anew on and around Mount Calvary, < r and the story of a Saviour's ascension be told j " anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet. And j ? j then do you not see the circle will be com- j | pletc? The glorious circle, the circle of the 1 c.irtli. This old nlanet. <r.^shed with finxfli- I t quake and scorched with conSagration and c torn with revolutions, will be girdled with. ] churches, with schools, with universities, ] with millennial festivities. How cheering 1 and how inspiring the thought that we are, v whether giving temporal or spiritual relief, y working on the segment of such a circle,an i i that the Christly mission which started in j ^ Asia will keep on its way until it goes clear " around to the place where it started. Then , the earth will have demonstrated that for !. which it was created, and as soon as a world * has completed its mission it dies. Part of ' the heavens is a cemetery o? dead worlds. r Our world, built to demonstrate to the worlds which have been loyal to God the awful re- E suits of disloyalty, so that none of thern may 0 ever attempt it?I say our world, having t imibueu its iiiis^uu, iu;ij iiicu gu uuu ui t*.\' e istence. The central fires of the -world 11 which are burning out rapidly toward the a crust may have reached the surface by that E time and the Bible prophecy be fulfilled, which declares that the ear'h and all things j c that arc therein shall be burned up. Tl,e ransomed humm race at that time on earth ' will start unhurt in tliose cliariots of lire for t the gioat metropolis of the universe, the J heaven, where the redeemed of the Lord j a shall talk over the famines, and the plagues, ? and the wars which this earth suffered and j Q against which we struggled and prayed as 11 loug as there was an}* breath in us. Glorious i ti consummation.' j ii I May 10, 1800, was a memorable day. for j c then was lam tne iast tie tout connected tne ^ two rail tracks which united the Atlantic i' and ? .ic oceans. The Central Pacific rail- s road was built from California eastward, u The Union Pacific railroad was built westward. The}* were within arm's reach of -c meeting, only one more piece of the rail ^ track to put down. A great am1'once asscm- *, bled, midcontinent. to see th ' lie laid, e The locomotives of the eastern ? .u western ^ trains stood panting on the tracks close by. Oration explained the occasion, and prayer " solemnized it and music enchanted it. The , tie was made of polished laurel wood, bound with silver bands, and three spikes were P used?a gold spike, presented by California: a silver spike, presented by Nevada, and an B iron spike, presented by Arizona. When all u heads uncovered and all hearts thrilling C with emotion, the hammer struck the last f< spike into its place, the cannon boomed it i fr: amid the resounding mountain echoes, and t the telegraphic instruments clicked to ail ! y nations that the deed was done. My friends, !? nftU ion -i.? i east. and vest of one continent together was j ^ such a resounding occasion, what will it .-e j ?i when the last tie of the track of gospel in- j flnenccs, reaching clear round the 'world, ; ,, shall be laid amid the anthems of all ua- i *J tions? The ? v:!11 be the golden and j ? silver spikes fashion* a; of the Christian j ^ generosity of the hemispheres. The last 0 hammer stroke that completes the work will a be heard by ail the raptured and piled up ? galleries of the universe, and the mountains 3 of earth will shout to the thrones of heaven: o Jlauenuau. iror tnc 1.0 ru l^od. omnipotent j reignc'li. Halleluiah! For the king-lores of v this world have become the kingdoms of our 1 *, Lord Jesus Christ." j D >Mgcr?lin-<irn.?"?.7f I. - I III I -Tiittar?Fa?I c?vat/ r v' hpa r> o * r\u \ cii'Ivhi iu MAL'riAM. AN OPEN LETTER ON THE COTTON TARIFF QUESTION. Congressman Stckts Tali's C^pl. lirariliam to Task for Publishing ? Private Lstrer and Retlii "U53 His Position on the Coticu Tar JIT. Ths X-TTs and Courier published the foiiCKviuj; op^n letter Satur ciay raornirijr: Caut. J. D. Manr-ir.^, S. C. Dear Sir: Thrmgh. the thought fu ' r. r.f c fr?i>irn T i??Yi in <?r r? f a marked copy 0/ tae News and Ccu rier in which you i>jrblitb my private letter to you, and \oi?r reply. Though ample lime elapsed jou gave me no intimation of your uorpose. I do not' object to ;he publication, however? in fact i am rather glad now that it is published, since ycu insist UD02 public discussion at this time. But, mark this?my vrillineness in ihe premises, rot having been ascsriained by you oeiOienasG, wiu not taKs away irom the transaction the suggestion of bad faith ; nor liTt the ilavor of sharp prac-1 tice. The close personal and Alliance re- j lations berdo'ore subsisting between; us might have vrarra aud a more tii ! reel appeal to you to stand tmi 10 the | doctrines we had together stood for j in the past; fcu; I merely asked your careful attention to a published srgu J msnL, and cmphas i:-u some additional j points. Read in connection with tha:< j argument much of your ill humored i criticism falls utterly pointless. I stand by every statement of fact | in icy K-uer, as loucnmg mailers mat | came under my personal observation I or from contact witn Republican members; and lime vrill prove Lhe cor lectness of my prs Jic.ious. lei all mat pass. Sir.cs you insis}. upon discussion of tariif xiott let i us discuss it withoui, beat, dispassionately. You are a farmer; so am I. We are both producers of short staple cotton; sj are your people and miue. Whatever the bearing of the question - U * * i. 1 ' I ! may wen upvu uur 1 uteres aiiKc. j If we are lo obtain the relief we desire i fcr our industry we must keep 10 ! gethtr. \V* can't afford to divide, out il we continue to travel together vre must be pa:lent ana tolerant. Hence I pass over much in your letter that seems ili considered and unjust, not to say ill tempered, and will confine myself to the question at .issue. Since you seem to resent considera tion from the standpoint of the Demo crstie platform, a:-d challenge me as an Aluauceman ic Getena my position. I will endearor to treat the ques tioia specially with refersncs to the Alliance demands. You setr to forget,. however, that cn the tariff, and many ether issues, cue Alliance d> j aiands and the Democratic plaiform (State and national) are identical, i You seem to lose sight of the fact that j we framed the Alliance demands be vftlio1* W C Lil IrUCJ v> ^ and for the same reason pe placed those demands in the State D^mocratic piaifcr07. So that, in appealing to the platfcrros, I was simply appealing to that which you and I and others had accepted as ri^ht and oeneficial from the farmers standpoint. in the hrst place, Lben, you say that I and other AJliarce leadeis industriously taught you that "the money question, not the tariif, was the issue." T^r Vmf xchr* io o *t >1 O tl it + i.iiu V ?A W ^ ^ W.W ?'UV iC VAIV tariff Issue and insisting upon its discission now? I have pleaded with you and v?iih others not to agitate it now. In my published article, which you say you read. I distinctly protested against agitating it, thus diverting attention from 'he money question at a time when we should be closing up our ran us fo- the grand assault upon ? ? ^ i vi 1 Cfl Q rt vi/i 4 1 OPiA ilk JLU-7U ?%iJ U. ILL ? *J\J\J. I plead wiili you not to agitate the tar ill' question now, and you seem unaccountably irritated and consumed with indignation en account of it. I am singing the ,;same old tune" now Lhat I sung vvhen I was, as you say, "industriously teaching thai the men jv question, not the tariff, is the issue." You say ycu "Look us at curl ??ord" then?why not now? In a modest way I did teach that' ilong with others, and I am still pro | esticg against any diversion or atten;ion from the money question, espec jially sinee you admit lhat the proposed tariif on cotton could not benefit sroaucers o: snori siapie couon. Caat ihs proposed tax cannot be adopt d at this time is coziclued ail rouod. Che present tariff bili will probably amain in force at least four years. Chen way agitate it? But whst cid he Alliance and its lesd3rs really each o:a the tariff i&sue? Tie Qcala I em and on the tariff, w&ica yea and ! and others helped placs in cur State! democratic platform, reads thus:! 'Believing in the doctrine of equal i^hts to all and special privileges to lone, we demand that our na:ional e?is]&tion shall be so framed in fu ure as not to build up one industry it the expense of another. We furher demand a removal of the exist ng heavy tariff tax from the necissi ies of life that the poor cf cur land nust have." You quoted the preamble to that de liana lLi. jcui l&i. jvuuuu iuote it all? You challenged roe to he Alliance vies?, and then you quotd only a part. Why quote & half ruth, when the whole truth lay right .lengside? Did you bslieve that de- ! oar.id ?ras right, Captain, when you lelped to place it in the State Demcraiic platform, or when you endorsed Las an Alliance man? If you were [ incere then, and hare not changed j, ince, what right have you, as a con- j. isierit Alliance man, not to say Darn-1 cra^, to advocate building up one in-;< LUSlrj wliv CAJCUJ.C iiii'JLliCr, vil^U . bus add *o, rather than remove, tarili axes? Can the fact that the benefit, i f aay, is coming Souta alter the prinipie involved or change the complex- ; or of the Act? If we advocate a protect , tar iIf on cotton, vre cannot con i?ient:y oppose a like tariff on other ( lecessities of life. ; If a proteciive tariff on cotton would i ield any b?neflt *o your people and ; aine I ini-jht see some excuse for agi ; atisg. even though it is practically a ruitless issue- Bat von yourself ad- i ait that the proposed tariff tax could ; ot help the producer of shorr staple ottos, though ycu think it would .elp the price of long staple. Supose it SQculi increase ihe price or* : Dnsr staple cotton. lay people do not < roduce long staple cotton, but the? : x , : _ .1 . r i ..a" o use in" gwus uiau? irora. long sia ! le. If the price be raised as y^u pro < 5SS to ueJie7c. ray neoole would bave i 3 pay the iccrcased pries upon what < bey use; so vrouid your people, so j < rouid people everywhere who do not ] aise long staple. What ri^ht nave i cu &; an Alliance man, so jealous of!; onsistency on my part, to build up ] i be lonp staple cotton industry at the J xpense of other industries?yes, at i I he expense of my constituents vrho j rcduce short staple? While the i Dng staple was seliin^ at 17 cents to j 3 cents per pound, short staple ranged t 3 to 7 cents per pound. Your propsitioa is to advance the price of the 0 cent article at the expease. in part, ( f the producer of the 5 cent article. 1 ii you Dei CTca me Alliance aeinaDa 2 ras right wnen you helped place it in ( tie Democratic platform, and have ' iOt changed lines, you stand just ) where I do as to the principles in-} voived, and when you ad mil thai so; far n;y people. ihe staple pro- j du-^r-s, are concr-rned, the proposed j tariif otJ couon c;uid wc; beneai. you | admit f-er>thiii;r I have contended! for. Then why fi^d fau^t with me i ar:d indulge in inconsiderate railing? j My position is. "stand to principles ' that we profess to believe right, whetnerthf b;-neilis are coming South j or not.': You say, inelfict, "this pro- i poseu lanir on couoais ^rongm principle, but if ii tends to bring benefit South. I -ill adopt it." In essence jour doctrine sets up ike dollar standard as the supreme consideration ia political conduct. At bottom your doctrine on this point is Uie doctrine of tHe old reprobate, ivho said: ' Get money, my son, iiouestly if tou can, but set money."' The unthinking and i?ie sordid may ! folio'.v you for a time, until they real-j ize, ss iaey sure.-y will, "bat your pr,)-1 PCS:a tariff tax is a delusion, bu:yocd J peop.e e"ery TTbert; will value prison pie above parse or policy &s a rule of conduct in public m-;n. and you cannot h pe to escape responsibility for the doctrine you teach. m. _ ^ i a j I me ia.pore tax on wneai ana c:rn j is dealt with in iny published article? j did you reaiiy read it? If ihey prove anything, they prove \ in thei- rraciical operation the correct j ness 01 my proposition?thatai' import j tax cannot, helptbe price to producers i of an export croo. The statistics show ! that ii spite of the import duty on] wJic-at andcoro, and in spile, too. c-i decreased production of both tine price j to the ptoducers of each steadily de | ciiued after the tax was placed. As one of the few farmers in Congress I have sought to view this queslien from tne standpoint of tLe farmer?'.he producer of short,staple cotton. 1 know by experience the struggle of the short staple grower. All I :>uveis invested in growing staple cotfm. I have jiiven the subject ths closest study of which I am capable frc-m all aspects. I believe I have guttta at i tne bottom facts, aud I can see uotti- | icg for the producer of short staple in the proposed, tax. I have set forth my iindir>KS in my published arguI ment. aad all I aslc of my brotner i lancers is wnat 1 asseu 01 joi', a cars- j ! fui reading. I do not ?isii to force ; I atiy rr^aa's judgment I believe my ; :reliov7 producers of short staple eotj tea will give me a hearing, and I be! iieve tiiey will pause be!ore commit-; | ting themselves to a proposition whose advccites admit to be wrong ia principle and incapable of oenehting the short staple producer. I offered in my ar^um-nt the only ; method by which the protective ideal, could be made effective to the pro-: ducsr of the short staple. Y>u fight) shy of that in your rtpiy. Yoa ~d- i. mit the proposed import tux on cot \1 inn Mnnrt hpic t.h? short stsnlp. ; ducer, and yet when I suggested the ?< o^'j method by which, upon *be s*oi? 5; principle, you c:?uiu help uc short sta-1 pie growers, you ar3 dumb. Do you ?' favor a bounty on short staple cotton? : And, if on short staple cotton, zre ! you Trillisg^tc extend it so as to inelude all the other export crops? And : it so, you should point out how the j < Vinirtir -!c In ?nH hnw if ic ! to reach the producer with certainly, j i I: is not sufficient for a sLatesman to j ' deal with the vrhai; he must also point 11 out the how. Your unaiscriminatin.]; j < sneer at conventionality ana lauda-H lion of innovation are both irrational, j' It is wise to respect conventionality j < when, it is based cn principle. I-rmc-' '< vation fcr mere sake of innovation, ! without principle back of it or benefit j i before it. is foolish. I1 Your about none ofusintrc-j< ducicg suo-treasui j biiis, eic, I answer i1 so s&r as it applits to ins. I stand by ; ail our demands, but I never do any-' * thing for buncombe merely, and no!( one who knows the situation believes 3 for a moment that any such measure * could receive consideration even in * committee, as the House was organiz j ed in the last Congress and dominat -!} ed ia the present cne. Then why can-j i sure us fcr not doina; a futile thicg? <* ^Xlizr iODg auu paijuaiaiiitig ciiuit people from aii parties who tijink;1 alike on oar Snar cial demand haveja gotten together. Tney would be wide- j I ly apart oh the sub-treasury and other j s demands. Our effort is to cement to | ? gether the forces we have, and add to ; them Do you thick this can be done I r by diverticg at'entioa to demands!c that they would feel compelled to js fight us or. ? j But it is right for the people to watch ! their E preventatives. I tio nut com-\ \ plain at jour watching us, arid stimu j i iaticg us to greater ac:i?i:y along Is A!!i3?r>.p linps. Of course when vou ! a come tc Con^e:s ycu will expect the ] ' same treatment. j *l If I were not fearful of arousing j * your resentment ogain by reference to j * splitting the party of ficaGcial reform, ! ^ I would suggest taiit the oily ground j a upon which an A.lliancj man or Dem-: c ucrai cuuju uu.cr au^u. <& 1/iujjudiu.vau j * as the tariff on cotton would be ssa!? matter of party straLeg?, to show upj*2 the insincerity cf the Republican Pro ] Sl Lectionists. Bat. as I understand you, j d you not only ctfer it. but would ac- ] P lually support and vote for it. j ? This reply has been delayed by j sickness, in addition to the dtiay a - i3< tending receipt of your publication } J Very truly yours, t ^ J. Wm Stokes. ? -Tv n * -iq>jt Si * v UOlllUi; iUii , - if cAJr V. . : Note.?I trust that papers publish- i v ins, the letter of Capt. Bradham willj 0 also publish, this. j e Killed by a Train. A special dispatch from BiT.bsrg to j Q ! he Columbia Register says Wcdnes j j lay night about 11 o'clock some ae-j ?roes, on their way home from church I found tbe body of Charles Carroll on ' the South Carolina aad Georgia Rail- j v road track, about oae mile east of ] ' Bamberg. The heau was crushed and j1, f.he brains of the unfonuaate man j - ivere scattered ;or some aiscar.ce c iround. The up train /roai Charles fj loh had evidently struck nim. The " rictim was iast seer ali7e abouc 7 c relock in the evening on the streets of ^ Bamberg and was apparently uuder the influence of liquor. As he lived ' it Midway, abcui three miles from Bamberg, it io very probable that a vvhilo ou his way home he either weiit* h :o sleep or sat by lae side of the tract: j i md was killed bv t^?e oncoming train, j a ? * | u Scalded Kim to Death. J n In a fit of pa sion, Richard G-rrity, j w m iron moulder, of New York. Thuis- j b lay afternoon threw iiernard McLton- $ j.la, a felloe workman, into a caul- r3ron of scalding water. Tbe man was so badly scalded, that be wiil die. Tae nen quarrelled as to which could rue ^ ?ut the greatest number of bars in a ^ lay. Timy finally carae to blows. McDonald struck G-arrity witn an iron v jar, when G-arrity, furious with rage, <j Afr.TV.n?lrf knC'.r.'kf-A thft oar of ron from his hu~ds aad Cragged hin^ ^ :c a cauldron of seeding water. A ?y straggle lost place, McDonald j ~ .Oudiy calling for lie]a, bat before *; iny one could interfere 6-arritv pushed aid into the water. Big Robbery in Charleston. J The lar^e drv good.? establishment a y ICerrison & Co., Charleston, S. C.. ?ras burglarized at an earlj hour this " -n^yr-incr Th.p siifa onenad wiLh '* ixplosivfs and $600 ia cash takea. | n [here is ao clew to the ideatity of the j o -obbers. I g A TAj_K WITH MCLAURiN. Koiv he Oaine r<? hi.-? t\Vi? Famous Speeches c-rs tIi-3 Tur-fV Qij. jjtlon. The Was bin 2 tor? "-rresp'-sndent of the Ne--vs avrd O-urier sats Representative McL'iurin's pos-ition oq the taritf question hss given Him a prominence tbrou ;hout tee countrv which even. b:s poii'ical enemies at home are bound torecoeniics. Notwithstanding the at-erupts nas'Je by c?rtcin persons to beiittie his mem tariff speeches. b: hc = a growing in South Carolina which ocoukl astonish, his political rivals, vr->o ^re up with jealous.? b'causp of his r.ipid advancement in national as w^Ii as in. State politics. I sa?" a le-t'~r frcm an exmember of Con^res-s from Texas, which sta^d that a Vic- Presidential boom for Mr McLvurin is under way in ine Lone Star State. I would r^t oe surprised to see mm run ic-r ucvernor of South Carolina n^xL. year. There is a strong pressure upon him tc make the race. When I cailed uoon Mr. McLvjrin I at bis residence Thursday evening I: found him in a particularly happy i frame of mind, looking over a pile of j lelt'.-rs that had accumulated during j nis absence. "My mail," said he, "has nearly i quadrupled sines my two last speeches. The tirst seems to have suuc& a responsive chord throughout the South, while the last has led to a vast account of apparently aDxious inquiries coccerr.i;:ig the condition and^dvanta^es of our section." In answer to an inquiry Mr. Mc- i Laurin said his position 011 the \?ajs asd means committee vras ibe prime cause for making the first speech41 would sit there," said he, "day after day listening to the >.dn iduals arid delegations demanding recognition through national legislation, and not hear a single solitary mention of the great industries cf the South. Finally one man came befcre us iu ihe interests of long staple cotton, but j failed to make much of an impression, I since he fou ,d Scu'.hern members op j posed to such a demand. I began to 1 get letters from different sections of the South calling- my attention to the rice schedules. Parties interested in cotton seed oil productions wrote me concerning tallow being- on the free list, which would tend to cheapen oil, and thereby cheapen the prici of cot- i ton s- ed. to the planter, ilen engaged in making cotton began to write asking if it would not be fair to demand a duty on cotton, at the same time reminding me that there was a heavy duty on cotton cloth. The injustice of sitting id)v by and p?rmit ting the North and E ist to obtain all Liis advantages of such legislation, and at the same time realize that my ovrn section ar.d people were being plundered through its operation, forced me to make a protest and take the position I have. As I continued the preparation of Lb&t speech I became more and more impressed that the interests of the South had been neglected, and more firmly determined to mak-: a demand for fair and equitable division of benefits and responsibilities. I am not a Prateriticn'si: and related that stAte meat many times in taecoutse o? my speech, bat if that doctrine was Id ob j tain iu this-country I simoly demand as a matter of right and justice thai t&e South should not be the victim, rne p'-ess cf the South, wi:a rare exsepiiocs, have accepted ray conieiidoit is fair sua just, a-ad I look ior aub assignee from Southern memoers ia making a cjutes;, not only for Long staple cotton, bat for a square re :o?sitioc of all Southern interests ia :ne final status of ths tariff bill. "Here are hundreds of clippings,'' .aid Ylr. McLaurin, shoeing a ?'e ;ase filled with them, "taken from pa3 :sin the South endorsing my posi .ion and encouraging me to further iction. Tnese letters a'so," pointing ,o a large number, "are from promt sent oieu, not only in the South, but a other sections, declaring my posi ion correct, and urging me to continle the fight. In order to round our. , ny first speech and show the true situ Liion I made the last one. Some Da ) >ers have called it an immigration i teech and an advertisement for the \ South. I don't care anything about 1 hai, siace nay purpose was accom- ( >lishtd 77hen I attracted the attention \ >f the balance of the country to our cction. ] "I assumed that such increased in- ( erest and inquiry regarding cur sec \ ion would assist materklly in secur i c-Z fair play, and I nna. it has. This \ peecli has been printed la full in j ru'.uy leading papers, and libsral ex { mcts have found their way into ji housands of newspapers throughout t 'r.f. entire nation. The New York j financier, the Boston Journal of j Jcmmerce, the Chicago Record, i ad numerous j >urnals of this j haracter have printed aiuch of the \ ctech. and commented editorially up- \ n it. The Southern Rail way Company i .as primed a large portion of it and j ent out thousands to its correspon ] ents and inserted it in thousands o' j apers interested in our section. I j aake this statement not-boasting, but j 2 order to show what an easy matter i ;s ana, 1 believe, might have Deen S ta..-s ago to obtain the prompt at | action of the busings elemeat of the * forth to our advantages as a section sincerely hope that this line of in estimation may b.? stimulated by thers, so that the South may in the nd obtain its rights." i Asleep on the Track, A special dispatcn to the Columbia ?tate says when the passenger train ' ue at E'dgeSeid at 3:30 p. m. Thurs ay had reached a point about one aile from Edgefied, in turning a sharp urve the engineer saw lying on tht ( rack between the rails, not 50 feet bead, two boy?, one of them evidently' asleep Tae distance was too short 1 j ston the train. Jim Blocker, ar<? ' ro aDous10 years old, struck by ! b.s pilot and knocked down an em- 1 iDkaieat four feet His legs and * kull were crushed and he was killed , xstantly. Tne other boy cin't be " sued. t Joe Sprisz. a p'-oniaent business ?an of ilidville, Ga , was raurdereci ere Friday night by uakuo paries. 1 -:p sr ?< cir..ct 1 on thft head with J blunt iLS'.rument. The object of the s mrdr-r was robbery. Mr. Scriaz's d:a iond pin, ric;<r and $1,000 in go]d ere stolen. The robbers have not c etn captured as yet. A reward of 1U0 has been offered for their ar ?st. uouic This is aa injunction that ^ili be ecded by all who look 10 the promo- j on of the pleasures of others. A j appy home is indeed the happiest of J laces. O.ie source of happiness | ; 28 home circle is gooi music. A j' are sjurce ci goo a music is a goou iano?such as may be had J'rom M. l. il^ouc, Coiucrj bia, C. J?.<id *hat lie has to say in his new ad verse ruciii. Indigestion. From Vnich springs, directly cr in- j irec.Iy, nearly ev^ry form of head-1 1 Uiiy* &UU au;n. LLC VCi SUfJ'jrji- I ;.i therefrom, is surely and speedily I sieved and cured by the use of j Hilton's Life for tie Liver and Kid- } ' evs." One 25z bottle wiil convince f its merit. Try it. Sold by dealers 1 eneraily. i sb! sg mbb?ow a flying machine. ! < A KfiQ Sailid Awsy from Xasbvlile in Airship. A a airship, on which Prof. Barnard, professor of physical training ef the Y. M. C. A. of Nashville, Tenc., has j foen at kojz icra long time, made its ! initial journey Thursday. The ship ! which was in process of completion ! for weeks at a secluded place near the i exposition grounds, was brought off j this morning to the great astonishi r^nt cf even most of the officials of u,s i. T_ ~ J uue cAjjuaiLiuu, nau u"t;u carefully guarded. At 11:15 o'clock, the professor announced to the several officials present: "Well, I'm off.1' and mounted a bicycle contrivance attached to a tremendous balloon at Lhe top ??iTh sails or nropellers at the front and sidt-s. j The curious c.~aft arose as gracefully i as an eagle. In mute wonderment the ?tnr>n -7ft7incr a h trie sViin as i ? to~ ? s ? it rose to a great height and then just as Prof. Barsard had declared, msde a bee line over the course of the j Northwestern railway at a great speed i of about 15 miles an hour. | "The wind is rather stiff,'' said Prof, i Barnard, 4 and would bear me in the | direction of Clarksville, but I don't | propose that the wind shall dictate my i course, and I shall select my own and j go toward Memphis." The last trace I of bis aerial bicycle visible showed ! that he was keema : his wor J. as well as can be judged of the receding object. The ship attained a height of about half a mile and moved westward at about 15 miles an hour. Pio fessor Barnard stated that after reach iug an attitude of 500 f<et he would reverse the ship as evidence that be had control of it, and that all was well with him. This he did. The ship is of water melon shape, 46 feet long and 20 leet in diameter and sails lengthwise. Instead of the basket attachment of a balloon, it has a bicycle frame, and by means of the pedals and the handles, the propeller and the side sails are controlled. The propeller extends 10 ;eet m front of the machine and consists of reversible sails about one-twentieth the siz? 0/ the balloon pari overhead. At either side of the machine is a kite-shaped sail about three feet long by two feet Trice. These aL>o are reversible and are controlled by revolving levers. The balloon is filled with hjdrogen ga?, and is made of silk and cotton. Prof. Barnard returned to the city tonight. He had ^one about 12 miles when one of the propellers broke, and ne was obliged to descend, which was easily done. He will make another trip in a few days. He is graatly pleased with the success of the trip. ^ ivU sis* WJ. < &>? \ n AalM/bd unn y afTOTl TV v J U ;vv. J. WVVVM don to s. remedy so long seeded 5s carrying children gafely through tee critical stage of iaething. It b ax: Incalculable blessing to mother and child. K you 3re .Usfccrbcd at nigh: with a sick, fretful, idvihing chiid.. use Pitt3' (Jarmiuatire, it *111 g'-7r- !n?tant relief, snd regulate the jnwel?. and rcake teething safe ai;u oa/y.li srili cure Dysentery and Diarrhoea. CamdnatiTQ i2 an irstart -sliai ?r-i ioiic ot Joints. It will piai&e>..b dife?3t:c_2ive tone sad snerg; tc tie stcrcach srtf bezels. Tis sici; puny, suSerius efcile fill <oj3 become &e iat and frolit^r.% jo; of ifc? hcoaeboid. I: is ?e~.' pie^sans U t'uo isftte ard cnJy c-rsi 33 cacti c?r bcttlfc Soil by togskts fcr ? ? .-i. V ^ ? * ?? v *y I " .. * , r^.%*.. rt '""* i The Piano for a Lifetime, I I Tie Piano of tie Souti.f d Tie Piano Sold Most Reasonably- i I The old, original Maihushek, sold by us 3 for over a quarter of a century and the <j a delight of thousands of Southern homes. 9 | More Math usheks used South than of s | any other one make. 3 i^ovejv .\ew sty;es ax, xecucec trices, | a cheaper than ever before known. Styles once $435, now $325. $100 saved every fcuyer. 1 How, because vre are new interested In I ^ the great Mathushek factory, supply \ | purchasers direct, and save them all in- } | termedlate profits. White us. LTJDDEN & BATES, I Savamiali, Ga,, and New York City# ? : ! SOT IKLSASMS. o S'o Danger, in Cueing One Habit, of Form IXG ASOT7IES. 3PIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) Etc., Ccbed in from Foua to Six Weeks. LIQUOR DISEASE ]ured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco Habit and Nervous Diseases The Cure has been endorsed by the Legis ature of six States and one Territory; bj he National Government in the Soldiers' Somes and in the regular army: b> many oca: autnonues in tne cure 01 muigem 'runkards (morphine and liquor); by Mist Vallard, the W. C. T. U.; Francis Murphy. Seal Dow and the I. 0. G. T.: b?r prominent nen all over the land: by 300,000 cured paienta, more than 20,000 of these being phylicians. The Leslie E. Keeley Company and tbo veeley Institute of S. C. are responsible or )or:iticn3 which could not afford to put forth my claim that the} are unable to prove. Fnr nvinfpri matter nn ! address. THE KEELEY LNoiU'UTE, >r Drawer 27. ColuRibia, S. C. Mention this paper. ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS. f+QT^T MIT f S vJ 1 1?JLX AJ JU ( AT FAGTORY ?AIGES. E, W. S :SEYENs' COLUMBIA, ft. O. ' * " vV 'jfe | A ^ ' TTTT A Trv-*T"7" "7T T Us M T1 JrlArr I MUiVlJji j IS INCREASED TEN" FOLD BY GOOD MUSIC. Mate tte most of life by proctuing a gocd ? J PIANO or ORGAN. Music has a ^ refining influence and keeps ^ yocr children at home. nv.MVMnm You only invest once in a Jife time provll- -J ed yen select a Rood instrument. ICHALLIKI * any house to beat my prices?QUAUTT and RESPONSIBILITY considered. TERMS: To tho:e not prepared to p^y cash I will give reasonable time at a slight diffeerence in pries. TTT i Tin 1 IT|T1 T7 WAKliAJm. 1 I fully guarantee Pianos Lnd Organs as represented, placing them on test trial. t n i . n . _m 3 i tipsem me Miners /) Hence CAN aDd WILL save joa money. Prices Bane as follows: Organs from ?43.00 up. Pianos from ?185.00 up. DON'T FaLL to write for catalogue. Tours for Piano3 and Organs, j|P M. A MA LONE, ^ COLUMBIA, S. C. : : To Uie Public. : : : WE WILL OFFER FOR j *: j sale during the next six- ; : : : : : ty days, as we will have to : : : : i : know within the time above : : : : : * ?*ated in order to arrange our : : : : : .usiness for another year, j : : : : : whether or not we will be able : : : . . . lo uispcse or mis vaiaaoie real : : : : : : estate. Having decided to go : : : : i : more extensively into the mer- : : : 4 : : : cantile and rice mill business, : : : _ -^i : : : and to reducc our farming in- : : j : : : terest, we have decided to place : : : : : : upon the market one of the fin- : : : : : | est plantations for general pur- : : : : : poses in Orangeburg County. : : : : : : This property i3 situated in ; : : : : Pine Grove Township, one mile : j : : : : from the town of Lone Star,asta- j \ \ : : : tion on the Manchester and Au- j : : : gusta R. R., and containing J : : : twenty-five hundred (2500) J j ; : : : acres, more or less, with a good : j : : part of same under a high state \ : | of cultivation. On the-place is a : : : : : : good saw mill, grist mill, gin and : J : : cotton press, a fine pasture, 8 or : : "Vj : : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- : [ ? \ | j ery other convenience a good : j : farmer would want. We offer ; | | also for sale two lots and the * : : best store house in Lone Star. ' I ] i This is undoubtedly a fine open- \ | j ing for anyone wishing to mer- j chandise and farm in connection ] j j \ j with each other. All of which \ 1 \ gH \ we offer you very cheap and on ; : : : easy terms. Of course we won't \ : be able to t.nrn ntpr +<-v rlip nnr- - - - m | chaser the farm before first of Jan., 1S98. The store we can * * j '% J - turn over for the fall business. w For further particulars address * * wEbbSE | : : TAYLOR & BULL, Lyons, S.C. ^lp ipril 21-3mos THE THOMAS ,J|, is the most complete system of ele^ ^ting, handling, cleaning and packing cotton* Improves staple, saves labor, makes you money. Write for catalogues, no othsr equals it. I handle the most improved COTTON GINS, j PRESSES, M ELEVATORS, ENGINES AND BOILERS - :vl to be found oil the market. My Sergeant log Beam Saw Mill is, in simplicity and efficiency, a wonder. UUIijH JJCiLiLS, $ FLAK EES, GANG 5DGKBS, J; and all wo:d working machinery. LIDDELL AND TALBOTT ENGINES 1 are the test Write to me before tuying. v V. O. Badhaxn, j General Agent, COLUMBIA, S. C. SEE # - 2* | HERE. -M fC VHTTQ f f\T70 k - t dtCL : rt JLU XUU a Lll ? iA n. -Li rVL'JT i i i ! A.re foar tCllievr.i ta a itieilS&v condition IfsOj Hilton's LUe forttie Liver and | Kidneys will keep them so. U ' .$ not, Hilton's Life for the L'-ver and Kidneys will make ~-0'. them so. L 25c bottle will convince you of this v ulCt. M Taken regularly after meals it is an aid to ' Jjl digestion, cures habitual constipation, tU-r** WV#W^U.N/> iUiU W-LLLC XCXXCOiiW AUU " botii body ?;nd mind. SOLD WHOLESALE BY ":> /?N flis Marray Drag Co.*^ COLUMBIA, S. 0 AKD j Dr. H. BASH. C:-;arle?ton, S. C. EE I0IJS Off BJSS J A>'D GET jfl YOVNG'S_ _ m SILENT mm REVEALER WM CONFIDENTIAL ADVI02 TO ' BEGINNERS |l 3r How to Start la tlas Hail Order Busi- ||| ness with very small capital. l||j "\fnnfip V. Ynir Rnmc Vn Bent to pay. Orders Arriving bj Mail. ^ SSND FIFTx CENT6 FOR TWO LARGE BOOKS, EACH 100 PAGES, GIVING FULL INFORMATION. ^ ^OLUMBI^BOOK ANX> XOVJELTY CO., 700 Main Street. Columbia. S. C. 5&Z