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TA fPLTT? n f"T P DI' 1'j oi.UjS& tL'hiflii ? -. - -^ ? ?.r> cl ! rrc.\?r\ ENUOLfr;A'cic..'\;'rrN ( r</r\ v?. AND SALESWOMEN. Rev. Dr. ' I'r<esch-d to a M/'xhty Hoa: of Toller ?He Givf? GooC Advice I'jr the Life That >'vvr I* as T"< I! * .: Tor iht Life to Come Tiie sermor. last Sunday of Dr. Talmsgc addressed to the great host or clerks in stores and cilices and factories will inspire such persons with healthful ambition and allay many of thsir annoyances. Text, Act? :<vi. 14. "And a certain woman named I-ydia, a seller of purple, of rise ciry of Thyatira. which worshiped God, heard us, whes^ heart the Lord opened." Proverbs xxii, ,:Seesi tbou a man diligent in his business'.' He shall stand before kinj?s." The first passage introduces to you Lydia, a Christian inerchantess. I f ?*r feur'n^s is to deal in purple cloths or silks, She is not a giggliag nonenity, but a practical woman, net ashamed to work for her living. Ail the other women of Phi'ippi and Thyatira have been forgotten, but God has mads immortal in oar test Lyiiia, tne lanjuuu The other text shows you a man with heal ar.d hand and hoar: a a a foot all busy coiling on up until he gains a princely success. *;Seest thou a man diligent, in his businei;'.' He shall stand before kings." Gre.it encouragement ia these two passages for men and women who wiil be busy, but no solace for those who are waiting for good luck to show them at the foot of the rainbow a casket of buried gold. I(, is f-diy for any body in this world to wait for something to turn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is as inexorable as the ltw of the tid-s. Fortune, the magician, may wave* her wand in that direction untii castles and palaces come, bat --he will after awhile invert the game wand, and ail the splendors will vanish inio thin air. There are certain sty les of behavior which > 1 lead to useiumess, uuuvi v.? success, and there are certain styles of behavior "which lead to dust, dishonor and moral default. 1 -would like to tire the ambition of young people. I have no sympathy with those who would prepare young folks foriife by whittling down their expectation?. That man or woman will be ~or:h nothing to church or rtate who bcg:ns life cowed down. The business of Christianity is not to quench but to direct human ambition. Therefore it is that I utter words of encouragement to those who are occupied as clerks in the 6tores and shops and banking houses of the country. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company of lens of thousands who -re m country, amid circumsianccs -which will o::hor make or break them for time and for eternity. Many of these people have already achieved a Christian manliness and a Christian womanliness, which -will be their passport, to any position. I have seen their trials. I have watched their perplexities. There are evils abroad which need to be hunted down and dragged out into the noonday light. In the first place, I counsel clerks to remember that for the most part their clerkship is only a school from which they are to be graduated. It takes about eight years to get into one of the learned professions, it takos about eight years to get to be a merchant. Some of you will be clerks all your lives, but the vast, majority of you are only in a transient position. Afier awhile some December day the head men of the firm will call you into the back cihce, and they wiil say to you: "Now. you have done well by us. We are going to do well by you. We ; cntl. -LU.V11C JUil LU lift V <7 v-v cern." You will bow to that edict very gracefully. Getting into a street car to go home an old comrade will meet you and say, "What makes you look so happy tonight-.'" "Oh," you will say. "nothing, nothing!" But in a few days your name will blossom on the sign. Either in the store or bank where you are now. or in some other store or bank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy. So I feel I am now addressing people who wiil yet have their hand on tho helm or the world's commerce <nid you wiil turn it this way or that. Now clerks, but to be bankers, im ? porters, insurance company airectors, snippers, contractors, superintendents of railroads?your voice mighty "on 'change"? standing foremost in tiie great financial anu religious enterprises of the day. For. though we-who are in the professions may on the platform plead for the philanthropies, after all, the merchants must come forward with their millions to sustain the movement. Be therefore patient and diligent in this transient position." You are now where you can learn things you can never learn in any other place. What you consider your disadvantages are your grand opportunity. You see an aSluent father some day come down a prominent street with his son who has just graduated from the university and establishing him in business, putting $50,000 of capital in the store. Well, you are envious. You say, "Ob, if I only had a chance like that young man?if I only had a fother to put S50,000 in a business for me, then I would have some chance in the world." -Be not envious. You have advantages over that young man which he has not over ycu. As well might 1 come down to the docks when a vessel is about to sail frr'Valparaiso and say. "Let me pilot this ship out to sea." Why, I would sink crew and largo before I got cut of the harbor simply because 1 know nothing about pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sons before the mast for the reason that they know it is the only place where they can learn to be successful sailors. It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage and navigation, and I want you to understand that it takes no more S?iu to couuuct a vessel wut, -n bor and across the sea than to steer a commercial establishment, clear of the rocks. You see every day the folly cf people going into a business they know nothing about. A man makes a fortune in one business, thinks there is another occupation more comfortable, goes into it and sinks all. Many of the commercial establishments of cur cities are 'giving their clerks a mercantile education as thorough as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are givingscier-tiSe attainment to the students matriculated. The reason there are so many men foundering in business from year to year is because their early mercantile education was r.ecrlected. Ask the men in high, commercial circles, and they will tell you they thank Cod for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure the wilderness march if it is going to end in the vineyards and orchards of the promised land. But you say. "V.'ill the womanly clerks in our stores have promotion'.''1 Yes. Time is coming when women will be a; well paid ,\t their toil in mercantile circles as men are now paid for their toil. Time is comiag when a woman will be allowed to do anything she can do well. It is enly a little while ego when women knew nothing of telegraphy, and they ?ere kept out of a great many commercial circles where they arc now welcome, and the time will go on until the woman who at- one counter in a store sells ?-3,000 worth of goods in a year will get as high a salary as aie man who at tae otaev counter of the same store sells >5.000 worth of goods. All honor to Lydia, Christian saleswoman.' The second counsel I have to give to clerks Is that, you seek out what sre the lawful regulations of your establishment and then submit to thetn. Every well ordered house has its usages. In military life, on ship's deck, in commercial life, there must be order and dicipline. Those people who do not learn how; ? obey will never know how to T wili to',} 1? in riot t-.-.i-t't nvin will make ruin, financial and moral. It is the yo'tnj man vrh;> thrusts his thumb into his vest and say?: "Sofccdj shall die.ate to me. I am my ovfii master. I Trill not submit to the regulations of this house." between an establishment in who all the employees arc under thorough discipline and the establishment in vrliioh the employees do a?oui as lacy caooseis me s:: erer-e between success and failure, between rapid a.cun.;dutiou and utter bankruptcy. Do not come to the store ten minutes after the time. De there within fsro seconds. ami lei it be two seconds before instead c? r~o scccnds after. Do act think anything too iasicniScaat 10 do well. Do no', say, -It's only just- yr.ee." From the most, important transaction in commerce down to the particular style in which you tie a string around a bundle oi-.y orders. Do not get easily disrupted. V/Liile ethers ia the st .ce may lounge orfrc: >-r cjmplain.ycu go yrith rca 5y haaUrand ehccrfal face anO r ... . sDim id vour ^ ori. .:nen tne | bugle sound.--, the good soldier ask: no <;uesj tious. bat shoulders bis knapsack, fills his ! canteen and listens for the command of ' March!" Do not get the idea that your interests and those of j'uur employer art antagonistic. His success *.v i 11 b? yaar honor, i I is embarrassment will be year dismav. Expose none of the frailties of the nr:n. Tel! no store secrets. Do not blab. Kebuff tho?e persons who come to find out from clerks what ought never to be known outside the store. Do not be among those young men who take on a mysterious ? i ... ;-j ?Q;.J wrilnur imp rlrrn lir ..g. that employs them, as much astosiy, "I could tell you something if 1 would, but 1 won't." Uo not be among those who image no they can build themselves up by pulling somebody else down. i!e not ashamed to be a subaltern. Again. I counsel clerks to search out what are the unlawful and dishonest de; maads of an establishment and resist them, ia tne ^000 years that have passed there has never been an occasion when it wus one's duty to sin against God. It is never right to do wrong. If the head men of the lirni expect of you dishonesty, disappoint them. ' Oh." you sny. "I should lose my p'ace : then." Better icse your place than lose ! !?,,? rr,;: ii"! 1 ri ft? lrwf? VOUT nJ ICft Christian heroism is always honored. You zo to the head man of ycur store and say. "Sir, I want to serve 3-011, I wantt) obli^you. It is from no lack of industry on my part, hut this thing seems :o me to be wrong: ! and it is a sin against my conscience, it is a j sin against God. and 1 beg you, sir, to ex} cusc me."' lie may liush up and swear, bur j he will cool down, and he will have more } admiration for you than for those who submit to his evil dictation, and rhile ihey sink you will rise. Do not because of seeming temporary advantage give up your character, | young man. Inder God, that is the only ] thing you have to build on. Give up thai, i you give up everything. That employer j asks a young man to hurt himself for time ! and for eternity, who expects him to make a j wrong cdtry, or change an invoice, or say ; goods cost so much when they cost less, or -1- - ?~r\r+ impose upo:i vauja^ ui * vaiw^>, %/. misrepresent a style of fabric. IIow dare he demand of you anything so insolent. Again. I counsel all clerks to conquer the trials of their particular position. One great uial for clerks is the inccsideration of customers. There are people who are en: tireiy polite everywhere else, but gruff and ! dictatorial and contemptible when taey come | into a store to bay anything. There are J thousands of men and women who go from { store to store to price things without any f s.?i>n of purchase. They are not satistied | until every roll of goods is brought down and they have pointed out all the real or imaginary defects. They try on all kinds of kid gloves and stretch them out of shape, \ and they put on all styles of cloak and walk ; to the mirror to see ho"w they look, and then j they sail out of the store; saying, ;,I will not 3 take it today," which means. ilI don't want it at all," leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons and lacw and cloths to smooth out S1,000 worth of goods, not a cent of which did that man or woman buy or expect to buy. Now, I call that a dishonesty on the part of the customer. If a boy runs^into a store and takes a roll of cloth off the counter anu sneaks cut into the street, you all join in the cry pellmell, "Stop thief;'' When I see you go into a store not expecting to buy anything, but to price things, stealing the - w- * ' ~ * ' ~ -r v / lime oi tne cierit ana steanag me iuuc m ms | employers, 1 say, too, 4'Stop thief."' 5 If I were asked which class of persons | most need the grace of God amid their an noyances, I would say. "Dry goods clerks." I All the indignation of customers about the | high prices comes on the clerk. For ini stance, a great war comes. The manufacto| ries are closed. The people go o5' to battle, j The price of goods runs up. A customer | comes into a store. Goods have gone ut>. 5,-it v m w ili.uv;u AC l*LCbfc nv/ua. ?-. "A dollar? Outrageous! A dollar!'' Vv'hy. who is to blame for the fact that it has got to be a dollar? Does the indignation go out to the manufacturers on the banks of the Merrimac because they have closed up? >"o. ! Does the indignation go out toward the employer who is out at his country seat? In'o. It comes on the clerk. He got up the 'war. lie levied the taxes. He puts up the rents. Of course the clerk? Then a great trial comes to clerks in the fact that they see the parsLnonious side of human nature. You talk about lies behind the counter?there are jusi as nvny lies before the counter. Augustine speaks of a man -who advertised that he would on a cer j lam occasion ten me people nun,*, ? was in their hearts A crowd assembled, and he stepped to the front and said, "I will tell you what is in your hearts?to buy cheap and sell dear."' Oh, lay not aside your urbanity when you go into a store! Treat the clerks like gentlemen and ladies, proving yourself to be a gentleman or a lady. Remember that if the prices are high and your purpose is lean that is no fault of the clerks. And if you have a eon or a daughter amid those perplexities of commercial life and such a one comes home all worn out, be lenient and kuOF that the mrtyr at the stake more certainly needs the i grace of God than our young people amid he seven times hard exasperations of a clerk's life. Then there are all the trials which come to clerks from the treatment of ^consideration of emmovers. There are professed f Christion men who have no more regard for | their clerks than they have for the scales on J which the sugars are -weighed. A clerk is [ no more than so much store furniture. >"o | consideration for their rights or interests. { Not one word of cnccurgement from sunrise (to sunset, nor from January to December, | but when anything goes wrong?a streak of j dust on the counter or a box -with the cover ; off?thunder showers of scolding. Men im| perious, capricious, cranky toward their i clerks, their whole manner as much as to j say, -AH the icsterest I have in you is to j see whnt I can get out of you." Then there | are all the trials of incompetent wage3, not I in such times as these when it a : an gets | half a salary for his services he wfc i to be tnankrui, bat i mean in prosperous times. Some ofyou remember when the war broKe out and ail merchandise went up and merchants were made millionairs in six months V the simple rise in the value of goods. Did the clerks get advantage of that rise? Sometime: not always. I saw estates gathered in those times over which the curse of God has hung ever since. The cry of unpaid men and women in those stores reached the Lor I of Sabaoth, and the indignation of God has been around those establishments ever since, Hashing in the chandaliers. glowing from the crimson upholstery, rumbling in the long roll of the tenpin alley. Such men mav build up palaces of merchandise heaven high. but. nfier awhile a disaster will come along and will put one hand on this pillar and another band on that pillar and throw itself forward until down, will come the whole structure, crushing the worshipers as grapes are mashed in the wine press. Then there are boys ruined by lack of compensation. la how many prosperous stores it has been for the last 20 years that boys were given just enough money to teach them how to steal. Some were seized upon by the police. The vast majority of instances were not known. The head of the firm asked, ' Where is Goorge now?" "Oh, he isn't | here any more." A lad might better starve i ,?onrh r>?> .1 hi.isieil heath than take one farthing from Lis employer. Woe be to that, employer "vrlio unnecessarily puts a temptation in a boy's w;>y. There have been great, establishments in these citiee. building marble palaces, their owners dying worth millions and millions and million.-*, who made a vaet amount of their estate out of the blood and muscle and nerve of half paid clerKs. Such men a;?well, 1 will not mention any nnme. but I mean men ^ho have gathered ;ip vast estates at the expense of the people who were ground under their heel. 4,Oa." say such merchants, -If you don't like it here, then go and get a better piacc."' As much as to say; I've got you in my grip, and i mean is hold you. You can't get any ether place. Oh, what a contrast between those men rind Christian merchants who today are sympathetic with their clerks, when they pay ;:.e salary, acting in this way: "Ibis salary that I give you is not all my interest in you. Yen are an immona1 man; you are an immortal woman. I am interested in your present and your everlasting welfare. 1 * ? ? -i - ? r i vva-it Yvu ;'J uii*a.VsiUilU iJiai. li A ?au a iin.c i higher up ia this store T am beside yon is . i Chrinhiu sympathy." 1.0 back 40 or 00 . years to Arthur Tappen's store ia ><"ew j 1 ork. rv mar: vrcoss Trc<r?l cr.cmic:- never , ? J UC" t-V UC1-'. iji.- ...v. A brought ail flie clerks. and the account-mis. ] arid the weighers into u room ;',r devctk-n. : They sang. ihey r> raved, :hey cxhorte'. <;'i .Monday iscr:iicg the clerks were asked j where they bad attended cia:rch on therre- ! viou* day and what the sermons were about. It imtst hare sounded ftronptly. that vote-; i of praise along 'he streets where the dev>- ; tees of Mammon were their goiden ; beads. You suy A:;hur Tar-jen fa.ii-.-d. Ye.?. i he was unfortun-it". like f; 2r?.-r.: m.ir.y ^ocd j men, but I unde:*-!ai. i lie u'.i Lis oMi,n-1 tions before l:e l?-fr thi: w .r! i :?nd i ka?>w . that he died in the pcite o:' ihe 2o-y-eb and i that he is bef.-re the :hr-;as? <?od f'Jnv. ; forever blessed. If thit he '"tilisg. 1 wi;a j you might ail fail. j There are a gr'-a: "nfn a:.ti i young womeu wwant a word of <.*nccur- ; agement, Christian '. ncoursgciaest. t.'n^ ; smile of good cheer would be worth more to ! thern tomorrow morning ::: their places business than a present of tea years \ hence. Oh, 1 ri member the apprehension ! f and the tremor vf entering a prosVssien. I ; remember very well the man 7.'ho greeted : me in the ecclesiasticti court with the tip ; ends of tiie long f.r.gers of the left h tnd, and j I remem'ner the ether maa who took my hand in both of his and sail- "God bless ! you, my brother. You have entered a glorious profession, lie faithful to God and Lc will see you through/' Why. 1 fee! this minute the thrill of that handshaking, though the man who gave me the Christian grip has been in heaven 1''.' years. There are old men here today who can look hack to 40 vears aeo when .some one said a kind word to them. Now, oH r:en, pay back what, you got then. It is a grc;tt art for cl 1 men to lie able to encourage the young. Tiicre are many young ^copis ia ?r,:r cities who have come front inland coi-n:ies, from the granite hills of the north, from the savannas of the south, from the prairie.1? of the west. They arc here to get. their fortune, j They are ia boarding houses where everybody seems to be thinking of himself. They ! want companionship and they want Chris- j j tian encouragement. Give it to them. j { My word is to all clerks?>be mightier [ than your temptations. A Sandwich Islander i used to think when he slew an enemy aii; (the strength of that enem}' came into his i i rvrn rio-nt ;<r!n And I have to tell VOU that { every misfortune you conquer is so much ; j added to your own moral power. With orn- | j nipotence for a lever and the throne of Go J ! ! for a fulcrum you can move earth and hcav-! | en. "While there are other young men put-j | ting the cup of sin to :iieir lips, you stoop j | down and drini out of the fountains of (Joi ! land you will rite up strong to thrash the] 5 mountain*. The ancients used to think that t pearls were fallen raindrops. aich, touch> ing the surface of the sen, hardened into ( gems, then dropped to the bottom. I have I to tell you today that storms of trial hare | showered imperishable pearls into many a j | young man's lap. <? young man, while you i ( hove goods to sell, remember you have a ; $ snnl in sfLrp! la a hosDuai a Christian cap- j tain, wounded a few days before, got deliri- i aus, and in the midnight hour he sprang | out on the ilocr of the hospital, thinking ho | was in the battle, crying: "Come on, boys! j Forward! Charge!" Ah, he was only bat- j tling tho specters of his own brain, but it is < j no imaginary conflict into which I call you, | j young man, today. There arc 10,000 spirit- > uai foes that would capture you. In the ( name of God up and at theiu. j After the last store has been closed, after | the last bank has gone down, after the slmf5 lie of the quick feet on the custom house I l _< .v. , i t:?? ? steps nassioppcu. uiici nuj, uav vi < | chantrnen en the son. Lave taken sail of j | flame, after Washington and New York and i [ London and Viesnna have gone down into i ] the grave -where Thebes and Babylon and j | Tyre lie buried, after the great fire bells of j j the judgment day have tolled at the burn-i s ing of a world?on that day all the affairs of! j banking houses and stores will come up 1'or | inspection. Oh, what an opening of account | books! Side by side the clerks and the men | who employed them. Every invoice made j out, all the labels of goods, all certificates ! of stock, ail lists of prices, all private marks 1 of the firm, now explained so everybody can } understand them. Ail the maps of cities j that were never built, but in which lots f were sold. Ail bargains, all gougi&gs, ail | snap judgments, ail fiise entries, a.!l adul-i | teration of liquors with copperas .ma j strychnine. All rising of teas and sugars j j and colFees and syrups with cheaper mate-! I rial. All embezzlements of trust funds. All! j swindlers in coal and iron and oil and silver j and stocks. On that day, when the cities of | this world are smoking in the last conl'.agra(tion, the trial will go on, and down in an | avalanche of destruction will go those who | wronged man cr woman, insulted God and ! defiled the judgment. O'a, that will be a j great day for you, honest Christian clerk! j No getting up early, no retiring late, no | walking around with weary limbs, but a | mansion in which to live and a realm of {light and love and joy over'which to hold I? everlasting dominion. Iloist him up from glory to glory, and from song to song, and from throne to throne, for, while others go j j down into the sea with their gold like n j millstone hanging to their neck, this one { shall come up the heights of amethyst ar.d 1 ' 1 *> T- 4 i'?r. aiaoesier, acuumg in u:s pearl of great price in a sparklicg, glitter- I iDg, flaming casket. Municlpil Power. A nice point of law that may be of interest to '-he various town councils j ! of the state, was decided bv Jud^ei " . i | Buchanan, says the Union correspond- i (ent of The News and Courier, under j | date of the 8th instant. Ben F. Town- j | send had been tried by the council for I 1 fighting a short lime ago in a store, j j Xo police had seen the difficulty. He ! i was summoned to anoear before the j j * ! council. His attorneys put up the j argument that he had not beers lerral- j ]v summoned ana th9 council had ho i t right to try the case, as he was not I j properly before the court. The coun- j cu Jined him five dollars. He appeal- j ed. The Judge held that the major's i court only had the rights vested in j | magistrate, and that unless a parry i I was seen by an officer of tie.-aw while j j committing a breach of the peace, or j j said officer was in hot pursuit, that | J the party could net be arrestee: except ( with warrant sworn out by some oce. Mr. Sawver, attorney, made a very i forcible argument for Townsend's! side, and, after hearing it, the judge j | L?\Jl \JLL1J OLL CWiU^ 4.JU.v> iuwj v.*. ^ j ion, but reversed his o?m decision ir; a j j similar cas?, in which ho had jusij j sustained the mayor's decision. Tbt i | fine in this ?ass had bsen $20. S:; j | town councils vrhica are ia the hah:; | of arraigning and try in g par tits vri;h j merely a summons no varrsnT.; | had best be careful. Every rsau is as \ j free as anyone else, and e^en j ! has a right ~ to resist arrest until \ I proper authority is sho^n. Di?a?tron? Lightning Stroll-?. The barn and stable of John D. Hor- j , sey, near Swansea, S. 0-, vrere struck j S bv li^htnin? last Saturday night ! | Tne barn contained a quantity of oats i (andfodder, which took lire and con- j I suined the building and contents. la j 5 the stables were two horses and a colt, j The two horses were killed and TJ:e I colt *vas cot hurt. Mr. Horsey lives about three miles ~est cf S^anse?. and the loss is a severe one to him. ? Gold in rviinsoarl. j A <?old discovery crs the banks of | | urj I'orx crceK, rear .\cv? r ; | in Montgomery countr, llo , is u.a- j I nounced by Dr. G. A. iBroadhead, go-1 ! olcgisi of the State university. M. A. | Blob, the discoverer, has sea; several j \ consignments of quartz to Dr. Broad- j I h.corl or'! o?i:f5v; bv thf> IstJfjr h?~& ' [ proved the genuineness of the find. ! I Dr. Bread head *?:ii visit Mcslgjinery \ i countj to inspect the vda. \ A SuScIde in 5partf.r,bar^. t. G. 1. Johnson, a brolier of AGicur, j | G-a., committed suicide;in Scarty nbu-g : Wednesday night by shooting himself ! in the head. 2s o cause is assigned. I He left several checks drawn to his | wife, the total amounting to about $7CO. ! TpU A TJ CP rVl\ PPM/S i ! I j j D'RE'C^'CR SA J^R'S WEEKLY SU?*1MA- J R.Y Cr CONDITIONS. ? . I'h.'j V.'i'; k ".V v~r:.I11 -o Most Crop?, j i , ~ . I i hr C::r.oif;G? of CoitoJi J:nproved. I "'lis Other Crcp3--;*iiii5 fier- j err* J. ! ! i ! T:' vTPr V XT '* 'pr : rci' n ! ter^rutsre deficiencies raaglrg /rc-ni! ; ":hvco d''?rc-i ztr cay in the easiern, i | 'o ic the vrestrra portions cf the j | o'a'e. The veekiy :.vera?.e. of 50 j ! Uitsn temperature re ports vzs 7G, j i \?h?> e norrr.ai is ar.proxirr.jnely 82. j S T:;*' .vU-iHss reported vras'SS on the ? j 3l:h. if. Hc^g*.* snu the Jo'-esi '4 c-n ; I the j;Mi. \VaihfJla.. The nights | i v-'-r- udus?u?]]t ecol over the extreme j ' ccr^L-.TtaLern c:">!iriue*. 3:a:nfall. it iv? rsiss &i;u q\j:te frer.eral showers ft'ji on the 12*l>, except thui over iht- northern cour 'ks thesho^s'-s wcr--lisut, or r.o r.vhx fe;!; en the 17:b p nivie i-vn-'itl r&iu Ts-Ii except over the southeaster a counties wfcws ihere was core, or ?t best. light showers j oyjy. The i.ttUr rain is not fuliy rcj riecled is tins vre^k's toeasurenaent. Sixteen places reportr-d j'ess than 1 i&ch i for :h j v?eek ;'.v7e^i.y from 1 to 2 incites: j twelve e~er two itches with a ir;&xi | uio.c2 fall of 4.-SO at St. Georges Tiie | average of itiese 48 measurements is ; 1 44 and. the nennai for the sain* perii oc is about 1 o2 inches S Hillside ;ands were oaelv washec 8-rid <ririied on ihe 12;.h in Edgeaeld, j Saluda, Or&Esebu''g and Sumter coun:iThere wao no damaging bail storms or destructive wis'.is. The sunshine- averaged about nor rnv'}, but varied in citfercut, portions of lbs Siate, being rcost abundant in j M&riou icud Scarpa burg with least over the central counties. CROPS | The week v.vs a favorable one for j crop development over the western portion of the 3uate generally ard over j masy sections in the eastern counties. ! The exceptions '.-ere that in places the < j r.ecc of mere rain was indicated, but ; since ivporis closed, quite general and ' neavy raios have fallen where most | re? tied; in ether placfs there was an | excess of mo;?iu::e sr.d in such sections | the rf.c?c,: rd^s prove harmful. | Ti>e iernperauirt! while not generally j | lew enough to .rstard .^vowth except to check thi previous rapid development of cotton, was rather cool dnring lira I nL-hts, but not low enough to prove j j ir jurieus; &nd no hi^h winds cr dami hail storms occurred. | Corn improved very much over the i ! greater portion A th* State. exesptias: | limited areas v here insufficient rain ; foli, p.i;d otheractions where oa ac; count of too rr;i- -;h rain, corn is faring | bidiy on saady lands, notably in pDr- | ; lions of Clarendon, Lexington and ! I Berkeley. Cc-5 ;s beirg rapidly laid | by whsre this work has not already i been completed. The present improved condition | | points to a full crop yield, except ] i -There it was too nearly matured to be J : benefited by the recent rains. Corn | planted in May and June is over the j entire State ia fine growing condition i and locks very promising. Some re : port ears not well fecundated on ac| count of the rains washing oil the pol; len from the tassels. ! The condition of cotton has improv-1 i ;-d in many places, but the stalk ?ea- J | er&lly continues undsrs:z-2cl aimougti j ~*;il fruited, rnth full-gro^a boils j numerous. Bolls rear]y ready to open ; in southeastern counties. Tho prevail ing unseasonably cooi nights hindered i the K'rovn.h. snd caused the plant to | become lousy, while "honey dew"' is | : reported from, a number of counties, j [ Shedvingcf leaves, squares, and small | bolls is quite common. Man7 folds! : are bccoraiag grassy. and in Fair&eid i : some fields have been abandoned ca j I account ot crass. Rust has developed "? T7I. its i>iru77sii, oamoerg, x ?.uu Williamsburg counties. Over quite I large areis there has teen too much : rain ioY cotton. Laying by is well under way and more than naif the reports indicate thai the fields ''kid by" | are clean and in good condition. ; .Netwithstanding tbe numerous ad; verse reports from eastern arid central j counties, the majority of all reports | indicate ihat the present condition of I the crop is promising, but that it is in i a critical stage. A continuation ci [ rainy weather will, by hindering culj tiv&tion of which rr<any fields stsrd iu n j'.J, tend to cause deterioration in c --cbticn. Sea island cotton ecntin ues to do vrel!. Tobacco curing making favorable progress, and recent renoris icdicatef a better quality of leaf ihau first cut- j i ting. Sooie tobacco has been marketj ed. ! Rice continues in excellent condi! tion generally, except upland, of rchicn ! some is very poor. 1 Teas are about all sovrn and they have ccmc- up to good st.-ijncls. In sorse SeM:> the- lower leaves are siieddic^ i excessively. | Watc-rruelons generally late, underj sized and the crop a whole. small. ! | Swe<it potato slips still being planted | acd ihis crop has made rs.pid growch. L-ite peaches ripening but are re: tir-g Dadly. Appies generally plentiful. Gr&iJ*.- ripening and are a large crop but many report tbem rotting. Cane of various kir.d, and minor crops, generally, is in satisfactory condition and premise abundant yields. Turnip sowing has begun. J. W. Bauer, Sccticn Director, Columbia, S. C. A Georgia Bubble I>ar8t. Jlilo Abel garnishee d all stockholders in Macon, Ga., of lha Southern Building and Loan Association of Huntsville. Ala., on. a claim o? i-2,0u0 due hira by the company. No one suspected that the cumpany was in bad circumstances until Abel made a j demand for due mm. ins , company could not pay it and heat czar?: proceeded to garnishee the stockholders. A i; ambers ^ere .car.ui^heed in. Macon, where a If:rgs portion of the stock is hold. Ibis association was regarded as o^e of the stron^cc in the country, cni never before in , its history has it been forced to so iclo the Courts. The company has a ' capital of $1,000,000, and has always met itsobii^&tior-s promptly. The comt>:-inr has. nrrhars." more stockholders ihan any ether similar organization ir. . the South. livge asaouuts being held , in all the Southern States. This actio* vriii probably precipitate the . ^ hole business into the Courts. ABSOTUTELY aOLvEMT. ?. :Cv."r dispatch isom Huntsvilie. Ab.. says tie directors of the South- : em ?ui;din~and Loan association of . nuaisvii;.0: iie^o. a meeting is:s alter- ; coon ia reference to the reported suit. s .sain si ike company in Idacon nuu , gave cut the folic : "We do not owe Able $2,000 or any ether sum due and derandahie. < Svpa if we dl'i, ws have ia bank over , $3,000 vvi^b. vrnich to pay it. Tie as I socictioa is absuluidy solvent. A'i | c-b.ii^jjiions due and cfmancable are paid loSrptexber 1. We have ar.4ici paled vri;hdrava:s to that date. The batesee of July receipts vriii be about * 7. COO - r.d ;r.e, Au^us!; receipts about? $20,000. Tse telegram sjjrt cul is an infamous libel. The First national i ba:r;k of this city ~iil furnish infor- : ! EGSiiicn as to ilie correctness of this ! statement." 'EARED SUNSTROKE. UacsE.<ii C^use for Saicldo? 5tt?JIc-k'pci J F.o.r of sunsircl'e is rethrr uausuai caure for suicide, but th?re was a ixse of stif destruction in Columbia "Wedncs-da; and the letter the dead r-r-.r je.-.res indicates no other cause for his rash act. It was yet early j Wednrsdsy mnrnicr ^"ben a. eharr?be rcvd :? . the Hill House on Gervais * v^enf, co rcoui 10, v/bich had i be?n ft-sirred to Mr. J. K. Linn ibe J night bfi'ore and '^ur:d his detd body j is. iii<3 c d. sii::r-? oy tne t;e-a were j iV-r bottles which h>.d contained laud- j an urn. Ose bore the label of Dr. : Tocrr^s, another that of the Farmers ?r,(i Mechs.nics>? JDrujr Siore and the others the labels of Green's and Elisor's l>ru? bierts. His clothiug v?as r)cat:y spread upon chairs in the rccir.'. Ue Lad made every preparation that he cou?d before taking the fatal draught. Mr. L:uu rvcs 27 years of age: he vreni to Columbia eieht rrior^Lj!^ o?o fr ic"; his home in Holly liiii, Berk<l;-y county, and since he has bc?n. there has been acting as a . ' ..a r *v. f> n i> r /I u? S/>V.*1M TT/i V. /? * ir?/% i U*a.ia UOWi VA - JLJ.^ JLAUVI I vrscle? residing in Columbia, vrho &f- j ie^ the cororer's inquest, took cnartre j of the body arid saw thai it was prop I erlv interred Wednesday aftc-racon. j Co: oner Green was notified and an ; ir,quest was held. It was developed j *.h -,t i.'v? yours: man had come to the j Hi iHouse the even^n^ before and ! obtained lodging. Later in the eve-j nintr lie came down and asked for a j triads. It was given him. That was? the last seen of him aiive. It was also j '! ? * -? s\-,-?? A r !-?< > r r./i Kort r* r. r>a a? r\+>rs At. i u v bjui JI^u o. u temp'.sd to take his cwa li'e. The vercic: of the jury was that Mr. Linn cama "'to his asath 'rem itis own hands horxi laudanum poisoning1, pre j meditated." la the coat pocket of the} uead man was found 30 cents in silver : asd the following letter: July 19.h. IIr. A. E McCoy, Holly HU1, S. 0. Deav sir: Please collect the rent for my place and ba'arrce our accovnt 2nd turn the farm over to my undo, By-1 rcr. R. Linn, No. 81)9 couih. Gadsdyn | street, Columbia, S. 0. I have been sun stricken so much I! can't stand it any more scd I cin't | strike anything else; so I'.vilj go to J parts unkaown to wait, eternity. A'erv respectfully, J. H.'LINX. ) STEAMERS FOR ALASKA. Additional Stft&m^re Being Arranged to | Accommodate the Rush. There are promises of additional j steamship serv:c? between Seattle, j Wash., and St. Michaels, also a line j of Yukon. riTer stealers. A**r?.nges are novr being made with a j ccrrpary tnui is ce:cg organized oy 10- 5 caland eastern capitalists. The scheme) is to .OiiiId a sea going steamship and a light draft steamer for service between St. Llichie's ai:d Yokon City. The company bus been formed on a $200,O00 paid in capital basis. B. W. Straw, formerly ?. well known insurance man 0'Seattle, has written a letter to a business man of Seattle, in which he states frankly that he does no: expect to be believed. "This is a great mining strike," says Shaw, "probably the greatest on the American continent or in the | world. Gold has cot been found in] r-rMt. TP-Tino" rni ar.f "tips; C.n { two creeks, ia about 200 claims, j Som.e of ills pay streaks are near- ! Iv all gold. Gae thousand del- j Isr-i to the pan is rot an uncommon 1 thing and as high as one hundred I ounces hare been taken out in a single | pan. It is not unusual to see men coming in with all the gold dust they can carry. You would not believe me when I tell you that I went into j one cabin and counted live five- gallon oil cans full of gold dust, but is is | a fact. It is the result of the work of j two men during the winter and the j dump is not much more than half j worked cut. There has beer about j $2,000,000 in dust taken cut so i'ar m j the district. Ac a low estimate I be lieve there will be $50,000,000 taken S cut during tne next year." Ka-Klcx Is Arkansas There is great excitment in Law-1 renc-e and Randolph counties, Ark., over ihe continued ou-.rages committed b* a band of men known as the ' Ku-Kiux. The band first made its appearance in Kandoiph county about j a month ago, 3nd its operations were confiaed to a few townships, but it is | spreading until new two counties are ] aroused over iheir actions. Hardly a j week passes but some new outrage is j committed. A number of men, and j even forces, have been dragged from j their homes at ni^ht and snipped in | a most cruel manner by the ivu Kiux, j ar.d one woman has dieu from toe ef- j feels of a flogging administered on j her bare back. The persons flogged I have in every case been citizens with ! whom theKu-Klux found some fault. In one ease an old man and his wife were dragged from their bed. tied to a tree and whipped until iheir backs; ,i:J ?? r 7rers raw oeciiasc mvy uau iiui iheir daughter to school. Near Eich- : wood, in Lawrence county, a few 1 eights si^o, zue band raidea the home o; Newton G-ray, a respectable farmer, 1 and Gray has not been s*en or heard from since. It is believed he is cead. 1 A number of outrages have been com mitted in the vlci:>i:y of Etch wood ia the past weei and the excitement in i that nei.o-hbarhood is iaten^e. Tnir-! teen well kaovra residents of the neighborhood v.e^a arrested, e barged vriUi being aeax-rs of llr; org&iuzx- , tion, but, at the iximinauon trial leu . c! them were dismissed, ibicz farmer?, named Bishop, F-htc-ier aud Qi'.cz, being bound o~er to the circuit court. Ate Poisoned Bread. On Monday last at SXiad leton's niace, Saisto Island, two colored children died and asoihsr colored child became suddenly sick, supposedly from po:s"'-i. i. * - - - 1 orjing. JLuS to^is in ma yu.ru, vyliicu < aie soxe bread which is thought to have poisoned ih-3 children also died. The child ?ihich became suddenly =.iclc is stilJ sick. The children which, died are rsamed MolUe Chapman, 12 years, and .cLansa Nelson, one year Ar.d afeTT months old. The sick child is named Jessie Nelson. Their pa- ], rents reside en Edislo island. j1 The sicrj is ihat Anna NeJsor., the ; toother of H^anaa Nelson, one of the ! dead children, made some bread ia j he morning and gave it to her cbild. . Pa'.j>stqur:nijj she gave some to Lloiiie . Chapman end Jessie Nelsou. Sick- . cess aad death ensued in four hours. , cifLervrarc?, Kachfil Nelson, ?raadmo-.her of the dead child, vras seat for ind she came an', v^as toid what had happened. She immediately ;ook the j < reraaiain* bread and inre-.T it out by ;; :he rouse. Rachel Nelson and Ar/co- f: mo Nelson. tUe latter the husbacd of! < Aaua Nelson, ^vers arrested on sua- ! j suspicion of having commuted the \ . H-in^crd Is I*< onjij iv<4uls. At Wiikesborre. Pa., Peter "vVasseJ, ( alias 'Terrible Pete," vras hasgedin . the ccuGtv jiii yard Thursday. The drop fell at 10:30 and at 10:33 he tras proEOuaced dead. Vvassefs c rinse the kiiilno- of Josech Kur*rsav-1 age in Georgetown in 1895. Wassei i siiet at snother marj, but missed him | arid uiiieu jvupers&vage, >- mj o.r>. siacdirg outside the Tinder. TITJ.aFAN'5? "RIT.T, COMMITTEE REFUSES TO REPORT A RULE FOR ITS CONSIDERATION. U-preventatives Latim?r aru* Elliott Hive Some Sharp ?Vo7cl3.---3tlr. J. P. It Brjan, of Chailfstor, Appears Before the Committee for :ho Opposition. 13r the de-cisive vote of 4 ic 2. afcer ? ~r a ti*;o hours' hearing Wednesday, the commit lee cn rui^s refused to report a rule for the consideration of the Tillman liquor bill at this session. The information Tue-day suffg^sleti a differe-r-t result and the rc'.ion Wednesday wss a disappointment to Senator Tillman. Tiie arguments in support of the application for the rule were presented by Senator Tillman and Representative Latimer. It was not disguised that the object of the bill was to circumvent the Simonton decision and perpetuate the existing oispensary svs'em in the State. RepresentativeLatimer, however, disclaimed any purpose of mat sort ana arsuea tD2t the ?fcne.Mal principle of the bill was sound, in giving to every State the exclusive control of the liquor traffic. If the proorsed legislation meant the perpetuation of the dispensary system ne vrould not, he said, support the bill. In opposition, Representative Elliott assailed the dispersary Jaw, exposed j its abuses, asserted that it was shamefully perverted and prostituted in the interest of certain politicians in the Stite. Latimer resented this criticism as an J imputation on the Reform t?r?v and I en bim personally, and retorted that I if raif he had heard about Col. El- j lictt's contest 'or a seat in congress j were true he was in no position to dis- j parage other people. Col. Elliott indignantly denounced] LaUT.ert- statement as an unwarranted i una uumarj jy personal reflection. This j i t was ijce ooiy UGpieassxu ilciucui. Mr. J. P. Henntdy Bryan, a promi-1 sent Charleston lawyer, concluded I the argument in opposition to the rule. ] Tbe d:soutail's bad bardiy ciea>edj the speaker's room when, on Bailee's ' icol icnto rep .rttae juie. the vote was j r.*kea with the result indicated. B;iley and iZcMiilan vot-.d in tae affiraia-? tivr. Hepresentatires Wilson and Strait | present but took r.o part ia tbe j discussion. Senator Tillman showed j keen disappointment and setmed to be! at ihe end of his wits as to the next move. Consressman Wilson in discussing Wednesday evening tbe dispensary situation with The State correspondent, mace the following very important j statement: The two latest decisions j of Jud^e Simonton have given the j deathblow 10 the dispensary. ;it wuj j be entirely powerless, he ss.ys, to copy j with liquor establishments which pay j no license and which have practically j unlimited powers cf sale. They will, beyond question, undersell the dispen-1 sary, which can only operate at a very j heavy expense, as shown by its his- j tor 7. The State board of control, he suggest, should exhaust the stock on hand j bv the next meeting of the general as- j semb; j and reduce expenses so as to j entail as little less as possible. The next, legislature, he thinks, will have to cither enact iota! prohibition or a j high license system with the restric-j lions prescribed in the Constitution.! If the latter is adopted, the State will j realize mrve revenue than it has re- j cently done under the enfeebled and beset condition of the dispensary. The 1 discord and divisions which have been j existing amongst the people because oi' its administration and enforcement j will disappear and perhaps a salisfac-i rorv and acceptable solution of the li-1 quor question in the State will have been hnaliy reached. He stated that he was satisfied that Congress is not going to interfere, and to his mind the only logical result of the situation is as above stated. A Woader/ul Cioci:. _ Tw o year.s ago a South Chicago jeweler did some figuring. He calculated That he would in all probability live ] 40years. He knew mat" it takes at] least two minutes to wind the ordinary | tJJLUUJbt* LILC* l JLO.LU JLLU UgUtW I that he would, during the rest of his life, spend about 60 days cf his valuable ticna winding the clock, to say i nothing cf the time and temper lest through forgetting it. Then he decided to make a clccklha: would have to be wound but 0?ce in 40 years. He spent his ocd minutes a1; the '.ask and has succeeded in producing a wonderful niece of mechanism?the nr?]v oris of its kind, he claims in tbe i worid. This 40 year timepiece 15 inches in 1 diameter and weighs 75 pounds. The movement is geared so that the barrel wheel containing the mainspring revolves once in 2? years. Wnen this wheel has made 56 revolu tions, somebody will have to give the key 17 terns. The clock will then be wound up for another 40 years. The first wheel from the barrel wheel crowds around at ihe rate of one turn a year. " The dial plate is six inches in diameter. Ti?e making of the work took most of ike jeweler's leisure for 2i months. The movement is full jeweled. The clock will be put ia a hermetically scaled glass case and it will work in a vacnum, tMus lessening friction and preventing the oil from drying. If!In Cub j. a ?*.^<? T?(N A i ?S. iruuj a.\>a uu.= i-1- ? ^ur^euts Wed u ess ay morning de I stroyed with dyn**nite t.le fitie rail- j rori brjdse near iladruga in th<? pro- { vinee o? Havana. Tuesday 56 ct?c?;'r-: j auci l 183 privates wbo wr-z uc^paci-j lated f jr duty by rar^on of illness or j wounds departed for Sp*in. Members j of tne Red Cross Society distributee j money and clothing among them; pr-'o to their departure. According to j Uli Uiill Lbir uw.1 ; intr the las; lea days have icst, tea j killed in. the province of Puerto Prin-j cipe. So in Santa Clara. 51 in Matan- j zas, 7 iu Havana and S2 in Piaar del j Rio. Treaty of them have beeo takea j prisoners in the same time. Daring ui9 period mentioned, 195 firearms} have been surrendered to the authori- j ties and 152 araiea insurgents have j 2fiven themselves up. The Spanish. j losses ia the same rims s.re iwootficers and 35 privates Killed and four officers wounded. Daring a rcc?naaissance i b? a delachmsat of Spanish troops oa Lhe coast near Bahal Honda ia the province of Pinar del Rio, the soldiers found 12,GOO Mauser cartridges and 2 small cannon of an old style. Sentence Commuted. Ernest B. Haseltme, the young i/in:asrer bsnk official, who overdrew his account s?vera! thousand dollars and [led v. hen he lost the money in cotton speculation and could not make i: 2\,od, being afterwards prosecuted, 2Dnvicted and sentenced to the State peLi.entitary for 21 -couchs. has had his seiiteace commuted. Governor E-Ierbe Wednesday reduced the term tr, 10 mnrf'nt f'n?* J. iL.. JiiCVulJJ-Ui. kV J.?J,AU I means that the young maa rill be re- j leased ia October next. Strong peli-! liens vrere presented :ot.he governor- j Eugar *?cikiJ Dara^rt.,' ILe Peoria, III., Grape Sugar vrorks ^ere completely destroyed by lire | Thursday Eiorht. Loss. $600,000: in-S surance, $150,000. fc GreiV. C5s? Floed. A special to the Syracuse, N. Y., Post from Baidwinsville, N. Y., says: An immense. ?as has been developed on the BicEitsc farm, one half Trsile northeast of 3.*)cl?rinsvi'le. It is by far i'ne mostprcIiSc we)i vk found j here. By actual test Wednesday ihe volume o' ?ra?- flowing from it amounts to OTer o.wO.OCO cubic feet every 24 hour?. The prfssure is intense and must reach 3 000 pounds to the square inch. The ~ell is do^n 2,250 feet. It has been suck into the Trenton rock, 20U feet from where ias great deposit o? natural pashas been struck. Xo such deposit has ever before been disclosed in this State, and it is even said by es^er.s that the iio~ exceeds any secured in any other State. The force of the gas which proceeds from tre boring is so.tn rmous that it will lift a weight of 200 or 3G0 pounds placed over the opening. It throws out par! tirlps r>f rr,^k frnm a death of 2 520 | feet 100 feet into the air. When the I rock is thrown out the particles are I driven through portions of soft wood | as though tney ??ere shot from a gUD. i The weii is now beirg piped and packJ ea. 21 ak? Home ?!?ppy. i TH-.Ir. <- ii-inr./illrvn {l-.Q'f Tjjill I I XUU XC ex. IX T> AU ?Ww I heeded by all wnc look to tne promoI tion of the pleasures of others. A happy home "is indeed the happiest of j places. One source of happiness in I tee home circle is good music. A j sure source of good music is a good pianc?such as may be bad from M. j A. Mai one, Columbia, S. C. Read what he has to say in his new advertisement. Malocc of Columbia. r^vc* o vd Y>&\rr Q ?rl O? ; j_.u>w cu w | gesiions in the new advertisement of !M. A. Malone of Columbia. Eut | they ail relate to the same subject? j the furnishing of Srst class pianos and i organs at low prices. This is one of I llaione's specialties, and he wants j every performer and everyone who i looks to buying an instrument to look j weli to what he offers. Write him ; at once. IadJgestion. ' From which springs, directly or inj directly, nearly every form of head | ache, and sick neadacHe never sepera! ted therefrom, is surely and speedily I relieved and cured by the use of j '"Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidnevs." One 25e bottle will convince o: its merit. Try it. Soid by dealers ' generally. A Change of Batse. ! The new advertisement of the Kee; ley Institute informs the public of an ! important change?tha removal of the Institute from Columbia to Green! -cri 1 Thftrft wpre a nnmhftr nf i reasons for the change; aud it is expected that the patronage and usefulness of the Institute will thereby be be very much increased. : ''Let parents not live for their children, but with them." The mother should allow no false modesty to stand in the way of her daughter's knowlit a V*i ? /-\f V\42?? riAcvi rsf VUq^ kjj. vi uwi. vi her perils. For over thirty years Dr. Pierce has used his "Favorite Prescription" as a strengthened a purifier, a regulator. It works directly upon the delicate, distinctly feminine organs, in a natural, soothing way. It searches cut the weak spots and builds them up. A woman who would understand herself should send 21 cents to the World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y., for Dr. Pierce s Medical Adviser, a book of 1008 pages. nra mm is the most complete system o? 9lsvating handling, cleaning and packing cotton* improves staple, saves labor, makes you money. Write for catalogues, no other equals it. I handle the most improved COTTON GINS, PSESSES, ELEVATORS, ENGINES AND BOILEBS to oe Jcrmd on the market. ^-4. T Co -tt Ui'll 4a iiljr oei^CciUC -iJVjC, i>CC3Uj. ua ?r MI: - Uf jui simplicity arid efficiency, a wonder. CORN MILLS, MAKERS, GANG SDGESS, and all wood working machinery. LIDDELL AND TALBOT T ENGINES are tie test. "Write to me be'ore buying. "v" n db &?n General Agent, COLUMBIA, So O. auvwj w mutism#* W-3 sska pleasure is c-slUa.z year &:tcr Sen tc s remedy co long needed in carrying children asCely iiirccgli the critical stage c* we thing, it is *2 inca-euiable vi35?U3g SO ilLUk-XCi. aiiu Cixiiu. is. >sAfc ilsturhsd at night wltt: a sics, fretful, tssthing child, use Rtta' Carminative, It will give instant relief, and rsgnlate the bDTfehs, and maie teething safe and easy. IS 7^111 ?t;rs Uv?entery and Diarrhoea. Tlits Carminative is sn instant relief fc: 30-lc of infants. It ~~.11 prc-:iv.^isjestion, tcno ?nd energy to the *nc ^owaLs. Tae sica, ?nny, zuHsriruz child rclil soon :;sconi8 the fat *nd froiicirrf jo: i5-* hc:is?hc!d. I; is ?srv rus.'.asi i t fcwic aaa sos* 2i ccm? Up-:' 3c; d by fir^gsAsts srd bj C i 2 M-7.H \T O'll-l }j.. Oi-.iraitv :J. -3 ??T5 sr r^TTTT^TirTIYy"! I si0'i'HIiHHH'K | lll&A A *LA U k/ U I\. | a Tie Piano for a lifetime, a The Piano of tie Scuti. ^ - Tiii Kaao ^S* ^ea30312"^r' | I I jjl I ^ The old, original S'atboshek, sold by n? 3 for over a quarter of a century and th? | <3 delight of thousands of Southern nornes. 5 More Mathushcks used South, taan of 8 g any other one make. % Lovely Ne\rStyle.? at Reduced Prices, ?5 cheaper than ever before knoTvn. Styles ones $435, novr $32E. Bj ^j.yu savec cvcirj' uujzj. 3 How, becausc vre ars now Interested In H the jrrcat IMathushefc factory, supply g purchasers direcr, and save them ail is- < 3 ler media to profits. White us. g L"DDE>: <Si BATZS, ?3 SavaniialiJ' Ga., and Sew YorJs City. j Love is the icy[ fftone of a woman's life. Her fondest Hbpes res? tipom this , tender emotions her * highest pride is re her capacity to awaken ^ tie love which makee >J a happy wi?i; her noblest ambition is to become a loved and &f\) ; Any weakness or disease which inea- /KStKOT \ tfii pacitates her to fulfill gjjtmVj the exalted function J of motherhood is the giic&g^-3& --^S saddest blight which can come upon a. wo- E5iB8|j\? man b xuc. zxY,&Rrz&L\ But there it no re-- p g son in nature why any F 9 hindrances or derangements of this kind should continue to exist. Ninety-nine times in a bundled tney are completely overcome in a perfectly natural and scientific way by th<us? of Dr. Piece's Favorite Prescription, whieh givea healthy power ?nd capacity to the special jtt organs; reinforces the n?rve-caatres' and makes natural, healthy motherhood posS-.^jjflHj^S ble, safe and comparatively easy.. It makes tie coming of baby a!most from pain; givess%reng4fa and cheerfulness ""'H9B to the ?oth?r, ?d constitutional vigor to | the .child. It is the only medicine in the world clevisea. ?r tni3 one purppw up- u I educated physician, a siwiiled aid y$pcti~ [ ?nce& specialist ia this particular neld cff j pr^ptice. " x carrciot say enough in praise ef^E>s. Piercyta | Fxvoritrs Prescription^as it hae done me a"vet'4 | of good, and has, undoubtedly saved fljy Sii,* -writes Mrs, Florence Hftntef, of Corfey, V>gau Co., Ark. " I miscarried four tknes^ cojild get ab J medicine to do me any good. I concluded -totvy toe * Fajoritj Prescription* a:*?<fijCer ia&ig ; Myeral boflha of it I ra'Afi? ?y kcttaEffMlfflSfelft of s, intzr-fu I thiak it 5s Sfte b?st feedS&ct^a th? world." ; I>r._ Picree's Ple^ssn.t Pallets: Ooe is a laxfftive, two a raild cathartic. ARE YOU THINKING | OF BUYING A PIANO ? ^ If eo, I am prepared to famish superior ianos and for less money than you will T jmieiy get eiaewncrc. YOU CAN HAVE CHOICE of the following makes: Checkering Sohmer (not Sommer), Mehlin, Fischer, Smith & Barnes and Mathoshek & Sous. * Any of the above are thoroughly reliable and will last a lifetime. ONLY ONE PROFIT. I represent the builders, hence sell at very . reasonable prices. Correspondence solicit- "jrt ed; catalogues furnished on application. Those who do not know of my responsibility m will please refer to any bank in Columbia, especially the Loan & Exchange Bank. Address, M. A. MALONE, COIKIEIA, S. C., PI 42TQS AND OBG ANS. ji k* ? ? ? ?*? 4 ? W ' : : To the Public. : : : - ? WE WILL OFFER FOR [ : j sale until August 1st, ; : : as we -will have to know ; : : : * * within tlie time above : : : : : : stated in order to arrange our : : : business f?r another year, : : : : : : wneuaer or not we wui ue aoic ; ; : : : to dispose of this valuable real : : II: estate. Having decided to go : : : ^ : : : mere extensively into the mer- : : : : : cantile and rice mill business, t : : -jg : : : and to reduce our fanning in- : : W : : : terest, we have decided to place : : *1 | : : upon the market one of the fin- : : : : : : est plantations for general pur- : J : : : poses in Orangeburg County. : | : : : This property is situated m : : : : : : Pine Grove Township, one mile t : : : : from the town of Lone Star, asta- : : : I : : : tion on the Manchester and Au- [ : : 4j It:: gusta ft. R., and containing ; : : : twenty-five hundred (2500) : : j : : : acres, more or iess, with a good : : : ! : : : part of same under a high state : : : : : : of cultivation. On the place is a : : j : : : good saw mill, grist mill, gin and : : witton nress. a fine pasture. 8 or * : : : : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- j : : : : cry other convenience a good : : : : : : farmer -would want. We ofier : : : : : : also for sale two lots and the : : : : best store house in Lone Star. : : : : : : This is undoubtedly a tine open- : j : : : : ing for anyone wishing to mer- : j 5 V ! : : j chandise and fara in connection j j j : : : with each other. A.U of which : : : : r : we offer you very cheap and on ? 3b|| : : : easy terms. Of course we wjn't : : : : : : be able to turn over to the pur- : : : : : : chaser the farm before first of ? ? t : : : Jan., 1S98. The store we can : : j : : : turn over for the fall business. \ *. : : : For further particulars address j : j ^ j j : TAYLOR & BULL, Lyons, S.C. j j j * April 21-2mos , Ri?MO VAJL JSTOTICiS. KEELEY INSTITUTE^? OF SOCTH CAKGLT^A 4j WILL OIIEX " S Jul? 7th. 1397, } * 3 9 J AT GHSENYIL1.J'. S. C. 4 A Tlic Liquor and Morphine Habit Thoroughly Cured without discomfort. The Columbia Institute is closed. Write for in formation. etc., to GREENVILLE, S. C., th# healthful Mountain City. Perfect Sewerage. Pure Water. ' ??