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ji i ii m ""fciirr^rikir'-r-VniMiiir nn?'-? * HIS NARROW ESCAPE. JOB DID IT WiTH 'THE SK!N OF H'.S TEETH." Dr. Talmss? Ciioos?s t& Cc:<iue Icr; Yoz a Powerful Sermon-ItacourysMntrs-* For Tnoaa Who Consular Tiie'r Cae?* Hopeless. In the discourse of Dr. I&lmage last Sun day is might? encouragement i:r many "":ic consider their owu case hopeless. His text is Job six, 20, "I am escaped -with, the skin of my teeth."' Job had it hard. What vkh boils and bereavements and bankruptcy and :i fool of a -wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His S?sh was gone ajii his hones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed leit. He cries out * ! am escaped with the skin of my teeth." There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome aud Scaultens and -Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny ray interpretation and say, '-What did Jo^ kaoTV about the enamel of his teeth?*' ile knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of ?gypt. thousands of years old arc; f ounu today -with gold fillings in their teeth.- Cvid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To oiher provoking complaints Job. I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and putting his hand against the in'damed face he says, '-i am|the skin of my teeth.'' ^'^^^Very rarrovr escape, y~u say, for Job's body and soul, but their arc thousands of men -who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin -was no thicker than a tooth's enamel, but. as Job finally escaped, so have the . Thank God! Thank God: Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are "saved as by fire." A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shovea orr. me naraes advance. You can endure lie Lea: no longer on your face. You sli?te down on the side o? the vessel and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the back of your hand and you feel that, you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you. You drop into it? you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after al' get or?"saved as by fire." But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because tie puipit nas not wom it out, and I want to shew you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls and ar.T saved as '"with the skin of their teeth." It is as ,ea3y for some people'io lo^k to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expcct them to become Christians. You go over to tit; store and say, "Grandon joined the church yesterday." Your business comrades say, "That is just what might have been expected; he always was ofthat tum of mma.' is youth this person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed -when it was improper to laugh. At 7, he could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor tie left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He Seated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter -^as decided. Here is another one who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the . nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof * 1 1- 'TV to see :i ne coum sa:ance aimseu. j-iicic was no horse that he dared not ride, no tree he could not climb. His boyhood was a Ion* series cf predicaments; his manner was reckless, his middle very wayward. But now he is converted and you go over to the store and say, -'Arkwright joined;he church yesterday." Your friends say: '-It is not possible! You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell you the truth. He joined the church." Then they reply, ''There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian I" In other words, wc will admit that it more difficult for some men to accept the gospel than for others. I may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays, and who have no intention of becoming Christians themselves, and yet you may find yourself escaping before you leave this house as "with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch and drop their neis and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without ha\ing caught a single fish. It was not a good day or they had not the right kind of a net. but we expect no such excursion today. The water is full o: Ssh, the wind is in the right direction, the gospel net is strong. 0 thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us how to cast the net on the right side of the shio. Some of you in coming to God will have to run against skeptical notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you have come to your present state I know not. There are two gates to your nature?the gate ~ iV-v TU ~ \ji. i.uv ucau. <xl?\x uuc gaiv v- u-;v gate of your head Is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swing? easily on its hinges. If I assaulted ycur body with weapons, you "would meet me with weapons, and j it wold be srrord stroke for sword stroke and wound for wound and blood for blood, but if j I come and knock at the door of your house j you open it and give me the best seat in your j parlor. If I should cone at ycu now vrith | an argument, you would answer me with an i argument; if with sarcasm you -ouid ansvrer j me with sarcasm; blow for blovr, stroke for i stroke, but when I come and knock at the j door of your heart you open it and say, j "Come in, my brother, and tell me ail you j know about Christ and heaven.1' Listen to two or three questions. Are | you as happy as you used to be when you | believed in the truth of the Christian re- j ligion? Would ycu like to have your children travel on in the road in which you'are now traveling? You had a relative professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you not like to live :he ] same quiet life and die the same peaceful j death? I hold in my hand a letter sent me ] by one who has rejected the Christian re- j ngton. it say;. ^ am o.u enough to snovr j that the joys and pleasures of life are e vanes-1 cent and to realize the fact that it must be i comfortable in old age 10 believe in some-j tning re^ativi; to :hc future and to Live a ! faith in son-? system that proposes to save, j "I am free to confess thai 1 vrould be hap- j pier if I could exercise thesimpleand beauti-= ful faith that is possessed by many vrhom I \ know. I am not willingly out of the church \ or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty i is one of unrest. Sometimes 1 doubt my i immortality and look upon the deathbed as j the closing scene, after which there is nothing. "What shall I do that 1 hare not done'.'" Ah, skepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let me say that this Dible is either true or false. If it. be false, we are as wellc:: as you. If it be true, then which of us is safer'.' j Let me also ask whether your trouble has j not been that you confounded Christianity j with the inconsistent charactcr of seme who i profess it? You are a lawyer. In your pro- i fession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the lavr'.' You are a doctor. There :;re unskilled and contemptible tacn in ycur profession. Is that anything against medicine? You are a merchant. There are thieves and defrauder- iu your business. Is that anything again? merchandise.' Behold, then, the unfairue;- charging upon Christianity the wiekedness of disciples." We admit some the chargcs against those who profess religion. tcrne of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by memlcri- o: :hc churcn: lucre are men standing :n the front rank in the churches who w?:un : be trusted for *5 without gocd collateral security. They ic.rre their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and si! a: the comc union. Having V ; the -"in'r from their :ip?. go -v.tf and t-ke ::c i i :he:r "in- where tier left off 7; ~orvc- the | j devil is their regular work, to serve Go>i a j . sort of p!aj- spell. V.'ith a Sunday pTcnre ! ; they expect iv wipe c"!' froia their lja?r.Cs? | ? slate aii the past week's isjtoatisrcitici. Vuu i hare so mere rijr:;* to t;ike such 2 rain's life j a- a specimen of religion than yoa have to * take tne twiste-i irons and split timbers that ' - - . / : i?. . . | lie on u;0 ocp.ca ai ifiuuu n ! men of an American shio. It is time that vc j dravr a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it. Dr> you not feel that the Bible, take it all In all, i? about the best book thai the world Las ever scec'.' L>o you know anf hook that has as much in Si'.' Do you no: thick upon the whole that its influence has fcoen beneficent? I come tc jou with both hands ex-1 rended toward you. In one band I have the j Bible *r.d in the other hand I have nothing. | This Bible in one hind I will surrender fori ever just as soon as ia my other hand you I I can put a book that is better. I j I invite you back into the good old fash- j ! innc'l rtdi-don of vour father-?to the* God j T.-j'tm they worshiped, toiiie Uible tlsey read, to :he promises vn which tLcy leaned, to the cross on which they hung their eternal expectations. Vou have not been happy a day since you swung c*:'. You will r.ot be happy a minute until you swing: back. Again, there nay be some who in the attempt afti-r a Christian life will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Pcri haps it is a disposition to-angor that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while in a very svricas mood, you hear of something that make you feel that you must swear or die. I know a Christian man who was, cncc so exasperated that he said to a mean customer, "I cannot i swear at you myself, for 1 am a member to *V ~ ^ cfoirc j ICC C?urc;:, uui ii j ju ?i.i gv \wi?*4 ~ isv partner in business Till swear at you." Ail your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatter? l?y explosion of temper. Xow there is no h;irm in getting mad if you only get mad tin. You need to bridle and saddle those Lot breathed pt;ssions and with ihexn ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world we ought to be mad at. There is r.o harm in getting rodbct if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who j has no povrer of righteous indignation is an imbecile, but be sure it is a righteous indignation and not a pctulancy that blurs and 1- .1 J? : unravels aau ucptvu-s suu:. j There is a large class of persons in midj life who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood at a time when they prided themselves on being a little fast."' "high livers," free and easy," "hail fellows well met" They are now'paying ir. compound interest for troubles they collec'ci -0 years ago. Some of you j are trying to escape, and you will. ye: rery i narrowly, "as -with the skin of your teeth." J (.lod and your ova soui only know what the j struggle is. < >mnipotent grace has pulled j out many a soul that was deeper in the mire ! ? ? ? -ua r>f viotc. 5 liillil JK/U CfcJLC. i-'w-J 111i\j t?w MV^-U. Vi MVU. . en the multitude "whom God has rescued J from the thrali of suiciial habits. If you I this day turn back on the wroDg and start j anew, God trill help you. ; Oh, the weakness of human help! Men j vrill sympathize for awhile, and then turn j you oii". If you ask for their pardon, they : will give it and say they will try you again; t but, fallirg away again under the power of j temptation, they cast you off forever. But j God forgives seventy times seven; yea, seven j hundred tim< s; yea, though this be the ten j thousandth tiu.e, he is more earnest, more 5 sympatbetic, more helpful this last time? than when you took your first misstep. If with ail the influences favorable for a j right life men make so many mistakes, how j ~"?V. ??.^-;o!'T-'nan fny 5 j iii ij At. AVa AJ-k.v.v.-v?.> WV>MV * appetite thrusts its iron grapple iato the j I rcrots of the tongue and pulis a man down | with hands of destruction! If under such j circumstances he breaks away, there will be j uo sport in the undertaking, no holiday en- j joynent, but a struggle in which the wrest-1 j lers move from side to side and bend and j j twist and -watch for an opportunity to get iu j 5 a heavier stroke, until with one final effort, j in which the muscles are distended and the j veins stand, out, and the blood starts, the! swarthy habit falls under the knee of the j vtctor?escaped at last as "with the skin of s The ship Emma, bound iron: Grottenburg S to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man j cn the lookout saw something that he pro- j nounced a vess--4 bottom up. There was j j something on it that looked like a sea gull, I but was afterward found to be a waving j handkerchief. In the snail boat the crew i pushed out to the wreck and found that it was a capsized vessel and ihat three men s had been digging their war out through the bottom of the ship. When the vessel cap-1 sized, they had no means of escape. The j captain took his penknife and dug awav ' | through the planks until his knife broke. ' i Then an old nail was found, with which j they attempted t;> scrape their ivay up out | of the darkness, each one working until his j hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank 5 hack faint and sick. After long and tedious j work, the light broke through the bottom of ! the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. ! Help came. They were taken on board the I vessel and saved. Did ever men come so : near a watery grave without dropping into ! it? How narrowly they escaped?escaped j only "with the skin of their teeth." There | are men who have been capsized of evil pas-j siens and capsized r.iidocean. and they are j T ATl'l ? 1 sta frrtm cVi nra >, r\ t JL ivw v lain to a. n txj xxvixi atij juviv ua ^ The? have for years been trying to Jig their S way cut. They have teen digging away and j digging away. but will never be delivered unless now they will hois: some signal of distress. However weak and feeble it may he, Christ will sec it and bear down upon the helpless craft and take them on beard, and it will be known on earth and in heaven how narrowly they escaped, "escaped as with ihe skin of their teeth." There are others who in attemntinc to ! come to Gcd must run between a great many J business perplexities. If a man so over in j business at 10 o'clock in the morning and i come away at $ o'clock in the after- 5 noon, he has some time for religion, | but how shall you find time for religious ! contemplation when you are driven from i sunrise to sunset and have been for five years gying behind in business and are frequently dunned by creditors whom you canno: T>r?v. :md vrhen from Monday mornin<: ; until Saturday night you are dodging bills j j that you cannot meet'.' You -walk day by I i day in uncertainties that have kept your J j brain on :';re for the past three years, j j Some vith les - business troubles than you J ! have gone crazy. The clerk has heard a { i noise in the back counting room and gone in [ | and found thechicfman of the Srm a raving i j maniac, or the wife has heard the bang of a j pistol in the back parlor and gone in, stuznb- j licg over i!:edcad body of her husband?a su- j icidc. There are men pursued,! I harrassed, trodden down and scalp-J ; vu V4 uuu ?iixo-L : | way to turn nest they do no: know: Now I: C-od wiii not be hard on you. lie knows j what obstacles are in the way of your being j; | a Christian, and your rirst elTori in the right! ! direction he will crown with success. i)o I fnoi let Satan with cotton baies and kegs and 1 | hogsheads ami counters and stocks of unsal- j j able goods block up your way <.0 heaven. J 1 Gather ::r> all your energies. Tighten the! ! girdh* about your loins. Take an agonizing | ! look in;o the face of God and then say,! ! -Here gee? one grand effort for lire eternal," I tin.1 th-.-a bound away for heaven, escaping ss v.-lili the skip, of your teeth." Ia The la?; day it vrill be found that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and iluss and Rid!ey .' ere net. the greatest martyrs, but Christian r.;cn who --.Ten: up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Penn [ sylvar. a avenue, Lrea.t street, state street j ( and Third street. Oa earth they vrere called I i brokers or stock jobbers or retailers or im-1 porters, but :n heaven Christian agrees. No j faggots "cere heaped about their fee': r.o ia- j ;uisition derv.aultd from them recautatioa; | | a; soldier aimed a pike at their heart, but j i they had mental tortures compared with j I -.vhich all physical consuming is as the j i breath of a spring morning. ; i f.nd in the community a large class of j ' a-en vho have been so cheated, so lied about ? i sc outrageously -wronged, that they have lost j : iv.iti :u everything: :u a trorid vracre ; everything ~ccn:s so topsy turvey they Jo not 1 .-c-j ~o~ -here can bo any Go J. 'lhey :;re i confounded and :'renr.ied and misanthropic. I EiaVrato nrc-unenid to prove to thera the | truth of Christianity, er the truth of aays thing ji-'e. ivueh them nowhere. Hear mc, ail sv.ch :::cn. preach 10 yen no rounded ; periods. ornamental discourse. but put j into i*c peace vf the gospel. IIer? is r..-ck j cn which yotx may stand rim: though ;he-1 wutc? dash agitnst i- harder than the At- 1 lantic pitching its surf clear above !'. My stccj lighthouse. Do uvt charge upon Uud all these troubles of tiic world. As Iodjt as the worM stuck to God, God stuck to the world, hut the earth seceded from Li? gov. eminent and hvuee all these outrage- and all these woes. f!od is good. I'^r many hundreds of years he been coaxing .'he world to come back to Ii?::s. but the more he has coaxed the inure violent have men been ia their resistance. and they hire stepped back and stopped back ur.:il -hey have dropped into ruin Try thhs <<'chL ve v.ho have had the bloodhounds after you and who have thought that <;od had forgotten you. Try him nnd see if he will not help. Try him and see it he will not ?ave. The 'lowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the lioveving of Christ's affections. The suu hath no warmth compared with the glow of his heart. Trie waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust in the cool mountain t. r.rent, the hunter may be coming through :he thicket. Without crackling a stick under - - ~ Ki- ?T-, a wfo/t ol.ny 1113 iUUl, iiv tvmc.: UIVOW K'J his gun, draws the triprjicr and the poor thing rears in its death agony :.nd falls backward, its antlers crushing on the rocks, but the panting heart that drink9 from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and shall neve? die. This world is a poor portion for your soul* 0 business man! An eastern king has graven on his tomb two lingers, representing as sounding on each other with a snap, and under them the motto, "Ail is not worth that."' Apicius C's lius hanged himself because his steward informed him that he had only Sv>'.>,OOU ic:i. AU oi tms worm s ricacs make but a small inheritance for a seal. Robespierre attempted to win the applause of the world, but when he wr.s dying a woman came rushing through tbe crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with tbe curses of every mother in France!" Many who have espected the plaudits of the world have died under its anathema mrantha. Oh, tind your peace in God! Make one strong pull for heaven. >"o halfway work TYIil UU It.. lUt'l'C DViUVliUiCO WJJUW <*< umv v~ shipboard when everything must be sacrliiced to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging 5s nothing. The captain puts the trumpet io his lip and shouts. "Cut away the mast." Some of yen have been tossed and driven, and you have in your effort to keep the world well nigh lost your soul. Until you bave decided this matter let everything else go. Overboard -with all those other anxieties and burdens. You will Lave to drop the sails ol' your pride and cut awav the mast. With one earnest cry for help put your cause into the hand of hiin Vk^o I-ATQ rtfAUL V?iiV XlCiMUVi iiVUi. VU.I- VI LiiV ?/ic.awe v* -as,*,*ia, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiesi tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest imploration for mercy. I shall close ibis sermon feeling that some you who have considered, your case as hopeless will take heart again, and that with a blood red earnestness, such as you have never experienced before, you -will start for the good land of the gospel, at last to look back, saying: "What a groat risk I ran! Almost but saved." Just <rot throuch and no more." Escaped by the tkin of rny teetii." CONFESSES SEVEN MURDERSRemarkable Sicry oi a Negro In New Orleans. Antonio Richard, alias ''Creole," the se^ro arrested on the Eliicgton plantation in Charias parish, a fevr miles above i\ew urieans. cnargea with tfce robbery scd murder of Louis Zrigler, is actually staggering the authorities with, the extent of his confessions. Creole was the leader of a gang which included two other men, named Morris and Washington, and two women, named Octavie and Lsvinia Alexander. They were arrested because some of Zeigler's property was found in their possession, and they were sus pected of the murder. Creole confessed the crime and tola how-Zsigier was robbed and murdered. Yesterday he confessed to a second murder, saying that he had killed Charles Constantine, a peddler, who hss been- missing for some time. Creole told how he kiliedand robbed Con stintinc sad hid the body in tas swamp. He poinic-d cut the place of burial, and the remains -were found there, with, proof that the body was Constantino's, and that he had b?ea murder in the manner in whicla Creole stated. Creole renewed the confessions and admitted fire more murders. He murdered, ne said, a msn named Patterson in St. Lindry, and a year afterward a tramp at Melville, in the! same parish. They mads it too hot! for him in S^. Landrv and he moved j to St. Cn&ries. In 1S95 be killed a : negro woman' at the Lane Star, the! npsr Kiiinpten olantation. ! where lie was working; also Alexander | Johnson, a colored iaborer on that i plantation: also an old Spaniard of the name of Alexis. Tie murder of Alexis, which occurred iasi June, caused a ?reat sen- ] sation at the time, .and was attributed I to two Italians, who were said to have | killed him through business rivalry; and jealousy. The resuk wss ^reat j excitement in the parish The Ital-1 i?r?! wptk confined in the local Tail. t but vrere taken therefrom and jynched j by a tnob which came from the nei:rh- i baring parish cf Jefferson. Tne '' United States Stale department paid damages to the Italian government only the other day for these lynched Italians, vrho. Creole now declares, were innocent, he being the true murderer of Alexis. Including the Zeigier and Ccnsiantine crimes, he confesses in all to seren murders, ail being committed with the idta of robbing his victims. In one case the murder vieided him onlv j 1. s J i_ ?0.?0. oreuiu wiiiJ-sicu iy a nuaiccr j of minor crimes. He beat and severe j iy injured a boy, knocking out his; eye, for vrhich crime he served two years in the penitentiary, this bein^the only nur-.ishment he has ever received. He announces that he has other crimes to confess vrben he can remember them. There seems to oa no reason "or the a->i<hrwlips rn rtonhl: thr< iruth nf his confession, as he has been able io sub j stantiate and prove bis crimes. It j now seems probable that the total j number of victims of this St. Charles j gaii? of assassins 7?iii exeted a dozen, i nearly all murdered within a radius of \ a few mile. The gang murdered every one upon whom they could lay their hands who s?emed to have money. Flour Seventy Dollars a Sack. Ac vices rrom tne aroia Geici oi Alas- ; ka say supplies ran short in the spring: and that Hour went up to *70 I p r sicir. At present it is *12 per j hundred weight. Old miners on the 1 Yukon iav .bit the transocrtation! companies promise every year tc have j plenty of provisions for the next win-; tcr, but that the supply invariably j runs short. Fifteen Ycr.rs Ircprfsosnieni. A special to The News and Observer j from Greensboro says: Luke Richardson, colors d. who attempted an assault on a young lady named SirlTirt in t.h;s T5i2f!ft about .1 rrjonth p.t>. -eras sentenced to fifteen xearj in the pani-1 tentiury Wednesday. :v-il?cl is a Fcldirg 3; ci. AiUankins. the vridely known iport-1 ing man, vras killed Wednesday by i the collapse of a folding bed in Cnicago | He had j ist entered the apartment and ! sealed iiimself on the edge of the bed i when it unexpectedly cioscd. breaking ! his neck. ~? | TS-I5 C-0?wi~:CN CF ~H= SPATE'S j FAf:.\'i\j !N7LR5S^3 j I Xli-J Ozu.-taI i-:i - .Tovk'v oZ -.1x3 hsr I'zrcsu Tli-.sr!s.y ).y f {? - * ? ^-rI f ! The 'olios-vin^ !? the vrekly bulletin j ! of the ccn-Iiiion of the ~er*iher and j crop: c: me state j-sust- wees 07 ; Direcicr Baur-r of the Unitid Statss ! bureau z:rvc-: TKZC Pi-Hi ATUUE i TLe Urn oera Line rang a ~&s vervi r.arro.7 curi.:< Lhc pist week, &sr,a j to Ike almost continuous overc^ai! sky. v~hi-;h prevented bish day asu j I :ot7 night teir-peratures. The extremes j reported were a maximum of 98 or. j J the 15:i at Beaufors, and a rainrnu't) ' i of 72 oil the 17;h Allenc-al0, =.nd j j tre 10 21st. st WaliraUa. Thf> wck j \y me^ns rar.st-d b^t^eed 02 a-; Wd' j {IipJ.ia snd 80 at Charleston, '^ith as I s average of 70 for the Stale; the no?-[ mil for the f*n;e peiiod is appro:: I I mate >* 70. ; RAINFALL. i ! Over a Isrse portion of the State, i j beginning rrilh Ei^eSe'd county in! the Savannah valley, and reaching \ tbeacn to the coast and including the j central and northeastern counties the : rains vrere almost continuous during the week. and in places excessive. Over the ncrihwestern counties, no rain of any account fell until Saturday, vrhen that section nad a genm-ens j and mu.cn needed rain, so lb at no-.-7! the jntiro S::ate is veil watered ^ifa j possibly a limited area in Pickens ; needing more rain. Eigeur-Id county | was the center of heaviest rainfall; with measurements of 3 37 and 7 63 at | Poverty'Kill and Trenton respective-' jv, ~era measurements of more than I lour inches at various other pciuts. j Six places reported measurementsj o: less than o^s inch. 13 of frooi one i to two inches, 22 from two to four j inches and eight over fovtr inches. -be average of lUess amountis;: to 2.71; . *l:e noinii: for the \70ck is about 1 4S ; Lands wore badly washed in EdgeI 3elcl and Orangeburg counties, while } in many pi.-.c-s poorly drained low lands were under water, and country j roads were rendered well nigh impas-1 sible. j Cloudiness prevailed, during tns week wiiLi intervals of suoshine estimated at 20 per cent, of the possible, for the State, ranging from S to 10 in : eastern portions to 60 and 70 in the extreme northwestern portions, j Heavy cviads occurred in Berkeley j | on the 14th and 15:h. GENERAL RE3IAf.ES j The past week was cod, cloudy and j rainy, in places to the extent of bringing all farm work to a standstill. Correspondents in the eastern counties. and the middle and Jo^er Savannah valley report the woather very unfavorable. Reports of injury to grass by caterpillars were received from Bamberg, Beaufort, Hampton, I Williamsburg and elsewhere. The f (imv Tn-rwrv: Viic f mrr, v.r.v liens of Florence, and has made its j jappcaranes in Clarendon, Hampton. \ | Sumter and Kershav. Boll worms in j Edgelield, Abbeville and. Orangeburg. | Grasshoppers numerous and destruct-j ive in "Williamsburg and Hampton. j CROPS. The condition of crops are less uni-1 form than heretofore, especially of cotton, which remains unimpaired in j the western and northern sections of i the Slate, but deteriorated rapidly over the central and eastern sections, owing to an excess of moisture at;d absence of sunshine, which caused open bolls to sprout, cracked bolls to rot and the plant generally to shed ; youDg bolls and squares. Practically no picking was possible during the j week, ana but few bolls opened exi cent in nlaces where it is reported tn&t | cotton is opening rapidly. Kust is i [common and reported /rem nearly j j every county. Blooms are still numi erous except cn light soils where the j I plant is apparently dying. j Sea Island cotton remains in good j condition generally and is heavily j fruited, but is shedding alarmingly in j .places. j The condition of com has steadily j j improved and the estimates of yield | ! are increased oy correspondents, ex-? cept on sD-ce lauds where it is loo wet | and wbero it is turning yellow. | Fodder pulling made slow progress j ; and much fodder wss spoiled by the i rains before it could be cured and J j housed. j Late corn continues to look very j premising and will scon be made. [ Tobacco curing practically finished ! except very late fields This crop is reported to be of high quality, gener- j ally; the yield was large and sales; satisfactory of that portion of thi J orr.rs hns h?.r-n marketed. Peas were injured in places by the i heavy rains, but generally are vary i promising. Peavine hay cutting will! begin this week. Sweet potatoes are looking well and \ digsiag- has begun with excellent j yieids. This cr6p promises to bs a \ large one. Turnip sowing continues and the j seed is coming up to good stands. Much grass for hay was destroyed S by worn:s in the southwestern counties. Pastures continue in excellent condition. Fall vegetables are being planted in the trucking districts. Late j fruit scarce, except pears, which are S plentiful and of ar?e quality. Grind-j in? cane and boiling syrup is in prog- ^ ress. The cane is said to be too sap } \jj. Minor crops generally 2 re very J promising. Pearls In Arkansas. l\cV7 discoveries of valuable deposits j of pearls in lakes and rivers in Ar-: ir^nsas have addsd greatly to the ex citement already existing over similar j discoveries and thousands of people j are Trading through the water in diiTer-1 ent parts of the State searching for the j precious gems. The latest and most | sensational discoveries were made in I the Arkansas river and the creeks, j i-i : 1 r ' j.a.sts a.iiu uij uub L-.eiir .liuuc < where pearls have been picked up; ranging in value from $10 to $S001 each. Hundreds ol people are work-; iug the Saline, White and ether rivers \' and many valuable Undo have been reported. Additional discoveries were j made on the Fourche rirer yesterday | and hundreds of people are swarming to that sLream. A reporter of The I Gizitte, who spent much lime inves- \ iig&uu^ o tiicx j aio ; streams in the S'.ale that are rich in j pearls of large siz:-. It has now devel-j, oped that ia the course of a survey of I While river in.ISO?, ?5,000 f^orth of T pesrls were collected by members of I: the survey ia the course of their duties. ? Pearls of from 30 to 50 grai/s ia j weight i"-.ve no uncommon ihings to} find in the possession of country lads ! who fish for pearls for pastime. The | (!,a .! .1 5! v/^AUx L?i LjlIO 1UUUU lUAb O'i C. sa;ine rose and the texture is first class. A ?.-it?l Llstualns Stroke. A; 5 o'clock Thursday evening lightning struck a ihreshinjj naschke at ; ?bieh 10 men were working on Brush eree>. in Montgomery county, VaWiley Simmons and Frank Dobvns vrere killed outright. Cabell Dobyns and Helms Lester were ratally injured, one of them haTing died since. TVn .^t-Vscr-; tcp-?ft cprno-olrr 5r>ri iwo escaped unhurt. The machine<; vras slightly damaged. '; ^ T/,- .. . -.' . . ... - ? ? - - - ? -' r:< .? . V. T<: oi ;1?5 rJiir o : K 'l ?. C v- rr;r ; ;.jr. To t' ?- K-iif or of The Sluis: Inasmuch c.s Lkvirr-uut Colore-;]' Tislrear., in an iwt^rvic-w reported to I; jf.vr parer f.- iin Sah?di, S C , has j nt-jst ur.y.^tif?,jb!r denounced me, I ot-aiie tUiS the public shsli know til the 'uc:s, in crckr that it ma~ esti- ! ;r.ite at -heir procer value the denunciatory p>. rases of this valiant nniitia- i rcan. F:- this purp- se I ssfe your ird')!^f-rca '-rra fo'7 paraar&pts. I : bhali not undertake to bandy epithets j pith him, for I roust confess, sjoeitj; vri-.a p?:d?, that I ruve never b^en j iriiied L-: tl'.j school cf biiiings^ate. lacreovcr I iirn not at ail concerned < with kind of an. opinion, Col. < Ti.'lninr; may have of m? sincc he ] has proven himself that kird of a man ; jTor wLOuO 1 could noL have proper va- . specL and in whom I could not place ary contidfcce whatever. I am there , fere utterly icuijferent as to vrhst he rony say or think, as fortunately nay ; i 'J wUULVU U&ii jUCilLI^l i.? J aiJ-U'J L.U1 ; 1 blasted by anything he may say or do i; Bull cannot permit his assaults cn j 3 my ii&rus to pass without exposing ! ( their true inwardness. Tob??in ^ifh, ; ihe rtc*nt contest in which Col. Till- i man was defeated by Major CiafPy of < Fori Metre is still fresh, in the minds j < of the public. Ills conduct since the j < contest has shown that he is still very < sore over his defeat. When Col. Htill resigned, Li^ur. Col. Tillman ; was the ranking c fiber aad naturally expected promotion. That his re si- , rr.c-nt should go outside ai^d select an , other man as colonel vrss a little too ' .-T- ^ ^ - ?. 1? -l-*? "x:>:n ~ ' IUUCU ior JU11U. AUB XiUiMU XViUCi, VI I which company I am a member, cast ; its erilire vole for Major daily, against Col. Tillman, and he of course has not , the kindliest feelings towards this ? company. ; No77, as to the medal part of the < s'.orv: Col. Tillman offered a medal to be awarded to tne oist, ci fined sci-1. dier in the regiment, the contest to be j; cad at the encampment, sit this place. ?; I entered this contest as did mar,v \, others. The judges were named by j Cel. Till man, and were his brother. j; Gapt. B. K. Tillman, Jr., and Lieut, j i M. B. Stokes, U. S. A. The drilling j was conducted by an officer of the I, United Slates army. Men -were dropp- \ \ ing out from time to time for various i errors until two others and myself were j j left. After some further drilling: the j; two judges consulted, but failed to j agree. They then called in the drill- j master, who promptly decided the j < / r~\.i mm ? 5 * COiiitSL in my js.vur. uui. xiiiijua.ii n then directed me to come to his tent at j, 9 o'clock p. m., and saying at the j \ lime that he would ?ive me the medal j J then. I did so, and was informed by j ( him that there was opposition raised), by members of the other companies based cn the fact that the Eiisto Rihes, j j of which company I am the first ser- J j gsant, was not in the camp. Strange ( Colonel Tillman did not think offthis before he allowed members j from this company to enter the con- j test. It was Known several weeks * J before the encampment that the Edis- j to Rills would not take part in it. I, And yet Co'l. Tiiltnan offered his med- ] al /or the test drilled man in the reg , iment. When I called to see Col. ' Tillman at 9 o'clock at his tent he also : said that there would be another drill , on the following morning. He no doubt would have insisted on another competitive criii, as he was evidently displeased with the award made by the judges of his own choosing. But ' early next morning Ihree companies left camp, and as Col. Tiilman's pets , were among those to leave, I beard no ' V. 4- AwAfJs/* vi T ! Hi 4 V? A JJuLU'O iiiJUUl. AliUWCi <ui iii. ua. contrary Col. Tiilman came up town to see me and informed me that he , decided to give me themedal. He said: "I would stay aid deliver it myself, but'have an important murder case to attend to, and will go by and get Uapt Moss to present it to you for me." He ' also said that he would get Capt. . Hoss to so up and get it cut of the postoffice. Now-, if the medal was i i in the postoiSce, how could he have ! directed me to come to his tent at 9 ; o'clock the night before, saying that . ho would present it at that hour? One < cannot reconcile these two statements, j' As I could not do so, I unwillingly . began to suspect something -wrong, 5 and then and there determined that 1 < would never do mj self the honor of wearing Col. Tillman's medal. After ' the lapse of two weeks Capt Moss delivered the medal to me. There was t not a letter on it that would indicate for whom it was intended or /or what j it had been awarded; in point of fact 3 there was not a sisgle letter on it. It y was, therefore, as a-badge of merit, j( ntfAT-itr rrmrflilacs Enrf T np."i*tainlv i would not possess it otherwise. This jy Sxed me ia my resolution to return it J to him, which I did accompanied by \ the following letter, every word of c which is justified by the foregoing \ facts: j \ "Dear Sir: Under all the circuna stances connected with the awarding j( of ihe niedal, and the later develop- j * meats, I fccg to return the medal sent { me with thanks. I'iease find tame in-{ * closed. "Very respectfully, "A. W. Eoit'man." \* Permit me to add, Mr. Editor, the!1 following testimonial which. I have Ic just received from tbe secretary of the \c Edisto Rifles, Mr. B. C. Mossley, with ? a notice saving that tbe resolution was ? parsed at a meeting of the company j held on the 20th of the month. c '"Whereas Lieut. Col. J. E. Tillman, e in an interview at Saluda. S. C., is re- J ported, as using abusive epithets I ( arrainst the honor and integrity of I . First Sergeant A. W. Hoflman of this 1 company, ( | "Rj it rpsn'r^n Th^i the Edisto Bilies ! ' do hereby testify that Serjeant Hoif I man is a young man of 1I12 highest | character. His reputation in cur corn- j i m unity is stainless and his character i. above reproach. And being fuiiy in- 1 formed as to all the circumstances | preceding Col. Tiilman's letter vre deem \ < the same wholly unwarranted and un called for.'' ? This resolution was pissed without a = dissenting vote. I set it against the * slanderous language of Col. Tillman. 1 and the good peopie of tlse State may * judge between us. I will confidently ? abide ihe verdict. . I A. W. Hoffman. | a Orangeburg, Aug. >L ;. Ktrfcu^th of Oar Army. According to officers of the wsr de-?c p art men t, the present enlisted strength j % ?c V.^rr -noorltr lin 1r> th?. j sJL Ui J Ji. ?< AIVM> ? f- ^ fall numbar allowed by lav and c^n I * be easily maintained without any unusual activity on :be part of the re- r cruiiine: officers. * The material now ~ secured is cf a higher standard tian \ the army has ever had, and owing to ? the regulations designed for the com- ? fort ?.r-d happiness of enlisted men, j Lhft department predicts that this year h will sho w fewer desertions than tor t some time past. j Scizrd ju a ^--cf Sa?? of :Tir!>-.^K TP ho I 2 had opened at Bamberg i'or the past mo vrceks an critical package store agercy, v:as closed today by Gonsta hie Strobel, under an indictment v.-arrant. The stock ?ras immediately f nauled to the di*p2nsa?y and stored, ? The propiietors of the itore have en- A +,T,~ C- .f iiortvi ?n or.l Vic f! l v. U UiU. O WV I fore Judge Simonton for a restraining i > injunction. The value of the slock is j r ?2,010. Trie charge is that liquor ras L sold to an intoxicated man. * t / j * THE OLT> VETSBANS. [CONTT:rjFD FROM PAGE ONE ] Major Louis irherfesc?. &ide. Bock H:ii; ilajor 17. B Bx-u.k?, aide, Columbia; ilaj or J. D. McLucis, aids, Marion. Brisrsdisr sentrel 1 ^brigade, Gen. Asbury Coward, Charleston. Brigadier ser.ersi 2i brigade. Gen. Ihos. Vv. Carlisle, Ed^f. field. AJi 7'ho were opposed v?eve asked to ri;e, but yi-?r.'e showed their heads. Gin. Walker said that re had expected uj:d desired to givj v?.y to ;cnseoue else in tbe iionor of coraEusndmg the Confederate Veterans. Tten c?i7:e tae el; c.ion of division generals. It was thought that Gen. Oovvard and Gen. Car wile had b sec re elected, but it w:*s be!d that they bad to be elected by the delegates from their divisions, and the motions were put, and Gen. As bury Coward wasekcted to the command of the 1st division and Gen. C-'.rwile to the 2d. It was here that Chairman El well put in more work for the monument lo the Confederate women, and announced the chairman of the work of raising suosc-nptiors for tbe several counties. He announced tie follow ii?names with the consent of the Ooovealicn: S. P. H. Elwwell, :hairman: Charleston. James Armstrong: Colleton, C G. Henderson: Clarendon. D. F. Braoham; Casterfield, J. A. Craig; B.fmb-r/, F. 2J. Bamberg; Barn well, F. H. C-'eec'o; Beaufort, II M. Stokes; Aboeviil^, J. h\ Lyons; Anderson, Col. J. L MauljId ; Aiken, B. H. Teague; Hampton, /_ W. Mney*: Oeor,f>?> V. F. Msrtin: Pickens, D. F. Bradley; Greenville, W. L. Mauldin; Laurie s, B. W. Bail; Newberry, J. W. Gary; Lexington, &L D. Harmon; Richland, ii. S. Desport<:s; Orangeburg, Samuel Dibble; Sumter, T. V. Walsb; Chester, J. W. ?-;ed; Berkeley, D. P. Smith; Ker staw, 0. 0. Hay; Lancaster, L. C. Hough; Uaion, j. E. Douglass; York, At'jt. T. 0. Breckham; Spartanburg, D. ii. Duncan; Cherokee, J. L. Strain; Darlington, W. E. James; Marlboro, J. P. lluuson; Marion, E E. Gasque; Florence, John Scott; Horry, B. L Seattle; Williamsburg, Louis Jacobs; Georgetown, T. M. Merriman; Green wood, C. A. 0- Waller; SaJuda, W. S. A.ikn; Dorchester, G;o. Tupper; Edge&eJd, Taos. W. Oarwile. Gen. Walker said tiiat Mr. El well hai modestly left his name off the list, but he would insist that he take tne cnairmansaip. ana wita a unanimous vote the Veterans seconded this suggestion. As soon as the Veterans got downstairs they began forming in line to %o to the picnic grounds. They formed just as rapidly and prettily as they aid before drawing up in battle array, and were impatient for the escort, the Butler G-uards, to arrive. With the Graded School Band at the head of tne column, and the Butler Guards as ssccrt, tiie v eteraos oegan tneir marcn to the picnic grounds. It was rather much of a walk, too much for a great many, but it was surprising how many of ihe battle scarred soldiers kept ranks to the end of the march. The march was from the convention Hall to the Mansior. House, then back to the picnic grounds, beyond the Confederate monuments in the grove where the campaign meeting are generally held. A. great many more avoided the tedious march by getting on the side walks. Others took carriage?, and a good many more did not care to go at all At the park before dinner several speeches were made. Dr. El well paid a giowina: tribute to them. He was lustily applauded. He argued that truly were Lee and Jackson great soldiers and leaders, but had it cot besn for the soldiers whom Lse and Jackson led their names would never have been handed down to history. It was the brave men whom these generals led who made tne Confederate army what it was, and while he would not take away from the generals one iota of their glory, he would not have the privates forgotten, for t'aey suffered the greatest of privations, and they met death unflinchingly. The reception to the sponsors which. ? ? rtlAPfl/1 i WU5 a XXIOSw jJicasaui, <a jj.au, ?.aa^ neeting, and tb.e veterans adjourned sine die to meet in Charleston next ? ear. CROPS OF THE COUNTRY, rbs Weekly Report oJtlie National Weather IJareati. The weather bureau in its report o: he crop conditions for the wetk endid August 23 says: The weather conditions during the Treek in the states of the central valeys, lake region, New England and iver'the greater part of ttie Gulf and South Atlantic states have been favorible to crops, more particularly the mporiant staples, corn and cotton. Che week has been marked with ex jeptionally low temperatures over the rreater part of the cjuntry east of the Rockies, with light frosts in the lake egion and upper Mississippi valley. Drought continues over portions of he Virginias, North Carolina, Ten lessee, Missouri asd Southwest Texas md is beginning to be felt in portions 5f Nebraska,. Iowa, lilinois, Indiana md Ohio, while excessive rains have :aused damage along the Gulf and u..iL a 4.1 ? r\~ r>a* 3JULD UUAdld. V-/JLL ILIC JL MJlUte :oast and ia the Rocky mountain re jion the week has been generally farorable, although unusually warm in X*egcn and Washington. Tke condition of corn in Kansas has mproved; in Nebraska it is maturing licely; in Souih Dakota it is filling veil; In Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and )hio, the crop, besides suffering the rtfects of abnormally cool weather, is rftnprfiliv npedm? rain. General rains have improved cotton n Texss. escapt portions of the south:rn parts of the State, where drought :ontinues. Cotton also needs rain in Missouri ana poriions of Tennessee ind North Carolina, but over the greater part ef the contrai and east:rn sections of the cotton belt the crop las been seriously injured by excesive rains, and complaints of rust and bedding are quite general, while re)Orts of rotting and damage by worms ire quue numerous. Ttie spring wheat harvest continues n North Minnesota and in the Da:otas. Harvesting has continued unler favorable conditions in 0 regon and /vasmngton; i: is weu aavanceu in )regon and will be completed in Washington in about ten days. XobiccD cutting continues ij the acre northerly tobacco states. The rop in Kentucky vrili be short, but in laryiand, Pennsylvania and Ohio a ;ocd c^op is promised, much already :aving been housed. But little plowing for fall seeding ias been dene in the states of -the cenral Mississippi and Jo^er Oaio aad< iissouri valleys, but favorable proT2SS has been made in Texas, Oixlaioma aud Kansas, and generally on he Atlantic coast, except in Virginia. Steel S:eam?? Laar. The British steamer Gairlceh, bound i rem Lisbon for Aberdeen, has been -reeked fire miles north cf Cape St. ! Vincent. Ei?ht of her crew were rowned. The Gairlos'a was a^steel | esse! built at (i-Iasgow in 1337 and e^isterecl 1,390 tons. She hailed from iLberdeeri, and her owners are J. C. ?ook & Sons. j A ccrs TiliS! . "Hilton's Cho-eva Cure" for the speedy relief and cur2 of Diarrhea, Dysentery, Chclcrs Morbus, Bloody Flux and* Colic, it is a sure cure for these complaints. Taken at the 00mmencemenl0-r the disorder.a sscall dose may be all that is required. Even in the" ad vac ^?d stages of the disease, a dose or two, or a fev7 at most, is certain to check the bowels. No need of a rapidly weakening diarrhea or dysen I tery, resulting, it may ce, in a lorg | spell of sickness. '"Hilton's Cholera ! Cure" is a ready rercedy. Taken aci cording to directions it never fails to {< lTect a curs. Have a bottle of it on ' band, in case cf emergency, in these j troubles. Full directions as to dose and diet on every bottle. Price 25 cents. How much, business can a man do^ whose sjstem is in a stai? of disorder?Headache is only a symptom. It is' not a disease. The r*in in the head is the sign of rebellion. There have been mistakes in diet and other abuses. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a i gentle, effective renovator and invig orator of stomach, liver and bowels. They assist nature without thrc-atenipg to tear the body piece-meal. There i are 110 griping pains or nausea. One is a laxative. A book of 1008 pa?es, profusely illustrated, written by Dr. R. V. Pierce, called "The People's Ccmmon Sense Medical Adviser" will be sent free for 21 one cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only. Worldjs Dispensary Medical Association. No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Balir is Dismissed. The suspension of Chief Constable Bahr has been changed into a dismissal from the State's service Governor Ellerbe made that announcement Thursday morning. He made it very briefly. The chief executive absolutely declined to discuss the reasons vchich actuated him in taking this course. 11 ho would say was that he had dismissed Chief Constable Bibr for reasons satisfactory to himself. He would give no hint whatever of tiie nature of those reasons. Lord Kelvin, the famous British scientist, says that Great Britan's coal j supply amounts to 46,000,000,000 tons. . _ >9 in the Yosemite Valley 3 f while ago, a young leiiow went out on the edge of a shelving precipice two thousand feet high, and balanced himself on his head. A little slip or little puff of wind would have sent him to eternity. JSot one man in a million would be that kind of a fool. But nine meain ten are all the time taking foolish chances. There is no deadly peril about a little fit of indigestion or biliousness, and yet if a man allows these troubVrflifll!) les to ?et a hold on him he &g35ss?> is taking "crieus risks. Dyspepsia ilone seldom kills anybody; that is, it only kills you lSg?g|?^? by inches, and takes a ??0<^ many years <^-^1 fgjf doing: it But it wea^ens an^ nnderlgteH.. mines tbe constitu^on so ^*at ** *s a^ \LJ|il I'll ready to receive and "n^l\ fertilize the dangerTOg!' ous diseases which do kill you outright. * Disease-germs j|gwon't grow in SijW healthy "blood any #^rnore than com will grow on a rock. A man who keeps his v digestion perfect and his blood"pure may v\? eat and drink and f\\ breathe diseaseK J germs, but they gain J no foothold. They j \ are cast out of the t system. But a man i with. a dyspepsia"== weakened constitution breathes in typhoid or diphtheretic germs and down be goes. The best health-insurance a man can have is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It acts directly on the stomach and liver. It gives the blood-making organs powerto make healthv blood. It clarifies the blood' j from all impurities, ana builds up the 1 healthy flesh, muscular power and nerve j enei^ry, which fortifies you against disease. | His life-long success in the treatment of j chronic diseases has jyiven Dr. Pierce's j medicines a world-wide reputation. His [ " Pleasant Pellets " cure constipation. REMOVAL NOTICE. THE KEELEY INSTITUTE OF SOJTH OAHOLTNA WILL OHEN July 7 th, 1897, A T j G-EEESTVILLE, S. C. | The Liquor and Morphine Habit ThorJ oughly Cured -without discomfort. The Columbia Institute is ciossd. Write for information, etc., to GREENVILLE, S. C-, the 3 healthful Mountain City. Perfect Sewerage. Pure Water. : To iJac Pcblic. : : : W'E WILL OFFER FOR \ j \ sale until August 1st, : : : : as we 'will have to know ; : * within the time above : : : : etated in order to arrange our j business for another year, : : whether or not we will be able : * : to dispose of this valuable redi j j ; : : estate. Having decided to go j : : j : : more extensively into the raer- ; j : cantile and rice mill business, : : ' : * : and to reduce our farming in- : : j : terest, we have decided to place : j < : : : upon the market one of the hn- : : j : est plantations for general pur- : * : j : : : poses in Orangeburg ; -cty. : i : : : This property is siuw^ou in : : f: : : Pme Grove Township, one mile : : \ : from the town of Lone Star, asta : : ; * * -? .- it - \x \ T A.. I : ; ; ; ucn oa tae-uaauuean;.!wu -in . ; ^ : : gusta R. R., and containing : : i : : : treaty-live hundred (2500J : : ? : : : acres, more or less, frith a good : : ; : : : part of same under a nigh st.-nc : : ; ? : : : of cultivation. On the piacs is a. : j : : : good saw mill, grist mill, glii and : : : : : : cctton press, a fine pasture, b or : : ; t : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- j j 5 : : : erj other convenience a good : : j * * * r- -u? II" > I : : : armer wouio. want. ?e uuer . . - ^ : j : also for sals two lots and the : : : k : : : beat store house is Lone Star. : : : jj : : This is undoubtedly a fine open- * | : : ing for anyone wishing to mer- : : : | : : : chandiseand farm in connection : : : g : : Tritii each other. All of which : : | : : : we oiler you very cheap and on : : : | : : easy terms. Of coarse we won t j i ; i : : : be able to turn over to the pur- : : t i : : chaser the farm before first of : j j 6 : : Jan., 18L?8. The store we can : : : r : turn over for the fall business, j *. : : : For further particulars address j j j j : : TAYLOR a. BULL, Lyons, S. C. j j: A-rn-il X" - - -?gag r ? Are you aware That you can save from $10.00 to 20.00 ou an Organ if you buy it from me? And do you know That you can save from 500.('0 to 500.00 if you buy your piano from me ? A Choice Line. After years of experience and extended comparison I have adopted the best line of Pianos and Organs tlic market alfords. IS? Jobber _ TT^C6 T7 jlj I represent the Builders?this is why I can save you the profits of agents who represent the Jobber. J Test Trial. To demonstrate my position, that I can save you money and supply you with the \ best Piano or Organ the market affords. I ^ will place either Piano or Organ on tenjjo^ fifteen days test trial at my expense and?'~~^^^^H the instrument is not as represented wL^J move it at my expense. Din ? IIIIUCOo Organs from $35.00, 515.00, ?55.00 and -? upwards. Pianos from ?195.00, $225.00, 5295.00 and upwards. The Organ at ?35 00 is of a firat-class make but in an inexpensive case. -> The Piano at ?195.00 .is sold usually by agents for ?225 00. No better Pianos made for this price. Guarantee: <11 r>: j V? ^ -a.il uie riuuus auu v/rgaus auiu vy ?11 c aic yfullj guaranteed, not only by the builders, i but by me?a responsible dealer. # Make your own selection from catalogues I will send you on application. Address, , M. A. MALONE, COLUMBIA, S. C., PI A AND 0EG 4ITSTHE THOMAS ~ 4 is the most complete S7?eai of elevating handling, cleaning acd pac&ing cotton* Improves staple, sa?es labor, makes yon money. Write for catalogues, no other J equals it. ji? I handle the mos: improved . >> COTTON GINS, :^5 FBESSES, -J? ELEVATORS, >! ENGINES .*g AND BOILERS to De tonnd on the market * J My Sergeant' Log Beam Sa7f Mill Is, in j.-M or*/? affiAian/m o nrAn/4oi? jfl COKN KILLS, Jm PLANEKS, H GANG EDGBSS and all wood wording machinery. - * LIDDELL AND TALBOTT ENGINES are the best. ||j Write to me before baying. M V. O. Badham, 11 General Agent, . W% COLUMBIA. S. C. j ;H id?ice Is Matters. . I *-. V.">f ' ^ * . We taiw pleasure in caliirg your ctten Hrin M n ror?igj*.rr or, Irmor rmshAiaui !t? HikTTV ^^^09 Ing children safely through the critical stage of teething. It is ?a incalculable ML blessing to mother and child. If yen sr-^gj disturbed at night ^ylth a sick, fretful?? teething child, use Pitta' Carminative, it s?ni gire instant relief, and regulate the S bowels, and m&ie teething safe and easy. 19 It will cure Dysentery and Dlarrbma. Jitts CanninatiYe 3s an instant -elie" for colic of infants. It will proraoia digeatjea. gi7e toue and energy to the stomach and bevel*. The sick, puny, sureriug- cW!4 ?fl!) scon become the fat and frolicking joy or the household.. It is *ery ple..san* jo /;? 'c?Kis5 snd os'.y cos? 33 cwsti y? Iso^.ls i --.!c* Jjy drugsrfite as3 c-y -?j| : < S ? 7? ? VZ D >, J J CO.. Ooic^&ta 8 O Sold by dealers generally and by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., COLUMBIA., g. a A % The Piano for a lifetime, "^iffiPfi | Tie Piano of tie Sonti, Tie Piano Sold Moat Seasoaafcly. g^^MH I Jag V The old, original Kxtkusbek, sold by us ; ?or over a quarter of a century and th? : j ielight of thousands of Southern home*. 5 More Alath ash eks used South than of 3 s.ny other one make. ? A r. Lovely >"evr Styles at Reduced Prices, jf* 3 cheaper than ever before known. 5 Styles once $435, sow $325. I $100 saved every buyer. S 1 a How, because we are now Interested In 5 the great Mathushek factory, eupply 5 purchasers direct, and save them all in? "Sj| | Mrmediate proflts. Wkitscs. "' w? X,UDDE?; &, BATE3, | Jp 'i SAvaimali, Ga-, and 3fevr Yor2c Clt7. J |H ^udineM^QcuMt Js Anen*ra, Go. Aetna! bulaesi. Wo tort ^ _0BL boots- Siorv tin*. Ci)?4p board- Sesd fci catalogs*. " y ^K/.l