The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 20, 1897, Image 4
CORN HUSKING TIME.
DR. TALMA2E DRAWS INSPIRATION
FROM THE TEEMING HARVESTS.
Vivid Pen Picture ol the HaikLcg Boe.
Death the Blessing of Blessings to the
Good 21an?The Chill of the Frosts Followed
by Gladness.
This sermon by Dr. Talmage is peculiarly
seasonable at tie present time, when the
teeming harvests all over the land are awaiting
the husbandman. His tex* is Job v, 2G,
"As a shock of corn cometh in in his season."
Going at the rate of 40 miles the hour a
few days ago, I caught this sermon. If you
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nave rec en uy oeen in iue ueias vi x cuu-v.- .
Tarda or New Jersey, or New j
York, or New England, or any of the country j
districts, yon know that the corn is nearly
all cut. The sharp knife struck through the
stalks andlett them all along the fields until
a man came with a bundle of straw and
twisted a few of these wisps of straw into a
band, and then gathering up as much of the
corn as he could compass with his arms he
bound it with the wisp of straw, and then
stood it in the field in what is called a shock.
It is estimated that there are now several i
billion bushels of corn standing in the shock
waiting to be husked Some time during the I
latter part of next month the farmers will j
gather, one day on one farm, another day on i
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rough tasking apron, and they will take the j
husking peg, which is a piece of iron with a |
leather loop fastened to the hand, and with ;
ituhsheath the corn from the husk and toss !
it into the golden heap. Then the wagons j
will come along and take it to the corncrib. j
How vividly to all those of us who were ;
born in the country comes the remembrance ;
of husking time! We waited for it as for a j
a gala day of the year. It was called a frolic.
The trees having for the most part she!
their foliage, the farmers waded through the
fallen leaves and came through the keen
morning air to the gleeful company. The
frosts, which had silvered everything during
the night, began to melt off of the top of the
corn shocks. While the farmers were waiting
for others, they stood blowing their
breath through their fingers or thrashing
their arms around their bodies to keep up
warmth of circulation.
Roaring mirth greeted the late farmer as
he crawled over the fence. Joke and repartee
and rustic salutation abounded. All
ready, now! The men take hold the shock !
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01 corn ana nun iu prusutn.c, nuuc wuv
moles and mice which have secreted themselves
there for warmth attempt escape. The
withe of straw is unwound from the corn
shock, and the stalks, heavy with the wealth
of grain, are rolled into two bundles, between
which the husker sits down. The husking
peg is thrust in until it strikes the cors, and
then the fingers rip off the sheathing of the
ear and there is a crack as the root of the
corn is snapped off from the husk, and the
grain disimprisoned, is hurled up into the
sunlight.
ia oa fnn?/? fhi> wivrlc sr> very er- I
hiliarating, the company is so blithe, that
some laugh; and some shout, and some sing,
and some banter, and some tease a neighbor
for a romantic ride along the edge of the
woods in an eventide, in & carriage that
holds but two, and some prophesy as to the
number of bushels to the field, and others
go into competition as to which shall rifle the
most corn shocks before sundown.
After awhile the dinner horn sounds from
the farmhouse, and the table is surrounded
fcy a group of jolly and hungry men. From
all the pantries and the cellars and the
perches of fowl on the place "he richest dainties
come, and there are carnival and neighborhood
reunion and a scen s which fills our
memory, part with smiles, bat more with
tears, as we remember that the farm belongs
now to other owners, and other hands gather
in the fields, and many of those who mingled
in that merry husking scene have themselves
have been reaped "like as a shock of
corn cometh in in his season."
There is a difference of opinion as to whether
the orientals knew anything about the
corn as it stands in our fields, but recent
discoveries have found ouL that the Hebrew
knew all about Indian maize, for there have
been grains of the corn picked up out of ancient
cryptsand exhumed from hiding places
where they were put down centuries ago, and
they have been planted in o ar time and have
come up just such Indiau maiz as we raise
in New York and Ohio. So I am right when
I say that my test may refer to a shock of
corn just as you and I bound it, j ust as you
and t threw it, just as you and I husked it.
There may come some practical and useful
an d comforting lessons to all our souls while
wo think of coming in at last "like a shock
oi corn commg m in ms season.
It is high time that the king of terrors
were thrown out of the Christian vocabulary.
A vast multitude of people talk of death as
though it were the disaster of disasters instead
of being to a good man the blessing of
blessings. It is moving outi of a cold vestibule
into a warm temple. It is migrating
i-nfri cnvwon nf tw?n!<?ni"a anr npmpins.1 fruit
age. It is a change from bleak March to
roseate June. It is a change of manacles for
garlands. Itisthe transmuting of the iron
handcuffs of earthly incarceration into the
diamond wristlets of a bridal party, or, to
use the suggestion of my text, it is only
husking time. It is the tearing olF of
the rough sheath of the body that the
bright and the beautiful soul may go
free. Coming in "like a shock of
corn cometh in in his season" Christ broke
up a funeral procession at the gate of Nain
by making a resurrection day for a 5 oung
man and his mother. And I -would that I
could break up your sadnesses and halt the
'iftTtrr frt-natvil Tvni-vSoacifm <vf rhp xrnrlri's cr, iftf I
by some cheering and cheerful view of the
last transition.
We all know that husking time was a time
of frost. Frost on the fence. Frost on the
stubble. Frost on the ground. Frost on
the bare branches of the trees. Frost in the
air. Frost on the hands of the huskers.
You remember we used to hide behind the
corn stacks so as to keep off the wind, but
Btill you remember how shivering was the
body and how painful was the cheek and how
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the sun was high up and all the frosts went
out of the air, and hilarties awakened the
echoes and joy from one corn shock went up,
"Aha, aha!" and was answered by joy from
another corn shock, "Aha, aha!"
So we all realize that the death of oar
friends is the nipping of many expectations,
the freezing, the chilling, the frosting of
many of our hopes. It i3 far from being a
south wind. It comes from the frigid north,
and when they go away from us we stand
benumbed in body and benumbed in soul.
We stand among our dead neighbors, oar
dead families, and vre say, "Will we ever
get over it?" Yes, we -nil get over it amid
the shoutinga of heavenly reunion, and vre
will look back to all these distresses of bereavement
only as the temporary distresses
of husking time. "Weeping may endure
for a night, bat joy cometh in the morning."
"Light, and but for a msment," said the
apostle as he clapped his hands, "light, and
but for a moment." The chill of the frosts
followed by the gladness that cometh in
"like as a shock of corn cometh in in his
season."
VI cuuxse LUC ALUSikHig uuic u_:tfcu.c AV/I*?U.
work with the ear of corn. The husking peg
had to be thrust in and the hard thumb of
the husker had to come down on the swathing
of the ear, and then there was a pull
and a ruthless tearing and then a complete
snapping off before the corn was free, and if
the husk could have spoken it would have
said: "Why do you lacerate me? Why do
you wrench the?" Ah, my friends, that is
the way God has arranged t?.i the ear and
husk shall part, and that is tfc? way he has
arranged that the body and scul shall sepa
rate.
The pain does its work and then it dies.
Just so nianv plunges of the crowbar to free
the quarry stone for the building. Just so
many strakes of the chisel to complete the
statue. Just so many pangs to separate the
soul from the body. You who have chronic
ailments and disorders are only paying in
installments that which some of us will have
to pay in one payment when we pay the debt
of nature. Thank God, therefore ye who
have chronic disorders, that you have so
much, less suffering at the last. Thank God
v-that you will have so much less to feel in the
way of pain at the hands of the heavenly
Husbandman when "the shock of corn
cometh in in his season."
Perhaps now this may be an answer to a
question which I asked one Sabbath morn- j
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ing, but did not answer, Vfhy is il that so !
many really good people have so dreadfully
to suffer? You often Sad a good man with
enough pains and aches and distresses., you
would think, to discipline a whole colony;
while you will find a man who is perfectly
useless coin? around with easy digestion
and steady nerves and shining health and
his exit from the world is comparatively
painless. How do you explain that? Well,
I noticed in the hulking time that the huskpeg
was thrust into the corn and then there
must be a stout puli before the swathing was
taken off of the ear and the full, round,
healthy, luxuriant corn was developed, while
on the other hand there was corn that hardly
seemed worth husking. We threw that
into a place all by itself and we called it
nubbins. '
Some of it was mildewed and some of it
was mice nibbled and gome of it was great
promise and no fulfillment All cobs and
no corn. Nubbins! After the good corn had
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oeen anveu up iv cue u^iu nc uauiu aiuuuu
with the corn basket and vre picked up these
nubbins. They were worth saving, but not
worth much. So all around us there are
people who amount to nothing. They develop
into do kind of usefulness. They are
nibbled on one 3ideby the world and nibbl?d
on the other side by the devil and mildewed
all over. Great promise and no fulfillment.
All cob and no corn. Nubbins!
Taey are worth saving. I suppose many
of them will get to heaven, but they are not
arn-rtY, tn h? mAnfinns?d itl the since dav with
those who went through great tribulation
into the kingdom of our God. Who would
not rather have the pains of this life, the
misfortunes of this life?who <vould not
rather be torn, and wounded, and lacerated,
and wrenched, and husked, aad at last go in
amid the very be3t grain of the granary,
than to be pronounced not worth husking at
ali? NubbinsI In other words, I want to
say to you people who have distresses of
body and distress in business and distress of
all sorts, the Lord has not any grudge
aga ISC you. it IS noi. derogatory; it 13 uuuiplimentary.
"Whom the Lord loveth he
cbasteneth," and it is proof positive that
there is something valuable in you, or the
Lord would not have husked you.
You remember also that in the time of
husking it was a neighboring reunion. By
the great fireplace in the winter, the fires
roaring around the glorified backlogs on an
old fashioned hearth, of which the modern
stoves and registers are only the degenerate
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spend the evening, and there would be much
sociality, but it was not anything like the
joy of the husking time, for then all the farmers
came, and they came in the very best
humor, and they came from beyond the
meadow, and they came from beyond the
brook, and they came from regions two and
three miles around. Good spirit reigned
fupreme, and there were great handshakings,
and there was carnival, and there nas
recital of the brightest experiences in all
their lives, and there was a neighborhood reunion
the memory of which makes all the
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the strings of a harp when ttie fingers of a
play er have swept the chords.
The husking time was the time of neighborhood
reunion, and so heaven will be just
?hat. There they come up! They slept in
the old village churchyard. There they
come up! They reclined amid the fountains
and the sculpture and the parterres of a city
cemetery. There they come up! They went
down when the ship foundered off Cape
Matteras, xney come up irom an siaes?
from potter's field and out of the solid masonry
of Westminister abbey. They come
up! They come up! All the hinderances to
their better nature husked off. All their
physical ailments husked off. All their
spiritual despondencies husked off. All
their hindrances to usefulness husked off.
The grain, the golden grain, the God fashioned
grain, visible and conspicuous.
Some of them on earth were such disagreeable
Christians you could hardly stand
it in their presence. Now in heaven they
are so radiant you hardly know them. The
fact is all thefr imperfections have beea
husked off. They did not mean on eartii to
be disagreeable. They meant well enough,
but they told you how sick you looked, and
they told you how many hard things they
had heard about you, and they told ycu how
often they had to stand up for you in some
battles until you wished almost that they
had been slain in some of the battles. Good,
pious, consecrated, well-meaning disagreeables
Now, in heaven all their offensive aess lias
bee-i husked off. Each one is as hapyy as
he can be. Every one he meets as happy
as he can be. Heaven one great neighborhood
reunion. All kings and queens, all
songsters, ail millionaires, all banqueters.
God, the father, with his children all around
him. No "goodby" in all the air. No
grave cut in all the hills. River of crystal
rolling over bed of pearl, under arch of
chrysoprasus, into the sea of glass mingled
with are. Stand at the gate of the granary
and see the grain came in, out of the frosts
into the sunshine, out ot the darkness into
the light, out of the tearing ana tne ripping,
and the twisting, and the wrenching, and
the lacerating, and the husking time of earth
into the wide open door of the king's granary,
"like as a shock of corn cometh in in
his season."
Yes, heaven, a great sociable, with joy
like the joy of the husking time. No one
there feeling so big he declines to speak to
some one who is not so large. Archangel
willing to listen to smallest cherub. No
bolting of the door of caste at one heavenly
mansion to keep out the citizen of a smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner whispering
about a clique in another corner. David
taking none of the airs of a giant killer.
Joshua making no one halt until he passes
because he made the sun and moon halt.
Paul making no assumptions over the most
ordinary preacher of righteousness. Naaman,
captain of the Syrian host, no more
honored than the captive maid who told him
where he could get a good doctor. 0 my
soul, what a country! The humblest man a
king. The poorest -woman a queen. The
meanest house a palace. The shortest lifetime
eternity. And -what is more strange
about it all is, we may all get there. "Not
I," says some one standing back under ihe
galleries. Yes, you. "Not I," says some
one who has not been in church in 15 years
before. Yes, you. "Not I," says some one
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with all kinds of wickedness. Yes, you.
There are monopolies on earth, monopolistic
railroads, monopolistic telegraph companies
and monopolistic grain dealers, but
no monopoly in religion. All who want to
be saved, may be saved, "without money
and without price." Salvation by the Lord
Jesus Christ for all the people. Of course,
use common sense in this matter. You cannot
expect to get to Charleston by t-V-.j
ship for Portland, and you cannot expect to
cet to heaven bv eoinr in an ODDOSite direc
tion. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. Through that one
gate of pardon and peace all the race may
go in.
' But," says some one, "do you really
think I would be at home in that supernal
society if I should reach it?" I think you
would. I know you would. I remember
that in the husking time there was a great
equality of feeling among the neighbors.
: Tttere at one corn shock a farmer would
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The man whoa he was talking with at the
nest corn shock owned bnt 30 acres of
grcund, and perhaps all covered by a mortgage.
That evening, at the close of the
husking day; one man drove home a roan
span so frisky so full of life, they got their
feet over the traces. The other man walked
home. Great difference in education, great
difference in worldly means, but I noticed
at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy
each other's society. They did not ask
any man how mnch property ho owned or
I what his education had been. They all
seemed to be happy together in those good
tines.
And so it will he in heaven. Our Father
will gather his children around him, snd
the neighbors will come in, and the past
will be rehearsed. And some one will tell
of victory and we will all celebrate it.
And some one "will tell cf great struggle,
and we will all praise the grace that fetched
him out of it. And some one will say:
i "Her* is mv old father that I T)ut away
with heartbreak. Just look at him, he is as
young as any of us"' And some one will
j say: "Here is my darling child that I buried
! in Green wood, and all the after years of my
life were shaddowed with desolation. Just
look at her' She doesn't seem as if she had |
[ been sick a minute/ ' Great sociality. Great j
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! neighborhood kindness.
What though John Mil on sit down on
one side and John Howard sit down on
the other side.- No em^nrrissroeru. Wha:
though Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one
[ side and Hannah More sit down on the
other side? No embarrassment. A monarch
yourself, why be embarrassed among
monarchy? A songster yourself, why be embarrassed
amid glorified songsters? Go ia
and dine.
Ail the shocks coming in ia their season.
Oh, yes. in their season. Not one of you
having died too soon or having died too lite
or having died at haphazard. Planted at
just the right time. Plowed at just the
right time. Cut down at just the rigbt time.
Husked at. iust the richt time. Garnered at
just the right tiaie. Coming in in yoir season.
Oh, I wish that the billioas of b'ishels of
corn now in the fields or on the way to the
seaboard might be a type of the grand yield
of honor and glory and immorality, when all {
the shocks corns ia.
I do not know how you are constituted,
but I am so constituted that there is nothing
ihat so awakens reminiscences in me as
the oiors of a cornfield when I cross it a:
this time of year after the corn ha9 been cut
and it stands in shocks. And so I have
thought it might be practically useful for us
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today to cross me cornueiu, a,uu x unc
thought perhaps there might be some reminiscence
roused in our soul that might be
salutatory and might be saving. In S weeden,
a prima donna, while her house in the
city was being repaired, took a house in the
country for temporary residence, and she
brought out her great array of jewels to
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snow a rneno. wno wisaeu io see mem.
night after disDlaying these jewels and leaving
them on the table, and all her friends
had gone, and the servants had gone?one
summer night?she sat thinking and looking
into a mirror just in front of her chair,
when she saw in that mirror the face of a
robber looking in at the window behind her
and gazing at those jewels. She was in
great fright, but sat still and hardly knowing
why she did so she began to sing an old
nursery song, her fears miking the pathos of
of the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed while looking at the
mirror that ?-he robbers face had gone from
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days after the prima donna received a letter
from the robber, saying, "I heard that the
jewels were to be out that night and I came
to take them at whatever hazard, but when I
aeard you sing that nursery song with which
my mother so often sang me to sleep, I could
not stand it and I fled, and I have resolved
upon a new and an honest life."
Oh, my friends, there are jewels in peril
richer than those which lay upon that table
that night. They are the jewels of the im!
mortal soul. Would God that some song
| rolling up out of.the deserted nursery of
your cnnanooa. or some soug rouwg up uuiof
the cornfields, the song of the huskers 20
or 40 years ago, might turn all our feet out
of the paths of sin into the paths of righteousness.
Would God that those memories
wafted in on odor or song might start us this
moment with swift feet toward that blessed
palace where so many of our loved ones have
already preceded ue, "as a shock of corn
cometh in in his season."
Sad Fate of a Goldbng.
The Western North Carolina National
Bank, of Asheville, N. C., recently
closed its doors and posted the
following notice to depositors and
I creditors:
' The closing of the bank this mornj
ing was rendered absolutely necessary
on account of its inability to reduce its
assets to cash rapidly enough to meet
withdrawals, which increased every
day. The officials of the bank were
extremely loath to take such action,
realizing that it could not but be detrimental
to the business interests
of the city, and cause inconvenience
to the depositors. As long
as thev felt that there was a nossibilitv
to avoid this step, they used every endeavor
to do so."
The cruel Spartanburg Herald, in
commenting on the failure, says "it is
; not its intention to pry into the bank's
j concerns, but merely to call attention
to the fact that Mr. L. P. McL?od, a
| talented young lawyer of Abbeville,
| a magnetic speaker and popular genI
tleman, was cashier. During the last
presidential campain, Mr. McLeod
canvassed th9 country -with DsLancy
Nicoll, exDlaining to the farmers of
Western North Carolina that tnis
country had money enough, that they
would not profit by higher prices, inflation
or as he so elcqaently put it
'cheap money.' After Air. Nicoll had
explained the necessity for maintain:
ing the present policy of constant contraction,
Mr. McLeod would rise and
clinch the arguments with his magnetic
presence, his fiery eloquence and
! his overwhelming denunciation of
these who thought anybody would be
benefitted by increasing the standard
dollars of the nation, the money of final
payment. He was particularly
forceful in explaining that 90 per
cent, of the business of this country
was done with checks and hence more
money was not need. The point we
would like to make is, if this theory,
so beautiful last fall, is still effective,
why should Mr. McLsod's bank close
its doors. If it had not money enough,
why not pay in checks? With the
restoration of 'confidence,' incident
upon the election of McKinley and
the advent of 'prosperity' under the
defeat of inflationists and those who
would 'debase our currency' why
should it be difficult for any bank to
realiz? on assets?"
Th? Sugar Beet.
The Columbia State urges cur farmers
to write to the department of
agriculture for samples of the seed of
the sugar beet, whose distribution is
promised, and for instructions as to
cultivation and testing. Experiments
ought to be made all over South Carolina
during the next year with the
view of determining the suitability of
our State for what is certain to be one
of the great American crops of the
future. Southern raised beets are
shown by the department to yield a
larger percentage of sugar than those
produced in the north and in Europe,
a-.d we do not doubt that South Carolina
can do as well as any State in
saccharinating its product. The
growth of the beet sugar industry is
one of the marvels of modern agricul
ture. Ia 1838 the world's supply of
sugar showed the nropertions of
48.6 per cent from beet and 51.4 from
cane; in 1897 the proportions were
66 2 per cent from beets and 33 8 from
cane. The United States consumes
j far more sugar than any other coun|
try, its production from cane is limit!
ed and its beet sugar industry is in its
[ infancy. There are millions in it
Let South Corolina get her share of
! them.
Wants to Get Back.
J. Hairston, a colored convict, who
recently escaped from the Virginia
I penitentiary, has jastsent an appeal
! to the superintendent of that institution
to gel him back. That official on
Tuesday received telegram from Hairs
ton, dated at Farmville, in which he
said: ''Pieve send up here after me
at once." Tnis is the first time in the
history cf the institution in which one
of its escaped inmates indicated so
much ansiety to return. His wish
will be complied with promptly.
Th? Tom Cat.
There is a paper published at Hoi
Springs named the ArkaDsaw Thomas
Cat. Its motto is, "God help the
rich, the poor can beg." It declares
that it is a paper "of the people, for
the people, to be paid for by the people."
It advocates "one country, one
Hag and one wife at a time," and declares
that it is in favor of the eleva4
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I IT WAS A DARING FEAT,
[ THE ESCAPE OF MISS CISNEROS FROM
| HAVANA.
Disguised as a 2Xaa Slie Boarded the
American Steamer Srn>c?, Ontwltting
the Detective?, ard Saiely Arrives In New
York.
Evangelina Casseo Cisneros, who
recently escaped from a Spanish prison
in Cuba, was a passenger on the .
Ward line steamer S-neca, which ar- j
ri^ed ac New York Wednesday from |
Havana. At quarantine Miss Cisae
ros a^zeo. tj oe excused rrcm saying
anything aoout her imprisonment and
escape, as she had not yet recovered
from seasickness On the passenger
list she ^as registered as Miss Juana
Sola. She ^as traveling under the
care of a genilems.il "who accompanied
her from Havana. When the Seneca
reached quarantine, the towboat J.
Fred Lihman, with several newspaper
representatives and four women,
went alongside the steamer, and after
the health officer's inspection was
over they went on board and accompanied
Miss Cisnercs to this city. Im
mediately upon landing, the party
took carriages to the Hotel Waldorf
and were assigned rooms on the second
fix)?. While Senorita Cisnercs was
ratigu?d, she appeared to be in the
very best of spirits and exultant over
her arrival in America. She does
not speak English, but her face is
very expressive and she seemed to
intuitively understand the questions
put to her, and answered in Spanish.
The senorita retired as soon as she
reached the hotel and refused to be
seen. Anon?: her party was Mrs. J.
Ellen Foster, of Washington, president
of the National Woman's Republican
Association.
Miss Cisneros' escape and safe arrival
on the Seneca ?:as one of the
most daring feats ever attempted and
successfully carried out. While she
was still in prison, her friends secured
a passport for one Juan Sola, and state
room No. 3 on the Seneca was held in
the same name. This was three days
before the boat sailed. Oa the Saturday
when the Seneca was to leave
Havana detective watched her gangways
with extra caution. All day
long they remained at their post examining
the passports which all pas
sengers nave to snow oeiore leaving
Havana. Their vigilance would
probably have prevented the departure
to Miss Cisneros from Cuba, had it not
been for a little refreshment -which
was served to thsm by friends of Miss
Cisneios, who were aboard the Seneca.
The refreshment included wine. The
chief of police of Havana came aboard
while the refreshment part of the plot
was in progress, and it is alleged that
he, too, fell a victim of the wines of j
the Cisneros faction.
A lew minutes Deiora me oeneca
was ready to pull out from her dock,
a slim young fellow came running
across the wnarf. He had no baggage
and was fashionably dressed. He
walked quickly up the gangplank.
Detectives stopped him. "My name is
Juan Sola," he said, and he showed
his passport. Everything was satisfactory,
so the senor was allowed to
go aboard. It is said that if it had not
^ A ? w /v W /*A 4MAU1A
USCU 1UI wile VViiiC, LUC ouaugg ugi^g
and rather curious figure of Senoi
Sola might have excited the suspicion
of the Spanish detectives. But the
scheme worked successfally. Miss
Cisneros' friends, when they saw that
everything was satisfactory, disembarked
and watched the ship pull
slowly out under the frowning Spanish
euns, carrying the fugitive to safe
ty under the Stars and Stripes. Miss
Cisneros did not court danger any
more than was necessary and at once
went to her cabin. The Eext day,
howevei, when Morro Castle was left
far bshind, she appeared on deck,
transformed into Senorita Juana Sola,
alias Cassio Cisneros, and dressed in
a becoming red gown.
C*]>tain Stevens, commander of the
Seneca, was angry when he discussed
the Cisneros incident with the report
ers. Said he: "Since the commencement
of the present insurrection it has
been the custom of the Spanish authorities
to post a couple of detectives
at the h-ad of the gangway of ships
lying at Havana. We arrived at 6 a.
m., on Saturday and left at 8 p. m.,
during which time the detectives did
not leave the head of the gangplank.
Just before the Seneca sailed, the chief
of police, his deputy and his secretary
came aboard. Senorita Cisneros had
escaped two days previously, and jet
they asked no questions and made no
search for her, although upon three
the Seneca from stem to stern ana
keel to Dromenade deck, while looking
for suspects." Captain Stevens
said thkt, to the best of his knowledge
the only .persons who went abcard at
Havana were the Listie family, the
Del Real family, eight Chinamen and
a man whose came appeared upon the
advance passenger list as Juan Sola
and who must have had a passport,
_ _ t_ _ 1 J j. i
oilier wise ce cou;a not nave gone
aboard.
When it was discovered that "Juan
Scla" was a ?irl, the "Juan was
chafed to "Juan a," and Miss Cisneros
came in under that name. Miss
Cisneros was gi>en some articles of
feminine wearing apparel by the
stewardess of the Seneca.
A. 0. Stewart, an Englishman who
embarked at Tampico and who speaks
SnanicK coir? that. Ha cat nrmncitp TWis?
?- vrrw.-w ?
Cisneros at the table during the voysge,
and that when she saw the Cape
Hatteras light she /ell upon her Knees
on the deck and prayed devoutly. Mr
Stewart says he found the rescued
Cuban a most pleasant companion.
She had her hair pinned up in a coil,
worn under a sombrero, 'when she
embarked, disguised as a ranchman.
The Cuban junta has issued an in
;i. i! a - il. 1_ - r x -VT
vuauou lo me people ox vxreaier now [
York and vicinity interested in
Senorita Cassio Cisneros and the
cause of Cuba to attend a reception to
be tendered to the rescued young woman
at Delmonico's on Fifth avenue
Saturday night. The reception will
really be a demonstration of sympathy
with the struggling republic and
sneakers of national reDUtation will
address the gathering.
Bold Train Robbery.
Tuesday afternoon at half-past 5
o'clock, within twelva miles of the
corporate limits of Austin, Texas, the
southbound cannonball train on the
International and Great Northern
railroad, consisting of mail, baggage
and express cars and three coaches
loaded with passengers, was held up
by four men and robbed. The conductor
of the train, Tom Eealy, was
shot by the robbers while resisting
them, but not seriously wounded. One
of the oasseneers had his shirt collar
carried away by a pistol ball that was
aimed at his neck, and another received
a bullet wound in the hand.
The passengers were robbed of about
$200 in money. The bandits attempted
to rifle the safe in the express car,
but were unsuccessful.
Ihe Democrats Win,
The municipal election Wednesday
in ^natiancoga, xsnn., resulted m sue
overwhelming defeat of the Republicans,
the Democrats electing the May
or and six out of the eight Aldermen.
Chattanoo2a is normally from four to
five hundred Republican, but the hard
times is being charged up to that party.
THE BOY PREACHER,
I <i ohu We?wj SiiieldP, Formerly of Ander.
sor, 8. C., Aged Eight Sears.
Atlanta has produced a prodigy in
the person of John Wesley Shields, an
eight year old pupil at Fair street
school, who has developed wonderful
oratorical powers. They call him the
"Young Sam Jones1' around St. Paul's
Methodist Church, on Hunter street,
wnere ne preacnea oaturaay arternoon
and Sunday, to large and attentive
congregations. Johnnie is an intelligent
looking little b'ack-eyedbov, and
has all the air and dignity of bearing
of a grown up man. He is still in the
second grrade at school, but is very
[ fond of Bible siudv and has leaned his
I favorite chapter, J jha 14th, almost by
heart. Ha has a slight ion pediment in
bis speech, natural in one so young,
but when he gets under way his delivery
is splendid ar>d he is a very inter
esusgTas-Ker.
' 'If there ever was a born preacher
in the world he is one," said his
mother, who lives near the corner of
Moore street on Hunter, his father being
a barber in the Kimball house
blo^k. "He has been preaching for a
year and a half and anybody listening
at him might taink that he had been
taught what he knows, but this is not
so. He says that whatever he utters
God tells him to say, and he never renaafo
tho co m a ooi*ninn Knt to lira in o
different way every time and his delivery
is as free as that of a trained
minister. We came from Virginia
about a year and a half ago. My husband
is Rev. J. W. Shields, a local
preacher connected with St. Paul's
Church, and. eight months ago John
Wesley became a member of the
Church. This summer we went up to
Anderson, S. C., on a visit, and while
there he preached twice in the Wesley
an Church. Saturday afternoon
he preached at the children's meeting
at St. Pauls, and again Sunday afternoon.
He preached in nearly every
grade of the school and seems to a born
orator and preacher."
R^v. Mr. Diamond, pastor of St.
Pauls, has been conducting a children's
meeting on Saturday and Suaday
afternoons, and on Saturday afternoon
he cillei on Jotm Wesley
Shields. The little fellow responded
and preached a very strong sermon of
fifteen minutes length, from the text
"Be Sure x jur Sin Will Find You
Out." "He told the children," said
Mr. Diamond, in speaking of the ser
mon, that Ihey, might sow their
wild oats and do evil deeds while they ,
were youne:, but that they might rest
assured that their sins would find them :
out. He cited tne cases of Tom Delk, '
Arthur Haney and young Spinks.
'See,' slid he, 'what a drink of free
whiskey cost Arthur Haney. It cost <
him his life. B a sure your sin will ,
find you out. It found those boys out (
and they were made to suifdr. It will
find you out likewise if you continue
in your sinful course.' Hi3 sermon
was a surprise to all who heard him.
Sunday afternoon I called on him
again, and at first he told me that
he had promised to preach for the .
holiness people up town, but
he changed his mind, and at the 1
children's meeting he appeared with. j
his Bible in hand. I called him inside
the chancel and he opened his
Bibl8 and read a lesson, announcing
his text,'Behold I stand at the door
and knock. If any man will open
unto me I will enter in and sup with
him and he shall sup with me.' The '
sermon that followed was a masterly :
effort for one so young, and would
have done credit to a grownup
preacher. He is a wonderful little
fellow and is a natural orator and as
fervent in his delivery as if he had
been trained for the ministry. About ;
a year and a half ago he was in our J
infant class, and h9 sfeemed to develop 1
the idea of preaching from talks that
he had with my wife. He first began
preaching to the children in his moth- '
er's yard, aad from that he began ;
preaching at school, and now he is
developing into a regular Methodist
preacher."
The parents of the child are both
deeply religious people, his father being
a local Methodist preacher, and
John Wesley has bsen brought up in
a ministerial atmosphere. He seems 1
to absorb scriptural knowledge, and
every night before his father comes
home, John Wesley summons the rest ,
of the family to family prayer just as i
if he were a man grown. His mother
sajs there is not the slightest levity
in his makeup and that he is in earn- j
? .1-' 1- - 3 TT.
esc in everymmg mai ne aoes. xie
is very bright in every way and talks
with much seriousness and gravity
about his calling, and appears to have j
made up his mind as to his future
vocation as a minister of the gospel.? 3
Atlanta Journal. j
Won a Wife With an Egg.
Ross Williams of Eiid, 0. T., wrote
a lovelorn message on an egg ready .
fn* chinmant. oavflral OTM?lr?! fljro. arid j
as a result he won himself a bride. i
What the young man said on the ;
egg was this:
"On a farm in the Cherokee strip I }
sit a sad and lonely bachelor, think- (
ing sadly over my fate and would ]
love to come off the nest and join my ,
life with, that of some comely young ]
lady of not too many summers
growth. Should the message on this :
egg meet with the eye of a fair one .
who is matrimonially inclined on
short acquaintance, and who thinks
she could eoi vr a Drairie life with a
student of nature's beauty, address !
Ross Williams, Enid, 0, T."
In due course of time this reply 1
came:
"Dear Mr. Williams?Prom the 5
quiet precincts of my boudoir I write !
thee. I am lonely, too, and have of- 3
ten longed to quit city life and go !
west, where the tall, wild grass sways
in the wind as if listening to the sweet
songs of the chinch bugs. Aftar chop
ping wood to kindle the kitchen iire i
and after the fire was ready for busi- 3
ness and the pan was sizzling in the 1
sparkling fat, I was about to break an I
egg into the pan, when, behold! your <
message maets my gaze. It seemed <
like a dream of a lost, unknown love. 1
I am comely but not fair. Age, <
twenty-three, no money, but plenty i
of grit. Lit us exchange photographs. *
It may all end in another American J
union, long to be preserved. Me J
thinks Iknowyou now. >
"Bessie Carroll, Uiiicago, ill" <
Farther correspondence resulted,
and a few days later the young people ]
were married. ]
Ho Hated RaUro&ds.
Arnold Sherman, a hermit, residing !
QmiWa />i>nooin<? in WAfifc Kltlff- ^
UtOI \A 1/U4U kJ VLVAWAUg Mb * ?? - Q
ston, R. I , on the line of the Narra- ]
gansett Pier railway, was found dead 1
in his hut a few days ago. He was !
seventy-five years of age, and had ;
lived alone for twenty-five years. For ]
a decade he had not permitted any one
to enter his abode. Oa account of a !
wrong alleged to have saffered at the
hands of the railway officials, Sherman
would never look at a passing 1
train, A
Curlocj Cmtom.
A curious custom prevails in Bulga- <
ria. All newly married women are 1
obliged to remain dumb for a month <
after marriage, except when addressed 1
by their husband. When it is desirable
to remove this restriction perma- <
nently the husband presents her with <
q erift ariH thftrt shft nan chatter to her .
heart's content ! 1
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BROTHERS REUNiTIID.
j They Found Elach. Other at a Becent
tic Ion of Veteranf.
A very pathetic incident that oc?->ti/^Tivrnrr
tlio lwnnt ?cn'm/"in rtf
Confederate veterans held in Nashville
was related Thursday afternoon
by a prominent State official.
One night a late hcur the manager
of one of the leading hotels in that
city walked into the rotunda of nis
hostlery and observed an old Confederate,
who appeared to be sleeping in
a chair. He noticed thai he was assigned
to that hotel by a certain badge
he wore, and being himself an exJohnny
Reb, he decided to render the
veteran a servics by waking him and
taking him to his room.
XA.O UC WWVU'-U kUV VVWAMU. t
ed that he had spent some time in worship
at the shrine of Bacchus, and at
that time was just recovering vigorous
mentality.. While this scene was
being enacted, another veteran, who
happened to be passing, stopped close
by, as did the gentleman who told the
story.
"Hello, Johnny Rtb! Have you
secured a room?" asked the hotel mana
var.
' Yes," replied the awakened man,
with apparent surprise.
"What is your name?''
"My name is Joe
"Wnat regiment w^rayou with?"
"I was with m>im?mt, and
fought with the army of Virginia."
At this juncture the veteran who
was standing by approached the t no,
and asked the man:
"Whatdid you say your name is?"
"My name is Joe ," again replied
the man.
"\A/ VlOKI Hfrl T7/111 BntA1< tllA OTOTT
* ? UV1W Vli'lA J vu WJUVW1 n**v V?A iAAJ
from?''
"I enlisted at , in replied
the now astonished mm.
As he replised to the last question
the other man fell into his arms weeping,
and said: "Joe, don't you know
me?"
The vetera:i pushed him off, pre
suming that he too, was in a turbulent
state of mind, caused by imbibing
drinks other than water.
The man would not be pushed off,
_? 1_ l_ _ _ - J it T _J Ti.
ana in ms soos saia: "joe aoa t yuu
know me? This is Johru"
"You are not John, for he was killed
at Manassas," said the now thoroughly
awakened and much astonished
man.
"Joe, I am your brother John. I
was not killed at the battle of Manassas,
and ever since the war I have
looked all over the CFnited States for
you."
Convinced at last, the long-lost
brothers, locked in each other's embrace,
stood and wept like children.
They went to a room in the hotel, and,
doubtless, talked all night. All next
day they were seen walking arm in
arm, with glowing faces and relating
to every one the fact of their coming
together after such a long separation.
?Nashville Banner.
A Desperate Fight.
William Harold, of Delta, Col., and
Under Sheriff Radford of Siskiyou
cnunlt were shot and killed and Deo
uty Sheriff Stewart seriously wounded
Thursday morning while the officers
were attempting to arrest Harold for
complicity in the robbery of the Greka
and Fort Jones stage on September 25,
last. The stolen money was traced by
Detectives Thacker and J. Jennings,
of the Wells Fargo company, to Delta,
and the Siskiyou county officers in accordance
with instructions, came
down from Greka Wednesday night
for the purpose of arresting Harold.
About 8:30 Thursday morning Radford
and Stewart presented themselves
-i-TT T I 1
ai Jdaroiu. s uouso auu jwis-cu. iuc
old. When he came to the door
Stewart said: "I want to see you,
Harold" The latter replied: "I'm
ready," and ooened fire upon the officers
with a Ijig revolver. The first
shot took effect in Stewart's leg, while
the second bullet struck Radford in
tne left breast, killing him almcst in
stantly. Stewart, who had fallen in
front of the door when shot, emptied
his gun at Harold, who fell mortally
wounded with several bullet holes in
n ft Vv/-3 ?nnn THTO
Li 13 V;LLCOb auu avuvuiwu* ajkv
shortly afterwards.
A Novel Slfcht.
Macon, Ga., has recently held a
grand trades carnival, which was a
great success. Among the attractions
was the collision of two locomotives
in the presence of over twenty thousand
spectators. A track a mile in
length, straight as an arrow, ran
through the race track enclosure. A,
Locomotive at either end, steamed to
the utmost limit, was held in readiness
Dy an engineer who awaited the signal
to start. At the drop of a flag the
shrill whistles told of the coming
crash and the vast multitude stood on
tirnoe of expectancy and excitement
rhe throttles opened, the locomotives
went forward and the engineers leaped
to the ground. Faster and faster the
jreat driving wheels revolved as the
engines approached each other. There
was a breathless silence and an awful
suspense a moment before the
irasb came; but -when the massive
machines collided, resulting in
splintered fragments of wood work,
broken bars, escaping steam and water,
loud cheers rent the air and the vast
multitude rushed to witness the wreck,
which was complete.
A Democratic Victory.
In a municipal election in Indianapolis,
Indiana, last Wednesday, the
Democrats elected the Mayor and the
?ntire board of Aldermen by majorities
ranging from three to five thousmd.
Ex-President Harrison's precinct
shows a large Democratic gain;
in fact, the Democrats made heavy
?ains in several Republican strongholds.
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THE PETKiFiEO MAN.
The 6ra??9ni? Kind in the Saluda filv?
Kf v?aJs a Tragedy,
The New York Herald of Sunday
tells a doubtful story about the T>etrifled
man found in tbe Saluda River
near Columbia several years ago and
whose body of stone was exhibited in
the state. The Herald upon the authority
of Colonel D. A. Dickert, of
Sunshine, S. C., divulges the secret
which it is said clears up the mystery
of tbe strange find. "This marble
man," says the narrative, "is one of
the characters in tht daring and ad
venturous life of Dr. Llewellyn P.
Hobbs, of Hope Station, S. C, and
toe facts herein are published with
the consent of his son. Dr. Hobbs
in anil all tho nitiAi* ruaror>nc
involved in the fatal affair are also
dead." The facts of the peculiar case
are these: Dr. Llewellyn Hobbs had
before the war ended shot a negro
outlaw on his plantation. In 1865,
during the turbulent period of rscon*
struction. he had killed a farmer slave
in sell defense. For this he had been
court martialled and sentenced to a
term at Castle Picc^ney, in Charleston
Harbor. While yei ^nder military
guard in Columbia he uade & daring
escape and took to the woods,
making his way finally to the home
of his comrade and friend, Colonel
Dickert, who himself was watched.
aicauu.luc a. 5i[uau ui icucrtu suiuicra
had visited the Doctor's home wnere
his wife and his children lived. These
soldiers kept up a continued espionage
there. Dr. Hobbs, for fear of falling
into their hands, for a while avoided
them. Colonel Dickatt had cut a door
in the floor of his own home so that
he mignt drop through and make escape
easy in the event of trouble there
or an arresting raid upon his house.
Ti^nr snmfi T")i- ITahhs snhmitted
to restraint in this seclusion with
good grace, but at last he began to
chafe and to express a desire to go to
his home. One dark, gloomy night
Dr. Hobbs,with two other white men,
ventured to go to his home, and meeting
a sentinel there, fired upon, and
wounded hiai so seriou?ly ttisit lie
soon died. The Doctor had presence
of mind .enough to know that a dead
soldier or, worse, a wounded cne
f ound in his yard would end all his
hopes of freedom and mean the certain
destruction of his home. Tne
three carried the body to the home of
Luke Lorick, a negro who kept a den
for thieves. Old Luke feared that he
would be charged with the'murder of
the sentinel, so he took the body into
the woods and buried it, building a
coal kiln over tbe grave, thinking this
would destroy all traces of the soldier's
sepulcher, and it did until the
winter's rains set in, when the fresh
earth began to be exposed. Luke then
decided that something must bs done,
so one dark night he exhumed the
body and taking it to the Saluda River,
threw it in, and there thirty odd
years afterwards huntsmen found the
sentinal turned to stone, with the bulmKl/lK
TITO a lha
lev JLIUxC All biio V/UOOHf TT uawu TTW ?uv
cause of death. This is the Herald's
story. We doubt its accuracy for the
reason that there are mirks on the
body of the petrified man which show
clearly that his arms and legs were
tightly pinioned when death came to
him.
The L?w to be Tested.
The union depot law is soon to be
tes'ea m tne courts, xua rtuu-uau.
co in mission has given tha railroads
more than a "reasonable" amount of
tim 3 to carry out its mandates under
the act and now there is to be no more
waiting. Decisive action has at last
been taken in regard to-the Denmark
depot. Chairman W. D. Evans
Thursday said that they had .waited
on the roads as long as they could, en
deavoring to get tiaem to do someraing
in regard to the Denmark depot; they
have no w placed all tha papers in the
hands of the attorney general and he
will take the matter up in the courts.
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Test Trial, lj|
To demonstrate my positien, that I can V
save you monev and bubdIv von with the fl
best Piano or Organ the market affords, I
will place either Piano or Organ on ten to fl
fifteen days test trial at my expense and
the instalment is not as represented will .jSgM
move it at my expense.
Prices: 4| I
Organs from $35.00, $45.00, $55.00 asjfl
upwards.
Pianos from $195.00, $225.00, $295.00
and upwarvs.
rm.. /\ -x ffvoer aa - - * 1 -1?
xae urgaa iu. $oo.w us 01 a iLrau-ciaoa
make but in an ineipensiTe case.
The Piano at $195.00 Js sold usually by A
agents for $225.00. No better Pianos made ^
for this price. (jM
Guarantee: :ym
All the Pianos and Organs sold by me are
folly guaranteed, not only by the builders,
but by me?a responsible dealer.
Make your own selection from catalogues
L will sena 70a 01 application.
Address,
M. A. MALONE, .
COLUMBIA, 8. C.,
PIAKO? AUD ORGANS. ^
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OPIUM AND r
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THOROUGHLY CURED.
REKOTEDFROX COLUMBIA
THE '
KEELEY INSTITUTE ?
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The 2tt|
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Is always Good, always Sellable* ?
figs always Satisfactory, always last- 5gj| M
Ses ing. You take no chances in boy- a#
ft costs somewhat more than a 9?
ijgj cheap, poor piano, bat Is macli the jHS '?M
385 cheapest In tbe end. aBB a
igji No other High Grade Piano sold so flfS
a? reasonable. Factory prices to retail 2HR
jj?6 buyers. Easy payments. Write w. BS|
I LUDDEN & BATES, 1 1
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Address: D. A. PRE38LEY, Agent*
COLUMBIA, & 0. ^
Advice to Mothers, mk
Wo tila pfcinn'ln caffing yoar attta
f i
Son to * remedy so long needed la carry* 4
tag children safely through the critical
tage of teething. It la an Incalculable
blearing to mother and child. If yon *r? J
disturbed at night with a tfek, fretful,
twttlng child, use Pith* Carminative ft v[
wUl give Mutant relief, and regulate tit
bowels, and maie teething ?fe and ea
It will cure Dysentery and DiarrteM.'
ntts Carminative is an instant -eHef for
sollc of infants. It wUIpronsoWdigesSor.,
give ncs sou esezgy w w www ^
bow?if, Tbe rick, pany, tuiretim? oht4
wil1 wen bacom# tiie tot and. feoHeJr*isjf fry
of ihe boosehoUL It Ii wry pfe-tai* f?
tfe* tacto ?td <mly cort 55 ?-7ti pat bo&le
'.old by dragtfsti *r.d by
THE MURRAY DRUCr CO., J|
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Columbia, S. C.I
THE THOMAS
U the most complete system of elevating
handling, cleaning and packln^ cotton* fl
, Improves staple, saves labor, makes yos
! money. Write for catalogaes, no otiur
equals it.
T >i?n^la th? mo?t Imrmiml
conox GINS, M
IRSSSES, A
XLKVATOBS, A
ENGINES . m
AND BOILERS f
to De found on the market.
My Sergeant Log Beam Saw SCUl Is, a fl
timpilcity and efficiency, a ironder.
COKN KILLS,
FLANEBS,
GANG XDGSBS .
and all wood working machinery.
LTDDXLL AKD TALBQTT EXGHXES ^
are tbe beet. 4R
Write to me before buying.
| V. C. Badham,
Genual Agent,
COLUMBIA, S. C. 3