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THE LOST CHILDREN. ;
REV. DR TALMAGE'S CONSOLING SERMON
FOR BEREAVED PARENTS
Tie Shorter the Voyage the JL.~bs Chare?
For ft Cyclone?Temptatloif In O d Ags
What the &ad Dj iag at Sixteen Is Spared.
G ;nero?!'y of Bereavement. /
From an unusual standpoint Dr. Talmage
offers comfort at the loss of children, and
this sermon must be a balsam for many
Brnrmds. His text is Isaiah Ivii, 1. '-The
righteous is taken away from the evil to
come."
We all spend much time in panegyric of
longevity. We consider it a great thing to
live to be an octogenarian If a ay one dies
in youth, we say, "What a.pity'" Dr.
Muhlenberg, in old age, said that the hymn
written in early life by his own hand no
more expressed his sentiment when it said:
I would not live alway.
If one be pleasantly circumstsnced, he
never wants to go. William Cullen Bryant,
the great poet, at 82 years of age, standing
in my house in a festel group, reading
<;Thanatopsis" "without spectacles, was just
as anxious to live as when at 18 years of age
he wrote that immortal threnody. Cato
feared at 80 years of age that he would not
live,to learn Greek. Monaldesco, at 115
years, writing the history of his time, feared
a collapse. Theophrastus, writing a book at
90 years of age, was anxious to live to complete
it Thurlow Weed, at about 86 years
of age, found life as great a desirability as
when he snuffed out his first politician. Al1
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world at 70, 8aid he would rather stay here.
So it is all the way down. I suppose that
the last time that Methusalah was out of
doors in a storm he was afraid of getting hi3
feet wet less it shorten his days.
Indeed I some time ago preached a sermon
on the blessings of longevity, but I now propose
to preach you about the blessings of an
abbreviated earthly existence. If I were an
agnostic, I would say a man is blessed in
proportion to the number of years he can stay
on terra firma, because after that he fills off
the docks, and if he is ever picked out of the
depths it is only to be setup in some morgue
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him. If I thought God made man only to
last 40 or 50 or 100 years and then he was
to go into annihilation, I would say his chief
business ought to be to keep alive aad even
in good weather to be very cautious and to
carry an umbrella and take overshoes and
life preservers and bronze armor and weapons
of defense lest he fall off into nothingness
and obliteration.
But, my friends, you are not agnostics.
Yor believe in immortality and the eternal
residence of the righteous in heaven, and
therefore I first remark that an abbreviated
earthly existence is to be desired and is a
blessing because it makes one's life work
very compact.
Some men go to business at 7 o'clock in the
morning and return at 7 in the evening.
Others go at 8 o'clock and return at 12.
Others go at 10 and return at 4. I have
Mends who are ten hours a day in business,
others who are five hours, others who are
one hour. They all do thejr work well.
They do their entire work and then they return.
Which position do you think the most
desirable? You say, other things being
equal, the man who is the shortest time de
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the quickest is the most blessed.
Now, my friends, "why not cany that good
sense into the subject of transference from
this world? If a person die in childhood, he
gets through his work at 9 o'clock in the
morning. If he die at 45 years of age he
gets through his work at 12 o'clock noon.
If he die at 70 years of age he gets through
his work at 5 o' clock in the afternoon. If he
die at 90, he has to toil all the way on up to
11 o'clock at night. The sooner we get
through our work the better. The harvest
all in barrack or barn the farmer does not
sit down in the stubble field; but, shouldering
his scythe and taking his pitcher from
under the tree, he makes a straight line for
the old homestead. All we want to be anx
ions a&out is to get our worK aone ana wen
done, and the quicker the better.
Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated
earthly existence in the fact that moral
disaster might come upon the man if ne tarried
longar. Recently a man who had been
prominent in churches, and who had been
admired for his generosity and kindness
everywnere, ior iorgery was seat, to staie j
prison for 15 years. Twenty years ago there
was no more probability of that man's
committing a " commercial dishonesty
than that you "will commit commercial
dishonesty. The number of men
who fall into ruin.between 50 and 70
years of age is simply appalling. If they
had died 30 years before, it would have been
better for them and better for their families.
The shorter the voyage the less chance for a
cyclone.
There is a wrong theory abroad that if
one's youth be right his old age will be
right. You might as well say there is
nothing wanting for a ship's safety except
to get it fully launched on the Atlantic
ocean, i nave sometimes as&ea tnose who
were schoolmates or college mates of some
great defaulter; ""What kind of a boy -was
he? What kind of a young man -was he?"
And they have said: "Why, he wa3 a splendid
fellow. I had no idea he could ever go
into such an outrage." The fact is the great
, temptation of life sometimes comes far on in
' midlife or in old age,
The first time I crossed the Atlantic ocean
it was as smooth as a mill pond, and I
thought the sea captains and the voyagers
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uau. siauuexeu uie uiu wean, &.uu x wrote
home an essay for a magazine on ?,The Smile
of the Sea," but I never afterward could
have written that thing, for before we got
home we got a terrible shaking up. The
first voyage of life may be very smooth. The
last may be a euroclydon. Many who start'
life in great prosperity do not end it in prosperity.
Tho great pressure of temptation comes
sometimes in this direction. At about 45
years of age a man's nervous system changes,
and some one tells him he must take stimulants
to keep himself up, and he takes stimulants
to keep himself up until the stimulants
keep him down, or a man has been going
along for 30 or 40 years in unsuccessful business,
ani here is an opening where by one
dishonorable action he can lift himself and
nit 1113 lamuy irom an nnanciai emoarrassment.
He attempts to leap the chasm, and
he falls into it
Then it is in after life that the great temptation
of SHecess comes. If a man make a "fortune
before 30 years of age, he generally loses
it before 40. The solid and the permanent
fortunes for the most part do not come to
their climax until in midlife or in old age.
The most of the bank pretidents have white
hair. Many of those who ha^e been largely
successful have been Sung of arrogance or
wordliness or dissipation in old age. They
may not have lost their integrity, but they
have become so "worldly, and so selfish under
the influence of their successes that it is
evident to everybody that their success has
been a temporal calamity and an eternal
damage. Concerning many people it may be
said it seems as if it would have been better
if they could have embarked from this life at
20 or 30 years of age.
Do you know the reason why the vast
majority of people die before 30/ It is because
they have not the moral endurance
for that which is beyond the 30 and a merciful
God will not allow them to be put to the
fearful strain.
Again, there is a blessing in an abbreviated
earthly existence in the fact that one is
the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon
as one is old enough to take care of himself
he is put on his guard. Bolts on the doors
to keep out the robbers. Fireproof safes to
keep off the flames. Life and fire insurance
against accident, receipts lest you have to pay
a debt twice. Lifeboat against shipwreck.
Westinghouse airbrake against railroad collision
and hundreds of hands ready to overreach
you and take all you have. Defense
against cold, defense against heat, defense
against sickness, defense against the world's
abuse, defense all the way down to the grave,
and even the tombstone sometimes is not a
sufficient barricade.
If a soldier who has been on guard, shivering
and stung with the cold, pacing up and
down the parapet with shouldered musket,
is glad when some one comes to relieve guard
and he can go inside the fortress, ought not
that man to shout for joy who can put down
his weapon of earthly defense and go into
the king's castle? >Yho is the more fortunO
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ite, the soldier who has to stand guard 12 11
hours or the man who has to stand guard sir :
hours? We have common sense about everything
but religion, common sense about every- i
thing but transference from this world. >t
Again, there is a blessing in an abbre- 1
viated eart'ily existence in the fact that one 3
escapes so nany bereavements. The longer t
we live the more attachments and the more <
kindred, the irore chords to be wunded or i
rasped or sundered. If a man live on to 1
70 or 80 years of age, how many graves are <
cleft at his feet! in that long reach of time ]
faiherand mother go, brothers and sisters <
go, children go, grandchiidren go, personal ;
friends outside the family circle whom they :
had loved with a love like that of David and j
Jonathan. Besides that, some men have a
natural trepidation about dissolution and 1
ever and anon du>ing 40 or 50 or 69 jears, :
this horror of their dissolution shudders ]
through soul and body. Now, suppose the .
lad goes at 10 years of age? He escapes 50 i
iunerais, OKt cashew, t;v/ uysc^uiw, w oniui,
wrenchings of the heart. It is hard enough
for us to hear their departure, but is it not i
easier for us to bear their departure than for <
them to stty and bear 50 departures? Shall !
we net b;- thegrace of God rouse ourselve3
into a generosity of bereavement which will
practically say, "It is hard enough for me to
go through this bereavement, but how glad
I am that he will never have to go through
it." So I reason with myself, and so you
will find it helpful to reason with yourselves.
David lost his son. Though David was
king, he lay on the eaTth mourning and inconsolable
for some time. At this d stance
of time, which do you really think was the
one to be congratulated, the shortlived child
or the long lived fathei? Had David died
as early a* lha- child dieu he would, in the
first place, have escaped that particular bereavement,
then he would escaped the worse
bereavement of * bsolom, his recreant son,
and the pursuit of tho Philistines, and the
fatigues jk his military campaign, and the
jealousy" of Saul, and the perfidy of
Ahithophel, and the curse of Shimei, and
the destruction of his family at Ziklag,
o?>/3 oil ><o -wnjilil Viws f>sftar)ed
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the' two great calamities of his life, the
great sins of uncleanliness md murder.
David lived to be of vast use to the church
and the -world, but so far as his own happi|
neHS was concerned, dees it not seem to you
that it would have been better for him to
have gone early''
Now, this, my friends, explains some
thing? that to yoa have been inexplicable.
This sho ts you why -when God takes little
children from a household he is very apt to
take the brightest, the most genia!, the
most sympathetic, the most talented. Why?
It is because that kind of nature suffers the
most -when it does suffer and is most liable
to temptation. God saw the tempest sweeping
up from the Caribbean and he put the
delicate c raft into the first harbor. "Taken
away from the evil to come."
Again, my friends, there is a blessing in
an abbreviated earthly enxistence in the
fact that it puts one sooner in the center of
things. All astronomers, infidel as well as
Christian, agree in believing that the universe
swings around some great center.
Any one who has studied the e&rth and
studied the heavens knows that God's favorite
figure in geometry is a circle. Whea
God put forth his hand to create the universe,
he did not strike that hand r.t right
angle?, but he waved it in a circle, and kept
on waving in a circle until systems and constellations
and galaxies and all worlds took
that motion. Oar planet swinging around
the sun, other planets swinging around
other suss,but somewhere a great hub,around
which the great wheel or the universe turns,
Now the center is heaven. Tnat is the capital
of the universe; that is the great metropolis
of immensitiy.
Does not our common sense teach us that
in matters of study it is better for us to
move out from the center toward the circumference
rather than to be on the circumference.
where our world now is? We are
alike those who study the American continent
while standing on the Atlantic beach.
The way to study the constituent is to cross it
or go to the heart oflt. Our standpoint in
this world is defective. We are at the
wrong end of the telescope. The best way to
stuujr a v? iiitnju.xjj.ci j 10 uut w oiauu
on the doorstep and try to look in, but to go
in with the engineer and take our place
right amid the saws and cylinders. We
wear our eyes out and our brain out from
the fact that we are studying under such
great disadvantage. Millions of dollars for
observatories to study about the moon,
about the sun, about the rings of Saturn,
about transits and occulations and eclipses,
simply because our studio, our observatory
is poorly situated. We are down in the
cellar trying to study the palace of the universe
while our departed Christian friends
have gone up stairs amid the sky-lights to
study. Now, when on i can sooner get to
the center of things, is Jie not to be ccngratuIUIia
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freshman class? We study God in this
wond bj the Biblical photograph of him, but
we all ki.ow we can in five minutes of interview
with a friend get more accurate idea of
him than we can by studying him 50 years
through pictures or words. The little child
that died last night know3 more of God than
all Andover, and all Princeton, and all New
Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all the
thologier.l institutes in Christendom. Is it
not better to go up to the very headquarters
of knowledge?
TWs not our common sense teaches U3
that it is better to be at the center than to be
clear out on the rim of the wheel, holding
nervously fast to the tire lest we be suddenly
hurled int light and eternal felicity?
Through all kinds of optical instruments
trying to peer in through the cracks and the
keyholes of heaven, afraid that both doors
of the celestial mansion will be s*ung wide
open before our entrancid vision, rushing
about among the apothecary shops of this
world, wondering if this is good for rheumatism,
and that is good for neuralgia, and
something else is good for a bad cough, lest
we be suddenly ushered into a land of everlasting
health, where the inhabitant never
says, "I am sick."
What fools we all are to preier tne circumference
to the center! What a dreadful
thing it would be if we should be suddenly
ushered from this "wintry world into the
May time orchards of heaven, and if cur
pauperism of sin and sorrow should be suddenly
broken up by a nresentation of an emperor's
castle surrounded by parks, with
springing fountains and paths up and down
which angels of Gcd walK two and two.
We are like persons standing on the cold
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London, under umbrella in the rain, afraid to
go in amid the Turners and the Titans and the
Raphaels. I come to them and say, "Why
don't you go inside the gallery?" "Oh,"
they say, "we don't know whether we can
get in.5' I say, "don't you see the door is
open?" "Yes," they say, "but we have
been so long on these cold steps we are so
attached to them we don't like to leave "
"Bat," I say, "it is so much brighter and
more beautiful in the gallery; you had better
go in," "Xo," they say, "we know exactly
hew it is out here, but we don't know
exactly how it is inside."
So w<; stick to this world 33 though we
preferred cold drizzle to warm habitation,
discord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple,
as though we preferred a piano with
four or Eve of the keys out of tune to an instrument
fully attuned, as though earth and
heaven had exchanged apparel, and earth
had taken on bridal array and heaven had
gone into deep mourning, all its waters stagnant,
a*! its harps broken, all chalices crackDt.
flip rlrv XTpIIq the la-err: a clrtninrr in
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the river plowed with graves, with dead angels
under the furrow. Oh, l want to break
up my own infatuation and I want to break
up your infatuation with this world.' I tell
you if ve are ready and if our work is done
the sooner we go the better, and if there are
blessings in longevity I want you to know
right well there are blesiiLgs in aa abbreviated
earthly existence.
If the spirit of this sermon is true, how
consoled you ought to feel about members of
your fa:uily that went early. "Taken from
the evil to come," this book says. "What a
fortunate escape they had. How glad we
ought to feel that they will never have to go
througa the 'struggles winch, we have had to .
go through. They had just time enough to ;
get out of the cradle and run up on the '
springtime hills of this world and see how :
it looked, and then they started for a better
stopping place. They were like ships that
put in at St. Helena, staying there long 1
enough to let passengers go up and s ee the
barrack of Napoleon's captivity, and then .
heist sail for ihe port of their own native .
land. Ehey only took this world in transi- <
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im. It is hard for us, but it is blessed for ]
:hem. j
And if the spirit of this sermon is true, j
;hen we ought not to go around sighing and j
groaning -when another year is going, but!
i>e ought to go down on one knee bj the j
nilestone and see the letters and thank God
iat we are 365 miles nearer home. We
)ught not to go around with morbid feelings ;
ibout our health or about anticipated demise. |
tVe ought to be living not according to that
)ld maxim which I used to hear in roy'boylood
that you must live as though every j
lay were t&e last; jcu must li^e as though
pou were to live forever, for you will. Do
nnt ho nprmiis lest voir have to move out of
i shanty into an Aihambra.
One Christmas day I -witnessed something
rery thrilling We bad just distributed the
family presents Christmas morning, when 1
heard a great cry of distress in the hallway.
A child from a neighbor's house came in to
say her father was dead. It -was ouly three
doors off, and I think in two minutes we
were there. There lay the old Christian sea
captain, his face upturned toward the window,
as though he had suddenly seen the
headlands and with an illuminated countenance,
as though he were just gomg into
harbor. The fact was he had already got
through the Narrows. In the adjoining room
were the Christmas presents waiting lor bis
distribution. Long ago, one night when he
had narrowly escaped with his ship from
beicg run down by a great ocean steamer,
he had made his peace with God, and a kinder
neighbor or a better man than Captain
Pendleton you would not find this side of
heaven. "Without a moment's warning, the
pilot of the heavenly harbor had met him
iust off the lightship.
He had often talked to ue of the goodness
of God, and especially of a time when he was
about tD enter New York harbor with his
ship from Liverpool, and he was suddenly
impressed that he ought to put back to sea.
Under the protest of the crew and under
their very threat ha put back to sea, fearing
at the same time he was losing his mind, for
it did seem so unreasonable that when they
could get into harbor that night they should
put back to sea. But they put back to sea,
and Captain Pendleton said to his mate,
"You call me at 10 o'clock at night." At
12 o'clock at night the captain was aroused
and said: "What does this mean? I thought
I told you to call me at 10 o'clock, and here
it is 12." '-Why," said the mate, "I did
call you at 10 o'olock, and you got up, looked
around and told me to keep right on the
same course for two hours, and then to call
jou at 12 o'clock." Said the captain: "Is it
possible? I hare no remembrance of that."
At 12 o'clock the captain went on deck,
and through the rift of a cloud the moonlight
fell upon the sea and showed him a
shipwreck with 100 struggling passengers.
He helped them off. Had he been
any earlier or any later at that point
of the eea he would have been of no
service to those drowning people. On board
the captain's vessel they began to band together
as to what they should pay for the
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rescue ana wniu. mey snuuiu iui mc
provisions. "Ah," says the captain, "my
lads, you can't pay me anything. All I have
on board is yours. I feel too greatly honored
of God in having saved you to take any
pay." Just like him. He never got any
pay except that of his own applauding conscience.
Oh, that the old sea captain's God might
be my God and yoars! Amid the stormy
seas of this life may we have always some
one as tenderly to take care of us as the
captain took care of the drowning crew and
the passengers. And may we come into the
harbor with as,little physical pain and with
as bright a hope as he had, and if it shou Id
happen to be a Christmas morning, when
iuS presents are beiDg distributed and we
are celebrating the birth of him wbo came
to save our shipwrecked world, all the better,
for what grander, brighter Christmas
present could we have than heaven.
Something Wrocg.
When we reflect that a few thousand
persons possess more than half of all
the wealth of a migbty nation of 70,000,000
of reDple, inhabiting a vast
territory of wondrous resources, it
need not be argued tbat something is
wrong. The founders of our republic
never planned a government of a
few dangerously rich and many dingerously
poor. Well they knew that,
in the inevitable clash of these two
dangerous classes, the republics of
other days were destroyed m the early
days of the republic corporations were
few; now they are numbered by hundreds
of thousands There has been
a recklessness injtheir creation that is
almost astounding; and every one of
ihem, no matter how insignificant,
nas in it some eiemenis 01 soverigmy,
derived, from the governmental store
?the people's property. While many
have fceen created fcr high purposes of
greatest importance, many others have
been brought into beicg with purposes
purely selfish orpcsitively bad. With
the creation of each something of
power departed from the many and
centered in the few. Worse still,
corporation combir.es with -corpcration;
leviathan is harceised with leviathan
! mnns'er trusts roll the Ju^reer
naut of monopoly over thousands of
men, women and children. Corporations
long have had the footing of individual
men in the law and before
the courts. Communities have been
despoiled and before the courts. Communities
have been despoiled and uq
born millions cruelly burdened
through the wrongful application of
the law concerning 4 'commercial pa1*
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per ana me rjgms> ui luuwcut
holders of avalanches of swindling
roailroad and bonds and other like devices
for safe public plundering. It
would be difficult, perhaps, to find in
the plans or teachings of the fathers
any support fcr such mammoth and
far-reaching wrongs.?Hon. David A.
de Armoz-d in The Illustrated American.
8 UDg by Cactus Plan's
The Philadelphia Record says several
men employed about Horticultural
hall, iu Fairmount park, are nursing:
very sore hands, and one^f them is
just sure that he is out of danger
from blood poisoning from stings received
in handling prickly cactus
plants. All summer the tail, slender
cacti have stood with soldierly erectncss
in a bed at the east end of the
hall. When frost threatened the head
gardener gave orders for their removal
into winter quarters, and the men
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the usual precaution of wearing buckskin
gloves. They were stung ia
many places by the needles that bris
tied from the staiks, but as the pain
at the time was not great, they kept at
work until all the cacti had been
housed. A few hours later their hands
began to puff up, and soon swelled
to ungainly proportions, as the poison
of the stings took effect. They suffered
intensely for several days, and
fxre-rt r.rsx after a week his elacspd.
have to use their hands in a very gingerly
manner indeed,
TTaya of a Country Editor.
An editor died, sajs an anonymous
writer, and slowly wended his way
down to where he supposed a warmer
reception awaited him. The devil
met him and said: s'For maoy jear.s
thou has borne the blame of the bad
speiliag that printers have gotten off
in fhp rscT,hf> n5r!"r has crrxra fnr
cne dollar a:;d also the dollars have
failed to come in. The printer has bedelved
thee for wages when thou
hadstnota farthing to thy name.
People have taken thy paper without
paving for it and cursed thee for not
setting out a better sheet. Thou hast
been called a dead beat by the railroad
conductors when thou hast
shown thy pass to their envious gazs.
All these thou hast borne in silence. :
Thou shalt not enter here." And as
the editor turns and walks away, Satin
muttered: "Heaven is his i
borne, and besides,' if I had let him in <
here, he would have been dunning <
his delinquent subscribers, and thus i
created discord in my kingdom." |
HIS BMR WAS WHITE. j
THE THRILLING STORY OF HOW IT i
TURNED
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tjsba<*s aad Eld* as 7?s i 2?r-w!y B*.ad? j
Gravo o* a Bivs'.
A big black cloud that seemed to
pull out at the bottom until r. bad the
shap9cfa balloon spilled its fbcd
upon the vre-it slop* of Marshall Pass.
The flood rushed c'o~zj a narrow pjlch
acd tore s^av about 50 fte'c o- tna
raiirosd track. 1 he New Eogi&nd
excursion trsio had to be bsc?d down
^ fijvniMi-e .it <hv? fr\r\+ r.f 1K0 Kill nn.
til the road could fce r pa:red. There
was absolutely no amusement for ihe
excursionists save what they could
make for themselves, arid yet ore
beard no complaint. Nobody threatened
to sue the compar-y or send ia
a bill for the ex era meal of mountain
trout thit they were compelled to
take becau". of the washout.
'Taese Yankee tou'ists," said the
old engineer, *\hav moh patience an'
less pocket mon?y than any class of
people undeh th' sua."
A couple of gentlemen cam-; over to
tie lit;le roundhouse, walking with
their hands behiad them, looking at
the locomotives that stood steaming in
*rcnt cf the bQuse waiting for orders.
Upon the pilot of one of these engines
a white haired man in overalls sat
smoking a cigar.
"Gx>d evening," said or?e of the
tourists.
1 Good evening," responded the engineer.
"I suppose," said the Ne^Esglander,
pulling a cleaa tan boot upon the
ncsa of the pilot,41 that you hava been
' a!ap A OAma 4i rtrtA '
ill d Vi.L/CC? j.'iCiU'S IKJL OVJJLAW CHJLlw
"Well, I can't say that I have," said
the m2n la overalls.
''I see that your hair is vchite, and
yet you are a yc-urger man than I
am.-'
4 Ob!'' said the engineer, a little <?mbarrrassed,_"I
got that is. the 69's.
Ion? before I commenced railroadin."
' I see, I see," said the excursionist,
showing still greater interest. "At
Gettysburg, perhaps?"
' It vas going home from Gettys
burg," siid the engine driver, glancing
at his right hand, that had a deep
dimple in the thick of the thumb.
"I went heme, also, after Gettysburg,"
said the Yankee, ard the two
men looked at e2eh other for a mo
ment in silence.
The fireman brought a cushion from
the cab, threw it upon the pilot, and
the engineer motioned the men to a
seat.
"Well, there was a gccd many went
heme from Gettysburg," said the en
gineer, with the hard pedal on
4,hom?."
The Yankee nodded in silence. Of
course each knew by the other's accent
that they had fought there face to face
and net side by side.
"One cf your felloes did me a
mesn little trick down there," said the
excursionist.
' Well, if it comes to that, a damned
Yankee poked his bayonet through
my hand," said the engineer, for he
had to swear when he talked.
''And, seeiDgthat you were unarmed,
made you a prisoner, when he
might have killed you."
"Yes, I had been hit on the head
with a spent piece of shell or something
heavy enough to knock me out.
When I csine to and staggered to my
feet this Yankee made a run at me
an' I had to give up."
"Well, sab, I watched my chances
an'hit him a crack: under tne can,
grabbed his gun an' when lie started
to get up, I laid the barrel across his
head and left him there, when I might
have killed him."
"And here," said the excursionist,
removirghis travelling cap, "is the
I suiir )uu gave
''An' here'sthe ma'k of yo bayonet,"
said the engineer, wiggrliDg his thumb.
The two men shook hands. The
j tourist returned to his sleeper, but
j came back again presently with a half
| dczen friends. The Yankee produced
a well-filled cigar case, planted him
self at tha side of ths engineer, and
asked fcim to tell now his hair hap
pened to be white.
"Weil, sah,:' said the engine man,
"it's that damn silly that I have nevah
told it."
"But jou must?you could not re
fure an old comrade," said the Yankee,
laughing heartily.
"After the scrap," said the Virginian.
whoss accent must now be imagined,
"I went home to rest until my
hand could heal. Our placa was a
long way from the railroad, and when
I left the train I hired a saddle horse
and started out to the plantation. It
was a dark, rainy Bight. The result
of the battle of Gettysburg had sad
dened ma, but now the thoughts of
seeing the folks asd friends at home
gave me pleasure that could not be
marred even by the sad news of the
death of one of our neighbors.
"This man?this dead man?and I
bad been playmates and fast friends in
bojhoc-d days; but, as we grew olcer,
wefell or rather 'erew' in love with
the same girl. I can't say that I
1 1n?MA -C /-\ M f? vs TT VM A V* T?fi U
UlaLucu. J-iliii jlui. LUCkf?auv xjj.au. tvi.ia
eyes would do it?but when I went
away to war and saw bim standing
by fcer side upon the station platform,
it didn't seem quite an even break
He was to stay there and listen to the
music of her voice, while I heard the
roar of cannon. He would sit by her
side in the summer twilight, while I
slept out in the rain and helped make
history, and the thought of it put a
hardness in my heart that had softened
only at the news of his death. It
was pleasant, however, to reflect thai
I had faced the enemy?had walked
'in the shadow of the shell,'and lived
to come home to her, while he, poor
devil, had been kicked by a mule and
died.
''Tomorrow he would be planted,
and I should be thereto see how she
took it and console her as he had done
when I answered my country's call.
"It must have been nearly midnight
when I entered a lonely lane led past
the principal bur?inf? ground in the
uci^uuviuuvu. jluvci buc
high fence, I saw a new grave, and
doubted not that it was for my neighbor.
"Tne raia had csased. The moon
shone dimly behind the clouds- Suddenly
my horse stopped with his head
grazing over the graveyard. I spurred
him and he started forward, bat stopped
again, raised his head and snorted.
"I listened, but heard nothing;
locked and saw nothing but the white
slabs gleaming ghost like in the night.
I sparred and whippsd my'horse, but ;
with another wild snort he whirled
round and desded tne otne? way. Fat- i
ting him about, I looked over the law
wall and saw something white rise <
and fall. The scared horse trembled
under me, but I ur^ed him on to where
he had stopped first. Now the white
object rose again. My God lit was ;
from the open grave?his grave, too. :
I made no doubt. For the first time
in my x.ie my blood ran cold. I sat '
like one paralyzed^ in. the saddle and 1
coT?T tfca whitA tVnncf vieo on/1 -foil (
Again I urged my frightened horse, (
but as often as I brought him up to. I
the scratch he whirled, snorted, and 1
dashed away down the muddy lane. I }
could not go round, and he vrould not j
zo past the frightful obj ?ct. In this ?.
way we worked forward and back, t
9
cuurui-g tae mud, out gelling no
nearer home. At last, discouraged
and disgusted, I determined to puli
down the high fence on my right and
pass through the field.
"As I reined my horse toward the
fence he refused to go, or to take his
eyes from the grave. "With a wild,
unearthly cry, sach as I had never
heard from a horse, the poor animal
sank ti enabling to the earth. I him cut
with my riding whip, brought him
to his feet, and swung into the saddle
s^ain. Looking over the wall I saw
tins tnirtgcorce ngci up cut ox tee
grave. There could be no mistake
now, for the moon was shining almost
(all. I saw it put out its hands upon
either sice, as though it were trying to
lift itself up. The white arms seemed
to beckon to me in the moonlight and
then it sank back into the grave again.
"I was never superstitious. I had
r ever seen, uo to this time, a thing on
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e&rtn rcas i wouia jioi appru>icu. jdu-. j
this was too ir.uch for r^e. It was r>ot J
of this earth?it >vas unearthly, and I
was sick at heart. No* I be^an to
vrocder bov this stcrj would sound
wi-ec I should gro heme and tell it.
"I, who had fac-d death upon the
battlefield, chy atid night, for -eeeks
and !T:oi/tbs, must say that I bad seea
a {rh'.-st in a graveyard. The very
thought o' it made me aegry. sad I
s^ore that I eould solve this mjatery
n jA
'Life at best, was r.ot a grand, sweet
song to the people of the south at that
time, and that thought, perhaps,
helped ice to be a little mile reckless.
Taking firm hold of what was left of
my once ample stock of courage. I dismounted
and made my horse fast to
the high fence. Crossing the road, I
looked over the wall, but nothicg
could be seen.
"I hsdneyer been afraid of this man
in the flesh, then why should I fear
his gbest. or whatever or whoever was
doing duty at ills open grave. 1 was
now aware that I was shaking with
cold.
"I took a drink. A friend had given
me ft bottla of brandy in the town,
but I had forgotten it until now.
Presssntly I felt warmer and waited
for the ghost. I began to hope that
the thing had taken water at my display
of courage. I could see my horse
over against the fence resting quietly.
A graveyard rabbit darted past, rolling
the leaves and causing me to start.
"I took another drink.
<lPnt.tincr ttit? hands unon the rouffh
stone, I leaped lightly to the other
side. I felt another chill, but when
my ghost remained out of sight I took
courage and started for the grave.
From mere force o? habit I took out
my pistol and held it in my hand as I
we'tt forward.
"Unfortunately for me. a big cloud
swept betvrsen me and the moon, and
I paused, a hundred feet from the
grave, to let it pass. Now up came
the ghost again, and right there is
where I got this hair. B if ore nor
since I have known a moment like
that. I was not warm, and yet I was
perspiring freely.
"I took another drink, but this time
I could not taste it, I could feel the
three dritks now getting together and
giving me new courage."Suddenly
all sense of fear left me.
'Hi, there!' I yelled. "Ccma out and
show jourcelf!' and instantly up came
the ghost, but instead of frightening
mo it Tirnrift mp laiiah. and I laughed
loud, therein the lonely place, arid
heard the echo come back from the
hill across the run. I had a vague
feeling that I was insane, and jet I
was not, but I could not understand
why I was not afraid.
4,I wanted to get hold of that ghost
and have it out with the thing, and
dared it to come out and make a fight.
I fired my pistol to show that I was
brave. There was a sound from the
lane of breaking rails, the snap of a
hitching strap snd I saw my poor horss
galloping awaj.
"I was in for it now, sure enough,
and determined to give a good' account
of myself. Right there I took
another.drink, aEd to my surprise the
bottle was empty, I also took a shot at
the grave, for it occurred to me now
for the first time that some one might
be having fun with me. As the smoke
of the pistol cleared away I saw the
white thing lift itseif to ttie edge of
the open grave. It had wings. I
could hecr them and sae theai beating
wildly against the sides of the sepul
chre.
44 'Come cut of that,' I cried.
You've got a pair of v?irgs; why don't
you get up acd fij V
"Tiiere was no reply from the ghost
and it seemed io me that I must end
the suspense or go mad. Rushing up
tothegrare I laid hold of the thing,
dragged it forth, rais?d it high above
my head, and siaamed it upon the
earth. It gave a Vquisk
"What was it?'5 gasped the New
Englande?.
"It was an oi' white gandab.s&h."?
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i>dW iCTitDUa.
Bojus Titles.
The grasd camp of Confederate
veterans has declared war upon bogus
military titles, and noae too soon. All
around us are generals, colonels, majors
and captains, merely by grace of
a mistaken courtesy and au unneccesry
forbearance. Supposedly, these
men hold their military titles by vir
tue of bravery and skill displayed on
the battlefield." As a matter of fact,
however, many men known as gener
als or majors never witnessed a battle,
but manifested their bravery and
ability as soldiers in some bomb proof
position- Nearly every ignoramus
who has gathered together a few dollars
by extortion, oftimes by dishonesty,
is paraded before the country as a I
general, colonel, major or captain.
A Candidate f jr tile G?Uowj.
Archie Lockley, a negro, who is
wanted by the authorities of King and
Qieen county, Ya., for a triple murder
committed in the county .last
month, wascanfcured in Philadelphia
on Wednesday night. H9 was given
a hearing today and committed to
await requisition papers from Virginia.
Early last month Lcckley called at .the
house of Martha E. Chapman of Ply
mouth, Ya. A quarrel arose, and,
when attacked, Lockly shot her dead,
her son Eidie Chapman, and George
Lee all colored.
A iiold Tr?ia Kobbeiy.
W^HnasHaxr nitrhf: thfi train nn ihft
Wabash dueatiiituchfield, Illinois, at
ten o'clock pulled out, two men without
masks boarded the chair car and
at the point of cocked revolvers demanded
the passengers to give up
their vauable3. After going through \
the car, which was done at a lively i
rate, the robbevs pulled the bell cord
and the. train stopped ana the robbers
got cff, luaning ease on Third
street and disappearing as theirain <
moved oa i'ne robbers got bfct?;een ;
|70 and $S0 and a gold watch.
I
Shoots a Jadge.
John Davis, colored, was carried to
jail in Cincinnati by officers from
Brown county to eicaps lynching
His crime was shooting and fatally i
wounding Judge John M. Mark'ey of i
Brown county common pleas court in J
Georgetown Wednesday. Divis talk- i
id to Mariey about a case for burglary,
or which he was tried but not con- 3
rictd. Judge Markley walked away. 5
Davis called him and fired when the I
judge turned facing him, then fled. I
fnricrfl Martian's wound is in the cen- ]
re of tue forehead. He is still living.! i
An exchange says it is all a mistaken
idea to think that b?cau?e a newspaper
publisher only collects a little at
a time that it doesn't do him much
good. Every dollar counts in the
newspaper business, whether it is paid
in for advertising or subscription. We
are aware that some people think that
a dollar is a small amount and that
the publisher is not necessarily compelled
to have it in order to run his
business, but we hasten to say that
sues, is not the case. Wh9n a publish-,
er has several hundred dollars due
him for subscription, aod he only gets
the pitiful sum of a'dollar at a time it
helus him to meet his expenses. And
right here we would like to deeply impress
it on the minds of tao=e wh ) a?*
indebted to us for subscription or ad
veniMug wiiut vvc aiw^s waui iuiu
actually stand in seed of it whenevsr
it is due. It is a mjsiery to some people
ho =7 a newspaper is made to pay
anyway, but it is no rujstery to ibe
publisher when he can promptly set
what honestly belongs to him. Tee
trouble is that in some instances he
? uds it a very hard matter to set i . Z
Iton'c Gst Disc jurag'd.
The Carolina Spirtan s*ys :short
crops prevail throughout this section
cf iue Stata. but t^e farmer must not
get discouraged He must set hia wits
lo work As the Spartan sUitrf a few
creeks 9go. fail oars sill r.ve on gccd
liiid mil supplement me hhot-i corn
crop. Three acr^s O? good 1 and for i
each horse, so-vi in wh<?a% will stop
the dr&ia for fljur. A good garden
beeua now ??ilJ shorten the grocery
bills. T ro or three dozen hens well
managed will supply the family with
sugar, and a good co?ror*two will
make surplus butter enough to buy
shoes. Let fo one be discouraged.
All should bigin at oacs to plan to
meet the short crops and low prices
The wis?, brave man and womxn
should rise superior to circumstances.
Nfxc year may be a good all-around
crop fear. A "little wiso planning and
steady licks will help lo surmcunt all
obstacles that mw seem to block the
way.
Po-wtr Xaxtto Tii?t of the President
More than 50,000 persons will directly
or indirectly draw pay from the
city in the first administration of the
mayor of Greater Ne?7 York. The.
salary of 33,000 of those whose names
- 11 1- - _ 11 4.1.^ ^24 ?
win ?e acsuaiiy 011 me a ivu
will aggregate $33,000,000. Paits of
this amouDt represents the salaries and
patronage of tne aldermen and other
officers elected on Tuesday, but this is
comparatively small mosl, of the total
representing the patronage of Greater
New York's first mayor, Robert A.
Van Wyck. A conservative estimate
of those wno will draw pay directly
irorn trie city, tarougn cuy contracts
and the like, is 22,000 Mayor Strong,
at the Ii3i3 the great city charter
was passed, ref srred to this force as
equal to, if not exceeding the actual
number of ail officeholders.
A Mytterions Shipwreck.
Captain Robinson ol t-Efe steamer
George W. Clyde, from Jacksonville
and Charleston, S. C, reports tbat
last Tuesday, when off Bady Island,
N. C., he saw an. immense amouit of
drifting wreckage, includiog pieces of
'& i UUUOO, tLCk^ la^gg jjx.VWJ
of timber and other material, such as
would have come from a large coasting
vessel if btoken up. He also passed
an impro7ised life raft, evidently
but recently used. It is thought that
the raft was constructed by tfcecfew
of some vessel on the verge of foundering,
but it is not certain whether
the men were rescued from the raft cr
drowns d. From Cape Hatteras to
Frying Pan Shoal lightship an immense
quantity of hard pine lumber
of various dimensions w*s passed.
DeatUy Work o! an Assassin
" A disoatch from Rio Jaaero says:
"At 1 o'clock Fr.'diy afternoon, a soldier
of the Tenth battallion, which
constitutes part of the local garrison,
attempted to shoot President Moraes
"with a pistol. The president was just
landing at the marine arsenal, after
visitisg the steamer on which General
Barbasa, minister o' marine, had
returned from Bahia, The bystanders
frustrated ihe atiemnt, but Uoi. Mo
raes, the p resident's nephe.7, was
slightly wounded in disarming the
soldier, General Biitancour minister
of war. then intered ar.d was himself
stabbed. The wound was so serious
that he died scoi afterwaid. The at-?l
f?ck has caused th;j j?rc-at*st ^gi'ation j
throughout tie city."
A J ick y Killed
Al the Ecglesile tracs near Sin
Francisco Thursday while Bert Outran- j
der was exercising E, M. MeCbrmick's
horse, Thjme, Nick Hall's colt, Uorii- j
elite, WllU i-JL LLI iUA. U)1U \*JJ, v>b?u.uv~. j
into him and both animals and jockeja
were thrown down, McLain j
eicaped injury, 0 Grander, however,;
fell upon tij.es track upon bis bead,
sustaining coccassion of the brain, i
His death is momentarily expected.
Thyme was badly shaken up, but Cor- j
riente ran eight miles a'ler the accident
and dropped in his tracks from
s'cetr exhaustion.
Eow to Keep Eggs ?The bast way
io keep eggs in Summer time is to
pack tbsm inJiaiewater, and they will
keep in good condition for three
months Pnur one gallon of boiline
^ater oyer a pound of lime, when settled
and cold pour it carefully over
the eggs which you have picked, small
ends down, in a stone jar, and stand
m a cdoI, dark place, i?ggs may also
be packed in salt; anything that will
closa the pores of the shell and prevent
evaporasion will preserve eggs."
Train Qata Over Embankment
A mixed passenger and freight train j
relied down a 40 foot embankment on !
the Missouri Sedalia, Warsaw and
Southwestern load at noon Tuesday
three miles north of Warsaw. Ea
gineer John Minnier was instantly
killed. Fireman Charles McCon also
bad a broken ami and Bcakeman
Price, Conductor W. JL hSass and .b'red
Schweetaaan, a passenger, was badly
hurt.
Too Hach. for Him
Wo, J. Lehigh, manager of the
Portland, Ore., fierchaata1 Exchange
association, commixed- suxi'de Thursday
on the floor of t*e exchange by
shooting Liiiiseic in the h?ad. Business
reveis;s cau eu him to Uks his
life.
A New* Game Law?Tne Columbia
Register sa^s bjwU 5?g^ct$ w&y be I
killed from Ojtoosr 1 to September 1;
Spring pcets from Hareh 1 to June 1;
scandal inoagers Aprii 1 tc February
1; umoreiia borrowers August 1 to
Noven;b3r 1; and from February lto
May 1, while ev ry mari who accepts
a paper six months but Thna tbs bill
is presented sdjs, "leaver ordertdit,"
may be k:lled on si^ht without reserve
or relief from valuation or appraisement
laws, aad buried face do inward,
without beueatj of clergy.
Hilton's Life for ize Livao aad Kid
cieys is tie most comply re>ulauog
aideicine. it is mud in. its operatioa!.s
agreeable and pleasant to the stom>ch.
It will csrtain'y balld up a
weakened and brosea d j ya digestioa.
Eas none of the harsh action of pills
lad other drastic pargiiivis. Is the
-woct- /-if all ftina1'? tp) O iir?!r irs ?Ji?
aeaeficial effdji uu thi iridaeyj. Is
purely Vfgiiabie. Can betaken at any
;iaae. 25s, 5'Jc and $L.00 battles.
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Attractive Women. Why
is one "woman attractive and
another not? The most admirable and
attractive thing about an attractive
woman is her womanliness Erery*
body admires a wooaaniy woman. She
must have health* of course, because
without it .she would lose the brghtness
of her'eyes, the fullness of "her
checks and her vivacity. Real health
must mean that a woman is really a
woman, rhatsheis strong and perfect
Jn a sexual way, as well as in
every other.' 'That she is capable of
performing perfectly the duties of
maternity. Some are born with what
is called ""constitutional weakness "
Those who do not enjov perfect health
1 . 1 i ^ ' 1
neea oniy tage ine .proper precautions
atd the proper remedy to become per
fectly weii aiid strong. Dr. PieiCo'-s
Favorite Prescription wiJi cure any
derangement of the distinctly feminine
organism. Send21 cents.in, one-cent
otn ?vj*\o tA T^MJnanoowrr 1
abALupa iv T; t/iiu .a J iixvuivor*
Association, Buffalo, N. Y., and rs
ceive Dr. Pierce's 1008 pasre ^Commoijt
Sense Medical Adviser," illustrated.
Without a Hippie.
A member of the Union Pacific sjn:
dicate, speaking Thursday of th* arrangements
for deoositing in the New
York banks the $58,000,000 which is
to be paid the government fo^' the re
l>?ase of it lien upon the Union P.scilic
main line, purchased last wtek at
Omaha, said: "The transactions Trill
be carried through without a ripple to
disturb th* financial situation. The
money will be deposiied ia eight or
nine banks, and more i ihey c*ra to
qualify as such depository. One
is readj with bonds io take $15,000,000
of the money and it can arrange to
take ?30.000,000 if necessary.'5
Htlcon's
T X fMI ?MAMf U V, ? /\ ft 1m
Aa-KJI U1 XJ'viliLUUUb 13 LL1C lilt yiU.
ultra" of all such preparations ia reiriOTing
soreness, and quickly healing
fresh cats at>d wounds, no matter howcsd.
Is will promptly heal old sores
of 3ong standing. Will kill the pcis
on from *'Poison Ivy" or ''Poison
Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." "Will
counteract the poison from bites of
snakes and stings of insects. It is a
sure cure for sore thioat. Will cure
any case cf sore mouth, and is a superior
remedy for all pains and aches.
Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents
a bottle.
A Valuable Oat.
Howard Reed, of Milfcrd, Pa,, starred
out hunting for partridge and woodcock,
and was fo.lowed by the house
cat All efforts on the part of the
young hunter to drive the cat back
heme Tsrere futile; it was bound to go
with him, and it illustrated its ability
as a hunter by its "pointing" a woodcock.
which young Reed shot Tnen
it "flashed" a partridge, which was
also bagged by the hunter. Reed says
he would not part with the cat fcr the
VM?st. drto in rhp ??nnntrT7
~? ??
A Padiockea Heart,
' "*^|jijli? women lock
Erap?^|lll' fiiiP and sufferings
jffil *n t^ie^r ^ow?
misery and
rJi Pai? which
s V^S would cause
j strong men to
Wlligs ox wvuica
than half unknown and tin-,
appreciated.' The. refined
sensitiveness of their organism
lays them liable to
a thousand exquisite tortures whidi a
coarser nature can never experience or
comprehend, r
The least derangement or disorder of the
delicate special organism of their sex overwhelms
the whole pkvsicalar.c mental bein?
with weakness and wretchedness.
}>.* it ii ?. mistake to suffer'these troubles
in sLIir.e^. They may be cured hi the perfect
privacy of hcnie, without the repugnant
ordeal of examinations and "local treatment,"
which the family doctor is sure to
No physician in thetrcrld aas hsdnwicer
or more "successful experience in the treatment
cf \v. -.aan'< closes titan Dr. R. V.
Pierce, chi ? consulting pnysician to the
Invalid* Hotel ?.::d Sur^ricrd Institute, of
Buffalo. N: Y. .K:< "Favorite Prescription "
is a positive cure for the most oljstinate and
complicated i'cDif.iiu^diSicidties. ;
It is the only medicine of its kind prepared
by an educated, skilled physician.
Mr. J. F. Sneed, of.Omen, Texas, writes: "My
wife was badly afflicted with female weakness.
We tried three of the best physicians in the
country without benefit, but at great expense.
My -wife grew worse, and we gave up in despair.
She could not get in and out of doors
without help: was not able to stand on her feet loner
at a time, complained of dragging down
pains in abdomen. "Nothing but an untimely
death seemed awaiting her. when ? happy
thought! ? t!ie name of Dr. Pierce came to my
mind. I wrote to Dr. Pierce received his advice,
followed it, my wife improved perceptibly from
the first two week's treatment, continued the
treatment six months, and pronounced the cure
complete, at a cost of less than one month's treatment
by the last physician, we employed before
consulting Dr. Pierce. She used Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription and the lotions recommended j
by fcia. It has been two years since, and the i
good e-Teci is permanent."
1 i tiix ??T^th?ir;s I
? - ta"<e plssnrs to .?*U.?cg ynz: stM
San I; a x&zzZj *o U>n$r i^vlsS in -iarry
Irr c?ii!drsn caf alv through fee critics
si-*? ?i v**Skinir. It is ia incalenlab!?
l\:y?~? to rott-T ?r<3 child, It yea at'
5:^?cr^?? :&?b* *rith a sick, trattui !
tee'thiag sJilIi, uM Pitts' Cararfcativc, li I
v'?I g?r* ? **tanS relirf. tad. regulate ifcf |
brwt]a rxst&f t^tbi.ns ?ri strf
R Trtll cot? Dywaterr ssi VHvr^i~?t |
SRtts CarmlBitire Is aa Jnstesfc -slUjf 'o \
03lic c* "nfMJte. It irCl prcniove algesics
giT9 tenfc sr3 'r.^ruy 5t fb> rrsxpz-'A a?d j
fcCTrelt, Tt-" cici. -jaigr, sur?-n^s ?]LiM
*111 wan b^Gomit fee fit ssd trv^ki: s i :oj
0? C?S Tt '5 ve~7 nl?>-a? >' V
I5dtw5? ta.i sr-1? *vA2?- ?*? ?5 'l
-cJd by enrt *jr
the hurray drow ou,
' Columbia., s; c.
B II7E FOR TEE LIVSfi ANDI
mS KID5EYS, as Us ran imparts,
jfa| is a stioiilator an<l r* it" r->r .to9>
|?i th^seor^aos. Is tte btat. a'ter^H
K?g mas Is medi:ine to aid dig st fn fl
I BUliocsne^s' Acts cn tbeK.-|
ncys within Thirty minutes afui
I taking, relieving rc'aes in titfea
3 back iromdiscrder (f thes'e^r-H
B gans. lit ves a'] &!?iu?rh0S
B troub.es. la eatiiely vegecacie, Kg
25c, .'03 and fl 0) a bottle. Sold flf
I hy cealeis generally, and by TbeH
B idtrrsy ?rug t'o, Caiuiubia. S. H
HH Dr. fi Bear, Cnaiie son, B
O*' V
Sold by dealers generally and by
THE MURRAY DRUG CO.,
COLUMBIA, S C.
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Adnata* O*. AjJMI hrtiiw. KoHM W
>116 HttrttfM. <&H)bwi S**ke?Msl?e*
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BARUQHS *
IN
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PIANOS,
SPE IAL ' ; ":M
Announcement.
Piano
and
Organ
Exhibit at
1509 Main st: ^
Columbia, S. C.
BF>T GOODS
At Fair Prices,
T> 1? s
xwmeiuuer
I Exhibit
at My store,
see my bargains.
M. A. MALONE, f
\ 1509 MAIN STREET,
COLUMBIA, 8. C.,
PIANOS ANDOBGANSTTnTTon
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OPIUM AND
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lUx>A!UUU
HABIT . .
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1 THOHOU6BLT CUEEO.
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REkoTED FROM COLUMBIA.
THE
KEELEY INSTITUTE
&EEB5 VII.T-T!, 8. C.
flSSSB88B?i80KiSB5SBSB6B6SSB8SHE 4^J|
? From Udcf Direct to Pmhaur.
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IjrOOQ.
| Piano |
;^jj gM eadJesf en- ?
IItIRBBBI I A Poor Piano jlf
ffwrBI?rrtn Ingtft-fOTT ll > -2&S
.'JSC' years and zgs vj?
s "
T21& wtwrttoiu
S Matbusbek S.
s Is always <3?o<I, always Reliable, IS .^Jp
fiSK ^ways sat) slactory. -always Last- ffij. , - '/;S~
s&a Injr. You tike no chances in bay- SW.
&fS in? 1L " fiK -
m nrt costs somewhat a^ore than a 538T
figfi cheap, poor piano, but Is mnch tbff J0R
?? cheapest in. the end. as?
JS? No other High Grade Piano sold so ffiS.
Sgfl reasonable Factory prices to retail aeS'
buyers. Kaay payments. Wri:?u. JgS- j
g? U3S0EH & BATES, g- >d
Ijfjg -, acd Sew York CJty.
Address: D. A. PSE33LEY, A^ent*.
Columbia, a a
ElEffi \
*
U the raast complote o? <?
'a&ndling, cleaning and pac l?v satfcwr -.:-M
Improves staple, sayes labor, aa*ke-s yw>
money Write for eataiogaea - n<* "tt^r ^
eqa&Ia it.
I handle the most Improves _
COTTOKT &1NS,
PBKSSX8, '-g
ELEVATORS,
XSdZNSS
ivn ftnTT-Kiiw ,;il
3o De foind on the market
My Sorgeant hog Beam -"Sa*- ?Ctt? a
da&pilcity and efiicteocy. a ^>a.iir ?
COHM M1LM,
PLANEBS,
GANG
iEil all woud working machinery. j
uii>DELL AK? TALBOTT ENSlVJSii
are fee beet.
Wrft*"to ice before buytay.
Y. G, Badbamr^l
^ OXiI' MBIA* ,S. 0.
MCMILLAN'S GRIPPE
coxraHcrRE. |
WILL RELIEVE THAT COUGH AN1) - J
GIVE rou HEALTHFUL BEST. M
GOOD FOB &p!m<- 1
GOOD FOR Sbas'DMY
Waltebbobo. 8, C. Feby. 27,1897.
Dear ms:?Having suffered several days
wini "La Grippe" and getttn? no relief -'
liom many ottier coogb medicine, I-tried ' ^i
McMillan's Grippe Cougt Gore, I <au ; * J
truthfoUy say 1 foacd it the best remedy L > bave
ever tried, before fialabia* the boct e ij|
was .cared. Kespeetfally. .
COL. B. STCKES. ||
I 25 cents for large bottle. For s*Ie by a
Druggistj. It yoar druggist doesn't ;
it, send us 25 cents and we will send It bj
^Oct q "S