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U__L1M I,,, 11 mi in I in in? BEN RATH THE CITIES DR. TALM^Gt PLEACHES ON MENACE, CF CRIMINALCLAS ES. flea For BetterPrisons?Acd. B'clamu'ion j T> ?TVia!- Thr^awas to i O.I ticivai - ?? Eeatroy Society?Mrnaco of :h* IaK? j Uprooting Claeses. In this sermon Dr. Talmage in a startling : way speaks of the dangers threatening our j great towns and cities arid shows how the j Blubbering fires may be put out. Hi* text j is Psalm Ixxs, 13, "The boar cut of the \ wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the ! fi Id doth devour it" By this homely but expressive figure j David sets forth the bad influences which in olden'time broke in upon God's heritage, as j ?fnnr ffimninff and fLH with ! WlUi OTIAUV O 4WV | swine's snout uprooting the vineyards of j prosperity. What was true then is true i now There have been enough trees of i righteousness planted to overshadow the whole earth had it not been for tee ax men-! who hewed them down. The temple of truth ' would long ago have been completed had it! not; been for the iconoclasts who defaced the i alls and battered down the pillars. The j whole earth would hive been an Eschol of j ripened clusters had it not been that "the ; boar has wasted it and the wild beast of the fieid devoured it/' I p opose to point out to you those whom I consider to be the destructive clashes of ; society. First, the public criminals. lou ought/not to be surprise that ihese people: make up a large proportioa of many com- i munities la 1S69 of the 49.000 people wio ! were incarcerated in the prisons of the county 32.000 were of foreign birth. Many of them were the very desperadoes of society, oozing into the slums of our cities, waiting for an opertunity to riot and steal and debauch, joining the large gang of American thugs and cutthroats. There are in our cities people whose entire business in life is to commit crime. That is as much their business as jurisprudense or medicine or merchandise is your business. To it they bring all their energies of body, mind an i soul, onrl Hiott IaaIt nnnn tho inff?rr?cmnTns whifih they spend in prison as so much unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an attack of influenza or rheumatism -which fastens you in the house for a few days. It is their lifetime business to pick pockets, and blow up safes, and shoplift, and ply the panel game, and they have as much pride of skill in their business as you have in yours when you upset the argument of an opposing counsel, or cure a gunshot fracture which other surgeons have given up, or foresee a turn in thf; market so you buy goods just before they go up 20 per cent. It is their business to commit crime, and I do not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality strikes them Added to those professional criminals, American and foreign, there is a large class of men who are more or less in- I 'dustrious in crime. Drunkenness is responsible for much of the theft, since it con. fuses a man's ideas of property, and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Kum is responsible for much of the assault and battery inspiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate, though it be on the face of the next gentleman. You help to pay the board of every criminal, from the sneak thief who snatches a spool of cotton up to some man who enacts a Black Friday." More than that it touches your heart in the moral depression of the community. You might as well think to stand in a closely confined room where there are 50 people and yet not breathe the vitiated air as to stand in a community where there are so many of the depraved without somewhat being contaminated What is the fire that burns your store down compared with the conflagration which consumes your morals'." What is the theft of the gold and silver from your money safe compared with the theft of your children's virtue? We are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at the top of our voice, "Stoptnief!" and when the police get on the track we come out ha-less and in our slippers and assist in the arrest. We come round the bawling ruffian and hustle him off to justice, and when he gets in prison what do we do for Him? With great ?^ gusto we pnt on the handcuffs and the hopplea, but what preparation are we making JLV1 kUO VAC9J TlXk^U. CbAAVA come off? Society seems to say to these criminals, "Villain, go in there and rot!" when it ought to say; "You are an offender against the law, but we mean to give you an opportunity to repent; we mean to heip you. Here are Bible' and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look and live." Vast improvements have been made by introducing industry into the prison, but we -want something more than hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these people. Aye, we want more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Society must impress t^ese men with the fact that it does not enjoy their suffering and that it is attempting to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals suppose that society has a grudge against them, and they in turn have a grudge against society. They are harder in heart and more infuriate when they come out of jail than when they went in Many of the people who go to prison go again and again and again. Some . j* n r i_ _ J - xi years ago, 01 prisoners wno uurmg tae year had. been in Sing Sing 400 had been there before. In a house of correction in the country -where during a certain reach of time there had been 5 000 people, more than 3,000 had been there before. So, in one case the prison and in the other case the house of correction left them just as bad as they were before. The secretary of one of the benevolent societies of New York saw a lad 15 years of age who had spent three years of his life in prison, and he said to the lad, "What have they done for you to 'make you better?" Well," replied the lad, "the first time I was brought up beiore the judge he said. 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself.' Aud theu I committed a crime again, and I was brought up before the same judge, and he said, 'You rascal! And after awhile I committee some other crime I was brought before the same judge, and he said, 'Yov. ought to be hanged!'" That is all they liad done for him in the way of reformation and salvation. "Oh," you say, "these people are incorrigible." I suppose there are hundreds of pert>ons this day lying in the prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation if society would only alIatit V*arr\ a tttqtt ivn o n <Jbj u^vvuvj ouu x bility. "Oh," you say, "I have no patience with these rogues." I ask you in reply, How much better -would you have been under the same cicumstances? Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your father a sot and you had started life with a body stunned with evil proclivities, and you had spent much of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at 10 years of age you had been compelled to go out and steal, battered and banged it night if you came in without any spoils, and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and filth and decent society had turned its back upon you and left you to consort with vagabonds and wharf rats, now mucn Detter vovua you nave oeen; x have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would let crime run loose or which would sit in the gallery of a courtroom wheeping because some hard hearted wretch is brought to justice, but I do say that the safety and life ot the community demand more potential influences in behalf of these offenders. I stepped into one of the prisons of one of our great cities, tae air was like that of the Black Hole of Calcutta. As the air swept throucrh the wicket it almost knocked me down. No sunlight. Young men who had committed their first crime crowded in among old offenders. I saw there one woman, with a child almost blind, who had been arrested for the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the almshouse, where she rightfully belonged, but she was thrust in there with her child, amid the most abandoned wretches of the town. Many of the oiienders in that prison sleeping on the floor, with nothing but a vermin covered blanket over them. Tnose people, crowded, and wan, and wasted, and half suffocated, and infuriated, I said to the men, "How do you stand it here?" "God kn^ws," said one cne man. "We have to stand it." Oh, they will pay you when they get out! Where they burned down one house, they will burn three. They will strike deeper the assa?sin's knife They are this n-inute p'ouiDg worse burglaries Many of the j^iis are the bsst place 1 know of to manufacture footpads, vagabonds and 5b L:.' AMi^rtfAntc Volii /tnllanpa is ti ?n /*a]- 1 cui&ted t-> make scholars, nor Harvard so s well calculated to make scientists, nor i Princeton so weil calculated to niase theo- 5 logiaas, a-< the American jail is calculated to < m ke cria inals. 11 that these men do not i know of crime af'er they have been in that j style of di-.ngeou for some time, satauie ma-:: chination cannot teach them. Every hour j 1 these jails stand they challenge the Lord j: Almigoty to smite the cities. I call upon the j people to rise in their wra'.h and demand a j i reformation. I call upon the judges of our j: courts to ?xpose the infamy. 1 demand, in j behalf of hose incarcerated prisoners, fresh ; a>i> ?r>H ffhar sunlight. and. in the name of hira who had not where to lay his had, a! couch to rest on at night. la the inwuffcra | ble steoc l and sickening surroundings of: some of tlie prisons, there is nothing but j disease for the hody, idio -y for the mind and : death for the soul Stifled air md darknes i and vermin never turned a thief into an < honest mm We want me'> like John Howard and Sir William Blaekstone and women ! l;w Vii^oWk Pew 1.1 rl.. fnr the ririson^ of t r the United States w*iat those people did in | other days for the prisons of England. I thank Gc d for what Isa-ic T. Hopper and Dr Wines and Mr. Harris and scores of others have done in the way of prison reform, but we want somethiug more radical ; before upon our cities *iil come the blessing of him who said, "I'waS iu prison and ye came unto me.' In this class of uprooting and devouring population are untrustworthy officials ' Woe unto tbee, 0 land, when thy king is a child and thy princes drink in the morning!" ) ? * *J ? * - ? r*rV? o-n Kof? It ib St grC3rt C&i&>Q)liy LU cfc V/XtJ rr UVAJ. vuv? ; men get in to public authority. Why was > it that in New York there was such unparal- > lelcd crioie between 1866 and 1871? It was because the judges of police in that city for j the most- part were as corrupt as the vaga-! bonds thi'.t came before them for trial. These f were the days of high carnival for election frauds, a; sassination and forgery. We had the ''whiskey ring," and the "Tammany ring," and the Erie ring" There was one man during those years that got ?128,000 in ?? unKl?/* Tn a one yeir ior servmg mc jrw. . ? _ ? years It vas estimated that there were $50,000,000 of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had only to wink to the judge, or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was was decided for the defendant. Of.ihe 8,000 people arrested in that city in one year only, 3,000 were punished. These little matters were "fixed up," while the interests of society were "fixed down." You know as well as I that a criminal who escapes only opens the door of other c iminalities. It is no compliment to public authority when we have in all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men i?us and womf:a uuuuivuo v?v ? ^ whipped of justice. They are pointed out to you in th i street day by day. There you find what are called the "fences," the men who stand between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at great pric9 handing ever the goods to the owner to whom th?y belong. There you will nod those whe are called the "skinners," the men who hover around Wall street and and Third street with great j slight of hand in boads and stocks. There j you find the funeral thieves, the people -who j go and sit down and mourn with families j and pick their pockets. And there you find the ' confidence men," who borrow money of you because they have a dead child in the house and vant to bury it, when they never had a house nor a family, or they want to go to England and get a large property there, and they want to pay their way, and they will send the money back by the very next mail. There are the "harbor thieves," the "snoplifters," the "pickpockets," famous all over the cities. Hundreds of them with their faces ia the "rogues* callerry," yet doing nothing for the last five or ten year but defraud society and escape justice. When these people go unarrested and unpunished it is putting a high premium upon vice aadsaving to the young criminals of this country, "What a safe thing it is to be a great criminal" Let the law swoop upon i them. L-it it be known in this coutry that crime wil. have no quarter; tha the detec-J tives are after it; that the police club is be-j ing brandished; that the iron door of the ' prison is jeing opened; that the judge is? ready to call the case. Too great leniency j to crimin;>ls is too great severity to society. ! Among the uprooting and devouring class-\ es in our midst are the idle Of course I do not refer ,o the people who are getting old or ! to the sick or to those who cannot get work, j but I tell you to look out for those athletic j men and women ?ho will not work. When j the Jb'reuch nooiemau was ?sa.cu nuj he kept so busy when he had so; large a property, he said, "I keep ! on engraviag so I may not hang myself." I j do not. care who the man is, he cannot afford i to be idle. It is from me idle classes that the criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if it stands still too long. Who can wonder that this world, where there is so much to do and all the hosts of earth and heaven and hell#re plunging into ! the conflict and angels are flying and God is J at work, and the universe is a quake with j the marching and countermarching, <-od} lets His indignation fall upon a man who chooses idleness? I have watched these do nothings who spend their time stroking their beard ai d retouching their toilet and criticising industrious people and pa3s their j days and nights in barroms and clubhouse, I lounging and smoking and chewing and card playing. They are not only useless, but they are dangerous. How hard it is for . thern to wbik away the hours! Alas, for them! If they do not know how to while away an hour, what will they do when they have all eternity on their haads? These men for awhile smoke the best cigars and wear the best broadcloth and move in the highest spheres, but I have noticed that very soon .hey come down to the prison, the almshouse or stop at the gallows. The police stations of two of cur cities furnish annually 200,000 lodgings. For the most part, these 200,000 lodgings are furnished to able'oodied men and women?people as able to work as you and I are. When they are received no 1> nger at one police station, tkoTT n-~o Uwnflntm " fTlftv to ' some other station, and so they kept moving around. They get their food at house doors, ; stealing what they can lay their hands on in the front basement while the servant is J spieading the bread in the back basemeut. They will not work Time and ^ain, in the country districts, they have wa_. ;d hundreds ' and thousands of laborers. These men will : not go at it. They do not want to ' work? I have tried them. I have < set them to sawing wood in my cellar, to Bee whether they wanted to work I offered to pay them well for it. I have heaTd the saw going for about three mirutes, aadthenl WMt.ridffii Arirl In thp wnnd hut nn ?aw! They are the pest of society, and they stand in the way of the Lord's poor, vrho ought to be helped, and will be helped. While there are thousands of indust ious men who cannot get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea Sleeping at night at pu*-'ic expense in the station house; during the day, getting their , food at your door step. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it Blackwell's Inland or ; Moyamensing prison would be a comfortable ' KrtmafAti tUrkm rrrrs'i 1 rl Vi o ttq r* r\ 1AVJOJV/ iUi tii^Ui. 1IVU1U U(i ? V UV UUJVW ^ tion to the almshouse, for they like thin j soup, if they cannot get mock turtle. ( I like for that C'as3 of people the siant bill j of fire that Paul wrote out for the Thessalonian loafers, "If acy work not, neither ( should he eat." By what law of God or man is right that /ou and I should toil day in and day out until our hands are blistered and our ' arms ache and our brain gets numb, and then be called upon to support what in the United States are about 2,000,000 loafers! * They are a very dangerous class. Lei the ' public authorities keep their eyes on them, 5 Among tae uprooting class s I place the ( oppresseu. pcur. iu?cicjr tv tv uciia.u ex- ' tent is chastening- But after [that, -when it s drives a man to the wall and he hears his < children cry in vain for bread, it sometimes 1 mah.es him desperate. I think that 'here | are thousands of honest men lacerated into , vagabondism. There are men crushed un- j der burdens for which they are not half paid. Whi.e 'here is no excuee for crimi- , naiity, even ia oppression, I state it as a simple fact that nrjch of the scoundrilism of the community is consequent upon ill treatment Xcere are many men and women battered and bruised and stung until the hoar of despair has come, and they stand 1 with the ferouity of a wild beast which, pur-uei until it can run :.o lonrer, i'utos routid foaming and bleeding to CgUt the hounds There is a vast underground city life that i % - ----IT-. J -1 A.1 T. . . ,s appalling iiau suaoi-'iui. u wuiows auu steams with putrefac'ion. You so do?n the 5 airs. *hich are w-t and decayed with filth, ind at the bottom you find the poor victims sn the floor cold, sick, three fourths dead, linking into a still darker corner und r the : gleam of the lantern of the t-olice. Toere has ; QOt been a breath of fresh air in that room :' for five years literally. There they are? j : men, women, children; blacks whites; Mary j ' Magdalene without her repentance and Laz- | ' arus without his God. These are the "dives" j 1 into which the pickpockets and the thieves j g5, as well as a great many who would like j; a different life, but caunot get it. These j places are the sores of the city which bleed ] ] nprnp'na.1 ftnrruntiors Thev are the liririer- ' , lying volcano that threatens us with a Cara- !: cas earthquake. It rolls and roars ami sur- j ges and heaves and rock3 and blasphemes | anJ dies. And 'here are only two outlets j for it, the polic^ -ourt and the potter's fi*;d, j In other words, they must either go to pris- j on or to hell. Oh, you never saw it, you j' say. You Lever will until on the day when j these staggering wretches shall come up in I the light of the judgment throne and while i all hearts are being repealed God will ask | you what you did to help them. There is another layer of poverty and des-1 titution?not so squ-tlid, but almost as help- i less. You hear their incessent wailing lor j bread and clothes and fire. Their eyes are j suukeu. Their cheekbones stand out. Their j hands are damp with slow consumption. ] ineir nean is punea up wun uropsies. a.ueir breath is like that of a charnei house They hear the roar of the wheels of fashion over head and the gay laughter of men and maidens and wonder why God gave to others so much and to them so little; some of them thrust into an infidelity like that of the poor I German girl who, when told ia the midst of her wretchedness that God was good, she said: "No; no good God. Just look at me. No good God." In these American cities, whose sry of want I interpret, there are hundreds and thousands of honest poor who are dependent upon individual, city and state charities. ]f all their voices could come up at once, it would be a groan that would shake the foundations of the city and bring all earth ana neaven to uie rescue. i>ui, lor uie must, part, it suffers unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashing its teeth and sucking the blood of its own arteries, waiting for the judgment day. Oh, I should not wonder if on that day it would be found out that some of us had some things that belonged to them some extra garment which might have made them comfortable on cold days; some bread thrust into the ash barrel that might have appeased their hunger for a little while; some wasted candle ox gas jet that might have kindled up their darkness; some fresco on the ceiling that would have given them a roof; some jewel which, brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being crowded off the precipices of an unclean life; some New Testament that would have told them of him Vho "came to seek and to save that which was lost!" Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger and nakedness that dashes against our front door? t j? :c ;? ?0 t HLMjJ X YTUJUUC4. IX J'VU iigai XI/ 00 1UUVU *mo A. hear it and see it! I have been almost frenzied with the perpetual cry for help from all classes and from all nations, knocking, knocking, ringing, ringing. If the roofs of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down into them just as God looks, whose nerves would be strong enough to stand it? And yet there they are. The sewing women some of them in hun ger and cold, working night after night, until sometimes the blood spurts from nostril and lip?how well their grief was voiced by that despairing woman who stood by her invalid husband and invalid child and said to the ci y missionary: "I am downhearted. Everythings against U9, and^hen there are other things " "What other things?" said the city missionary. "Oh," she replied, "my sin." "What do you mean by that?" "Well," she said, "I never hear or see any tnmg good, it s wors irom Aionaay mora- i iag to Saturday night, and then when Sun-1 day comes I can't go out, and I walk the J floor, and it makes me tremble to think that I I have got to meet God. Oh, sir it's so hard | for us. We have to work so. and then we have { so much trouble, and then we are getting j along so poorly, an see this wee .ittle thing ! growing weaker and weaker, and tnen to think we are getting no nearer to God, but floating away from him?oh, sir, I do wish I was ready to die!" I should not wonder if they had a good real better time than we in the future to j make up for the fact that they had such a | bad time here. It would be just like Jesus j to say: "Come up and take the highest seats. I You suffered with me on earth. Now he glo-! riSed with me in heaven-" 0 thou weeping | One of Bethany. 0 thcu dying One of the ; cross. Have mercy on the starving, freezing j homeless poor of these great cities. T want, ron to know who are the imrootintr 5 classes of society. I want you to be more discriminating iu your charities. I want your hearts open with generosity and your hands open with charity. I want you to be male the sworn friends of all city evangelization, and all newsboys loding nouses, and all children's aid societies Aye, I want you to send the Dorcas society all the ca^t off clothing, that under the skillful manipulation of the wives and mothers and sisiers and daughters these garments may be fitted on the cold, bare loet r-.nd on the shivering limbs of the destitute I should not wond-r if that hat that you give should come b&ck a jeweled coronet, or that gaament that you this week hand out from your wardrobe should mvsteriouslv be whitened and some how wrought into the Saviour's own robe, so in the last day he would run his hand over it ana say, 'I was naked and ye clothed me." That would be putting your garments to glorious uses. Besides all this I want you to appreciate < in the contrast how very kindly God has 1 dealt with you in your comfortable homes, at . your well filled tables and at the warm registers, and to have you look at the round j faces of your children and then at the re- j view of God's goodness to you go to your room and iock the door and kneel down and say; "0 Lord, I bave been an ingrate! Make me thy child. 0 Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unsheltered today, I ' thank thee that all mv life thou hast taken 5 such good care of me! 0 Lord, there are s many sick and crippled children today, I . thank th?e mine are well, some of them on earth, some of them in heaven! Thy good- J ness, 0 Lord, breaks me down! Take me once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many ; years ago at lhe altar, while my mother held me, now I consecrate my soul to thee 1 in a holier baptism of repenting tears. ,:For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to bleed, And I'm a sinner vile indeed Lord, I believe thy grace is free. Oh, magnify that grace in me!" W?b3t?r G?ta Th?r?. I 4 J! t-L jf TTT A X _ j I cuspaico irom wasnmgion 10 tne ( JTews and Courier says "Boss Eagfne i A.. Webster received Wedar>d ly his lonsr delayed regard for his fidpiity < co Mark Hanr.a and President McKin ley. His appointment as collector of internal revenue for ths district of ; South Carolina was aorcuccei at the i Executive mansion W^dn-sdiy mo^a I ;n?. Ii was some'/ai:?)? of a surorisf ( to the members of ibe 'Palmetto" c ;l c >ny who were under tee impression, i tbat Collect-r S. A Towns, would be < allowed to serve ou: his four years s term, which does not expire untii c January 11, 1897. At the treasury dc- j aartment no reason is assigned for tHf ? udden deeaoitaiicn of Collector t Co*rns in the interest of "Boss" Web t iter. Tiie friends of Mr. Towns had s Assurances from the President and 1 Secretary Gage that no change w-js ? jontetr.pl^tt d ur?tij the expiraiioo o* t lis term ' Sjss" Webster publicly stated oaly a few wetks sgr> that he I'd not exp?ct a Vicancy in the collec r ;orsbip until next January. It is e mown, nevertheless, that ilr. Web f 5t~r has been actively and uncf-asir.-^ . ly at work to dislodge Collector V ?o ts, and success has crowned his a efforts at He justifies the bciion t )' the Pi-ea'ideiit ?>> sajii'g t> at he was c oi alio **d 10 serve out his four je^rs ->v th?- Cleveland Admi^iratioo.aud c '?eref>>re, 3<5> To^ns s .ou.d uoicom- I plajii V'r Websrer will go ro sr or-ce t"> r.b'aia nis b t'd o $60 00c ; >nd quii'ry ms p-.-mc ly .-s \.r s nv so sz LtiUje on ti:e w*y rolt ? ?2,750per annum." 1 LE JUSTj-jg 8:. DONE. Jadz- Xz:-3' u'd b- R y'..-c fl Cp:>n ti; t tJ : c'n W? ?-av#. rscs-:?''y y b car vicrs q ' a ?hft ^Ic-c-io:; <>f "ji-o .< .? $non to b" : \ ad by the As-'-ixicIy aud ?>: j' i oe n-a'.tt-r gros* i:n;tortaue4 to j. Lbe ueopla we:au:i: proper to ex !i [end I'nos? views < y eos'e-ETiirs? f, j practice iBat has rcc.^ iy o.-aie to our ! [iO-ice f 7h?> cfficr- c* i.:ri a'i ;"?dgn is no*. on- i !? a Meh an;i mo"? .?a o :e but if. is ^ on* thiir sh?: 0- fi'.lt-:? >.Uh t'r:r f=: i -.lability at? ,s'. ict< 2'it-. ; ] 1:0 U<ati *' ' IV d ' M V-C'i to O. CUt/V { s ta>- b -<ich o i re v' rac :o:>a! o f j * -rst.cts, du'iu 'i: i - i p.'KCsa I PO-; tr.e bzi.c > .<> s, re.?utd (>< polni j c.<i service, and w j tee a mac j Msopiitig to a sjslciDaiia rtetbed tr lection-en- g t> r>r jou? ? * --oh a gesi ' iio>", w? K:U-t iri k fee dofiBoi 3p ^ preciate liif- imp >riai;ce. a-.ci the dig- j nit? of such a h'gh trust. Tn<? cS;i , ;i* j-idge is ;he ~ortiiy ambition of j sf.rjy jasyer, but his star dice in his ^ pr./essioa ar,u tae^sr>e-a of tits breth < r? a of lb? Bir sr.ru s b- such lh<*? bis aualiScA'tioLS sre koown by th se who ; J Lave selection to nuke To ?L .*od tre i oua'rv with circular itttirs b jr^i^g j1 for voies is beneath the dignity of a {( aaa who rtas the requisite qcuiifica j . tioas to sit in ja yairnt upon the j ^ rights and the property of his fellow j mac, and when we saw the circular is 5 su;d by Mr. T. W Baeot, of Charles-1 ( ton, we could not endorse the meth- i cds f.dopted by him. The idea of an c aspirant for a judgeship getting down J to'the ievel of the' politician is appall - f. ltg. What has become of the rersr- ] ] ere* for tb judicial ermine? Has the ' judiciary bten placed in the category 1 j of poJi icsl offices, to bo traded aud j; manipulated bj the skillful hands of \ scheming politicians? It begins to look \ ihat way when men have so little re ; gard for the sacredness of the position < as to go about soliciting for votes. We have never heard of such a method in lhis State before, acd there t is no bttier way of stopping it, than , by placing the stamp of disapproval j upon it and instead of selecting a man j 1 for the bench who has resorted to the I n cffica seeker's tactics, offer the ermine ! as a reward forhi^h character, learn- 1 ingr and patriotism. We couJd, if we had the selection of sucb, place the judicial ermine upon , tne shoulders of a Mitchell, a Barker, \ a Lord, of the Charlts;.on Bar, or if ? we had a personal preference, James * F. Izlar, of the Orangeburg Bir. Tne j latier gentleman would as cace be ap . proved of by the people at large. He occupied the Dench one term with honor to himself and his State aad it ] was only in the heat of political tx citement that bis removal came about. ' Judge Jz ar is univeisaily bc-loved ihrou^houi South Carolina, and we , belitve he was one of toe btst judges j in the State. He was able, learned i aud always a courteous geatieman. in our opinion ine u-enerai Aasemoiy could not cio a batter act than elcCiiug j ror jud?.je of the first circuit General t J?mes F. Jzlir. His &ervicts to his ( country :a Uooes of war and p^acs , should not be forgotten Take his re-; < c^rd while in command at Fort Fisher ( when that dt-sp^raie fi^nt was mtdc . and it is enougn to mtrii the affeciiuns j of the pft'-oirt. Then in the trying ' iim^s of 1876, when this SUte was re j lifcVfd of mat horde of 04.pressors, j much of the rtsp jusibiiity w^s upon j the shoulders of Gen Jzlar wno was ( then our S ate chairman, and to hia ( ma^iiiSceiit mauagt-m-m c^n, in a rrevn lo>-i7i? lr.? su.tri nuLed tht: *N,MJ > ? . tj erthrow of tfit Republican pany a?idtht? rt.8torat.ioa <f iioaiv rule for Sviith Carolina. If Juagr B^et is tube defeated upon the ground luat iic was icn ported to the fuss circuit, ai?d i hat importation wts wroog, then , rijfht tne ^roi g bv returiiia^ the er oii' e to a u eaib 'r of the Bar o? the , fir?t circuit and by replacing it up >n J ihe shoulders of Judge James F. Iziur from whom it V7as takes witauut , cause ?Manning Times , A. Grewt Opportunism J ! TC"e give awaj, absolute]\ free ai ' coat, ior a limited tiae only, Tr.% p0o > pie's; Cocrjm >u Sez>s- M^dLal Adviser, oy E V. Pierce, M D Chief Cur suit ma Physician to tbe Iavalids' H >t^i < asd Su-g:.-al Iastisute, a bxsk o 1003 ' large fctges, tirofu-.ely illustrated, | 4 b.iuiid in strong paper c;>vers to an> ! :?r.e sending 21 cents in ore cents 1 hi amps to co7sr cost of mailing only. ' Ov r 630,000 c.?oi*s of tbis co p:6ie 1 family Doctor B>ok already so'd in ' ciotb bi?:ditig at regular p;-ic? of $L 50, { World's Dispensary iledicii Associa- l lion, Buffalo, N. Y., Kjijigsd For Murder. < Ei^ard Hinkins, a white man, 52 < years old, vras Dasged at Chach&m -I C3uaty, Va , "Wednesday for the mur- 1 cJer of Dr. John Riy .Cabell, a i prominent cit zsn of Danville. Ran < kits killed Cabell on the latter's i farm, 25 miles fro a tfc era, August 22, s and >vas sentenced to fcasg Wtdnes- ' day. Condemned man went to gal- < lows -with firm step, but uttered not a i word. A'ter a shnrt prajer by a min- ' ister, tta trap was sprung and Han- -I kiua' neck was broken. < A DemocrsMc Vear. r In a Litter telephoned to the Naw ; ^\A/?* * ! /3 ? 4- *v\{/4 mi-vl 'Hiiocn/? f U 1 XUt A. ?T VlJLUab iLllUUI^'ib U^bU [ Low s-iid of his defeat: "It is not i possible to discuss the result ia New 1 York Citv at the present moment with 3 much discrimination. A few things, x I think, stands out on the surface of ; the figures. The je*r has been a r heavy Democratic year everywhere, i Tammany has felt the advantages of this strnnp-tendency'' c \ 3i Jp *Ed Crew Loaf. C The large British bark Cordillera, c C*pt Everett, .from Newcastle. N. S c W, July 13 Jast. whic'a arrived at ^ Valpariso oil Sf-pt- 18 and sailed from ' Caktabuena. has been wrecked. All a dg board were drowned except the ^ Lwo mates and the ship's carpenter, i, The Cordiller* hc-d a registered ton*g- t :f 2 224 atd carried a valuable cargo, e Remember this, Boys-1 if our c FOUL*- men and boys," says the Bar- c Fla., Courier. "would make up Lbeir minds to put the ssme 2mouut of ? ireful study and thought upon apri- J julrnre atd horticulture that they e jyould upon b. ok-ke<-piG2r, or lav7, or ' nedicin*, they could become just ss P successful so far as o.oney mskica: is ? ?>ncrrned acd ai the same time en 1' i >y a far greater freedom for tbe wor y and trouble which are unavoidable d ;r. countered in all the other 'r?desor d >recessions '' The News ana Courier a ;ays tnis holds as tru? in South Caro ' ina as in Florida. Oar your g men ? i? d boys v7ou?d do well to considtr i:s a ruth. 1' Should Have a Showing ?If a I nan Dad a two dollar ball pup says an 1 xchange, hs would look after it case P ally and not let him be around at s >is:ht all ovt-r town, but if he has a C >Ov ii is different. Se is turned Iocs- d a an e??riy age to go to The d-vil, and ipeople ^cnd'-r -s-htre t'.e arm il >f dtvd beats, tramps, borr.s. hobos, ti ?>a'ers. gamb'ftrs, and drunkards tj some fro^u They are germinated ? ; m cur b^mes and ?o^n ^r adcast * n our >tr e:.s and alleys. I;. may oe t! 'm.. "jour n??y is mik n ?*o-vth in * ^ :^t dir-'ctio >. Ati&li < v. tiis t"? toy > ii u d >c eivc2i a showing with ihe}^ puy, - Xi - ii i i i iMinn .tin. i ii . A 3R0KSR ON LOW COrTON. Jcuwsa' i?-5?s.ioa of ? 0^aX?r la Oostcxt FarrtTtg M* J?hn T E ridey, former]* of; Csr-^Iiaft. but uow one or the i >. vj, known or the cot Lor. ex;hjn?e in New Y-"?fir, arises a com rustication to the Jours-?.! which will >e r^nd with ?reat interest His posi ion is a v^ry ususual oce?e?;p.3ci?Uy V r ? b-riUt f ?*?n "charr.-e?butt-^s *?.?m <-s will r.o d^ubi; r^co^cize in him a ri^rd. and his course is to besdr.-'red Mr 3**d3*y wri*e* as 'oUots: Po tbp Edi'orof trie Journal: No d :ubt Th3 lat* civii war cost ttw south rn^uy lives a?d an irritnecse ?njoar?t of iiiouey, but in my opinion ;ir.c?:fi^ -eartre sou a bus lost at least iv~ the amount through. ex j*angfs or, cottor-; in fact the amcu'it A koi ey jest by ibe soufhem farmer nd specalatpr duringtne past iwentyi-#> je'-rsby h-aviosr the price msupula*-d by erofessiocal speculators wiii am u-t to many millions of clr.lars. I 'oeii- v* the average tovn ia. ;he south o' 5 000 people has lost by speculation ar?d K;.-vin^- ibe price rraar?u!au d the'aror.er ?ron $250 300 to $1 000 000?and think of tt-c uuaiber of to-*.- s! A. pro'tssicnal gambler in gambling >nlv ruiDS the individual with whom ie is gambling, but professional opera ;ors, in order to accomplish tbeir ends, not oniy ruin the individuals "out also uin many millions of individuals by ;ff:ctiasr markets which effects th*m ill, in order to mike their profits. Supply and demand for spot cotton ioes j-iottffect the price but supply a ad easand for futures establishes" the irice. For instance, every spot buyer simpv gsks how is the future market, and } the future market is 10 points lower, ae immediately lowers his limit eq ial .0 th? drop in futures, and every rarnc-r that ^markets Lis cotton dimply suffers from the drr p speculators causa, [a other words, spot buyers aud mill nen only have to break the future market in order to buy their spots at ffhattver price they care to fix, know.ng absolutely that the|average farmer nust sell on account cf his poverty at least a portion of his crop at whatever srice they may fix. Large American andEiropsan spiaaers never give themselves one moment's uneasiness about gettiae thei? supplies, in fact they simply reason ;kat they will get together, sell thousands of bales of futures, which will rat dov?a, the price, and as long as ;ney continue to sell the lower the price *ili be, and when they get the price bardy where the farmer can .xist they then buy their spot cotton, realizing that over a million bales per nouth will be marketed at absolutely ioy price they may fix. Tiie professional operator nearly always takes the Dear said Why ? Take for granted tnat the balls and bears J ?re eq i'-lly divided, tr e outsider as a general thing attracted by the lowj price and statistical position tak83 the Dull side and the professional operator LaJjea the b^ar sid^, no w say iq a crop 3f nine miiliou bales one hucd.-ed ;housxnd bales are marketed during ;be day, the spot buver buys >our spot jjtton; he has not sold prubaily all the rpots taa:- ue ^ougnt so ae i.nrn-dt itely sells fuiures against the spjf. purcnau63 Is it nottherefo-e apparent ihat there mast b9 u:ore oulis than tears to prevent a decline? The pro 'esiiona s anticipate the salts of these 3UJL UUJCId UWUUg Li*w ?; ? 3-' course ;?clp theui drive price? lo -?er. Many farmer:) o we for their supplies and ftrtil:z <rs atd simply sous- s=li, i&d che lower tfte pries the stronger ice creiitor iasi?ts on his money, because he ears tbat at triy low pric the 3rop will not 09 sufficient to pay, wh-reas if cotton was at a good prion l?i?? creditor would know tie need not worry about nia money, nca -vrouid not iiisist on having th-^ crop rusaed lo market tind forciog <* saie. Wneu an operator witi tea thous icd dollars can sell th'o crop of an 3urir? county ptooubly ?epresen4'ig tee inl'.TcSl aiid t-ffeciiag ten tnousanU 3 ?uis to s*y tne least of it it ia pi^ciny Little 7iiicusi-vii ou tkeii* ii'wr one doi lar per aununi. It rpuit uiidoubt'.dij bs very dis 2)ura^-mj;tu the iarm srs ti;at before LDey begin pia.'ituii; a?*v.;y wealthy p.tra.orsai'e wiliicg to seli them *vcu. 't-Y >r-s*?. Li m*!?* t a n-'W.p. a", whifih ;hey caa b*r.-ly exist. Ttiere is uo jihsr class of laO'jr except t&e farmer :bat lias the pridDCt of His labor traded ioou b?- a people thai, ntiiUcr kao-v ,r c?re ar-yming about bis welfare or jrosptrny. Sippjsa shers would be iiiosved an excaa^e oa the labor of ;krks, lawyers or mtcbanles w&erea ;rov7d of uoiaterested pso.'la could iei together and irade in the future .abor of tins class of people, oue party ivould offer to yet a clerk that is now eceiviag $1,000 per year for $900, an)iber will offer "to till bis place for $50, another for $751) and so oa, even .ill bis labor to a point where ne can iirelv make ends meet, the clerk must :ither accep;the salary the speculators ix or allow iiis family to starve, and he lower his salary c*n ba k'jpt tbe ess caaace ae has to imp/ova his coa htioa in aay maaner. Now it is j ist tbis way with the farmer, he is a-lo wed a price for his labor r7h:c'a enables hiza lo biroly exist, )at how is it parsible for aim ever to mprove? Ia caie he should receive a efeiiiiaa'ie pries for h s iabor/or a few feara he would bj ia a position to lave somithing to say as regard 3 his o?.*i r.At qIIatv q iUWv/A ) vlhUM 7TUU1V4 UVU ItiAV 11 U I )rice to be fix.d by people who know j lothicg ana care less for his labor. If the farmers of the south were in m independent condition, outsiders vould noi dare attempt to sat a price >n their labor, but as it is they dare lo anytning knowing thai on account >f their ntcesauy tnty must sabmit. /Vould any class of laoorer* except the armer ailow their labor to be bougnt md soid for a year in advance? No. fja are considered as being tne most gnorant ciiss and thtsesfcrcwd operaors would not attempt it on any other l^ss of iab^r, yet at the s^toae time in uining you tney are ruining every iter class of people with waom you ome in contact. Nearly every class and race of peo-1 (le must havt ycur production, but if rou tbink tiiat foreign countries and vtn oiher stcrions of this country, ?iJl not fore jou to ta?e as littie hS < .cs>ible for your product, ihan you < iad bstter reahzi it ui onae; don't 1 Dok for sympathy. < It is to their luicrest to keep you ! own, for oi.ee you btc ;ine iiidepen I ! entyou vrovla be tae icosc powerful s s well as thi richest country in the j rorid, because tee balance of tne > rorid is dependent upon you, where '< s you should be and could be abso ately iudependem o any secuon. j Vhat are you go;ug to do about it? j' ijt thii/gs roil aloDg as they art? j lany continue to work for 40 cents j I er day; stroujr, aoie fc aied, sensioie, ] -;od ^hite farmers for $12 per month. ? )r * ill ycu wake, up as you seecced to ! o inree jeirs ago wiitn^you aiicussrd | ] ae situation and seemed dr-t-rmiued ;' hat you would give the ma^er more aought and ait-ntion, when jou areafcmtd th^e operators T7itii the < lcicri biil aud oiad* tnem. thiakyou i rere doing your own thinking, asd 3 ae markr-t ad^anctd $20 per bale, or' 1 rih you take no intei est whatever in J1 our future coxiduoa afcd re- J 1 e .tad * to taose tha rei.*>jur--t 12 you? John T. Koddey. J< , as"'' *?.~ THAT FLftNK MOVEMENT. j 'nb itsai^ChrcBicli tVsrss Silver D<mecsrs Abou^ i*. E'ii'O" St^x-f.1:} b*s been sounding so'ne of the politicians, ?r d report* ss t foil >*s: i "I fc,sked a shrewd slate politician j J jst a'tsr the elections the oilier day lr he thought fr<-e silver would con-1 troi if.* r.c-x: prssia-nti&l eiecuon. i doubt it,' s*id he. 'lama frpe silver miBjbutltbiDk probably the fisrht vrill 1 be trsrs'er'vd to soks iise o- cirr^ncy reform. Silver a^ a solv&ry and a '*?cni3? issue has bad its dsr Pop- \ ulisos ?cs>lu no* :'use -*ith Derr-oca cj again uoon Bryanism I rpa^iztbat. But I tell you one ibine. Free silver will controi the state "lection I and rational election nexi 3 ear in Georgia. We should stand -on the last national pi itfcrm till we have another, tven though I am convinced 1 iha* the presidency in 1900 will be foUifi;t out on different line'. The nf-x'- governor of Georgia must stand foe diver.' *' Tbere is much talk of this kind, and some of it om3s fnmi men wno call ' thfrnssl^e '"free silver advocates" ; There will be a combination formed of "straddlers. dcd^ers, and harmo niz;rs," ba^ed ou & mere party spoils system. Although David B Hi 11 didn't put in an active fcppear&nce during tbe New Yo--k election be had a baud in it, ana worked by p^oxy. } Wfttterson. Crooker, G^rcion, Smith : cf New Jersey, Carter Harrison probably. Hoke Smith, Harrity, and possbly McLean, of Ohio, are said to be the moving spirits in this campaign of ; ''dropping silver,5' and substituting something else. The Springfield Republican shrewdly noting this attack on "Bryanism" shows: "Icistoo early to venture predic- j ticns, since much will depend upon the e vents of the comic?? v ear and 1 the congressional elections of 1898. Judging by the elections of last Tuesday. however, the outlook is not exactly promising. Tae fiy in the ointment is in the results elsewhere than in New York. Gorman was beaten on a straadle. The silver passion in Virginia, representing the south, and in Iowa and Nebraska, representing the west, showed no signs of weakening, whatever partisans may say. It must be r?m?mhered by those who would figure coldly in these matters that N^braski, an old Republican state, gave silver about as large a ma 3 jrity this yea? as iast, while in Iowa ihe Democrats, after a campaign on the silver issue, polled within 30,000! as many votes as in the presidential year, or a total which was the largest in iheir history in stite elections, with one exception. These results inlswa and Nebraska must be viewed in connection W:th the fact thai they are wh^at grooving states. The rise in wheat and the prosperity to the farm e.-s, therefore, which was expected to seriously cripple the silver movement, absolutely failed to damage ths silver cause in the prairie commonwealths. W*s there anything in Tuesday's e'ea tion m-*re surprisins tnan thai oae \ fact? Nor, next year wheat wili be > do va a^aia in pric?. and how a>e tht; | D m critic haraioniz^rs to capture tbe i P&riy in the w*st and south, which 'uraish^d the delegates who made silvtr tb* i?sae arid Br van the candidate in 1896?" Tceb;- are clear and forible presentations a! the case, and they coaie froca a piper favorable to tae gold standard, bit .eminently fai? and couras?' Gus. We advisatr-ecomvin^s; if they bs really plotting, *to await exeats We do not count on their being -tble to control the next national convention on such Hops as they are accredited with, but they will bear j wa c'iic-g. Perhaps, in selecting a ? candidate for governor of Georgia j next lime, a man who is disposed to j straddl-- in 1900 should be kept in re-1 tirenr-nt.? Augusta Chronicle. Salt For W*Us. If auy of our subscribers have wells I thatsrc- /ailing in water acd vei l put j a pint of salt in their wells thty will j find an increase of water within | t wemvfour hours, says the Green j TT l^rr. ? 1 \TT~ *"L ^ ' ?l?raJU *YCUU UUb UUUW ?Ut? | ohilcsopby of the matter, but severs' i i stances here in to?n, where the *,?. p rimant h'.s b ?n tried, demo ;<jtrate ; o.-.yo .dad ?lbt t?e ttfucy of tha esp rioGt-Lt. D/. Nickell, E.oery James, lbs editor of this pare;?, and others have used salt for this purpose and c*n testi'v as to she result?. The t*o tirst nam. d vcuad an. increase of one foot of water in. their wells within ; twenty-four hours, aud Mr. Jam- s : says be n* ver knew the remedy to fail to produce go 3d results. .* A liitle salt prrperiy applied -will conviae* the raost skeptical, and we hops all who are suffering a short supply of water will try it. A aorribls Accident. A terrible accident has occurred nesr Bielcstcck, Russian Polan, re sul tine in the death of thirty persons. A weaamg party was returning irom the churcii to the home of the briae. All were in one wagon, ahu.*e vehicle drawn by eight horses. The road along which they drove crosses the railway track on the levej, and the driver, either through carelessness or ignoraoce of the train schedule, pushed his swiftly moving horses upon the rossing just as the express was corning up The locomotive strusk the , vehicle squareiy, killing many mem- j bers of the pirly outright and maiming ; others sd they soon expired. Not a 1 msmbsr of the nartv eseaned. 1 \ A Queer Set. There musi be a qieer set of lawyers in Mor^antown, West Virginia. They have declared tbeoaselves by an. almost unanimous vote in favor of gov- j eminent by iD j motion. The Pittsburg j Post says: "Tni3 is noi at all strange. The lawyers of that corporation bossed state who are not attorneys for rail roads, coal cjrnpanies and other trusts j and corporations hope to become so. j They all know on which side or their j Vk^?>jr\ ] ho Ki r? o n^ t'ooc om t' WiV.lU iHV MUVi 1VV<J AL J butters d " j HlltOD'd i Iodoform Liniment is the " nee plu > ultra" of all such preparations iri re racing soreness, and quickly healing ( rcbh cuts ai.d wounds, no matter how [ bad It will pre/tip; ly heal old sores ) of long SifcdGdi"^ Will kill ibe pois '{ an from "Poisoii Ivy" or ll Poison I Oak" fnd cu-e "D?w Poison." "Will ; sounteracs the poison from Mies of ) snakes and slings of io3ecU. Ic is a { sure cure for sore ihioiv Will cure j aay c*se of sore mouth, and is a supe- \ ricr remedy for ail pains and acbes. S 3oid by druggists a ad dealers 25 cents (i a bottle. " jj A G-.orgia cjlorel mloiste? preacrrd tins good doc.rina to his people: ) "Bat 'taint no use ttr trabble aloxur dat 'i r?arr< r piia ifc&s yercaa carry Toided up | : in y-r ca- d, a good rec'coa.- diiion [ :r. m yer credito-s H b'3*n ain't no j ) aUce ur a en wfco has to dodge roun' | v a coraer fur fear or meetin' soenaone {.j fvno'il a?k fjr dai little Silidatnebotr j was paid." [ \ ' Don't waste your time in clipping - \ ihtt branches," said the woodsman j i ;o fiis son. "tut lay ycur sx at the j oot of the tree." And the youDg nan ^ent out and laid his as. at the j oh of the -ree, like a -?ood and dutiful! >oy, and t'^n he ^e&t fishing. Truly [ < here is noti-ing so beautiful as filial! >bedienca. ?. i .. _ .1A 9 arm c+r J + Vt-rr> ?? *-. Once a farmer had s<v-r?I thou pi.-unds of cotton, which he fold, nt to a S^rgle cost's buyer. buc <o s.e^^r.jl th^usai d ert dealers, a pou.od eacV?. kiro ir? cas'r, but fas-tue greater number sa:d i: w:s not cGuvefcKii? ~rbeo. but wouMpavj later. A few "months pissed, arid the ! raa.'/s b^nk account ran low. "How ! is t hi?,1'he said, 4 rr-v cottcn should! havakept m sffljence until ar-< ot-er <rap is rais-d b it I bave j parted, with it aod hav? instead only } a vhst. liSrmbfr^of. accounts, so small | aii-T scattered that Icacnot get sroucd j and coHect it fast enough to pay t-x j peases." So be posted ma public } notice and ssk-d sil t;*cse who owed | hi ai to pay quick iy Eat few cam<*;j the re&t said, '"Mine is only a small j maUrr, and I will go and pay one of j these days, forgetting. that though j each account was very small, when ail j were put together they meant a large j tuna. to that man. Things went on j thus. The man got to feeling so bsd | Ajr auu ruucu auu ct Juut 3<J uiuuu in bis efforts to colltct that be fell out of bed acci awoke, and running to bis giaery fouad bis cotton ssiil safe liiere. He had only been dresmlcg, and hadn't sojd his cotton at all. The nest day the man went to the publisher of his papsi, and said, ''Hare sir, is the psv for your pipe?, and when nexi year's subscription is due yoa de pead upon me to pay it promptly, I stood in the position of an editor last night, and I know hijwit feels to have one's honestly earned money scattered all over the country in small a men-its.'' tha Money Power Too Strong, We are told by an eastern journal that the cotton trade of Great Britain i rr* r _ _ ^ _ t _ # t_ . * nas sunerea so acutely irom ma money crisis in the east that it is profoundly depressed, and as a desperate expedient, those manufacturers "are bow seeking to cat the wages of their 2G0,000 operatives 5 per cent." T<ie manufacturers told the British "cabinet their trouble, hundreds of trades unions and the agriculturists petitioned the government lo give to France and the Uuited States a favorable answer, to save them from ruin; but the money %;ower was too strong, and. so that government broka its promise and betrayed England's producers at the same time. Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys is the most complete regulating mdeicine. It is mild in its operation Is agreeable and pleasant to the stomach. It will certainly build up a weakered and broken down digestion. Has none of the harsh action ol pills aad otber drastic purgatives. Is the best of all appetizers. Qjick in its beaeficiai effect on the kidneys. Is purely vegetable. Can betaken at an; time. 25c, 50c and $1.00 bottlesf! iifliSir mai1 ^s jailed, by >0ar. :l mistake lie prefers to come out the IP^!?1k??3j~ figTne way he went itc. ?P^||||3b? He may break jail and be &???? caught and pot back again. p^sSSr He'd rather have the door nnlocked and walk ont and. fpljg S A sick nnn is a prisoner in i?p-& the jail of disease: he has gone'l ip by some door of carelessness I or neglect or.irregular living, 8 andhemri?t nnlock this san-Jej door by careful, sensible habits r if hi wants to be a free, well n:au.agr.in. *? J 1; dysoepsia arsd biliousness or cjjstjp'i-1 _tior. ij tie v.ay he got into disea*^*; ke-his J "got to overco:u-' just those tror'ilss before? he can get out. _ The majority of diseases bv^Sxi with, sotne trouble of the digestive orpins or of. thfe lt7er, which prevents th& suppi* of proper nourishment to the svstem. The best i ? J., c? i- J ? v?-- - ~ ? -a icuif-xv ivu wiicfcc uov.^5? is i/r. irierce s 3 Golden TiJr meal I}** co-very, bvcrusc it gives the digestive anu blood - .making organs power to tiasimiiclc ?o?vl sr.d ttanssonn it into pu:^ *KJB**?hui? vit^lized"Tvith an a> ao-j^noa o; red l-o.j.uscJcs, It ticts directly upon the ,liver and gives :K Capacity t? flit"- all biijetrs impurities "sut of tuc: circulation. It builds tivr> solid, mv-cular flesh and healthy nerve-force. in obstinate constipauon the " Discoveryshould be used in conjunction with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the mo3t natural and thoroughly scientific laxative ever devised. The ''Pellets" regulate and invigorate the stomach, liver and bowels. One is a gentle laxative ; two act as a mild cathartic. ' Mv wife had suffered for seven vears with Avar pepsia, sick headache and costiveuc**," -wtrtn Mr. AIodzo D.Jameson, of JDunbarton, Merrimaci Co., y. H., "we tried many doctors and,many kinds of medicine, but ell were of no avail. We purchased six bottles cf your ' Golden Medical Discovery,' which together with the Pleaeaat Pellets' has entirely restored iay wife's health, and we cannot s*>y enough in fha^icc to jkm fas these valuable medicines." MCMILLAN'S GBIPPE COUGH CCBE. WXLL KEIIEVE THAT COUGH AND GIVE TOUT HEALTHFUL REST. GOOD FOR GOOD FOR SRIndmi I Walterboho. 5, C. Feby. 27,1897. Dear Sia:?Having suffered several days wicn "La G-nppe" and gettln? no relief 'rom maoy ottier coo^b medicine, I tried McMillan's Grippe Congo. Core, I can irnchfnlly say I foand it thd best remedy 1 lave ever tried, before finishing the Dortle wasftnrftd RAMjw>tfnHv "col. b/stokes. 25 cents for large bottle. d ve by all l>ruwlsts. If your druggist doesn'c kenp t, send ns cents aad we will send ic by -eturn exp-ess. W. C. McMILL^N, Druetfs'. Oct . 29 Colombia <' ; H From Maker Direct to Purchaser. ^ m ??= ? m |AlxOOd | I Piano j ?6 will test a (g$ sar ! !atime S?f ??' r 7ive H' joymcnU (Mm H A Poor Pic-. If ^ Skfc^JjilStjS^^lr^ will last a fev; ''??? S? years and ;?5. S& give endless istfr f ?& rile vexation.. igg. 3 11 ]|/f -air <j$.! |;MdiMU5iiUL M:^ Is always 'Joed, always Reliable, '^3* . always Satisfactory, ;iiways Last|C'j:. You xujtc no ciiuaoasia buy- ?S5; fi. costs gojru?5rbat rr.ore than a SjS cheap, pocryju/no, but is much the /j?8 cheapest in the end. 9e5' >'o othor High G rude Piano sold so fifiK ?? reasonable. Factory prices to retail ss? buyers. Easy payments. Write?s. la LUBSSS & BATES, ' Savannah. Ga.. uuJ >\rw York C!ty. ! Lddress: D &.'PRE3SLEY; Age at* I COLUMBIA S. C. I laiasw, Cm. iisui tinnn, R?wi r ! >MW Steilns. CSmop kwrC St?iteMi^g? } ' ' ~ v ' ; ..; MRfiUISM IN I 5i i unc * riHUUJ. PE IAL M Announcement, "s Piano -Jj and r\ urgan Exhibit at 1.509 Main st: &jm Columbia, $7C. BE^T GOODS | At Fair Prices. Remember j T T?vViiKif x jjAmuit at My store, see my bargains. :|| M, A. MALONE, '' ;: 1509 MAIN STREET, COLOMBIA, 8. O, Tir # * *. -vrv> a "vrcj XT JL-'? 4 !?/- AXl -f * JJLVtlT U? LIQUOR, ~ # M j OPIUM AND TOBACCO " HABIT . i |THOBOU6HLT t lRET/, REMOVED FRO31 COLV9SBLB ' THE EEELEY INSTITUTE fjk ?c, a a ' 2 tie mm i? the most complete <yt?m of aievatla* handling, cleaning and pac<tn/ cottonImproves staple, 3a?es labor, make* you money Write for catalogues, no mther : equals it. I . I handle fee most improved COTION ttISS, S32S3SS, ELXVATOSS, XK&lNX8 AJSTD BOlLEkC> to. be toond oe the market My Sergeant ho% Beam :5a w tfiii re, n H Unpilclty and eOdeEcy. a wonder. COB* MILLS, MASEEHS, GANG KBGE&3 and all wood working machinery. ulDDKLL mD TALBOTT SNGIXES [' are fee best. Wri!? lose before baying. tV,-CH Badh&m, i Seaessl Agent, *Wi TTM"RTA_ ft. a ! ^ : fe Mothers W? txks pi?as?.sc ic evus* ytra - *?a 1 ^ 3n So * WEeclj- J'l, *3SJ }<~i<rf fc* S*-?y. & .sr cMMroa tsfci? i/waKa. t * cr ric&i wSa^s of tae&lag. it ,.- v- :^| bleisia^ so mother aa<? cUid , i: ycu v* Sisturhea aii wi?j a nick, ireful toeai'ig ccilc, tse TT&? OarrnJcj^vr ; will sire teator-s r*lSsC, nr* r.^tlaw -r- * tw*^Bla; and mska teetMB?? wr^ ?n2 ti*-. It will cuia Dj*estf?cy ?K D&rb ? Rtts CarTiUR^ttTe ft ay iMU.; rs2flf fc- # COtfC at J$ will $rf<rtv. ?n &ifa z'-lc . <ooc5i.e. v>oexg; %i tbj? zv.-i fccwds, T&* xicfc, punj - ?!TOJ!*T eb;?3i will eocc bstcor^ 3j7S *?t sd-1 J-oUcfcna je ? it*3 !l03Sf:;lCL'U '* ;?< " XT r>l**WLi .'J vj. V .fe* a-*^ .% .f (..v> ?> ! . -.fa - ? ? "THE MURRAY DRUG CO.,^^M Columbia, S. C. fw B".TTi /Hi.LlUi\ o 1I 'E FOB THE LIV EB AND? KIDHEYS, as its name imparts, is a stimiiator aad regulator .to~ J ttoseorgais. Istbebest a^ter^H mwls medicine to aid dig ston Jj Prevents; Headaches. - Cures |H^ . * BillionsQeis* Acts en tbe Kid- :?:j? n* ys. within Thirty minutes alter _ . ? | tafemg, relieving tc^es in the Hi back from disorder i f tbes^eor-^B gans. Believes a!J stomach _-d *- ? To ?ntfrely vegetable, ^-r I l ?cr*and 5103 ? bottle. S?WB iB "jv C'r? y*1$I gold by dealers generally and by THE MURRAY DKUli CU.f COLUMBIA, S. 0.