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CHOICE OF FRIENDS." Dr. Talmage on the Evils of Bad Company. A KINDLY WARNING TO ALL. Old and Young Must Shun Evifc \ssociates, as "a Companion of Fools Shall be Destroyed." In this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks on a theme which all men, young and j old, will be glad to see discussed, and ! the kindly warning will no doubt in many cases be taken; text, Proverbs xii, 20, "A companion of fools shall be destroyed." tkMay it please the court," said a con victed criminal when asked by the judge what he tad to say why sentence of j, . death should not be pronounccd upon him, "may it please the court, bad company has been my destruction. I received the blessing of good parents and : nrnniispd tf> avoid ail Ill 1CIU1U evil associates. Had I kept my promise I should have avoided this shame and the burden of guilt which, like a vul ture, threatens to drag me to justice for my many crimes. Although 1 once moved in high circles and was enter tained by distinguished men, lam lost. Bad company did the work fur me." Only one out of a thousand illustrations was that of the fact that ,ka companion of fools shall be destroyed."- It is an invariable rule. Here is a hospital with a hundred men down with the ship fever. Here is a healthy man who goes into it. He does not so certainly catch the disease as a good man will catch moral distem per if he consents to be shut up with the viciou3 and the abandoned. In the prisons of the olden time it was the custom to put the prisoners in a cell to gether, and I am sorry ta say it is the ?*:il oatma At AU? nriSATJQ* fift UU3VUUI DUJi lu sviav/ vi. that when the day of liberation comes, the men, instead of being reformed, are turned oat brutes, not men, each one having learned the vices of all the rest. We may in our worldly occupation be obliged to talk to and commingle with bad people, but he .who voluntari ly chooses that kind of association is ^ ~ ~ carrying on a courtship with a Delilah which will shear the locks ol his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Look over all the millions of the race, and you cannot show me a single instance where a man voluntarily associated with the bad for one year and maintained his integrity. Sin is catching; it is infectious; it is epidemic. A young man wakes up in one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the arm into whose service he has entered. In the morniDg he enters the store, and all the clerks mark him. measure him. discuss him. The bad clerks of that establishment, the good clerks of that establishment, stand in some relation'to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal introduction, and even after they have had the introduction they are very cautious as to whether they shall call him into their association before they know him very well. But the bad young men in that establishment all gather around him. They ^patronize him, they offer to show him everything that there is in the city on one condition?that he will pay the expenses, for it always happens so when a good young man and a bad young man go together to a place of evil entertainmentr-Mhe good youDg man always has to pay the charges. J ust at the time the ticket is to be paid for or the champagne bill is to be settled the bad young man will effect embarrassment and feel around in his pockets and sav, "Well. well, really I have forgotten my pocketbook." In 48 hours after this innocent young man has entered the store the bad young men will gather around him, slap him on the shoulder with familiarity, and, if he is stnpid in noi being able to take certain allusions, will say, "Ah, my young friend, you will have to be broken in." And forthwith thev go to work to "break him in." Oh, young man. let no fallen young man slap you ou the shoulder familiarly! Turn arour.d and give a withering glance that will make me wretch cower in your presence. There is i <> monstrosity of wickedaess tii&t can stand before the glance of purity and honor. God keeps the lightnings of heaven in his own scabbard, and no human may reach them, but God gives to every young man a lightning which he may use, and that is the lightning of an honest eye. Anybody that understands the temptations of our great cities knows the use of one sermon like this, in which I try to enforce the thought that "a companion ox fools shall be destroyed." And, first, I charge you, avoid the skeptic?that is, the young man who puts his thumb in his vest and swaggers about, scoffing at your old fashioned religion, then taking out the Bible and turning over to some mysterious passage and saying: ;'Explain that, my friend, explain that. I used to think just as you do. My father and mother used to think just as you do. Bat you can't scare me about the future. I used to believe in those things, but I've got over it." Yes, he ha3 got over it, and you will get over it if you stay in his'companionship much longer. For awhile he may not bring one argument against our holy Christianity. He will by scoffs and jeers and caricatures destroy your faith in that religion which was the comfort of your father in his declining years and .V -.Ml __ _!_ 1 1J 4.1 tae puiow on wnicn your o:u muuier lay a-dying. That brilliant young skeptic will after awhile have to die, and his diamond will flash no splendor into the eye of death. His hair will lie uncombed on the pillow. Death will come up, and this skeptic will say to him: "I cannot die. I cannot die." Death will say: "Tou must die. You have but ten seconds more to live. Your soul? give it to me right away. Your soul!" ~ " "Oh, nol" says the skeptic. "Do not breathe that cold air into my face. You crewd me too heard. It is gettiDg dark in the room. Here?take my rings and take all the pictures in the room, but let me off." "JN'o," says Death. "Your soul! Your soul!" Then the dying skeptic begins to say, "0 God!" Death says,. "You declared there was no God." Then the dying skeptic says, "Pray for me," and Death says: "It is too late to pray; you have only three seconds more to live, and I will county them oS^-one, two, three. txone l" yv nere: - vv nere: Liarry mm out and lay him down-beside his old father and mother, who died under the delusions of the Christian religion singing the songs of victory. ... Again, avoid ^^Tdlers^-that is, those people wira^^th T*;^6und the r * < & T . store or the shop or the factory and try < to seduce you away from you regular1 ] calling and in your business hours try j to seduce you away. There is nothing 1 that would please them so well as to i have you give up your employment and consort with them. : These idlers you will find standing 1 around the engine houses or standing < at noonday or about noon on the steps ] of some hotel or fashionable restaurant, ! giving the idea they have dined there. < They have not ^ined there. They ; never dined there. Tbey never will < dine there. Before yon invite a youDg i I man into vour association ask him i plainly, ''What do you do for a living?" i If he says, "Nothing; I am a gentleman," look out for him. I care not i how soft his hand or how elegant his apparel or how high sounding his family name, his touch is death. These people who have nothiBg to do will come around you in your busy hours, and they will ask you to ride with them and they will tell you of some excursion that you must make, of somo wine that you mustdrink, of some beautiful dancer that you must see. They will try to take you away from your regular work. Associate with these men, and. first of all, you vr-M become ashamed of your apparel; then you will lose your place, then you will lose lose your respectability, then you will lose your soul. Idleness is the nest door to villainy. When the police go to fiad criminals, where do they go to find them? They find them among the the idle?those who have nothing to ao, or, having somethiog to do, refuse to engage in their daily work. Sume one cirne to jiood old Ashbel Green and asked him why he worked'at SO years of age when it was time for him to rest. "Oh," he replied, "I work to keep out of mischief." And no man cau afford to be idle. I caie not how strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be idle. But you says: "A great many people are suffering from enforced idleness. During tbe Hard times mere were a i great many people out of employment." 1 know it, bat the times of dullness in business are the times when men ought to be thoroughly engaged in improving their minds and enlarging their hearts The fortunes to be made 20 years from now will be made by the young men who in the times when business was dull cultivated their minds and improved their hearts. They will get the fortunes after awhile, while those meil who hang around their stores, never engaging in any useful occupation, will be as poor thm as -they are now. It is absurd for a Christian man to say he has nothing to do. I went into a store in New York where there were five Christian m^n, and they said they had nothing to do. The whole world lying in sin. Poverty to be comforted, sickness to be alleviated, a Bible in the back office, every A AnUrjUrt onirifno 1 opportunity Ul lucutai UUUU1&, culture; every inducement to work, yet a Christian man, sworn before high heaven to consecrate his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to do! If you have not any business ior this world, my Christian frieni, then you ought to be doing business for eternity. Again I counsel you, avoid the pleasure seeker, the man whose entire business it is to seek for recreation and amusement. I believe in the amusements of tne world so far as they are innocent. I could not live without them. Any man of sanguine temperament must have recreation or die. And yet the amusements and recrea tions of life must administer to hard work.' They are only preparative for the occupation to which God has called us. God would not have given us the capacity to laugh if ^e did not sometimes intend us to 'indulge it. God hath hung in sky and set in wave and nn err ti a a man xr ar An n rl pi a V_ T?nt i FliU,lVU ,, - all the music and the brightness of the natural world were merely intended co fit us for the earnest work of life. The thundercloud has edges exquisitely purpled, but it jars the mountain as ii says, '"I come down to water the fields." The flowers standing under the fence lock gay and beautiful, but they say, "We tund here to refresh the hus bandwen at the nooning." The brook frolics and sparkles and foams, but it says: "1 go to baptize the moss; I go to slake the thirst of the bird; I turn the wheel ot the mill; in my crystal c-adle I rock muckshaw and water'lily; I play, but 1 work." Look tut for the man who plays and never works. Lock out for that man whose entire business is to play ball or sail in a jacht or engage in any kind of merriment. These things are all beautiful and grand in their places, but when they become the chief work ol life they become a man's destruction. ^ i i P . II Ueorge Jtsrummei was aamirea 01 an England. He danced with peeresses and went a round of mirth and folly, until after awhile, exhausted of purse, ruined of reputation, blasted of soul, he begged a crust from a grocer, de daring as his deliberate opinion that he thought thai a dog's life was better than a man's. These mere pleasurists will come around you while you are engaged in your rty;k, and they will try to take you away. They have lost their places. Why not you lose your place? Then you will be one of them. Oh, my friends, before you go with these pleasure seekers, those men whose entire life is fun and amusement aad recreation, remember while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christian consecration, kind to the poor and elevating to the'world's condition, when be comes to die, be has a glorious reminiscence lying on his death pillow, the mere pleasurist has nothing by way of review but a torn plabill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or the cast out rinds of a carousal. And as in delirium nF his awful death hft clutches the goblet and presses it to his lips, the dregs falling on his tongue | will begin to uncoil and hiss with the , adders of an eternal poison. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. ; Tell me how a young man spends his Sabbath, and I will tell you what are ! his prospects in business, and I will ( tell you what are his prospects for the j eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred day when we are ^ to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant after giving six days to the feeding and the clothing of these perishable bodies that God should demand one day for the feeding and the clothing 3 of the immortal" soul? Our bodies are ( seven day clocks, and they need to be \ wound up,-and if they are not wound ( up they run down into the grave. No \ . - t i ii " 'n i man can continuously preas tne oaD- ? bath and keep his physical and mental < health. Ask those aged men, and they j will tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail either in mind, body or moral principle. A manufacturer gave this as his experience. He said: ''I i owned a factory on the Lehigh. Every- * thing prospered. I kept- the Sabbath, and everything went on well. 35ut one Sabbath morniDg I bethought myself of a new shuttle, and I thought I would 1 invent that shuttle before sunset, and 1 i refused all fcfod and drink until I had c jcrttpletsd that- shuttle. ,a By sundoirn [ had completed it. T'tis next day, Monday, I showed to my workmen and friends this new shuttle. They all jongratulated me on my great success. L put that shuttle into play. I enlarged my business; but, sir, that Sunday's svork cost me $30,000. From that day sverything went wrong. I failed in business, and 1 lost my mill." Oh, my friends, keep the Lord's day. You may think it old fogy advice, but I give it to you "now: "ilenember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy Grod; in it thou shalt not do and work." A man said that he would prove that all this was a fallacy, and so he said, "I shall raise a Suuday crop." And he plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then he put in the seed on the Sabbath and cultivated the ground on the Sabbath. When the harvest was ripe, he reaped it on the Sabbath, and he carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant to his Christian neighbors and said, "There, that is my Sunday crop, and it is all garnered." After awhile a storm came up and a great darkness, and the lightuings of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. Beware, youDg men, of all Sabbath breakers. Again, I charge you, beware of association with the dissipated. Go with them and you will in time adopt their habits. Who is that man fallen against ihe curb stone, covered with bruises and beastiliness? He was as brig.it faced a lad as ever looked up from your nursery. His muthcr rocked him, iouiiled him, wou'd not let the night air touch his ciieeJc ana neia mm up and looked down into his loving eves and wondered for what high position he was being fitted. lie entered life with bright hopes. The world beokoned him, -friends cheered him, but the archers shot at him, vile men set tiaps for him, bad habits hooked fast to him with their iron grapples; his feet slip ped on the way, and there he lies. Who would thiok that that uncombed bair was onoe toy^d with by a father's fingers? Who would think that those bloated cheeks were ever kissed by a mother's lips? Would you guess that that thick tongue c::ce made a household glad with ics innocent prattle? Utter no harsh words in his ear* Help him up. Put the hat over that once manly brow^ Brush the dust from that coat that onfie covered a generous heart. Show him the way to the home that once rejoiced at the sound of his f"Ot step, and with gentle words fceti his children to stand back as you help aim through the hall. That was a- kind husband onco and an indulgent father. He will kneel with them no more as once he d:d at family prayers?the little ones with clasped hands looking up into the heavens with thanksgiving for their happy home. But now at midnight he will drive them from their pillows and curse them down the steps, and howl after them as, unclad, the) fly down the steet in night garments, u ader the calm starlight Who slew that man? Who blasted that home? Whoplunged those children into worse than orphaeage?until the hands are blue with cold, and the cheeks are blanched with fear, and the brow is scarred with bruises, and the eyes are hollow with o TTTra/> ?.11 CI i rr nu uiauc? buau lug ? and filled eternity with the uproar of a doomed spirit? <=< Oh, if I had some art by which I could break the charm of the tempter's bowl and with mailed hand lift out the long serpent of eternal despair and shake out its coils and cast it down and crush it to death! Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh, turn your back upon these men. Shake off the- sceptic. Shake off the idler. Shake off the pleasurist. You may do this work of ejection in politeness, but you may do it firmly. You are not under any circumstances to lose all the remembrances of the fact that you are a gentleman and must always act the gentleman. A young man said to a Christian Quaker. ''Old chap, how did you get your money?** "Well," said the Quaker "I got it by dealing in an article in which thou mayest dealt if thou wilt?civility " Be courteous, be polite, bat be firm, Say "No" as if you meant it. If you say "No" in a feeble way, they will keep on with their imploration and their temptation, and after awhile you will stand in silcnce, and then you will say, after they have gone on a little iornrer, '"yes," and then you are lost. Oh, turn your back upon the banquet of sin! I call you to a better feast today. The promises of Go<* are the fruits. The harps of hoaven are music. The clusters of Escbol are pressed into the taDkards. The sons and daughters of the Lord Amighty are the guests, while standing at the banquet to pour tne wine aod divide the clusters and command the music and wclcome the guests is a daughter of God, on her Lrow the b'ossoms of paradise and in her cheek the flush of celestial summer. And ber name is Religion. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all licr paihs are peace." t Another Georgia Fiend. A dispatch from Fitzgerald, Ga., says: "At about 2 o'cJock Tuesday morning a negro named Bill Clark entered the home of Mrs. Sarah Baker, white, aged nearly 70 years, aad committed a criminal assault upon her. Mrs. Baker came here from Minneapolis, Minn. Nearly all the residents of the town are from the north and northwest. It was several hours before Mrs. Baker was able to apprise her neighbors of the outrage. I he man was captured and positively identified by his victim. Arrangements were made for a lynching when cooler counsel prevailed for the time and a preliminary examination was held and Clark was ordered committed to jail. While the trial was in proeress the lynching spirit arose again and arrangements were made to hang Clark as soon as hands could be laid upon him. Learning of this the officers spirited him away out 3f a back door. The mob, made up of both northern and southern men, is 3till looking for him. Should he be found'he will be hanged." Follows the Flag. The Charleston ,NTew3 and Courier, referring to the'fact that Senator Jones, )f Arkansas, declared "the constitu;ion follows the flag," the former frejuent assertion that "trade follows the lag," and the reports from Manila that jaloons follow it, declares that "altogether there is quite a procession belind the beloved emblem." Gainesville, G-a., Dec. 8, 1899. Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my 'amily and am perfectly that it is alJL, md will do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I "am using it, fcow_myself. It's doing me good. Sold by The Muray Drag Co., Columbia, S. C., and all iruggistg. tf I MEDICINES VS. NOSTRUMS. Proprietary Remedies from the Viewpoint of Modern Medical Science. (JAMES R. THOMPSON IX AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ) fbe time is past when members of t u uicuioa' ndiciuiij', wllu wumu speak with authority on matters pertaining to their profession, can deny that curative agents of real efficacy are to be found among proprietary remedies. Physicians belonging to what maybe most aptly termed the "old fogy type" have been repeatedly chagrined at viewing the wonderful cure? effected by a proprietary medicine, after they had, in sweeping terms, denounced the use of all specifics of the class under discussion as fraught with the gravest menaces to physical welfare. As a natural consequence of this fact the number of those among the medical profession who still administer universal and unqualified condemnation to proprietary remedies ase class is very small and is constantly on the wane, both as regards numerical strength and in respect tt> character and ability. The Journal of Health in this matter, as in all others which belong to the field it occupies, has always endeavored to bring its viewinto complete harmony with the facts that presented themselves to its judg ment; and it has never attempted to warp facts in such a wa7 as to make them fit into its preconceived vietfs For while the former spirit is indica tive oi an eangntenea ana reasoning progress, the latter is an unmistakable sign of intellectural stagnancy. Applying these remarks to the subject of proprietary medicines, we would indicate our attitude in this regard about . as follows: Wnile dealing out to the impostures so extensively prevalent in this line the most unequivosal and outspoken oensure, we do not hesitate to bestow words of commendation on such specifics as have shown by actual trial before our hygienic staff that they are remedies of undoubted therapeutic virtue. A medicine which has fulfilled Our most exacting demands in this respect, and one which therefore we feel justi fied in recommending to our readers, is "Life for the Liver and Kidneys," offered by the Life Medicine Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina. It has demonstrated to us, so conclusively as to leave no room for doubt even on the part of the most skeptical, that it is a thorough curative agent it all cases of dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, biliousness, Bright's disease, dropsy, gravel, rheumatism and all disorders arising from a diseased condition of the, liver, kidneys and urinary orgons. Iu '" dcr to show ho>v completely free from every non-judicial consideration our investigations are, we shall indicate brieflly the manner in which the examination of the remedy under discussion was conducted. A reore seDtative was sent from our office to collect testimony in regard to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys.". He was himself an entirely disinterested party, and the inquiry which he pursued was conducted in such a secret manner that no one commercially connected with the article in question had any means of knowing that its merits were being made the subject of investigation by a hygienic authority. Those who had ased the remedy for the maladies in which it claims to bring relief were interrogated in regard to the effect it had exercised in their own cases. The answers which were received were characterized by an astonishing unanimity. Every person who was visited and questioned with respect to "Life for the Liver and Kidneys" replied that he had found in it a most efficacious cure. This fact was ascertained co be true not only in cases of ordinary severity, but even in those instances which had succesfully withstood the skill of physicians as well as the curative powers of other proprietary remedies. Having pro3ccuted our examination of the medicine in question in a manner that could not fail to detcct any harmful attributes that might belong to it ?for our examination extended to all classes and to almost all ages?we feel that a simple regard for the precepts of equity, as well as the health-demands of our readers, calls for an editorial recognition of the genuine theripeutic virtues of ''Life for the Liver and Kidneys." - Gloomy Forebodings. A gentleman in Augusta has received a letter from a private correspondent in which he refers to the political status in this country :ind the impression which it has created upon the minds of JRepublican citizens of France. We quote the following paragraphs from the letter: " Vou speak with much patriotism ^bout Old Glory and the Stars and Stripes. Twenty years back that was all right, but since the G. 0. P. is in power, with its gold staudard, but with no gold in its treasury; with all the trusts and combinations; making war against the Filipinos and siding with England against the Boers, I don't see that I am very proud of our flag, which used to stand for liberty, "but now means highway robbery." "It did me good to hear W. J. Bryan. He ?aid we had better tike down that ureal, statute in the harbor of New York oi '"Liberty Enlightening the World," and get in its place a secondhand statute of George, the Fourth of England; it would be more appropriate and better suit the occasion and the time. If we don't have a change soon of some kind I think I will live to see the day wiien we will have a dictator here 01 an emperor. We are going that way sixty miles an hour. -Republican Frenchmen told mc "if the United States kept on this way for another ten years, increasing the army, getting colonies and doing everything like we are doing in Europe, we are all gone. The United States will fall and we will fall, aad then it will be a long time before another republic can stand."? News and Courier." A Triumph in Science. There can now no loDger be any question whatever of the true scientific 1 value of the Keeley Cure for alcohol- 1 ism and morphineism. Indeed, this < treatment was not actually offered to 1 the public by its discoverer, the lit- ; Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, until he Lad by } careful experimentation and by other \ method assured himself of its safety t and eifioacy. This treatment has al- 1 ready siood the test of time, and the c public confidence in its merits is con- j stantly strengthened by the public's j observation of what it has actually accomplished. The number of those who have been cured at Keeley Institutes is large enough to extend the proofs of its blessed fruits to every section of ^ our couatry. The Keeley treatment is administered at the Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. x Suicide of a Lady. ( Mrs. Susm Thirkild, aged sixty- i -three years, committed suicide Thurs- I day morning ten miles from Greenville. She was in good health, but had pre- 1 viously intimated she would end her life. She jumped in Reedy river and I was drowned. She was living with her grandson. nH-etfeaMMMMa* an i _ i ?M?P? SPOOK" FURNITURE. if Not This, Then What Could !t Be? j ?A Peculiar Story. A singular story Is related by the New Orleans Times-Democrat. It was told by a well-known professional man at a stag dinner, and the unusual ex- i perience stated in his own words is well worth repeating: "In the spring of 1892," he said, "I 1 was living in a house in North Rampart street, which I had taken on a < one-year's lease, expecting to build. Our family consisted of myself and wife, our little boy, then only 5 years { old, and my unmaried: sister. The house was a two-story brick, which had been built before the war and the , interior arrangement was very simple. The front door opened on a hall, which contained the staircase and ran ] all the way through on the right-hand side, while on the left was, first, our parlor, then the dining-room, and last- ( ly, a small unused apartment not much larger than a closet Upstairs were bedrooms, and in the rear was a detached kitchen. We allowed the little room on the first floor to. stand ! vacant for several reasons. To begin with it was actually too small for actual service, and it was badly lighted by only one high, narrow window, besides some of the plastering had fallen from the ceiling, and I was afraid the rest might come tumbling down on our heads. That was undoubtedly a source of danger, and prevented us from using It for storage, so we simply left it as we found it?entirely em- 1 pty. I suppose the room was con structed' originally for a pantry. I ( have been a little particular in describing these details because, as you will see, they have a direct bearing on my story. <rT"rr - +Via Vauoq I we LUlU UttCU i. V ii-Lfe UlE uviuv almost a year," continued the speaker, "wh6n one Sunday in June, as nearly as I can remember, I went with my , wife and child to see some friends near Audubon Park. My sister was visiting at Biloxi at the time, and we let the servant off for a holiday. We got back at 5 o'clock or thereabouts, for I recollect it was still quite light, and as we were walking toward the house I noticed that somebody had left a stepladder standing directly in front of the high window opening into the little disused room on the ground floor. 'That's rather a cordial invitation to prowlers,' I said half joking. 'Let's see whether any have availed themselves of it.' So when we went inside we \falked back together to the last door and I pushed it open. "Why! what does this mean?' I exclaimed in astonishment There was nobody there, but the room, which had always been entirely vacant, contained several pieces of furniture. A roughlooking table stood in one corner, with an old-fashioned straight-back chair In front of it and opposite was a small bed cot .There were some papers and other things on the table and a religious print stuck on one of the walls. I started to go in, but my wife held me back. 'Don't go in,' she pleaded, the plaster may fall. Those things must belong to the cook. It struck me verv stransre that the cook should move in without asking permission, but I noticed that my wife was very nervous so I drew the door to and we went into the parlor. A few minutes later I walked outside to shift the ladder, and as I picked it up I glanced through the window. The room waa perfectly empty. "I am not superstitious, and the. proof of It Is that I thought Immediately I was the victim of some practical joke. I re-entered the house quietly from the rear and again I opened th9 door. The room was as empty as a drum, and it was evident at a glance that no sort of trickery was remotely possible. I won't attempt to describe my feelings. I was so shocked, so bewildered, so frightened to tell you the truth that for a moment or two I was suxnply rooted to. the spot Then I pulled myself together somehow and "" went back to the parlor. My wife Baw at once that something was -* wrong. "It's that room!" I blurted out 'There's nothing m it now?not a stick!' "And immediately I had a case of hysterics on my hands. That's about all there is to the story. Next morning I examined the place carefully by broad daylight, and It was plain from the dust on the floor that no furnishing of any kind had been there for years. We left the house before the end of the week, paying a month's forfeit on the lease, not because we believe in spooks, but because we didn't care to stay in a place where unaccountable things happen. It's bad for the nerves. My wife and I have talked the matter over a thousand times, carefully comparing notes, and as far as w? know" we both saw the same things. My boy must have seen them, too, for when we went back into the parlor he asked his mother 'whether that wasn't Aunt Hattie's chair.' Aunt Hattie is an old relative of ours, who has a favorite straight-back chair, similar to the one we saw in the room. r\* n/Miroo titq hura n pvAr ntlnwpd our* selves to refer to the occurrence before the child, so I am unable to say positively what else he observed. What I saw myself waa as plain and as distinct as you are at this moment I even noticed that one of the table legs had been mended with a piece of slat, and my wife remarked the same thing. The house is still standing, and has since been occupied by several successive tenants. As far as I am aware none of them have ever had any unusual experience." BLACK EYES. Treatment for the Kind That Are Not Given by Nature. When the patient is seen eaily, before discoloration has set in, cold compresses or evaporating lotions are Indicated; this reduces the swelling and limits the subsequent discoloration. But if the patient is seen after he has a fully-developed "black eye," hot compresses and massage are required. The affected portion is smeared over with vaseline and rubbed for 10 minutes several time a day. By frequent massage and continuous hot applica- , tions the discoloration may be almost [ entirely removed within twenty-four hours. The professional "black eye' artists use a poultice of the scraping; of a,root, which Is thought to be' bryony root A single human h?ir will support i four ounces without bsrnki:rz. ( Murdered by Jobbers, A dispatch from Baxley, Miss., says: 1 'Dan Mims, a prominent youDg farmer I ivine 20 milea from- here, was mur- ( lered hy two negro robbers Tuesday. ^1" wn-, on his porch when attacked, it!-: wi.cu his wife ian out the ruffians I iad killed him. She tried to escape \ vith her baby but the negroes killed he child and beat her so cruelly that ' ler life is despaired of. Officers with I logs have gone from here. The mur- j >erers live in the neighborhood. They . ire both loss than 20 years old." < Chicago is Sore. { Chicago is very sore over the nation- ( t! Democratic convention going to < lansas City. The Chicago Record ; ays: "If Democrats had been warned n advance, instead of paying $6 for a light's slumber on a cot in Kansas 3ity, they would have taken the $6 two Qonths ago'and gone there quietly and ?ought a hotel." L kingdom for a cure . You need not pay so much. k. twenty-five cent bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. See ad. and try it?never fails. * I I.w t*?U-I.IUJI iiur. A WAE: DICTIONARY. Definition of i>oer Terms 2?ow in Frequent Use. The following list rill be found use'ul by readers of the war news. The pronunciation of the more difficult ! s-ords is given: Aapies river {Arpies).? .turns tnrougn Pretoria into the Limpopo. Afrikander.?A white man born in South Africa of European stock. Berg.?A mountain. Bethulie (Beth-ooly).?Town in the DraDge Free State. Biltong.?Boer provender. Dried neat. Boer.?A peasant. Burgher.?Males over sixteen years )ld possessing the franchise. Commandant.?Commander. Commando.?A body of Boers. Commandeer.?To mobilize; to requisition. Datn.?An artificial lake. Disselboom.?Pole of an ox wagon. Donga.?A water hole or deep ditch. Dop.?Boer brandy. Dopper.?The puritanical Lutheran Boer. _Drop.?A village. Drift.?A ford. , Etshowc (Etsh-owy).?Camp in Zululard. Residence of commissioner. Field Cornet.?A magistrate with >#>r!*in military nowera. .j-Fontein.? A spring. _Gaberones (Gab ber-oon*) ?Very important native town, ninety miles north of Mafeking. , Geldenhuis (Geld-den-hise).?Formerly member of the Volksraad for Johannesburg. Griqualand West (Greek-a-land).? District of Kimberley diamond mines. jKantoor (Kantore).?Rocky mining valley near Barbertan, in Transvaal. Klip.?A stone. Kloof.?A ravine. Komati Poort. (Komarty-poort)? Bordertown, Transvaal and Portuguese territory. Kopje.?A hillock. Kraal.?A cattle pound, or collection of native huts. Krantz.?A cleft between hills. Laager.?A Boer camp. Mealies.?Indian corn; staple food of natives, and much grown and used by the Boers for bread, etc. Nek.?The saddle connecting two hills. Oorlog.?War. Palapswe (Pal-larp-sway) ?Very large native town in Bechuanaland. Chief Khama's headquarters. Pan.?A sheet of water. Pont.?A ferry. Piort.?A pass between or over the mountains. Ramathiabama (Ray-math-lay-barmer).?Near Mafeking: British camp. Rooinek.?Literally red neck. Boer term for English soldiers. Schuin's Hoogte (Skems-hoog-tay).? Hill in Natal; just over the Transvaal border. Battle in war of 1881. Sluit.?A dry-ditch. Spruit.?A small stream. Taal.?The Boer Low Dutch language. Trek.?Traveling by ox wagon. Uitlander.?A nonburgher of the Transvaal. Veldt.?The South African prairie. Veldt Cornet.?See field cornet VereenigiDg (Fur-eeny-ging).?First station on the Tiansvaal side' of the Vaal river. Custom bouse. Vierkleur.?The four-colored Boer flag, red, white, blue and green.' Viei.?A small lake. Voorlooper.?The boy^leading the first span of an ox team. Voortrekker.?The older generation of Boers who took part in the Great Trek of 1837. - rr a T> i: /jarp.?n. x>uer j>ui iceman. C Zoutspanberg (Zoot-pans-berg).? Very large northern district of Transvaal. Highly mineralized. Caught a Fire "Bug There is a self-confessed firebug behind the bars in the jail here. A negro, by the name of Ossie Shackelford was arrested at McBean station and brought bere and put where she is now, together with another negro by the name of Mundy. Ossie confessed to the au*horities that she had set fire to two houses. She said she was working for Mrs. Hopkins on Broad street and several weeks ago she broke some crockery for which she was reprimanded and told (hat the amount would be taken nut of ber wages. Later she did some of her household duties in such a manner as to again cause her to be reprimanded. This aDeered her and she took the bur ner from a keiosene lamp and poured the contents on some Nothing in a closet and lighted it'. She also acknowledges having fired a double tenement house on Center, street, which was occupied by Tom Lark and Tom Pope, before it was burned. She said she did this because the negroes living in the house did not treat her right.? Augusta Chronicle. No Such Office. .Recently the governor has received a Dumber ot'applications for appointment as State fish commissioner. He asks that it be stated for the benefit of these applicants that there is no such office in this State, 'l'iiere was an omue or terrapin inspector, but the legislature has abolished that and devolved the duties on the county supervisors and commissioners.?The State. May Be So Susan. Susan B. Anthony declares that women will soon represent some-of the states in Congress. I WOOD'S HIGH GRADE | ! Farm Seeds. ? Our business in Farm Seeds is f ^ to-day one of the largest in this r ^ Country. A- result due to the fact ^ \ that quality has always been our A A first consideration. We supply A 4 all Seeds required for the Farm. A \ GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, \ Cow Peas, Cotton Seed, 9 Seed Oats, Seed Cora, f Soja, Navy & Velvet $ Beans, Sorghums, f Broom Corn, Kaffir t ) Corn, Peanuts, 9 [ . > Millet Seed, ) i Rape, etc. * r ^ Wood's Descriptive Catalogue F j gives the fullest infomatlon about ? f these and all other Seeds; best methods \ ) of culture, eoil test adapted for differ- d ' erent crops and practical hints as to y 4 -what are likely to prove most profltabla ? ; lo grow.' uataxogue ma ilea iree upon \ J request.. ' * \ -V r j T. W. WOOD 1SONV \ SEEDSMEN, - Richmcnd, %t / / / / S / . \ \ nn^un '1 tietr Anti-Friction Wheel Eastener. Their Patent Foot Brake, Their Rubber Tire Wheel, together with pa ire styles, easily place them ahevl of all corapt We^have been exclusive sales ag*rv in this to announce thit nearly all dealer* are n->w se with the attractive styles, goo 1 w>rk naaship, a Shonld yon need a carriage ask your deale not take one "just as goxl," but a<k him to gel Yonrs truly, Royall & ~BTTY -01 Prepare to ! Apices of paper ami paper ba if yon will teii us your troubles Golnmbia Sta ^Wholesalers of Bags. COLUMBI PRACTICAL 1 The Demand of the Times. Sac MacFeat's School of Shor COLUMBli W. JEL MacFeat, Court St Terms reasonable. i = Complete Power Plants for Factories and Mills. Engines, Corliss-An toma tic, Plain Side Yalves. Boilers, Heaters, Pnmps. Saw Mills, from small plantation mills to tlie heaviest mills in the market. All kinds of wood working machinery. Flonr and corn milling ma- ; chinery. 1 , V Complete Ginning Systems? ; Lnmmns, Van Winkle and ! Thomas. Engines ? Boilers?Saws? ! 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Address or call at ... The Kesley Institute, ' 1109 Plaingr6eet.' . colfjcbia, arcr No other ij/the itate. -n ?? / Jno. S. Reynolds, " ^ , , J Attorney at Law, Columbia, S. C. * EES IHO ED BIBJS / rfect workmanship, au<l the mo*l atCra?tjtitorj, V i Wtritopy for ei^St fe^r^jui4 ac&~pfe&8ed Waitae? G irria^ei, being impressed : : i'l cheap once*. . . r for a "^tutnef." If he hasn't any do : catalogue, or write to as. 4r, r Borden, G0LDSJ50R0, IS. C. ISTQW' l? ; Shed Tears. igs are rapidly advaucing, but <'*' we may be able to help yon. '% tionerv Co., 1 f Paper, Twines, ?i<\ T ^ A, S. 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