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LIKE"SHARP" RAZORS | Cod's Judgments Are Swits ar.o j Sure. NATIONAL SINS PUNiSHED I By Keen Instruments No Calamity Happsns sy Chanc?, But is Directed By Divine Wisdom. Br. Talmage, in his journey westward through Europe, has recently visited scenes of thrilling historic events. He sends this sermon, in which he shows that cations are jaaged in this world and that God rewards them for their virtues aad punishes them for their crimes. The test is Isaiah viii. 20, "In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Ass\ria.'J The Bible is the boldest book ever written. There are no similitudes in Ossian or the Iliad or the 0 iyssey so daring. Its imagery sometimes seems on the verge of the reckless, but only seem3 so. The fact is that God would startle and arouse and propel men and nations. A tame and limping similitude would fail to accomplish the ob- i ject. While there are times when he ; employs in the Bible the gentle dew j and the morning cloud and the dove and the daybreak in the presentation of truth, we often find the iron chariot, the lightning, tho earth quake, the spray, the sword and, in my text, the razor. This keen Dladed instroir .z' j has advanced in useful cess with th2 j ages. In Bible times and lands the beard remained uncut save in the sea sons of mourning and humiiatioo, bui the razor was always a eu.^gestive sysbol. David said of D .>eg, his antagonist, "Thy tongue is a sbarpe raz)r working deceitfully"?that is, it pretends to clear the face, but is really used for deadly incision. In this striking test this woapon of the toilet appears under the following circumstances: Jucaei needed to have some of its nrosnerides cut eff. and Grod sends against it three Assyrian kings? first Sennacheriy, then Esarhildoo and afterward 2s ebuchadnezzsr. These three sharp invasions that cut down the glory of Juc?a are compared to so many sweeps of the razDr across the face of the land. And these devastations were called a hired razor becau-e God took the kings of Assyria, with whom he had no sympathy, to do the wo*k and paid them in palaces and spoils ai;d annexations. These kings were hired to esc cute the divine behests. Aad now the text, which on its first reading may have seemed trivial or it-apt, is charged with momentous import, "/In th= same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria.'' Well, if God's jadgments are razors, we had better be careful how we u->e them on other people. Ia careful sheath these domestic weapons are put away where no one by accident may touch them and where the hands of children may not reach them. Such instruments must be carefully handled or not handled at all. Bat how recklessly s^m: people wield the judgments of God! If a man meets with business misfortune, linw mariv t.hfro arA rc.iidv to ctv one "That is a judgment of God upon him because he was unscrupulous or arrogant or over reaching or miserly. I tiioaght he would get cut dc-vrc. What a clean sweep of everything! His ciry house and country house gone. His stables emptied of all the fine bays and sorrels and grays that used to praoce by his door. All his resources overthrown and all that he prided himself on tumbled into demolition. Good for him." Stop, my brother. Don't slinz around too freely the judgment of God, for they . . are razors. Some of the most wicked business men succeed, and they live and die in prosperity, and some of the most hon. est and conscientious are driven into bankruptcy. Perhaps the unsuccessful man's manner was unfortunate, and ho ? i i l J ? . was not really as proui as ne icasea 10 be. Some of th^se who carry taeir heads erect and look imperil are humble as a child, while many a man in seedy coat and slouch hat and unblocked shoes is as proad as L icifcr. Ycu cannot tell by a man's look. Perhaps he was not unscrupulous in business, for there are two sides to every story, and everybody that accomplishes anything for hsmself or others gets industriously lied about. Perhaps his business misfortune was not a punishment, but the fatherly discipline to prepare him for heaven, and Grod m- ? love him far more than he loves v.?u. *'ho can p'ay dollar for dollar and are put! down in the commercial catalogues as Al. Whom the Lord loveth he gives $400,000 ana lets die on embroidered piilows? 2so; whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Better keep your handofi the Lord's razors, lest they cut and wound people tnac go 1101 deserve it. If you waat to shave oS some of the bristiing pride of your own heart; do so, but be very careful how you put the sharp edge on others. How 1 do dislike the behavior of those persons who when people are unfortunate say. "I told you so?getting punished?served him right!'! If those l-told-iou so's got their desert, they would long ago have been pitched over the battlements. The mote in their neighbor's eyes, so small that it takes a microscope to nau it, gives 'hem more trouble than the beam which obscures their o<ra opf'is With air sometimes supercilious ai.d sometimes pharasaical and alwa; s blasphemous they take the razor of divioe judgment and sharpen it ou the hose of their own hard hearts aad then go to work on men sprawled out at full length under disaster, cutting mercilessly. They begin by soft expressions of emypaty and pity and half praise asd lather the victim all over they put cn the sharp edge. Let us be careful hew we shoot at others lest we take down the wrong one, remembering strvaat of Kia^ William Rufus, who shot a: a deer, but the arrow glanced against a free aad ki-ltd the king. Instead of *oing out with shafts to pierce and rszo.s to cut wo had Wter inmate the fiiecd oi: il:ch?ra Caur de Lion. Richard, in the war of the CrusAGes, was captured atd impris ? ? -2 A? K % r? ^ l' n A ?r UUCU., UUl uUUv U1 U.3 iiltbuj where, so his loyal friend went around the land from stronghold to strotrghoia acdsargat c&ch window a snatch of song that Richard (.'o&urde Liou h-ia taught him iu other days. And oce day, coaing before a jaii where he suspected hi? king might he in car cV rated, he sanjz two lines of song, and ituaieci ately King Richird respyLded froia his cell with the other tA'jii-jes, and so his whereabouts were discovered, and a sue cessful mo^e-jient was at cn^o ruade for his liberation. So let us go up and down the world with the UiUsio of kiid f words and sympathetic hearts, serenading the unfortunate and trying to get out of troub e men who had noble natures, but by unforeseen circumstances have been incarcerated, thus liberating kiozs. More hymabook and less razor. Especially ought we to be apologetic ani merciful towards those who, while tliarr Kqtta irreat faiilffl &!? :> rreat virtues Some people are barren of virtues. No weeds verify, but nofljwers. 1 mu3t not be two much enraged at a ! nettle along the fence if it be in a Held i containing 40 acres of ripe Michigan ' wheat. Sor>e time ago naturalists told | us there w-jen the sua a spot 20,000 | miles loag, but from the brightness and j warmth I concluded it was a good deal : of a sun still. The sun can aSord to have very large spot upon it, though it be 29.000 miles long, and 1 am very apologetic for those men who have great faults, while at the sometime they have magnificent virtues. Again, when I read in my text that I oKottoo tcifh fl>A hirAfi razor of Assyria the land of Judaea L think myself of the precision of God's providence. Araz>rswung the tenth part of an inch oat of the right line means either failure or laceration, but God's dealings never slip, and they do not miss by the thousandth part of an inch the right direction. People talk as though things in this world were at loose ends. Cholera sweeps across Marseilles and Madrid and Palermo, and we watch aoxiomly. Will the epidemic sweep Europe and America? people say, "That will entirely depend on whether the inoculation is a success- j I ful experiment; that will depend entirely on quarantine regulatioas; that depend on the early or late appearacoe of frost. That epidimic is pitched into the world, aod it goes blundering I across the continents, and it is all gu;5swork aad an appalling perhaps.' I I think, perhaps, that God had some! thing to do witnit and that his mercy ! nay nave in some way protected u-; I tn<*c he may have done as much for us as the quarantine and the h.-a'.th officers. It wa.s right and a necessity that all caution siouid be used, but there have coie enough macaroni from Italy, and enough grapes from the south of France, aud enough ra#3 from tatterdemalions, and hidden in these articles of transportation eaou^h choleraic germs to i.ave left '07 thii t:mc all the cities mourning in the cemeteries. I thask aii the doctors aud quarantines, ? i? 11 . J ! but more t?an ail, ana iir^t oi au, aou last of all, and all the time, I thank GjJ. la all the 6,000 years- of the world's existence there has cot oae thing merely ''happened so." Goi is not an anarchist, bat a King, a Father. Wl'isa little Tad, the son of President LincjJn, died, all America syrnpa I th z^d with the sorrow ia the Wnite House. He used to ru-h into the room ! where the cabinet wa3 in session and I wn;l^ the mcsc emiuent men of the land j wer?j discussing the questions of na| tivoal existence. But the child hid nd | care about those questions. .Now, Goo tLe Father and God the Son and God the Holy Ghost are in perpetual session in regard to this world and kindred worlds. Shall you, his child, rush ia to criticise or arraign or condemn the divine government? No; ihe cabinet of the JSctraal Tnree can govern and wii; govern ia tn^ wisest ana oest way, and there never will be 3 mistake and, like razor skiiifully swung, shall cut that wbich ought to be cut and avo'd that which ought to be avoided- Preoi sion to the very hairbreadth. Earth iy tiaiipiecos may gssoit of order and strike wrong, spying it is 1 o'clock whe-n it is 2, or 2 when it is 3. God's clock is always right, and when it is 1 it s.rikes 1, and when it is 12 it strikes 12, and the second hand is as accurate as the minute hand. Farther, my text tells us that God sonietim?s shaves nations, "In the sa-ne iday shall tne Lord shave with a raz>r that is hired." With, one sharp j sweep he went across Jacaaa, and down j went its price and its power. In 1861 I God shaved the American nation. We had allowed to grov Sabbath desecration aud oppression aud blasphemy and fraud and impurity and all sorts of turpitude. Tiie eouth had its sins, and iho north its sins, and the eait its sins, and the west its sins. We had been warned again and again, and we did not heed. At length the sword of war out from the St. Lawrence to the gnlf and from Atlantic seaboard to Pacific seaboard. The pride of the laud, not the cowards, but the heroes, on both sides went do^n. Aad that which we took for the sword of war was the Lord's razor. Ia 18S2 again it wenfr.across the land; in lSfc>3 agaio; in 1864 agaio. Then the sharp instrument was incased and put away. Never in the history of the ages was any land more thoroughly shaved than duiiag those four years of civil com bar-, and, my brethren, if we do not quit some of our individual and national sms the Lord will again take us in haDQ. Re ha3 other razors withiu reach besides war?epidemics, droughts, deluges, plagues?grasshopper and locust?or our overtowering success may so far excite the jealousy of other lands that under some pretext the great nations uuy combine to put us down. Oar nation, so easily approached on north and south ana trom ooin oceans, might have on hand at once more hostilities than were ever arrayed against aay one power. I hope no such combination against us will ever be formed, but L waut to show that, as Assyria was the hired razor against Juc?i. and (Jyrus tnc hired razor against Babylon, ;?nd the rluns the hired r^zjr against the Goths, there are now many raz>rs thst the Lord could hire if, because of cur national sias, he should undertake to shave us. In 1S70 Germany was the razor with whica the Lord shaved France. Japan was the razor with which be shaved China and America the razor with which he shaved arroganc, oppressive and Bible hating Spain. Bit nat;ons are to repent in a day. May a speedy and worldwide coming to God binder on both sides the sea ail national calamity. But go not let us as a na tion either by unrighteous law at Wash in<*.on or bid iives among ourselves I Ccty me Aimig&iy. Oji9 would think that our national symbol of the eagle might sometimes suggest another eagle?that which ancient Uooie carried. In the talon3 of that eagle were clutched at one time Britain, France, Spaiii, Italy, Dalmatia, Hhas. Noricuuu. Paononia, M?sia, Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, Asia Minor, S>ria, Po?:icia, Palestine, Eg>ptand all nortiurn Africa and all th? islands of the Mediterranean indeed aii ibe world that was wor;h hav ing, a hundred and twenty m?llioQS of pe >p'e under the wings of that one eagle. Where is she cow? Ask Gibbon. the | historian, in his prose poem, '"The Decline aai Fail of the R>man Empire.'* Ask her gigantic ruic-s bemoaning their sadness through the ages, the screech of wir/intrs rm r nf OT. iT-1.1 Of iH < > ! conquerors looked. Ask the cUy of i jadgxect, when her crowned debau j checs, Oommodus and Pertinix and j Caligula and Diocletian, shall answer for their infamy. As men and as nal tions let us repent and hare our trust j in a pardoning God rather than depend ! on former successes for immunity! Out of 13 of the greatest battles of the i world Napoleon had lust bat one before J Waterloo. Pride and des;ruti q <.-fen j ride in the same saddle Bat notice oaee ruor*. asd more than i all, io my text, that <T-jd isso kiid ana i ?o7!o? that when it is neoe>sary for hi:u ! to cat he has to ?ro to other-* for :ht; | 5'iarp edged wea;;o-i "In the s&rue j day saall the Lori .-h?Te with a rsz r j that is hired." Goi is iove. G;d is pity. God is help. God is shelter. God is rescue Tnere are no sharp edges about him, no thrusting points, no instruments of laceration. If you want balm for wounds, he has that. If yon want diviae salve for eyesight, he has that. Bat if there is sharp aad cutting work to do. which requires a razor, that he hires. God has nothing about him that hurts, save when dire neces>i:y demands, and then he has to go clear off to someone else to get the instrument. This divine clemency will be no novelty to those who have pondered the Oalvarean massacre, where God submerged himself in human tears and crimsoned himself from punctured arteries and let the terrestrial aad infernal worlds maul bim until the chandeliers of the sky had to be turned out, because the universe could not endure the outrage. Illustrious for love he must have been to take all that as our substitute, paying cut of his owa heari the price of our admission at the gates of acaven King Henry II of England crowaed bis son as king and on the day of coronation put on a servant's garb and waited, he, the king, at the son's table, to the astonishment of all the pjiaces. Bat we know of a more wondrous scene ?the King of heaven and earth offering to put on you, his child, the crown oi life and in the form of a servant waiting on you with blessiDg. Estol that love, all piiating, all sculpture, ail music, all architecture, all worship! | In Dresdenian gallery let Raphael hold him up as a child, atd in Antwerp ca thedral let liubens hand him down ficm tho cross as a martyr, and Handel make all his oratorio vibrate around that one chord?l 'He was wounded for our trangression3, bruised for our iniquities." Bat not until all tho redeemed home, and frjm tho countenances O-- ? ia all the galleries of the ransomed shall be revealed the wonders of redemp tioa, shall either maa or seraph or archangel kao* the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of God. At our national capital a monument in honor of him who did more than any one to achieve our American independence was for scores of years ia building, acd most of us were discjuraged and said it never would be completed. And how glad we all wore when in the prts ence of the highest offioia'3 of the na tion the work was done! But wili the monument to him who died for theeter nal liberation or the human race ever be comoieted? Fjr ages the work has been goiog up. E ;aagelirts and apostles and marojrs have been addiag to the heavenly pile, and ever/ one of the millions of redeemed goiug up from eirth has made to it contribution of gladnes?, and weight cf glory ib swuog -- .! . ^ -^ ? ?:~u. ?i lO liie lUp '-'i UlUCi WCI5UI1 U1 gIVI jr ; hgher aud higher as the centuries go by, higher &n-i higher as the whole mil ieuniums roll, &3ppuire oa the top of Jasper, earaoayt oa the top chalcedony aad chrvsoprisus above topaz, until far beneath shall be the wail-. aDd toners anc. domes of cur earthly capital, a monument forever and forever risingaad yet never done, "Uato him who hath loved up aad washed u> from our sins in his own blood and made as kiDgs aad priests forever." Alleluia, amen. Medical AppointmentsThe 3:ate says Gov M^Sroeney has made a departure ia the matter of -he appointments t?j the medical college ia Charleston. Oue of his appoiatee.-; is a youag wumaa, thu fir.it of her sex to be givea an appointment to the medical college of the State by any governor. Gov. McSiVeeney con-iiacred l or the most worthy of the applicants for the a ?KrtIar.ahirw Hor f'nfhari^ she is one of 13 children. She has been lor some years by her labor aidiDg in the education of her youncer sisters The governor thought that unler these circumstances she wa^ entitled to the appointment. Her application was backed up by the strongest kind of endordojeats. The appointments to the s jholarship* vsere announced S*tur day. These scholarships include only tuition and the applicant has to agree to finish the course at the institution. There were a number of applicaats from each district. While the governor would have been glad to have given eajh applicant aQ appointment he had only one appointment from eajh district. In maiing tho stlcciion he has endeavored to secure the most detervicg. All of the applicants were highly endorsed, and it has been a difficult task t-n mo L-n t ho caloofinn Tho fn!Inccir>or VV auwav V1AV VblVMI -? * V** V " o are the appointments as made by the governor: First District?Miss Annabclia K Premiss of Charleston. Second District?W. R. Turnbull of Aiken. Third District?J. G El wards of Ab berille. Fourth Distriat?John Gregg McMaster of Winnsboro. Fifth District?F. M. Darhani of Clowney. Sixth District?VV. B Young of Timmonsville. Seventh District?Hazard E. Reeves of 0:angeburg. Catarrh Cannot ba Cured with TjMIIATi A PPTiTC, ATTOV^ a<? they cannot reach ihc seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and ia order to cure it you mast take internal remedies, flail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hill's Catarrh Cure is not a quick medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for 3 ears, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics knows, com'oiued with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect comoination of the t*o ingredients is what produces such wonderful results ia euriog Catarih. Send for testimonials fr-'c. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props , Toledo, Ohio Sold by Druggists, 75j. Hall's Family Pills are the best. This In Ohio. As Man;fi .1-i, 0 , Wi Jic.-div Ba;sioger, an eider or' the Dosrie church wiih two of his followers. wj.s escor.'cd to a traio by a mob arid hustled cut of the city. Gainesville, Ga., Doc. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator been used in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is ail, sod wiii do all, you claim for it. Youi3 truly, A B. (J. Dorscy. P. 3.?I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., nod a:l druggists. ti IN DREAMLAND. Dreamland. Dreamland, In your magic maze? I have lived and wandered through happy hours and long. Flower strewn, moss ma's, shine and shadow patterns. Boughs which bend beneath the birds singing Nature's song; Scentcd breezes blowing, ever Ailed with scents of summer, Pc-taled blossoms bending 'ow clad in garments say, Fairy folk in happy mood dancing 'mid the daisies. Sunbeams spinning wet>s of gold all the perfect da v. Dreamland. Dreamland, in thy leafy temples I have worshiped God and good many a joyous ? our, Loth to leave thee for this world wida awake but troubled, Raptured b--* thy calm content, perfectness ana power; Angei v-oices in thy choirs chanting prayers and praises. Loving friends of other days who had gone before. Clasp of hands and touch of hearts true and tried forever, All our brightest and our best greeting us once more. There among them, best beloved, ?n? with eyes of amber. Face as fair as any saint in that land of calm. Lips which blessed me with their touch, hair a happy halo. Voice whose notes were silver toned singing Eden's psalm; Why should I return to earth from that land of loving. Why come back to earthly life with its curse and care? I tViA rusrfert ollma with its sunlit spaces, Thither will I guldo my oarque, casting anchor there. L EDGAR JOXE3. | Three Over Tinted Eyes ? < > -c & Surs ir. I.lfr of Tommy, Who Could ^ <g> ilee: Emergencle*. V THERE may be a moral in this story, although its exact uature would seem to be uncertain. Perhaps that ia the penalty for its being true. Tommy was a young man1 in Boston looking- for a start in life. He had a document in his trunk which certified that he was an S. B., and that he- knew all sorts of things about electrical engineering. One day he saw an advertisement in a New York paper, in-which the National Cold Storage company of Xew York expressed a desire for the services of a competent young man as assistant superintendent 01 irs new plant. Tommy knew about the National Cold Storage company and its new plant. They were respectively the largest things of the kind in the country, and any connection with them would be likely to be a desirable one. So Tommy packed a modest bag and went to New York on the morning train. He would have liked to wait for two star letters of recommendation which he knew he could get. But as the men who would have written these two letters happened to be out of town, and as the hours specified in the advertisement for making application were the next day between ten and one. he went without them. That m'e-ht in New York, having- noth ?- ?- _ lng better to do, he went to a theater with a roof-garden attachment. When the vaudeville palled a bit he started for a strol' preparatory to going to bed. As he was leaving1 the theater a man accompanied by three women preceded him cut of the door. They were nice-looking people?the man a big. prosperous-looking- chap in evening clothes, and the women in pretty summer dresses. As Tommy passed them at the door they stopped to speak to seme acquaintances. That is, the man and one of the women stopped. The other two women walked slowly on ahead. At the corner they turned into the comparativeh' quiet street that ran alongside of the theater, evidently under the impression that their escort was close behind. A few yards down this street a tall man with a vandyke beard stood on the curb. As the two young women approached he turned toward them, and as they got opposite him he took oU his hat and stepped in their path. "Good evening:, pretty little girls," he said. "Which way you going-?" One of the young women looked hastily around-for their escort, but the other stood glued. The man1 stood with bis feet far apart and smiled into her eyes like a satyr. Then he put outhia hand and attempted to chuck her under the chin. Thereupon four things happened in quick succession. Tommy, who had been only a few yards behind the young women, and who had seen the whole incident, dashed forward and laid hold of the vandyke-bearded man. The latter made a terrific squirm and took to his heels down an alley, leaving a part of his coat collar in Tommy's grip. The two young women fled backward toward the corner; they did not notice Tommy at all. At the same moment the young women's escort and the other woman appeared around the corner. The two young women began to speak I to the big man with one voice. "Stand ri<rht hprp a moment." he said. and hurried up to Tommy. "Did you address those two ladie*?" he asked. "No," answered Tommy, pleasantly. "I happened?" "You lie!" said the big" man, and hit Tommy in the eye. Tommy was annoyed as he picked himself up from the sidewalk. Also the big man had hold of his collar. The bigman evidently contemplated nothing so vulgar ns a street fight. He merely intended to shake most of Tommy's teeth down his throat as a lesson, and then to proceed on his way. But Tommy had another specialty besides electrical engineering-?football, at tackle. It was related of him that he had rubbed a Yale tackle's nose so continuously in the dust during a match game that at the close the* Yale tackle had |sat down la hi? tracks *cd wept. A'w Tommy had been fond of sparring. H? hooked his righrt arm into the big man'? eye and swung his left into his stom ach, where, from the big man's build, he was sure that it would make an impression. Then for a space of two minutes things happened swiftly. The big man was ns strong as a buffalo, and he undoubtedly knew what a boxing glove was. But also, undoubtedly, he was a good liver, and Tommy hammered his waist line faithfully. Tommy had also found the big man's other eye, and his upper lip, which needed a stitch, and his nose which called aloud for the attention of a surgeon. On the other hand. Tommy's own eye was scaled like a government envelope. A respectable-sized crowd had gath CiCU, >?UW V. ? iUCAi V.1J VWfcfc l-vv. fact that th?y were getting- a choice 'sample of the fistic art at a bargain price. The three women who had accompanied the big man stood where they could view proceedings, wringing their hands. Suddenly the one whom the vandyke-bearded man had accosted uttered a little cry of horror. This distracted' the big man's attention for a fraction of a second, and Tommy oromotlr insiae-ritfht-countered him on me jaw ana orougnt mm to ms knees. Tben two policemen ca:ne up. "Thith fellow inrhult^d a young woman in my party." .said the- big-man. sternly', through Lis damapred lip. "Oh. Henry!" gasped t he young' woman who had bir-en insulted, "he is not tne one hi 3:1. ji was a run tuuii 'un; a b^nrd." "The ninn wot s price to the your; lady cut down that there alley." said a cabman whose cab stood across the street. "This young feller was jis' eomin* roun* the corner w'en it happened." The bier man regarded the twoyoung women ironically. Tommy smiled out of his one eye. and the policeman and the crowd smiled, too. "Will you be so kind as to call a cab. officer?" asked the bier man. "Just a moment," said the policemm. You assaulted this young' man. didn't you?" "I did/' said the big man. tenderly testing the bony structure of his nos>" with his pocket handkerchief. "Do you want to make a complaint?" asked the policeman of Tommy. "Not at a'!." said Tommy, with great geniality. Then they called a cab for the big man and his party, and Tommy went to Id's hotel and to bed. The next morning when Tommy consulted a mirror his eye resembled a Turner sunset. He was strongly tempted to go back to Boston on the morning train. Within three hours he was to apply to a stranger for a responsible place, without a >ign of a recommendation and an eye that looked as though lie had spent- the previous night on the Bowery. Then for the first time Tommy swore at the big man. But 11 o'clock found him at the office of the National Cold Storage company. The man in charge smiled skeptically when Tommy told him his business. Then he informed Tommy that the president had been called out of town that day. and applications would have to be made on the day following. Tommy breathed a sigh of relief, and went back to his hotel. The rest of that day and night he wore a beefsteak poultice over his eye. This was beneficial from a medical point of view, but as far as appearances went, the eye was more glaringly impressionistic the next morning than before. Tommy = felt depressed as he started for the Cold Storage office. There were four or five applicants in the outer office, who looked as though the}* had been brought up in seir-respecung unristian homes. Tommy sat in one corner and glared at anyone he canght looking at his eye. He sat there two hours before his turn came. Then the clerk said the president would see him, and smiled again pessimistically. But by this time Tommy felt too much like a social outcast to resent it. The president sat at a handsome cherry desk. He was a large man. but he was pale, and looked ill. His upper lip was gloriously decorated with court-plaster. His right eye was covered by a patch, and his left eye was partly closed and of a color scheme that rivalled Tommy's own. Tommy's heart slid down into his boots and tried to get through the floor. The next moment he found himself sitting in a chair at the right of the president's desk. He sat there and regarded the president's inilrmities dumbly. 1 Vi IcnAcitinr, I JL U U Cl-X C j1 i iiQ 1V4 v iiio ^/voi . asked the great man harshly. Tommy admitted thai? he was. Recommendations? Tommy explained hollowly about honors in electrical engineering. and the fact of Prof. Chalmers and Superintendent Kendall, of the General Electric, being out of town. The president.snorted. Then he turned disgustedly to Tommy's eye. "Do you drink?" he asked. "Xo. sir." said Tommy. "Fight?" "Ob. no, sir," answered Tommy. "Where did you get that eye?" asked the president. Tomm\- regarded the president out of the other one. "I was riding a bicycle." said Tommy, "and ran into an electric car." The president sat in silence for sereral moments. Tommy began to feel ugly. "What we want for this place," said the president finally, "is a pushing, ten-renam-, resourc-eiui man?one who can lay out his own work and meet emergencies a?, they aris*." The president paused again^houghtfully. "I think you ought to fill the bill," he said. Tommy sat motionless for the space of a minute. Then he handed the president the coat collar of the Yah Dyke boarded man. and clinched the bargain. -X. Y. Sun. ETIQUETTE* OF THE DANCE. A Ferr Things Tbat Should Be Knows by Every Devotee of Terp lohore. The etiquette of the ballroom or the private dancing party ought to be familiar to all "who attend Buch diversions, but, it 10, its observance is far frrtm universal. A few general rules should altars be borne in mind, says the Chicago Chronicle. When a man is presented to a young woman at a dance he usually says almost at once: "May I hare the pleasure of this dance?" After dancing- and walking- about the rooms two or three times the young man may take the girl back to her chaperon and plead another engagement, or, better, she suggests that he take her to a place near her mother or chaperon. The lady is the one to fimt intimate her desire to srtop dancing. If a man holds a girl too tightly she should drop her hand from his shoulder so as to bring it between her partner and herself. If he does not take the hint let her stop dancing at once under some pretext so evident that he may realize her displeasure or disapproval A chaperon should not be lacking in personal dignity; nor should she dance while her charge is unprovided with a partner. A girl should be attentive to her mother or her chaperon, presenting her friends to her and occasionally stopping to say a few words. Both young men and maidens should be careful to remember that their dancing engagements must be kept. A girl mn?* n<\+ wfn*? (jsni<8 xr5th fine man under some pretext and then dance with another; neither should she dance with the same man more than two or three times. A young- rasa inrlted to a house should dance as iarly as possible with the daughter of his hostess and pay them every possible attention. Four Men Hung. A dispatch from New Orleans says "in "Bloody" Tangipoah Friday Dight, four negroes were hanged, after the jail in the village of Pontchatoula had been i y j x-!_ _ : j Drosca open ana me prisoners sccuseu of robbing the family of Henry Kolfelter, had been taken from their cells. Mrs. Holfeltar, who resisted the colored men was chocked and beaten so unmercifully that she lost her mind. WhoesaJe lynching are feared." %\<oAi rot ^ i k-*4 || I THE B Grove's The formula i know r.ist what vo do not advertise th< their medicine if v< J Iron and Quinine pi form. The Iron malaria out of the Grove's IS the Ori Chill Tonics are in that Grove's is si are not experiment and exceiience ha only Chill Cure sc the United States. LIGHT AS CURE FOR MEASLES. Experiment* Show That Sansblne Will Alleviate the Severity of Disease. Recent experiments indicate that the sun may be a potent remedial agent in the case of persons attacked with smallpox, scarlatina and measles. These experiments were made by Dr. Finsen, of Copenhagen, and Dr. Chatiniere, of St. Mande, and so novel were they that they have aroused a good deal of discussion among the members of the Academy of Medicine in Paris, says the New York Herald. Dr. Chatiniere a short time ago treated 12 children who had measles according to his new method, which is scientifically known as phototherapie. Red light was the only cure which he used, and this he made serviceable in-the fol lowing- manner: On the windows ot the sick room he hung red curtains and on the table near each bed he placed a lamp which gave forth a red light. He acted thus because he felt satisfied that the irritation of the skin in cases of measles is due to the chemical rays of the solar spectrum, or, in other words, to the ultra violet rays, and not to the so-called caloric or heat rays. If this were not so how account for the fact that the pustules and scars are especially deep and marked on the face and hands, which are the very parts of the body that are most exposed to the solar rays? The result showed that he had not erred '.n arriving at this conclusion. His little patients rapidly regained their health, and the virtue that lies in red curtains and red lamps is being extolled by many physicians. Impressed, like Dr. Chatiniere, by the fact that the influence of the solar yoT-o 4a ocnopio 17rr m o rn "f c t a A rm tTiA * "J - v"fvv J ? face and hands of patients, Dr. Finsen conceived the idea of subjecting1 persons suffering- from smallpox to the influence of ultra-violet rays, which reached them after the light had been filtered through thick red curtains. The result was that the little vesicles or bladders gradually disappeared and the patients did not suffer from the customary fever and, furthermore, were not pockmarked. The ultra-violet rays, indeed, in the case of these patients produced the same effect as the red light in that of Dr. Chatiniere'*, the most notable token of their efficacy being the absence of fever and the restlessness and the gradual disappearane of the eruptions before coming to maturity. It was also noticed that the rays had a marked effect on the maladies in so far as they affocted the bronchial tubes. Dr. Finsen's method of cure has been 4-nfn TTVnnrvA liv T)r T/flrnt and Is being used not only In cases of smallpox, but also in cases of certain forms of skin diseases. HOW TO DRESS WELL. A Woman'* Identity Should Piot Be Sacrificed to the Ta*te of the Dressmaker. If a woman is afraid) to decide about her own style, let her get an. artist to tell her what it is. and what she can wear to the bgst advantage, says the Ledger Monthly. Having ascertained her style and the colors she should wear, then she should1 never deviate from them. She niusrt strengthen herself to ignore wonderful bargains in the wrong styles and colors, and prepare herself even to endure a certain amount of monotony in her wardrobe. But heT reward lies in being invariably well dressed and in having an air never to be acquired by sinking one's identity in the nondescript taste of the average dressmaker. A business woman is -wise to select some one standard color that best suits her?say brown, or navy blue, or gray1?and then, having bought the principal garments in this tone, t-o buy all others in- harmony with it. It affords a woman a wonderful opportunity to appear smartly dressed on tie least possible outlay. And it is remarkable how many pretty variations can be found to prevent any one color scheme growing tiresome. It is an excellent plan to begin this simple method of good dressing when girls are quite young. It cultivates their taste to a very great degree and enables them, as they grow up, to dress well with but little thought or money. What a wise precaution it would be to give every girl her own pin-money, however little, andi teach her to be self-reliant, for it ia a sad fact that it is usually the woman who has the least ability to dress well who think* most about her clothes, always struggling for effect*, and doomed to failure; while the woman or girl who understands herself, her style, color and the courageous art of selective shopping can get the largest returns for her time and' trouble. The consciousness of looking -well ia pretty cure to bring repose of mind and manner?an attitude in which & woman is best calculated to meet the social and business world at her best. H. J. Behrends, of Tecumsh, Neb., has ten grown up sons, all of whom and himself will vote for Bryan and Stevenson. Five of the boys will cast their first presidential ballot next November. For Sale. Direct fhirrent Electric Fan. 260 volta. For terma apply to Secretary I Orangeburg Club, P. 0. Boz 265, Orangeburg, S. C, Chills ^^fc?AKj>A3 ytTsJ | ansAD ULTSW?^?= &Z&W AS F T/^f S Fatas ??SF PRESCRIPT Fastefess Chi s plainiy printed on every u arc taking when you take eir formula knowing that y< du knew what it contained, it up in correct proportions a acts as a tonic while the system. Any reliable druggis 'ginaf and that all other litations. An analysis of oth< J iperior to all others in ev :ing when you take Grov iving long been establishe >ld throughout the entire No Cure, No Pay. Price A Great Pity. The Greenville News, edited by Prof. W. H. Wallace, one of + P/vt'Ayv-. AC-f in +1-*^ l/iio ivi^mvou ^uuv?cvic xu vuv State, in speaking of the adoption of school books by the State Board of Education, says: "We cannot account for the discarding of Maury's geographies, unless it is in obedience to the new craze for the newmethod of teaching geography. Some regard Maury's as antiquated. We regard this series as the best of all, though Frye's is excellent of its kind?and that is the kind that is in demand now by most schoolmen. It does look like a pity, though, that a book by so distinguished a southern author?the 'pioneer of the sea'?should have to give place to a Xew England book." Prof. Wallace is not the only teacher who takes this view of it. We have heard expression of opinion from at least a dozen teachers and every one of them preferred Maury's geographies t.VI at UV JL A VJ K? ^4XV/Vjk/W VU.VJ WU^4 VMVWV one admitted that she had not compared the two books critically, but though it best to have a change. As a whole, the Boer struggle for independence must stand in history as one of the most gallant. They fought solely for their liberty. That independence is lost, but the spirit that defended it will live and secure for South Africa the largest measures of freedom consistent with orderly government. The present English purpose, ex ? * A 1 * 1 - /(i X empimea m me "treason aui>, is not to accord to the Afrikanders any consideration, but that intention cannot hold. Pass Him Around -The Sunday News rajs Bock Store men in Char Itston have been warned to look out for a very strooth young man. who is heacirg thai way on a faking expedition. The chap can ctal pleased lightning io *n cni<rgeDcy aLd if all Lis talcs could come irue he would be alout the best educated iran in the world. Tteyouth claims to he the representative of s-.v era! mag zlues ana he teiis the people whim he seeks to financially devour that he is trying to make enough moiiey co get <iu education. If he happens to be in South Carolina he will say tbat he is going to enter some o? the colleges in this State, aod if he is in Virginia he will tell his frietds that he *ants to enter some Virginia univert-ity. He has been tracked southward and he is expected to reach Charleston in bio maroh. 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