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IN NEW FIELDS. I lil i.1 iJ H JL t Dr. Taimage Draws Lessens Frrm Paul's Activity. HE POINTS OUT PLACES Ot Usetu:nsss Not Yet Fu?iy Occupied. Need of More Workers. The Church as a Lifeboat. - * - tv m_ i In the following sermon uc. i points to fields of usefulness that are ) not yet thoroughly cultivated and shows the need of more activity. The te^c is Romans xv, 20. "Last I should build ! upon another man's foundation." In laying out the plan of his missionary tour Paul sought out towns and j cities which had not yet b?en preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city famous for splendor and vioe, and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels he j has especial work to do, and he means to do it. What was the result? The i grandest life of usefulness that a man ever lived We modern Christian work ers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build on other people's foundations. If we erect a church, we prefer to have it filled with families all of whom have been pious. Do we gather a Sabbath school class, we wa:at good bovs and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this day is apt to be built out of other chrcuhes Some minister spend- all their time in fishing in other people's ponds, and they throw the line into I that church pond, and they jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into an nmi Krino rttlf. ft osner uuuiuii -w>?- ? Presbyterian, or there is a religious row in some neighboring chnrch, and a whole school of fi3h swim off from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What is gained? Absolutely nothing for the cause of Christ. What strengthens an army is new recruits. Wh'le courteous to those coming from other flocks, we should build our churches not out of other churches, but out of the world, lest we build on another man's fcunda tion. ja fJiia ie a Viic world. 1UC JlOVU AO) VUiw ?W *"-3 .. When in our schoolboy days, we learned the diameter and circumference of this planet, we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diameter and circumference of want and woe and sin that no figures can calculate. This one spiritual continent of wretchedness reaches across all zones, and if I were called to give its sreorgraphical boundary I wouid say it was bounded on the north and south ana ease and west by the great heart of God's syni pathy and love. Oh, it is a great ^orlo! Sinoe 6 o'clock this morning 60 800 persons have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to oe reacnea by the gospel. InEogIan~> or in our eastern American cities we are being much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but in western America 500 acres is a smsll farm and 20,000 acres is no unusual possession. There iz z. vast field here and everywhere unoccupied, plenty of roGm mo;e, not ? building on another man's foundation. We need as churches to stop bom barding the old. ironciaa sinners tnat have been proof against 30 years of Christian assault. Alas for that church which lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending on one chandelier enough to light 500 souls to glory, andiD one carved pillar enough to have made a thousand men "pillars in the house of our God forever" and doiDg less good than many a log cabin meeting hou3e with tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets and a minister who has never seen a college and does not know the * ~ ? . n i i m l amerence Detween threes ana v>aoctaw. We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. ''No!" says some fastidious Christian. "I don't like to be crowded in church. Don't put anyone in my pew." My brother, what will you do in heaven? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the ' - f - vi.j .v. select iew locay asseuioieu xu me Christian churches compared with the mightier millions outside of ihem? Many of the churches are like a hospical that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than toothache or "runrounds," but no broken heads, no crashed ankles, no fracturcd thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though j _ e q aah & Uia.U llckU Ck aCkLuu \jx. u vw avico put all his work on one aero. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre, and has raised splendid men and women in that small inolosure, but the field is the world. That means North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and all the islands of the sea. it is as though after a great battle there were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the field, and three surgeons gave all their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes in and says to j the doctors, "Come out here and see 50,000 dying for lack of surgical atten dance." "No," say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patienxs: 4'we have three important cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies off." In this awful battle of sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen on millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few people, and when the command comes, "Go into the world,say practically; "No, I cannot go; I have here a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping off the flies." There are multitudes today who have never had any Christian worker look them in the eye and with earnestness in the accentuation say "come,"' ? j 1 1 J 1 v v or laey wouiu iUiig juavc u:cu xu I tb.e kiDgdozn. My friends, religion is J either a sham or a great reality. If it j bs a sham, let us disband our churches i and Christian associations. If it be a j reality, then great populations are cn j the way to the bar of God unfitted for the ordeal. And what are we doing? In order to reach the multitude of outsiders we must drop aU technical: ties out of cur religion. When we talk j to people about the hypostatic anion [ ana French encyclopedianism and Er-i=tinianism and Ccmplutensianism, we are impolitic, and as little understood as if a physician should talk to an ordi nary patient about the pericardium and intercostal muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Many of us come out of the theological seminaries so loaded up that we take the first ten years to show our people ho* much we know, and the ] nest ten years to get oar people to s kn"?w as much as we know, and at the i end 5cd that neither of us koowr. anything as we ought to know. Here are : hundreds of thousands of 3inmng, struggling and dying people who need to realize just one thing?that Jesus Christ came to save them and will save them now. Bat wegotinto a profound and ehborate definition of what jaeti fication is. and after all the work there are cot outside of the learned profession?, 10,000 people who can teil what justification is. I will read you the definitions: "Justification is purely a forensic act; the act of a judge siting in toe for-im. in which the Supreme Ruler aca Judge, who is accountable to none, and who alone knows the manner * ? l i* ?r.TT written over me second aoor, j. .a.u. mittance;" and, if he goes in, all over the pew doors seems written. "No Admittance," while the minister stands in the pulpit, hammering out h:3 little niceties of belief, pounding eut the technicalities of religion, making pins. In the most practical, common sense way, and laying aside the nonessentials and the hard definitions of religion, go out on the God given mission, telling the people what they used and when and how they can get it. Comparatively little effort as yet hi? been made to save that large class of * - i J persons m our miast oanea esepuca, and be" who goes to work here will not be building upon another man's foundation. There is a large number of them They are afraid of us and our churches, for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One of this class met Christ. And hear with wba; tenderness and pathos and beauty aud success Christ dealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thv mind and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like UDto it?namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." And the scribe said to him. "Well, master, thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and to love him with all the heart and all the un derstanding and all the soul and all the strength is more than whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unts him, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in ene interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the pinchers of ecclesiastioism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Christianity. I have known m:n skeptical from the fact that they grew up in houses where religion was overdone. Sunday was the most awlul day in the week. They had religion driven into them with a trip hammer. They were surfeited with prayer meetings. They were stuffed aid choked with catechisms. They were oftea told t'aat they were the worst boys the parents * * Til. ? 3 ever Knew, Decause they used :o riae down hill better than to read Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." Whenever father and mother talked of religion, they drew down the corners of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thiDg will send a boy or girl to ruin^ sooner than another, that is it. If I had such a father and mother I fear I ihould have been an infidel. Others were tripped up by skepticism from being grievously wronged by some ; man who professed to be a Christian. | They had a partner in business who turned out to be a first class scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they lest all faith by what hap peced in an oil company which, was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced; but the president of the company was a Presbyterian elder, and the treasurer was an Episcopalian vestryman, and one director was a Methodist class leader and the other directors prominent mem hers of Baptist and Congregational churches. Circulars were gotten out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this company. Innocent men and women who had a little money to invest, aod that little their all, said, "I do cot know anything about this com pany, but so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent, and taking stock in it must be almost as good 'a1? joining the church." So they bought the stock and perhaps re ceived one dividenea so as to keep tnern still, bat after a while they found that the company had reorganized and had a different president and different treasurer and different direotors. Other engagements or ill health had caused the former officers of the company, with many regrets, to resign. And all that the subsciibers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beautifully ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suggestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the president %nd trustees and directors of that oil company professed. Of course, their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophioal and unwise. I am told that many of the United State3 army desert every year, and there are many court martials every year. Is that anything against ihe United States government that swore them in? Ana if a soldier of Christ deserts, is that anything against the Christianity which he swore to support and defend? Kow do you judge of the currency of a oountry? Ky a counterfeit bill? Now, you must have patience with those who have been swindled by religious pretenders. Live in the presence of others a grand, honest, earnest Christian life, that they may be attracted to the same Saviour upon whom your hopes depend. Again, there is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those J who are astray in their habits. All | northern nations, like tnose of 2sorth Ameri is and England and Scotland? that is, in the colder climates?are de- 1 vastatcdby alcoholism. They take the fire to keep up the warmth. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm they are not i tempted to fiery iiquids. The great Et)aiaa armies never drank anything ~ rr&A TCI fr K rinfi 3UULU?tJl buau VT awn nivii T tww ^ar, bat under o ir cothern climate th* temptation to healing srimuian^s is most mighty, a^d millions succumb. When a man's habits go wrotg, the church drops him. the social circle drops him, good influences drop him, we ail drop him. Of a!l the men who get off the track b it fe w ever get on again. Near my summer residence there is a life baviag station oa trie baaeh. There are ali the ropes aad rockets, the boats, the machinery for gettTDg people eff shipwrecks. Oae summer I saw there 15 or 20 men who were breakfasting after haviog just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up aad down our coast3 are built these usefui structures, and the mariners know it, and they feel that if they are driven into the breakers there wi:l be apt from shore to come a rescue. The ohurches of God ought to be so many life saving stations, not so much to help those who are ia smjoth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let u3 run out the lifeboats! Aod who will maa them? We do not preach enough to such men; we hive not enough faioh in their release. Alaa, if when they come to hear ua we are laboriouisly trying to show the differ eQca between sublaparianism and supralapsarianism, while they have a hundred vipers of remorse and despair ooiling around and biting their im mortal spirits. The ohureh is not chiefly for goodish sort of men, whose proclivities are all right and who could get to heaven praying and eingiag in their own homes, it is on the beach to help the drowning. -Those bad cases are the cases that Goi likes to take hold of. He can save a big sinner a? well as a small sinner, and when a man 11 ii.j r.._ cans earnestly iu vxuu iur uoiy uc will go out to deliver such a one. If it were uocessary, God would coma down from the sky, followed b? all the artillery of Leaven and a million angels with drawn swords. Get one hundred auch redeemed men in your ohurches and nothing could stand before them, for suoh men are generally warm hearted and enthusiasdo. No form?l prayers then. No heartless singing then. No cold conventionalisms then. Destitute children of the street offer a field of work comparatively unoccupied. The uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. When they grow up, if unre formed, they wili outvote your children, aad they will govern jour children. The whiskey riDg will hatch out other whiskey rings, and grog shops will kill with thsir horrid stench public _t_ ?_x_ __i? u ri~J soDneiy uaiess iu? guuivu ui \jruu rises up with outstretched arms and infolds this djing population io her bosom. Public 8c Hools cannot do it. Art cannot do it. Blackwell's island cannot do it. Almshouses cannot do it. Jails cannot do it. Church of Grod, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do ii! Get somewhere, somehow to work! Aad 1 would to God that our chcrohes might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. T* - ?- r. ^ Vta> tTAP. Juauuuu Liie gUSfTCl Omy iA'i auuiu^i .v; age. Heave away now, lads 1 Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail! Come; 0 heavenly wind, aud fill tha oanvas! Jesus aboard will assure our safety. Jeeus on lbs sea will backon us forward. Jesus on the shore will welcome us into har bor. THE FIRST FEOSTS. A Statement of Some Interest at This Time. The following table gives the dales ol first light and first killing frosts in the fall, and the last killing asd the last light frosts in the spring of the years since 1887, at Columbia and vi cinity, and was prepared Wednesday by the United States weather bureau: 1887?First light in fall, Oot. 16; first killing in fall, Nov. 13. 1888?First light in f*ll, Sej>t. 30; first killing in fall, Nov. 32; last killing in spring. March 9; last light in spring, March 23. 1889?First licrht in fall, Oct. 8; first killing in fall, Nov. 19; last killing in spring, Feb. 24; last light in spring, April 9. 1890?-First light in fall, Oct. 28; first killing in fall. Ojt. 28; last killing in spring, March 17; last light in sprin?, April 21 1891?First light in fall, Nov. 7; first killing in fall, Nov. 7; last silling m spring, April 5; last light in spricg, April 5. 1892?First light in fall, Od 26; first killing in fail, Oct. 26; last killing in spring, March 11; la^t light in spring, March 20. 1893?First light in fall, Oct. 15; first killing in fall, Oct. 30; last killing in spring, March 19; last light in spring, Maroh 19. 1894?First light- in fall, Oct. 15; first killing in fall. Nov. 11; last killing in spring, March 30; last light in spring. Ma? 21. 1895?First light in fall, Oct. 2; first killing in fall, Cht. 21; last killing in spring. March 23; last light in spring, May 13. 1896?First light in fall, Sept. 24; first killing in fall, Oct. 19; la-3t killing in spring, March 21; last light in spring, April 5. 1897?First light in fall, Nov. 4; first kiliing in fall, Nov. 18; last killing in spring. March 28; last light in spring, April 21. 1898?First light in fall, Oct. 15; first, killing in fall, Nov. 25; last killing in spring, April 7: last light in spring, April 2S 1899?First light in fall, Nov. 4; first killing in fall, Nov. 25; last killing in spring. April 10; last light in spring, April 11. 1900?Last killing in spriDg, April 1; last light in spring, April 13. Greenville Shooters. The shooters and killers of Greenville have started the month of Ostober with a record that promises that the county shall maintain its reputation "along this line." A shooting s:rape occurred Monday afternoon at about 6 o'clock at the Monaghan cotton mills, . ' 1 .1 . L!,l. 111 just outsiae me city limits, wmou win probably resuli in the death of one man ana possibly two. Shot at a Frolic. A killing took place Sunday morning at a "frolice" at Big Brown creek. Uaion County Whilst they were dancing, K. Spencer, colored, was shot through the right side, cauoirg his death. Dave Walker ana Ned Smith, both colored, haye been arrested and held on suspicion. Chas. Meadows, colored, was held as a witness, and on leaving the court house was arrested for stealing a pig and sent to jail. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. S, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic lnvigorator h*<? been used in my family and I am per fectly satisfied that it is all, and will do all, yon claim for it. Yours truly, A B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. tf SENT TO THE REAR. : The Colored Brothers Rule The R^oublican Partv. io which the enas or m? um VCI3<M ftV * * | [ eroment can best be obtained, reckons that which was done by the substitute io the same manner as if it had been done by those who believe in the substitute and, purely on account of this gracious method of reckoning, grant* them the full remission of their sin3." Now, what is justification? I will tell you what justification is?when & sinner believes. God lets him off. Oae summerin Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I saw over the doorwritt-;n the words, "No Admittance." I en tercd and saw ov.^r the next door, "No Admittance." 0: course I entered. I got inside and found it a pin factory, and they were making pins?very ser viceable, fine and useful pins. So the spirit of exclu3iveness has praotically written over the outside door of many a church, "Xo Admittance." And if the stranger enters he finds practically J J "VT_ 4 J WHITE LEADERS IGNORED. Personal of tha Electorial Ticket. Decision Not to Nominate a Ticket for State Officers. The State Republican convention met Wednesday in the hall of the heuse of representatives. For three days prior to the convention a hot fight has been waged a3 to the State chairmanship. Deas, always one of Webster's right hand men, a colored man led, the fight and he is on top. He has been made State chairman, being the first to hold the place since Robt. Eiliott. The convention was nearly three hours late in assembling owing to the fight going on. ^When it was called to order Deas stated that he had won his battle and the convention would amount to nothing more than a ratification of what had been aacomplished. bach proved to be the case, and Webster, Tolbert and other white leaders step aside so far as this convention and the State organization are concerned, Small defeating Wheeler, a white man, for vice chairman. At 2:20 o'clock the convention was called to order by State Chairman R R. Tolbert and the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rsv. W. W. Beckett of the Charleston district. While the convention cali was being read by Secretary Johnson, Gran. Robert Smalls and E. W. Screven stuck up on the desk tngraved portraits of McKinlev and Roosevelt. The convention's personnel was about the same as in past years. The roll was then called as follows: Abbeville?RRTolbert, H R Litiiner, M M Anderson. Aiken?E J Diokerson, Sherman Taylor and R B Perry. Anderson?E F Cockran, J S Adama, M S Smith, A C Garrison and E B Churchwell. Barnwell?W S Dixon, P B MoKnight and J A Davison. Bamberg?B D Jeter and C P Robin son. Beaufort?Robert Smalls, G A Reed, I H Smith and J A Washington. Berkeley?D T Middleton, A P Proileau, R H Jenkins and T L Jaudon. Charleston?W D Crnm, G I Canningham?H W Purvis, T L Grant, W H Grayson, C M English, W W Backett, J Pawley and B J Bailey. Chester?J C Atkinson, A Davie and John Chisholm. Chesterfield?M JD Mcrarla&d and B E Commander. Cherokee?J F Jones and A R N Foiger. Clarendon? R A Stewart, Edwin Wells and Julius Durant. Colleton?E D Bennett, B Levy and R W Mag wood. DarliDgton?E H Deas, Z W Wines J T Rafra. Dorchester?J H Abbey. Edgefield?P Simpkins, A W Simpkins and B L Odom. Fairfie)'"'?Preston Rion, I S Byrd and B S Rice. Florence?M W Harrell, J E Wil son and J R Levy. Georgetown?J A Baxter nni J W Bolt. Greenville?L F Goldsmith, Thomas Brier, J A Brier, J P Scruggs and J S Sullivan. Greenwood?J W Tolbert and L C Waf.er. Hampton . Horry?N W Goss and B G Collins. Korshaw?W E Bjykin, J D Molester and F Pearee. Lancaster?F R Massoy and Joseph Clark. Laurens?P S Suber, J M Robertson and LWC Blalock. Lexington?B I Hayes and W A Smith. Morion?1VT TC T-TnllAr/^orortn General and T 1) Williams. Marlboro E J Sawyer, R A Drake and George Pegues. Newberry?11 E Williams, S Young and D Boozer. Oconee?A C Merrick and N A Doyle. Orangeburg?E A Webster, J II Fotdham, A. Lathrop, P M General, and M J Frederick. Pickens?A M Morris and P L Little. JR.Ich.Iaad?E W Screven, L Prior, L C Scott and J H Weston. Saluda?M W Watson and J W Logan. Spartanburg?B F Means, H D A Smith, Liban Morgan, H D Harris and J H Hartwell. Sumter?R M WTaliace, G W Marray, R E Richardson, W W Ramsey, Jr., W T Andrews. Uuion?J C Hunter, J P Sartor and J E Harris. Williamsburg?Jame3 Tharpe, Z R Cooperand A Lewis. York?G A Watts, C P T White, Reece Foster, D A Wilson and J J Massey There were in the convention about twe .ty white men. J. H. Fordham, of Orangeburg, was made temporary chairman, and Rev, J. H. Johnson was eleoted temporay secretary. Tiie tem porary organ'zation was maae permanent. Smalls wanted to nominate a S:aie ticket, but this was not acted on, and the convention proceeded to nominate a chairman. Deas was elected by acclamation, as Smalls said he ought to be. The white delegates took their medicine like little men. J. W. Wheeler of Charleston, a white man, was nominated for vice chairman, with quite a blow of eloquence. Sherman Taylor of Aiken, after walking up and down for quite a while and workicg himself up to the proper pitch, began a speech that was the greatest ever heard in the old hall. He finally '"shouted" in his excitement and ran a foot race with himself up and down the floor. He nominated llobt. Smalls and ' sank, some say, into uncoD3ciouaes3 from over exhaustion. Hs pointed to the portrait of Ben Tillman and fairly screamed. None could understand wha* he said. A roil call vote was taken and Sma'ils was elected by a vote of 58 to 47. The election was about to be made ' unanimous, but there being opposition, Geo. 1 Cunningham wanting the vote to stand as it was, Smalls said he appreciated this vote more than any ho had ever received in this State. The con7ention then proceeded to 1 elect nominees for two members of the State executive committee from the State at large. D?as nominated R. R. Tolbert and E. A. Webster and they were elected. < Then there was a great racket, many protesting against the way the members from the State-at-large were elect ed. Smalls said "that wont't do, I believe we can whip Webster, and I want to *kin hicc aiive." Dead got a nntion rushed through then to L.Ave the convention divide into districts and select other members? three from e3ch district. This was done, while Smalls, Paiv's and others w<~e vigorously k'ckiDg against the election of Tolbert and Webster. First District?J A Baxter, G A Reed, T L GraatSccoad?E J Dickerson, W S Dixon, P. SimpkiDS. Third?J S Adams, A 3 Merrick, R E Williams. * Fourth?B F Mr an?, L F Goldsmith, L W C Blalock. Fifth?W E BoyKin, F R Ma3sey, C J Pride Sixth?Dr J R L^vy, E J Sawyer, R A Stewart. Seventh?A Lathrop. W W Ramsey, Jr.. J H Abbey. Dias then stated that the convention had been in sefsion de facto since the last evening at 7 o'clock. He thoreupon moved to leave the selection of the nine presidential electors to the State executive committee. Gen. Smalls hoped that the motion would not prevail. They had 124 men here who had come here to name these electors. Were they incompetent? Did they have to leave it to 25 creatures of the conveniionb. Who could they ex pect to vote for a ticket they could not nominate? He regretted that the motion came from the State chairman. They should nominate the ticket themselves. There were men all over the country who were willing to vote for the ticket. He would advocate the nomination of an entire State ticket. (Applause ) Put them up and let them down if they would. They had on the statute books the most infamou3 1 iw ever known and the administration of it was wor-e than the law. Ic was best to show the people of the north and east that they were being counted out. Tillman would say, if they named no ticket that the people were satitfi ,'d with the law. _ The Democratic pavtv don't respect a quiescent Republican. There were plenty in the party to say on the outside "I'm a southern Demo 1 . > Y"* 11* TT crat ana a nortnern nepuoncan. ne >?as speaking what he believed to be right. Gen. Smalls said ha had called the first gathering of the Republicans ever held in the State. He did cot want the partv disbanded in this way. Couldn't they find nine men out ef office for elector. He had spoken a week ago of the disfranchisement on the same platform with Roosevelt. Hid they hired Ben Tillman and sent him out they could not have done the Rspulicaa party more good. If South Carolina continued to defraud them of their^vote the day would soon come when South Carolina would have one instead of seven congressmen. No man loved his State better than he did. He came to the^ State aeainst his will. (Applause.) When McKinley is elected there will be white men by the huadreds knocking at the door of the party to pet in. A motion to table the motion of Deas prevailed. The convention then proceeded to elect electors. Dickerson impressed^ upon them the necessity for putting out a strong electoral ticket. They wanted a ticket that would get the votes. A committee cf nine to select elec tors and report them to the convention was aked for. Murray wanted the convention to elect the two members at large and the delegations from the districts get to gether and name the others. Murray^s idea prevailed. Chirman Dea* then nominated Dr. Crum and L. W. C. Blalock as the two electors at large. They were elected unanimously. The other electors were named as follows: 5 First?Geo. Holmes, Beaufort. Second?T A. OJom, EdgeSeld. Third?J. W. Tolberfc, Ninety-Six. Fourth?H H. Felton, (ffhite ) Fifth?11 P. Roberts, Cherokee. Sixth?M. K. Holloway, Marion. Seventh?Geo. W. Murray, Samter. Gen. Smalls then moved to proceed with the nomination of a full State ticket. Deas moved to lay the motion on the table as a piece "of absolute foolishcess/' but later withdrew the motion. Gen. Smalls then moved that a oofumictee be appointed io name a full State ticket or report the reasons why it should not be namedBoykin moved that Smalls be nominated governor, and moved to lay the motion on the table. The Small motion was then adopted and the committee was appointed as follows: First?G. I. Cunningham. Second?P. Simpkins. Third?E. F. CockranFourth?E. W. Screven. Fifth?W. E. Boykin. Sixth?J. E. Wilson. Seventh?A. Lathrop. At Large?Robert Smalls, chairman; E. A. Webster. Dickerson wanted a few words sent to the people of the north. He said some colored man north bad said that Republican success meant no more than Democratic success. In the north they had gone to the Democratic party. All these had been sent back to the Republican party by the race trouble rccectly in JSew York. He would ad vise them to go to McKinley. Bryan represented a certain class of men in this State from whom they had nothinctn pvnpnt Those who were in the r~~'" J" # north should vote for McKinley. The committee on nominations then reported 33 follows through Gen. Smalls: "The committee on nominations for a Srate ticket beg leave to report that they have considered the expediency of placiDg a State ticket in the field, and after careful consideration, they are unanimously of the opinion that it would be impracticable and inadvisable at this time to make nominations for State officers in view of the fact that the present unjast and unfair registration and election laws practically disfranchise nine-tenths of the Republican voters of this State." The convention then adopted the u3ual resolution of thanks to its officers, and the new list of county chair> *-??? TTf O T? r* Ui'yU IT ao OlMUV U^/I 'ihen came the adjournment sine die it 10:20 o'clock. This JFixes It. Mr. J. A. Baker of Armstrong, ac jording tc the Greenville News, exhibited three egg3 recently that had juriou3 protuberances on the little snds that bore a resemblance to W. J. *nd B. He considers it a sure prophecy Bryan's election, and says if it bo turns out he will contribute the hen :o the Bryan ovation. rr.~ | I USiil I .Deal, XLilU. Senator Tillman, who is stumping for : Bryan out West, says the Republicans :annot put up enough boodle to defeat the will of the people at the polls this *me. We hopa and believe the senator s right. I THE BL Grove's 1 The formula is know just what you do not advertise the: their medicine if yoi Iron and Quinine pu! form. The Iron ; malaria out of the s1 Grove's IS the Orit. Chill Tonics are imi that Grove's is su] are not experimenti and excellence ha\ only Chill Cure sol the United States. GEJNT- M C. BUTLER Republicans Are Gloating Over His Anti-Democratic Views. (yen. Matthew C. Butler, ex Uai ed ( States senator from South Carolina, is ( in danger of being denounced as an enemy of the South and a traitor to his j party by* some of the rampant party ' { men and papers of the Soutb, who can j see ooly evil in every man that dares to j eay that Bryanism is n:>t what the t , T _ m.L.j ! ooutn neeas. in an interview paoiisueu in the New York Times, Gen, Butler is quoted as follows: "The Southhas never been so pros-perous at any times since the civil war as it is today, and I thick that this gratifying condition of affairs is due principally to the high prices at present being paid for cotton. I believe, fur ther, that if the present conditions continue it will only be a short time ] till the South is throughly on her feet again. In saying this Idonot epeak ( as a politicians for I have been out of ( politics now for many years, but from , the standpoint of a southern fbrmer, { to which class I belong." _ s "How about the political outlook in e trie soutn, general r ( "Well, now you have asked me a hard question," There is where the ne- j gro oom-is in. If it were not for him, I j beiive that the extience of the pres- j ent political conditions in the South, j which are dui to the domination of j populistie ideas, wou;d undoubtedly be rebuked by the people south of Mason and Dixon's line. Many persons in the South see ia protection, expecially, i a very beneficial thing to everybody < concerned." < "How about the question of imper- 1 ialism in the South? ' 1 'Personally, I am an expansionist. | [ think the Democratic party made a | l? _l . t lUlB'.a&e vtutsu tJUC^r laiceu tuc <*ijr uj. anii imperialism, and I don't believe , ' that there is any such thing. Ai fur ( the Southern people, I don'i see hoy : any of them, especially those in the cotton business, can see anythii g not beneficial to them in the policy if expansion. J "I think Mr. McKinley has made a moit excellent j r<;sieflDt. He is thor- ] oughiy conscientious, intensely patriotic, a:d has tLe best interest of the c. .umry, north aod south, at heart.? i Manufacturers' He view. Synopsis of Game Laws. j j Below will be fouiid a synopsis of;, the gams laws of South Carolina. Mongolian Pheasants?It is unlawful to kill or oatoh any Mongolian pheasants until January 1, 1905 D^er?It is illegal to kill or hunt deer, or chase them with dogs between Fcbuary 1 ana Siptember 1, except in the counties o* Clarendon, Berkeley, Goorgetowo, Msrien, Colleton, Dariingtoa, William&burg, | Horry, Maa'boro and Ke/ohaw, ia which counties it is not lawful be- j tween Febuory 1, and August 1. j Other birds?It is illegal between April 1 and November 1 to hunt or ; kiii auy wild turkey, pirtriiges, qaail, woodcock cr pheasant. It is unlawful 1 to kill or huat doves between March 1! and August 1, and to kill at any time j during the year ony of the birds named ' ? ?? i:.ii ? uy ure ngni ux uosu. ngut. Non-resident license?Non residents may purchase a license Tor shooting game of any kkd; cost $25 Tbis Goes not ap^piy to pre80DS hunt- " ing or killing gime on their own j land. Fire hunting?It is ualawful to hant with fire in the night. Sale?It is ualawful to sell part "j ridges or quail, until November 1, J 1915. # , Penalties are attached to each of the above named laws. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Flail's Catarrh Cure. 7 F. J CHENEY & CO Props.. m _ i j . /v roieao, \j _ We, the undarsigned. haye known F J. Cheney for ihe last 15 jears aad be lieves him perfectly honorable ia all 1 business transaction;? and financially J able to carry out any obligations made by their firm West & Fruax, Wholesale Drngiistp, Toledo. 0. Walding, Kissan Martin, Wholesale Draigists, Toledo, I a " 11 Hall's Ca:arrh Care is taken internally, aaring directly upon tho blood and mucous sutfaces of the system. Price 75^. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. Haii's Family Pills are the b^st. A Little Stranga. Miss Beatrice Harraden, the novelist, has written an artiole in which she says that parents should bring up J their boys to do ''home work." Isn't it a little strange that those persons 2 who have no children of their own know eo rnuca better than those who have how children should be brought Q ^ up? The People Pays The great ooal-strike throws into idleness nearly 120,00 men, upon whom a, half miilon people are dependent for cj support. Tiie coal trust has a large c] stock on hand acd has raised the price &] of coal 75c. a ton. The strike usually j bi gives the people a jab in the neck. a] A Warning:. E A Kalamazoo, Mich., woman has actually talked herself to death. Now, * V. !.iO girls, win you dg qaietj via, Chills ^ ^ n "asteless Chi plainly printed on every i are taking when you take ir formula knowing that y< a knew what it contained. : up in correct proportions a: icts as a tonic while the /stem. Any reliable druggist finai and that all other rations. An analysis of othe perior to all others in ev ng when you take Grov< dng long been estabiishe .d throughout the entire i No Cure, No Pay. Price Weekly Cotton Statement. Secretary Hester's weekly New Orleans crtton exchange statement hows for the five d iys of October an ncrease ovar last year of 59 000; for he 35 days of the season that have ;lapsed the aggregate is behind the 35 lays of last year 180,000 The amount brought into sutit during tie past week has been 414,321, igiin?t 410,625 for the seven days endin? October 5 last year. The movement sinoe Sept. 1 sh^ws rejeipts at all United States ports 876141 igainst 974 663 last year. Overland, ieross the Mississippi, Ohio and Po iomac rivers to northern mills and Oanida 41,481 again&t 85,280 last year; in ierior stooks in excess of those held at Ihe close of the oommercial year 167.641 igainst 192,007 last year; southern mill bakings 143.280, against 140,534 last ?ear. Foreign exports for the week have seen 230 553. against X90,015last year. Northern mill takings and Canada luring the past seven days show a decrease of 11,116 as oompared wikh. the corresponding period isst year. The ;otal takings of American mills, nor h md south and Canada thms far for the leasou have been 21fi lV4 a^afn^i 306.'1PT l._J >1.4 iaai >ear. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 eading southern interior centres have ncrensed during the week 105,738 jalts as;ainst{ao increase during the c<>r epponding period last season of 129,>92 " What He Means. Mark Qanna says the business man s a great foroo in politics. He means,)f course, the business man who is at he head of a trust and who contributes autes liberally to his corrupiion fund. Can't Escape Now. New York man killed himself rather ;han settle a $20,000 judgment. He las probably reached a plaoe wheie he 5an't escape paymer-t. A Pointer. Vtoney saved is money earned. "W e can save you money; Let us earn some for you. WHEN?YOUivant MACHINERY or APPURrENANCES of ANY DESCRIPETON, consult us. 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