The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, October 10, 1894, Image 4
MY SWEETHEART.
"Twas a quaint line scrawled in a spelling
book,
And handed to ire with a bashful look,
By my blue eyed sweetheart so fondly true,
In the dear old school days long years ago?
"If you love me as I love you
No knife can cut our iove in two "
That "Sanders' Speller," so tattered and
torn
Has always a halo of romance worn,
And never a poet with honeved pen
II as written so precious a rhyme since then?
"If you love me as I love you."
At, dear, you know X did?1 do.
Tve kept it safely for many a year?
Tnis aog's-earea, snappy oia speiiing-poos,
dear,
And now. as I hold it within my hand.
Again in the school room 1 seem* to stand?
Heading once more with rapture new?
"If you love me as 1 love you."
How some foolish saying from out the past
Like a rose branch is over the pathway cast
And the time of flowers we stdl rememPer,
Till winds blow cold in the bleak December.
God grant it always may be true?
"That you love me as 1 iove you."
EVILS OF THE DANCE.
Dr. Talmage on the Dat gera cl Social
Dissipation.
Brooklyn, Sept. 30.?Rev. Dr. Talmage,
who i3 still absent on his round
the world tour, has selected as the sub*
iect of today's sermon through the pres3
"The Quick Feet," the text chosen being
Matthew xiv, 6, "When H>rod's
birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodies
danced before theiri and pleased
Herod." _ .
It is the annivg^y^f Herod's birthday.
^rne'paiace is lighted. The high.
_ -- Ways leading thereto are all ablaze with
the pomp ot invited guests. Lords, capmoi-fhonf
-nrippAa f.hft mi<?hfcv men
ILaiUOf UMIVUaun J
of the land, are comiDg to mingle in tbe
festivities. Tbe table is spread with all
tbe luxuries that royal purveyors can
gather. Tbe guests, white robed and
anointed and perfumed, come in and
sit at the table. Music! The jests
evoke roars of laughter. Riddles are
propounded. Repartee is indulged.
Toasts are drunk. The brain is befogged.
Tbe wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy.
They are not satisfied yet. 1
Turn on more fight. Pcur out more
wine. Music! Sound all the trumpets.
Clear the floor for a dance. Bring in
Salome, the beautiful and accomplished
princess. The door opens, and in
bounds the dancer. The lords are enchanted.
Stand back and make room
for the brilliant gyrations! These men
never saw such "poetry cf motion."
The scul whirls in the reel and bounds
with the bounding feet.
** ? "? A
V Herod Jorgets crown ana icrauo ?uu
| everything bat the fascinations of Sai
lome. Ail the magnificence of his realm
f 13 as nothing now compared with the
splendor that whirls on tiptoe before
him. His body sways from side to side,
corresponding with the motions of the
enchantress. His soul is thrilled with
the pulsations of the feet and bewitched
with the taking postures and attitudes
more and more amazing. After awhile
he'sits in enchanted silence locking at
the flashing, leaping, bounding beauty,
and a3 the dance close3, and the tinkling
cymbals cease to clap, and the thunders
ot applause that shook the palace begin
to abate, the enchanted monarch swears
to the princely performer, "Whatsoever
thou shalt ark of me I will give it thee,
to the half of my kingacn." Now,
there was m the prison at that time a
minister of the gospel of the name of
John the Baptist, and he had bsen
making a great deal of trouble by
preaching some very plain and honest
sermons. He had denounced the sins
of the king and brought down upon him
the wrath of the females cf the royal
household. At the instigation of her
mother, Salome takes advantage of the
extravagant promise cf the king and
says, k'Bring me the head of John the
Baptist on a dinner plate."
Hark to the sound of feet outside the
door and the clatter of swords! The executioners
are returning from their awful
errand. Open the door. They enter,1
and they present the platter to Salome.
What is on this platter? A new glass
cf wine to continuethe uproarious merriment?
No. Something redder and
costlier?the ghastly, bleeding head of
John the Baptist, the death glare still in
the eye, the locks dabbled with the gore
the features still distressed with the last
agony. This woman, who had whirled
so gracefully in the dance, bends over
the awful burden without a shudder.
She gloats over the blood, and with as
much indifference as a waiting maid
might take a tray of empty glassware
nnt. of rnnm after an entertainment
Salome carries the dissevered head of
John the BaptiBt, while all the banqueters
shout with laughter and think it a
good joke that in so easy and quick a
way they have got rid of an earnest and
outspoken minister of the gospel.
You will ail admit, whatever you
think of that >tyle of amusement and exercise,
that from many circles it has
crowded out all intelligent conversation.
You will also admit that it was made the
condition of those who do not dance,
either because they do not know how,
or because they have not the health to
endure it, or because, Ihrough conscientious
scruples, they must decline the
exercise, very uncomfortable. You
will also admit, all of yon, that it has
passed in many cases from an amusement
to a dissipation, andycu are easily
able to understand the bewilderment of
the educated Chinaman who, standing in
the brilliant circle where there was
dancing going on four or five hours and
the euests seemed exhausted, turned to
the proprietor of the house and said,
"Why don't you allow your servants to
do this for you?"
You are also wiliiDg to admit, what
? - ~ f/N 4 na omnco.
ever yuur luea iu ic^lu w iu? uiuu^ment
1 am speaking of, and whatever be
your idea of the old fashioned square
dance and of many of the processional
romps in which I see no evil, the rouud
dance is administrative of evil and ought
to be driven out of all respectable circles.
I am by natural temperament and religious
theory opposed to the position
taken by all these who are horriied at
playfulness on the part of the young,
and who think that ail questions are decided?questions
of decency and morsl3
?by the position of the feet, while, on
the other hand, I can see nothing but
ruin, temporal and eternal, for those
who go into the dissipations of social
life, dissipations which have already des- j
poiled thousands of young men and
young women of all that is noble :n
character aDd useful in life.
Dancing is the graceful motion cf the
body adjusted by art to the sound and
measures of musicul instruments or of!
the human voice.? All nations have 1
danced. The ancients thought that i
Castor and Polluxjaught the art to the
Laceciemonians. Uut, wnocver started
it, ail climes have adopted it.
In ancient times they had the festal
dance, the bacchanalian dance, and
queens and lords Bwayed to and fro in
the gardens, and the rough backwoodsman
with this exercise awakened the
echo of the forest. There is something
in the sound of lively music to evoke
the movement ol the hand and foot,
whether cultured or uncultured. Passing
down the street we unconsciously
keep step to the sound of the brass band
while the Christian in church with his
foot beats time while his soul rises upon
some great harmony. While this is so
in civilized lands the red men of the
forest have their scalp dances, their
green corn dances, their wardances. la
ancient times the exercise was so utterly
and completely depraved that the
church anathematized it. The old
Christian fathers expressed themselves
most vehemently against it. St. Chryso8tom
says, "The feet were not given
for darclng, but to walk modestly; not r
to leap lajpudent'y, like camels." One s
of the dogmas rf the ancient church i
read : ''A dance's the devil's posses- j
sit a, cr.d he that entereih into a <
dance cntrrclh into h;s possession. As
many pi eta as u man makes ia danc- <
me, so many pac-.s dots he make to \
hell." E:Scwhcro the old dogmas de- i
claiea'his: "The woman that singeth i
in the dance is the princess of the devil, i
ar.d those that answer are her clerks, i
and iLe oeholjers are h-s friends, and
the music is his be.lows, and the tiddlers <
ere the m u slers ol the cevil. For as,
when hugs aie strayed, it the hogsherd
call one ad assemble together, so when
the. dtv.i calleth one woman to sing in
the dare, or to \ 1 iy on some musical
iustiuT.en's, presently all the dancers
gather together." This indiscriminate
and universal denunciation of the excrete
fame from the tact that it was utter
1^ and comple ely depraved.
But we ate not to discu33 the customs
of the olden times, but customs now.
We are not to take the evidence of the
1 ancient lathers, but cur own conscience,
[ enlightened by the word of God, is to be
f the standard. Oh, bring no harsh criti.
cism upon the young. I would not
! drive out from their soul the hilarities of
. life. I do not believe that the inhabitants
of ancient Wales, when they
j stepped to the sound of the rustic harp,
; went down to ruin. I believe God inj
tended the young people to laugh and
i romp and play. I do not believe God
rxkUiVG :^^ocr-nr&e
and exuberance in the body if he had
not intended they should in some wise
exercise it and demonstrate it. If a
mother join hand* with her children and
cross the llx>r to the sound of mu3ic, I
see no harm. If a group of friends cross
and re cross the; room to the sou .d of
piano well played, I see no barm. If a
company, all of whom are known to host
and hostess as reputable, cross and recross
the room to the sound ot musical
in3trnment, I see no harm. I tried for
a long while to see harm in it. I could
not see any harm in it. I never shali
see an"7 harm in that. Our men need
to be kept young?young tor may year?
longer than they are kept young. Never
since my boyhood days have 1 had more
sympathv with the innocent hilarities of
life than I have now. What though we
have ielt heavy burdens! What though
we have bad to endure hard knocks! Is
that any reason why we should stand in
the way of those who, unstung ot life's
misfortunes, are full of exhilaration and
glee? God bless the young! They will
have to wait many a long year before
they hear me say anything that would
depress their ardor or clip their wings or
make them believe that life is hard and
cold and repulsive. It is not. I tell
tnem, judgeing from my own experience,
that tney will be treated a great deal
better than the deserve. We have no
right to grudge the innocent hilarities to
the young.
What are the dissipations of sociai life
today, and what are the diss'pations of
the ballroom! In some cities and in
some places retching all the year around,
in other places only in the summer time
and at the watering places. Taere are
dissipation? of social life that are cutting
a very wide swath with the sickle cl
death, and hundred? and thousands are
going down under these Influences, and
my subject in application is a3 "vide as
Christendom. The whirlpool of social
dissipation is drawing down some of the
hricrhtftftt nraft that ever sailed the sea?
thousand and tens of thousands of the
bodies and souls annually consumed m
the conllaeration of ribbons.
Social dissipation is the abeltes of '
pride, it is the instigator of jealousy, it
Is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the
dedter of the soul, it is the avenue of
lust, and it is the curse of every town on
both sides of the sea. Social dissipation.
It may be hard to draw the line
and say that this is right on the one s de
and that is wrong on the other side. It
is not necessary that we do that, for
God has put a throne in every man's
seal, and I appeal to that throne today.
When a man does wrong, he kno.vs he
does wrong, and when he does right he
knows he does right, and to that throne
which Almighty God lifted in the heart
of every man and woman I appeal.
As to the physical ruin wrought by
the dispositions of sccial life there can
be no dcubr. What may we expect of
people who work all day and dance all
night? After awhile they V7iil be thrown J
on society nervous,,exbau3led imbeciles.
These people who indulge in the suppers
and the midnight revels and then go
home In the cold, unwrapped of limbs,
will after awhile be found to have been
written down in God's eternal records
as suicides, as much suicides a3 if they
had taken their life with a pistol or a
knife or strychnine.
How many people have stepped from
the barroom into the graveyard! Consumptions
and swill neuralgias are close
on their track. Amid maoy ol the
glittering scenes of social life diseases
stand right and left and balance and
chain. The breath of the sepulcher floats
up through the perfume, and the froth ol
death's lip3 bubbles up in the champagne.
I am told that in some ol the
clues there are parents who have actually
given up housekeeping and gone to
boarding tbat they may give their time
lllimitably to social dissipations. I have
kuown such cases. I have known family
af:er family blasted that way
in one of the other cities where
I preached, lather and mother
~ n iwn oil
LULLUti^ 1/LiCiI MC\crw w.i v^wivir
culture and all the amenities ol home,
leading forth their entire family in the
wrong direction. Annihilated worse than
annihilated?for there are somethings
worse than annihilation. I gave you the
history ol more than one family when I
say they went on in the dissipations of
I social life until the father dropped into a
a lower style of dissipation, and after,
awhile the son was tossed out into socie!
ty a noneDity, and after awhile the
! daughter eloped with a French dancing
j master, and after awhile the mother, get!
ting on further and further In years, trie3
to hide the wrinkles, but fails in the attempt,
trying all the arts of the belle, an
old flirt, a poor miserable butterfly without
any wings.
If there is anything on earth beautiful
to me, xt is an aged women, her white
locks flowing back over the wrinkled
brow?lock3 not white with frost, as the
poets say, but white with the blossoms
"of the tree of life, in her voice the tenderness
of gracious memories her face a
benediction. As grandmother passes
through the room the grandchildren pull
at her dress, and she almost falls m her
weakness, but sne nas notning dui canny
or cake cr a kind word for the little darlings.
When she gets out of the wagon
in front of the house, the whole famiiy
rush out and cry, "Grandma's come!"
and when she goe3 away from us, never
to return, there i3 a shadow on the table
and a shadow on the hearth, and a shadow
on the heart. There is no more
touching scene on earth than when grandmother
slecp3 the last slumber and tne
little chiia is lifeted up to the casket to
give the last kiss, and she says, "Goodby,
grandma!" Oh, there is beauty in
I old Hcrp? find sits so. "The hoarv head
1is a crown of glory." Why should people
Gccliue to get old? The best things,
the greatest things I know of, are
aged?old mountains, old seas, old
! stars and old eternity. But if there is
! anything di3tress!ul it is to see an old
woman ashamed of the fact that she is
old. What with all the artificial appliances,
she is too much for my gravity.
I laugh even in church when I see her
coming. The worst looking bird on
earth is a peacock when it has lost its
feathers. I would not give one leek of
ny old mother's pray hair for 50 COO
I'jch caricatures of humanity. And if
,he life of a wordllug, if the lite of a disciple
given to the world, is sad, the close
)f such a life is s:.mply a tragedy.
Let me tell you that the dissipations
>f social life are despoiling; the useful- 1
cess ol a vast multitude cf people. What
Jo those people care about the fact that
there are whole nations in sorrow and
suffering and Bgoay when they have for
consideration the more important question
about the biz8 of a glove or the tie t
or a craval? Which one of them ever ]
bcuad up the wounds of the hospital? (
Which, one of them ever went out to care t
for the poor! Which cf them do ycu t
Kr.nt.fs r\f oin A io f ri Vm t i nrr (
UUU 1U l.U\s uruiuo VI ciu^
tract? They live on tbemeelves, and it 1
is very poor pasture, (
Sybaris was a great city, and it once '
sent out 300 horsemen in battle. They j
had a miuis'rel who had taught the
horses of the army a great trick, and when
the old ministrel played a certain (
tune the horses would rear and with ,
their front feet seem tn beat time to the ,
music. Well, the old ministrel was of- i
fended with his country, and he went ;
over to tbe enemy, and he said to the i
enemy, "You give me the mastership of
the army, and I will destroy their troop3- (
when those horsemen come from Sy
baris." So they gave the old minstrel
the management, and he taught all the '
other minstrels a certain tune. Then '
when the cavalry troop came up the old ,
minstreal and all the other minstrel? '
placed a certain tune^agg^tr tbe most .
"critical mtfSf^TtnThe battle, when the !
horsemen wanted to rush to the conllict, <
the horses reared and beat time to the
music with their fore feet, and in d.sgrace <
and rout the enemy tied. Ah, my friends,
I have seen it again and again?the '
minstrel3 of pleasureis the minstrels of 1
dissipation, the minstre of godless association
have defeated people in the
hardest fignt of life. Frivolity has lo3t
the battle for 10,000 folk. Oh, what a
belittling process to the human mind, <
this everlasting question about dress,
this discussion of fashionable infinitesimals,
this group looking askance at the
glass, wondering with an infinity of earn- ;
sslness how that last geranium leaf does
look, this shriveling of a man's moral
dignity until it is not observable to the
nnbAri ata. this Snanish inaaisition of a
tight shoe, this binding up of an itamortal
soul in a ruflb, this pitching off ot an
immortal nature over the rocks when
God intended it for great and everlasting
uplifting!
With many life "13 a masquerade ball,
and as at such entertainments gentlemen
and ladies put on the grab of kings
and queens or mountebanks or clowns
and at the close put cff tbe disguise, so
a great many pass their whole life in a
mask, taking off the mask at death.
While the masquerade bail of life goes on
they trip merrily oyer the floor, gemmed
band is stretched to gemmed hand, and
gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow, 1
On with the dance! Flush and laughter
of immeasurable merrymaking. But after
awhile the languor of death comes on ;
tbe limbs and blurs the eyesight. L:ghts
lower. Floor hollow sepu'chral tcho.
Music saddened into a wail. L ghts
lower. Now the maskers are only seen
iG ibe aim light. Now the fragrance of .
the flowers is like the sickening odor
that come3 from garlands that have lain
long iu the vaults ofcemetries. Lights
lower. Mists gather in the rocm. Glasses
shake as though quaked by sullen
thunder. Sigh caught in the curtain.
Scarf drops from tbe shoulder of beauty,
a shroud. Lights lower. Over the
slippery boards in dance of death glide
jealousies, envies, revenges, luet, despair
and death. Stenchjhe lampwicks
almost extingu:shed. Torn garlands
will not half cover the ulceratud feet.
Choking damps. Feet still. Hands i
closed. Voices bushed. Eye3 shut,
I/2ht out.
Oh, now many of you have floa'ed far
away from God through social dissipa*
tions! And it is time vou turned. For
I remember that there were two vessels
on the>ea and in a story. It was very,
very dark and the two vessels were going
straight for each other, and the captains
knew it not. But after awhile the
man on the lookout saw the approaching
ship, and he shouted, "Hard a*Iarboard!"
and from the other vessel the cry went
up, "Hard a-larboard!" and they turned
just enough to glance by and passed in
safety to their harbors, Some of you
are in the storm of temptation, and you
are driving on and coming toward fearful
collisions unless vou change your course.
Hard a -larboard! Turn ye, turn ye, for
"why will ye die, 0 house of Israel?"
A Sad, Sad Tragedy,
A very sad tragedy occurred at Gaston
on "the South Bound Railroad last
Wednesday nignt. it was me
death of a bright young lad, who had
run away from home, without even tell- ,
irg his parents good bye. The sad event
occurred just about midnight, and tears
stole down the cheeks of many a strong
man, as he stood by the handsome lad
in the hours of the morning, as his lite
slowly ebbed away from his mangled
form. These strong, tender-hearted larmer?
stood around the little fellow, al- :
though he was a perfect stranger, doing
all in their power to save him, kucwing
he was in a dying condition all the time.
They stood there and heard him tell his ;
story and plead lor his life to be prolonged
till he could kiss his father good- :
bye, a father whom he had left without
giving any intimation as to his intentions
?a father who was at his home in Philadelphia.
perhaps at that very moment
racking his brain to devise soms plan of
securing intormatian as to ms missing
son. It was a scene to touch the heart
of any man. The story briefly told is as <
follows: On Wednesday night this lad 1
got into Ga3ton in some way. At midnight
a fast freight train passed through, :
but did not stop. Ju3t as it rolled past
the station, a cry of pain was heard on
the track and several parties hastening to
invest'gate, found the form of a youth
on the track terribly cut and mangled.
He was lifted up tenderly and taken into
the depot building. There was no physician
m the place, the town physician
being away in Columbia. The lad told
these around him that he had in a belt
around his waist $3.65 in cash. Ho
begged them to tear his clothes open,
get it and get a physician for him. He
said that this wa3 all the money he had
and he had not cared to spend any of it
to ride on the railroad. He said he attempted
to jump on the train while it
was running; no one had pushed him off,
but he had simply missed his footing
and fallen under the wheels. No physician
could be secured before the arrival i
of the 3 a. m. train from Columbia.
When the lad was told this he said he
had some time ago, without cau?e, and ,
without, evea saying good-bye to his
mother and father, run away from his
home in Philadelphia. He said he was
eighteen year3 01 age anu ms uams was
Samuel William?; his parents lived at 1
Xo. 2 736 Germautown avenue, Phila- ,
delpbia. The boy was a handsome little
fellow, and teemed to be of good j
birth and well-to-do parentage. When i
he realized that death was imminent, he i
pleaded to be allowed time enough to i
kiss Ms father good-bye; and thus his i
young lite slowly ebbed away. Dr. <
Broi/ker arrived about 3 a. m., but the <
lad diee1 m liftecn minutes thereafter. 1
The good people of Gaston took charge !
of the remains and as much concern was :
displayed in the funeral as if some son ]
of a Gaston mau had died. lie was j
given a neat burial and his grave was (
marked, so that should his parents hear (
of his tragic end and wish to see the '
grave, they can find it. The above ac- j
count of this extreamly sad tragedy is <
taken from Momday's State. <
THE NEXT HOUSE.
SOW IT 15 FI3UKED OUT BY DEMOCRATS
and republicans.
So: h Sides Claim a Comfortable M-.j .rlly?The
Democats ere a Little More
Mode"t lu th?*lr Finnren than the 1Upablicans.
The Congressional Campaign Committees
of both the Democratic and
Republican parties are beginning to
lonsider saiiou3ly the complexion of
be next National House of Representatives.
The election is only a little
)ver four weeks off, and there is a na:ural
inclination to survey the field and
ietermine, if possible, the size of the
harvest that ia to be gathered in. Very
naturally the spectacles through which
:he Democrats and the Republicans
jjaze at the Congressional districts do
sot produce the same results, but the
inference is not as marked as one
would suppose. Both sides are conliient
of winning. The Democratic estimate
is more conservative than the
Republican, and with its total of l'.JO
is dangerously near the danger line.
me uemocrauc esumaie gives vuree
of tbe South Carolina members to the
Populists, which is a mistake. Our belief
and hope is that every district in
this State will be carried by the Democrats.
The Republicans in their estimate
claim 200 members, bat we have
oo idea that *111 gel them/if the
I^tnOcfats all over the country witb&y
asid9 tlieir factional difficulties and pulltogether.
This is all that is needed to
3ecurea grand Democratic victory next
month. The following table gives tbe
claims of each party, and it will be
worth while comparing these figures
with the returns on the morning after
election:
Republican Dem'cratic
State. estimate. estimate.
R. D. P. D. K. P.
Alabama 9 ... 9
Arkansas 0 ... ?
California <> 1 ... 4 3 ...
Colorado 3 2
Connecticut 3 l ... 2 2 ...
Delaware 1 1
Florida 2 ... 2
Georgia 11 ... 11
Idaho 1 1 ?
Illinois 11 11 ... 9 13 ...
Indiana 9 4 ... 7 0 y.
Iowa 10 1 ... 1 10 ...
Vonaoa X ... 4 4
Kentucky 2 9 ... 10 1 ...
Louislna ... G ... 5 1 ...
Maine 4 4 ...
Maryland 3 3 ... 5 1 ...
Massachusetts 12 1 ... 2 11 ...
Michigan, 11 1 ... 4 8 ...
Minnesota 7 2 5 ...
Mississippi 7 ... 7
Missouri G 5 4 12 3 ...
Montana 1 1 ...
Nebraska G 3 3 ...
Nevada 1 1
New Hampshire... 2 2 ...
New Jersey 5 3 ... 4 4 ...
New York 19 15 ... 17 17 ...
North Carolina 1 8 ... 8 1 ...
North Dakota 1 1 ...
Ohio 16 5 ... 6 15 ...
Oregon 2 l l ...
Pennsylvania 24 G ... G 24 ...
Rhode Island 2 1 1 ...
South Carolina 1 6 ... 4 ... 3
South Dakota 2 2 ...
Tennessee 4 6 ... 8 2 ...
Texas 9 4 13
Vermout 2 2 ...
Virginia 3 7 ... 9 l ...
Washington 2 2 ...
West Virginia 3 l ... 4
Wisconsin 7 3 ... 5 5 ...
Wyoming l l
Totals 200 147 9 190 156 10
M either the Democrats nor the liepublicans,
it will be seen by the above,
believe that the Populists will cut verv
much of a llgure in the outcome. The
Republican managers, for instance, do
not believe that a single Populist will
be elected north of Mason and Dixon's
line, and the Democrats account for
only a total of ten in the whole United
States. The truth is that the Populists
have made much exaggerated claims
in the past, have cried "wolf" so frequently
when there was no wolf, that
tne practical politicians pay little or no
heed to aDy prophecies which take the
Populists into consideration. The Pop '
ulists, for their part, expect to hold the
balance of power. It will also be noticed
in the above table that In a large
number of instances there is absolutely
no difference of opinion between the
Democratic and Republican experts,
in nearly all the Southern States solid
Democratic delegations are cencedei
to the Democrats. This is noticeably
the case with Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and, with
the exception of one district in North
Carolina. Texas, on the contrary, is
regarded by Republicans as debatable
ground, their information being that
the Populists in that State will make
serious inroads into the Democrats. In
Missouri, too, the Republicans expect,
with the aid of the Populists to unseat
at least four Democrats, in addition to
carrying six straight Republican Disfrimj?
These six districts comprise
the three in the city of St. Louis and
three in the State. The Democrats for
their part, concede to the Republicans
the entire delegation from Iowa, with
the exception of Judge Hayes's district,
and some forty more Congressmen
in Maine, Oregon, Montana, Idaho,
New Hampshire, North and South
Dakota, Washington, Vermont and
Pennsylvania. The estimates regarding
the latter State tally to a nicety, although
even such a conservative Republican
as Chris Magee is said to
believe that the Democrats will carry
seven districts in the State, or one more
than is allowed by either of the committees.
The Democrats expect to get
nothing in Kansas, and they count upon
four Populists from that State, while
the Republicans claim the entire eight.
Out of the six New England State3
the Democrats anticipate at least live
members, two in Massachusetts, two in
- - - -J - o A ~
UOIineCUCUL ana one ill ivuoue isiaau.
The Republicans cut this estimate
down to two, one ia Massachusetts and
one in Connecticut. In New Fork the
Democratic committee counts upon
sixteen certain for each party, with
two districts doubtful, and a possibility
that the delegation will be equally
divided. The Republicans look for
nineteen of their candidates to be electad,
giving to the Democrats the districts
south of the Harlem. Under the
Republican redisricting of the State
the Republicans look for only three
Democrats to be returned frcm New
Jersey. The Democrats count on carrying
four districts in this State. A
Republican gerrymander also confronts
t' Democrats in Ohio, but they count
upon at least six districts. The Republicans
concede live. In Illinois, on the
other hand, the redisricting is with
the Democrats. It is a fact which is
admitted at the Republican headquarters
that nothing Dss than a majority
of 00,000 in Illinois can change the political
complexion of the delegation
from the State, while the Democrats
can lose the State by 30,000 and still
hold the Legislature. Consequently
the Democrats will probably get a majority
of the Congressmen and the Republican
managers will be 3ati3tied if
they get one-half of the total of twenty
two. For this reason the Democratic
claim of nine is within the most conservative
bounds.
As to the outcome in Indiana opinions
differ. One district there, dow
represented by Mr. Hammond, a Democrat,
is certain to go Republican, and
the ut and 11th districts, the homes of
Congressmen Taylor and Martin, are
thought to be doubtful. Out of the
nine remaining districts the Democrats
rxpect to carry six, but the Republicans
only allow them a total of four. FostmoDtor
Tlalt-nn nf fhft iffiiiqp fit I?PD
uioovui iy(?:wvu, va. U.JV ,wjr
resentatives, and an ex-member from
Indiana, has looked veary thoroughly
into the situation in the State, ana
?ives it as hi3 opinion that the Democrats
will elect eight, and he does not
iven anticipate the defeat of Martin,
;he chairman of the pension committee.
Fhe pension question, however,
s causing the Democrats coniiderable
trouble in the State.
Jhairman Ellyson, of the Vir
9
ginia Democratic Statp corr.mitfpe, be- 1
J<evrs that t.he .Republicans will only
gmu one Congressman in his State, and r
be Is not at all curtain that even this
slight change will occur. At Republican
headquarters, however, it is said
that Repulicahs will be elected in the
2d, Till and 'J.h districts. West Virginia r
also seems to be a very much disputed (
battle ground. The advices at the fDemocratie
headquarters indicate the .
election of Democratic Congressmen in
all of the four districts, but this claim t
is said by the opposing managers to be 1
absurd. Wilson's defeat is predicted by 1
a majority of 1,200. A communication
received at t he Republican head- c
quarters recently, tHted at Berkeley t
Springs, in Wilson's district, says that
all the saw mills in that county have r
been closed, and that at Davis City 300 ,
lumbermen have been thrown out of "
employment. Howard, in the 1st, and 1
Alderson in the 3J, are also said to be t
doomed to defeat.
Wisconsin is another State where the
result appears uncertain. Chairman
Wall, of the Democratic State v
committee, predicts the election of live j
Congressmen, but Representative Bab- h
cock, of Wisconsin, who Is the chair?V*
nf Bn I>ar\nV?lirtOn PAM rPfiiOai An O 1 C
UlrtU VI LliC XirjJUUIIVO" vjuimnojiuum
committee, thinks the Democrats will \
be fortunate if they bring even three r
of their candidates safely through. 13y .
a fusion with the Populists the Democrats
expect tc get three Congressmen ;
in Nebraska, who wiil co-operate with s
the Democrats in organizing the House, (
but the .Republicans, claim the entire f
Stat*, being now confindent that Mr. >
McKeigJiar^itgai??t ^hcru they Ik." to uirtKe
their hardest light, is as good as \
beaten. lu Kansas Jerry Simpson was j
their most formidable opponent. From (
Michigan the Democrats expect Gritlin, f
Gorman, Whiting ard Weadock to be ]
returned, but the Republicans claim j
eleven out of the twelve districts. In ]
Maryland, too, the Republicans expect ,
to make gains, counting upon three of (
the six districts, the 1st, 5th and Gth.
They do not put Louisiana in their
column, believing that they have a clear ,
majority in the House even if the bolt j
in the sugar State does not materialize. <
The defeat of Enloe and Snodgrass j
in Tennessee is predicted, giving them (
a total of four Republicans from that .
State, while they do not concede a single
Democrat from Minnesota. The j
Democrats expect to hold their own in ,
that State. They have now two mem ,
bers. A clean Republican sweep In (
California, with the exception of one district,is
also apart of the llepubli- j
can programme. They also expect to ,
wrest Colorado from the Populists, i
Delaware and Wyoming from the Democrats,
and gain a district in Kentucky. '
Wniie we believe that the Democrats ]
will win, we confess that the light is ,
going to be a hard one.
THr OEORCIA ELECTION.
fhe Poalist M<ke L'^rga Gilns All Over
the State. (
Atlanta, Ga,, Oct. 4.?The Constitution
publishes this morning returns '
from all of the 137 counties in Georgia,
made from unollicial estimates, compiled
Dy its correspondents in every coun
ty, and most of them received after '<
midnight last night. The unofficial returns
Indicated that the State had
gone Democratic bv thirty thousand
majority, but the official county, consolidations
wnich took place at 12
o'clock to-day show that thi9 figure has J
been reduced. The official Democratic i
majority will not vary much from
twenty thousand and this is the figure ]
which is now accepted by conservative <
estimates on the Democratic side. The ]
Populists on the other hand claim that
tha counties, the consolidations from, ;
which will be the last to be heard from :
will reduce this majority to at least l
ten thousand. Of the one hundred and '
seventy-five members of the House <
elected, about sixty are Populists and f
of the forty-four members of Senate, )
there are seven Populists and one Ks- |
publican. Several of the strongest Ds- i
mocratlc counties in the State have '
been carried by the Populists and with i
but few exceptions every county ia the
State shows Populist gains. Speaker I
unp 3 district gives me largest ueuiw <
cratlc majority of any district ia the <
State. He figured conspicuously in
the campaign, strongly advocating
tariff reform and the free coinage of
silver. An organized movement against
a return to silver coinage without foreign
consent was started early in the
campaign, Secretary Smith, Congress
man Turner and others vigorously defending
the policy of the administration
on the stump. The debate on the
silver question grew so warm as to
frequently put Democratic speakers in
the attitude of making a joint discussion
against each other on this issue.
Speaker Crisp and Secretary Smith
spoke in Atlanta together a few weeks
ago, one defending free silver the other
antagonizing it. The Populists took
full advantage of the division and the
result has been a great slum in Democratic
majorities throughout the State.
atkinson badly scratced.
Atlanta, Oa., Oct. 4.?iteturns
come in slowly but enough official
and unofficial reports have been received
by the Journal up to 12 o'clock J
to indicate an average Democratic majority
of twenty to twenty-live thous- !
and. Atkinson, the Democratic nomi- 1
nee for Governor, has been scratched '
in all the parts of the State and it is 5
not believed his majorty will exceed lif- '
teen thoushand. The Democrats will
have thirty majority in the State Sen- 5
ate and 150 majority in the House, i
Every Congressional district except ]
Dlack's went for the Democrats. The >
ninth, represented by Tate, is carried <
for the Democrats by seven majority, i
and the fourth, represented by Moses, :
by 930. Tnis is the first election since '
the war when Republicans and Ropu- 1
lists have made a complete fusion. '
The negroes voted solidly with the To- ?
pulists. Great surprise has been oc- '
casioned by the defeat of Warner Iitil
a nrnminAnt. randiriaifi for So9aker of 1
tne next Ilou3e. This county went J
with the Populists; this insures the
election of W. H. Flemming of Rich- 1
mond to be Speaker. South Georgia <
counties which are so lid for Represen- <
tative Turner for the Senate have given i
the largest majorities in the State to t
the Democrats.
Atlanta, Oct. 8.?The State election I
occurred in Georgia today, the State <
voting for Governor and State ollicers '<
and a full Legislature, which is to <
elect a Senator in November. Two i
years ago the State went Democratic c
for Governor by 71,00 ) majority for W. 1
J. Northern over W. L. Peck, the Po- I
puiist nominee. W. 1". Atkinson is
the Democratic candidate for Governor 1
this year and J. K. limes the Populist t
nominee. There are 137 counties in '<
Georgia and returns are coming in ?
slowly, but there seems to be no doubt. 1
that Atkinson's majority for Governor 1
will be between 30,000 and 50,000. Later t
reports irom an over ueorgia suuw
that the Populists have made gains in
almost every county in the State and j
that the Democratic majority will pro- j
bably not be more than 30,000. ladica (
tions are that the Populists will have a
thirty or forty members in the next (
Legislature. The Populists claim that <the
oilicial reports will reduce the Dem- ?
ocratic majority to 20,000, while Caair- v
man Clay, of the State Democratic ex- t
ecutive committee, claims that the De- :
mocra'ic majority will reach 33,000. g
a big falling off.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 4.?Returns in
this CoDgresional District indicate rour s
tncusnnd Democratic maj ority, a fall- 1
iog oilof twelve hundred in two years. r
Indications are that the Democratic a
majority in Congressman Turner's dis- I
trice will hold up well. Counties in t
the Tenth, Tom Watson's District, t
show live hundred Populist majority, i
If they repeat this next month he will s
be elected, [t was a notable fact that c
the heaviest Democratic majorities are I
returned from counties endorsing the r
administration's financial views. In- a
dlcations are that the constitutional f
amendments increasing the number of t
the Supreme Court Judges to live and s
increasing pensions to Confederate S
soldiers have been lost. t
HE SOUTH CARD. INA AND G?O^GIA'
LoaLvllle and Nashville and Oast
L'ne Buy It.
The Augusta Chronicle, of iast VVe1lesdav,
says the South Carolina and
Jeorgia Railway will soon change
lands again. Just as the Chronicle has
ieen telling you all along, the Atlantic
Joast Line and the Louisville and
Nashville, jointly are going to buy it.
Yugusta will be beneiitted by the
ihange. The News and Courier yeserday
ssys:
The following paragraph, which has
ecently been goiQg the rounds of the
N'ew York papers, will unquestionably
)e of interest; to the people just at this
irae. With slight variations the paragraph
is as follows:
"Negotiations are said to be under
vay between the Parsons brothers, the
>rincipal owners of the South Carolina
ind Georgia, and the executive oflicials
>f the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville
and Nashville, whereby the lirst
lamed property is to pass into the joint
:ontrol of the latter companies. The
5011th Carolina was bought by the Parions
some time ago, and the name was
jhanged. The road ha3 a main liEe
Tom Charleston to Augusta, with
Jraacfcre, hud the Atlantic Coast'LIhe
md Louisville and Nashville have hid
heir eyes on the property. During the
?ast week negotiations are said to have
jecn resumed between the Parsons
md the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Louisville and Nashville, and it is said
;hat the transfer of the desired line is
now pending. The South Carolina is
wanted by the Atlantic Coa3t Line, because
it will give it an entrance into
Augusta."
In substance this statement has been
made many times before,both here and
in New York, and the pertinacity
with which the rumor keeps itself before
the public is possibly the strongest
argument which at this time can be
adduced in support of it.
rl1U/> W? A r-? VtArAoKrvtl t O Or A
IUC JLCillLUnU UJ.CU UClCflUWU'O cue
pretty well divided in their opinions
an the question. Some very high oill
cials on the South Carolina and Georgia
Road, while they disclaim speaking
with authority on the subject, are open
and above board in their expressions
of belief in the truth of the rumor. At
the 3ame time there are other well informed
railroad men in the city who
think that the ultimate outcome is to
be that the Louisville and Nashville
and Atlantic Coast Line will control
the South Carolina and Georgia Riad.
From time to time the Louisville
and Nashville people, as well as the
Messrs. Parsons, have denied that any
deal wa3 in progress, and yet it continues
to be generaly accepted as a fact
that negotiations are now penning between
the two.
A gentleman was s .en ill the city
yesterday who mentioned the name of
a well known railroad man who toll
him that he had received a telegram
from New York stating that the arrangements
had actually been made
looking tc the transfer of the property.
At the same time it should not be forgotten
that the new officials of the road
in this city disclaim having any information
on the subj ict, and the business
of tb8 compauy is being conducted
as though the management were a
permanent one.
But information was received here
yesterday, which seems to indicate beyond
a doubt, that the "Old Reliable"
has already, or will positively, within
cne very near imure, euaatfe iK-iuua
again. The statement was made on the
street list night that a well known gentleman
In this city had received a telegram
during the day in which it was
stated that the Louisville and IS ashville
and the Atlantic Coast Line had
made definite arragements with the
Messrs. Parsons by which these sys
terns would in the near future take
3oatrol of the south Carolina and
Georgia Railroad.
A coDiirmation of this rumor was
received in au unexpected way last
sight. A gentleman in CnarlestoD,
who does not wish his name given just
aow, showed a reporter a letter from a
prominent New York man in which
ihe writer says: Of course you know
:hatthe Messrs. Parsons have dis
posed of their interest in the iSouth
Carolina and Georgia Railroad."
This statement, coming as it does
from one of tne beat known linauciers
in the country, seems to be a very
'straight tip." The writer of the letter
is in a position to have inside informainn
nn thn suhiect. and be is not a man
who would speak lightly of such an
important question. He says no more
,n the letter than has been given,
ividently takiDg thesaieof the road as
i matter of course, it is not said to
whom the Messrs. Parsons had dispos?d
of the property, but everyone takes
it for graateu that the purchasers are
:he Louisville and Nashvile and Atlantic
Coast Line systems.
Some persons have supposed that the
Southern Kailway Compaay might
wish to own the property, but there is
very little reason to believe that that
jystem would care greatly for the
South Carolina and Georgia Line.
If It Is true, as now rumored,that the
Southern has made arrangements to
ibsorbtheCentralsystem.it 13 hardly
probable that it would care to nave an
additional South Atlantic port. Taking
everything into consideration, and remembering
everything received here
yesterday, there is little reason to doubt
;hat if the Messrs. Parsons have sold
.he South Carolina and Georgia Iijad,
;hat the purchasers are the Louisville
and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line
jystems.
In this connection it may be said
:hatoneof the leading railroad men of
;he South recently told a reporter of
l'he News and Courier that there was
ittle reason to doubt that the South
Carolina and Georgia Koad would
ih.ange hands again within a very few
months, lie said that he felt confident
;hat the Louisville and Nashville aad
;he Atlantic Coast Line systems would
luild a new line to Augusta if they
;ould not control the South Carolina
md Georgia property, and as he cousilered
it 'would be ruinous to the old
f the new line was built, he did not
ioubt that arrangements would be
t- \\ r\ *TT Anl/1 nhon^Q
nauo l)J WLIUJUL LUC iuau YY UUIU uuaugg
lands.
The information which is given here
las come so straight that there seeni3
;o be no reason for doubting it. Tne
iuthority is about as good as could be
gotten, unless aa official statement
lad been made either by the Messrs.
.'arsons, or by the Louisville and Nashrille,
people themselves.
lJaried in a Mine.
Sciianton, I'enn., Sept. 28.?Two
ives at lour men, two miners and two
aborers, without warning were crushid
out in Northwest colliery of Simpion
and Watkins, at Simpson, near
]aronaale, late yesterday afcernoou.
Cneir managled remams as near as can
)e ascertained lie beneath a fall of rock
vhicn is ten feet wide and six feet
ugh, and extends for at least sixty feet
n the gangway off from the third
lope of the mine.
P. W. Kline, a lottery and policy
bop man of JvaLsas, has published a
etter in whicn tie rentes mat Gjverior
Levvellyn, Attorney General Little
iid other Populist State oili ;ers of
vans is agreed to sell him police preectionin
that State aid to permit him
ohave the aopoiatment of tie p )l'ce
a certaiQ cities aid that they failed to
tand by their bargains. Hi farther
laiins to have contracted with the
liOuisaaa lottery to have all lotteries
uaout of Kansas aid to have paid t ie
ittoraey general $4,000 to begin tie
>rosecution of them. Tie publication
ia3 of course caused a great deal of
candal. It is said that the Republican
State committee secured the publicaion
of the letter.
crops and wfathrr.
the Vahi \ve*k atd the k'co'd* ?>f the
ajcricaitarai i5ar?nn.
Columbia,s. C., OB. 2?The following
is (he wpefcly weather crop report
of Weather Observer Bauer and it
is unusually full and interesting:
During the week ending October 1,
the temperature ranged between 88 and
48 degrees, the former was recorded on
September 30 and October 1, and the
latcer at Looper's, l'ickens county, ana
at Iteid, (Jreenviile county, on the
25th and 2i5th respectively. The iirst
of the wwk was much cooler than
usual while the latter portion was very
warm.
The two lest days were the only ones
comparatively clear. The sunshine
averaged about 3d per cent, of the
possible.
Bain began on the 25th in portions
of the State,and wa* general and heavy
on the 25th and 17th, ended gradually
on the 28th, and there were light scattering
showers, with generally clearing
weather on the 29:h.
iue uegiumug mm euuiu^ ui uic rainy
weather marked the duration of a
West Indian hurricane, whose centre
skirted the South Carolina Coast on
the 2ti:h and 27ch, with gales over the
entire State, but most severe along: the
coast and second tier of counties,
where the rainfall was extraordinarily
heavy, ranging from eight inches at
IMaepsiis ra lesser ar cunts the
interior, and about an inch in the
Northwest counties. Very few streams
oversowed their banks, but heavy damage
resulted from the combined force
of the rain and high winds which
reached an extreme velocity of sixty
miles per hour at Charleston aud probably
a greater rate at Statesburg. Cotton
and late corn, peas, rice ami grasses
were beaten to the ground, and In
Richland and Orangeburg counties it
is reported that trees were uprooted by
the violence of th6 wind. Rica suffered
most severely, having been some
what damaged by high tides and by
fresh water. Much of it was in stacks
which were more or less scattered and
saturated, entailing a great deal of
labor to dry the grain to prevent
sprouting.
The aggregate damage from this
storm, is nowever, much less than that
caused by the historic storm of August,
1803. This year's scoria was less severe,
the tides were not as high, and, owing
to having occurred later in the season,
a smaller percentage of the crops remained
in the fields ungatherec.
The following rainfall measurements,
made during the storm, will illustrate
the gradual decrease from the coast towards
the Northwestern counties, (In
incnes auu nuimreutus;; j. luuyms <xw,
Charleston 7.45, Georgetown 6 55. Trial
5.47, Beaufort G.15, Conway 5 08, Cheraw
4/J8, Society Hill 4.03, Barnwell
county 4.G2, Fort Rival 4.27, Effingham
4 02, frenton 3.4'J, Chesterfield
4 00, Blackv'l'e 3.70, Tiller's Firry 3 02,
Stetesfiurg 2 35. Lexington 2 50, A/ken
count? 2 20, L mgshore 2.12, Hooper's
185, Little Mountain 1:45, Smtuc 1.33,
Laurens 1.22, McCormicK 1.22, Wionsboro
1.70, Columbia 1.18, Greenvide
1.00, Watts 0.81, E la 0.75
The force of the win! did not decrease
to the same extent as did the
rainfall from the ca?t towards the
Northwestern counties and consequently
the damage to corn and peas,
out mure particularly to octon, was
almost general over the entire State.
I'he percentage of damage to cotton in
the fields is variously estimated from 5
to 20 per can'"., an average of all tne
estimates making somawiat under 10
per cent.
Green bills were broken rlT very'
freely. Many, if not the greater portion,
of the open bolls were m ire or less
stained and where the sta'ks remains
greea the damp,cloudy weather caused
an intreisa in rust and boll worms
which late in the week again appeared
m Injurious nu nbers m some counties.
Picking was greatiy hindered by the
unfavorable weather, but will h j pushed
rapidly tram now on, as the weither
permits, as the bolls are opening very
fast, some, it is thought, prematurely.
Sea isl sud cotton suffered more from
the storm than the short staple varieties.
The rain was beneficial lu the North
central and Western counties for late
root crops, such a3 turnips and late
sweet potatoes, and also for gaideus,
and kept gr^si green and growing for
pasturage.
Some oats being sown, but oats seed
ing has not become general yet; it is
generally too wet to prepare the
ground.
Truck farmers suffered severely from
the heavy rain3 along the c.>ast as the
wet soil interferes with the cultivation
and marketing of fall crops.
To the r* quest made for estimates of
the percentage of cotton ungatnered
on October 1, replies were received
from all but six counties, some of
which raise but little cotton and therefore
wouid have but little effect on the
percentage for the State. A very good
indication of the accuracy of the different
reports is that la counties from
which two, or more reports were received
they aid not differ more than
10 per cent., and that cm readily be ascribed
to varying conditions according
to locality.
Toe estimates by regions and expressed
in averages, are as follows:
Alpine region 80 p<-r cent, ungath^red,
Piedmont 01, lied Hill and Upper Pine
Belt 42, -Lower Line and uoasc regions
30. By assigning to each region a value
in proportion to its cotton acrerge ttie
average percentage ot' unfathered cotton
for the State, on ORooer 1, is 51 par
cent.
Counties grouped according to per
centages, the results are as follows:
Above 80 per cent. Laurens, Ocooee,
Tick-ens; between 70 and 80 per cent.?
Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg; between
00 and TO per ceat.?Fairlield.
Richland, York, Abbeville, Union; between
50 an 1 00 per cent.?Beaufort,
Berkeley, Florence,\Viliiam3burg. Lancaster,
Sumter; between 40 and 50 per
cent. ? Hampton, Aiken, Chesterlleld,
Darlington, Iversnaw, Lexington,Eigelield;
between 30 and 40 per cent.?
Clarendon, Barn well, Oraagehurg, Newberry;
below 30 per cent.-Mariooro.
In the statement that 51 per cent, remained
unfathered, allowance was
also made for the probable damage
that resulted irom the storm, In other
words, the number of bales already
gathered will likely, be more than
doubled by the end ot the season.
J. VV. Bauer, Director,
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Met a Deserved Fate.
Fairfield, Texas, Oct. 5.?Henry
Gibson, colored, attempted to outrage
Miss Mitchell near Mills yesterday evening,
but was prevented from accomplishing
the terrible act by the screams
of his victim, which attrac^d help
from near by. la the scutfb wtth
Miss Mitchell hd cut her several times
but not seriously. The fiend was arrested
and carried to Mills where he
was identified. lie was being guarded
at a store, but last night about 2 o'clock,
a shot was fired by some unkaown party
from the outside, which killed Gib
son.
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Canvassers wanted to sell the Improved
Hall Typewriter.
$.";o per day has been made by active and
energetic agents.
Why will people bay a flOO Machine
when ?30 will purchase a better one for all
praciical and business purposes. Write for
illustrated catalogue and terms to County
Agents. Exclusive territory assigned and
secured by Agent's CertiOcate Numbered
and sealed by the Company (Incorporated).
This is the best Standard Typewriter in
the world Writes la all languages (laterchangeable
Type Plates). A Good Manlfolder,
inexpensive. Portable. No Ink
ribbons Weight 7 pounds only.
Read the opinion of 9uch famous authors
as Mr. Wm. D. Howells:
"I wish to express my very great satisfaction
with the Hall Typewriter. Impressions
and a I ligament are both more
perfect than any other typewriter that I
know and it is simply a pleasure to use it.
It is delightfully simple and manageable.
(Signed) W. D. Howells.
Send for Catalogue and Specimens of
Work.
N. TYPEWRITER CO.,
fill Washington St., Boston, Mass.
P. 0. Box 5159.
ARE YOU SICK 2
OK ^
AFFLICTED
AND NEED
MEDICINE?
AX DDI) YOU WANT
HE LIEF?
i
If 30 you will fiod at toe BAZAyK '
all standard medicines for all
complaints, diseases, etc., *
which will give
RELIEF AND CURE YOU.
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A. choice line of Sweet Siap, Perfume
ry, and Toilet G >odst Tooth, Hair,
"Cloth and Sh*vioi? Brushes,etc. *
I^"Call if you ueei anything in this
doe
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AT THS 4
BAZAAR,
LEXtXGrON, S. C
The Odell |
Type Writer.'' J
GO A will buy the ODELL TVPE WRIOwU
TER with 78 characters, and $15 ?
for the SINGLE CA.SE ODELL, warranted
to do better work than aay msfchlne
made.
It combines simplicity with durability,
speed, ease of operation, wears longer without
c ist of repairs than any other machinelias
no ink ribbons to b )tli )r the operator.
It is neat, substantial, nicsel.platel, par- feet,
and adapted to ail kinds of type writing.
Like a printing press, It produces
sharp, clean, legible manuscripts. two
or ten copies can be made^at one writing.
Any intelligent perscn'can become an operator
in two days. We otfsr $1,030 to any
operator who can equal the work of the
DOUBLE CASE ODELi*.
Reliable Agents and salesmen wanted. ^
Special Inducements to Dealers.
For Pamphlet giving Indorsements, etc.,
address
THE ODELL TYPE WRITER CO.,
338-3*51 Dearborn St. Chicago. Ill,