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Charleston 5 30 p 7 20 a Ar. Columbia 10 10 p 1105a jf Lv. Augusta TOOp 205p " Qranitcville 7 40 p 2 33 p 44 Treuton 8 25 p 25Sp 41 Johnstons.. S45p 3 10 p Ar. Columbia Un. depot 11 20p 4 45 p Lv Columbia Bland'g St. 7 54p- 500a 505p 44 Winnsboro 8 47p! 0 08 a 605p 44 Chester C 84 pj 6 55 a 0 53p 44 Bock Hill 10 07 p 7 34 a 7 30p Ar. Charlotte 10 50pj 8 25 a 8 20p 44 Danville 2 30 a 1 30 p; lttXlrn Ar. Richmond ) 0 40 pj 0 00a Ar. "Washington 9 45 a 940p 0 42 a 44 Baltimore 11 05 a] 11 25 p 8 05 a 44 Philadelphia. 1 20 p; 3 00 a 10 25 a 44 New York 3 53 p! 0 20 a 12 53p ' ?? _ osr n ... _ - O. W AO. *>.) AO. O | Southbound. Dally.j Daily. Daily. Lv. New York 8 20p: 1213ntj 4 Sup " Philadelphia. 5 57 pi 3 5.) a (1 55 p " Baltimore 8 37 p: 0 22 a,1 9 20 p Lv. Washington 10 03p; 11 15 a 10 43 p Lv". Richmond j 12 55 p 200a Lv. Danville 500a 6 05 p 550a " Charlotte 8 40 a; 11 00 p 0 35 a M Rock Hill 9 22aj 11 46 p 10 20 a M Chester 9 53 a 1219nt 10 55 a ** Winnsboro 10 34 a 1 08 a 11 41 a ^ Ar Columbia Bland'g st. 11 36 a 2 10 a 12 50 p Lv. Columbia Un. depot 4 3") a: 1 29 p " Johnstons 6 82 a: 3 10 p 44 Trenton 6 48 a; 3 23 p ** Graniteville 7 16 a 3 45 p Ar. Augusta 8 00 a; 4 15 p Lv. Columbia 7 00 a 4 00 p Ar. Charleston 11 10 aj 8 <X>p Lv. Columbia 10 46 a 1 18 a Ar. Savannah 2 30 p; 5 35 a u Jacksonville 6 30p' 9 45 a . SLEEPING C.lB SERVICE. "Km. 37 and 38?Washington and Southwestern LinV-t?*i, Vestibuled Pullman curs, between Augusta _?nd New York. Solid Vestibuled irain wit*. dining cars and first class coaches north of Ch?c.V>tte. Nos. 85 and '36?U. S. Fast Mail. Through Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping car between Jacksonville and New York and Charlotte and Augusta. Also Pullman sleeping cars between Jacksonville and Cincinnati via * Asheville. Nos. 81 and 32?"New York and Florida Short Line Limited." comprises between New York and St. Angustine: Pilllman compartment and library observation cars, Pullman drawingroom cars, vestibuled coaches with smoking room and also dining cars serving meals. Also drawing-room Pullman cars lmtween New York ana Tampa. Southbound this train will carrv Pullman drawing-room sleeping car New York to Columbia, en route to Augusta by Train No. 37: and northbound by train No. 35 Augusta to New York. W. K. GREEN. J. M. GULP, (y. Sunt,, Washington, T. M._. Washington. "W. A. I'UBK. S. H. HAKUWHJh., i G. P. A.. Washington. A. G. P. A., Atlanta. I t F. W. HOSEMANN, StVIT AND LOCSSMITH, and dealer in SDSS, P?STGIS? PISTOL CARTRIDGES FISHES TACKLE, and all kinds of Sportsmen's Articles, which he has now on exhibition and for ale at his store. Slain Street, Near the Central Sank, Columbia, 8. C. AGENT FOR HAZARD POWDER CO. Repairing done at short notice. Paper and envelopes of all kinds writing and pencil table's, pens, pencils, memorandum and pass books, purses, banjo, violin and gui'ar strings, and notions generally, at the Bazaar. CANCER CUREO -AND ALIFE SAVED By the Persistent Use of Ayer's Sarsapariila "I was troubled for years with a sore on my knee, whicli several physicians, who treated me, called a cancer, assuring me that nothing could be done to save my life. As a last resort, I was induced to try \ Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, after taking a number of bottles, the sore began to disappear and my general health improve. I persisted in this treatment, until the sore was entirely healed. Since then, I use Ayer's Sarsaparilla occasionally as a tonic and blood-purifier, and, indeed, it seems as though I could not keep house without it."?Mrs. S. A. Fields, Bloom Geld, la. AYER'S The Only World's Fair Sarsaparilla. Ayer's Piils Regulate the Liver. THE CHURCH GARDEN REV. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES ITS MANY BEAUTIES. Be Says Christ Bought It, He Planted It and He Owns It?Flowers and Fruit That May Be Found In It?Hortatory Closing Words. "Washington, April 26.?As the parks in "Washington are abloom with hyacinths and the gardens are being made the simile dominant in this subject is very suggestive and practical. Dr. Talmage's text was Isaiah lviii, 11, "Thou shalt be like a watered garden." The Bible is a great poem. We have in it faultless rhythm and bold imagery and startling antithesis and rapturous lyric and sweet pastoral and instructive narrative and devotional psalm, thoughts expressed in style more solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, more terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Wnr^swnrt.li. more impassioned than thiit of Pollock, more tender than that of Cowper, more weird than that of Spenser. * This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves the flames of judgment into its garlands, and pours eternal harmonics in its rhythm. Everything this book tenches it makes beautiful,'from the plain stones of the rammer thrashing floor to the daughters cf Nahor filling the trough for the camels^ from the fish pools of Hcshbon up to tho psalmist praising God with the diapason of storm and whirlwind, and Job's imagery of Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades. Tlio Church. My text leads us into a scene of summer redolence. The world has had a great) many beautiful gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that they be established all through the realm, deciding even -- n til? names OZ tile 11UW via 10 uu i there. Henry IV at Montpellier established gardens of bewitching beauty and luxuriance, gathering into them Alpine, Pyreuean and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shcnstcne, the poet. His writing have made but little impression cu the world, but his garden, "The Leasowers," will be immortal. To the natural advantage of that place was brought the-perfc. c'.i^n cf art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and ura and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul moro ingenious, than that of Shenstone, and ail that diligence and genius he brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave ?300 for it. He sold it for ?17,000. And yet I am to tell you today of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is the garden spoken of in my test, the garden cf the church, which belongs to Christ. He bought it, he planted it, he owns it, and ho shall have it. Walter Scott, in.his outlay at Abbotsford, rained his fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think cr imrnn sop flip Mood of that eld man's broken heart The payment of the last ?100,000 sacrificed him. But I have to tell yen that Christ's life and Christ's de^h were the outlay of this beautiful garden of the church of which my test speaks. Oh, how many sighs and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted him and let him down! Tell me, thou sun that didst hide. Ye rocks that fell! Christ | loved the church and gave himself for it. If the garden of the church belongs to Christ, certainly lie has a right to walk in it. Come, then, O blessed Jesus, today, walk up and down these aisles and pluck what thou wilt of sweetness for thyself. The church in my text is appropriately compared to a garden because it is the place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough irrigation. That would be a Strang** garden in which ihesc were no flowers. If nowhere else, they would be along the borders or at the gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate something, if i: be only the old faSHlOKeU noiivnuc:*. Vi uami.i v.vmw dil, but if there bo larger means then you will find the Mexican cactus, and blazing azalea, and clustering oleander. Well, now, Clirist comes to his garden, and ho plants there some of the brightest spirits that ever flowered upon the world. Some of them are violets, inconspicuous, but sweet as heaven. You have to search and find them. You do not see them very often perhaps, but you fL d where they have been by the brightened face of the invalid, and the sprig of geranium on the stand, and the new window curtains keeping out the glare of the sunlight They are perhaps mere like the ranunculus, creeping sweetly along amid the thorns and briers of life, giving kiss for sting, and many a man who has had in his way some great black rocl: of trouble has found that they have covered it all over with flowery jasmine, run ning in and out amid the crevices. These flowers in Christ's garden arc not, like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but wherever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted there they stand, night blooming cereuses. Thorny Plants. But in Christ's garden there are plants that may be better compared to the Mexican cactus?thorns without, loveliness within, men with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touches them. They are hard to handle. Men pronounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ loves them notwithstanding all their sharpnesses. Many a man has had a very hard ground *- VlOOnillT- lwO?1 hwiTIO'll Xj{j CUIIIvaic, auiuivuuo vuij wv** severe trial he has raised even the smallest crop of grace. A very harsh minister was talking to a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister, " Dcctor, I do wish yon would control your temper." 4'Ah," said tho minister to the elder, "I control mere temper in five minutes than you do in five yeara." It is harder for Rome men to do right than for other men to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knocking a man down. I had a friend who came to me and said, "J dare not join tho church." I said, "Why?" "Oh," ne said, "I have such a violent temper. Yesterday morning 1 was crossing' very early at tho Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a 1 ?? ? ? ? A?? fVin vnillr iurgu quilliinj <ja natci ujv can, and I said to him, 'I think that will do,' and he insulted me, and 1 knocked him down. Do you think I ought to join the church?" Nevertheless that very same man, who was sc harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and could not speak of sacred things without tears of emotion and affection. Thoms without, sweetness within ? the best specimen of the Mexican cactus I evci saw. There are others planted in Christ'a garden who are always radiant, always impressive, more like .the roses of deep hue that we occasionally find, called "Giants of Battle,'' the Martin Luthcrs, St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wyclifs, Latimers and Samuel Rutherfords. What in other men is a spark in them is a conflagration. When they sweat, they sweat great drops of blood. When they pray, their prayers take fire. When they preach, it is a Pentecost When they fight, it is a Thermopylae. When they die, it is a martyrdom. You find a great many roses in the gardens, but only a few "Giants of Battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more of them in tho church?" I say, "Why don't you have in the world more Humboldts and Wellingtons?" God gives to some ten talents; to another, one. In this garden of the church which Christ has planted I also find the snowdrops, beautiful, but cold looking, seemingly another phase of winter. I mean those Christians who are precise in tneu tastes, nnimpassioncd, puro as snowdrops and as cold. They never shed any tears; they never get excited; they never say anything rashly; they never do anything precipitately. Their pulses never flutter; their nerves never -twitch; their indignation never boils over. They live longer than most people, but their life is in a minor key. They never run up to C above the staff. In their music of life they have no staccato passages. Christ planted them in the church, and they must be of some service cr they would not be there?snowdrops, always snowdrops. But I have not told you of the most beautiful flower of all this garden spoken of in the text. If you see a century plant, your emotions are startled. You say, "Why, this flower has been 100 years gathering up for one bloom, and it will be 100 years more before other petals will come out." But I have to tell you of a plant that was gathering up from all eternity, and that 1,900 years ago put forth its bloom never to wither. It is the passion plant of the cross! Prophets foretold it, Bethlehem shepherds looked upon it in the bud, the rocks shock at its bursting, and the dead got up in their winding sheets to see its full bloom. It is a crimson flower?blood at the roots, blood on the branches, blood on all the leaves. Its perfume is to fill ~ - Tii Vwvnfk io V? rui lily Lianuilis. ilO UiVi*IJa io uvpaivu. Come, 0 -winds from the north, and winds from the south, and winds from the east, and winds from the we?t, and bear to all the earth the sweet smelling 6avor of Christ, my Lord! His worth if all tho nations knew, Sure the whole earth would love him too. Choice Fruits. Again, the church may be appropriately compared to a garden because it is a place of fruits. That would be a strange garden whieh had in it no berries, no plums or peaches or apricots. The coarser fruits are planted in the orchard, or they are set out on the sunny hillside, but the choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So in the world outside the church Christ has planted a great many beautiful things?patience,charity, generosity, integrity?but he intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and if they Don't bolt your food, it irritates your stomach. Choose digestible | food and chew it. Indigestion is a dangerous sickness. Proper care prevents it. Shaker Digestive Cordial cures it. That is the long and short of indigestion. Now, the question is: Have you got indigestion ? Yes, if you have pain or discomfoit after eating, headache, dizziness, nausea, offensive breath, heartburn, iangour, weakness, fever, jaundice, flatulence, loss of ay petite, irritability, constipation, etc. Yes, you have have indigestion. To cure it, take { Shaker Digestive Cordial. Themed| icinal herbs and plants of which | Shaker Digestive Cordial it composed, help to digest the food in your Stomach; help to strengthen your stomach. "When your stomach is strong, care will keep it sSI aker Digestive Cordial is for sale by druggists, price 10 cents to $1.00 per jbottle. Old People. Old people who require medicine ! to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric ! Bitters. This medicine does not j stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a I tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the j organs, thereby aiding Nature in the perfomance of the functions. Eiic- j trie Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty ctnts and $1.00 per bottle at J. E Kaufiinams drug store. I arc not there, then shame 0:1 the church. ! Religion is not a mere sentimentality. It is a practical, life giving, healthful j fruit?not posies, but apples. "Oil," j says somebody, "I don't sec what your j garden of the church has yielded." In reply I ask where did your asylums I ccme from, and your hospitals, and your institutions of mercy? Christ planted j every one of tlieni. lie planted them in his garden. When Christ gave sight to Bartimeus, lie laid the cornerstone to j every blind asylum that has ever been : built. When Christ soothed the demoniac of Galilee, he laid the cornerstone of ! every lunatic asylum that has ever been J established. When Christ said to the i sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," j he laid the cornerstone of every hospital ! the world has ever seen. When Christ | said, "I was in prison and ye visited j ine," lie laid tho cornerstone of every prison reform association that has ever j 1 ? ?TRA AUnmVi nf id 1 Dtfll Ur^(liIJLZ?UU. J.UU wmiva wi v/ii*. i.;v *u . a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. I I know there is soruc poor fruit in it j I know there arc some weeds that ought , to be thrown over the fence. I know i there are somo. crab apple trees that , ought to bo cut down. I know there are ; some wild grapes that ought to be up- | rooted, but are you going to destroy the ! whole garden because of a little gnarled fruit? You will find worm eaten leaves inFontainebleauand insects that sting in the fairy groves of the Champs Elystes. You do not tear down and destroy the j whole garden because there are a few j specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit , there are men and women in the church ; who ought not to be there, but let us be just as frank and admit the fact that i there are hundreds and thousands and : tens of thousands of glorious Christian ' men and women?holy, blessed, useful, consecrated and triumphant There is j no grander, nobler collection in all the earth than the collection of Christians, j There are Christian men in this house j whose religion is not a matter of psalm ; singing and church going. Tomorrow j morning that religion will keep them ; just a3 consistent and consecrated in j their worldly occupation as it ever kept them at the communion table. There are women here today of a higher type of character than Mary of Bethany. They not only sit at the feet of Christ, but ! they go out into the kitchen to help Martha in her work that she may sit there too. There is a woman who has a ! drunkard husband who has exhibited more faith and patience and courage j than Ridley in the fire. He was con- j sumed in 20 minutes. Hers has been a 20 years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has boon 15 years on his back, un- j able to feed himself, yet calm and peaceful as though he lay cn one of the { green banks of heaven, watching the oarsmen dip their paddle in the crystal [ river! Why, it seems tome this moment as if St. Paul threw to us a pomologist's J catalogue ff the fruits growing in this [ great garden of Christ?love, joy, peace, I patience, charity, brotherly kindness, gentleness, mercy, glorious fruit, enough to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven. Well Irrigated. Again, the church in my text is appropriately called a garden because it is thoroughly irrigated. No garden could prosper long without plenty of water. I have seen a garden in the midst of a desert, yet blooming and luxuriant. All around us were dearth and barrenness, but there were pipes, aqueducts, reaching from this garden up to the mountains, and through those aqueducts the water came streaming down and tossing up into beautiful fountains, until every root and leaf and flower was saturated. Tbnt i?? like the church. The church is a garden in the midst of a great desert of sin and suffering, but it is well irrigated, for ' 'our eyes aro unto the hills from whence comc-th our help." From the mountains of God's strength there flow down rivers of gladness. "There is a river the stream whereof shall make glad the city of our Gcd." Preaching the gospel is one of the aqueducts. The Bible is another. Baptism and the Lord's supper are aqueducts. Water to slake the thirst, water to wash the unclean, water tossed high up in the light of the Sun of Righteousness, showing us the rainbow around the throne. Oh, was there ever a garden so thoroughly irrigated! You know that the beauty of Versailles and Chatsworth depends very much upon the great supply of water. I came to the latter place, Chatsworth, one day when strangers are net to be admitted, but by an inducement which always seemed as potent with an Englishman as an American I got- in, and thou the gardener went far up above the stairs of stone and turned on the. water. I saw it gleaming on the dry pavement coming down from stop to step until it came so near I could hoar the musical rush and all over the high, broad stairs it came foaming, flashing, roaring down, until sunlight and wave in glocsomo wrestle tumbled at my feet So it is with tho church of God. Everything comes from above?pardon from above, joy from above, adoption from above, Pfinctifioation from above. . Hark! I hear the latch of the garden gate, and I look to see who is coming. I hear the voice of Christ, "I am como into my garden." I say: "Come in, O Jesus! We have been waiting for thee. Walk all through tho paths. Look at tho flowers, look at tho fruit; pluck that which thou wilt for thyself." Jesus comes into the garden and up to that 01(1 man ana toucnes mm, iuiu suvs; "Almost home, father; not many more aches for thee. I will never leave thee. Take courage a little longer, and I will steady thy tottering steps, and I will soothe thy troubles and give thee rest. Courage, old man." Then Christ gof* up another garden path, and he comes to a soul in trouble and says: '"Peace! All is well. I have seen thy tears. I have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon.by night. The Lord shall preserve theo from all evil. He will preserve thy souL Courage, O troubled spirit!" Plackinz the Flowers. Then I sco Jesus gcir.g up another I garden path, and I see great excitement among the leaves, and I hasten'up that garden path to see what Jesus is doing there, and lo! he is breaking off flowers ^ ^ -vva 4l*o c T fcliorp UL1U UlCilU XHJ.LU HiC fiviil, IU1U A say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beautiful flowers.'' He turns to me and says: "I have come into my garden to gather lilies, and I mean to tako these up to a higher terrace, for the garden around my palace, and there I will plant them, and in better soil and in better air they shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence, and no frost shall touch them forever. And I looked up into his face and said: "Well, it is his garden, | and ho has a right to do what lie will with it. Thy will be done!" the hardest prayer ever man made. It has seemed as if Jesu3 Christ took the best; from many of your households the best one is gone. You know that she. was too good for this world; she was the gentlest in her ways, the deepest in her affections, and when at last the sickness come yon had no faith in medicines. You kuew that the hour of porting had come, and when, through the rich grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered that treasure you said: "Lord Jesus, take it. It is the best we have; take itThou art worthy!" The others in the household may have been of grosser mold She was cf the finest. The heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindnesses shown them by immortals will not make them forget you. There they are, the radiant throngs that went out from your homea I throw a kiss to the sweet darlinga They are all well now in the palace. The crippled child has a sound foot now. A little lame child says, "Ma, will I be lame in heaven?" "No, my darling; you won't be lame in heaven." A little sick child says, "Ma, will I bo sick in heaven?" "No, my dear; you won't be sick in heaven." A little blind child says, "Ma, will I be blind in heaven?" "No, my dear; you won't be blind in heaven. They are all well'there." I notice that the fine gardens sometimes have high fences around them and you cannot get in. It is so with a king's garden. The only glimpse you ever get of such a garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden, this King's garden. I throw wide open the gato and tell you all tocomo in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will, may. Chooso now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world's delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes Xs laugh now when we read his poems, but he could not make his own heart laugh. Whilo in the midst of his festivities he confronted a looking glass, and he saw himself and said: "There, that is true. I look just as I am?dene up in body, mind and purse." So it was of Shenstone, of whose garden I told you at the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid thoso bowers and said: 4 4I have lost my road to happiness. I am angry and envious and frantic, and despise everything around mc, just as it becomes a madman to dol" An Invitation. O ye weary souls, como into Christ's garden today and pluck a little heartsease. Christ is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you not think your chance has almost come? You men and women who have been waiting year after year for some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed it 5, 10, 20, 30 years?do you not feel as if now your hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation had come? O man, what grudge hast then against thy poor soul that thou wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if salvation must come today in some of your hearts. I Some years ago a vessel struck on the rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In that lifeboat the passengers and crew were getting ashore. The vessel had foundered and was sinking deeper and i deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck waiting for her turn to get into the boat. The boat came and went, came and went, but her turn did not seem to como. After awhile she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the taffrail and then sprang into the i sea, crying to the boatman; ' 'Save me next! Save me next!" Oh, how many | have gone ashore into God's mercy, and yet you are clinging to the wreck cf sin! | Others have accepted the pardon of Christ, but yen arc in periL Why not | this moment make a rush for your im| mortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall J hear yon and heaven and earth ring with the cry: "Save me next! Save mo next!" Now is the day of salvation! Now! Now! j * This Sabbath is the last for some of you. It is about to sail away forever. Her bell tolls. The planks thunder back t in the gangway. She shoves off. She I floats out toward the great ocean of eter! nity. Wave farewell to your last chance for heaven. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold ! your house is left unto you desolate," ! Invited to revel in a garden, you die in j a desert! May God Almighty, before it ; is too late, break that infatuation. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, 111., was told by her doctors ! she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles j of Dr. King's New Discovery com-1 ; pletely cured her and she says it j ! saved her life. Z\Ir. Thos. Eggers'* 139 Florida St., San Francisco, suf| fered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried without re. suit everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery i and iH two weeks was cured. He is ! naturally thankful. It is such re1 suits, of which these are sample 3, ! that prove the wonderful efficacy of ' this medicine in Coughs and Colds. ! Free trial bottles at J. E. Kauffman's The County Lecturers' Board ! Will meet at, Lexington C.' H., May | 10, at 9 o'clock p. m. All Sub Lecturers are requested to be present. D. F. Ehrd. April 10,1S96. We cannot be just if we are not kind hearted. Easy to Take ^ asy to Operate Are features peculiar to Hood's Pills. Small in size, tasteless, efficient, thorough. As ono man said: " You never know you have taken a pill till it is all JpfTj H fl i a over." 25c. C. I. Hood & Co., 1 | | ? Proprietors. Lowell, Mass. ? The only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. The Beauties cf Country Life. Atlanta Constitution. Brown ba3 what we call a lazy grin that comes upon him with the spring and grows with the heat of summer? that grin is just sprouting now. Tki'a olrl trior)/I nf minn is fl rmeer genius when it comes to weather. Ho wrestles with tbe weather all the time. "When it is cold it is almost impossible to get him up in the mornings, and he shivers and complains through all the day, but when the earth begins to warm lip he takes, upon his face a grin that continues there until time to go to shivering agair. That grin is the safest sign I have ever planted?I shall plant corn tomorrow. Everything is bright and cheerful on the farms, considering that the people are just entering upon a heated political campaign. It is just the time in country life to be cheerful if you ever can. The roosters crow louder and hens sing all tbe day, the turkeys strut prouder aEd the guineas saunter around looking up a nest which gives promise of plenty of eggs in the near future. The fruit trees add their charms of beauty with the promise of a bountiful yield, and who would not bee cheerful? There has been a large increase in plow stock for this season, and the ground is being turned in a hurry. Here is another delight. What is nicer than to walk over the mellow fields and small the fresh turned earth? All these things have charms for the countryman, and we venture that there are many in the cities who would be glad to come out with us and walk barefooted in the fresh earth?such could but stir up the most pleasing memories. How many would take delight in romping over the woods and gathering dfg vood blossoms just as they used to do? A stroll up and down the clear branches among the honeysuckles and a sip from the cool springs on the way? this is one of the delights of spring time in Georgia that could but stir the sweetest memories. How many there are that fail in appreciation of + Uclinrlifa \ep rnnnnt; snv. I.LlfSC tUUUlllJ uvuguww f. - ^ , nor could we say how many of the fine city people there is that would be glad to take such a romp, but they are too busy or too fashionable. Some very rich people really think that they cannot lose the time for a short rest in the country, and there are others who do not think it fashionable enough. I can tell these busy people that there would be nothing lost in taking such an outing as suggested, and I can tell the fashionable people that no sweeter pleasures are to be had at the grand resorts. It is these fashionable people that need the most of our pity. They cannot come out with plain country people and live cheap and romp over the fields and woods among the wild flowers and cooliDg streams from purely fashionable reasons. They must go to the seashore and watering places, and many of them are strained to keep up a style that could be relieved of by just going to some of the prosperous farm bouses right <l;se heme. I think these fashionable people must feel somewhat as we boys used to feel when we wou d steal off fishing on Sundays. 1 he thoughts of getting whipped upon our return marred the pleasures. A number of people live in a stra:n to keep in the fashionable whirl that could get all the benefits of a rest in the country cheaply and close by their homes. Last Sunday we went to church and everybody seemed to be inspired with good cheer. I like to watch these cheerful gatherings. It done me good to watch the young couples strolling to the spring and sitting out in the buggies during the recess. +r>av +ni/I oo/->Vi nthpr there M uaii lutj IViu VUVM v?Mv. some of them?we will never know, but pretty spring dresses and sweet young buds makes the girls so charmiDg that I am most sure the boys said just such things as the spring time naturally calls for from the young men? "Iu the spring (ho yoncg man's farcy Lightly turns to thoughts ol love." This is as it should be. There is no more charming picture than the groups of young people at a well regulated and prosperous country church. Little country children seem to look more cheerful now than has been their wont for a few years past. They are learning that to live in the country and to work on the farm is not so bad a thing as once was thought. The parents are en titled to credit for this most desirable turn. Tbey have quit bemoaning the hardships of a country life in the presence of their children. There is a great deal in imagination, and the children of a few years back had the right to imagine that any business was better than farming. The whole talk of the young people tended this way. Lately there is might}' little grumbling. Farmers have got to believe that they are as good as any other class, if not a little better, and this is a healthy condition and will leven the young idea in ~ ~ ^ 4^ ofr\v\ fln\V SUCLL a iuauiitri ua tc oiu^ .. from the country that could result in nothing less than a great misfortune to the human family. There never was any excuse for i this great rush of people to the towns, nor was there ever any truth iu the belief that once prevailed about the town people having such an easy time. The pressure on town people has been very much greater than many thought. I heard a good old gentleman say: '-God bless Sunday." He told me that if it was not for the rest of Sundav he would soon land in the asylum. This came from a man that I had thought almost free from care and it put me to thinking. Business. Business. The world is running wild on business. The world is overworked. Night must be turned into day. The great wheel must turn and the clatter of machinery go on. It taks millions of dollars to satisfy now where a few thousands used to satisfy. The richest man I knew before the war was rated at ?200,000. He was a wonder in those days. He would not be so much now. A man starting out to get rich in these days would not think of stopping this side of a million. 1 hare heard that there was not a millionaire in Georgia till since the war. Strain, overwork, never resting, and all for more money than one can devise what to do with. A man with $1,000,000 cannot rest, and neither can a man rest who has his heart set on making a $1,000,000. Thoie is too much of the strain; there is teo little of peaceful relaxation. We can seethe need of this restfulness every where we look. There is a great effort to supply the place of this rest by other means than by short sojourns in the rural districts. Prize lighting, ball playing and other excitements have been resorted to to relieve the t nsion, but all such falls short. It d.e3 not satisfy and you may go on until you have the Spanish bull fights and not find the satisfaction. None of this can ease the tired brain nor will any such improve the morals of the country. My advice would be to take a trip to the country occasionally, especially in the spring. Commune with nature in the woods and fields. Go to bed with the chickens and lay there without scheming to make money. This is what town people need and you can find the places without going to fashionable places. Brown is down baiting a fish hole now, and with the exception of that warm weather grin he looks as happy as he can be. He is happy?happier thau any town man can be while the craze for making millions is at such a ten sion. Get out to the country and breathe the fresh air of these spring mornings. Itomp over the fields and woods and gather the wild flowers that are everywhere. It will not c. s very much and it will build up mucLi better than to go to the fashionable >*o<inrfo orul if. will llUVfi tllfi COO 1 effect of impressing the country people around you that country life is not so bad after all, if we only knew it and would be satisfied. Sakui-: Plunkkt. Confederate Veterans. Charleston, April 2">.?The business session of the annual meeting of the South Carolina division of the United Confederate Veterans, in session here re-elected Gen. C. I. Walker commander of the division and Colonels Asbury Coward and I. G. McKissick were chosen commanders of the First and Second regiments, respectively. The roll call showed G1 camps represen'el with a total of nearly 400 delegates present. A resolution was adopted looking toward the establishment of a soldiers' home for South Carolina Veterans somewhere in the State. Greenville was selected as the place in which to hold the next annual meeting. At the night rally of the Veterans stirring addresses were made by General Clement Evans of Georgia, Colonel It. C. Wood of Lou: i iana and other distinguished gentlemen. - ? ??? Cannot bo Without It. Jamison. S. C, Sept. 2, ?90. Since the people know I keep St. Joseph's Quick Relief they have taken it all out but one bottle, and that one I cannot sell until I get in some more, for I cannot be without it myself. It is beyond doubt the best i medicine for cramps, colic, and all kinds of pain on the market. Send me three dozen bottles per express. J R. D KITTRELL. For further information call on J. E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almanac. 28. Spartanburg Wants It. Spartanburg, S. C., May 1.?The committee having in charge the location of a Lutheran college for women of the South has visited a number of places in North Carolina and South Carolina?Charlotte, Asheville, Columbia and others?for the purnose of examining into the advant ! ages and inducments offered by these J places. Spartanburg has not yet j been visited, but an invitation has , been sent ti e committee by the city l council and the committee on educaj tion of the Young Men's Busine s League, invitiug them to visit SparI tauburg and note tl e unexcelled inducements and advantages to be found here. Buckle.n's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped j Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or m mey refunded. Price 2o cents }er box. For sale at the Bazaar, Patience is the art of hoping. i Almost Crazed. Thought Her Child "Was Going To Die. % The Terrible Ordeal of a Mother? Her Little Girl Almost Faded Away?Saved in the Nick of Time. A Story that Will Touch the Heart of Every Mother. From the Journal, Detroit, Mich. A very grateful mother is Mrs. A. L. ITartness, of G79 Grand Avenue, ^ Detroit, for the wonderful cure which her daughter has received by the use of Dr. Williams* Pink Pills. Said Mrs. Ilartuess: '*Yes, my daughter's life has been saved by using Pink Pills, thanks to a kind friend who recommended them to me. "Blanche was sick for over three years. She had the care of the best physicians procurable, and no expense or trouble was spared to give her relief. She was so thin that she was fairly skin and bones, her digestion was out of order and she had the most awful headaches. We gave up all hope of her recovery. Her long, thin, listless face made me nearly crazy, and we did everything in our power to give her strength and induce her to take an interest in anything. "Oae day a friend told me about the Pink Pills, and Mr. Hartness sent down town and got three boxes. She had taken about one box, when, to my emazement, one morning I heard her playing on the piano. I could hardly believe it, for it had been over a year since the piano had been opened. "Soon she began to take short rides cn her bicycle, und soon she went singing around the house, our own happy, hearty little daughter once more. "She thinks nothing of a spin on c her wheel over to Mt. Clemens or Poutiac, and is as well as she ever was. :J| "I had a girl living at our house who was a great sufferer from im _i_ . i j j i_- j poverisneu oiuou, uuu who receiveu instant and permanent relief from the use of one box of the pills. "If this information can be of any use to help sorao poor sick one, it is given with the greatest of pleasure." The proprietors of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills state that they are not a patent medicine but a prescription used for many years by an eminent . : practitioner who produced the most wonderful results with them, curiDg all forms of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful causes of almost every ill to which flesh is heir. The pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to fen.ales, such as suppressions, all forms of weakness, chronic constipation, bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of men will give speedy relief and effect a permanent cure in all cases arising lrom mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. They are entirely harmless and call bo given to weak and sickly children with the greatest good and without the slightest danger. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid en receipt of price, (50 cts. a box, or six boxes of &2.50?they are never sold in bulk or by Ibe 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Calls a Convention. A Gold Bug Fanatic Hunting for * Cheap Notoriety. Columbia State. The following paper, looking to the holding of an anti free silver convention in this State to elect contesting delegates to the national Democratic convention, was handed to the representatives of the press in Columbia Thursday: "It is manifest that a majority of the business men of the State are - | opposed to free silver, and that if there is a free silver plank in the Democratic platform the Republican party must win. "By prompt action on the part of the business men of the State we mav avoid the catastroDhe. "Let a convention of self appointed Jefferson Democrats meet in Columbia at 12 o'clock m., May 13. Let 10 men come from Charleston, five or more each from Columbia, Spartanburg and Greenville, and two or more from every town and village .in the State. "Let this convention, representing themselves to be true Democrats, pass the following platform or j some paper embodying the idea: j "We are a convention of citizens of I South Carolina, prophesying to represent the majority of - true Democrats in the State, declare that we are in favor of sound money and a tariff sufficient to meet the expenses of the government. "That we heartily endorse the policy of cur noble President Cleveland in maintaining our present gold standard and in preserving the credit of the nation. c - 'I1 l. .. t AMA AVftKltf AW*\/^OA>1 X u:u Wit Uiu ULiuiicxajjijf vjxpvocva. to coining silver at 1G to 1. "Let the convention thus appointed elect delegates to represent the true Democracy of Sonth Carolina. Let these delegates go to Chicago and claim their seats on the ground that the Tillman delegates are not Democrats, inasmuch as they are advocates of cheap and therefore dishonest money. "If the delegation thus appointed by our business men succeeds in in gaining their scats, the national convention may, and probably wil', have a majority of votes for sound money, aud the truculent Benjamin will receive a stab under the fifth rib, aud the weight of his mailed hand being removed, the deluded satellites will flop over to true Democracy, and South Carolina be redeemed from Egyptian darkness. "F. TV. McMaster. t "April 30,189G." - M ' ">3