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) BEST flDVERTJSPHG MEDIUM ^ ? J-Jy, XT/ITY^ XT HfCDA TV H Western South Carolina. S B 0 H ^ Hj I ^ BL I I 1 1 I I II I MB II I I space for first insertion, and 50 cente per m' ??? & A 1 L^L^yVli i VJ. JL V/11 L/IOl A 1 I i | S RATES REASONABLE. ing to advertise for three, six and twelve ! months. 0 ~ ! j Notices in the local column 10 -ents per ! i line each inser ion. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM j __ _ _ ~ ~ tttvtt-i - . . j Marriage notices inserted free. t ?o? j VOL, XXYI. LEXINGTON, S. 0., JUNE 17, 1896. NO. 31. j charged for atjthe.rate of one JOB PRIXTIXG A SPECIALTY. I j G' M* HARMAN' Edit?r? I TURNING GRAY AND THREATENED WITH BALDNESS The Danger is Averted by Using AYER'S ?v,co? k "Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my liair turned gray and began falling out so rapidly that I was threatened with immediate baldness. Hearing Ayer's Hair Vigor highly spoken of, I commenced using this prepara > tion, and was so well satisfied with the result that I have never tried any other kind of dressing. It stopped the hair from falling out, stimulated a new growth of hair, and kept the scalp free from dandruff. Only an occasional application is now needed to keep my hair of good, natural color. I never hesitate to recommend any of Ayer's medicines to my friends."?Mrs. II. 31. Haigiit, Avoca, Neb. Ayer's Hair Vigor rurr.vRF.n r.Y DR. J. G. AYER & CO.. LOWELL. MASS.. U. S. A. Ayer's Sarsaparilla lie moves rimylcs, AN ILL EAST WINI). rev. dr. talmage says that god controls it. He Acknowledges That It Takes Aluolckty Grace to Eo What Wc Should He Under the Chill East Wind?The Uses of Trouble. . Washington*, June 7.?In his discourse today Rev. Dr. TaImage pointed out the consolations which the religion of Christ extends to all who are in trouible and specially to such as are in deep misfortune or suffering from bereavement Ho chcse as his text Exodus x, 13, "And the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night." The reference here is not to a cyclone, but to the long continued blowing of the wind from an unhealtbful quarter. The north wind i? bracing, the south wind is relaxing, but the east wind is irritati ^ ing and full of threat. Eighteen times does the Bible speak against the east wind. AIoscs describes the thin ears blasted by the cast wind. The psalmist describes the breaking of the ships of Tarshish by the east wind. The locusts that plagncd Egypt were borne in on the east wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah was shattered by the east wind, and in all the C, 000 summers, autumns, winters, springs, of the world's existence the worst wind that ever blew is the east wind. Now, if Gcd would only give us a climate of perpetual nor'westcr, how genial and kind and placid and b industrious Christians we would all be! I But it takes almighty grace to be what we ought to be under the cost wind. Under tho chilling and wet wing of the east wind the most of the world's villainies, frauds, outrages, suicides and murders have been hatched out. I think if you should keep a meteorological history of the days of the year and put right beside it the criminal record of the country you would find that those were the best days for public morals which were tuider the north or west wind, and that those were the worst days for public morals which were under the cast wind. The points of tho compass have more to do with the world's morals and the church's piety than you have yet suspected. Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, eminent for leam\ x ing and for consecration, when asked by one of his students at Princeton whether he always had full assurance of faith, r> replied, "Yes, except when the wind t blows from the cast." Dr. Francia, dici tator of Paraguay, when the wind was from the cast, made oppressive enactments for the people, but when the ? ? . f it.. weather changed repented mm 01 ui? cruelties, repealed the enactments and was in good lmmor with all the worldClimatic Changes. Before I overtake the main thought of my subject I want to tell Christian people they ought to be observant of climatical changes. Be on your guard when tho wind blows from the east. There ar? certain styles cf temptations that yon cannot endure under certain styles of weather. When the wind blows from the east, if vou are of u nervous {temperament, go not among exasperating people, try not to settle bad debts, do not try to settle old disputes, do not talk with a bigot on religion, do not go [ juncng those people who delight in say| jug irritating things, do not try to collect funds for a charitable institution, do 1 n!i lucnlrimy iotffr. If flUl> IZJ fj i..,. 0 these things must be done, do them when the wind is from the north, or the south. or the west, but not when the wind is from the oast Vou say that men and women ought not to be so sensitive and nervous. I admit it, but I am not talking about what (the world ought to l*>. I am talking about what the world is. While there per;ons whose disposition does not see?? to be affected by changes in the atfnospb**.*?, nine out of ten are mightily ji'ayed upo/j by such influences. O i> Christian man! under such circumstances do not write hard tilings against yourself, do not get worried alnut your fluctuating experience, i'ou are to repysyjber fhat the barometer in your sftul js twily answering the barometer of the weather. Instead of sitting down and being discouraged and saying, "I am iiot n Christian fxx'ause I don't feel exiiilar/iit," get up and look out of tho window and see the weather vane pointing in the wrong quarter, and then say; , "Get thee behind me, satau, thou prince jof the power of the air; get out of my bouseget out of my heart, thou demon ??? ? _ j of darkness horsed on the east wind. | Away!" However good and great you J may be in the Christian life, your soul I will never be independent of physical j condition. I feci I am uttering a most j practical, useful truth here, one that i may give relief to a great many ChrisI tians wlvo arc worried and despondent ; at times. Dr. Rush, a monarch in medicine, i after curing hundreds of cases of mental depression, himself fell sick and lost his ; religious hope, and he would not believe j his pastor when. the pastor told him j that his spiritual depression was only a I consequence of physical depression. Andrew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Boston, David Brainerd, Philipp Melanehthon were mighty men for (Jod, but all of them illustrations of the fact that a man's soul is not independent of his physical healtlL An eminent physician gave as his opinion that no man ever died a greatly trii umphant death whose disease was below the diaphragm. Stackhouse, the learned I Christian commentator, says he does not j think Saul was insane when David I the hnrn before him. but it was | ?.-w r y a hypochondria coming from inflammation of the liver. Oh, how many good people have been mistaken in regard to their religions hope, not taking these things inter consideration! The dean of Carlisle, one of the best men that ever Ixved, and one of the most useful, sat down and ,wrote: "Though I have endeavored to discharge j my duty as well as 1 could, yet sadness j and melancholy of heart stick close by j and increase upon mo. 1 toil nobody, but I am very much sunk indeed, and I wish I could have the relief of weeping as I used to. My days are exceedingly dark and distressing. In a word, Almighty God seems to hide his face, and I intrust the secret hardly to any earthly being. I know not what will become of mo. There is doubtless a good deal of bodily affliction mingled with this, but it is not all so. I bless God, however, that I never lose sight of the cross, and though I should die without seeing any j personal interest in the Redeemer's ; merits, I hope that I shall be found at j his feet. I will thank you for a word at I your leisure. My door is bolted at the j time I am writing this, for 1 am full of x tears." The East Wind. 1 What was the matter with the dean j of Carlisle? Had lie got to be a worse | man? No. The physician said that the ! state of his pulse would not warrant his | living a minute. Oh, if the cast wind j affects the spleen, and affects the lungs, j and affects the liver, it will affect your immortal soul. Appealing to God for ! help, brace yourself against these withering blasts aud destroying influences, ; lest that which the psalmist said broke the ships of Tarshish shipwreck you. But notice in my text that the Lord : controls the east wind: "The Lord : brought the east wind." He brings it ; for especial purpose; it must sometimes blow from that quarter. The oast wind I is just as important as the north wind, or the south wind, or the west wind, : but not so pleasant Trial must come. | The text does not say you will escape the cutting blast Whoever did escape ! it? Especially who that accomplished ! anything for church or state ever escaped i it? I was iii the pulpit of John Wesley, I in London, a pulpit where he stood one j day and said, 44I have been charged with all the crimes in the catalogue ex! cept one?that of drunkenness," and a j woman arose in the audience and said, "John, you were drunk last night." So : John Wesley passed under the flail. I saw in a foreign journal a report of j one of George Whitcfield's sermons?^ 1 sermon preached a hundred and tweuty or thirty years ago. It seemed that the ; reporter stood to take the sermon, and his chief idea was to caricature it, and these arc some of the reportorial interlinings of the sermon of George Whitoficld. After calling him by a nickname i indicative of a physical defect in the , eye, it goes on to say: 44 Here the preach- j er clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion, j Here lie elevates his voice. Here he j lowers his voice. Holds his arms ex- I tended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling. | Makes a frightful face. Tujns up the i whites of his eyes. Clasps his hands be- ! hind him. Clasps liis anus around him ; and hugs himself. Roars aloud. Hulloos, j jumps, cries. Changes front crying. I ; Halloos and jumps again." Well, my : brother, if that good man went through all that process, in your occupation, in j : your profession, in your store, in your ! shop, at the bar, in the sickz-oom, in | the editorial chair, somewhere, you will "have to go through a similar process, j You cannot escape it. Keats wrote his famous poem, and the hard criticism of the poem killed ! him?literally killed him. Tasso wrote j his poem, entitled "Jerusalem Dcliv I ered," and it had such a cold reception i it turned him into a raving maniac, j Stillingfloct was slain by his literary en; emics. The frown of Henry VIII slew | Cardinal Wolsey. The Duke of Wcli liugton infused to have the fence around | his house, which had been destroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, because he wanted the fence to remain as it was, a ; reminder of the mutability and uncertainty of the popular favor. In Time of Trial. And you will have trial of some sort, j You have had it already. Why need I prophesy? I might better mention an historical fact in your history. You are j a merchant. What a time you nau wun i that old business partner! How hard it | was to get rid of him! Before you j bought him out, or ho ruined both of [ you, what magnitude of annoyance! j Then after you hud paid him down a j certain sum of money to have him go j out and to promise he would not open J a store of the same kind of business in j your street, did lie not open the very | same kind of business as near to you as j possible and take all your customers as I far as he could take them? And then, knowing all your frailties and weaknesses, after being in your business firm for so many years, is lie not now spondOld People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bi ters. This medicine does not j stimulate and contains no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly ! on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the I o ^ o ^ . organs, thereby aiding Nature m the perfomance of the functions. Elictric Bitters is an excellent appetizer I and aids digestion. Old People find , it just exactly what they need. Price j fifty c n's and $1.00 per bottle at J. 1 E Kauffman's drug store. Deafness Cannot be Cured. By local applications, as tbey cannot reach the diseased portion of the I ear. There is only one way to cure j Deafness, and that is by constitu! tional remedies. Deafness is caused i by an inflamed condition of the mu! cous lining of the Eustachian Tube, j When this tube gets inflamed you : have a rumbling sound or imperfect ; hearing, and when it is entirely i closed Deafness is the result, and j unless the inflammation can be taken j out and this tube restoied to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of j the mucous surfaces. ^ TT _ a? J Tv~l I We will give UDe nunareu jl/ui! lars for any case of Deafness (caused j by catarrh) that cannot be cured by j Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for cir| culars, free. J ing his time in making a commentary j on what you furnished as a text? You are a physician, and in your sickness, or in your absence, you get a neighboring doctor to take your place in the sickroom, and he ingratiates himself into the favor of that family, so that you forever lose their patronage. Or, you take a patient through the serious stages of a fever, and some day the impatient father or husband of the sick one rushes out and gets another medical practitioner, who comes in just in time to get the credit of the cure. Or, you are a lawyer, and you come in contact with a trickster in your profession, and iu yoar absence, and contrary to agreement, he moves a nonsuit or the dismissal of the case. Or the judge on the bench, remembering an old political grudge, rules against you every time he gets a chance, and says with a snarl, "If you don't like my decision, take an exception." Or, you ;ire farmer and the curculio stings the fruit, or the weevil gets into the wheat, or the drought stunts the corn, or the loug continued Tains give you no opportunity for gath | cring the harvest. Your best cow gets the hollow horn; your best horse gets foundered. A French proverb said that trouble comes in on horseback and goes away 011 foot So trouble dashed in on you suddenly; but, oh, how long it was in getting away! Came on horseback, goes away on foot. Rapid in coming, slow in going. That is the history of nearly all your troubles. Again and again and again you have experienced the power of the east wind. It may be blowing from that direction now. My friends, God intended these troubles and trials for some particular purpose. They do not come at random. Here is the promise: "He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind." In the tower of London the swords and the guns of other ages are burnished and arranged into huge passion flowers and sunflowers and bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything so hard as steel could be put into such floral shapes. I have to tell you that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most piercing sorrows of this life may be made to bloom and blossom and put on bridal festivity. The Bible says they shall be mitigated, they shall be assuaged, they shall be graduated. God is not going to allow you to be overthrown. A Christian woman, very much despondent, was holding her child in her arms, and the pastor, trying to console the woman in her spiritual depression, said, "There, you will let your child drop." "Oh, no," she said, "Icouldn't let the child drop." He said, "You will let the child drop." "Why," she said, ' 'if I should drop the child here, it would dash his life out!" "Well, now," said the Christian minister, "don't you think G(xl is as good as you are? Won't God, your Father, take as good care of you, his child, as you take care of your child? ! God won't let you drop." U6e? of Trouble. I suppose God lets the east wind blow : just hard enough to drive us into the harbor of God's protection. We all feel we can manage our own affairs. We have helm and compass and chart and ! quadrant. Give us plenty of sea room and we sail on and sail on; but after I awhile there comes a Caribbean whirl: wind up the coast, and we are helpless in the gale, and we cry out for harbor. I All our calculations upset, we say with i the poet: Change and decay on all around I see. ! Oh, thou who changcst not, abide with me! The south wind of mild providence makes us throw off the cloak of Christian character and we catch cold, but the sharp east wind of trouble makes us wrap around us the warm promises. ! The best thing that ever happens to us ! is trouble. That is a hard thing perhaps j to say; but I repeat it, for God an- * i nounces it again and again, the best thing that happens to us is trouble, i When the French army went down j into Egypt under Napoleon, an engi; neer, in digging for a fortress, came across a tablet which has been called the Rosetta stone. There were inscriptions in three or four languages cn that Rosetta stoue. Scholars studying out j the alphabet of hieroglyphics from that I stone were enabled to read ancient iu scriptions on monuments and on tombstones. Well, many of the handwritings of God in our life are indecipherable hieroglyphics. We cannot understand j them until we take up the Rosetta stoue ! of divine inspiration, and the explanaj tion all comes out, and the mysteries all 1 vanish, and what was before beyond i our understaudiug now is plain in its i meaning, as we read, "All things work j together for good to those who love | God." So we decipher the hieroglyphics. I'M. ...r- fi-ion/lc liaro vnn ever nnlnilat j VII) UIJ AiAVAIUOl iiUIV J V f V. I cd -what trouble did for David? It made j him the sacred minstrel for all ages. ; What did trouble do for Joseph? Made | him the keeper of the corncribs of | Egypt. What did it io for Paul? Made ] him the groat apostle to the gentiles. ! What did it do for Samuel Rutherford? ! Made his invalidism more illustrious than robust health. What did it do for j Richard Baxter? Gave him capacity to ! write of the "Saint's Everlasting Rest." ' Wh.rt did it do for John Bunyan? j j Showed him the shining gates of the j city. What lias it done for you? Since j the loss of that child your spirit lias i been purer. Since the loss of that prop! erty, you have found out that earthly : investments are insecure. Siuee you ! lost your health, you feel as never be; fore a rapt anticipation of eternal re lease. Trouble has humbled you, has enlarged you, has multiplied your resources, has equipped you, has loosened your grasp from this world and tightened I your grip ou the next. Oh, bless G_od for the east wind! It has driven you iu'/} the harbor of God's sympathy. Nothing like trouble to show us that j this world is an insufficient portion. Hogarth was about done with life, and he wanted to paint the end of all things, j He put 011 canvas a shattered bottle, a j cracked bell, an unstrung liar]), a sign hoard of a tavern called "The World's End" falling down, a shipwreck, the horses of Phoebus lying dead in the clouds, the moon in her last quarter, and the world on fire. "One thing more, "said Hogarth, " and my picture is done." Then lie added the broken palette of a painter. Then he died. But trouble, with hand mightier and more skillful than Hogarth's, pictures the falling, failing, moldering, dying world. And we want something permanent to lay hold of, and we grasp with both Hands aitor uou, ana say, ine juoru is my light, the Lord is my love, the Lord is my fortress, the Lord is my sacrifice, the Lord, the Lord is my God." Bless God for your trials. Oh, my Christian friend, keep your spirits up by the jx>wer of Christ's gospel. Do not surrender. Do you not know that when you give up, others will give up? You have courage, and others will havecour- i age. The Romans went into the battle, and by some accident there was an inclination of the standard. The standard upright meant forward march; the inclination of the standard meant surren- : der. Through the negligence of the man . who carried the standard, and the inclination of it, the army surrendered. ; Oh, let us keep the standard up, whether , it be blown down by the east wind or the north wind or the south wind. No inclination to surrender. Forward into 1 the conflict. The Sorrowing: Tree. There is near Bombay a tree that they ' call the "sorrowing tree," the peculiarity of which is it never puts forth .any j bloom in the daytime, but in the night puts out all its bloom and all its redo- ! lence. And I have to tell you that though Christian character puts forth its sweet- | est blossoms in the darkness of sickness, the darkness of financial distress, the ' darkness of bereavement, the darkness of death, "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." i Across the harsh discords of this world j rolls the music of the skies?music that , breaks from the lips, music that breaks ; from the harps and rustles trom the palms, music like falling water over rocks, music like wandering winds j among leaves, music like caroling birds among forests, music like ocean billows storming the Atlantic beach. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any j more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which j is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and 1 God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." I see a great Christian fleet approaching that harbor. Some of the ships come in with sails rent and bul- ! warks knocked away, but still afloat j Nearer and nearer the shining shore. ; Nearer and nearer eternal anchorage, j Haul away, my lads;haul away! Some ; of the ships had mighty tonnage, and ; others were shallops easily listed of the j wind and wave. Some were men-of-war and armed of the thunders of Christian j battle, and others were unpretending tugs taking others through the Narrows, and some were coasters that never ventured out into the deep seas of I Christian experience; but they are all coming nearer the wharf?brigantine, galleon, line of battle ship, longboat, pinnace, war irigate?and as tney come into the harbor I find that they are driven by the long, loud, terrific blast of the east wind. It is through much tribulation that you are to enter into the j kingdom of God. You have blessed God for the north wind, and blessed him for the south wind, and blessed him for the west i wind; can you not in the light of this subject bless him for the east wind? Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee. E'en though it Ik; a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee. ' Hall's Hair Reoewer eL j >ys the c >nfidence and pitroDage of psoj Jo all over the civiiiz-d world, who me it to ie8toie and keep the baira natural color. . Lorena Echos. To the Editor of the Dispatch. Plowing and cotton hoeing is now in order, and one neighbor has no time to see what the other is doing. There is some sickness in this community but nothing serious at this writing. Mr. "William Shealy was behind with his farm work on account cf sickness, twenty-eight neighbors met at his place a few days ayo and gen eral green could not stand the racket and surrendered. Mr. Shealy's farm was put in good fix and all went away rejoicing. Small grain has turned out a fair yield. Fruit is almost a failure but blackberries are 0. K. and soon we will enj'->y the juicy melon. Gaidcnslook fine, beets, cucumbers, Irish potatoes and beans are in season, which make our noon nap uncomf. rtrble Prayer meetings in the community 1 ave been changed from Saturday i ight to Saturday evening at 4 o'clock. Best wishes for the Dispatch. J. A. D.. ; A Life Saved. Jamestown, Tcnn., October 15, 1891. My daughter tried physicians and nearly all remedies for Female irregularities. but received no relief or benefit whatever. We had nearly despaired of her recovery when we were induced by our postmaster, Mr. A. A. Gooding, "to try Gerstle's Female Panacea and after using four bottles she was entirely cured, for which I feel it my duty to let it be known to the world and suffering humanity, for I believe she owes her life to the Panacea. A. J MACE, Sheriff of Fentress County, Teun. For fuither information call at j Julian E. Kauffman's drug store and i getfne. a pamphlet entitled, "Ad- j vice to Women and Other Useful Information.M 32. V - r _ .r- ^ - .v.. More i Curative power is contained in Hood's Sarsaparilla than in any other similar preparation. It costs the proprietor and manufacturer more. It costs the jobber more and it is woith more to the consumer. More skill is required in its preparation and it combines more remedial qualities than any other medicine. Consequently it has a record of more cures and its sales are more than those of any other preparation. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best medicine to buy because it is an honest medicine and thousands of testimonials prove that it does actually and permanently cure disease. 34 ??. HISTORIC BELLS. The Story of u Pair uf Remarkable Old Spanish I'ealers. Two old and remarkable bells have just been iVoeived by the Cincinnati Boll Foundry company from Panama, South America. These two old Spanish pcalers were manufactured in the years 1000 and 1720 respectively. The gentleman who shipped them from Panama states in a letter to the Cincinnati firm that these bells have an interesting history. The letter states: "You might desire to know something of these two old bells sent you. outsido of a commercial value. The small one was east in the year 1000, and the large one in 1720. They have been useless as bells for years, but have served to carry back the thoughts cf the Spanish populace here to the old days when this continent was not so great and so thickly populated as at present "I am sorry that public spirit was not of a sufficient character to keep them as a relic of the old days when our forefathers fought with the natives and the wild animals which in that time were plentiful in this region. "The small bell was first placed in a rudely constructed Catholic church. It served both as a call to worship and an alarm when there was danger from the natives. For many years it remained in this old church, but was eventually transferred to the steeple of a new church at about the year 1700. From this edifice it was again moved to a newer one, always with great pomp and ceremony, and each time consecrated by the bishop. But, like all other things of earth, it became old, broken, and was finally abandoned as useless and thrown among a lot of church rubbish, though a part of the history of the country, and is probably the oldest bell in America. ' 'The history of the large bell, cast in 1720, is similar to that of the small one, excepting that it was placed in the steeple of the San Rafael church and remained there until it had bccomo use JCSS. The bell cast in 1720 bears the following inscription: "S. Rafael, Anno Domini De, 1720." These two old bells are peculiar in shape as. compared with thase cf the present day. The top of the bells is nearly as large as tho base. They are made cf the highest quality of copper, with a mixture of silver. Both of the bells indicato thut they have received rough usage. From all appearances it seems that after tho clappers were lost a sledge hammer was used to strike them. The Cincinnati Art museum has made application for these bells, and they will bo placed on exhibition there. The small bell weighs 100 and the largo one 200 pounds. The crowns by which the bells were hung seem to have rotted away in part from old age.?Cincinnati Enquirer. The Uganda Railroad. The line will be constructed on what is technically known as the "telescopic principle"?that is, it will be pushed forward from one end (the coast) only, nnd tho rails and material will come forward along the route already laid The estimated time for construction is four years, and the total cost will ho ?1,8G5,000. The exact gauge and weight of rails have not yet been finally decided upon, but the valuable experience already gained in India with similar lines will enable these details to be determined without difficulty. The original estimate, prepared in 1893 by Major Macdonald and Captain Pringle, gave a total cost of nearly ?2,250,000, or over ?3,400 per mile, which has been modified in the new design down to ?2,700 per mile. Without wearying our readers with arrays of figures, we may briefly state that the working expenses are estimated at ?40,000 or ?30,000 per annum, according as three trains per week each way or only one train per week each way is run. The entire journey will take eight days, and, as traveling will be only by day, strong stations, similar to those in India, will be provided for the trains to put up at nights. Three classes of traffic will be carried ?namely, goods, passenger and government stores traffic. In connection with the first named it is interesting to note tnat xno presenr race oi carriage uj n.ttivc porters for the journey is ?180 per ton, a tariff -which will lie lowered to ?17 per ton on the new railway. Some idea of the frightful cost of the present arrangement may be gathered from the fact that the carriage alone (by native porters) of a steamer to be built on the j Victoria Nyanza amounted to ?12,000. A large trade in barley, wheat, india rubber, ivory and coffee, as well as cotton, is anticipated, and it speaks volumes for the future of the new line that ground along the route is already being taken up.?Chambers' Journal. A New Fishhook. Among the latest inventions is a fishhook made with a fly back or spring. The hook is in two parts, like the jaws of a steel trap, one raising back almost to a perpendicular, the other hanging in the usual fashion. When the fish gives a little pull at the bait, t>c hook which rests against the line comes down like a flash, striking the fish on the nose and burying itself in the creature's head. The mechanism of this hook is extremely simple, and it is claimed that even a very slight nibble will spring the hook and capture the game. This is a good hook for amateurs, hut genuine sportsmen consider it very much on the priu ' " ? - * --- - xl : j Cipie OI Dotting on a suro ining, iuiu value it accordingly. ? New York Ledger. Truth lovis to be looked iu the face. A sunbeam in the heart is bound to light the face. CcL Knott's Defence. To the Editor of the Dispatch. By reason of sickness for several days I have not attempted to reply to the editorial in the Dispatch criticising my article, why I am a Republican. As to its personal and abusive language and its comparison of me to Benedict Arnold, Judas Iscaiiot, and to other names famous in history j for treason, guilt and deception, I j care but little ana lei tnat tnose questions will be better, and more impartially settled by the discriminating public than by the editorial columns of a paper whose every utterance is too blinded by sectional and partisan prejudice to be a capable judge of any citizen's intentions (n any matter of public duty, either to himself or to the rest of his fellow-citizens. When an editor criticises the productions in his own columns and has to resort to the position of the Dispatch in this matter it only shows the paucity of its materials and the helplessness of its unftrtunate po sition. To start out to answer an article, then impugn the writei's honesty and finally end in an appeal to fear and prejudice of negro dorni nation puts him at once among the back numbers that are out of date and will not be read by the progressive thinkers except with a commensurate degree of coramisseration. For an intelligent man now who i .1 i i v_ ? i Knows luai me regifciereu m*giutr? iu the State will Dot exceed '20,000 to hold up yet the scarecrow of negro domination of '20,000 negroes over 110,000 white voters, is bordering an infatuation or political lunacy. There is no such danger and the editor himself has no confidence in aDy such nonsense and only uses it because of the weakuess of the po.-ition and to appeal to a former prejudice. The white Republicans desire it no more than the most infuriated Dem ocrat, and the negro is fully satisfied that such a state is not for his good. The Dispatch will have to look for something else and prepare to chaDge its soDg. Its statement on beiDg a friend to protection and the poor laborer and work and unite its elfoits to uphold a party whose life long work has been for free trade with only an economical revenue attached is simply rediculous and silly, and its objection to Republicanism as being centralising and still defend a popu j listic platform which is more centralisiDg than any Republicanism has ever been accused of beiDg, makes it's position still more meaningless and straddling. The "Black Republican party," as you call it, wa? boru in 1856 and elected the President of the Unittd States in 1860. There had been a Republican party for years which j had resisted the carrying of slavery into the Territories. The Demoj cratic party had several times agreed iu Congress that it would make no further fight to extend slavery into any new State, and every time a new State applied for admission into the Union the Democratic party would break its obligations and contend for the right to slavery to go into the new State. The slave lords of the South could always control the Democratic party and did every time I act in bad faith with its pledges in this particular. Finally in 185G the present Republican party was formed, whose aim and life was to allow slavery where it then existed but to sware that the rest of the nation should be kept for white settlers and their children. The editor says it was made of Scuth haters. The Southern Democracy was made also of North haters, who hated just as hard, and that the Democratic party hated every Southern man who favored the limitation of slavery and every man win loved the American flag, and wanted to preserve the Union, and who opposed secession was called a coward and trator, and was buflfetted and lidiculed by the I.-.*..-! dmootr F.vprv Northern oiavc iuiu U tuvowj v j ? man was l:able to be "tarred and fratbered" who dared to speak a Northern sentiment. The whole fight of the Democratic party from 1832 to 18G0 was to up i hold and protect and extend slavery. In 18G0 the Northern Democracy | deserted the Southern and ran Douglass for President, when the slave lord Democracy seceded and tried to break the Union. The re- J suit we all fearfully know. If the j Democratic party had made its aim j and gained Southern independence, j it would have been a sad day for j the great majority of the white people as we can all now see. All progress would have stopped, slavery would have been the sole investment and a large part of our Southern people would have, before this, been slaves themselves, or seek a home ; elsewhere. The condition of a large majority I of those men who have rendered j history glorious with the gallantry of j their valor would have been ruined. ; Thus it was that the spirit of ''Black j Republicanism" was too strong for ; the blindness of our leadership aud j thus has providence ruled for the ! j good of our repu' lie. It was this : I Black Republicanism that prevented j ! the Democratic party in 1SG5 from I ! ruiniDg the future of our Southland, j j Men are now waking up to what the j I Democratic party has done and what I j it would still do if allowed to carry ; j out its free trade nonsense aud pros- j I trate the iudustiies of the nation and j j make beggars and tramps of our : I laborers. But for the color line HDd I I the negro question many of us would j j have long ago been Republicans, but | the time has come when no such j fears can molest or make us afraid, j j and whether our reasons are labored [ ' apologies or not there are those of us now who have a different name for doing as we are doing. We call it patriotism, and public spirit; we I call it a love for our race aud a desire to see peace and prosperity once more in our prostrate country, and no jeers and taunts from those moral cowards, who have not the spirit to give every man a right to free thought and fiee speech can, or will deter us from doing what webet licve to be our duty. Ihere was many a man in the Reform ranks who like myself cared nothing for Tillman nor the Reform pledges: we were seeking a road to [ the land of Tee speech and free j thought; we desired to break through i the environments that surrounded us. There are many of us who do not understand '"the Tillman movcmen'." I believe that the time is not far in the distance when they will see more fullv what it means. It was a decla */ ration of independence. Men should not now halt and be kept back from what has been done by the Republi cans in the nation. They were war measures and were carrying out a j revolt ion. There are acts and measures of the ; Reform party in our own State in the last five years that are as par i zan and as revolutionary as anything ever done by Congress by the Republican party. The Reformers justify on the ground that they are necessary to compel a refractory mi nority into action and carry out reform. Judge fail 1 v, be just and look at matters as the really arc. As to the little fling taken from the Times and Democrat that I was beaten "by a brother in black" at the Congreessional convention, I know nothing. I was not there and know nothing of my being a candidate except this from the Times and Democrat. I refused persistently to be a candidate at the State convention j I did not then nor do I yet desire to i go to St. Louis. But 1 expected just i such and and am surprised that the ! Dispatch has gotten up no more on? j my being a Republican?and has I not found time and space to get in more of such paragraphs. Those men wLo are too narrow as to believe that those men who arc Republicans desire to swallow the negro or gather plums or are dishonest and unfair very much uuderrate the spirit of this day. We be lieve that it is from a desire to pur sue principle iustead of fancy and a delusion. We believe that it is a desire to elevate the prostrate condition of our industries and to protect the American laborer in his struggle for a living. Democratic platforms are like the platforms to the cars, only made to get into the train and not made to stand on. Yours for truth and good government. D. J. K NOTTS. Swansea, June 5th, 1896. Sick-poison is a poison which makes you sick. It comes from the stomach. The stomach makes it out of undi gested food. The blood gets it and taints the whole body with it. That's the way of it. The way to be rid of it is to look after your digestion. If your food is all properly digested, there will be none left in the stomach to make sick-poison out of. If your stomach is too weak to see to this properly by itself, help it aloDg with a few doses of Shaker Digestive Cordial. That's the cure of it. Shaker Digestive Cordial is a de licous, healthful, toDic cordial, made of pure medicinal plants, herbs and wine. It positively cures indigestion and prevents the formation of sick-poison. At druggists. Trial bottles 10 cente. ? How Old Age Comes. What we cali old age, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, does not come suddenly, like the stroke of a clock, or the blow of a club, notifying ! the consciousness that it has arrived. It creeps in stealthily and by slow ; and often imperceptible degrees. The fire begins to go out before the man is aware of any lowering of the ! temperature. There ore little fui- \ tive, day-by-day encroachments ! which pass unnoticed or are treated ' as incidental and insignificant cx periences, until at length their ac- j cumulative lorce brings nome to tno victim the sober truth that it is after noon with him, and that the night cometh when he cannot work. This phase of the matter is aptly illus trated in Dr. Holmes' allegory, where i Old Age is represented as calling j upon the professor and saying to j him, ''I hope I see you well; I have j known you for some time, though I think you did not know inc." The | professor draws back a little, and j says. "Will you tell me how it is j vou seem to be acquainted with 1 everybody you arc introduced to. j though he evidently considers you ( an entire stranger." Old Age re- i plies, graciously, "I nmke it a rule i never to force myself upon a person until I have known him at least five years. I left my card ou your steps longer ago than that, but I'm afraid you never read it yet I see you have j it with you?there, between your i eyebrows, three straght lines run-! ning up and down. When he makes his first call, Old Age goes on to say, people usually | send back the message, "Not at j home."' Then he leaves a card and j goes. The next year he calls again, : gets the same answer, leaves another j card: and so for five or six, some- i times ten rears or more. uAt last." be declares, *4if they don't let me in, I break iu through the front door or the windows." Thus ihe process of gradual approach [erfoi ms its ser vice in a series of crows' feet, back- j ache, stiff-pointedness and other un- | raistakable evidences of rust and decay. Have you registered.' If not, do so i at once. I 3 >4o J a1'"!? a B j nSfi POWDER i Absolutely Pure9 A oream of tartar baking powder. Highest ot all in leivening strength.?Latest Unit d States t Government Food Report. Royal Baking Fowdeb Co., New York. What Wrecks the Home. The two twin evils which wreck our home are drink and scolding. It is true that many men of middle life have practically given up their homes taking some of their sleep Irt... l-.nf if id /i.tnotlv frnn tliaf. thofO they have a refuse from that tongue which no man can tame, not even an apostle. Our fathers tried to duck common scold, under the mistaken belief that heat of the spirit could be cured by lowering tLe temperature of the body, but experience only proved that a licry temper is fed by water as if it were oil. Andrew Lang, in his late comments upon Shakespeare's "Taming of a Shrew,'' says, that it m kes an amusing comedy, but that "no shrew ever was tamed" by Shakespeare's process or any other. We are very much afraid that woman's temper has driven more men to drink than woman's tears have redeemed; and that many aXantippe is mairied to many a Socrates who can seek solace for loss of home comfort in the consolation of philosophy. More will follow Ilip Van Winkle to the woods* with his pint bottle in his pocket. English literature is a literature of chivalry, and is apt to condone every failing in a woman but oue. But it is doubtful whether the immunity thus given to * woman to "do her worst" has been a benetit to her. Everybody knows what few. care to say that the wife's temper is responsible for as many wrecked household as the husband's vices. r% I . n I wo Lives oavea. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City, III., was told by her doctors she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery completely cured her and she says t saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers* 139 Florida St., San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results, of which these are sample?, that prove the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at J. E. Kauffman's Parent and Child. Harper's IJizir. Nothing is sweeter than sometimes finding a father who confesses himself a cbild with his children, a mother who is a young girl V7ith her ' daughters. There is no question of authority of infallibility with these, yet somehow there is always obedience, always harmony; dignities are not sacrificed, wh'le something bet ter than blind homage is rendered. There are no harsh judgments, no moral reactions. Each recognizes that the thing to be attained, tl e quality to be expressed?as, for example, beneficence, love, courtesy, charity?is forever greater than possible human attainment, yet that each individual grows in knowledge, per'ectiou and understanding while ho stiives; grows without pain, development being normal, and grows without effort, the impetus being from within and reactive, not from without, coercive aud destructive. True respect each for the other?and this is the vital point? true respect each fur the other, for even the opinions and standards of the other is at least attaiued. Certainly this i; iomething better thau any obedience born of the exercise of blind authority, or cultivated by a parent's personal pride in his position. . . The question is: Will the general primary vote for United States Senator by aggregated for the whole State and the Democrats in the Legislature be thereby loand, or will the vote by counties bind the county representative in the general assembly. The Stale Teachers' Association will meet at Rock Hill, June 30tk to Joly 3id. Reduced railroad fare. If the Baby is Cutting Teeth* J>e sure and use that old and welltried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. It is the best of all.