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MT SWE~E."ar&%. "Twas a quaint line scrawled in a speling book, And handed to we with a bash-ul loo k, By my blue eyec sveetheart so fondly true, In the daar old school dav long years ago "If you love ma a; I love y0a No knife can cut oar love in tw o" That "Sanders' Speller," so tattered and torn. Has always a halo of romance worn, And never a poet with honeved pen Haswritten soprecious a rhyme since then "if you love me as I love you." Ab, dear, you know I did-I do. I've kept it safely for many a year This dog's-eared, shabby old spelling-book. dear, And now, as I hold it within my hand, Agin in the school room I seem to stand Reading once more with rapture new "If you love me as I love you." How some foolish saying from out the past Like a rose braach is over the pathway cast And the time ot lowers we still remember, Till winds ble w cold in the bleak December. God grant it always may be true - **hat you love me as I love you." EVILS OF THE DANCE. Dr. Taimate on the Dargere of sacial DIssipation. BEooIYN, Sept. 30.-Rev. Dr. Tal mag, who is still absent on his round the world tour, has selected as the sub. ject of today's sermon through the press "The Quick Feet," the text chosen be ing Matt'iew xiv, 6, "When H 'rod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Hero. dias danced before them and pleased Herod." It is the anniversary of Herod's birth day. The palace is lighted. The high, ways leading thereto are all abisz3 with the pomp of invited guests. Lnrds, cap tains, merchant princes, the mighty men of the land, are coming to mingle in the festivities. The table is spread with all the luxuries that royal purveyors can gather. The guests, white robed and anointed and perfumed, come in and sit at' the table. Music! The jests evoke roars of laughter. R:ddies are propounded. Repartee is indulged. Toasts are drunk. The brain is befogged. The wit rolls on into uproar and blas phemy. They are not satisfied yet. Turn on more light. Peur out more wime. Music! Sound all the trumpets. Clear the floor for a dance. Bring in Salome, the beautiiul and accomplished princess. The door opens, and in bounds the dancer. The lords are en ehanted. Stand back and make room for the brilliant gyrations! These men never saw such "poetry of motion." The soul whirls in the reel and bounds with the bounding feet. Herod forgets crown and throne and everything but the fascinations of Sa lome. All the magnificence of his realm Is as nothing now compared with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe before him. His body sways from side to side, correspondmg 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 amszing. After awhile he-sits in enchanted silence looking at the flabing, leaping, bounding baauty, and as the dance closes, and the tinkung .cymbals cease to clap, and the thunders Of 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 kingdom." N)w, there was m the prison at that time a minister of the gospel of the name of . Johnthe Baptist, and he had been making a great deal of trouble by preaching some very plain and honest sermons. He had denounced the Bins of the king and brought down upon him the wrath of the females of the royal household. At the instigation of her mother, Salome takes advantage of the extravagant promiss of the king and says, "Bring me the. head of John the "..Itist on a dinner plate." Hark to the sound of feet outside the door and the clatter of swords! The ex ecutioners are returning from their awfal errand. Open the door. They enter, and they present the platter to Salome. What is on this platter? A new glass of wine to contine the uproarious mer riment? No. Something redder and 'costlier-the ghastly, bleeding head of ,Tohn 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 o'ver the blood, and with as much indifference as a waiting maid, might take a tray of empty glfesie out of the room after ~ nmenti Salome ~ ~ e severed head of eBaptist, while all the banquet era 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 all admit, whatever you think of that style of amusement arnd ex ercise, that from many circles it has crowded out al] 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, M~-r because they have not the health to endure it, or because, through conscien tious scruples, they must decline the exercise, very uncomfortable. You will also admit, all of you, that it has passed in many cases from an amuse ment to a dissipation, and you are easdly able to understand the bewilderment of the eucated Chinaman who, standing in the brilliant circle where there was dancing going on four or five hcnts and the enests 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 willing to admit, what ever your idea in regard to the amuse ment 1 am speaking of, an4i whatever be your idea of the old fashioned square dance and of many of the processional romps in which I see no evil, the round dance is administrative of evil and ought to be driven out of all respectable circles. I am by natural temperament and re ligious theory opposed to the position taken by all thcse who are horrided at playfulness on the part of the young, and who think that all questions are de cided-questions of decency and morsls -by the position of the teet, while, on the other hand, I can see nothring but ruin, temporal and eternal, for those who go into the dissipations of social life, dissipations which have already des poiled thousands of young men and young women of all that is noble in character and useful in life. Dancing is the graceful motion of the body adjusted by art to the sound and measures of mnusical instruments or of the human voice. All nations have danced. The ancients thought that Castor and Pollux taught the art to the Lacedaemonians. But, whoever started it, all climes have adopted it. In ancient times they had the festal dance, the baechanalian dance, and queens and lords swayed to and fro in the gardens, and the rough bacawoods man with this exercise awakened the echo of the forest. There is something in the sound of lively' music to evoke the movemen, of me hand and foot, whether cultured or uncultured. Pass ing 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 r:ses upon some great harmony. While tis is so in civilized lands the red men of the forest have their scalp dances, their green corn dances, their wardances. In ancient times the exercise was so utter ly and completely depraved that the church anathematized it. The old Christian fathers expressed themselves most vehemently against it. St. Chry .oetoa sas "The feet were not given ,or dar-cline, but to walk modestly; not to ep udsntly, like camels." One of the dogmas of the ancient church reaL: "A dane!is the devIl's p~sses si. n, and Le that en'ereth into a dauce ente reth into hs possession. As mauiy paces as a nan makes in danc iug, so many paces does he make to hell." Esewhere the old dogmas de clared this: "The woman that singeth in the dance Is the princess of the devil, arnd tatcse that answer a:e her clerks, and ihe btholdvrs are hIs frienda, and the music is his be lows, atd the fi:ldlers are the ministers o the devil. For as, when hogs ae strated, ii the hogsherd call (ne a.1 assemble together, so when the vil calleth ore woman to sing in the dar.ce, or to p1 ty ou some musical instrumems, presently all the dancers gatbr icgether." This indiscriminate and universal denunciation of the exer cise came from the tact that it was utter ly and compl!tely depraved. But we are not to discuss the customs of the olden times, but customs now. We are not to take the evidence of the ancient fatheis, but our own conscience, enlightened by the word of God, is to be the standard. O, bring no harsh criti cism upon the foung. I would not drive out from their soul the hilarities of life. I do not believe that the inhabi tants of ancient Wales, when they stepped to the sound of the rustic harp, went down to ruin. I believe God in tended the young people to laugh and romp and play. I do not believe God would have put exuberance in the soul and exuberance in the body if he had not intended they should in some wise exercise it and demonstrate it. If a mother join hands with her children and cross the dbor to the sound of mu3c, I see no harm. If a group of friends cross and recroes the* room to the sound of piano well played, I see no harm. It a company, all of whom are known to host and hcstess as reputable, cross and re cross the room to the sound of musical instrnment, I see no harm. I tried for a long while to see harm in it. I could not see any harm in it. 1 never shall see an- luarm in that. Oar men need to be kept young-young for may years longer than they are kept young. Never since my boShood days have I had more sympathy with the innocent hilarities of Ife than I have now. What though we have telt heavy burdens! What though we have had to endure hard knocks! Is that any reason why we should stand in the way of those who, unstung of 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 them, jndgeing from my own experience, that they 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 social life today, and what are the dissipations of the ballroom! in some cities and ia some places reaching all the year around, in other pl ices only in the summer time and at the watering places. Taere are dissipations of social life that are cutting a very wide swath with the sickle of death, and hundreds and thousands are zoie down under these influences, and my subject in application Is as vide as Christendom. The whirlpool of social dissipation is drawing down some of the brightest craft that ever sailed the sea thousands and tens of thousands of the bodies and souls annually consumed in the conflagration of ribbons. Social dissipation is the abettes of pride, it is the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every town on both sides of the sea. Social dissipa ion. It may be hard to draw the line and say that this is right on the one side and that is wrong on the other side. It is not necessary that we do that, for Gpd has put a throne in every man's sal, and I appeal to that throne today. When a man does wrong, he kno es 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 dcubt. What may we expect of people who work all day and dance als night? After awhile they will be thrown on society naya,2t~e~be8 ihesepipe 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 as if they had taken their life with a pistol or a knife or strychnine. How many people have stepped from the ballroom into the graveyard! Con sumptons and swift neuralgias are close on their track. Amid many ot the gittering 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 of :eath's lhps bubbles up in the cham pagne. I am told that in some of the ities there are parents who have actual ly given up housekeeping and gone to boarding t-at they may give their time llimitably to social dissipations. I have 4nown such cases. I have known fami ly after family blasted that way ia one of the other cities where I preached, father and mother turning their back upon all quiet culture and all the amenities of 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 tstory of more than one family when I say they went on in the dissipations of social liie until the father dropped into a a lower style of dissipation, and after, awhile the son was tossed out into socie ty a nonenity, and after awhile the daughter eloped with a French dancing master, and af ter awhile the mother, get ting on further and further In years, tries to hide the wrinkles, but fatis in the at tempt, trying all the arts of the belle, an1 ld fiirt, a poor miserable butterfly with out any wings. If there is anything on earth beautiful1 to me, it is an aged women, her white locks flbwing back over the wrinkled brow-locks not white with frost, as the poets say, but white with the blossoms1 of the tree of life, in her voice the tender ness of gracious memories her face a benediction. As grandmother passes 1 through the room the grandchildren pull at her dress, and she almost falls in her< weakness, but she has nothing but candy< or cake or a kind word for the little darl Eugs. When she gets out of the wagon I in front ot the house, theC wholo tamily rsh cut and cry, "Grandoa's come!" and when she goes away from us, never I to return, there is a shadow on the table< and a shadow on thc hearth, and a sha dow cn the heart. There is rno more: touching scene on earth than when grand. mother bleeps the last slumber and tne 1 ittle child is lifeted up to the casket to I give the last kiss, and she says, "Good- I by, grandma!" Oh, there is beauty in ld age! God says :so. "The hoary head I is a crown of glory." Why should peo ie decline to get old? The best thtngs,] the greatest ~things I know of, are I aged-old mcuntains, old seas, old stars and old eternity. But if there is< nything distressful it is to see an oldi woman ashamed of the fact that she is< old. What with all the artificial appli nces, she is tso much for my gravity. laugh even in church when I see her c oming. Tne worst looking bird on ifg earth is a peacock when it has lost its c aher. I wound not giv on nek ofk t my old mother's grav hair for 50,000 sach caricatures of humanity. AQd if the life of a wordhng, if the life of a disci ple given to the world, is sad, the close of such. a life is simply a tragedy. Let me tell you that the dissipations of social life are despoiling the useful ness of a vast multitude of people. What do those people care about the fact that there are whole nations in sorrow and suffering and agony when they have for consideration the more important ques tion about the size of a glove or the tie of a cravat? Wbich one of them ever bound up the wounds of the hospiLal? Which one of them ever went out to care for the poor! Which of them do ycu fiad in the haunts of sin, distributing trac? They live on themselves, and it is vary poor pasture. Sybaris was a great city, and it once sent out 300 horsemen in battle. They bad a ministrel who hiad 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 to beat time to the music. Well, the old ministrel was of fended with his country, and he went over to the enemy, and he said to the enemy, "You give me the mastership of the army, and I will destroy their troops 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 ntstreal and all the other minstrels played a certain tune, and at the most critical moment in the battle, when the horsemen wanted to rush to the confict, the horses reared and beat time to the music wit h their fore feet, and in disgrace androuttheenemy fled. Ah, my triends, I have seen it again and again-the minstrels of pleasurels the miastrels of dissipation. the minstre of godless as sociation have defeated people in the hardest fight of life. FrIvolity has lost the battle for 10,000 folk. Oh, what a belittling process to the human mind, this everlasting question about dress, this discussion of fashionable infinitesi mais, this group looking askance at the glass, wondering with an indnity of earn estness how that last geranium leaf does look, this shriveling of a man's moral dignity until it is not observable to the naked eye, this Spanish inquisition of a tight shoe, this bindina up of an immor tal soul in a rufi3, this pitching off of an immortal nature over the rocks when God intended it for great and everlasting uplifting! With many life is a masquerade ball, and as at such entertainments gentle men and ladies put on the grab of kings and queens or mountebanks or clowns and at the close put off the disguise, so a great many pass their whole life in a maek, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade bal of life goes on they trip merrily oyer the floor, gemmed hand is stretched to gemmed hand, and leaming brow bends to gleaming brow. On with the dance! Flush and laughter of immeasurable merrymaking. But af ter awhile the languor of death comes on the limbs and blurs the eyesight. L'ghts lower. Floor hollow sepulchral echo. Music saddened into a wail. Lghts lower. Now the maskers are only Peen in he dim ligbt. Now the f:agrance of the flowers is 1ke the sickening odor that comes from garlands that have lain long in the vaults of cemetries. Llihts lower. Misis gather in the room. Glas ses shake as though quaked by Pullen thunder. Sigh cauzht in the curtain. Scarf drops from the shoulder of beauty, a shroud. Lights lower. Over the slippery boards in dance of death glide jealousies, envies, revenges, lust, de spair and death. Stench the lamp wicks almost extinguished. Torn garlands will not half cover the ulcerated feet. Choking damps. Feet still. Hands closed. Voices hushed. Eyes shut. Lht out. Oh, how many of you have floated far away from God through social dissipa tions! And it is time you turned. For I remember that there were two vessels on the'sea and in a story, it was very, very dark and the two vessels were go ing straight for each other, and the cap tains knew it not. But after awhile the man on the lookout saw the approachinsi ship, and he shouted, "Hard a-larboard!" and from the other vessel the cry went ap, "Hard a-larboard!" and they turned just enough to glance by and passed in safety to their harbors, Some of you are n the storm of temptation, an.d you are driving o. andcomintiWird earful o'lisions unless von change your course. Eard a -larboardi Turn ye, turn ye, for 'wy will ye die, 0 house of Israel?' A Sad, Sad Tragedy. A very sad tragedy occurred at Gas- 1 .on on the South Bound Railroad last W'ednesday night,; It was the tragic eath of a bright young lad, who hadi nn away from home, without even tell rg his parents good bye. The sad event< ccurred just atout niidnight, and tears< ;ole down the cheeks of many a strong< na, as he stood by the handsome lad n the hours of the niorning, as his life ,lowly ebbed away, from his mangled< rm. These strong, tender-hearted far ne stood around the little fellow, al bhough lie was a perfect stranger, doing il in their power to save him, knowingt me was in a d3 ing condition all the time.c hey stood there and heard him tell his< story and plead for his life to be pro onged till he could kiss his father good ye, a father whom he had left without giving any intimation as to his intentions ] -a father who was at his home in Phila ielphia. perhaps at that very moment< acking his brain to devise soms plan oft icuring informatian as to his missing t son. It was a scene to touch the heart >f any man. The story briefly told is as I ollows: On Wednesday night this lad c ot into Gaston in some way. At mid- c ight a fast freight train passed through,t >ut did not stop. Just as it rolled past 5 ;he station, a cry of pain was heard on c he track and several parties hastening to nestgate, found the form of a youtht >n the track terribly cut and mangled. c ~le was lifted up tenderly and taken into t ,he depot building. There was no physi- 1 dan mn the place. the town physician i >eing away in Colum'>ia. The lad told t hese around him that he had in a belt t Lrond his waist $3.G5 in cash. H~e t ,egged them to tear his clothes open., et it and get a pnysician for him. He aid that this was all the money he had d he had not cared to spend any of it o0 rde on the railroad. He said he at- t empted to jump on the train while it I vas running; no one had pushed him off, d u1 he had simply missed his footing s nd fallen under the wheels. No physi- I :ian could be secured before the arrival I f the 3 a. m. train from Columbia. - WVhen the lad was told this he said he ad some time ago, without cause, and vithout, even saying good-bye to his nother and father, run away from his oie in Philadelphia. lHe said he was r ihteen years of age and hIs name was a amuel Williamsl; his parents lived at a o. 2 736 Germantown avenue. Puiila- o lephia. The boy was a handsome hit- b le fellow, and seemed to be of good C >irth and well-to-do parentage. When S i realized that death was iminiient, he >eaded to be allowed time enougn to is his father good-bye; and thus his roung life slowly ebbed away. Dr. G 3rosker arrived about 3 a. mn., but the h ad diei in fifteen minutes thereafter. e 'e good people of Gaston took charge P f the remains and as much concern was isplayed in the funeral as if some son 'f a Gaston man had died. He was b *iven a neat burial and his grave wasr arked, so that should his parents hear a f his tragic end and wish to see the a rave, they can find it. The above ac- a ount of this extreamly sad tragedy is t~ aken from Momdaves Stat@. s R YALF > Oil AAK Pure. A cream or tartar namng powder ighest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Com pany, 106 Wall St., N. Y. OUR BIG CORN CROP. he L-,w P.Ics of Cottrn May Prove a Ble81ng li Diagutse. The Manufacturero' Record believes hat one of the greatest blessings that ias ever befallen the Suth is tho low r'ce of cotton duriag the last two ears. Contrary to the opinion of those who think that the Sou'h'a prosperity would be enhanced by higher prices for otton this season, the Maaunacturers' ecord believes that uia 3 or t!n ee its or cottoa would uitim.:eicy p:.)ve a haaster to the whola S:..h. T te 1> w >rles of recent year3 haie forcd t.'e ariners of the Sou'.h into diversifi 'l agei ulture, f.,rzed t'sem to abandon cotton is their only crop, and to raise their corn nd f)-dstofl'i at home. Tie next result f such a policy as this is to vAstly en ance the permanent prosptrity of the :>uth aldhcugh for the time being it nay decrear-e the amount of money ex pended by Southem planters. Cotton t ten cents for the present crop would ean great sctivity in mercantile circles, and fr the ncxt twelve months an ap parent remarkable prosperity; but 10 ent cotton would mean that next year the farmers would abandon their efforts to raiss corn and give their whole atten on to cotton. Without regard to the fact that the Suth muit, by virture of Foreign competition, abandon all exoec ations of ever selling cotton for high prices again, except in occassional per iods of short c-ops. N) greiter disaster ould befall the South than to have the oresent tendency to diversifi d agric i. iure charged bafore it ha3 become drmly stalished on the part of all Sin-heen [armers. At the recant antuil meeting of the oung M.-'s Bassiness Leazue of Au. usta, P:esident Lamar made some stateents on this subjcct which sebuld be studied by every man having the wel are of the Sou.h at heart. "At bot tom," said Mr. Lamar, "the problzm h:ch we. cf the South have tc solvc is to live at home. It is no leas the du:y >f those who iive in cities than those who live in the country. Those of us n cities cannot do it in what we raise :t of the ground, but like the farmer, we are to look for ultimate prosperity in aking more than we spend. If a man pends more than he makes he draws on aptal until bankruptcy results. If a aity or a section spends more than it Daes, the eame result lollowa. Go~t ton at twenty cents a pound would bring Less prosperity to the people who con umie more than it sells for, in buying :orn and bacon which are destroyed in Iher use, than cotton at six cents by eople who have no meat or corn to uy. If the cotton money were used to >y articles that added to wealth, the ]isaster would not be so sudden and so evitable; but at the end of twelve nonths we have not a pound of bacon r a grain of corn or a ton of hay to show jor all the cotton we have sold. rhis is repetition," said Mr. Lamar, 'but it is important enough to hear itera ion and reiteration utiLwe-am aiarmed -to the nscessitvof a cnange. Augusta ells over $1,900,000 worth of bacon a rear, it handles between $5,000.000 and 6 000,000 worth of cotton every year. ):1e fifth of the money paid for cotton oes out for bacon alone. If we could ave our meat bili one year money would me plentiful; but if we add to bicon the noney spent for corn, flour hay, oats, and thoushand things produced else where, e marvel is that we are able to stand e drain at all. Any country that an stand such a drian must have amr el us resources. We have stood it with. t fully realizing how much it has sap med our prosperitf, but if we keep the nllions here that are now paid for these utide products it would only be a meriod of two or three years berfore we bould have prosperity beyond any thing hat we have ever known. Oar meat ill for one year would double the actual ash in this city. One year's savicg ofI ur foreignbuzht corn, hay, oats and teat would make money n~ drug im our sarkets." The facts so forcibly stated by Mr. anar have often been commended upont y the Manufacturers' R scord. Taesy annot be too often pressed upon the at mntion of every man concerned as to e South's progress and prosperity. ortaatey the South has this year been 1 lessed with an abund ant corn crop. 1:,s rn will do more to increase the solid rowth of the South than even cotton at wenty cents a pound would no. The outh and its agricultural interests are solid ground. Bright, indeed, Will the future if its farmers can only be 1 be future if its farmers can only be ia I uced to continue the policy of the last wo years of raising their own food sup' lies. Bigh priced cotton would almostc aevitably bring ab mt a change, and so be Manufactures' Record believes that C be South is really to be congratulated bt its cotton is no: commanding high Impt-rlal Upheavai. NEW YORKm, Oct. 2.-A special cable the Herald from Shanghai say st onperor of China will very likely be etironed in favor of IPrircs IKung's , who will treat with the Japanese. i Hung Chang has been superseded supreme command by General Sang sing, of the Province of Huhan, who 1 as received full powere, Li Hung l hang retires disgusted to Ifao Tring 'oo, capital of the province of Chi Li. s ms alleged defection to the Japanese only canvassed consequent to the call of Prince Kung. i. wenty thxous d hunan sold'iers are gathered round Shan-hai-kwan, the rm~rinus b fthe great wail where it formis ai oundary between the provinces of s iii Li and Shing Kig T he Li [lung hang army is distrusted. Met a Deserved Fato. r FAIRFIELD, Texas, Oct. 5.-Henry a bson, colored, attempted to outrage I iss Mitchell near Mills yesterday ev- ti ng, but was prevented from accom- ti ishing the terrible act by the screams 1 his victim, which attracted help s 'om near by. In the scufib wtta e is Mitchell ha cut ner several times I at not seriously. The tiend was ar- ri 'sted and carried to Mills where he a 'as identified. He was being guarded P a store, but last night about 2 o'clock ti sbot was fired by some rnknown par- 5' 4 .om the ontsire, whIrch krilled (.i- . THE SOUTH CAROL INA AND GEORGIA. The Loil-v:lle and N4ahvi:le and Coust Line Buy It. The Augusta Cbronicle, of last Wed nesday, says the South Carolina and Georgia Railway will soon change bands again. Just as the Chronicle has been telling you all along, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville and Nashville, jointly are going to buy it. Augusta will b9 benefitted by the change. Thie News and Courier yes terday says: The following pragrapb, which has recently been going the rounds of the New York papers, will unquestionably be of interest to the people just at this time. With slight variations the para graph is as follows: "Negotiations are said to be under way between the Parsons Brothers, the principal owners of the South Carolina and Georgia, and the executive officials of the Atla'tic Coast Line and Louis ville and Nashville, whereby the first named property is to pass into the joint control of the latter companies. The South Carolina was bought by the Par. sons some time ago, and the name was changed. The road has a main line from Charleston to Augusta, with branches, and the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville and Nashville have had their eyes on the property. During the past week negotiations are said to have been resumed between the Parsons and the Atlantic Coast Line and the Lenlsville and Nashville, and it is said that the transfer of the desired line is now pending. The South Carolina is wanted by the Atlantic Coast Line, be cause it will give it an entrance in to Augusta." In substance this statement has be'-n made many times before,uoth here and in New York, and the pertinacity with which the rumor keeps itself be fore the public is possibly the strong est argument which at this time can be adduced in support of it. The railroad men hereabouts are pretty well divided in their opinions on the question. Some very high oifi cials on the South Carolina and Geor gia 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 same time there are other well in formed railroad men In tMe city who think that the ultimate outcome is to be that the Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Lice will control the South Carolina and Georgia Road. From time to time the Louisville and Nashville people, as well as the Messrs. Parsons, have denied that any deal was in progress, and yet it contin ues to be generaly acepted as a fact that negotiations are now pending be tween the two. A gentleman was seen in the city yesterday who mentioned the name of a well known railroad m.n who toll him tnat he had received a telegram from New York statig that the ar rangements had actually been made looking to the transfer of the property. At the same time it should not be for gotten that the new ofllials of the road in this city disclatm having any infor matiun on tie subj act, and the busi ness of the company is being conduct ed as though the management were a permanent one. But information was receivad here yesterday, which seems t indceate be yond a aoubt, that the "Old Rtliable" has already, or will positively,. within the very near future, change hands again. The statement was made on the street last night that a well known gen gleman in this city had received a tele gram during the day in which it was stated that the Louisville and N ash yille and the Atlantic Coast Line had made definite arragements with the Messrs. Parsons by which these sys tems would In the near future take control of the bouth Carohtna and Georgia Railroad. A confirmation of this rumor was received in an unexpected way last night. A gentleman in Cnarleston, who does not wish his name given just now, showed a reporter a letter from a prominent New York man in which the writer says: Of course you knowa that the Messrs. Parsons have diess posed of their i me t-t~e- South CThsaa Georgia Railroad." Thsstatement, coming as it does from one of the best kno svn financiers in the country, seems to be a very 'straight tip." The wrnter of the letter is in a position to have inside informa tion on the subject, and he Is not a man who would speak lightly of such an important question. He says no more in the letter than has been given, evidently taking the sale of the road as a matter of course. it is not said to whom the Messrs. Parsons had dispos ~d of the property, but everyone takes t for granted that the~purchasers are :he Louisville and Nashvile and At antic Coast Line systems. Some persons have supposed that the Southern Railway Company might wish to o wn the property, but there is very little reaso4 to believe that that iystem would care greatly for the Soutn Carolina and Gaorgia LIne. ir it Is true, as now rumored,that the Southern has made arrangements to Lbsor b the Central system, it is hardly >robable that it would care to have an iIditional South Atlantic port. Taking everything into consideration, and re nem bering everythung reeived here resterday, there is little reason to doubt hat if the Messrs. Parsons have sold he Soutn Carolina and Georgia R >ad, hat the purchasers are the Louisville md Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line ystems. In this connection it may be said ;hat one of 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 Jarolina and Georgia Road would hange hands again within a very few nonths. Hie said that he felt confident ha:: the Louisville and Nashville and he Atlantic Coast Line systems would )ul d a new line to Augusta if they :ould not; control the South Carolina md Georgia property, and as he consi lered it wouald De'rumrous to the old f the new ime was built, he did not :oubt that arrangements would be nade by which the road would change lands. The informallon which is given here as come so straight that there seems o be no reason for doubting it. Tne iathority Is about as good as could be totten, unless an ofli~ial statement ad been made either by the Messrs. 'arsons,or by the Louisville and Nash 'Ille, people themselves. Buried In a Mine i iSCRANToN, Penn., Sept. 28.-T wo ives or tour men, two miners and two aborers, without warning were crush d out in Northwest colliery of Simp o:1 and Watkins, at Simpson, near lrondale, late yesterday afternoon. n'leir managied remains as near as can e ascertained lie beneath a tall of rock ~hieu is ten feet wide and six feet .gb, and extends for at least sixty feet 2 the gangway off from the third tope ot the minL:. P. W. Kline. a lot tery and policy hop man of Katasas, has published a 4ter in whicn he recites tast Gover of I wellyn, Attorney General Little "ad otbe Populist State oilers of Ansas ag'eed to sell b'.m pilice pro mction in tha't -tate and to permit him >have the appointmenat of rne police i certain clties and that they-n o a :and by their bargains. ie further laims to have contracted with the nuisana lottery to have all lotteries un OUt of Kansas and to have paid the torney general $4,000 to begin the rosecution of them. The publicatIon as of course caused a great deal of ~andal. It is said that the Republican tiate committee secured the publica on of the letter. In Poor Health means so much more than you imagine-serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift-health. If you are feeling out of sorts, weak and generally ex B tI'tr' husted, nervous, hae n o apeit Secan'twrk, atid aoncetak Neurthegnost relia ble strengthening I on niedicine.which is on Bown's Iron Bit ters. A few bot ties cure-beniefit Womns mes from the I~ittersvery first dose-il FairA-th View anibokfre -~ pleasant to take. It Cures Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver Yu Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nervous ailments Women's complaints. Get only the genuine-itbas crossed ped lines on the wrapper. All others are sub stitutes. On recit of two 2C. stamps we will send set of en Beautiful World's Fair Views and book-free. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, MD. CITIZENS OF CLARENDON You have gne through two years of the greatest deprivation, and now there are certain Croods you are com pelled to buy. The prospects are for a better crop than you rvi had for four years, and we trust you are in a condi tion to Buy TT. We have bought an unusually large toc , an. inedtosl. P.aS.g e pare it ng y ou. wnth ute rust by buigea mags, fried hadecstomersin forcoton, butles.I oare not tiedw at, o. THELMNF POTRIGSIVR CKT pica yood wine nivesa Schsoanw Razrs uacin Needles,Ec Seph enT oar, & S Bo. n hepsoveringTorrcotto baes.I rSUI &. PLTD. AE __ -- fr WatchesdJeer epa rd, by ~ - 5 S I~ ING S ET,CLKS er 1103 .JR JT 3. T1L. Manning Collegiate Institute, M.ANTING, S. 0. Do You Intend to Educate Your Children I If so, Patroifize the Institute. Why t Because the Institute is well equipped for its work, and offers advantages hat are not to be .ound elsewhere in the county. Besides the advantages n the courses of study, moderate tuition rates, cheap board, healthfulness )f the town, combined with others of equal importance make it to youx in erest to send here. Reac1D Cnsicer! Send for catalogue. E. J. BROWNE, Principal. ww~saerza -Co. WJ\\'o SHEPER &MCQ LARGE SSORTMENT -oF- -AT Send for circulars -Tinware, and price lists. No. 232 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C. PERCIVAL M'FG. CO r_ ,PERCWAL is DOOR6 : SASH, : AND : BLINDS. 4v1 to 486 Meeting Street, CHARLESTON, S.C OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, C --IAL rXLE sT 30lT. . CI. ave YournEyes! Palmetto Pharmacy :o: When you need a pair of spectacles don't uy an ilferior glass. You will find none etter than CRYSTAL LENSES TlAC r lWA. Charleston, S. C. 4=7 '- ='tsd lwy& AIL, Express or Freight goods to any part of the United States or abroad. Orders receive prompt attention immedi ately upon receipt. In sending money for articles not quoted in this lis or our free I . . " '. catalogue, send the amount of retail price less 20 per cent. Any difference will be returned by next mail. Our business is srtri cisu. Goods sent C. 0. D. .to re -oR-- sponsible parties. 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F A TTORNEY AT L AW, s-m~o l:;..n0. .4.00, or MANNING, S. C. .00 11 :, accordinr' to :'ur ner' Office in TDIExS building. Special atten For sale ouly by Mloses Levi, Man- tion given all business in his charge. ug, S. C. GEO. W. DICK, 4E1'f F. RRant. w. C. I TrVI- DENTIST. ) IIAME & D~AVIS, SUMTER, S. C. Of1ice hours--9 to 1:30-2:30 to 5. Over A TTOR.YS A T LA W,' Levi Brothers' dry goods store. MANNING, S. C.________________ O1IN s. WA.LON A TTUR XEY A T LAW, MANNING, S. C. Aurney and Counselor al Law, Notary Public with seal. Associated with N wNG S. C. R. 0. ury Es in litige cae.