The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 05, 1894, Image 4
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
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ighest of all in leavening strength.-La
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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
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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
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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. We solicit a share of
THE CELEBRATED yori res Our Regu
I Price. lar.
50e2a3 - :- ~ia2an'E - -- i c20 65 Alcock's Porous Plasters, 10 25
Belladona Plasters, 15 25
EYE :- GASSE. - Capcine Plasters, Benson's, 15 25
--: EE -:- GLSSS. :- Allcock's Bunion Plasters, large 18 25
or sale by Allcock's Corn Plasters, 08 10
DR. W. M. BROCKINTON, Ou Litl Live P, 1 0 25
Manning, S. C- Cuticura Salve, 40 50
S-. - Cuticura Soap, 15 25
e4BTTEiAnti-Pain Plasters, 10 ~25
e-(~BUY HE 'X9 Simmon's Liver Regulator 67 1 00
Chihesef' Peiir Pills, 1 85 2 00
II Hall's Syrup of Hyphosp 90 1 50
II ~ 531 Pennyroyal Pills, 75 1 00
Dr. Felix LeBrun's Steel and
-- -Pennyroyal Pills, 7 1 00
Alligator Liniment, -2*
Acid Phosphate, Horsford's, $ .40 $ .50
---Ayer's Pills, 20' 25
-Pierce's Favorite Prescription 75' 1 00
G) Hall's Emulsion 25e and 50 -
SCnd TENecentslto 88UnionqSq.,,N. Y.
'oSoapregme "lndLuk"0n
FiJaNewT HomeoSewingiMach1n0
h ewHmeein Race CCo. s iteLie its 0 2
Pills, MASS
.428UINQURf..cT 5W lamt aete-etsoko
Coi d HLr Buse, Comb, Spngs
FlE EST S THECHEAEST. Chaodive SkinlndTiet 0cqutes 1t0
Sen TN ens o 8 Ui~ S.,N., Cat.le oa, 12i ov ak,000 icesi
'or ur ri gae, "lin Luk,"an tle roapin, anywrte, perdb., specia
~in Ne Hoe SwingMacine atetion Nerv &mai ore.men wi7 mai our
ORANCEMASS. ite lim so ihae the s stock we
Druggists'USndries, Perfmery, Tooth
Nail and air BrusesACombssponges
City. RUT 0 (Oe Door malor 2,0atclsi
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anagu Foany resandti st,
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it Chrysvtsmeidalted stockwe
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OTer sHiER RUIoiTl O.ppd (On DooE r Not 1ofS Wnth.)IOS
JWns.n C.rBAs & BRo.,
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Ntsand Small ades.
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JOBERS O DRYOODS,
'i.. ? - : i:ME. 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.
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Of1ice hours--9 to 1:30-2:30 to 5. Over
A TTOR.YS A T LA W,' Levi Brothers' dry goods store.
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