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- ~ T~ Dr. Taimag Srm L r Fr rn F au Ac y HE POiNTS OUT PAnES Ot Usetu ness N:t Yet Fully Occupied. NU of Mora eker?. The Chu-ch as a Lifeboat. In the following serman Dk. points to fields of usefulne. > not yet thoroughly culti: ;te d the need of more activex . T Romans xv, 20. upon another mn In laving c-at z h ary to-'r i'ui s the Crisnv e wt- 'e - e s ne ha'. especial work to : a,. h* mea a to do it.Wha wat The grade p e i uteu . tvlhat ,alo ever lived \\We nc'ern . fM-itaa' r-t. era are not apt to i tior e Pault. uo buld on other peoplh ion .e we erect a church, we fe th it fied with families all of who r zaive been pious. Do we atha a Sa~a school class, we want good bovs and girls, hair combed, faes tashed, an ners attractive. So a church in thts day is apt to be built out i other chreuhes Some minister spend- al their time in fishing in other people's ponds, and they trow the line into that church pond, and they jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into an other church pond ad bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious row in some neighboring cinreb, and a whole school of fish swim -f- from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What is gained? Absolutely nothing 'or the cause ot Christ. What strengthens an army new recruits. Wh2e courteous to those coming fro tihe: ks- we should build our cre ,Uiea not out other churches, but outc. the ror':, lest we build on anotl r man s :ounnas tion. The fact is, this is a big world. When in our schoolboy days, we learned the diameter and circumference of this planet, we did not learn half. It is the latitude and longitude and diame ter and circumference of want and woe and sin that no figures can calculate. This cue spiritual continent of wretched - ness reaches across all zones, and if I were called to give its ceorgrapnicas boundary I would say it was bounded on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of God's sym pathy and love. Oh, it is a great world! Since 6 o'clock this morning GO S0() persons have been born, and all these multiplied populations are to be reached by the gespel. In Ecgland or in our eastern American cities we are beir; much crowded, and an acre of ground is of great value, but in western Ams rica 500 acres is a small farm and 20 000 acres is no unusual possession. There is a vast field here and every where u:: occupied. plenty of room mo:e, not building on another man's foundation. We need as churches to stop bom barding the old ironclad sinners that have been proof agaic -t 20 years of Christian assault. Alas for that church which lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending on one chandelier enough to light 500 souls to glory, and in one carved pillar enough to have made a thousand men "pillars in the house of our God forever"~ and doing icss good than many a log cabin meeting house with tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets and a minister who ha~s never seen a college and doe not know the difference between Greek and Choe'aw. We need as churches to get into syma pathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. "No!" says some fastidious Christian. "I don't like to be crowded in church. Don't put any one in my pew.~ My brother, what will you dejin heav en? When a great multitude that no man can number assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the select few today assembled in the Christian churches compared with the mightier millions outside of them? Many of the churches are like a hospit al that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than tooth ache or "runrounds," but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moder ate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though a man had a farm of 3 000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre, and has raised splendid men and women in that small inlosure, but the field is the world. That means Ncrth and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa, and all the islands of the sea. It is as though after a great battle there were left 30), 000 wounded and dying on the field, and three surgeons gave ali their time to three patients under their chargze. The major general comes in and says tc the doctors, "Come out here and see 50,000 dying for lack of surgical atten dance." -No," say the three doctors, standing there fanning their patients; "we have three important cases here, and we are attending to them, and when we are not positively busy with their wounds it takes all our time to keep the flies off." In this awful battle of sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen on millions, do not let us spend all our time in taking care of a few peonle, and when the commnand comes, 'Go into the world,' say practically, "No. I cannot go; I have here a few che iae cases, and I am busy keeping ofi the flies." There arc multitudes today wh have never had any Christian worke~r look them in the eye and with earnest ness in the accentuation say "coie, or they would long ago have been in the kingdom. My friends, religion i either a sham or a great reality. If i be a sham, let us disband our churche and Christian associations. If it be a reaity, then great populations are on the way to the bar of G ed unfitted i'~ the ordeal. And what are we doing? In order to reach the mutitd of outsiders we mus drpa.ehial ties out of our re-gi a. W\ aen we. talk to people about tte hynosati uno and French eneycelopedan"-n and'-s tiniaism and Ccmpliuen'ini- ve are impolitie, and as littA 0nder- - as if a physician should u~l toa r nary patient about thepria man interostal muise an-ae me ep toms. Many of us com u fm theological seminaries so loaded up thia ,>r- , c' h we kno-., and the to get our people to s uch :s we know. and at te that neither of us knows any e ought to kuow. Hiare are d, s of.'.; thous ands of sinning, stru - , dying people who need to resa just one thing-that Jesu Ctrit came to save them and will save thew ni. But we cot into a profou d and 1hborate detuition of what iusu fi-aion is. and aftr all the work thcre ar not wuside of the barned pro'fes i og people wh can tel! wh u n n is- I wIi read you t -' .- ffi ion is pureiv a h Meto a judge s1(t12' * .*' in nha the Sapremo who is acc'untable to s a .oue kno-vs the manner ees of his universal gov u .: best be obtained, reckons was done by the substitute Sanner as if it had been use who believe in the sub ute ad, purely on account of this a method of reckoning, grant, ui the fall remission of their sins." Now. what is justification? I will toll You what jastification is-when a ginner believes, God lets him off. U e s:amer in Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I saw over the door written the wcords, 'No Aimittance." I en tercd :d w v ov'r the next door, "No Ad;ant - tce " coarse I entered. l gut in.ide and found it a pin factory, and thy were mAking pins-very scr fine and useful pins. So the spirit o exclusiveness has practically writen wver the outside door of many a church, "No Admittance." And if the stranger enters he finds practically writen over the second door, "No Ad mittan," and. if he goes in, all over the pew doors seems written. "No Ad mittance, while the minister stands in the pulpit, hammering out his little niceties of belief, pounding out the teehnicalities of religion, making pins. In tIe most practical, common sense way, and laying aside the nonessentials and the hard ddiaitions of religion, go out on the G od given mission, telling the reoole what they need and when I and how they can get it. Comparatively little effort as yet has been made to save that large class of persons in our midst called skeptics. and he who goes to work here will not he buildirg upon another man's foun dation There is a large number of t em They are afraid of us and our S.or the roason we do not know I to treat them. Ooe of this cas n.et Christ. And hear with wl.a. tenderness and pathos and beauty and success Christ dealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. This is the first and great commandment, and the second is like unto it-namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." And the scribe said to him, "Well, master, thou hast said the truth, for there is one God, and to love him with all'the heart and all the un derstanding and all the soul and all the strength it more than whole burnt of ferings and sacrifices." And when Jesus saw that he answered disereetly he said unto him, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in ene interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the pinchers of eclesiasticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew how he lost his faith in Christianity. I have known men skeptical from the fact that they grew up in houses where religion was over done. Sunday was the most awtul day in the week. They had religion driven into them with a trip hammer. They were surfeited with prayer meetings. They were stuffed atdA choked with eatechisms. They were often told that they were the worst boys the parents ever knew, because they liked to ride da'n hill better than to read Bunyan's "Pdlgrim's Progress." Whenever father and r.ether talked of religion, they drcw down the corners of their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If any one thing will send a boy or girl to ruin sooner than another, that is it. If I had such a father and mother I fear I should have been an infidel. Others were trip ped up by ske pticism from being grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Christian. They had a partner in business who turned out to be a first class scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith by what hap pened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced; but the prerident of the company was a Presbyterian elder. and the treasurer was an Epis copalian vestry man, and one director was a Methodist class leader and the other directors prominent mem bers of Baptist and Congregational churches. Circulars werc gotten out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this c ompany. innocent men and women who had a little money to in vest, and that little their all, said, "I do not know anything about this com pany, but so many good men are at the head of it that is must be excellent, and taking stock in it must be almost as good -as joining the church." So they bought the stock and perhaps re elved one dividened so as to keep them still, bat after a while they found that the ce:npany had reorganized and a.d a diferen't president and different treas urer and different directors. Other en gaemetits or ill health had caused the former officers of the company, with mny regres, to resign. And all that the subsctibers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beauti fully ornamented certificate. Some. times that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suzgestive that he vows he wants none of the religion that the presidenit and trustees and directors of that oil company prcofessed. Of course, their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I am told tht many of the United States army desert every year, and there are many court martials every year. Is that anything against the Uncited States government that swore them in? And~ if a soldier of Christ deserts, is that anything against the Christianity which he swore to sup port and defend? How do you judge of the currenoy of a country? By a contrfeit bili? Now, you must have pmenee with those who have been swidled by religious pretenders. Live in the presence of others a grand, hon est,. earnest Christian life, that they may be attracted to the same Saviour upon whom your hopes depend. Again, there is a field of usefulness but little touched, occupied by those who arc astray in their habits. All nort hern nations, like those of North A aeri a and England and Scotland that is. i the colder climates-are d e vatdbv alcoholism. They take the ir to keep up the warmth. In south ern ecnstries, like Arabia and Spain, theC blood is so warm they are not RKyan armies nevet lr.a gar, but under - ' ne era temptation r .+ > , i most mighty, a -- ' -wa urna. W!hen a osaiS " _. g Wru.g. the huh-I. :arp h ;.;te .e:al circle dry,,; him. .,d :cn'es drap him, ; a'! dr~ hion Oi a:! thye en who - ut uthe trac b it f v ever get on tain. Near my suin-ner residenc thcre is a life saving station on the b;a -i There are all the rop-s and ro..kre:s, the boats, the machinery for getting people eff shipwrecks. One summer I saw there 15 or ') men who were breakfasting after having jEst escaped with their lives and notiing more. Up and down our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mariners know it, and they feel that if they are driven into the breakers there will be ant from sh :re to come a rescue. The churches of God ought to be so many :fe saving stations, not so much to help those who are is sm~oth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats! And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such men; we hive not enough fai:h in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear us we are laboriously trying to show the diffir ence between subiaparianiatu and supralapsarianism. while they have a hundred vipers of remorse and despair coiling around and biting their immortal spirits. The church is not chiefly for goo.iish sort of men, whose proclivities are all right and who could get to heaven prayiug and singing in their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Thcse bad cases ark the cases that God likes to take hold of. He can save a big sinner as well as a small sinner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for help he will go out to deliver euch a one. If it were necessary, Goi would come down from the sky, followed by all the artillery of heaven and a million ang-is with draws swords. Get one hundred such redeemed men in your churches and nothing could stand before them. for such men are generally warm hearted and enthu4astic. No formal prayers then. N., heartless singing then. No cold conventionalisms then. Destitute children of the street offer a field of work comparatively unoc cupied. Tne uncared for children are in the majority in most of our cities. When they grow up, if unreformed, they will outvote your children, and they will govern your children. The whiskey ring will hatch out other whiskey rings, and grog shops will kill with their hrrid stench public sobriety unless the church of God rises up with outstretched arms and in folds this dying population in her bosom. Public schools cannot do it. Art cannot do it. Blackwell's island cannot do it. Aimshouses cannot do it. Jails cannot do it. Church of God, wake up to your magnificent mission! You can do it! Get somewhere, somehow to work! -And 1 would to God that our cherches might be so mighty in prayer and work that they would become a thundering legion before which the forces of sin might be routed and the gates of hell might tremble. Launch the gospel ship for another voy age. Heave away now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail! Come, 0 heavenly wind, and fill the canvas! Je sus aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the sea will backon us forward. Jesus on the shore will welcome us into har bor. __________ THE FIRST FROSTS. A Statement of Some Interest at This Time. The following table gives the dates of first light and first killing frosts in the fail, and the last killing and the last light frosts in the spring of the years since 18S7. at Columbia and vi inity, and was prepared Wednesday by the United States weather bureau: 1S87-First light in fail. Oct. 16; first killing in fall, Nov. 13. 1888-First light in fall, Sept. 30: first killing in fall, Nov. 12; last killing in spring. March 9; last light in spring, March 23. 1889-First light in fall, Oct. 8; first killing in fall, Nov. 19; last killing in spring, Feb. 24; last light in spring, A pril 9. 1890--First light in fall, Oct. 2S; first killing in fall. Oct. 28; last killing in spring, March 17: last light in spring, April 21 1891-First light in fall, Nov 7; first killing in fall, Nov. 7; last killhag in spring. April 5; last light in spring, April 5. 1892 -First light in fall, Oct 26; first killing in fall, Oct. 26; last kiiling in spring. March 11; last light in spring, March 2'). 1893-First ligh t in fall, Oct. 15; first killing in fall, Oct. 30; last killiing in spring, March 19: last light in spring, March 19. 1894-First light in fall, O:t. 15; irst killing in fall. Nov. 11; last killing in spring. March 30; last light in spring, May 21. 1895 -First light in fall. Oct. 2; first killing in fall. Oit 21; last kilitg in spring. March 23; last light int spring. May 13. 1896 -First light in fall. Sept. 24; first killing in fall, Oct. 19;!last killhng in spring, Mar ch 21; last light in spring, A pril 5 1897-First light in fall, Nov. 4; first kiling~ in fall. Nov. IS; last kilihng in spring. March 25; last iight in spring, A pril 21. 1898--First light in fall, Oc. 15; fi-s-. killing in fall, Nov. 25: last killing in spring, April 7: last light in spring, April 28 1899 -First light in fal!, Nov. 4: first killing in fall, Nov. 25; last killing in spring, April 1;I; last iight in spring, April 11. 190-Last killing in spring, April 1; last light in spring, April 13. Greenville Shooters. The shooters and killers of Green ville have started thc month of October with a rceord that promises that the county shall maintain its reputation "along this line." A shooting s trapec occurred Monday afternoon at about 6 o'clock at the Monaghan cotton mills, just outside the city limits, which will probaly resuli in the death of one man and possibly two. Shot at a Frolic. A killing took place Sunday morning at a "frolice" at Big Brown creek. Union County Whilst they were dane ing, K. Spencer, colored, was shot through the right side. causirg his death. Dave Wal~ser aid Ned S..ith, both colored, hav'e been nrrested and held on suspicion. Chas. Meadows, colored, was held as a witness, and on leaving the court house was arrested for stealing a pig and sint to jail. Gainesville, G a., Dee. 8, 1899 Fitts' Antiseptic invigorator has been used in my family and I am per feetly satisfied that it is all, and will d all, y-ou claim for it. Yours truly, A B. C. Dorsey. P. S.-I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.-Sold by The Miur ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all SENT TO THE REAR. The Colored Brothers Rule The Republcan Party. WHITE LEADERS IGNORED. Personal of the Electorial Ticket. Decisien Notto Nominate a Ticket for State Off icers. The State Repui-lican convention met Wednesday in the hail of the house of representatives. For three days prior to the convention a hot fight has been waged as to the State chairmanship. Deas, always one of Webster's right hand men, a colored man led, the fight and he is on top. He has been made State chairman, being the first to hold the place since Robt. Eiliott. The cen vention was nearly three hours late in assembling owing to the fight going on. When it Y as called to order Deas stat ed that he had won his battle and the convention would amount to nothing more than a ratification of what had been accomplished. Such proved to be the ease, r-nd Webster, Tolbert and other white leaders step aside so far as this convention and the State organiza tion are concerned, Small defeating Wlieeler, a white man, tor vice chair man. At 2:20 o'clock the convention was c:lcd tu order by State Chairman R It. i'oloert and the proceedings were opened with prayer by the Rev. W. V. Bieckett of the Charleston district. While the convention call was being read by Secretary Johnson, Gen. Robert Smalls and E. W. Screven stuck up on the desk tngraved por traits of McKinley and Roosevelt. The convention's personnel was about the same as in past years. The roli was then called as follows: Abbeville-R H Tolbert, H R Lati mer, M 1 Anderson. Aiken-E J Dickerson, Sherman Taylor and R B Perry. Anderson-E F Cockran, J S Adams, M S Smith, A C Garrison and E B Churchwell. Barnweli-W S Dixon, P B Mc Knight and J A Davison. Bamberg-B D Jeter and C P Robin son. Beaufort-Robert Smalls, G A Reed, I H Smith and J A Washington. Berkeley-D f Middleton, A P Proi leau, R H Jenkins and T L Jaudon. Charleston-W D Crum, G I Cun ningham,,H W Purvis, T L Grant, V H Grayson, C M English, W W Beck ett, J Pawley and B J Bailey. Chester -J C Atkinson, A Davie and John taisholm. Chesterfield-M D McFarland and B E Commander. Cherokee-J F Jones and A R N Foiger. Clarendon--R A Stewart, Edwin Wells and Julius Durant. Colleton-E D Bnnett, B Levy and R W Magwood. Darlington-E HI Deas, Z WV Wines J T Rafra. Dor.chester-J H Abbey. Edgcfield-P Simpkins, A WV Simp kins and B L Odom. Fairfield-Preston Rion, I S Btrd and B S Rice. Florence-M WV Harreil, J E Wil son and J R Levy. Georgetown-J A Baxter nni J WV Bolt. Greenville-L F Goldsmith, Thomas Brier, J A Brier, .J P Scruggs and J S Sullivan. Greenwood-J WV Tolbert and L C Wal'er. Hampton-. Horry-N WV Goss and B3 G Collins. Kcrshaw-W E~ Bykin, J D) McL~s ter and F Pearce. Lancaster-F R Massey and Joseph Clark. Laure'ns-P~ S Suber, J M Robertson and L WV C Blaleek. Lexington-B 1 Hayes and W A Smith. Marion-M K Holloway, Anderson General and T D) Williams. Marlboro E J Sawyer, R A Drake and Gieorge Pegues. Newberry-Rl E Wiliianms, S Young and D Boozer. Oconee-A (3 Merrick and N A Doyle. Or-angeburg-E A Webster, J H Fordham, A. Lathrvp, P M General, and M J Frederick. Piekens-A M Morris and P~ L Lit tle. Richland-E WV Screven, L Prior, L C Scott a~d J H Weston. Saluda-M WV Watson and J WV Logan. Spartanburg-B3 F Means, HI D A Smith. LabaLn Morgan, H D Harris and J H Hartwell. Sazmter-R M Wallace, G WV Mur ray, R H Riebardson, WV W Ramsey, Jr., WV T Andrews. Uion-J C Hunter, J P Sartor and J E Harris. Williamsburg-James Tharpe, Z R Cooperand A Lewis. York-G A Watts, C P T White, Reece Foster, D) A Wilsn and J J Masscy There were in the convention about twenty white men. J. H. Fordhamn, of :angeburg, was made temporary chairman, and Rev, J. H-. Johnson was elcted temporay secretary. Tnae tem porary organ zation was made perna nnt. Smialls wanted to nominate a Sate tict, but this was not acted on, and the convention proceeded to nomi nate a chairrman. D~eas was elected by accamation, as Smails said he ought to be. The white delegates took their medicine like little men. J. WV. Wheeler of Charleston, a white man, was nominated for vice chairman, with quite a blow of eloquence. Sherman Taylor of Airen, after walk ing up and down for quite a while and working himself up to the proper pitch, began a speech that was the greatest ever heard in the old hall. He finally "shouted" in his excitement and ran a foot race with himself up and down the door, lie nominated Robt. Smalls and sank, some say, into unconsciouness from over exhaustion. He pointed to the portrait of Ben Tillman and fairly screamed. None could understand what he said. A roll call vote was taken and Small-s was elected by a vote of 5S to 47. The election was about to be made unanimnous, but there being opposition, Geo. 1 Cunningham wanting the vote to stand as it was, Smalls said he ap preciated thi.s vote miore than any he had ever receileed in this State. The con rention then proceeded to elect nominees for tso members of the State executive cowmittee from the S ate at large. D.eas notninated RI. R. Tolbert and E A. Webster and they were elected. Then there was a great racket, many proteting against the way the me m ec. Small said tnst wontt dGe, Ibe we can whip Webster, and I want o in him alive. i 3.t a motion rjshced through then to ,,eve the convent= t divide into ri-tricts and sel(et oL.er embere thee from each ditrict.. This was done, while Smaills. P1v's and other-; wt re vigor"-uely kicking against the cl-tion of Toibert and Webster. F. r t l).trict-J A Baxter, G A R. . T lr, S.nd i-E J Dickerson, W S Dixon, P. Zi.pkins. Third-.J S Adams, A D Merrick, R. E Williams. Fourth-B F Means, L F Gold smith, L W C Blalock. Fifth-W E Boysin. F R Massey, C .1 Pride Sxth-Dr J I L vy, E J Sawyer, R A Stewart. Seventb-A Lathrop, W W Ramsey, Jr.. .J U Abbty. Dias then stated that the convention had been in session de facto since the last evening at 7 o'clock. He thoreupon moved to leave the selection of the nine presidential ekctors to the State execu tive committee. Gen. Smalls hoped that the motion would not prevail. They had 124 men here who had conic here to name thete electors. Were they incompetent? Did they have to leave it to 25 creatures of the conventionb. Who could they ex pect to vote for a ticket they could not nominate? He regretted that the motion came from the State chairman. They should nominate the ticket them selves. There were men all over the country who were willing to vote for the ticket. He would advocate the nomination of an entire State ticket. (Applause) Put them up and let them down if They would. They had on the statute books the most infamous 1 ;W ever known and the administration of it was worse than the law. It was best to show the people of the north aid east that th y were being counted out. Tillman would say, if they named no ticket that the people were satisfied with the law. The Democratic party don't respect a quiescent Republican. Thera were plenty in the party to say on the outside "I'm a southern Demo crat and a northern Republican." He was speaking what he believed to be right. Gen. Smalls said ha had called the first gathering of the Republicans ever held in the State. He did not want the party disbanded in this way. Couldn't they find nine men out of of fiee for electors. He had spoken a week ago of the disfranchisement on the same platform with Roosevelt. Had they hired Ben Tillman and sent him. out they could not have done the Re pulican party more good. If South Carolina continued to defraud them of their vote the day would soon come when South Carolina would have one instead of seven congressmen. No man loved his State better than he did. He came to the State against his will. (Applause.) When McKinley is elect ed there will be white men by the hun dreds knocking at the door of the party to get in. A motion to table the motion of Deas prevailed. The convention then proceeded to elect electors. Dickerson impressed upon them the necessity for putting out a strong electoral ticket. They wanted a ticket that would get the votes. A committee of nine to select elec tors and report them to the convention was aked for.' Murray wanted the convention to eltet the two members at large and the delegations from the districts get to gether and name the others. Murray's idea prevailed. Chirman Dleas then nominated Dr. Crum and L. WV. C. Blalock as the two electors at large. They were elected unanimously. The other electors were named as fol lows: First-Geo. Holmes, Beaufort. Second-T A. Odom, E"dgefield. Third-J. W. Tolbert, NinctV-Six. Fifth -Ri P. Roberts, Cherokee. Sixth-M. K. Holloway, Marion. Seventh-Geo. W. Murray, Samter Gen. Smalls then moved to proceed with the nomination of a full State ticket. Deas moved to lay the motion on the table as a piece "of absolute foolish nersj" but later withdrew the mrotion. Gen. S~nalls then move d that a comi mittee be sprointed to name a full State ticket cr report the reasons why it should not be named. Boykin moved that Smalls be nomi nated governor, and moved to lay the motion on the table. The Sma!! motion was then adopted and the committee was appointed as follows: First--G. I. Cunningham. Second-P. Simpkins. Third-E. F. Cockran. Fourth-E. WV. Screven. Fifth?-W. E. Boykin. Sixth-J. E. Wilson. Seventh-A. Lathrop. At Large-Robert Smalls, chairman; E. A. Webster. Dickerson wanted a fe w words sent to the people of the north. He said some colored man north had said that Republican success meant no more than Democratic success. In the north they had gone to the Democratic party. All these had been sent back to the Republican party by the race trouble recectly in New York. He would ad vise them to go to McKinley. Bryan represented a certain class of men in this State from whom they had noth ing to expect Those who were in the north bhould vote for McKinley. The committee on nominations then reported as follows through Gen. Smalls: -Th~e committee on nominations for a Srate ticket beg leav'e to report that they hsve considered the expediency of placiog a State ticket in the field, and after careful consideration, they are unanimously of the opinion that it wold be impracticable and inadvisa ble at this time to make nominations for State offiers in view of the fact that the present unjust and unfair reg itration and election laws practically disfranchise nine-tenths of the Repub lican voters of this State." The convention then adopted the usual resolution of thanks to its offi cers, and the new list of county chair. men was made up. 'Ihen came the ad journment sine die at 1(1:20) o'clock. This Fixes It. M~r. J. A. Baker of Armstrong, ac cording to the Greenville News, ex hiited three eggs recently that had urious protuberances on the little ends that bore a resemblance to W. J. and B. He considers it a sure prophecy >f Bryan's election, and says if it so turns out he will contribute the hen to the Bryan ovation. Can't Beat Him. Senator Tillman, who is stumping for Bryan out West, says the Republicans annot put up enough boodle to defeat the will of the people at the polls this sme. We hope and believe the senator GEN. L. U. BUTLER Republicans Are Gloating Over His .nti-Th moeratic Views. Gen. 31 attht w C. Butler ex Cui e i States senator fr' m South Caroitn. is in danger (i b-:ing denounced as an enemy of the $,uth and a traitor to his party by some of the rampant party men and rapers of the South. who can see only evil in every man that dares to say that Bryanism is not what the South needs. In an interview published in the New York Times, Gen. Butler is quoted as follows: "The South has never been so pros perous at any times since the civil war as it is today, and I think that this gratifying condition of affairs is due principally to the high prices at present being paid for cotton. I believe, fur ther, that if the present conditions continue it will only be a short time till the South is throughly on her feet again. In saying this I do not speak as a politicians for I have been out of politics now for many years, but from the standpoint of a southern farmer, to which class I belong." "How about the political outlook in the sc.uth, general? "Well, now you have asked me a hard question. There is where the ne gro comes in. If it were not for him, I belive that the extience of the pres ent political conditions in the South, which are du.) to the domination of populistic ideas, would undoubtedly be rebuked by the people south of Mason and Dixon's line. Many persons in the South see in protection, expecially, a very beneficial thing to everybody concerned." "How about the question of imper ialism in the Sjuth?' 'Personally, I am an expansionist. I think the Demoeratic party made a mistake when they raised the cry of anti-imperialism, and I don't believe that there is any such thing. As for the Southern people, I don't see how any of them, especially those in the cotton business, can see anything not beneficial to them in the policy of ex pansion. "I think Mr. McKinley has made a most excellent presiednt. He is thor oughly conscientious, intensely pat riotic, and has the best interest of the country, north and south, at heart. Manufacturers' Review. Synopsis of Game Laws. Below will be found a synopsis of the game laws of South Carolina. Mongolian Pheasants-It is unlaw ful to kill or catch any Mongolian pheasants until January 1, 1905. Deer-It is illegal to kill or hunt deer, or chase them with dogs be tween Febuary 1 and September 1, except in the counties of Clarendon, Berkeley, Georgetown, Marion, Col leton, Dariington, Williamsburg, Horry, Maalboro and Kershaw, in which counties it is not lawfut be tween Febuory 1, and August 1. Other birds-It is illegal between April 1 and November 1 to hunt or kill any wild turkey, partridge., quail, woodcock cr pheasant. It is unlawful to kill or hunt doves betwveen March 1 and August 1, and to kill at any time during the year ony of the birds named by fire light or flash light. Non-resident license-Non rcs'dents may purchase a license for shoot ing game of any kit~d; cost $25 This coes not app~y to presons hune ing or killing game on their own land. Fire hunting-It is unlawful to hunt with fire in the night. Sale- It is unlawful to sell part ridges or quail, until November 1, 1915. Penalties are attached to each of the above named laws. Weekly Cotton statement. Se.retary Hester's weekly New Orleans e tton exchange s:aten.ent shows for the five days of O,,tober an increr.Ee (ver hist year of 59 000; fox the -35 days of the season that have elapsed the aggregate is behirnd the 35 days of la-it year 180,000 The amount brought i sto sight dur irug the past week has been 414,321, against 410,625 for the seven days end in1g Octobter 5 last year. 'The movement since Se pt. 1 shows re ceipts at all Unittd States ports 876,141 against 974.663 last year. Overland, aeross the M1ississippi, Ohio and Po tomac rivers to norm hprr mills and Jan ada 41,48l against 85.280 last year; itt teric~r stoeks in excess of those held at the close of the commec cial year 167 61 against 192,007 last year; southern mnll takings 14 't280, against 140,534 last year. Foreign exp'rts for the week have been 230 553 asairst 190,015 last y ear. Northern midi takings and Canada during the past seven days show a de crease of 11,116 as compared with the corresponding period last year. The total takings of American mills, north and south and Canada thus far for the season have been 21fi.174 against 306, 617 last year. Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 leadi:ng southern interior cetntres have increased during the week 105,73S balks againstan increase during the ecr responditng period last season of 129, 592 FREE BLOOD CURE. An Gffer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eating Sores, Tumors. Ulcers, are all curable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is inade especially to cur, all terrible Blood Diseases. Persisten, Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Srofula, that resist other treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanit Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim pes, lRed, Itehing Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carb uncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. 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What He bIans Mark Hluna says the bisiness man s a great force in politics. Het means, f course, the business man who is at the head of a trust and who contributes AB59EUTELY 'PURE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome , ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS. H1 H) drick, came upon the scene and assured the men that Wilson had been A Very Sad Ending of a Deplorable carried to Columbia and advised them t> go home and let the law take its Accident. course This the leaders promised to We regret to announce that Mr. J.but not We rgre toannuncetha Mr J.before the party was fully convinced W. H. HA drick, of Knotts Mill, who that Wilson was not in Orangeburg. was run into and injured on last Sunday We are satisfied had Wilson been here afternoon week by a negro in a buggy, he would have been lynched or some of died on the Tuesday following. "It the party would have been hurt in an seems that Mr. Hydrick and his wife effort to get him if there had been re were returning home from Ebenezer sistance to their demands. Church, which is a few miles west from TAKEN TO COLUMBIA. Woodford, where Mr. Hydrick had just Wilson was taken to Columbia on addressed the Sunday-school. While Thursday afternoon, on the Atlantic driving along in his buggy in the road, Coast Line road at about five o'clock just this side of Jeffecat's bridge, Mr. via Sutter. After the tragedy Wilson Hvdrick heard a commotion behind and was arrested and placed in the Orange a negro driving his horse at full speed burg j ,;l Thursday several men were towards him. The negro hallooed to seen in Orangeburg from that section, him to get out of the road and this Mr. who secretly set to work to find out Hydrick attempted to do. He was in how many would j in them in lynching a cut of the public road, going down Wilson Sheriff Dukes received defi grade, and on aecount of the piling on nite information that an organized at each side of the road it was impossible tempt would bc made at 1 o'clock for him to get out of the way. Any- Thursday night, and immediate! stated how, Mr. Hydrick drove his buggy as that fact to Judge Buchanan, who wa far on one side as he could, placing his; holding court in Oange.burg, and ob buggy so that his wife would be next to tainedan order to take Wilson to the the bank aid remaining himself in the pententiary. The negro was placed in buggy about midway of the road. The the custody of Deputy Sheriff W. horse came at full speed from behind Hampt'n Dakes and driven by a back and leaped upon his buggy and on Mr. street to the Atlan is Coast Line depot Hydriek He was knocked several and c rried to Colonbia, where he new feet away and remained insensible for is in tho penite:lti try. Wilson will be some time. Mrs. Hydrick was also brought back to Orangburg and tried knocked out of her buggy and injure a at the next term of court -Oangeburg Negroes near-by came to their assis T',ies and Democrat. tance when they heard .rs. FHydrick's scream and she ran to the house of her MAN AND boUSE TRAP. brother-in law, Mr. Paul Livingston, who lived only a short distance away Wreckaae Made by an Exciting Mr. Livingston went to Mr. Hydrick's counter Between Them tn . relief. He was moved as soon as possi- - Dark Room. ble and r covered only for a little while after the injury. He complained of "Talk about your peculiar mishaps,"! severe pains in his het d which hal d ayugmnt ren been internally injured. He lingered Tines-emocrat reporter, "something until Tuesday, when he died. It is happened to our boarding-house the said that after the accident Wilson in- other night that I think is entitled to diffureutly adjusted his own harness first money. One of our lodgers is .i and drove away, leaving Mr. Hdriek ver fat man, who has a job as bookdrk on the ground, without even off rirg keprg hlsl os erte any assistance or expressing regrets river. Well, he has a room directly un-t over the afirir. It is also said that a cr mine, and lately we have all beenj short distance back the negro was seen bothered more or less by mice. The beating his horse and drdving him at landlady declared war on them, andf-_ full speed and most carelessly. It is for light artillery she bought a iot also reported that this negro was kno vn of small wire traps - those dome as a reckless driver and that it was his shaped affairs with holes around the: delight to drive around people on the top for the beasts Lo stick their head highway and that he was often reckless into. in so doing. The report is that afterr "The servant put one in each room, the negro stated that he could have , and a few evenings ago, when she sTopped his horse after seeing Mr. Hv- as going around baiting the lot, was drck ahead of him in the cut, but h, careless enough to leave the fat man's was afraid he might break his harness. standing on top of his dresser. He It was this remark that s:irred tw e happened to be out attending a sing community and caused them to deter lag society that night and didn't get mine to lynch him. Their reasonie~ home until about one a. o. His room was that if :Wson was so reckless ef was pitch dark, but he knew there human life as to valte his harness more were some matches on the dresser, he esevedtobe ut o dat as tdemouing bc aoul across'cloc punihmet tohimanda lesont T hu lor.day beghand aingmeodi for ste ers.Durog te wntermonhs i taiboedAtab ourto tae ilong tthe ingnegoeswit tamsoftn eusemetetucky This fer at plaed in "swah up" ad "n'ro escpes"by n fte Daenriven of th mousk ther r-kl.ssan- caile divig aon strap, and the Athng nCappe Lin depm many(f he u~ rods n andi liech wri tof oua, ulld he n. z~nsin L,! atntctn ni~ hi b in "Now ier-ite ifyou Wilson cillnb seemed to s'ir thoeht bek t Oranebur and woltelyusl fyuw riedl causd te dsir toavege r.y- ag arond inr of cor romandeborg drck'sdeathWrenkowe mnser suddnl E iedyog We udertan tht Wtronc'ams y teofner Bewnd h on a re tha hi hrsewasrunin a~ayandtsa I ould pranbto aewlen tha h coldnotavd rnnng nt! jsappne lou rth a boardn-hos tHe Mr.Ilyric'sbagy, ut hefacs :r~ othe , ogh course, thati ete tn all gaist sch throry Inthe firs ht hoed him was ouloger, and whe plac hegav th endnged rtesverie fto manwoka It o his anoken no wrnig ofthefacttha iihorecoeed inha whores hofs near mice was running awayder mhichandeatelyw havetahdbencutIne ot e shone bysuisance toc them tego was seen ofherefore he cae by. mice. Tuh teacidenti Worsen' hdr~esodteie htI a iving creaturt aly repotil that rthinedr wa ever nd twsteaeepandatr aagrceshs driver and thatites eddwrhhis rid oecaet h forlimh to drive aof. It pl stnd t c-hale adgttnldu ihtefr highwayaandftha he was rutng reckless re befe he sateden that heol wohave ecm t eois omn hav oppeduhis to ru wa after en r he difrnvhns- sc hr pc adn. Tha fhim inethe plai, and hVl oft- ei ytrbtyuko s afril he tomiht soea hr ress. wesyIstobm nt lh pInt ion ofhi rrktat condred i hearilsnadrkom d h mishes to esybih hi Thinoceanc.If otodnr rusacs n Waslshnt's ""oso was o r ckess awyofamnwiha ouetphngn purposle sto r u doin hres H mrco hwi a ht is eloefmra he dsere ater bel all be idesateda terrtaawkee e n h wuhmen t ilo imru back alsnd tid nettigI er a a-ceso i WgAegreD wtO LYaCs often offihtu rahssee t h theiroiee-kf-breandngarlaes, driving feotg Wen< the newsi road Mr. yrc citor lt,-aln untueadtn deaithe sa aronowher halved ten ypoaiy cudhv wr pope becamed.er ininnt thed t tatm eiho wshaigasl Wseeeon ws'ei the custoy ofneelsosy h hl os a Scused Dhekesr and wavenfnged Mr. tHey- I oet O orenbd couty ail Tesethratscoingto aanady tolae war In dteman the arsof Wlso's ifeshei of small wie taps awu thow s one graped Gvernr Mc~eenyas sha.prgessd u a restles Itroud ote lows rom orth:andThen en puhe opein ec doomw "My hsb~n in ran~burgJ wil gogaoundbokee baitting the t a Dangr 'flynhingtonght Ples tadlng o troop otally collse,H havehimproectd. whpee the m outa atteingaig "Minie iho." i ingerciet tht foo ig ttd ithe vicu inormtio asto te afai, hom"e untl-pou t ondie shel . oHisdroo ~ta a a os toknw watthetc grm wave pitdch dak more picwtereu mean in rderto et iformn wrun.esne thesn a h dseaserz~ uponwhic to t.the overor and, g mn ca utiously ross asthe graped te opratr atNortas flwor he reponspibe forounedaforgth. los:box. lAdad declar the ft ungeh "Whois M~ni Wilon'shusandwil he stoc hi fat soemsed into and ithwhatcrie ishehargd" nte, and the seares by the mouse "WilieWisonra hi hrseovr actray, nhe wantg remnaedon for man nd illd hm Te ngoianhileatedw fgr th buhlockofhi hishore ad bggyint Mr Hyric' nve a ie uit o cthe ruind bnpg su nght nd trew im-inu the attlIroudn' clerk surprised self nd wfe ot an it redhim on-i thecae ore i thyourts prwt ternlly.The eop~ thik hewa g theroundeinra ark 'Exibi A.'" om drue andersdtare tating caotms- - t.ha t thi nk e wa irntnded killin Frmteandut' ibay hat beudnt a voideam hr atnight Anktketomth irryoh thiki. Hydick's ing, the ahose :-rits akRslt a fe h paher v tolhhim ey enad pt esolt a ruh noN Lno noarnin of m trhl cary themthrhi habrormbr2.se5,hsreet doe guar shouseind oudhe wag s ot of be ient h lcktn eo there. *T he rmisethed ae afigtoeralibrytBanodCn. h theagegtngt."so' horltewasoe fshetheeshp Auel utlh F.aie whatev. e t u n15 ytefrts oen Thegovrno an th jatn en-Inby5 the shipe an hungzon Ifast Ine c'rl kpt n cosecomuniatin w t sa wenvon l ch ann l ha was wledn Uragebngandas her wa no~ cojus t lodrite morte athan id- mie dence of any troubupolednooactione, tha the pakIeth asfud ing5 TRE LNCHR.S CME he trsbed to npkut oft i hnde en Abou twohunred enarme ~coyagerele t corpso toiemadct theteeh cme o ranebug fom gtat had Newenugton. The othas lync thenegr Wilon Tursdy a ter-eaieae~ that was wly cereae, ted at the time, and eeralyinde noonmd eenin. Soe ofthe en rd, thav e refeied c e capeith fohi tron. ie ofa. Iee stakn to rea- hal not theanld upwihthfr sonbi threefhi hourseforeas runig ofay Suerfoe the A tlnti thast woLnd h t~t ora as nl road wiLaei the eving m the pr~ ex- ai etn: ~1.'n h cntcl plnotbling tfhat brWialson hdc bee heea btro thsuncTrey se to olumbaisise nocng If uks iIte tMdi a tshe alarim,t theiws utryr efthsptbeash asn en A.hen heik anewshe of Mr. Hydr iaicir orayaro o