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THE SIN OF GOSSIP. ' Rev. Dr. Talmage Denounces the Whispering of Evil. AMONG GREAT VILLAINIES. More Harmful Than Open Slanders. Destroying Good Names the Worst of Crimes. In this discourse I>r. Talmagc vigorously arraigns one of the groat evils that have cursed the world and urges generous interpretation of the eharacteis of others; text, Hotnans i, 21), "Full of onvy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity?whisperers." Paul was here calling the long roll of the world's villainy, and he puts in the midst of this roll those persons known in all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so called be .t 11 i i *ause i..cy generally speaw unuervoiec and iu a oonfidcntial way; their hand to the side of their month actinc as a funnel to keep the precious information from wandering into the wrong car. They speak softly not because they havo lack of luug force or because they arc overpowered with the spirit of gentleness, but because they want to escape the consequences of defamation. If no one hoars but the person whispered unto and the offender be arraigned, he can deny the whole thing, for whisperers arc always first class liars! Somo people whisper because they arc hoarse from a cold or because they wish to convey some useful information without disturbing others, but the creatures photographed by the apostle in my text give mutllcd utterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibilant sound as the letter "S' drops from tin; tongue into the listening ear, the brief hiss of the serpent as it projects its venom. Whisperers are masculine and feminine, with a tendency to majority on the side of those who arc called "'the lords of creations." Whisperers are heard at every window of bank cashier and arc heard in all counting rooms as well as in sewing societies and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They aro the worst foot of socioty, responsible for miseries innumerable; thoy are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart througn every community, ana today 1 hold up lor your holy anathema and cxcrcation these whisperers. From the frequency with which l'aul speaks of them under different titles I conclude that he must have suffered somewhat from them. His personal presence was very defective, and that made him perhaps the target of their ridicule, and besides that he was a bachelor, persisting in his celibacy down uito the sixties?indeed, all the way through?and, some having failed in their connubial dosigns upon him, the little missionary was put under tho raking fire of these whisperers. He was no doubt a rare morsel for their Bcandalization, and ho cannot keep his patience any longer, and he lays hold of these miscreants of the tongue and gives them a very hard setting down in my text among the scoundrelly and tic murderous. "Envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity?whisperers." The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If 1 should in a plain way, 'calling you by name, charge you with fraud or theft or murder or uucleanncss, tomorrow morning I might have peremtory documents served on me, and 1 would have to pay in dollars and cents for the damage 1 had done your character. Hut theso creatures spoken of in my text arc so Binall that they escape the line tooth comb of the law. They go on, and they go on, escaping the judges and the juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one route of perfidy, and they start on another. Yon nan not liu llin fnri>n moral sentiment persuade them to desist. You might as well read the Ten Commandments to a flock of crows, expecting thorn to rotrcat under the force of moral sentiment. They arc to be found everywhere, these whisperers. 1 think their paradiso is a country village of about 1,000 or 2,000 people where every body knows everybody, but tbey also are to be found in large quantities in all our cities. Tbey havo a prying disposition. They look into the basement windows at tho tables of their neighbors and can tell just what they have morning and night to eat. They can sec as far through a keyhole as other people can sec with a door wide open. They can hear conversation on tho opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything. Some morning a wife descends into the streets, her eyes damp with tears, and that is a stimulus to the tattler and is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "I guess that husband and wife don't live happily together. I wonder if he hasn't been abusing her? It's outrageous! He ought to be disciplined. Ho ought to be brought up before the church. I'll go right over to my neighbors, and 111 let them know about this matter.'1 She rushes in all out of breath to a neighbor's house and says: ''Oh, Mrs. Allear. havo you heard the dreadful news? Why, our neighbor, poor thing, came down off the tops in a llood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well it's just as 1 expected. I saw him the ~*l. i 1 uwivi oivoiuuwu very miming anu very gracious to some one who smiles back, and I thought then 1 would just go up to him and t^ll him he had better go home and look after his wife and family, who probably at that very time were up stairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear, do have your husband go over and put an end to this trouble! It's simply outrageous that our neighbor hood should be disturbed in this way! It's awful!" Tho fact is that one man or woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a whole neighborhood a boil. It does not require any very great brain. Tho chief requisition is that the woman have a small family or no family at all, because if she have a largo family then she would have to stay at home and L loot after them. It Is very important that she bo stuglo or have no children at all, aud then she can attend to all the secrets of the neighborhood all the timo. A woman with a large family makes a very poor whisporor. It is astonishing how thoso whisperers gather up everything. They know everything that happens. There are telcphono and telegraph wiros reaching from their cars to all the houses in tho neighborhood. They have no tasto for healthy news, but for tho scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery into the back yard they have great avidity. On the day when there is a new scandal in the newspapers they have no tivno to go abroad. On the day when thcro aro four or live columns of delightful private letters published in a divorce case she stays at home and reads and reads and reads. Nc time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may lind time to run out a little while and soe whether there are any now developments. Satan does not have to keep a very sharp lookout for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. lie has let out to her the whole contract. She gets husbands and wives into a quarrel and ? ?j --i uiuiai:iii miu msivin iun> i?n iii^un mill, and sho disgusts the pastor with the tloek and tho flock with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly disposed toward each other oversuspicions and critical, so when one of the neighbors passes by in a carriage they hiss through their tcoth and say, "Ah. wo could all keep carriages if we never paid onr dchts!" When two or three whisperers get together, they stir a caldron of lioublc, which makes mo think of the thrco witches of "Macbeth" dancing around a boilingoaldron in a dark cave: Doublo, double, toil and troublo, hire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake In the caldron boil and bake; Fyc of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlo?/s wing For a charm of powerful troublo, Like a hell both boil and bubble. l>oublc, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble, Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches' mummy, maw and gulf Of tho ravin'd salt sea shark; Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tigor's chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron. Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble; Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good I would only change Shakespeare in this, that where he puts the word "witch" 1 should put tl?c word "whisperer." Ah, whatu caldron! Did you over get a taste of it? 1 have more respect for the poor waif of the street that goes down under the gaslight with no home and no (Jod?for she deceives no one as to what she is?than 1 have for theso hags of respectable society who cover up their tiger claws with a line shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin. The work of masculine whisperers is chietly seen in tlio embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose there are hundreds of men lioro who at some time have been in business trouble. I will undertake to say that in nine cases out o? ten it was the result of some whispcrers's work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage beeauso you had no use ?or them, and the whisperer said: "Sold his horse and carriage because lie had to sell them. The fact that lie sold his horso and carriage shows ho is going down in business." One of your friends gets ombrasscd, and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: "I wonder if ho can stand under all this pressure? I think he is going down. 1 think he will have to give up." You borrow money out of a bank, and the director whispers outside about it, and after awhile the suspicion gets fairly started, and it leaps from 0110 whisperer's lips to another whisperer's lips until all the people you owe want ^thoir money and want it. right away, and tho business circles eon* around you like a pack of wolves, and, though you had assets lour times more than were necessary to to meet your liabilities, crash went everything. Whisperers! Oh, how much business men have sulFercd! Sometimes in the circles of clergymen we discuss why it is that a groat many merchants do not go to churoli. I will tell you why thoy do not go to church. By the time Saturday night comes they are worn out with the annoyances of business life. They have had enough meanness practiced upon tlicni to set their wholo nervous system a-twitch. I think among the worst of the whisperers arc those who gather up all tho harsh things that have been said about you and bring thorn to you?all the things said against you, or against your family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up, and they bring them to you; they bring them to you in tho very worst shape; they bring them to you without any ol the extenuating circumstances, and after they have made your feelings all raw, very raw, thoy take this brine, this aqua fortis, and rub it in with a coarse towel and rub it in until it sinks to the bone. They make you the pincushion in which thoy thrust all the sharp things they have ever heard about you. "Now, don't bring me into tho scrape. Now, don't tell anybody I told you. Let it bo between you and me. Don't involvo me in it at all." They aggravate yc.i to the point of profanity, and they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn you on a spit before a hot firo and wonder why you arc not absorbed in gratitudo to them because they turn you on a spit. Peddlers of night shade! Peddlers of Panada thistle! Peddlers of nux vomica! Somotimos they get you in a corner where you cannot very well escape without being rude, and then they tell you all about this one. all about that one ?n<l all ubout the other one, and they talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. After awhile they go away, leaving the placo looking like a barnyard aftor the foxes and the wcasols have boon around; hero a wing, and there a claw, and yonder an eye, and there a crop. How they do make the feathers fly! Rather than tho defamation of good names it seems to mo it would be almost as honorable and useful if you just took a box of matches in your pocket t And a razor in your haud and go through t the strcots and see how many houses I you can buin down and how utauy i throats you can cut. That is not a i much worse business. The destruction t of a man's namo is worse than tho dc- t struction of his lifo. A woman caiuo 1 in confessional to a priest and told him 1 that she had boon slandering her neigh- t bors. Tho priest promised her absoiu- s tion on condition of her performing a i penance. llo gave her a thistle top a ami said, "You can take that thistle c and scatter the seeds all over the fiold." s She went and did so and camo hack. "Now," said the priest, "gather up all v those seeds." Sho said, "I can't." i "Ah," ho said, "I know you can't. 1 Neither can you gather up the evil t words you spoko about your neighbors." c All good men and all good women liavo ? soiiiotimcH had dotractors after thein. 1 John Wesley s wife whispered about ? him, whispered all over England, kcp? t on whispering about that good man?as I good a man as ever lived?and kept on c whispering until the eonnubial relation t was dissolved. Jesus Christ had these whisperers T after him, and they charged him with * drinking too much and keeping bad * company. "A wine bibber and the ^ friend of publicans and sinners." You take the best man that ever lived and !l put a detective on his track for ten years, watching where he goes and when ;H he comes with a determination to discover everything and to think he goes ^ here for a bad purposo and thorc for a bad purposo, with that dotcrmina- 1 lion of destroying him, at the end of ,M the ten years he will be held despicable " in the sight of a great many people. Somo people say there is no hell, but if there be no hell for such a despoilcr ( of womanly character it is high limo that some philanthropist built one! j Hut there is such a place established, and what a time thevwill have when all (j the whisperers get down there together rehearsing things! Evorlasting carnival of mud. Were it not for the uncomfortable surroundings you might ^ suppose they would be glad to got there (j In that region where thoy are all bad ^ what opportunities for exploitation by these whisperers. On earth, to despoil their neighbors sometimes they had to ] lie about them, but down there they y can say the worst things possible about h their neighbors and tell the truth. Ju- ; uneo 01 whisperers, Scmihcavcn of scandal inongors stopping their gabblo ^ about their diabolical neigbl?ors only j long enough to go up to the iron gate o and ask some newcomer from the earth, (] "What is the last gossip in the city on earth where we used to live?" Now. how arc we to war against this iniquity which curses every community ^ on earth? First, by refusing to listen t to or bcliovo a whisper. Kvcry court f| of the land has for a law and all decent { communities have for a law that you ^ must hold people innocent until tncy ' are proved guilty. Tliero is only one person worse than the whisperer, and j that is the man or woman who listens H without protest. The trouble is, you ^ hold the sack while they till it. The v receiver of the stolen goods is just as j had as the thief. An ancient writor ^ declares that a slanderer and a man who n receives the slander ought both to he t hanged?tho one by the tongue and tho j other by the ear?and L agree with f him. r When you hear something had about j your neighbors, do not go all over and 1, ask about it, whether it is true and j scatter it and spread it, You might as well go to a smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him all through the community asking people if they really thought it a case of smallpox. That V would he very had for the patient and for all tho neighbors. Do not retail slanders and whisperings. Do not mako yoursolf tho inspector of warts, and the supervisor of carbuncles, and the commissioner for street gutters, and j the holder of stakes for a dog light. ^ Can it he that you, an immortal man; t{ that you, an immortal woman, can find l no better business than to become a \ gutter inspector? L Hesido that, at your family table ?1- A low no detraction. Teach your children to speak well of others. Show { them the difference between a bee and a wasp?tho one gathering honoy, tho other thrusting a sting. I read of a family where they kept what they call- l cd "A Slander Hook," and when any A slanderous words woro uttered iu the L house about anybody or detraction ut- A tercel it was all put down in this book. ~ The book was kept carefully. For the lirst few weeks there were a great many ' entries, but after awhile there were no entries at all. Detraction stopped in vi that household. It would be a good p thing to have a slander book in all households. hi Arc any of you given to this habit of J whispering about others? bet mo per- a suadc you to desist. MounC Taurus was n a great place for eagles, and eranes p would fly along that way, and they would cackle so loud that the eagles would know of their coming, and they would pounce upon them and destroy thcin. It is said that the old cranes I found this out and before they started on their flight they would always have a stone in their mouth so they could not cackle, and then they would fly in perfect safety. Oh, my friends, be as wise as the old cranos and avoid the folly of tho young cranes! Do not oaoklo. p If there are people here who are whis pcred about, if thoro are people horo who are slandered, if thcie are people here who are abused in any circle of life, let iuc say for your encouragement that these whisperers soon run out. They may do a little damage for awhile but after awhile their detraction becomes a eulogy and people understand them just as well ns though somo one [ chalked all over their overcoat or their | shawl these words: "Here goes a whisperer. Room for the leper. Room!" You go ahead and do your duty, and Ood will take caro of your reputation, b How dare you distrust him? You have tl committed to him your souls. Can * you not trust him with your rcputa- ft lion? Got down on your knees before c God and settle the wholo matter there. TliO f vvt a rt ^ 1 a/1 a l- /?a ^ mm v iumu fi jiwiii V M uu uirv^i i}?iu u1 1.1 woll sheltered. e Let 1110 cliargo you, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. ^ It is loose at one end and can swing either way, hut it is fastened ut tho o other end to the floor of your mouth, and that makes you responsible for the way it wags. Xanthus, the philosopher, told his servant that on the morrow ho was going to have some friondn ?, rv?; iii * *? *m o dine, and told him to get the bent j hitig he could hud in the market. The ihilosopher and his guests sat down the lext day at the tablo. They had nothng but tongue?four or five courses of onguo?tongue cooked in this way and ongue cooked in that way, and the ihilosopher lost his patience and said to lis servant, "Didn't I tell you to get he best thing iu tho market?" lie aid: "I did get the best thiug in tho uarkct. Isn't the tongue the o.gan of loeiality, the organ of eloquence, tho >rgan of kindness, tho organ of worhlp?' C Then Xunthus said, "Tomorrow 1 rant you to get the worst thing in tho narkot. And on the morrow the phiosophcr sat at the table, and there was lothing there but tongue four or five ourscs of tongue?tonguo in tliis shape ,nd tongue in that shape, and the phiosophor again lost hiu patience and aid, "Didn't I tell you to get the worst hing in the market? The servant rc)licd, "I did. for isn't the tongue the rgan of hlasphcuiy, the organ of defaoation, the organ of lying?" * Oh, my friends, employ the tongue rhich (Jod so wonderfully created as he organ of taste, the organ of deglutiion, the organ of articulation to make " >thcrs happy and in the service of (Jod! f you whisper, whisper good?eucourigcmcnt to the fallen and hope to the ost. Ah, my friends, the time will oon come when we will all whisper! The voice will be enfeebled in tho last fl ickness, and, though that voioo could augh and shout and sing and halloo unit the forest echoes answered, it will be o feetde then wo can only whisper conolation tp those whom we leave bclind and only whisper our hope of hea'cn. I While 1 speak this very luomcn 1 tl here are hundreds whispering their 0 ast utterances. Oh, when that Holcmn lour comes to you and to ine, as come oon it will, may it be fouud that we lid our best to serve Christ, and to beer our comrades in the earthly stri'g- ^ ;le, and that we consecrated not only tur hand, but our tongue, to God. So hat the shadows that fall arouud our lying pillow shull not be the evening wilight of a gathering night, but the norning twilight of an everlasting day. This morning at half past 1 o'clock 1 ooked out of my window, and the stars vere very dim. 1 looked out n few tnoucnts after, and the Htar>4 were nlmnut nvisiblo. I looked out an hour or two ftcrward. Not a star was to bo scon. Vhat was the matter with tho stars? lad they melted into darkness? No. 'hey had melted into the glorious light if a Sabbath morn. Corn Crop Ruined. The Columbia Stato says Capt. I). .J. j Jrifiith, superintendent of the peniten- ^ iary, returned from the State farm a 'ucsday and tells of a bad stato of af- I airs on tho bottom lands of tho Do- I iaussurc farm. Tho young corn on 2.r>0 1 eras has been completely destroyed by j ?orms, bugs and other pests. IIo irought back a number of specimons of talks ruined by the depredations of | he worm. Tho stalks arc eaten al- /. nost through and the leaves arc shredlod. A lew acres on tho lloid farm [ iavc sulfcrcd in like manner and a I lumber of neighboring farmers state I hat their bottom lands havo been vistod by the post". Tho uplands havo arod better, and for this reason Col. Jriflith thinks tho vermin gormanatcd ( n the spring freshets which Hooded the a owlands. I Atlantic Coast Line. < VILMI NO TON, COLUMBIA AND t AUGUSTA llAILKOAD. 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L.L&K NO 'I III NO LIKE IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, ?"? Regulator Kidneys. Vholosalo! by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. 0. Dr. II. BAER, Charleston, S C from Maker D.r to Purchaser ,C"^ E3$ . - -: - ?# & Jk. CvOOCli. $ S>. oi Piano I (J)' v lU 'awt, a jgjjj I Mathushek 1 Is always <Joo?T, always Reliable ?l gjff always .Satisfactory, always J.ast- (Qjj si luff, Vou tafco no chnucosla buy* ?*1 Bl ln",u * . Mi i lb cosfs solnewhnfc /tfbrfe than a jw ghX cheap, poor piano, but Is much the Ml cheapcM in the end# (W Moothor Ili[,'b ( radeFfrthosolGsO M f? reasonable. Factory prices to retail (W, buycrst Kasy payments* Wrltova* Mj '{ LUDDEN & BATES, ?? tvys Savannah, Ua<? And NOW York CIf9t JH siMmli ^aureus: 1J. A. I'AHioenui, ^^uiit, COLUMBIA. S. C. ?LIFE"---" V vegetable for Mild, uroforLiv- the Pleasant, r,Kidney& LIVER Sure, toniaeh troubles, and 'J5, 50, $1. -KIDNEYSiold wholesale by? The Murray Drug Co. Columbia. Dr. II. Bacr, Charleston, S C, g|^Rc I Machine | Murv, ifcted with W ' mm if machint MbUI JHI y >40.00 aaa?hiims |fS A wfcat 7?u mt. ture, SUtm, JJfflfSSjSj The Padgett Fur ?ad Street, All We Ask of ssTYOU S" S?ANYTHING " Machinery or Mill Supply Line _ Is that you givo us au opportunity to submit our prices aud make comparisons. Wo ask this bocause we believe we can make it to VOl'11 advantago. THY US. Wc make a specialty of equipping IMPRuVED MODERN GIN- \4 N EH I ES OE,r *?Y CAPACITY 1 % WITH THE SIMPLEST J ,H) MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING 'APPARATUS IN E X 1ST 10 NCR?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with iutending pur heascrs solicited. W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. south carolina aokncy Liddell Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. Karquhar Co., Ltd., York, Pa. Eagle Cotton Cin Co., Bridge water, Muss. Straub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, O. = Keeley 126 SM.T1I STREET, A Con. Vandkuiioiist, |l| |j CHARLESTON, S. C. "*** " ALCOHOL MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO CIGARETTE USING Produce each a disease haying defin, itc pathology. The disease yields easily to the Double Chloride of Gold Treatment, as administered at the above LVeeioy institute. N. B.?Tbo Kcoley Treatment is administered in South Carolina ?aty CHARLESTON. To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murit ay's Iron Mixture. Price 50c THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Macieat's , Sohool of SHORTHAND -AND ? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. Thla Sohool has the rcputati >11 of being tho host business institution in the St vie. Graduates are holding remunerative positions iu mercantile houses, banking, insuranoe, real estate, railroad oflioea, &o., in this and other etates. Writo to W. II. Maofeat, Court ngrapber Comulbia, S C fortenns, etc SAlNSlHl THIS ELEGANT No. 8 COOKING STOVE Only ^lO.OO. iisut 17x17 inch oven, four 8 inch pot holes; large flues and guaran w tesd a good baker. We Si this Store up with forty pieces of ware including the latest stove wars. To advertise our business ws will sell this No. 8 Cooking Store, fitted with 40 pierces of ware for Sio.oo CASH. niture Co. I Augusta, Ga. I