The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 13, 1899, Image 4
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
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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
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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
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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,eavo Conway H 30 am if
,oavo Adrian H 66 am fi
.cavo Privotts 0 00 am r
,eavo Ilayboro 0 10 am J
.eavo Hauford 0 20 am
,eavo biris 0 36 pm .
.cava Mt Tabor 10 10 am 3
.eave Clarendon 1 40 am
trrivo Chad bourn. 11 20 am ?
,cavo Chad bourn 11 60 am 9
eavo I lions 12 16 pin J
txrive Hub 12 26 pm g
Skin Diseases, i!
For the speedy an?l permanent cure of .
otter, salt rheum and eczema, Cham- ' .
jerlain's Eye and Skin Ointment is j
vitliout an equal. It relieves the itch- !
ng and smarting almost instantly and ;
t? continued use effects a permanent
lire. It also cures itch, barber's itch, .1
icald head, sore nipples, itching piles, c
happed hands, chronic sore eyes an 1 h
granulated li?ls.
Dr. Cadv's Condition Powders for y
torses are the best tonic, blood purifier
ind vermifuge. Price, 25 cents. Bold by
HONf
THIS
High Arm Sewing
Ffilj punatoMl for tea y
**?
Naaajr mIwmM altar 90 daj
H art m 0m4 m * Hft-00 ta
WaMkaifpalwUr Fnrni
Til lllopa mi, StwL
m ...
IliO Jk U12fJr<
Binning ;
Machinery.
rhe Smith Pneumatic Suction!
Elevating, Ginning and
Packing System
s the simplest and most efficient on
the market. Forty-eight complete
outfits in South Carolina; each
one giving absolute
satisfaction.
toilers and Engines; Slide
L' n 1 ITU A ll I/mm t i/1 <1 rwl
f ct i ? ' y i I II M'liltU IU 41 II VI V7VH 1 iOO.
My Light ami Heavy Log Ream Saw
Jills cannot be equalled in design, cfoicnoy
or price by any dealer or manuacturer
in the South.
Write for prices and catalogues.
V. C. Badham & Co.,
1B2C Main Street,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
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