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STRAINING ATG NATS Dr. Talmage Preaches on Human Inconsistency. MAKES USE OF AN ANCIENT Epigram to Illustrate the Folly of Mankind. Prone to Magnify Small Things Heedless of the Great. In this discourse, founded on an an ciem epigram vepcatcu r?y t hrist. i?r. Talmage illustrates the folly of being very particular about insignificant things while neglectful of vast concerns The text is Matthew xxiii, 21, "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put through a mill raeo. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text, ho means to set forth tho ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have 110 appreciation of great ones. In my text a small insect and a largi quadruped arc brought into comparison?a gnat and a camel. You have in museum or 011 the desert seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high and stomach having a collection of reservoirs for desert travel, an animal forbidden to tho dews as food and in many literatures ontitlcd ''tho ship of tho desert." The gnat spoken of in the text is in the gruh form It is horn in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis and then after a few days becomes the gnat as wo rccognizo it. Hut the insect spoken of in the text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits tho water, for my text is a misprint and ought to read "strain out a gnat." My text shows you tho priuce of inconsistencies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water ho is about to drink, there is a grub or the grandparent of a gnat. lit goes and gets a sieve or trainer, lie takes the water and pours it through the sicvo in the broad light. He says, "1 would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be extirpated." This water is brought under inquisition. The experiment is successful. 'I be water rusnes through the hicvo and leaves against the side of the sicvo the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes tho insect and driuks the water in plaoidity. Hut going out ono day, and hungry, ho devours a "ship of the desert." tho caiucl, which tho .lews were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of eonseicnec. lie suffers from no indigestion, lie puts the lower jaw under the camel's forefoot, and his upper jaw over tho hump of the eamel's back, and gives ono swallow and tho dromedary disappears forcvor. He strainod out a gnat, he swallowed a camel. While Christ's audience was yot smiling at the appositencss and wit of his illustration?for smile they did, unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole?Christ practically said to them, "That is you." Punctilious about small things; reckless about af fairs of great magnitude. No subject ever winced under a surgeon's knife more bitterly than did tho Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human hody to pieces and put the pieces under a microscope for the examination, so Christ finds his way to the heart of the dead Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it under the glass of inspcotion for all generations to examine. Those Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed under the redhot words as he said, "Ye fools, ye whited sepulehcrs, ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel." There ar? iu our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swallowed, and it is tho object of this sermon to sketch a few persons who aro extensively engaged in that business. First, I remark that all those ministers of the gospol who are very scrupu 1 . xl - luuoituuut mo conventionalities ot roligion, but put no particular stress upon matters of *'ast importance, arc photographed in the text. Church services ought to be gravo and solemn. There is no room for frivolity inrcligious convocation, but there arc illustrations, and thero aro hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent audience. There arc men like those blind guides of the text who advooato only those things in religious servico which draw the corners of tho mouth down and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and those men will goto installations, and to presbyteries, and to conferences, and to associations, their pockets full of tine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churcheBat homo every Sunday thero aro 50 people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle and tho drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew, with her fan, keeps the flics off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while tho former implies the indifference of the hearers and tho stupidity of the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with tho sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one, but when a minister of tho gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent peoplo struggling with drowsiness it is time for him to give out thcdoxology or pronounoe the benediction. The great fault of churoh services today is not too much vivacity, but too much sornnolenoe. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out, the Other is a irrntt Hnroi?lin? ? ? O- ??I<& uuu mvg|// eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in all our liiblc classes, iu all our pulpits, we noed to brighten up our religious messago with - - ' - ^ ~ ~ |* "** such Christlike vivacity an we (iod in the text. I take down from my library the biographies of ministers and writers of the past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done tho most to bring souls to .Jesus Christ, and 1 lind that, without a single exception, they consecrated their wit and their humor to Chrsit. Elijah used it when ho advised tho Baalites, as they could uol make their god respond, to call loudor, as thoir god might be sound asleep or gono a hunting. .Job used it when he said to his self conceited comforters, "Wisdom will die with you." Christ not only used it in the text, but when ho ironically complimented the corrupt Pharisee, saying, "The whole need not a physician," and when, by ono word, he described tho cunning of Herod, saying, "(Jo ye, and tell that fox." Matthew Henry's commentaries from the first page to tho last corruscatcd with humor as summer olouds with heat lightning. John Hunyan's writings are as full of humor as they aro of saying truth, and there is not an aged man here who has ever read "l'ilgrim's Prournas." who docs not remember that whilo reading it ho smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, (ieorgc Herbert, Kobort South, CJcorge Whitcfichl, .Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Ashaol Ncttloton,Charles (1. Finney and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of Cod consecrated their wit and their humor to tho cause of Christ. So it has boon in all the ages, and I say to all our young theological students, Sharpen your wits until they are as keen as seimitcrs and then take them into this holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension br'dge from eye to lip, and it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes just as sacred as a tear. There is as much religion, and, I think, a little more in a spring morning than in a starless midnight. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments and no dessert succeeding. Pcoplo will not sit down to such a banquet. By all means removo all frivolity and all pathos and all lightness and vulgarity. Strain them out through the sieve of holy discrimination, but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church today?conventionally?coming up from the great Sahara desert, of co clcsiasticism, having on its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom, and vehemently refuse to swollow 'hat camel. ( Mi, how particular a great many j i < plo arc about the infinitesimals vnilo they arc quito rockless about the magnitudes! What did Christ say? Did he not cxcoriato tho people in his timo who wcro so careful to wash their hands before a meal, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing to have unclean hands. It is a worse thing to liavo an unclean heart. How many pcoplo there arc in our timo who are very anxious that after their death they shall be buried with their faces toward the east and not at all anxious that during their wholo life they should faco in the right direetion, so that they shall coino up in the resurrection of the just, whichever way they arc buried! How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of the gospel shall conic in the line of apostolic succession, not caring so much whether ho comes from Apostles Paul or Apostle .Judas! They have a say of measuring a gnat until it is larger than a camel. Again, my subject photographs all those who arc abhorrant of small sins whilo they arc reckless in regard to magnificent thefts. You will find many a merchant who, whilo he is so careful that lie would not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills $5 too much, would dispatch a messenger in hot hasto to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company, in which after awhilo he gels control of the stock, and then wators tho stock and makes $100,000 appear like $200,000. Ho only stolo $100,000 by the operation. Many of tho men of fortune made their wealth in that way. Ono of those men engaged in such unrighteous aots that evening, the evening of the day when ho watered the stock, will find a wharf rat stealing a daily paper from tho basement doorway and will go out and catoh the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly tho poor fellow has no power to say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I have been looking for you a long whilo. You stole my paper four or five times, haven't you, you miserable wretch?" And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear thrco blocks, will cry out, "Police, police!" That same man the evening of the day in which he watered the stock will kneel with his family in prayers and thank God for tho propspcrity of the day, then kiss his children good night with an air which seems to say, "I hope you all will grow up to be as good as your father." Prisons for sins inscctilc in sizo, but palaces for crimes dromodarian. No morey for sins animalcule in propoition but great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy slyly takes from tho bosket of a niarkot woman a choke pear?saving some one clso from the cholera?and you smother him in tho horriblo atmosphere of Raymond Street jail or New York Tombs, while his cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal $50,000 trom the city, you make a candidate for tho state leglaturc. There is a good deal of uncasinoss and nervousness now among somo pcoplo in our time who have not got unrighteous fortunes?a great deal of uneasiness about dynamite. I tell them that God will put under their unrighteous fortunes something more explosive than dynamite?the earthquake of his omnipotent indignation. It is time that wo learn in America that sin is not oxcusa bio in proportion as it dcolarcs large dividends and has outriders in cquip41IM M 111 - 1 agu. I'm 11/ u man 18 riaing to perdition, postilion ahead and lackey behind. To stoal one copy of a newspapor ia a gnat to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who would not scruple to depress the fruit markot, and as long as I can remember wo have heard every summor tho peach crop of Maryland is | a failure, and by tho timo the crop I comes in the misrepresentation makes a difForcnec of millions of dollars. I\ man who would not steal one baskot o! peaches steals .">0,000 baskets of peaches Go down into the public library, it the reading rooms, nnd see tho nowspa per reports of the crops from all parts ol the country, and their phraseology if very much tho samo, and tho sauio mer wrote them, methodically and infantously carrying out tho huge lying aboul tho grain crop from year to year and foi a scoro of yours. After awhilo there will bo a "corner" in the wheat market, and men who had a contempt for petty theft will burglarizo the wheat bin of a nation and commit larceny upon the American corn crib. And sotno o tho men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small gnats of pcoundrclism while in their grain elevators and iit thoir storehouses they are fattening huge camels which they expect after awhilo to swallow. Society >...u i ?> uuiiivi)' reconstructed on this subject. Wo aro to linil that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is great. I know in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say, "Oh, what a host of frauds you have in tho church of God in this day!" And when an elder of a. church, or a deacon, or a minister of tho gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter, what display heads there arc it many of the nowspa pors! Great primer typo. Five line pica. "Another Saint Absconded," "Clerical Seoundrolism," "Religion at a Diaoount," whi!o there arc a thousand scoundrels outside the church to ono inside tho church, and tho misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great that it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. Rut in all circles, religious and irreligious, tho tendency is to oxcuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in his "Paradise Cost," while he condemns satan, gives such a grand description of him you have hard work to withhold your admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins liko gnats and this gulping down great iniquities liko camels! This subject docs not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likenesses. For instance, all those people who, while they would not rob their neighbors of a farthing, appropriate the monnv RIlll til* "I ^ v.iv viviunuiu Vi the public. A man has a house to sell, ami ho tells his customer it is worth $20,000. Next day the assessor comes mound and the owner says it is worth $15,000. The government of the United States took off the tax from personal income, among other reasons bocause so few people would tell tho truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to he handed over to the overseer of the poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Goncva, Switzerland, telling tho custom house officer on the wharf, there is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel," and putting a live dollar gold piece in his hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text arc all thoso who are particular never to break the law of grammar and who want all their languago an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a line sieve of literary criticism, while through their eonversa tion go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law of tho language and shock their intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominativo, and every noun foi its government, and let every proposition lose its way in the scntenco, and adjectives and participles And pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward of New York on election day, than to commit a moral inaccuracy. Letter swallow a thomand gnats than one camel. Such persons arc also described in the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. Thcro arc in every community and in overy church watch dogs who feel called upon to keep thcii eyes on others and growl. They arc full of suspicions. They wonder if this man is not dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if thcro is not something wrong about the other man. They arc always the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are alwaj'B the first to smoll carrion. They aro self appointed detectives. 1 lay this down as a rule without any exception, that those people who have the most fault? thcmsolves are most merciloss in theii watching of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and hypercritieisms. They spend their life in hunting for muskrat? and mud turtles instead of hunting foi Itocxy mountain eagles, always for something mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors' imperfections through a microscope and look at their own imperfections through a tele scopo upside down. Twenty faults oi their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somobody else. Thcii neighbors' imperfections arc like gnats, and they strain t acm out; their own im perfections are like camels, and they swallow thom. But lest too many might think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that wo all come under the divine satire when wo make tho qucs tions of timo more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, lei us all go into tho confessional. Arc not all tempted to mako tho question, Whero shall I livo now? greater than tho question, Whore shall I live forcv or? How shall I got more dollars here'/ greater than tho question, How shall 1 lay up treasures in heaven? tho ques tion, How shall T pay my debts to man? greator than the question, How shall 1 meet my obligations to God? the question, How shall { gain tho world? vwwi vunu mo i^UODl'lOIi ^ I1<IX IX 1 090 my soul? tho question, Why did God let sin come into the world? great cr than tho question, How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? tho question, What shall I do with the 20 or 4(1 or 70 years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question, What shall 1 do with the millions of cycles of my past terrestiiiil existence? Time?how small it is! Ktemity?how vast it is! The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat ie insignificant when oomparod with a ? ? - . .-~s l camel. Wc dodged the text. We snid f "That docs cot mean mc, and that doos . not mean me," and with a ruinous boi novolenco wo aro giving tho whole ser- 1 mon away, f Hut let us all Burronder to tho charge, i What an ado about things here! What i poor preparation for a great eternity! Ah though a minnow were larger than i L a behemoth, an though a swallow took t wider circuit than an albatross, an I ) though a nettle were taller than a Loba- > non cedar, as though a gnat wcro great- 1 or than a camel, as though a minute t i wcro longer than a century, as though i i timo wero higher deeper and broader r than eternity. So tho text which J i Hashed with lightning of wit as Christ <1 i uttered it is followed by tho crashing t thunders of awful eatastropho to thoso f who mako tho questions of timo greater f than the questions of tho future, the 1 oncoming, overshadowing future. Oh! g Ctcrnity! Eternity! Eternity! t THE CROPS AND WEATHER. d ( .... I nru-i it r. . - - - - - w inn uie uepariment ot A?niculturo Says About Them j At tbo beginning of the week end- {! ing duly 17th the tcnipcraturo was ^ lower than usual, hut with steadily in- a creasing heat up to Saturday (15th) on ii which date it roso to from 1H> to 105 degrees except on tho immediate const. ' The extreme maximum of 105 is the j, highest ever rororded 1 Columbia, h The tropic heat continued to the close ^ of the week. s With the exception of quite general j, but light showers throughout the State on the 8th. and in 4 few places on the 10th, there has been no raip of any consoquoncc in two weeks, and over tho greater portion of tho State tho A need of moisture is urgent to maintain the condition of tho various crops; indeed, over the central and western counties, crops are fast failing under the combined influonoo of prolonged }' torrid heat and extreme dryness. Water 11 courses arc very low, and stock water u is becoming scarco. Ocs'cating winds, * too, aided in drying tho soil and vege- v tation, but made the heat moro endura- v hie for animals. f Kor the first time this season, tho c majority of the reports arc unfavor- 8 able on cotton, relating that growth 8 has practically stopped, that the plants I1 are losing their pn.yious healthy color, J* and are shedding leavos and squares, ' and arc blooming to the very top. Gen- u orally they aro well fruited with bolls. In Marion, Marlboro and Cherokee G counties the crop is unimpaired. 8ca island cotton continues to do well, but v in places is blighting. ^ Old corn is suffering severely from I v the dryness, and much is injured be- | P yonu recuperation even should it rain 0 soon. Ata few points only is corn up ^ to an average condition. Young corn P has not reached its critical stage of growth and generally maintains its a color, but ii not making seasonable a growth. 11 Tobacco has improved. Gathering c and curing has mndo rapid progress. Tho crop is yielding well, and some P fields cxoellently. ^ Nearly all but the very latest plant- " ing8 of rice have boon laid by, and as a caterpillars are no louger troublesome, theorop is in line shape. Upland rice . is, however, suffering lor rain. 11 Melon vinesaro failing, l'casdving, w and acreage reduced. Pastures and gar- e dens arc l urning up. Pears, apples, c grapes and figs arc plentiful in Char- a le.ton, but the commercial crop of h fruit throughout the State is small. 0 . Grapes are riponing over the eastern counties. ^ TWO FAITHFUL DOGS. n 1 e P Tho Coroner of Richland Had an Ex h t 1 citing Fight With Them. 8 i William Hiohardaon, a colored man, 1 was found dead Wednesday evening a i few miles below the city. Ho was i about 55 years old and has been very ' feeble. Notwithstanding the protests of his wife ho went out in the morning to shoot a young rabbit as a relish for ^ i dinner. The old single barrel gun he > carried had been patched up by having ; tin twisted and nailed about the barrel ! and stock. Kvon with the smallest > charge of powder and shot it was a dan; gorous weapon to liro. Probably if ho j i had como across r, young rabbit tho ? coroner would have had to hold an in- ^ i quest anyway and tho rabbit would l i , . . _ - . i/uuii M?ioiy ensconced in its bed. * i Bat ho hadn't gono far whon bis physi- L ' eal nature naturally gavo way and the A old man naturally fell to the ground on c ' his face, his gun being under him- He ' had two dogs of dogs of 111 can lineago i with him, one being a half setter, and ' the other a common cur "yellow dog." But they both kept vigil over the body L of their master. The first man to dis- A cover the body was a Negro who ap- f - proachcd it, but the two dogs attacked A liim savagely and he ran. They did J" not follow but went back to guard tho ^ i body. Coroner Green was notified and ' with Dr. C. C. .Johnson ho wont to i where tho body lay. A man named v Williams was with thorn. Mr. Green p ' jumped from his buggy and started to the body, whon the two dogs made a b r vicious onslaught on him. Ho defend ) ed himself with his whip and notwith- ^ ) standing the lashes ho gavo them, the p dogs still advanced and the coroner was p > retreating. It looked for % moment as i if the dogs would tear him to nieces, ) and he called for assistance. Neither of ihoso with him coming to his aid, he " i took the butt of his whip and after a fight with the dogs, lasting full fifteen ' minutes, the coroner succeeded in beat- n ing them off. lie now has great rc- w spcet for tho much maligned "yallor A ' dog' find belioves a man has no better b friend, when thov nnnn 1 ' _F ?j vuuu uuuumv miaen- " cd to ono. The body of the dead was h 1 brought to the colored hospital last C night and, after a post mortem exami- J 1 nation, the jury roturncd a verdict T that the deceased came to his death b , from heart discaso. Columbia llecord. ti o i Tho first honor man of tho South y, i Carolina Collego this year is J. E. j, Stfoaringen, a blind man and a nephew k , of Senator Tillman. Mr. Swoaringen tl , is totally blind and studied his lessons n I by getting his oollcge mates to read to tl . him. Ho is said to bo possscsscd of a n , wondorful mind, and he proposes to t< ( bocomo a lawyer. o 2R02ED OUT AT LA&TSecretary of War Alger Has Resigned from the Cabinet. Secretary of War Kussoll A. Alger esigncd Wednesday from the cabinet, ,ho resignation to be cffcctivo at Measure of the president. The resiglation of Secrotary Alger is belioved to lavo been sought by tho president, as )ublio opinion had almost crystallized 11 a desiro for tho secretary's retironcnt. Alger called upon President dcKiuley at the White House Thurs lay morning shortly heforo noon and ras with him for a few minutes. When in left ho was in cxcollcnt spirits. His ace was wreathed with smiles as ho exiresscd to several newspaper men who ;athcrcd about him his appreciation of i,?:- 1 ? - > null fcUUU W1SI1C8. "You feel relieved of a great, burlen?" ono of them suggested. "Yes, I do," roplicd the secretary. 'Iloroaftcr L will only havo my own itirden to carry." Tho secretary said that he would rcinquish his portfolio as soon as the lending routino matters of the department were closed up, and Assistant icctotary Meikcljohn, to whom tho war lliec is to bo turned over pending tho ppointmont of Gen. Alger's successor, s roady to assume chargfc. "I shall rctiro beforo August 1st," aid the secretary. Gen. Alger said he rould go back to Michigan and for the resent at least devote his attention to lis health. Tho secretary said ho new nothing about his successor. Ysked as to whether ho would press his onatorial candidafiy, the secretary relied: "I cannot tell now." THE STATE MILITIA. idjutant General Floyd Issues a Very Important Order. The Columbia State says: A great lany ditlieulties havo been encountered a tho effort to bring the Stato militia p to a creditable standard and much iuiu has been consumed in getting the arious organizations to understand rhat would be expected of them under lie reorganization. Tho following genral order issued Wednesday, however, hows that the time has arrived to napo things and that Gen. Floyd prooscs to have a militia forco that will c a credit to the Statoor none at all. 'he last two paragraphs of the order lake such provisions: Columbia, .July 20, 1890. lencral Order No. 4. Far. 1. '1 he mustering of the State oluntcor troops and national guard liat have not boon mustered into scrice, and the annual inspection of comaniesthat have complied with general rdors Nos. 2 and 11, will commence lug. 10, 1899, and coutinuc until com lelcd. l*ar. 2. Companies will bo inspected t tbeir respective placos of meeting nd timely notice of the arrival of the impeding officer will be duly forwardd to all companies enrolled. Par. 3. Tlio comanding officer of comanics are hereby ordered to have all tatc property, funds, books, etc., on and ready for inapootion together with complcto inventory of same in order hat delay may bo avoided. Far. 4. In conducting the approachtig inspection companies aro hereby 'arned that unless a creditable knowldge of the manual of arms, evolutions, to., is clearly demonstrated at the inpection, and a mark of GO attained disandmont of companies failing will bo rdered. Far. 5. While geographical condiiousand the distribution of companies ccording to the statutes of tho Stato lust and will be duly considered, nov rthcless the report of the inspector as cr paragraph four will be strictly adored to, and assignment of companies o the active or reserve branches of the ervice thereby determined. By order. Gen. Floyd. Official: John 1). Frost, A. A. and I. Gen. Atlantic Coast Line. VILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSJA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Trains Going South. No.65* No.36 1'. M. A. M. leave Wilmington 8:46 leave Marion 0:34 .rrive Florence 7:15 .eavo Florence *7:46 *3 25 .rrive Sumter 8:67 4 29 ?avo Sumter 8:67 9 40 .rrive Columbia 10:20 1100 No. 62 runs through from Charleston via entral R. It., leaving Charleston 7:00a ra , anes 8:34 a. m., Manning 9:09 a. m. Trains (Joing Nortli. No 61* No.63 A. M. P. M. leave Columbia *0 60 *4 00 rrive Sumter 8:16 6 18 eavo Sumter *8:16 0 00 rrive Florence 9:30 7 20 ieavo Florence 10.00 eave Marion 10:40 rrive Wilmington 1:26 Daily. No. 63 runs through to Charleston 8. C , ia Central R R., arriving at Manning 5:11 .in , Lanes 0:17 p.m., Charleston 8:00 p. m. Trains on Conway Branch leave Chadourn 6 35 p in, arrive Conway 7 40 p m, ^turning leave Couway 8 30 a m, arrive hadhourn 11 20 a in, leave Chad bourn 11 60 in, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave [ub 3 00 p m^ arrive Chadbourn 3 36 p m t aily except Sunday. J. R. Kenly, General Manager. T. M Emerson, TrafFio Manager II. M. Emerson, General Passenger Vgen lulled by a Wall. A dispatch to Tho Stato from Pied lont, S. C., says: "G. W. Shelton as killod here this morning. .Joseph lustin and W. U. Rryant wcro probaly fatally injured. It. A. Porter had is leg broken. ltobt. Frcoman had isshouldor dislocated and arm broken, 'alaway Smith, N. P. Fleming and ack West wcro painfully injured, 'hoy wore all at work on a warehouse cing built for tho Piedmont Mauufaciring company when at about 11 'clock the contro brick wall, which as fully 30 feet high, suddenly caved 1, burying Sholton, who was instantly illed, and inflicting injuries on the he others as above stated. All that lodical skill can do is boing dono for ho injured. Tho vordict of the coroor's jury was that G. W. Sholton came ) his doath by tho acoidontal falling f tho firo wall." Binning Machinery. o The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing SystemIs the simplest and moit clliciout ox uic marxet. rorty-eigbt complete outfits in South Carolina; each ono giving absoluto satisfaction. Boilers aud Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Ream Saw Mills oaunot bo oauallod in dosign, of fioicacy or price by any dcalor or manu facturcr in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1320 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. ?LIFE? A vegetable for Mild, euro tor Liv- tho Pleasant, or,Kidney & LIVER Sure, stomach trouble*, and 25, 5ft, $1. -KIDNEYSSold wholesalo by? The Murray Drug Co. Columbia l)r II. IJaor. Charleston, S C, Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. ft7. I.cave Hub 3 00 pin Leave 1 lions * 3*10 pm Arrive Chadbourn 3 36 pm Leave Chadbourn 6 36 pm Leave Clarendon C 00 pm Leave Mt Tabor 0 16 pin IjCiivo Loris G 85 pin Leave Sanfoid 6 60 pm la?ave Ilayboro 7 00 pm Le?vo Privet La 7 09 pm Leavo Adrian 7 12 pm Arrive Con way 7 40 pm Northbound.?No. US. Leavo Conway 8 30 am Leave Adriau 8 66 am Leavo Privetta 9 00 am Leavo ltayboro 9 10 am Leave Han ford 9 20 am Leave Loris 9 86 pm Leavo Mt Tabor 10 10 am Leave Clarendon 1 40 am Arrive Chadbourn 11 20 am Leave Chadbourn 11 60 am Leavo lliona 12 16 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pm h. ii. woodward, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Conway, S. C. 8*5y"(){Tico up stairs over llerald ofhco opposite Hank. i n NOTICE. Conway Lodge, No. 90. Knights of Pythias will meet regularly the first and third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordvred. 1). A.Sim vkt Chan. Com. J. C. Simvky K. U.& 8 May 14th, 90. ly r. bTsca rrorough~ Attorney at Law, Conway, S. C. A i- Tir.-i i t.? -? iil mutual inie insurance Co. of New York. J. It. Tolar. .J. II. Ilart T. II. Itlaohly. TOUR, HART X CO., 160 Front Strut, NEW YORK, Commission Merchants and Jobbers of Naval Stores. Liberal advances on oooiign ments of Naval Storeu and Cotton. Mombers of the New York Cotton and Vroduoo Fxobange. Skm Diseases. ILa - ? 1 4 - ...... ojhtu^ mm jiercnunent euro of tot tor, salt rheum and eczema, Chamberlain's Eyo and Skin Ointment is without an equal. It relieves the itching and smarting alinoat instantly and its continued use effects a permanent euro. It also cures itch, barber's itch, scald head, soro nipples, itching piles, chapped hands, chronic Rove eyes and granulated lids. Dr. Cndy's Condition renders for horses are the host tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge. Price. 25 cents. Soldby WACtJAMAWTwB^8TEA\tEft8.?The Hteamer will leave the wharf at Conway every Monday and Wednesday morning for Georgetown at 4 o'clook, touohing all intermediate points; and will loave her wharf at Qeorgetown overy Tuesday and Friday morning for Conway at 1 o'clock, touching at all intermediate points. 1). T. McNeill, Qen'l Agt and Treas., Conway, 8. C. , B. A. Munnerlyn, ( Agent, Georgetown, 8. C. | - -- ? I I- I - I ?I 11X11'*^ All We Ask of fe^*Y0ll K3T i.?f?ANYTHING ? ' Machinery or Mill Supply Line Is that you givo us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this because we believe we can tuako it to YOUR advantage. THY US. * We make a spocialty of equipping IMPROVED MODERN G INNER IES OK ANY CAPACITY WITH THK SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING 'APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE-TIIE MURUAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purheasors solicited. W H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AOKNCY Liddcll Co., Charlotte, N. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, I'a. Eaglo Cotton Gin Co., Bridgowator, Mass. Slraub Machinery Co., Cincinnati, O. ___? i. U.? L.L&K NOTHING LIKE IT FOR Constipation, Indigestion, t:i Regulator lz Kidneys. *"X" 'J Wholesale by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. C. DR. II. BAKR, Charleston, 8. C. = Keeley 12G SMITH STREET, g\ Cou. Vanderhorbt, |||irp CHARLESTON, S. C. "Wl V ALCOHOL MORPHINE OPIUM TOBACCO CIGARETTE USING Produce each a disoaso having defln ito pathology. The disoaso yields easily to the Double Chloride of Gold Troatiuont as administorod at tho above Keeloy Instituto. N. II.?The Keeley Treatment is administered in South Carolina "a-.r CHARLESTON. It is the=? ?~ Custom Dut a very poor one, to wait until the ginning season is on before locking to ace what fix the gin is in. Now is the time to liinattf mjkky YOU It GIN TO TIIE ELLIOT BIN BEPtIR WORKS. Do not dobiy and thou ask us (o let you have it at onoe, for thorough work cauv.et be done in a hurry, 'the attention given this matter now will more than repay you whon the o >tton is while in the fields ^ and the gin house crowded. T> o work is coming in already, so thip at once to the undersigned, located at the old electric light engiue house. References by permission:?W. H. Gibbes & Co , V C. Ila lham, Jno. A Willis. floy-Mark your name and shipping point on work seut and prepay the freight. Tin Elliott Si,i iUpiir Works, W J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor, No. 1314 Uatea Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murray's Iron Mixturf,. prif>f>aor? a ?. A vv/ W V/ HE HIM DBU6 CO., Macleat's School of SHORTHAND ?AIfF>-? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, S. C. This 80I100I has the reputation of being the * beet business institution in the 8tate. Graduates are holding remunenUite positions in mercantile houses, banking, insnranoe, real estate, railroad offioee, &e., in this and other states. Write to W. II. Maefsat, Court Stenographer Oomnlbia, B.C. for terms, eto