The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1899, Image 4
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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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. 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
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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