The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 10, 1899, Image 4
i B THE
IVORY PALACES
Dr. Talmage on the Glories of the
World to Come.
ATTRACTIVENESS OF CHRIST
^
Who Opens the Way For His
Faithful Followers. The Christian's
Guide to Heaven.
In this discourse I >r. Talmage sets
forth the glories of.the world to come
and the attractiveness of the Christ,
who opens the way; text. Psalms xlv.
8, "Ail thy garments smell of myrrh
and-aloeH and cassia out of the ivory
palaces."
Among the grand adornments of the
city of Paris is the Church of Notre
Dame, with its great towers and elaborate
rose windows and sculpturing of
the last judgement, with the trumpeting
angels and rising dead; its battlements
of quatro foil: its sacristy, with
ribbed ceiling and statues of saints.
Hut there was nothing in all that build- i
iug which more vividly appealed to my
plain republican tastes than tho costly
vestments which lay in oaken presses ? !
robes that had been embroidered with 1
gold and been worn by popes and arch- i
bishops on great occasions. There was I
a robe that had been worn by Pius Nil 1
at the crowning of tho first Napoleon, f
There was also a vestment that had i
been worn at the baptism of Napoleon f
11. As our guide opened the oaken 1
presses and brought out these vest- .
ments of fabulous cost and lifted them (
up tho fragrance of tho pungent arom- c
atics in which they had been proscrv- 1
ed tilled the nlann with uwnrOtir.au r,
that was almost oppressive. Nothing >
that had been done in stone more vivid- i
ly impressed me than these things that \
had been done in cloth and embroidery a
and perfume. Hut today I open tho f
drawer of this text and I look upon the <
kingly robes of Christ, and as I lift i
them, Hashing with eternal jewels, the
whole housj is filled with the aroma of \
these garments, which "smell of myrrh n
and aloes and cassia out of the ivory J
palaces." 1
In my text the King steps forth, n
His ropes rustle and blaze as he advan- 1
ces. His pomp and power and glory r
overmaster the spectator. More brilli- }
ant is he than Queen Vashti. moving t
imid the Persian princess, than Marie t
Antoinette on the day when Louis XVI \
put upon her the necklace of 800 dia- r
monds; than Anne Bolcyu the day a
when Henry \*111 welcomed her to his i
palace?all beauty and all pomp forgot- c
ten while we stand in the presouco of t
this imperial glory, King of Zion, King a
of earth. King of heaven. King forever ?
His garments not worn out, not dust g
bedraggled, but radiant, and jeweled, }
and redolent. It as if they must have g
boon prcssod a hundred years amid the v
flowers of heaven. The wardrobes fram a
which they have been takon must havo t
been sweet with clusters of camphirc, t
and frankincense, and all manner of j
preoious wood. Do you not inhajo'the r
odors? Aye, aye, "They smell of *
myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the 1
ivory palaces." i
Your first curiosity is to know why 1
the robes of Christ are odorous with j
myrrh. This was a bright leafed Ab- 1
yssinian plant. It was trifoliated. 1
The Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and 1
.Jews bought and sold it at a high j
price. The first present thut was ever t
given to Christ was a sprig of myrrh ?
thrown on his infantile bed in liethlohem,
and the last gift that Christ over
had was myrrh pressed into tho cup of
his crucifixion. The natiyes would
take a stone and bruise the tree, and
then it would exude a gum that would
saturate all the ground beneath. This
gum was used for purposes of merchandise.
One piece of it no larger than a
chcBnut would whelm a whole room
with odors. It was put in closets, in
chests, in drawers, in rooms, and its
perfume adhered almost interminably
to anything that was anywhere near it.
So when in my text 1 read that Christ's
garments smell of myrrh 1 immediately
conclude the exquisite sweetness of .Jesus.
I know that to many lie is only like
any historical person?another John
Howard, another philanthropic Obcrlin,
another Confucius, a grand subject for
a painting, a heioie theme for a poem,
a beautiful form for a statue, but to
those who have heard his voice and
heard his voice and felt his pardon and
received his benediction he is music
and light and warmth and thrill and
eternal fragrance, sweet as a friend
Bticking to you when all else betray,
lifting you up while others try to push
you down, not so much like morning
glories that bloom only when the sun
is coming up, nor like "four o'clock's"
that bloom only when the sun is going
down, but like mjrrh, perpetually aromatic,
the same morning, noon and ,
night, yesterday, today, forever. It
seems as it we cannot wear him out.
We put on him all our burdens and
afflict him with all our griefs and set ,
him foromost in all our battles, and (
yet he is ready to lift and to sympathize (
and to help. Wo havo so imposed upon
him that one woule think in eternal
affront ho would quit our soul, and yet
today he addresses us with the samo
tenderness, dawns upon us with the i
same smile, pities us with the same
compassion.
There is no name like his for us. It
is more imperial than Caesar's, moro
musical than Beethoven's, more conquering
than Charlemagne's, moro eloquent
than Ciccrq's. It throbs with
all lifo. It weeps with all pathos. It
groans with all pain. It breathes with
all perfume. Who like Jesus to set a
broken bone, to pity a homeless orphan,
to nurse a sick man, to take a prodigal
back without any scolding, to illumino
a cemetery all plowed with graves, to
mako a queen unto God out of the lost
woman, to catch the tears of human
sorrrow in a lachrymatory that shall
noter be broken? Who has such an
eye to see our need, such a lip to kiss
away our sorrow, such a hand to snatch
us out of the fire, such a foot to trample
our enemies, such a heart to embrace
all our necessities? I struggle for somo
metaphor with which to express him?
he is not like the bursting forth of a
full orohestra; that is too loud. He is
not like the sea when lashed to rago by
the tempest; that is too boisterous.
He is not like the mountain, his brow
wreathed with the lightnuigs; that is
too solitary. (Jivo us a softer typo, a
gentler comparison. Wo have seemed
to 6cc him with our eyes and to hear
him with our ears and to touch him
with our hands. Oh, that today he
might appear to some other one of our
Jive senses! Aye, the nostril shall discover
his presence, lie comes upon us
like spice gales from heaven. Yea, his
garments smell of lasting and all pervasive
myrrh.
Would that you all know his sweetness!
How soon you would turn from
all other attractions! If tlio philosopher
leaped out of his hath in a frenzy
of joy and olapi ed his hands and rushed
through the streets because he had
found the solution of a mathematical
problem, how will you feel leaping from
the fountain of a Saviour's mercy and
pardon, washed clean and made white
as snow, when the question has been
solved, ''How can my soul be saved?"
Naked, frostbitten, storm lashed soul,
let Jesus this hour throw around thee
the "garments that smell of myrrh and
p.locs and cassia out of the ivory palaces."
Your second curiosity is to know
why the robes of Jesus arc odcrous
\rilli aliinu rIM.? 1'ir
...... ...v/v.o. i uvic in buiuu uuicrcncc
of opinion about where these aloes
grow, whnt is the color of the Howcr,
what is the particular appearance of the
herb. Suflico it for you and inc to
know that aloes mean bitterness the
world over, and when Christ conies with
garments bearing that particular odor
they suggest to me the bitterness of a
Saviour's sufferings. Were there ever
juch nights as .Jesus lived through ?
lights on the mountains, nights on the
ion, nighm on the desert? Who over
iad such a hard reception as .Jesus had?
\ hostelry the first, an unjust trial in
>ycr and terminer and terminer anoth;r,
a foul mouthed, yelling mob the
ast. Was there a space on his hack
is wide as your two lingers where he
vas not whipped? Was there a space
in his brow an inch square where he
vas not cut of the briers? When the
ipikc struck at the instep, did it not go
licar through to the hollow of the foot?
)h, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage!
Mocs, aloes!
.John leaned his head on Christ, but
rho did Christ lean on? Five thous,nd
men fed by the Saviour. Who fed
Icsus? The sympathy of a Saviour's
icart going out to the leper and the
dultercss; but who siothcd Christ?
Io had a lit place neither to be born
lor to die. A poor babe! A poor 1 '
k poor young man! Not so much a
apcr to cheer his dying hours. E\ n
he candle of the sun snuffed cut.
Vas it not all aloes? Our sins, sorows,
bereavements, losses and all the
gonics of earth and hell picked up as
u otic cluster and squeezed into one
up and that pressed to his lips until
lie acrid, nauseating, bitter draft was
wallowed with a distorted countenance
nd a shudder from head to foot and a
urgliug strangulation. Aloes! Aloes!
sothing but aloes! All this for himclf?
All this to get the fame in the
eorld of being a martyr? All this in a
pirit of stubbornness, because he did
lot like Caesar? No, no! All this
iceausc ho wanted to pluck me and
'ou from hell. Because lie wanted to
aisc me and you to heaven. Because
vc were lost and lie wanted us found.
Iccausc we wcra blind, and lie wanted
is to see. Because we were serfs, and
ic wanted to sec us manumitted. O
'o in whose cup of life the saccharine
las predominated; 0 ye who have
lad bright and sparkling beverages,
low do you feel toward him who in
rour stead and to purchase your disinhrallment
took the aloes, the unsavory
the bitter aloes?
Your third curiosity is to know why
licsc garments of Christ are odorous
with cassia. This was a plant which
;rcw in India and the adjoining isands.
You do not care to hear what
tind of a llowcr it had or what kind of
i stalk. It is enough for me to tell
,'ou that it was used medicinally. In
hat land and in that age, where they
;new but little about pharmacy, cassia
vas used to arrest many forms of dis)asc.
So, when in mv tr>vt wr> fmrl
Jhrist coming with garments that smell
)f cassia, it suggests to me the healing
ind curative power of the Son of God.
'Oh," you say, "now you have asuperluous
idea! We arc not sick. Why
lo we want cassia? We arc athletic
Jur respiration is perfect. Our limbs
ire lithe, and on bright cool days wo
iccl we could bound like a roe."' I
ocg to dilfcr, my brother, from you.
None of you can be better in physical
health than I am, and yet I must say
we are all sick. 1 have taken tho diagnosis
of your ease and have oxamin3il
all the best authorities on tho subject,
and I have to tell you that you
irc'full of wounds and bruised and
putrefying sores, which have not been
boundiup or mollified with ointment."
rho marasmus of sin is on us, the palsty,
the dropsy, tho leprosy. The man
that is expiring tonight in the next
street?the allopathic and homeopathic
doctors havo given him up and his
friends now standing around to take his
last words- is no more eortainly dying
as to his body than you and I arc dtii g
unless wo have taken the medicine
from God's apothecary. All the leaves
of this Bible are only so many prescriptions
from the Divine Physician,
written, not in Latin, like tho prescrip
i? t? >
n.iuo ui uurnuy puysicians, out written |
in plain English bo that a "man, I
though a fool, need not err therein."
Thank God that the Savior's garments
suiell of cassia!
Suppose a man were sick, and there
was a phial on his mantlopiceo with
medicine ho knew would cure him, and
he refused to tako it, what would you
say of him? lie is a suicide. And
what do you say of that man who, sick
in sin, has the healing medicine of
God's grace offered him and refuses to
take it? If he dies, ho is a suicide.
People talk as though God took a man
and led him out to darkness and death';
as though ho brought him up to the
cliffs and then pushed him off. Oh,
no! When a man is lost, it is not bccauso
God pushes him off: it is because
he jumps off. In olden times a suicide
was buried at the crossroads, and
the people wcro accustomed to throw
stones upon his grave. So it seems to
mo there may bo at this time a man
who is destroying h;s soul, and as
though the angels of God were here to
bury him at the point where the roads
of lifo and death cross each other,
throwing upon the grave the broken
law and a great pile of misimproved
privileges so that those going by may
look at the fearful mound and learn
L J
what a suicide it is when an immortal
soul for whjch Jesus died puts itself
out of tho way.
When Chrsst trod this planet with
foot of flesh, the people rushed after
him eoplc who were sick and those
who, boing so sick they could not walk,
were brought by their friends. Here
1 sec a mother holding up her little
child, crying ''Cure this croup, Lord
Jesus! Curo this scarlet fovor!"
And others: "Curo thisophthalmia!
(iivc ease and rest to this
spinal distress! Straighten this club
foot!" Christ made every house where
he stopped a dispensary. 1 do not bclicvo
that in the 1!) centuries wjiich
have gone by since, his heart has got
hard. I feel thas wo eau come now
with all our wounds of soul and get his
benediction. O Josus, hero we are!
We want healing. Wo want sight. We
Want health. We want lifo. "The
whole need not a physician, but they
that arc sijk." Blessed bo God that
Josus Christ comes through this assemblage
now, his "garments smelling of
| myrrh" that means fragraneo?"and
aloes"- they mean bitter sacrificial
memories?"and cassia"?that means
medicine and cure.
According to my text, he comes "out
of the ivory palaces." Y.rn know, or if
you do not know, 1 will tell you now
that some of the palaces of olden time
were adorned with ivory. Ahab and
Solomon had their homes furnished
with it. The tusks of African and
Asiatic elephants wcro twisted into all
manners of shapes, and there were
stairs of ivory and chairs of ivory and
tables of ivory and lloors of ivory and
windows of ivory and fountains that
dropped into basins of ivory and rooms
that had ceilings of iyory. Oh, .vhitc
and overmastering beauty! (ireen tree
branches sweeping tho curbs. Tapestry
trailing tho snowy floors. Brackets of
light flashi ig on the lustrous surroundings.
Silvery music rippling on the
beach of the arches. Tho mere
thought of it almost stuns my brain,
and you say: "Oh, if 1 could havo walked
over such lloors! If 1 could havo
thrown myself in such a chair! If 1
could have heard the drip and dash of
those fountains!" You shall have something
better than that if you only lot
Christ introduce you. From that place
ho came, and to that place ho proposes
to transport you, for his "garments
smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia
out of the ivory palaces." What a
placo heaven must be! The Tuilerb"
of the French, the Windsor castle
jI' the English, tho Spanish alhambra,
the Russian kremlin, arc mere dungeons
compared with itl Not so many
castles on either side the Rhino as on
both sides of the river of (lod?the ivory
palaces! One for the angels, insufferably
bright, winged, fire eyed, tempest
charioted; one for the martyrs, with
blood red robes from under the altar;
one for the King, tho steps of his palace
tho crown of the ohurh militant; one
foi the singers, who lead the one hun
drcd and forty and four thousand; one
for you, ransomed from sin; one for me
plucked from the burning. Oh, the
ivory palaces!
Today it seems to me as if the windows
of those palaces were illumined
for some great victory, and I look and
see climbing the stairs of ivory and
walking on floors of ivory and looking
from the windows of ivory somo whom
we knew and loved on earth. Yes, L
know them. There are father and
mother, not 82 years and 7!) years as
when they left us, but blitho and young
as whon on thoir wedding day. And
there arc brothers and nistcrs, merrier
than when wo used to romp across the
meadows together. The cough gone.
The eaiuuu" cured. Tho erysipelas
hoalcd. The heartbreak over. Oh,
how fair they arc in the ivory palaces!
And your dear little children that went
out from you?Christ did not lot one of
them drop as he lifted them. He did
not wrench one of them from you. No.
They went as from one they loved well
to one whom they loved letter. If I
should take your little child and press
its soft face against my rough cheek, 1
might keep it a little while; but when
you, the mother, came along it would
struggle to go with you. And so you
stood holding your dying child when
Jesus passed by in tho room and the
little one sprang out to greet him. That
is all. Your Christian dead did not go
down into the the dust and the gravel
and the mud. Though it rained all
that funeral day and the water came
up to the wheel's hub as you drove out
to the cemetery, it made no dilfercnce
to them, for they stepped from tho
homo hero to tho home there, right
into tho ivory palaces All is well
with them. All is well.
It is not a dead weight that you lift
when you carry a Christian out. Jesus
mkaes the bed up soft with velvet promises,
and he savs: "Put her down here
very gently. Put that head w.iioh will
never ache again on this pillow of halleluiahs.
Send up word that the nrocc?
flion is coming. King the bolls. King!
Open your gates, yo ivory palacosl"
And so yonr loved ones aio thorc. They
arc just as certainly thero, having died
in Christ, as that you are hero. There
is only one thing inoro they want. Indeed,
there is one thing in heaven they
| have not got. They want it. What is
it? Your company! Hut, oh, my
brother, unless you change your tack
you cannot reach that harbor! You
might as well take the Southern Kacific
railroad, expecting in that direction to
reach Toronto, as to go on in the way
Bomo of you are going and yet expect to
reach tho ivory palaces. Your loved
ones are looking out of the windows of
heaven now, and yet you seem to turn
your back upon them. You do not seem
to know the Hound of thoir voicos as
well as you used to or to be moved by
tbo night of their dear faocs. Call louder,
ye departed ones! Call louder
from the ivory palaccsl
When I think of that place and think
of my ontcring it, I feel awkward. I
feel as sometimes when I have been oxposed
to the weather, and my shoes
have boon bemirod, and my ooat is
soiled, and my hair is dishovclcd, and I
stop in front of somo fino residence
whoro I havo an errand. I feel not fit
to go in as I am and sit among the
guests. So some of us fcol about heaven.
Wo need to bo washed, \?e n ed
to be rehabilitated before we go into tho
ivory palaces. Eternal Uoa, let the
surges of thj pardoning mercy roll ovor
us! 1 want not only to wash my hands
?"id my feet, but, like somo skilled
dtver standing on thoiiir head, who
leaps into the wavo ami come* up at a
far distant point from whore ho went
in, so I want to go down, and so I want
to conic up. O .Jesus, wash me in tho
waves of thy salvation!
And hero I ask you to slovo a mystery
that has been oppressing mo for 30
years. I have bcon asking it of doctors
of divinity who have been studying
theology half a contury, and they
have given mo no satisfactory answer.
1 have turned over all the books in my
library, but got no solution to the question,
and today 1 come and ask you for
an explanation. Hy what logic was
Christ induced to exchange the ivory
palaces of heaven for the crucifixion
agonies of earth? I shall take the first
thousand million year in heaven to
study out that problem, meanwhile and
now, taking it as the tcndcrcst, mightiest
of all facts that Christ did come,
that lie came with spikes in his feet,
came with thorns in his brow, came
with spears in his heart, to save you
and to save mo. "Cod so loved the
world that ho gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believcth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting
life." Oh, Christ, whelm all our souls
with thy compassion! Mow thorn
down like summer grain with tho harvesting
sickle of thy graool Hide through
today the conqueror, thy garments
smelling "of myrrh andaloesand cassia
out of the ivory palacos!"
Drummers and the Trusts.
Wherever American drummers meet
in convention trusts arc denounced
first, Inst and all the time In Albany,
the National League of Commercial
Travelers recently considered the trust
question earnestly and thoroughly.
President Powe announced that 3(5,000
drummers had been thrown out of
work by the trusts, and that 35,000
others had their salaries reduced. The
Now York Journal some time since offered
a gentle suggestion that the drummers
would soon wake up to the trust
question, and regret some of their former
shouts and yells for McKinley, lloDart
and prosperity. The drummers
were earnest advocates of McKinley
and the advance agent of prosperity as
long as thoy were well paid advance
agents of tobacco houses, hardware
houses, etc. Now that their business
is taken away from them, their opinion
of the Ohio advance agent is not quito
so high. We repeat that the trusts arc
doing the groatcst possible good to the
cause of Democratic progress in many
ways, among others by making malcontents
and agitators of tens of thousands
of commercial travelers. These arc all
intelligent, energetic men. Once deprived
of their livelihood, reduced to
ordinary labor, they will become the
advocates of Government ownership,
and of "prosperity" for all, instead of
a class. In all democratic movements
and in all reform movements, what is
usually lacking is brains and energy of
a successful kind, says the Now York
Journal. Tho drummers have such
brains. We arc glad to know that, instead
of riding about in Pullman cars,
urging such and such a competitive
and more or less adulterated brand on
little country merchants, they will
hereafter engage in the useful work of
promoting democracy and the welfare
of the majority.
Coal Oil for Burns.
A girl of 11 years turned over a gallon
of boiling liquid on her leg and foot.
When tho Htoeking was removed tho
skin came with it, and the pain was intense.
I tore a strip off an old sheet,
and having put nearly a pound of soda
on the limb, wrapped tho sheet about it
in such a manner as to exclude the air,
bound it firmly, saturated it well with
coal oil, and in 15 minutes she sat with
her foot in a chair and joined in the
other children's play. In two days she
was in school, and in two weeks the
limb was well. A barefooted boy
stepped on lire, and was almost in
spasms with the pain. 1 bound on soda
and coal oil, and in less than twenty
minutes he was asleep and had no more
pain. I know it is the best remedy for
burns.
He Was a Coward
The Adjutant-general of Iowa is in
reeeiut. of Mnnilo *
f . v. . uuTivun mat v>U|?l. il.
F. Burton, of Co. B, Fifty first Iowa
from Villiska, lias been suspended for
cowardice and is now at Manila awaiting
a dishonorable discbarge. Burton
was principal of the schools at Wynioro,
Neb., when the war broke out and disappeared,
going back to his old homo
at Yillisca, la., and taking the captaincy
of tho company, lie is reported to
have dcRortod the troops in an engagement
and hid in a ditch while tho company
went into action without him.
Suicide by Firo.
A special from (Irccnvillc says Wednesday
morning at 3 o'clock Maggie
Brown, a negress of bad repute, saturated
her clothing thoroughly with
kerosene oil, touched a match to her
clothing and was instantly enveloped
in flames. Every thread of clothing,
including her stockings, was burned,
and the fire ate into her body at many
places. She lived until 11 o'olock
Wednesday morning, suffering intense
agony. She gained consciousness bctorc
death and gave as fie reason for
taking her life that Babe Walker, a negro
man, with whom she lived, had deserted
hor.
Poisoned Children and Suicided.
Mrs. Mary Stevenson, of 203 Clinton
streot, Detroit, Mich., Tuesday afternoon
poisoned her two children, Emma,
aged three, and Ella, aged six, with
morphino aud took a doso of tho drug
herself. All three aro dead. Mrs.
Stevenson was in straitened circumstances
and dcspondeucy over this is
supposed to havo been her reason for
killing her babies and hcrsolf.
A Deep Hole.
The deepest hole in tho oarth is at
Schladebach, near ICetsoau, Germany,
It is 5,735 feet in depth, and is for geologic
research only. Tho drilling was
begun in 1880 and stopped six years
later booauso tho engineers were unable
with their instruments to go deeper.
Killed Father and 8on.
Wm. Jarrols Tuesday shot and killed
.Jerry Fowler and his son, Joseph Fowler,
at Hurr's Ferry, 20 miles west of
Leesvillo, Ga. Tho shooting grow out
of a law suit which had been tried before
a magistrate's court that day. Jarrols
was arrested.
Captured and Shot.
A dispatch from Santo Domingo says
two of tho assassins of Prosidont Hcnrcaux
have been captured and shot.
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THE CROPS AND WEATHER.
What the Department of Atniculture
Says About Them.
The following is the weekly bulletin
of the condition of the weather and
crops of the Stato issued Tuesday by
Director Bauer of tho U. S. Weather
Bureau:
Tho week ending .hily !Ust was slight^
ly warmer than usual, with little temperature
variation from day to day, except
Saturday and Sunday, which were
very hot and humid. The close of the
week was marked by slightly lower
temperature.
The drought was effectually broken
by general rains over tho entire Slate,
ranging in amount from about an inch
to r?.UK inches, the latter at Santuj, lrn
ion county. There are a few scattered
localities that did not get enough rain
for the present need of crops, while
over poitionsof the 1'eo* Deo section,
and in Williamsburg and Oconeo counties
lowland crops damaged by excessive
rains. Stock water continues
scarce in many places. Cloudy and humid
weather accompanied tho showery
conditions which, together with the prevailing
high temperature, made tho
week a very favorable one for all crops.
The rains and high temperature started
new growth on cotton. Marly planted
was, however, too far spent to be
much benefitted. Cotton is small, generally
well fruited, but is shedding badly.
Rust has appeared in six counties;
boll worms reported from one. Kxcessive
rains injured it in Marion county.
Sea island cotton badly blighted in
places, but genorally it is blooming profusely
and fairly woll fruited.
Old upland corn was too nearly matured
to receive much bonclit from tho
rai n, over the central sections of the
State, where in places it is almost a
failure. In the extreme eastern counties.
the crop of early com is extra line
while in the extreme western portions
tho recent rains were very timely.
Young corn is being damaged by worms
and caterpillars in the l'ee Dec section,
and ni isolated localities elsewhere,
but generally it looks very promising.
Somo corn being planted, largely as an
n v
v-a |'V> l 1U1V/II Vi
Tobaooo in ripening faster than it
can bo gathered in places. Curing
progresses favorably. In places the
leaves have "fired," and horn worms
aro injuring it in Darlington county.
lticc is heading fairly well, but moro
rain would prove beneficial. Upland
rice does not look promising. Peas are
now doing well. Sorghum cano is topping,
but is a poor crop. Sweet potato
slips continue to be set out. Pastures
show slight improvement. General
crop conditions much improved.
Tea Raising.
Dr. Charles U. Shepard, who is in
charge of the experimental tea garden
at Suiumcrvillo, S. C., has made a report
to the secretary of agriculture covering
the progress made up to date. He
says there are now about ISO acres of
land under tea cultivation and that 2,000
pounds were sold last year at a profit
of por cuit. It is estimated that
when all tho plants now growing arrive
at maturity they will yield 10,000
pounds annually. Dr. Shepard expresses
the opinion that the fact that the tea
plants lived through last winter, when
the most intensely cold weather in the
history of tho section was experienced,
is a guaranteo that the weather conditions
will prove satisfactory. Tho labor
problem, he says, has been solved
by establishing a school for tho education
of tho Negro children in tea picking.
The quality of the tea also has
proved satisfactory. Of the black tea
he says: "It has a distinctly characteristic.
flavor, and, like some of the choicer
Oriental iea? ita lwmnv lmu
strength than its color indicates." The
green tea, he says, has attracted keen
interest in the trade and among the consumers,
and ho adds that "Oriental teas
can hardly furnish the like in this country."
The State.
Blew His Head OfF With Dynamite.
A special from Cumberland Wis.,
says: Christ Wold, a farmer near Roskin
lake; committed suicido by blowing
oil his head with dynamite, lie placed
a quantity of dynamite in a hole in the
ground, laid his head over it and
touched off the fuse. Near by was
found a scrap of paper on which was
written: "lien; 1 go and the Cord go
with mo." His head and one arm was
completely torn away. Wold was HO
years old and leaves a wife and family
who are unablo to assign a cause for the
deed.
One Boy Kills Another.
On Mrs. Carter's placo, seven miles
from Kdgcfiold, Willie MeManus, 7
years old, and Richard Minis were playing
with a loaded pistol and it went olf,
killing the latin-, the ball entering the
right eye and penetrating the brain.
The coroner's inquest was formed and
the jury brought a verdict of accidental
killing. Roth boys were negroes.
Atlantic Coast Litis.
WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
CONDKNSKD SCHEDULE.
Trains Going South.
No.65* No.36
P.M. A.M.
Leave Wilmington 3:46
: Leave Marion 6:34
Arrive Florence 7:16
Leave Florcnco *7:45 *3 26
Arrive Sumter 8:57 4 29
Leave Sumter 8:67 9 40
Arrive Columbia 10:20 1100
No. 62 runs through from Charleston via
Central R. It., leaving Charleston 7:00a m .
Lanes 8:34 ft. m., Manning 9:09 a m
Trains Going North.
No 64* No.63
A. M. P. M.
Leave Columbia *6:60 *4 00
Arrive Sumter 8:16 6 13
Leave Sumter *8:16 0 00
Arrive Florence 9:30 7 20
Leave Florence 10.00
Leave Marion 10:40
Arrive Wilmington 1:26
*l)aily.
No. 63 rune through to Charleston, S. C.,
via Central K It., arriving at Manning 6:41
p. m , Lanes 0:17 p. in., Charleston 8:00 p. m.
Trains on Conway Branch leavo Chadbourn
6 35 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p m,
returning loavc Conway 8 30 a m, arrive
Chadbourn 11 20 am, leave Chadbourn 11 60
a m, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leavo
Hub 8 00 p ml) arrive Chadbourn 3 35 p m t
Daily except Sunday.
J. II. Kenly, Qcneral Manager.
T. M Kmcrson, Traffio Manager.
II. M. Emerson, General Passenger Agen
t.. y. - _ _ ^... T- - - _ . - Wilmington
and Conway
Railroad.
Daily except Sunday.
Southbound.?No. 07.
Leave Hub 3 IK) pm
Leave Ilious 3jlO pm
Arrive Chadbourn 3 36 pm
Leave Chadbourn 6 36 pm
Leave Clarendon 0 00 pm
Leave Ml Tabor 0 16 pm
Leave Loris 0 36 pm
Leave Han fold 0 60 pm
Leave Bayboro .. 7 00 pm
Lo ve Privetta 7 00 pm
Leave Adrian 7 12 pm
Arrive Con way 7 40 pm
Northbound.?No. 08.
Leave Coaway 8 30 am
Leave Adriau 8 66 am
Leave I'rivelts 9 00 am
Leavo Baybjro 9 10 aui
Leave Hauford 9 20 am
Leave Lorix 9 36 pm
Leave Ml Tabjr 10 10 am
l eave Clareudou 1 -10 am
Arrive Chad bourn 11 20 am
Leavo Chid bourn 11 60 am
Leave llionn 12 16 pm
Arrive Hub 12 26 pm
NOTICE.
Conway Lodge, No. 90. Knights of
I'ythlns will meet regularly the lirst and
third Thursday nights of each month uutil
otherwise ordered.
I). A.Sim vky
Chan. Coin.
J. O. Sl'ivkv
K. It. & 8
May 14th, 90. . ly
It. b" scarborough,
Attorney at Law,
Conway, S. C.
Agent Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of New York.
\\J ACCAMAW LINE STK V \1ERS.?The
fv Steamer will leavo the wharf at Conway
every Monday and Wednesday morning
for Georgetown at 4 o'clock, touching all intermediate
points; and will leave her wharf
at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday
morning for Conway at 1 o'clook, touching
at all intermedin'o points.
1). T. McNeill,
Gcn'l Agt and Treas , CoHway, 8 C.
B. A. Munnerlyn,
Agent, Georgetown, 8. C.
II. H. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Conway, 8. C.
ted^Ollicc up stairs over Herald oflico
opposite Hank.
i - -
J. R. Tolar. J. II. Hart
T. II. Rlaclily.
TOUR, HART X CO.,
1(J0 Front Street,
N E W YORK,
Commission Merchants
a nd
.jobbers of Naval Stores.
Liberal advances on consign
incuts of Naval Stores and
Cotton.
Members of the New York Cotton and
Produce Exchange.
Skin Diseases.
For the siiccdy and permanent cure of
tetter, snlt rheum and eczema, Chambcrlain'n
Eye and Skin Ointment is
without an equal. It relieves the itching
and smarting almost instantly and
it a continued u*o effects a permanent
cure. It also cures itch, barber's itch,
scald head, sore nipples, itching piles,
chapped hands, chronic noro eyes and
granulated lids.
Dr. Cady's Condition Fodders for
horses are the best tonic, blood purl (let
and vermifuge. Price, 25 cents. Bold by
Macfeat's
School of
SHORTHAND
?AND ?
TYPEWRITING
COLUMBIA, S. C.
This School has the reputation of being the
beet business institution in the State. Graduates
are holding remunerative positions in
mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real
"state, railroad offices, &o., in this and other
cutcs. Write to W. II. Maofeat, Court
Stenographer Com ulhia, 8. C. for terms, etc
?LIFE?
A vegetable for Mild,
euro for Liv- the Pleasant,
or, Kidney & LIVER Suro.
stomach troubloi. and 25, 50, $1.
-KIDNEYSSold
wholosale by?
Tho Murray Drusr (In.
I)r II. Haor. Charleaton, S C.
To get strong
and healthy use
one bottle MURray's
Iron Mixture.
Price 50c
III MURRAY DRUG CO.,
0
L L, &K
NOTHING LIKE IT
FOR
Constipation,
Indigestion,
?ri Regulator >'? Kidneys.
Wholesale by TUB
MimitAV DRUG CO.,
Columbia, S. C.
Dr. II. BAKU,
Charleston, S. C.
All We Ask of
s^~Y0U
iSST S?ANYTHING
? Machinery or
Mill Supply Line _
Is that you givo us an opportunity
to submit our prices and make
coiunarisons. W? ank this hn
cause we believe we can inako it to
YOUR advautagc. TRY US.
We make a specialty of equipping
IMPROVED MODERN GINNER
I ES OK ANY CAPACITY
WITH THE SIMPLEST AND
MOST EFFICIENT COTTON
HANDLING APPARATUS IN
EX 1ST E N C E ?T11E M U R R A Y
SYSTEM.
Correspondence with intending purbcasers
solioitod.
W. H. Gibbes & Co..
COLUMBIA, S. C. -y
SOUTH CAROLINA AGKNCV
Liddcll Co., Charlotte, N. C.
A. R. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, Pa.
Eaglo Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater,
Mass.
Straub Maehinory Co., Cincinnati, O.
Tl.- mm m
? Keeley
126 SMiTH STREET, f|
Cou. Vanderuorst, illirr
CHARLESTON, S. C. **** V
ALCOHOL
MORPHINE
OPIUM
TOBACCO
CIGARETTE
USING
Produce oaoh a disease having delin
ito pathology. Tie disease yields
easily to the Double Chloride of Gold
Treatment as administered at the abovo
Kceloy Institute.
N. B.?The Kccley Treatment is
administered in South Carolina
CHARLESTON.
It is the==
=- Custom
it at a very pocr one, to wait until the ginning
season is on before lo king to see
what fix the giu is in
Now is the time to
IIHMlf
llUlflfY
YOU 11 GIN ro THE
ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS.
Do not delay and then ask us to let you
have it at once, f >r thorough work eam.ot
ho done in a hurry, 'ihe attention given
this matter now will more than repay you *?
when the o.tton is white in the fie'da
and the gin house crowded. T*>e work is
coming in already, so ship at once to the
undersigned, located at the old electric light
engine house
Ueforenots by permisdon:?W. H. Gibbon
A Co , V C. Iladhain, Juo. A Willis.
trk your name and shipping point
on work sent and prepay the freight,
TtoEHiJtl 11 Lair Hkg,
< '
W J. ELDIOTP, Proprietor,
No. 1314 Gates Street,
COLUMBIA. S. 0.
A? ! ~
cunning
Machinery.
The Smith Pneumatic Suction
Elevating, Ginning and
Packing System
Is the simplest and most efficient on
the market. Forty-eight complete
outfits in South Carolina; caeh
one giving absolute
satisfaction.
Boilers and Engines; Slide
Valve, Automatic and Corliss.
My Light and Heavy Log Roam Saw
Mills cannot bo equalled in design, of-,
fioiency or price by any dealer or manu v >
facturor in the South.
Write for prioei and catalogues.
V. C. Badham,
1326 Main Street,
COLUMBIA, S. C.