The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 31, 1899, Image 4

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Watering Tucks. * ? Dr. Talmage Draws Some Lessons From Summer Outings. DANGERS AND TEMPTATIONS The Necessity For a Period of Inoccupation. No Surplus of Piety at those Places. At this season of the year, when all who car. pet a vacation are taking it, this disoourse ol l>r. Talinugc is suggestive and annronriato. T ie text is John v, 2, J: "A pool, which is called in the Hebrew tonguo Bethesda, having five porches. In theso lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water." Outside the city of Jerusalem there was a sanative watering place, 'the popular resort for invalids. To this day there is a dry 1 asin of rock which shows that there may have been a pool there 200 feet long, 1 JO feet wide and 75 feet deep. This pool was surrounded by five piazzas, or porches, or bathing houses, where the patients tarried until the time when they were to step into the water. So far as roinvigorating was concerned, it must havo been a Saratoga and a Long Branch on a small hcuIc; a Leamington and a Brighton combined ?medical and therapeutic. Tradition says that at a certain season of tho year ~<v. 1 . 1. . vuviv niia <\n UIHUCI Ol U1U gOVUrillUCIll who would go down to that water atid pour in it some healing quality, and after that tho people would come and get the medication. Hut I prefer the plain statement of Scripture, that at a certain season an angel camo down and stirred up or troubled the water, and then the people came and got the healing. That angel of Clod that stirred up the Judaen watering place bad his counterpart in the angel of healing who, in our day, steps into the mineral water of Congress or Sharon or Sulphur Springs, or into tho salt sea at Capo May and Nahant. where multitudes who arc worn out with commercial and professional anxieties, as woll as those who are afllictcd with rheumatic, neuralgic and splenetic diseases, go and arc cured by the thousands. These blessed Bcthesdas are scattered all up and down our country. We arc at a season of the year when rail trains arc laden with passengers and baggage on their way to the mountains and the lakes and the seashore. Multitudes of our citizens are away for a restorative absence. The city heats arc pursuing the people with torch and fear of sunstroke. The long, silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals. The antlers of Adirondack deer rattle under the shot of eity sportsmen, the trout make fatal snap at the hook of adroit sportsmen, who toss their spotted brilliants into the name basket; the baton of the orchestral leader taps the music stand on the hotel green, and American life has put on festal array, and the rumbling of the tenpin alley, and the crack of the ivory balls on the green baized billiard tables, and the jolting of the barroom goblets and the explosive uncorking of the champagne bottles, and the whirl and the rustic of the ballroom dance, and the clattering hoofs of the race courses and other signs of social dissipation attest that the season for the great American watering places is in full play. Music! Flute and drum and cornet apiston and clapping cymbals wake the ..r .t- - - .... ttuiioits m me mountains. uiau tun I that fagged out American lifo for the most part has an opportunity to rest and that nerves racked and destroyed will find a Ucthesda. I believe in watering places. They rccuporato for active scrvico many who were worn out with trouble or overwork. They arc national restoratives. The first temptation that is apt to hover in this direction is to leave your piety at home. You will sond tho dog and cat and canary bird to be well cared for Homcwhore else, but the temptation will be to leave your religion in the room with the blinds down and the doors bolted, and then you will come back in the autumn to find that it is starved and suffocated, lying stretched on the rug, stark dead. There is no surplus of j?icty at tho watering places. I ncyer knew any one to grow very rapidly in grace at the Catskill Mountain House or Sharon Springs or the Falls of Montmorency. It is generally the ease that the Sabbath is rnoro of a carousal than any other day, and thore arc Sunday walks, and Sunday rides, and Sunday excursions. Flders and deacons and ministers of religion who are entirely consistent at home, sometimes when tho Sabbath dawns on them at Niagara Falls or the White mountains take a day to themselves. If they go to the church, it is apt to bo a sacred parade, and the discourse, instead of being a plain talk about the soul, is apt to be what is called a crack sermon? that is, some discourse picked out of the effusions of the year as the one most adapted to excite admiration, and in those churches, from the way tho ladies hold their fans, you know that they are not so much impressed with the heat as with the picturcs'iucncss of half disclosed features. Four puny HOllltt Kt?n?t in flin 1 11 - v. ? ? vu\y v/i^au lUll <11111 h(|lHlll a tune that nobody knows, and worshipers, with $2,000 worth of diamonds on the right hand, drop a cent into tho poor box, and then tho benediction is pronounced, and the farce is ended. The toughest thing I ever tried to do was to be good at a watering place. Tho air is bewitched with the "world, the flesh and the devil." There arc Christians who, in three or four wooks in such a place, have had such terrible rents made in their Christian robe that they had to keep darning it until Christmas to get it mended. Another temptation hovering around nearly all our watering places is tho horse raciug business. We all admiro tho horse, but we do not think that its beauty or speed ought to be cultured at the cxpoDSO of human degradation. The horse race is not of such importance as the human race. The Bible intimates that a man is bettor than a sheep, and I suppose he is better than a horse, though like Job's stallion, his neck be olothed with thoudcr. Horse races in olden times wore under tho ban of Chris - ?" ~ v-v ,r? . tian people and in our day the santo institution has como tip under fictitious I names. And it is called a "summer , meeting," almost suggestive of positive religious exercises. Ami it is called an "agricultural fair," suggestive of everything that is improving in the art of farming, but under theso deceptive titles are the same cheating, and the betting, and the same drunkenness, and the same vagabondage, and the satno abomination that wero to be found under tho old horse racing system. 1 never know a man yet who could give himself to the pleasures of tho turf for a long reach of time and not he battered in moials. They hoot tip their spanking team and put on their sporting cap and light their cigar and tnko tho reins and dash down on the road to perdition! Tho great day at Saratoga and Brighton Itcach and Cape May and nearly all the other watering places is tho day of the races. Another temptation hovering around the watering place is the formation of hasty and lifelong alliances. The watering places arc responsible for more of the domestic infelicities of this country than nearly all other things combined. Society is so artificial thcro that no sure judgment of character can he formed. They who form companionships amid such circumstances go into a lottery where there arc 20 blanks to one prize. In the severe tug of life you want more than glitter and splash, liifo is not a ballroom where the music decides the step, and how ami prance and graceful swing of long train can make up for strong common sense. You I might as well go among the gayly painted yachts of a summer regatta to iind war vessels as to go among the light spray of the summer watering place to find character tlut can stand the tost of the great struggle of human life. In the battle of life you want a stronger weapon than a laco fan or a croquet mallet. The load of life is so heavy that in order to draw it you want a team stronger than that made up of a masculine grasshopper and a feminine butterfly. If there is any man in the community who excites my contempt and who ought to excite the contempt of every man and woman, it is the soft handed, soft headed dude, who, perfumed until the air is actually sick, spends his summer in striking killing flttit.llflm 11 till Wftvincr ui\ r* * i ^ ? 1 - -> -* ovuvimuiimi auf c\ix, and talking infinitesimal nothings, and finding his heaven in the set of a lavender kid glove. Moots as tight as an inquisition. Two hours of conrri-u mate skill oxhibitcd in the tic < I .. (lashing cravat. Uis eon versa ion made up of "Aha!" and "t)hs!" and "He lies!" There is only one counterpart to t ueh a man as that, and that is the frothy young woman at tjic watering places; her conversation made up of French moonshine; what she has in her head only equaled by what she has on her back; useless ever since alio was born, and to be useless until she is dead unless she becomes an intelligent Christian. Wo may admire music and fair faces and graceful step; but amid the hoartlessncss and the inllation and the fantastic influences of our modern watering places beware how you mako lifelong covenants. Another temptation that hovers over the watering place is that of baneful literature. Almost every one starting oil for the summer takes some rending matter. It is a book out of the library or oil' the bookstand or bought of the boy hawking books through the cars. I really believe there is more pestiferous trash read among the intelligent classes in July and August than in all the other ten months of the year. Men and women who at home would not be satisfied with a book that was not really scnsiblo 1 find sitting on hotel piazza or under the trees .ending books the index of which would make them blush if they knew that you knew what the book was. "Oh," they say, "you must have intelligent recreation." Yes. Thcro is no need that you take along to a watering puce "Hamilton's Metaphysics" or some ponderous discourse on the eternal decrees or "Faraday's Philosophy." There sire many oasy books that are good. You might as well say, "1 propose now to give a little rest to my digestive organs, and instead of eating heavy meat and vegetables 1 will, for a little while, take lighter food?a little strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane." Literary poison in August is as bad as literary poison in December. Mark that. Do not let the frogs of a "corrupt printing press jump into your Saratoga trunk or Whito mountain valiso. Are there not good books that are easy to read?books of entertaining travel; books of congenial history; books of pure fun; books of poetry, ringing with merry canto; books of line engraving; books that will rest the mind as well as purify the heart and elevate the whole life? There will not be an hour between this and your death when vou can afford to read a book lacking in moral principle. Another temptation hovering all around our watering places is intoxicating beverages. I am told that it is becoming more and more fashionable for . women to drink. I care not how well a woman may dress, if she has taken enough of wine to Hush her check and put a glassincss on her eye, she is drunk. Sho may bo handed into a $2,500 oarri 11 J - * use uiiu iuivc diamonds cnougli to astound the Tinanys?she is drunk. She may ho a graduato of the best young ladies' seminary and the dauglitcr of vomcman in danger of being nominated for the presidency?she is drunk. You may have a larger vocabulary than I have, and you may say in regard to hor that she is "convivial" or she is "merry" or she is "festive" or sho is "exhilarated," but you cannot with all your garlands of verbiage cover up tho plain fact that it is an old fashioned cane of drunk. Now, tho watering plaecs are full of temptations to men and women to tipple. At the close of tho tonpin or billiard gamo they tipple. At tho closo of tho cotillon they tipple. Seated on tho pia/./a cooling themselves off they tipple. Tho tinged glasses ooino around with bright straws aud thoy tipple. First they take "light wines," us thoy call them, but "light winos" aro heavy enough to debase tho appetite. There is not a very long road bctwoon champagne at $.r> a bottle anl whiskey at 10 conts a glass. Satan has three or four grades down which ho takes men to destruction. One man ho takes up and through one spree pitches him into eternal darkness. That is a rare caso. Very seldom indeod can you find a man who will bo suoh a fool as that. Satan I will take another man to a grado, to a descent a( an angle about like the Pennsylvania ooal shoot or tho Mount Washington rail track, and shovo him off. But this is very rare. When a man goes down to destruction, satan brings hin to a plane. It is almost a level. The depression is so slight that you can hardly soo it. Tho man docs not actually know that ho is on tho down grade, and it tips only a little toward darkness?Just a little. And the first mile it is elarot and the second mile it is sherry and tho third mile it is punch and the fourth mile it is ale and the fifth mile it is whiskey and the sixth mile it is brandy, and then it gets steeper and steeper and steeper, until it is impossible to stop. "Book not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it givcth its coloi in the cup, when it movotli itself aright. At tho last it bitetli like a serpent and stingcth like an adder." Whether you tarry at home?which will be <|uitc as safo and perhaps quite as comfortable?or go into the country, arm yourself against temptation. Tho grace of (Jod is the only safo shelter, whether in town or country. There are watering plaoos accessible to all of us. You cannot open a book of the Biblo without finding out some such watering place. Fountains open for sin and un cleanness. Wells of salvation. Streams from Lebanon. A flood struck out of tho rock by Moses. Fountains in the wilderness discovered by 11 near. Water to drink nnd wainr to bathe in. The river of God, which is full of water. Water of which if a man drink lie shall never thirst. Wells of water in the valley ol Baca. Living fountains of water. A pure river of water as clear as crystal from under the throne of God. These are watering places accessible to all of us. We do not have a laborious packing up before we start?only the throwing away of our transgressions. No expensive hotel bills to pay; it is "Without money and without price." No long and dusty travel beforo we get there; it is only 0110 step away. In California, in live minutes, I walked around and saw ten fountains all bubbling up, and thoy were all different, and in five minutes 1 can go through this Bible parterre and find you f>0 bright, sparkling fountains bubbling up into eternal lifo ? healing and therapeutic. A chemist will go to one of these summer watering places and take il < t ' uio waicr ana analyze it and tell you 'hat it contains -so much of iron and so much of soda and so much of lime and so much of magnesia. I conic to this gospol well, this living fountain and analyze the water; and I lind that its ingredients are peace, pardon, forgiveness, hope, comfort, life heaven. 4,Ho, every one that thirstctli conic ye" to this watering place. Crowd around this Bcthcsda. () you sick, you lame, you troubled, you dying?crowd around this Bcthcsda. Step in it, oh, step in it. The angel of the covenant t<> day stirs the water. Why do you not step in it? Some of you are too weak to take a step in that direction. Then we take you up in the arms of prayer and plunge you clear under the wave, hoping thattho cure may he as sudden and as radical as with Captain Naauian, who blotched and earbuneled, stepped into the Jordan, and after the seventh dive came up, his skin roseate complexioncd as the tlcsh of a little child. A NEW RAILROAD. The Seaboard Air Line to Build from Charleston to Augusta. Tho "Charleston Air Line" is to he built in the near future. It will run from Charleston to Augusta through Charleston, Colleton, llarnwell anil Aiken counties. It will bo part of the Charleston, Augusta and Chattanooga railroad, application for a charter for which will shortly be made. The application for a charter will shortly be made to Secretary of State Cooper. I ndcrthe law, advertisement of the intention to apply for a railroad charter must bo made for thirty days in tho papers of tho counties through which it is proposed to run the railroad. Such advertisements will immediately be published and at the expiration of the thirty days the charter will be asked for. The proposed "Charleston Air Lino" will be 125 miles long and will bo capitalized at $'1,12s"),000, or $25,000 to tho mile. This route is about twenty miles sbo*<icr than the Southern railroad from Charleston to Augusta. Karnwcll is tho largest town between Charleston and Augusta through which the new road will run. The Charleston, Augusta and Chattanooga railroad will be embraced in the Scaboord Air Line consolidation, In Georgia a railroad will be built from Augusta to Athens, which will connect tho Charleston Air Lino with tho Seaboard's trunk line from the North to Atlanta. The tracks of that trunk line will be used between Athens and Atlanta by C. A. &0. R. II. Later the connection between Atlanta and Chattanooga will bo completed. This new road will give Charleston a short and direct line to tho coal, iron and mill districts of the West. Its construction will be rapidly pushed. The Seaboard is after business and will loso no time in completing tlie arrangements for getting it Later on the Seaboard will build from Columbia to Augusta, thus completing its system in this Stato and putting itself in condi tion to compete for the business to Aiken and Augusta. Lost, a Husband Mrs. .James K. .lolly, 82 Oakridgo street, Norwich, Conn., writes to Postmaster Elisor at Columbia for information of tho whereabouts of her husband, formerly of tho Third Connecticut, stationed at Summcrville. She states that she heard of him in Columbia last. One Minute Cough Curo quickly cures obstinate summer coughs and colds. "I consider it a most wonderful medicine, ?quick and safe."?W. \V. Morton, Mayhew, Wis. Dr. E. Norton. Kodol Dyspepsia Curo cures dyspep sia because its ingredients are such that it can't help dAug so. "Tho public can rely upon it as a master remedy for all disorders arising from impcrfcot digestion." .James M. Thomas, M. D., in American Journal of Health, N. Y. Dr, E. Norton. The Cotton Crop. According to tho New York Commercial the cotton men in New York do not put much faith in Mr. Neill's estimate of tho crop. They claim that it is extravagant and is not based on substantial facts. The Commercial says: Mr. Neill's yearly report on tho crop situation is looked forward to with keen interest both in this country and in England. Cotton operators in England especially have great respect for his judgment. Mr. Ncill predicted the enormous crops of 181)4-5)5, 181)7-1)8, and 181)8 PP. The accuracy of his predictions in those years have given him a world-wide reputation us a cotton crop expen. Whatever he has to say concerning crop conditions or the future of the growing crop is listened to with close attention. Cut this year the general opinion seems to be that he has overshot the mark and that the crop will fall short of his predictions, lie predicts a crop of 12,000,000 bales. On tho floor of the New York Stock Exchange none of the traders seem to think that the crop will be over 10,1">00,000 bales at the highest. Mr. Ncill estimates the damage in the lira/.os river va'ley, the scene of the recent severe floods in Texas, at barely 100,000 bales. E. S. Holmes, Jr., of the statistical bureau of tho Department of Agriculture, who has made a special re11... i .1.. I"mi wii nit: u^i u iiuuiui Miiuilliwil III 111(3 Hooded section, states that a conservative estimate of the actual destruction includes about 277,000 hales. Thomas M. Kobinson, president of the Cotton Exchange, when asked what he thought of the accuracy of Mr. Neill's prediction, s Uill 'I don't see how Mr. Ncill or any other man can pretend to say this early in tho year what tho crop will be. 1 have known careful estimates made as late in tho season as November to be wrong by as big a margin as 1,000,000 bales. Tho possibilities of the crop, when all conditions arc favorable, arc almost infinite, but account must bo taken of possible droughts, scorching temperature, and oincr tilings likely to hurt the crop. It is hard to say just what result Mr. Noill's report had on the market. Liverpool opened four points lower, hut whether that is to he attributed to Mr. Noill's report or other causes I don't know. It is probably a fact, though, that as much or more reliance is placed in Mr. Noill's forecast in Liverpool than anywhere else. English operators seem to have great confidence in him. In my opinion it is much too early to hazard an opinion as to how large the erop will he this season." 8. T. Ilubbard of Hubbard Hros. ife Co. said: "The market tells the story. The estimate undoubtedly pave it a slight shock. Hut the report is believed to be extravagant. A man who pretends to say on August I I what the crop will he and that it can't be hurt seriously by frost, rains or drought enough to affect the ultimate yield is regarded as a rather loose prophet." Another prominent trader said: "The estimate is a big fake. The probable yield is grossly exaggerated and I don't think Mr. Ncill believes it himself. Why, orders are being taken six months ahead for cotton cloths, both here and abroad, 011 a basis that would allow the spinner to pay S cents a pound for middling cotton, and we arc selling middling in the pit every day at prices about (>A cents and J)8 cents per pound. I would like to know where Mr. Neill gets tho information on which lie bases his report. We spend a good deal of money for information and it is just as good as Mr. Noill's. I fail to see how he deduces tho facts embodied in his estimate. The estimate had 110 effect 011 the market." "HeWitt's Little Early Uiscrs did 1110 more good than all blood medicines and other pills," writes (ieo. 11. .Jacobs, of Tho npson, Conn. 1'rompt, pleasant, never gripe,?they cure constipation, arouse the torpid liver to aci! 1 ? ... non anu give yen clean blood, steady nerves, a clear brain and a healthy ap petite. Dr. K. Norton. Not Stated. The Augusta Chronicle lays: "Major General Otis has been instructed from Washington to capture Aguinaldo. It is not stated whether Aguimaldo is to wait for Otis to come get him, or ho American leader is to run him d >wu. Irritating stings, bites, scratches, wounds and cuts soothed and healed by Do Witt's Witch llazel Salve,?a sure and safo application for tortured flesh. Beware of counterfeits. For sale by Dr. E. Norton. Afraid to Let Go. "Spain sho had a little lamb, the sliekest lamb around. Sho sold the lamb to unole Sam for twenty millions down; then Sam he took it by the tail to lead it home, you kuow; tho mutton rare turned out a bear, and Sam can't let it go." Quickly cure constipation and rebuild and invigorate the ontiro system ?never gripe or nauseate?DoWitt's Little Marly ltisors. l)r. E. Norton. "I have used your 'Life for tho Livor and Kidnoys' with groat benefit, and for Dyspepsia or any derangement of the Liver or Kidneys I regard it as being without an equal." .James J. Osborno, Attornoy at Law, Hoilston, Henderson Co., N. C, Hamilton Clark, of Chaunocy, Ga. says ho suffered with itching piles twenty years before trying DeWitt's Witch 111zol Salve, two boxes of which nmn nl"??l J 1 ' uurou mm. Howaro of worthless and dangerous counterfeits. Dr. K, Norton. Times are gotting better. Six Pianos sold in the last three wocks. Four for cash. Those in want of Pianos and Organs have found tho placo to get tho host makes for tho least money. A nieo Mathushck Piano now completes the furnishing of the new Odd Follows hall, for the uso of societies that meet in hall. Call at my oflico or write mo for circulars and price. D. A. Prcsfhy, Manager Columbia, S. C. tf "Our baby was siek for a month with severe cough and catarrhal fever. Although wo tried many remedies she kopt getting worse until wo used Ono Minuto Cough Cure,?it relieved at once and cured her in a few days."?B. Ij. Nance, Prin. High School, Bluffdalo, Texas. Dr. K. Norton. A SIGNIFICANT TE8TT How Farmers Voted on Certain Important Questions, Farm and Home, an agricultural journal, published in Chicago, recently sent out 20,000 postal cards to farmers throughout the country, asking them to voto on various questions bearing on expansion. The first of these questions was, "Should tho Filipinos bo held in subjection to the United States, or should they be allowed to form an independent government?" The replies were as follows: For indc- For subpondenco. jeetion. New Kngland 1,27(5 785 Middlo States 2,8(57 2,313 Central West 1,'J01 3.082 Southern States 1,792 1,083 Pacific Coast 1,684 1,103 Total ...12,520 8,416 Tho next question was "Should Cuba be free and independent, or should it bo annexed to the United States?" Tho replies to this were 13,199 in favor of the independence of Cuba and 7,302 in favor of annexation. Tho ninth question was, "In general should the United States adhere to its former policy of non-interference with tlio nations beyond the two seas, or depart from it?" And this was the result of tho vote: Depart Adhere to. from. New Kngland 1,578 21)1 Middle States 2,1)Hi 1,003 Central West 0,171) 1,204 The South 2,005 S17 l'acilic Coast 1,850 572 Total 15,024 3,887 Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Trains Going South. No.66* No.36 P.M. A.M. Leave Wilmington 3:45 Leave Mariou tf 34 Arrive Florence 7:16 Leave Florenco *7:45 *3 26 Arrive Sumter 8:57 4 29 Lenve Sumter 8:67 9 40 Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 00 No. 62 runs through from Charloaton via Central K. It., leaving Charleaton 7:00a. m , Lanes 8:34 a. m., Manning 9:09 a. in. Trains Going North. No 64* No.63 A. M. P. M. Leave Columbia *0:60 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8:16 6 13 Leave Surnter *8:15 0 00 Arrive Florence 9:30 7 20 Loave Florence 10.00 L.cnvo Marion 10:40 Arrivo Wilmington 1:25 *l)aily. No. 63 runs through to Charleston, S. C., via Central H It., arriving at Manning 6:41 p. m , Lanes 0:17 p. m., Charleston 8:00 p. in. Trains on Conway Branch leave Ohadbourn 6 35 p m, arrivo Conway 7 40 p m, returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrivo Chadbourn 11 20 a in, leave Chad bourn 11 60 a in, arrivo Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hub 3 00 p in!] arrive Chadbourn 3 35 p m t Daily ercept Sunday. J. It. Kenly, General Manager. T. M Emerson, Traffic Manager. II. M. Emerson, General Passenger Agen Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. 97. Leavo Hub 3 00 pm l.?Mfl 1 lions 3*10 pin Arrive Cb&dbouru 8 35 pm Leave Chadbourn 6 35 pin Leave Clarendon 8, 00 | in Iieave Mt Tabor 0 15 pm Leave Loris 0 36 pai Leave Saofoid .... 6 60 pm Leave liayboro 7 00 pm Le?ve Privetts 7 09 pm Leave Adrian 7 12 inn ArriveConway 7 40 pm Northboju<'.?No. 98. Leave Conway 8 80 am Leave Adrian 8 66 am Leave l'rivette 0 00 aee Leave Bayboro 0 10 am Leave flaaford 0 20 am Leave Lorie 0 86 pu Leave Ml Tabor 10 10 am Leave Clarendon 1 40 am Arrive Cbadbourn 11 20 am Leave Cha Ibouru 11 60 am Leave llione 12 16 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pin J. R. Tolar. J. H. liar* T. II. Blachlj. TOLAR, HART X CO., ItiO Front Street, NEW YORK, Commission Merchants and Jobbers of Naval Stores. Libaral advances on consign nianta of Naval Stores and Cotton Mouibara of th? N?w York Cotton and Vroduoa Bykauf. R. B. SCARBOROUGH, Attorney at Law, Conway, S. C. Agent Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Naw York. noticeT Conway Lodge, No. 00. Knights ef Pythias will meet regularly the first and third Thuraday nights of each month until otharwiaa ordarad. I). a.SriTH Chan. Cora. J. C. 8riY?r K. It. & 8 May 14th. Ofl. 1y " H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, CONWAY, S. C. JGTOfiice up etaira oyer Herald office opposite Bank. Morphine ?AND? Whiskey HABITS CURED. HON. W. H. CLOUGII, j Governor of Minnesota. i "I have always eai'l that the Keeley Institute of thiscouutrv bad done more good, in | my judgment, than any other institutions or organiz Uions in the country. I have said it many times, aud 1 want to repeat it here, that Dr. Keeley has doae more for the coun try, has sated more unf >rtuna'e men than any one man in the United Stales " (Kxtract from an address delivered in Minneapolis, August, 18'J7.) Address Communications to The Keeley Institute, 120 Hmith Street, Corner Vanderhorst, I r A "I> T BcimrvaT ri * < vumvLitjOlUIN, U. KIDNEY, BLADDER, UKINA R ' AND LIVER! DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA, INDIQE8TION! AND CONSTIPATION POSITIVELY CURED BY THE USE OF | 1) It. HILTON'S LIFE FOR THE LIVER AND KIDNEYS. A vegetable preparation, wherever known the in .flt popular of all rcrncdiea, bjevune the in out etreotual. Id wholesale by ? The Murray Drug Co. Colutubia. Dr. H. Bacr, Charloaton, S. (J. | Maoleafs School of SHORTHAND ?AKI)?TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, 8. C. This Bohoel k** the rvpntotlsn of being the bast huiiaeee institution in the (State. Grad nates ore holding reamieratire pssitUns in ero&ntlle house*, tanking, lesurenoe, real eetnts, railroad offices. &e., in this and other vtotee. Write te W, fl. Maefeat, Court Stenographer Cow ulbia, B.C. for terms,too To get strong and healthy use one bottle MURRAY's Iron Mixture. Price 50e i?_ mmn 6IHI6I-, Kodof Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eat. Itartlflcltlly digeststhe food and aids Nature In strengthening and reconstructing the exhausted digestive organs. It is the lat est discovered digestant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It instantly relievos and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, r iatuience, sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache, Gastialffia, Cram p9, and all other results of imperfect digestion. Prepared by E. C. DeWltt A Co., Chicago. For sale by Dr. fi, Norton. WAOOAMAVV LINE 8TKVMKK8.?The Bteamer will leave the wharf at Conway every Monday and Wednesday morning for Georgetown at 4 o'clook, touching all intermediate points; and will leave her wharf at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday morning for Conway at 4 o'clock, touching at all intermediate points. D. T. McNeill, Gen'l Agt. and Treae., Conway, 8. C. B. A. Munnerlyn, Agent, Georgetown, 8. C. Merits of the WINTHROP NORMAL AN 1 Mr. D. A. Pressley, Coin two Mathushek pianos which v Music House last year for our < satisfaction. The Mathushek piano is a 1 which I can cheerfully r?comnu Yours truly, Director Departmei MUSIC 1)1 Mr. I). A. Pressley?llavi botli in concert and in teaching strument; thoroughly well mad in tune. And do not hesitate t piano to those wishing a high g Very truly, Director Music Dep COLUMBIA FEN To Mr. I). A. Pressley.?1) thushek piano in use at the c The instrument has a pleasing sive touch, and is in all respect pacity for staying in tune is passed by none. Very respe ttarThree more Matliusheks s Address, d. a. r .Manager Ludden <fc Bates tf COLUMB Ginning Machinery. o The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing fcyetem c la the tiwplait aud meat effloiout oa the market. Forty-eight oomploto outfits in South Carolina; each ono giviig abaolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valre, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and IleaTj Log Ream Saw Mills oannot be eouallod in dosign, cfc. :? 1 A i._ IHMUBU) vr pri99 uj auj uu*iv;i ui uuauu cajturer in the South. Writ* for prioei aud catalogues. V. C. Badham, 1320 Mala Street, COLUMBIA, 8. C. All We Ask of ? f s^YOU Need" if?ANYTHING 'D h0 Machinery Mill Supply Line Ib that jrou givo us an ?pportuuity to submit our prions and make oonpariaoQa. We aak this bo aueo w? b?li#ve we ana make it to YOIJR advantage. TRY US. Wo aak? a apoaialty of equipping * IMPROVED MODERN GINNERIES OP ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING JAP PAR AT US IN EXISTENCE?THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspeidenco with intending purhcaaors aolioitad. W. H. Slbbes & Co.. COLUMBIA, S. 0. SOUTH OAROUHA A(1 EN(J1f Liddell Co., Charlettt, N. C. A. H. FarquharC?., Ltd., York, Pa. Eaglo Cottou Gin Co., Bridgewater, Mans. Btraub Machinery Co., Ciooinuatl, 0. It is the== ? Hno+nm ?UUOIUIII But a very poor one, to wait nntil the gin. nlng season in ou boforq looking to eeo what fii the gin Is 1* Now is the time to HURRY YOUli (UN 10 THE ELLIOT Gill REPAIR WORKS. Do not dolay and then ask us to let you have It at onoa, tjr thorough work cannot be done in a hurry 1 he attention glron this matter now will moro than ropay yot? when t'uo cotton Is white in tho fio'ds and the gin house orowdeJ. Too workis coming in already, so ship at onoo to (he undersigned, located at tho old electric light engino bouse. ftilvfi b/ |)i'4'.hIji ? { I I i & Co , V. C. Ba ihnru. J bo. ,V. Willls. gggrHnrk your siune %n4 shipping point on work nsnt and prspsy ths frslght. The Elliott Gin Repair Works, W. J. ELLIOTl\ Proprietor, No. 1S14 Gates Street, COLUMBIA. S. U. Mathushck. ) INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE HOCK IIILL, S. C. mbia, S. C.?"Dear Sir: The re bought of Ludden A Bates College have given excellent well made instrument and one 3nd for hard and constant use. Wadk R. Brown, nt of Music Winthrop College. RECTOR. Columbia, S. G-. ng used tin; Mathushek piano , I lind it a most excellent ine, wearing well, and staying 0 recommend the Mathushek ;rade instrument. G. P. McCoy, t. of S. C. College for Women. ^ 1 ALE COLLEGE. Columbia, S. C. ear Sir: We have had a Ma'.olletre durincr th? nn?t ^ O I tone, an even, light, responts a well made piano. Its cavery great and, 1 believe, surctt'ully, E U N EST 11 HOC K M A N, Director Music Department, sold to this college. * 'ressley, } Southern Mnsic House, ; lA, S. C. "*Jk