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mm ; _ m .. > r*"' MISSION OF HORNETS Sermons by Rev. Dr. Talmage on Small Annoyances. MINOR TROUBLES OF LIFE. They Test Christian Fortitude andPatience. The*' Lesson of Trivial .Irritations. This sermon by l>r. Taliuago deals with t subim-t whinh nnnouls in nil classes and conditions of men. His text is Deuteronomy vii, 20, "The Lord thy God will send the hornet." It seems as if the insectilc world wcro determined to extirpate the liu man race. It bombards the graiolields and the orchards and tho vineyards. Tho Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New .Jersey loeust, the universal potato beetlc,psccin to carry on the work which was begun ages ago whon tho insects buzzed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. f/In my text tho hornet flies out on its mission. It is a species of wasp, swift in its motion and violent in its sling. Its touch is torture to man or boast. Wo have all seen tho cattle run bellowing under tho cut of its lancet. In boyhood wo used to stand cautiously looking at the globular nest.hung from tho treo branch, and while we wcro looking at tho wonderful covering we were t rnnlr wit 1> ua* U 5 * 1* - 1 <>v? n n il DUUIliUIUI^ Hint PUHl lift shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. It has captains over hundreds, and 20 of them alighting on one man will produce certain death. The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but tho elephants and the beasts on which the Persians rode were assaulted by -the hornet, so that the whole army was broken up, and the besieged city was rescued. This burning and noxious insect stung out the llittitos and the Canaanitcs from their country. What gleaming sword and chariot of war could not accomplish was done by the puncturo of an insect. "The Lord Bent the hornet." My friends, when we are assaulted by great behemoths of trouble we beoome [chivalric, and-wc-assault them. We get on tho high mettled steed of our caurago, and we make a cavalry ehargo at them, and if God bo with us we come out stronger and bettor than when we went in. Put alas for these insectile annoyances of life, these foes too small to shoot, these things without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats and the midges and the flies and the wasps and the hornets! In other words, it is tho small 'stinging annoyances of our lifa which drive us out and use us up. In the best conditioned life for some jrand and glorious purpose Clod has sent the hornet. I remark, in the first place, that these small stingiug annoyances may oouie in the shapo of a nervous organisation. People who are prostrated under typhoid fevers or with broken bones got plontly of 'sysmpathy, hot who pitiea anybody that is nervous? The doctors say and the family say and everybody says, "Oh, she's only a little nervous; that's all!" Tho sound of a heavy foot, the harsh-eloaring of a throat, a discord in niusio, a want of harmony. between the shawl and tho glovo on the same person a curt answer, a passingslight, the wind tholfrom the east, any one of ten thousand annoyenocs, opens the door for the hornet. The fact is that the vast majority of the people in this country are overworked, and their nerves are tho first to give out. A great multitude are under the strain of Lcydcn, who, when he was t >ld by his physician that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor i hysical health he would die, responded, "Doctor, whether 1 live or die, the wheel must kcop going round." Those sensitive persons of whom I speak have ahleeding sensitiveness. The flies love to light on anything raw, and these people arc like the Canaanites spoken of iu tho text or in the context?they have a very thin covering and are vulnerable at all Doilltfl. "And lhf> T.r?r<l (tio net." Again, tho small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you canuot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other people you eannot be with for five minutes before you feel miserable. They do not mean to disturb you, but they sting you to tho bone. They gather up all the yarn which tho gossips spin and retail it. They gather up all tho adverse criticisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your car the funnel into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you laugh, too?outside. These people are brought to our attention in tho Bible, in tho book of Ruth. Naomi went forth beautiful and with the finest worldly prospects into another land, but after awhile she came back widowed and sick and poor. What did her friends do when she came to the city? They all went out, and instead of giving hor common sense consolation. what did tlioy do? Road the book of Ruth and find out. They throw up their hands and said, "Is this iNaomi'f" as muoh as to say. "How awful bad you do look!" When I entered the ministry, 1 looked very pale for years, and every year, for four or five years, many times a year 1 was asked if I had not consumption, and, passing through the room, I would sometimes hear poople sigh and say, "A-ah, not long for this world!" I rosolvod in those times that 1 never in any conversation would say anything depressing, and hy the help of God I have kept the resolution. These people of whom I speak roap and hind in the great harvest field of discouragement. Home day you greet them with a hilarious "Good morning," and they come buzzing at you with some depressing information. "The Lord scut the hornet." It is astonishing how some people prefer to write and to say disagreeable things. That was the case when Henry M. Stanley returned after his magnificent exploit of finding David Livingstone. When Mr. Stanley stood before the savants of Europe and many of the small oritios of the day, under prctenso of getting geographical information, put to him inost insolent questions, ho < folded his armS and refused to answer, i At the very time whon you would sup- 1 poso all decent men would have up- i piauded the heroism of the man there i wore thoso to Iush. "Tho Lord scut < the librnct." And when afterward that i man sat down on tho western coast of | Africa, sick and worn out, with perhaps < the grandest achievement of the a>to in the way of sooeraDhical diseovnrv itir.ro I wore amali critic? all over the world j to buzz and buzz and caricature and do- < ride him, and when after awhile he got < the London papers, as he opened them, | out flow the hornet. When I sco that i there are so many people in the world < who like to sav disagreeable things and write disagreeable things, 1 come al- t most in iny weaker moments to believe 1 what a man said to mo in Philadelphia i one Monday morning. I went to < get the horso at the livery stable, < and the hostler, a plain man, said i to mo, "Mr. Talmagc, 1 saw i that you preached to the young men I yesterday." I said, "Yes." lie said: 1 "No use, no use. Man's a failure." I The small insect annoyances of life t sometimes come in the shape of local 1 physical trouble which docs not amount < to a positive prostration, but which i bothers you when you want to fo il the i host. Perhaps it is a sick headache ( which has been the plague of your life, 1 and you appoint some occasion of mirth 1 or sociality or usefullness, ami whon the \ clock strikes the hour you cannot make n.-i ii * t i H|ipviHrau?;c. icrimps me irouoie > is between tlie ear and tbo forehead in t tho shape of a neuralgic twig. Nobody t can see it or aympathi/.o with it, hut | just at the time when you want your | intellect clearest and your disposition i brightest you feel a sharp, keen, dis 1 concerning thrust. "Tho Lord sent ? the hornot." t Perhaps these snialhinsect annoyan- \ ccs will come in the shape of a domes ( tie irritation. The parlor and tho kit 1 t hen do not always harmonize. To get j good service and to keep it is one of tho c groat-questions of,tho country. Sometimes it may he the arrogance and in ^ eonsidcratonoss of employers; hut, 1 whatever he the fact, wo all adii it there n are these insect -annoyances winging \ their way out from tho culinary depart t mont. If,the gr&oo of God he not in ? the heart of tho housekeeper, she can- ' not maintain her equilibrium. Tho t mon'oomo home at-uight and hear tho ( story of those annoyances and say, "Oh, i these home troubles arc very little t things!" They aro small, small wasps, hut they sting. Martha's i : ves were all unstrung when she rusl -u ^ .- 1 i M i in iOMu^ vrumb tu nuuiu i'lTiry^ 21 ri I tlicrc are tons of thousands of won on | who arc dying, stung to death by the*c pestiferous domestic annoyances. "The 1 Lore sent the hornet." i 'i'hese small insect*disturbances may n also como'intho'shapo of business irri- c tations. There arc men here who went j through the 2-lth of September. 1800, ' and the panics of 1ST!! and of 181)3 with- <: out* losing'their balance who are every Jday unhorsed by little annoyances?a 1 clerk's ill manners, or a blot of ink on a c bill of lading, or the extravagance of a r partner who overdraws his account, or j the underselling by a business rival, or 1 the whispering of store confidences in t the street, or the making of some little r bad debt which was against your judge- v ment; but you wanted to plcaso some r body else. y It is not the panics that kill the mer- i chants. Panics como only once in It) or s 20 years. It is the constant din of these y everyday annoyances which is sending a so many of our best morchants into ner vous dyspepsia and paralysis and the ^ grave. Whon our national commorco a fell flat on its faco, these inou stood up j and felt almost defiant, but their life is ( going away now under the swarm of f theso pestiferous annoyances. "The j. Lord sent the hornet." H 1 havo noticed in the history of some f of my congregation that their annoyan- c ccs are multiplying and that they havo p a hundred where they used to have ten. r The naturalist tells us that a wasp n sometimes has a family of 20,000 wasps, ^ and it does seem as if every annoyanco j, of your life brooded a million. By the H help of God, today 1 want to show you R the other side. The hornet is of no H use? Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us j, they aro very important in the world's r, eGOnomv. Thov kill m>idr>r? unit fhnv clear the attnosphcro. Anil 1 really be- v lieve (Jod sends the annoyances of our life upon ub to kill the spiders of the t soul atid to elear the atmosphere of our t skies. j, These annoyances aro sent on us, 1 think, to wake us up from our lcthagy. a There is nothing that makes a man so r lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and y 1 think that these annoyances are in- s tendod to persuade us of tho fact that j this is not a world for us to stop in. ? If wo had a bed of everything that was | attractive and soft and eaHy, what ,. would we want of heaven? We think j that tho hollow tree sendB the hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your ? opinion. "The Lord sent the hor- ! net." J Then 1 think these annoyances come j, on us to cultivate our patience In the ? gymnasium you find upright pi rallol ^ bars with holes over eaeh other for pegs () to bo put in. Then tho gymnast takos c a peg in each hand, and he begins to ? climb, one inch at a time or two inches, j, and getting his strength cultivated, r reaches after a while the ceiling. Anil f it seems to me that these annoyances 0 in life aro a moral gymnasium, each g worrimont a peg with which we are to H climb higher and higher in Christian c attainment. Wo all lovo to see patience, hut it cannot bo cultivated in fair weather, l'atience is a ohild of * the storin. If you had everything do sirable and there was nothing moro to get, what would you want with pati- *? cncc? The only time to cultivate it is when you are lied about and sick and 11 half dead. c c "Oh," you say, "if I only had tho w ciroumstanoes of somo well to do man I t< would bo patient too." You might as b well say, "If it wcro not for this water, " I would swim," or. "I could shoot this ti gun if it wero not for tho cartridge." ci When you stand chin deep in annoyan- y ces is the time for you to swim out to- w ward tho great headlands of Christian w attainment, so as to "know Christ and n the power of his resurrection and to h have fellowship with his sufferings." A Nothing but the furnace will ever n burn out of us the clinker and the o slag. I have formed this theory in ro- w fard tosmall annoyances nnd vexations. Is t takes just so much trouble to lit us y< i for usefulness and for hoaven. Tho si only question is whether wo shall take it in the bulk or j uiveri/ed au?l cumulated. Hero is one man who taken it in the bulk. His baok is broken or his eyesight put out, or soino other awful calamity befalls him, while the vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rather have it? Of course, in pieoomoal. Hotter have tivo aching teeth thau one broken jaw; hotter 10 lly blisters than 111 amputation, better *20 squalls than >110 oyelono. There may be a difference >f opinion as to allopathy and iioinco|>athy, but in this matter of troublo I ike homeopathic doses, smull iw>ll^?? if annoyance rather than hoiuo knocklown dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt givo us the hornet. If you liavc a bank, you would a groat deal ather that f)0 men would conic in with jhceks less than $100 than to have two lopositors como in the same day, each wanting his $10,000. In this latter '.asc you cough and look down to the loor and you look up to the ceiling be"ore you look into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have hese small drafts of annoy\nce on your tank of faith than some all staggering lomand upon your onduranoo? Hut rencuibcr that little as well as great anloyancce equally require you to trust in Jhrist for succor and for deliverance 'rotn impatience and l; irritability. 'Thou wilt keep him in porfcot peace whoso mind is stayed on thee." In tho village of Itainolin, tradition ays, thorn was an invasion of rats, and hose small creature# almost dovourcd he town and threatened the lives of tho topulation; and the story is that a >ipor oamo out one day and played a ,'ery sweet tune, and all the vermin folowed Wescr, and then he blew a blast, md they dropped in and disappeared for ivcr. Of courso, this is a fable, but I vish I could on the sweet (lute of the Jospel draw forth all the nibbling and mrrowing annoyances of your lifo and day them down into the depths forcv:r. How many touches did Mr. Church rive to his picture of "Cotopaxi" or lis "Heart of tho Andes?" I supposo ibout 50,000 touches. 1 hear-the can 'as saving: "Why do you keep me rcmbling with that pencil so long? Why lon't you put it on in one dash?" 'No," says Mr. Church; "1 knew how o make a painting. It will take 50,>00 of these touches." And 1 want you ny friends, to understand-, that it is hose ten thousand annoyances which. indcrGod, arc making up the picture .1 your life, to he hung at last in the :alleries of heaven, lit fur angels to ook at. God knows how to make a bctnro. 1 go into a soulptor's studio and sec liin shaping a statue, lie has a chisel n one hand and a mallet in the other, ind he gives a very gentle stroke? dick, click, click! I say, "Why don't ou strike harder?" Oh, ho replies. 111..! l> 1 - -I nun wuuiu snaucr uio statuo. I can t lo it that way. I must do it this way." *o he works on, and after awhile the eaturcs conic out, and everybody that inters tho studio is charmed and fasci lated. Well, God has your soul under recess of development, and it is the ittle annoyancos and vexations uf lifo hat are chiseling out your immortal lature. It is click, click, click! I vender why some great providence does lot come and with one stroke prepare 'ou for heaven. Ah, no! God says that s not tho way, and so he keeps on by trokes of little vexations until at last ou shall be a glad spectacle for angels ,nd for men. You know that a large fortune may ?e spent in small change, and a vast mount of moral character may goawav n small depletions. It is the little roubles of life that aro havihg more ef ect. upon you than great ones. A warm of locusts will kill a grain field ooner than the incursion of three or our cattle. You say, "Since 1 lost my hild, since I lost my property, I have een a different man." Hut you do uot ccognizc the architecture of little anoyances that are howing, digging, outing, shaping, splitting and interjoinng your moral qualities. Hats may ink a ship. One lueifer match may end destruction through a block of torohouscs. Catherine do' Medici got cr death from smelling a poisonous osc. Columbus, by stopping and ask rig for a piece ot bread and a drink ef rater at a Franciscan convent, was led ^ A 1. J ! * li int? discovery 01 a new world. And here is an intimate connection between rilles and immensities between nolh ngs and everything's. Now, ho careful to let none of thoso nnoyanees go through your soul unarainged. Compel them to administer to our spiritual wealth. The scratch of a ixpenny nail sometimes produces loekaw. and tho clip of a most infinitesiaal annoyance may damage you forever. )o not let any annoyance or perplexity ome across your soul without its makng you better. Our national government when it ranted money did not think it belittlng to put a tax on pins and a tax on uekl s and a tax on shoes. The indiiduai taxes do not amount to much, ut in tho aggrogate to millions and aillionsof dollars. And 1 would have ou, O Christian man, put a high tariff ii every annoyance and vexation that onus through your soul. This might ot amount to much in single cases, but 11 the aggregate it would be a great ovonuo of spiritual strength and satisaction. A bee can suck honey even ut of a nettle, and if you have the race of (Jod in your yoart you can get weetness out of that which would othrwisc irritate and annoy. A returned missionary told mo that company of adventurers rowing up ho Ganges were stung to death by (lies hat iufest that region at certain soannn Tlin n?rlli Imu ~ 4 -1 ?'11 - ..-a vnivu una uwu nilVWUU Willi he carcasses of men slain by insoct anoyances. The only way to get prcpard for the great troubles of lifo is to onquor these small troubles. What rould you say of a soldier who refused 3 load his gun or to go into tho conflict eeauso it was only a skirmish, saying: I am not going to oxpend myammuniion on a skirmish. Wait until thore omes a general engagement, and then ou will see how courageous I am and hat battling I will do?" Tho goncral ould say to such a man, "If you are ot faithful in a skirmish, you nuuld c nothing in a general engagement." ind I have to tell you, O Christian ion, if yen cmnot apply the principles 1' (Jurist s religion on a small scalo you ill nover be ablo to apply them on a i irgor scale. If I had my way with i ou, I would havo you possoss all pos- 1 bio worldly prosperity. 1 would havo ? you each one a garden, a river (lowing through it, geraniums and shrubs on the sides and tho grass and (lowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fullin. I would have you a house, a splendid mansion, and the beds should bo covered with upholstery dipped iu the setting sun. I would havo overy hall in your house set with statues and statuettes, and then I would havo the (our quarters of tho globo pour in all their luxuries on your table, and you should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of l...? |L. ? ?. ? ? j.m nmv iiiu init-Mt norsos ana your pick of the quipages of the world. Then I would have you live 160 year?, and jou should not have a pain or au ache until the last breath. "Not each ono of us?" you nay. Yea, each ono of you. "Not to your oneniioH?" Yes. The only difference I would make with them would bo that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls and a little extra embroidery on their slippers. Hut, you say, "Why docs not (Jod give us all those things?" Ah! I bethink myself He is wiser. It would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of bis house. (Jod meant this world to bo only tho vestibulo of heaven, that great gallery of the univcrso toward wlrch we aro aspiring. Wo must not liavo it too good in this world, or we would want no hoaven. roiycarp was condemned to be burned to death- Tho stake wau planted, lie was fastened to it. Tlie fagots ?reic placed around him, tho fires kindled, but history tolls us that the flames bent outward like the canvas of a ship in a sto it breeze, so that tho flames, instead of destroying Polycarp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. Thoy had actually to destroy hitu with tho poniard. Tho flames would not touch hiin. Well, my hearer, 1 want you to understand that by hod's grace the flames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, arc only going to bo a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God is going to fulfill to you tho blessings and the promises, as ho did to Polyearp. "When thou walkest throurh tho tiro, thou shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand, but you shall know hereafter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet. THE GOVERNOR AND NEWSBOYS- ; A Good S'ory of His Recent New J York Experience. A good story about Gov. MoSwco- 1 ncey's visit to New York recently, i which has so far escaped the newspa- c pers, has loakedoutin the last few days, 1 and it serves to show tho manner of man South Carolina's Governor is. t The incident occurred on tho day he- i fore tho naval parade. Tho Governor, > accompanied by his little son and Cols, t Wilson, Folk, Redding, Maulding and i Watson of his staff had just left the i cotton exchange and had reached t "newspaper row," bound for the bridgo t to go over to the navy yard, when just i at the Pulitzer building corner they j came across a great crowd of newsboys r of the "ccnt-a-world' variety, getting i their supplies of tho big afternoon edi- t tion just issued. The Governor saw tho crowd of urch- i ins. lie exclaimed, "Ah, that is what n I was once, .lust look at them; Miles, \ como here, son, I want to show you I what your fathor was when' ho was \ your size." Reaching hack and catch- 1 ing his boy's hand it was only a second 'J or two before the Governor had forced 1 his way into the heart of the crowd of s yelling, soullting newsboys. Ho talked -...i ?i? ? P I T.vii kiicuj uuu ? iicii nicy lOUllU OUl who'hc was and that ho had onco been one of the "clan," they rallied around { him and the Governor's faco was all 1 suiilos. lie bought as many papers as I he eould carry and CJ. Folk, who got 1 down in tho crowd, did likowiso. Tho hoys gave the Govornor an ovation in 1 their own demonstrative way and be- v fore ho could be oxtricated from his I admiring host of newsboys enthusiasts e tho police had to go tohis aid and olear a way out of it for him. j There was no incident of his trip to tho motiopolis that Gov. MeSwocney t enjoyed tnoro thoroughly than this. It |, recalled to his mind many memories of | tho past and when in the crowd he really seemed to be a newsboy again himself. SENTENCED COMMUTED. Man Who Slew His Wife's Insulter j, to bo Freed. f Gov. McSwoetiov Wednesday com- ^ muted to two years tho life sontcnce of * William Franks, a young whito man convicted of manslaughter in Laurens county nearly two years ago. This j. means that Franks will bo discharged s in February. ? From all the evidence, tho state- ^ mcnts of the judge and the jury and all c those familiar with the ease, it scorns strange that the man was ever convicted. i( The victim, Mason Clark, grossly insulted the j o ing wife of Franks, making an improper proposal to her. When she wont to Franks and told him of it v he wished to kill Clark forthwith, but f( was dissuaded by the appeals of his wife, b Franks and his wife had been living at si Clark's house; they woro about to loavo a and tho matter was being discussed be- ii tween the two men, when an alterca lion occurred and Mason was killed. .Judge llucl anan recommended that a pardon be given at the expiration of J1 two years of the term. Eleven of tho * jurors signed the potition for a pardon, c certifying that there was gravo doubt 1? as to which of the men tired first, and 8 adding that there would have been no conviction save for the lapso of time between the deed and tho receipt of tho . information by Franks as to the insult, J' Tho jurors regarded tho provocation very great. j! Ex Senator Irby and ex-Congressman Sholl wrote the governor strong per- ft sonal lettors in behalf of tho man, and stated that his wife and cnildrcn were sadly in need of his Bupport and protection. The governor, before acting, had the 11 prisoner brought up to his office and 0 talked with him. He was fully satisfied l', that Franks simply acted in defense of his wife's honor, and iho commutation ( was forthwith grantod.?The Stato. A New Crank. Kansas has a new crank in tho per- " son of W. K. Reemc, who advances tho 7 dynamiting of saloons, distilleries and " breweries and tho lynching of corrupt ? officials. IM AN AWFUL CRIME. Young Woman Ravished by Number of Black Savages* ^ _ . - SOME OF THEM CAPTURED. Tho Law Will Tnks Them Speedily to the OhIIcws* Shocking Story of Bruta'lty. Carried to Columbia. A horrible crime was committed in Darlington county, near Lamar, Monday afternoon, for which at least three Negroes will pay the penalty with their lives. Two of them are now in jail, and if there is no attempt to lynch them made before court convenes two weeks from now, they will he convicted without a doubt and hanged, for they havo confessed the commission of the blackest crime that has ever darkened the fair name of Darlington. If the other party is caught ho will doubtless be spared tho suspense of waiting two weeks to meet his doom. Tho details of the crimo aro too horrible to be published, but they have been told over and over again all over Darlington county Monday. It is sufficient to sav a highly respectable young lady of Lamar lias suffered at the hands of several black brutes, and sho now lies in a dangerous condition fearfully mangled and bruised. The two Negroes who are now in jail admit the commission of their fearful deed and say that it was accomplished only after a terrible strugglo with their viei! 1 l n. i ' ' * * inn mm oniy aiior 11103' 'ia<t otioKod iicr into insensibility, and that when they left her they thought her dead. Two of them only were present, the others having gone away and had not gotten back in time to take part in the deed as was their intention. One of the black brutes now in tho ouatody of SlicritF Scarborough bears on his clot hing stains of blood from his victim, and this Negro now owes his life to the tact and skill of the deputies who secreted him from an angry mob and arried him to Darlington through the swamps under cover of the darkness. The people are aroused for miles around Mid justly so. The third Negro, one of those who aslnultod the unfortunate girl, has not yet been captured, but he ivill be if he is in Darlington county, ind if he happens to fall into the hands if any of tho present, searching party liis hours of life will be but few more. A dispatch from Columbia says one if the principals in tho Lamar outrage ilTair?Cdward Luckie, and four Negroes charged with being accessories .0 tho foul crime in that U103' stood by ind saw the deed committed and did lot offer to interfere, are now within lie walls of the South Carolina peniteniary for safe keeping. The four ac jessorics arc Jim Washington, Daniel ind 10(1 Mack and Lucius Stuart?an tggregation of ugly looking, sullen Negroes, who look like Georgia turpentine oughs. Tiic other principal, who is at large, s very black; is about 18 years old, has t broad forehead; has high wide cheekbones; has a sear over his left eye, and lis clothing was spattered with mud vhon last soon. When last heard from ic was fleeing toward Timnionsville. i Hie sheriff never expects to ges hold of , lim if he is run down anywhere in this cction of the eountiy. * Mosos' Princoss. An cxchango says that the mummy of he Egyptian princoss who found Moses ri tlio bulrushes is all alleged to have >?en discovered and placed on cxlnbiion. If the princess could have foreecn that lior act of kindness would lavo mado her a museum froak, sho rould probably have left Moses to to drawn out of the water by somebody < ilfiO. "It did me more good than anything ever uacd. My dyspepsia was of nonths' standing; after eating it was erriblc. Now 1 am well," writes S. B. Ccencr, lloisington, Kas., of lvodol 'yspepsia Cure. It digests what you at. D:. K. Norton. President King, Fanner's Hank, Brooklyn, Mich., has used DeWitt's Attic Early Hiscrs in liis family for ' cars, bays they arc the best. These amous little pills cure constipation. Piousness and all liver and bowel roubles. Dr. E. Norton. Tho "Plow Hoy Preacher," Uev. .J. tirkman, Helloltivo, 111., says, "After utTcring from Hronchial or lung trou- 1 lo for ten years, 1 was cured by One linutc Cough Cure. It. is all that is . laimcd lor it and more." It cures c.ighs, colds, grippe and all throat and ung troubles. i Dr.E. Norton. j Eat plenty, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure c rill digest what you eat. It cures all ortns of dyspepsia and stomach troulcs. E. It. Gamble, Vernon, Tex., ays, "It relieved mo from the st..r' 1 nd cured mo. It is now my cvcrlastng friend." Dr. E. Norton. "When our boys were almost dead j rom whooping cough, our doctor gave >no Minuto Cough (hire. They rccovred rapidly," writes P. H. Helles, Arylc, Pa. It cures coughs colds, rippo and all throat and lung troubles, i Dr. E. Norton. ' i Millionsof dollars, is the value placed * y Mrs. Mary Bird, llarrisburg, Pa., on ? lie life of her child, whioh she saved rom croup by tha uso of One Minute lough Curo. It cures all coughs, colds nd throat and lung troubles. Dr. E. Norton. "If you scour the world you will ever find a remedy equal to Ono Minf A ( ' UflUD Vnnbl/?n vv v/vufs*! v/UiVf nw/o I4UIIU1 I ilUMt'l i' the Mieanopy, Kla., "Hustler." It 11 red his family of LaGrippo and saves t tiousands from pneumonia, bronchitis, roup and all throat and lung troubles. ( Dr. K. Norton. Joseph Stockford, llodgdon, Me., 1 calcd a sore running for seventoon cars and cured his plies of long stand- r lg by using DeWitt's Witch Hazol alve. It euros all ?kin diseases. Dr, E. Norton. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eat. It artificially digests the food and aids Nature In strengthening and reconstructing the exhausted digestlre organs. It Is tho latestdlscorered dlgestant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it In efficiency. It Instant! V ?nrl Tinrm.n.nfln "Iirnu Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache,Gastialgla,Cramps, and all other results of Imperfect digestion. Prepared by C. C. DeWitt A Co., Chicago. For sale by I)r. K. Norton. Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. C O NI > E N 8 KI > S C11E D U L K. Trains Going South. No 66* No.36 I\ M. A M Leave Wilmington 3:16 Leave Marion b:34 Arrive Florenco 7:16 Leave Florenco *7:46 *3 1J6 Arrive Sumter 8:67 4 2V Leave Sumter 8:67 9 10 Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 00 No 62 runs through from Charleston via Central R. It., leaving Charleston 7:00a in . Litmus o: s? it. in , .Manning it m Trains Going North. No 64* No. 68 , A. M. 1' M Leave Columbia *6 60 *4 00 Arrivo Sumter 8:16 6 18 Leave Sumter *8: 16 6 00 Arrive Florence 0:80 7 20 Leave Florence 10.00 Leave Marion 10:40 Arrivo WUminqrt/m 1:26 * Daily. 68 rutin through to Charleston, 8 0., via Cenlral It It., arriving at Manning 6:41 p. in , Lanes 0:17 p. m . Charleston 8:00 p. ni Trains on Conway Branch leave Chadbourn 6 36 p in, arrive Conway 7 40 p m, returning leave Conway 8 30 a in, arrive Chadbourn 11 20 a tn, leavo Chadhourn 11 60 a in, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave Hub 8 00 p in* arrive Chadbourn 3 36 p m I Daily except Sunday. J. It. Konly, General Manager. T M Fifiierson, Traffic Manager II. M F.morson, General Passenger Ageu Wilmington and Conwav Railroad. Daily except StmtUf. Benthbouad.?No. &7. 0 Leave Hub.- 8 00 pm [ieaTe Iltona 8*10 pm Arrive Chadboirra- t 86 p? Leave Chadbotxra.- 6 86 nn Lmava Clarendon fl 00 pm Learn Ml Tatar fl IB pro Learn Lorli 6 8fl pro Learn ffanfnrd C 60 pm Learn fcnrboro... 7 09 pm Lnatn Pnreita 7 00 pm I/?\n Adrian .. 7 13 pm Arrlra Coiwaf 7 40 pro Northbound.?No. 99. Lrare Conway 8 80 am Learn Adrian 8 6B am Learn Prlrettn 0 00 am Learn Bayboro 0 10 am Lnarn Paaford 9 20 am Learn Lorin 9 85 pm Learn Ml Tabor 10 10 am i.ear* Clarnutfo* 1 40 am Arrirn Cbadbourn ..11 20 am Learn (Thadboorn 11 60 am learn 1 li on a 12 15 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pm J. R. Tolar. J. JI. Han T. H. Blachly. TOUR, HUT 8 CO., ico front 8tibet, N E \V YORK, Jommisilon Morchtnfrs and Jobber* of Naval Stores. biboral advances on oonsign menta of Naval Btorea and Cotton. Vlombcra of the New i'trk Cattan and Produce* Kxekaujo. 11. B 8CAEBOROUGH, Attorney at Law, CoiCWAT, 8. 0. \gent Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Now York. NOTICE. Conway Lodge, Ifo. 10. Knlahta of ^ythlaa will meet regularly the flrat and bird Thnreday nlghte of each month uatll dherwlae ordered. D. A.8fiT*T Chan. Com. i. C. 8rir?Y K.H.AB Hay 14th, it. ly H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Gouneellor at Law, COTTWAT, 8. C. WF*Office tip itairi over Herald office oppoalte Bank. \ WAOCAMAW Uim STEAMERS.?Tha Stumor will loire ib? wbirf it Cor r?j rrvrj Mtediy ud Wodieodiy room tug ar Ooorgitown it 4 o'olook, toooMag ill In ermodlite polite; nd will Ioit* her wharf t Goorgatowi itotj Taw day and Frld?y aorolng for C01W17 It 4 o'olook, touching 1 t ill intermodiaU point*. D. T. Morfolll, Qen'l Agt lid Troia., Coaway, S C. B. A. Mointrlyn Agent, Georgetown, H,C. To get strong J ind healthy use ' >ne bottle Murray's Iron Mix- r cure. Price 50e s TH NMMf DIIU6 GO., |: \ i a i i i ? JUKr * I What Would the Business World Do Without Us? \V? know our business and we always have emp'oyineut We scoured cur traioir g at the COLUMBIA BUSINESS COLLEGE, Columbia, S. C , I and would advice you to do likewise if you * desire tho b-st In tho country. No other school has a more thorough business course, a simpler or easier learned shorthand course, or more successful Graduates. Their catalogue gives full inforsration* as to course* of study, rates of tuition, board, securing positions, and other inducements Send for it and nainn tho course wanted. Address, W. U NEWBERRY, It President. MACHINERY UNO MILL SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ] It is now unseasonable to "Talk'' Cotton Ginning Machinery, but it is tho timo lor you to place your onions for? KlOE IIULLKV8, 11 ICE Til RE8ERS, ? 01UST MILV*. M \W MILL8, W.) H> WUKKINQ MACI1 INERT, ENUINES AND 1101 LKRrf, And many other useful and necessary rav obiues wo might mention. If yon waul the beet vnlno for your money, consult your interest by writing or calling on us for prices and estimates before placing your orders. Large Stocks. Prompt Shipments. Lowest Prices Consistent With "Honest Goods." W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMHIA, S. C. Ginning Machinery. O The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing System Is the simplest and most clTioicnt on the market. Forty-eight ooniplcto outfits in South Carolina; each one giving absolute satisfaction. Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Ileatn Saw Mills cannot be equalled i 11 dosign, efficiency or price by any dealer or manu cajturor in the South. Write for prices and catalogues. 1/. C. Badharo, 1112(5 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. n am eza kv n mm a m KIDNEY, ULADDER, UKINAR ( AND LIVER DISEASES, DYSI'EPSIA, INDIGESTION AND (J *NNl'IPATION POSITIVELY LURED 11Y THE USE ?>E Bit. HILTON'S LIFE V LIVER AND KIDNEYS. A ve^etvle preparation, wherever known tho in ht p >pulur of all romndiea, h -OMise i tie most elfeoiurtl. Sold wholcHalc by? Tho Murray Drug Co. Columbia. l)r 11. llacr, Charleston, S. C. OLD NORTH STATE OINTMENT 111 iirrr 4 ??? ? ~ m what YOU NEED! J I teeni es piles, eczema, oar buncles, boils, sore eyes, sties < and 4granulated eye lids, ol sores, cuts, bruises, bnrns, erysipelas, inflamntory rlieumatism, corns, bunions and ingrowing toe nails. Takon internally it cures dyspepsia, bilions fever, stomach and bladder troubles. It w Ihu fowl thing on tie ni>?rk?t for bene ?fflioiior? Thera Ib nothing k) trpial I for Kilnt<y Trouble and ('olio In hor<e?, uul all It oo?t 1? 2f>o A box. V At wholesale by ^ MUHI.AY lutua CO., Columhlt, fi. c. Macieat's School ef SHORTHAND ?ANT>?? TYPEWRITING COLUMBIA, 8. C. Tu?* School hue the reputation of being the ei ousiness institution in the State. Gradates nre holding remunerative positions in leroantilo houses, banking, insurance, real state, railroad oflioee, &o., in this And other tatea. Write to W. H. Maofeat, graphorCornulbia,.tJ. for tar an ?' ????(MoMee