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KNOWN BVITTFRUIT Dr. Talmage's Reasons For Be*4 lief in the Bible. THE GOOD ACCOMPLISHED In the World by the Scriptures as an Evidence of Divine Origin. An Answer to Agnosticism. In tho great conflict now raging in - Europe as in this country between Christianity and agnosticism l>r. Talii]age has taken a decided stand and in this sermon dcolaros his unwavering bcliof in tho divino origin of tho Scriptures; text, Matthew vii, 1(?, "Do men gather grapes of thorns'/" Not in this oouutry. Not in any oountry. Thorns stick, thorns laocrato, but all the thorns put together novcr yielded one cluster of Catawba or Isabella grapes. Christ, who was tho master of apt and potont illustration, is thus setting forth what you and I well know, that you cannot get that which is pleasant and healthful and good from that which is bad. If you find round, largo, beautiful cluster of grapes, you know that it was produocd by a good feMgUUiCvino and pnj Cr^wn ;l tangle of ^^^^^^r^Jnada thistle. Now, if I oal. show \ >ou that this howly Miblc yields gooufruit, healthful fruit, grand fruit, you will come to the conclusion it is a good Miblo, and all the arguments of tho skeptic ngainst it when ho tries to show it is a bad book will go overboard. "Do men gather grapes of thorns?" Can a bad book yield good results? SkeptioBwith great vchomonoo doclaro that tho liiblc is a cruel book. They read tho story of tho extermination of tho Canaanites and of all tho aneicut warB and of tho history of David and Joshua, aud thoy come to the oonclu Bion that the Bible iBin favor of laceration and manslaughter and massaorc. Now, a bad book will oroduoo a bad rosult; a oruel book will produoo a cruel rosult. You have friends who havo been in | the habit of reading tho Bible a great many years. Havo you notiood a tendency to oruclty on their part? Have you ever hoard any of thcui oorno out and practioally say, "I have beon road ing the story about tho extermination of the Canaanities, and 1 am seized upon with a disposition to out and slash aud maul and pinoh and murder and knock to picocs ovorything 1 oan lay my hands on?" Havo your frionds in proportion as they become diligent Biblo students and disciples of the Christ of the Bible shown a tendency toward massacre and murder and manslaughter? Has that been your observation? What has been the effoot upon your children of this oruel book? Or if you ?i 1 <v.~ 1 1. 1 1 * ? uu uw uuuvv iiiu uuus iu du rcau in your household, what has been tho offeot upon tho ohildron of other households where the word of God is honored'/ llavo thoy as a result of reading this cruol book gono forth with a cruel spirit to pull the wings off Hies and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob birds' nests? A cruel book ought to mako oruol people. If they diligently read it and got absorbed with its principles that causo must produce that effect. Again, inffdcls go on and most vehemently chargo that this Liiblo is an impuro book producos impuro rosults. No amount of money could biro you to allow your child to read an unolcan book. Now, if this Biblo bo an impuro book, whoroarc tho victims? Your father read it?did it mako him a bad / man? Your mother read it?did it mako her a bad woman? Your sister If) years in hcavon died in tho faith of this gospel?did it dospoil her nature? Somo say there aro 200,000,000 copies of tho Bible in existenco, somo say thoroare 100,000,000 copies of tho Biblo. It is impossible to got the aoourate statistics, but supposo thcro aro 200,000,000 oopiosof tho Biblo abroad, I this one book read moro than any 20 books that tho world overprinted, this ^ book abroad for agos, for ocnturics B where aro the victims? Show me 1,000. W Show 500 viotims of an impuro book. Show mo 100 dospoilod of tho Biblo. Show mo 50. Show me 10. Show mo f two. Show mo one! Two hundred million copies of an impure book and not one viotim of the impurity! On ( \in AAnI roriT tiam 1/"AW "? * * 11 4 v?u vuuvtoi/, JUU RUUIT ?oi y won llllll it is where tho Bible has tho most power that tho family institution is most rospooted. You must remember also that tho authors of tho Bible oamc from difforIent lands, from different ages and from different centuries. They bad no communication with each other; they did rot have an idea as to what was tho Bief design of the Bible, and yot their ftritings, got up from all these diffcr Llands Oil thoso diflorcnt ages and . these different ocnturics, coming Bother mako a perfect harmony in tho Knion of tho vory best soholars of all Rinds. Is not that a most remarkable foot? ^^gain, infidels vehemently chargo 1 vjfebe Bible is an unsoientilic book. |||MQ-mer disooursc I showed you p was no collision between y rod revelation, and I went from ^ 1 point in tho discussion, but Ius have authority in this mattu and 1 oannot give 40 or .'>0 or p exclusively to tho study or | i mai huiuc men givo. JiCt us nthority in this matter. / says there is a oollsion botweon /e and revelation? Well, Herbert ' *foert Tyndall, Darwin. They say /e is a discord between soicnco and Elation; but I will bring you names ^ / men who have found a perfoot aoVd betwoen science and rovelation? men as muoh higher in intellectual oharaoter abovo those whom I havo mentioned as the Alps and Mount .. ' Washington and the Himalayas aro v higher than the hill baok of your houso. Hersohel, Kepler, Leibnitz, Hoss, Isaac H ^ Newton. My friends, we are in re989^ spectable oompany when wo believe in BBBP the word of God?vory respeotable HH^Lpompany. ra Wf In the temple of nature there are two orohestras, the orohestra of revela wF tion and tho orohestra of soienoe. Tho a|jWorohestra of revelation has all tho mu I? I imx'i I'i?in iSk1 I.-*< *>' !?fl i????1?ft, >. >?? ? - - I Meal InJll^VoCOtfl full atld, ll ready tor t><o buM of eternal ftS&oftL The ofohesira of science in oflly Just stringing tlm instruments. If ydil will only wait long enough you will find that it is as in tho old (iorman cathedrals whoro they h.ivo an organ at ono ond of the building and an organ at tho other end of tho building, both responding to oaoh other and making mighty music. So it will bo in tho tomplo of the univorso?tho orohestra of rcvolntion and tho orohestra of soicnoo will rospond to each other after awhilo, and it will bo found that tho roar of tho ooean is only tho magnificent bass of tin fntnnln vninnii nnit tliol llm nurlli is only tho pedals ol' a great organ, of which tho heavens aro the koyboard. Now, 1 might, as infidols havo failed to prove that tho Uiblc is a cruel book, that the Hiblo is an impure book, that tho lliblc is a contradictory book, that tho Hiblo is an unscientific book ? I might iuovo nonsuit in this easo of Infidelity, tho plaintiff, against Christianity, tho defendant, but I will not take advantage of tho oircumstanocs, for when tho skeptio goes 011 to say that we aro a gullible people, whon he goos on to say, as ho often does, that the groatcr tho improbability tho more we like to bolicvo it when I10 goes on to Bay that the llihlo is made up of a lot of manuscripts, one picked up here and another thcro and another from some other place and that tho whole tiling is an imposition on tho orcdulity of the human race, I must reply to that chargo. The lliblo is mado up of tho Old Testament and tho New Testament. Lot us tako the Now Testament first. Why do 1 believe it? Why do I tako it to my heart? It is because it can bo fr^cod back to tho divine heart just as easily 2S that aisle eati bo traced to that 1 t V I ? a .. : -1 - a - if . 1 I uoor, ana ir** himio io uku aoor. .Jcromo arnl i.\uscbius in the (irst century and Origin in '.Lw rfftdond century and other writers inv the third and fourth centuries gavo iwJist of the New Testament writers justV-vaotly corrcs ponding with our liat, shewing that tho same Now Testament which wo have they had in tho fourth oontViry and tho third century and tho scooiN oontury and first century. Hut wherV did they get Now Testament? Thtyj.got it from lronioU8. Where did IrvJious got it? He got it from Polyoarp. Whore did l'olycarp got it? llo got it from St. .John, who was tho personal associate I of the Lord .Jesus Christ. My grandfather gave a book to my father, my father gavo it to me, 1 give it to inv child. Is there any difficulty in lit oing this line? On communion day I will start tho ohalico at that end of the aisle, and iiio ohalico will pass along to tho other < nd of tho aislo. Will it bo difficult to traeo tho line of that holy ohalioc? No difficulty at all. This one will say, 4,I gavo it to that one," and this one will say, "1 gavo it to that one." Hut it will not be so long a lino as this to traoo the Now Testament. It is ea.-ior to get at tho fuot. Hut you say, "Although this was handed right down in that way, who knows but they were lying impostors? How oan you take their titatlmAnu?" 'I'lmu ili.ul -> ilVJ VUVU M'l VIIU IIIICII of that book. Men novrr dio for a lie cheerfully and triumphantly. They were not ljing impostors. They died in triumph for the truth of that New Testament. "Well," says some one, "now 1 am ready to believo that tho Now Testament is from tho heart, of Christ, but how about the Old Testament? Why do you believo that?" I bcliovc tho Old TcHtamont beoauso the prophesies foretold ovents hundreds and thousands of years ahead?events which afterward took plaoo. How far can you see ahoad? Two thousand years? Can you hco ahead a hundred yoers? Can you sco ahead livo minutes? No, no! Human prophecy amounts to nothing. Hero theso old prophets stood thousands of years back, and they forotold ovents which came accurately truo faton in the future centuries. Suppose I should stand here and Fay to you, "Twonty live hundred and sixty years from now, three miles and a half from tho city of Moscow, thcro will ho an advent, and it will be in a certa^M ly, and it will bo amid ccrtaifl roundings." It would make no ifl sion upon you beoauso you knowB not forsoc a thousand years or onH or one minute, and I cannot tcllH is going to transpiro in a land far| Hut that is what these old prfl did. Vou must remember that TyrH Habylou and Nincvoh were iiH pomp and splondor whon thoso |>H oies, theso old prophoiios, saiifl \ : would be destroyed. Thoso oitifl ^ architecture that make the hoiMd^fll modern cities pcrfcotly insigniM" i. Yot theso old prophets walkcdH^H through thoso magnificent streetls and said: "This has all got to ooine down. This is all going to bo leveled." Suppose a man should stand Up in theso cities today and say, "Thcro will bo hat vests of wheat add oorn whero those cities now stand, add thoso streets will be pasturo for cattle." Such a man would bo sent ih the insano asylum. Yet the prophets did that very thing. WUcro is litby Ion today? You go am^'walk over the ruins of Habylon and you will not find a leaf or a grass blado of thoso splondid hanging gardons, and in the summor timo tho ground aotually blisters tho foot of the travclor. Habylon destroyed acoordingto the prophocy. Where is Tyro? In tho day of its pomp tho prophet said, "Tho fishor ?:ii J il.! .. i ? luuii win ury mcir uois wnero this oity stands." If you should go to that placo today, you would find that litoralally. Tho fishermen aro drying their nots on tho rooks where tho city of Tyro onco stood. Tartar and Turk and Saraoen drying their nets on tho rocks. I Go up Chatham street, New York, and find tho fulfillment of a prophooy mado thousands of yoars ago. Why is it the Israclito is always distinguishable, whether you see him in Now York or Peking or Vionna or Stookholm or London or Paris? Tho Knglishman goes to America and after awilo ho loses his nationality. Tho Amcrioan goes to Kngland and after awhilo ho loses his nationality. Tho norwegian his, tho Russian his, tho Italian his, the Spaniard his, tho Israclitios never. Why? Rccauso this book provided thousands of yoars ago that tho Israo lites should be scattered in all lands and that they should bo kept separate, separate, until tho Lord took thorn back to Jerusalem. And yo who persecute tho Israolitos had bettor look out. ! I Thoy aro God's people, and according j # ft A . i If > * * - "* ?& t9 Mto Wopheojr tnido thoflsaudfl of yohrtj agd they are diBtiofcUlnhablc, they arc kept tibparato Until the Lord takes them to their natlvo home. Mow oould thoBo old prophots forotoll that? How oould thoy know that thousands of yoars ago? Wan it incro human skill? Could you havo seou so far ahoad? Could you havo prodiotod anything liko it? Thoso old prophots 1 stood looking down in tho great futuro and said a Messiah would bo born in a oortaiu nation, in a oortain tribe, in a , family, in a oortain plaoe, at a certain timo, thousands of yoars ahead. Agos rolled on, ages on ages, and after awhilo Christ, tho only ono who has been oallcd Messiah by any groat number of pooplo?Christ w^s born, is that very nation nrodiotod. in that w?ii? i , | ? \ 1 J IliUU, III in that very family, in that very place, at that very time. Could human skill havo i>rc<lictcd it? Docb not that provo ( beyond all controversions and boyond 1 all doubt that thoso prophets wore in- ( spired of the Lord Almighty, looking * down in tho future and Hoeing thou- ' sands of years ahead oeourronoes to * take place, just as plainly as 1 see your ' faces this morning. "Well," says hoiiio one, "now I am ready to take tho Now Testament as from tho heart of Christ, and 1 am ! ready to boliovotho prophecies. Tho ovidcnco is boyond all disputo. Hut you must remember," says my friend, "that tho propheeios arc only a small part of tho old book. You don't expcot . us to believe all the old book." If you found ono of your good,' honest letters , in an envelope with 10 or 20 oruol, lying, filthy letters, how long would you allow that honest loiter to stay there? In a half uiinuto you would either snatoh it ( out of the cnvelopo or you dostroy tho whole onvclopo. Now, do you suppose tho Lord God would allow those puro prophecies, thoso propheeios which you admit must have come from the hand of God, from divino inspiration?do you supposo Cod would allow these pure prophcoics to bo bound up and put in j the same envelope with the book of j. lob, and the books of I'salmn, and the book of Deuteronomy, and tho other books, if thoso books wcro not good . books? Itcuwlnu nil tliiu "nn ~ U . . v.?.x?v? vii i.i| j\j \i 111 itnt ifiiiuiuuur I* that the most of tlio writers of this hook woro uneducated men. llow can you v account for tho fact that when Thomas Babington Macau lav, standing in tho house of parliament in London, wanted j to finish off a magnificent sentence ho t quoted from tho fisherman of (ialilee, * r, sitting in his houso, wanting to finish one of his groat paragraphs of history, ho quotod tho words of the fishormen of j Galilee? Why is it that those uneducated mon have moro inlluonco on modern times than all tho soholars of ^ antiquity ? Bocauso thoy were divinely y inspired, because God stood back of t them. Thoy were not oduoatod and scholarly. It was not by foroo of rhotorio that they triumphed, but today ^ those humble fishermen, thoso unoduoated fishermon, wield moro influence in all our modern cities than any *J."> N men living in this generation and day. ' They must havo been inspired. There must havo been a divino influence bo- t hind them and before thorn, and abovo them, and within them. , Boaides that, you must remember that thus book has been under fire, for ( oonturics, and after all the bombard t mcnt of the skeptics of all tho oonturies, thoy havo not knooked-out of this Biblo a pieco as largo as the small ond j of a sharp ncodlo. Oh, how tho old a book sticks together. Uusauotifiod ^ geologists try to pull away tho book y of Genesis. Thoy say thoy do not bo- * licvo if; it cannot bo there was light beforothc sun shone; it cannot bo all J( this story about Adam and Kvo; and ^ thoy pull at tho book of Gouosis, and nicy navo ocon pulling a great while, ' yet whoro is the book of Uonosis? Standing just whoro it stood all tho timo. Tlicro is not a man on earth who has ever erased it from his Hiblo. 1 ^ think wo will want tho Hiblo in heaven. j>( 1 think wo shall have tho Hiblo in ^ heaven. Oh, 1 want to hear David with his own voioo read, "Tho Hord is my shep- t| his ?>a " t to t\ hot E; um- f '' rth, v ,old i? lood (| ,0~ w cars leJ a ' <?" A 0 111 j( coop f( 'hen t 1 tD ai "Whoro shall 1 go?" said a dying jj Hindoo to tho Brahuiilio priest to (){ whom ho had given inonoy to pray for ^ his salvation. "Where shall 1 go after I die?" Tho Hrahmitio priest said, jT "You will first of all go into a holy y ?iuadrupcd." "Hut," said tho dying Hindoo, "whero shall I go then?" tj "Then you shall go into a singing bird." "Hut," said tho dying Hindoo. 'r "whoro thon shall 1 go?" "Then," said w the Hrshmitio, "you will go into a beau- j tiful llovver." Tho dying Hindoo threw tt up it id arms in an agony of solicitation jj" as ho paid, "But whoro shall I go last tl of all? ' Thank God, this Biblo tolls 0 tho Hindoo, tells you, tolls mo, not whoro 1 shall go today, not whoro I Hj shall go tomorrow, not whoro I shall go t( next year, but whoro I shall go last of rr all ! gi "1 had stotnaoh troublo twonty years a and gave up hopo of boing ourcd till I bogan to use Kodol Dyspopsia (Juro. It a has dono mo so uiuoh good I call it tho w savior of my life," writos W. K. Wilkinson, Albany, Tonn. It digests what you oat. f' Dr. K. Norton. 'a n Gainosvillo, Ga., Doo. 8, 1899 y* Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has ^ boon usod in my family ana I am por- V( footly satisfied that it is all, and will ^ do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, T A. 11. C. Dorsoy. lc ai l> U T - -! !. '? i . u.?x ?ui using it now myson. ?> It's doing mo good.?Sold by Tho Mur- ?1 ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all w druggists. tf y< "DoWiti'? liitilo Karly Kisors aro N tbo liuont pills I ovor usod."?D. J. tl Alooro. Millbrook, Ala. Thoy quiokly ai ouro all liver and bowol troubles. tl Dr.-JO. Norton. fa HE IS A WINNER. - - - - - - - - New York Will Go for Bryan This Year. BO SAY A SCORE OF SIGNS. Alfred Henry Lewis Also Says So, and Gives His Reasons for Believing It Is True. Alfred llonry Lowis, writing from Mow York to tho Atlanta .Journal, pro- j liots that Bryan will carry Now \ ork icxt fall, Ho Hay? Bryan will insist )n a dcmaml being mndo in the plat- | form for frco silver at Hi to 1 in specific orms, and that tho very words of tho Jhioago doounicnt bo given place in :ho coming platform, and ho thinks Aryan's wishes will bo carried out. liowis sayH: I have made diligont search among ill classes and sorts of business folk, rom tho day laborer and artisan to tho norohant, tho banker and tho slook ipooulator of Wall street in his lair, with tho one purposo of discovering heir sentiment in that matter, and i earn tho probable clfcot of a roitoraion of silver at It! to 1 on the Now ' k'ork volflF iu November. To U nniim. I y (rank, I <lo not beliovo, from all I intoned to, that it will have any maliffeot or indeed any effect at all. h'ilaneo cannot, of courso, oven by wordriekstors, bo called as Hancock called arifr, "a local issue." There isnoquouion of its general character. Hut incrost in finance as a topic of polities hifts with the region investigated. In oino stalls it burns; in others it is dull ?nd dim. This latter is the condition n Now York. Hryan's argument is at null so far as this state is concerned, 'lie delegation was "instructed" to oto for him at tho convention, and it n blithe to obey that command, Hut icithcr the "instruction" nor its chccrul acceptance by delegates depended r doponds on his silver poso. His ?'cw York endorsement was a coinpliacnt to his matchloss gonius for lead rship, and oarno to him bceauso of is popularity with tho people, and for hat tho party leaders hero bclicvo him o bo, in general terms and for goncral athcr than for specific reasons, oapablo f polling tho most votos on eleotion ay. Interest in finanoo as a subjoot was ever so warm nor so cogent in New 'ork as in tho west and south. It rasn't in 180(5; it isn't now. There aro wo sorts of original silver folk; tho lan (west) who has silver to sell nd aims to promoto a price, and ho man (south) who, pinched for oirulating medium, socks to expand tho oluuio of monoy with freo silver, lew York never had silver to sell, and lways had money enough. Whon lonny was soaroo in tho wost and south ho Now York banks?and for that very oasou?wcro stuffed with it. Whon ho west was borrowing at 1 I per cent, nd hor mino enterprises lagging hrough ih<*.ow prion o! silvci'; when ho south was paying 10 per oeut for jans, Now York was borrowing money t '> and 4 and at most f> per cent. Toay it would employ the day and night iligetioo of tho best business man to cop $1,000,000 loaned on fair local sc uritics at I per oont. I oito these nets of a money condition, past and resent, as tho reasons why Now York as not warmed and docs not warm to nance as a subject. Sho has ncvor i ecu pricked by tho bayonot of a money i r a silvor nocd. ? In 18% the New York gold man was ed faced with fear. Tho silver man, 1 r he who for his Demoeraoy should i avo been galled so, was listless and all of sluggishness. The gold man's xoitemcnt did not rest bceauso of any pprehension of local silver triumph, "ho Now Y >rk gold man was afraid that ho general, national silver sentiment light avalanche itsolf upon him by arrying tin rest of tho country. For hut ho trembled four years and oonributod his treasures to llanna and lught tooth and nail. Today ono finds > hat a ohango has 00111c over tho New ] ork gold man; today I10 is as colu and ( lditforcnt to tinanco as a topic, as is ( tat thick and thin Domoorat, who, al- 1 ays voting the ticket, was perforeo a ilvcr man lour years ago, and will be , Sain if silvor It) to 1 is the platform. | ind the cause of the gold man's indifironoo to fuianoo is this: Ho no longer ;ars; he bolicvos today that if silvor 10 > 1 is put in tho Democratic platform < nd Bryan elected thorcon still thoro 1 tn couio no ohango. Silver, ho bo- ] eves, oouio what may, is out of reach ] f its adherents for at least four years, .nd so his approhension goes to sloop. ?. As 1 cast tho search-light of inquiry lto this oonoorn and that of New ork's bif^'ini* lnimonitii I f/v..?/l I ? ,MD ..WM.MUIVJ ) i iuuuu, ?n ,*ted, that hero at leant the ques- ] on of silver and tho platform uttcrnco on it would cut no groat liguro. ho labor folk, thoso who work for day ages with thoir hands, aro, 1 found, 1 most to a man for Bryan. And thoy ro highly onthusiastio; thoy rogard irn as certain of viotory. But noither ' icir loyalty to Bryan nor thoir hopes 1 f his oozing sucooss, baso thomsolvcs ' n silvor. Thoy caro nothing about Ivor and ono couldn't hold thoir at- ' jntion a momont while discussing it. hey aro for Bryan booauso thoy ro- ] ard him as tho poor man's oandidato, i nd look upon him as a fashion of labor loses with a mission to load them into ( promised land of shortor hours, steady 1 ork and hotter pay. Among thoso not striotly of tho laor olass, but who may bo oallod mor- | hants and other handlors of monoy in irgo amounts, I found many Bryan lOn. ThflV WOro MoKinW innn frtiir earn ago. Now thoy havo loft him. 1 l8 stated, they aro not dotorrod by nil- 1 cr, and havo no longor a fear of finance ' oforo thoir eyes, regarding tho money uostion as sottlod for four yoars at iast. And thoy aro on othor subjects id issuos, dcoidodly against MoKinley , id tho Kopublioans. invostigation t towed three sorts or kinds of votes, hioh is one moro than existed four t jars ago. In 180<>, thoro woro Bryan r )tca and McKinloy votos in Now York. ( ow, as was stated in a former lottcr, | tore aro Bryan votes, McKinloy votes t id anti-McKinlcy votos. This last is 10 growing voto, and eaoh day soos it >ttcn and swoll at the exponso of tho l < II ?V 'twwn Ml iwrnit Uepublicans. The MolUnlof rot5 In becoming decisively lean ana haggard and palo in tho face because of the bleeding it receives to augmont and roddon tho veins of tho Anti-MoKiniey contingent. Theso last will voto for Bryan in voting against MoKinley. It's not that they lovo Bryan moro, but McKinlcv loss. Those Anii-KnKinln?. ..V.MIV/ itoH hato and fear tho prosont administration to a dogrco not drcauicd of by any normal Domocrat. As I moved among tho McKinloy malcontents with intont to discovor their objections to MoKinlcy, when I dug about tho roots of their obvious hatred of tho administration, I discovered sundry matters. Tho Uormaus, Kronen, Austrians and Italians turn from MoKinlcy beoauso of Militarism. Thoy aro against an army, or an army inoreasc, rather. Thoy look on it as tho beginning of what will ond in that system of compulsory cnlistmont in tho army from whioh thoy tlod. Thousands of native Amorioans, men of best and purest American stock, and who voted for MoKinlcy, aro now his most aorid and determined foos, beoauso of Imperialism. I found no end of thoso. Thoy regard our prcsont antics in the Orient as little less than treason to the very spirit of American institutions as founded by tho fathers. Of all issues, so called, howevor, it was plain that tho subjoot of trusts excited widest concern. This was peculiarly truce of young men of ambition and force. ''Why," as one man said to mo, "Trusts iu their last Icgitimato expression shut the final door on anything liko individual suoocss. Tho host that a man can get out of it is to work all his life for wagCH. It, tho trust system, sentences him to bo a servant all his days. No mat tor how good you may become at whatever art or trade you follow, you can never grow to bo an omploycr never bo anything but one of tho ouiployod. It is a killer to iudi\idual independence, and puts shackles on one's spirt of enterprise. It's the feudal system restored; or tho padrono peon system of Moxioo. Tho worst featuro of the trust system as 1 look at it, is'nt the elevation of prices of goods; the worst feature of trusts is that they lower the standard of manhood." As this man talked, so do nino of ten of tho young inen of Now York, not born to case and riehes, fool. They aro against trusts, and thoy look on tho Uopublioan party and MoKinlcy as the promoters and champions of trusts. For whioh roason, avoiding McKinloy, thoy will voto for Bryan. My search for facts, confirmed in twonty fashions, that the Democracy and Bryan aro to carry this stato. It is in tho air, and will soon gain general advertisomont by ooing in tho genoral mouth. Tho stato taken as a wholo is no longer afraid of silver nor any platform of it; tho stato is afraid of trusts, militarism and imperialism. Also, it is aroused ovor tho frauds and venal iniquities whioh have marched through tho prosont administration too or heel, ono pressing on another in a very lookstop of corruption. 'lo add to tho abovo, and in favor of tho Democracy, is tho certainty of IMatt's intonded treason to MoKinloy which each sun makes rnoro plain. Tho knife is a terrible woapon of politics in nmUIno W V~_l. .. maiu tine nun 1 Ullv. I lull nan, if ho. will, drivo it to tho heart of full *>0,000 votes which had clso lived and voted lor MoKinlcy. And fear not hut ho'll do it. ltevongo for tho senate taking off of Quay; kih own safety in tho future; ana his natural and jealous resentment of tho apoplcctio Ilanna in that chair of party control which ho himsolf should fill, will set Piatt to tho knifo this fall with as eager a heart, and as warm a graoo as ever a Borgia wont a poisoning with. This stato, silver in or silver out of tho platform, will go for Bryan in November, and so on every hillptop of politics say a score of signs and omens. "After suffering from piles for fifteen years 1 was cured by using two boxos of DoWitt's Witch 11 a 7. o 1 Salvo," writes \V. .1. Baxter, North Brook. N. C. It heals everything. Boware of counterfeits. Dr. 10. Norton. Another Cadtosliip. Senator McLaurin iu a tologratn to The State says. "I have just reoeivod notification from tho secretary of war :o nominate a oadot for West Point on >r bel'oro tho 10th day of .July. 1 will no in Columbia on .July 3d for tho purpose af making a selection and rc'iuest applicants to meet mo thoro." No loubt a number of application will bo addressed the sonatorat Columbia. The easiest and most effcctivo mcth)d of purifying tho blood and invigorating tho system is to tako DoWitt's Little Marly Kisors, the famous little pills for oloansing tho liver and bowels. Dr. E.Norton, Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD COMPANY OK SOUTH CAROLINA. Condensed Schedule. Trains Going South. Dated Nov. 19, 1899. No.66* No.86 P. M. A. M [.oave Wilmington 8:46 Leave Marion 9:84 Arrive Florcnoe 7:16 Leave Florence *7:46 *2 84 trri*? finmlttr a.K.1 a ?? - . - O.ul O OO No. 62. A. M. Leave Sumter 8:67 *9 40 Vrrivo Columbia 10:20 1100 No. 62 runs through from Charleston via Central R. 11., leaving Charleston 7:00 a. m., Lanes 8:84 a. m., Manning 9:09 a. m. Trains Going North. No. 64* No.68 A.M. P.M. Leave Columbia *0:40 *4 16 \rrivo Sumter 8:06 6 86 No. 82 P. M. Leave Sumter *8:06 6 06 \rrive Florence 9:20 7 20 Leave Florence 9.60 Leave Marion 10:80 Arrive Wilmington 1:16 Daily. >o. 63 runs through to Charleston, 8. 0., ria Central R. R., arriving at Manning 6:04 >. in., Lanes 6:43 p. m., Charleston8:80 p. ra. Trains on Conway Branoh leave Chad* >ourn 6 36 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p m, cturning leave Conway 8 80 a m, arrivo Ihadhourn 11 20 a m, leave Chadbourn 11 60 > m, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave Iub 8 00 p m, arrive Chadbourn 8 86 p m. )aily except Sunday. { J. R. Kenly, General Manager. T. M. Emerson, Traffio Manager. < II. M. Emereon, General Passenger Agent 1 y , v ^ L J ..?LUUN.?1!9J! PRACTICAL The Demand of the Times. Su MacFeat's School of Shoi COLUMBI W. H. MacFeafc, Court Si Terms reasonable. THE LEADER INDEED. The New Ball Bearing Domestic Sewing Machine It Loads in Workmanship, Beauty, Capaoity, Strength, Light Running. Kvory Woman Wants Quo. Attachments, Needles and Farts lor Sewing Machines of all makes. When ordering needles send sample. Price 27c per dozen, postpaid. Agonta Wanted in llnoooupiod Territory. J. L. SHULL, 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, 8. C. Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. 97. Leavo Hub 8 00 pin Leave llions 3*10 pm Arrive Chadbourn 3 36 pm Leave Chadbourn 6 36 pm | Leave Clarendon 6 (X) pm Leave Mt Tabor 6 16 pm Leave Loria G 86 pm Leave Sanford G 60 pm Leave Uayboro 7 00 pm Lo?ve Privetl* 7 09 pin t Leave Adrian 7 12 pm Arrive Conway 7 40 pm Northbound.?No. 98. Leave Conway 8 30 am Leave Adrian 8 66 am Leavo lMvette 9 00 am Leave Uayboro w. 9 10 am Leavo Sanford 9 20 am Leave Loris 9 36 pm Leavo Mt Tabor 10 10 am Leave Clarendon 11 40 am Arrive Chadbourn 1120 am ' weave v;itau bourn 11 60 am ^ Leave IHodh 12 16 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pm ^ Murray's Aromatic Mouth Wash 1 Whitens the Teeth * Cleanses (lie Mouth Sweetens the lireath The? Murray Drug Co., COLUMBIA, S. 0. PITTS' ANTISEPTIC 1NVIG0RAT0R! Cures La Gr'ppe, dyspepsia, indigestion I and all stomaeh and bowel troubles oolio or ] oholera morbus, teething troubles with ohildren, kidney troubles, bad blood and k all sort* of sores, risings or felons, outs and ( burns. It is as good autiseptio, whon looally f applied, as anything on the market. . Try it and you will praiso it to others. * If your druggist doesn't keep it, write to THE MURRAY DRUG CO., 1 Columbia, 8. C. I WACCAM A W LINK 8TE\V1KK8.?The 1 Hteanier will leave the wharf at Con- i way every Monday and Wednesday morning ( for Georgetown at 4 o'clook, touching all in- n terinediate points; and will leave her wharf j. at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday C morning for Conway at 4 o'clock, touching at all intermediate points. a D. " taeill, Gen'I Agt and Troas., C ./*y, H C. B. A. Muunerlyn * Agent, Georgetown, B.C. NOTIOK. .1 Conway Ii<)dge, No. 00. Knights of l'ythius will meet regularly the ilrst aiul ' third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordered. f). A.spivry Chan. Com. J. KJ. OI'IVKY K. It. & 8 May 14th, 96. ly II. II. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Conway, S. C. MBfOffieo up stairs over Herald office opposite Bank. I>ii. H. H. BURROUGHS, Q Conway, S. C. Residence and office in build in# formerly occupied by E. W. Nolley, Calls promplly answered niglit or day. R. B. Scarborough, CONWAY, B. C, ATrORNEY AT LAW. For Salo. One Direct Current Kleotrio Fan, 260 volts. For terms apply to Beoretary Orangeburg Club, P. O. Box 265, Orange>urg, 8. C. MS!? EDUCATION; ch is the Training afforded at :thand and Typewriting a} 8. C. teno#?rapher, Principal. Write for catalogi^^^^^ Having formed Jr connection ?with ? The ELLIOTT BIN REPAIR WORKS 1 am now prepared to repair and rebuild cotton gins as thoroughly as the various manufacturers. This branch of the business be under the personal 4 supervision of i , t MR. W. .1. ELLIOTT, W who lias had f<)ULfew^uireiirs practical expedience ing tiie Elliot (Tin, am/Wfr, is well known-to most gin users in this State. now is the Time I Bring: Your Gins Before You Need Them! COMPI.ETE (1INNINO SYSTEMS, EQUIPPED WITH TIIE MOST PEUEECT PNEUMATIC ELEVATINO AND DISTRIBUTING SYSTEMS ON THE MARKET. 8IYTYBIQHT COMPLETE OUTFITS IN USE IN THIS STATE, AND EVERY ONE OF THEM OIV1 NO ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. Highes Grade Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Brick Machines, Wood Working Machinery,Saws, Pulleys, etc Wo offer: Quiok delivery, low prioei and reasonable toims. Yr. O. BAD HAM, 1326 Main St., Columbia, S. C. COMPLETE GINNINM4 EQUIPMENTS. The Murray Improv^^^H Cleaning and tributing The simplest and mosfl Complete Power Equipments, anfl ^lain, Automatio and Corli'aefl Boilers, Saw Mills, Woodwo^J Thresh Grist Mills. Machinery, appuifl h. 104 Uervaia nH z Near Unicm ? ;i? TRAPB M . OLD NORTH STA'lS ^ dENT, the Great AM ^ .> 'P,;.. lealer, cures Piles, I iVn,.',;^s i lore Eyes, Gianulated?f|||Js?|^^g|p| Carbuncles, Boils, Cut is, Old Sores, Burns, lunions, Ingrowing tH nllammatory Rlieu Vclies and Pains, lands and Lips, Eryji^^^^^^^^S t is something teeds. Qnfieii^d nlwa^^^M ^or sale bv all lealers. At ?HB MURRAY Columbia, S. C. ilrtman PSH Ihe EXpres^H titeain Dyeing description. Steai?@B?MBBBg chemical cleansing.^^^^HI^^ for our new price lip^TOa circular. All iworlt guar anteed or no charge./ Irtman's Steam Dye Works j 1310 Main Street ] \ Columbia, S. O j A. L. Ortman, Proprietor. \ i k Jno. S. Reynotis, Attorney at Law, , COLUMBIA, 8. a I