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Hpppppp^-' ^ TALMAGE ON BOOKS]! . i The Noted Divine Qivee Practical i Hints on WHAT TO READ. The Oreatest Blessing of a Nation Is an Elevated Literature; Its Greatest Curse, an Impure Literature l)r. Taltnage, who has been spending a few days in St. Petersburg, sends the following report of a discourse whioh will be holpful to thoso who have an appetite for litoraturc and would liko bouio rulcH to guide thorn in the solootion of hooks and newspapers; text, Acta six, li>, "Mauy of theru bI-jo whioh used ourious arts brought their books together and burned them before all toco, and they counted tho prioo of them and found it 50,000 piooos of silvor." Paul had bcon stirring up Ephcsus with semo livoly sermons about the sins of that place. Among tho more important rosults was tho fact that tho oitiions brought out their had books and in a public place made a bonfire of them. 1 see tho people ecrKix>& out with their arms full of Ephosian literature and tossing it into the tlaincs. 1 hear an economist who is standing by saying: "Stop this waste, llcrc aro 17 ,500 worth of books. Do you propose to burn thorn all up? If you don't want to read thorn yourselves, sell thorn and let somobody olso read them." "No." said tho people; "if theso books aro not good for ub, they aro not good for anybody elso, and wo shall stand and watch until tho last leaf has burned to ashes. They have dono us a world of harm, and thoy shall never do others harm." Hear the flames oraeklo and roar! Well, my frionds, one of tho wants of tho cities is a great bonfiro of had hooks and nowspapers. Wo have fuel enough to mako a blaze 200 feet high. Mauy of tho publishing houses would do well to throw into the hla/.o thoir outiro stook of goods. Hring forth tho insuffcrablo trash and put it into the firo and let it he known in the prcscnco of God and angels and men that you aro going to rid your homes of the over topping and underlying ourac of prolligate literature. The printing press ia the mightiost agenoy on oarth for good and for evil. Tho tniniater of the gospel, standing in a pulpit, has a responsible position, hut 1 do not think it is as responsible as tho position of an editor or a publisher. At what distant point of time, at what farout eyolo of otomity, will ooaso tho influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or a lloraoo Greeley, or a .lames Gordon Rennott, or a Watson Webb, or an KrastUB iirooks, or a Thomas Kinsolla? Tako the overwhelming statistios of tho circulation of the daily and weekly uowspapers and then cipher if you oau how far up and how far down and how far out reach the influences of tho Amorioan printing pross. What is to bo tho issue of all this? I bolievo the hord intends tho printing press to be tho ohiof moans for the world's rcscuo and evangelization, and J think that tho great last battlo of tho world will not ho fought with swords and guns, but with types and presses, a puriticd andgespol litcraturo triumphing over, trtmpling down and crushing out forever that which is depraved. The only way to ovoroomo unoloan literature is by scattering abroad that which is healthful. May God spood the cylinders of an honest, intelligent, aggressive, Christian printing press. I havo to tell you that tho groatcst blessing that over camo to tho nations is that of an olevatod litorature, and the groatcst soourgo has boon that of unoiean literature. This last has its viotims in all occupations and departments. It has helped to fill iusano asylums and t cnitontiarios and almshouses and dens of shame. The bodies of this iuleotion lie in the hospitals and in the graves, while their souls aro being tossod ovor into a lost otornity, an avalanche of horror and despair! The London plague was nothing to it. That counted its viotitns by thousands, but this modern pest has already shovelod its millions into the oharnol house of the morally dead. The longost rail train that ever ran over tho tracks was not long enough or largo onough to oarry the beastliness and the putrefaotion which havo boon gathered up in had books and nowspapers in tho last 20 years. Now, it is amid such circumstances that I put a question of ovormastoring importance to you and your families. What books and newspapers shall wo read? You see I group them together. A newspaper is only a book in a swifter and more portable s) upo, and the samo rules whioh will apply to book reading will apply to newspaper reading. What shall we read? Snail our minds bo tho reoeptaole of everything that an author has a mind to write? Shall there be no distinction between the tree of lifo ana the troe of doath? Shall wo stoop down and drink out of the trough which tho wiokednoss of men has filled with pollution and shame? Shall we mire in impurity and ohaso fantastio will-o'the-wisps aoross the swamps, when wo might walk in the blooming gardens of Qod? Oh. no! For the sako of our prosont ana everlasting wolfare we must make an intelligent and Christian ekoioe. Standing, as we do, ohin docp in fiotitious literature, the question that young people aro asking is, "Shall we read novels?" I reply, There are novels that arc pure, good, Christian, elevating to the heart and ennobling to the life. But I have still furthor to say that I believo that 75 out of the 1(H) novels in this day are baleful and destructive to the last degree. A pure work of fiction is history and poetry oombinod. It is a history of things around us with the licenses and the assumed names of poetry. The world can never pay the dobt whioh it owes to suoh writers of fiotion as Hawthorne and MoKensie and Landon and Hunt and Arthur and others whose names are familiar to all. The follies of high lifo were never better exposed than by Miss Edgewortb. The memories of the past were never ruore faithfully embalmed than in the writings of Walter Boott. ( i i ilMiiwi A" ViwTW AfrM.iWa.ii Opera's novels are llcaltfully redolent i irlth the bteath of thr seaweed and the kit1 of tho American forest. Charles Klngsley has smitten tho morbidity of the world and led a great many to approoiato tho poetry of sound health, strong muscles and fresh air. Thackeray did a grand woik in caricaturing ho pretenders to gontility and high blood. Diokcns has built his own mouument in his books, which are a plea for tho poor and the anathoma of injustioo, and thcro are asooroof novolistic pons today doing mighty work for Qod and righteousness. Now, 1 say, books like these, read at right times and read in right proportion with othor books, cannot help but bo ennobling and purifying; but, alas, for tho loathsome and iuipuro litcraturo that has como in tho shapo of novels, like a freshet ovotil iwiug all tho banks of dcoeney and otuimon sense! They aro coining from some of tho most colabratcd publishing housos They aro ooti)idg with rooommondatiou of some of our religious newspapers. They lio on your conter tablo to our&c your children and blast with their iufernal (ires generations unborn. You find theso books in tho desk of tlio sohool miss, in tho trunk of tho youog man, in tho Btcamboat cabin, on the tablo of tho hotol rocoption room. You hoc a light in your child's roomlato at night. You suddonly go in and say, "What arc you doing?" "I am reading." What aro you reading?" 4tA book." You look at tho book. It is a bad book. "Whero did yeu got it?" I borrowed it." Alas, thcro aro nlwayB thoso abroad who would like to loan your Hon or daugh tor a bad hook' Everywhere, everywhoro, an unclonn literature. I cliargo upon it tho deHtruotion of 10,00b immortal souls, and I bid you wako up to the magnitudo of tho evil. I shall take ull tho world's literature ?good novels and bad, travels truo and false, histories faithful and inoorreot, legends beautiful and monstrous, all tracts, all ohronielos, all poems, all family, city, Htato and national libraries ? and pile thorn up in a pyramid of literature, and then 1 shall bring to bear upon it some grand, glorious, infallible, unmistakablo Christian principles. Cod help mo to speak with rofcrcnoo to my last aooount and help you to listen. I charge you in the first plaoo to stand alool from all books that give falso pictures of lifo. Lifo is neither a tragedy nor a faroe. Mon aro not all either knavos or heroos. Women aro neither angels nor furioH. And yet if you doponded upon much of tho litcraturo of the day you would got idea that lifo in stead of bcinv Homothinv earnost. Home- i thing practical, in a fitful and fantastic and extravagant thing. How poorly pro pared arc that young man and woman for the duties of today who apont last night wading through brilliant pas sagos doscriptivo of magnificont knavory and wickedness' The man will bo looking all day long for his hcroino in the oflioo, by tho forge in the factory, in tho counting room, nnd ho will not find her, and ho will bo dissatisfied. A man who gives himBclf up to tho indis criminate reading of novels will bo norvclcBS, inano and a nuisanco. 11 o will bo fit neither for tho storo, nor tho shop, nor tho field. A woman who gives horsolf up to the indiseriuiinato reading of novels will bo unfitted for the duties of wifo, mother, sister, daughter. Thero she is, hair dishovelod, countonanoo vaoant, ohceks pale, hands trembling, bursting into tears at midnight ovor tho fate of some unfortunate lover, in tho daytiuio, when she ought to bo busy, staring by tho half hour at nothing, biting her finger nails into the quick. Tho earpet that was plain boforo will bo plainer aftor having wandered through a romance all night long in tessollatod halls of castles. And your industrious companions will bo more unattractive than ever, now that you have walked in tho'1 romanoo through parks with plumed prinoosses or lounged in the arbor with tno poiisnca desperado. Uh, thoso cod tinned novol rcadors! They aro unfitted for this life, which is a tromcndous discipline. Thoy know Dot how to go through the furnaces of trial through which thoy must pass, and thoy are unfittod for a world whcro everything wo gain we aohiovo by hard and long continuing work. Again, abstain from all those books which, whilo thoy havo Borne good things, have also anaduiixturo of evil. You havo read books that had two elemoots in thom?tho good and the bad. Which stuck to you? Tho bad! Tho hoart of most pooplo is liko a siovo, which lets tho small particlos of gold fall through, but kcops the groat einders. Onoo in awhilo thoro is a mind like a loadstono whioh, plunged amid stool and brass fillings, gathers up tho stool and ropols tho brass. Hut it is gonorally oxactly tho opposite. If you attempt to plunge through a hedgo of burs to get one blackberry, you will got moro burs instoad. You cannot afford to road a bad book, however good you aro. You say, "Tho influence is insignificant." I tell you that fhc scratoh of a pin has sometimos produced lockjaw. Alas, if through curiosity, as many do, you pry into an ovil b.mk, your euriosity is as dangerous as that of tho man who would tako a torch into a gunpowdor mill morcly to soc whether it would really blow up or not. In a monagcrie in Yow York a man put his arm through tho bars of a black leopard's cago. The animal's hide looked so sleek and bright and boautiful. Ho just stroked it onoo. Tho monstor soi'/.ed him, and ho drow forth a hand torn and mangled and bleeding. Uh, touch not ovtl, cvon with tho faintont stroke! Though it may be glossy and beautiful, touoh it not, lest you pull forth your houI torn and bleeding undor the elutoh of tho leopard. ''Hut,"you ?ay, "how oan 1 find out whothor a book is good or bad without reading it?" There is alway? something auspicious about a bad book. I nover know an exception?something suspicious in the index or stylo of illustration. This vonomoua roptile always oarricB a warning rattle. Again, I oliargo you to stand off from all thoBO books which corrupt the imagination and intlamo tho passions. 1 do not rcfor now to that kind of book whioli tho villain has under his ooat waiting for tho sohool to got out, and thon, looking both ways to see that there is no poliooman around tho block, offers tho book to your son on his way home. I do not spoak of that kind of literature, but that whioh evades the law and oomes out in polished btyle, and with aoute plot sounds (ho tocsin that rouses up all tho bas^r passioua I ) li < . , _ - KM WMWiAl I IIIW of the foul. Today, under the nostrils of the people, there Is a fetid, reeking, unwashed literature, enough to poison all the fountains of public virtue and soiito your sons and daughters as with the wing of a destroying angel, aud it is time that tho ministers ef the gospel blow tho trumpet and rallied tho foroos of rightoousnoss, all armed to this great battlo against a depraved literature. Again, abstain from thoso books < whioh are apologetio of orimo. It is a sad thing that somo of tho best and most boautiful bookbindory and somo ol the finost rhetoric havobren brought to make Bin attractive. Yioo is a horrible thing anyhow. It is born in shamo, and it dios howling in tho daikncHS. In this world it is soourged with a whip of scorpions, but afterward tho thuudors of Cod's wrath purBuo it across a boundless dosert, beating it with ruin and woo. Whon you come to paint carnality, do not paint it as looking from hchiud embroidered curtains or through lattice of royal seraglio, but as writhing in tho agoniosof a city hospital. Cursed bo the books that ti / to mako impurity dooont and orimo attrac tivo ana hypooriBy noblo! (Jursod bo thu books that swArm with libortinoa and dcsporadoos, who mako tho brain of tho young pooplo whirl with villainy! Yo authors who writo thorn, yo publishers who prtnt thorn, yo booksollors who distributo them, shall bo cut to picoos, if not by an aroused community, thon at last by tho hail of divine vongoancc, whioh shall swoop to tho lowost pit of perdition all yo murdorors of souls. I tell you, though you may OHcapo in this world, you will bo ground at last under tho hoof of otcrnal calamities, and you will bo ohaiuod to the rook, and you will havo tho vulturos of despair olawing at your soul, and those whom you havo dostroyed will 001110 around to torment you, and to pour hotter ooals of fury upon your hoad, and rojoico otornally in tho outory of your pain, and tho howl of your damnation. 4 (lod shall wound tho hairy soalpof him that goeth on iu his trespasses." Tho olook strikes midnight. A fair form bends over a rouianoo. Tho oyes flash fire. Tho breath is quick and irrogular Occasionally tho color dashes ~i- I. l .1 J:? IU i n'J uum'N UUU IIIUU UION UUl. I 110 hands tromblo us though a guardian spirit woro trying to shako tho deadly book out of tho grasp. Hot toarsfall. Hho laughs with a shrill voioo that drops dead at its own sound. Tho sweat on hor brow is tho spray dashed up from tho rivor of death. Tho clock -u i iis 4, nnd tho rosy dawn soon aftor begins to look through the lattioo upon iho palo form that looks likoa dotained hpootor of tho night. Soon in a madhouse alio will mistake her ringlets for milling sorpents and thrust her while hand through tho bars of tho prison and smito her head, rubbing it baok as though to push tho scalp from thoskull, shrieking; "My brain! My brain!" Oh, stand off from that! Why will you go sounding your way amid the reefs when thoro is suoh avast ocean in which you may voyago, all Hail sot? Cherish grol lo)ks and newspapers. Rowaro of bad onos. Tho assassin of Lord Russell dcolarcd that ho was led to iuto crime by reading ono vivid romance. Tho consecrated John Angoll Jamos, than whom Kagland novor produced a hotter man, dcolarod in his old ago that he had novor yot got ovor tho evil effects of having for 15 minutOH onoo read a bad book. Rut I need not go so far off. I oould tell you of a comrade who was great hearted, noble and generous, lie was studying for an honorable profession, but ho had an infidel book in his trunk, and ho Baid to uio one day, "Do Witt, would you like to road it?" 1 said, "Yos, 1 would." I took tho book and read it only for a few minutes. 1 was roally starilod with what I saw thoro, and 1 handed tho book baok to liiui and said, "You had hotter destroy that book." No, ho kept it. lie read it. He reroad it. After awhilo ho gavo up roligion as a myth, llo gavo up God as a nonontity. llo gave up tho Riblo as a fable. Ho gavo up tho ohuroh of Christ as a useless institution. Ho gavo up good morals as boing unnooossarily stringont. 1 havo heard of him but twioe in many years. Tho timo before tho last I hoard of him ho was a confirmed inobriato. Tho last 1 hoard of him ho was ooming out of an insano asylum?in body, mind 1 l ? i anu 8oui an awiui wreck, l boliovo that ono infidel book killed him for two worlds. Go homo today and look through your library, and thou,having lookod through your Horary, look on tho stand whoro you koop your piotorials and newspapers and apply tho Christian prinoiples I have laid down this hour. If thero is anything in your homo that oannnt stand tho test do not give it away, for it might spoil an immortal soul; do not soil it, for tho money you got would bo tho prioo of blood; but athor kindle a firo on your kitohen hearth or in your back yard and then drop tho poison in it, and tho bonofiro in your oity shall bo as oonsuming as that ono in Ephosus. Tho wolfo in tho fablo put on shoops' clothing booauso if ho travolod on his ovn reputation ho oouldn't accomplish his purpose. Countorfcitors of DoYV ill's VY'itoh Ilazol Salvo oouldn't soil thoir worth] ss salvos on thoir morits, so they put thorn in boxosand wrappors like DoWitt's. Ljok out for thorn. Take only Dowitt's Witoh Hazel Salvo. It mireil nilnn anil all eUn fliunoana wmm Mii urtiu vftinvungn* Dr. E. Norton. He Has a Conclence Au ox-Alabama postmaster baa beoorno oonsoionoe atriokon and roturnod a sum of monoy that waa paid to him by tho poatofhoo department for Sunday work, lie hays ho waa guided to aeo that Sunday work waa wrong, and thoroforo retaining the reward waa wrong, too. Wo imagine the aupriao and contempt with which llathbono, Nccly and and oompany, tho Cuban postoffioo thieves, will read this item of newa. No Pebble at All. i The Codartown, Oa , Advanoo says: "Man that ia born of woman ia of few days and full of troublo. liogoeth out in tho morning in all his glory and strength, thinking that he is tho only pebble on tho beach. Straightway he fallcth into politioa and in the morning finds out that ho wasn't any pebble ou the boaoh at all " Mothers endurae it, children like it, old folk* mo it. Wo refer to One xMiuuio Cough Cure. It will quiokly euro all throat and lung troubles. Dr. E. Norton. ( t ^ . > '^T CAMPAIGNERS [cO.STINt KP FROM I'AOE 1.1 approval before taking a step. llo foil he had the friendship and host wishes of tho teaohors of tho Stato. He worked for educational results and not votes. ?Ho would always stand for publio progress and tho advancomont of tho toaohcrs and people and ho was not constantly figuring on making votos. Ho explainod how ho oxpondea tho puhlio funds for summer schools. FOR RAILROAD <'OMMIHKIONER. Mr. J. E. Pottigrcw simply gavo his porsonal qualifications and if his merits would not olcot him ho did not want to ho elected on tho domerits of others. Mr. W. 1). Mayfiold took up rates and arsuod for ohoapcr local rates. W. D. Evans joked awhilo. Ho said thcro was no uso for local papers to oomplain of tho rates to Spartanburg from Knoxvillo, as it was not a matter for the state board. Tho railroad assessment now was A'27 8-10 nn In. crcaso in valuation of #2,900,421 sinoo ho has boon on tho board. Tho railroad commissioners havo not uphold tho 25 cents oxoobs on fares. Ho outlined what had bcon dono. J. II. Wharton took up discrimination, rates and domurrago, and gave his qualifications. harney ih thirsty. Harnard H. Kvans started to sfeak and the platform caved in but ho tnounlod a table and went right on talking. Ho said that W. I). Kvans reversed tho brick rato from Campobollo. Tho commissioners were novcrseon here except whon going on frolics in Pullmans and with good liquor. Spartanburg, ho urged, was discriminated against. Ho would rcdueo ratos or know tho reason, or not servo with tho men who would not work with him. Tho saw mill a fow miles from hero spont a third of tho oost of lumber on freight. Tho commission now admits that it oannot or will not cnforco tho law as to exoosH fares. W. I>. Kvans's statement that taxes had bcon increased on tho railroads was saying that whioh is not so. AsBossments were reduood and not inoroascd. Hod forgivo the people for putting suoh men on tho board. Ho asked that tho wrong bo blottod out and that he 'dm oleotcd. Thos. N. Horry Haid ho could not overturn tho board if olootcd but was a business man and ran as suoh. ready to hear tim.man. Chairman Stanyaruo Wilson present od Senator Tillman forwhom tho crowd waited so long. Sonator Tillman said inuauuionco nau usionuou tor live long hours ayd waa no doubt weary. The orowd an* urod him it remained to hear him. He reitoratcd why ho was in the race and speaking. Ho wus presont under tho .orders 01 tho Htato eommittco and bet&uso ho bolonged hero. Ho explained why he talked on Stato issues. He was here because if ho did not como, after hit) administration had boon attacked, ho would consider himself a ooward. He related why ho used his influence to got tho disponsary and how useloss to him was political machino after h<i had tho pooplc behind him. What better machine docs ho nood now than tho poople. Even Gonzales is now foi\him Ho had no interest in tho disponsary oxoopt to soe it porfootod. Ho outlyicd tho defenses of tho disI>onsary and urged tliat it was only in the abuse of tho liquor that the wrong catuo. Ho did not ondorso getting drunk hut saw no evil in drinking liquor. He reiterated his unholy alliance statcmont. Your great bishop so far forgots his dignity as to say I lied. Is that becoming in a great leader of I Christians? 1 am not going toomulate him. I believe the pooplo will know what is true. Then ho took up the other ministers and said it was the truth that hurts Tho truth isthoro is only a dispensary and an anti-disponsary element, lie doos notbcliovo tho ruinisters realized what bad oompany I they keep with tho barkoopers but now that they saw tho bad company thoy fool badly, but ho told tho truth about the "allianoo." lie did not moan thoro was any conforonoo or agroomont but tho barkeopors and ministers woro for tho same thing. A rain then oamo up and Tillman out his speech but impressed upon tho votors to stand by tho disponsary in legislative oandidato and swear thorn and as betwoon tbo gubernatorial candidates ho wanted all to vote on prinoiplo and not for porsonal reasons. Ho then took a haud primary and aa waa t a Ua aw ? VI ?U I! Mil VU UU DA|IVUbOU JllUVty 111 U U 11 all who votod sont up thoir hands for tho dispensary. Tillman said tho Domocraoy appoarod a littlo shakoy up hero when it oould not afford tq put up a platform that would stand. August Kohn. State ok Ohio, Uity ofToledo, ( Lucas County. s bs* Frank J. Cheney makos oath that ho is tho senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing businoss in tho City of Toledo, County and Stato aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for oaoh and ovory oaso of Catarrh that oannot bo ourod by Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK ,J. CHENEY. Sworn to boforo mo and subsoribod in my my presonno. this t>th day of Doccmbor, A. D. l$8t>. A. W. GLEASON, f heai. s Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon internally, and aots direotly on tho blood and muoous surfaoos of tho system. Sond for testimonials, freo. V.KJ. CHENEY & CO., Tolodo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 7">3. Hall's Family Pills aro the bout. Millions will be spent in politios this yoar. Wo oan't koop tho oampaign going without money any moro than wo oan koop tho body vigorous without food. Dyspopfios usod to starvo thomsclvos. Now Kodol Dyspepsia Curo digosts what you oat and allows you to oat all tho good food you want. It radically ouros stomaoh troubles. Dr. E. Norton. Gaiuosville, Ga., Doo. 8, 1899 Fins' AuiiHoptio Invigorator h*s koen usod in my family ana I am perfectly Hfttiafied that it is all, and will do all, you oiaim for it. Yours truly, A. B. 0. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself. It's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. 0., and all druggists, j tf 1 BY A BIG MAJORITY. The Tar Heel Democrats Wins a Qreat Victory. OLD NORTH STATE IN LINE. Both Branches of Legislature Secure. The Amendment Goes a Whooping. The Election Quiet. A dispatch from Charlotto says tho elections in North Carolina Thursday were for govornor and Stato officers, members of the legislature and county officers and for an amendment to the Stato constitution looking to a praoti- | cul elimination of tho Negro from polities, as its adoption would disfranchise tho bulk of tho Nogro voto. By far thogroatostintorostocntorod in thoGght was over tho amondmont. At Thursday's clootion a groat many Negroes voted for it. Tho faculty of Livingstone oollogo at Salisbury, ono of tho moHt prominont Nogro oduo&tional institutions in tho south, voted for it. Tho amondmont was opposed bv tho fusion foroos of 1'opulists and Republicans, headed by Senators Butler and Pritohard, and tho campaign was tho most bitter waged ;n tho State sinoo rcoonstruotion days. There was a full poll of tho Democratic strength, which, combined with a small Nogro voto and some Populist and Republican votes, rolled up an unprooedented majority. Roturns indicato that tho amondmont was carried by over 40,000 majority. Sponecr B. Adams, fusion nominoo for governor, was dofcated by Chas. B. Ayoock, Domorcatio nominee, by fully 40,000 majority. All other State oGiocrs wore eleoted by c?|ual majorities. Tho logislaturo is Democratic in both branches, Mooklonburg county, of whioh Charlotte is the county soat, gives !i,500 majority for tho oounty ticket. The oloction throughout tho State was generally quiet and poaccable, tho Nogroos, as a general thing, remaining away from tho polls. A dispatch from Raleigh says the election passed off quiotly. A hoavy whito voto was poliod, but tho Nogroos took littlo interest in tho rosult, and gonerally rcmainod away from tho polls. In many instances they voted tho Domooratio tioket. lOvory eastern county was carriod by tho Democrats, tho majoritios in somo of them boing 3.UUU. rviost of tho contral oountioB also aro Domooratio. Returns from tho wost aro inoorapleto. Tho indioatiooB, howovor, arc that tho Stato is Domooratio by 50,000 majority, tho legislature thrcofouths Domooratio and tho franohiso umondmcnt adoptod. At 11 o'olook Thursday night Domooratio Chairman Simmons said: "I think wo havo a safo majority of 50,000 and at loast four-fifths of tho legislature. Tho returns so far arc most satisfactory, and no surprises. Chinoso aro dangerous onomios, for thoy are trcaohcrous. That's why all conuntcrfoits of DoWitts VVitoh Ilazol Salvo aro dangerous Thoy look liko Dowitt's but instead of tho all-healing witch hazel thoy all oontain ingredients liable to irritato tho skin and causo blood poisioning. For piles, injuries and skin diseases use tho original and gonuino DeWitt's Which llazel Salve. Dr. E. Norton. To Develop Savannah River. The dcolaration was lilod in tho office of tho secretary of stato WodnoBday afternoon and a commission was issued to tho Twin City Dower company. This means inuoh for tho development of tho water power aloDg tho Savannah river and of its sevoral tributaries in Kdgofield and Abboville oounties which has heretofore boon going to waste. One million dollars is to bo tho capital of tho oompany, and northern oapitalists aro tho promotors. Ono of thom is Mr. W. II. Chow, who organizod tho Columbia Water Power oompany. which bought tho Columbia oanal. Tho corporators aro ('Samuol Say lor. residing at 245 wost 120th stroot, Now York oity in tho Stato of Now York; W. H. Chow, residing at 1855 7th avonuc, Now York oity, in tho Stato of Now York, and D. M. Maokayo, 18 Noptuno l'laoo, New Iloohollo, in the Stato of Now York." Tho principal place of businoss is to bo looatod on tho Savannah river noar ParksviT.e, Edgeeliold oounty. Tho quiokcr yurstopta oough or void tho loss danger thero will be of fatal lung troublo. One Minute Cough Curo is tho only harmless romody that gives ;,v.~.1:-. I..- \r ;ii m *. iiuuivuiriu runuilN. J OU Will 11K0 11. Dr. fi. Norton. He Settled It. Tho WaHhington Post says Monday night a negro walkod into tho Chinose laundry, oornor of Court and South atroota, and said ho wanted his laundry, but that ho had lost his tiokot. The Chinaman said ho had no launory for him. Loud words followed. A white man who was there at tho timo tried to quiot matters by suggesting that the darkey bet $1 that ho did havo his laundry. Tho Chinaman was willing to undo his bundlos if tho monoy was put up. Tho negro said ho did not havo a dollar. Tho whito man suggested that tho negro put his watoh against a dollar. This tho negro agreed to do. Tho white man hold both tho watoh and tho monoy. Tho Chinaman oommonoed to undo tho bundles, and the whito man walked ofi with both tho dollar and watoh. II. II. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Conway, S. C. MX" U Bice up stairs over Herald offico onnnnil* VtonL ^rrv...w R. B. Scarborough, Conway, 8. C. ATTORNEY AT LAW. For Sale. One Direct Current Kleotrio Fan, 250 rolls. For terms apply to Seoretary Orangeburg Club, P. O. Box 255, Orangeburg, 8, C. j T Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD COMPANY OF SOUTH j CAROLINA. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Trains Going South. Dated No?. 19, 1899. No.66* No.36 P. M. A. M Leave Wilmington 8:40 Leave Ma/ion 0:84 Arrive Florence 7:16 Leave Florenoe *7:46 *2 84 Arrive Sumter 8:67 8 66 No. 62. A. M. Leave Sumter 8:67 *9 40 Arrive Columbia 10:20 1100 No. 62 rune through from Charleston via Central K. K., leaving Charleston 7:00 a. m., Lanes 8:84 a. in., Manning 9:09 a. m. Trains Going North. No. 64* No.68 A. M. P M. Lenvo Columbia ..*6:40 *4 16 Arrive Sumter 8:06 6 86 No. 82 P. \1. Leave Sumter *8:06 0 OC Arrivo Florence 9:20 7 20 Leave Florence 9.60 Leave Marion 10:30 Arrivo Wilmington 1:16 Daily. .no. 63 runs through to Charleston, S. C., via Central K. R., arriving at Manning 0:04 p. m., Lanes 0:43 p. m., Charleston 8:30 p. rn Trains on Conway Dranoh leave Chadbourn 6 86 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p m, returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Chadbourn 11 20 a ra, leave Chadbourn 11 60 a m, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave Hub 3 00 p m, arrive Chadbourn 8 36 p m. Daily except 8unday. J. K. Kenly, General Manager. T. M. Emerson, Traffio Manager. II. M. Emerson, General Passenger Agent THE LEADER INDEED The New Ball Bearing Domestic Sewing Machine It Leads iu Workmanship, Beauty, Capacity, Strongth, Light Running. Kvcry W*>man Wants Ono. Attachments, Needles and Parts for Sewing Machines of all makes. YV hen ordering needles send sample. Price 27c per dozen, postpaid. Agonts Wanted in llnoooupiod Territory. J. L. BUULL, 1219 Taylor Btreot, COLUMBIA, B. C. Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily except Sunday. Southbound.?No. 97. Leave Hub 3 (X) pm Leaye llionB 3*10 pm Arrive Chadbourn 8 36 pm Leave ChaO 6 86 pm Leave Clarendon ti 00 pm Leave Mt Tabor t> 16 fins Leave Loris 0 36 pm Leave Sanford (5 60 pm Leave Bayboro 7 00 pm Leave Privotts 7 09 pm Leave Adrian 7 12 pm Arrive Conway 7 40 pm Northbound.?No. 98. Leave Conway 8 30 am Leave Adrian 8 66 am Leave Privetts 9 00 am Leave Bayboro 9 10 am Leave Banford 9 20 am Leave Loris 9 86 pm Loave Mt Tabor 10 10 am Leave Clarendon 11 40 am Arrive Chadhourn 11 20 am Leave Chadbourn 11 60 am Leave llions 12 16 pm Arrive Hub 12 26 pm Dissolution. rI^he firm of Jno 8. Reynolds & Co., PrintJL ers of Ready Prints to Newspapers, was dissolved by mutual oonsent on July 1, 1900. JNO. 8. REYNOLDS, JA8. L. SIMS. Having purchased the interest of Mr. Jno. 8. Reynolds in tho above business 1 will oontinue the same on my own aooount at Orangeburg, 8, C., aud hope,by strict attention to business to merit a continuance of the patronage heretofore bestowed on the old firm. JA8. L. SIMS. Having transferred to Mr. Jaa. L. Sims my interest in the business of Jno. 8. Reynolds & Co., 1 tako pleasure in asking for him a continuance of the patronage hitherto given the firm. JNO. 8. REYNOLDS. Columbia, 8. 0., July 1, 1900. PITTS' ANTISEPTIC INVIGORATORI Cures La Qr'ppe, dyspepsia, Indigestion and all stomaoh and bowel troubles, oolio or oholera morbus, teething troubles with ohildren, kidney troubles, bad blood and all sorts of sores, risings or felons, outs and burns. It is as good antiseptio, when looally applied, as anything on the market. Try it and you will praise it to others. If your druggist doesn't keep It, write to THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. O. Dr. H. II. BURROUGHS, Conway, S. C. Residence and olttce iu build ing formerly occupied by E. W. Nolley. Calls promptly answered night or day. WACCAMAW LINE STEAMERS.?The Hteauier will leave the wharf at Conway every Monday and Wednesday morning for Georgetown at 4 o'clock, touohing all intermediate points; and will leave her wharf at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday morning for Conway at 4 o'olook, touohing at all intermediate points. D. T. MoNeill, Gen'l Agt. and Treas., Conway, 8.0. B. A. Munnerlyn Agent, Georgetown, 8,0. NOTICE, Conway Lodge, No, 00. Knights of Pythias will meet regularly the first and third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordered. O. A.Spivky Chan. Com. J. C. Spivry K. R.AS May 14th, 06. ly Near Union Depot. ! Having formed a connection ?with? The ELLIOTI GIN REPJIIR I am now prepared to repair and rebuild cotton gins as t thoroughly as the vari- w ous manufacturers. This branch of the busiuees be under the personal 0 supervision of MR. W. J. ELLIOTT, i who has had fourteen years of J practical experience in build- -U .V -nil. 1 n!. 3 ...1 ing uie n.inot v*m, :inu wnu is well known to most gin users in this State. Now Is the Time! Bring Your Gins Before You Need Them! COMPLETE QINNING SYSTEMS, EQUIPPED WITH THE MOST PERFECT PNEUMATIC ELEVATING AND DISTRIBUTING SYSTEMS ON THE MARKET. KIYTYEIGHT COMPLETE OUTFITS IN USE IN THIS STATE, AND .. -k... EVERY ONE OF THEM GIVING ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION. 1> Hlghes Grade Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Brick Machines, Wood Working Machinery,Saws, Pulleys, etc Wo offer: Quick dolivory, low prioen and reasonable tonus. V. C. BADHAM, 1320 Main St., Columbia, S. C. '<' mark; W " OLD NORTH STATE OINT MENT, the Great Antiseptic Healer, cures Piles, Eczema, Sore Eyes, Gianulated Eyelids, Carbuncles, Boils, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, Burns. Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Aches and Pains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Erysipelas. It is something everybody needs. Once used always used. For sale by all druggists and ^ ^ dealers. At wholesale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Cc ambia, S. C. ilHNEM 111 IPPUIIIEHn. I Ginning Svstems Equipped I With The Murray Cleaning and ^ 1 Distributing SysF ' Power Equipments Saw Mill Macbmp Farm and Mill Madtmciy ( IN OKNKRAL. 8. C. Agents for Steele's New South Brick Machinery. Write us for prices 011 any- ' tbing in our line. W. H. Gibbes & Co., 804 Gervais Street, COLUMBIA, 87 & Ortman Pays i the EXpress Steam Dyeing of every description. Steam, Naptha, French Dry and chemical cleansing. Sendf^ for our new prioe list and circular. All work guar anteed or no charge. I Ortman's Steam Dye Works ) 1810 Main Street Columbia, S.. O A. L. Ortman, Proprietor. Murray's Aroma tit* Mouth Wash ^ Whitens the Teeth Cleanses the Mouth Sweetens the Breath The? Murray Drug Co., I [COLUMBIA, a. C. Jno. S. Reynolds, Attorney at Law, COLUMBIA, i. 0. iT