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WEDNESDAY, ?UiLVJB 2& ?S9o, THE SONOS OF BIRDS. -Da TALMAGE ON NATURE'S MINIS? TRY m SONG. SlMT Featbermi Warblers Sing of Love and Hope astf Faaaily tife, atld the Season Is ; Kow Her? to Learn of Them-Marrelous ! Melody In Nat ure. BROOKLYN, Jims 25.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage this laorning chose for the subject .f his sermon "The Song of Birds.'* Th?e, like many of his sermons, is suited lo the season of the year^*which it is preached. It is Weir fitted to be read un ?er the trees ano! has in it the health of outdoor life. Text, Psalms, civ, 12, "By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the Macanches." ^ere is an important and improving subject to-which most people have-green so thought and ce?cexning which this is. the first pulpit discussion-namely, "The Song. ?f Birds." If all that has .been written concerning music by hu Maan voice cr about music sounded on instrument by finger or breath were put together, volume by tho side of volume, ft\f?uld fi3 a hundred alcoves of the National libraries. &ut about the song of birds there is a3 jonch silence as though a thousand years ago the last lark had with Iris wing swept the door latch of heaven and cs j though never a whippoorwill had sung j its lullaby to a slumbering forest at j nightfall: We give a passing smile to the call of a bobolink or the chirp of a canary, but about the origin, about the fiber, about the meaning, about the mirth, about the pathos, about the in? spiration, about the religion in the-song j cf birds the most of us are either igno? rant or indifferent. A caveat I this morn? ing file in the high court of heaven against that almost universal irreligion. . First, I remark that which will sur? prise many, that the song of cirds is a regulated and systematic song, capable of being written out in note and staff and fcar and clef as much as anything that Wagner or Schumann or Handel ever put on paper. As wo pass the gro*3 ?itero the flocks are holding matin iSTTesper service we are apt to think that the sounds are extemporized, the rising cr falling tone is a mero accident, it is flung up and down by haphazard, the bird did not know what it was doing, it did not caro whether it was a iong meter psalm or a madrigal- What a mistake! The musician never put on the music lack before him Mendelssohn's "Elijah" or Beethoven's "Concerto" in G or Spohr s D' flat symphony with more def? inite idea as to what he was doing than every bird that can sing at all confines j Trfmsftlf tc* accurate and predetermined rendering. The oratorios, the chants, the carols, the overtures, tho interludes, she .ballads, the canticles that this man? ing were heard or will this evening bc heard in the forest have rolled down I through the ages without a variation, j Even the chipmunk's song: was ordained J .clear back in the eternities. At the- gates ?>f paradise it sang in sounds like the syllables. "Kuk!" "Kukr "Kuk!" just as this morning in a Long Island or? chard it sang "Euk!" "Kuk!" "Kuk!" The thrush at the creation ottered sounds like the word "Teacher!" "Teacii err ''Teacher!" as now it utters sound? Eke "Teacherr "Teacher!" "Teacher!" In the summer of the year 1 the yel? lowhammer trilled that which sounded Kke"Ifr "If!" "Ifr as in this summer it trills VifT "ff!" -fer The Maryland yeUowthroat inherits and bequeaths the tone sounding like the words "Pity me, pity me, pity mel" The white spa/row's **Tseep, tseep" woke om grea* grandfa? thers as ? will awaken o*** great grand? children. The"Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka'* cf the birds in the first century wa? tho j aaineasthe"Tee-ka-t.ee-ka-ted-ka'* of tb* nineteenth eentury. NATURE'S UNCHANGING SONG. The goldfinch has for 6,0i'?0 years been singing "De-ree-dee-ee-ree." But these sounds, which we put in harsh words, they pot nr cadences;, rhythinic, soulful and enrapturing. Now if there is this order and systematization and rhythm all through God's creation does it not imply that we should have the same chaTacteristicsin the music wo make or try to make? Is it not a wickedness that SO many parents give no opportunity for the culture of their children in the art of sweet sonad? If God stoops to edu? cate-every bluebird, oriole and grosbeak in song, how can parents be so indiffer? ent about the musical development of J the immortals in their household While God will accept our attempts to I . sing, though ii be only a hum or a drone. I if wecando.no better, what a shame that I ia this last decade of the nineteenth cen? tury, when so- many orchestral batons ! are waving and so many academies cf music are in full concert, and so many skilled men and women are waiting to offerinstruction there are so many peo? ple who cannot sing with an}* confidence j in the house of God because they have j had no culture in this sacred art, or j while they are able to .sing a fantasia at j a- piano amid the fluttering fans of social j admirers, nevertheless feel utterly help- J less when in church the surges of an i **Ariel" or an "Antioch" roll over them, j The old fashioned country singing school, ; now much derided and caricatured (and ? indeed sometimes it was diverted from j the real design into the culture ef the ' soft emotions rather than the voice). | nevertheless did admirable work, and in j our churches we need singing schools to j prepare our Sabbath audiences for j prompt and spontaneous and mu? tipo- j tent psalmody. This world needs to be ! stormed with haEfelaiahs. We want a hemispheric campaign of hosannas. From bearing a blind beggar sing Martin Luther went home at 40 years of age to wrik Iiis ?irst hvmn. In the autumn I hope to have a cc r*rega tionai singing Lchooi here darin, the week which shall ??reparo the peoplt .or the songs of the holy Sabbath. If the church of God universal is going to tak-3 this'world for righteousness, there must be added a hundredfold of moro har? mony as well as a hundredfold of myro Tolarno to sacred music. Further. I notice in the song cf Vir ls that it ?3 a divinely taught song. The rarest prima donna of all the cart!: could not teach the robin one musical IM-te. A kingfisher flying over the reef of a tem? ple aquako with harmonies would aol estell up ono melody. From the time that the first bird's throat was fashioned on tho banks of the Gihon and Euddek? i until today on the Hudson or I:thc winged creature hos learn-": nothing from the human race in the way of carol cr anthem. The feathered songsters learned all their music direct from G He gave them the art in a nest of straw or moss or sticks and taught them how to lift that song into tho higher heavens and sprinkle' the earth with its dulcet en? chantments. God fashioned, God tuned, God launched. God lifted music! And there is a kind of music that the Lord only can impart to you, my hearer. There have been depraved, reprobate a^d blasphemous 30uls which could sing tiS great auditoriums were in raptures. There have been soloists and basso*; and baritones and sopranos whose brilliancy in concert halls has not been mor? nions than their debaucheries, there is a kind of song which, like song of birds, is divinely fashio; Songs of pardon. Songs cf divine c fort Songs of worship. ''Songs in night," like those which David and mentioned. Songs full of faith and demess and prayer, ^*ke those which Christian mother sings over the sick die. Songs of a broken heart bi healed. Songs of the dying ?ashed u by ?paning portals of amethyst. Songs like- that, which Paul c mended to the Colossians when he s ''Admonish one another in psalms hymns and spiritual songs, singing,. v grace in your hearts, to the Lord." Sc like Moses sang after the tragedy of Red sea, songs like Deborah and Ba sang, at the overthrow of Sisera, sc like Isaiah heard the redeemed sim he came to- Zion. Oh, God, teach that kind of song which thou only ca teach- and help us to sing it on ea and sing it in heaven. It was the hi est result of sweet sound when un the playing of Paganini one auditor claimed reverently. --Oh, God!" and other sobbed out,. "Oh, Christ!" Further, I remark in regard to song of birds that it is trustful < without any fear of what may yet coi Will you tell me how it is possible that wren, that sparrow, that chickac te sing so sweetly when they may : time be pounced on by a hawk and fr wing from wing? There are cruel be. in thicket and in sky ready to slay song birds. Herods on the wing. I docs of the sky. Assassins armed w iron claw. Murderers cf song float: up and down the heavens. How can birds sing amid such perils? Besides th how is the bird sure to get its food? 3 lions of birds have been starved. Ye sings in the dawn without any certaii of breakfast or dinner or supper. Woi it not be better to gather its foods for i day before vocalizing? Besides that, the hunters are abrot Bang ! goes a gun in one direction. Bai goes a gun in another direction. 1 song will attract the shot and add to i peril. Besides that, yonder is a thx derciond. and there may be hurrier, and hail to be let loose, and what th will become of you, the poor warbh Besides that, winter will come, and may be smitten down before it gets the tropics. Have you never seen t snow strewn wirh the birds belated their migration? The titmouse ming] its voice with the- snowstorms as Em? sen describes the little thing he found tempestuous Januar}*: livre was this atora in full breath,, liuriini* d- lance at vast death; This- scrap of valor, just for olav. Fronts the north wind ia waistcoat pray. SONGS OF HOPE AND TliUST. For every bird a thousand perils ai disasters hovering and sweeping roui and round Yet there it sings, and it a tmsttn! song. The bird that has it tl hardest- sings the sweetest. The la: from the shape of her claws may n perch on a tree. In the grass her nest exposed to even* hoof that passes. Ol of the poorest shelters of all the earth the larks nest. If she sings at all, ye will expect her to render the saddest < threnodies. No, no. She sings exulting an hour without a pause and monntir 3.000 feet without losing a note. Won God we all might" leam the lesso: Whatever perils, whatever bereavement whatever trials are yet to come, sin; sing willi ail your heart and sing wil ail your lungs. If yon wait until all the hawks < trouble have folded their wings and a the hunters of hate have unloaded the guns and ail the hurricanes of disast< have spent their fury, you will never sh: at all. David,.the pursued of Absalo: and the betrayed of Ahithophel and tl depleted of "sores that ran in the night presents tis the best songs of the Bibi John Milton, not able to see his hand h fore his face, sings for us the most f; mons poem of all literature, and some ( the most cheerful people I have ever nu have been Christian people under phy; ical or domestic or public torment. Tl: songs of Charles Wesley, which we no calmly sing in church, were compose by him. between mobs. Further, in the sky galleries there at songs adapted to all moods. The ineac ?w lark is mournful, and the goldiinc joyous, ana the grosbeak prolonged c note. But the libretto of nature is v< luminous. Are you sad? Yon can bea from the bowers the echo of your griel Are you glad? You can hear an echo c your happiness. Are you thoughtful You can hear that which will plunge yo into deeper profound. Are you weary Yon may catch a restful air. So tl: songs of birds are administrative in al circumstances. And we would do wei to have a hynmology for all changes o condition. You may sing your woes int peace and rouse your joys into greatc altitudes. Upon every condition of bod; and soul, let us try the power of song The multitudinous utterances of grov< and orchard and garden and forest sug gest mest delightful possibilities. Further, I notice that the song o birds is a family song. Even those o tho feathered throngs which have n< song at all make what utterances the} do in sounds of their own family o: birds. The hoot of the owl, the clatter of the magpie, the crow of the clianti cleer, the drunurring of thc grouse, th< laugh of the loon in the Adirondacks the cackle of the lieu, the scream of tht eagle, the croak of the raven, are sound; belonging to each particular family. But when you come to those which have real songs, h?w suggestive that it is al? ways a family sung! All the skylarks, ali the nightingales, ail the goldfinches, ail the blackbirds, ail the cuckoos, pre fer the song of their own family and ? never sing anything else. So the most deeply impressive songs we ever sing are family songs. They I have ciao down from gem-ration te generation. You were sung to sleep in your iufaucy and childhood by songs that v.i'.l sing in your soul forever. Where was it. my brother or sister, j that you heard the family song-on the banks of the Ohio, or the Alabama, or trie Audroscoggin, cr the Connecticut, j or the Tweed, or the Thames, or the Raritan? That song at eventide, when ' you were tired* out-indeed too tired to . sleep, and you cried willi leg ache, and ! you were rocked and sung to 6leep-you hear it now, the soft voice from sweet hps, she as tired, perhaps moro tired 1 than'you. but shu- rocked, and you slum ; bered. Oh^ those family songs! I Tho songs that father sang, that moth? er sang, that sisters and brothers sang. They roll on us today with a reniinis cence that fills the throat as well as the heart with emotion. Ia our house ia iny childhood it was always a religious song. I do uot think that the old folks knew anything but religious song& At any rate I never heard them sing anything els<-. It was '%Jes? *, Lover of My Soul,'* or "Eock of Ages." or "There Is a Foun? tain Fi??edWiih D!ood,"or "Mary tu tho Saviour's Tomb." Mothers, be careful wiiat you sing your children to sleep with. Ltt io Le nailing frivolous or Bettor haye ia if something of Christ and heaven. TA ?: r have in i: something that will hrl;> that boy ?.'?) years from now to bear ap and r the bombardment ef temptation. Better have in it sc*nv thing t?a;t will help that daughter GO years ?'ri>.:? now when upon her ccrae the cares or motherhood and 1 he agonies of bereavement and the brutal treatment oCone who swore before high, heaven that Le wool I cherish ano protect. Do ?iot waste the best hour for making impression upon your little one, the he of dusk, the beach between the day a the night. Sing not a doleful song, I a suggestive song, a Christian song song you will not bo ashamed to m when it comes to you in the eternal d tiny of your son and daughter. The e ?le has a loud song, and the chewinl long song, and the bluebird a short soi but it is always a family song, and your gloaming song to your childi"? whether loud or long or short, be Christian song. These family songs ire about all 1 keep of the old homestead. The hoi where you were born will go into t hands of strangers. The garments tl were carefully kept as relics will becoi moth eaten. The family Bible can into the possession of only one of t family. The lock of gray hair may lost from the locket, and in a few yea ail signs and mementoes of the old hon stead will bo gone forever. But t family songs, those that we heard at years of age, at 5 years of age, at years of age, will be indestructible a] at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 years of age w give-us a mighty boost over some rou; place in tho path of our pilgrimage. TELE LOST RESTORED BY SONG. Many years ago a group of white ch dren were captured and carried off 1 the Indians. Years after, a mother wi had lost two children in that captui went among the Indians, and there we many white children in line, but so lor a time had passed the mother could n tell which were hers until she began sing the old nursery song, and her tv children immediately rushed up, sh on mg, ..Mammal" "Mamma!" Yes, the: is an immortality hi a nursery son Hear it, all you mothers, an immortalii of power to rescue and save. What an occasion that must have bec in Washington, Dec. 17, 1S50, whe Jenny Lind sang '.Home, Sweet Home tlie author of those words, John Howai Payne, seated before her. She had rei dered her other favorite songs, "Casi Diva" and her''Flute Song," with fir effect, but when she struck "Honn Sweet Home," John Howard Payne ros under the power, and President Fillmoi and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster an the whole audience rose with linn. An] thing connected with home ransacks on entire nature with a holy pov er, an songs "that get well started in tue nui sery or b}~ the family hearth roll on af tc the lii>s that sung them are forever siler and the ears that first heard them foi ever cease to hear. I preach this sermon just before man of 3'ou will go out to pass days or weel in the country. Be careful how yo treat the birds. liemember they ar God's favorites, and if you offend ther you offend him. He is so fond of thei voices that there are forests where for ; hundred miles no human foot has eve trod and no human ear has ever listened Those interminable forests are concer halls with only one auditor-the Lor< God Almighty. Hebuilded those audi toriums of leaves and sky and support all that infinite minstrelsy for himsel alone. Be careful how you treat his fa vorito choir. In Deuteronomy he warns the people "If a bird's nest chance to be before the< in the way in any tree or on the ground whetherthey be young ones or eggs, thot shalt not take the dam with the young that it may be well with thee and thai thou mayest prolong thy days." So yoi see your own longevity is related to youl treatment of birds. Then go forth ano attend the minstrelsy. Put off startling colors, which frighten the winged song? sters into silence or flight, and put on your more sober attire and move noise? lessly into tho woods farther and far? ther from the main road and have no con? versation, for manya concert in and out of doors has been ruined by persistent talkers,, and then sit down on a mossy bank Where a wild stream rrith Leaulons shock Con-es brawling down a bed of rock. And i f ter perhaps a half an hour of in? tense solitude there will be a tap of a beak on a tree branch far up/sounding like the tap of a musical baton, and theL first there will be solo, followed by a duet cr quartet, and afterward by doxol og. .-s in all the tree tops and amid all the branches, and if you have a Bible along with you. and you can without rustling the leaves, turn to the one hun? dred and forty-eighth Psalm of David and read, 4'Praise the Lord, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying fowl," and then turn over quietly to my text and read, "By them shall tho fowls of tho heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches," or if under the power of the bird voices you are trans? ported,, as when Dr. Worgan played so powerfully on the organ at St. John's that Richard Cecil said he was in such blessed bewilderment he could not find in his Bible thc first chapter of Isaiah, though he leafed the bock over and over, and you shall be so overcome with forest harmony that you cannot find the Psalms of David, never mind, for God will speak to you so mightily it will make no difference whether you hear Iiis voice from the printed page or the vibrating throat of one of his plumed creatures. THE SZASON TO STUDY NATURE. While this summer more than usual out of doors let us have what my text suggests, an out of doors religion. What business had David, with all the advan? tages of costly religious service and smoking incense on the altar, to be lis? tening to thc chantresses among the tree brandies? Ah! he wanted to make him? self and all who should come after him moro alert and more worshipful amid the sweet sounds and beautiful sights of the natural world. There is an old church that needs to be rededicated, lt is older than St. Paul's or St. Peter's or St. Mark's or St. Sophia's or St. Isaac's. It is tiie cathedral of nature. That is thc church in which the services of the millennium will beheld. The buildings fashioned out of stone and brick and mortar will not hold the people. Again the mount of Olives will be the pulpit. Again the Jordan will be tho baptistry. Again the mountains will be? the ?salteries. Again the skies will be the blue ceiling. Again the sunrise will be the front door and the sunset the back door of that temple. Again the clouds will be the upholstery and the morning n:ist thc incense. Again the trees will be the organ loft where "the fowls of heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches." St. Francis d'Assisi preached a sermon to birds and pronounced a benediction upon them, but all birds preach to us, and their benediction is almost supernal. While this summer amid tho works of God 1 -r i's learn responsiveness. Surely if we cannot sing we can lunn a tine-, and if we cannot hum a tune wc can; whistle-. If we cannot be an oriole, wc can be a quail. lu some way lot us dem- j onstrate our gratitude to God. Let us j not be beaten hy the chimney swallow, ami thediumming bird, and the brown thrysN*r. Let us trvto set everything . " i i.- " i m om tife io mu ic, an*, ii wo cannot' give the carol of the song sparrow tako thc plaint of the hermit thrush. Let .jar life be an anthem of worship to the God who created us, and the Christ who ransomed us. and the Holy Ghost who ] sanctifies t>s. And our last song! May j it be our best song! Thc swan was thought hythe ancients never losing In tin.- time of Edward IV rio one was allowed to own a sw;ai except lie were : ? king's son or had considerable ?-state, j Through 100 or ?00 years of life that bird ' was said never to utter anything like music unt:i its last moment came, and then lifting its crested beauty it would pour forth a song ot almost matchless thrill, resounding through, the groves. And so,, although the struggles of lifo may be too much for us and we may find it hard to siug at all, when the last hour comes to yon ?.?id me. may there be a radiance from above and a glory set? tling round that shall enable us to utter a song on the wings of which we shall mount to where tho music never ceases and the raptures never die. "What is that, mother?" "The swan, my love; Ile is floating down from his native '?rove. No loved ono, no nestling nigrh He is floating down by himself to die. Death darkens his eye- and unplnines his wings, Yet tiie sweetest song is tho last ho cings. Live so, my child, that when death shall come. Swanlike and sweet, it may waft thee homel" A Designer of Battleships; Lieutenant Nixon, who designed the cruiser New York, which beat all rec? ords the other day, is a graduate of the Annapolis academy, but left the navy to enter the shipyards of tho Cramps. Tho battleships Indiana and sachusetts are being built from his designs. Lieu? tenant Nixon was sent to England to study naval architecture, but seems to have surpassed Iiis teachers. Kuckleu's Arnlea Snlve. The Best Saive in the world for Cuts, Bruises Sores, UIcerF, Salt Rheum. Fever Soros, Tetter, Chopped Hands Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piies, 01 no pay required. 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BROWN & BRO Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct 5-0 Typewriter 3 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOB THE "DENSMORE," The Twentieth Century Typewriter. WE fill orders promptly for ail kinds <>? Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs and Neostylcs. The DENSMORE is the latest achievement of I he Densmore family, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, wes developed. Ir his fixed type-bar hangers aod cou-vibrating-two points which insure lasting alignment. It.is the most modero and practical machine on the market. The DENSMORE is used by the famous Cammie Steel Company, tl?e Central Railruad aud Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits 1(J Denstnores in operation at the World's Fair, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, R. G. Dun & Co's Mercantile Agency. Some of the users of the Densmore io Columbia, are : The Evening Journal, Jones & Mixson's Bu>incss College and Typewriting School, Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master of Trains' Office, Judge S. W. Melton, Union Central Life Insurance Company, Benedict luatrtute and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. MfX t rm?*wt <4&<?FR. City Drug Store. Main St. Sumter, S. C. Q??\ J^feiTif^M? fell |/n Drugs and Medicines, Soaps. Perfumery, Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes, Tooth Powder, Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomtee, ali colors for rooms. Artists' Paints and Brushes, Luster Paints. Convex Glasses. Nice Une of Hanging and Stand Lamps, Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Gbim-neys, &c. TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Keep-thefol!ow in e popular bracd of Cigara : "PiumoGoud." -'Custom House," "Rebel Girl." Sepso KR KS i I GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded. iii HM > WELL! NOW!! Whether the Sun do move, or do not move, we are not here to discuss-but will leave that to our more learned friends-but we are here to say that we have a that must move, and that at once. And if PRICES and QUALITY will move them, then they will be walking-and that at once. We have a Gents' Satin Finish Shoe, in Bals and Congress, for $2.00, that can't be sold by any other house for less than $2.50 to ?3.00. It's just the finest in town. Our Ladies' Button Shoes at $1.25, Are Beauties. Just come in and examine these Shoes before you buy. They are all guaranteed to be "ALL SOLID LEATHER," or money returned. 15ny your shoes from us and save from 50 cents to $1.00 per pair. & CO. Glenn 'S 9 Is unsurpassed and invalids lind sure and speedy relief by its use Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, fol lo wini,' upon Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Ilemorroid.s Uterine, Reual and Cystic Diseases, Hoematuria, Rheumatism, Catamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS, I ? i LT h ly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars,contai nit. g certificates, etc., apply to GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J Chica, pr. McKagen. j S. Hughson & Co., J F. W. DeLorme aud W. R. Del-ar, Jr. for infants and Chiidren. t-M?-?i-a------ 1 ?? i imauoD .? ("astoria is so well adapted to children that Castor? a cures Colic, Constipation; T re? ?mmend it as superior toaoy prescription Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Liovatomo." It A. A:;CHS::. M. D.. I Kilii Wonas, gives sleep, and promotes dir 111 So. Oxford Brooklyn, Iv. Y. .ar^on, Without iiijuriou:; medication. '*Thc use of 'Castoria i; so universal and g wFor several years I have i^ommcodcdt i:.; merits so welt known t^at i' seems a work \ your 4Castoria," ?nd shall always continue* to cf supererogation to endorse it. Few ?!?<- Jj do so as it has invariably produced b?n?ficiai intelligent families who do net heep Ca;-::o:ia \ regulus.'' w-:hin easy reac?C1 . I Ebwi.v F. PAS?SE, 2. D., CARLOS ZIXRTTS,. D. !>., i jjsth Street and 7th Ave., New York City. New York City | THS CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MCSEAT STBZET, Nrw YORK CITT. SUMTER, S. C., Mch. 20, '93. AS iii bulk, ? c. per bushel at 'S. ARNING. Do you wish a mower, and if so, do you wsnt a horse killer? If you ,da The Waiter A. Wood Mower is Dot what you want. This is the lightest draft, lightest weight and most data? ble mower made, beside being the ONLY STEEL MACHINE on the market. Be not deceived by talk. This is a cheap article and is in many cases the only stock in trade of some concerns. Dou't waste your money on a horse-killing mower, and one that requires a machine shop behind it, wheo the same money will buy a first class machine. Forty years on the market, and the first mower ever built. A CAS LOAD OP TEE STEIL ISAUTIES AT YOUS BOOB. HENRY B. BLOOM, Agent, Sumter, S. & P. S -Dou't fail to examine our mower knife grinder. Apr 12 DEALER IN Agent. Toilet Soups, Perfumery ai?<? all Iiinfls'of Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept; in a JPii?&-t oi^sss Store. Tobacco, Suuff and Cigars. Garden Seeds, also Paints, Oils, Varnisher Glass Putty, &c, Dye Stuffs. Physician's Preseriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with car? and dispatch. Thc public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call and sec for yourselves*. * Night Ca?ls Promptly Attended To. YARD. I am prepared to furnish at shortest notice, Lumber of all ?*rades, Delivered in any part of the City, at L O WEST L UMBER Prices E. H. HOLMAN. POLSO IVE ESTABLISHED 1868. Watches, Diamonds, Sterling Silver, Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles, &c. IF1 O 3LM $3 O ?dE. . SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES AJLLAR & C(K Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta? cles, Drawing Instruments THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STATE. RELIABLE GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES. Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for Soath Carot? ina Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Road? JAMES ALLAN & CO., 285 Kine S;.. Sien (ir" ?Vum Clock. Charleston. S. C. SUMTER m^^^?f Iron WorJks. ~ 32-^^-^.^.^^?Sg^^g^ . PROPRIETORS. S21Q?2ICS. Soi?CrS '?:i? machinery of all kinds and description? repaired. CirClll?,!* Set "WS hammered and gummed. IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS msiie to order; and arty work usually dona in a first class machine shop or foundry executed in a workmanlike manner PRICES REA SON A B LE and satisfaction guaranteed by good work. Estimates will be famished on application. Sumter Iron Works, W. E. & J. I. Branson, Proprietors, Sumter, S. G. ^g^Xorth Main Street. Aug 3