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f BK SUMTER WAtCBlAS, ltst Mtsh d April, 1SS0. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1893. THE TKL'K SOUTHROtt, Established Jone, 1ZS& ------------ ? ? ~s New Series-Yoi. XII. X . 49/ mam When 1 get $10 taxes,. I pay th< right over to the government. I gi full permission to anybody to andit i accounts, i appeal to thy justice-, God? He made no such plea. He thr< ; himself fiat on God's mercy. Have you any idea that a man breaking off the scales of the leprosy c change the disease? Have you any id ! that you CLV. by changing your 1 change your heart-that you can pi j hase your * ay to heaven? Comer try \ Come, bring all tho bread you ever ga I to the hungry, all the medicine you ev gave to the-sick, all the kind words y I have ever uttered, all the kind dee i that have ever distinguished you. A j them ail up into the tremendous aggi gate of good words and works, and th fou will see Paul sharpen his knife as cuts that spirit of self satisfaction as cries, "By the deeds of the law the shall no flesh be justified." Well, say a thousand men in this a dicnce, if 1 am not to get anything the way; of peace from God in go ! works, how am I to be saved? By mere Here I stand to tell the story; mere j mercy, long suffering mercy; soverei^ mercy, infinite mercy, omnipote: mercy, everlasting mercy. Why, seems in the Bible as if all language we exhausted, as if it were stretched until broke, as if all expression were strm dead at the feet of prophet and apost and evangelist w&en it tries to descril God's mercy. HOPE FOR THE REPENTANT. Oh, says some one, that is only addii to my crime if I come and confess befo: God and seek his mercy. No, no! Tl \ murderer has come, and while ho w; washing the blood of his victim fro: j his hands, looked into the- face of Gc and cried for mercy, and his soul h; [ been, white in God's pardoning lov And the soul that has wandered off i I the streets and down- to the very gates < j hell has come back to her fathers nous ! throwing her arms around his neck, ac been saved by the mercy that saved Mai Magdalen. I But, says some ene, you are throwin open that door of mercy too wide. N< I will throw it open wider. will tai \ the responsibility of saying that if a I this audience, instead of being gathere in a semicircle, were placed side by sid* ' in one long line, they could all' marc right through that wide open gate c mercy. "Whoseover," "whoseover." Ol this mercy of God-there is no line lon enough to fathom it v there is no ladde long enough to scale it; there is noariti metic facile enough to calculate it; n angel's wing can fly across it Heavenly harpers, aided by choir with feet like the sun, cannot compas that harmony of mercy, mercy. I sounds in the rumbling of the celestia gate. I hear it in the chiming of the ce lestia! towers. I see it flashing in th uplifted and downcast coronets of th saved. I hear it in the thundering treai of the bannered hosts around about th throne, and then it comes from th harps and crowns and thrones and prc cessions to sit dows, unexpressed, on { throne overtopping all heaven.-tb throne of mercy. THE GOSPEL LIFEBOAT. How I was affected when some a* to d me in regard to that accident oi Long island sound, when one poorw .ui an came and got her hand on a ra.: a she tried to save herself, but those wh< were on the raft ^^hsught there was u< room for her, and ono man came ant most cruelly beat and bruised her hand: until she fell off. Oh. I bless God tha this lifeboat of the gospel has roon enough for the sixteen hundred million: of the race-room for one, room for all and 3-et there is rcoin! I push this analysis of the publican^ prayer a step further and find that h< did not expect any mercy except bj pleading for H. He did not fold his hands together as some do* saying: "Il I'm to be saved, Til be saved. If Fm tobe lost. 111 be lost, and there is nothing foi me to do." He knew what was wort! having was worth asking for; hence thi earnest cry of the text, "God bc merciful to me, a sinner!" It was an earnest prayer, and it ii characteristic of ali Bible prayers thal they were answered-the- blind man, "Lord, that i- may receive my sight;" the leper/"Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean:" sinking Peter, "Lord, save me:" the publican, "God, be merci ful to mc, a sinner!" But if you come up with tlie tip of your finger and tap at the gate of mercy, it will not open. Yon have got to have tho earnestness of the warrior who, defeated and pursued, dis i m^mtsjfrom his lathered, steed and with gauntleted fist pounds at the palace gate. You have got to have ths earnestness of the man who, at midnight, in the fourth story, has a sens* of suffocation, with the ouse in flames, goes to the window $Q4 Shouts to the firemen, "He^p!" unforgiven soul, if you were in full earnest I might have to command i dence in the auditory, for your prayers would drown the- Voice of the speaker, and we would have to pause in the great service. It is because you do not real ize your sin. before God that 3'ou are not this moment crying* "Mercy, mercy, mercy!" THE HC1IBLE r RA YEE. i Tliis prayer of the publican waa also an humble prayer. Thc pharisee looked up; the publican looked down. You can not be saved as a metaphysician or as a rhetorician; you- cannot be saved as a scholar; you cannot bo saved as an art ist; you cannot be saved as an official. If you are ever saved at all, it will bo as a sinner. "God bc merciful to me, a sin ner!" Another characteristic of the prayer^ of the publican was, it had a ring of con fidence. It was not a cry of despair. He knew ho was going to get what he asked for. He wanted mercy; he asked for it, expecting it. And do you tell me, 0 man, that God has. provided this salva tion and is net going to let you have it? If a man build a bridge across a rive?, will he not let people go over it? If a physician gives a prescription to a sick man, will he not let him take it? If an architect puts up a bnifldjytg> will he not let people in it? If God provides salva tion, will he not let you have it? Oh, if there bo a pharisee here, a man who says, I am all right, my past life has been right. I don't want the pardon of the gospel, fori have-no sin to pardon, let me say that v.h o that man is in that mood there is no peace for him, there is *no pardon, no salvation, and the proba bility is he will, go down and spend eter nity with the lost pharisee of the text. THE GRATEFUL NEGRO. But if there be here, one who says I -jini to-be better, I want to quit my sins, my life has been avery imperfect life, how nany things have I said that li should not have said, how many things L Lave don .- I should not have done, I want to chang my life, I want to begin now, let rne say to snob, a soul, (rod is. waiting, ( od is ready, and you are near tho kingdom, or rather von have en tered it, for no man says I am deter- ' mined to serve God and surrender tho sins of my Kfc: here, now, I consecrate 1 myself to the Lord Jesus Chiist who died to redeem, nie; no man from the depth of his soul says that but ho is already a Christian; My uncle, the Rev Samuel K. Talmage of Augusta. Ga;, was passing along tho streets of Augusta one day, and he saw a man, a black man, step rom: the side walk out into the street, take his hat off ar. : bow very-lowly. My undo was not a man. who demanded, obsequiousness, and he said, "What do von do that f >r*r"' "Oh." says tho mau, "massa, the oth< r night i was going along thc street, and 11 had a burden on my shoulder, and i was \ sick, and I was hungry, and I came to the door of 3-our church, and you were preaching about 'God lae merciful to me, a sinner!' and I stood there at the door long enough to hear you sa}' that if a man could utter that prayer from the depths of his soul God would pardon him and finally take him to beaven. Then I put my burden on my shoulder, and I started home. I got to my home, and I sat down, and I said, 'God be mereiful to me, a sinner!' but it got darker and darker, and then, massa, I got down on my knees, and I said 'God be merciful to me, a sinner!' and tho burden got heavier, and it got darker and darker. I knew not what to do. Then I got down on my face, and I cried, *God be merci ful to me, a sinner!' and away off I saw a light coming, and it came nearer and nearer and nearer until all was bright in my heart, and I arose. I am happy now -the burden is all gone-and I said to myself if ever I met you in the street I would get clear off the sidewalk, and I would bow down and take my hat off before you. I feel that I owe more to you than to any other man. That is the reason I bow before you." THE CALL IS- ON YOU. Oh, are there not many now who can utter this prayer, the prayer of the black man, the prayer of the publican, "God be merciful to me, a sinner?" While I halt in the sermon, will you not all utter it? 1 do Dot say audibly, but utter it down in the depths of your souls' con sciousness. Yes, the sigh goes all through the galleries, it goes all through the pews, it goes all through these aisles, sigh after sigh-God be merciful to me, a sinner! Have you all uttered it? No, there is one soul that has not uttered it, too proud to utter it, too hard to utter it. O Holy Spirit, descend upon that one heart. Yes, he begins to breathe it BOW. No bezwing of the head yet, no starting tear yet, but the prayer is beginning it is born. God be merciful to me, a sin ner! Have all uttered it? Then I utter it myself, for no one in all the house needs to utter it more than my own soul God be merciful to me, a sinner! What Poet Need. A whimsical letter written by W. S. Gilbert notes "a great want" among poets.. "I should like to suggest," he says, "that any inventor who is in need of a name for his invention would confer a boon on all rhymesters and at tho same time insure 'imself many gratuitous ad vertisements if he were to select a word that rhymes to one of the many words in common use that have very few rhymes or none at all. A few more words rhj-ming to 'love' are greatly wanted. 'Revenge' and "avenge' have no rhyme but 'Penge' and 'Stonehenge.' 'Coif' has no rhyme at all. 'Starve' has no rhyme except (oh, irony!) 'carve.' 'Scarf has no rhynie, though I fully expect to be told that 'laugh,' 'calf/ and 'half are ad missible, which they certainly are not.5* -Philadelphia Press. Passports In Russia. The reform of the passport system is about to be undertaken in Russia. At present nobody can change his dwelling even in the same street without sending his passport twice to be vised by the po lice-first on quitting the old house and secondly on entering the new one. This is aggravated by the slowness of the Rus sian officials. The wife cannot leave her home even were it on the most urgent business without a passport delivered to her by her husband, and unscrupulous husbands take advantage of this. Wives have been known to purchase the mar ital passport by the sacrificeof half their personal fortune.-London Tit-Bits. ALL OVER THE SOUTH. The Confederate Veterans Are Preparing to ( - r e Chicago.. CHICAGO, July 1.-"I have been hf ra for three days," said Colonel J. C. Alli son y. of Alabama, "arranging for the ac commodation of iiOO people from Mont gomery and Mobile, who are coming to Chicago with the Confederate excur sion during the month of July, anti have parceled them out according to the prices they are willing to pay. -.'This excursion will be the biggest thing that has ever left the south. It will leave Birmingham July 21st. fol lowing the olose of the reunion of con federate veterans. Nearly every camp and bivouac in the south will be repre sented, in order to se'eure the nnpr* ce dented low rate^of $10 for the re^nd TrTfC^v>g">g naran teed 5.000 people. It now loots as if there will be twice fha? number. Our tickets give us 10 dey3 to gtop here. ATLANTA, .Tune 27.-Another break for liberty was made at Futton county jail Saturday night by 10 negroes who were confined under charges of felony. The jailors discovered the poisoners be fore they had gotten into the mam cor ridor and opened fire on them with re volvers. The negroes retreated under eover of the cells, and were secured be fore any of them w^re hurt. SELMA, Ala., Juno 29.-Charles Cald well, a white barber, shot and fatally wounded Ed Cochran, another barber. Caldwell came here from Cincinnati about a week ago, and Cochran from Middlecown. O., a few days previous. Both were rivals for the affections of a lady, and the shooting occurred in her 1 presence. The affair created a great Qeai o excitement. MACON, <?un,e 30.-Yardmaster Char ley Bull, of the East Tennessee rail road, was fatally hurt while coupling cars. He was struck near the lower part of the stomach and frightfully mashed. His entrails protruded. At last aecounts lie was alive but the phy sicians have pronounced him beyond all hopes of recovery. i WAYNESBORO, Ga.. Jul}* 1.-Sumner Racken, the murderer of F. M. Francis, was hanged hero. Thc drop fell at 1< :')0 o'clock, and at 10:12 lie was pronounced dead. His behavior on the scaff id was the same as <>n all occasions since Iiis, arrest. He had nothing to say. not even in reply to questions. His neck was broken. NASHVILLE, July 1.- The following insurance companies have withdrawn from the state because of the law re uiringi t.h-m t > rife their charters: Am -ri'-;t*i. Central. Orient, Glen Falls, New Hampshire, Continental and Geor gia Home. They feared t-hey-wouid be rv.liable to taxation oh their capital stock. ROCKINGHAM, X. June .10.-Tony Rodgers, the wife murderer; died in jail Wednesday; Re would not eat,, and perished to death. He should hav : been hanged on ''i'* 27fh, but :ii the last moment his tin,.- was extended fen- 30 days rosee if li" would get batter, but the gallows was eb^-ited of it pr<-y. KNOXXHXE, Tenn., .Inly h-Stephen N. Noble, of Anniston. Ala., has been appointed r<<-.-iv>-r of Th" Einbreevillo Freehold Laud Iron :::>?] Railway com pany., .lal.-" Key made the appoint ment up >n tie1 application of (!. (1. Blake, of Cincinnati., who showed the com;)any to. bo greatly insolvent. KNOXVILLE, Term.. July i.-Newton j Clapp, who shot ; i T i ; i instantly killed C.. ' G. ('loud, a member of th" T'-Tirr^eo j legislature,.in a barroom ii.ichr. at Tnze weil. Inst winter, has just died ar that place. Clapp was a United States mar- ! shal, and was untler indictment for J murder. I f BK SUMTER WAtCBlAS, ltst Mtsh d April, 1SS0. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at. be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1893. THE TKL'K SOUTHROtt, Established Jone, 1ZS& ------------ ? ? ~s New Series-Yoi. XII. X . 49/ 'Rhen Baby waff sick-, we "fare iver Castoria. When she was a Child, xii ; cried for Ca.st.oria, When she b :eame Miss, she dun** to Csstoria. When- lie had Children, she guvethesa Cftstoria, Nature should be assisted to throw j off impurities of the blood. tfoifring ; does it so well, so promptly, or so safely as Swift's Speei e LIFE SAJO NOCHARMS. For three years I was troubled with mala rial poison, which caused my appetite to fail, and I was greatly reduced in flesh, and life lost all its charms. I tried mercurial and | potash remedies, but to no effect. I could get no relief. I thew decided to try ft*jKg K2| A few bottles of ibis wonderful jjfrflMTf ffi medicine made a complete and permanent cure, and laow enjoy better health than ever, J. A RICE, Ottawa, Kan. Our book on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Ripans Tabules cure the blues. C. 0. BROWN & BRO. LATHS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, AND HAIR French and Americaii WinSow Kass, I PAINTS, OILS AND TARNISHES. CARTER WHITE LEAD,, The Best in the Market. C. 0. BROWN & BRO COLUMBIA, S. C. Opposite Post Office, COLUMBIA, S. C. Typewriter. Headquarters. J. W. GIBBES & CO. 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOR THE "DENSMORE," The Twentieth Century Typswriter. WE 511* orders promptly for all kinds of Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs aDd Neostyles. The DENSMORE is the latest achievement of the Densmore fat Hy, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, was developed. It has fixe type-bar hangers and noo-vibrating-two points which insure lastiug alignment. It is the most modem and practica? machine on the market. The DENSMORE is used by the famous Carnegie Steel Company, he Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits IG Densmorea in operation at the World's Fair, the New York Central and Hudsou River Railroad, R. G. Dun & Co's Mercantile AgeDcy. Some of the users of the Densn&ore i-a Columbia, are : The Evening Journal, Jones Mixson's Busioess College* and Typewriting I School, Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master of TrainsT Office, Judge 8. W. Melton, Union Central L<ife Insurance Company, JSeaedict institude and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. eMh -* sp^p C tF rag Store, jfe ^^^^^^^^^ Drugs and Medicine^ Soaps; Perfumery, Hair Brashes Tooth Brushes, Tooth Powder, Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomine, ali colors for rooms, Artists' Paints and Brushes, Luster Paints, Convex Glasses. Nice line of Hanging and Stand Lamps, Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, &c. TOBACCO AXD CIGARS. Keep the following popular brand of Cigars: "Plumb Good," "Custom Bouae,." "Rebel Girl." Sep30 FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully corapotroded. WELL! NOW rr 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 LINE OF SHOES 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 Ra s- and Congress, for $2.00, that can't be sold by any other house for less than $2.50 to $3,00. Ifs 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. Ruy your shoes from us and save from 50 cents to $1.00 per pair. KINGMAN & CO. Glenn Springs Water, is unsurpassed and invalids find sure and speedy relief by its usc. 2*27 TVSrXlLiX* CJTrJF3R.H2 Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, following upou Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, DiarrWa, Dysentery, Constipation, Ilemorroid.s Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, Hocnaturia, Rheumatism, Catamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circular containing certificates, etc., appjy to Paul Simpson, GLENN SPRINGS, S. G -0 -FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J. Chiaa, Dr. tfclvagen, J. S. Uughson & Co., J. F.. W. JSfcLorme and W. R. Dclgar, Jr. for Infants and Children* '* Caaterfa is so woll a<Iap ed to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription, known to me." EC A. ASCHSK, 2t !>., Ill Co. Oxford C^Erooklja, SI T. Caj^toria cures Colic. Constipation, Sour'Stomach, Diarrhoea., Eructation, Kill* Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di gestion, 'vVithout kijariocs medication. ''Thc use of 1 eastons so universal and 8 "For several years I liave recommended* merits so well known that it scorns a work J your ' Castoria," and sliall always continue to cf suiKToro^iion to endorse it. Few ere the jj do so as it has invariably produced Ixrae ciaL intelligent families why do iu.>t Lt,e]> Castoria | resulte.'' w:;hia easy reach."' .* DWE F. PANDEE,.*!. D_, CARLOS lUcrrc, P. P., j 155th- Street and TUi-Ave., Sew. York City.. Sew York City | T.TK CESTAC COMFANT. 77 McKEAY STREET, SEW YORK CITT. J. JP. W. BeLORlE Asen* -DEALER TN Toilet Soaps, Perfumery and all Kiwis'ofT Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept; in a First Class ID :r iu.gr store. Tobacco, S uff and Cigars, Garden Seeds, &3., also Paints, Oils, Varnished m Glass Putty, &c, Dye Stuffs. j Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. The public wHI find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Gall and see for yourselves. i Night Calls Promptly Attended To. LUMBER YARD. I am prepared to furnish at shortest notice, Lumber of all Grades Delivered in any part of the City, at LOWEST LUMBER Prices. E. H. HOLMAN. ESTABLISHED 186$. Watches, Diamonds* Sterling Siller, Ooeks, ; Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles, &c. j F.O;XJSQ SIGN OF iii!-: BIG WATCH HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES ALLAN & CO. Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta cles. Drawing Instruments THE FINEST ST CK IM THE STATE. REUABL& GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES. Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief inspectors of Watches for oath Caro nia Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Kvisren of Three Cs Rail RoaoV. FVb. 8 JAMES ALLAN & CO., 235 Kine St.. Sigrn of D-JCB C!ock. Charleston. S. C. SUMTER Iron Wortes. W. E. & J. J. BRIMSON* PROPRIETORS. X3ngiXieS7 SO lerS aD<* machinery of all kinds and description repaired. CirClllSLF SaWS hammered and gummed. IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS made to order; and any work usually doo* in a first class machine shop or foundry executed in a workmanlike manner^ PRICES REASONABLE and satisfaction gu-ranteed by good work. Estimates will be furnished on application. Sumter Iron Works, W. E. & J. I. Brimson, Proprietors, Sumter, S. Cl ^ g^Nortk Main Street. Ans o ess| onie ioK QHILLS,MALAr\IA ^BILIOUSNESS. As pleasant aslemorx Syrup. I iii that the Tasteless Chill Tonic which has. given- such universal satisfaction, and. which von hear your neighbors talking, about is GROVE'S. TO get the original and genuine Tasteless Chill Tonic, al ways ask fer GROVE'S, and don't accept cheap; untried substitutes, claiming to be just as good. Grove's Tasteless ChillTonic holds full 6 ozs. and contains^' doses, while many of the new, untried tasteless tonics only hold 4^ ozs. and' contains but twenty-four to thirty doses. Grove's Tonic is as large as any dot lar tonio and retails for 50 cents. Marnifaetured by PARIfih MEDICINE COMPANY, St. Louis. Mo. Sold by all Druggists* J. S. HUGHSON & C . If you want j WILLIAM KENNED3! A FIRST-CLASS EASY RIDING Fashionable Barber. 4- ' MAIN STREET> CO till 111 I ^ ' ^ door to Earle* Pnrdy's Law OS *. VT \ REASON ALE PRICE, SUMTER, S. C. , ' f DESIRE TO INFORM the citizens 06 Gfcl A 1 S-nuterand vicinity that I have opened i blisiness 00 m* 0 Tn accou r M the abo*e i* S~H"f 'lift!* 5^ 4? fir a 5 :uld, Hn,i wilh competent and polrfct ^ J assistants, will he pleased to serve theariff ' any branch cf niv business in the beat ettie GEO. f. STEFFENS & W '&Z.J. Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. I 0et. ig._^ KENNEDY. Ripans Tabules.cure jaundice. 1 Ripans T-alndes-cure headache'