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?k MM mau aub Jioa?fcos. WBDHESDAY.ATJGUST 23,1893. TBE MONEY PROBLEM REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., ON COM? MUNISM ANO SOCIALISM. A Problem Th** Cam Only Bo Settled by tfee Organisation of Society Upon Some tfcteg ^fbat Approximates It? Trae Cbxis ttetf Hatls? CAPE CHARLES, Va., Aug. 6.-Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., continued at Cobb's island the series of sermons on "The Fi T?wferi Problem,*' the subject of today's discourse being "Commnnisra and So rtetifFTlw The text chosen was Matth J W SST. 15, "And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability." Standing before the great problem of money, we ask ourselves the question. What will be its ultimate solution? It ia not a Question that can be settled by a manipulation of a gold standard or H?ver standard or a greenback stan dard of the mechanism of exchange, The mechanism of exchange is a very email part of the commercial problem. The commercial problem is a larger question than the mechanism of exchange. The commercial problem is the problem of the organization of human society. It is a problem that can never be settled until the question of the organization of so? ciety is settled upon something that ap? proximates its true Christian basis. Hence the tremendous agitation of the last decade in the social theories of the world. There have arisen various schools of social reform through the past century which have felt and felt fully the seri? aos import of this problem. The French and German socialists of the last cen? tury have laid the foundations for the deepest thinking upon this problem, and that thinking is bearing fruit today in the active organization of society. There are two schools of reformers who . daim the field-the one destructive, the other constructive. The word socialist bas grown to have a dangerous meaning to the conservative members of society because of tfte wild lunatics who are in reality anarchists and who have mas? queraded as socialists. A socialist is simply one who believes in a better social order than the present; who believes in the reorganization of so? ciety upon a basis of fraternal co-opera? tion rather than the present basis of cold blooded war. Socialism has also been confused with certain theories of communism that were proclaimed within the past 30 years and that today have loud mouthed advocates in every country. This school of com? munism is in reality a school of anarch? ists, who have caused a reaction from true social reform that has been most lamentable and has set back the prog? ress of the race practically a generation. Christianity is a system of socialism. Jesus Christ was the first great socialist of the world. The work of Christianity is the construction of a new kingdom on the remains of the old. It is the build? ing of a new heaven and a new earth. It is this constructive socialism that must give to human society the true an? swer for its present Als. The communism which demands a di? vision of property on a per capita basis is in reality a scheme of madmen and anarchists and has nothing to do with true social reform. Christianity hus yytfbp^g in .common with the ideal of dead equality in the distribution of prop? erty. Such a scheme enforced would be the destruction of society, not its con? struction, And its destruction is not tibe aim of Christianity save as the prep? aration for construction. Our text has given us the true principle of Christian socialism as contrasted with the spurious ideal of an equal communistic division of property, lt is equal ability and re? sponsibility, and reward in proportion to slanty. The ideal of pure communism enforced could only result in the destruction to " hpinanity First-Because it is immoral. It is contrary to God's law. The Bible support of communism is apparent, not resL The New Testament gives us ac? counts of co-operative communities ot Christians. Each man did not cjaim his possessions as sacred to his own use. He put his property in common, subject to the use of his necessitous brother. The right and title of his property he always mam tamed. TCie Bible condemnation of a dead leveljffffnmunism is real, fud, overwhelming. We have the parable o? the talents. God distinctly declares to us that one man has five talents, another two, another one. To one man is given so many pounds, to another so many, to another so many, and each man is re? quired to give an account of the talent he has possessed; to account for them in proportion to his possession. The judg? ment pronounced by the Bible is thi judgment in proportion to man's de? serts. Those who are guilty of much are ? punished with many stripes; those who are guilty of little are punished with few. There are the greatest and the lowest even in the kingdom of heaven. In the organization of this ideal world, around the very throne of God, there is recog? nized the inequality of the individual, an inequality that arises from unequal distribution of powers. Each man is equally responsible-that is to say, each man is responsible to the full limit of his talent. Second-Pure communism is unnat? ural It is contrary to the decree of nature, which is but another expression of tb* voice of God. Nature abhors universal equality. Men are not equal. They were not bornequaL There is nothing in nature that leads us to believe that na? ture would permit equality in ber crea? tions. There are no two waves just equal in force, in character. The flow? ers have their character, their dissimilar? ity. Every stream has its individuality, every leaf its own character. No two leaves are alike. No two human faces are alike. No two human bodies are alike. No two human minds are alike. .There are no two mountains just alike in the world. No two mountains are just equal in height. There are hills, there fire valleys. th*?re are higher hills, there are grand mountain ranges, there are smaller mountains. In leaf and flower, in bud and bios- j som, in bird and fish, in mountain ami ! sea and plain-in every voice of nature i ehe has proclaimed the eternal truth of j the unequal distribution of talent, of ! dissimilarity in individuals and of tho j right of every individuality to have jx?r- j sonality developed to its highest power.;, i Individuality is one cf the highest laws j of nature. j The communism which seeks to de? stroy individuality is an attempt to re? construct nature itself. The very joy of nature is in its variety. The differences ' of men constitute one of the harmonies of life-their differences physical and mental. Some are tall, some are short, some are lean, some are fat. If all were alike, it would be a most r" \otonous world. We would tire of the human race. They would be so many little toy fig? ures cut out of flesh and blood, as we cut toys out of wood. There would be no such thing as beauty, because the senpe Of ccwprison would be ultimately iost^ The differences in women are equally c this decree of nature. They differ i temperament. They differ mentally an physically, and we differ in opinion about the same individuals. If we wer all of the same opinion and our ideal o beauty were the same, the -world woul again be reduced to a hopeless monotony And if all men in the world were give: one mind about the same girl, ther would be a most calamitous clima? We have different minds; we have dil ferent points of view. Communism is reversion to elemental barbarism bc cause it is a reversion to an origina type. As we ad vane e we advance by th evolution of individualities. Nature rewards in proportion to man' exertion, not to each alike. There are two fields of the s .:ne soil They receive the same sun, the same an? the same rain. One produces a gloriou harvest, the other tangled woods an< grass. The difference is, one receiver the toil of the farmer; the other receive? the tracks of the listless loafer. Whenever it comes to pass in an; council of society that the loafer and th beggar can eat the rewards of industry and virtue nature has been fundamen tally violated. Any sehr me of reorganization of so ciety which makes it possible for tb worthless and the vicious to live at tb expense of the industrious and the vir tuons and the good is a dream of amad man or a devil. It is a blow at nature a blow in her very face. Third-Such a communism is not onl] immoral and unnatural, but it is emi nently unjust Justice is the one original, universal eternal reality which man must recog nize in his relations to his fellow man Justice is the basis of any successful so ciety. Justice must be the basis of an] commercial scheme which has in it an] hope for man. Any system that seize; the fruits of one man's labor and divide; it among others that do not work is un just This is a proposition which cut' the present social order at many point? as well as denies the basis of pure com munism. Inherited wealth, for instance, is i seizure of the fruits of one man's labo: and a division of it among those who die not work to produce it. A robber is t noan who seizes the fruit of another man's industry without working for it, There is a commercial brigandage of to 'day which stands in the same relatioL. That idleness and vice eat with industry and virtue is unjust. Nature and na ture's God voice the eternal decree ol industry. By work man shall live. Na ture proclaims it in a thousand ways-ir the storms that howl in winter and re mind man of his frailty, of the hungei that pinches, of the cold that cuts, of the storms that beat upon his head. In a thousand startling voices he is reminded of this eternal truth. Nature also teaches that idleness and vice have their reward. A company of communists recently gave an excursion to a beer garden. They carried mottoes in their procession after their wild speeches. One of these mottoes was, "Our children cry for bread!" They knocked the bungs out of 500 beer kegs that day. In the music of that gurgling beer could be found the answer to their complaint, and those 500 empty barrels gave in specific terms the reason why their children cried for bread. There are some people who are poor and who always will be poor be? cause they are worthless. They refuse to work. A man of this description looks with envy upon the possessions of his in? dustrious neighbor. And any scheme of society that proposes to house and clothe this rascal at the expense of his indus? trious neighbor ?3 fundamentally unjust. And it can never be embodied in human law in any form and endure. What men need is justice, and justice applied to the present society must solve its every problem. All the poor need is 'justice-not pity, not charity-justice the right to work. Give to the laboring world, the underworld, the right to work and a just return for that work, and all the poverty save the poverty of vice must disappear, and the poverty of vice musfc be treated by the strong arm of the penal law. What the social reformer needs to in? sist on today is not a distribution of bread on a charitable basis, it is that Tie insist upon the distribution of ab? stract justice between man and man, be? tween employer and employee, between merchant and customer, between man and man. It is unjust to apply the material standard of measurement to an immor? tal being. A pure communistic basis of equal distribution of property would, as Carlyle says, reduce the world to a great pigsty, with a little pig wash for each. It would be unjust for the skilled and the unskilled to be paid al&e. It would be unjust for brains and brute to share on equal terms. To each man according to his ability should be his responsibility. And each man should have his needs supplied each man who is worthy-and his noed will be fully met in giving justice. A man in a horse car in Boston was unformed that a little man who sat at the other end of the car was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was greatly amazed at his diminutive stature. So complete was his astonishment that he asked the doctor if he would allow him to see his hat. The doctor smilingly complied, and the man examined the hat minutely and exclaimed in further sur? prise that the hat was not as large as his. He had supposed that a man like Dr. Holmes would measure around the skull so many inches. We have here the difficulty in adjusting on your commu? nistic basis the results of the work of the architect and the hod carrier. The hod carrier labors on the house. The architect conceives the ideas. The other does the work which a machine or a brute under some conditions could bo trained to perform. A system that re? wards each alike for an hour's labor is a system fundamentally unjust. Tie richest elements of life are those that elude such a material standard of measurement. We could not estimate the poet's labor by the same tick of the clock as we esti? mate the man who paves the streets. The poet that wrought his immortal song that thrilled a thousand hearts and pave them courage to do the tasks of tho world: that made the anvil ring ir. a thousand workshops; that gare inspira? tion to millions of hearts-we cannot pay for that poem in the same terms and by the same standard as we pay the ! printerwho has set wp the type and gave ! it to the world. Thc artist cannot be remunerated upon j the basis of the house painter. The artist whosecreation inspired a thousand other hearts cannot be equalized, cannot l>e brought down to the level by any me? chanical process of the painter who ! paints the exterior of the house by the j day and the hour. The musician whose masterpiece thrills ! the hearts of the ages cannot have his ! work estimated by the square inch. To ' bring the race down to the dead level of the communistic idea is to eliminate tho '? heroics of life. Shall there be ao indi? viduality? if we are just, there must be. Justice demands that each shall be rewarded according to his deserts. Against the scheme of communism, as a scheme for the present social dis? order. 1 would protest in the name iff God's word, in the name of nature, her law <>t' individuality, h^r law of brother? hood, fatherhood, sisterhood and moth erl.obd, of all lier forces that cuSeren tiate us into separate beings, wita sep? arate duties and several characters. In the name of the spiritual and the divine of man and of the elements that con? stitute his higher life, I would impeach such a scheme. Communism can give no answer, there fore, to the social problem of this age. To each man we must give simple jus? tice, and justice is the antithesis of the communistic ideal. If you answer in reply that^the evil play of antagonistic forces as at present we have them in society must then be the only solution, and that the fittest will survive in thia free play of brute force, I ask the simple question: Do the fittest actually survive in your present society? Are not those who are most de? serving crushed? Do not the unworthy succeed? Does not wrong triumph for the time and injustice reign? The an? swer is not far to seek. We know these are facts. While communism holds no answer to the problem, so long as we believe in Christianity, so long will we hold that there ?s an answer, full, rich, complete. Denims For the Country. Denims, which will enter so largely in? to country furnishings, have only just begun to be appreciated. At first only the blue, such as was manufactured for men's wear as overalls, was the only color obtainable, but since there has been add? ed red and then-green, both in good shades. Yellow will soon be added. Denim in shades of red makes the most effective hammock and piazza pillows and will require absolutely no decora? tion, although some very striking work may be produced by embroidering with ' heavy crewels or wash linen floss in con? trasting shades. It is especially adapted to such purposes as laundry and shoe bags, being strong and washable. It will make most artistic portieres for summer cottages placed in the dining room oz hall, where richness of coloring is desir? able. There is also a reversible denim shading from red to blue, with the blue predominating on one side and red on the other.-Boston Courier. Mascagni and Leoncavallo. In one particular Signor Mascagni is certainly the very antithesis of his fellow countryman Leoncavallo, who found so little pleasure in society that at a dinner party given in his honor he was the only guest who failed to keep the engage? ment. Mascagni has been everywhere. He has dined with the Prince of Wales and has rounded off his experiences by spending an evening with Mr. Alfred de Rothschild. It must not be understood, however, that Signor Leoncavallo was unapproachable, and as a mark of his amiability it may be mentioned that he left behind him when he left London the manuscript of a song specially written for a popular singer. Signor Mascagni has found no time for that sort of thing. -London Globe. Ribbon? and Their Uses. Apart from the enormous use of rib? bon in millinery of this season, this fas? cinating kind of garniture is also im? mensely displayed on dresses of all kinds, whether for the street or house, daytime or evening, morning robe or dancing gown. The names bestowed upon the ribbon bows which gayly decorate the fashion? able gowns are as fanciful as the shapes of these bows themselves. Among them there are "donkey's ears." "windmills," "butterflies," "satyr's horns," "choux or cabbage bows," tor? sades or twists, rosettes, "l^op clusters" and triple and quadruple as well as sin? gle "streamers." Then there are "ra? ven's wings" of black satin ribbon for the decoration of bright pink, scarlet and light green growns, and "bat's wings" of black gauze ribbon for the purpose of artistic contrast with bright orange and vivid yellow. The effects produced are very striking and greatly heighten the appearance of the fabrics worn.-Do? mestic Monthly. A Day's Projrrammo For Literary Men. The London Hospital thinks the after? noon nap quite unnecessary and pre? scribes this regimen for literary workers: They should never go for more than eight hours a day. Early rising would be good for most of them. A cup of cof? fee and a piece of toast at half past 6 might be followed by an hours work from 7 to 8. The whole hour between 8 and 9 should be devoted to a thorough? ly good breakfast and a short walk. Work from 0 to 12. Half an hour should then be spent in gentle sauntering in the fresh air, and a light lunch should follow -say a chop and bread, with a modicum of light pudding, accompanied by a small glass of lager beer. From 1 to 2 a pipe and a saunter, and at 2 a cup of black coffee. From 2 to 4 work. At 4 a cup of afternoon tea and a rest until 5. From 5 to 6 or half past work, and at half past 6 the real labors of the day should be over and completed. At 7 a good, well cooked, appetizing, slowly eaten dinner, followed by one cup of black coffee, but no tea. At a quarter to ll a small cup of cocoa and one or two pieces of toast. At ll bed, and sleep until 6 or' 6:30. The brain worker should not work more than five days a week in this fashion. He should have two days of leisure in the week. The first of these should be devoted to brisk and thoroughly fatiguing exercise in the open air, and the second to lolling, loung? ing, a little light reading and the like. Seeing hy Electricity. Morse taught the world years ago to write at a distance by electricity, the tel? ephone enables us to talk at a distance by electricity, and now scientists are agreed that there is no theoretical rea? son why the well known principles of light should not be applied in the same way that the principles of sound have been applied in tho telephone, and thus allow us to seo at a distance by electrici? ty. It is some 10 years since the scien? tific papers of the world were greatly exercised over a report that I had filed at the Smithsonian institution a sealed packet supposed to contain a method of doing this very thing-that is, transmit the vision of persons and tilings from one point on the earth to another. As a matter of fact, tlyre was no truth in the report, but it resulted in stirring | up a dozen scientific men of eminence to I come out with statements to the effect | that they too had discovered various methods of seeing by electricity. That | shows what I know to be the case, that men are working at this great problem in many laboratories, and I firmly be? lieve it will be solved one day.-Profess? or Dell in McClure's Magazine. Marvels Architecture. Each time I have visited the White ; City I have been more impressed with its ', beauty; each time 1 have wondered again how anything so beautiful could have ; sprung up in the neighborhood of that j smoke begrimed city of huge, ugly build- ! ingsandof long streets of unbeautiful houses. Some one has said that while , the buildings of the Paris exposition of i 18b0 were such as one might expect to find at Chicago those at the World's fair are such as one might expect to find at Paris. Ther<> is much truth in the re? mark, and certainly by tar the finest ex? hibit at Ttl'- fair is the buildings-those whited sepulchers of staff which but for a broken c ?mer here and there which reveals their hollowness have all tho effect "f substantial stonework.-Cor. Dundee Adv? rtiser. Our Degraded Palmetto, Alas 1 alas T and must we see Tbe glorious emblem of oar State, The noble, grand Palmetto tree Now fallen from ita high estate To grace a common whiskev flask And on a bar room shelf to stund A spectacle, to all who pass, Degraded in its native land? Yet, once how proudly did it wave O'er bloody fields of Mexico, And over many a hero brave By abell and cannon ball laid low. Then io Virginia, when the smoke Of battle veiled the Sothero sky, By hand? that since have turned to dust How gallantly 'twas borne on bigh Where Hampton with bi3 "Legion," faced The booming cannon's awful shock ; Where South Carolina's noble ''Fourth" Stood ever firm as Alpine rock. Beneath its warlike bristling spears Ah, many a brave man fought and died, And its untarnished record was To os a natural source of pride. Oh, why this degradation then ? Of all our sacred things brought low This one last bitter drop, bath made Our people's cup to overflow. -Tristesse. ODDS AND ENDS. Remorse is the tax that sin has to pay. The postmaster of New York city is paid $8,000 per year. Jules Verne is about to publish his seventy-fourth noveL Mezzofanti, the prince of the church, was a carpenter's son. In one summer the descendants of a fly will number 2,080,320. A fly is never so stupid but that he is able to get a-head of the bald mam It is estimated that there are no fewer than 36,000 sightless beggars in France. "A creaking carriage and a crying w(> man make their way," says a Picardy wit. The taxable property of Augusta, Ga., has increased over $1,000,000 during the past year. The New York Sun estimates that there are 80 clubs in that city and 25,000 members. Muncie (Ind.) merchants have been ar? rested for showing their goods on the sidewalks. Throw an equal amount of salt on soot spilled on tho carpet, sweeping all up together. It is estimated that there are 3,000 more paupers in London than there were this time a year ago. The total amount contributed to Pres? byterian churches during tho past year was over $14,000,000. Over 25,000 women in this country are engaged in tho decoration of different kinds of china and pottery. A traveler in the Pyrenees says that the burning question of the region is, Shall strangers be considered as a prey or a harvest? Franklin left behind him more max? ims than any of his countrymen, and prudence is the pivot on which they turn. -A. Rhodes. Carling: by Electricity. The electrical curung iron is very sim? ple. The wires conduct the electricity into the little stand into which the tongs are thrust. The latter are made the proper temperature by heat, which is generated by the resistance of the wires to the current. The stands are two inches high and are usually nickel plated, although some are plated with gold and have handsome handles. In traveling the irons and stands occupy only a very sr ll space in a satchel. Attached to t? stand is a silk cord, which may be ar' ?usted to any incandescent wire after screwing off the little globe. One advantage is that the heat of the tongs is always under the perfect control of th? UBer.-r-New York Recorder. The Unknown. "Yis, Mrs. Muggins, Pat and Oi part to meet no more. Oi wint to the hos? pital to ax after him. 'Oi want to see me husband,' says I-'the man that got Wowed up.' 'Yez can't,' says the doc thor; 'he's under the inflooence of Ann Estheticks.' 'Oi don't know the lady,' says Oi, mighty dignified loike, 'but if me lawful wedded husband kin act loike that when he's at dith's door Oi'll have a divorce from him!'"-Newport News. A Mistake Somewhere. Willis (lighting a cigar)-As a rule, the last half of a cigar is always bad. .Wallace-Then you must be smoking that one backward.-Brooklyn Life. The Gentle Art of Charming:. A man says that a woman to be clever at conversation must have a good mem? ory. She must keep in mind so much as she knows of the tastes and prejudices of those present. If So-and-so's brother fought in the Egyptian war, if such a one has Scotch ancestry, if such another had a dear friend or an aunt or some? body who went on tho stage, if such an? other has written a poem on "Mortality" and has opinions on immortality and so on, of each and all she must remember. And "As you said the other day" is a good way to introduce a pungent re? mark; or, "As your favorite author has it," which shows a flattering regard for one's preferences. All these tricks, if you call them so, must be studied. Don't try to make a man think ho-Cv clever 3-ou are. Make him think how clever he is. Brighten him up. Lead him on to say witty things. You may even coax him up to a joke, be he as glum as Pharaoh's ghost. Re? mind him of clever things ho said "the other da}'." Never mind if they are in? ventions of your own. Never mind if he knows they are. So long as he does not imagine that you know they are, you are all right. Tell bright things about him. It won't take long to make him feel, es? pecially if he is a really dull fellow, that he is a lot smarter than even he thought himself, and he will correspondingly adore you. A man is apt to frizzle un? der the fire of your own humor and wit and brightness, and of course a man is never comfortable when ho frizzles. Woman. A Wrinkle For Husbands. The young ?vife of an engineer resid? ing near tin; Thiergarten had gone to spend the Easter holidays with hermoth er in Magdeburg and appeared so well satisfied wit li the change that she pro? longed her stay, notwithstanding tho pathetic appeals of her lonesome hus? band. At last our involuntary grass widower devised an original plan for in? ducing his little wife to return to her hearth and home. Ile got a friend of his who kept a camera to take a photo of his house and send it to his wife, with a let? ter stating that her intense longing for home would no doubt bo somewhat miti? gated when she saw that the old place remained as she had left it and that sho could now stay with her mamma as long as she liked. The very next train brought my lady unannounced, greatly excited and ac? companied by her mother. Whence this sudden apparition? The photo in ques? tion represented our engineer standing in front of the house and engaged in a lively conversation with the young lady j next door, whose laughing features were j distinctly portrayed in the picture. Ex- ? planations followed to the effect that tho ? whole affair was a joke, but madam did not quite see it and staid at home instead of going back to Magdeburg with her mamma. Berliner Taueblatt. The Fight for Honest Money. The weakness of the silver party in the popular branch of Congress, ag demonstrated by tbe slim attendance at their caucas yesterday, is quite in line with the facts brought out by the Herald's canvass. As everybody expected, tbe serious opposition to the repeal of the insane law which has brought such unparalled disaster upon the country will be encountered in tbe Senate. The advo? cates of the white metal are propor? tionately moro numerous in that body, and their obstructive power is apparently greater than in the House. In thc Senate, however, the majority can fix a day on which a vote must be taken upon a question, and tbe stubborn minority can in this way be brought to book. It is admitted that the Presi? dent can exert great influence upon the Senate, and he would be squeamish indeed who would object to the exertion of that influence for tbe public good in such a crisis as the present. The prominence and the power of the Senators representing tbe silver produc? ing States are, of course, out of all pro? portion to the population they represent or the value of the product. The fifty-eight million ounces of silver pro? duced in this country last year was virtually all taken from four States and three Territories, having an aggregate population, as shown by the last census, of only one million people. Thus: Ounces cf JPopu Silver. lotion. Arizona 1,062,220 59,620 Colorado 24,347,017 412,198 Idaho 3,164,269 84,385 Morilana 17,405,093 132,159 Nevada, 2.244,000 45,761 New Mexico 1,075,000 153,593 Utah 7,762,257 207,905 Totals 57,059,856 1,095,621 Here is a population less than two per cent, of that returned for the whole country and a product the total value of which would scarcely pay one-fourteenth of the yearly expenses of the federal government aloue. The issue before Congress is plain and simple-the un? conditional cessation of the compulsory purchase of this product-and it will not do to befuddle it with questions of ratio or compromises of any sort or description. It is a condition and not a theory with which Congress is to deal a condition full of terrors and sufferings, which multiply with every day's delay in repealing this insane law. In face of the awful experience of the past three months aud the ringing de? mands for repeal that have come from the people ol all sections itjs incredible that aoy time should be lost in filibustering or useless speech-making. European financiers evidently believe that the meeting of Congress means the prompt repeal of the law, else they would make it impossible for us to bring from their shores the gold which is at this moment giving partial and temporary relief to mercantile circles. Repeal the Sherman law, stop buying silver ; and with this assurance that the stability of our currency is to be pre served confidence will spring up not only among our own people, but among the investors of the world. They will take the frightfully depreciated securi? ties from which they now hold aloof and send us ail the gold we need in return. The money now hoarded in every hamlet and city from thc Atlantic to the Pacific will be returned to the chaunels of trade, the daily Hst of failures and calamities will begin to shrink, idle workmen will again bc employed aud we shall have taken the first and neces sary step toward a new and lasting period of prosperity.-N. Y. Herald Mrs. Chapin professes to see the "hand of God" in the dispensary. Will she kindly tell us whose voice it is that is calling so lustily for the Charleston dispensaries to stay open until 9 o'clock. The State Board of Control is con? sidering the matter of changing the O DO hour for closing the dispensaries from 6 p ni to 9 p m. The early closing hour is the best feature of the abom? inable law and we hope it will remain as it is -Lancaster Ledger. For kidney and liver trouble Glenn Springs water is a cure. On draught at Hugbson A Co's drug store. Buckleu'a Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world fur Cuts, Bruises Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Uands Chilblains, Corns and all Skio Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dr J. F. W. De Lorme. Par-a-sit-i-cide. Cures Itch in 30 minutes. Price 50 cents. Sold by J F. VV.JDeLorme. June 28-4ra When Baby was sick, w? cave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When shu had Children, shu gave them Castoria, Drink Glenn .Sprin?rs Water tor headache, indigestion and general debility. - -J - If you feel weak and all worn out take BROWN'S IRON BITTERS s.s. PURELY a vegetable compound, made entirely of roots and herbs gathered from the forests of Georgia, and has been used by millions of people with the best results. It QURE5 All manner of Blood diseases, from the pestiferous little boil on your nose to the worst cases of inherited blood taint, such as Scrofula, Rheumatism, Catarrh and SKIN'?rlriCER Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. Order Your PROVISIONS AND GROCERIES FROM GEO. f. STEFFENS & SON, Wholesale Agents, Charleston, S. C. -Agents for MOTT'S CIDER, RED SEAL CI3ARS, and DOVE HAMS. VoungWives Who are for the first time to undergo woman's severest trial we offer "Mothers Friend" A remedy which, if used as directed a few weeks before confinement, robs it of its PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFE of both mother and child, as thousands who have used it testify, "I used two bottles of MOTHERS FRIEKD with marvelous results, and wish every woman who has to pass through the ordeal of child birth to know if they will sse MOTHERS FRIEND for a few weeks it will rob confinement of fain and ruff cringe and insure safety to life of mother and child." MRS. SAM HAMILTON, Montgomery City,Mo. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 per bottle Sold by all druggists. Book To Mothers mailed free. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. ?LE CURB A Kew and Complete Treatment, consisting: ot SUPPOSITORIES, Capsules of Ointment and two Boxes of Ointment. A never-failing Cure for Piles of every nature an<J degree. It makes an operation with the knife or injection* of carbolic acid, wllich are painful and seldom a peraanent cure, and often resulting in death, unnecessary. Why endure this terrible disease? We gu?rante* 6 boxes to cure any case. You only pay for benefits received, fl a box. 6 for $5. Sent by mall. Guarantees Issued by our agents. rnNQTIPATinWCored- p?*s denied, OU lt O I nft I lull by Japanese Liver Pellets the great LIVER and STOMACH REGULATOR and BLOOD PURIFIER. Small, mild and pleasant to take, especially adapted for children's use. GO Doses 25 cents. GUARANTEES issued only by DR. A. J. CHINA? SUMTER, S.C, NEW MARBLE WORKS, COMMANDER & RICHARDSON, LIBERTY STREET, SUMTER, S. C. WE HAVE FORMED A CO-PARTNERSHIP For the purpose of working Marble and Granite, manufacturing Moments, Tost?les, Etc., And doing a General Business in that lise. A complete workshop has been fitted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEARPOST OFFICE And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to us. Satis? faction guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON. Jnne 16. ANNOUNCEMENT. ROBERT T. CARR. Desires to inform the public that he is fully equipped and prepared to do TIN ROOFING, PLUMBING, REPAIRING PUMPS, and anything usually done in a first-class plumbing and tinning shop. -Also SETTING FANCY WOOD AND MARBLE MANTLES, TILE HEARTHS, FACINGS and GRATES. Makes a specialty of putting in Electric Bells, Annunciators, Speaking Tubes, &c. ROBT. T. CARR. Shop at J. B. Carr's Mill. . Communications left at Walsh k Co's Shoe Store or through post office will receive prompt attention. Oct 26-o JOS. F. RHAME. WM. C. DAVIS. UH AME & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Allend to business io any part of the State Practice in U. S. Courts. Sept. 21- x. IIII.IL JIM sims, DENTIST. Office OVER BROWN k JBROWN'S STORE, Entrance on Main Street Between Brown k Brown and Durant ? Son. OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 29. Itaifacturing Jeweler, Watchmaker and Engraver, At C. E. Stubbs' office, MAIN STREET, SUMTER, S. C. NEW LUMBER YARD. ?BEG TO INFORM MY FRIENDS AND the public generally that my Saw Mill located on the C. S. k N. R. R., just back of my residence, is now in full operation, and I am prepared to furnish all grades of Yellow Pine Lumber from unbled limber, at prices according to grades. Yard accessible on North side of residence. J. B. ROACH. Feb 18._ ATTENTION, COTTON GUNNERS ! 1AM PREPARED, with the best appli? ances so far known to renovate Gin Saw Teeth, Stripped and Broken Tee.h cut in with stamp and die, Short and Misshaped Teeth gummed out and shaped with reciprocating file gu m mer, aNd all teeth pointed with Duplex filer, making thc round or needle point. Eleven years experience warrants me in guaranteeing satisfaction. Telegraph and P. 0. address, St. Charles, Sumter Countv, S. G. j. MERRICK REID. _May 17._ Are Yoi any Wat Puzzles ? The genius who invented the "Fifteen" Puzzle, "Pigs in Glover" and many others has invented a brand new one, which is going to be the greatest on record. There is fun, instruction and entertainment in it. The old and learned will find as much mystery in it as the young and unsophisti? cated. This great puzzle is the property of the New York Press Club, for whom it was invented by Samuel Loyd, the great puzzle? ist to be sold for the benefit of the movement to erect a great home tor newspaper workers in New York. Generous friends have given $25,o00 in prizes for the successful puzzle solvers. Ten Cent8 sent to "Press Club Building and Charity Fund," Temple Court, New York City wiil get you the new myetery by return mail. FIRST CLASS JOB WORK AT BOTTOM PRICES* WATCMIMAN AND SOIJTRON JOB OFFICE SUMTER, S. G for Infants and Children. ' * Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription Lnown to ma" II. A. AECHXU, M. D., Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. "The use of 'Castoria U so universal and i?:i merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." C?BIX? MABTTX, D. Kew York City THE CESTAVE. COSPAXT, 77 MURRAY STREET, KEW YORK. Crrr. Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, S our Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Wonnsv gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. "For several years I have recommended your4 Castoria," ano! shall always continue to do so as lt bas invariably produced beneficias results.'' EDWIN F. PARDEE, M. 125th Street and 7th ?ve" Kew York City* (hillTonic I KmmM ^CHILLS,MALAK!A X 53K '?m? ^BILIOUSNESS. N (f^&S?^S^^9 pleasant asiw\S}i'up. t\ 4ft T^IIITT^HIT^ that the Tasteless Chill Tonic which has LJ tLd lill * illl U L* U Siven such universal satisfaction, and ri ? l?i ? IWI Itt ? ht v"oich you hear your neighbors talking lVLJ Til*j FlUL??\ about is GROVE'S. To geme original v^ ^ T and genuine Tasteless Chill Tonic, al? ways ask for GROVE'S, and don't accept cheap, untried substitutes, claiming to be just as good. Grove's Tasteless ChillTomc holds full 6 ozs. and contains 48 doses, while many of the new, untried tasteless tonics only hold 02s. and contains but twenty-four to thirty doses. Grove's Tonic is as large as any dot lar tonic and retails for 50 cents. Manufactured by PARIS MEDICINE COMPANY, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by all Druggists* J. S. HUGHSON & GO,_ Typewriter Headquarters. J. W. GIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, Se CL SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOR THE "DENSMORE," The Twentieth Centay Typewriter, . WE fiil orders promptly for all kinds of Typewriter novelties and supplies fof all Machines and for Mimeographs* and Neostyles. The DENSMORE is the latest achievement of the Den ?rn ore family, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, was developed. It bas fixed type-bar hangers and non-vibrating-two points which insure lasting alignment. It is the mott modern and practical machine on the market. The DENSMORE is nsed by the famous Carnegie Steel Company, the Central Railroad and Bankiog Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits 16 Densmores in operation at the World'? Fair, the New York Central aud Hudson River Railroad, R. G. Don & Co's Mercantile Agency. Some of the users of the Densmore in Columbia, are : The Evening Journal, Jones & Mixson's Business College and Typewriting School, Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master of Trains' Office, JudgeJ5. W. Melton, Union Central Life Insurance Company, Benedict Institute and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. "Ti SI 001 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 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 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. Buy 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 use. Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver and General Debility, following upon Malarial Diseases, Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorroida Uterioe, Renal and Cystic Diseases, F o m at ur ia, Rheumatism, Catatnenial Derangement, aid OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS, Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars containing certificates, etc., apply to Paul Simpson. GLENN SPRINGS, S. C. .FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J. China, Dr. McKagen, J S. Hughsou & Co., J. F. W. DeLwmt and W. li. Illgar, Jr.