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Cte Mlaic|mait ai? $o utjpM. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. CAUSE OP THE PANIC. REV. THOMAS DIXON'S ANALYSIS OF THE BUSINESS DEPRESSION. He Oye? His FtUWork on th? Immedi ^CttlffWBuil Time? aad Shows tj? A?Kar&t? of the Scare- Faith in the NEW YORK, Sept 3.-Rev. Thomas Dixon returned to his pulpit in Associa tion hall today after spending his vaca? tion hunting and fishing on the eastern shore of Virginia. He opens the fall work wjtfc a series of morning sermons tjtfough September os "The Panic-Its Causes and Cure." He discussed Ulis wy^nit^g its "Immediate Causes," giving many points to show the utter absurdity of tfc& present scare. The test chosen wa*?fe*W^tthew xxv; 25, "And I was afraid and went and hid thy talent." It is a pitiable flight-a strong man stricken with fear! The husky breath, the tottering knees and weak cry place man, tho king, in & sorr3?g>light before the yrftflftlg that inst look on with a smile. Pear is an ignoble passion. lt never lifts up. It always degrades. To see a whole community, a whole na tfon, t|uake with piis?lammous fear in i the h?urof national prosperity is a sight - as zouch more ignoble as the nation is greater than the man. Bat the ignominy of a panic is the : amaBer part otdts disgr?ce. Ii is the bour in which & Jarute asserts itself. Man at once returns, to the original herd p^dp^He becomes an animal pure ??%??!^h%ople. A fool raised the jBj^L M * a^rm< There Sire. There was not even the smell of fire about th? building. But a panic ensued. That is to say, rational men and women suddenly went njp? with animal fear. Strong men booked weak women down and tram ?led them to death. S Shrieks, ' groans sad curses, Hke the growl and snarl and howl of a cage of enraged apes, rent the aft. Great broad shouldered brutes fought their way to the pavement. One wretch drew h% knife and cut Ids way through tho struggling mass of men, women and children. Hell rekmed su . j_ *' ?j- -5? prsme. Panic had reduced all to the level of ?brute, and with hid superior intel ice man outdid the brute, for to. his .9 fae added the use of steel, sorry spectacle for humanity! And yet this is precisely the case in our panic kt tiie business world. That scene in the theater is just as sane, just as hu? mane, as the scene in the world's ex? change in the hour of a money panic. A hundred such theater panics are as nothing in their results as compared with one week of commercial ruin. Let a Christian nation understand it! ? panic is a relapse io barbarism. It " ''"^^?^ savage m^m^rjortion to the do? minion of tear over him. The savage fears everything and ev- ' erybody. His condition is one of pure agnosticism. S^dbes notlrnow. He does not ?mow anything. Hence he fears everything. ?Son^^peo^leare proud of agnosticism. They sjjpll it with a big A and bow down ?nd wpBhigat its altar. We are just 3* iBtaBSSniciSu eoBKne?S?slly with pure agnosticism. Let oar agnostic friends take note. The simple trouble with ev? ery maa is, he says he don't know. It is a case ot "I don't know." What is the mather he dont know. What he is afraid of he don't know. If pure agnos? ticism ruled the world, we would be in hell already. It is the hour ol the coward. Ho coward can inherit the kingdom e^ier^^D^tom^fheaveu or earth. oaf the promised land. They brought back marvelous reports of its beauty. They said it flowed with milk and honey. They described its luscious fruits and bore back on their shoulders marvelous . specimens from its vineyards. But the $ fjSgapUclared that the land was inhabit ' Arty giants! They were fond of grapes , and mm and honey, but if there was go : ing to fe a fight they preferred onions ana garlic plain. And they cried for on " iona? Theysaidtheywere grasshoppers j cempt?dtotkemen who owned these magnificent vineyards. And they were. ??y were afraid. They were stricken with a panic. And the only use God . could fl?d^of them waa to use their bones to Jertfiize the so? of the wilderness while be raised up a new generation of men who knew not fear. Banks boast of their strength-they boast of their high use to the communi? ty-and yet in this hour of a riotous need they have been the first to sneak under corer. With pusillanimous whine of self preservation, they have been among the first to crawl into their vaults and tell their patrons and creators to look out. for themselves. A FARMER ASID ESS CORN. On the eastern shore of Virginia there stands today one of the few beautiful old homesteads of the past. Its fences are in repair. Its beautiful lawn, shaded by magnificent trees, is in perfect order. It bears still tba name given by its founder. Its broad acres remain intact in the hands of the same family today that held it in the past century. The neighbors are proud of its name and beaury, and they love to tell the story of its founder. They say he was a man of noted character in his day. On a cer? tain year there was a great famine in the whole country. Corn sold at $8 and %& a bushel and was difficult to get at that price. The great barns of this farm groaned beneath the burden of an unusu allyjargt crop from the previous year. What did the owner of these great barns and broad acres do in this crisis of the people? Did he put his men to work, dig vaults, bide his grain., and then stand st the gate with a sad smile and swear by heaven and earth that he didn't have s nubbin? No! He placed his men at the doors of his barns with this instruc? tion: "If a rich man comes to buy my corn with money, do not sell him a grain, no matter what price he may of * fer. When a poor man comes who has no money, let him have as much a.? he jieafsat fest year's price and take his promise to pay!" Merchants offered him fabulous pricer for his store that they might speculate in the necessities of their fellows. He would not sell them a peck. He sold to the poor for their promise to pay, and his children's children are not done reap? ing the golden harvest. As the old in? habitant passes the gate that leads to the great dump of trees that mark this garden spot of humanity, H is no won? der that he tells you the swry with moist eyes and adds with evident satisfaction, "It's stOl the handsomest place in the county." Such places will always be garden spots. Such men have always been and ever will be the salt of the earth. It would rot without them. LI VEHS WHITE AS MILK. Second-It is the quintessence of self? ishness. The more elemental the sav? agery of life, the narrower the circle of care. The basis of fear is selfishness. A panic is caused and maintained by ; every man trying to take care of him? self and let the devil take care of his neighbor. The end of it is that .the devil takes care of the whole establishment. No man liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. We cannot isolate our life from the communal life without at the same time destroying both. What an exhibition the panic has given us of mea and institutions! What a" grim procession of cowards and poltroons where strength and dignity were proudly boasted How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins Tte beard of Hercules and frowning Mars, "Who, inward search'd, have livers white a* milk! These are the mighty men and insti? tutions who call themselves the bulwarks of human society, who have taken to the woods and taken their money with them. And they have left the people to starve A bank in New York locks up $2,O00,00? in this hour of sorest need and issues bills of credit as though a pauper. The man or the institution that locks up money at this time is guilty of mur? der. It is useless to say: "The money is mine. Tve the right to do what I please with'my own." It's a lie. And the devil never told to mortal a bigger lie. Have you the right to lock up your money when by that act you shut down factories, close mill doors, stop a thou? sand wheels of commerce and throw hundreds of thousands of men and wom? en out of work? Have you the right from insane fear and selfishness to throng the streets of our cities with gaunt, blear eyed, hungry wretches, driv? en by starvation and suffering to crime and violence? Have you the right to take the bread from the mouths of hungry women and children to save a few dividends you are afraid may be lost in a shrinkage of values? Your money is not your own. It is a trust. The com? munity created its value. The heart's blood of the community is in it. If you withdraw it from the community, yot. are a traitor. You have betrayed a sol? emn trust to the race-to the God of the race. Your money is worth nothing without the life of the community back of it. To destroy the life of the com? munity is the surest way at last to de? stroy the power of your money* Let me say again no man luis the right to do what he pleases with what he may possess. He only has the right to do what he ought to do. TBE MEANEST INFIDELITY. Tterd--It is reign of doubt. A savage world is a world of doubt. As civilization advances, doubt re? treats. Faith in man is the imperial stamp up? on the coin of civilized society. Doubt effaces the image of faith. We descend from trade to barter. Once more we are savages. The tailor and the barber is all we have left between us and the naked animalism of the children of the forest. To doubt God is mean enough. To doubt man is to add crime to infi? delity. We i- *y be lost in speculations about God and the mysteries of the uni ; verse. - To some minds doubt of Gi xl may have hero a, plausible excuse. ' Bat ?br man to doubt his brother is to de? scend at one step to the primitive savage, and that without excuse. Why should I lose faith in my fellow man? The longer we study that question the more absurd becomes a. condition of panic. A few men prove false to their word, but they are the exception to the rule. In the vast volume of a .day's trade the" number of men who betray a trust axe but a drop in the ocean of human in? tegrity. ^!he world is not* run on a cash basis. It never w>s. It never can be. The world is run on faith. It is the basis fondamental of civilized society. Why doubt when there is not one betrayal of trust to a million obligations fulfilled? Why should we doubt our friends and neighbors? Our lives are bound up in theirs- Would it be worth while to live ourselves if in seeking to save self we should destroy them and carry the stain of their blood with us and upon us? Are we not all brethren? Is it desirable to live apart if we could? If all men aro false, are not we of the same material? To doubt ali men is to confess one's self a villain. Why should we as a nation lose faith? Of what are we afraid? Can we doubt God? Has he not shown us that we are a chosen people? Has he not loved us and blessed and guided us through the years to be the richest and mightiest nation of the earth? In every trial he has led us to victory. He watch? ed over the ships that sailed unknown seas and gave this continent to human? ity. He planted the love of freedom in the hearts of our ancestors and gave us a nation with liberty as its cor? nerstone. In our struggle with the moth? er country for freedom did he not pro? tract the war over long years and array the civilized world against England un? til we won? Has he not led us through long crises of internal strife and civil war on and up to greater and better things? Is not the hand of God manifest in the building of the nation in its growth and development and in its re? flex influences upon the fate of the op? pressed millions of other climes? Can an American citizen doubt the God of our fathers with the divine miracles of our history before him? BULWARKS OF THE NATION. The bulwarks of a nation are not gold and silver, but manhood and woman? hood. Have we not the sterling men and women whose hands and heads and hearts make true greatness? Have they ever failed the nation? Are they not as many heroes and heroines today among 62,000,000 of our people as ever before? Are there not as many brave hearts ready for the sternest work of life? Are we not rich in noble boys and girls grow? ing into nobler manhood and woman? hood? Why should we fear? If we cannot doubt God and man, can we doubt nature? True, Russia in her frozen north and China in flood and pestilence and crowd? ed millions have sometimes cried for bread. But now that all the world's a whispering gallery and every cry of pain and suffering echoes round the 8lobe, even they have little to fear, wif t fleets loaded with bread and meat will ever be rendjr to cross those seas at the cry of want. But what have you to fear in this gre&i continental nation washed by two oceans, with one hand in the furs of the north and the other in vineyards of the tropics? What have you to fear when the soil of a single state can produce bread enough to feed the human race? What have you to fear in the very hour when nature smiles upon your broad acres as she has not even in the years of your prosperity? , The nation was never more prosperous since it was founded in all that consti? tutes the real wealth of a people. Your soil never promised the sons of men a richer harvest than that they have just reaped and are about to reap. Your barns are full, your storehouses loaded, your people as a whole growing richer and happier. Of what are you afraid? ? ^o pestilence threatens your land, War is the remotest contingency. Grave social problems you have to set? tle, but none save a fool doubt the suc? cessful issue of the darkest of these prob? lems. There are riots of hunger and suffer? ing, but these will cease when you cease to fear. THE MAN AT THE MORGUE. Of what are you afraid? An imaginary hobgoblin? A man after a debauch went recently to the morgue at New York and t( " i the keeper lie was looking for bimse. He said he did not know where he was exactly and was oppressed with the idea that he might be in the morgue. If so he would, like to identify himself. This is our situation today. It is an anomaly. It is an absurdity. It is growing to be a crime. It does not matter what congress maj? or may not do-the present panic is in? sanity pure and simple. Congress is not the foundation of society. It is not the source of a nation's wealth except by trick and chicanery. Of what are you afraid, I repeat? Afraid of your friend and neighbor or your God? Will the sun forget to shine and give us another harvest? Then it is useless for you to hoard against the wreck of a world. Will the rain forget to come? Will the dew no? water the earth again? Are the the tides to cease their ebb and flow and the winds lie down up? on the black bosom of a dead sea and commerce die with its winds? Perish the thought! And perish the devil that first breathed into the heart of man such insanity of fear! And what will you gain who have a little money to yield to your insane fear? DANGEROUS TO HOARD. You are afraid to trust banks?" You are afraid to trust men, are you? Well, try your old stocking, then, or your old chest. You will be a fool for your trou? bl? and learn latter by and by. Your money is safer in banks and with men to use than anywhere you can lock it. A woman in Washington sold an old coat some time ago which she supposed her husband would not need and was horrified to find a few days afterward, that he had stored $700 in bills in its lining. Fire and water have destroyed vast sums of money hoarded. Burglars have taken advantage of the insane panic and are breaking open houses and reaping a golden harvest. They followed a farmer from his bank to his home the other day and succeeded easily in relieving him of the money that caused him so many fears. It is said that the records of the redemption division of our treasury department, of the Bank of England and of France show that the losses suffered by indi? viduals through their lack of faith in bania exceeds by an enormous sum the losses suffered by bank failures. A FEW WEEKS HENCE. Let the banks cease to hoard! Let the people cease to hoard! It is unreasonable, it is absurd, it is insane, and it is a crime against society. Within a short time money will be a drug upon the market, and the nation will go forward by leaps and bounds. The present crisis has only served to show the tremendous resources of our nation. In the hour of your sorest need, when it was supposed your credit was ruined, you drew about $25,000,000 in gold from Europe. In no way could you demonstrate more clearly your tremen? dous financial power. This nation, with its industries pros? trated, is still master of the finances of the world-because you have the brawn, the brains and the bread. The earning power of our people is something well nigh incalculable. It is the best of all fields for the investment of capital. Every crowned head of Europe owns property in America. He wants to be safe. Your country offers to labor its best opportunities. You had as well try to push back the stars in their courses as to impede for any length of time the progress of America. A panic among ns is an ignominious insanity. As for me, I believe! 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The sensation of the day in London is the attack made upon Mr. Gladstone by Kev. Frederick Davies. Mr. Glad? stone attended divine services at the Kp scopal church at. Blairgowie and the sacred edifice in honor of the premier's visit, was packed with people anxious to pee the great liberal leader. On prev? ious Sundays it would seem that the church mentioned had not been crowded with worshipers. Kev Fredeniek Davies, who was to preach the sermon, publicly insulted Mr Gladstone by refusing to shake hands with the venerable state>man before the sermon. In addition to this, during his .sermon, the . clergy mau directly condemned the people present for, as he claimed, coming to church from an unworthy motive, to worship a creatuie lather than the creator The words of the preacher created much indignation among a majority of those present. ------ The Bank of the Carolinas. 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Secretary Carlisle estimates the treas? ury deficit for the year at $50.000,000, which will be met by issuing silver certificates against the seignorage of bulliou purchased under thc Sherman law: The Chiuesc government is preparing a protest against France's new aggres? sions in Siam, and has given orders that the Chinese squadron of iionclads be made ready to sail at a moment's notice Governor Tillman's attorney in Washington has appealed to Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, for a mandamus to compel the the Commtssiooer of Patents to issue a "Palmetto" trade mark. * Anne' Pratt, a distinguished bota? nist, has just died in England at the age of 88. Her first book was publish nearly seventy years ago. lier "Flow? ering Plauts ~ and Ferns of Great. Britain" ts a standard work. There used to be 825 offices, big and little, in this. 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Prescriptions carefully compounded PUBLIC WARNING Do you wish a mower, and if so, do you wanta horse killer? If you ,do The Walter A. Wood ?flower is not what you want This is the lightest draft, lightest weight and most dura? 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. Don't waste your money on a horse-killing mower, and one that requires a machine shop behind it, when the same money wiM buy a first class machine Forty years on the market, and thc first mower ever built. A CAE LOAD OP THE STEEL BEAUTIES AT YOUR BOOB. HENRY B. BLOOM, P. S.-Dosi't fail to examine our mower knife grinder. Apr 12 Agent, Sumter, S. C. ATTENTION! PLUMBERS!! JUST RIEOiaiVESID 1 Car Load Sewer Pipe, Y's Bends. &e. H. HARRY. SUMTER Iron O'. W. E. & J. I. BRIMSON PROPRIETORS. EnginCS. BoileFS :,n'* machinery of all kinds and descriptions repaired. 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Aug 16 for Infants and Children ' ' f'astoria is so wt-li adapted to children that recommend it as superior to any x?rescription ...wa to me." IL A. Ascnza, 5L D., Ill So. Oxford St., brooklyn, N. Y. "Tho \v& of 'Castoria i.; so universal and : ; i.:er?L; u> weil known that i; seems a work . f supererogation to endorse it Few are the inri lli^ent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach." CARLOS MASTYN, T>. D., Nt-w York City Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di? gestion, Without injurious medication. "For several years I liave recommended your 'Castoria,' and i.hall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.'' EDWIN F PARDEH, SC D., 125th Street and Tth Ave., New York City. THE CKNTAI R COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Ty pew liter Headq uar tere. J. W. GIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AGENTS FOR THE "DENSMORE," The Twentieth Century Typewriter. WE fill orders promptly for all kinds of Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs and Neostyles. The DENSMORty\* the latest achievement of the Densmore family, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, was developed It has fixed type-bar hangers and non-vibrating-two points which insure lasting alignment, it is the most modern and practical machine ou the market The DENSMORE is used by the fa mous Carnagie Steel Company, the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits 16 Densmores 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 tn Colombia, are : The Evening Journal, Joues & Milson's Business College and Typewriting School, Richmond and Danville Railroad. Master of Trains' Office, Judge S. W. Melton, Union Central Life Insurance Company, Benedict Institute and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. Glenn Springs Water, Is unsurpassed and invalids find sure and speedy relief by its use. Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint. Chronic Hepatitis, Jaundice, Torpor of Liver aad General Debility, following upon Malarial Diseases. Dropsy, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Constipation, Hemorroid.s Uterine, Renal and Cystic Diseases, Homafuria, Rheumatism, Catamenial Derangement, and OTHER FEMALE COMPLAINTS, Highly recommended by the medical profession. For circulars containing certificates, etc., apply to Paul Si ipson, GLENN SPRINGS. S. C. .FOR SALE BY Dr. A. J China, Dr McKagcn. J. S. Hughsou & Co., J F. W. DeLnrme and W, ll. Dclgar, Sf. FAST TIME I'ROM Asheville, N. 0. to Chicago, Ills. Through Pullman Car. Lv. ASHEVILLE, Lv. KNOXVILLE, Ar. HARRIMAX, Ar. LEXINGTON, Ar. LOLISVIL..::, Lv. LOUISVILLE, Ar. INDIANAIH>LIS, Ar. CnrcAi;o, VR. Si D. R. R.) (E. T. V. ? G. Rv.) ( F.. T. V. & G. Ry.) (Q. ? C. R. R.) * xLou. So.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) (Penn. R. R.) VIA The Richmond ? Danville, East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia ; Queen & Crescent and Pennsylvania Railroads. NOTE THE A through Chicago Sleeper via Cincinnati, secured at Harriman arrives at Chicago by Big Four Route at 5:15 p.m. Stop-overs allowed at Cincinnati, Louis? ville and Indianapolis. CALL ON OX*. WRITE JOHN L. MIL AM: Trav. Pass. Agt., C. W. MURPHY, Ticket Agent KNOXVILLE, TEXX. ASHEVILLE, N. C. C. A. HEN SOOT ER, Div. Pass. Agt., B. W. WRENN, G. P. & T. An RNOXVII1I1 TEW NEW ORLEANS JACKSONVILLE* mun tm CHICAGO. The QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE affords the Quickest Schedules, the Finest Equipment, and the ONLY THROUGH GAR UNE TO CUCABO. From Asheville, Paint Rock. Hot Springs and Knoxville, via R. <fc D.. K. T. V. & G., Q. & C., L. S. R. R.. Louisville and the Penna. Lines to Chicago without change. Another car rona from Asheville to Cincinnati. Both can autle?.- ?.los*.- connection with all Chicago lines. Ask for your tickets via QUEEN & CRESCENT ROUTE. Any Ajientof the K. * D.. E. T. V. A C. or Queen * Crescent will give you information H? to routes, rates, schedules, etc. Stop-over* allowed at Cincinnati, Louia vitl?- or Indianapolis. D. ?. EDWARDS. G. P. A.. - CINCINNATI. O J JOS. F. RH A MK. WM. C. DAVIS. RH A MK & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. Attend to nosiness in any part of the State Practice in TJ. S. Conns. Sept. 21-x. Ripans Tabules cure headache 1?JIM milts, DENTIST. Office OVER RROWN & BROWN'S STORK, Entrance on Main Street . Between Brown & Brown and Durant A Sen. OFFICE HOURS : 9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock. April 9. 2