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ik l?iaicoaian au? j^ou?toim OCT. 25,1893. BLL\?> CLASSES. ARE THEY HASTENING THE COMING SOCIAL REVOLUTION? Ber. Thomas Dixon, Jr., Continues His Sermons OB tho Social Signs of the Times and Warns the Plutocratic Forces That Their I>est Iny Haass In the Balance. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-The new series of sermons on "The Coming Revolu? tion" was continued this morning in As? sociation hail by the Rev. Thomas Dix? on, Jr. The subject of the sermon for today was "The Blindness of the Class? es." He declared that in face of the fact of a worldwide discontent and restless? ness among the masses most st<irtimg in its character the strong and privileged classes face the fact with blind adher? ence to their traditional ideals. He main? tains that 4be*. conservative powers of state by fheir aggravating course are hastening a revolution; that the pluto? cratic forces of society with blind fatu? ity are hastening their own ruin, while the church throws aside the scepter of the world foxjbe privilege of building gilded **steeipied ?lnWT The textchosen was from Isaiah i, 3, "My people doth not consider.** REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION. We have seen ia a previous study that the masses of the world are today in a condition of restlessness that can but indicate the approach of a revolution. Revolutions have been averted from vio? lence in the history of nations and their forces transformed into the vital work of an evolution accomplishing the same results. But this has only been done when the powerful classes representing the conservative elements of society ?jaye shown the wisdom of recognizing mg to the situation. - It is very rarely that class power can maintain itself in the face of threatened change. The trouble is, the moment danger approaches, the threatened inter? ests themselves seem smitten with the blind determination to work their own ruin.^^^^4^. Jertfeafcm cf old ?hdnot know the day of her divine visitation. There was an hoar when the Saviour was nigh. Her destiny hung in the balance. She turned a deaf ear to him. And in her desola? tion there was left not one stone upon another. Such seems to be the history of almost all established power. THE EXAMPLE OF JAMES II. Macaulay says that James n seemed "bent on ruining himself, and any at? tempt to stop him only made him rush the more eagerly to his doom. When his throne was secure, when his people were submissive, when the most obsequious of parliaments w as eager , to anticipate all his reasonable wishes, when foreign king? doms and commonwealths paid emulous court to him, when it depended only on himself whether he would be the arbiter of Christendom, he stooped to be the hire? ling of France. And when by a series of crimes and follies he had succeeded in alienating Ms neighbors, his subjects, his soldiers, his sailors, his children, and had left himself no refuge but the pro? tection of France, he was taken with a fit of pride and determined to assert his independence. That help which, when he did not want it, he had accepted with ignominous tears, he, now when it was indisponible io him, threw contemptu? ously away. He resented the friendly intervention which might have saved him. Was ever king so used? Was he a child or an idiot, that others must lg.',. *ff|pT * VT) w mn va ox THE WALL. Macaulay's inquiry as to James II might well be repeated to the ruling classes of the closing days of the nine? teenth century. Are they blind? Are they idiots? Is it possible they cannot see the handwriting on- the walls of ev? ery street in Christendom marking the near approact of their supreme trial? If so, they give no sign. The conservative elements of society have sometimes, however, changed their positions most radically in an incredibly short time when once roused to the mean? ing of the movements about them. We /ead in history that in May, 1775, George Washington on his way to congress met the Rev. Jonathan Boucher in the mid? dle of the Potomac. While their boats paused the clergyman warned his friend that the path on which he was entering might lead to a separation from England. "If you ever hear of my joining in any such measure," said Washington, "you hare-my leave to put me down for every? thing wicked." At the beginning of 177ft Thomas Paine published his pam? phlet "Common Sense." A copy of it reached Washington soon after tidings that Norfolk had been burned (Jan. 1) by Lord Dunmore, as Falmouth (now Portland) Me., had been burned in Octo? ber, 1775, by ships under Admiral Graves. On Jan. 31 General Washing? ton wrote to Joseph Reed, "A few more such flaming arguments as were exhib? ited at Falmouth and Norfolk, added to the sound doctrine and unanswerable reasoning contained in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' will not leave numbers at a loss to decide upon the propriety of separation." Mr. Edward Bellamy, in commenting on this historic fact, aptly says: "There were many men in the colonies who in 1775 saw far clearer than Washington did what the outcome would be and de? clared much earlier for the Revolution, but when Washington at last came to see as they saw he led them alL Let us wait with patience for their accession to our side, where the logic of events and the disclosure of the scope and threat of the plutocratic movement will sorely bring them in the near future." WSitheee men know the hour of their divine opportunity, cr will they be num? bered with those who have flung them? selves against the stars in their courses and been destroyed ia their folly? This is the uncertain element in the present hour. As yet they don't comprehend the movement of the age. In fact, the powerful classes of the present social regime seem bent upon destroying themselves by a blind adh?r? ence to traditions. FIFTEEN MILLION SOLDIERS. We observe this: First-In the ruling powers of state the people have shown that they are al? most ready to revolt against the array system, and yet every monarch of Eu? rope is engaged in the desperate ctnder taking of Increasing the army at all haz? ards. Samuel Laing declares that there are in the five great military states of the old world not less than 15,000,000 soldiers, drilled and disciplined, and to a certain extent taken from civil life: Russia. 5.000.000 Germany. 3.500,000 France.3.C00.U00 Austria. 2,000/**) Italy.L500.000 15,000,000 With this fearful array of soldiers, still the ruling powers cry for more, for larger armies, for larger navies, for more massive and costly fortifications, for new guns and implements of war, for new bills of taxation to meet them. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. ia ggflfaipd tbs people hare decreed j that Ireland shall have a system of home rule. The classes assembled in the tra? ditional house of lords bids the people defiance and invites the destruction in the coming conAict of all the fictions of their very existence. In the r'aeeof pop? ular suspicion and discontent the prof es j sional politicians everywhere continue ? to loot the public treasuries, and more j and more the governments of the present ? regime are brought into contempt. In France recently the sickening reve? lations of the Panama gang showed con? clusively that there were few men at that time in the nation intrusted with power who did not have their price in dollars and cents. When the test of an election came, the monarchial party, ex? pecting to profit hy this fact, was uncer cmonionsly swept out of existence. The party of the masses, the hated and ma? ligned socialists and their allies, sud? denly appeared in power as the only op? ponent of the conservative republicans. In Italy the power of the government has been weakened by revelations of offi? cial corruption. In Germany the honesty of high offi? cials has been impugned before the peo? ple and no successful answer given to the arraignment. CONGRESS SCORED. In America the present congress has demonstrated its general worthlessness in a manner that has sown the seeds of revolution in thousands of men hi therto little moved by politics. A description of the last congress is typical of the average session. Listen: At a time near the conclusion of the session of the late congress the house of representatives appropriated $24,000,000 in one bill after an hour of debate. No opportunity was allowed to offer amendments to this bill. There was no time for discussion or amend? ments. Congress had been in session three months, but at the last moment the money of the people had to be bestowed for various objects, which may or may ? not have been entirely worthy, at the rate of $400,000 a minute, for want of time for longer consideration. Our solemn senate is just now busy digging the grave of its traditional pride and "courtesy" by demonstrating its ex haustless capacity to do nothing in the hour of a nation's peril. How long the people in their silent suffering millions will stand the tom? foolery of tradition ridden governments in Europe and America who can tell? And strangest of all is the fatuity rath which the present rulers pursue the even tenor of their way. WEALTH STRUTS AMID SQUALOR. Second-We observe it in the hearts and methods of the very rich of our day. lt is a day of lavish expenditure and vulgar display. In the midst of hunger and cold and even starvation among thousands, the rich are busy amusing themselves. There has been no time since the days of the Emperor Nero when wealth strut? ted amid squalor with greater contempt for its surroundings and with vainer dis? play of all its vulgar trappings of gold and silver. The palaces of the rich in the days that preceded the fall of Rome were pigpens compared with the mar? velous piles of architecture and decorat? ive art with which our modern cities are full. The banquets given by the great gluttons of Nero's day are not to be com? pared in cost or display to the elaborate affairs of the year of our Lord 1893, at a time when 20,000,000 of the human race are in a starving condition. Tailors are busy inventing costumes for dogs, while children freeze for clothes. Servants are busy airing the poodles of fashionable women who refuse to have children, preferring the affection of dogs and the gay rounds of a decay? ing social order. While thousands toil, half fed and overworked, and fight for the half pay and overwork, the rich are busy preparing divorce papers and so? liciting new partners as the results of half drunken social debauchees at their palaces. The men who give largely to the community of their great wealth axe fewer and fewer compared to the number of very rich. GOCLD AND AMES. Mr. Gould not only did not leave the community a dollar of the wealth it created, but gave it a parting kick as he did by creating a perpetual trust for the Gould millions. Mr. Ames, the richest man in Boston, died the other day and left not a single dollar to the community that created his fortune. And note this-that while such men as Gould and Ames die every day and clutch their millions with spas? modic grasp in the hour of death, the seeming unconsciousness of the fact that they live among men whose lives are bound up with theirs, the restless mil? lions about them curse with deeper em? phasis the grave of every man who thus proves traitor to his social trust. It used to be common to say only good things about the dead. The rich man who dies the death of a hog today is roundly cursed by every? body without fear or favor. Will the rich take note of this fact? The rapacity of the great freebooters of modern com? merce seems rather to increase in pro? portion to the discontent and opposition among the masses. With threatened labor uprisings in many nations, the money kings of the world have just pre? cipitated one of the greatest panics of the nineteenth century. They have made Dillions of dollars. But a few more such victories and they are lost. Are they all fools or are they born idiots when confronted with the problem of selfish gain on the one hand, justice on the other? THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE. Third-We observe the fact in the habits and methods of the modern ec? clesiastical machine. In the past the church has been the bulwark of society against every revo? lution. Napoleon used it to maintain his crown after he had walked over it to mount his throne. Will the church now be able to hold in check another revolu? tion? It is exceedingly doubtful. It is a question if the church have not already lost her divine opportunty. The revolu? tion at the Vatican and the arousing of hundreds of Protestant ministers within the "past few years may have come too late. We hope not. But we lear it. Certain it is the church as yet sits calm? ly by in stupid indifference, or, worse still, is active in hostility to the cause of the common people who "heard him gladly." The separation of tho masses from the church is an appalling fact of this age. The contemptuous neglect of the masses by the church and the disgusting toady? ing to the rich is a still sadder fact. Mr. Moody said some time ago, "The gulf between the church and the masses is growing deeper, wider and darker every hour." Dr. Strong declares that the census shows that over 32,000,000 of our people in America never enl^r a church of any sort-Protestant or Catholic. Of the other half of our population which nom? inally attends, not half of them are in vital touch with organic church life. In Vermont, for instance, where 40 towns were canvassed, only 44 per cent of the population called themselves churchgo? ers. In 15 counties in Maine 133,445 families were canvassed, and GT.S?2 of these families reported themselves as at? tending no church. The same propor? tion holds in other states of the Union where careful canvass has been made. The working people do not attend churches as a rule. Not only do they refuse to attend, but thousands of them hate the sight of a church building. Four Brooklyn pastors, whose churches aggregate 2,200 active members, repre? senting four different denominations, in comparing notes recently found that there was but one workingman among the aggregate of their four establish? ments-one lone carpenter among 2,200 professed followers of the Carpenters Son! On the other hand, Dr. Gladden found in a canvass he made of one of our cities that of the leading business men 77 per cent were regular attendants upon church. Canon Farrar, speaking for England says, "Not 3 per cent of the working classes, who represent the great mass of the people, are regular or even occasional communicants." The Earl of Shaftesbury declared be? fore his death that not 2 per cent of the English workingmen attend any place of worship-papal or Protestant. WORSHIPING GOD AND MAMMON. In the weekly prayer meeting of a New England church a gentleman arose and said:*"I went recently to call on that man who at the fire the other day so he? roically saved the lives of eight or ten persons by risking his own life. I found that he and his family are poor, and that they attend no church. I invited him to our church, and now 1 hope, brethren, when they come-if they do come-yon will give their, a cordial wel? come and make room for them in your pews." Dr. Strong says that when he took his seat the wealthiest and most in? fluential members of the church arose and said: "I don't want any such man or family in my pew. I don't want them near my pew. I don't want them in this church." The pastor in reply said, "I will not cease my efforts until yonder door swings in to the lightest touch of the poorest man in this city." It did swing open, and a poor mau went through it. But he went from the inside out. There was a change of pastors in that church. That was all. And the pastor who made that vigorous remark-he who had to fold his tent and move away-was a man of great ability and national reputation. So does the church continue to try to do what Jesus Christ said could not be done-worhip God and mammon at the same time. So a reformed drunkard applied re? cently for admi? ,ion into a high nosed church. He was informed by an officer of the church that he believed there were no "vacancies" in the membership at that time! Protestantism as an organic power has declined in membership and power in New York city in the last 20 years. Need there be any wonder at it? And yet while assemblies of workingmen hiss the name of the church they cheer the name of Jesus. Christianity is one thing, churchianity another. They do well to make the distinction. THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE HOUR. Will the statesman, the man of wealth and the ecclesiastic wake to the call of the hour? Or will they be engulfed? They must answer and that soon. When the oppression of the poor in Rome became intolerable, you remem? ber what happened. The plebeians be jan to look upon their order as a state rf hereditary servitude. They met by a common and resistless impulse, aban loned the city and encamped in arms ipon the Mons Sacer. The politicians, it last thoroughly intimidated, granted ?very demand for their recognition in popular goverment. History has a way of repeating itself, j Will not the strong turn anything from j ?he past? Strange fatuity that befogs the brain )f the powerful in the hour of crisis! [^ould they only know the hour of their risitation! The assembly sent a deputation to Louis XVI >f France to request him to iismiss the troops. This Louis declined :o do, but offered, if the members felt ilarmed, to transfer their sittings to Soissons! When the Duke de Liancourt :ame to announce to him the fall of the Bastile, the' king exclaimed, "This is a revolt!" "Sire," replied the duke, "it is a revolution!" Whistle?! While He Held Them Up. One of the coolest robberies that has happened in this section for a number of vears was the robbery of the Ager and Klamath Falls stage. As the stage was about niue miles east of here a man armed with a rifle and re? volver halted the stage and told the driver, Jack Bartle, and three passengers to get down and march in single file up the road. He then ordered the driver back and told him to throw out Wells. Fargo & Co.'s box and mail. The pas? sengers were compelled to turn their backs toward him while he opened the box and mail, but he did not get any? thing of value. Next he robl>ed the pas? sengers of their watches and $40. One passenger pleaded that his watch ?vas a present from his dead mother, and he handed back the watches and $2 apiece to a couple of the men. One passenger, Carl Thompson, an insurance adjuster from Salem, Or., saved $100 by conceal? ing it in his hat. The robber whistled all the time while not joking with the passengers. He wore a heavy mask and had sacks on his feet. He ordered the passengers to help load up the stage and backed off down the road, telling them he would be glad to have them call and see him ?it his mountain home.-San Francisco Call._ Sunlight hy a Crooked Route. In order to furnish light for workmen engaged in repairing a break in one of tho lower compartments of the tank steamer Kasbek, a novel experiment was tried with wonderful success. The steamer was loading bulk oil, and a slight leak was discovered in one of her tanks. It was unsafe to use lamps of any kind, because of the danger of fire, j the tanks being full of gas generated from the remnants of previous cargoes, and Captain Briggs decided to try to t?eflect solar light 27 feet down into the dark hold. He procured a number of highly pol? ished plate glass mirrors, and after sev? eral attempts succeeded in stationing some members of the crew in such imi? tions as to reflect the sun's rays from j the mirror into the hold. In several in stances the rays had to pass through j small manholes, a few inches in diam- j eter, from where they were focalized with lenses and magnified after reaching the compartment where the repairs were to be made. In this unique manner a flood of bright light, at least 10 feet square, was thrown over the leaking joint and held there j while a group of machinists thoroughly i repaired the weak spot.-Philadelphia j Record._? Mr, Greathead Is Farseeing. "Let the financial ?ituation depress," | said Mr. Greathead, "it cannot affect a j man of frugal habits like myself. I am i a keen observer, and I have made a care- j Cul study of the nutritive processes. A [Treat deal of nutriment is wastell be? cause people do not thoroughly chew alimentary substances. By eating slow? ly and masticating thoroughly I am able to live on a much less quantity of food than most people. I went into a restau? rant the other day and ordered a sfnall steak with potatoes. Now, as you know, the restaurant small steak is nothing more or less than the round steak vul? garly called 'chuck.' To my surprise the waiter brought me a tender sirloin. " 'Take that back,' I said firmly, yet calmly, 'I ordered^small steak.' 'That am my mistake, sab,' replied the ebony servitor. 4Yoah check be de same, boss That am a tender steak.' " 'I don't care if it is, my friend,' 1 re? joined. 'I am no sybarite. That steak is not satisfactory. In these hard times I want a steak with plenty of chaw in it.' Well, sir, he took it back."-New York Tribune. _ An Idea From Russia. Mr. Gunzburg, a civil engineer of Russia, seems to be an inventor who has performed the apparently impossible task of pleasing a railway company and the traveling public at the same time. He is exhibiting a passenger car that "contains the same number of places for passengers as the ordinary nonsleeping cars of the same dimensions. The places are all adapted for sleeping, and all pas? sengers can easily lie down and sleep without disturbing each other." Squar? ing the circle is nothing to this, and yet these cars are now in use on the Trans caspian railway.-Boston Journal. Sparc the Rod, Spoil the Child. 1 complain of your not having sent me word that you had whipped my son, for ? desire and order you to whip him every time that he is obstinate or naughty, knowing well from my own case that there is nothing in the world which does more good. 1 know by ex? perience what good it did me, for when I was his age I was whipped a great deal.-Cor. Henry IV. Women In Foundries. Five hundred girls and women are employed in the foundries of Pittsburg doing work for $4 and $5 a week fer which men were formerly paid from $14 to $16 a week. This is something new. The labor they perform-putting heads on nails and bolts-is something which taxes the muscles of strong men. This woman question needs investigation. Joe Howard. Nortees? "Why do you think they were new in the business of robbing?" Passenger-Great Scotti They blew open the safe and left five sleeping car porters unmolested. - Chicago Inter Ocean. A Leader. Since lt- first introduction. 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Also PAPER HANGING. CA LSOM?NING, ami SIGN WRITING, neatly done. Any Notice ?ill receive prompt nttrntion. Best of Reference? Address S. K. GREGG.. May 10-x. . Sumter, S. C. Ripans Tabules : for liver trouble'* HARDWARE - FOR Everything in this Line R. W. DURANT & SON. Paints, Oils, &c, &c. rooking and Heating Stoves, Guns, Pistols, Cartridges all Household articles and Plantation Snpplies Oct. 4. HARRIS' LITHIA WATER, HARRIS9 LITHIA SPRINGS, S. C. After M loni; and vitried experienre in ehe use of MiuerHl Waters from many sources, both foreign and domestic, I am hilly persuaded lh.nl the Harris Litt)in Wnier possesses efficacy in the treatment of afflictions ol the Kidney ?mil Bladder uneqiiled hy any other water ol wlinh I hnve made trial This opinion is based upon ohseivatinn nf ?is (fjferts upon my patients for the past three years, during which time ? have perserioed it freely *nd almost uniformly with henefil in th?- med ici ede maladies al>ove mentioned. When failure to telieve hns cecum d, 1 have imputed it to insufficient use of the Water, for roy experience teaches rae that from one *o two quires daily should ne taken from two to four weeks to secure its full remedial effects A. N TALLY, M. 0. Columbia, SC, 0 stoner 8tli. 1892. CAMDEN, January 28, 1892. J T. Hariris, Erq , Waterloo. S C. : De*.r Sir-? find grea: benefit from the use ol your Lithia Water I consider it ? fine tonier and genera! regulator of the digestion, as well as vcrv efficacious in those diseases for which Li th ia is considered somewhat of a specific. JUDGE J. B. KERSHAW. My wife has i-een using your Li thin Waler and is veey much benefitted. I consider it in even respect equal to the lamons Buffalo Lit Ilia Water. Abbeville, S. C JUDGE J. S GOTH RAN. FOR .-ALE IN SUMTER BY DR CHINA. DR. DKLORME, DR. McKAGEN AND March 22-v HCGUSON & CO J. F. W. DeLORME, -DEALER IN Toilet soaps, Perfumery and all Kinds of Druggist's Sundries Usually Kept in a First Class I3;rLAg; Store. Tobacco. Snuff and Cigare. Gardon Seeds, also Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Glass Purry, &c. Dye Stuffs. Physician's Proscriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch The public will find my stock of Medicine? complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call and see for yourselves. Mght C alls Promptly Attended To. ^^S^P ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ?iiy l>rug Store. ^J??^ ^^^^^^^^St. ^ Sumte^ Drugs and Medicines, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes. Tooth Powder, Also, Faints, Oik. Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomine. all cu!or> for rooms, Artists' Paints and Brushes. Luster Faints. Convex Glasses. Nice lioe of Hanging and Stand Lamps. Lanterns, Shades. Wicks. Chimneys. &c TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Ke??p the following popular brand of Ci gar?; "PlumbGood," ''Custom House," "Rebel Girl." Sep30 . FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded JE WK LR lt Watches, Diamonds, Sterling and Plated Silverware, LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS Clocks, Optical G-oods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles, &c. SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH ESTABLISHED 1868. Sumter. S. C. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. J AMTES ALLA]* & CO., Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta? cles. Drawing Instruments THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STATE. RELIABLE GOODS AT REASONABLE FRICKS Wateh Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for South Caro ina Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Road. JAMES ALLAN & CO., Feb. 8 285 King St., Sign of D-om Clock. Cbarletton, S. C. for Infants and Children. ' * Canto ria is so well adapted to children that recommend it as superior to any prescription ..... .i to me." II. A. ARCHEIC M. P.. lil Ko. Osiord i;t., Brooklyn, S. Y. "Tho ure of 'Castoria i ; co universal and ; : so well known tliat ii ;xv:n:; a work ?. :' : r;TO?atiou to endorse if Tew ere tho i..:. "!;>>;it families who do u*/t Lv<*ii Csstoria '.. ..l?a cosy reach."' C?ELOS MASTYN, D. P., liew York City Castoria cures Colic, Constipation, Sour .Stomach. Diarrhcsa, Eructation, KilLs Worms, rjives sleep, t-?d promotes di? gestion. Without injurious Eie/Iication. "For several year.; I have recommended your kCastorLV and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneScta) results.1 EDWIN F PARDC::, ll. D., 125th Stm-t and 7th Ave., Sew York City. THE CEXTAVR COMPANY, TT MITSRAT STREET, Nnw YOKS ( ITT. Ty pew ritcr Headquarters. J. W. GIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA. S. C. SOOTH CAROLINA AOENTS FOO THE "DENSMOOE," The Twentieth Century Typewriter. WK fiil ordern promptly for all kind? of Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs and Neostyles. The DENSMOKh \* the latest achievement of the Delmore family, hy whom its predecessor, the Remington, was developed lt has 6xed type-bar hangers and not? vibrating-two points which insure last ino -ililli tn ont. It is the most modern and practical machine nn the market. The DENSMORE is lined by the famou* flarn-gie Steel Co -upan y. ?It** Centrar* Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of New York, which exhibits 16 Densmores in operation at the World's Fa r, the New York Central and Hudsou Uiver Railroad, R. G. Dun & (V* Mercantile Agency. Some of the users of the Densmorc in Columbia, are : The Evening Journal. Jones & Mixson's Business College and Typewriting School. Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master of Trains' Offic-, Judge S. W. Melton. Union Central Life Insurance Company, Benedict Instil?te and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. Said the) rp Ti D?/laP j Take a Bicycle J lU lw UlUCI j Tumble. .4 LS 11 & LOUP All ?, THE LEADERS, Have said the same to the PRICES of SHOES THIS SEASON. Our SHOES were being made up and most of them finished when the Disastrous Storm struck us. We laid in a Stock for a Now we MUST sell them. * If you are looking for Bargains in Shoes SEE US. We have just opened a Shoe to catch young men, Genuine German Cordovan, Hand Sewed for $5.00. Never seen before in this country. Our $3.00 Shoes still Lead all others.g Our $2.00 Ladies' Button Boots, are Unexcelled. WALSH & CO., THE LEADERS, Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. C. Ort. 4. Don't forget that the Walter A. Wood fl is IMITATED but never equalled. Lightest Weight. Lightest Draft. ONLY STEEL MOWER MADE. Henry lt* Bloom, Sept. 27 Agent, Sumter, S. C. 1893. Fall and Winter. 1893. BULTMAN & BRO. *L - - I -A. 9 0p:*"sire the Court House, SIGN OP THE "BIG BED BOOT." WE KEEP PACE WITH THE PROCESSION. Everything up to Date* No fogy methods Procession is the rule. Will give you the for the LEAST MONEY. For evidence come and see our GOODS and be CON? VINCED. We have a complete line of Men's ?fe^? AA Goodyear Welts at W** vv Also a handsome Ladies Button SM AA Shoe at M vv All of our goods will be sold at popular prices to suit the STORMY HA HI) TIM KS. Bring in ONE DOLLAR and we will give you a pair of Ladies' Button Shoes, "Solid as a Rock," andfor another Dollar you will get a pair Men's Shoes "Solid as Iron." Our TRUNKS are the CHEAPEST and the BEST in the City.