The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, November 01, 1893, Image 6

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y-.ii i ? ? ? r?D?N BSD A Y, NOV. 1, 1883. EBA OF TRANSITION. SIGNS THAT SIGNIFY THE APPROACH OF A NEW SOCIAL ORDER. Ber. Thomas Bison, Jr., Continue* Bis Se? rie? of Sermons on the Contins Revolu? tion-Marvelous Progress of the Nine? teen ti^Century and Its Consequences. Nsw YORK, Oct 15.-Icev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., continued the series of ser? mons on the comics: revolution at Asso? ciation hall this morning. The subject of today's sermon was the period of transition or the characteristics of the times which signify the approach of a new social order. He discussed as such signs the rapidity of, material progress ^in the elimination of time and space, the marvelous development of mechanical torces, the discoveries of science as well as ti? growth of cities, the intensifica tion of life, and the rise of the common people to political power, and the uni? versality of ?ducation. He declares these to he the elements which constitute the basis of necessity of a new social regime. Tl? text was chosen from Matthew xvi, 8. ''Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven, hut ye cannot discern the signs of the times.9 j History seems naturally to divide it? self into periods. These periods of his? tory have characteristics which distin? guish them from the centuries which .^recode and the centuries which fol? low the era of the crusades as clearly and distinctly marked in mediaeval his? tory. The period of the French revolu? tion in like manner has its special char? acteristics and is clearly defined in tie history of the world. So in ancient t??Mj there were Centuries of develop? ment which are distinctly marked. v. There are, upon the other hand, the cri? ses of transition between the great his? toric centuries of development. These periods of transition are the seedtime, while the great centuries of revolution and construction are the harvest times in history. A PERIOD OF PREPARATION. The nineteenth century is peculiarly a century of transition. It is a period of preparation. It has been one of tre? mendous development, and yet it is the development of a promise rather than the fulfillment of that which has gone before. The most marvelous develop? ment of the nineteenth: century xs the prophecy it gives of the twentieth. With all our wonderful achievements there is ^w?fttng go wonderful as the universal bops inspired in the human breast that wewill do something better in the near future. Tbe import of action in a period of transition xs of inestimable importance. "What is impressed upon the character of this age will constitute the elements of strength or of weakness in the new century that is to be born. That which is now shaping the forces that shall dominate the life of the twentieth cen? tury must partake of permanence. In many respects it will be decisive. ; lhere are certain elements in our cur? rent life which reveal to us the fact that the century before us must be constituted in its social, economic and political life upon a new basis. This must be so First-Becanse of the rapidity of ma? terial progress during the past genera? tion and the speed of that progress in this - generation. The elimination of time and space has been one of the most remarkable developments of our period of invention, and the period of the world's invention is the latter part of the nineteenth century. - ia the eighteenth century tile world was divided into isolated continents and isolated nations. There was little inter? course, and what there was came through the slow travel by sail cn water and stagecoach on land. The facilities for gathering news and distributing the his? tory of different nations among one an? other were of the most meager kind. > AH tins has been changed in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The world has literally been made a great whispering gallery, and every nation gives its quota to the day's story. There is no longer isolation of any sort Eng? land and America are today in closer contact than was Massachusetts and New York in the eighteenth century. It is possible for a man to leave America in one week and visit the dead civiliza? tions of the east in the next. It is possi? ble for a man at his breakfast table to know ali the important events that hap? pened the day before in every nation of the world. We cross the ocean in less than six days. We go round the world in two months, and we com3 in contact with the current of the life of all peoples and a? nations. O?B CIVILIZATION A SYMPOSIUM. Our civilization is a symposium. The Very delicacies of our table are the prod act of the whole earth. What we eat, what we wear, what we place in our homes., are the product joint of the ef? fort of the world. . The problem of time and space has within a few years been practically an? nihilated. The use of steam and elec? tricity has brought the world thus in close contact. But the speed with which we are making progress even in annihi? lating time and space is so great that it is possible within the next generation that the rate of travel will be increased from four to five fold at least It may be possible for the children of the next generation to have their suburban homes 500 miles from the place of their daily business. Such an achievement would moan the development of the city until it shall literally cover the whole earth. : Ia mechanical developments, our rate of progress has been a marvel during the past generation, but it is more mar? velous today. Armies of men and worn - ea now gkve themselves exclusively to the work of mechanical invention. Our daily life has been literally revolution? ized by mechanics. What our ancestors did by hand we do by machinery. This tremendous force brought into play by cranks and wheels and levers is a new problem in the development of the world's Ufe, The bureau of statistics in Berlin estimated in 1887 that the steam engines at that time at work in the world represented not less than 1,000, 000,000 workingmen-that is to say, the steam engines at work in 1887 did more than three times the working force of the entire ee-rth. Their earning capacity at that time was three times greater than the muscle power of the world. The advance in the application of ice- ' chanical power to the problems of life { since 1887 has been most marvelous of ail. Since that time electricity has tak- > en in large measure th J place of steam ; ia a thousand avenues of life, and where 1 tile steam wheel made one revolution 1 tte electric motor makes ten. If we in- ' crease at this rate during the next gen? eration the working force of the world, 1 it will be possible to do all the work necessary for tibe production and distri? bution of economic goods within a few hours of every week, if society can be organized upon, the co-operative rather ? than the competitive basis. 1 A DISTURBANCE TN EXISTING CONDITIONS, It can be seen at once that it ia impos- . sible for society to receive each day this tremendous army of wheels and levert ( Without causing a radical diyturfcge* 1 in the existing social order within tl near future. Labor organizations i their blind ignorance have fought theil troduction of machinery in the labor < : the world. But as they become educate they will not be slow in seeing that tl work of the world can be done by in chinery in a few hours when that in chinery is harnessed by a co-operat? social order. The developments of science durin the past generation have been soma: veldus that we literally live in a ne world because of those development Each day reveals new wonders. Tl present rate of progress, if maintains will give a civilization in the early pai of the twentieth century the very ou lines of which no prophet can forete today. The only problem is, Can tb present rate of progress be maintaine in the discovery of nature's secrets b those who are searching for them? Th probability is that it will not only b maintained, but accelerated, forwher there was one man in search of the et crets of nature for useful ends 20 yeai ago there are a thousand men toda; searching with might and main for thes secrets to give them immediately to th world as a practical contribution to it social and economic life. Speculativ science has everywhere given way t practical science, and the man of speen lative mind cannot refrain from makin] the application even on the page of hi philosophic speculation. THE OSOWTH OF CITIES. The growth of cities has been so re markable within the past generatioi and is so rapidly increasing in the pres ent that it presages a new life in the nea: future-a new life, social, economic, re ligions. A glance at the developme; t o the cities within the past decade ?ek? I comparison of each decade in the cen tury will reveal that the growth of th< city has been one of the marvels of mod ern life? In 1790 the population of th< United States was in round numbert 4,000,000. The population of the citiei at that time was in round numbers 131, 000-3.35 per cent of the whole popula tkm, leaving a rural population of 96.6? per cent. In 1390 we had a populatior of ?2,600,000. The population of th? cities had grown to 18,250,000, about 8( per cent of the entire population as con? trasted with 3 per cent in 1790. The citj has grown, in short, to dominate the life of the century. The rural district has lost its power. The scepter of import has been transferred to the streets of the great cities, and from the streets it has sunk to the gutters, and the dives, and the sewers. The domination of city life over rural life is one that cannot continue long without a radical change in the whole social order. The growth of the city means the growth of the darkest ele? ments of our life, at the expense, for the time being, of the saving elements. The growth of the city means the growth of the active principle of our civilization. The city is the center of activity. It is the center of good and the center of evil. It means, therefore, the necessary inten? sification of life. It means the intensifi? cation of crime. The development of crime within this latter part of our cen? tury has been out of all proportion to the progress of law and order. We have 7,000 murders in America and 100 legal executions. The daily record of our crime is some? thing appalling to the heart of those that love their fellow man. The genera? tion of criminals who have served their term in penal institutions is increasing with marvelous rapidity. A penal col? ony within the body of civilization is something with which we have never been confronted before. The number of convicts of various degrees which are at present adding to the slum population of our cities is something beyond computa? tion. Corruption in society and in gov? ernment and in commerce has increased in geometrical proportion to the pres? sure of life. CORRUPT MUNICIPALITIES. We have today the most corrupt civili? zation in some respects that the world has ever seen. If we take our own city of New York as an example in the de? velopment of political life in the close of the nineteenth century, we will have food for the philosopher and the philan? thropist. In the past generation in this city corruption ruled in municipal life, but it was a corruption so manifest that public indignation could be aroused and the criminals brought to justice. The Tweed regime was routed in short order when once its rascality was made a mat? ter of public comment and public sus? picion. But this generation has reached a point of scientific development in pub? lic crime of which Mr. Tweed never dreamed. Tweed was a thief who rose from the lowest walks of life to roll in luxury, to sport his diamonds and his carriages out of public plunder. But he was a clumsy thief. Today Ms successor in office, Mr. Richard Croker, is the boss of our political life. He is the most important factor in our American politics today. A few years ago he was a prizefighter, a gen? eral sport, and he was poor. Today he lives in a palace, he owns magnificent rural estates, he sports the finest blood horses in America, and his wealth must be estimated by the million. He holds no public office and has no visible means of support save as the boss of a political club organized for plunder in a great city. Not only have we such corruption be? fore our eyes and absolutely master of our municipal life, but more-they add insult to injury; they pose as the bene? factors of society. The people are un? mercifully taxed to fill the pocket? of these thieves, and the masses of the poor people in the cities must bear the bur? den. WEALTH AND POVERTY. What is true of New York is true in a smaller degree in nearly all of the great cities of America today. This intensi? fication of life has brought us the mar? velous increase of wealth and the pain? ful increase of poverty. Our life today may be termed the tropics of civiliza? tion. It is probable that the Astor es? tate alone has reached $500,000,000. There are single individuals in this city whose income cannot be less than $20,000,000 a year. There are a thousand men in this city whose wealth is vastly over a $1,009,000. There are a dozen men in this city who can, if they will, control both the finan? cial development of the nation and dic? tate its political policies by the use of their money. The poverty of the poor is in like man? ner increasing to the degree of starva? tion from day to day. While a thousand men in this city esti? mate their wealth at over $1,000,000, it can be safely said that there are 100, 000 people in this city who are hungry for bread every day in the year. The ?umber of j>eople who sleep on boards, and who drift from house with nowhere to sleep, approximates 100,000 daily. The j children of this generation of paupers seem to increase with greater rapidity . , than the normal rate of the increase of the average population of the world. HorE. ? , While the evil elements of life havo j , thus been intensified, we take hope from the fact that the better elements of life ! , are also being intensified. The heroism ; , of this life in its crying wants, its needs, j is as brilliant in its individual examples \ as at any time in the liistory of the ! j world. While crime and corruption and ? j debauchery have increased in the city, j (he anny of self sacrificing men and < women who ar? willing to give thei lives for the betterment of mankin< daily increases. We have the meanest men in Kev York in the world perhaps. We al? have some of the best men and womei in New York in the world. The intensi fication of life in this century has intro dnced a new element just here in our de velopment of civilization which must ii the immediate future tell as it has no in the past. WOMEN WORKERS. The number of women that have pour ed their lives into the current stream o; active endeavor has been, within the la?1 20 years, increasing as never before ii the history of the human race. Accord ing to the report of the census of 1880 there were in America among womer who earned their daily bread outside oi domestic service the following number* in different professions: 110 lawyers, 16i ministers, 820 authors, 588 journalists 2,061 artists* 2,136 architects, chemists pharm F "ist s, 2,106 stock raisers anc ranchers, 5,145 government clerks, 2,43? physicians and surgeons, 13,182 prof es sional musicians, 56,800 farmers and planters, 21,071 clerks and bookkeepers, 14,465 heads of commercial houses, 155, 000 public school teachers. This was by the census of 1880, but 03 the report of the last census of 1890 there is received the remarkable fact that in these 10 years the army of women whc earn their daily bread outside of theil homes now reaches the enormous total of 2,700,000. For -the first time in the history of economics woman has entered as an ac? tive factor. Her influence in develop? ing the history of the next generation can but be marvelous. Her influence in molding and fashioning the life of socie to when thus brought in active contact with its working force cannot be less than it has been in other spheres where woman's influence has been felt when woman's position is recognized as it should be in the world of economics. We stand upon the threshold of an economic evolution, of a new social order. It means, sooner or later, that woman will be emancipated from the slavery in which she has labored in the past, in an unequal struggle with man, and that society in its working force will be elevated and refined and humanized by her touch, her sympathies and her life. POLITICAL, EQUALITY OF THE COMMON PEO? PLE. Third-The rise of the common people to political equality in government with the traditional ruling classes has been accomplished within this century and is but the beginning of a revolution that is not yet accomplished. Robert Mac? kenzie says: "Sixty years ago Europe was an aggregate of despotic powers, disposing at their own pleasure of the lives and property of their subjects. To? day the men of western Europe govern themselves." Popular suffrage., more or less closely approaching universal, chooses the governing power, and by methods more or less effective dictates its policy. One hundred and eighty million Euro? peans have risen from a degraded and ever dissatisfied vassalage to the rank of free and self governing men. This has been an accomplishment which has sim? ply put into the hands of the common people the weapons with which they will fight their battles in the twentieth cen? tury. The battles are yet to be fought; the revolution is yet to be accomplished. They have simply been given the ballot, and the consciousness of their power has only begun to dawn upon them. Li the early part of the twentieth cen? tury we may surely look for a sufficient diffusion of intelligence to bring this tre? mendous mass into the aggressive asser? tion of the fullest rights of manhood. Hitherto they have been dominated by bosses, by tricky politicians, and they have followed skillful leaders blindly. AN EXPLOSION IMMINENT. So intense are becoming these elements of corruption that it cannot continue longer without an explosion. The lamp has been lit, and it has been left burning. A woman in a western home during the war sent a servant into the cellar with a lighted candle to look, for some object. The servant returned without the candle. The housewife asked where she had left it. She said that she had left it in a bar? rel of sand in the cellar. The housewife remembered that there was a barrel of powder standing open in the cellar. Without a moment's hesitation she rushed below and found that the igno? rant girl had thrust the candle down into the looee powder and left it burning. She lifted it carefully and extinguished it. The movement for universal suffrage in this century has placed the candle of knowledge, without a candlestick, in the loose powder of the common people. This light of knowledge is burning closer and closer, and the heat is becoming more and more intense with each mo? ment. There is no power on earth, un? der the earth or above the earth that can remove that candle from its posi? tion. By a law as sure as the law of gravitation, the flame is approaching the powder, nearer and nearer every day. When it reaches the end-that is, the point of actual, conscious contact with their mind-there will be an explo? sion that will unsettle thrones and tra? ditions, whether occupied by the czar of Russia or ?Richard Croker I of New York. INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION. Fourth-The universality of education is a factor in the closing of the nineteenth century which must make a new world in the twentieth. We have now entered upon the democ? racy of letters. Hitherto in the history of mankind knowledge was confined to the few. The higher professions were open only to the sons of distinguished men. Now they are opened to the child of the state l>orn and reared in obscurity and disgrace and poverty. There is no limitation to the possibilities of human endeavor, because education has been brought within the reach of all. In America we have 13,000,000 children in our public schools. This means that the next generation will be a new t*ople. With this wide diffusion of knowledge has come the scientific spirit of inquiry. . New blood has been brought into our world of science, our world of philoso? phy. Men no longer reason by the stand- 1 1 ards of Aristotle and Plato. They do j ?ot ask what has been taught by the 1 great men of the past and stop there. They do not seek authority for action. They search for truth for itself. They refuse to be bound by the traditions of the past. The time was when knowl idge was confined to a certain clique in society. They had their peculiar ideas. They were educated in their own ?>e roliar schools. They thought in rots. Their minds never traveled beyond cer? tain well defined limitations, and in con sequence they traveled in a circle con- j tinuously. A GENERAL READJUSTMENT. With the universal diffusion of knowl- j ?dge and the introduction of new spirits j in the field of investigation, all this has | been changed. Nothing is now settled 1 ?ave that which is settled upon the basis j yf proved fact. Every tradition, every theory, every creed, must stand the test J yt this investigation. Every theory of i ?tate, every notion of society, every ! theory of religion, must be resubmitted j to this court of last a-djusinent-the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. For the first time in the history of the world tbj$ spirit dominates the educated mind. 'SitE?rto TV? have simply elong to the past with passionate and blind de? votion. Father Ryan well expresses this ancient ideal: Yea! Men will cling, With a love to the last. And w ildly liing Their arms round their past As the vine that clines to the oak that falls. As the ivy twines round the crumbled walls; For the dust of the past some hearts higher prize Than the stars that flash out from the future's bright skies. REVISION OF THE CREEDS. This was in the old days. Now all things are being made new. All things are being brought in question. Nothing is accepted as authoritative because it is ancient. The creeds of Christendom are all undergoing radical revision. The traditionalists may resist with all their power-they fight against the stars. The creeds of the world within the next generation will be fixed on facts, not fancies. Superstition and tradition are being destroyed with a rapidity that will give the world a new religion with? in the next 20 years, and that religion will be the Christianity of Jesus Christ in its simplicity as Jesus lived it and preached it. It will be the religion, in other words, of the spirit, not the letter. The barriers of national lines and prejudice have all been broken down. The heathen world is now in vital con? tact with the Christian world and the Christian world's civilization. A hundred years ago Japan was utter? ly isolated from the rest of mankind. There was a law in force providing that "no ship or native of Japan should quit the country under pain of forfeiture and death; that any Japanese returning from a foreign country should be put to death; that no nobleman or soldier should be suffered to purchase anything from a foreigner; that any person bring? ing a letter from abroad should die to? gether with all his family and any who luight presume to intercede for him.'' CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN AND CHINA. Every heathen nation has been opened to Christian influences and to the ad? vance of the civilization of Christian na? tions. Not only this, but they have of necessity been compelled to study mod? ern science. Japan stands today prac? tically within the pale of modern civi? lization. I took my seat in the Johnj Hopkins university around the seminary table, in the study of political and social science, with young Japanese students from the capital of Japan. China is studying the methods of the modern world and introducing of necessity mod? ern inventions. The whole human race is thus of necessity beinsr brought into vital contact and this foi the first time in the history of mankind. POPULAR DISCONTENT. Thus the universal spread of education among all peoples ushers us immediately upon a new era in the history of man? kind. We are not satisfied with the present attainment. The workingman's child who receives the same education as the millionaire will not be content to be his slave in the next generation, and there is no power of church or state or society that can hold him so, for there are no traditions that can bind him. President Andrews of Brown univer? sity says: "If anything has been made certain by the economic revolution of the last 25 years, it is that society cannot much longer get on upon the old liber? tarian, competitive, go-as-you-ple;ise sys? tem to which so many sensible larsons seem addicted. The population of the great nations is becoming too condensed for that." Bishop Westcott of Cambridge uni? versity says: "On every side imperious voices trouble the repose which our in? dolence would wish to keep undisturbed. We can no longer dwell apart in secure isolation. The main interests of men are once again passing through a great change. They are most surely turning from the individual to the society." The author of 4'God In His World" says: "We are now approaching such a crisis. No human wisdom can predict its shaping any more than it can prevent the issue. The air is full of auguries, and even our fiction has become very precisely apocalyptic. It is theoretic prophecy, anticipating the realization of perfect scientific and social economics the paradise of outward comfortable? ness." William T. Stead says: "Everywhere the old order is changing and giving place unto the new. The human race ie now at one of the crucial periods in its history when the fountains of the great deep are broken up, and the flood of change submerges all the old established institutions and conventions in the midst of which proceeding generations have lived and died." CONSCIOUSNESS OF POWER. It is impossible to educate the human race, without at the same time lifting the human race into the consciousness of the resistless power of numbers. We are now about to enter upon the period of activity which will be the result of this universal consciousness of the in? herent power of manhood. Who can foretell its results? The child of the hod carrier today is better trained than kings and princes in the not very far past. All the dishes placed on the table of Louis XIV were tasted in the presence of the king before he would touch them, and each guest was supplied with a spoon for the pur? pose of helping himself from a common dish. Anne of Austria, the queen who was celebrated for her beautiful hands, it is said once gave a piece of meat to her neighbor, which she had just taken from her plate with her fingers, and allowed him (and this was the point which ihe historian recorded) us a special fa\ >r to Lick off what remained on the hand. The child of the commonest working? man that attends om* public school is more cultured in all the essentials of real civilization than were kings and queens and princes in the eighteenth century. When the common herd are thus lifted to the position of kings, they will not be long in fitting themselves with a crown. 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Physician's Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch The public will find my stock of Medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of best quality. Call and see for yourselves. Night Calls Promptly Attended To. Drugs and Medicines, Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes. Tooth Powder, Also, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Floor Stains, Kalsomiue. all color- for rooms. Artists' Paints and Brushes, Luster Puintg. Convex Glasses. Nice line of Hanging and Stand Lamps. Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, &c TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Keep the following popular brand of Cigars : "Plumb Good," "Custom House," "Retiel Girl." Sep 30 FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded JE WEER I*. Watches, Diamonds, ^?^A?? sterUn^ and plated Silverware, LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors and Razors, Machine Needles. &c. SIGN OF THE BIG WATCH. ESTABLISH ED 1808._ Sumter. S. C. HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES. JAMES AL.L.AJS? & CO., Diamonds, Jewelry. Silverware, Specta? cles. Drawing Instruments THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STATE. RELIABLE GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES Watch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for South (Vro ina Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Road. JAMES ALLAN & CO., tjVk. g 285 King St., Sign of D*um Clock. Charleston. 8 C. for Infants and Children. Castoria is so well adapted to children that n .commend it as superior to any prescription .... .1 to me." IL A. ARCHES, M. D., Ill So. Orford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. k*Tue use of 'Castoria i.; u> universal and . . i"crit.; so veli known tnat ii seems a work v :' ; uivrerogation to endorse it Few are thc intelligent families who do not keei> Castoria v..hin easy reach.M CARLOS MASTYN, D. D.. New York City THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MI-RRAY STREET, N::w YOSK CITT. Castoria euros Colic, Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Cructalioa, Kills Worms, gives sleep, ar.J promotes gestion, Without injurious lucdication. "For .several year.; I ' ave rccosunecd your 'Castoria,* and shall always continue do so as it has invariably produced results. ' EDWIN F PASSER Zl. :>.. liSth Street and 7th Av.-., N. v Yor!? CK _1 Typewriter Headquarters. J. W. GIBBES & CO., 101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA ACENTS FOO THE 'OENSMORE," The Twentieth Century Typewriter. WE fill orders promptly for all kinds of Typewriter novelties and supplies for all Machines and for Mimeographs and Nt-O?tyles. The DENS MORE ia the latest achievement nf the Densniorc family, by whom its predecessor, the Remington, was developed It has fixed type-har hangers aad non vibrating-two pointa which insure lasting alignment. It is the most modem and practical machine on the market. The DKNSMORE is used by the famous Carnegie 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. 0. Dun Si Co's Mercantile Agency. Some of the users of the Deiismore in Columbia, are : The Evening Journal, Jones & Mixson'e Bu-iness Collage and Typewriting School, Richmond and Danville Railroad, Master ol' Trains' Offic", Judge S. W. Melton. Union Central Life Insurance Company, Benedict Institute and others. We can supply dealers at good discount. Said the) TU ]iQ J)\Aar jTakea Bicycle j *" Ho 1111101 | Tumble. ALSH & POMP AW w, 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.J Our $2.00 Ladies' Button Boots, are Unexcelled. WALSH & CO., THE LEADERS, Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. C. Ocl 4. Don't forget that the Walter A. Wood Mower is IMITATED but never equalled. Lightest Weight. Lightest Draft. ONLY STEEL MOWER MADE. Henry B. Bloom, Sept. 27 Agent, Sumter, S. C. 1893. Fall and Winter. 1893. BEHAN & BRO. 9 Opposite the Court House, SIGN OP THE "BIG BED BOOT." WE KEEP PACE WSFH 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 ?fc SI lilli Goodyear Welts at W** Also a handsome Ladies Button ?1 ?||?) Shoe at M All of our goods will be sold at popular prices to suit the STORMY HARD TIM ES. Bring in ONE DOLLAR and we will give you a pair of Ladies' Button Shoes, "Solid as a Rock," and for another DMtr you will get a pair Men's Shoes "Solid as iron/7 Our TRUNKS are the CHEAPEST and the BEST in the City.