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OPfHE HOUR.
REV. THOMAS DIXON FORESEES A
SERIOUS CONFLICT.
The Laboring Masses Are Costless and
Discontented, Believing Themselves l)e
fracded of Their Share in the World's
Gains-Duties of the Church.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon preached again this morning in
Association hall on the subject of "The,
Coining Revolution** The subject for
today was "The "tremendous Issues In?
volved." He declared that the issues at
?take for conservatism in the approach?
ing conflict were nothing less that the
existence of the present economic FV>
tem, the idea of caste in the social order
??nd the foundations which make it pos
sible, the existence of the present gov
erning political powers as well as the
existence of the church itself. On the
part of radicalism, be declared the is
sues believed by millions to-be involved
were nothing less than the right to life
&nd work, liberty, mdrvidualism, a tol?
erable human existence and justice in
the distribution of the world's economic
goods. Thetextchosenwasfrom Matthew
> ?xiT,7, "Foi aationshaH rise against na?
tion and kingdom against kingdom."
The history of the past centuries has
given us the fulfillment of the first clause
of this prophecy of Christ We have had
the era of national wars. We enter now
the era of the clash of hostile forces with
in th? nations and the beginning- of the
era of a world organism of society. It
is BOW the kingdom of money against
the kingdom of the common people.
The masses are restless.
The classes are blind.
The hour is ripe for action.
The issues in vol ved are tremendous.
.. STATEMENT OF THE PBOBLE3L
. The stake involved for the^conservati ve
{oxees of society certainly includes:
First-The present economic order.
Let the mea of wealth and privilege un-*
derstand it clearly. There can be no
mistaking the meaning of this move?
ment of the world's masses. The object
Tbe~ conviction" has grown so'strong -
that it has become a principle of action
that the present order of society is re?
sponsible for the unequal distribution of
wealth, the extremes of poverty and lux?
ury, the opportunities for injustice and
oppression, the creation of gigantic mo?
nopolies and the consequent impoverish?
ment of the minions. They-the people
-believe that if things remain as they
are within 50 years there will be bHHon~
aires in America. Right or wrong, they
believe that milhonairism is unjust, and
that aNllipnaire would be a crime against
Mr /TnOmas G. Shearman in his fa?
mous article in The Forum shows that
in America three-tenths of 1 per cent of
the population control 70 per cent of the
property. In other words, in the distri?
bution of national wealth one man in
80) receives $70 out of every. $100, and
29$ mea receive.$30, which if averaged
would give them about 10 cents each.
The wealth of Cr oesus was $8,000,000.
This is less than the annual income of
more than one American millionaire.
Mr. Shearman says: "Several nonspecu
lative estates have increased fivefold in
less than 40 years. Coanting only 4 per
cent mcrease, the present fortune of
$300,000,000 will become $1,000,000,000
ia less dum 40 years."
There is no way to prevent this save
by the radical destruction of the present
basis of property as protected by the
state. Let men who believe in the jus?
tice of the present system of compe?
tition and inheritance see to it The
movement of the masses threatens the
laws of both accumulation and inherit
ance. The under masses have grown to
see that enormous fortunes that involve
the pres of countless unifions are mat
ters^dependent on the accident of birth,
not on achievement. This feas been so
' for ages. But the people who toil be?
neath the burden are only now awaking
to the tact. And they mean to make
such estates impossible and such titles
. invalid. Let those who believe in it un?
derstand what is involved.
Second-The established traditions of
social caste are at stake. This low and
vulgar rabble, called the common peo
plew axe bent on the destruction of arti?
ficial distinctions among men. Letthose
who cling to these distinctions see to it
Their existence is threatened.
INCONSISTENCY OF LEAD EES.
. The men who lead this crusade against
pride and luxury and extravagance and
sham and pretense are not themselves
free from the errors they would cure in
others. Their cry is ^Democracy r But
they are autocrats among their fellows.
They insist upon the leveling of social
caders and yet insist upon wearing a
crown for themselves. This, however, is
sot to the point. The question is, after
aB, simply, Are they rigb s in their con?
tention? Consistency is the ghost of
weak minds. If they are right and suc?
ceed ia setting ap a real human brother?
hood, their own inconsistent claims and
pretensions will be swallowed np in the
flood.
I read the other day that a certain
Countess-, who is an American by
both and a delegate to the Columbian
exposition from a foreign country, ap?
plied for a complimentary card of ad?
mission act long ago. The official to
whom she spoke of the matter explained
toner that it would be impossible for
alp to issue such a card, because if it
were lost he had no way of tracing it.
"Aphotographic pas?is much better,''
he said, "as it can be readily traced.
Such passes," he added, fare used by all
members of the board of lady man
?n?V> Ki
- The countess objected to having her
picture taken for a photographic pass on
tile ground that she was a titled person?
age, and it would not be in conformity
with etiquette.
"Well," replied the official, by way of
persuasion, "my mother is a member of
the board of lady managers, and when
abe cemes to Chicago next week shs will
have her picture taken just like the
other members.''
. "Bat? you see* said the lady, "I am a
countess."
"Yes, I know," retorted the official,
"and my mother is a queen."
The countess stamped her foot, and
without another word turned and left
the office.
Let ti? counts, and the dukes, and the
princes, and the kings, and their lackeys,
and their apes in the republics, and the
barons and princes of the social ?conom?
ie world look to their privileges.
THE BABBLE IS AT THE DOOR.
At heart they believe in aristocracy.
But they claim higher orders than let?
ters patent, sword strokes, courtiers'
manners or a bankbook.
They demand aa aristocracy of brains,
of heart, of character.
Their pretensions may be vain, but for
t?as they fight, and they threaten the
foundations of the order that stands to?
day.
Third-The puling political.. powers
bave neSm trna* Kfe involved ia this
confect
ir ?? traditions and theories deemed j
fixed by the course of centuries n
stand the supreme test of the interj
tion point of the scientific mind of < i
age. The notions about go vernmeu^
have bound us for the past bunt
years aro all being shattered by the i
conditions of the strange life into wi
the nation is being hurled by steam
electricity.
As the machinery of civilization
comes more complex with each new
vention the strain upon our system
political government becomes more ?
more severe. The let alone policy ]
mulgated in the eighteenth century
the cure all for every political ill
been tried and found wanting. And
flood gates of social legislation have b
lifted high, and the pressure of thc wal
of a vaster life lift them higher e,
moment. Let the traditional statesn
see to it. The foundations of all he he
dear are being threatened by this mc
ment. Let traditional parties see to
The party cries that have held the r
ble of ignorant followers in the past c
not be depended upon in the future. "]
people are becoming less and less do<
under traditional leadership. If tl
are ignorant and misled by arrant de
agogues, it is high time they were l*-t
informed by better men. See to it!
Fourth-The organic life of the chm
is also threatened. Thirty-two milln
of people in America attend no chm
at all. Of the remaining 30,000,0
not half of them are of any practical ;
count financially or spiritually to 1
church's life. They are utterly indiiT
ent while nominally loyal to some s<
of church life. They have some sort
religion, but it is mostly on the surfai
V not only docs not go skin deep
does not get through their clothes,
never reaches the pocket. An evangel
the other day requested everybody in t
audience who had paid his debts to sta:
up. They rose in a mass. Then he sai
"Sst down, and every man here who b
not paid his debts stand up." One ni;
raised his arm aloft. "My good mar
said the evangelist, "have you not pa
your debts?" "No," said he, "I ha
not paid them and cannot. I am t.
editor of a religions periodical, and nea
ly every member of this congregate
owes me for my paper." This is a fa
sample of the religion of one-half tl
the nominal adherents of the mode]
church. Hie modern church that
powerful, that pays its debts and is ab
to take care of itself is the church of tl
rich pewholders,
THE XOXCHCRCHGOEIS.
The 32,000,000 of our people who c
not attend churches at ail are many <
them bitter in their hostiMty to a
churches. They have grown to belie^
that the priest and preacher are the
enemies and the churches the stronghol
of their allies and supporters. Churc
after church in our rural districts di<
Church after church in our cities die t
the rich conservative classes move u
town and out into the suburbs. Tl
church has neglected the mass of poe
people until they have lost faith even i
its friendly pretensions. Its invitatio]]
are regarded a bait with which they" ai
to be swindled. Right or wrong, this i
their attitude. If it is a mistake, it i
high time they were taught better. Th
attitude of these millions bodes no goo
to cushioned pew, candled altar, solem:
arch and cleric frock. Shall wc have ;
century of atheism, as with France
and then after a hundred years of stag
gering in darkness grope our way bad
to the point of departure and begii
again-a hundred years lost? Believi
me, the power and authority and organic
life of the church is at stake in the pres
ent threatened social revolution. Th<
church must ever lead or die. Is it lead
ing?
On the part of the restless and radica
masses, what are the issues for them in
volved?
Whether they are right or wrong il
matters not. The restless masses believe,
and believe with a conviction deep ano
sullen that will not stop to parley or tc
reason:
First-That the right to' life for then]
is at issue. The specter of starvation
haunts hundreds of thousands of*3thes?
people from year's end to year's end.
The possibility of being thrown out of
work and tramping the weary, hopeless
round for days and weeks and months
and begging for the privilege of the
hardest labor in vain hangs now over
them. It saps life. It takes the heart
ont. It kills. The specter of shanie
haunts thus a thousand girls' dreams
day and night. An honest life to hosts
of girls seems each day more and more
hopeless.
The conviction that the right to live is
involved in some sort of social move?
ment presses today upon the souls of
millions with the crushing weight of de?
spair. They have grown to believe that
the right to life is becoming a matter of
inheritance; that millions are born to
die an untimely death, crushed beneath
the upper and nether millstone of an un?
just social organism. We read that coal
miners in England "hew coal in seams
1 foot ?0 inches and 2 feet thick, lying
for hours on their side, all but naked, in
seven inches of water and under a sort
of shower bath from the roof, picking
and shoveling as l>est they can. It be?
ing impossible to eat a lunch in such
quarters; they take only a cup of cold
tea or bit of l>n ad and butter and work
on until time to leave the pit." That men
who rise at 3 in the morning to go to
such work are "queer in the legs" from
young manhood and broken down at 50
is not strange. Eighty thousand of these
wretches struck in the spring of 1S92
against a reduction of wages. Can any
man dare to say they were not striking
for life?
CASES OF EXTREME HARDSHIP.
We read of a mau GO years old, once
prosperous, but ruined in the panic of
1873, who works 17 hours a day on a
street railway. He had a Sunday o?r 18
months ago and "hoped he might get an?
other in five or six months."
My church is helping to keep a woman
from starvation whose business is to
make coats at 15 cents each. This wom?
an is the representative of hundreds of
thousands whose right to life is involved
in the ho?K?d for reformation of society.
Alongside this fight for life we read of a
fruit market "which has existed for 30
years upon the whims of the rich. Ham?
burg grapes at $2 a pound are regularly
in stock. In winter strawberries and as?
paragus at $3a box or bunch. First Flor?
ida berries, 13 in a cup, $4 a cup, and
parties supplied at that rate."
Second-These people believe that their
liberty is at stake. They believe that
they are in slavery and their children
being borne in slavery-a slavery they
maintain that is worse that chattel slav?
ery, because the master is not held re-,
sponsihle even for feod and clothes and
shelter. Is this true? It is said that
during the winter months of a recent
year in three judicial districts in New
York city over 21,000 men, women and
children were evicted for nonpayment
of rent, and in the course of the 23,8i'o
families comprising not less than 119,000
persons were evicted in like manner.
A young man who attends my church
services and who is a clerk in one of the
firms which does this work told me tho
otner~u??74&a?LJi^^ over
his head that his soul was not macte
at what he saw. He says that thep^v"
erty and suffering of these poor familia
are sc intense that after he has executed :
his orders and turned them out he fie' j
qnently takes a dollar out of his//Wn I
small earnings, gives the mother *^ Dll>* !
something to eat for at least v* day or 1
...... . t
two for herself and her children. B
told me that the world would be amaze
to know how many big tenement built
ings with imposing fronts and apparen
ly prosperous tenants hide fireless, em j
ty rooms, with one old, broken chair,
mattress or a pile of rags as the onl
furniture.
THE VERY POOR CANNOT BE FREE.
It is useless to tell these people the
are free. Liberty is to them a farawa
poet's dream. It is not in their worlc
The trouble is that this mass of despaii
ing manhood and womanhood fall eas
victims m such hours to the spell o
criminal madness called anarchy. Au
archy is insanity-criminal insanity. I
had its birth in the prison vt ?mit of th
last century. This stream of deadlies
poisons has been pouring unheeded int'
our social order for the past hundre?
years. The progeny of crime are pris
oners for life. The hope of liberty be
comes a madness. It is a madness tba
is contagious when brought into con
tact with hopeless, if resinx-table, pov
erty. Here lies the danger of the threa
of anarchy. Here is the danger pointe:
the future. The poor rankle under tl?
fancied or real sense of injustice. On
of work and thc victim of despair, h<
may go mad. Will we have the lovt
broad and deep enough to meet this is
sue for him in seeing that a sane life i.s
at least niade possible?
A writer in the Hartford Courant tells
us how Lord Lytton of England behaver
when such an appeal was made to him,
A laborer on the estate of the elder Bul?
wer did a certain hard job. The bailifl
refused to pay what he demanded for thc
work. The man insisted. The bailifi
discharged him and persecuted him, un?
til finally he drove him almost a pauper
from the estate and from the neighbor?
hood. He kept telling his friends that
some day he wo aid get what was due
him from the Bulwer-Lytton estate.
When Owen Meredith came to the title
and was home on leave of absence as
English embassador to France, this
laborer met him on the road one day.
"You are Lord Lytton, I believe," he
said respectfully.
"Yes."
"Then, if you please, I should like you
to pay an account which has been due
me for a long time."
Lord Lytton looked at the account, and
at his request the man told the whole
story. The poet was very much affected
and disturbed. Then he said:
"Well, I will do what I can to make it
up to you."
He was as good as his word. He built
a house at the gates of the park, put the
man and his family into it and gave it to
them, rent free, with other perquisites,
so that he was entirely comfortable for
the remainder of his days.
DUTY OF THE RICH.
If our powerful classes of today would
only meet the suffering and despair of
the present with something like this spir?
it, there could be but one end of every
issue-peace and fraternal helpfulness.
Third-The issue for which the larger
number struggle and the one fraught
with more serious possibilities than any
other is the right to a tolerable existence
for the masses of the people. It is a
question of debate as to whether the con?
dition of the working masses is abso?
lutely better or worse than in the past
generation. Some affirm that the work?
ing people have the best of the advance
of the civilization of this period.
But so high an authority as E. Benja?
min Andrews, president of Brown uni?
versity, declares that "in many respects
the toiling masses are no whit better off
today than in England four centuries
ago," and that "the passing of this age
of industrial advance and of worldwide
land utilizations, with so slight gain in
the ordinary comforts of life on the part
of the laboring man, goes far to preclude
all hope of great iinprovernent for him
under present economic conditions."
While it is a question for debate as to
whether he has actually improved his
condition, it is no questioi. for debate
whether the life of the rest of mankind
has advanced.
Under these" circumstances the condi?
tion of the workingman of today is be?
coming for him more and more an intol?
erable one. He has learned to read and
to think. He has a hundred wants and
aspirations now where he had one a hun?
dred years ago. What his father was
content with he will not accept. He
lives in a bigger world. Forty years ago
the postoffice of Great Britain carried
36,000,000 newspapers. Now it carries
250,000,000 annually. The total number
of papers issued in America is estimated
at 3,368,000,000 annually, or 54 copies for
every inhabitant. The masses of the
people now read, and this for the first
time in the history of the world. The
preacher of the past generation could
reach a few hundred people a week.
The printed sermons of this pulpit reach
millions. So in every department of
teaching and even in greater degree.
Dr. Strong in his recent book graphically
says: "We shall not be surprised that
reading has operated as au unequaled
stimulus upon workingmen when we re?
call how promptly it quickened the m>
per classes in the sixteenth century.
This was not the only cause, but it was
one of tho chief causes of that wonder?
ful awakening of genius and energy
which marked the century of Shake?
speare and Bacon and Raphael and An?
gelo."
The railways of 1891 carried 495,000,
000 of passengers in the United States.
Travel has increased with reading, and
the same writer says "travel and the
press have made the modern working?
man a cosmopolitan."
The cosmopolite is one sort of being.
The village workman of the last genera?
tion was another. What was tolerable
for one may be the flaming issue of a
revolution for the other. The masses
are deeply and sullenly discontent with
their present condition. They declare it
intolerable, and they contend for such a
a reorganization as will make it toler?
able. They do not believe it just for
one man to receive $70 and 299 men 10
cents each in the distribution of the
world's goods. Thousands of them be?
lieve their very lives are at stake.
WHERE GOVERNMENT FAILS.
The ultimate seat of our present gov?
ernment is with the sheriff and his posse.
His ability to handle the posse dependa
on the feeling of the x>osse. The govern?
ment failed utterly at Homestead. The
posse was on the other side.
Let our great and wise men see to it.
Here lies the latent possibility of vio?
lence or peace and prosperity. We face
in these issues the possibility of a higher
and freer and purer civilization or a re?
lapse to the darker slavery of ignorance
and brute force. Shall we call each oth?
er names while the opportunity for res?
cue passes?
Let us not deceive ourselves into be?
lieving the discontented represent a few
sore headed labor agitator* in towns and
cities. The fan^fT'are equally de?
pressed, and have equal cause for de?
pression, and' have joined the army of
the radiciffs. The farmer, too, has be?
gun to read and think. "The multitude
have already tasted of the tree of knowl?
edge of good and evil and have become
aware of their nakedness. The supplies
which cover the mere necessities of life
are th?? mere fig leaves. Tin? masses will
never be satisfied until their wants aie
supplied with the fullness of modern civ?
ilization."
How will the strong meet these issues?
For the first time in any threatened rev?
olution the people have full political
power.
Will the fortunate and powerful know
their opportunity or lose it?
Will we do our duty-we who are
called to authority-or will we fight one
another?
A policeman and a fireman got into
an altercation the other day at a fire and
fought one another while the house
burned down. Some one else did their
work. And the next day they had to
stand before the tribunal and give a
reason for their existence.
A White Skin but a Black
Heart.
11)-- Itev. Sum V J mes ls -aid to be
making te:: pei ance speeches in the
Vi'git;ia caujnaigu. Temp?rance \<
ai i aight, hut ;t is wasting time to be
lr\itij? to carry Virginia this year for
temperance candidates lie met the
Kev. Mr. Mas-ey at Staunton Jones
?i:d his candidate arc reformed di tank?
ards, while Massey and his Dom--.eratic
candidate have always bren temperate.
Jones j?'H ??J?O trouble recently at
Dyersbuxg. Ky Be preached to the
ca: kit s w he. ?ne of t h?* old sisters
grasped his hand and said with much
< ru ?wi ??TI (?hey can get on that article to
som?' I i t? ti ? des; fee on occa-i ?ii {\
''Brother ?Jotteji, God bless you;
\ u i> : he preacher for rn? ; I tinder-j
stancs every word von say You j
preaches j n>t iiko a ui^er.
l u h t> n white ?kin, but
thank God, you lus a black
hean. "-Washington Messenger.
This Won't do.
General Farley would eliminate the
piofir. fi om the di>pensary Sales of
whiskey. To ? fTer the people cheap
whisk' )1 is to encourage drunkenness,
ano (hose who are working for the
sobriety of the people would never
conset t to tliat proposition. The Press
and Bannt;;- i* waring f >r the proper
time to come, when this new.-paper will
urge the increase tu the price of liquor.
One of the greatest objections to the
pre.-ent plan lies tn the facr that by the
half pint and pii:r good liquor may be
had ch< aper than under the license
system. Formerly a half pint of doubt?
ful >tuff was worth twenty-five cents.
Now.the dt> pe fsa ry sells better liquor for
twenty cents, a:;d at this pt ice the State
etico;jra??(.s the sate of liquor, and this
the State should not do No, no,
General Farley. the prohibitionists
would nevtr consent to the selling of
dispensary liquor at cost The le>n
whiskey a tu H it getf for his mo ney, the
better it is for him VVe would double
the price <?f i q*ior. if we could -
Abbeville Press and Bannei
Queen Victoria, ir is "said, never
smiles. But her oldest boy smiles
considerably. Hut he never smiles
between smiles
Nee the World'* Fair for Fifteen Cent?.
rjjniti recen: ..( your a-fdre.-s ?ttl fi fi ct u
ei-ii*.? i . jMi?!.!g- J.J i :i>ps. we will rn.til you pre
p:i<i.r >. itv.nir I'.-itfoIio ..f iii - WtuM">
Col umbi.i II Kx? o.-iiion, thc ngular price L?
Fifty unii icu as wc want yin lo have ?mr,
we ina kc th? price nominal. Y<?n will find ir a
w.<rk i?f art :uui a thing tn lu- prized. lt ron
tairtji !ii ; p view.- ut thc great buildings,
with desi r:p:o?ii>,,.f ?-aioe. and is executed in
highot Kv!? ufa rt. It net sa tt> fini wich it,
we ?vi!: return! the *t-imps and iel }. it keep
the h<."k. A??'?r-rs^
Ii. K. li?CKLKX A CO.. Chicago, III. .
All Free.
! ?...-o who loivc used I>r. King's New Dis
. erv ktiew iw value, unn those who ave not.
. ..ic now the i-j-jmi t ii r: : : \ to try it Free. Call
?ii il.K atlveniseci Druggist Mid get a Trial let?
tie. Free Seiet on?r name and addie;-* lu li.
E. I'uekleii ?? Co 1 bi ra go, and get a ia m pie
box i-f br King'.- Niw Life PUL- ;ree. as well
a.- a C'ipy <.; (ju'nb- i<> Health and Household
I'ls'tiu-Jcr. Free. AU of which is guaranteed
to ?to \ou g?"Ml und c-'St you nothing J. F.
W De.L?;.r-Uie*? Dtugetore.
-uta- -
For Over Ftfry Yeais.
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOHING SYK?P hxs been
used i<;r elli Iii r eu teething. It Soothes the
child, softens tin* gums, allays all {"?in, eure?,
wind co?ic, and is the hest remedy for Mar?
ri o i T wen H -five cen's a bottle.
For kidney and liver trouble Glenn Springs
wider is a cure. Un draught nt Hiijjhson &
Co's drug store.
LOST-A LAECr3 AMOUNT 0?
MONEY
Is losi annually hy patties purchasing worth
less ?ruit trees, roes, kc. Get them from a
firm that grows their own tree--, .-ends out
nothing ? ur good stock and sells at reason
ttble ?piii'is Wc wiini ihe Mildrens i>f every
farmer or gardener : in your section'and will
make voit a liberal offer, write for particulars
and prices at once, send stamp for descriptive
'vntalo{?ue.
Averil-- wanted evervwhere
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( Mention th?.< Paper.)
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('? 'rx bodies of Hradficld's J*'r?.<r-(> A rnul" dr
t.tc can <lo hsr own cooking, milkia : ? ?.? :t*ftu.>j. '
N-S. BUTAX, lien ?- n. Ala.
tR?DFIELD REGULATO r? CT ???1* ^
Soli by drr.gsMs c"
A. M. MANIG-AULT,
21, BROAD ST., CHARLESTON, S.O.,
STOCK AND BOND BROKEB,
Liberal advances "ii Securities deposited
tor sale.
I. o.\NS SIKH)Tl. J TED.
< ?c: 25.- 1 mo.
WRIGHT'S HOTEL
COLUMBIA. S. O
r^HIS NEW AND ELEGANT HODSK
j with all modero improvements.ie no*
opea for the reception of guests.
,v L WRIGHT & SON,
Pronrietois
A ?ow ? nd Com?sete Treatrneii*. coui-i>tiiit; of
tsUPP?SI?OB?ES, Capsnies of Oi ut nient and two
Boxes of Ointment; A nevcr-irt?lins? Cure for Pite*?
o? every nc torc nu.l ?e^roe. I( makes r?u op?ration
with th'"> knife <>r mjscaonsf of carbolic acid, which
i re painful nu t seldom ? permanent i-ure, and often
rcFUltin?; in d v.lh. 'irmecosHiiry. Why endure
this terribie dicoaee? We guarantee 6
boxes to cure anv c^.ae. lou only pay for
benefits reootvfd. il a IK'IT. 6 for $5. Sent by mall.
Guaranteer isf.iw! hy our agents.
Pf! MOT ID A^'OSU Cured. Pile? Prevented,
lr UH O I lr ?\ I I Ufl by Japanese Liver Pellets
th" prent LIVER md STOMACH REGULATOR and
BLOOD PViil FI Kit. Small, mild and pleasant to
cake, especially adapted for ehildrenv u^e. C) Doses
?> cents.
GUARAI?TKL?*? ?er.i?d nely l;y
DR. A. J. CHINA, SITMTER,S.C,
mm
sss.
S.S.S.
ERADICATES BLOOD POI?
SON AND BLOOD TAINT.
C EVER AL bottles of Swift's Specific (S.S. S.)
J entirely cleansed my system of contagious
blood poison of the very worst tvj>e.
\VM. S. LOOMIS. Shreveport, La.
sss;
CURES SCROFULA EVEN
IN ITS WORST FORMS.
IHAD SCROFULA in 188-1, and cleansed my
system entirely from it by taking seven
bottles of S. S. S. I have not had any symp?
toms since. C. \V. WILCOX
S partan burg, S. C.
HAS CURED HUNDREDS OP
CASES OF SKIN CANCER.
Treatise on Blood and Sk.:n Diseases maiied
free. SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta, Ga,
DR J. liV I SIMM.
DENTIST.
Office
OVER BROWN A "BROWN'S STORR,
Entrance on Hain Street
Between Brown k Brown and Durant & Son
OFFICE HOURS:
9 to 1.30; 2 to 5 o'clock.
April 9 2
li ?imus Tabules cure headache
Ripans Tabules cure the blues.
?
! WE WANT YOU
! to act as our agent. We furnish an expensive
? outtit and all you need free. It costs nothing to
try the business. We will treat you well, and
? help you to earn ten time* ordinary wages. Both
sexes of all ages can live at home and work in
spare time, or all the time. Any one any where
can earn a great deal of money. Many have made
Two Hundred Dollars a Month. No class of
people in the world are making so much money
without capital as those at work for us. Business
pleasant, strictly honorable, and pays better than
anv other offered to agents. You" have a clear
field, with no competition. We equip you with
everything, and supply printed directions for
beginners which, if obeyed faithfully, will briug
more money than will any other business. Im?
prove your prospects ! Why not ? You can do so
easily and surely at work for us. Reasonable
industrv only necessary for absolute success.
? Pamphlet circular giving every particular is sent
j free to all. Delay not in sending for it.
GEORGE STINSOX & CO.,
Box No. 488, Portland, He.
HOUSE PAINTING.
WITH long and thorough experience I am
prepared to do HOUSE PAINTING,
i in all the LATRST STYLES.
j Also PAPER HANGING. CALSOMINING,
I and SIGN WRITING, neatly done. Any
? Notice will receive prompt attention. Best of
I References Address
S. E. GREGG,
May 10-x. Sumter, S. C.
Ri puns Tabules : for liver trouble*
HARDWARE
FOR
Everything in this Line
R. W. DURANT7 & SON.
Paints, Oils, &c, &c. Cooking and
Heating Stoves, Guns, Pistols,
Cartridges all Household articles and
Oct. 4.
HARRIS' LETHIA WATER,
HARRIS' LITHIA SPRINGS, S. C.
After H lons? and varied .experience in the use of Mineral Waters fiom many sources,
both foreign and domestic, I nm fully persuaded that the Harris Liihia Water possesses
efficacy in the treatment of afflictions of the Kidney ?nd Bladder unequled by any o?ber
water of wiri?h I have made trial
This opinion is based upon observation of ?ts (fleets upon my patients for the past
three years, during which time I hive perscrined it freely and almost uniformly with benefit
in the medicable maladies above mentioned
When failure to relieve has ocruried, I have imputed it to insufficient use of the Water,
for my experience teaches me that from one to two quarts daily should ne taken from two to
four weeks to secure its full remedial (fferts A. N. TALLY, M. D.
Columbia, S. C , October 8th, 1892.
CAMDEN, Janr.ruY 28, 1892.
J T. Harms, E.*q , Waterloo, S C. : De-ir Sir-I find great benefit from the use of
your Litbia Water. I consider it a fine tonic and general regulator of the digestion, as well
as rt-rv efficacious in those diseases for which Litbia is considered somewhat of a specific. *
JUDGE J. B. KERSHAW.
My wife has been using your Litbia Waler and is very much benefitted. I consider it
in everv respect equal to the famous Buffalo Li:hia Water.
Abbeville, S. C JUDGE J. S. COTHRAN.
FOR SALE IN SUMTER BY DR CHINA. DR. DKLORME, DR. McKAGEN AND
March 22-v H UGH SON k CO.
J. F. W. DeLORME,
DEALER IN
Agent
Toilet Soaps, Perfumery and all Kinds ot Druggist's
Sundries Usually Kept in a
T^IY&X Class Drug Store.
Tobacco, Snuff |and Cigars, Garden Seeds, &c, also Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
Glass Putty, &c, Dye Stuffs.
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.
\ i Slit Calls Promptly Attended To.
pm
City f)mg Store?
r Main St Sumter, S. (
rt
Drugs and Medicines. Soaps, Perfumery, Hair Brushes
Tooth Brushes. Tooth Powder, A4so, Paints, Oil?. Glass, Putty, Floor
Stains, Kaisomine. all color- for rooms, Artists' Paints aud
Brashes, Luster Paints. Convex Glasses'.
Nice line of Hanging aud Stan?* Lamps. Lanterns, Shades, Wicks, Chimneys, <&c
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
Keep the following popular brand of Cigars : "Plumb Good." "Custom House," "Rebel Girl."
Sep 3o FRESH GARDEN SEED. Prescriptions carefully compounded
JE WEER 15
Cl Watches, Diamonds,
Sterling and Plated Silverware,
LARGE STOCK SUITABLE FOR WEDDING PRESENTS.
Clocks, Optical Goods, Fine Knives, Scissors
and Razors, Machine Needles &c.
SIGN OF THE RIG WATCH.
ESTABLISH ED 1808. Sumter? S. C.
HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES.
JAMES ALLAN & CO.,
Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, Specta?
cles, Drawing Instruments
THE FINEST STOCK IN THE STATE. RE LI ABLE GOODS AT
REASONABLE PRICES
Walch Repairing a specialty. Chief Inspectors of Watches for Sooth Caro?
ma Railway. Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Division of Three Cs Rail Hoad.
JAMES ALLAN & CO.,
ft*. 8 285 King St., Sigo of D-um Clock. Charleston, S. C.
for Infants and Children
" Ca? to ria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
... .i to r.u\" II. A. ARCHED, M. D.,
Ill So. Oiiord St, Brooklju, ?i. Y.
"Tho use of 'Costoria i; universal and
: 2..C-1L: ix? well known tiiat iL uce?is a work
i ; M:;>en-roiratiou to endorse it l ew are the
Liti'Li^ent families who do not keep Castoria
v. .?iia cosy reach.-"
Cia LOS MARTYN, D. D..
Kew York City
Castoria e uro?, Coiic, Oonrtipatioa,
Sour Stomach, Warrlia-a, limitation,
KilLs Worms, gives .sleep, cEl promotes di
?estio!i.
Without injurious f.iedication.
"For severe! year.; I have recommended
your 1 ('Astoria,1 and .'.hall alway;; continue to
do so as it has invariably prixIueiHl '?'nc-ncial
results.' .
EDWIN F FARDEZ, V.. D.,
125th Street and ?th Ave., New York City.
THE CENT-AT? COMPANY, 77 MCBRAY STREET, NEW YOKE OTT.
Typewriter Headquarters.
J. W. GIBBES & CO.,
101 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. a
SOUTH CAROLINA A6ENTS FOR THE "DENSMORE,"
The Twentieth Century Typewriter.
WE Gil orders promptly for all kinda of Typewriter novelties and supplies for
all Machines and for Mimeographs and Neostyles.
The DENSMORE is the latest achievement of the Densmore family, by whom
its predecessor, the Remington, was developed. ?t 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 famous Carnegie Steel Co npany. the Central
Railroad and Ranking Company of Georgia, the Rapid Addressing Company of
New York, which exhibits 16 Densmores tn operation at the World's Fa r. the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, R. G. Dun & 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'Offic, Judge S.
W. Melton, Union Centra) Life Insurance Company, Benedict Institude aod
others.
We can supply dealers at good discount.
Said the) qpA ]iQ BI/JAP (Takea
Bicycle J IV 110 UlU?l | Tumble.
AI,SH & jjOMPAWI ,
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 \ Stock for a
Now we MUST sell them.
If you are looking for Bargains in Shoes SEE US.
We have just o|iened 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.^
Our $2.00 Ladies' Button Boots, are
Unexcelled.
WALSH & CO.,
THE LEADERS,
Monaghan Block - Sumter, S. C.
Od. 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.
BULTMAN & BRO.
Opposite the Coan House,
SIGN 07 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.
Wehave a complete line of Men's ?fc^l i%?k
Goodyear Welts at - W** ww
Also a handsome Ladies Button <.> AA ?
Shoe at m **** m
All of our goods will be sold at popular pricer to suit the M
3T0RMY HARD TIM KS. ?M
Bring in ONE DOLLAR and we will give you a pair of% ^
Ladies' Button Shoes, "Solid as a Rock/' andfor amfher Di?tor c}M
you will get a pair Men's Shoes "Solid as Iron." "^^ v^??^
Our TRUNKS are the CHEAPEST aa<T||
the BEST in the City. >
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