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EYE'S FRUIT PICKING, | | HOW HER CURIOSITY RUINED TH-j HUMAN HAUt:. . Rev Dr. Talamce Preacb.es a Picturetone I Sermon On the Calamity in Paradise, j Eating Fruit That Doea Kot Belong j to Us. A new interpretation of the calamity in paradise is given by Dr. Talmage in his sermon of last Sunday which is laden with practical lessons. The text is Genesis iii *3, "And when the woman saw that the .tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and give also unto her husband with her, and he did eat." It is the first Saturday afternoon in the ? world's existence. Ever since sunrise Adam J * ?41,^ VwlHonr na<*eantrv I nas oeen watcmug tut ?...?. , of wings and scales and clouds. In his first lessons in zoology and ornithology and ichthyology he has noticed that the robins riy the air in twos and that the fish swim the water in twos and that the lions walk the fields in twos and in the warm redolence of that Saturday afternoon he falls off into slumber, and as if by allegory to teach all ages that the greatest of all earthly blessings is sound sleep, this paradisaical somnolence ends with the discovery on the part of Adam of a corresponding intelligence just landed on a new planet. Of the mother of all the living I speak?Eve, the first, i.he fairest and the best. I mike me a garden. I inlay the paths with mountain moss, and I border them with pearls from Ceylon and diamonds from Gol conda. Here and tiiere are iouhuuus i?2-1 ing in the sunlight and ponds that ripple i under the paddling of the swans. I gather j me lilies from the Amazon and orange groves j from the tropics and tamarinds from Goyaz. j There are woodbine and honeysuckle climbing over the "wall and starred spaniels sprawling themselves on the grass. I invite | amid these trees the larks and the brown j thrushes, and the robins, and all the bright- j est birds of heaven, and they sur the air | with infinite chirp and carol. And yet the j place is a desert filled with darkness and j death as compared with the residence of fhe j woman of the text, the subject of ray story, i NTnu^'- Qi'nfp have such skies looked down through such leaves into such waters! Never has river wave had such curve and sheen and bank as adorned the Pison, the Havilah, Gihon, and the Hiddekel, even the pebbles being bdellium and," onyx stones! 'What fruits, with no curculio to sting the rinu! What flowers, with no slug to gnaw the root! What atmosphere, with no frost to chill and with no heat to consume! Bright colors j ? tangled in the grass. Perfume in the air. j Music in the sky. Great scenes of gladness | and love and joy. j Right there under a bower of leaf and J vine and shrub occurred the first marriage. Adam took the hand of this immaculate j vu. n^A on/I rvrn-n nmi the cere UttUgUVCX VI VAVVA. mony when he said, "Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh." A forbidden tree stoc. in the midst of that exquisite park. Eve, sauntering out one day alone, looks up at the tree and sees the beautiful fruit and "wonders if it is sweet and wonders if it is sour and standing there says: "I think I will just put my hand upon the fruit. It will do no damage to the tree. I will not take the fruit to eat, but I will just take it down to examine it." She examined the fruit. She said, -I do not think there can be any harm in my just breaking the rind of it." She put the froit to iier teeth, she tasted, she alio-wed Adam also to taste the fruit, the door of the world opened and the monster sin entered. Let the heavens gather blackness, and the winds sigh on the bosom of the hills, and cavern, and desert, and earth and siy join in one long, deep, hell rending howl, "The world is lostl" Beasts that before were harmless and full of play put forth claw and stkig and tooth and tusk. Birds whet their beak for prey. Clouds troop in the sky. Sharp thorns shoot up through the soft grass; blasting on the leaves. All the chords of that great harmony are snapped. Upon the brightest home this world ever saw our first parents turned their backs and led forth on a path of sorrow the brokenhearted myriads of a ruined race. Do you not see in the first place the danger of a poorly regulated inquisitiveSns to knew how the fruit tasted. She "found out, but 6,000 years have deplored that unhealthful curiosity.1 Healthful curiosity has done a great deal for letters, for art, for science and for religion. It has gone down into the depths of the earth with the geologist and seen the first chapter of ^Genesis written^,in the book of nature, illustrated with engraving on rock, and it stood with the antiquarian while he blew the trumpet of resurrection over buried Herculaneura and Pompeii, until from their sepulcher there came up shaft and terrace - and amphitheater. Healthful curiosity has enlarged the telescopic vision of the astronomer until worlds hidden in the distant heavens have trooped forth and have joined the choir praising the Lord. Planet weighed against planet and wildest comet lassooed with replendent law. Healthful curiosity has gone down and found the tracks of the eternal God in the polypi and the starfish under the sea and the majesty of the great j enovan encamp so. unaer me gorgeous curtains of the dahlia. It has studied the spots on the sun, and the larva in a beech leaf, and the light under a firefly's wing, and the terrible eye glance of a condor pitching from Chimborazo. It has studied the myriads of animalcule that make up the phosphorescence in % ship's wake, and the mighty maze of suns and spheres and constellations j and galaxies that blaze on in the march of j God. Healthful curiosity has stooi by the j inyentor until forces that were hidden for j ages came 10 wneeis, auu levers auu suaus and shuttles?forces that ?y the air, or swim j the sea, or cleave the mountain until the earth jars and roars and rings and crackles and booms with strange mechanism, and ship? with nostrils of hot steam and yokes of fire dww the continents together. I say nothing against healthful curiosity. May it have other Leyden jars, and other electric batteries, and other voltaic piles, and other magnifying glasses, with which to-storm the barred castles of the natural world until it shall surrender its last secret. Yt'e thank God for the geological curiosity of Professor j Hitchcock, and the mechanical curiosity of j Liebig, and the zoological curiosity ofCuvier, j and the inventive curiosity of ?dison, but j we must admit that unheathful and irregular inquisidveness has rushed thousands and tens of thousands into rum. Eve just tasted the fruit. She was curious to Sua out how it tasted, and that curiosity blasted her and blasted all nations. So there are clergymen in this day, inspired by unhealthful inquisitiveness, "who have tried to look through the keyhole of God's mysteries that were barred and bolted from all human inspection?and they have wrenched their whole moral nature out of joint by trying to pluck fruit from branches beyond their reach, or have come out on limbs of the iree iroiu wiuvu luejr tumuieu miu riuu wicuout remedy. A thousand trees of religious knowledge from wich we may eat and get advantage, bur. from certain trees of mystery how many have plucked their ruin! Election, free agency, trinity, resurrection?in the discussion of these subjects hundreds and thousands of people ruin the soul. There are men who actually have been kept eut of the kingdom of heaven because they could not understand who Mclchisedec was not! Oh, how many have been destroyed by an unhealthful inquisitiveness! It is seen in all directions. There are those 'who stand with the eye stare and mouth gape of curiosity. They are the first to hear a falsehood, build it another story high and two wings to it. About other people's apparej^-w^er.r other people's business, about ojicfpeopie's financial condition, abou^w^f^r people's affairs, they are ovegjKious. Every nice piece of gossip stomal their door, and they fatten and luxuriate in the endless round of the great -world 0f tittle tattle. They in rite and sumptuouJ y wr.cruiin at their house Colonel Twaddle and Souire Chitchat ani Governor Smalltalk. "Whoever hath an innuendo, whoever hath a scandal, -whoever hath a valuable secret, let him come and sacrifice it to this goddess of splutter. Thousands of Adams and Eves do nothing but eat fruit that does not belong to them, men quite well known, as mathematicians failing in this computation of moral algebra?good sense plus good breeding, minus curiositj, equals . your own atTairs. Then, how many young u.en through curL- ; osity go through the whole realm of French j novels to see whether they are really had j as moralists have pronounced then:. They j come near the verge of the precipice ;ust to j look o:f. The j want to see ho* far it really I is down, but they lose their balance while they. look and'fail into remediless ruin, or, catching themselves, clamber up. bleeding and ghastly, on the rock, gibbering, with curses or groaning inetiectual praver. By all means encourage healthful inquisitiveness; by ail m^ms discourage ill regulated curiosity. This subject also impresses me with the i fact that traits that are sweet to the taste I may afterward produce great agony. For- j bidden fruit for I've was so pleasant she in- j viied lie? husband also to take of it. Uut j her b.mbliment from paradise and ij,0U0 I years of sorrow and wretchedness and war | and woe paid fur the luxury. Sin may be j very sweet at the start, and it may induce great wretched uess afterward. The cup of j sin is sparkling at the top. but. there is death at the bottom. Intoxication hits great exhilaration for awhile, and it fillips the blood, and it makes a man see live stars where others can see only one star, and it makes the poor man rich, and turns cheeks which are white red as roses. But what about the dreams that come after, when he seems falling from great heights or is prosj trated by other fancied disasters and the j perspiration stands on the forehead?the i night dew of everlasting darkness?and he I is ground under the horrible hoof of night' mares shriekiDg with lips that crackle with I all consuming torture'.' "Rejoice, 0 young I man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer j thee in the days of thy youth! But. know | thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment!" Sweet at the start, horrible at the last. Go into that hall of revelry, where ungodly mirth staggers and blasphemes. Listen to the senseless gabble. See the last trace of intelligence dashed out +'roni faces made in God's own image. "Aha, aha!" says the roistering inebriate. '-This is joy for you. Fill high your cups, my boys. I drink to my wife's misery, and my children's rags, and my God's defiance."' And he knows not that a ilend stirs the gob- | let in his hand and that adders uncoil from the dregs and thrust their forked tongues hissing through the froth on the rim. The Philistines jeered and laughed and shouted at Samson. Oh, they wanted him to make | sport for them, and he made sport for them! How bright and gay was the scene for a little while! After awhile the giant puts one hand against this pillar and the other hand against that pillar and bows himself, and 3,000 merrymakers are mashed like grapes in a winepress. Sin rapturous at the start, awful at the last. : m!? fwincrrrssiinri did not i E XLLlil UilC Jjucuiv ?-a seem to be much, but it struck a blow which I to this Jay '--akes the earth stagger. To tind out the consequences of that one sic you -would have to compel the world to throw open all its prison doors and display the crime, and throw open all its hospitals and display the disease, and throw open all the insane asylums and show the wretched | ness, and open all the sepulchers and show ] . ne dead, and open all the doors of the lost J world and show the damned. That one ?denic transgression stretched chords of misery across the heart of the world and struck them with dolorous wailing, and it has seated the plagues upon the air. and me smpwrecss upon use nuu mo teneu, jike a leech, famine to the heart of the sick and dying nations. Beautiful at the start, horrible at the last. Oh, how many have experienced it! Are there here those who are votaries of pleasure? Let rsie warn you, my brother. Your pleasure boat is far from shore, and your summer day is ending roughly, for j the winds and the waves are loud voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all awrithc j and agleern with terror. You are past the j Narrows, and almost outside the Hook, and if the Atlantic take thee, frail mortal, thou shalt never get to shore again. Put back; row swiftly, swifter, swifter! Jesus from the shore casteth a rope. Clasp it quickly, now or never. Oh, are there not some of you who are freighting all your loves and joys and hopes upon a vessel which shall never reacn tne port- 01 aeaveu. j Thou nearest the breakers. One heave j upon the rocks. Oh, ivhai an awful crash was that! Another lunge may crush thee | beneath the spars or grind thy bones to powder amid the torn timbers. Overboard for your life, overboard! Trust not that loose plank nor attempt the wave, but quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking on the watery pavement, snouting until he hear thee, "Lord, save me or I perish!" Sin I beautiful at the start?oh, how sad, how dis- j tressful, at the last! The ground over j which it leads you is hollow. The fruit it I offers to* your taste is poison. The promise j it makes to vou is a lie. Over that ungodly j I banquet the keen sword of God's judgment i hangs, and there are omnious handwritings on the wall;. Observe also in this subject how repelling sin is when appended to great attractiveness. Since Eve's death there has been no such perfection cf womanhood. Vou could not suggest an attractiveness to the body or suggest any refinement to the manner. You could add no gracefulness to the gait, no lustre to the eye, no sweetness to the voice. A perfect God made her a perfect woman, to be the companion of a perfect man in a perfect home, and her entire | uature vibrated in accord "with, the beauty j and sozig of paradise. Bat she rebelled ! against God's government, and with the [ same hand with which she plucked the fruit she launched upon the world the crime, the i wars, the tumults that have set the universe a-wailing. A terrible offset to all her attractiveness. We are not surprised when we tind men and women naturally vulgar going into trans gression. ?e sxpeci mat peupie wuu ia>c :u | the ditch shall have the manners of the ! ditch, but how shocking when we find sin | appended to superior education and to the | refinements of social life! The accomplishments of Mary, queen of Scotts, make her patronage of Darnley, the profligate, the more appalling. The genius of Catherine II of Russia only sets forth in more powerful contrast her unappeasable ambition. The translations from the Greek and the Latin by Elizabeth and her wonderful qualifications for a queen make the more disgusting her capri siousness of affection and her hotness of temper. The greatness of Byron's mind makes the more alarming Byron's sensuality. Let no one think that refinement of manner or exuuisiteness of taste or superiority of education can in any wise apologize for ill temper, for an oppressive spirit, for unkindness, for any kind of sin. Disobedience Godward and transgression manward can give no excuse. Ac;omplishment heaven hi^h is 1 .. _? _ - T no apoiogy ior vice neu aeep My subject also impresses me with, the regal influence of woman. When I see Eve with this powerful iniiuence over Adam and over the generations that have followed, it suggests to me the great power all women have for good or for evil. I have no sympathy, nor have you, with the hollow tiatteries showered upon woman from the platform and the stage. They mean nothing; they J are acceptcd as nothing. Woman's nobility I consists in the exercise of a Christian influ gUCC, viiiu. " a-vii x ulio^unviiUi iuiiuuu^ j of Eve upon her husband and upon "the j whole human race I make up my mind that | the frail arm of woman can strike a blow j which will resound through all eternity I down among the dungeons or up among the j thrones. Of course I am not speakiDg of represent-1 ative women?of Eve, who ruined the race by one fruit picking; ofJael, who drove a I spike through the head of Sisera, the warrior: of Esther, who overcame royalty: of Abigail, who stopped a host by her own beautiful prowess; of Mary, who nursed the world's Saviour: c/' Grandmother Lois, iai"morUlized in her grandson Timothy: of rV.*?'?2V "whet 11 it\tur : ! ' ; ? --v-w i through the heart of the assassin of her lover, or of Marie Antoinette, who by one look from the balcony of her castle quieted a mob. her own scatfolu the throne of forgiveness and womanly courage, i speak not of these extraordinary persons, but of those wuw. uuamDitious ;or pouttcai power, as wives and mothers and sisters and daughters attend to tlie thousand sweet oiiices of home. When at, last. we come to calculate the rorces that decided iho destiny of nations, it. will be found fiat the mightiest and grandest iniiuence came from home, where the wife cheered up despondency and fatigue and sorrow by her own sympathy, and uie mother trained her child for heaven. aui |V.?-1? --IT?.~r. P t starting iue ;ut c- iter on iue pam 10 iu<i ce- f lestiai city. and the sisters by their gentleness refined the manners of the brother, and the daughters were diligent in their kindness to the aged, throwing wreaths of blessing on the road that lead; father and mother down the steep of years. God bless our homes! And may the home- on earth he the vestibule of our home in heaven, in -which pia':e may we all meet?father, mother, son. daughter, brother, sister, grandfather and grandmother and grandchild, and the entire group of precious ones of whom we must say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley: One family, we dwell in him: One church above, bene;ith. Though now divided by the stream? The narrow stream of death? One army ci't'ie living Go-i. To his command we bow. Part of (he host have crossed the tiood. And part are crossing now. WINDING UP A" WOFFORD. Eighteen Vctiug Compose the Graduating Class this Y>ar. The closing exercises at Wcfford were of a most interesting nature this ye?r. The joint debate of the Calhoun ard Preston literary societies took pjsce Tuesday niffht. The debate was: lCT^ -1?-J ~ ~ "itSSOiVet/, Li'CLb O. itjjicocuvanx. | should vote according to the wishes of j his constituency." Affirmative?R. i Roy Goodv.io. j. A Sullivan. Nesra live?L L. Dantzter, Jennings K. 0~ens. The committee of judges, Mr. J W. Gsge. Revs. W. A. Rogers and E. T. Hodges and Messrs. Manning and Newman decided the debate in favor of the atErraative. Mr. Gabriel Cannon next presented I the society diplomas to the seniors and j spoke a few parting and appropriate j words to them. Mr. T. C. Lucas of Darlington won the essay medal offered by the Cal1 OTTTno VM.oront/;/] txmtV) ! JLiUUU OlA^lCl'Jr aiiU WCUO jJitCVJJU-u. ?? H.4A it by Rev. T. D. Bratton. The commencement exercises took place at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. There were eighteen candidates for the degree of A. B. The following speeches were made: W. M. Connor, Jr., Charleston? "Pride and Vrogress." E L. Culler. Orangeburg?"Where Europe Was Won." W. B Evans. Marion?"Our Greatest Southerner." - f\ \ u \ , ^ J. .f. inaomes, urangenurg? Amc-i rica and the Oiosiog Years of the Nineteenth Century." W. A. Medlock, Laurens?"So Let It Be." R C. Newton, Marlboro?''Vocation." G. T. Pueh, Newberry?"Two Interpretations of an Old Adage." T. M. Raysor, Orangeburg?"The ; Year 1809." N. M. Sal ley, Orangeburg?"The ; Nineteenth Century Image Breaker." M. L Smith, Spartanburg?"Our j His best Court of Appeal." j P. H. Stoll, Abbeville?"The Psyc' Viir? TnrfnMnA rsr, the Centurv." R. S. Truesdals, New Hanover Co , : N. C.?"Origin and Culmination of | Secession." j H. A. C. Walker, Dorchester Co.? I "The Threfi Sixes." | The following were excused from i speaking: T. O. Epps, Williamsburg; [ W. A. Hudgins, ^Anderson ; T L. ! Manning;, Marion; J C. Smith, Lau| reus; W. T. Wood, York. i Mr. P. K. Sicll took, besides his A. ; B. Degree, also an A. M. decree. A. j ; M. was conferred upon Mr. K. J. j Shoemaker of the Bamberg Fitting I | School. The degree of Doctor or juaw i ; was conferred upon Iiev. Wm. B. j 1 Morrow, president of Millsap College, Jackson, Miss. An interesting feature of tbe day i was the presentation of a beautiful cane to Mr. R. S. Truesdale of the senior class, by Dr. Carlisle, from members of the colored Presbyterian church of this city. Mr. Truesdale is a young- minister, and has been faithfully serving these colored brethren durir>g his college course, and bis labor has certainly not been unaopre | cisted. I 1 ?~7 ^ -3 T -v?A i r*rv-? c c i ur. KsHriLSiz; UtUAYCXCU [lie I] with a few remarks such as he knows :j hew to make on commencement occa-; sions. The Ilalisn barsd from Glenn Spring furnished delightful music during commencement. Senator Kills on the Scsjar Steal. Senator Mill's speech in the senate on the tariff bill was opened wiln the vigorous language for which the Texas statesman is notec. iie went auer trusts on the same old lire, but with novel metaphors, ana in beginning said: k'I come, sir, to speak for the j forgottten man?the taxpayer. I j come to speak for those from wnosej pcc-kets this vast sum is to be raised, j from whos- labor and sweat day and night th''s vast contribution is to be taken. They have some right to be heard in the councils of the nation when their property is to be taken by an act of legislation rapine and dis tributed among men who have paid no consideration for it. What are we ! doing? Building up a vast and solid! plutocracy in this country. Some- t body asked the other day how many millionaires there are in the United j States You could count them on the j fingers of one hand before 18(50. "^hc policies and measures adopted by the dramatic administrations before the vrrr.w w.?.t WO>? 00 1 + f VlO Cri-rSwt.h Of Stlf.Vl TfAL UiU JUVb VW1 LU1V vuv & v v? ^ ~ , monsters in this country. Republican policies Jaave fostered and fattened 1 them. They now insolently refuse to be taxed and insolently demand that j other people shall work out their lives j to pay them tribute." Deadly Work of a Toina&o. | A tornado which passed over the | central and southern portions of Loj gan county, Illinois, Friday afternoon | destroyed thousands of doliars's worm I of property and demolished the innj mense cow barn on the farm of the State institution for the feeble minded. ! Twenty-six persons seeking refuge I from the storm were buried in the debris. Four of the refugees, boy pupils from Chicago, were taken out dead. Five others were severely injured. I one of whom, the farm superinten j dent, will possibly die. The dead are: Sylvester Baker, James O'Brien, O'Neal McKfnzie, Castle Lebaron, all boy pupils of the institution. Ti!lman'tj Object. In discussing the tariff billonThurs-! day Seralor Tillman said he was one i of the Democrats voting for a duty on j otxt Tip srnwpd that hp i wanted the bill loaded as heavily as j possible, so as to disgust the people! arid make them "turn the Republicans out.*' If his Democratic associates could gel any consolation, by twitting him for votingr for his section in this "general game of grab," well and good. As to the Republican Senators, he warned them that no tariff biii l Tpnnir} Hrinc r.rfxrif'rit.v rrhich c*avf. cornDt-matory duties to the manufac turers out of the pockrlsof the people. Fat?i Accident la Ati&ata. John Brcwnlee, vrhite, was killed in a runaway accident Wednesday evening and his companion, Vvr. J. Atkinson, injured so seriously that his condition is considered precarious. Tlm-rr V.-CM oHc.-'rt.'t nf fV?A Ha- I partisent and were driving a sanitary ! Wagon. A wheel was kncckcd oft the i wagon and Browniee came do~n cn his head. Atkinson was more fortunate. but the heavy wagon, going at terriric speed, passed over his body, fracturing several ribs and inflicting internal injuries. Z^XSSSOma rwr ' ' " ' ""^Tlni =C HOW 70 GIVE MEDICINE To SCo/s^-f, Cftttie and Swln^?PJlli?. i Drei<ch!rpr, Etc. When a hor-e is to be drenched put! or:, a halter the ncs& bsnd of vrhich is i wide enough '.o allow the xnuoth. to be j opened to its fullest extent- Xott take i i noose, made cf any small rope about j one foot lone;, put it into the mouth, I slip it over the upp( r jaw and by these j mertns elevate the bead of the animal | sutScient.lv to prevent the medicin-1 from running out while being poured ! into the mouth. Give the medieine c?;vefu*']y and never through the nose, as it is then h'eble <o flow into the windpipe of the horse, thus of tec kii lag it. Should 'he horse refuse to swallow, a <rr'-at d?al of patience is required to drench hire properly; ne^er strike or rub the throat or puli out the tongue, as such proceedings have a tendency to produce a cough, which raeans that the animal will spit out the medicine yc.u wish hioi to swallow. Animals which are stubborn and will not swallow. are often induced to do so by stroking the nalate right behind the upper front teeth. In order to give the horse a nil! or. as it is termed, a bail, draw the tongue out gently with the. left hand and with the other hand hold the pi] 1 by bringing the Sneers together to a point. Then lei the hand with the pill glide quickly along the roof of the mouth until nearly half the arm is in ths mouth of tiie horse, crop the pill, withdraw the hand, and r.ow only release the tongue. If this ;= r'onft nrrmerlr. the hand in the I ?T v 7 - - " mouth is not in danger of injury. Medicine, which is irritating, sucb as bluesione, must not be given as a powder because it is liable to cauterize the delicate parts of the digestive passages. Cows are drenched by holding their horns and grabbing with index finger and thumb the wall which divides the i-.asal passages (ihe same place in which bulls are ringed). Cows rarely are given pills as ihey are so easily drenched. The contrary is true of the heg, hence drenching is always connected with difficulties and danger. If the hog must be drenched, run il with the hied quarters into a corner, Dlace a noose into the mouth and ever i.he upper jaw, in the same manner as recommended for the horse, and most carefully give the drench. Should the hog begin to cough (this also refers to ;be horse and cow) immediately stop giving the medicine and let the hand some down. Since the drenching of the hog is so disagreeable, medicines are generally given in the shape of powders mixed in the food. W. E. A. Wyman, V. S. Clemson College S. C. Murdered For His Money. C. D. Collins, a wealthy Tennessee* an, was lured to his probable death Tuesday night by a man he had known since boyhood, and with whom be had been on. terms of intimate friendship for six years. His assail ant is Martin Ensley of Memphis, Tenn., whose father, Colonel Enoch Ensley, was one of the most promir.pnt mine owners and planters of the south. Ensley induced his companion to visit Meramec Height, a summer resort 15 mile from St. Louis. On ihe plea of illness he led him to a clump of bushes abouxit 75 yards from the hotel. There, stepping behind his victim, he dealt him biow after blow on the head with a hammer he had purchased presumably for the purpose of committing the murder. When the pounding had reduced Collins to a state of insensibility, Ens ley stooped over the prostrate body and tore from a vest pocket a roll of bilk that amounted to $0,000. Ha started up the hill ana passed the money to an accomplice, who is believe;; to have escaped on a trolley car. Tne wouldbe murderer ran down the path leading to the ileramec river. Two men saw the assault and the robbery and witnessed the transfer of the monev i-Vio of ihft nrineioal and his accomplice. Charles Felter, a baker employed at the inn, and a gardaer who had been engaged about the grounds a fortnight, were the witnesses. They ran to the hotel and notified thy night watchman and told him the story. Collins was removed to Kirk wood, where a physician dressed his wounds. Ensley when arrested protested his innocence, claimin? that he, too had been assaulted. This occurred about midnight. At 2 o'clock this morning two deputy sheriffs from Clayton, the county seat, arrived at I?eramec Heights. They searched the srrounds for a weapon and discovered a he * hammer covered with bleed. Oa Easley w^s four.d $600, which was supposed to be part of the stolen money. At daybreak Easiey was driven over to Kirkwoocl and identified by Collins as his assailant. A Close Call. The Denmark Times says Mr. Chas. MeGeiver had an adventure "with a mossier rattlesnake one day last day that he will remember till tne day of death. He was at work oa Senator May field's place near Denmark when he discovered the snake, which was coiled ready to strike. In an endeavor to kill the reptile, the fence rail which he had used as a weapon broke short off, and the rattler leaped at its human enemy and fas;ened its fangs in tne cloth of Mr. ilcGei^er's right trousers leg. Eeinsr thus desperately menaced Mr. ifcG-eiver seized the snake around the neck with both hands and tried to (ling it from him. The fangs of the reptile were so se cureiy lastenea m tne cjoia 01 ms trousers, however, that he could not break its hold. In his left hand pocket was his jack-ksife, and releasing his grip upon the snake with his lefl hand Mr. McG-eiver fished out the weapon, opened the blade with his teeth, and, using his left hand, succeeded in seve~ii'g the snake's head from its boc'v. Its fangs were so firmly imbedded in tbe trousers, however, that it was necessary to cut out a piece of tbe cloth. The serpent was a monster, measuring over five feet in length, and snorting nineteen rattles and a button, which, together with the skin of the reptile, Mr. McGeiver will preserve as trophies of his adventure." TVhat'rt the Matter With Harms? The Anderson Advocate says the statement is made that the cotton manufacturers of New England are making arrangements for quite an esiCEisive shut down during the summer arid that the large dividends which some of them have been paving were ta'cen from earnings previous to 1593. We have a faint recollection mat it was Msj Mciliciey, who stooc on his frcnt porch last summer ard proclaimed tnat if elected "he vrouid open the mills to labor." Arid another saying of his became a campaign cry, "open the crlisrathertbantbe mia:s " Bu no?7 the mills are shutting rsvher than opening and labor is about to be left out in the coid. Terrific Hailstorm. In portior-s of Abbeville County last week there ^.*as a hail storm so destructive 23 to ruin everything in its path. "Pigs, poultry and other small animals were killed outright. Corn arif! ''nftriri anH renters have <ri-en up their lands, as tiiey believe it will be useless to try to make even rent oil o? what they cau plant now. Particles of hail could be found in the surrounding woods the day after the s;orra,"su says the Ab'ceyille Medium. TH!S YE*iVS COTTON CROP. ha of its Size Vr"ia All tfae i-t ites. Lstham, Alesacde? & Co., of New York, me of the ]ending cotton firms in the United States, have mude up thei** estimates of the cotton acreage N-? roiy TVl ronfkl'fc <">nmA ! down to June 4. Tfctse reports were | sent in bj corresponded in different [sections?farmers, cotton commission | merchants, cotton brokers and others, i who may be presumed to be well ini formed, and their estimates cover i every cotton growing county in the i Southern Stat?. From this estimate ! the Columbia State collects the folJowi iy?2' interesting fac:s: From Alabama 1271 replies were received. They : showed an average increase of 5 per cent., making this year's acreage 2. j 913,000, as compared to 2,774,000 for last yei\r. From Arkansas csrr.e 235 replies, which shows an increase of 2 per cent., I placing this year's acreage at 1.605,000, as compared to 1.574.0C0 forlS96. Florida, according to 53 repJies, has the same acreage as last yar?252,000. It is learned from 4< S replies re ceiled from Georgia that this years acreage is 4 per cent, larger than that of 1896. being 3.476.000 as compared I to 3 342.000 for last year. j From 135 replies received from Lou | i si an a it appears that there has been an j ir.cresse of 3 per cent, in acreage, the j 3j;ures being 1 254 000 for 1S97, as | compared to 1.217,000 for 1806. j Misiiss:ppi, according to 290 replies, shews a falling off of 3 per cent, be| cause of the floods, this year's acreage j being 2.776,000, as compared to 2,862,I fif! fi fr?*? loot *tj OQ y* North Carolina, as gathered from 225 replies, has increased its acreage 712 per cent., this year's planting being 1.260,000, as compared to 1 172 0C0 for 1S96. From 209 replies received from South Carolina it is learned that the State has increased its acreage's per [cent., the number of acres this year b :ing 2.114,000, as compared to 2,013, 000 for last year. ! Tennessee, it is estimated from 1S7 replies, has swelled its cotton acreage 3 per cent, planting 876,000 this year against 850,000 for last Texss sends in 504 replies, from which it is ascertained that this jears acreage is 6,453,000, an increase cf 8 per c3nt, last jear's planting being 5,9S0,000 pcres. From various other States 89 replies canoe, showing an increase of 10 per cent., the acreage being 336,000 as compared to 305,000. From 2,606 replies it is estimated that the toici acreage for 1897 is 23, 3:20.000 as againet 22,311,000 last year. To thes3 figures Messrs Latham, i Alexander & Co. add that the total i estimated increase of the cotton area is 970,000 acres, or 4A per cent lar2er i than the acreage of iast year. The average planting of the crop is about three ^esks later than iaU year. The condition of the orop is less promising than it has been at the same time in many years?Texas being the only State vvhere norml conditions have generally prevailed. In the other cot ton States there has been cool -weather ! and ooor stands are reporic-d. There j has been some damage from cut worms. | The overflow of a large area of the , most productive cotton lands in Teninessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana will necessarily lessen the acreage in these States, where planting has necessarily been from fi /e to eigJttt weeks later than last year. A good crop in the Mississippi valley may i now be regarded impossible?unless | "almost pheaominally favorable" i * > ] 1 r-vvrn rra i ] 7?*Am t n 7C fimP ; v> Cai.JCJ CLmLJ. ^ V jl^ vaM kiuuv forward. Just a Common Liar. ':Oui B " says some years ago in a Carolina town a crazy man was brought before an examining board to settle Ihe question as to whether or not he should be sent to the asylum in Columbia. After the doctor got through with his examination, one of the committee ?n n!d farmer, said: | "My friend, did ycu ever borrow any hags or j ig& ? ' ! "Yes, lots of them." j "Did you ever borrow your neigh bor's newspaper?" "Yes. many a time." 4,VVell, now, what became of the jugs, bags and newspapers?" "Why, I carried them all back." The old farmer gave a blow almost ?. SIS iOUU iiS a. iai."iiLLl Wi-iiatio, auu ;aiu. '"Gentlemen, he'^ co iuaaiic! Just simply a common liar, and all the asjlums ia the world won't cure hi on of ljing " A Nejjro Runs Amuck. j The r-ews comes of the murder of I five negroes in the extreme northwestera part of Kemper county, Ala. A negro named Siblev, while drunk, got a gun ana started out to k?Il every person he met: the first he came across Happened to be five negroes, three women and two children. Se shot them down. He also shot at six other - negroes who narrowJy escaped, as soon as the bloody work of Sibley was discovered a mob was organized to lynch the murderer. Sibley took to the woods carrying his gun with him. At last accounts the mob had surroun^ ded him and a bloody fisht was imminent. Word comes from Dekalb that the sheriff of Kemper county had j gone to the scene with a large posse. A UAOstSier vauau I;ciivauui Iq the area in front of the speaker's rostrum when ihe house met Monday was a monster petition appealing to congress to recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. It con Lained over 6,000,000 signatures. The peti lion was wound about the hub of a wheel framed so as to allow it to freely revolve. It had been in circulation throughout the Uaitled States for about six months and was sent to Congressman Suizer of New York for ?- A V\tt ITVarw presBmauuii cw uwugi uj Mayer, a resident of his district. Without transacting any business the house adjourned until Thursday. 6>!l?-nt to the JBad. ] Patrick Hurcheon the wealthiest "landowner in Northern Indiana, died at the age of 70. He was known widely for his eccentricities. He lived with his brother both being bachelors, under the same roof for thirty years without speaking to him and died with the silence unbroken. He was one of the founders of the town of Lacrosse, nd. His fortune is estimated at about $1,000,000. ;The Only Applicant. Professor Newmar, who is one of the foremost agricultural authorities in this country and v?ho was professor of agriculture at Cleroson for several is an applic^t. 'or the presidency, which ilr. E. B. Creigheaa has resigned. His executive ability even more thoroughly (its hica for the po?i tion thin does his mastery of the sci ence and practice of sericulture. Xo Decrease Vrt. ) The original package decision does j j not appear to have hurt the disDebsaj rvs business. Commissioner Vance } j Fridp.y got up a comparative statement j j as tD the shipments for the first fifteen i i davs of June, 1396, and the first fifteen j [ days in 1S97. showing thai tlae latter | I exceeded the former by 1.000 cases of | whiskey and over a hundred barrels i ; of beer. ' r Treat AH The Washington Tidies says the I Republican leaders have quits ceased j. to make fun of Mr. David Lubin and his farmers' bounty proposition. They have discovered wnb something1 much resembling alarm that, after a quiet, persistent propaganda conducted among the agricultural class for several years. Mr. Lubin has impregnated the farming communities with his ideas in a way that does not promise com fort for these patriots who are , ever rallying the dear people around the flag of protection?protection, however, baing limited to the trusts and monopolies. Now, Mr. David Lubin takes the ground that "protection" is exactly what the farmers, as croll <55 othAr interests. want. He be- I lieves in protecting manufacturers, but only on condition that others are J accorded a like benefit, Ee argues, and unanswerably from any Republican standpoint, that if the whole country ougM to be taxfd for the profit of trusts and monopolies, it would be perfectly fair that the whole country should be taxed to pay a bounty to farmers on ail the grain they might be able to export. Protection which protects everybody, themselves excepted, compels the farmers to pay higher prices fvr everything they buy. The logic is simple. They feel that thev oueht to have either a liber al bounty or free trade. Any ancient j thing v?.ill do for Mr. Lubin's farmers, j as lone as they are placed on an even j keel with all other people. At last j the Administration people, the tariff j tinkers ana such like, have waked up to the fact that this logical application ! of the pure gospel of Chinese wall tariff has run like a cry of fire through a small village, all over the agricultural regions of the Union. Of course, they are not in a position to meet it, tn mw omr TVPACftnf. oft An firm to if They have all they can do to settle their tariff, currency and pooling-bill f campaign debts, with their contributory creditors. But they do know j that the movement means something like a million Democratic votes at the ensuing elections, ana the thcugt is net conducive to hilarity nor yet to sleep." BrJce lor Harmony. Ex-Senator Brice, like a good many other gold bug Democrats, don'c feel ccmtcrtaoie as allies ci tr?e isepuoncans and wants to see harmony restored in the Democratic party, even if they have to surrender their gold bug views. It is rsported that Mr. Brice will go to Ohio in a short time and enter upon an active campaign ir the interest of Democratic harmoDy. Bricks idea is that the gold and silver men should get together in the State campaign, and make common cause of the election cf a silver man for Governor. To this end Brice will sup port %uj silvei man satisfactory to the party at large. He believes, accordin to Oalieer, that the smaller faction should give in to the larger, and that The gold men should therefore sacrifice iheir preferences te secure party success. He thinks there is a good chance to elect a silver ticket in Ohio, and proposes chat Democrats shall take advantage of it. Mr. Brice has i been in the West Indies, whither he went to recuperate. His re-entry into Ohio politics as a harmonizer of fac tion on a silver platform will create a sensation among Buckeye politicians. Killed On the Track. Major J. M. Mayo, formerly of Whitfaker. N. C., but lately residing at Ocala, Florida, while attempting to cross the tracks of the Northeastern Riilmad in Florence Saturday morn ing, was struck by the engine of train 7S, the north bound express and was so badly injured that he died about 12 o'clock. Ail possible medical attention was given him but he never rallied from the shock. Major Mayo i ? - r\ _ i ?. o ? 4. came nere oa tue ^iuniuia tram oat,uraay morning, en his way to his old North Carolina home, and the train on which he was going being somewhat late, he went up town on a little business, and was returning to the passenger station by way of Cohen's gro eery store. Callsd to His Death. Friday night at 10 o'clock Will Franks of this county living about eight miles from the town of Laurens, went in company with his father, to the house of Mr. Mac9 Clark, a neighbor and calling him out shot him five ! times .killing him instantly. Sheriff McCravy was notified immediately atd Franks and his father ara both in i jail this morning- Franks is a young man of 25 years while Clark was probably 35 or 40 years of age, a man of family and 'a prosperous farmer. The i kiliisg is said to have been on account of a slanderous report about young Franks' vvife circulated by Clark. i i JIuke Home Happy. ] This is an injunction that will be 1 heeded by all wiio look to the promo- c tion of the pleasures of others. A ] happy home is indeed the happiest of ; places. One source of happiness in j the home circle is good music. A ! sure source of good music is a good Diano?such as may be had from JL i A. Malone, Columbia, S. C. Read j what he has to say in his new adver- { tisement. Indigestion. From which springs, directly or in- 1 directly, nearly every form of headache, and sick fteadache never seperated therefrom, is surely and speedily relieved and cured by the use of ''Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys." Oae 25c bottle will convince rv? 4tcr m*TT *5r Kt7 Vi 11^ Xi J AW* Ky<SA.V*. MWI4VJ.M generally. Who does not know women and young girls who are continually in tears. Who always see the dark side? Who have frequent fits of melancholy without any apparent cause? The intelligent physician will know that it is som derangement of the complicated and delicate feminine organs. The young girl suiters, bodily and mental- i iy, in silence. There is undue weariness, unexpected pain. Dr. Pierce's ; Favorite PrescriDtion exerts wonder ful power over -woman's delicate organism. It is an invigorating tonic and is specific for the peculiar weak nesses. irregularities and painful derangements of woman. Careless, easy going doctors frequently treat womeu ^ patients for biiJiouscess, dvspepsia, liver or kidney troubles, when the real sickness is in the organs distinctly feminine, and no hel'o can come till they are made perfectly strong by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. Send 21 cents in one cent stamps to World's Dispensarv Medical Association, Buffalo, 2s. Y , and receive Dr. Piercb'a 1008 page common sense 3iedical adviser, iliusirated. In its comments on the su?ar schedule caucus the rfpricgfield Republican says: ''Thus, after all the cianor which has been over the ascendency of the trust in congress, that lawless conspiracy still remains master of the situation. Tnree times sinca its or ganization ten years ago the trust's protection at the hands of the federal government has beec. subject to change, and by two different politicai parties, and each time up to this moment hare its demands substantially prevailad. Verily a greater power man congress has arisen to dispute the sovereignty oJ the people." 11 y The Cir cinnatti Enquirer thinks that j "there is still a-suspicion that the j president meant John Wactsamaker j when he talked about pessimists in his Philadelphia speech, but John isgoin? oViac/3 fo'llrinor oVimtl- the Iflilnrfi of I auvau ^ .* v v* prosperity to return and the widespread prevalence of hard times in the most glaring manner. Indeed, the speeches of President McKinley and Secretary Gage have not been optimistic enough to justify either of them in in calling anybody else a pessimist. They have substantially acknowledged their failure to exorcise hard times by their personal magic." Eterna! Vigilance. " vicrianee is the crice of liberty." It is the price of everything worth having. ?JjL man needn't be for danger, Aft happen'to him; <^?3 but a wise man \lr w form a habit vjf of care about the ^ important things of much trouble to take care of yourself as it is not to. A man who follows regular, healthy habits, feels - ? ?- A ?n ^ \J Life is -worth living HHa t0 ^im. Sut a man gpr \r\jS T>?ho "don't want to feg /)?*. rK bother" with taking ?0 ft\ I care of himself has M J B 11 \ more pain and misgjr /?(/ err crowded into one g /^g / \day than a good w?r & > healthy, hearty man who lives right would ever know of ^ in a whole year. When a man's stomach is out of order, and hi6 digestion don't work; when his liver gets to be sluggish and won't clear the bile oat of his blcod, it i6 time for him to look out for himself. He gets no nourishment out of his food. His blood gets thicker and thicker with impurities. Kis nerves get irritated. He loses energy and fighting force. He may say, "I can stand it, I will feel better to-morrow;" but the chances are he will feci worse to-morrow and worse still next day. He ought to put himself right at once. He needs Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is made for just this condition. It rouses up the digestive and nutritive organs, and gives them power to extract from the food all the nutritious elements and transform them into rich, nourishing blood. It enables the liver to cleanse out all bilious impurities and pour into the circulation an abundance of highly vitalized blood, full of the life-giving red corpuscles which build up healthy flesh, muscular strength, and nerve-energy. It does net make dabby nesn. It IS xae oxuy suiuwic -oiiiv. <utu j strength-builder for corpulent people. : : : To ihe Public. : : i WE WILL OFFER FOR j j j sale until August 1st, : .* : : : : as we will have to km,w : : : : : : -within the time above : : : : : : stated in order to arrange our : : : : : : business for another year, : : : : : : -whether or not we will be able : : : : : : to dispose of this valuable real : : : j i : estate. Having decided to go : : : : : : more extensively into the mer- : : : : : * cantile and rice mill business, : : : : : : ?3 : : : ... auu ISJ X.UUUC VU.1. **h . : : : terest, -we have decided to place : : : : : : upon the market one of the fin- : : : : : : est plantations for general pur- : : : : : : poses in Orangeburg County. : : : : i : This property is situated in : : : : : : Pine Grove Township, one mile : : : : : from the town of Lone Star,asta- : : : : : : tioxi on the Manchester and Au- : : : j : : gusia R. R., and containing : : j : : j twenty-five hundred (2500) : : j : : : acres, more or less, with a good j : : : : : part of same under a high state : j : : : : of cultivation. On the place is a : j : : : : good saw mill, grist mill, gin and : : : | : : : cotton press, a fine pasture, 8 or : : : j : : : 10 good tenant houses, and ev- : : : j : : : ery other convenience a good : : : j : : : farmer would want. We olier j ! : : j also for sale two lots and the : : i : : : best store house in Lone Star. : : : | : : This is undoubtedly a fine open- : : : : : : ing for anyone wishing to mer- : : : : : : chandiseand farm in connection : : : : : with each other. All of which : : j : : : we oner you very cneap ana on ; : : j : easy terms. Of coarse we won't : : : : : be able to turn over to the pur- : : : : : chaser the farm before first of r : : : j : Jan., 1898. The store we can : : : : : : tum over for the fall business. : : For farther particulars address j j : j : TAYLOR & BULL, Lyons, S. C. j j ipril 21-3mos it wmm. 0? tfo Dasgeb. a* Qckdjg Oa*e Habit, of Forming another. 3PIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) Etc., Cuued is feom Fees to Six Weeks. LIQUOR DISEASE Ifured Usually in Four Weeks. Also Tobacco Habit and Nervous Diseases Kflon rt Ktr T ^rriQ A. ilV \J IUC U.03 MVVlX v,uuy*gvu *JJ vuv -WV^u; ature of sis States and one Territory; bj .he National Government in the Soldiers' Somes and in the regular army; by many .ocal authorities in the cure of indigent irunkards (morphine and liquor); by Miss SValiard, the W. C. T. U.: Francis Murphy, Steal Dow and the I. 0. G. T.; by prominent , nen all over the land; by 300,000 cured paienta, more than 20,000 of these being phydciana. The Leslie E. Keeley Company and the Seeley Institute of S. C. are responsible corporations which could not afford tojput forth my claim that the^ are uuable to prove. For printed mitter aad terms, address, THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, >r Drawer 27. Colombia, S. C Mention this paper. BE iflUfi Oil BJSS AND Go,T YOUNG'S SILENT REVEALEE and CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE TO BEGINNERS di How to Start in the it*11 Order Business with very soisll cap:-*]. 5Ia?e Money a; Yoir Home. No Office Rent to pxy. Orders Arriving by Mail. SEND FIFTY CIS .NTS Je OK TWO LARGE BOOSS, EACH 100 PAGES, GlYLNGr FULL INifOfiilaTiO.v. COLUMBIA BOO.? AJSD . XOVjSLTY CO., 700 Aliia Slraei. Columbia. oivr.' i 7 i ' ' H ri 1 +1 \ K ^ sLa J*. 1 V_*i >_ 4 .>. '/; V 5 ? T T? ? "i > i30iLiiii5, j q 4 W IV! [U ,S i wX Jo*. ~ ? JLrJLJ* ~-i j > ri u rsj p wit * ^ < MILfuia 1 < AT 1 * s*5 & rsrrz r< /$ ~>jr $ VzZ 'A \ \ *r>> -n v sn rs i i jL I E, W. SCREVEN, I 3 i COLUMBIA, S, C, 11 ? , ,.iirrtnvw*T & m HAPPY HOME ^ IS INCREASED TEN FOLD BY GOOD MUSIC. Make the most of life by procuring a good FIANO or ORGAN. Music has a , refining influence and keeps yoc.r children at home. Ill REMEMBER I You only invest once in a life time provid ed you select a sood instrument. I CHALLIFiS any bouse to beat mv prices?QUALITY and BESFONSIBILITT considered. TERMS: To tbo7e not prepared to p*y cash I will give reasonable time at a slight difference in price. JglttflHi I fully guarantee Pianos and Orffl repiesenied, placing them ou tesfl Hence CAN and WILL save jowl Organs from 545.00 up. 1m Pianos from ?185^8 DON'T Fa[L to write for catalogue. Tours for Pianos and Organs, * M. A, M ALONE, / COLUMBIA, S. C. ' TIE TH01AS > J is the most complete system of elevating handling, cleaning and packing cottonImproves staple, saves labor, makes yon money. Write for catalogaes, no other equals it. I handle the most improred COTTON GriNS, - | PRESSES, ELEVATOBS, ENGINES AVn BnTT.TSWS ^ ? r~ to De found on the market. *? My Sergeant Log Beam Saw Mill is, in simplicity and efficiency, a wonder. COKN MILLS, JP, PLANEBS, Ml GANG EDGEES, M j and all wood working machinery. " LIDDELL ANO TALBOTT ENGINES are the best. Write to me before buying. 17 H Rear? h 53.rrs 3H General Agent, |j|| COLUMBIA. S. C. M BEE Jj HERE. J IS YOTi L'YSi \'?L S[3 Are yoar Kidneys in aC&ealfchy condition If so, Eilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will keep them so. If ^fjjl not, Hilton's Life for the Liver ?Jj? and Kidneys will make them so. A 25c bottle will convince yon of this J|| Taken regularly after meals It is an aid to . digestion, curea habitual constipation, and thus refreshes and clears -'"isaW both body and mind. 3 wl SOLD WK0L2SA.LB BY SB ihe Murray Drug Go, COLOMBIA, 8. a I Dr. H. "BA.KR. Cfcsrlerton. S. n. jg Adylce is Mothers. ji We tafce plearoreln calling year attea g| Ion to a remedy so long needed in carry- 9 ?9 rng children safely tiircngh tha critical ii itaga of tee tiling. It is an incalculable blessing to mother and child. If you are ill AlO-Ul WtA* **V 11 I I 1 TT WVV4; ????? seething child, use Pitts' Carminative, it fiil gl?8 Instant relief, and regulate the fl ocweli, and make teething safe spd es*y - Jgjj it will care Dysentery and Diarrhoea, jBB ?itts Carminative is an ins'snt -eitsf for jm ?Iic of infants. It Kill pressor digestion, flBffi 4ive tone and eEsrgy to the it-^mvh ?t><l IE -ir.wflTn T^io nl^lr nr.r?7. stifferiajJ child SI will soon become the fa; and frolic icing Joyfl o? the hccaehold. It is verj pi?-sant taste and only coei 2", cents o-.r bottlejj S . d by druggists and by flj TSK HUB5AT B3t7*> CO., 1^ Imsr i mTTTTi^ rrtiTr?r I! j fflAinUdllM I i i 4 ^ The Piano for a Lifetime, The Piano of tie South, W. > I Tie Piano Sold Most Reasonably. J|- J | The old, original Kethcshek, sold by ui | for over a quarter of a century and the ?djs | delight of thousands of Sou them homes. In | More .Mathusheks used South than of I | any other one make. I Lovely New* Styles at Reduced Prw* 1 | cheaper than ever before known. Styles once $435, now $325. $100 saved every buyer | How, because we are now interested In fl | the great Mathushek factory, supply N carc A4 OTl/1 flOVA tVlflnv* nil I g tennedl&te profits. White us. ,-r^m LUBDES <fc BATES, lj| | Savaimali, Ga?, and Sew York City. ll ii I i i I i II I I NEINPimui II llBlgiJ j|