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^tumorous department. Took AdvantflK^ of Him. There was a time when the farming lands of Nebraska were not so valuable as at present, says the Washington correspondence of the New York World. "I have seen the day," said Representative Stark, of that state, "when men were glad to give away all the real estate they had and they counted themselves fortunate .If they could suc "During one of our bad drought years I met a scrubby-looking team one morning making toward the east. The man in the wagon was of my acquaintance and He was on his way back to Illinois, his old home. He told me how everything on his place had been dried up until he had only a cart, a cow and a few farming implements left. " 'To my next neighbor,' he continued, growing cheerful at the thought, 'I proposed to trade those things for this horse and wagon if he would also accept the deed of 80 acres, half of my land.' " 'He took you up on that,' I remarked. " 'Yes,' answered my friend, cordially. 'You see, he could not read and I deeded him the entire 160 acres. That is why I am now able to pull up stakes for Illinois.'" A Talbert Story.?Hon. W. Jasper Talbert, of South Carolina?"Uncle Jasper," as he is affectionately called by the younger members?who is now serving his tenth consecutive year in the house, will not come back to congress any more, which will be univern" TJo Id o full flpflfrprl SUXlljr jrfiicucu. AXV M. ..... 0 candidate for governor of the Palmetto state, and all his congressional brethren wish him success. He is the best story teller In congress. Here Is his last, as recorded by the Washington Post: "Down In South Carolina I once attended a colored church. The preacher, one of those Negroes with an oily face and big spectacles, was talking about the prophets. He had taken an hour or more to discourse upon the major prophets, and then he took up the minor ones. In course of time he reached Hosea. 'My breddren,' he exclaimed, 'we cume now to Hosea, Let us consider him. Where shall we put Hosea?' At that moment an old Negro who had been peacefully slumbering in one of the back pews woke up and looked at the pastor. 'Hosea can take my seat," he said. 'I'm so dogged . tired that I'm going home.' " Got the Better of Hotel Clerk.? "With all his faults," began Mr. Fairchild, "the hotel man is a first-class fellow, who will go a long way to keep his guests from shining too much in public or from being seen by doubtful guests. I recall an instance which happened to me in New York not long ago. I had registered in' the morning and lpavinsr mv kev at the hotel, came back again in the evening. Finding the night clerk on, but not on to me, I asked him. giving my name, if I was in. Not knowing the number of my room, I decided this was the way to find out. "He looked at me rather suspiciously. Evidently the result of his inspec tion was not reassuring, for, after making a blurf of feeling in my box,, he replied quite stifflyT " 'No, sir; Mr. Fairchild is not in.' I sat down on the lounge and said calmly: " 'Well, when he comes in please tell him that he is here looking for himself.* "The porter carried the clerk up stairs."?New York Tribune. Where the Apostles Were.?According to the Philadelphia Times, a well-known clergyman of Germantown, tells the following story: "While on a tour abroad last year I was being shown around Dublin by a resident of that city. I took occasion to remark that the architecture of the city could in no way compare with that of some of our American cities.' The Irishman said nothing at tne time, but we soon came to a large building, which he informed me was the postoflflce. Pointing to three statutes in front of the building I asked him who they represented. "They are the three disciples, Peter, James and John," he replied. "But where are the other nine?" I asked. "Quick as a flash he replied: " 'Shure. they're inside, sortin' the mail.' " His Hand Was Worth Monet.?"Do you know anything about palmistry, Herbert?" she asked. "Oh, not much." he answered, with the air of modesty which is not intended to be implicitly believed in; "not a great deal, although I had an experience last night which might be considered a remarkable example of the art you allude to." "You don't mean it." "Yes. I happened to glance at the hand of a friend of mine and I immediately predicted that he would presently become the possessor of a considerable sum of money. Before he left the room he had several pounds handed to him." "And you told it just from his hand?" "Yes. It had four aces in it." What TTe* Pamp T**rvr> Q Tl Poncf of Cleveland, while on a visit to this city a few days ago. in company with a Philadelphian, decided to go to Atlantic City. Before buying the tickets the Philadelphian proceeded to show his guest the improvements along Delaware avenue. Sitting on the edge of the wharf was a typical street arab, fishing. Just as they were about to leave they were startled by a splash, and discoverc-d that the boy had tumbled overboard. After some trouble he was drawn out. "How did you come to f ill in?" inquired Faust. "Ah. gwan," said the boy, "I didn't come to fall in. I come to fish."?Philadelphia Times. International Wesson. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 4. Text of the Lemion, Acta xl, 10-30. Memory Verne*, 2^-24?(inlden Text, Act* xl, 21?Commentary I*re;?nred by Rev. D. M. Stcarn*. [Copyright. 1902. by American Press Association.] 19. Preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. Thus did those who were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen, and in chapter viii, 1. we are told that all were scattered abroad except the apostles. The twelve were originally commanded to go neither to the Samaritans nor to the gentiles, but rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and on one occasion our Lord said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt x, 5. 0; xv, 24). All tills was, however, changed before His ascension. and the command was plainly given to go unto nil the world and to every creature. 20. 21. The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord. Thus In these new places the called out ones were being gathered unto Him to whom all must come, whether Jews or Greeks, for there is salvation in no other (iv, 12). The Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but to those who accept Him, both Jews and Greeks. Christ Is the power of God and the wisdom of God (I Cor. 1. 22-24). The good tidings of the kingdom and of the gospel of the grace of God when faithfully proclaimed will always be owned of God to gather out His elect. 2i, ?3. Who. when he came, and had seen the grace of God. was glad, and exhorted them all. that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. This Is written of Barnabas, whom the church at Jerusalem sent to Antloch when they heard the tidings of the Grecians turning to the Lord. They could not have sent u better man than this one, who had already proved himself a true son of consolation (iv, 33; lx, 20. 27). He gladly recognized the grace of God wherever he saw it. whether in r. persecuting Saul or in the Grecians, and he uow encourages these saved people to cleave to the Lord alone and not to any of their teachers. 24. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord. v i Our Lord Jesus said, "There is none good but one; that is God" (Mark x, 18), therefore Barnabas was in God, and God was in him through Jesus Christ. His goodness was the righteousness of God In Christ. Many are thus righteous who ure not filled with the Spirit, but Barnabas was Spirit filled (Eph. v, 18), as every believer should be. Unless people are added to the Lord it matters little to what so called church or company of Christians they are added, for there is no salvation in anything short of being a part of Christ Himself. 25. 26. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Suul. He found him and brought him to Antioeh, and for a whole year they abode there and taught much people. After Barnabas bad persuaded the apostles that Saul was really a disci'ple he preached so boldly at Jerusalem in the name of the Lord Jesus that the Grecians went about to slay him. Then the brethren sent him to Crnsarea and to Tarsus (ix, 20-31), and there he had evidently continued until now, and we can have no doubt but that he proved a faithful witness in his own city and to his own people. It is refreshing to see Barnabas and Saul together again and to And them teaching the people at Antioeh for a whole year. Very much is often accomplished in a week or even a few days of Bible study, but how great things must have been accomplished in that year of teaching by these two Spirit filled men at Antioeh! The church today sorely needs simple Bible teaching, that the people may learn to eat the word of God. 27. 28. And In these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioeh. Their message was not a cheerful one, for tidings of a coming famine are anything but cheerful, yet it is well to be forewarned. If you have learned some helpful lessons from the famine stories in connection with A brain, Isaac, Joseph, Elimclech and the others, you wili not lack for profitable meditation upon these verses. It is blessed to so trust in the Lord and have our hope in Him that we shall be as trees planted by the waters, spreading out our roots by the river, with leaves always green, not seeing when heat cometb and not careful in the year of drought nor ceasing from yielding fruit (Jer. xvii, 7. 8). 29. 80. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea, which also they did and sent It to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Paul afterward taught thus: "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?" (I Cor. ix. 11.) See also his plain and helpful teaching on the privilege of giving us II Cor. viil and ix, concerning a willing mind, and a cheerful giver because of the grace of God to us in Christ and His making all grace abound toward us. Doubtless some teaching on the same lines had been given during this year at Antioch, and now fhe fruit is manifest. On this occasion they give for the body, but in chapter xlii we shall see them giving missionaries to go forth with the living bread for the soul. Many | who would like to give when there is a real need and their hearts are touched and willing are often troubled because they have not the money to give. They will And comfort in II Cor. vIII, 12. with I Tet. iv, 11. Xr Family harmony is preserved by the ants. It is asserted by Sir John Lubbock, the astronomer, that "during the many years lie had ants under observation. he never saw anything like a quarrel between two ants of the same community. Jt'V In England the average weight of men is lf?f> pounds; that of the women is 122 pounds. dRlisiccUanfousi grading. ? to FROM CONTEMPORARIES. T1 al News anil Comment That Is of More Q] or Less Local Interest. til YORK. 01 Rock Hill Herald. April 23: While L' Mrs. John Gelzer and her younger ol children were alone in their home last w Thursday night, one of the front rooms cc was entered at a late hour by an un- sc known party, but nothing was dls- CI turbed, and the doors leading into oth- of er rooms having been locked the intru^ T: der could eo no further than the bed fe ftom. An effort was made to enter T1 the house through the front door; but n( this was unsuccessful. A pane of glass th was broken out of one of the side tran- Is soms, evidently with an expectation gi that the key in the front door could In thereby be reached; but the lock was dt secured with a night latch and not h< with a key. Mrs. Gelzer is a very el nervy woman, cool under all circum- th stances, and shoots well. Had the ol burglar obtained entrance to the room in occupied by herself and children he w would have met a hot reception. When sc the burglar thrust his arm through the le glass a gash was evidently cut in his skin. Several spots of blood on the floor tell the tale and from this fact his identity may be discovered .^sMrs. N< Mary Jane Moore, widow of the late Captain Edward R. Mills, died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. J. P. Reid, in this city, Monday morning, of la ja grippe, of which she had been a suffer- aj er for three months. Yesterday her it remains were buried in Laurelwood cl cemetery after services in the First ai Presbyterian church by Revs. A. S. m Rogers, W. S. Beasley and W. E. Thayer. Mrs. Mills was 71 years of ol age. She was a daughter of the late ai Eli Moore and his wife Mary. She ti was born in Bethesda township, where she was raised. In 1857 she was mar- ai ried to Captain E. R. Mills. After the gi war they removed to Rock Hill, where is the home has been ever since. Her ti nearest surviving relative is Mr. J. ir Leonidas Moore, a brother, of this city, ti Mfc ILfllla Tiraa a momhcr nf the PreS- tV byterian church and had been since st her childhood. She was a noble-heart- t ed woman, a true Christian and the beauties of holiness were abundantly tl exemplified in her life Rev. C. E. Todd, of Due West, was in the city m Saturday. He was to have conducted pi services at Lesslie Sunday, but owing tl to a sudden attack of sickness, was tl unable to fill his appointment. He st returned home Monday morning o, &"he following left yesterday for a visit to the exposition: Mesdames J. B. fC Heath, R. P. Boyd, W. W. Fennell, W. st A. Fewell, J. G. Sadler, E. E. Poag, E. tl B. Mobley, Misses Sallie Gibson, Ida Si Williams, Sue Smith, Annie and Hat- in tie Stevens, Josie Sadler, Corrie Mob- tl ley, Hubbie and Tommie Bays, and tl Messrs. J. B. Heath and R. A. Mor- ti rison Miss Mary Williams came over from Yorkville Friday and spent hi until yesterday with her sister, Mrs. S? Walter Miller, in Oakland. CHESTER. xv yfcantern, April 22: During the time Si Xir. Claude Atkins was confined to his ui room on Saluda street with smallpox, tl a cat staid in the same room. He has e\ recovered from the disease and has d< been out about two weeks. The cat b, has broken out with sores all over its b< body and it is presumed that it has st developed a case of smallpox. Dr. Mc- ni Connell says that it couldn't be found w when he wanted to examine it, but as cats have smallpox, and as this cat had t* the opportunity or catcning me aisease, there Is no doubt about Its hav- H ing the smallpox. The cat was order- c< ed killed and doubtless has already t* suffered its fate. It seems that the sc cat didn't Deiong to any particular P person, but wherever it chanced to be, te there was its home..s<Si;Mr. and Mrs. w J. L. Guy are celebrating their golden wedding today at their home near Low- ^ rysville. A number of their children It and grandchildren are with them to- 'e day. Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Johnston are tc attending from the city. Mr. Guy is s? about 78 years old. We don't know V* Mrs. Guy's age but she looks young.... es On last Thursday night a crosstie was put on the Southern track about one- to half mile above Cornwell. It appears that the tie was placed lengthwise be- w tween the rails. It was pushed a distance of 270 yards, when it was thrown off by the engine or the train was stop- ** ped and the employes threw it off. P( The freight train coming from Colum- Cl bia after the long passenger at nignt er is thought to be the train that came in cr contact with it. It is not positively n< known whether some one placed the tie on the track to wreck the train or not, though this is the interpretation of in some. Henry McMaster was before th Judge Williams yesterday morning as oi a suspect, but the evidence was not re strong enough to convict him The Dallas reunion will be well represent- sc ed from this part of the state. On Sat- re urday morning a party of about 70, k: from Lancaster and Yorkville, board- pi ed the Seaboard for the "Lone Star sc State." The Chester delegation, how- l)e ever, did not leave until Sabbath h< morning, all going over the Seaboard. w Following are the ones who went: T. er M. Sanders, Washington Walker. Mrs. *n Lillie Douglas, Miss Kate Cornwell, Aliss Lillie Cornwell, R. H. Cousi#, ^ John Cousar, Airs. Jerome Wood, J. M. p< Fudge, R. L. Home, Dr. George Jor- rc dan, Atiss Jordan, Aliss Emily Gra- 1,5 Tl ham, Aliss liurris, Dr. AlcCallum, John Gladden, Airs. Alary Carroll, I. N. st Cross, R. AI. Cross, W. S. Durham, " Jos. Alartin, Lee Sanders, Wm. H. ^ Neal, J. M. Caldwell, Paul AIcLure, W. in A. Bowles, C. E. Waters, A. H. Orr and Will Robinson. From Rock Hill: S. E. ai True, L. B. True, R. L. Sturgis, S. R. Kidd, J. Eubank, W. R. Lynn. GASTON. w Gastonia Gazette, April 22: A lett'r th to Air. Neal Davis written from Atlan- m ta, yesterday morning, brings the reassuring news ihat his father seems t]j better. He was brighter than for four hi or five days, and had raised himself up li^ in bed several times to enjoy looking or out of the window. This good news ar trives a fresh hone to his friends and re loved ones that he may yet recover of and be restored to them Messrs. or Magruder and Joyce, the railroad con- si| tractors, have finished their contract <ii on the C. & N.-W. and are moving w: eir outfit from Hardin to Alexanla, Va., where they have a contract i build some track for the Southern, hey were In town yesterday looking i 'ter transferring their mules and Dparatus from the C. & N.-W. to ie Southern The Hebrews of ir city, consisting of Messrs. D. 1 ebovitz and H. and B. Schneider are jserving the Feast of the Passover, 1 hlch began yesterday morning and intinues for eight days. Mr. B. Wolfin, manager of Mr. Lebovltz' store at lover, Is here to 1eln in the observanco 1 ' this important Jewish festival. ' here being no synagogue here, the ast Is observed only In the homes, he hours oi service do not render it < jcessary to close the stores. Aimr ie devotional exercises on Monday, it a custom among the Hebrews to ve tne Seder in each family, this be- 1 g a time when the married sons and lughters all meet in the parents' )mes. After dinner, which is always aborate and more or less symbolical, ie family unite in singing songs as d as the Israelitish captivity. Durig the eight days, Passover bread ill be eaten, for which reason the sea>n is often called the "Feast of unavened Bread." THE DISPENSARY AS IT IS. either Moral Nor Profitable; Jmt a IteNiiectahle Wrecker of Praiseworthy Aspirations. The Southern Christian Advocate of st week has a number of articles jainst the state dispensary system. is the organ of the great Methodist lurch in the state, and the series of tides that it publishes is likely to ean something. One of the strongest letters is that ! Mr. C. C. Featherstone, of Laurens, id it may be interesting Just at this me. He says: The advocates of the dispensary law :tempt to uphold it, generally, on two rounds, viz: First, they urge that it a moral institution, and will evenlally lead to prohibition; second, they islst that it is a good business instiitlon and will save the people money, lai is, win Dnng in a revenue iu u? ate and thus decrease taxation, here was a time, no doubt, when a reat many South Carolinians opposed le law, to a large extent, through preidice, but that time has passed and lost of us can now take a calm, disissionate view of the situation. With lis end in view, let us then look at le question and find out where we and, whether the law is a good one * a bad one. The law was passed as a substitute ?r the Childs bill, which was a raight, pure prohibition measure. At le time it (the dispensary) had the ipport of many good Prohibitionists i the state, who honestly believed lat it would ultimately lead to someling better?to out and out prohibion. There cannot be a shadow of a aubt but that we would have had proIbition had it not been for the dispeniry. Has the law tended, is it tending, toards immorality,; or prohibition? uch is the practical" question before 3. The dispensary records show that le sales of whisky have increased ,rery year since the concern began to 3 business. Year by year more whisy is being bought, and of course, is iing sold. Year by year new dispeniries are being established; commuities in which an old-time bar room as never seen now have dispensaries; ,'ery year elections are being held for le purpose of allowing the people to 3te on "dispensary" or "no dispensar." Greenwood and York and other junties, naturally prohibition counes, are voting on the question and >me of them have voted "dispensary." eople who were, under the old systm, bitterly opposed to the sale of hlsky nave Deen iea 10 Deueve m me spensary and are voting for it. That does it mean? Is it leading, will ever lead, to prohibition? A probm that some of its advocates ought i be asked to solve is: 'If the dispeniry is increasing its sales year by ?ar; if new dispensaries are being itablished month by month and year / year, how long will it take the law i get to prohibition?" And its advocates are not satisfied ith the sale of whisky alone, but beer spensaries are being established all :er South Carolina. They claim that le people demand beer and tne dis;nsary gives it to them. Instead of irtailing the sale of intoxicating bevages the effort is to go on and on ineasing. The effort is to increase, >t to decrease. People who, under the o.d system, id a horror of the traffic, are becomg accustomed to it. The very fact lat the state is behind, and in control the business, lends to it an air of speetabillty that it never possessed jfore. Our people are being told, and me of them made to believe, that the venue derived from the sale of whlsi will decrease taxation, and thus it money into their pockets. And une of the revenue (blood money) Is iing put into the free school fund, to ilp educate our children, and men ho could not be reached in any oth way are by the dollar argument beg led to favor the dispensary. Some ties and towns in South Carolina are >riving more revenue from the dls>nsary than they ever got from bariums, and their streets are being indsomely paved with the money, he dollar argument is tremendously rong with a great many people, and is being used for all it is worth. any people for tne sake of a dollar, order that they may save a little in le way of taxes, will damn themselves id their children forever! It may be om sentiment, but the writer firmly ilieves that it would be better for le children of South Carolina to do ithout education rather than that icy should receive it through blood oney. Is there anything moral about the spensary, and will it ever lead to probilion? It does seem that any mteljent, thinking man ought to see at lly half a glance that it is leading, id at a fearful rate, in the other diction; that the prohibition features the law are not being stressed, but ) the contrary they are being lost ght of. Hut if we have lost sight of ud and the nuestion of right and rong; if we will view the question from a standpoint of business and dollars and cents, let us view the question from that position. Is the dispensary a good thing, viewed irom a business standpoint? Has it decreased taxes? Our people have heard a great deal of late about economy and the reduction of taxes. What does the record show? In the last ten years manufacturing enterprises have increased at a wonderful raito in*this state; values have Increased enormously, (fifteen million last year, if the writer is not mistaKen.) Year by year has this been going on, and the Increase In the value of real and personal property returned for taxation has oeen tremendous. What about taxes? How about the decrease In mills? There has been none. We are paying as many, If not more, mills now than we have ever paid. The dispensary has not reduced taxes a single dollar. But suppose there had been a direct reduction In property taxation, what would be the practical effect? Suppose we pay less school taxes, are we practically benefitted? The proposition of the dispensary people, viewed from a business standpoint, when we boil it down is about this: If we will go to the dispensary and Invest a dollar in whisky they will give us back about the sixteenth of one cent to help educate our children. If we will pull a dollar out of our right hand pocket and give It to them they will nut the sixteenth of a cent in the other pocket. They say to us buy a dollar's worth or whisky, drink it, become a drunkard, go to the devil and we will give you the sixteenth of a cent to help educate the children of a drunken father. How is that for a business proposition? Or, to put it in another form, they say Invest a dollar with us and we will give you back a sixteenth of a cent to help educate your boy, and then while we are educating him, or rather after we get him educated, we will sell him whisky, make him a drunkard and spoil the effect of the education we have given him. God save our people from such business as well as irom such morals (?). Cannot our people see that the dollar comes out of them and that they get back the sixteenth of a cent? One more inconsistency. The' great state of South Carolina, the natural guardian and protector of her children, helps to educate them with blood money, spoils the effect of the education with drunkenness, and then when they commit crime in consequence of that drunkenness, they are tried in her courts for the crime which she assisted them to commit and tney are punished and sent to the gallows or the penitentiary. May God save us from our guardian and protector! The state of Louisiana had the same fight several years ago that South Carolina will have for the next 20 years. The great Louisiana State lottery, that stench In the nostrils of all good people, became fastened upon that state. Its popularity was, in a large measure, due to the fact that every year it contributed thousands to the free schools fund. For years the people of that state were blind to any other argument except that of dollars ana cents. tier young peopie were reduced and debauched by the gambling evil and demoralization, general demoralization, was tne result. It took a war waged for years to overthrow the monster evil; but at last It was done. Let a note of warning be sounded to the Christian people of South Carolina. The dispensary has Its fangs deep into our state and they are being put in deeper and deeper, year by year. Two-thirds of the church members can rise up and throw off the evil. Will they do it? THE VICE OF GAMBLING. The Evils of This Most Demoralising Habit. The following from the Richmond News is from the pen of A. B. Williams, formerly editor of the Greenville News, Is well worth the careful perusal of every young man who has ever gambled or wanted to gamble; "Probably there are in Richmond a number of shabby looking men, some young and others old, who hang around the gambling places and pike at faro trying to take in half the lay out, open and coppered, with one white chip, pitifully begging chips at poker games, scraping their pockets to shoot away a few coins at craps. There are men who can't sleep and can't keep away from the game, even when they have SOUT RAII THE GREA' OF TRADE J Uniting the Prin C?nt?r? and Hen Ranortn of the So NORTH, EAl Hitfb.Claas Vaatibol* Tral batwaan Naw York and Clnotaaali and Florida Athorillo. Now York and Florida, oltfc and ifkTannahi or ria Savannah. duporior Dinind'Car lorvli kjKcollont .Sarvloo and L?o count loath Carolina In Expoaitioa. WlnUr Tourist Tickota to r?4tto?4 rmtmrn. Par datallad mfarmptlon, lit* apply < aaaraii HakaOagani, c f. H. HARD WICK. Oaaarat Pmsaaagar J&gaai, Waahlngtam, D. C. R. W. HUNT, B(f, Pmaaangar Jtgamt, Charlatima, J. A> F1?P*UA?*V a, KM, wmmm?mmmmmmmmmm not a cent to play with and who sit around wistfully to pick up sleepers or In the vague hope that somebody in luck will give them a few cents or dollars. These are the men who are tolerated for a time and then barred out. If they are not In Richmond this Is the only city where gambling houses are that lacks them. You youngster with a job or an income, look at these wrecks with a pitying contempt. Do you ever think that a few years ago tney were Just where you are now?beginners at the game with jobs and prospects and hopes? It is just as sure that if you stick to it you will be where they are, or perhaps worse. They are comparatively lucky. Hundreds of thousands who are treading the road you are walking in are in the penitentiaries or oh the road. Every year men who once wore clothes as goods as yours or better, who had as much sense and character as you have and as good connections, are fished out of the rivers around the big cities or found dead on freight trains or picked up along roads and sent to die In strange almshouses and to be buried like as many animals with "Unknown Tramp," as their only epitaph. The game will beat you in the end. Every gambler will tell you that. There is no doubt of It. The difference between good luck and bad is that with the cards or the wheel or the dice running your way you will last a little longer. The time must come when you must quit. If you are lucky enough to be able to quit before you have ruined ?A???oAif tfAH will ho oil tho mnnAV out JVUIOV1L JUU mil wv uii %.<v you have lost and many a bitter day in the future you will wish you had It and see where you could do much for yourself or somebody you would like to help if you had it. Do you ever think of the histories and the tragedies behind these old pikers and dead beats, to say nothing of the tramps at whom you laugh now? All of them had women who loved them and hoped for them, just as you, sonny, probably have. Most of these wrecks represent humiliations more bitter than can be written or told, long heartaches and the sickening, sliding away of pride and confidence and faith and all that makes life beautiful and worth living. Every man who goes to the bad, as a rule, represents the agony of some helpless and unoffending woman. If you are any kind of a man at all, that is something that you will take into consideration. We are satisfied that some man will read this who has already felt the bitterness and the horror and the sting of the disease. Maybe you are already up to your ears in debt, or, worse have begun to dip into money belonging to somebody else intending to pay it back and fooling yourself with the idea that you are honest. There is just one way to stop and that is to stop. Don't cling to the idea that some time things must turn your way and that when you have "* A ?* Al ??? urill onroo r puuea out ox me uoie jfuu YYin oft for good. The penitentiaries and asylums are full of men who have been right along there. The percentage of the game must beat you, if you get a strictly fair showing?which you do about once in ten times. The gamblers afe not in the business for amusement and are not going to give you any chance they can help. When they are absolutely on the level you will have the same chance against them that any amateur has against professionals at any other game?the same chance you would have in a fight against Corbett or at billiards against Ives. Quit and do it without any reservation about next time or any period of swearing off. There is just the one way to stop gambling and that is a hard one and you wul find that it will test all the manhood you have, if you have the disease badly. Some of you who do not acknowledge that you have it can hardly wait for your place to close or to get your suppers before you are hunting the game; and you think of it all day and you dream of it all night and try to pick bunches out of the street numbers. If you have reached that stage you had better go down on your knees and ask Almighty God to help you, and you had also better go to someoody you can trust, make a clean breast of it and get I mair nnn/1 +r\ nnt Vftli QfimP wuai juu uiaj <?wvu tv |/wv j?*. -----where in hailing distance of honesty. Then make up your mind earnestly and honestly, stick to it and get yourself interested in something else until the craving and the habit are broken. And you who nave not yet begun, or who are dabbling in it, now is the time, and the one safe time, to drop it. HERN /WAY T HIGHWAY WD TRAVEL cipal Commercial ilth and Pleasure uth with the # # FT and WEST. na, Through Slaapintf-Cara Naw Orlaana, via Atlanta. Point* via Atlanta and via tar via Lynchburg, Danvrilla Richmond, Danvilla and : on all Through Trains. w Rates to Charleston ac ter-State and Wast Indian all Resorts now on sale at rature, time tablet, rates, ete? ir address W. H. TAYLOI, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Oe. J. C. BEAM, District Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Oa. SOUTH CAROLINA & GEORGIA EXTENSION RAILROAD CO. Schedule Effective January 15,1902. BETWEEN CAMDEN AND BLACKSBIJRG. WEST. EAST. <tR I '! ? I KAXTKHN I *!?? I HI 2nd 1st TIME. , 1st 2nd ClUBH. Class. Clasn. Class. Dally Dally Except Dally. Dally. Except ^ STATIONS. 2222 A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 8 20 12 10 Camden 8 50 85o" 0 20 12 45 .....Westvllle..... 3 17 6 00 10 50 * 1 05 Kershaw * 2 42 5 30 11 20 1 40 Heath Bprings. 2 30 4 40 12 20 2 15 ....Lancaster.... 2 06 8 60 12 45 2 25 ....Riverside 1 45 8 10 2 45 2 10 Catawba J'c'n. 1 30 2 40 4 1 0 3 00 ....Rock lllll... 1 10 | 1 15 4 40 3 18 .Tiraah 12 50 I 10 45 5 20 ! 3 30 ,.._Yorkvllle.... 12 35 10 20 5 45 3 45 Hharon 12 20 9 40 8 (5 4 00 Hickory Urov? 12 05 , 9 10 8 2) ( 4 10 Hmyrna 11 55 . 8 50 0 50 4 28 ...Blacksbnrg... II 35 i 8 20 P.M. ' P.M. A.M. 1 A.M. 20 minutes for dinner. BETWEEN BI.ACKSBUKH, S. (!., AM) MARION, N. V. WEST CAST. 11. 33. EASTERN 32. 12. 2nd 1st TIME. 1st 2nd Class. Class. Class. Class. Dally Dally Except Daliy Dally Except ^2 STATIONS. ? A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. 8(0 4 48 ...Blacksbnrg... 11 80 8 45 8 20 5 05 Earls 11 15 8 25 8 30 5 12 Patterson Spr'g 11 08 8 15 0 20 5 2> .Shelby 10 58 8 00 ID (VI A J 5 .Ijittimore in 4 45 10 :50 5 65 ...Mooresboro.. 10 50 4 30 10 50 0 05 Henrietta.... 10 'JO 4 10 11 20 6 22 ....Forest City... 10 06 8 45 11 <15 6 87 Kutberfordtm. 0 50 8 20 12 30 7 05 .Thermal City. 0 20 2 45 12 55 7 20 ...Olenwood.... 9 00 2 20 1 20 7 35 Marlon 8 45 2 00 p. M. p. m. a. M. p. M. GAFFNEY BRANCH. WEST. EAST. First Class. EASTERN First Class. 15. | 18. TIME. 14. | 10. Daily Except Dally Except Hunday. Sunday. "p.m. | a.m. STATIONS, a.m. | p. M. ~Ti 8 50* _. Hlnckshurg... 1120 TlO* 4 50 9 10 Cherokee Falls 11 00 6 60 5 10 0 30 Gaffliey 10 40 6 80 p. m. a. M. a. M. p. M. SOUTHBOUND CONNECTIONS. At Marlon No. 32 connects with Southern railway train No. 36, which arrives at Marion at 8.28 a. m., from Chattanooga, Asheville and intermediate points. At Blacksburg, No. 34 and No. 11 connect with Southern railway train No. 36, which arrives at Blacksburg at 7.45 a. m., from Atlanta, Greenville, Spartanburg and intermediate points. At Yorkvllle, No. 34 connects with C. 6 N.-W. train No. 70, which leaves Yorkvllle at 10.48 a. m., for Gastonla, Lenoir and intermediate points. At Rock Hill, Nos. 32 and 34 connect with Southern railway train No. 75, which leaves Rock Hill at 3.30 p. m., ior unesier, uoiumoia ana mierinedlate points. At Catawba Junction, Nos. 32 and 34 connect with S. A. L. train. No. 32, which passes Catawba Junction at 7.54 p. m., for Monroe and intermediate points. At Lancaster, Nos. 32 and 34 connect wltn L. & C. train No. 16. which leaves Lancaster at 4.45 p. m., for Chester and intermediate points. At Camden, with A. C. L., (N. W. of S. C.), for Charleston, Sumter, Florence, Darlington, Wilmington and Intermediate points. Train No. 68, which leaves Camden at 4.16 p. m. NORTHBOUND CONNECTIONS. At Camden, with A. C. L., (N. W. of S. C.), No. 71, from Charleston, Florence, Darlington, Wilmington, Sumter and Inten. diate points, which arrives at Camden at 11.15 a. m. With Southern train No. 77, from Klngsvllle, which arrives at Camden at 11.55 a. m. At Lancaster, No. 33 connects at Lancaster with L. & C. train No. 16, for Chester and Intermediate points. At Catawba Junction, No. 33 and 35 connects with S. A. u train. No. 32, which leaves Catawba Junction at 7.45 p. m., for Monroe and intermediate points. At Rock Hill, Nos. 33 and 35 connect at Rock Hill with Southern railway train. No. 34, leaving Rock Hill at 8.26 p. m., for Charlotte and points uuriii. At Blacksburg, No. S3 connects with Southern railway trains Nos. 12, 4.38 p.; 38, at 7.05 p. m.; and 40, at 7.45 p. m., for points north. Nos. 33 and 35 connects with Southern railway train No. 35, leaving Blacksburg at 11.25 p#. m., for points south. At Marion^ No. 33 connects with Southem railway train, No. 36, leaving Marion at 11.40 p. m., for Asheville, Chattanooga and intermediate points. Through car service without change between Marion and Charleston on trains Nos. 32 and 33. E. II. SHAW, Gen. Pass. Agent. The Enqnlrer Does Good Job Printing and Solicits Your Work. CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Schedule Effective Nov. 24,1901. Northbound. Passenger. Mixed. Lv. Chester 6.25a.m. 8.50a.m. Lv. Yorkville 7.30a.m. 10.48a.m. Lv. Gastonia *9.05a.m. 1.20p.m. Lv. Lincolnton.. ..10.09a.m. 2.55p.m. Lv. Newton 10.54a.m. 4.43p.m. Lv. Hickory 11.16a.m. 5.50p.m. Lv. Cliffs *11.50a.m. *6.35p.m. Ar. Lenoir 12.35p.m. 8.p.m. Southbound. Passenger. Mixed. Lv. Lenoir 2.10p.m. 6.30p.m. Lv. Cliffs 2.54p.m. *7.20a.m. Lv. Hickory 3.12p.m. 8.10a.m. Lv. Newton 3.37p.m. 8.45a.m. Lv. Lincolnton ... 4.22p.m. 10.09a.m. Lv. Gastonia 5.27p.m. 1.20p.m. Lv. Yorkville 6.32p.m. 3.18p.m. Ar. Chester 7.48p.m. 5.20p.m. Meal station. CONNECTIONS. Chester?Southern Ry., S. A. L., and L. & C. Yorkville?S. C. & Ga. Extension. Gastonia?Southern Ry. Lincolnton?S. A. L. Newton and Hickory?Southern Ry. E. F. REID. G. P. Agent. Chester. South Carolina. PHOTOGRAPHY. FOR PHOTOS In any style and of the BEST FINISH?Please call at my Gallery, on Cleveland avenue. S. W. WATSON. Yorkville, S. C.