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WAsHixaTON, Jan. 19.? In this discourse
Dr. Taimage makes practical
luse of an occurrence In the orient
which has seldom attracted particular
attention; test, II Kings vi, C, "The
iron did swim."
, A theological seminary in the valley
of palms, near the river Jordan, had
;become so popular in the time of
Elislia, the prophet, that more accommodations
were needed for the slu
dents. The classrooms and the dormitories
must be enlarged or uu entirely
new build ins: constructed. What
will they do? Will they seta! up to
Jerusalem and solicit contributions for
this undertaking? Will they send out
agents to raise the money fcr a new
theological seminary? Having raised
the money, will they send for cedars
of Lebanon and marble from the quarries
where Aliab got the stone for the
pillars and walls of his palace? No;
the students propose to build it themselves.
They were rugged boys, who
had been brought up in the country
ana wno una never ;jeeii v? vj
the luxuries of city life. Ail they as!:
is that Elisha. their professor a ad
prophet, go along with tliem to the
.woods and boss the job. They start
for the work, Elisha and his students.
Plenty of lumber in those -regions
along the Jordan. The sycamore is a
stout, strong tree and good for timber.
Mr. Gladstone asked ir.e if I had seen
in Palestine any sycamore tree more
oeannrui man me one nr >..va?u uuuu
at Hawarden. I told hii:? i had not.
The sycamores Deaf the Jordan are
uow attacked by Elisba's students, for
they must have luml>er for the new
theological seminary. 1 supt>ose some
of the students made an awkward
stroke, and they were extemporized
axmen. Stand from under! Crash
goes one of the trees and another and
another. But something now happens
so wonderful that the occurrence will
tax the credulity of the ages, so wonderful
that many still think it never
happened at all. One of the students,
not able to own an ax. bad borrowed
one. You must remember that while
the ax of olden time was much like our
modern ax. it differed in the fact that
instead of the helve or handle being
thrust into a socket in the iron head
the head of the ax was fastened on the
handle by a leathern thong, and so it
might slip the helve. A student of the
seminary was swinging his ax against
one of those trees, and whether it was
at the moment be made his lirst stroke
and the chips flew or was after he had
cot the tree from ail sides so deep that
it was ready to fall we are not told,
but the ax head and the handle parted.
Being near the riverside, the ax head
dropped into the river and sank to the
muddy bottom. Great was the student's
dismay, if it had been his own
ax. it would have been bad enough, but
the ax did not belong to him. He had
no means to buy another for the kind
man who had loaned it to him. but
Gcd helps the helpless, and he generally
helps through some good and sympathetic
soul, and in this case it was
Elisha, who was in the woods and on
the river bank at the time. He did not
see the nx bead fly off. and so he asked
the student where it dropped. He was
shown the place where it went down
into the river. Then Klishn broke off
a branch of a tree and threw it into the
water, and the ax head rose from the
depths of the river and floated to the
bank, so that tbe student bad just to
stoop down and take np tbe restored
property. Now you see the meaning: of
roy text. "The iron did swim."
| The Ircr. Did
Suppose a hundred years a pro souie
One had told people that the tiir.e
would come when hundreds or ruou<ssti?Js
of tons of iton would float o:i
tfbe Atlantic and Pacilie ? iron ship*
tfroci New York to Southampton, from
Ixmdon to Calcutta, from San Kmnciseo
to Canton. The man making: swli
a prophecy would have Jmhui sent to
an psylurrt or carefully watched as invompetcnt
to alone. We have all
in our day seen iron swim. Now. if
man can make hundreds of tons of
metal float, I am disposed to think
the Almighty could make an ax
toead float.
* '"What," says some cue. "would t>e
The use cf 6uch n miracle?** Of vast,
infinite, of eternal importance. Those
students were preparing for t!>e ministry.
They hnd joined the theological
? x - ?'-* oiltc ntnees.
jaeininnrj to gn ,?.? ,i.- ... _.0
They needed to have their faith
strengthened; they needed to be persuaded
that Cod can do everything:
tbey needed to learn that Cod takes
notice of little things; that there is no
emergency of life where he is not willing
to help. Standing on the banks of
that Jordan, those students of that day
of the recalled ax head liad their faith
re-enforced, and nothing that they had
found out in the classrooms of that
learned institution had ever done more
in the way of fitting them for their
coming profession.
1 hear from different sources that
there is a great deal of infidelity in
some of the theological seminaries 01
our day. They think that the garden
of Eden is an allegory, aud that Moses
did not write the Pentateuch, and that
ibe book of Job Is only n drama, aud
that the book of Jonah i9 an unreliable
tisb story, and that water was not
turned into wine, although the liartender
now by large dilution turns
wine iato water, aud that most of the
so called miracles of the Old and the
. i . ^? . - ,
I\*ew Testaments were wrought by natural
causes. When those Infidels graduate
from the theological seminary .
and take the pulpits of America a? *
expounders of the Holy Scriptures,
what advocates they will be of that j
gospel for the truth of which the mar- j
tyrs died! Hall the Polycarps and f
Hugh Lot;mors and John Knoxes of j
the twentieth century, believing the
Bible Is true In spots! Would to God "
i that some great revival of religion
j might sweep through all the theolog- c
i leal seminaries of this land, confirming | 1
! the faith of the coming expounders of I 1
j an entire Bible! J 1
The Risht to Eorrow. '
I Furthermore, in that scene of the &
| text God sanctions borrowing and sets '
j forth the importance of returning. I *
do not think there would have been t
any miracle performed if the young e
| man had owned the ax that slipped J
| the helve. The young man cried out .
1 in the hearing of the prophet, "Alas,
j master, for it was borrowed!" Ho had i
! a right to borrow. There are times ?
! when we have not only a right to bcr- 1
! row, but it is a dutv to borrow. There
j
j arc times when we ought to lend, for
| Christ in his sermon on the mount declared,
"From him that would borrow
I of thee turn not thou away." It is
j right that one borrow the means of
! getting an education, as the young stu!
dent of my text borrowed the ax. It
j is right to borrow means for the fcr|
warding of commercial ends. Most of
' tht vast fortunes that now overshadow
! the land were hatched out of a borj
rowed dollar.
! If in any assembly It were requested
i that those* who had never borrowed
; hold tip their hands, none would he 1
! lifted, or if bore and there a band were 1
; lifted we would know tbnt it was a
: ease of Invrruefty. Borrow! Why. <
j we an* borrow in:; all the time. We f
I borrow from the Lord the sunlight ;
j that shows us our way. the water that t
j slakes our thirst, the food that re- i
freshes us three times a day. the pil- t
low on which we slumber. We borrow ?'
{rludness from our friends: we horr ?\v t
all elevated surroundings. The church t
borrows all its beauty fwjn the Christ i
who founded it. In our son us and ser- r
mens we borrow from tbe raptures of t
heaven. 1
! We borrow time; we will borrow i
eternity. and that constant borrowing
implies a return. For what we borrow
, from God we must pay back in hearty
i thanks and Christian service, in improvement
of ourselves and helpfulness
for others. For what we borrowin
the shape of protection from good
government we must pay hack in patriotic
devotion. For what we l>orrow
from our parents in their good example
and their hard work wrought for
us in our journey from <*ra<I)e to manhood
or womanhood for a!! the ages to
come we ought to Ik* paying back. s
The halleluiahs of heaven will be re- t
turned tor crucillxion agony.
Dcl?t a Calamity.
Haydon the painter said his n:iD be t
gan the day be began to borrow mon- i
ey, and he wrote in his diary, "Here J
began debt and obligation, out of which l
I have never been and never shall be t
extricated as long as J live." Dr. j
Johnson said: "Ikj not accustom your- ! i
self to consider debt only as an in- t
convenience. You will tlnd it a oalam- t
ity." We have a right to borrow for {
the absolute necessities, expecting to c
pay back again, but we ought never to ^
borrow for the lux u: ies. According to r
| the "Laws of A ma sis.'* in Egypt if a s
' man died without paying that which <
, he had borrowed he was depriv<?d of all j t
obsequies. If lhat law were in vogue ; j
in our times, how many postponed and j l
! impossible funerals! <:
! Furthermore, let us admire these v
young men of Elisha's th<?olog!cal seminary
for the fact that they weft? earn- t
ing their own way. The most of those <]
today who are successful ;n the pro- s
fessions. medicating the sick or ndvo- t
J eating the law or preaching the gospel, t
, fougLi their own way on and np. i
Those are the kind of men who know a
j what education is worth and know {
; how to use it. Many of os remember c
i that in college days the sons of affluent e
! fathers, with plenty of money to spend c
I and horses to drive and libraries i e
j crowded with hooks never read and c
i wardrobes that kept them in perplexity f
i as to which of many garments was j
! appropriate for the weather that day. g
j were wortl^to the world nothing then ^
} ami have tveen worth to the work! notb- j,
Ing since, while the young men in col- f
lege who had to e<-onoiul;ce three j
? *'? e#\mo Ji/^L* fhitv .
J I11UUII1.S UJ ui uri i?.? ~
needed and who could hardly raise j T
| money for their diploma have KiDee (
( wrought mightily for God and the |
; truth, turning the work] npside down j
| because it was wrong side up.
j In the summer watering places north, f
j sooth, east and west, in the great boI
tela. serving at table and in baggage ^
! room, are theological students who are r
; in preparation for the ministry, earn- ^
! ing in .luly and August the means by t
' which they may study the other months j
i of the year. 1 hail them; 1 cheer them; ^
j I bless them. They will be the ller- ?
' schels in the observatories, the Dr. j
; Motts in your medical colleges, the f
! Hufns Choates in your courtrooms, the (
j F.ishop Mcllvaines in your pulpits. Let t
! them not now be ashamed of the ax t
j with which they btw the beam tor >
Kllsfca's seminary,
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Superiority of Corf. ,
j Those students in the valley of i
palms by the Jordan had a physical t
I strength and hardihood that would t
| help them ia their mental and spirit:
ua! achievements. We who are toiling j
lor the world's bet torment need brawn ?
| as well as brain, strong bodies as well i
' as Illumined minds and consecrated
; souls. Many of those who are now do- j
! log the Ivest work in church and state j
: got muscle and power of endurance j
I from the fact that in early life they | ,
; were compelled to use ax or plow ; ]
j <>r flail or hammer, while many who i
i wore bought up in the luxuries of life | i
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-ive out before the bnttle Is won. They
ire teen and sharp of mind, but have !
:o physical endurance. They have the
ix head, but no handle. The body is '
he handle of the soul.
Let all those who toil for their c-du- j
ration remember they are especially j
'avcred. and if things go against them
md the ax head should liy the helve j
:hat very hindermeut may seme time j
urn out advantageously, as the acci- !
lent by the river Jordan, which seem- j
Hi to finish the young student's capae- j
ty to help build the new seminary,
esulted In a splendid demonstration j
>f the power of Elisha's God to help j
my one who helps himself. No ."t that j
vas ever wielded has wrought so we-1 ;
is that ax. the handle and head of :
vhich parted.
Notice, also. Low God is superior tc
.'very law that he has made, cten the '
strongest law of nature, the law of i
j _ m i
gravitation. The stick tiiai i-,nsna i
brew into the Jordan floated. but the
ix head bank. Kv inexorable law it [
nust go down into the depths of the .
forctau, yt*t without so much as a '
i
ouch the hard, heavy metal sought ;
he surface. There i: is, the floating *
ix head. What a robuhc to those who ;
eject n.iraohs on I ho ground that they j
ire contrary to nature, as tnough the ;
aw were stronger than the God whe
nade the law! Again and again in Bible ;
" ~ ^ + ln*?? t W'il TXtgw
.11 IICS V> il? 11UU liir> n ivnm. (
be scene on the banks of the same Jor- j
lan, where, in after time, the as head 1
;ank and rose. Klijab stood there, i
venring cape of sheepskin. when there
vas a mighty stir in the air and a
lashing equipage descended. Elijah :
depped into it. and o:j wheels of lire,
Irawn by horses of lire, he rose. Fifty ;
nen for three days searched the ntounains
to see if the body of Elijah had j
ot been dropped among the roeks and
ticked at by birds of prey, but the
earch was in vain, The iaw of graviation
had been defeated.
Wcadcr* of Divine I'o-.vcr.
There Christ stood by his disciples :
>u the Mount of Olivorj after his comujj
out of the sopuloher. No ladders |
et down for his ascension, but his I'.s't :
ift from the hill, and lie aw* up until |
he curtain of cloud drops, and he is |
nvisible, l^nw <?f gravitation again
mharnessed. limx-h. Methuselah's la- |
her, escaping death, went up Ixxlily ;
tnd will have no need of resurrection, i
? .-.ri. ..n .1.,. 1 ii !
YJ Will ;ui im- l) .iu in- ,71111
ilive at i bo end of the world. They
vill not r:ced wiu^s. livery one of ihc j
ni Minus of our pinnet who loved and :
orv<Kl the Lord, if then alive, will "\m \
au.irht up." as the Bible says. body a?
veil as soul, the law of cavitation
Ktralyzeu. C!c;l tni;;hh er than any law ;
is over created. Oh. 1 llho the mint*
les because they show t.'od i a depend- j
nt of evt rytbiftjr. +
Notice also the divine power in the !
>ack woods. Wonderful things were
tone at the cities of Jericho aud Jerualem
and Babylon at:d Nineveh, and j
he trrout cities cf our time have soon i
he divine power, but this miracle o!
?y text was in the bac!:woods, far
i\vay from the city, in the lumber dis<1,u
S<wl I'rro i
i lll>, 1KJC kUV. CU.WV (if fo-t.w %.. (
ait limber for the new theological ]
eminary. Ami if this sermon Khali j
oine. as it will eome. like uiy other !
ermons for the h?Kt thirty years, with- j
ut missing a week. let me say to those j
ar away from the house of Dod ami :
n the mountain districts that my text j
hows the divine jxiwer in the back- j
roods. The Lord by every stream as !
ie certainly was by the Jordan, on ev- ;
ry mountain as surely as he was on 1
dount Zion. on every lake as on Ti- j
lerias, by every rook as by the one j
ebose gushing waters slaked the thirst I
>f the marching Israelites.
I)o not feel lonely because vonr near- I
* i
st neighbor may be miles away, b<- j
ause the width of the continent may j
eparate you from the place where your |
radle was rocked and your father's
gave was dug. Wakened though yon
nay be by lion's roar or panther's
cream. Dod will help you. whether at
he time the forest around yon raves
u tlie midnight hurricane or you suffer
rom something quite Insignificant. lik?? |
he loss of an ai bead. Take your ;
tible out under the trees, if the weath- ;
r will permit, and after you have lis- j
ened to the solo of a bird in the tree- i
ops or the long meter j>salni of the !
huuder, read those words of the Bibb-. j
which must have been written out of j
loors: "The trees of the I/ord are full !
if sap, the cedars of Lebanon which i
le bath planted, where the birds make; j
o.. 'ny tl>f? <atnrlr the fr* i
,m*ii .v/i. ...... ...
roes are her bouse. The high hills arv |
i refuse for the wild goat* and the j
wks tor the conies. Thou makrst !
larkness. and it is night. wherein ail '
die boasts of the forest do er?'op forth. !
The young lions roar after their prey i
mxl seek their uioat from God. The j
sun arlsetb. they gather themselves to- j
aether and lay them dovrn in tiieir dens.
Man goetli forth unto his work and to i
his labor until the evening. 0 Lord. ;
how manifoltl are thy worksl In wis- j
flora bast thou made them ajl. _ The j
W
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earth Is fulT of thy riclics." How do
you like that sublime pastoral?
Overcome Kvil.
My subject also reminds uj of tha
importance of keeping our chief implement
for work in good order. I think
that youn.tr theological student on the
banks of Jordan was to blame for not
examining the ax before ho lifted it
that day against a tree, ne could in a
moment have found out whether the
helve and the head were iirmly fastened.
The simple fact was the ax
was not In pood order or the strongest
stroke that sent the edpo into the hard
sycamore would not have left the Implement
headless. So God has plven
every one or us an ax wmi woicu iu
hew. Let us keep it in good order,
having been sharpened by Bible study
nnd strengthened by prayer. The reason
we sometimes fail in our work is
because we have a dull ax or we do
not know how aright to swing it. The
head is not aright on the handle. At
the t!;nc we vast the ruoat skill for
work and perfect equilibrium we lose
our head. "We expend in useless excitement
the nervous energy that we
ought to have employed in direct,
straightforward work. Your ax may
be a pen or a type or a yardstick or a
scales or a tongue which la legislative
hall or business circles or Sabbath
class cr pulpit Is to speak for God and
righteousness, but the ax will not be
worth much until it has been sharpened
on the grindstone of affliction.
Go right through the world, and go
right through all the past ages, and
show me one man or woman who has
done anything for the world worth
speaking- of whose a.v was not grounu
on the revolving wheel of mighty trouble.
It was not Pr.vIJ, for he was dethroned
and hour, .led by unfilial Absalom.
Surely it was not Paul, for ho
was shipwrecked and whipped with
thirty-nine stripes from rods of elmwood
on his way to beheadment. Surely
it was not Abraham Lincoln, called
by every vile name that human and
satanic turpitude could invent and depleted
by cartoonists with more meanness
than any other man ever suffered,
on the way to meet a bullet crashing
through his temples.
Goil Docs the Impossible.
Rut I have come to the foot of the
Alps, which we must climb before we
can see the wide reach of my subject.
See in all this theme how the impossibilities
may he turned into possibilities,
That ax head was sunken in the muddiest
river that could he found. The
alarmed student of Elisba may know
where it went down and may dive fo:
it and perhaps fetch it up, but can t':t
sunken ax head he lifted without a
hand thrust deep into the mud at the
bottom of the river? No; that Is impossible.
I admit, so far as human
power is concerned, it is impossible,
hut with God all things are possible.
After the tree branch was thrown upon
the surface of Jordan "the iron did
swim."
Some one ask? me. "Did you over
sec iron swim?" Yes. yes; many a
time. 1 saw a soul hardened until
nothing could make it harder. All
styles of sin had piled that soul. It
was jK'trilied as to all tine feeling. It
had been hardening l'or thirty years.
It had gone into the deej>est depths.
It had been given up as lost. The father
had given it tip. The mother, the
lust to do so. had given it up. Hut one
day id answer to some prayer a branch
of the disfollaged tree of Calvary was
thrown Into the dark and sullen
stream, and the sunken soul responded
to its power and rose into the light,
and. to the astonishment of the church
and the world, "tin* Iron did swim." I
have scon hundreds of cases like that.
When the dying bandit on the cross
beside Christ's cross was converted.
When Jerry McAuley. a rntfian graduate
of Sing Sing prison, was changed
into a great evangelist, so useful in
reclamation of wandering men and women
that the merchant princes of New
York established for him the Wafer
Street and Cremorne missions and
mourned at his burial, amid the lamentations
of a city. When Newton, the
blaspheming sailor, under the power
of the truth was brought to Christ and
became one of the mightiest preachers
of the gospel that Dngland. ever saw.
jWhen John Bunyan. whose curses
shocked even the profane of the fish
market, was so changed in heart am!
life that he could write that wonderful
dream. "The Pilgrim's Progress,*'
in such a way that uncounted thousands
have found through it the road
from the "city of destruction" to the
"celestial city." In all these cases 1
think iron was made to swim. I worship
the God who can do the impossible.
l.o?( nrd H?*s?ored.
You have a wayward boy. Only Go<l
knows how you have cried over hint
Yon have tried everything for bis ref
ormation. Where is he now?in thh
' ' e 1 UA
City, in tms country, or u?m m- uuwcv
the seaV "Oh," yon say. "I do noi
know where be is. He went away in
the_6Qll:s and did not say where h<
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Deputy Collector of Wilkes
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For sale at the Bazzar.
was going." Yon Lave about made up I
your mind that you will never hear 1
from him again. Pretty hard pay he
gives you for all your kindness and
the nights you sat up with him when
he was sick. Perhaps he struck you
one day when you were trying to persuade
him to do better. IIow different
was the feeling of that hard fist
against your face from his little hand
In infancy patting your cheek! i-a
ther! Mother! That is an impossible
that I would like to see God take hold of.
the conversion of that boy. for he
will never be anything but a boy to.
you. though you should live to see him ;
fifty years of age. Did you say his ,
heart is hard? How hard? Hard as
stone? "Yes," you say: "harder than
that. Hard as iron." But here is a
God who can lift the soul that has
| been deepest down. Here is a God
who can raise a soul out of the black*
est depths of sin and wretchedness.
Here is a God who can make iron
swiin, the God of Elisha. the God of
the young student that stood in dis'
may on the banks of the Jordan at the
time of the lost ax head. Lay hold of
' the Lord in a prayer that will take 110
denial.
Alas, there are impossibles before
thousands of people?called to do work
that it is impossible for them to do.
1 called to boar burdens that it is itn'
possible for them to bear, called to
endure suffering that it is impossible
for them to endure. Read all the gos- j
pel promises, rally all your faith, and. 1
f while you will always be called to
1 worship the God of hope, today, with 1
1 all the concentered energies of my
1 soul, I implore you to bow down and
' | worship the God who can turn the
j lmi>ossibles into the possibles. It was 1
no trivial purpose, but for grand and 1
glorious uses I have spoken to you
today of the borrowed, the lost and
1 the restored ax head.
[Copyright, 1202. Louis Klopsch, N. T.]
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" Savannah (So. Ry.) ;1225pjl2 30a
" Barnwell j 3 5tfp 4 l-'Ja! 1
" Blackville 4 I2p| 4 2?a. j
Ar. Colombia ! 5&0p, 6 15a 1
Ev. Charleston, (So. Ry J 7 Until llu/p '
" Summervillw..._ I 7 41ail200nt ]
** Branchvjlle 9 00a 2 00a j
" Orangeburg } 9 28a 2 43a
" Kinjfville <10 -^a 4 03a !
Ar. Columbia Ill K)a 5 40a
?v. Augusta. ;*o. Ky.j ! 25op 4*oLrpj
Lv. Oramteville ....* j 823pl015pj
Lv. Aiken 3 05p j
Lv. Trenton : 352p[l!tOp'
** Johnston 4 07pll20p| ....
Ar. Columbia [ 5 45p 2 lUaj I
* .. J
Li>. yj r v-w-j......
44 Winzriboro I 8aUp 7 2oai j
" Chester 7 38u 8 17&J......
44 Kock Hill ! 85:3p 808a| ;
A r. Charh?tte .. ^_L.! y<X?P ?5Sa' Ar.
Danville j 12 4m 13gpj j
Ar. Richmond I ttQua tf40pj
At. Washington 7toa wiwpj
44 Baltimore (Pa.KR) J> 15a 11 a5t>| 1
44 Philadelphia 1135a 2 58n: 5
44 New York 206p' 623a!
Lv. Columbia ill&a! 7 lAiaj
At. Spartanburg I 810pr10 20a t
44 Asheville 7 lopi 2(Alpi ]
Ar. Knoxville j 4 05ai 7 lup!
Ar. Cincinnati .|_7 tttp! B loa,
, Ar. Louisville ...i < 5bp' 8 40a1
Xo.33'Ho.S5j
OCTRBOCSD. Daily [DoiM
Lv. Lonisville 7 45a 7 30pj '
Lv. Cincinnati J alixL. M06pj....
Ev.~Xnoxvilio". j"l 55aj k ffia 4
44 Asheviil? 7 05e| 30bp ,
' * Spartanburg 10 85a; 8 L5p(
Ar. Columbia I 215pl 990p> .
Er. New YorkTW.lit.Bj &30p|1215oti
44 Philadelphia 806p|8 50a
i 44 Baltimore 8 27pj 8 22ai
j Lv. Washl gt a (So.Ry) ejOp'll ^a
Lv Richmond 113->pi 1201m .
Lv. Danville 4 ate j 5 48p
Lv. Charlotte 8 Aie 9o5p
44 Bock Hill 0 10a 10 40p
44 Chester 9 44a 1115p
44 Wlnnsboro 10 28a 12Oia ...... '
t Ar. Columbia. (Bldg St.. H 35ft 106a
Lv Columbia, <,U. D.) i'4J0m 8 50a
44 Johnston 1 4bp 8U5o
44 Trenton 162p 6 2Sa ,
! Ar. Aiken 2 ?P 7 90a
i Ar. OTaniteville 221p 6;xJ?
Ar. Augusta 8(>jpi 7 45aj
: Lv. Columbia (so. ky) 8twp 1 Boa}
u ?v< ? fl iA? O Ollal
I " JU12|fV]ii0 o wp * mo
Orangeburg 4 42p 3 46a
M Branchville 526p 4 26a ......
** Bummerrille 8 42p 537a
Ar. Charleston 7 30p 7 00a j
' Lt. Columbia (So. Ry.) fl 4& 1 lOai
" Blaekvilie 120pi 252a
r ** Barnwell 183p 3 07a
L " SaTannah S05p 4 50al
At. Jacksonville (P. 8.) 7 40p 9 15a1
[ Sleeping Car Service. ,
Excellent doily passenger aervica between ?
' Florida and New York.
I Nos. 83 and 84?New York and Florida Xx- 1
. presa Drawing-room sleeping cars between
I Augugta and >ew York. Pullman drawingroom
sleeping cars between Port Tampa, Jacksonville,
Savannah. Washington and Ww York.
l Pullman alee pine ears between Charlotte and
Richmond and Charlotte and Norfolk. Dining
3 eara between Charlotte and Savannah.
Nos. 35 and 38?U. 8. Fast Mail. Throngh
' Pullman drawing-room buffet sleeping caraotL
tween Jacksonville and New Yoric and Pullman
sleeping eara between Augusta and Charlotte
anc. Charlotte and Richmond. Dining
- ' n? nftrrn all meals en route. Pullman sleep- *
tag ears between Jacksonville and Columbia,
enroute daily between Jackson riLie and Ctaotaaati.
Tia Aaheville.
FBANK S. GANNON, 8. H. HARDWIOX,
Third T-P. & Gen. Mgr., Gen. Pas. Agt?
Washington, D. C. Washington. Eh C.
W. H. TALOE. K. W. HUNT.
As't Gen. Pass. Ag*i., Dir. Pass. Ag'k.,
SEABOARD AIR USE RAILWAY.
^^Vestibuud 1
Bp [if?
TnAlNS
Double Daily Service
Between New York, Tampa, Atlanta,
New, Orleans and Points South
and West.
IN EFFECT EECEMBEE 1st, 1301.
SOUTHWAED.
j Daily, i Daily
' No. 31 ! No. 27
lv New York. P. R. B..! 1 00 pm i 2 10 am
lv Philadelphia, P R R.! 3 29 prui 7 20 am
lv Paltimure, P R K.. . 5 45 pm 9 34 am
lv Washington, PR R.i 7 00 pu 11 01 am
lv Richmond, S A L R\ i 10 40 pm 2 3* pm
lv Petersburg. " ; 11 20 pmj 3 ih pm
lv Noilw a .let. " | 1 42 emi 5 45 pit
lv Henderson, * | 2 09 um; b 12 pm
lv Raleigh, ' 3 32 ami 7 35 pm
lv Southern Pinea." i 5 27 am! 9 27 pm
I No. 33 1
lv Hamlet. " ! 6 35 am:10 35 pm
No 31 :
lv Colombia,* " 8 40 am 1 05 am
ar Savannah " 12 05 pur 4 40 am
ar-Jacksonville, " 3 50 pm| 9 05 am
ar Tampa. " 5 00 &m| 5 40 pin
No. 33 j
ar Charlotte. " 9 23 ami
lv Cnester, 9 45 am [
lv Greenwood, " 1152am!
lv Athens, " 2 21pmi I
ar Atlanta,? " 3 55 pmj !
ar Augusta. C <k W C.. | a 40 pin l
iv New Yora, a i r ANlfb 00 am! 9 00 pm
V,. , , .. , ? | , 4.0 __
iv x ciiaaeipnia. jiu iu ?iu;n pm
TvWcw lurk, UU asvojix 00 pm I ?
tv lWumore. li t* f t'oj .. jtt? 30 pn?
l7 Wftvh'umrN A w 8bl i t> 30 pm
| iio.~ 33 No. 11
lv Portsmouth, S A L E\ S 50 pm; 9 V5 am
lv Woldon, " U 35 pm :12 02 pm
No 31 I
lv Norlina Jet, " :12 55 am; 1 30 pm
lv Henderson, " > 1 25 am; 2 05 pm
lv Kaleigh, " | 2 50 am J 3 55 pm
lv Southern Pines," ; 5 05 am; G IS pm
; No. 33 I
lv Hamlet, " | b 35 ami 7 30 pm
I No. 31 i No._ 27
lv Columbia. 1 ' b 40 am' 1 05 am
ar Savannah, " 12 05 pm ; 4 40 am
ir Jacksonville, " 3 50 piii| 9 05 am
*r Tampa. " 5 00 am; 5 4 pm
lv Wilmington. " I i 3 05 pm
ir On iriono. j 9 23 am'l0 32 pm
iv Oucaier, " j y 46 ami iv3d am
Iv Greenwood, " .11 52 am. It 43 am
[v Athens, " ! 2 21 pm 5 13 am
ir Atlanta, ^ j 3 55 pnr 7 50 am
ir Augusta. C & W Oj o4t^ib;
ir Macon, 0 ot tieom* 7 20 pin'11 20 am
ir Aloutgom'r., A A W r it 2o pin b 3U urn
?r Mobile, LA N | 2 55 ain; 4 15 pm
ir N*w OrleaDR. L A Ni 7 25 am: 8 25 pm
ir >?8tivnl<- rsO&.-ti.' b4Uain| K 65 pm
ir Memphis, * i 4 00 pm! 8 2o aia
NOETEWAEE.
| Daily i Daily
! No. 34 ! No. 36
iv Tampa. SAL By.... j 9 00 pm; 8 CO am
Iv Jacksonville, .10 10 am' 7 40 pm
Iv Savannah, " ; 1 55 pm II 30 pm
Iv Columbia.$ " j 4 t0 pm; 7 0.) pm
iv Meinpms ti v AfttLjl2 4o pm ; ? 00 pm
|v Xasvule. " | ? ao axn; ? ov am
[v >iew Urio<ua>, L, <5c S; 'J 30 pnii ? CKhpm.
[v Mobile " ! 1 35 pm|i'2 30 am
iv Monteorn'rv, A <fc W P| 6 30 pm 0 15 am
lv Macnu. C ot Creorwlu: 8 Chi an. 4 20 pm
!v Aiitftten*. CJ <t U... flU 05 a>u|
J rso~32j Ao. 38
[y Atlanta,^ 8 A L Ey1 100 pm! 9 00 pm
it Athena, " ; 2 57 pmjil 23 pm
it Greenwood, " ; 5 19 pm 1 60 am
it Cheater. " i 7 20 pm| 4 0O aru
lv <.;rmriot:e. | 7 38 pini 6 00 am
ir WnujiiiKtOD ; jl2 05 p u
No. 34 ! No. 66
!w " !l0 40 omi 7 25 am
t *? ;
iv Soattieru Pines," iu 33 pm; 8 l7 am
Iv Raleigh. " | 1 35 am *10 *20 am
ir Henderson. " j 3 07 am ill 32 pm
rv NorODH ??ct. | .> 35 am 12 >5 pm
Iv Petersburg, " i o 64 am: 2 z6 pin
[v Richmond, " j 6 45 am; 3 12 pm
ir Washington, P R RjlO 10 am! 6 35 pm
ir Baltimore. P R it.... : 11 25 am 11 25 pm
ir Philadelphia, P R Rill 36 pmt 2 56 am
ir New York. P R R ... ( 4 15 pm 6 30 an:
j ~No jjo ; -No jjj,
[v Norlina Jct,S A L Ry ; 3 55 am J 1 25 pm
iv WeMou, " j ? 56 am 2 40 pm
%t Portsmouth " j 7 10 ami t> za pm
ir WhMi too. X <fe W :> jp ' j t> 06 am
?r t^nlniuore. U ?% P 0o|.. jf6 4o am
?r hew York. O DhMJo; |f2 15 pm
ir Phiiadelpt?a,NYP&N;t5 40 pm. 5 10 am
\r New York 41 i H OH pro? 7 43 am
Kote?f Daily Except Sunday.
C-tfe Cars between Hamlet and Savannah
do Trains Nos. 31 and 34.
t Central Time. <5 Eastern Time.
For any forth* r information apply to
W. P. SCRUGGS.
Iraveling Passenger Agent. Savannah. Ga.
R E. L BUNCH.
General Pfvaenter Agent.
J. M. BAhR, let Vice President
Portsmouth, Va.
Money to Loan.
TTTE ARE PREPARED TO NEGOTIW
ate loans promptly on improved
real estate in Lexiacfon coonty at 7 per
- :--f
sent. interest. wocouamiBSJonn. ouuvir
pays actual expenses of preparation of i
papers. "
THOMAS Jt GIBBE8.
Attorneys at Law.
Columbia, S. C.
November 13. Uraos.
Money to Loan
ON FARMING LANDS. LONG TIME.
Easy payment. No commission. Borrower
pays actual cost of perfecting Loan.
E. K. PALMER,
Central National Bank Bnilding.
COLUMBIA, 8,
COL. G. T. GRAHAM,
Lexington, 8. C.
July 18? ly.