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ACROSS THE FERRY" Or. Taininge Tell* cf D<tvlc'? Pat age Ovar'the J vdan FROM ALMOST UNNOTICED Incidentof Olden Time Are Drawn L? s?rng of Comfort and Hcpefu'nets to AO Ood's CLiidren. From an unnoticed incident of olden timo Dr. Talmago in this discourse draws scrno oomfurtiDg and rapturous lessons. Tho text is II Saniuol xix, 18, "And thcro rent ovor a ferryboat to carrv over tho king's household." Which of tho orowd is tho king? That short nun, sunburnt and in fatiguo dress. It is David, tho exiled king. Ho has defeated his cnomios and is now going home to rcHinio his {alaco. Good! I always liko to see >avid ooujo out ahead. But between Liui and his home thcro is the oclebratod rivor Jordan which has to bo passed. The king is aooompanicd to tho bank of the river by au aristocratic old gon tlcman of 80 years, Barzillai by namo, who owned a fine country scat at Uogolim. Besides that, David has his family with him. But how shall they got across tho rivor? While they aro stand iDg thero 1 see a ferryboat coining from the other sido, and as it outs through the water I sco tho faces of David and his household brighten up at tho thought of so 60on getting homo. No sooner has the ferryboat stiuok tho shoro than David and his family and his old friend Baiziilai from Uogclim get on board tho boat. Either with spl&bhing oars at tho side or with ono oar soulling at the stern of tho boat they leave tho eastern hank of tho J or dan and start for the western bar*. Thai western bank is black with crowds of people, who arc waving and shouting at tho approaoh of tho king and his family. Tho miliiary aro ail out Somo of those who have boon David's worst enemies now shout until they aro hoarso at his return. No sooner has tho boat struck tho Bhore on tho west ern side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with ohccrs of welcome and congratulation. David aud his family and Baiziilai from Kogclim step ashore. Kiog David acks his old friend to go wnh him and live at the palaoo, but Uarzillai apologizes and intimatos that ho is iiilirm with ago and too deaf to apprcoialo tho music, and has a delicate appetite that would soon bo cloyed with luxurious living, and bo ho begs that D.?vid would lot him go baek to his country Heat. 1 onoo heard the father of a president of tho Uuitod States say that ho had just been to Washington to boo his son in tho Whito llouso, and ho told me of tho wonderful things that occurred there and of what Daniel Webster said to him, but ho declared: ''1 was glad to got homo. There was too much go ing on thoro for mo." My father, au aged uiau, made his last vipit at my houso in Philadelphia, and after the ohuroh Bervioo was over, and wo wont homo, Rome one in tho houso asked tho aged man how ho enjoyed tho sor vioo. "Well," ho replied, "1 enjoyed tho seivioc, but thoro were too many pooplo there for mo. It troubled my head very much." The fact is that old peoplo do not like exoitement. It King David had asked Barz llai HO years before to go to the palaoe, tho probability is that Baiziilai would have oAlin Klli r% f\i rwvtxr 'Pbntr b ai?aI? ftv/uv j wuv uv?fc nun . a iivj /vino taun other goudby, a oustorn among mou oriental, but in voguo yet whore two brothers ]>ari or an aged father and a ton go away from each other never to moot again. Mo wonder that their lips met as King David and old Barzillai, at the prow ol the ferryboat, parted forever. This river Jordan, in all ages and among all languages, has been the s>m bol of the boundary iiuo between earth and heaven. Vet when, on a former occasion, I pre idled to you about the Jordauio passage 1 have no doubt that boluo of you debpoiidiugly said. ' The Lord might havo divided Jordan for Joshua, but not for poor uio." CI oer upl 1 want to show you that there is a way over Jordan as well as through it. My text says, "And there went over a ferryboat to oarry over the king's houao hold." All our oitics are familiar with the fcrr>boat. It goes from San Francisco to Oakland and from Liverpool to Birkenhead, and twice every secular day of thoweek multitudes are ou the ferryboats of our great cities, po that you will not need to hunt up a classical dictionary to find out what 1 mean utillA I ii m unnahi or t i\ v. n nlin.il I ho passage oi David aud hid family across the river Jordan. My uubjeot, in the first placo, iui presbCH uio with the faot that when we cross over from this woild to the next the boat will have to come from the other bido. The tribe of Judah, wo aro informed, bent thi> f. irj noal across to get DaVid aud his household. 1 stand on the eastern side of tho river Jordan, and 1 find no shipping at all, but while 1 am standing there 1 Bee a boat plowing through tho river, and as 1 hear tho swirl of the waters and tho boat comes to tho eastern sido of tho Jordau and David and his family and his old friend step on boatd thai boat 1 am mightily impressed with the faot that when we crobs over from this world to tho next tho boat will have to ?nmn frnm I hn nnniiHiln nlmrn JfloHHcd bo God, there in a boat ooming Irorn the other side! Transports tion at last for our souisfrom the other shore; everything about this gospel from tho other shore; pardon from tho other shore; meroy from tho other shore; pity from the othor shore; ministry of angels from tho other shore; power to work miraoles from tho other shore; Jesus Christ from tho other shore. ' This is a faithful saying and worthy of all aoooptatiou that Christ Jesus oame into the world to save sinners," and from a foreign shore 1 seo tho ferry boat ooming, and it rolls with the surges of a Saviour's suffering; but as it strikes tho earth tho mountains rook, and the dead adjust thoir apparel so that they may bo fit to oome cut. That boat tcuohes the earth, and glorious Thomas Walsh gets into it in his ex piriag moment, saying: "Hehas oomet Ho has oomot My Boloved is mine, end I am his." Good Sarah Wesley got into thai boat, and as she shewed off from the shore sho cried: ' Open the gates! Open tbo gates! ' 1 blots God that as the boat came from the other sboro to take David and hismon across, so, when wo ato about to die, tho boat will oorne from tho saraodirection. God forbid that I should ever trust to anything that starts from this side. Again, my subj ot buggoets that when we cross ovor at tho lautho King will bo on board tho boat Ship carpentry in Biblo timoB was in its infancy. Tbo boats wcro not skillfully rnado, and I can very easily imagino that tho wotnon and tho children of tho king's household might havo boon norvous about going on that boat, afraid that tho oarsman or tho holmsman might givo out and that tho boat might bo its ? i ? uAsncu on mo rocKs, an sometimes boats vrcro dashed in tho Jordan, and thon I oould havo imaginod tho boat starting and rooking, and thoy orying out: "Oh, wo aro going to bo lost. Wo aro going down!" Not so. Tho king was on board tho beat, and thoso wouion and ohildron and all tho housohold of tho kiDg know that ovory oaro was takon to havo tho king?tho hoad of tho ompiro?pass in safoty. Now, 1 want to broak up a delusion in your mind, and that is this: When our friends go out from this world, wo fool sorry for thorn bcoauco thoy havo to go alone; and parents hold on to tho hands of their children who aro dying and hold on to somothing of tho iin prcssion ttiat tho moment thoy lot go tho littlo ono will bo in tho darkness and in tho boat all alono. "Oh," tho parent says, "if I oould only go with my child, 1 would bo willing to dio a half dozau times. L am afraid she will bo loBt in the woodH or in the dark noss; I mn afraid she will bo very tuuoh frightened in the boat all aloDo." "I break up tho delusion. When a soul goes to hoaven, it docs not go alono; tho King is on boarl tho boat. Wa^ I'aul alono in tho last extremity? Hear tho shout of tho saorod missionary as ho orics out, "I am now ready to bo offered, and tho timo of my departuro is at hand." Was .John Wesley alono in tho last ex'roiuitj? No Hear him say, "Host of all God is with us." Was Sir Wtlliatn Forbes alono in tho last extremity? No. Hoar him say to bihlrioudB. "Tell all tho pcoplo who aro coming down to tho bed of death from my experionoo it has no terrors " "Oh," say a great many pooplo, "that does very well for distinguished Christians, but for mo, a common man, for mo, a common woman, wo can't ex poot that guidanco and help." If 1 should givo you a paBeago of Horipturo ihat would promiso to you positivoly when you aro orossing tho rivor to tho next world tho king would bo in tho boat, would you bclicvo tho promiso? 1 Oh yes," >ou sav, "1 would. Horo in tho promiso. "When thou passoflt through tho waters, I will bo wiihtheo, .i : *i? _l_H aiiU UIK'U^U illU I I vuin, llIU)' HIiUll IIUI overflow thco." Christ at tho sick pillow to tako tho houI out of tho body; Christ to holp tho houI dowu tho baok into tho boat; Christ midstream; Christ on tho other sido to help tho soul up tho beach. Mo comforted about your departod friends. Mo oomfortod about your own domiso when tho timo shall ooino. Tell it to all tho pooplo under tho sun that no Christiau ovor dies alone; the King is in tho boat. Again, my text suggests that leav ing this world for hoavon is only crossing a ft.rry. Dr. Shaw estimates tho average width of tho .Jordan to bo about 30 j aids. What, so narrow? Vcs. 'There wont over a ferryboat to carry tho king's housohold." Yes, going to heaven is only a Bhort trip?only a fer ry. It may bo HO miles?that is 80 years- bc'oro we get to tho wot bauk on tho other sido, but tho oroBsing is short. I will toll ytm tho wh >lo soerot. It is not five minutes aoroi-s, nor throo, nor one minute. It is an instantaneous transportation. I'eoplc talk as though leaving this life, tho Christian wont floundering and sw mining, tocruwl up exhausted on tho other shore, and to bo pulh d out of tho pelting surf as by a lUmsgatc lifeboat No suoh thing It is only a ferry. It is bo narrow that wo CAn hail etch other from bank to bauk. It is only four arms' longths across. Tho arm of earthly farewell put out from this sido Die arm of heavenly wcl oouio put out from tho other sido, while tho dying Christian, standing mid?treaui, stretched nut his two ?r 11s I ho one to take the farewell of earth, and other to tako greeting of hoavon That makes four arms' lengths across the river. M essed ho God, that when wc leave this wot Id wo are not to have a great and perilous onterpriso of getting into heaven. Not a dangerous Franklin ex pedition to find tho northwest passago among ioobergs () ily a ferry. That anoounts for something you havo ncv r been able to und rs'.aud. You never supposed that v ry nervous and timid Christian pooplo could be so une\nted and placid in tho last hour. The fait is, thoy wore clear down on tho hank, and they saw thcro was nothing to ho (lightened about. Such a short distance?only a ferry. With ono ear they heard tho fuoeral psalm in their .... ?ill. ?i.. ~?i? ?.v.... IU' Hi > I / I (III\4 . nun i IIU iKIItl fill I IIU> heard the sor.j< of hoaxcnly ^a'u a ion Tno willows ou thin sido of Jordan and itio Lebanon cedars on tiio other almoit interlocked their branches. Only a ferry. My BttVjoot also suggests tho faot fact that when we cross over at the last we shall find a solid landing. Tho ferryboat as spoken of in uiy text means a placo to start from and a plauo to Ian 1. David and his poop'o did not find tho eastern shore of tho Jordan any more solid than the western shoro whore ho landed, and yet to a groat many heaven is not a real plaoo. To you heaven is a fog bank in tho distance. Now, my heaven is a solid heaven. After tho rosurrootion has oomo you will havo a resurrcoted foot and something to tread on and a ros urreotcd oyo and colors to seo with it a rosurrooted car and musio to rcgalo it. Smart men in this day arc making a groat deal of fun about St. John's matorialistio descriptions of heaven. Well, now, my friends, if you will toll ino what will bo the uao of a resurrected body in hcavon with nothing to tread on and nothing to hoar and nothing to handle and nothing to taste tkon I will laugh too. Aro you going to float about in ether forovor, swinging about your hands and feot through the air indiscriminately, ono moment swelter ing in the oenter of tho sun and tb next moment shivering in the mount * 4 . " * alas of the moon? That is not my heaven. Dissatisfiod with John's materialistio heaven, theologioal tickers are trying to patoh up a hoaven that will do for them at last. I never heard of any heaven I want to go to exoept St. John's hoaven. I behove 1 shall hear Mr. Toplady slog yet and Isaao Watts reoito hymns aod Mosart play. "Oh," you say, "whero would you got tho orgau?" The Lord will provide tho organ. Don't you boihor about tho organ. 1 boliovo I shall yot soo David with a harp, and I will ask him to sing ono of tho songs of Zion. I boliovo after tho roBurrootion i shall soo Mas sillon, tho groat Fronoh pulpit orator, I X I -L.U V # a uu tnnaii near irom ni8 own lips how he folt on that day when ho proaobod tho king's funeral sermon and flung his wholo audionoo iuto a paroxysm of grief and solemnity. I havo no pationoo with your transoondontal, gol atinous, gaseous heavon. My hoavon is not a fog bank. My eyes aro unto tho hills, tho ovorlasting hills. Tho Kiog's ferryboat, starting from a wharf on this sido, will go to a wharf on tho othor sido. Again, my suljoot toaohoa that when wo oross ovor ai tho last wo shall bo mot at tho landing. Whon David and his family wont ovor in tho ferryboat spokoD of in tho text, they landod amid a nation that had oomo out to groot thorn. As thoy stopped from tho dock of tho boat to tho shoro thoro woro thousands of pooplo who gathered around them to express a eatisfaotion that was boyond description. And so you and I will bo mot at tho landing. Our arrival will not bo liko stopping ashoro at Antworp of Constantinople among a crowd of strangors. It will be among frionds, good friends, thoso who aro warm hearted frionds and all thoir frionds. Wo know pooplo whom wo havo novor soon by hearing somebody talk about thorn very much; wo know thorn almost as woll as if wo had soon thorn. And do you not suppose that our parents and brothers and sisters and obildron in hoavco havo boon talking about us all thoso years, and tlking to thoir friends? So that, I supposo, whon wo oross tho river at tho last wo shall not only bo mot by all thoso Christian frionds whom wo know on earth, but by all thoir frionds. They will oomo down to tho landing to moot us. Your departod frionds lovo you now moro than thoy over did You will bo sur.,ria.wl i ??? |UIUU?I (*v i in mow u; uuu nuw tliuy know about all tho atfairH of your lifo Why, thoy aro only aoross tho ferry, and tho boat it* ooming this way, and tho boat it* going that way. I do not know but thoy havo already askod tho Lord tho day, tho hour, tho uiomont when you aro ooming aoroas and that thoy know now, but 1 do know that you will bo met at tho landing. Tho poot Southoy naid ho thought ho Bhould know Bishosp Uober in hcayon by tho portraits ho had aoon of him in London, and Dr. Randolph said ho thought ho would know William Cowper, the poot, in hcavon from tho pioturos ho had scon of him in England; but wo will know our departed kindred by tho portraits hung in tho tbronoroom of our hoarls. Oa starlight nights you look up?and I supposo it is so with any ono who has friends in hcavon?on starlight nights you look up, and you oannot holp but think of thoso whp havo gone, and I suppose thoy iook down and can not help but think of us. Rut thoy havo tho adyantago of us. Wo kuow not just whoro their world ofjoy is; they knrt^whoro wo aro. Thoro vyts romanoo as woll as Chris tianboauty in tho lifo of Dr. Adoniram Judson, tho Raptist missionary, when ho oonoluded to put ffom his wife, sho to como to Amorioa to restoro horo health, ho to go book to Huruia to preach tho gospol. They had started from Burma for tho Unitod Statos to gother; but, gottTng uoar St. Holona, iurs. duason was so much better sho said: "Well, now I can got homo vory easly. You go baok to liurtna and preaoh tho gospel to thoso poor people. I am almost well. I shall soon bo woll, and then I will return to you." After she had made that resolution, terrifio in its grief, willing to givo up her bun band for Christ's sako, sho sat down in hor room and with trembling hand wroto some oight or ton verses, four of whioh I will now givo you: We part on this green is'et, love? Thou for the estern main; 1 for the setting sun love; Oh, when to meet again! When we knelt to see our Henry die Hud heard his last faint moan, Each wiped away tho other's tears; Now each must weep alone. And who can paint our mntua1 joy When, all our wandering o'er, We both shall c'asp our iurants three At home on Burma's shore? But h'gher sha'l our raptures glow On )on celestial plain When love I and parted here below Meet no er to part again, Sho folded that manuscript, a rolapso of her dis aso came on, and sho died. 1)-. .Judson hags ho put her away for I ore urrcclion on tho isle of St. Helena They had thought to part for a year or two. Now they parted forever, so far as this world is concerned. And ho says lie hastened on board after tho funoral with his iiltlo ohiidrcn to start for I Kin ma, for tho vessel had already lifted her saiis. And ho says, "I hat down for Kouio tiuio in my oabin my liitlo ohildicn around mo crying, "Mother, [mot herI" And I abandoned myself to heartbreaking grief. But ono day tho thought oauio across mo as my faith stretched her wing that wo should moot again in hoavon, and 1 was oomfortod." Was it, my friends, all a delusion? When ho died, did sho meet hi in at ho landing? VVhon sho died, did tho sooros of souls whom sho had brought to Christ and who had prcoodad her to heaven meet hor at tho landing? I boliovo it; 1 know it. Oh, glorious ooqeolation, that when our poor work on earth is dono and wo orosa the rivor wo shall bo mot at tho landing! a I .? ? . i>iu moro is a inougnt mat comes ovor mo liko an oleotrio shook. Do 1 belong to the King's household? Mark you, the text says, "And thcro went ova a ferryboat to oarry over the king's housohold," and nono but the king's household. Then I ask, "Do I belong to the household? Do you?'' If you do not come today and bo adopted into that household. "Oh," says somo soul here, "I do not know whethortbe King wants met" Ho does; he does. Hear the voioe from the throne, "1 will be a father to them, and they shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." "Him that oometh unto "\ me," Christ says, "I will in nowise oast out." Come into the King's house, hold. Sit down at the King's table. Come in and tako your apparel from tho King's wardrobe, ovon the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness. Como in and inherit tho King's woalth. Come in and oross in the King's ferryboat. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROADS Income of the Various Lines Show Handsome Inorease The Stato railroad oommission is at prosont hard at work on tho preparation of its annual report to tho Gonoral Assembly. Of oourso, all tho figuros are not available for tho annual goneral statement showing tho year's businoss of tho linos in tko Stato, but it is possiblo to show tho total inoomo from all sourocs and tho total inoomo loss tho czponsos, not inoluding tazos, byroads for all tho roads savo throo very small ones, the Branohvillo and Bowman, tho Goorgotown and Wostorn and tho Hampton and Brauohvillo. Repeated cffortH havo boon rnado to soouro thoso roports without rosult. Thoy aro dolaying tho appoaranoo of tho roport. From tho figuros in hand tho roads havo a total inoomo from all souroos amountingto very nearly ton million of dollars, tho missing roads having onough to run it to that mark, tho inorcaKo over tho prcooding yoar being $1,072,163 38. Tho total cxponBO including iniintonanoo of ways and struoturos, maintonanoo and equipment, transportation and goncral expenses amount, to $6 766,732.62 as against $5,841,361 71 last yoar, making tho total inoomo less ox ponses $3,221 813.80 against $3,085,136 81 last year. From this total inoomo loss oxponsos $350 058 99 in taxos has to bo deduolod that boiug tho total amount of taxos charged. Tho inoroaso in expensos is attributod largely to tho laying of now ruila * hn - ** * ??u, v..u lui^iunuuium oi properties, etc , whioh is gonnral at this tiuie. Tho total dcfioit is $52 253 81. charged only to those now or rehabilitated linos brought into uho during tho yoar. Tho Atlantic Coast Lino systom shows a total inoomo for tho yoar r?f $2,498,077 20, as against $1 851,128 71 tor last year, this being one of tho principal increases. Tho Southern railway in South Carolina shows $1,511 505 75 this year, against $1,472,120 00 last yoar, and tho total loss oipensos is $510 511,12 against $097,991 13 last year. Tho other Southorn lino, tho Ashovillo and Spartanburg and tho Atlanta and Charlotto Air Liuo, show handhowo increases, howovor. Tho roport this yoar will show 191 miles of now road built and rccoivod during tho yoar 1900. Tho largost item i in this total aro tho now links of tho Seaboard Air l/no and tho Southern railways. $100 Reward, $100 Tho readors of this paper will bo pleased to loarn that thcro is at loast odo dreaded disease that soienoo has been ablo to ouro in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo is tho only positivo ouro known to tho modioal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional diseaso, requires oonstiutionai treatment. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally, acting diroctly upon tho blood and muoous surfaces of the syBtoin, thereby destroying tho foundation of tho disoaso and giving tho pationt strength by building up tho constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors havo so muoh faith in its ourativo powers, that thoy offer Ooo Hundred Dollars for any oaso thai it fails to ouro. Sond for list of testimonials. Address, I F. J. CHENEY & CO. Props., Tolodo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Whon you nocd a soothing and healing antiseptic application for aav nur Poho, uso tho original DoWitt's Witoh Ha7.il Halve, a woll known ouro for piles ami skin diseases. It hoala sorea without leaving a near. Howaro of counterfeits. Dr. E. Norton. A RECKLESS KIKND. A whito man named Russ is in j til at b'iorenco oharged with shooting into a train and otherwise oreati ng a disturbance. When Conduotor ?J O Hainton of tho Wilmington looal freight asked Rush for his faro tho man refused it. and ahoved a pistol iato tho oonduotor'B face Mr. Hinton got help and returned Russ displayed his pistol again, hu> was ucvorthless hustled off thotrain. When tho train moved off ho firod shots. Help is needed at once whon a person's life is in danger. A nogleotcd oough or oold may soon become soriou and should bo stopped at onoo Oao Minute Cough Curo quickly oures coughs and oolds and tho worst oases of eroup, bronchitis, grippe and other throat and lung troubles. l)r. E. Norton. THE PENSION CANCER, j Tho pension appropriation bill was completed Thursday by the house sub | oommittoo on appropriations. It ear rips about $ 145 250,000, of whioh about $144,000,000 in for pensions and tho balanoo for administration. Don't uso any of tho oontorfoits of Do Witts Witoh Hazel Halve. Most of them aro worthless or liablo to oauso injury. Tho original DoWitts Witoh Hazel Salvo is a oortain ouro for pilesecz ima, outs, scalds, burns soros and skin disoasos. Dr. K. Norton. CHICAGO JUSTICE. Anothor Chioago thug who had just paid tho regulation $100 fino has boon oaught after a dosperato revolvor fight and probably will be finod again. Justioo in Chioago eooms to bo not only blind but to hayo boen born in tho silly season. When the stomaoh is tired out it must have rest, but wo oan't live with, out food. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure "digosts whilo you eat" so that you oau eat all the gpod food you want while it is rostoriug too digestivo organs to health. It is the only propration tb ?t digosts all kinds of food. Dr. E. Norton. i THE I Grove's The formula know just what y do not advertise t their medicine it Iron and Quinine t ^ I form. 1 he Iron malaria out o f the Grove's is the Oi Chill Tonics arc i that Grove's is are not expcrimei and excellence 1 only Chill Cure the United States. Ohristmai With Hampton. Tho Charlotto Obsorver saya Mr. Shakoapoaro Harris, of Poplar Toot n. v > vaumiuii uuuuiy, WHO 01*00 * FOOOrd in the oivil war an ono of Geo. Wado Hampton's soouts, is to spend Christmas with tho old gonoral at his homo in South Carolina. Mr. Harris was a young ohap in tho war and had hair liko Buffalo Bill's. Tho olosost plaoo ho was over in was when tho Yankco got him. It was a hand to hand eombat following a oavarly ohargo. Mr Harris' soalp was rippod opon from tho top of his head to tho base of his nook by a sabro stroko and tho hair and soalp flapped over into his faoo blinding him. Even then ho would havo got his man but for tho snapping of his pistol. As it was, tho Yankco got him, and it was a good many days beforo ho did any moro scouting for Hampton. Gon. Hampton and Mr. Harris have mot frequently sinoo tho war, and they are just tho sott of a pair to havo a good Christ mas togother. Now is tho timo whon oroup and lung troublos provo rapidly fatal. Tho only harmloss remedy that produces immodiat" results is Ono Minuto Cough Cure. It is very pleasant to tako and oan bo relied upon to quiokly euro coughs, colds and all lung disoases. It will provent consumption. Dr. E. Norton. THEY SETTLED IT. In Hush county, Kansas, there was a tic in tho voto received by Mr. Mo Corm'ok and Mr. Anderson for the ollloo of county attorney. Boforo diuwing straws, as provided bylaw, tho two agreod that tho winner should mako tho loeor his deputy and equally divide tho salary. Mr. MoCormick, tho Populist, won, and Mr. Anderson will bo his deputy. Many porsons luvo had the experience of Mr. Peter Sherman, of North Stratford, N. II , whosa^s, "For years 1 suffered torture from chronic iudiges tion. but Kodul nt?????t? ?-J , VUIU UiHUU a well inun of mo." It digosts what you cat and ia a ocrtain ouro fordyapephia and every form of stomaoh troublo. It givca tolicf at ouoo oven iu the worat eases, and oan't holp but do you good. Dr. E Norton. Wilmington and Conway Railroad. Daily exoopt Sunday. Southbound.?No. 97. Lear* Hub 8 ()0 pm Leave llione 8^10 pm Arrive Chadbourn 8 86 pm Leave Chadbourn. 6 86 pm Leave Clarendon 6 00 pm Leave Ml Tabor 6 16 pm Leave Lorla 6 86 pm Leave Bauford 6 60 pm Leave Bayboro 7 00 pm Le*ve Privetta 7 00 pm Leave Adrian 7 1*2 pm Arrive Conway 7 40 pm Northbound.?No. 98. Leave Conway 8 80 am Leave Adrian 8 66 am Leave Privetta 9 00 am Leave Bayboro 9 10 am Leave Banford 9 '20 am Leave Loria 986 pm Leave Ml Tabor... 1010 am Leave Clarendon 1140 am Arrivo Chadbourn 1120 am i.eave cmaaoourn 1150 Am Leave Uions 1216 pm Arrive Hub 1225 pa WACCAMAW LINE STEA MER8.?The Steamer will leave the wharf at Cenway every Monday and Wedueaday morning for Georgetown at 4 o'clock, touching all Intermediate pointe; and will leave her wharf at Georgetown every 'lueeJay and Friday morning for Conway at 4 o'olook; touohlng at all Intermediate pointe. D. T. McNeill, Qen'l Agt. and Treas., Conway, 8. C. John 8. lleaty, Agent, Georgetown, 8,0. notice! Conway Lodge, No, ?0. Knights of Pythias will meet regularly tha first and third Thursday nights of each month until otherwise ordered. D. A.Sfiyby f'h.r, tVm x/unu v\'Uii J. O. 8pivry K. H. A 8 May 14th, 96. ly I)r. H. H. BURROUGHS, LOUIS, 9. C. i Call? promptly answurud nigh or day. R. B. Scarborough, Oohwat, b. 0. ATTORNEY AT LAW. H. H. WOODWARD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Conway, B. 0. MfOftaa up ataira oter Herald oftee oppoeite Bank. J,; t atia, Chills ai T asteless Ch is plainly printed on every on are taking when you take heir formula knowing that y you knew what it contained. >ut up in correct proportions .1 acts as a tonic while the system. Any reliable druggis rlginal and that all other mitations. An analysis of oth< superior to all others in iting when you take Grov laving l?ng been establish* sold throughout the entire No Cure, No Pay. Prict Atlantic Coast Line RAILROAD COMPANY OK SOUTH CAROLINA. Condensed Schedule. Trains Going South. Dated Not. 19, 1899. No.66* No.8t P. M. a M ; Leave Wilmington 8:46 Leave Marios 6:34 Arrive Florenoe 7:16 Leave Florenoe *7:46 *2 84 Arrive Butnter 8:67 8 66 No. 6? A. M Leave Bumter 8:67 *9 4< Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 0< No. 62 ruue through from Charleston vis Central R. R., leaving Charleefon 7:00 o. m Lanes 8:84 a. m., Manning 9:09 a. m Trains Going North. No. 64* No 6< A. M. P. M Leave Columbia ....*6:40 *4 It Arrive Humter 8:06 6 31 No. 8. P. \1 Leave Humter *8:06 6 0* Arrive Florence 9:20 7 2? Leave Florence 9.60 Leave Marion 10:30 Arriva Wilmington 1:16. * Daily. ;-0. 63 runs through to Charleston, 8 C via Central R, R., arriving at Manning 6:04 p. m., Lanes 6:43 p. m., Charleston 8:30 p. m Trains on Conway Brauoh leave Chad bourn 6 36 p m, arrive Conway 7 10 p m returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Chadbourn 11 20 am, leaveChadbourn 11 60 a in, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave Huh 3 00 p m, arrive Chadbourn 4 86 p m i Daily exoopi Sunday. J. R. Kenly, General Manager. T. M Kmerion, Tratfio Ma.lager. II. M. Emerson. General Passenger Agent. Hard to Beat our Line of Machinery and Mill Supplies. LEADERS: j Lano, Chase, liege, LidJell anl High Point naw mills The Murray Cleaning and Distributing Syatem. Litdetl Automatic and plain Engines. "Sioux" Dor iss Engines. ' New South" liriok Machinery. Farquhar Threshers and Uraiu Drills. Disslon Saws and Files. Pverless Packings, >|Ovens Sewer Pipe, and Supplies generally Erie City Engines aud (toilers Egan Woodworking Machinery. "Queen of the S >uth" Grist Mills Keliey Dup'ex Feed Mills I Bundy Traps and Steam Specialties Magnolia aud Columbia Babbett Metals. W. H. Gibbes & Co., MACHINERY and MILL SUPPLIES 804 Uervais Street, COLUMBIA, 8. C. Ortman Pays the EXpress ! Steam Dyeing of every description. Steam, Nap tha, French Dry and chemical cleansing. Send tor our new price list and oircular All work guar anleed or no charge. Oilman's Steam Due Works ; 1310 Main Street 1 Columbia, 8 C A. L Ortman, Proprietor Murray's Aromatic Mouth Wash "Whitens the Teeth if Cleanses the Month Sweetens the Breath The? Murray Drug Co., COLUMBIANS. O. 0 F^T 9 illTonic. bottle?hence you Grove's. Imitators ou would not buy Grove's contains md is in a Tasteless Quinine drives the it will tell you that / so-called Tasteless er chill tonics shows /cry respect. You e's?its superiority rd. Grove's is the malarial sections of 50c. SawMills, Corn Mills, Cane Mills, Rice Hullers, Pea Hullers, Engines, Boilers, Planers and Matchers, Swinir Saws. ^ . ~7 Rip Saws, and all other kinds of wood working machinery. My Sergeant Log Beam Saw mill ia the heaviest, strongest, and most eflicient mill for the money on the market, quick, accurate. State Agent for H. B. Smith Machine Company wood working machinery. For high grade engines, plain slide valve?Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atlas, YVatertown, and Struthers and Wells. V. C. BADHAM, 1326 Main St., Colombia, S. C. THE LEiOES INDEED. The New Ball Bearing finmfistin Sewing Machine It Leads in Workmanship, Beauty, (Japaoity, Strongth, Light Running. Kvory Woman Wants One. Attachments, Needles and Parts for Sewing Machines of all makes. When ordering needles send sample. Price 27o per dozen, 4 postpaid. Agonts Wantod in Unoooapied Torn tory. 1. L. 8HULL, 1219 Taylor Street, COLUMBIA, 8. O e. - OLD NORTH STATE OINT MENT, the Great Antiseptic Healer, cures Piles, Eczema, Sore Eyes, Gianulated Eyelids, Carbuncles, Boils, Cuts, Bruises, Old Sores, Burns, Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Toenails, Inflammatory Rheumatism, Aches and Pains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Erysipelas. It is something everybody ^ needs. Once used always use<? *1 & For sale by all druggists and * dealers. At wholesale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, 8. C PITTS' ANTISEPTIC INVICORATORI Caret La Grippe, dyspepsia, indigestion >nd ell stomaoh and bowel trouble*, eollo or / sholere morbue, teething troubles with ahildren, kidney trouble*, bad blood and all sort* of sore*, risings or felons, out* and burns. It is a* good antlseptio, when looally spplied, a* anything on the market. Try it and you will praise It to others. If your druggist doesn't keep It, write to MURRY DRUG COMPANY, COLUMBIA, 8. 0.