The weekly ledger. (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1894-1896, February 04, 1897, Image 5
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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. 0., FEBRUARY 4, 1897.
ADVICE OF A FARMEIl
BEFORE THE :»TAE',MERINO RUSTIC
MIGHTY HO^TS FRrMBLEO.
Rrv. Dr. Tatitia,':' it IT Dent In a Hor-
mon Diclurlng thu C. <.<kIim‘B8 and Power
and WatcIifuliK t of God—lA>oklns
the 3tidniK-it tic \‘ tin
Washington, J. p. HI.—Thin sermon
of Dr. TulmiiK 1 1 i>kn:.L r it tin. mubiight
heaveiiB thmnxli thi> ryt s of one of the
ancients, is unique for i-riictii ality anil
must set all to useful thinking. His text
is Amos v, 8, “tu f k him that maketh
the seven stars and Orion. ”
A country fa nut r wrote this text,
Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth
and thrashed the grain by a new
thrashing machine just invented, as
formerly the cattle trod out the grain.
Ho gathered tlie fruit of the syca
more tree and scaritied it with an
iron comb just before it was getting
ripe, as it was necessary and customary
in that way to take from it the bitter
ness. He was the s. ,n of a poor shepherd
and stuttered, hut hefore the stammer
ing rustic the I hili tines and Syrians
and Phoenicians ami Moabites and Am-
monihs and Edomites and Israelites
trembled.
Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a
prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a
king, but Amos, the author of my text,
was a peasant, and, as might be sup
posed, nearly all his parallelisms are
pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor
of new mown hay, and the rattle of lo
custs, and tho rumble of carts with
sheaves, and the rear of wild beasts de
vouring the flock while the shepherd
came out in their defense. Ho watched
the herds by day, and by night inhabited
a booth made out of bushes, so that
through these brunches he could see the
stars all night long, and was more fa
miliar with them than wo who have
tight roofs to our houses and hardly
ever see the stars except among the tall
brick chimneys ef the great towns. But
at seasons of the year when tho herds
k were in special danger he would stay
jut in the open M all through tho
Inrkness, his only shelter the curtain of
the night heaven, with tho stellar em
broideries and sihvml tassels of lunar
light.
Aloua Witii 11 is lien's.
What, a life of solitude, all alone with
lis herds 1 Poor Amos! And at 12
Po’clock at night haik to tho wolf’s bark,
land the lion’s roar, and the bear’s
growl, and the owl’s te-whit te-who,
and the serpent’s hiss as he unwittingly
steps too near while moving through the
thickets. So Amos, like other herdsmen,
got the habit of studying the map of tho
heavens because it was so much of tho
time spread out before him. He noticed
some stars advancing and others reced
ing. Ho associated their dawn and set
ting with certain reasons of the year.
Ho had a poetic nature, and ho road
night by eight and mouth by month
£ud year by year th - poem of the oon-
Treellations, divinely rhythmic. But two
rosettes of stars especially attracted his
attention while sc ated cm the ground or
lying on his back under tho open scroll
of tho midnight h evens—the Pleiades,
or seven stars, and Orion. The former
group this rustic prophet associated with
the spring, ns it ri.-,es about tho first of
Iday. The latter lie associated with the
Winter, as it comes to tho meridian in
January. The Pleiad 's, or seven stars,
connected with all sweetness and joy;
Orion, tho herc’d of the tempest. Tho
ancients were (lie more apt to study tho
physiognomy and ji.xtaposition of the
heavenly bodies because they thought
they had a special influence upon the
earth—and perhaps they were right. If
the moon ever}- few hours lifts and lets
down Alio tides of tho Atlantic ocean
and the electric sthrms in the sun, by
all scientific admission, affect tho earth,
why hot tho stars have proportionate
effect?
And there are some things which
make mo think that it may not have
, been all superstition which connected
tho movements and appearance of tho
heavenly bodies with great moral events
on earth. Did not a meteor run on evan
gelistic errand on the first Christmas
night and designate the rough cradle of
our Lord? Did not tho stars in their
courses fight against Sisera? Was it
merely coincidental that before the de
struction of Jerusalem the moon was
hidden for 12 consecutive nights? Did
it merely happen so that a new star ap
peared in constellation Cassiopeia and
then disappeared just before Charles IX
of Franco, who was responsible for tho
St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it
without significance that, in the days of
the Roman empire Justinian, war and
famine were preceded by the dimness of
tho sun, which for nciuly a year gave
no more light than tho moon, although
there Wore uo clouds to obscure it?
Astrology, after all, may have been
something more than a brilliant hoa-
i thenism. No wonder that Amos of the
■ text, having heard those two anthems
^ of the stars, put down the stout, rough
staff of tho herdsman and took into his
brown hand and cut and knotted fingers
the pen of a prophet and advised the
^recreant people of Ids time to return to
i.Qod, saying, “Seek him that maketh
,tho seven stars niul Orion. ” This com-
[maml, which Amos gave 785 years B.
, is just as appropriate for us 1897
D- • . , .
A God of Order.
In tho first place, Amos saw, as wo
inust see, that the God who made tho
Pleiades and Orion must be tho God of
Order. It was not so much a star hero
and a star there that impressed the in
spired herdsman, but sevt n in one group
and seven in tho other group. Ho saw
that night afti r night and season after
season and decade after decade they had
kept step of light, each one in its own
place, a sisterhood, never clashing an 1
never contesting precedence. From tho
time Hesiod called tho Pleiades tho
“seven daughters of Atlas'’ and Virgil
flu hit EL ' Id of “stormy Orion"
they have observed the order
- or t heir coining and going—
n not in the manuscript that
may be pigeonholed, but with the hand
of the Almighty on the demo of the sky,
so that all net ions may read it—order,
persistent order, . uMiineorder, omidixi-
tent order.
What a sedative to you and me, to
whom oe ntinn itie i and nations Home-
times seem going pcllmell and the
world mb d by wane fiend at haphazard,
and in all direct ions maladministnit i<*n!
The God who lo * ps se ven, worlds in
right circuit for <1,000 years can certainly
ke|p all th“ affairs of individuals and
nations and contiuentH in adjustment.
We had not better fret much, for the
peasant's argument of the text was
right. If God can take care of the seven
worlds of the Pleiades and tho four chief
worlds of Orion, ho can probably take
care of tho one world \ve inhabit.
So I fei 1 very much as my father felt
one day when we were going to tho
country mill to get a grist ground, and
I, a boy of 7 years, hut in the back part
of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran
away with us and along a labyrinthiun
road through tho woods, so that I
thought every moment we would bo
dashed to pieces, and I made a terrible
outcry of fright, and my father turned
to me with a face perfectly calm and
said: “Do Witt, what tux' you crying
about? I guess we can ride as fast as the
oxen can run. ” And, my hearers, why
should we be affrighted and lose our
equilibrium in the swift movement of
worldly events, especially when we are
assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken
steers that ait' drawing us ou, but that
order and wise government uro in tho
yoke?
In your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can and
then trust to God, and if tilings are all
mixed and disquieting and your brain is
hot and your heart sick, get some ouo
to go out with you into the starlight and
point out to you the Pleiades, or, better
than that, get into some observatory, and
through tho telescope see farther than
Amos with tho naked eye could—name
ly, 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that
in" what is called the sword of Orion
there is a nebula computed to ho two
trillion two hundred thousand billions
of times larger than tho sun. Oh, bo
at peace with the God who made that
and controls all Unit, the wheel of
tho constellations turning in the wheel
of galaxies for thousands of years
without the breaking of a cog, c>r the
slipping of a band, or the snap of an
axle! For your placidity and comfort
through the Lord Jesus Christ I charge
you, “Seek him that maketh tho seven
stars and Orion.”
Ttie God of I.lglit.
Again, Amos saw, as wo must see,
that the God who made these two groups
of the text was the God of light. Amos
saw that (Tod was not satisfied with
making one star or two or three stars,
but he makes seven, and having finished
that group of words makes another
group—group after group. To the
Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that
God likes light so well that he keeps
making it- Only one being in the uni
verse knows the statistics of solar, lu
nar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that
is the Creator himself. And they have
all been lovingly christened, each one a
name as distinct as tho names of your
children. “Hetelleth the number of the
stars; he calk-th them all by their
names. ” The seven Pleiades had names
given to them, and they are Alcyone,
Merope, Cekvno, Electra, Steropo, Tay-
geto and Mala.
But think of the billions and trillions
of daughti rs of starry light that (Tcxl
calls by name as they sweep by him
with beaming brow and lustrous robe!
So fond is God of light—natural light,
moral light, spiritual light! Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza
tion—Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
redemption of nations, sun of righteous
ness rising with healing in his wings.
Oh, men and women, with so many sor
rows and sins and perplexities, if you
want light of comfort, light of pardon,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, “Seek him that maketh
tho seven star's and Orion!”
Again, Amos saw, as wo must see,
that tho God who made these two archi
pelagoes of stars must be an unchang
ing God. There hud been no change in
the stellar appearance in this herdsman’s
lifetime, and his father, a shepherd, re
ported to him that there had l>oou no
change in his lifetime. And these two
clusters hang over tho celestial arbor
uow just as they were the first night that
they shone on the Edeuic bowers the
same as when the Egyptians built the
pyramids,from the *ipef which to watch
them; the same as when the Chaldeans
calculated the eclipses; the same as
when Elihu, according to tho book of
Job, went out to study tho aurora bore
alis; the same under Ptolemaic system
and Coperuicau system; the same from
Calisthcncs to Pythagoras and from
Pythagoras to Herschel. Sorely a
changeless God must have fashioned tho
Pleiades and Orion. Oh, what an ano
dyne amid the ups and downs of life
and tho flux and reflux of tho tides of
prosperity to know that wo have a
changeless God, “the saipo yesterday,
today and forever!”
Xerxes garlanded and knighted tho
steersman of his Ixiat in tho morning
and hanged him in tho evening of tho
same day. Fifty thousand people stood
around tho columns of the national Cap
itol shouting themselves hoarse at the
presidential inaugural, and in four
months, so great were the antipathies,
that a ruflian’s pistol in Washington de
pot expressed the sentiment of many a
disappointed office t tker. The world
sits in its chariot and drives tandem,
and the horse ahead is Huzza, and the
horse behind is Anathema. Lord Cob-
ham, in King James’ time, was applaud
ed and had $35,000 a year, hut was aft
erward execrated and livid on scraps
stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexan
der tho Great after death remained un-
burkd for 80days because nooue would
do tho honor of shoveling him under.
The Duke of Wellington refused to have
his iron fence mended Itcuanso it had
been broken by an infuriated populace
in some hour of political excitement,
and ho left it in ruins that men might
learn what a fickle thing is human fa
vor. “But the mercy of tho Lord is
from everlasting to • verlssting to them
that fear him, and his righteousness
unto the children’s children of such as
keep his covenant and to those who re-
niember his commandments to do them. ”
This moment “seek him that maketh
tho seven stars and Orion.”
A G«id of Dove.
Again, Amos saw, as yrr uust see,
that the God who made these two bea
cons of tho oriental night sky must be
a God of love and kindly warning. The
Pleiades, rising in midsky, said to all the |
herdsmen and shepherds and husband
men, "Come out and enjoy the mild
weather and cultivate yor.r gardens and
fields.” Orion, coming in winter, warn
ed them to prepare for tempest. All
navigation was regulated by these two
constellations. The one said to shipmas
ter and crew, “Hoist sail for the sea
and gather merchandise from other
lands.” But Orion was tho storm sig
nal and said “Reef sail; make things
snug or put into harhoi for tho hurri-
canes are getting their w.ugs out. ” As
the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of
tho spring, Orion was the warning
prophet of tho winter.
Oh, now I get the Itest view o. Soil I
ever had! There arc two sermons T nev
er want to preach—the one that pro nts
God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient, so
imbecile that men may do what they
will against him and fracture his every
law- and put the pry of their imperti
nence and rebellion under his thr >no
and while they are spitting in his 1 ice
and stabbing at his heart he takes them
up in his arms and kisses their infuriat
ed brow and cheek, saying, “Of such is
the kingdom of heaven.” The Other
kind of sermon I never want to preach
is the one that n presents God as all fire
and torture and thundercloud and with
redhot pitchfork tossing the human
race into paroxysms of infinite agony.
The sermon that I am now preaching be
lieves in a God of loving, kindly warn
ing, the God of spring and winter, the
God of the Pleiades and Orion.
You must remember that the winter is
just as important as the spring. Lot one
winter pass without frost to kill vegeta
tion and ice to bind the rivers and snow to
enrich our fields, and then you will have
to enlarge your hospitals and your cem
eteries. “A green Christmas makes a
fat graveyard” was the old proverb.
Storms to purify the air. Thermometer
at 8 degrees below zero to tone up the
system. December and January just as
important as May and June. I tell you,
wo ueed the storms of life as much as
we do the sunshine. There arc' more men
mined by prosperity than by adversity.
If we hud our own M ay in life, before
this wo would have been impersonations
of selfishness and worldliness and dis
gusting sin and puffi d up until wc
would have been like Julius Caesar, who
was made by sycophants to believe that
he was divine, and the freckles on his
face were said to bo as the stars of the
firmament.
The God of Orion,
One of the swiftest transatlantic voy
ages made cue summer by the Etruria
was because she had a stormy wind
abaft chasing her from New York to
Liverpool. But to those going in the op
posite direction tho storm was a buffet
ing and a hindrance. It is a bad thing
to have a storm ahead, pushing us back,
but if we be God’s children and aiming
toward heaven the storms of life-will
only chase us tho sooner into the har
bor. I am so glad to believe that the
monsoons, typhoons and mistrals and
siroccos of the land and sea are not un
chained maniacs let loose upon the
earth, but are under divine supervision.
I am so glad that the God of tho seven
stars is also the God of Orion. It was
out of Dante’s suffering came the sub
lime “Divina Commedia,” and out of
Johu Milton’s blindness came “Para
dise Lost,” and out of miserable infidel
attack camo the “Bridgewater Treatise”
in favor of Christianity, and out of
David’s exile came the sougs of conso
lation, and out of the sufferings of Christ
camo the possibility of the world’s re
demption, and out of your bereavement,
your persecution, your poverties, your
misfortunes, may yet ccme an eternal
heaven.
Oh, what a mercy it is that in the
text and all up and down the Bible God
induces us to look out toward other
worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in
Joshua, in Job, in tho Psalms, in the
prophets, major and minor, in St.
John’s Apocalypse, practically saying:
“Worlds, worlds, worlds! Get ready
for them!” We have a nice little world
here that wo stick to, as though losing
that wo lose all. We are afraid of falling
off this little raft of a world. Wo are
afraid that soma meteoric iconoclast
will some night tmash it, and we want
everything to revolve around it and are
disappointed when we find that it re
volves around the sun instead of the sun
revolving around 'it. What a fuss wo
make about this little bit of a world, its
existence only a short time between two
spasms, tho paroxysm by which it was
hurled from chaos into order, and tho
paroxysm of its demolition.
And I am glad that so many texts call
us to look off to other worlds, many of
them larger and grander and more re
splendent. “Look there,” says Job, “at
Mazaroth and Arcturus and his sous!”
“Look there," says St. John, “at tho
moon under Christ's feet!” “Look
there,” says Joshua, “at the sun stand
ing still above Gibeou!” “Look there,”
says Moses, “at the sparkling firma
ment!” “Look there,” says Amos, tho
herdsman, “at the seven stars and
Orion!” Do not let us be so sad about
thoso who shove off from this world uu-
•dcr Christly pilotage. Do not let us bo
so agitated about our own going off this
little barge or sloop or cauulboat of a
world to get on some Great Eastern of
the heavens. Di not let us iM'.rsist in
wanting to stay in this barn, this shed,
this outhouse of a world, when all tho
king’s palaces,already occupied by many
of our best friends, are. swinging wide
open their gates to let us in.
When I read, “In my Father’s house
are many mansions, ” I dw not know but
that each world is a room and us many
rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs,
stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stel
lar windows, stellar domes. How our
departed friends must pity ns, shut up in
these cramped apartments, tired if wo
walk 15 miles, when they some morn
ing, by ono stroke of wing, can make
circuit of tho whole stellar system and
be back in time for matins I Perhaps
yonder twinkling constellation is the
residence of the martyrs; that group of
12 luminaries maybe the celestial home
of the apostles. Perhaps that stoop of
light is tho dwelling place of angels
cherubic, seraphic, archongelio—a man
sion with as many rooms as worlds and
all their windows illuminated for fes
tivity.
Worth of tho Soul.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectation! How little
it makes tho present, and how stupen
dous it makes the future! How it con
soles us about our pious dead, that, in
stead of being boxed up and under tho
ground, have tho range of as many rooms
as there are worlds, and welcome every
where, for it is the Father’s honse, in
which there are many mansions! O,
Lord God of tho seven stars and Orion,
how can I mduro the transport, the ec
stasy, of such a vision! I must obey my
text and seek him. I will seek him. I
seek him now, for I call to mind that it
is not the material universe that is most
valuable, but tho spiritual, and that
each of us has a soul worth more than
all tho worlds which the inspired herds
man saw from his booth on the hills of
Tekoa.
I had studied it before, but the cathe
dral of Cologne, Germany, never im
pressed me as it did one summer. It is
admittedly tho grandest Gothic struc
ture in the world, its foundation laid in
1248, only a few years ago completed.
More than GOO years in building. All
Europe taxed for its construction. Its
chain?! of the Magi with precious stones
enough to purchase a kingdom. Its
chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces
of painting. Its spire springing 511 feet
into tho heavens. Its stained glass tho
chorus of all rich colors. Statues encir
cling the pillars and encircling all.
f utues above statues, until sculpture
can do no more, but faints and falls
back against carved stalls and down
on pavements over which the kings
and queens of the earth have walk
ed to confessional. Nave and aisles and
transept and portals combining the
splendors of sunrise and sunset. Inter
laced, interfoliated, iutercolumned
grandeur. As I stood outside, looking at
the double range of flying buttresses and
the forest of pinnacles, higher and high
er and higher, until I almost reeled from
dizziness, I exclaimed: “Great doxology
in stone! Frozen prayer of many na
tions!”
But while standing there I saw a poor
man enter and put down his p;ick and
kneel beside his burden on the hard
floor of that cathedral. And tears of
deep emotion came into my eyes, as I
said to myself: “There is a soul worth
more than all tho material surround
ings. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen and not ono stone
of all that cathedral glory shall remain
uncrumbled. He is now a Lazarus in
rags and poverty and weariness, but im
mortal and a son of the Lord God Al
mighty, and the prayer he now’ offers,
though amid many superstitious, I be
lieve God will hear, and among tho
itpostles whose sculptured forms stand
in the surrounding niches he w'ill at
last be lifted, and into the presence of
that Christ whose sufferings are repre
sented by tho crucifix before which he
bows, and be raised in duo time out of
all his poverties into tho glorious home
built for him and built for us by ‘him
who maket h t lie seven stars and Orion. ’ ’ *
A MordlcM Tout.
“What a dreadful cold you have!”
exclaimed ono Capitol hill girl.
“It is rather severe,” replied the
other. “But 1 don’t mind iU I caught
it in a good cause. ”
“Did .you have to go out iq tho rain
after a doctor?"
“No. It was a selfish experiment, but
it is assisting mo in a manner so impor
tant that I don’t mind it.”
“What is it helping you to do?”
“Decide a question on which my fu
ture happiness depends. ”
“Goodness mo!”
“Yes. Father said that as soon as
the weather got cool enough to have the
furnace going Herbert would begin
coming to tho house three or four times
a week instead of only once. Ho said
that ho didn’t think there was any heat
in Herbert’s hall bedroom and that ho
camo hero beeauee it is a nice warm
place to sit. So last night when he
called I had tho heat turned off from
tho parlor. I got very chilly, but I stood
it bettor than Herbert did, for I know
what to expect and dressed accordingly.
I told him that wo didn’t expect to have
that room heated all winter because we
used it so little. It was n dreadful or
deal, but I shall not regret it, for it will
silence my doubts forever. If Herbert
comes back uow, I will know that he
really and truly loves mo.”—Washing
ton Star.
A Shrinking Aflalr.
“Those undershirts I bought hero last
month”— he begun.
“I remember it,” said the clerk. “It
was a great bargain. Do you find them
warm enough?”
“They were warm enough when I
first put them on, but I didn’t think to
inquire about them this morning.”
“Inquire about them?”
“Yes. Ever since they were washed
the baby has been wearing them. Now,
if you have anything that isn’t quite so
much of a bargain and is a little more
likely to remain my size, I’d like to see
it.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
In Lexington, Ky., there is a club
whoso youngest member is 89 years old.
All tho other members are over 90. Tho
meetings are held regularly, their object
being simply pleasure and mutual im
provement
^REAT SALES prove the great
merit of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla sells because it
accompUshes GREAT CURES.
J. E. WEBSTER,
JVttonie;v-JVt-
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all the courts. Collec
tions a soocialtv.
Advance of the Motor Vehicle.
Motor vehicles (automotives is tho
name recommended for them) have be
gun to be matter for serious reflection
in England. Major Flood Page, W’ho
lectured about them the other day be
fore the Loudon chamber of commerce,
speculated as to the results of their intro
duction and named as among tho indus
tries that would he affected were petro
leum, secondary battery manufacturers,
mechanical engineers and allied trades;
coach, car, wagon and carriage builders
and allied trades; agriculture in many
branches, railway companies *uid, last
by by no means least, tho war i 1 part-
ment of every country in the world.
He expects them as they grow common
to interfere more or less with trades
connected with omnibuses, cabs and
horses, but to provide work for more
men than they displace, just as railways
did when they drove out coaches.
He believes that iu the country dis
tricts of England they will do what
canals have done in Holland and make
communication so easy that tho rush of
perishable produce to market will bo
greatly quickened and increased. They
will change the whole face of war, he
thinks, and bo used to move guns and
do all transport work.
In Paris automotives are in use; in
London they are in sight; in New York
they are still only in prospect. An au
tomotive fire truck, to be run by a com
pressed air gas engine, has been devised
by a Brooklyn man and has come so
near real existence as to have its picture
in tho newspapers. It is a terrific look
ing creation and as an engine of destruc
tion seems fit to make a cable car on a
curve seem like achild’stoy.—Harper’s
Weekly.
Ezpcn*es of the White Honee.
Congress appropriates between f40,-
000 and $50,000 annually for the cur
rent expenses of tho executive mansion
to meet clerk hire, including that of the
president’s private secretary, which is
$5,000 a year; stenographer, typewrit
ers, telegraph operators, messengers,
doorkeepers, a steward and housekeeper
and light and heat.
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foudeuaad Schedule of Passenger Trulua.
In EflTeot Not. 15, 1800.
Northbound.
Ves. Fnt.M 1
No. 38
Daily.
No. 30 No. 13
Dally.
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Ar. Cornelia.
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1 00 p
i iD p
248 p
11 50
12 50
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850
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4 35 p
5 36 p
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7 08 p
7 43 p
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8 85 p
4 i8 p
4 45 p
6 30 p
6 18 p
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12 30 p
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180 p
231 p
8 47 p
4 ‘28 p
4 47 p
513 p
5 35 p
0 20 p
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Ves.
No. 37
Dally.
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Philadelphia
lalUmoro...
Washington.
4 30 p
0 55 p
9 30 p
10 43 p
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Lv. Danville
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leaving Jersey CD/ Tneodays afd A-turdays:
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between Dei
Charlotte. First dees th<>rou«hi
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Serve all meals on route
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Auguste steeping cere between Dei tile and
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tRulng ears
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runs sodd between WidUngton ami New Of
bane, TUBoatlmra Railway A A W p R. K-,
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