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« 1 THE RESURRECTION MORN. DR. TALMAGE ON “EASTER IN GREENWOOD." The Great Tabernacle Thronged—The Pulpit Bedecked With Flowers. The Usual Beautiful and Unique Sermon. Br<x*ki.yn, March 25.—Tho Easter services in the Tabernacle today were attended by immense audiences. Beau tiful floral decorations almost hid the pulpit from view, and the great organ gave forth its most rapturous strains in honor of the day. In the forenoon Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered an eloquent ser mon on “Easter In Greenwood,” the text being taken from Genesis xxiii, 17, IS, “Ami the field of Hebron, which was in Machpeluh, which was Indore Mature, the field, and the cave which was there in, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the larders round about, were made sure unto Abraham." Here is the first cemetery ever laid out. Machisdah was its name. It was an arbo rescent beauty, where the wound of death was bandaged with foliag", Abra ham, a rich man, not lieing aide to bribe the king (>f terrors, pro}loses here, as far M possible, to cover tip the ravages. He had no donbt previously noticed this region, and now that Sarah, his wife, had died—that remarkable jicrson who, at 1M) years of age, had horn to her the son Isaac, and who now, after she had reached 127 years, had expired—Abra ham is negotiating for a family plot for her last slum her. Ephron owned this real estate, and after, in mock sympathy for Abraham, refusing to take anything for it, now •ticks or* a big price—400 shekels of sil ver. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made in the presence of wit nesses in a public place, for there were no deeds and no halls of record in those early times. Then in a cavern of lime stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a few years after himself followed, and then Isaac and Reltekah, and then Jacob and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and memorable Machpeluh! That “God’s acre" dedicated by Abraham has lieen the mother of innumerable mortuary ob servances. The necropolis of every civi lized land has vied with its metropolis. BEAITIFO, CITIES OF THE DEAD. The most beautiful hillsof Europe out side the great cities are covered with obelisk and funeral vase and arched gateways and columns and parterres in honor of the pihmnated. The Apuiun Way of Home was bordered by sepulchral commemorations. For this purpose Pisa has |ts arcades of marble sculptured into pjpellent bas-reliefs and the* features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con stantinople covers with Cyprus the silent habitations, and Paris lias its Pere la Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac and David and Marshal Key and Cu vier and La Place and Molicre and a mighty group of warriors and )M>cts and painters and musicians. In all foreign nations utmost genius on all sides is ex pended in the work of interment, mum mification and incineration. Our own country consents to lie second to none in resjiect to the lifeless body. Eyery city and totfu and neighborhood of tuiy intelligence or virtue has not many iniles away its sacred inclosure, where Affection has engaged gcnlptor’s chisel and florist’s spade and artificer in metals. Our own city has shown its religion as well as its art in the manner which it holds the memory of those who have passed forever away by its Cypress Hills, and its Evergreens, and its Calvary and Holy Cross and Friends’ cemeteries. All the world knows of our Green wood, with now about 270,000 inhabit ants sleeping among the hills that over look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in •n Eden of flowers, our American West minster abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary Atchitebture, a Pantheon of mighty ones aspendM,’ elegies in stone, Iliads in mar- pjp, whple generations iq peace waiting fpf pther generations to join them, fso dormitory of breathless sleepers in all the world has SO many mighty dead. THE MIUHTY SI.EKl’KUS. Among the preachers of the gospel, Bethune and Thomas DeWitt and Dish op Janes and Tyng and Abeel, the mis sionary, and Beecher and Buddington, and McClintock and Inskip, and Dangs and Chapin, and Noah Schenck and Sam- nel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the renowned Gottschnlk and the holy Thom as Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper, and Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and Henry Dergh, the apostle of mercy to the Jwut© creation. Among the Utterati, the Cidfts-'-Alice tmd Pluebe—James K. Panlding and John G. Saxe. Among journalists, Bennett and Raymond and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby Wtcl •ell, warrior as well as astronomer and lovingly called by his soldiers “Old Stars;” Protestor Proctor and the Dra pers—splendid men, as I well know, one of them my teacher, the other my class- mate. flfcmong inventors Elias Howe, who through the sewing machine did more to alleviate the toils of womanhood tlian any man that ever lived, and Professor Morse, who gave ns magnetic telegraphy, the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the thunderbolt. Among physicians and surgeons Joseph C. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and Dr. yalentine Mott, with the following cpi- fttph, which lie ordered ent in honor of Christian religion: “My implicit faith fchd hope is in a merciful Redeemer, who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and Amen.” This is our Ameri can Maclqielnh, as sacred to ns as the Marbpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob uttered that pastoral }>oem in one verse: “There they buried Abraham and Ha- yahlJiU wife; there they buried Isaac iod Rels-kah, his wife, and there I buried Leah.” THE FAMILY OF FLOWERS. At this Easter service I ask and an swer what may seem a novel question, but it will lie found, liefore I get through, a practical and useful and tre mendous question, What will resurrec tion day do for the cemeteries? First. 1 •ver beautiful now, will lie more lieauti- fcl when the bodiea *»f our loved ones come up in the morning of the resnrrec- Jion. '•they will conic in improved condition. They will conic up rested, The most of theni lay down at the lust very tired, often you have heard them say, “I Fso tired!” The fact is.it is a tired world. If 1 should go through this au dience and go round the world, I could 1 not find a }>erson in any s'yle of life ig- |norant of the sensatftm of fatigue. I do not believe there tre 60 uvrsoua iu tnis audience wno are not tired, lour head is tired, or your back is tired, or your foot is tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves are tired. Lon:; journey ing or business application or bereave ment or sickness has put on you heavy weights. So the vast majority of those who went out of this world went out fa tigued. About the poorest place to rest in is this orld. Its atmosphere, itssur- roundir -,s and even its hilarities arc ex haust’ ..g. So God stops our earthly life and mercifully closes the eyes, and mor6 ee ‘dally gives quiescence to the lung a id heart, that have not had 10 minutes’ rest from tho first respiration and the first boat. If a drummer boy were compelled in the army to beat his drum for 21 hours without stopping, his officer would be court martialed for cruelty. If thedrnm- mer boy should be commanded to beat his drum for a week without ceasing, day and night, he would die in attempt ing it. But under your vestment is a poor heart that began its drumbeat for the inarch of life 110 or 40 or CO or HO years ago, and it has had no furlough by day or night, and whether iu conscious or comatose state it went right on, for if it had stopped seven seconds your life would have closed. And your heart will keep going until some time after your spirit has flown, for the auscultator says that after the last expiration of lung and the last throb of pulse, and after tho spirit is released, the heart keeps on beat ing for a time. What a mercy, then, it is that the grave is the place where that wondrous machinery of ventricle and ar tery can halt! IH ST OF THE EARTH. Under tho healthful chemistry of the soil all the wear and tear of nerve and muscle and bone will be subtracted, and that bath of good fresh clean soil will wash off the last ache, and then some of the same style of dust out of which the body of Adam was constructed may be infused into the resurrect ion body. How can the bodies of the b iman race, which have had no replenishment from the dust since the time of Adam in paradise, get any recuperation from the storehouse from which ho was constructed without our going back into the dust? That orig inal life giving material having been added to the body as it once was, and all the detects left behind, what a body will be the resurrection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of such appearing above the Gowanus heights make Green wood more beautiful than any June morning after a shower? The dust of the c. vth being the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the same place to get a perfect body. factories are apt to be rough places, and those who toil in them have their garments grimy and their hands smutch ed, But who cares for thal when they turn out for us beautiful musical instru ments or exquisite upholstery? What though the grave is a rou^Ji place--it is a resurrection body manufactory, and from it shall come the radiant ami re splendent forms of our friends < the brightest morning the world ev saw. You put into a factory cotton nd it comes out apparel. You put i o a fac tory lumber and lead, and tin y: < mo out pianos and organs. And r> into tin? fac tory of the grave you put in pneumonias and consumptions, and they come out health. You put in groans, and they come out* halleluiahs. For us, on tho final day, the most attractive places will pot he the parks, or the gardens, or the palaces, but the cemeteries. THE VERFECT BODY. Wo are not told in what season that day will come. If it should be winter, those who come up will be more lustrous than the snow that covered them. If in the autnmn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the woods after tho frosts had penciled them. If in thespring, the bloom on which tin y tri ad will be dull compared with the rubicund of their cheeks. Oil, tho perfect resurrec tion body! Almost everybody has some defective s}sit in his physical constitu tion—a dull ear, or li dim eye. or a iheu- ? italic foot, or a neuralgic 1 now, or a wisteel muscle, of a weak side, nr an in- flaptlty t ont-il, or some point at which the east wind or a season of . arwork as saults him. But the resurrection body shall be without one weak spot, and ail that the doctors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will thereafter have to do will lx? to rest without interruption after the broken nights of their earthly existence. Not only will that day be the beautifica tion of well kept cemeteries, but some of the graveyards that have been neg lected and been the pasture ground for cattle and rooting places for swine will for the first time have attractiveness given them. It was a shame that in that place un grateful generations planted, no trees, iind twisted no garlands, and sculptured po marble for their Christian ancestry, jint on the day of which I speak the res urrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where they slumbered among nettles and mullein stalks and thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arise with a glory that shall flush the win dows of the village church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to wor ship, and above tin- old spire beside which their prayers formerly ascended. What triumphal procession never did for a street, what an oratorio never did for an academy, what an orator never did for a brilliant auditory, what obe lisk never did for a king, mm met ion morn will do for all Uie cemeteries, This Easter tells us that in Christs resurrection our resurrection, if wo are bis. and the resurrection of all the uion.s leinttrk, it will lie their sup* j u d beauti- Ication, At certain sejis*.*..* ii is cus tomary in all lands to strew flowers ovi r *htj mounds of the departed. It mav luv.* been suggested by | !j fact that •Artst s tomb was in a garden And A’hon I say garden I do not un an a gar- ten of these latitudes, flic late frosts •f spring and the early frosts of autumn .reso near each other that (here are •nly a few months of flow-us in the field. Ill the flowers we see today had to he ,etted and coaxed and put inch r .-leKer, r they would not have bloomed at all. fhey are the child,r. u of the con:, ivato- ies. But at this Resson and through lie most of the year the Holy Lanil is .11 ablush with floral opulence. Yon find all the royal family of flow- ♦rs there, some that you supposed indig- mons to the far north, and utlieis judig- •nous to the far south -the daisy and •jacinth, crocus and amauonc, tulip and jyater lily, geranium and rnnnnculus, mignonette and sweet marjoram. In the college at Beirut you may s<e Dr. Post’s collection of nlxnit l,K(«j kinds of Holy Land flowers, while among trees *re the oaks of frozen dimes, and the famnrDk of the tro^Jc:;, wulunl aid wil low, ivy amriiawtho^t, a«h aid oder, Dine and aveamore. iif such floral and botanical beantiesaro the wuu growtns of the field, think of what a garden must be in Palestine! And in such a garden Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldier’s spear, his last drop of blood had coagu lated. And then see how appropriate that all our cemeteries should lie floral- ized and tree shaded. In June Green wood is Brooklyn’s garden. THE RESURRECTION IDEA. “Well, then,” you say, “how can you make out that the resurrection day will beautify tho cemeteries? Will it not leave them a plowed up ground? On that day there will be an earthquake, and will not this split the polished Aber deen granite as well as the plain slab that can afford but two words—‘Our Mary’or‘Our Charley?”’ Well, I will tell you how resurrection day will beau tify all the cemeteries. It will be by bringing up the faces that were to us once, and iu our memories ar^ io us now, more beautiful than any calla lily, and the forms that are to us more grace ful tin a any willow by the waters. Can you tlihik of anything more beautiful than tho reappearance of those from whom we have been parted? I do not care which way the tree falls in the blast of tho judgment hurricane, or if the plowshare that day shall turn under the last rose leaf and the last china aster, if out of the broken sod shall come the bod ies of our loved ones not damaged, but irradiated. The idea of the resurrection gets easier to understand as I hear tho phonograph unroll some voice that talked into it a year ago, just before our friend's decease. You touch the lever, and then come forth tho very tones, the very song of tho per son that breathed into it once, but is now departed. If a man can do that, cannot Almighty God, without half try ing, return the voice of your departed? Ami if he can return the voice, why not the lips, and tho tongue, and the throat that fashioned the voice? And if the lips, and the tongue, and the throat, why not tho brain that suggested the words? And if tho brain, why not the nerves, of which the brain is the headquarters? And if he can return the nerves, why not the muscles, which are 1(?sh ingenious? And if the muscles, why not the bones, that are less wonderful? And if the voice, and the brain, and the muscles, anil the bones, why not the entire body? If man can do the phonograph, God can do the resurrection. A WONDERFUL FAIT. Will it be the same body that in the last day shall be reanimated? Yes, but infinitely improved. Our Ixslies change every seven years, and yet in one sense it is tho samo body. On my wrist and the second finger of my right hand there is a scar. I made that at 12 years of age, when, disgusted at the presence of two warts, 1 took a redhot iron and burned them off and burned them out. Since then my body has changed at least a half dozen times, but those scars prove it is the same body. We never lose our identity. If God can and does sometimes rebuild a man five, six, ten times in this world, is it mysterious that he can rebuild him once more and that in tho resurrection? If he can do it 10 times, I think he cun do it 11 times. Then look at tho 17 year locusts. For 17 years gone, at the end of 17 years they appear, and by rubbing the hind leg against the wing make that rattle at which all the husbandmen and vine drqpsers (•‘•'•••bio as tho insectile host lakes up the march of devastation. Res urrection every 17 years—a wonderful fact! Another consideration makes the idea of resurrection easier. God made Adam. He was not fashioned after any model. There had never been a human organism, and so there was nothing to copy. At the first attempt God made a ixirfect man. He made him out of the dust of tho earth. If out of ordinary dust of tho earth and without a model Gixl could make a perfect man, surely out of the extraordinary dust of mortal body and with millions of models God can make each one of us a perfect being in tho res urrection. Surely the last undertaking would not be greater than the first. Seo the gosjxl algebra. Ordinary dust minus a model equals a perfect man. Extraor dinary dust and plus *i model equals a resurrection body. Mysteries about it? Oh, yes. That is one reason why I be lieve it. It would not be much of a God who could do things only as far as I c m understand. Mysteries? Oh, yes. But no more about the resurrection of your body iliai) about its present existence. A Tlitr-L 7TORLI). I will explain to you the last mystery of the resurrection and make it as plain to you as that two and two make four if you will tell mu how your mind, which Is entirely independent of your body, can act upon your body so that at your will your eyes open, or your foot walks, or your hand is extended. So I find noth ing in tho Dihio statement concerning tho resurrection that staggers me for a moment. All doubts clear from my mind. I sav that the cemeteries, how- dead, is assured, fur he was “the first fruits o? them that slept.” Renan says he did not rise, but 580 witnesses, CO of them Christ's enemies, say he did rise, for they saw him after he had risen. If he did not rise, how did 00 armed soldiers let him get away? Surely GO living sol diers ought to be able to keep one dead man. Blessed lx* God! He did get away. TIIR RECOGNITIONS. After his resurrection Mary Magda lene saw him. Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in an npjier room at Jerusalem saw him. On a mountain the 11 saw him. Five hundred at once saw him. professor Ernest Renan, who did not see him, will excuse us for taking the testimony of the 580 who did see him. Yes, fen, ho got away. And that makes me sure that our departed loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed himself from the shackles of clod, he is not going to leavo us and ours in tho lurch. Thcfe will be no doorknob on the in side of our family sepulcher, for we can not come out of ourselves, but there is a doorknob on tho outside, and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and, opening, will say: “Good morning! You have slept long enough! Arise! Arise!” And then what flutter of wings, and what flashing of rekindled eyes, and what gladsome rush ing across the family lot. with cries of: “Father, is that you?" “Mother, is that your “My darling, is that you?” “How you all havo changed! Tho cough gone, the croup gone, tho consumption gone, tho paralysis gone, tho weariness gone, Dime, let us ascend together! The older yues first, tho younger ones next! Quick, now, got into lino! Tho skyward pro cession has already started! Steer now by that embankment of cloud for the nearest gate!" And, as wo ascend, on ono side the earth gets smaller until it is no larger than a mountain, and smaller until it is no larger than a palace, and smaller up- til it is uu larger than (t shlo. and small er nntli it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it is no larger than a speck. FAREWELL AND HAIU Farewell, dissolving earth! But on the other side, as we rise, heaven at first appears no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks like a chariot, and nearer it looks like a throne, and nearer it looks like a star, and nearer !t looks like a ran, and nearer it looks like a universe. Hail, scepters that shall always wave! Hail, anthems that shall always roll I Hail, companionships never again to part! That is what resurrection day will do for all the cemeteries and graveyards from the Machpelah that was opened by Father Abraham in Hebron to the Mach peluh yesterday consecrated. And that makes Lady Huntington’s immortal rhythm most apposite: When then, my righteous Judge, shall come To take thy ransomed people home, .Shall I among them stand? Shall such a worthless worm ns I, Who sometimes am afraid to die, Rewound at thy right hand? Among thy saints let me be found. Whenr’er th’ arrhangel's trump shall sound. To see thy smiling face. Then loudest of the throng I’ll sing While heaven’s resounding arches ring With shouts of sovereign grace. STATE NEWS. Items ol Interest Culled From Our Exchanges. Ridgeway had a municipal election last week'. Dispenser Dixon, of Camden, lias tendered l.is resignation to tin* board of eontrol. A eotton mills for the inanufaeture of fine goods only is to be built near Wei forth Spartanburg has been visited by burglars. Four t raui| s are sus|H*eted and have been arrested. Gov.T.liman has formelyannounced his candidacy for the Senate in oppo sition to Senator Butler. Rev. R. G. Pearson is eondueting a revival at Anderson, Mr. Person is an eloquant and purstiave work. The pulley for the Spartanburg Mill arrived last Thursday, and the mill will soon he in operation again. The Powhatan Clay Manufacturing Co. of Grover, have began the ship ment of clay. It is said to be the finest in the l\ S. The sealed verdict left by the jury in the ease of Travers vs. Jennings, tried in Greenville, was opened Satur day. It was for the plnntiff for .fS'.Mt. James R. Tindall, agent of the South Carolina railway at Aiken, is reported a 1 tout $S,(MN) ,-hort in his accounts, lit* Is said to he in Bir mingham. “Reformers'’ will hold a number of big meeting this week. On Saturday four counties will act. These are Sumter, Orangeburg, Darlington, and Clarendon. J. K. Jarnegmi lias been selected to take the position of chief clerk in the Public Land Department, made vac ant by the np|K>intment of Col Win. Wallace to tlie post mastership of Col umbia, Gov. Tillman has written* a letter to the mayor and city council of Dar lington notifying them that they cannot expect any of tin* revenue from the dispensary because of their appearant lack yf interest in the enforcement of the dispensary law. Monday night the store of T. G. Hughes, at Rccdville, was destroyed by fire. Huges lost between $4(10 and .f.’SNi, only a portion of his stock being destroyed. The building was t lie propert y of T. C. Wakefield and was partially insured. The fire was tlie work of an incendiary. Last Saturday evening about sun down three convicts escaped from the fnrni of Woods A Linly, near Mount Bethel. They overpowered the guard and look Ids Winchester rifle and pistol away from him and walked off. The guard had six convicts with him hut only three left, the others com ing hack to tile stockade with the guard. One of them, Walter Lowe, was sent up from Ixiureiis court and consequently has only been a convict for one month. Lowe has been cap tured. On Sunday night, a fast through freight from Florida to New York over tin* Coast Line road was wrecked at the Pee Dee Junction. The train had broken in two some miles hack, hut no one knew (t. The engineer stopped at the approach to the bridge to see thalthiwdrnw was all right. When In* sloped the second portion of the train eaiiie down upon him at a high rate of speed. Several carloads of vegetables, were smashed to pieces. Two carloads of oranges were dumped out in lie swamp. Two ears of oil were also smashed and one was driven very nearly through a ear filled with com preset! eotton. No one was hurl in the wreck. __ Mr. Klierhe, J. G. Evans. W. 1). Evans and Dr. Poja*, candidates for governor and Duncan, Farley and Stanyurne Wilson, candidates for congress front thi« district, spoke at Spartanburg last*’SitturdHy. Shell and MeLaurin were on hand. After the other speakers hud said their say MeLaurin was ealied on and said he wished to defend his record ns a re former. When asked the question he said he would support Tillman if lie stood on a reform platform. !|e paid his respects to Editor (hupt in tin* most approved style on account of some recent remarks of the Pied mont Headlight. Captain Shell fo!- lowed by giving an account of I is doing in congress and his conneetion with the reform movement. Dr. Benjamin Wofford died at his home in Spurtundurg lust Sunday evening, lie was Ixirn in DJl'J at He bron in this county. He lias prac ticed medicine, synted as probate judge and school commissioner. Dr. Wofford was related to Benjamin Wof ford. the founder of Wofford College, and was one of the executors of Ida will. He was also a trustee of the college for a number of years. He was a member of the Methodist church, and very active in Sunday School work, and did a great deal for the cause of temperance in this coun ty. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. W. T. W. Waite and Mrs. Holcomb, of Cross Anchor. The sympathy of many friends and ac quaintances will go out to them in their sorrow. Hello Central. Now that the patent on the Bell telephone lias expired, there is much activity among the renters and pat rons of telephones. Several companies are now in the field asking the people for patronage. There is no need of costly rentals now. Telephones can he bought outright and operated by their owners as are sewing machines or other personal property. A few months rental under the old system will now pay for an outfit and enable the owner to enjoy the great privilege of using this modern inven tion at a nominal cost. Private residences can now he served at a rate within the reach of the com paratively poor. A movement is on the tapis to or ganize and to obtain united action for the purpose of putting in tele phone eonneetions with Spartanburg. Greenville, Greers. Reidville, Paeolet, Clifton, Glendale, Woodruff, Pelzer, Cedar Falls, Williamston, Easley, Pickens and Cowpens. This would he a great blessing to this part of the country. We most sincerely hope it will he carried out as s«x>n as possible. Now is the time for action, before there are complica tions caused by foreign corporations seeking the field. Dr. W. B. DuPrc is much interested in I his enterprise. Should the movement succeed, in addition to the facilities for business that its completion would afford, think of the pleasure of social inter course over the wire with our neigh bors at a distance. One speaker, lecturer, singcrj or chestra, or hand could entertain audi ences at each pointwhere instruments are on the circuit. An orchestra or hand in Sputunhurg can play to a house at Gaffney or elsewhere at the same time. Let it come! Give us the telephone eonneetions on a cheap basis. Go ahead, doctor, you have our best wishes. — -• •- —• A Mad Dog Scare. Mr. E. W. Wood, the efficient telegrapher of tlie firm J. F. Britton A <’o., and Mr. Britton, were the joint owners of a valuable bird dog which they prized very higlUy. The dog was rearing a most beautiful litter of pup pies and they were just beginning to become playful and attractive. Last week the not her displayed evidences of hydrophobia and the owners had chief Camp to shoot her and the little ones. The gentlemen disliked very much to have them killed, hut though it host to do so. Besides these there have been quite a number of dogs killed within the past week, all supposed to lie mad. —— * Church Calendar The Gaffney Baptist Chureli—Rev. B. P. Robert son, Pastor; services every Sunday at 1 I a. in. and X MNI p. m.; Sunday School !l: lo a. in.; Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at X :()<); services ai Factory second. Sunday at "< p. m. The Methodist Church—Rev. Mr. Boyd, Pastor; 1st Sabbath. Gaffney. II a. in.; Beulah, :i p. in ; Gaffney, 7 . JO p. m. ; 2(1 Sahhuth, Wilson's Chapel, ! I a. in.: Gaffney, 7:Jl>p. m; ild Sahhuth. Gel' euiane, lla. in.; Factory 7 :!I0p. ei. : itli Sabbath, Asbury, II a. m.; Gaffney, 7 :H0 p. m. Episcopal Church—Services every fourth Sunday at II o'clock a. in. and afternoon at o o’clock. — •- School Commissioner, B, B. Chn| - iitan, advertises the examination of applicants for teachers to he held in S|M»rtanhurg, June 20th and 21st. • — — Drinking Water. With regard to drinking waters the purest is that which conies from deep springs or deep wells, where the access of surface water is guarded against, or from lakes at high alti tudes. These waters as a rule are very palatable. The most dangerous waters to drink are those that are stored in the form of rainwater or surface water running over cultivat ed lands, as these absorb alj tho im purities that they, come hi contact with. Rivey water is always dan- geVaus, as it invariably becomes con taminated ith sewage. Water from shallow wells absorbs surface drain age and may be always considered utterly unfit for drinking purposes. —Gentleman's Magazine. A LlncolQ-tluQtL Coincidence. I hove been told by a gentleman, vho says that his statement can be verified, that after President Lincoln was shot ho was carried across the street into a boarding house and placed upon a bed in the room of one of tho boarders. That boarder was an actor and a close friend of John Willies Booth, who on the afternoon of the fatal Friday had called on his chum, thrown himself down on the bed, and after chatting awhile fallen asleep. It was a remarkable coinci dence surely that the murderer and the murdered should lu; •. »* occupied the same pout u •> *hiu th*.* 24 hours. —Polly Pry iu New York Recorder. Pulling Up a Train. If a train moving at the speed of 25 miles an hour were suddenly stopped, the passengers would ex perience a shock equal to that of fajj^ ing from a second floor window at 80 miles an hour $*nightj well fall from * »«■ of stairs, and/ Personal Paragraphs. — Mr. Edwin Walterx, who has been here for the pant six weeks, in the in terest of mining, started for his home in Kansas City, Mo., yesterday. Mr. Walters is a genial, whole-souled gen tleman, an able debater and a pretty story teller. His “Injun” and “B’ar” stories will long be remembered by his host of friends in Gaffney. We hope soon to see him here again. J. E. Dawson old reliable erueker drummer was in town this week. S. F. Met'antsA Frank White two popular drummerf were in town this week. Mr. A Mrs. J. S. Littlejohn have been visiting the family Mr. It. A. Jones. Miss Fannie Littlejohn is visiting her sister Mrs. R. A. Jones. Fred G. Stacy, went to Georgia last week on business. He returned yes* terday. J, A. Carroll took u flying trip to Spartanburg last Wednesday. Miss Georgia Hamrick of Boiling Springs, N. (’. was here Wednes day. Dr. Wood, one of Boiling Springs enterprising citizens, was in tlie city Wednesday. Mrs. Dye and daughter, of Blacks burg, were here to spend Easter with tlie family of Mr. Sum Ross. A. N. Wood went to Spartanburg Monday. He is interested in tlie tax assessment. Miss Minnie Roberts has returned to her home at. Ninety-Six. After cheering many hearts and helping the sick to gel well, like a ray of light she departed as quietly as she come. ^ in. Borders, one of Blacksburg’s liverymen, was here Wednesday. M. A. McCraw, of State Line spent Wednesday in tho city. Mr. Henry Ross took a trip to Col umbia yesterday. He rode his wheel to I’acolet and took the train at that point. Missess Annie Hackney and Kate Montgomery spent Easter Sunday in Spartanburg. Miss Winona Durst a student of the Cooper Limestone Institute, paid a visit to her home at Greenwood, S. C. last week. J. D. Jefferies, Jr. a prominent far mer of Asbury was here hist Saturday on business. CliasA. Petty, nowwithJ.II. Sloan, cotton buyer, of Charlotte.spent Eas ter with relatives in tlie city. He takes The ledokk and speaks in high est praise of it. J. F. Holland spent Easter Sunday at Ids home in Gastonia N. C. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Garrett have been visiting relatives and friendsat King's Mountain, N. C. Boyd Humes went home last Sun day and returned Tuesday. Boyd’s smile was broader than it usually is. if that be possible. While at home he accomplished a feat many of the resi lient s of Gaffney will never he able to accomplish. In that short space of t ime he evoluted from a hoy to a man and us a reward he wears a most beaii- tiful gold watch which was evidently mnnufactured for more delicate hands to handle and which, more than like ly, more dffiiraU* hands will handle sooner or hirer. F. A. Goforth of Sunny side Sf C. was in our city Friday. Mr Henry Jenkins of Island Ford N. C. was in our city Thursday. S. R. Humphries a pmmim nt farmer of ByarsvilJ* A'. C. was fn town Wed nesday. / Mr. Ft. C. Whit ner of Greenville S. C. is spending a few days here in the interest of the Mutual Lift* Insur ance Co, of Loiiist iilc Ky. Mr. \\ hit ner is an eflicciit insurance man and represents a splendid com pany. R. C. Thomson has returned home after an absence of some days in Chester. - — -*•» • The Suggestion Approved. Editor Lkikiek: Bear Sir: Your article in la^t week’s paper in regard to a new hotel is a step in the right direction. Keep the ball a rolling until some of our moneyed men begin to realize that there really must he some fin* where there is so much smoke. ! think I can demonstrate almost to a certainty that there Is money in it to the inves tor, in direct dividends, to say noth ing of tlie benefits to be derived indi rectly from the establishment of a first-class hotel in our town, it will he not only an attraction for tlie traveling public, but will induce many visitors from the low country to spend the summer months here, which they do not do now for want of comfortable roomy apartments. Our town and vicinity offer good, level roads, a pleasant climate, beautiful scenery, and a number of places of historical interest, and our noted Old Limestone Xprings with its beautiful shady grove, once seen and enjoyed, will, like a magnet, attract the visi tor againU^l^guauy miles away. i"i It con- ;, hut in point oft' Iron a foxy ^ jepaJ .V i wt GARROLL & STACY,-- . ‘ !I3LilOHUAS'J3 JiiTAN A HAIVKISRS, i ‘ * *1 r . I/* i i ] { T Pransact a (tciiiTal Banking Business. >’ m /. it Careful attention to collections on till points. Safety Deposit Boxes Inside.’ Fire Proof Vault for Bent. Your patronage Solicited. L. baker, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. DKAUJCK IIV Sash, * Blinds, i Doors, and all kinds of Building Materials. Flans and specifications for build ings made on short notice. Liyery and Feed Stables. rs for drivers and Farm ers. who want to buy.sell or exchange. I make a Specialty of Feeding Stock. First-class turnouts at reasonable rates. Cattle and Hogs bought and sold. J. G. Spencer, Proprietor. :v. wooi>, I1A IN ICICI?, Gaffney, - - S. C. Having just pundmsed a HERRING-H ALL-MARVIN BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE -WITII- Automatic Bolt Wo»-k —AND Time Lock and Safety Deposit TrlOJXOS-*, V: i11 be better prepared D iu ever to take care of my customers funds. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate, rent. County claims bought. Exchange bought and sold. J. E. WEBSTER, A. t - % Gaffney City, S. C. Bract ices in all the courts, t’oilcc tions n specialty. R. 4k D. R. R. SCHEDULE. WASH I NOTON TO \TI.A\TA. Leave] [Arrive No. 14. No. 12 A. M. P. M. 11 01.. Washington. . • 2 no •) tiO • • Danville... V*iF l». M. 1*. M. 12 (NI.. Charlotte... 8 10 12 M.. Gastonia..., 7 21 1 47.. Blacksburg.. (126 2 07.. GAFFNEYS. . 6 07 ft INI. . Spartanburg., 5 21 1 52.. <ireenville... 11 16 lO In p . m Atlanto.... a. m. 0 nO Condensed Schedule, R. & D. R. R. SOUTH HOUND. No. 11. . .2.07 j). m •17. Vestibule . 11.05 a m NORTH HOUND. No. 12. • •• a ....... .. 6.07 p m 30, f'hij,' .. 1.03 a m 3X. 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