The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, April 13, 1894, Image 3
“I WAS A STRANGER.”
AN
INTERESTING DISCOURSE
TO THE THRONG
Which 1 Gathered at the Great Brooklyn
Tabernacle to Hea; Dr. Ta 1 -
mage—The Undercur-
rent of Life.
wake* bn
•ion upon them, hut t
Brooklyn, April 8.—Before no au
dience in the world could Mich a wr-
mon as Rev. Dr. Talmnge prcaehwl to-
day be eo appropriate as in the Brookljnt
Tabetnaele, where it ir> estimated that
100,000 Btrangera attend every year. It
waa a sermon that had for them a spe
cial interest. The text selected was Mat
thew xxv, 85, “I waa a stranger, and ye
took me in. ‘ ’
It is a moral disaster that jocosity has
despoiled so many passages of Scripture,
and my text is one that has suffered from
irre-erent and misapplied quotation. It
•hows great poverty of wit and humor
when people take the sword of divine
truth for a game at fencing or chip off
from the Kohinoor diamond of inspira
tion a siMirklc to decorate a fool’s cap.
My text is the salutation in the last
Judgment to be given to those who have
•hown hospitality and kindness and
Christian helpfulness to strangers. By
railroad and steamboat the population of
the earth are nil the time in motion, and
from one year’s end to another our cities
are .crowded with visitors.
Every morning on the tracks of the
Hudson River, tho Pennsylvania, the
Erie, the Long Island railroads there
come passenger trains more than I can
number, so that all the depots and the
wharves are a-rumble and a-dang with
the coming in of a great immigration of
strangers. Rome of tlx>m come for pur
poses of barter, some for mechanism,
■ome for artistic gratification, some for
aightaeeing. A great many of them go
out on tho evening trains, and couse-
Jmt little impres-
thore"
tudes who in the hotels and boarding
houses make temporary residence. They
tarry here for three or four days or as
many weeks. They sjKmd the .lays in
the stores and the evenings in sightsee
ing. Their temporary stay will make or
break them not only financially,Imt mor
ally, for this world and the world that is
•o come. Multitudes »f them come into
our morning and evening services. I am
MBBcions that I stand in tho presence of
many this moment. I desire more espe
cially to speak to them. May (Jod give
ms the right word and help me to ntter
it in tho right way.
STItAMiERS WITHIN THE OATES.
There have glided into this house
those unknown to otljers whoso history
If told would be more thrilling than the
deepest tragedy, more exciting than Pat
ti’s song, more bright than a spring
morning, more awful than a wintry
midnight. If they could stand up here
and tell the story of their pscupes, and
their temptations, and their bereave
ments, and their disasters, mid their vic
tories, and their defeats, there would be
in this house such a commingling of
groans and acclamations as would make
the place unendurable.
There is a man who, in infancy, lay
in a cradle satin lined. Out yonder is a
man who was picked np a foundling on
Boston common. Hore is a man who is
coolly observing this religious service,
expecting no advantage and caring for
no advantage for himself, while yonder
!• a man who has been for 10 years in
an awful conflagration of evil habits, and
he la a mere cinder of a destroyed na
ture, and he is wondering if there sliall
be in this sen-ice any escape or help for
hi> immortal soul Meeting you only
once perhaps face to face, I strike hands
With you in an earnest talk nlxmt your
preaent condition and yonr eternal well
Ming. 8b Paul’s ship at Melitawent to
pieces where two seas meet, hut we staud
today at a point M-here a thousand seas
converge, and eternity alone can tell the
laaue of the honr.
The hotels of this country, for beauty
and elegance, are not surpassed by the
hotels in any other land, hut those that
are most celebrated for brilliancy of tap
estry and mirror cannot give to the
guest any costly apartment unless he can
Rfford a parlor in addition to his lodg
ing. The stranger, therefore, will gen
erally find assigned to him a room with
out any pictures amf perhajM any rock
ing chair. He will And a box of matches
on a bureau and an old newspaper left
by the previous occupant, and that will
be about all the ornamentation. At 7
o’clock in the evening, after having tak
en his repast, he will look over his mem
orandum book of the day’s work, he will
write a letter to his home, and then a
desperation will seize upon him to get
oufc Von hear the great city thundering
under your windows, and you say, “I
most join that procession,” and in 10
minutes you have joined it Where are
you going? “Oh,” you say, “I haven't
made up my mind yet.” Better make
up your mind before you start. Perhaps
the very way you go now you will al
ways go. Twenty years ago there were
two young men who came down tho As
ter House steps and started out in a
wrong direction, where they have been
going ever since
STUDIES or HUMAN LIFE.
“Well, where are you going'” says
one man. “I am going to the academy
to hear some music. ” Good. 1 would
like to join yon at tho door. At the tap
of the orchestral baton all tho gates of
harmony and boaaty will open before
your soal I congratulate you. Where
•re you going? “Well, ” you say, ‘‘1 am
going up to see some advwtis**! pic
tures. ” Good. I should like to go along
with you and look over the same cata
logue and st\jdy with you Kcnsett and
Btersta.lt and Chnreh and Moran. Noth-
more elevating than good pictnres.
.Where are you going? “Well, ” you say,
J”I am going np to the Young Men’s
iChristian association rooms.” Good.
You will find there gymnastics to
|strengthen the muscles, and books to im
prove the mind, and Christian influence
to save the soul. J wish every city In
the United States hud aafine a palace for
It* Young Men’s Christian association
M York has. Where are you go*
ing't ’‘Well,” you say, "I am going to
take a hmg walk up Broadway and so
turn around into tho Bowe ry. I am go
ing to study human life!” Good. a.
walk through Broadway nt 8 o'clock at
Bight is interesting, < ring, fasciuat-
appalling, exhilarating to the last
’fegree. Stop in front of that theater
•nd see who g<*w in. Stop at that saloon
mil see who conics out. Hoe tho great
tide* of life surging backward and tor-
mid h-Miny ogmust the marble of
the curbstone and eddying down Into
the saloons. What is that mark on tho
face of that debauchee? It is the hectic
flesh at eternal death. What is that
woman’s laughter? It is the shriek of a
lost son).
Who is that Christian man going
along with a vial of anodyne to the dy
ing pauper on Elm street? Who is that
belated man on tho way to a prayer
meeting? Who is that city missionary
going to take a box in which to bury a
child? Who are all these clusters of
bright and beautiful faces?. They are go
ing to some interesting place of amuse-
meat
Who is that man going into the drug
store? That is the man who yesterday
lost all his fortune on Wall street. He is
going in for a dose of belladonna, and
before morning it will make no differ
ence to him whether stocks aro up or
down. I tell you that Broadway, be
tween 7 and 12 o’clock at uight, between
the Battery and Central Park, is an Aus-
terlitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where
kingdoms are lost or won and three
worlds mingle in the strife.
• life's dark side.
I meet another coming down off the
hotel steps, and I say, “Whore aro you
going?” Yon say: “I am going with a
merchant of New York who has prom
ised to show me the underground life of
the city. lam his customer, and he is
going to oblige me very much. ” Stop!
A business house that tries to get or keep
your custom through such a process as
that is not worthy of you. There are
business establishments in our cities
which have for years been sending to
destruction hundreds and tho. sands of
merchants. They have a seer t drawer
in the counter where money is kept, and
the clerk goes and gets it when he wants
to take these visitors to tho city through
the low slums of the place.
Bhall I mention the names of some of
these great commercial establishments?
I have them on iny lips. Shall I? Per
haps I had better leave it to the young
men who in that process have been de
stroyed themselves v. bile they have b 'on
destroying others. I care not how high
sounding the name* of a commercial es
tablishment if it proposes to get custom-
ers or to keen them by such a process as
that. Drop* They
will cheat you before you geF tlirongu.
They will send you a style of goods dif
ferent from that which you bought by
sample. They will give you under
weight. There will be in the package
half a dozen less pairs of suspenders than
you paid for. They will rob you. Oh,
you feel in your pockets and say, “Is my
money gone?” They have robbed you of
something for which dollars ami cents
can never give you compensation.
When one of those weshm nicrelnods
has been dragged by one of those com
mercial agents through tho slums of the
city, he is not fit to go home. The mere
memory of what he has seen will he
moral pollution. I think you bad hotter
let the city missionary and the police at
tend to the exploration of New York and
underground life. You do not go to a
smallpox hospital for the purpose of < x-
ploratiou. You do not go there bee. m e
you are afraid of contagion. Am 1 . y< t
you go into the presence of u iuoi i.1 b p-
rosy that is as much more dan;;, rons to
you as the death of the soul in worse
than the death of tho body. I will un
dertake to say that nine-tenths of the
men who have been ruined in our cities
have been ruined by simply going to ob
serve without any idea of participating.
The fact is that underground city life is
a filthy, fuming, reeking, pestiferous
depth which blasts the eye that looks at
it. In the reign of terror in 17112 in
Paris people escaping from the officers
of the law r got into the sewers of the
city and crawled and walked through
miles of that awful labyrinth, stifled
with the atmosphere and almost dead,
some of them, when they came out to
the river Seine, where tin y washed
themselves and again breathed tho fresh
air. But I have to tell yon that a great
many of the men who go on the work of
exploration through the underground
gutters of New York life never come out
at any Seine river where they can wash
off the pollution of tho moral sewage*.
Stranger, if one of the representatives
of a commercial establishment proposes
to take you and show you the “sights”
of the town and underground New York,
say to him, “Please, sir, what part do
you propose to show me?”
EXPIAJIUNO THE SLUMS.
About 16 years ago as a minister of
religion I felt I had a div ine commission
to explore, tho iniquities of our cities. I
did not ask counsel of my session or my
presbytery or of the newspapers, but
asking the companionship of threo
prominent police officials and two of the
elders of my church I unrolled my com
mission, and it said: “Son of man, dig
into t % jdl. And when I had diggi^l
into t behold a door, and ho said
go in /see the wicked abominations
that .’mo here. And I went in and
saw and behold!” Brought up in the
country and surrounded by much pa
rental care, I had not until that time seen
the haunts of iniquity. Jiy the grace of
God defended, I had never sowed my
“Wild oats. ”
I had somehow been abbs to toll from
various sources something alsmt the in
iquities of the great cities and to preach
against them, but I saw in the destruc
tion of a great multitude of the people
that there must be an infatuation and a
temptation that had never been spoken
about, and 1 said, “1 will explore.” I
saw thousands of men going down, and
if there had been a spiritual is rcussion
answering to tho physical percussion
the whole air would have been full of
the rumble and roar and crack and tlmn-
meu, and not wifli the spirit of curiosity,
but ihat you may seo sin in order the
better to combat it, then, in the name of
tho eternal God, go? But, if not, then
stay away. ”
Wellington, standing in the battle of
Waterloo when the bullets were buzzing
around his head, saw a civilian on the
field. He said to hira: “Sir, what are
you doing here? Be off!” “Why,” re
plied the civilian, ‘ ‘there is no more dan
ger hero for me than there is for you. ”
Then Wellington flushed up and said,
“God and my country demand that I be
here, but you have no errand here.
Now I, as an officer in the army of
Jesus Christ, went on that exploration
and on to that battlefield If you bear
a like commission, go. If not. ittay away.
But you say, “Don't you think that
somehow the description of those places
induces people to go and seo for them
selves?” I answer yes, just as much as
the description of yellow fever in some
scourged city would induce people to go
down there and get the pestilence.
But I may he addressing some stran
ger already destroyed Where is he, that
I may pointedly yet kindly address him?
Come back and wash in the deep foun
tain of a Saviour’s mercy. I do not give
you a cup, or a chalice, ora pitcher with
a limited supply to effect yonr ablu
tions. I point you to the five oceans of
God’s mercy. Oh, that the Atlantic and
Pacific surges of divine forgiveness
might roll over your soul! As tho glori
ous sun of God’s forgiveness rides on to
ward the mid heavens ready to submerge
you in warmth and light and love I bid
you good morning. Morning of peace -
for all your troubles. Morning of li! (ora
tion for all your incarcerations.' Morn
ing of resurrection for your soul buried
in sin. Good morning! Morning for the
resuscitated household that has been
waiting for your return. Morning for
the cradle and the crib already disgraced
with being that of a drunkard’s child.
Morning for the daughter that has
trudged off to hard work because you
did not take care of home. Morning for
the wife who at 40 or 50 years has tho
wrinkled face, and the stooped shoulder,
and the white hair. Morning for one.
Morning for all. Good morning! In
God’s name, good morning 1
BEFORE PITFALLS.
In our last dreadful war tho Fcderals
and tl^^eratcs wore encamped on
opposite sides of the ^Jiahannock, and
us when we were crossing a very steep
and dangerous place, and he would
lighten the girth of the hone and
straighten the saddle. And I have to tell
you that this road of life is so steep and
full of peril we must at least one day
in seven stop and have the harness of
life readjusted and our souls re-equip
ped. The seven days of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each one his share, or the
business will be broken up God is so
generous with us—he has given you six
days to his one. Now, here is a father
who has seven apples, and he gives six
to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for
the other one and loses all the six.
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lord’s day away from
home! A great many who are consistent
on the banks of the St. Lawrence, or the
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con
sistent when they get so far off as the East
river. I repeat—though it is putting it
on a low ground—you cannot financially
afford to break the Lord's day. It is
only another Vay of tearing up your
government securities and putting down
the price of goods and blowing up your
store. I have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath.
They ent a little ->f the Sabbath off that
end and a little of the Sabbath off this
end. They do not keep the 84 hours.
The Bible says, “Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy. ”
I have good friends who are quite ac
customed to leaving Albany by the mid
night train on Saturday night and get
ting home before church. Now, there
may be occasions when it is right, but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
should run off the track into the North
river? I hope your friends will not send
to me to preach yonr funeral sermon. It
would be an awkward thing for me to
stand up by your side and preach, yon,
a Christian man, killed on a rail train
traveling on a Sunday morning. “Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy. ” What does that mean? It means
24 hours. A man owes you a dollar. You
don’t want him to pay you 00 cents.
You want the dollar. If God demands
of us 24 hours out of the week, he means
24 hours and not 10. Oh, we want to
keep vigilantly in this country the
American Sabbath and not have trans
planted here the European Sabbath,
which for the most part is no Sabbath at
LOCAL LEDGERITES.
one morning the brass band J^any of you have been in Paris, you
dor of tho demolition, and this moment,
if we should pause In our service, wo
should hear the crush, crash! Just ns in
tho sicklv season ynn sometimes hear
the bell at the gate of tho eometoi'y
ringing almost incessantly, so I found
that the bell rt tho gate of the cemetery
where ruined souls are buried was toll
ing by day and tolling by night, I (aid,
”1 will explore. ”
I went as a physician goes into a fever
lazareto to we what practical mid useful
information I might get. That would bo
it foolish doctor who would stand outside
{he door of an invalid writing a Latin
prescription. When the lecturer in a
(nodical college is done with his lecture,
|ie takes the students into tho dissecting
room, and ho shows them (lie reality. I
went and saw mid came forth to my pul
pit to report a plague and to toll how
sin dissects the body and dissects the
mind and dissects the soul. “Oh,” suy
yon, “are you got afraid that in Jm-
qnence of such exploration of the iniqui
ties of the city other jier.Noim might make
exploration and do themselves damage?”
I reply: “If in company with the com
missioner of police, and the captain of ( iaill y JUU 4mu
police, and tho inspector of police, and j to the Tip-Top House, and the
to* oomuauv uf twy Chj'istiuu aeutie- would oomu around tq.oujr
era troops played the national air, and
all the northern troops cheered and
cheered. Then on the opposite side of
the Rappahannock the brass band of the
Confederates played “My Maryland”
and “Dixie,” and then all the southern
tre-ops cheered and cheered. But aftei
awhile one of the bauds struck up
“Home, Sweet Home,” and the band
on the opposite side of tho river took up
the strain, and when the tune was done
tho Confederates and the Federals all
together united as tho tears rolled down
their cheeks in one great huzza, huzza!
Well, my friends, heaven comes very
near today. It is only a stream that
divides us, the narrow stream of death,
and the voices there and the voices here
seem to commingle, and wo join trum-
pets and hosannalis and hallelujahs, and
the chorus of tho united song of earth
ami heaven is “Home, Sweet Home.”
Home of bright domestic circle on earth.
Home of forgiveness in the great heart
of God. Home of eternal rest in heaven.
Home! Home! Home!
But snpiiose you aro standing on a
crag of the mountain and on the edge
of a precipice, and all unguarded, and
some one either in joke or hate shall
run up behind you and push you off. It
is easy enough to push you off. But who
would do so dastardly a deed? Why, this
is done every hour of every day and ev
ery hour of every night. Men come to
the verge of city life and say: “Now,
wo will just look off. Come, young man,
do not bo afraid Come near let us look
off.” He comes to the edge and looks
and looks until, after awhile, sutan
sneaks up behind him and puts a hand
on each of his shoulders ami pushes him
off. Society says it is evil proclivity on
the part of that young man. Oh, no!
He was simply an explorer and sacrificed
his life in discovery.
A young man comes in from the coun
try bragging that nothing can do him
any harm. He knows about all the tricks
of city life. “Why, ” he says, “did not I
receive a circular in the country telling
me that somehow they found out I was
a sharp business n-au, and if I would
only send a certain amount of money by
mail or express; charges prepaid they
would send a package with which I could
make a fortune in two months, but I did
not believe it. My neighbors did, but
I did not. Why, no man could take my
money. I carry it in a pocket inside my
vest. No man could take it. No man
could cheat mo at the faro table. Don’t
I know all alxmt the ’cue Isix, ’ and the
dealer’s box, and the cards stuck to
gether as though they were one, and
when to hand in my checks? Oh, they
can’t cheat ms. I know what I am
about, ’ ’ while at the same time, that very
moment,such men are succumbing to the
worst satanie influences in the simple
fact that they are going to observe.
Now, if a man or woman shall go down
into a haunt of iniquity for the purpose
of reforming men and women or for the
sake of being able intelligently to warn
people against such perils; if, as did
John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thom
as Chalmers, they go down among the
abandoned for the sake of saving them,
then such explorers shall he God pro
tected, and they will come out better
than when they went in. But if you go
pn this work of exploration merely for
the purpose of satisfying a morbid curi
osity I will take 20 per cent off your
moral character.
A PEUIUH'8 ROAD.
Sabimth morning comes. Yon wake
up in (ho hotel. You have had a longer
sleep than usual. Yon say: “Where am
I? A thousand miles from home? I have
no family to t;iLo to church today. My
pastor will not expect my presence. 1
think 1 shall look over my accounts auc(
study my memorandum Issik. Then I
will write u few business letters and
talk to that merchant who mine in on
the same train with me. ” Stop! You
cannot afford to do it.
‘■'But,” you say, “I am worth $500,-
000.” You cannot afford to do it. You
say, "I am worth *1,000,000.” Yon
cannot aff-ad to do it. A 1 you gain by
breaking the Sabbath you will lose. You
will lose tine of three things—your intel
lect, your moral* or your property—and
you cannot point in the whole earth to
a single exception tothis rule. God give*
us six days and keeps one for himself.
Now, if wo try to get the seventh, he
will upset the work of all the other six.
I remember going up Mount Washing
ton, before the railroad hud been built,
ide
know thaTon M)atB‘V™ in K the vast
population rush out toward fhiTBptry
with baskets and bundles, and toward
night they come back fagged out, cross
and intoxicated. May God preserve to ns
our glorious, quiet American Sabbaths.
Oh, strangers, welcome to the great
city I May you find Christ here, and not
any physical or moral damage. Men com
ing from inland, from distant cities,
have here found God and found him in
our service. May that be your case to
day. You thought you were brought to
this place merely for the purpose of sight
seeing. Perhaps God brought you to this
roaring city for the purpose of working
out your eternal salvation. Go back to
your homes and toll them how you met
Christ here, the loving, patient, pardon
ing and sympathetic Christ. Who knows
but the city which has been the destruc
tion of so many may be your eternal re
demption?
A good many years ago Edward Stan
ley, the English commander, with his
regiment, took a fort. The fort was
manned by some 800 Spaniards. Ed
ward Stanley came close up to the fort,
leading his men, when a Hpuniar 1
thrust at him with a spear, intending to
destroy his life, but Stanley caught hold
of the spear, and the Spaniard in at
tempting to jerk the spear away from
Stanley lifted him up into the battle
ments. No sooner had Stanley taken his
position on the battlements than, he
swung his sword, and his whole regi
ment leaped after him, and the fort was
taken. So it may be with you, O stran
ger. The city influences which have de
stroyed so many and dashed them down
forever shall be the means of lifting you
up into the tower of God’s mercy and
strength, your soul more than conqueror
through the grace of him who has
promised an especial benediction to
those who shall treat you well, saying,
"I was a stranger, and yo took me in. ”
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Church Calendar.
The Gaffney Baptist Chureh—Rev.
B. I*. Roller (son, Pastor; service*
every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 8:(K) p.
in.; Sunday School \)-Ao a. in.;
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at 8:00; services at Factory
second Sunday at H p. in.
The Methodist Church—Rev. G. M.
Boyd Pastor; 1st Sabbath. Gaffney,
lia. m.; Beulah, Jp. in ; Gaffney,
7:30 p. in,; 2nd Sabbath, Wilson’s
Chapel, II a. in.; Gaffney, 7:30p. in;
3rd Sabbath, Gethaemano, 11a.m.;
Factory 7:30 p.m.: 4th Sabbath,
Asbury, 11 a. in.; Gaffney, 7 :30 p. in.
Episcopal Church—Services every
fourth Sunday at II o’clock a. in. and
afternoon at 5 o’clock.
An Incident.
While services were Ixdngconduct
ed in one of our churches last Sun
day morning, and at if, {jme when al|
was quiet save tip* utteraiu'cs of the
vppmhlo man of God as he read the
Word, the sounds of an approaching
train reached tin* audience.The sound
grew more and more distinct until at
last it, begMii to wane and finally when
it could Im* heard hut faintly a little
piquant voice was, distinctly heard to
say “Hear dat t’uin?” It \vys one
of God’s little inpoectB*, H*'d yet It
caused a ripple of merriment to flow
over th«- entire audienee.
A Household Treasure,
D, W. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y.,
says that he always keeps Hr. King’s
New Disi overy in the house and his
family In s always found the very l>est
results follow its use; that he would
not l.e without it. if proetirable. G. A,
Dykcniun Drugist, Cutskill, N. Y.,
says that Hr. King's New Discovery
um’ouhtedly the best Cough reme-,
dy that he has used in his family for
eight years, and it has never failed to
do all that is elaimed for it. Why
not try a remedy so long tried and
tested. Trial bottles free at \V. H.
DuPre’s Drug Store, Regular oil
cents and *I(X). * •
Items Which Are Too Short for s Head
ing Bunched Together.
Louie Gaines is building a dwelling
on the lot he recently purchased on
Rutledge street.
The boys of the Seminary have
bought a base-ball outfit and will
soon be playing ball in regular city
style. We are glad to see the boys
undertake this enterprise as it tends
greatly toward building up a city.
Let the town boys imitate the exam
ple of the school boys or else join
hands with them.-
It is reported that there was a very
destructive fire on the5th inst. with
in two miles of our city, which de
stroyed 1,000 cords of pine wood, be
sides destroying much fencing and
burning over many acres of forest
land. Surely March and April have
exchanged places.
Gallant Jimmie Cook was in his
glory last Sunday. Pulling the rib
bons over the fastest st:ed of “Doc”
Spencer is much to his satisfaction,
but under such delightful circum
stances it lends an additional charm.
John Spencer and a Mr, Bonham
were with the excursion party which
“took in” Blacksburg and Cherokee.
There was a regular Spanish bull
fight here one day last week with the
“Spanish” omitted. John Spencer
was conducting a beef to the slaughter
pen when his beefship refused to be
conducted, and a fight ensued in
which the animal conquered, for the
time being, not only John, but his
numerous friends who volunteered
to assist him.
Miss Virgie Carroll gave a tea one
evening this week to her many young
friends. We have not been furnished
wiib a list of the attendants so they
have to be omitted.
Will Turner has a new wheel and
will endeavor to “turn-er” today
It will be of much service to him
making his trips to and from IJme-
stonefvening. Gus Abernathy
also has a new whet*. ^
Cotton has been coining in Irapui _
this week, more perhaps, than any
week since Christmas. The receipts
up to yesterday were 104 hales.
A good many of our boys took in
the circus at Blacksburg last Friday,
or the circus took them in. They
report having a good time.
J. G. Spencer has had a large awn
ing placed over the front of his beef
market to keep the butcher-boy at
bis place of business during the hot
summer days.
Street Superintendent J.B. Easterly
commcncod work on the streets with
a large force of hands Monday. Sage
ami Logan streets show the effects.
Barnett Lipscomb and the impro
vised fence at the corner of the Pres-
bgterian church had a diffi'-ulty Sun
day. Barnett tried to ride his wheel
over the fence when the wheel inter
posed an ohjeetion and flew up and
“biffed ’im in de jaw,” leaving a
slight iiruse.
J. T. Rogers lias a check
aii|4>unt of *2,(NNI from the K
to sett hi' tin* insurance on the
J. R. Jeffries. The moMcy
paid to Mrs. J. R. Jeffries. ' * -
Parties have been violating the law
relating to dynamiting fish in
Broad river. They are liable to be
prosecuted if they continue.
Drury Scruggs and Joe Price arc
after the delinquent tax payers with
warrants.
Several teams loaded with flour for
Calvin Whitman!, of Wilkinsville,
went out of town yesterday.
A revival is to Ik* started at the
Methodist church Sunday. Mr, Boyd
and his co-workers hope to do much
good.
CARROLL * STACY,U| EAL ^ATE.
rr - . . I HAVING opened a Rea
Transact a Oeneial Ranking| n change in this city
Business.
Careful attention to collections'
on all points.
Safety Deposit Boxes Inside,
Fire Proof Vault for Rent.
Your patronage Solicited.
L. BAKER,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
TJKAUICI* IIV
1 Estate Kx-
I invite the
patronage of any and all parties hav
ing Real Estate to Rent, Sell, or Ex
change.
^Prompt attention given to the col
lection of rents, etc.
'Those wishing to rent or purchase
estate should consult me before
uosing contracts.
rraY», amto Tile liens, mort-
JWes. t . t)l
Surveying a specialty.
■.Balsams,
f>(Tu-e in ifuiljj
iNotury Public.
mg.
Sash, *
and all kinds of
Building Materials.
Plans and specifications for build-
ings made on short notice.
A. N. "W<><>1>,
MAIVICRl*,
Gaffney, - - S. C.
Having just purchased a
The Limestone Dairy is prepared to
deliver Sweet and Butter-milk to its
patrons daily. Satisfaction guaran
teed. Your patronage solicited.
r^i .n Ksrro in k i>aiky.
F. G. BRIGGS, Proprietor.
J. E. WEBSTER,
HERRING-HALL-MARVIN jVttormvy-A1- I^i W ,
BURGLAR-PROOF SAFE
Gaffney City, S. C.
—with—
Automatic Bolt Work
—AND
'jne Lock and Safety Deposit
I will
than ever to
he better prepared
take care of
my customers funds. Safety
Deposit Box< at moderate,
rent. County claims bought.
Exchange bought and sold.
to the
of If.
life of
will he
Teachers’ Examination.
Caveat*, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-'
ent busineu conducted fur Moocaavc Fees.
Oun orricc is Opposite u.». rm.m,
and we eanMcure patent in lew tunc
remote from Washingimi.
Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip-'
tion. We advise, U patentable or not, free of'
charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. ,
' A PaMPMLgT. “ How to Obtain Patents," with
coat of same in the U. S. and foreign countries'
sent free. Address, <
C.A.SNOW&CO.l
Off. Patcnt Ornct. Wssminoton. O. C.
, FATCMT Office 1
than those'
w.
Practices in all the courts.
ions a specialty.
Collet-
R. & D.
R. R. SCHEDULE.
WASHINGTON TO ATI.AX
r.\.
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No. 11.
No. 12
M.
r. m.
11 01
Washington. ...
... 2 55
5 50
. Danville
.... 8 10
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.Charlotte
.... 8 10
12 50
.... 7 21
1 47
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... fi 20
2 07
• GAFFNEYS.
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a 21 -
1 52
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11 10
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D. R. R.
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>>'. COLUMBIA, SI*
AKTANHUKG
AND
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ION.
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No. 13
No. 14
7 15 a. m.
..Charleston ..
8 15 p. m.
10 00 p. m
.. .Columbia. . ■
1 00 p. ill.
5 50 p- m
Alsson ....
12 20 p. in.
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8 10 p. in
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10 HO p. m.
41 20 p. m
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-41,
Drugs, Medicines, ’
Paints and Oils,
on
he exam-
Friday,
nPHE next examination of teachers
* will be held at Spartanburg on
Friday and Saturday. 2Uth and 21st
of April.
Colored applicants will
hied in the Court House
20th of April,
Whites will Ut> examined in the
Magnolia stm-t grad' d school build
ing on Saturday, 21st April.
We make some change from the
usual order of holding the teachers’
examination to better accommodate
all parties interested.
Teachers will please note the
ehange.
The examination will liegin
promptly at 9:HO a. in. each day.
By order of the Board.
B. B. CHAPMAN,
School Commissioner.
Spartanburg, S, C March 2<», 1X!)4.
A I A he I font
I’rotoctloii from
I-rOHH l^ire
Is to insure with the most reliable
coin pan les. I represent the
.Etna of Hartford, with assets of
♦JO,8t»7.fifi7;
American Fire, of Philadelphia, with
assets of *2,1183.1 L'»;
Hartford, of Hartford, Conn., with
assets ol *7,378,0512;
Home, of New York, with assets of
*51.008,8111;
Penn Fire, of Philadelphia, with as
sets of *11, Hoi),058.
I can place any reason.qWe usA you
may have, IVui’l fail to cull heloi
o.mdwv'.Uii/i f<>/ your Insurance.
F. G. STACY
Tinted Leads, Dyes, Etc.
GAFFNEY BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION CO.
Real Estate and
Insurance Agents.
Merchandise Brokers and Dealers
in Cotton and Guano.
P. O. Building, Robinson St. - - Gaffney, S. C.
GAFFNEY * SEMINAR?
. , Co-education the order of the day. Eng
lish, Classicalj Mathematical and Business.
Bookkeeping a specialty.
Music and Art under the control of efficient
teachers.
Offers the same advantages tq^
as to young menu
Young men and young laj
tirely seperate apartments.
Our students easily obi
tions.
Terms made reasonj
sure of the times.
For catalogue and ft
dress either ortfie princii
W. F. MoAJ
P
ng ladies
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