The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, April 09, 1896, Image 5

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THE WEEKLY LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 9, 1896. THE Tn.’MXd POINT. MD GO TO MY PA TH T.n." '■ '> i’iO O!:! Fach- •’ r.ishionrd Way. • ■ . ;i iirs l Fcrjivenes* . -V ! ■—A nicst rad- ■ < -o ■ ’ O.n ( ik: of today ! ruos up and down at i ', . .; us invitation. 1 0 -v. ] , “I will arise * * r 4 iii:o hanger to take A hungry man : I'i n nor hand nor foot. Thuv .a h.. n many an army de feated rot.' u, ; i , ;• lack of ammuni tion as f<r lack cl fcre. d. It was that fact that to- .i the file out of this young man of ;!ia t ,.r. otorut and exposure will wear out ; y man’s life in time, but hunger n.: - quick work. The most awful cry c> r J. :rd on earth is the cry for bread. Atravder tells us that in Asia Miner there are trees which bear fruit Icokir;; very much like the long bean of cur te ;e. It is called the carob. Ouco in awl:i A the people, reduced to destitution, would oat these carobs, but “I WILL ft U«v. Dr. T..’ ion<-»i <lf» jm . Ttic I’ro ' t>y t’.ir 1 Wasiiiv. leal i ■ • oi by Dr. ’ 'ah tho v. ho! ' ;• His text w and ;;o tic There the rr.i can to ii' general!; homo l' i i til’ i i. ) to my father.' caicbs—tho beans spoken of here in the text—were thrown only to tho swine, and they crunched them with groat avidity. Hat this young man of my tout co’.;; i net * yen get them with out stc.ilia;; them, t o one day, amid the swine tie.,: ! . ho begins to soliloquize. Ho says: “Yhcso avo no clothes for a rich man’s m .1 to werr, This is no kind of busiue.-: i. r a dew to bo engaged in, feeding . \vi::a. I’ll go homo. I’ll go 1 kn-. - .. h. re arc a groat many people who try to throw a fascination, a 10- | manes, a halo, a'..mat sin; but, notwith- Btund;:y; all that. ! >rd Dyron and Georgo ' Sand have said in regard to it, it is u J inea:], J-av, contemptible business, and ! putting ft;' d and (\/ , .d‘ r into the troughs ' of a h.rd <T iniquities that root and wallow i.i tho ul of man is a very poor business far men and women in tended to bo sens and daughters of tho Lord Almighty, and when this young man resolved to go homo it was a very wise thing for him to do, and tho only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises largo wages if wo will servo him, but ho clothes his victims with rag:-, and Lo pinches them with hunger, and w hen they start out o. do better ho : at.-: a for them all tho blood- hcuudu of hell. !d it an comes to us today, and he promise.' all luxuries and emolu ments if wo wiii only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! “Tho wages of sin ia death. ” Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered tho resolution, “I will arise and go to my father!” In the time of ibl iivy, tho perse cutor, pci','CCU l 01’ (V.rU e to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house for tho Lord I’i! ike one of Christ’s servants, and tho persecutor said, “Where is that heretic':'” Tho Christian woman said, “Yon open that trunk, and you will see the heretic.” The persecutor opened the trunk, and on tho top of the linen of tho trunk ho saw a glass. Ho said, “There is no heretic hero.” “Ah !” she said. “You look in the glass, and you will see the heretic. ” Our Loat Concltticn, As I taka n;i tho mirror of God’s word today i would that instead of see ing tho prodigal of tho text wo might see ourselves—our want, our wander ing, our sin, our lost condition, so that wo might bo as wise as this young man was end say, “I will arise and goto my father.” The resolution of this text was formed in a disgust at bis present cir cumstances. If this young man hud been by his employer sot to culturing Cow ers, or training vines over an arbor, or keeping an account of tho pork market, or overseeing ether laborers, be would uot have thought of going home—if ho had had his pockets full of money ; if ho had been nblotoEay: “I have t’d.000 now of my own. What’s the uso of my going back to my father’s house? Do you think I’m going back to apologize to tho old man? Why, ho would put mo on tho limits'. Ho would not have going on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in. I won’t go home. There is no reason why I should go home. I have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings. Why should I go home?” Ah. it was his pau perism, it was his beggary! He had to go home. Somo man comes and says to mo: “Why do you talk about tho ruined state of the human soul? Why don’t you speak about the progress of the nine teenth century and talk of something more exhilarating?” It is for this rea son: A man never wants the gospel un til ho realizes ho is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should come to yon in your home, and you are in good, sound, robust health, and 1 should begin to talk about medicines, and about how much better this modicino is than that, and some other medicine than some other medicine, and talk about this phy sician and that physician. After awhile you would got tired, and you would say: "I don’t want to hoar about medicines. Why do you talk to mo of physicians? I never have a doctor. ” But suppose I come into your house, and I find you se verely sick, and I know the medicines that will cure you, and I know tho phy sician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say : “Bring on all that medicine; bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, and I want help.” If I como to you, and you feel you are all right in body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have noon of nothing, but suppose I have persuaded you that tho leprosy of sin is upon you, tho worst of all sickness. Oh, then you say, “Bring mo that balm of the gos pel; bring me that divine medicament; bring mo Jesus Christ.” “Bet,” sayshome one in tho audience, “how do you know that wo are in a ruined condition by sin?” Well, I can prove it in two ways, and you may have your choice. 1 can prove it either by tho statements of men or by tho statement of (Jod. Which shall it bo? You say, “Let us hare the statement of God. Well, ho says in one place, “The heart is deccitiul above all things and desper ately wicked. ” 1 h . ays in another place, “What is nan that 1: skoal 1 be eioau, and h:> which is horn of woman that ho should lcrighteous:” ilesays in asioth er place, “There is m 1:0 that d .ctii good —no, not cue.” He says ia another place, “As by 0:10 man ski entovrd lute the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon ail men, for that all had sinned.” “Well,’'you say, “I am willing to at know'edge that, but why should I take tho particular rescue that you propose?” This is the icas: a: “Hx- eopt a man be born agam ho cannot sc^ the kingdom of God. ” This is tho rea son: “There is one name given under heaven auton” men whereby they may bo saved.” Then there aro a thousand voices hero ready to say: “Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel I would like to have this divine cure. How shall I go to work?” Let mo say that a mere whim, an undefined longing, amounts to nothing. Yon must have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man of tho text V. lien he said, “I will arise pud go toiuy lather.” “Uh,” says some man, “how do 1 know my father wants me? How do I know if I go back 1 would bo received?” “Oh,” says some man, “you don’t know where I have been. You don’t k unv how far I have wandered. You wouldn’t talk that way to me if you knew all tho iniquities I have committed.” What is that llntter among tho angels of God? What is that horseman running with quick dis'patch? It is news! It is news! Christ has found tho lost. Nor rr.iTcla can their joy contain, lir.t kindle with rev.- tire. The sinm r 1<. t i;: found, they sing, And strike the sounding !\re. When Napoleon talked of going into Italy, they said: “You can’t get there. If you knew what tho Alps were, you wouldn’t talk about it or think about it. Yon can’t gat your ammunition wagons over the Alps.” Then Napoleon rose in his stirrups, and, waving his hand to ward tho mountains, ke said, “There shall be 110 Alps!” That wonderful pass was laid out which has been tho won derment of all the years since—the won derment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such mountains of sin be tween you? soul and God there is no mercy. Then 1 see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains. I hear him say, “I will como over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thinu iniquity.” There shall bo no Pyrenees; there shall bo no Alps. Again, I notice that this resolution of tho young man of my text wai founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that ho had so naltrcated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done every thing for a child to have that child un grateful. How sharjjcr than Kortvat’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. That is Shakespeare. “A foolish sou is tho heaviness of his mother.” That is tho Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of ns been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Three times a day lias lie fed thee. He has poured sunlight into thy day, and at night kind It'd up ail tho street lamps of heaven. With what vari eties of apparel he hath clothed then for tho seasons. Who c cyn watches thoo? Whoso hand defends thee: Whoso heart sympathizes with thee? Who gave you your children? Who is guarding your loved ones departed? Such a Father! So loving, so kind. If ho had been a stran ger, if lie hud forsal:-u us, if ho had flagellated us, if he had pounded us and turned us oat of doors 0:1 tho conminiH, it would not have la . n so wonderful— our treatment of him—hut ho is a Fa ther, so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for oar wanderings have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our friend’s feelings, if we do anything that hurts the feelings «.f those in whom we are interested, how quickly wo apologize! We can scarcely wait un til wo got pen and paper to write a let ter of apology. How easy it is for any one who is intellig nl, right hearted, to write an apology or mal.a an apolo gy! We apologize for wrong:: done to our fellows, but some of us pi rhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thou sand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still further that this resolu tion of tho text was found' d in a feel ing of hemesickm ss. I do not know how long this young man, how many months, how many years, he had been away from his father’s house, but there is some thing about tho reading of my text that makes mo think be was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from homo sometimes, surround ed by everything bright and pleasant— plenty of friends—you have said, “I would give the world to ho home to night. ” Well, this young man was homesick fur ids father’s houco. I havo no doubt when ho thought of his father’s house ho said, “Now perhaps father may not bo living. ” Wo read nothing in this story—this parable—founded on everyday life; wo read nothing about tho mother. It says nothing about going homo to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he hud gone into dissipation from tho fact th it ho could not remember a loving and sym pathetic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her, but he is homesick for his fa ther’s house. Ho thought ho would just like to go and walk around the old place. Ho thought he would just like to go and eeo if tilings were us they used to be. Many a man after having been oif a long while has gone homo and knocked at the door, and a stranger bus como. It is tho old homestead, lint a stranger comes to tho door. Ho finds out father is gone, and mother is gone, and broth ers and sisters are all gone. I think this young man of tho text said to himself, “Perhaps father may be dead." Still, he starts t< find out. Hois homesick. Are there any here today homesick for God, homesick for heaven? A sailor, uftor having been long on I tho sea, returned to his father’s honso, and his mother tried to persuade him hot to go away again. Like said: “Now, you had better stay at homo. Don’t go away. We don't want you to go. You will have it a great d r ;il better here.” But it made him angry. The night be fore ho went away again to sea ho heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. Ho went far out on the sea, and a storm came up, and he was ordered to very perilous duly, and ho ran up the rat lines, and amid the shrouds of the ship ho heard tho voice that lie had heard in tho next room. He tried to whistle it oif, ho tried to rally his courage. Lot ho could not si .ence the voire he had heard in the nextToom, andthrre in tho storm and darknes ho said: “O Lord, what a wretch I have been! VVliut a wretch I am! Help uj« just now, Lord God.” And I thought in this a: -3Kiblage today there may he come who may have the memory of a father’s petition or a mother’s prayer pressing mightily upon tho soul, and that this hour lluy may make the same resolution I find in my text, saying, “I will arise and go to ray father.” A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went out into the sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth, and he floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin tame along and took him on board, riailovs are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap, and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad’s clothes and took them homo, and the fa ther was heartbroken, the mother was heartbroken, at tho loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered tho usual mourning for tho and event. But the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the mourning arrived. Ea kneeki d at tho doer. The fa- i ther was overjoyed and the mother was j overjoyed at tho return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too I deep: Have you waded down into sin? ! Havo you waded from the sliore? Will , you come back? When yon como back, will yon come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Saviour’;- righteousness? I believe the latter. Go homo to your God today. Ho is waiting for yea. Go homo! T!icj Turains: Point, But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, it was immediately put into execution. Tho context says, “lie arose and came to his father.” Tho trouble in nine hundred and ninety-uinc; times out of a thousand is that our reso lutions amount to nothing hreuuso wo make them for some distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year,' that amounts to nothing at I re solve to become a Christian tomorrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I re solve at Jhe service this day to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go homo today to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of reso lution that amounts to anything is tho resolution that is immediately put into execution. There is a man • .mo had tho typhoid fever. Ho said : “ : ’h, if I could got over this terrible distress, if this fever should depart, if 1 could be restored to health, I would all tho rest of ray life serve God.” Tho fever departed. He got well enough to walk around tho block. He got well enough to go ov< r to basin : s. He Is well today—as well as ho ever was. Where is the broken vow? There is a man who said long ago, “If I could live to tho year IbbO, by that time I will have my bvsir.e:.:; matters all ar ranged, and I will .have time to attend to religion, and I will L-j a goad, thor ough, cons;crated Ckri. Man.” The year IbUfi has come. January, February, March, April—a third of tho year gone. Where is your b.ehrn vow? “Ob,” says some man, “I’ll ;1 to that when i get my character lixid 1.0, wir. .1 lean get over my evil habds. 1 am no,\v giv en to strong drink. ” Or, s. ys (ho man, “I am giv. a to unci ..nness. ” Or, rays the man, “ 1 am given to dishonesty. When i get over n:y present habits, thin I’ll he a thorough ( brnstiau." My bro: It er, you will get werso and worse until Christ takes yon in hand. “Not tho righteous, sinners Jesus < ..no to call.’” Oh, hut you say, “I u nco with you in all that, but I must put it olt a little longir. ” Do yon know tkero wero many who came just as near t.s you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it? 1 was at Eiislhampteu, and 1 went into the cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are Id graves sidoby side —the graves of suiluis. This crew, some years ago, in a ship wont into tho break ers at Amagansctt, about three miles away. My -brother, t!: n preaching at Easthamptou, had been at tho burial. These men of tho crew came very near being saved. Tho people from Amagan- Eott saw the vessel, and they shot rock ets, and tney s' nt ropes from the sliore, and these poor fellow.-g ;t into tho boat, and they pulled mightily for the : hero, but just before they gut to tho shore tho rope snapped and tho boat capsized, and they were lest, their bodies afterward washed upon the beach. Uh. what a solemn day it was—I havo been told of it by my brother—when these 1:2 men lay at the foot of tho pulpit, and he read over them tho funeral service. They came very near shore—within shouting distance of tho shore—yet did not arrive on solid land. There aro acme men who come almost to tho shore cf God’s mercy, but not quite, not quite. To bo almost saved is to be lost! Two rrcxllutU*. I will tell you of two prodigals—the one that got back and the other that did not get back. In Ridunond there is a very prosperous and beautiful homo in many respects. A young man wandered off from that homo. He wandered very fur into sin. They heard of him after, hut lie was always on the wrong track. He would not go home. At tho door of that beautiful home one night there was u great eatery. The young /nan of tho house ran down to open tluJdoor to see what, was the matter. It w:i< midnight. The rest of the family \t|ei'o asleep. A There were tho wife and children of this prodigal young man. The fact was he had como home and driven them out. Ho raid: “Oat of this house! Away with these children! I will dash their brains out! Oat into tho storm!” The mother gathered them up and lied. Tho next morning tho brother, tho young man who had staid at home, went out to find this prodigal brother and son, •'.nd ho came to where he was and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where ho had been staying, and tho young man who had kept his integrity said to the cider broth er: “Here, what does all this mean? What is the matter with you? Why do you act in this way?” The prodigal looked at him and said: “Who ami? Who do you take mo to bo?” Ho said, “You aro my brother." “No, I am not. I am a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife and children? Aro they dead: I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute. John, do you think there is any help for me? Do yon think I will ever get over thin life of dis sipation?” lie said, “John, there is cno thing that will stop this. ” Tho prod igal ran his fingers across his throat and said: “That will stop it, and I will stop it boforo night. Oh, my brain ! I can stand it no longer.” That prodigal never got home. But I will toil you of a prodigal that did got home. In Eug- k'ud two young men start'd from their father’s houso and went down to Ports mouth—I have been thi-re—a bountiful seaport. Some of you have been there. Tho father could not pursue his chiliYen —for some reason he could not leave heme—and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Grifiln, saying: “Mr. Griilin, I wish yon would go and see my two sons. They have arrived it) Portsmouth, and they aro going to take ship and going away from homo. I wish yon would persnaduthem hack.” Me. Grifiin went and tried to per suade them hack. Ho persuaded one to go. Ho went with very easy persuasion, because lie was very homesick already. Tho other young man said: “I '..ill not go. I have had enough cf home. I’ll never go homo.” “Well,” said Mr. Girfi’U, “then if yon won’t.go home, I’ll get you a respectable position on a re spectable ship. ” “No, you won’t,” said the prodigal. "No you won’t. I am go ing as a private sailor, aj a common sailor; that will plague my father most, and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please mo best.” Years passed on, and Mr. Grifiin was seated in his study 0:10 dtiy when a messenger came to him, saying there was a young man in irons on a ship at tho dock—a young man condemned to death—who wished to sec* this clergyman. Mr. Grif fin went down to the dock and went on shipboard. Tho young man said to him, “You don’t know me, do you?” “No," he said, “I don’t know you.” “Why, don’t you remember that your.'’ man you tried to persuade to go homo and ho wouldn’t go?” “Oh, yes',” said Mr. Griliiu. “Are you that man?” “Yes, I am that man,” said tho other. “I would like to havo yon pray for me. I havo committed murder, and I inner die. But I don’t want logo out cf this world until soma cue prays fer me. You are my father’s friend, and I would like to have you pray for me.” Mr. griliiu went frem judicial au thority to judicial authority to get that young man’s pardon. He slept ni t night nor day. Eo went from utfiuen.ial per- t;c:i to influential person until in some way he get that young man’s pardon. Ho eame down on tho dock, and as he arrived on the dock with tho pardon tho father came. Ho hud heard that his son, under a disguised name, had boon committing crime and was going to he jr.ifc to death, tie Mr. Grifiin and the fa ther wont on ship’s dock, and at the very moment Mr. Grifiin off. red the pardon to the young man iho old father threw ids arms around tho son’s neck, and tho sun said: “Father, I have done very wrong, and I am very sorry. I wish I had n vor broken your heart. I am very sorry!” “Oh,” ?uid th". father, “don’t mention it. It won’t make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son.” And ho kissed him and kissed hilti and kissed him. Today I olfer you tho pardon of the gospel—full panluij, freo pardon. I donut euro what your crime has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against your fellow man, against your family, against tho day uf judgment, against tho cress of Christ—whatever your crime has been, hero is pardon, full pardon, and the very moment you taka that pardon your Heavenly Father throws bin arms round about yon and says: “My son, I forgive you. It is all right. *You are as much in my fuvur now as if yon bad never sinned.” Oh, there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who will take '.ho Father’s embrace? Tho Spoakiir's Lamented Magnitude. Mail pours in on Speaker Reed theso days, and it. is of tho most varied char acter. Very unique things some of his letters'Contain. Fur instance, tho other day ho re ceived a letter containing a check for vl “to pay,” as tho writer put it, “for his time ami trouble in reading tho communication. ” Of tho disposition of tlie chock it is needless to cay anything. Another admirer wrote to him tho oth er day in this strain: “You aro tho greatest man in tho United States and will bo the next pres ident. You have a big brain, and you tiro a man of lamented magnitude.” No one enjoyed this more than Mr. Reed himself.—Washington Times. FERTILIZERS FOR TOBACCO. The Vnlae of tho Crop Greatly enhanced by Fertilisation nn.i Itotation. The falling off in quality noticed where tobacco is laisedou the same land for a mini! r of years is believed to be doe in great part to the depletion of the soil in available potash and tho increase in chlorine. Tho larger the amount of products rich in potash and poor in chlorine which aio sold off from the farm, the poorer tho barnyard manure is in potash, and tho richer in chlorine, the less adapted will the conditions be come to growing tobacco. Corn and clo ver aro among those crops that remove tho largest amounts of potash from the Boil. If these materials are fed ou tho farm and the manure carefully collect ed and preserved, no considerable de pletion of the soil should result. Farm manure alone may be sufficient to produce a good crop of tobacco if the cultivation is in a proper rotation, but unless tlie soil is rich in potash and lime the application of some species of manure will greatly enhance the value of the crop. Wood ashes are a valuable supplement to farmyard manure. Gyp sum is an excellent dressing for soils in a geed mauurial condition ; it supplies tho lime needed by the tobacco and is an effective agent for rendering soluble and accessible to tho plant the potash and magnesia which too often exist In closo lucked combinations. Gypsum ap plied ou poor lauds hastens the exhaus tion of tho soil. It is said that crops manured with gypsum suffer less from the effects of drought and require less irrigation than when manured other wise, tho leaves cf plants manured with sulphate cf lime (gypsum), exhaling less water than when manured with other substances. As to the amount of manure to bo employed, it may bo ob served that with farmyard manure prop erly rotted thoro is no theoretical lim it, especially in a hot country, as tho southern states, where the physical properties of the Foil aro of the utmost importance. Successful planters have found that it paid well to apply to rich alluvial soil 25 tons of well rotted burn- yard manure to tho aero. Tho amount of any special or chem ical manure which can bo applied with out injury to tho plants depends very much on tho solubility of tho material and tho manner of applying it. Highly soluble salts, such as sulphate of ammo nia or nitrate of soda, should be applied in much smaller quantities than mate rial; which dissolve more slowly. In the application cf concentrated manures it is evident that when a salt is applied in closo proximity to the plant less will bo required than when strewn over the whole field. Tho amount to bo applied varies also with the soil. A sand soil with little absorptive power should re ceive less than clay soil. Very soluble materials should not bo applied before tobacco has been planted and especially nut before the heavy rains cf May, which would c arry off a largo part of the fer tilizing matter. For tobacco it is not sufficient to ap ply the clement most needed—potash— in any form, but to produce a fine to bacco with good burning qualities it is necessary to apply it in a particular combination. In this connection it has been found that tho chloride of potash produces a much inferior tobacco to the sulphate. The conclusions from both the American and foreign experiments are that the use of muriate, kaiuit or other potash salts containing chlorine should ho avoided. In a long eerics of experi ments recently conducted at tho Con necticut station to determine the best form of potash for tobacco, it was found that tho double sulphate of potash and magnesia produced tho largest crop of tobacco sind also an excellent quality of wrapi The tobacco planter should always bo careful to stipulate with the fer: i liarr dealer ur manufacturer that the sonico of t’:o potash furnished is not fruni lliii chlorides, hut from one of tho sulphate;;. The foregoing was written by t'10 eki mist of tho Virginia depart ment < f agriculture fur Tho Southern Pluutcr. Whether in the ferra of pill pow '■ - or liquid, the doctor’s prescription i... Mood diseases is always the sami mercury or potash. TliJxo drugs buttle up and poison and dry it up in tin system, hut they also dry up the inano' v in the bones at the same time. The suppleness and elasticity, of the joints give way to a stiffness, the rack ing pains of rheumatism. The form gradually heads, the bones ache, r hilo decrepitude and helplessness prema turely take possession of . the body, and it is but a short step to a pair of crutches. Then comes falling of the hair and decay of the bonev-a dition truly horrible. & fcPOTASHI 'MERCURY/ Contagious Blood Poison—the curse of mankind—is the most horrible of all diseases, and has a!- ways baffled the I doctors. Their pot- ash and mercury bottle upthe poison, j but it always breaks i forth again altack- : ing some delicate organ, frequently the mouth and threat, filling them with eating sore:;. S.S.S., is the only known cure for this disease. It is guar anteed purely vege table, and one thousand dollars reward is offered for proof to the contrary. It never fails to cure Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatism, Cancer, or any other disease of the blood. If you have a blood disease, take a remedy which will not injure you. Beware of mercury; don’t do violence to your system. Don’t get bottled up! Our books sent free to any address. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. A. N. WOOD. BANKER does a general Banking and ik;change business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time !. ick. Safety Deposit Boxes at mod; rate rent. I Buys and sells Stocks ami Bonds. ! Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. Grain and Provision Market. . FOR BHBsswrea Up-to-Date Job Print ing, ca!) at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Condensed Schedule of Passcrcer Trains. A 1'ovtablo Fence. A portable fi nco towl:>h Ohio Farm er calls atteuticu is com,tructcd in pan el; with three small posts to each, one in the center and 0110 at each end, but cn opposite fades, that (be posts will bo ca tho inside corners when tho fence is put itp. Tho i urners are secured by lock strip;;, N, to the center of which are fas- tened blocks, V, and on tho opposite si do at cat'll end and extending in length beyond the width of t lie strips aro cleats, O. A.a tho fence is pat up or set at tho proper worm or zigzag tho cleats press against or draw in tho outer corners of Tho Southern “Clark.” Tho speaker of tho South Carolina house of representatives mid tho presi dent of the senate cull the clerk “clurk. ” I This excites’ surpriso ia strangers, but 1 it is good old English orthoepy of tho Elizabethan era. This pronunciation is not often luard in cities nowadays even in the south, where more of the old forms of speech linger thuu in tho north, but it is frequent enough in the Tennessee, Virginia and Carolina moun tain districts. now Tin: corners are secured. tho fence until tho posts press against tho strips N mid blocks V, thus forming a substantial lock of tho corners. The fence is put up or taken down by setting tho panels at a sufficient angle to allow tlie lock strips to turn up or down, to pass them in or out of the spaces described. Until the fence is set up but one nail should be put in at each place whero tho planks cross the posts. This allows tho panels to adjust them selves to tho unevenness of tho ground. Blocks or stone are proper under the corners, and if desired tho structure will to more secure by driving a stake at semo of the corners and nailing to the same, according to tho authority quoted. It is learned from the Charleston News and Courier that there are now over 21,000 looms in the Palmetto State; now factories mo on tho increase, and 1 there is 11 largo market for their prod ucts, a good part of which are sent to otIn r states. Nearly the whole of the I capital needed for the industry last year was subscribed by “homo investors.” Vo Fs: \.. Northbound. No. 38 No . i. Jan. 5. 1896. Daily ,Dai!> Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 12 OJUl 11 lip • ft Atlanta, K. T. 1 UJ p 12 l . a <• Norcross U DU .1 •ft Buford •ft (iainesvil'.o .. 2 2.7 p 2 ol a •ft Lula. 2 23 a «• Cornelia ... •ft Mi. Airy 2 .Mi a • ft Tiiucoa 0 15 11 «t Westminster 5 5u ;i ft* Senec.i 4 u: a •ft Central 4 4.'> p 4 .»■> ;i •ft Greenville .. .’> 311 p 0 19 a •ft Spartanburg. 0 15 ti :8 ;i ftt (iailuevs ..... 1; ;o a •ft Blacksburg.. 7 IA) p 7 lu a •ft King’s Ml... • 5-’ a •ft (lasloiiia .... 7 5.; a Ar. Charlotte 8 20 p b a •ft Danville 12 Ui) a 1.0 p Ar. Richmond— 0 ooa 0 40 p Ar. 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I No. 11 ; Nil. 17 Li.ifi.v i L Sua - 00 a 7 m a * l L'o i> . no j> 1 9-' i> amp a |s p 3 0;. j* 4 41' p f. 4 1 it 6 U j p o a: p 6 :.h p ■; 40 p 7 4> p 8 12 p 8 3*> p U 07 j* 9 4: p 10 :<o p aaop «r.7a 7 21 a 7 4' a 8 27 » !> uu.a 8 :;i» a ••a ' a. m. ••t"' p. m. ‘Ml'’noon. “N” ntguc. Nos. 37 ami 38—MTashingu.n amt Southwestern Vestibule I.lnutoit Thutugn Pullman Hliujiers between Now . urk amt New Orleans, via Wa.-b- bigton, Atlanta and .Montgomery, and also be tween New Vo and M> mphis. via Wasbingt Atlanta ami Birmingham. Dining cars. Nos. 35 and 38—United States Fast Mail. Pull man sleeping ears between Atlanta, New Or leans and New York. Nos. 11 and 12. Pullman sloping car between Richmond, Danville and Clrecosbuio. ;ton, W. H. GREEN, GenT Supt., Washington, D. C. j. CULP, Traill0 M’g’r, Y airing a, D. C. W. B. RYDER, Superlntr ideut, Charlotte, North Carolina. w. a. turk, 8. h. Hardwick, Gen'l Pass. Ag’t, A is’tiieu’l p. t ss. ag’t. Washington, D. G. Atlanta, Ga.