The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, April 16, 1896, Image 5
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LIFE OF
Rov. Dr. : ;e I.oJu
VlTlil W:j.V , ’11;v lie
Hy i o ii DJ K :, Mace
nult «>f rerneetjtloii.
In I.U I'nnal
Ilo.< ■ i'roni Obucur-
Klri’atlun tlie Hp-
'VAsiiiNriToN, Anvil li.—Tl'.n Hcnnon
of Rov. Dr. T;i 1 i stifjo Uxlv.y is fall of
stiirij'." iiiK* i.'iio* if.il lessons for nil.
Washington has many mrn who, liko
tho hero of ili ■ te:;ts, startod from al
most nothin .* and roso to hi/»h ]>laro.
The texts ehe-. n were : (irnrsis xxxvii,
and lifted up Joseph
m<l sold Joseph to tho
20 pieces of silver. ”
“He is governor over
pt.”
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SB, “They
ont of the pit
Ishmaelites for
Genesis xlv, 20,
all the land < f lig-
You eaimot keep a pol'd man down.
God has d ■ n <1 for him a certain point
of elevation, lie will bring him to that
though it O'- t him a thousand worlds.
You someth s lid men feai’ful they
will not lie 1 ;■ p< rlv appreciated. Every
man comes to 1> ■ \\dr d at just what he
is worth. You cannot write him np, and
yon cannot write him ih wn. Tin *<* Meta
arc powe rfully illn t rated in my sutj|'*ct.
It would 1 • an je alt to suppoae fclist
you were ncit all tamiliiu - with the- life
i.f Joseph—how h:a j'*t* 1 one Irothers
tlwiwl.im inti) a pi', hut Heeiny a eitni-
van of A;;.haul Merchants tnhlying
along on t ir camels, with spices and
gums tli a I .adod the air with aroma,
sold tlv ir hr itlu r to th.ese mcichimts,
who ear; ied !.im down into E.vypf;
Joseph tIr re s ild to Podphar, a man of
influt in t ami i filce; how by Joseph’s
integrity he rais< d liimsi If to high posi
tion i’i the realm u itil, under the false
charge f a vile wretch, he was hurled
into tl, penitentiary; how in prison hu
commanded ri sjK i't and confidence;
h >v, by tlie interpn tat ion of Pharaoh’s
dream he was freid and became the
chief ];i;m in flier aim, the Pismarck of
his century; how in the time i f famine
Jos n ]>h had the control of a magnificent
storehouse, which lie had lillcd during
seven years <f plenty; how when his
brotlnrs, who had thrown him into tho
pit and .sold him into captivity, applied
fir ci rn lie sent tl 1 m Ir me with the
beasts of burden borne down under the
hefr of the c ’••) si '-hs; how fhs sin
against tl; > br tls r v. h’eh hud *« long
been hidd' n
return d 1 v
:ar
■ i ‘ at l/.ut and was
br lior’s forgivinesK
and kind;. tb only revenge he took.
Christian Character.
You pee. in tho first ]dace, that Ike
m; Hid to lienor Christian
!'. : ohar was i nle man of
-enh rose in his esti-
world is ei
clmracti r.
tho world. ;
mation u”*
great lions
charge. In
nil tho affairs of that
w re committed to his
m hi.. ; "want no honor or
confidence was witbb"l<L When .1 "Si pli
was in prison, he s > n won tho heart of
the keeper, and though placed there for
being a scoundrel, ho noon onvincid j
tho jailer that lie was an innocent and
trustworthy mail, and released from j
close confinement, be became gcnrrnl su
perintendent of prison affairs. Wherever
Joseph was placed, whether a servant
in the house of Potiphar, or a prisoner
in the peuiMit'ary, he became the first
man cveryw!)'. i", and is an illustration
yf the truth 1 lay down, that the world
is compelled t > honor Christian charac
ter. There are those who affect e> de
spise a religious life. They speak of it.
as a Fystem of phlebotomy by which the
man is bled of all bis courage and »o-
bility. They say he has bemeimed him
self. They pretend to have no more
confidence in him sineo his conversion
than befor his e nv rsion. Bat all this
is hypix risy. There is a great deal of
hypocrisy in tli" church, and there is a
great deal of hypocrisy outside fh<‘
Church. It is impossible for any man
not to admire and confide in a man
who shows that he has really become a
child of God and is what he professes
to he. Y< u eaimot despise a son of the
Lord («< d Almighty. < )f course we have
no admiration f< r the sham of religion.
I was at a place a few hours after the
ruffians had gone int o the rail train and
demanded th r the pn:•mmigors throw np
their arms, awl tlv n tlr se mfiia.ns took
the jr.ek' tb ; ks, and satnn comes and
suggest ton man tb.at he throw up his
anus in hyp* critical prayer and preten
sion, and then ; teals his soul, for the
more profusion of religion we have nb-
horrenee. Kedwald, the king, after bap
tism, had an altar < f Christian sacrifice
and an altar for suer if ice to devils, and
there arc many men now attempting
the same thing—half a heart for Ood
and half a 1 ■ art for tho world—and it
is a dead failure, and it is a caricature
of religion, and the only successful as
sault ever made on < Christianity is the in
consistency « f its professors. You may
have a contempt for pretension to re
ligion, hut when you behold the excel
lency i f Jo; as Christ come ont in the
life of one of his disciples, all that there
is good and noble in your sonl rises up
into admiration, and yon cannot help
it. Though that man he as far beneath
you in estate as tho Egyptian slave of
whom wo are discoursing was beneath
his rulers, by an im vixiablo law of
your nature, Potiphar and Pharaoh will
always esteem Jostph.
When Eadoxia, the empress, threaten
ed Chrysostom with death, he made the
reply, “Tell the empn vs I fear nothing
hut sin. ” Such a scene as that compels
tho admiration of thoworld. There was
something in Agrippa and Felix which
demanded their respect for Paul, the
rebel against gov« rnment. I doubt not
they would willingly have yielded their
office nml dignity for a thousandth part
of that true heroism which licamrd in
the eye and Isot in the heart of that un-
eonqui rabV ape tie. Paul did not cower
Is •fore Fi !ix; Felix cowered before Paul.
Tho infidel and worldling are eonqs-lled
to honor in their hearts, although they
maynot eul< gia with their lips, uChris-
tiau firm in persecution, cheerful in
poverty, tru iful in losses, triumphant
in death, i find Christian men in all
professions and occupations, and I find
them respect' d and honored and success-
from dungeon to hv.ni« tto with healing
f r the ImmIv and ■ ul; Elizabeth Fry
g ing to the j rofiigney c t Newgate jiris-
on f • s] a’: • its olslnr.tey ns the angel
came to ;ho prison at Pliilii pi, driving
ojmh the doors and rnajiping loose the
elm u. as well as the l : v(s i f thousands
of f )llow< vs of Jesus who have d< voted
themselves to the temporal and sjiiritual
welfare of the race are monuments of
the Christian religion that shall not
crumble while the world lasts. A man
said to me in the cars: “What is re
ligion? Judging from the character of
many professors of religion I do not ad
mire religion.” I said: “Now, suppose
we went to an artist in the city of Rome
and while in his gallery asked him,
’What is (heart < f painting?’ Would he
take ns ont in a low alley and show ns
a mere dr.eh r f a pretender at paintings,
or would he take ns down into the cor
ridors and show ns the Rubens, and the
Raphaels, and the Michael Angelos?
When we a-ked him, ‘What is the art
(*f painting?’ he would point to the
works of these front mnrtejv and ray,
‘That is painting. ’ Now, you jiopive
Ind Site mere caricature of religion,
>u r'ck after #»nt which in the meiv
prsP'Brtion of a holy life, uid you call
fluii religion. I point yim to W:e splen
did aien and w< men v.h(>m this g< apel
kar hi*used and lift**! and crowned.
I/Mik at tin* musterpieers of divine grace
if y<;« want to know v.l*«t religion is.”
■vault m(
We Vvn also from this atery of
Joseph that the result of perseontio* is
•lerttion. Had it not been for his being
*ild inko Egyptian Is.tidnge by his mu-
lieionn brotheiM and h:s false imprison
ment Jos*ph never wonld knre ht eome
a ptivernor. Everybody aet'-p's th**
pniwis'', “Blmsed are they that are fer-
* rated for rigl.tei asm ra e;:ke, for
ttieira ia the kiinplom of heaven.” Imt
they do *ot real:*.' the fact that this
priaciple applii • to worldly na wel as
t^irik.i*! snecei*. R ia (me in all de-
pjsrtinf'ats. Meu ri*e to high ( ftieial po-
aitknu throufh inisrey.reKantatioii. Pub
lic ahnao is all (has aotne of our public
men hare had to rely upon fir their »'le-
vatioiL It Inw brought to them what
talent and executive force could ant
have achieved. Many tf those who are
making great effort for place and power
will aever sacci*' d just because they
ara aot of enough imp'.rtiince to be
abased. It is tkr nature of nu n—tliat is
of all fenerou.s and reasonable men—to
gather nhoaf those who are persecuted
arid defend them, and they aro apt to
forget the fault of those who arti the
sulijeets of attack wliile attempting to
drive hack the slanderers. P(rs< emtio*
is elevation. Helen Htirk, the Scotch
martyr, standing with her husband at
the place of e *ee* t ion, said: “Husband,
let ns r<»joire today. We have lived to
gether many happy years. This is tho
happiest time of all our life. To* see
we are to he happy together forever. Be
brave now, he brave. I will mot ray
'G'xid night’ to you, for we shall soon
lie in the kingdom of our Father t< weth
er. ” Persecution shows Hie heroes and
heroin's. I go into another department,
nnd I find thi»t those great denominm-
tioss of Christians which have been
most abused have spread the most
rapidly.
No good iuhii was ever miore violently
maltreated th»i John Weslep'—belied
*nd cariratmml and slasidered mntil o*e
day he sbxjd ui a pnlpit in London, ami
a man aros» in the audience and said,
"Tom were drunk last night, ” and John
Wesley mid: “Thank God, Hie whole
catalogue is now complete. I have been
charged with everything but that!” Ilia
followers were hooted at and maligned
and called by every detestable name that
infernal ingenuity could invent, but the
hotter the persecution the more rapidly
they spread until yon know what a
great host they have become said what a
tremendous force for God and the trnth
they are wielding all the world over. It
was persi'rntion that gave Krotland to
Presbyterianism. It was persecution
that gave our land first to civil liberty
and afterward to religions freedom.
Yea, I aiight gi farther back and say it
was persecution that gave (he world the
great salvation of the gospel. The ribald
nvx'kory, the hungering and thirsting,
the unjust charge, the ignominloas
death, when all the force of hell’s fmy
was hirlcd against the cross, was the
introduction of that religion which i«
yet to be the earth’s deliverance and our
eternal salvation. The stp.t* sometimes
said to (he chareh, "Come, take sir
hand, and I will help yen. ” What was
the result? The church went hack, and
i it lost its estate of holiness, and it be
came ineffective. At other tiinrs the
state said to the ebareh, “I will crush
yon.” What has been the rcsalt? After
the storms have spent their fury the
church, so far from having lest any </f
its force, has increased snd is worth in
finitely more after the assault than he-
! fore. Read all history and yon will find
that true. The church is far more in
debted to tho opposition of civil govern
in' nt than to its approval. The fires of the
stake have only been the torches which
Christ held in his hand, by tho light of
which the chnrch has marched to her
present glorious position. In the sound
of rackn and implements of torture I
hear Hie rambling of the gospel chariot.
The scaffolds of martyrdom have been
! the stairs by which the church mounted.
A Tlimmancl Tongars,
Learn also from our subject that sin
will come to exposure. Long, long ago
had those brothers sold Joseph into
Egypt. They had made the old father
believe that his favorite child was dead.
They had suppressed the crime, and it
was a profound secret well kept hy the ccrwaved his handkerchief, ;
e secret is out. mil was sent to Washingto
brothers. But suddenly the
The old father hears that his sou is in
Egypt, having been sold there by the
malice of hi* own brothers. How their
rli<'«'k,‘« must have burned and their In arts
sunk at tho fiiuniug out of this long sup
pressed 'Time. The smallest iniquity
lias a thousand tongues, and they will
blab out exposure. Haul was sent to de
stroy the Canaanite:, their sheep and
their oxen, hut when he got down there
among tho pastures ho saw some lino
sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he
thought ho would fteal them. Nolxxly
would know it. Ho drove these stolen
she']) and oxen toward liou< . hut stop
ped to rejMjrt to tin prophi t le w he had
executed his mission, when in the dis
tance the sheep began to bleat and tho
oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and
Samuel said to Hie blushing and con
fused Saul, “What menneth the bleating
of the sheep that I hear and the b; Row
ing of the cattle?’’ All, my 1: an r, you
cannot keep an iniquity still. At jiv-t
the wrong time the sheep will bleat
and the oxen will bellow. Achnn cannot
steal the Babylonish garment without
being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray
his country without having his in ok
stretched. L*Mik over the police arrest .
These thieves, these burglars, there
counterfeiters, these highwaymen, tin
assassins, they nil thought they could
bury their iniquity so demi d'wn it
wonld never come to lesuiTection, but
there was some shoe that answered to
the print in the soil, some false k vs
found in their possession, some bloody
knife that whisper* d of the death, and
the public indignation iukI the anatln ma
of outraged law hurled them into the
dtmgenu or hoist'd tin m on the gallows.
Francis I, king of France, st'xxl coin
•cliHIt with his officers how he could
take his army into Italy, when Amcril,
the fool iJ the court, Icajs <1 t ut fr< m a
corner i/ the room und raid, “You had
better he ciusultiug law you will ft
your army back. ” And it was fiand
that Francis I, and not Aim ril, was the
f<Mil. Instead <.f c'.nraltiiigas tothelx st
way of getting into pin, you had b< tii r
consult its to whether yon will be able
to get o*t of it. If the world does not
exiMiso you, you will tell it yourself.
There is an awful pov.’i r in an aroused
conscience. A highwayman plung' d out
upon Whitelield xs lie r*xle along on
hursc'back, a sack < f money on the horse
—money that ho had raised for orjihau
asylums—and the highwayman put his
hand on Hie gold, and Whit* ti< Id tunicd
to him and said, “Touch that if you
dan*; that belongs to the Lord Jesus
Christ.” And the ruffian slunk into the*
forest. CuiFcienee! Conscii mv ! The
mfllan had a pistol, hut Whitelield
shook at him the, linger of doom. Do not
think you can hide any great and pro
tracted sin in your heart, my brother.
In an anguarded niona iit it will . bp i.ff
the lip, or some slight action may for
the nioui* nt set ajar this door that yo’i
wiuit< d to keep closed. But >‘:pp * that
in this life you hide it, xml you y t
alongwith this tramgne.-ion burningin
your heart, as u ship on fire within i r
day* hinders the Haims from l uistiny
out hy keeping down tho hatches, yet :,i
lai;t in the judgment tb.at iniquity wfi!
blHBO out lx‘for*' God and the m.iv* iw.
lAu>* cf tlio Ul!Jvcrii«‘.
I/ urm also from this subject that there
ia an inseparable connection L tv,a < n
all '-venls, however remote. The uni
verse ia onlyone Hionglit o? God. Those
things which xeemed fr:i4,nuei *ary ami
ttolabd are <.nly different parts • f tii..'
great thought. How far ; part siemod
theaa two i vt nts—Ji.si 1’h sold to the
Arabian merchants and his rah rHi’p of
Egypt—y« t you si e in what a mysti riou:
wtiy God conia'cti d the two int » one
plan. So the or* nts are linked together.
You who are aged nu n look hack and
group together a thousand th eg.- in
yo«r lifi* t!>«t once sk n:< d isohui d. One
undivided chain of events reach' s from
tl(e garden of Ed' n to the cross of
Calvary, and (has up to the kingdom of
heaven. Tlier. is a relation b' twoen the
nnalkxt insect that Jmm:- in th sum
mer air and the arehnnr' 1 on his tlmme.
God ran trxeo * direct anr stral line
froBi the blue jay that tV.ht sprin;: v ill
build it« m st in the tree Ir hind the
hoyse to Mine one of the fi- el: of b:: ’
which, when Noah lioisted the aril’s
window, with a whir and dash i f
bright wings, w< nt out to am- ovi r
Mount Ararat. The luli** that hh om
in the garden this spring wor iiur-d
by tha rnowflak* s. Tb.e fart In <t star < n
o*e aide of the xuiv! rse could not look
toward the faith* i t star on tlu‘ ot!.« r
aide i f the nniv< rse and say, “You mo
■o relation to m«*,” fur from that hriylit
oih a voice «if 1’ght would risr sstosk
tin' heavens rrspondinr, y< s, ve
are lifters.’’ Nothin;; in (h *;’:* uinvcrse
swings at loo*'ends. A.eci(V nt« aroonly
God’s way of taming a l*'af in the P i .!;
erf hia et* rral d‘er en From oar eradi '
♦o our grave there is path ail maik'.i
omt. Each < vent in our lif" is eoTiin '•"■d
with every other ' vi nt in our lile. Our
lews* h may be the most direct road to
o*r gain. Our defeat and our vict ry
are twin brothers.
The whole direption i f your life was
changed It* ni( thing which ut tl time
•'fired to yo* trifling, while s-meic-
carrenee which r-« mi d tremendous af-
fi'Otrd you hut little. God’;; plans are
Biagnifieent beyond all eompn hi m ion.
Me molds *a atid turns and dinct * U",
and we know it not. Thoasands of y* irs
aie tvi him as the flight of a sbutib*.
Th** moat terrific occurrence ds's. not
make God tremble. The ni' st trium
phant achievement does not lift him in
to rapture. That one great thought < f
God go** out through the e< ntvri* s, and
nations riue and fall, and eras pass, and
Hie world changes, but G< d still keeps
the undivided mast* iy, linking event to
event ami century to century. To God
they are all one event, one history, one
plan, one development, one system.
Great and marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty! I was years apo in
New Orleans at the * xp . ition rooms,
when a telegram was sent to the presi
dent of the Unit'd Stabs, .it Washing
ton, and we ’vnited some 15 i r 20 min-
ntes, and then th* pn ident’s answer
came hark, nnd then the pr* sidiu;'olli-
md the si^-
qfton that we
that respond in the far dis-
yean from now, 50 years
1,000 years fnim now, 1,000,-
froBi now—one touch sound-
it.
:b'es.
i'or ttn*
Future.
infinenees
tane.e, 40
fn m now,
000 years
in;; through tn<
I'rovislon
We al -o learn from tliis story the pro-
P'.'i' ty ot laying up for tho future. Dur
ing 'h* revfn y<arsof plenty Jof.eph
jm pnred for the famine, and when it
earni h" had a crowded rtrr* house. The
lib < t most men in a worldly resjxet is
divided into years of plenty and famine.
It is s. Idoin tb.at any man passes
through lib- with ut at least seven years
of plenty. During those seven years
y«>iir business bears a rich harvest. You
scarcely know win re all the money
comes from, it comes so fast. Every
bargain you make si ems to turn into
gold. You <• ait ract few had debts. You
are astonish* d with large dividends.
Yon invest mom and more capital. You
woud* r bowmen can he content with
a rnmll husir.esr-, gathering in only a
few hundred dollars while yon reap
your tii usaiids. Those are the seven
y< ars of plenty. Now J< reph has time
to prepare for the threatened famine, for
to almost every man th* re do come ht-
cn years of famine. You will he sick,
you will he unfortunate, you will ho
defrauded, th* re will be hard times,
you will be disappointed, and if you
have' no stor* Louse up* n which to fall
hack you may 1m famine struck. ▼*'*'
have iK) admiration for this d* living
oneself nil personal comfort and lux
ury for tlv mere pleasure * f hoarding
up, this yrnepkiy, grasping for the mere
pl< asure * f s‘. in* how large a pib' you
ran get, this always being pe* r because
ass. .'lias a dollar comes in it is rent
<int to see if it can find another dollar,
so that it can carry it home < n its br«k.
\V< have a contempt b r all th* se things,
but th*re is an intelligent and noble
mind* <1 f'rerast wlreh we love to Fee
in men who have families and kindred
depending upon them for 1 he hi* ssings
of education and home. Godsends us to
the iu.‘'(< , ':t f* r a lesson, which, while
they do not stint thenis* Ives in the
prosi n'., do not forget their duty to fore
cast tho future. “Go to the ant, thou
Cons id* r her ways, and be
having no guide, * v* rreer
•id' lb. her meat in the sum-
*1 gathered! her food in the har-
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Hence every device tliat means a saving
of money is welcome. This time tho
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Tho sketch, which explain.-! itself,
shows tho cutting box I made to cut
corn fodder, etc. Four pieces of scan
tling 2 by 2 and 28 inches long make
tho framo or ends. Two boards 14 inches
wide and 4 feet long, placed ns shown,
mako tho box. This makes a box a little
higher than an ordinary man’s knee.
Place a bundle of fodder in th** bo::, pnt
your left kneo on it, and with a L ; ght-
uiug hay knifo shear off tho ends
sticking over tlio box. Pn; h tho bundle
along and repeat. Cat up to tho baud,
then turn the bundle around end for
end, and go ahead again.
For horses I out :i or 4 inehes long
and think it short enough. With a b x
like this I cut fodder for six horses ansi
four cows last winter, feeding bushel
apieco at a feed. It took me about five
minutes to cut enough for one feed.
Mr. ' ; Crausby, * r St,
Mem phi. Tcnn., •.. llu.r. his wife
paid no attention to . ; r, 11 lump which
ipp-arul in her hr i, iait it noon dc-
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ir.d uotwitta f iuiliii'' i " ; •• tm nt of
tho best physic! m , coni imt i to
.pread and grow rapidly, eating two
holes in her hroa 1 1. The doctors
soon pronounced
her iueuralilc. A
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speeiali: t IhcTi treat
ed her, but : lic con
tinued to a ro-f worse
and when iMormcl
that both r aunt
and uraivlnWlicrluul
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and though little he pc remain^# she,
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V*‘8t.”
N*.w, th(’r*' are two ways of layinf up
money. Oik < f these is to put it instock
and dejnsit it in bank and invest it on
bond and m* "’x.-g*
lay up money ‘
the safest who
v< stments. TIk iv ar*' in this houi *' men
who if tin y lose every dollar they have
in the world would ho millionaires for
eternity. They made the spiritual in-
v stment. But the man who (Wotes
i none "f his gains to the cause of Christ
and looks only for Ids own comfort and
luxury is not safe, I earo not how the
:u* noy is ir.v st* *1. lie acts as the rose
if it •. dd say: "I will hold my breath
; and non*' nl all hav ' a snatch of fru-
from in*' until next week. Then
: I will o f all th*' far*i< n rifl* at with my
; ar*ii::ii. " Cf eourae the rose, r‘fusing to
lircatlu , died. But ab>ove all, lay up
treasure* in heaven. They never depre
ciate in value. They never are nt a dis
count. They are always available. You
may feel safe now with your #1,000 or
J’.’.OOO < r #10,000 or #20,000 income,
but what will such an iurome he worth
after you are dead? Others will got it.
I'd! "i- pom*' of (hem will quarrel
about it b< fore you are buried. They
will bo fo impatient to get hold of the
v.ill they will think you should be
buri'd on*' day fooiut than you ar*'
buried. They will 1." right glad when
Treatment of Heilges.
What to do with hedg'd now growing
on many prairio farms is a problem.
Where allowed to grow freely without
severe trimming they are undoubtedly
a nuisance, making unsatisfactory fences
and greatly reducing crops in their vi
cinity by robbing them of soil moisture.
Many advise digging ont and replacing
hy some of tho cheap, durable wire
fences now on tho market. The Orange
Judd Farmer says: In most cases it
seems that the wisest policy would bo to
keep those that aro now good fences
closely trimmed, never allowing the
new shouts to go more than one season.
Two cuttings, during late winter and
again in Hummer, are even more to ho
desired. Where tlm hedge forms a poor
fence cut off close to tho giound and lot
the sprout:-which come from th''roots
grow two years. From these a good
fence cun usually bo made by judicious
layering.
I’otaloi'H Under Straw.
Farmers on the river bottoms near Ht.
Louis have reported successful results
with growing ixitatocs under a mulch.
Last year farmers in variun:; parts of
tho country tried this plan, generally
with success. Tho failures w'th tliis
«ystern, as reported hy Rural Now York
er, aro usually duo “to the use of too
thick a covering of straw or manuro or
planting on land that is not properly
drained. Cultivation may bo dispensed
with if a suitable mulch is used. Tho
amount of hand weeding required will
of course depend on tho condition of tlio
ground previous to planting tho potato
crop. This method cannot bo recom
mended for all sections of the country
without reserve, hut u fair trial of it
wherever straw or other mulching ma
terial is cheap is a legitimate part of
farm enterprise. ”
will he mailed
free to any ad
dress. Swift
Specific Co.,
Atlanta Ga.
: .o
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER.
docs a general Bani-.i::,";::;*! Exchange
business. Well sccar, <1 wi! h Ilurglur-
I’roof safe and Aubimalic Time Lock.
Safety D* posit Box* s al modi rale
r* n t.
Buy.' a ml .al!.. S; ad.s and Bonds.
Buy County and . d claims.
^ our 1ii:sui* s*‘ soli* - !*":.
Grain an.’ Provision Market.
Up-to-Dato JcW Print-
Inf’;, call at the
! LEDGER Office.
n ~ ’ c* r»
you
<:t
gatl
) *li*. What then will all your
lyaccumubit ions lx* worth? If you
i* *l it all in y >\:r Ixisom and walk-
id up with it to heaven’:; gate, it wonld
not purchase your admission. Or if al
lowed to enter, it could not buy yon a
crown < r a robe, ami the poorest saint
in heaven would l.M>k down at you and
say, “V.b'To did that pauper come
from?’’ May we all have treasures in
heaven. A.?u"n!
Aihn.'ml
drr.l
riifT.
t
Urn
“R< :‘.r Admiral rial:an IT *.f th*' Rus-
-’zii navy,” : ys the Bliilad* Ipliia Uee-
< rd. “who v i recently a guest (>f
(’haa:*'; H. t ramp, ir; on*' of tin'most
c. n'i i' i; ar; Id "ns * f r "*l*'rnEuropean
naval history. Although « nly 47 years
of age, ]!<■
r* nr admr
numlx r < I
l y : peaial
dariii ' (!:*
regard* d
is first «in tli** list of PuiHsiim
ils and is Renior to a large
:n h
I r,
supersedf'd
were ready to have the maehin* vy f tin*
eijM)Fiti*iii start* *!, and tbepr ,- *!< at put
his finger on the electric hutteu, and in-
atantly th*' gnuit Corliss who* 1 began to
move, rumbling, rumbling, rolling, i 11-
ing. It wax overwhelming, and 15,000
people clapped and shouted. Just < ne
finger at Washington started that va. 1
machinery, hundreds and hundreds of
mile* away, and I tluaiglit then, ax I
officers who
pn mi* it i* n. H*; it wax who,
■ last Turk -Russian war, wax
tli*' ok 'kelof? of th*' Russian
navy, and, like that gn at general, whose
pc rtrait ; he resend* 1 es, was several times
promoted for his daring and * ntrrprise.
Hix en-eer in th.at war was an unintcr-
ruple*! series * f ('ashing attacks on Tark-
i.-h ships in th*' Batum and other Turk-
irl: lawhori; < f the Black sea, in which
Ills skill was second alone to his daring.
That is why h" in the senior rear admiral
at the age of 47 years. Ho recently com
mand'*1 the Asiatic squadron and i«
n*.w on his way home to assume com
mand < f the Halt !*• fie* t. ”
Duuraven’N llu|mc|»uii Flitli.
The Earl of Dunraven, finding that
there w* re t*Mi many pike in his waters
at Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ire-
1 ::d, for pueecssful tn ut fishing, recent
ly * rd* n il his professional fisherman to
*‘apt me what he could of th* m. Thirty-
four have lx * n tak* n so far of an aver
age weight of !) pounds each, the
largest weighing 25 pounds and the
smallest 2 pounds. V/by three-fourths
of tin in were female* is not understood
at all. That there was need of taki* •
* ait the pike is shown by the fact 111
i 1 of the fish contained trout, a|
nearly all the females were heavy wif
spawn. Th** pickerel fry fe<sl on
t ‘ait and sahnon fry, D ing far b* tt<
fighter* than equal siz' d trout.
The greatest of care is necfisary
IBli hatch* rie* to pn vent the ]»ieker*'l
fry from getting among the fry of other
varieties. A dozen small pickerel in a
year will destroy thousand* of other
Potato 8eab anti Soil Itot.
It has been mado to appear that cor
rosive snblimato is a preventive of scab.
Professor Holdcad of the Now Jersey
station last season made two experi
ments, omi on the college farm and ouo
in another county and on different soil.
Tlio result, stated briefly, was that flow
ers of sulphur proved to bo tho best
remedy of all those tested, superior oven
to corrosive sublimate. On a plot where
tlio rut seed was simply rolled in sul
phur tiio scab was much reduced. Bet
ter results were obtained by tlio appli
cation in the drill of 150 to 500 pounds
per acre.
Hoil rot is to sweet potato growers
what scab is to the growers of white po
tatoes. II< ro, too, flic .sulphur seems to
ho an i fioetivo remedy, applied broad
cast or in the hill.
oOUTHEPJl Mi LIE
r~ -
P1EDA10NT Aik LiNB.
Condensed Sclittlidc oi Passcnjicr Trains.
Vi‘.
Nortlibound.
No. o' 1
Jan. 5.
Diulv
Lv. Atlanta, C.T.
12 00m
** Atlanta, K.T.
1 Oj p
** Norcross....
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“ OaiucMrillc .
2 2'i p
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No. 12 No. ID
I'uiy 1C suu
Cubfiagn In ScciUinjj IIowm.
A writer in Median’s Monthly has
learned that cabbage sown in drills two
feet apart, without transplanting, and
afterward thinned out, stands heat and
dryness best. The cause is very simple.
The main root remains undisturbed and
gets its food from deeper regions than
those that weie disturbed in transplant
ing. Tho heads of those not moved aro
as solid as the others.
Ar
I-uta.
Cornelia ..
Mi. Airy
Tocccw
AW.'tniListfr
fcfl'hUlLt .
( eiiiiMl. ..
<,i ttiviilo .
Spuruinliur^
(i u! t neys .
l»iat:2v .
Kina’s .‘'ll..
(■‘iMuliia —
ClKirlo'to .
Duiivillo
00 1>
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ta 'M a
I -ni U
» s; u
i au j' n 'S, j*
ni
y 4
think now, that men IsomctimeH touch j small fish, und tho loss is cuuhiderablA
1
News anil Notes.
Thonxauds and thousand* of bushels
of potatoes have been fed to stock this
winter.
Largo turkeys are no longer wanted.
Small ones aro in demand.
Rural New Yorker makes the state
ment that Kaffir corn may excel in sumo
parts of the west and south, but in
other sections it will not begin to com
pare in vuluo with tho common Indian
corn.
Better broadcast a strawberry fertili
zer before tho plant* start to grow.
Tho promising result* from root prun
ing at tho south do not justify its gen
eral application at Hit* north until care
ful trial lias demonstrated its usefulness
to northern conditions.
Last year's potato crop covered 2,954,-
952 acres and aggregated 297,287,870
bushels, an increase of 7 per cent over
the acreage of the previous year. The
iverage yield of over 100 bushels per
icre was the largest for 20 years.
American Agriculturist is convinced
that the Angora goat industry is worthy
of general encouragement.
Ar. Uii.hinond.,..
Ar. WaMliiugli i
lialtin'c.P lilt
Pluladelidiia.
•• New Ymk ...
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a 12 a
8.03 a
lu 23 a
12 33 11
0 40 p
U - 1 h
3 oo a
0 2) a
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oally
1 at Ml
No- Ja
Daily
Nn. 11
Dally
No. 17
L Suu
Lv. N. V.. 1* K 11
4 30 p
12 1 . U
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U 22 a
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10 13 P
11 13 a
...
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2 ID a
12 05 p
2 0<)a
Lv. Danville
6 30 a
G 05 p
7 00 a
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u Si a
10 5o 1>
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113a p
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1 ;j-’ p
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10 10 a
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11 u
12 23 a
12 b'J a
2 18 p
3 0. * p
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12 28 p
1 50 a
4 10 p
“ Central
1 13 P
235a
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(i 03 p
“ Woitmlniier
0 22 p
•• Toccoa
*1 ii
*; f8 p
•• Mt. Airy
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7 40 j)
•• Cornelia
7 43 p
*• Lula
2 31 p
4 11a
8 Up
*37 a
*• Uaincsville ..
4 50 a
S3<. p
7 U<i a
iiiiford.
•J 07 p
o 4: p
7 48 a
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8 27 a
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•A':*, in. |i. m. " M‘ noun. “N” uiglit.
No*. ;i7 ami ' - Wu'-!iini;ii u ami So’itliwcstwru
Vestlbuls l.ln itoil Thmugli 1‘iillman i>lcc|i«-n
lictwi-on New .ink ami New oiIimuh. ria Wu»it-
lant.'in, Atlanta ami Montgunicry, amt alko I»m
twet-u New Vu and Mcmpiil.'*, via WasblDKtou,
Atlanta and Klnuinghain. liinini; car*.
No*. 35 and 3 ; Fnitod Statt 1 * rant Mall Pull,
man »let*|iing ears tetwoon Atlanta, N*.w Or-
lea'll and New Vork.
No*. 11 and 12. Pullman ulccplng cat bclwccu
Kiriunoiid, Danville an 1 Grceuaboro.
W. II. GRKEN,
(ien'l Supt..
Wasbln^tou, D. C.
J. M. PULP.
Tratlic M’K’r,
V •blnj; a, D. C.
W. IS. HYDKIt. Surerlntc.idnit, Cbarlott*,
North Carolina.
W A. TtJHK, h. II. IIAHDWKK,
Qeii'l Pa**. A|;'t, A ik'ti>vn'l PaM. ag't.
Walking ton, D. C. Allania, Ga.