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THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., 31 AY 14, 189(5 5 LEDGE GOD. WOULD AMEND k -:STITUTION. THE |:'l by a Jlcntal Over- tr I'orofathcrs — Cou*;re*8 | X ; .'t.; ; r<.;::'itttic::3 Tor See- H Days to Come. Muy 10.—Ncvfr was a ..'A' appropriate Rennon I . dby Rev. Dr. Tolmfige The subject was “Bcfcre fn, ” Ik. i io;: reference to tho • tic,n uf cxip-Tcsf, and the was Psalms cv, 22, “And haters wisdom. ” in this text stand for law- ! ( eseph was tho lord treasurer I tiau government, and among j things which he did, ac- I my tc xt, was to teach his li ulora. And if any men on to bo endowed with wisdom Piters, whether they stand in parliaments or reiehstags or cr legislatures. By their de lations go up or down. Law- |iro : tiroes so tempted by by sectional preferences, by [ ity ( f j . aial advancement, Aimes , \. l.at is best to do is so that tiny ought to bo prayed encouraged iu every possible cad of ! i v( rely criticised and [anti cxcoriated, as is much of ' the care. Our public nun aro the ta...( i to be shot at, merely ' they obt.a i eminence which an \ anted but could not roach, .to injustices afo hurled at our !al legislature than the people of ( an possibly iiuagiue, 1 ].. nig c f our public ugly a. u nable, dome in Washington I have iicl out i!...t many «.f our public p:.*epir. ... y i.-isrcprcscntcd, and ic.f tu ■ 1- s. i f them, the purest in 1 l .v. s a 11 i.u ,;t faithful iu tho dis- ir duties, ;.re tho worst dc- such t< nuitfer one confirm .tion is worth more lean many di vials. ’ fo says tho article sent nic. Tlu ro i. no doubt tbafc Ethan Allen wan tho vulgrre?t sort of an inild.d, for, siting i ■ a Prcebytcinan church, his admirer.-, y he struck tho pew in fror.t ( f liim t; .1 EO as to disturb tlio n ticruaii would dio th: ,‘ v.vra out loud ti: a;:d no gen- 1 do n. t wonder that aciue 4> his tier' of him, but of cr help it and are nr t the decent men »i lieved in God, :.:.d iKlaulsarc;. l amed wo they couul not to blame. But all tho Hr velut ion te- ovr Ann i can con- ant to preach a si r o I d.i ] fi bril t unit: ac a noci:. Ill c ,'.rupt rt- day I t r.c iu II Peter: "They ...I to speak i vil of dignities. ,.7 i -, which aro greater in i-igl. , br i g not railing ac- tlarn beforo the Lord, a* m tui-al brute beasts, made ■.ad ic str: veil, sperk evil of that th y uadirstai’d not.” aud mailgnant is this work i*.tscaiidalization in re- 1 d - na n that all over the ...- ii: • who suppose that bn,;: u is the center of v.l ile what with its larks, and its < q trian statuary, and Its wid • str. ■ a :d its architectural ■ynnn: trie.;, and ; ts lovely hemes, it is lot . uly tho i.i- : t 1 utiful city under It ho sun, b.if h.-.s iiie highest style of eiti- Izcnship. i ' i.\: . on but one intoxicated Iman iu tin; m :c than six months of my resilience, and i do not think any man can give fdn.ih.r t-.st mony of any other city on the American cout incut Cort’rt Ne.u-.i! I'.i Iho < <;u«it‘.tntlon. Tho gavels of i i.r Uvo houses of jui- tional legii-latui v ill soon fall, and ad journment of two bodies of men us tab ented, as upright and as patriotic as over graced tho i apitcl will take place, Tho two or tkr e unf rt unate outbreaks which youl v ■ otic 1 ; nlymake more couspicuoa: :dignity, the fraternity, tho ele.iraei* . / the fidelity which have charaetei : • 1 thus two budii sduring till tho long m n.iisi f imp rtant andau};- ioas deliberation; We put u halo around great men of the past h cause they were ao rare iu tt.-'ir time. tJor senate and house < t i., rc .aut.itiv . have five such men wh ■ i ne- they had one. But it will not aatil afti r tie y are dead that they w ill g‘ t a].]n ciat . (1. The world S uds it • d'l r to pra so th dead than tho virg, 1 eauM- tJ:e departed, having a heavy pih- of marble above them, may press, now a;-. < tabled, will < n‘y echo the fditinients i tin fathus v. hcu they enthnne the u: tneel (iod in the consti- ; tution. We have now’ mere reason for inserting that ui l.ni wlcdgcmenfc of di vinity than our fathers bad. kir.ee then tho continent has been pei pled and great cities In.m the Atlantic to the Pacific built, and all in peace, showing that there mus t have be; n rupernui super- visal. Lines then the war of 1N12, and ours the victory! Since then great finan cial prostrations, cut of which we came to greater pn rperity than anything that preceded, fcince then sanguinary 18C2, 18015, 1804 and 180o, and iiotwitlmtand- ing the fact that all the foreign despot isms were planning for i ur di moliticn, wc are a united pci pie, and tomorrow you will find in both houcis i f ccngrers the men who fought f< r the north and the south, cow sitting side by side, arr.v il with no wcapi n excopt the pm, with which tiny write heme to their constituents who w ant to be appointed prstmastera. The man who eann t sco Itod in our American histoiyis as blind of ronl as ho would be blind of body if he could net at 12 o’clock of an uncloud ed noon see the sun in the heavens. As a inatiir < f gratitude ta Almighty Gcd, grutlrmpu i f the Arm ricr.n ccn- fress, he pleased to insi rt ihei. ur werds Euppested by tin 1 Metis ilir-t eonien i co. Not only bicame of tin kimim -si f God to this nation iu tr.e p..st sliotihl such nvereutial iimrrtim be made, but be cause c f the fact that wo mo going to want divine interposition still further iu our nation::! histi ry. This <" Id and silver quesrii u will m vor he sc it lid uu- til God settlis it. This quest ion of tariff and free trade w ill m vi r be si it led un til God settles it. This question be tween the east and the west, which is getting botter t and hotter and look.: to ward a republic of the Pacific, will not be settled until Gi d Fettles it. Wc needed Getl in the ICO years of cur past national life, and wc will need him still more in the next 120 years. Lift uj) your heads, ye everlasting gate s of cur glorious constitution, and let the King of Glory come in! Make one line cf that immortal document radiant with omnipotence! 8pell at least one word with thrones! At the beginning, tr at tho close, er in the center, recognize him from whe m as a nation we have received all the blessings cif the past and upon whe in wc are dependent fe:r the future. Print that word “God” or “Lord’’ er "Eternal Father” or “Rul er of Nations” somewhere between the first word and the last. The great ex- nf ... not rbo to ' but, ii i drop and tr. • i there are e nr or to be di me, and becomi ire tin J rivals, gav Is of adjournment tu of Capitol hill shut, two things that ought let us pray Gad that they may be accomplished. More forci bly than ever 11 fi re, congr ss has been implored to acknowledge* God in our constitution. The Methodist church, a church that is always doing glorious things, has in its ru cut Wilmington con ference r< o d our congress to amend the imm rtal ik.cnmont which has been tho foundation and wall and dome of our United hta ct government by in serting tb.e words, “Trusting in Al mighty God.” If that amendment is made, it will not e.nly please all the good people of tho country, but will please the heavens. It was only an over sight br u mental accident that the fa- th<rs who luado the constitution did not Insert a divinely worshipful sentence. They all, so far as they amounted to anything, believed in “God the Father Almighty, tin Maker of heaven and fcarth, and iu us Christ, his only be gotten Soli.” The constitution would have been a failure had it not been for the divine inti rference. The members uf tho convent h n could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Frank lin’s request that the meetings be open ed by prayer, the Lord God was called on to interfi ro and help, and then tho way was cb ar-d, and all the states sign ed the document, a hist jrical fact that all the rat t*tx-Ii rs of modern infidelity cannot bark out of existence. I know that there was an exitption to tho fact that the prominent men in those times 1 were good men. Torn I'aluu hii<1 Ethan Allen. Tom Paine, u libertine and a sot, did lit bclieva in anything good until ho las dying, and then ho shriek* d out for bd’n mvny. And Ethan Allen, from ic of whoi-odescendants I have received Hthiu a few days a eonfirmution of tho peident 1 mi ationeil in a recent hit- -in ic' i > 11* dying daughter -lie Imd 1 i 11 < r taki her nether’s nriit iOi r ligion than his own infidel- |y. 'j1 nt m*- aayi; “The / *7 has been denii d by Home of tho ^U''h family, L it the Bimiisuii family, I of whom were with thodyiug girl, tkut it in substantially tim In pounder cf the constitution chips at Marshfield, Ma?s., the Atlantic eccau still humming near his pillow cf dust its prolonged lullaby. But is there not Bonn cno now living who in the white marble palace* cf the nation i n yonder hill not ten minutes away will become the irradiati r cf the constitu tion by causing to he added tho most tremendous wi rd of our English vocab ulary, the name of that being hif re whom all nations must bow cr go into di feat and i.nnihilnth n^—“GciA” Church a::il Stnto. Again, before tho approaching ad journment of our Americtai congress, it ought to be decidedly and forever set tled Unit no appropriations he made to sectarian schools, and that the court ship betwom church and state iu this country be ferever broken up. That question alnady seems temporarily set tled. I wish it might be completely and forever settled. All schools and all in stitutions, as well as all denominat ions, should stand on the same level before American law. Emperor Alexander of Russia, at his Peterhof palace, asked me how many denominations of reli gion there were in America, and I re cited their names us well as I could. Then he r.rked me the difference be tween them, and tlK'io I broke down. But when I told him that no religious denomination in Ami riea had any priv ileges above the others, ho could hardly understand it. The Greek church first in Russia, the Lutheran church first in Germany, the Episcopal church first in England, the Catholic church first iu Home, M< kamini danism first in Constantinople—tb.e emperor wondered how it was possible that all the denom inations in America could stand < n tho same platform. But so it is, and so let it ever be. Let tin re be no pn fi n ncc, no partiality, no attempt to help one wet an inch higher than another. Washington and Jefferson, and all the early presidents, and all tho great states men of the past, have lifted their voices against any such tendency. If a school or an institution cannot stand without the prop of national appropriation, then lot that school or that institution go down. On tho othi r side of the sen tho w< rid lias had plenty < f illustration of church and state gniti d. Let us have none cf the hypocrisy and dcnn raliza- tion bom of that relation cn this side of tho Atlantic. Let that denomination come out ahead that docs the most for tho cause of God ami humanity, men, institutions and religions getting w4mt they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by tho favoritism of government. As you regard the wel fare and perpetuity of our institutions, keep politics out of religion. National Convontlona. But now that I am speaking of na tional affairs from a religious stand point I lx think myself of the fact that two other gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at fct. Louis and tho other at Chicago, and before those national con ventions adjourn I ask that they ac knowledge God iu tin* platforms. The men who construct ihose platforms ur* hero this uiurumg or will read these words, t-et nc political party think it can do its duty uuliss it acknowledges that God who built this cratim ut and repealed it nt tb.e right time to th rt dis coverer, and a bo has Hand lure a prosperity which has b on given to no other people. “Oh,'’ says some one, “there aro people in this country who do not believe in a Gcd, and it would be an insult to them.” Well, there arc people in this country who do not be lieve in common decency, cr common honesty, cr any kind of government, pnferring anarchy. Your very platform is an insult to them. Y ou ought not to regard a man who decs not believe iu God any more Tuan you should regard a man who refuses to believe in common decency. Your pcckctbeck is not safe a moment in tho presence cf an atheist. God is tho only source of good govern ment. Why not, then, say ro and let the chairman of the committee cn reso lutions in year national conventions take a pen full of ink and with held hand head the document with one sig nificant “wkcreas,” acknowledging the goodness of Gcd iu the past and beg ging his kindness and protection for tho future. Why, my fniends, this coun try belongs to Gcd, and wo ought in ev ery possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that, on an October morning in 1492, Columbus looked over the side of the ship and saw the carved staff which made him ihiuk he was near an inhabited countiy, and saw also a thorn and a cluster cf berries (type of our history ever since, the piercing sor rows and cluster of national joys), until this hour our country has been bounded ou the north, south, cast and west by the goodness of Gcd. The Huguenots took possession cf the Carolinas in the name of God. William Penn settled Philadelphia in tho name of God. The Hollanders took possession of New York in the name of God. The pilgrim fa thers settled New England in the name of God. Preceding the iiret gun of Bunker Hill, at tho voice of prayer all heads uncovered. In the war of 1812 an officer came to General Andrew Jackson and said: “There is an unusual noise in the camp. It ought to be stopped. ” General Jack-, son said, “What is the poise?” The officer said, “It is tho voice of prayer and praise.” Then tho general said; “God forbid that prayer and praise should be an ur usual noiso in tho en? campmeut. You had better go and join them.” Prayer at Valley Forge, Prayer at Mrrmonth. Prayer at Atlanta. Pray er at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettys burg. “Ob,” says some infidel, “the northern people prayed on cno side, the the southern people prayed on the other side, and s.o it did put amount to any thing!” And I have heard good Chris tian people ccpfound* d with the infidel statement, when it is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes, the northern peo ple prayed in cue way, and the southern people prayed in another way, and U< d answered in his own way, giving to the north the re-establishment of the gov ernment and giving to the south larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated—the harm 5,sing of her rivers in great manufacturing interests, until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee arc southern Merrimucs and the unrolling if great southern piincs of coal and iron, of which tho world knew nothing, and opening be fore her opportunities of wealth which will give 99 pi r ccut mere of affluence than she ever possessed, and, instead of the black hands of American slaves, there arc the more industrious black hands i f the coal and iron miut s of the south, v. hieh are achieving for her fab ulous and uniniagincd wealth. s where deer lick, ns to prohibit the hunger bit ten nations of Europe from coming to this land of bread—as to prohibit the people of England, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Norv’ay, Sweden and Germany working thi inHilvcs to death cn small wages on the other side the sea—from coming to this land where there are the largest compensations under the sun. Why did Gi d spreatl cut the prairies if the Dakotas and roll the pneiousero into Colorado? It w is that all the earth might ccme and plow, and come and dig. Just as long as the centrifugal force i f fon ign ih spetisms throws tin m off just so long will tho centripetal force of American institutions draw them here. Anil that is what is going to make this the mightiest nation ou the earth. Intermarriage of nationali ties, not circle intermarrying circle and nation intermarrying nath n. But it is going to be Italian and Norwegian, Russian and Celt, 8'cotcli and French, English and American. Greatest. Katina* of tJ:o Ace. The Americ an cf 100 years from new is to bo different from tho American cf today. German brain, Irish wit, French civility, Scotch firmness, English loyal ty, Italian (esthetics packed into ono man, and ho an American! It is this intermarriage of nationalities that is going to make the American nation the greatest nation of the ages. But what are we doing for the moral and intel lectual culture i f the 600,000 foreign ers who came iu one year, and tho 000,000 who came in another year, and the 800,000 who camo i i unotht r yi ar, and the 1,000,000 who are coming into our various American ports? What aro we doing for them? Vvell, we are doing a great deal for them. V7o steal their baggage as soon as they get hi re. Wo send them up to a hoarding house, where the h ast tiny lose is their ni' my. V/o swindle them within tin minutes alter they get ashore. We are doing a great life between it and a- r keen stroke that would destroy it And thou, Li rd God Almiylity, wc put, with a thousand a.-.a d iraycr, in to thy protect! n this nation! Remem ber i ur fathi i ’ bb • ding f c t rt Valh y Forge. Hi number Mmien ml Kesciuri- k.». Rrmembi r the cold, and t h'' hunger, anil the long march, and the fi ver lies- j pital. Ri mi ml i r tlu h ;.rf 1 charge at ; Bunker Hill. Hi membi r Lc xingteu, and | Yorktown, and King’s M untuin, and Gettysburg. R» mi mix r Perry’s battle j on the lake, and Hampton Ri ad:’, where j the Cumbuland went down. Rrmini- j bir Washingti u’a pinyi r by Ike camp fire. Kuuiinli.r Plymouth Reek and! the landing amid the savages. Rcmcm- ' her Independence 1 all and how much it cost our fat In rs to sign their names. Rommli r all tho hlor d and tears of three wars—17?d, 1812, 1802. And mi re than all, n mi in her the groan that was mightier than all ctkr r gn ana, and the thirst that Mm gworse than all i th- cr thirsts, and ${:o death that war. ghast lier than all other deaths—tho mount cu which Jesus diid to make all men hap py and free. For the sakei f all this hu man and divine sacrifice, O God, pro tect this nation! And whosoever would blot it out, and whosoever would strike it down, and whcscever would turn hia back, let him be accursed l Go heme tgday iu high hopes of tho future. The eternal Gcd is on the side of thin nation. Our brightest days aro yet to come. lie hut'.* soiaiKiil forth tho trianret that will Kivi r ctal r. tiv.-.t, no l.s sitting oat t h.art:; cf men beforo tho JiG^munt coat. Co&wift, my s,.r.\ t -i r.nsvrrr him. ho Jubilant, my fix l! Cur l-fo 1 i; men hinn cn! THE BEST Family Medicine r.ho Has Ever Known. Words of Praisa from a New York Lady for AYER’S PILLS " I would like to add my testimony to that of others who have used Ayer’s Pills, and to say that I have taken them for many years, and always th rived tho host results from their use. For stom ach and liver troubles, and for tho euro of headache caused by those derange ments, Ayer’s Pills cannot bo equaled. the «1> i And there fire donn s of white blossoi spread tho white tents, And there aro plows In the track where war wagons went, And there are Bongs where they lifted Uachol’s lament. Llncoln'a grayer. Oh, you aro a stupid mr.u if you do not understand how Gcd answered Abraham Lincoln’s prayer iu the White House, and Stonewall Jackson’s prayer iu tho saddle, and answered all tho prayers cf all tho cathedrals ru both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line! God’s country all the way past, God’s country now! Put his name in your pronuneia- meutos. Put his name cu your ensigns! Put his name on your city and state and national enterprises! Put his uami* in your hearts. Wo cannot sleep w’ell the last slcip until wo aro assured that tho God cf our American institutions' in the past will bo tho God cf cur Ameri can institutions in the days that are to ccmc. Qh, when all tho rivers that emp ty into Atlantic and Pacific ijeas shall pull ou factory bands; when all thy groat mini s of gold and silver aud iroy and coal shall bo laid V ur v (° r the* pa*, tion; when tho last swapap sjigll he re claimed, and thy* last jungle cleared, and the last American desert Edtnize'd, and fn m sea to sea tho continent shall he cecupied by mere than 1,200,000,000 souls, may it bo found that moral and religious influences were multiplied iq more rapid ratio than the population! 4ud then thc'/e shall bo four doxologios (sowing from north and south and cast and v.’ist, four doxologios rolling to ward each ether and meeting midcon- tineut with such dash of holy joy that they shall mount to tho throne— Ami booven'* hit'll arch roaonnd ntrnln With peace cn earth, goed will to mm. I take a stop farther and say that before the gavels of our senate and house of representatives and our politi cal conventions pound adjournment there ought to bo passed a law or adopt ed a plank of intelligent helpfulness for the great foreign populations which arc coming among ns. It is too late now to discuss whether wo had better let them come. They aro here. They are coming this moment through the Nar rows. They arc this moment taking tho first full inhalation * f the free air of America. Ami (hey will ityutinue to, come as long as this country is the Iniit place tu live iu. You might as weRpiid a law prohib iting summer hi * s ftoiiu alight ing on a Held pf hlosB' ini jig miekwheatj you might as Will prohibit (the stags of the mountains from cowing down to the deal for them. But what are wc doing to introduce them into the duties of goi.d citizenship? Many cf them never saw a ballet box. Many of them uivir heard of the constitution cf the United ,'tates. Many i i (him have no acquaint ance with our laws. Now, I say, h t tho government cf the United hialts, su com man ded by cno political party or both political parties, give to every im migrant who lauds here a vcUrine, in good type and well tov.udfcr h ug usage —a volume containing the Dili: ration of ludi pi wieni e, the constitutii a of the United States and a chapter rn the spir it of i ur government. Is t (hire lie such a hook on Iho shelf of every Inc library in America, While the Annrlcau Bible I society puts into the right handef ivory immigrant a copy cf tho Holy £erip- tyres, let the gcverr.nu ut cf the United States, eommaudi d by some political party, put into the lift handef every immigrant a volume instructing him in the duties of gci d citijfi whip, Th' re are tlu usanda ct forfigiurs in this laud who wed to 1- am that the ballet tex is not a footstool, l ut a tlntnc—not some thing tu put your feet en, but some thing to bow before. Christirn Fatrictigw, But whether numbers of the national legislature, or delegate s to cneef the na tional conventions, er ] rivatc citizens, let uh cultivate Christian patriotism. Oh, how good Gcd has been to us as « natkn! Just ep.cn tho im p i f tho couth Hi nt and see how it is shared for im- mou: urable pn f pi vitii s. Navigable 11V - us, mere in number and great.*", than of any other land, rolling down en ail sides 1 into the sea, prophesying Jargc iw.uu- | factories and easy commerce. Look at I the great ranges of mountains, timbered with wealth on tho top and sides and metaled with wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal! One hundnd and eighty thousand square miles of iron! The iron to pay cut tho real. Tho coal to forge and smelt tho iron. The land s.o con toured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts mere than Ihrte days—extreme hi at cr extreme cold. Climate for tho most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits. All min erals. All harvests, t’ci ncry displaying autumnal pageantry tin t no land ou earth pretends to rival. No tfouth Amer ican earthquake s. No FcofyU mists. No English fogs. No Egyptian plagues. Tho p.eiplo me Unhid States aro happily thau any people ea earth. It j? the tCEtimi ny of every man that has traveled abroad. For thq peer mere sympathy! For tho industrious mere op portunity! Gli v hew good Gcd was to i)ur fathi r^^iiid how good Gid has been to US awl pur children! To him—blessed Ijio his glorious name! To him i f en ss and tviamph bo ooncecrated the United titatia of Amerira! There aro three great reasons why you anil I should do our best for this country—three great reasons: Our fa thers’ graves, cur cradle^ piyv childn n’s birthright. Whq^ I say your fathers’ gruvi s, your pulrfi s run quickly. Wheth er they sleep in city cemetery or coun try graveyard their dust is very precious to you. I think they live'd well and that they died right. Ncvir submit to have any government over their tombs other than that government under which they lived and died. And then this country is our cradle. It may have rocked us very roughly, but it was a good cradle to Ik* rocked in. Oh, how much wo owe to it! Our boyhood and girl hood, it was spent in this blessed coun try’. I never bavo any path ncc with a man who talks against this country. Glorious place to lx* lx>rn in and a glo rious place to live iu. It has kern our cradle. Aye! It is to pur children's birthright. You amt I will soon bo through. Wu will \*orhnps s<‘o a few more spring blossoms, and wo will per haps see a fmv more summer harvests, and we will perhaps gather a few more autumnal fruits, but we ore to hand this government to our children as it wan bonded to us—a free laud, a happy land, a Christian land. They aro not to b« trampled by despotism. They arc not to to frightened by anarchies.* ’-Wo must hand this government tl> thim over the ballot box, over desk, over the church altar, J ^ have received it and charge tbem^Jkmuly to put their Asi ICrror About Cat*. An error about cats, anil a truly vul gar ono, is that they lia ou young ehil- ilreu’s breasts anil suck their breath or suffocate them. Cats liko to lie on the breast of a person they love, and aro apt to show their happiness by now and (hen lifting their heads for a kiss or gently touching tho face or neck above them with their paw ; this sort of pat ting or stroking a beloved cheek or throat is one of the more human habits winch dogs nave not. Feeing ono of our eats lying on her master’s chest when ho was asleep ou tho sofa, I understood how the notion had taken root; then, too, cats are luxurious and fond of warmth, and may sometimes share a baby’s crib or cradle for that reason, as dugs certainly do.—Temple Bar. When my friends ask me what is the best remedy for disorders of the stom ach, liver, or bowels, my invariable answer is, Ayer’s Pills. Taken in sea son, they will break up a cold, prevent la grippe, check fever, and regulate tho digestive organs. They are easy to take, and are, indeed, the best all-round family medicine I have ever known.”— Mrs. May Johnson, 8<>8 Rider Avenue, New York City. AYER’S PILLS % Highest Honors at World’s Fair. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Cure-all Blood Disorders. Labor Savin™ Device. Where om must usu a crnsMmC saw alone in fitting wood for tho, stove, such a device as tho ono hero repro duced from The F a r m Journal will save labor. A heavy piece of timber i>j sus pended to swing easily ou a hook. Insert one cud of the saw at tho lower cud and ra.-- SAW WORKED BY OXB MAN. begin to saw. Tho weight cf tho timber will act liko a balance wheel and great ly aid in running tho saw. Tho long hook permits the saw to full as tho log is sawed. ETect cf Tlrrni of Costing Byloy. At tho Maryland station three cuttings were made—i. e., with straw mostly ripoaud grain nearly all in dough state, with straw ripe anil all grain in dough stato and with straw ripo and grain hard. Tho first cutting had grain of brightest color, weight J59.G pounds per bushel; the second cutting next bright est, weight 41.1 pounds, and tho third cutting darkest, weight 40.1 pounds. A. N. WOOD, BANKER, • docs a general Banking anil Exchange business. A Veil secured with Burglar- t «• ' * 1’roof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. DR. J r F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. 11. Tolleson’s new store. In office from 1st to 114th of each month; Soothers Rjilwjy. Otltl Mention. The tendency in Florida n-enis large ly toward abandoning rebanco on one crop and engaging in a diversification of pursuits. Perhaps no other vegetable novelty which has been introduced in tho south in recent years has caused more com ment than tho viuclesa tweet potato. If Amber cane cf tho early variety is planted early enough and properly cared for, it should mature about July. Irrigation by the use of steam driven centrifugal pumps ban developed the rice raising possibilities of Louisiana. It has transfer rod the rieefiolds from the swamps to tho uplands and bus made Louisiana tho ricefield of tho United States. Bermuda makes an excellent pasture for hogs and can bo pastured in May.' Corn Ilxix-rlnicnts. At the Georgia station it appears to have been proved that pulling the blades reduced the yield of corn throe bushels per acre, and the fodder obtained was worth 92 cents moro than tho three bushels of corn lost, but this 92 cents did not pay cost of pulling. Of 12 vari eties tested Shaw’s Improved gave the largest yield. A Farm Convenience*. Again and again ono sees fanners hanging the steelyards upon u stationary book and lifting . tho article to be ' weighed up to tho hook of tho steelyards, bo tho article light or heavy. Use such a device as is shown in tho cut, here reproduced Condense*] Sc’.iedulc o! Passenger Train,. DEV1CK FOR UMNO STEELY AH1>S. from The Farm Journal, which explains Itself, except tiio bit of chain hanging on a pug. If tlie article is low, this chain will heighten out the steelyards hook, so that no lifting will be required. The Florida Kxperlment Station. M. H. Moremau has been employed by the station to investigate the injuries by frost to tho orange grove,of Florida and to report upon tho best means of reno vating tho orchards. Tho station is ex tending its plantation of fruit and nut trees and vineyards ut Hike City, Do Funiak Springs and Fort Myers. Northbound. Jan. 5. ISV6. Vc No. JS Daily i m No . 0 Daily No. 12 Dahy Ne. 1 • E Suit Lv. Atlanta, C. 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T 3 M ,i f . osop ••.i' *. iu. i>. m- ••Jd” noon. “N” night. No«. 37 an<l M-Wuiihlngtuii and SonthwMMni Vetllbulo l.lnOtod. Through Cullman •laapafV Oatwvou New . ork and New Orleans, via Waalt- ipgton, Atlantn and Montgomery, and aleo twren Now Vo anil MetnphU, via Washington, Atlanta and ItKinlughaiu. Dining can. Noe. 3S and 30—United States Fast Mall. Fhlh man sleeping care between Atlanta, Now ()► leans anil New York. Noe. 11 and 13. Pullman sleeping ear 1MU Richmond, Danville and Greensboro. W 11. GREEN, Gen t ftupt., Washington, D. 0. J.*!. CULP, Turtle kFg'r, V thing a, D. <X W. D. UYDKR, Rui ertntendeht, Charlotte, North Carolina. W. A. TURK, ». II. HAltliVrrCK, Oen'l Past. Ag’t, Aiis'tWcn' 1 Put, aft. Waahingtoa, D. O. ~ ***•* Da.