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THE HITTER ATTILA. A BRIEF VIEW OF THE STAR CALLED WORMWOOD. • llcv. Dr. Talrnage on I'.rillUat Dittcrncs* and Its Itrsnlts—Sn jJdinj na.l Growliuj;. Tho Swcrtonlnjj I’owcr of tho Gospel. | Safety la I f .ig;hteon.-'ncss. Washington, Jano 14.—It was ap propriate that this sercioa on the des tiny of nations should ho preached in what has Inn?» been called tho president s church (beenu Presidents Jackson and Pierce und Polk and Cleveland have at tended it). Dr. Talmago chose for his text Revelation viii, 10, 11, “There fell u great star from heaven, burning os it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon tho fountains of waters and tho name of tho ■tar is called Wormwood. ” Many commentators like Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry and Albert Barnes agree in saying that the star Wormwood, mentioned in Rev elation, was Attila, king of the Huns. |Io was so called because he was bril liant as a star, and, like wormwood, he embittered everything he touched. Wo Have studied tho Star of Bethlehem, and the Morning Star of tho Revelation, and the Star of Peace, but my present sub ject calls us to gaze at the star Worm- wood, and my theme might bo called Brilliant Bitternes?. A more extraordinary character his- | tory docs cot furnish than this man thus referred to, Attila, tho king of the Huns, (bio day a we anded heifer came limping, along through the fields, and a herds- Ujau followed bloody track on tho gras? 1 to boo where the heifer was wounded, and want on back further and farther, until ho came to a sword fast in tho earth, the point downward, as though it had dropped from the heavens and against the edges of this sword tho heifer had been cut. The herdsman pull ed up that BV.-crd and presented it to * Attila. Atili.i raid that sword must have dropped from the heavens from the grasp of tho god Mars and its being given to him meant that Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delight ed at being called liberators, or the merciful, or tho good, but Attila called himself, and demanded that others call him, tho Scourge of God. At the head of 700,000 trex ps, mounted on Cappado cian horses, lie swept everything from tho Adriatic to the Black sea. He put his iioa hr. 1 < n Macedonia and Greece and Thrace, lie made Milan and Pavia and Padua ai:d Verona beg for mercy, which ho bestowed not. The Byzantine castles, to ur t his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, tho inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes—tho first class, those who could bear arms, who must immediately enlist under Attila or bo butchered; (ho second class, tho Beautiful women, who were made cap- fives to the Huns; the third class, tho aged men and wono n, who wore robbed of everything and 1 t go back to tho city to pay heavy tax r.i!i3 cf u Sir.r. It was nr c( union saying that tho grass never grew again where tho hoof of Attila’s horse had trod. His armies reddened Urn waters of tho jijcino, »nd the Moselle, imd tho Rhino with car. page and fought on tlio Catalonian plains the fiercest battle since tho world stood —300,000 (V ad left on the field! On and on until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their face ) i.j prayer, and, a cloud of dust seen in the distance, a bishop cried, “It is tho aid of God!” and all tho people took up tho cry, ‘‘It is tho aid cf God!” As tho cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re-enforcing •armies marched in to help against At tila, the heourgo c f God. The most un important occurrences lie used ns a su pernatural resource, and after three months of failure to capture the city of Aquilcia, and his army had given up tho siege thu flight of a stork and her young from the tower of tho’city was taken by him us a sign that ho was tq capture tho city, and his army, inspired by the sumo cccurrcuco, resumed the siege und look the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. Sq brilliant was tho conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on tho < veniug of his marriage by his bride, Ildico, who was hired for tho assassination, his followers bewailed him, not with tours, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. Ho was put into throe coffins, the first of iron, the second of silver and tho third of gold. Ho was buried by night, and into his grave were poured tho most valuable coin and precious ■tones, amounting to tho wealth of a kingdom. Tho gravediggers and all those who assisted at tho burial were massacred, so that it would never bo known where so much wealth was en tombed. Tho Roman empire conquered tho world, but Attila couquercd the Ro man empire. Ho was right in calling himself a scourge, but instead of being tho Scourge of God ho was the scourge of hell. Because of his brilliance and bitterness i!io commentators were right in believing him to bo tho star Worm wood. As. tho regions ho devastated wero parts most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic is this reference in Revelation: “Thero fell a gn at star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell npbn tho third part of tho rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and tho name of the star is called Wormwood.” Have yoft ever thought how mauy imbittcrcd lives thero are all about us, misanthropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The European plant from which worm wood isoxtftctod, Artemisia absinthium, is a perennial plant, and all tho your round it is ready to exude its oil. And jn many human lives there is a peren nial distillation of acrid experiences. Yea, there arc some whoso whole work is to shed a baleful iutlucuco on others. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 18, 1896. There are Attilas of the homo, or At- tilas of the social circle, or Attilas of thoiVurch, or Attilas of the state, and one-third of thewatersof all tho world, if not two-thirds tho waters, arc poi soned by the falling of the star Worm wood. It is not complimentary to hu man nature that most men, as soon as they get great power, b eon.:' overbear ing. The more power m: u have the bit ter if their power be used for good. The they less power men have the be tter if use it for evil. Birds circle round and round and round before they swoop upon that which they are aiming for. And if my discourse so far bus been swinging round and round this mono nt it drops straight on your heart and asks tho question, Is your life a benediction to others or an imbittermont, a blessing or a curse, a balsam or wormwood? a Some of you I know are morning stars, and yon are making the dawning life of your children bright with gracious in fluences, and you are beaming upon all the opening enterprises of philanthropic and Christian endeavor, and you arc heralds of that day of gospelizatiou which will yet flood all the mountains and valleys of our sin cursed earth. Hail, morning star! Keep on shining with encouragement and Christian hope! Growlers and Scolds. Some of you are evening stars, and you are cheering tho last days of old peo ple, and though a cloud sometimes comes over yon through the queruloufmess or unreasonableness of year old father and mother it is only for a moment, and the star soon corn 's out clear again and is seen from all the balconies of the neighborhood. The old people will for give your occasional shortcomings for they themse lves several times lost their patience when you were young and slapped you when you did not deserve it. Hail, evening star! Hang on tho darkening sky your diamond coronet 1 But are any of you the star Worm wood? Do yon scold and growl from tho thrones paternal or maternal? Aro your children everlastingly peek T at? An* you always crying “Hush!” to tho merry voices and swift feet, and their laugh ter, which occasionally trickle ) through at wrong times and is suppressed by them until they can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw und cachiunutiou, as in high weather the water has trickled through a slight opening in the milldam, but aftenvari makes wider and wider breach until it carries all before it with irresistible freshet? Do not be tin) much offended at the noise your children now make. It will bo still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to hoar one shout from their silent voices c,r one sli p from the still foot. You will not any cf you have to wait very long bs fore your house is stiller than you want it. Alas, that there are so many homos not known to the So ciety For the Prevention <1 Cruelty to Children, where children aro put on the limits and whacked and cuffed and ear pulled and se:i£ol«3sly called to order and answered sharp and suppressed un til it is a wonder that under s :c h proc esses they do not all turn out Modocs and Nana Sahibs. Whit is ye nr influence upon the neighborhood, the town or the city of your residenc ? 1 will suppose that you are a star of wit. What kind of rays do you shoot forth? Do you uso that splon did faculty to i midi ate the world or to rankln h? I Lies.) all the aposiclie col lege of humorists. The man that makes mo laugh is my benefactor. I do not thunk anybody to make mo cry? I can do that withc.at any assistance. Wo all ciy enough, and have enough to cry about. God bliss nil skillful punsters, all repartecists, all propounders ( f in genious c mumdrtuns, all those who mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxtaposition of words. Thomas Ho d and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine mission, and eo havo their successors in these times. They stir into the acid beverage « f life the saccharine. They make the cupcf earthly existence, which is sometimes stale, effervesco and bubble. They placate animosities. They foster long) vity. Tiny slay follies and absurdities which all the sermons of all the pulpits cannot reach. Need or a Igiystcian. They have for examples Elijah, who made fun of the Baalitrs when they calk'd down fire, and it did not come, suggesting that their heathen god had gone hunting, or was off on a journey, pr was ask (p, and nothing but vwifer- ation could wake him, saying, “Cry aloud for ho is a god. Either ho is talk ing or pursuing or peradventuro ha sleepeth and must bo awaked. ” They have an example in Christ, who with healthful sarcasm rhowed up the lying, hypocritical Pharisees by suggesting that such perfect people like themselves neixlcd no improvements, saying, “Tho whole need not u physician but they that are sick. ” But what use are you making of your wit? Is it besmirched with profanity and uncleauuess? Do you employ it in amusement nt physical defects for which the victims are not responsible? Aro your powers of mimicry used to put re ligion in contempt’ Is it a bunch of ncttlesome invective? Is it a bolt of un just scorn? Is it fun at other’s misfor tune? Is it glee at their disappointment and defeat? I.i it bitterness put drop by drop into a cup? Is it like the squeezing of Artemisin absinthium into a draft already distastefully pungi'nt? Then you are the star Wormwood. Yours is tho fun of a rattlesnake trying hdw well it can sting. It is the fun of a hawk try ing how quickly, it can strike out the eye of a dove. But I will change this and suppose you are a star of Worldly Prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. Yon can encourage that artist by buying his picture.' You can improve the fields, tho stables, tho highway, by introducing higher style of fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You can bk>« tho world with pomological achievement in tho orchards. You can advance arboricul ture and Urrest this (loathful je< noclaxm of tho American forests. You can put a piece of sculpture into tho niche of that public academy. You ciyi endow a col lege. You car stocking a thousand buro foot from tho winter frost. You can build a church You can put a mission ary of Christ on that foreign shore. You can help ransom a world. A rich man with his heart right—can you tell me how much good a James Lenox or a George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge did while living, or is doing now that ho is d ad? There is not a city, town or neighborhood that has not glorious specimens of consecrated wealth. But suppose yon grind the face of the poor. Suppose when a man’s wages arc due you make him wait for them be cause he cannot help himself. Suppose that, because iiis family is sick and ho has had extra expenses, he should po litely ask you to raise his wages for this year and you roughly tell him if he wants a better place to go and get it. Suppose by your manner you act as though he were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are selfish aud overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to be Attila and your last name Attila, because yon are the Wtar Wormwood, aud you havo imbittcrcd one-third if not three-thirds of the waters that roll past your employees and operatives and dependents and associ ates, and tho long lino of carriages which the undertaker orders for your funeral, in order to make the occasion respectable, will be filled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes ux there are per sons occupying them. There is an erroneous idea abroad ; that there aro only a few geniuses, j There are millions of them—that i s men and women who have especial adapta tion and quickness for remo one thing. It may be great; it may be small. The circle may be like the circumference of the earth oi' no larger than a thimble, i Thero are thousands of geniuses, and in | some one thing you are a star. What | kind of a star aro you? You will be in i this world but a few minutes. As com- I pared with eternity tho stay of tho longest life on earth is not more than a minute. Wiia’t are wo doing with that minute? Are we imbittoriug the domes tic or social or political fountains, or are we like Mores, who, when tho Draclites in the wilderness complained that the waters of Lake Murah wi re bitter aud they could not drink them, cut off tho branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into tho water, i^'d it became swei t aud slaked the thirst of tnosaff' v- ing host? Are we with a branch cf tho Tree of Life sweetening all tho brackish fountains that \vo can touch? Three WIkIich. Dear Bord, send us all out on that mission. All around us imbitterod lives —imbittcrcd by persecution, imbittcred by hypeioritioism, imbitterod by pov erty, imbitterod by pain, imbittcrcd by injustice, imbitterod by sin. Why not go forth and sweeten them by smile, by inspiring words, by benefactions, by hearty counsel, by prayer, by gospel- j ized behavior? Let us rcmembi r that if | wo are wormwood to others wo aro ! wormwood to ourselves, and cur life ! will be bi' tor and our eternity bitterer. 1 The gospel of Jesus Christ i) tho only sweetening power that is sufficient. It sweetens tiie disposition. It sweetens the manners. It sweetens life. It sweet- j euu mysterious providences. It s\m tens afflictions. It sweetens death. It sweet ens everything. I have heard people asked in social company, ‘‘If you conhl i have three wishes gratified, what \. < u!d | your three wishes be?” If I could have | three wishes met tin) morning, I t 11 j you what they would be: 1. More of the grace of God. 2. More of the grace cf God. 9. More of the grace of God. In the doeryard of my brother John, missionary in Amoy, China, thero was a tree called the empire;:' tree, th;.* two char act eristics of which are that it al ways grows higher than its surround ing), aud its leaves take the form cf a crown. If this emperor tree be planted by a rosebush, it grows a little higher than the bush aud spreads out above it a crown. R it be planted by tho side of anothef tree, it grows a little higher than that tree and spreads above it a crown. Would God that this religion of Christ, a more wonderful emperor tree, might overshadow all ycur lives! Aro you lowly in ambition or circum stance, putting over you itserowu? Are you high in talent and position, putting over you its crown? Oh, for more of tho saccharine in our livoa and loss of tho wormwood! What is true of individuals is true of nations. God sets them up to revolve as star.vbat they may fall wormwood. Tyre, the atmosphere of the desert, fragrant with rj)icis, coming in cara vans to her fairs, all as cleft into foam by tho keels of her laden mer chantmen, hi r markets rich with hi rses aud camels from Togarmab, her bazaars filled with upholstery from Dedun, with emerald aud coral und agate from Syria, with wines from Hclbou, with embroid ered work from Ashur aud Chilumd. Where now the gleam of her towers, where tho roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fisher men who dry their nets where once she stood, let tho sea that rnsnea upon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration of all nations, let the barbarians who set their rude tents where onoo her palaces glittered, answer the question. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Turucd to Wormwood. Hundred gated Thebes, for all time to be tbe study of the antiquarian and hieroglyphiat, her stuiHiulous rains spread over 37 miles, her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot tho victories with which the now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the na tions, her obelisks and columns, Uunmo und Luxor, the stupendous temples of her pride! Who can imagine the great ness of Thebes in those days when the hippodrome rang with her sports ami foreign royalty bowed at her shrine aud her avenues roared with (he wheels of processions in the wake of returning conquerors? What dashed down the vi sion of chariots and temples and thrones? What hands pulled upon the columns of her glory? What mtTilessness defaced her sculptured wall and broke obelisks aud left her indescribable temples great skeletons of granite? What spirit of de struction spread the lair >f .wild beasts in her royal sepulchers, and taught the miserable cottagers of tixlay to build huts in the court:) cf her temples, aud sent desolation and ruin skulking be hind the obelisks, and dodging among the sarcophagi, and loaning against tho columns, and stooping under the arches, and weeping in the waters which go mournfully by ns though they were car rying the tears of all ages? Let tho mummies break their loug silence aud come up to shiver in the desolation aud point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced sculpture, responding: “Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated righteousness and loved sin. Thebes was a star, but she turued to wormwood and has fallen.” Babylon, with her 250 towers and her brazen gates and her embattled walla, tho splendor of the earth gathered with in her palaces, her hanging gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his bride, Amytis, who had been brought up in a mountainous country and could not endure the flat country round Baby lon—these hanging gardens built, ter race above terrace, till at the height of 400 feet there were woods waving aud fountains playing, the verdure, the foli age, the glory looking us if a mountain were on the wing. On tho tiptop a king walking with his queen, among statues snowy white, looking up at birds brought from distant land), and drink ing out of tankards of solid gold or looking off over rivers and lakes upon nation) subdued and tributary, crying, “Is not this great Babylon which I have built?” What battering ram smote the walln? What plowshare upturned the gardens? What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out this light which illumined tho world? What crash of discord drove down tho music that poured from palace window and garden grove and called the ban queter:) to their revel and the dancers to their feet? I walk upon the scene of des olation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery, the remains cf Babylon, and as in the silence of the night I hear the surging cf that billow cf (I solation which rolls over the scene, I hear tho wild waves saying: “Babylon was proud. Babylon was impure. Babylon was a litar, but by sin she turned to wormwood amr'Jjgs fallen.” Po5smtTl From (ho persecutions of the pilgrim fathers aud tho Huguenots in other lands God sot upon these shores, a na tion, The council fires of the aborigines wi nt out in tho greater light of a free government. Tho sound of the wanvhcop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise aud progress. Tho mild winters, tbe fruitful summers, the healthful skies charmed from other lauds a race of hardy men who loved Gcd and wanted to bo free. B fore the W( odruan’s ax forests fell aud rose again into ships’ masts and ckurehe:)’ pillars. Cities cn tho banks of lakes begin to rival cities by the sen. The hind quakes with tho rurii of the nul car and tho waters are churned white with tho steamer's wheel. Fabulous burials of western wheat meet o:i the way fabu lous tons of eastern coal. Furs from the* n: rtli pass < i (lie rivers fruits from the south. And trading in the same market is Maine lumberman and South Caro lina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska far dealer. And churcho and schools aud asylums scatti r light and love and mercy and salvation upon GO,- 000,000 of people. I pray thurour nation may net copy the crimes cf the nations that have per ished and our er.p < f blessing turn to v.u rmwood, and lik - them we go down. I am by nature and by grace an < plixni*t, and 1 expect that tins c< an try will con tinue to advance until Christ shall come agaiq. But bo not deci ived. Our only safety is in righteousness toward Gcd and justice toward man. If wo forget tho gcnducsB of the Lord to this land, and break his ijabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have again and again come to us as a nation, and wo learn saving leasi n neither from civil war inr raging epidemic nor drought u« r mildew imr scourge of locust aud grasshopper nor cyclone nor earthquake; if x t!ie political oirruption which has poisoned the fountains of public virtue and b .limed the high places of author ity, making free government at times a hissing and a byw< rd in all tho earth; if tlie drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blasphcm*' in the streets of our great cities as though they were reaching after the fame cf a Corinth and a Sodom are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation’s ruin; the pillars of our national and state capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulled down Dagong aud future historians w ill record upon the page bislewed with generous tears the story that the free nation of the west arose in splendor which made tho world stare. It had magnificent possi bilities. It forgot God. It huti .1 justice. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under tho blow of calamity. It fell. And as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from the top of bloody thrones begun to shout, ‘‘Aha, so would we have it!” while j struggling and oppressed people li oki i\ i out from dungeon bars with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, the scorn of those und tho woe of these unit ing in the exclamation: “Look yonder I There fi U a great star from heaven,burn ing as it were a lamp, and it fell upon thi' third part of the rivers and upon tho fountains of waters, and tho name of the star is called Wormwood!” If Napolco:) Had Invacrd Dngland? • It is also pertinent to inquire what would havo happened had Napoleon been successful in landing an army on English shores. In the first place, his mastery of the seas would have been quickly ended by tho combined efforts of tho English war vessels then afloat, and he would have been left without base of supplies or communication. In tho second place ho would have met a resistance from a proud, free, enlight ened aud desperate people v hich would have paralyzed all his tactici and would havo worn out any army he could have kept together. Did Napoleoj fail to un derstand this? Of course not. Ho had said before that an army which cannot be regularly recruited is a dxraicd army. He bad seen this theory verified in Egypt, and ho knew very well that n permanent mastery of the seas was ont of the question with tbe fleets and flotil las at his disposal. It would appear in tho case of any other man than Napo leon that the proof was complete, in view of what actually did occur—uame- ly, tho attack by land on Anstria. Tho impression which Mctternicli received iu 1810 that this Ivul been the emperor's intention from the first, and the lavish- ness with which Napoleon, throughout his public career, made uso of any and every form of ruse, even tho costliest, in order to mislead his foes, aro comple mentary pieces of evidence which fur nish tho strongest corrnborai ion.—Pro fessor W. M. Sloanc’s “Life of Napo leon” in Century. GANGER CURED -AND A - LIFE SAVED By the Persistent Uco of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla “I was troubled for years with a sore on my knee, which several physicians, who treated me, called a cancer, assuring me that nothing could bo done to save my life. As a last resort, 1 was induced to try Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and, after tak ing a number of bottles, the sore % W :***.•< r'-k* Where the DicinonJ Tree Grows. No work on horticulture makes men tion of this interesting shrub, which rarely attains largo size, but is mainly restricted to a number of small cuttings. The pawnbrokiug trade is ^|here the cultivation is carried on. An "Rnscrnpu- lons nawnbrokcr having had certain dia mond ornaments intrusted to his safe keeping for awhilo is tho gardener, aud it is iu tho arid atmosphere of bis work shop that tho work of propagation will be observed. A piece of jewelry in which diamonds are set is carefully examined, and stones of similar quality, but just a shade smaller in size, aro cleverly substituted. The removed stones aro in turn ex changed for others from another article again, an imperceptible shade bigger, until at last the original cutting has de veloped quito respectable growth aud di mensions. It is not wise to force the growth to too great an extent, and so tho original process is being continually repeated. The beauty cf the operation lies in tho slighfd&fijftLrof detection. The substi tution iu each easts varies but very little iu the matter of size, aud'Trtfc-ftwtiers of tho property rarely or never notice has taken place, but “many a little makes a mucklc,” aud in tbe course of a few weeks a skillful gardener may make a very good Using out of a diamond tree. —Pearson's Wcek ly. That AUrreit tho Cane. “Havo you heard about young Mo- lard? Ho 1ms just walked off with 30,000 francs of his cmphiyor’s room y," ^ “Ila! ha! Tho lucky rascal!” ho has bolted with your * ‘ B< sides, umbrella.” “Oh, tho pillou. iufi rnal scamp!”—Lo Pa- began to disappear and my general health iiis prove. I persisted in tliD treatment, until t-Ur^orc was en tirely healed. Since Tt77 r fir~I Ayer’s Sarsaparilla occasionally'’??? a tonic and blood-purifier, ami, in deed, it seems ns though I could not keep house without it.’’—Mrs. S. A. Fields, Bloomfield, la. AYER The Only World’s Fair Sarsaparilla. Ayer’s Pills Regulate the Liver. A. N. 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The construc tion of the Kiel canal by tho Germans has had its coantapart in the organiza tion of a magnificent free port at Copen hagen, aud now within tho last ten days a railroad ferry lino has been established from tho Danish capital to Mahuoo, iu Sweden, by means < f which a tourist can travel all the way from Cadiz, iu Spain, cr Constantinople, in Turkey, to tho northernmost point of Norway and Sweden without leaving the traiu — New York Tribune. DR. J. F. GARR1 Dentist, Gaffney, S. C. Office over.I. R. Tolleson’s new store. In office from 1st to 21th of each mont h ; SOUTHERN RAILWAY. rir.DMONr .xin t.ixr Contlrnsnl SeJicilult* nf riino'»«v*r Trutnii, Nortlibonnd. June 14, y e ,. F»t.MI Ni». 18 No. SV V ‘>- Xo-lt K*. Dally. Dally. Dally Nun. Lv. Atlanta, r. T. i 2 oo m H )•} I’ 7o0 ». j !»»' Atlanta, E/f. i ou ji li 1'* >’• 8 50 a 5 Norcross *• Buford. ■ Gainesville. 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R.R. “ PhL’ndelphia “ Baltimore '* Washington.. Lv. Riehmond 4 :*) tl 55 9 20 10 43 p 12 15 p 3 50 V <» 22 p 11 15 2 00 a 12 55 p 200 a. 5 50 a tl 05 p| 0 40 a 9 95 a 10 55 j> 12 2j p 10 49 1 15 1 95 2 18 .11 30 p a 12 00 12 24 a 1 00 p 1 50 a] p 2 85 a t- p A pi 3 50 a We equal in the world. any Our patrons recormpend us. All work guar anteed and com petition met. THE LEDGER. Lv. Danville “ Charlotte . ** Gastonia •• Kine s Mt “ BinekshurK ** Gaffneys r ‘ SpartniiburK . 11 37 “ Greenville.. 12 2K “ Central H Seneca " Wust minster “ Twcoa “ Mt. Airy *• Cornelia - Lula. " Gainesville “ Buford “ Norcross Ar. Atlanta, E. T. Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 3 55 p 5 20 a 9 30 p M ••A’' a. m. "P" p. m. “M" noon. "N” nig Nos. 37 and 98—Washington and South we ern Vestibule Limited. Through Pull* Hleeners IsOwts-n New York and Nowj" - * - via Washington, Atlanta and Mnnlgn altet Itetween New York and Meni Washington, Atlanta and Birmingha train also carries Rii-hniond-Auktusta cars between Danville and yharlotf class thoroughfare roach betwiVn Wa and Atlanta. Dining errs serve all route. Nos. 85 and 93—United States Fast Mail. 1 man slcepiiiK cars between New Yo»k, AC and New Orleans. Nos. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars bets Richmond and Danville. The Air Line Bell, train, Nos. 17 and 18,_ from .Tone 1st to October 1st, 1803, Is- o)s-ratr_ Itetween Atlanta and Mt. Airy, Ga., daily ex cept Sunday. W. H. GREEN, J. M. CULP, Gen’lSupt., Traffic MYr.. Washington, D. O. Washington, D. W,A. TURK, K H. HARDWICK, Uen 1 Pass. Ag’t , Asst Ocu’l Pass. Ag’t. WMhington, D. C. Atlanta,) ^ -r~- The Air Line Belle train (Nos. will, on anil after Inni 1st. Ih;«. between Atlanta and Mt. Air*