The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 18, 1896, Image 5
THE HITTER ATTILA.
A BRIEF VIEW OF THE STAR CALLED
WORMWOOD.
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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.
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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
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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. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general Banking and Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Bujsaml sells Stocks and Bonds.
Btn'g^outiIy and School Claims.
Your l>iisine<3>8ill)ci'oii.
Denmark.
Denmark, although a small country
and relatively thinly populated, can cer
tainly lay claim to bo the most progress
ive nation in Europe aud is determined
not to permit the gia:;:; to grow under its
feet. Tho state, schools which tho govern
ment has established for popular in
struction in tho most advantageous
methods of making butter and other ag
ricultural and farm produce, which eon-
stituto tho staple industry of the king
dom, havo already achieved a success
tho fame cf which extends throughout
Europe and tv n to such faioff coun
tries as Japan and LJicni. 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.
PROTECTION f»mn the grip,
" pneumonia, diphtheria, fever and
epidemics is given by Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla. »t makes PURE QLQOD.
KKKDKICK A US FK LI). K. C. SE1Z
AUSFELD & SEIZ,
A KG'II ITECT.S,
Atlanta, G. A.
" Lula..
** Cornelia.
H Mt. Airy .
" Toceon.
“ Weatmlnste-
“ Seneoa 1
" Central .
" Greenville
“ Spartanburg.
" Gaffneys.
** Bloeksburir
“ oKlnK's Mt
Gastonia. ’
Ar. Charlotte ..] s ?)
Danville p) 00
1- > 5'1 » 9 :)8 a 0
1 10 Li a < P
2 01 a hi 42 a •
t O') pi
4 18 p'
4 45 p
a 90 p
« 18 p
7 08 p
r 11 05 «!
o U /7 a
11 »>•».
n 11 53 a
a 12 - ji5 p
a 12 41 p
a 1 20 p
a 2 It) p
a 3 22 p
a 4 11 p
a' 4 30 p
« 5'00 j*
a 5 28 p
a f, 20 p
p 11 25 p
8 12 p
8 93)1
Ar. Richmond 0 00 a U 40 p fluo a
Ar.Washington 0 42
'* Baltm'oPRR. 8 05
" Philadelphia . lo 25
New York 12 53 m 0 20
Pi
a 9 40 pj
a 11 25
a 3 OJ a
ai.
Southbound.
I Vcs. Fst.Ml No. 11
No. 37 No. 33 >0 - 14 Ex.
Dally. Daily. D » ,, y Suu.
Flans anj Specifications
public buildir.es.
(or private and
Lv. N. Y.,P. 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*