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*.• . # 4 ) rm* THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JTTBiY 10, 1890. LAME ON H0T1I FEET. THIS IS THE BIBLE IDEA AND DEFINI TION OF S'N. Rev. Dr. . nen. For tat.loi) of 13.1 tora'.lo.!. I -H-ihoH tTpon “Kind i -aUe”—Novel Trenen- tif lliiin ami Ilee- Wa 'N*, July 12.—Dr. Tal- may '.s m i.. u cf ((-day a vivid and hovel 1'ir ki'ji! itioii of the (lioorios of rnin and r^or.Uioii. Tlio Bible ncrue dficribid is d j: tic. His text was II Samuel ix, 1 m.d M: “Is Ihoro yet any tliut is left of tl." l.oure of Saul, that I m;iy sIkav li ,u 'ii!'dn''ss for Jouatlmn’e sake H liiborhcth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did "at continually at the kiiiR’s table and was lame on both his feet. ’ ’ Was there ever anything more roman tic and chivalrous than the love of David and Jonathan? At one time Jon athon was up and David was down. Now David is up and Jonathan’s family is down. As you have often heard of two soldiers hi fore going into battle making a covenant that if one is shot the survivor will take charge of the body, the watch, the mementos and perhaps of the bereft family of the one that dies, so David and Jonathan had made a covenant, and now that Jona than is dead David is inquiring about his family, that he may show kindness unto them for tl.i ir father Jonathan's sake. Careful search is made, and a son of Jonathan by the dreadfully homely name of Id philv sheth is found. Ilis nurse, in bis infancy, hud let him fall, ami tho full had put both his ankles out of place, and hey had never been set. This decrepit, ]■< r man is brought into the palace of Kin;; David. David l(*)k? Upon him with mi lting tenderness, no doubt seei i;.'in his face a resemblance to his old Ir mb tin deceased Jonathan. The whole l„ arir.;; of King David to ward him seen.h to say: “How glad I am to see you, Mcphibosheth! How yoq remind me of your father, my old friend and benefactor! I made a bargain with your father a good many years ago, and I am going to l.< cp it with yon. What ran I do for you, Mcphibosheth? I am resolved what t > do—I will make yon a rich man. I will restore to yon the con fiscated prop-rty of your grandfather Haul, and you shall be a guest of mine as long ns you live, and you shall be seated at my table among tho princes." It was too much ft r Mcphibosheth, and he cried out against it, calling himself a dead dog. "Be still," says David, "I don’t do this on your own account; Ido this for your father Jonathan’s sake. I r forget his kindness. I remem- lWOH hounded from place to place * 1 * * jy^^^^u( irien.le<l nie. Can I ever forget how lie . tripped himself of his courtier iipparel and gave it to mo in stead of my shepherd’s coat, and how ho took (IF his own sword and belt and gave them to me instead of my sling? Oh, I can never forget him! I feel as if I couldn’t do enough for you, his son. I don’t do it for your sake; 1 do it for your father Jonathan's sake." “,Sq Mcphibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, fof ho did eat continually at the king's ta ble and was lame on both his feet. " There is t o much gospel in this quaint incident that I am embarrassed to hinny where to begin. Whom do Mcphibosheth and David and Jonathan (nuke y"H think of ? Diitabled. Mr^lhiboshc'th, in the first place, stands for ihc disabled human soul. Lord Byron describes sin as a charming recklessness, as a gallantry, us a Don Juan ; George Sand describes sin as tri- upmhant in many intricate plots; Gar varni, with Jiis engraver’s knife, always shows sin as a gnat jocularity; but the Bible presents it as a Mcphibosheth, lame on both feet. Sin, like tho nurse in the context, attempted to carry us and 1-t us fall, and we have peen dis abled, and in our whole moral nature We are decrepit. SometiuK s theologians haggle about a technicality. They use the word:) “total depravity," and some people believe in tho doctrine, and spine reject it. What do you moaj| by total depravity? Do you mean that every piau is as bud as ho can be? Thou, I pot believe it cilia r. But do you m°aii (hat sin has let us fall; that it has scarified uml disabled ami crippled our entire moral nature until we cannot yvallf straight and are lamo in both feet? Then I admit your proposition. There is not so much difference in uu African jungle—with barking, howling, hissing, fighting quadruped and reptile, and paradise, with its animals coming before Adam, when lie patted them and stroked them and gave them names, so that tho panther wim as tame as tho cow and tho condor as tame u-s tho dovi 1 -—us there is between tho human soul disabled and that soul ns God originally constructed it. I do not care what the sentimental ists or tla poets ay in regard to sin. In the name of God, I declare to you today that sin is disorganization, disintegra tion, ghastly disfiguration, hobbling de formity. Your modern theologian tolls you that man is a little out of sorts; he Homctiim h thinks wrong; ho sometimes docs wrong; indeed his nature needs a little moral surgery, an outside splint, a slight compress, a little rectification. Religion is a good thing to have; it might si imp day come into use. Man is partially wrong, not all wrong, lie is IpAne in one foot. Bring the salvo of di- /vine grace, and the ointment, and the pain extractor, and we will have his one foot cured, Man is only half wrong, not altogether wrong. In what is man’s nature right? In his will, his affec tions, his judgment? No. There is an old book that ways: "The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.” Mcphibosheth lame in both foot Our belief of the fact that sin has scarified and deformed our souls iitemises as we go on in yeats. When you started life, you thought that man was a little nmrred by sin and he was about ono- tenth wrong. By the time you had gone through the early experience of your trade or occupation or profession you believed that man was about half wrong. By the time you came to midlife you believed that man was three-fourth* wrong. But within these past few years, since you have boon so lied about and swindled and cheated, you have come tc the conclusion that man is ultogethci wrong, and now yon can say with the prayer Ixiok and with the Bible, "There is no health in ns. ” Now you believe with the prophet, "The heart is deceit ful, above all things, and desperately wicked.” Whatever you may have be lieved before, now yon believe that Mcphibosheth is lame on both feet. R entered. Again, Mcphibosheth in tho text st uids for the disabled human soul humbled and restored. When this in valid of my text got n command to come to Kim( David’s palace, ho trembled. The fact was that the grandfather of Mcphibosheth had treated David most shockingly, and now Mcphibosheth says to himself: "What does the king want of me? Isn’t it enough that I am lame: Is he going to destroy my life? Is he going to wreak on mo tho vengeance which he holds toward my grandfather Haul? It’s too bad. ” But go to the pal ace Mcphibosheth must, since the king lias commanded it. With staff and crutches and helped by his friends. 1 see Mcphibosheth going up the stairs of (he palace. I hear his staff and crutches rattling on tho tessellated floor of the thronoroom. No sooner have these two persons confronted each other—Mophib- nsheth and David, tho king—than Mcphibosheth throws himself fiat on his face before the king and styles himself a dead (log. In the east when a man atylcs himself a dog he otters the ut most term of self abnegation. It is not a term so strong in this country, where, If a dog has a fair chance, he sometimes shows more nobility of character than pome human specimens that we wot of, but the mangy curs of the oriental cities, as I know by my own observation, arc Utterly detestable, Mcphibosheth gives the utmost term of self loathing when lie compares himself to a dog, and dead at that, Consider the analogy, When t lie com mand is given from the palace ( f heaven to the human soul to come, the soul be gins to tremble. It says; "What is (rod going to do witli me now? Is he going to destroy me? Is he going to wreak his vengeance upon me?” There is more than one Mcphibosheth trembling now because God has summoned him to the palace of divine grace. What are you trembling about? God lias no pleasure in the death of a sinner. He does not send for you to hurt you. Ho sends fer you to do you good. A Hootch preacher had the following circumstances brought under his observation : There was a poor woman in the parish who was about to be turned out because she could not pay her rent. One night she hoard a loud knocking at the door, and she made no answer and hid herself. The nipping continued louder, louder, louder, but she made no answer and continued to flide herself. Him was almost frightened puto death. She said, "That’a the offi cer of tho law come to (brow mo out of fuy home. ’ ’ A few days after a Christian pinion- flrropist met her i|( (he street and said: "Mt PfX'F woman, v.’hejo were you tho pthor night? I came round to your bouse t« pay your relit. Why didn’t you let pc ip? Were you at home?’’ "Why,” she replied, 'Van that yon?’’ "Vcs, that was me. 1 came to pay your rent. ” "Why,” she said, "if I had had any idea it was you I would have let you in. I thought it was uu officer come to cast mo out of my home. ” O soul, that loud knocking at the gate today is not the sheriff come to put you in jail; it is fhe pest friend you ever had cornu to be. your security. Yon shiver with terror because yon think it is wrath. It is mercy.' Why, then, tremble before (he Ifing of heaven and earth calls you to Ins palace? Stop trembling and start right away. "Oh,” you say. “I can't start. I havo pcen so lanio(! py sin and so lamed by evil habit I can’t-start. I am lame in both feet." My friend, we come out with our prayers and sympa thies tp Jielp yoq up to the palace, If yon wap; to get to the palace, you may get there. Htart iio\v. The floly Hpirit Will help you. AU you have to do is just (o throw yourself eg your face at flic feet of the King, as Mcphibosheth fiitl, (totVit Morey, Mcphibosheth'a eaninal comparison •oems extravagant to tho world, but when a muu has seen himself as he really is and soon how ho has been treat ing the Lord there is no term vehement enough to express his self condemna tion. The dead (log of Mophibosheth’s comparison fails to describe tho man’s otbT loathing of himself, Mephibo- sheth's posturing does not seem too pros trate. When a soul is convicted, first ho prays upright. Then the muscles of his nock relax, and ho is able to bow bis head. After awhile, by an almost superhuman effort, he kneels down to P ru y- After awhile, when he has seen God and seen himself, ho throws him self flat on his face at tho feet of tho king, just like Mcphibosheth. Tho fact is, if wo cohid see ourselves as God sees us, wo would perish at the spectacle. You would havo no time to overhaul other people. Your cry would be, "God Jw merciful to mo, a sinner." And again, Mcphibosheth in my text stands for the disabled human soul saved for the sake of another. Mephib- oshoth would never have got into tho palace on his own account. Why did David ransack tho realm to find that poor man and then bestow upon him a great fortune and command a fanner of the name of Zibato culture the estate ami give to this invalid Mcphibosheth half the proceeds every year? Why did King David make such a mighty Mir about a poor fellow who would never bo of any use to tho throne of Israel? It Was for Jonathan’s sake. was what Robert Bums calls for‘V.ttld Jang syne. ’’ David could not forgot what Jonathan had done for him in other day*. Three times this chapter lias it tlkat all this kindness on the part of Davicfi to Mcphib* osheth was for his father Jonathan’s sake. Tho daughter of Be ter Martyr, through thv vice of her husband, came down to pei ury, and tho senate of Zu rich took care of her for her father’s sake. Sometimes a person lias applied to you for help and you havo refused him, but when you found* ho was the son or brother of Foino one who had been your benefactor in former days, and by a glance you saw the resem blance of your old friend in the face ot the applicant, yon relented, and you said, "Oh, I will do this for your fa ther's sake." You know by your experi ence what my text means. Now, my friends, it is on that principle that you and I are to get into the King’s palace. For Christ’s Sake. The most important part of every prayer is the last three or four words ot it, "For Christ's sake. ” Bo not rattle off those words, as though they wen merely tho finishing stroke of the prayer. They are the most important part of the prayer. When in earnestness you go be fore God and say, "For Christ’s sake," it rolls in, as it were, upon God's mind all the memories of Bethlehem and Gennesaret and Golgotha. When you say before God, "For Christ’s sake,” you hold before God’s mind every groan, ev ery tear, every crimson drop of his only begotten Son. If there is anything in all the universe that will move God tc an act of royal benefaction, it is to say, “For Christ’s sake.” God is omuipo-. tent, but ho is not strong enough to re sist that cry, 4 ‘For Christ's sake. ” If a little child should kneel behind God’* throne and should say, "For Christ’* sake,” the gr-‘at Jehovah would turn around on his throne to bxik at her and listen. No prayer ever gets to heaven but for Christ's sake. No soul is evei comforted but for Christ’s sake. The world will never ho redeemed hut foi Christ's sake. Our name, however il lustrious it may be among men, before God stands only for inconsistency and sin, but there is a name, a potent name, a blessed name, a glorious name, an everlasting name, that wo may put up on our lips as a sacrament and upon oui forehead as a crown, and that is the name of Jesus, our divine Jonathan, who strippexl himsi If of his robe and put on our rags and gave us his sword and took our broken reed, so that now, whether we are well or sie-.k, whet lid we are living or dying, if we speak that name it moves heaven to tho center, and God says: "Let the poor soul come in. Carry him up into the throneroom of the palace. Though lie may have been in exile, though sin may have crip pled him on Ibis side, and sorrow may have crippled him on tho other side, and he is lamo in both his find, bring him up into the palace, for I want to show him everlasting kindness, for Jonathan’s sake.” Again, M< phibosheth in my text stands for the disabled human soul lifted to the King’s table. It was more diffi cult in those times even than it is now for commpn men to get into a royal din ing yoom. The subjects might have Come around the r.dl of the palace, and plight have seen the lights kindl' d, and might have heard the clash of the knives and the rattle of the golden goblets, but not get in. Stout men with stout feet could not get in once in all their lives to one hnuqnct, yet poor Mcphibosheth goes in, lives then', and is ('very day at the table. Oli, what a getting up in tho World it was for poor Mcphibosheth! Well, though you and I may he woefully lamed with sin, for our divine Jona than's sake I hope we will all get in to dine with the King. Before dining wo must bo introduced. If you are invited to a company of per sons where there are distinguished peo ple present, you are introduced; “Thi* is tho Henator,” “This is the Oov- fnior." ’’This is the Bresident,” Be fore wo sit down at the King’s table in heaven I think we will want to bo in troduced. Oh, what a time that will be, when you and I, by tho grace cf God, get into heaven and are introduced tc tho mighty spirits there, uipl some out Will say: "This is Joshua.” "This b fiiul.” *‘This is Moses. ” "This is John Knox.” "This is John Milton,” "This is Martin Luther," "This is George Whttefleld. ” Oh, shall wo have any strength left after such around of celes tial introduction? Yea, wo shall be potentates ourselves. Then we shall sit down at the King’s table with the song and daughters of God, and one will whisper across the table to us and say, "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should bo called the sons of God!” And seme one at the table will say: "How long will it hist? All other banquets at which I sat ended. How long will this last?” and Baul will answer, “Forever!” and Joshua will say, "Forever!” and John Knox will say, "Forever!” and George Whitcfleld will say, "Forever!” A Hplendld Uoipel. And the wine at that banquet will be old wine. It will bo very old wine. It will lie tho oldest wine of heaven. It will bo tho wine that was trodden out from the red clusters on the day when Jesus tnxl tho wine press alone. Wine already more than 18 centuries old. And no one will deride us as to what wo were in this world. No one will bring up our imperfections hero, our sins here. All our earth!.** imperfections completely covered up and hiddeu. Mcphibosheth's feet under the table. Jtingly fare. Kingly vesture. Kingly companionship. We shall reign forever and ever. I think that banquet will mean more to those who had it hard in this world than to those who hud it easy. That banquet in David’s palace pieant more to Mcphibot.hcth than to any one else, because lie had been poor anil crippled ami despised and n'j(*ot('d. And that man who in this world is blind will better appreciate tho light of heaven than wo who in this world had g<xxl eyesight. And that man who in this world was deaf will better appreci ate thp music of heaven than wo who in this world had g<*>d hearing. And those will have a higher appreciation of the easy hx'oniotlonof that land who in this world were Mephibosheths. O my soul, what u magnificent gos pel! It takes a man so low down and raises him so high! What a gospel! Come now, who wants to he banqueted and impalnced? As when Wilbcrfnroo was trying to get tho '‘emancipation bill” through the Biitish parliament and all tho British islrs were anxious to hear of the passage of Hint "cmauei- pntiou bill,” when a ve ssel was coming into port and the captain of the vessel knew that the people were so anxious to get the tidings, he stepped out on tho prow of the ship and shouted to the peo ple long before he got up to the dock. “Free!” and they cried it. and tiny shouted it, and they sang it all through the land, "Free, free!” Ho today I would like to sound the news of your present and your eternal emancipation until the angels of God hovering in the air, and watchmen on the battlements, and bellmen in the. town cry it, shout it, sing it, ring it, "Free, free! ’ I come out now as the messenger of tho palace to invite Mcphibosheih to come up. I am here today to tell you that God lias a wealth of kindness to bestow upon you for his Son’s sake. The doors of the palace are open to receive you. The cupbearers have already put the chalices on the table, and the great, loving, tender, sympathetic heait of G(xl b -nds over you Miis moment, ray ing, "Is there any that is yet left of the house of Haul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?" Tho Spanluti .".lain. write and talk glibly enough of the Spanish main, but when did the phrase first come into use and w hat wa% its exact geographical significance? The prevalent idea, borrowed, we take it, from the delightful romance of "West ward, Ho!” seems to be that the phrase was in common use among the Eliza bethan sailors to signify that part of the great Ami rican continent on which tin' Spaniards had effected a settlement when we first broke Into the Caribbean sea—that is to say, from Vera Cruz, in the gulf of Mexico, to the delta of tho Orinoco. But we cannot find that tho phrase' was in esc at that time. In the pages of Hakluyt v.e read of the main, of the firm land, which is, of course, a literal translation of the Spanish term “tierra lirma, ” of the mainland coast, of the coast of the Indies or of tho West Indies, but of the Spanish main wo have nowhere read. Nor have we been able to find it in the writers of the i xt century. Dam- pier (fins not use it, nor Lionel Wafer, nor the translator of Exqucmclin's “Do Amcvicac nsche Zee-Hoovers.” It is not to bo found in Morgan's rflicfal reports of his buccaneering expli its, nor in Ringroso’s narrative, nor in Sharp’s, In the map engravi d for Dumpier s “Voy ages” (172!)), thi 1 term firm land is em ployed to designate the territory now occupied by the republics of Venezuela and Colombia. The orignal tierra firma of the Spaniards, according to Ulloa, included on!y the provinces of Yoruguu, Panama ami Darien, with tho City of Panama for its capital. We may be in error, and certainly vro d.) not profess that our researches have been exhaustive, but the earliest use wo have found of the term the Spanish main Is in "The Journal of Admiral James,” lat-ly published by tho Navy Records society, where, on Nov. 12, 177!), tho admiral notes that he "boro away for Truxiilo, on tho Spanish main," Truxiilo being the port of Hon duras.—Macmillan's Magazine, —~ s-ar Leigh It nut. Leigh Hunt was not an immense talk er like Coleridge and Carlyle, a wit like Roger: and Hyduey Simth, an authority and an opinion like Johnson and Hul- lam, a (let ail or of reminiscences, a chronicler, uu accepted critic of art and letters, an inker of questions, an nrguer for victor—all acknowledge d species in the category of talkers and yixxl In their (dace—hut a talker who was never tedious because he wits always llucnt and graceful and talked with, not only to, Jiis company. And whey ho sat down witii his conversational pen to talk about his life he was not in a hurry for the printer and could call upon memory ami imagination to repro duce the good company lie had kept and the niemorahh: things which he had seen and heard. Leigh Hunt gives us in his autobi ography not enly his own life, but. what is the chief charm of a good biography, a picture of tho time as well ax the man. We *honld not care so much for even Boswell’s ‘‘Johnson” if we did not find him in the company of Burke, Goldsmith, Sir Joshua and his other playmates. Hunt always kent good company.. He was t he intimate friend of Shelley and Keats—above all of Charles Lamb; tho associate cf James and Hor ace Smith, of Fusscl), Campbell, Charles Mathews, Theodore H(x)k and a score fx'sides; of Byron, whoso brilliancy scorched him; of Coleridge, whom he quizzed and admired; of Wordsworth, whom he quizzed and respected. Tq havo had such friends is a sufficient testimonial to his genius and his heart. —Temple Bar. Mrx. Hetty Green In 1‘olltlca. “Her whole nature lias bivn revolu tionized,” said a Washington hotel keeper, speaking of Mrs. Hetty Green's reported intention of spendi ^ $1,000,- 000, or "so much thereof as may be ni'cessary,” to elect her sou governor of Texas. ‘‘I never know anybody to loosen up as Mis. Green has of late,” continued the bouifneo. “About IH months ugo^ when she caxno on here, she haggled with me over the price of one of the cheapest rooms in tho house, and actu ally made mi' give her a reduction be cause she staid a week. The next time site came she hud on the finest sort of a dress, such a one as notKxly had ever seen her wear, and this time my house was not gixxi enough for her, so she went to tho highest priced place in town and never asked tho rate. Her liberal streak was late iu developing, but if her son dix's go into polities it will be a fortunate thing for him that his mater changed her system in the way of thiuga pecuniary. '’—-Washington Boat. A HOUSE ^PIARY. Row It In ConKtructrd-Horn* of Ita Ad- vontKC 1 '* Told by Dio Cwuor. The North Star is tho name of our new house apiary, built ns an experi ment last spring, size 12 bv 1(> feet over ail, containing 112 colonies, and cooting per running f<X)t, or $1 per colony. The floors, siding and roof are of match- THE HOUSE APIARY—OUTSIDE, ed pine, fastened together at the corners with bolts—to "knock down” and move If desired—ten pieces iu all. For the first JO inches the building is 9 feet wide; at that height is a shelf for the second row of hives, which ex tends outward, making the building 18 inches wider from there up to the roof. This arrangement makes it an easy mat ter to stand on the tbxjr and work the upper tier of hives. The alighting boards are 12 inches wide. The windows are covered with wire cloth, doubled on the upper half for a bee escape. The hives are two inches from tho wall, to allow for packing. Tho foregoing desei iption appeared with illustrations in The American Boo Journal not long ago and has been here reproduced because the owner, a Ntw Yorker, makes tho following points in favor of his house: Speed and ease iu working. Every thing is right within reach, and you are iu the chiide. When yon open a hive, the few bees that fly go to the window escapes, and that ends (he song about your ears. Out of doors in the yard are several colonies, and with hat and veil on you go at them; every cross beo in tho whole yard is investigating, and the sun burns the back of your neck, and tho sweat runs into your eyes. All beekeepers know how it is. But go in to the house apiary; poll off veil and hat—no bees to bother, and iu a few minutes you think that working with bees isn’t very bad after all. In tho fall, when an open hive is a direct bid for robbers, there is only one hive open nt a time inside the house. I TIIK ItorSK AI’IARY—INSlOR. was afraid smoko would be disagreeable in tho house apiary, but you don’t no tice it, as it goes ont ''t the windows and ventilators. In looking to seo if a queen is laying, yon have to take a comb out into the sunshine to find eggs, which is objec tionable, as far ns it goes. If tho bees winter there as wolJ as iu a chaff hive, you can put me down os a house a'piary man after this. The Maple Sugrtr Industry. The production of maple sugar has de creased noticeably. According to tho liist census, 21 states made returns, but the total yield was only 83,000,000 pounds, against 80.500,000 pounds ten years earlier. Vermont leads with son e- thirg over 14,000,000 pounds; N.v York follows with 10,000,000 pounls annually. New Hampshire turns out 2,0Q0,000 pounds per your. Pennsylva nia, Ohio and Michigan, formerly im portant prixlueor*, show a rapid de crease in production, and tho same in true of tho states of Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky, Touncsseo and Wisconsin. A New Cotton Oin Roller. A new cotton gin roller, which it is claimed works well, is described by Florida Farmer. Tho covering of tho roller consists of strips of tho palmetto log tacked upon the block as a substi tute for the walrus leather. If its suc cess is established beyond a doubt, in ventors have made a fortune, since their roller can bo manufactured for one-third tho cost of the old one. Odd Mention. Many farmers can do better without cotton; some cannot. Let each one study his environments and decide the ; matter intelligently, is tho advice of Texas Farm and Rauch. It is said that Florida is on tho verge of a big boom in tobacco growing. Tho report is that fully 800 applications for seed tobacco are on file in the Florida I state department of agriculture, and to bacco growers’ associations are being 1 formed iu almost every county iu tho state. According to one estimate, about 0 per cent of the Florida orange groves ; have been abandoned on account of last year’s freeze. The Georgia station has completed a comprehensive system of surface drain age and sewerage whereby a large por tion of the surplus surface water that is precipitated on tho farm, together with all sewage matters, are curried beyond tho farm limits. • Uncle Sum’s land is not yet all gone. In tho arid regions, where irrigation will bo necessary, there are many thou sands of acret to be offered to settlers as | scon as suitable irrigation plants are cstablishixl. This will lie emphatically true of Arizona, the richuess of whose soil, in tho northern and central parts, is well known. UNTOLD MISERY FROM Rheumatism C. H. Xing, Water Valley, Mias., cured by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla ••For five ycHr*. I suffered imtuld misery from muscular rlieiiinntism. I tried every known remedy, eonsollcd the best physl- elsns, visited HotSpriiiK.s. Ark..three times, spending gioon there, I esldes doctors’ hills; Ixit eon Id obtain only lemiximry relief. My IIcnIi was wasted away so Unit l weighed only ninety-three pounds; my left arm and leg were drawn out of shspe, the musclea V being tw'sted up In knots. I was unable to dress myself, except with assistance, and could only hobble about by using a cane. I had no appetite, and was assured, by tlic (bxstors. that I could not live. The pains, at times, were so awful, that I could pr<x*ure reli. i only by means of hy|M>dermic Injec tions of morphine. I had my linihs bandaged iu clay, in sulphur. In poultices; hut these give only temporary Mtef. After trying everythin", and suffering the most awful tortures. I heg'in to take Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Inside of two mouths, I was aide to walk without a cane. In three mouths, my linihs began to strengthen, and in the course of a year. I was cured. My w eight has increased to KiTi pounds, and I am now aide to do my full day’s work as a railroad blacksmith.” AYER’S « The Only World’s Fair Sarsaparilla. A lA/f.S J'JLI.S cure Ilcttdache. A. N. WOOD. BANKER, docs a gemral Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buj s and sells Stocks and Bonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. It. Tolleson’s new store* In office from 1st to 24tli of each month ; SOUTHERN RAILWAY. PIEDMONT A Jit LINE. Cmidrn'ed Schedule «f I'amongcr Train*- Vi** Cst. >11 No. 14 Northbound. Xu 'JH n«. : 13 No. 12 Kx. Jans 14, 1800. Dully. Dully. Daily; Sun. Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 12 (JO 111 11 15 P 4 35p “ Atlanta, E.T. 1 00 p 12 15 a K 50 a 5 35 p “ Noreroa* 12 50 DOM a A 2Hp " Buford . 10 13 a 7 Ubp “ Gainesville... 2 2X p 2 01 a 10 42 a 7 48p " Lula 2 IS p 2 it h 11 05 a S 12 p “ Cornelia. 2 40 " 11 27 a 8 33 p ^ Mt. Airy 2 50 a 11 30 n H 37 p •* Toccoa 3 35 ]> 3 17 a 11 53 u •* Westnilnstc.* 3 45 a 12 20 p “ Sei.eea 4 IS p 4 05 a 12 41 . “ Central 4 4.5 p 4 33 1 20 p “ Greenville . 5 30 p 5 25 a 2 111 p “ Spartanburg. fl IS p 0 13 a 3 22 p “ Gaffneys 0 53 a 4 11 p “ Blacksburg . 7 OH p 7 OS n 4 30 p “ King’s Mt 7 51 a 5 00 p ** Gastonia. 7 53 a 5 j) . . . . • Ar. Charlotte K 2!) p S 33 a S 20 T> ..... “ Danville 12 00 a 1 30 P 11 25 n — — — —..m Ar. Richmond ... 0 00 a 0 40 P (TOO a —- - - —_ — - Ar. Washington 5 42 a 0 40 ]> ” Baltm’e PKH. H 0.5 a 11 25 1> *’ Philadrljihia. 10 2:5 a H 00 n “ New York 12 5.1 m 6 20 n Ves. fst.MI No.11 Houthboiind. No. :t7 No. 3.5 No. 14 Kx. Dully. l>ul 1V. Dully Nun. Lv. N. Y..P. R.K. 4 30 p 12 15 a “ Philadelphia 0 55 p 3 50 a “ Baltimore. 0 20 p fl :» a ” Washington.. 10 45 ]» 11 15 n Lv. Richmond . 2 00 n 12 55 p 200 a 0 05 ■ r, 4(1 a “ Charlotte i) .15 a 10 55 !> 12 23 p “ Gastonia 11 30 P 1 10 p “ King s Mt 1 :t5 P . ...... •’ Hlnclcshurg 10 40 a 12 00 A 203 ji ** Gaffneys 12 24 a 2 20 p “ Spartanburg. 11 37 a 1 00 a 3 05 p “ Greenville... 12 2S p 1 50 a 4 40 p •’ Central 1 15 p 2 35 ii 5 40 p “ Seneeit 1 35 p 2 53 a (1 00 p “ Westminster 0 22 p ’’ T'H'con 2 IS p 3 50 a fl 53 p “ Mt. Airv 7 4(1 p (125 » “ Corncliu 4 21 a 7 45 p A35 s ” Lula 3 13 p 4 30 a K 12 p fi 57 ■ •• Gainesville.. 3 31 p 4 57 a 3 Ofl p 7 20 ■ ’’ Buford 0 07 p 7 4M ■ “ NoreroHs.. . 1)43 p 827 a Ar. Atlanta, K. T. 4 55 j. « 20 a 10 30 p 9 30 • Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 3 55 p 5 20 a 0 30 p 8 30 ■ “A" a. m. “P” p. m. "M” noon . ’’N" night. Noe. X! and —Washington and Kouthweet- nm Vestibule Limited. Through Pullmnn eleeperx lietweon Now York and New Orleans via Washington, Atktnta and Montgomery, and also ladwecn New York and MeinphU, via Waxhington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Thll train also carries Kiehmond-Anguaia alocntai rare Ixitween Danville and Charlotte. Plral elaaa thoroughfare coach between Washington and Atlanta. Dining car* servo all meal* on route. No*. Si and 85—United States Fast Mail. Pull man sleeping ear* between New Yoi k, Atlanta and Now Orleans. No*. 11 and 12—Pullmnn sleeping ear* between Richmond and Danville. The Air Line Bello train, Nis*. 17 and IS, will, from June 1st to October 1st. Ihui, 1*j oueratud between Atlanta and Mt. Airy, Oa., daily ex- eept Sunday. W. H. G&KKN, J. M. GULP, tWlHupt , Traffic MYr., Waahlngton, D. 0. Washington, D. C W. A. TURK, 8. H HARDWICK, tfeul Puss. Ag'tAss t (ten’l Pas*. Ag’t., Washington, D. C.Atlanta. (la.