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W ” THE LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 13, 1896. it IT MAY BE TOO LATE. DANGER OF PUTTING OFF THE DAY OF REFORMATION. Key. Dr. Talmagt; l>oy« Not Ilrlloye That There I* A ny ('Injure of Kepentance and 1'ardon Ucyond the Crave—Whall We (lave Another Chanoe? Warhinoton, Aug. 9.—Dr. Talmage today dieoussea a question that every body some time discusses. It is one of tremendous import, Shall wo have an other chance? The text is Ecclesiastes *i, 8, “If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be. ” There is a hovering hope in the minds of a vast multitude of people that there will be an opportunity in the next world of correcting the mistakes of this; that, however complete a shipwreck wo may make of our earthly life, it will be on a beach up which we may walk to a pal ace; that, as the defendant may lose his case in a circuit court ami appeal it and have it go up to the supreme court or pourt of chancery and all the costs thrown over on the other party, so a jpan may lose his ease in this world, but in the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the decision of the earthly case set ftside, all tho costs remitted and the de fendant be triumphant forever. •Tho object of my sermon is to show you that common sense declares with the text that such an expectation is chimerical. “If I he tree fall toward tho ■outh or toward the north, in the place ^vhero the tree falleth there it shall he." There are those who say that, if the impenitent and miforgiven man en ters the next world and sees the disaster, ps a result of that disaster he will turn, tho distress the cause of his reforma tion, but we have 10,000 instances all ground abont us of people who have done wrong and disaster suddenly came ppon them. Did tho disaster heal them? J«o, they went on. Np Hcpn but In the Preernt, There is a man flung of dissipations. The doctor says to him, “Now, my friend, if you don’t stop drinking and don’t Rtop this fast life yoq are living, you will die ” The patient thanks the physician for his warning and gets bet ter; he begins to sit up, begins to walk around the room, begins to go to busi ness and takes the same round of grog shops where be got his morning dram and his evening dram and the drams between. Down again. Bame doctor, fame physical anguish. Same imsliea| yarning. But now tho sickness is more prptracted, the liver more obstinata, the fitomarh more irritable, the digestive prgans more rebellious. But stilj, undef medical skill, he gets better, goes forth, pninmits the same sacrilege against his physical health. Sometimes h« Vakos pp to boo what he is doing, amf he realizes he Jst edroying his family, and that ins life is a perpetual perjury qgninst his marriage vows, and that that broken In wted woman is so differ ent from the roseate wife lie married that her old schoolmates do not recog nize iier on the street, and that his sous are going out in life under the taunt of a father’s drunkenness, and that his ? aughtcrs are going out in life under he scarification of u disreputable an- pestry. His nerves are all a-jnngle. Jf’rpm crown of head to sole of foot lie is one aching, rasping, crucifying,damning torture. Where is he? He is in hell pq earth. Does it stop him? Ah, no! After gwhile delirium tremens pours out upon his pillow a whole jungle of hissing reptiles. His screams horrify the neigh* bors as ho dashes out of bod crying, “Take these filings off me!” He is drinking down the comfort of his fam ily, th e education of ids children, their prospects for the life to come. Pale and convalescent he sits up. Physician says to him: “Now, my good fellow, I am going to have a plain talk with you. If yon ever have an attack of this kind again, you will die. I can’t save you, and all the doctois in creation can’t ■avo you. ” Tho patient gets up, starts out, goes tho same round of dissipation and is down again, but this time medicines do not touch his rase. Consultations of physicians say there is no hope. Death ends tho scene. That process of inebria tion and physical suffering and medical warning and dissolution is taking pined within a stone’s throw of where you sif and in every neighborhood of Christoip dom. Pain does not reform, buffering does not cun*. What is truo in n>gar4 to one sin is truo in regard to all sins, and yet men are expecting in the next life there will bo opportunity for purga torial regeneration. Take up the minted reports of tho prisons of the United States and find that tho vast majority of the criminals were there before, some for two times, three times, four times, six times; punished again and again, but they go right on. Millions of inci dents and instances working tho other way, and yet men think that in tho next world punishment will work out for them salvablo effects. Why, yon and I cannot imagine any worse torture from another world than we have seen meu in in thii world, and without any salutary consequence. Tho Next Life. Furthermore, the prospect of reforms tion in another world is more improb able than here. Do you not realize the faet that a man starts in this world with tho innocence of infancy? In the other case, starting in the other world, he starts with the accumulated bad habits of a lifetime. Is it not to be cx- jM cted tiiat you could build a la tter ship out of new timber than out of an old hull that lias been ground up in tho breakers? If starting with eompnrativo innneoncy the man does not become godly, is it possible tiiat starting with kin a seraph can be evoluted? Is there not more pros|S‘ct that a sculptor will make a finer statue out of a block of pure white Parian marble than out of a black rock that has l>ccn cracked and twisted and split and scarred with the storms of a half century? Could you not write a last will and testament, or write a deed, or write an important document on a pure white sheet of paper easier than yon could write it upon a sheet scribbled all over with infamy and blot ted and torn from top to bottom? And yet there are those who arc* so uncom mon sensieal as to believe that, though a man starts in this world with infancy and its innocence and turns out badly, in the next world he ran start with a dead failure and turn out well. “But,” say some people, “we ought to have another chance in the next world because our life here is so very brief. We scarcely have room to turn arouud between the cradle and the grave, the wood of the one almost strik ing against the marble of the other. We ought to have another chance because of the brevity of this life.” My friends, do you know what made tiie ancient deluge a necessity? It was the longevity of the antediluvians. They were worse in the second century than in the first, and worse when they got 300 years old, and worse at 400, and worse at 500, and worse at 000, and worse at 800, until the world had to be washed and scoured and scrubbed and soaked and sunk and anchored a whole month under water before it was fit for decent people to live in. I have seen many pictures of old Time with his scythe to rut, but I never saw any picture of Time with a chest of medicines to heal. Seneca said tiiat in the first few years of his public life N«ro was set up as an example of clem ency and kindness, but ho got worse and worse, the path descending, nutil at (18 years of age he was the suicide, }f 800 years of lifetime could pot cure the antedi, mans of their iniquity, I Undertake to say that ah the ages of eternity would be only prolongation of depravity. ’'But,” says some one, “in the next }ifo the evil surroundings will be with drawn ami good influences will be sub stituted, and hence expurgation, subli mation, glorification. ” But you must fPtneinbcr that the righteous, all their sins forgiven, puss right up into a lie* atifie state, and then, having passed up jntp the beatific state, pot needing any Other chance, that w{ll leave till those rvho Imye never been forgiven, and who ^•(•re jmpenitent, ah nc—alone—pud WhcFp pre tliesalvable inflr.epees tncnnio from? Uun it be expected that Dr. Duff, who spent his whole life in pointing the Hindoos to heaven, and Dr. A heel, who spent his life in evangelizing China, and that Judson, who spent his life in preaching the gospel to Burma— can it Is 1 expected that they will be sent down fropi some celestial missionary (K>eioty jo educate and to save those who wasted their earthly existence? N°- Wo are told distinctly that all mission ary and evangelistic influences will ho pnded forever, and the good, having passed up to their beatific state, all tho morally bankrupt will be together, and Where are the salvablo influences tq eome from? Will a specked or bad apple put in a barrel of diseased apples make the other apples good? Will one who is down be able to lift others np? Will those who have miserably failed in the business of this life lx* able to pay the debts of other spiritual insolvents? Will a million wrongs make one right? Po- neropolis was the city where King liu- fus of Thraoia put all bad people of his kingdom, and whenever there were, in iquitous people found in any part of thp land they were all sent to Ponoropolis, ft was the great capital of wickedness. Suppose a man or a woman had opened a primary school in Ponoropolis; would fh’e parents of other cities have sent their children there to lie educated and reformed? If a man in this world was surrounded With temptation, in tho next world, all the righteous having passed up into tho beatific state, the association will lie more deteriorating, depreciating and down. You would not send to a cholera or yellow fever hospital a man for Ids health, and the great lazaretto of the future, in which are gathered the dis eased and the plague struck, will be a poor place for moral recovery. The Count of Chateaubriand, in order to make his child courageous, made him sleep in the turrets of the castle, where the winds howled and specters were said to haunt the place. Tho mother and the sisters almost died of fright, htit the son afte rward gives his account, fuid lie says, “That gave me nerves of. ffteel, and gave me courage that lias never faltered. ” But, my friends, I do not think the turrets (if darkness or the spectral world swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever prepare a soul for the eternal land of sunshine. I wonder what is the curriculum in the College Inferno, where a man, having been prepared by enough sin, enters and goes np from freshman of Iniquity to sophomore of abomination, and on up, from sopho more to junior, and from junior to sen ior, and day of graduation comes, and the diploma is signed hy satau, tho president, and all the professional de moniacs attest the fact that the candi date has been a sufficient time under their drill, and then enters heaven. Pandemonium, a preparatory school for celestial admission! Ah, my friends, while satan and his cohorts have fitted a vast multitude for ruin, they never fitted one soul for happiness—never! The Lucie of It, Again, I wish you further to notico that another chance in another world means the ruin of this. Now, suppose a wicked man is assured that after a life time of wickedness he can fix it all right up in the future. That would be tin* demoralization of society, that would be the demolition of the human race. There are men who are now kept on the limits of sin by their fear. Tho fear that if we are had and unforgiven here it will not bo well with us in the mut existence is tho chief influence that keeps civilization from rushing back into semi barbarism, and keeps semi barbarism from rushing back into midnight savagery, and keeps midnight savagery from rushing back into extinn- tion. Now, the man is kept on tho lim its of sin. But this idea coming into ids soul, tiiis idea yf another chance, he says: “(to to, now. I’ll get cut of this world all there is in it. Come gluttony and revenge and uneleaiiness aitd all sensualities, and wait iqion me. It may abbreviate my earthly life by dissolute ness, but that will < lily give me heav enly indulgence on a larger scale in a shorter length of tinv. 1 will overtake the righteous befon long, I will only come in heaven a little late, and l will be a little more fortunate than those who have behaved t!.'.a ' !V* s on earth and then went straight to the Iwisom of God, because 1 will see nn re and have wider exclusion, and I will conic into heaven via gehenna, via sin oil’’ Hear ers! Readers! Another cl.anre in the next world means free license and the demolition of this. Suppose you had a case in court, and all the judges and all the attorneys agreed in telling you the first trial of it—it would be triisl twice —the first trial would not be of very much importance, b’^ the second trial would decide cv< On which trial would you put the most expendi ture? On which trial would you employ the ablest counsel? On which trial Would you be most anxious to have the attendance of all the witnesses? “Oh,” you would say, “if there are to be two trials, and the first trial docs not amount to much, the second trial lieing every thing, everything depending upon tiiat, I must have the most eloquent attorney, and I must have all my witnesses present, and I will expend my money on that.” If these men who are im penitent and who are wicked felt there were two trials, and the first was of no very great'importance and the second trial was (lie one of vast and in finite importance, all the preparations for eternity would be post mortem, post funeral, post sepulchral, and this world would l>o jerked off into impeniteucy and gcdlessness. Another chance in an other world means the demolition of this world. At th<! Jtiiiiqufct, Furthermore, my friends—for I am preaching to myself ns well as to you; we are on the same level, and though tho platform bo a little higher than the pew, it is only for convenience, and that we may the better speak to the people; we are all on the same platform, and I am talking to my soul while I talk to yours—my friends, why another chance in another world when we have declined so many chances in this? Suppose yon spread a banquet and you invite a vast number of friends, and among others you send an invitation to a man who disregards it, or treats it in an obnox ious way. During «() years you give 20 banquets, a banquet a year; and you in vite your friends, and every time you invite this piaq, who disregards your invitation or se nds bark some indignity. After awhile you move into a larger house ami amid more luxuriant sur roundings and you invite your friends, but you do not invite tiiat man to whom 2Q times you sent an invitation to the smaller house. Are you to blame? You would only make yourself absurd before God and man to send that man another iiivitation. For 20 years he has been •leelining your offers Mid sending insult fW your kindness and courtesy, and can he blame you? Can he eome up to your house on the night of the banquet? Looking up and seeing it is a finer house, will he have any ri”ht to say: “Lot me in. J df<'liiio<l aU those, other offers, but this is a larger house, a brighter hopse, a more luxuriant abode, Let me in. Give me another chance?” G<xl has spread a banquet of his grace before us. 1m r 8<io days of every year, since we knew tho differ*nee between our right hand and our h ft, lie has invited ns by his providence and by his spirit. Sup pose we decline all these offers and all this kindness. Now the banquet is spread in a large r place, in the heavenly jialace. Invitations are sent out, but no invitation is sent to us. Why? Because we declined all those other banquets. Will God be to blana? Will we have any right to rap on rhe door of heaven and say, “I ought not to he shut out of this place; give me anotlicr chance?” Twelve gates of salvation standing wide for free admission all our life and then when the 12 gates close we rush on the bosses of Jehovah’s buckler, saying, “Give me another chance!” A ship is to sail for Hamburg. You want to go to Germany by that line. Y’ou see the advertisement of the steaih- ev’s sailing. Yon see it for two weeks. Yon sec it in tho morning papers, and you see it in the evening papers; you see it placarded on the walls. Circulars are thrown into your office tolling you all about that steamer. One day you come down on the wharf and the steamer has swung out into the stream. You say: “Oh, that isn’t fair. Come back; swing up again to the docks. Throw tho plank ashore that I may eome on board. It isn’t fair. I want to go to Germany hy that steamer. Give me another chance.” Here is a magnificent offer for heaven. It has been anchored within our sight year after year, and year after year, and year nfur year, and all the benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us to get on board, since it may sail at any mom< nt. .Suppose we let that opportunity sail away, and then we look out und say: “Send back that op portunity. I want to take it; it isn’t treating me fairly. Give me another chance.” Why, my brother, you might as well go out and stand on the High lands at the Navesink three days after the Majestic lias gone out and shout: “Captain, eome back. I want to go to Liverpool on the Majestic. Come back over the sen, and through the Narrows, and up to the docks. Give me another chance.” You might as well do that as, after the lust opportunity of heaven has sped away, try to get it hack again. Just think of it! It came on me yester day in my study with overwhelming impressiveness. Just think of it. All heaven offered us as a gratuity for a whole lifetime, and yet we wanting to rush against God, saying, “Give me another chance 1” There ought to lie, there will he, no su* h thing as posthu mous opportunity. You see common « use agrees with my text in Haying tiiat “if the tree fall toward the south or toward tho north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall Isa ” You neo this idea lifts this world from au unimportant way statin, to a platform of stupendous issni's and makes all eternity whirl around this hour. Oh, my soul, my soul! Only one trial, and all the prepa- ra’ions for that trial to be made in this world or never made at all. Oh, my sov.l, mv s ;ul! You see ibis piles np all the emphasis, and all the climaxes, and nil the destinies into this life. No other chalice. Oh, how that intensifies the value and tli? importance of this chance! Alexander and bis army used to come around a city, and they would kindle a great light, with the nmler.itnndir.g that as bu g as that light was burning the city might surrender, and all would be well, but If they L t that light go out, the n the buttering rams would swing against the walls and there would come disaster and demolition. Oh, my friends, all you and I need to do to pre pare for eternal safety is just to surren der to the King and Conqueror, Christ. Surrender hearts, surrender life, surren der everything. The great light keeps burning, light kindled by the wood of the cross, light flaming up against tho dark night of our sin and sorrow. Oh, let us surrender before the light goes out and with it our last opportunity of making our iieace whh God through our Lord Jesus t hrist! Oh, my brother, talk about another chance; this the supernal chance. In the time of Edward II, at tno battle of Musselburgh, a private sol dier saw that tho Karl of Huntley IumI lost his helmet. The private soldier took off his helmet and went up to the Earl of Huntley and put the helmet on his head. Now, the head of the private sol dier uncovered, lie was soon slain, while his commiinder rode in safety through and out of'the battle. But it is different in our ease. Instead ef a private offer ing a helmet to an earl, it is the King of heaven and earth offering a crown to an unworthy subject, the King dying that we might live! Oh, tell it to the points*of the compass, tell it to day and night, tell it to earth and heaven, tell it to all the centuries and all the mil lenniums that God has given us such a magnificent ehanee in this world that we mod no other chance in another! The Court of Kternlty. A dream. I am in the burnished judg ment hall on the lasf day. The great white throne is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I hear the immortals in conversation, ’'What are you waiting for?” says a wml that went up from Madagascar to a soul that went up from America. The latter responds: “I was in America 40 years ago, and I heard the gospel pv< ached, and I had plenty of Bibles in my house, and from the time tiiat I knelt at my mother’s knee in prayer' until my last hour I had great opportunities, but I did not im prove them, and I niu hero today wait ing f r another chance.” “Strange, strange,” says tho eoul just come up from Madagascar. “Strange. Why, i never heard the gospel call hut once in all my life, and 1 n<oepted it, and I don’t want another chance.” “What are you waiting for?” rays one who on earth had very feeble intellect to one who had groat brain, and whose volet* was silvery, and who had scepters (f power. The hitter replies: “I had great power on earth, I must admit, and I mastered languages, and I mastered li braries, and colleges conferred upon me learned titles, and my name was a synonym for eh'queneo and power, but somehow I neglected the matters of my soul, and I must confess to you I am here todaj' waiting tor another chance. ” Now, tjie ground trembles with the advancing chariot. The grout folding doors of the burnished hull of judgment are thrown open. “Stand hack,"cry tho ushers, “and let the Judge cf quick and dead pass through. ” He takes the throne. He looks off upon the throngs of nations come to the last judgqie.pi, come to the only judgimuh ami (mu flash from the throne vt'Vc;i!sea« , i» man’s history to himself, and reveals it to all the others. And then the Judge says, “Divide!” and the burnished walls echo it, “Divide!” and the guides angelic answer, “Divide!” and the immortals are rushing this way and that, until there is an aisle between them, a great aisle; and then a vacuum, widening, and widening and widening, until the •fudge looks to one side of that vacuum, and addresses the throng and says, “Let him that is righteous be righteous still, and let him that is holy be holy still.” And then, turning to tho throng on the other side »f tho vacuum, lie says, “Let him that is unjust be unjust still, and let him that is filthy bo filthy still. ” And then lie stretches out both hands, one toward the throng on each side tho vacuum, and says, “If the tree fall to ward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be!” And then I hear something jar with a great sound. It is the closing of the book of judgment. The Judge ascends the stairs behind tho throne. The hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high court of eternity adjourned forever. MET AFTER MANY DAYS. Oarlou« Seen** In n Landon tlntnl Be tween Two l£l<!«r!y Atnerlcnnm There was a remarkable scene at a Northumberland avenue hotel recently. It seems that a party of i.ewly arrived Americans, most of them strangers to each other, were sitting at li. icheoii, and one of them was with an English friend who had called to see him. The conversation between the two naturally drifted back to the wartime, Kitd the American, who had been a Fed eral, described some of his adventures and how at one place tho opposing sol diers used to work so near each other in tho trenches that they were able to en gage in conversation and s irropt itiously exchange tobacco and tea, the north erners having plenty of tho latter and none of the former, while the southern ers were in exactly the opposite condi tion. But, he continued, tho most curi ous “swap” he ever made was a small packet of quinine for a pound of to bacco, to which tho Confederate added a curiously carved wooden pipe. Tiiat pipe he had kept ever since, because he regarded it and the tobacco as having saved his life, for somehow or other his superior officer had come to know that he possessed a quantity of “the weed” and ordered him to report himself con cerning it. Before ho could regain his post a skirmish occurred, and tho man who was in his place was killed. At this point a tall, sunburned Ameri can with white hair and board, who had biM-n listening to the other with consid erable emotion, interrupted with, “Ex cuse me, though I am a stranger to you, but didn't that southerner tell you that the quinine was for his little daughter, who was down with fever?" “Yes,” said the other, “and didn’t the northerner say that his little girl was ill of f* vi r, too, but he would share her medicine with the other little one, even without the tobacco?” "Why, yes," cried the original nar rator, “I believe lie did, and that was me.” “And I was tho southerner,” cried the other, “ued lure is my daughter, whoso life you Leljn d to save, and here's one of my grandchildren with her.” The Englishman who was present says that there \.;:s then such a scene of handshaking, introductions and con gratulations as must liavi made in-oplo at the other tables think the company must have been visitois from bedlam. The northerner had also a daughter with him, who was a widow, and the em brace of the two v.omi n who had never sixui each other lietntv, but whose early lives had so closely touched, was pecul iarly alTi eting. "And to think we should meet each other so far from home, and in Eng land, teo,” exclaimed one. “God bless England for it, say I!" replied the other.—London Ti legraph. “Tho Coiainnilnrr'H Lnginrer," There are few railroad men in this wetion and along the line of the Gen tral Hudson who do not knew James W. Wood, who has been in continuous serv ice on the Central for the past 4 5 years. He is now (53 years of ago, and as his sight is failing lie has boon retired from active service and will hereafter run u local locomotive in Rochester. He first served as a fireman on a loco motive on the Syracuse and Auburn railroad, running the old fashioned wood burners over the strap rails of that period. Later, when the direct road was built between Syracuse and Rochester, ho was in the freight service, and on account cf his reliability and ski\l earn ed the favor of Dean liichniniid, then president of the railroad. Commodore Cornelius Yundi.rbi if, who later became president of the line, was also attracted Jim Wood, and for years ho was known as “the commodore’s engineer.” Commodore Vanderbilt was always pulled over the road hy Jim Wood, and it was said no other engineer wqjfld make speed fast enough for him. Once he ran so fast that (.Viiuuodore Vander bilt pulled ihu bell cord. Jim Wood was the pioneer of fast time on the railreadi of this country, and for years his records led the world. Mareli 1, ISTti, he made u run from Buffalo to Syracuse, 157.74 miles, in 2 hours and 4.5 minutes. James Gordon Bennett had chartered a special train, and Jim Wood showed how fast it could go. His trip from Rochester to Syracuse in 1878, when ho made 81 miles in 83 minutes, was a wonder at the time. Jim Wood is tho most famous of rail road engineers. He is not only admired for his courage at the throttle, but is re spected for the many qualities ho pus- sesses. It is no discredit to hint at his age to be assigned an easier berth.— Utica Observer. OVERWORK -INDUCED- Nervous Prostration Complete Recovery by the Use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla “ Sniiic years age, as a result of too ••Ins!' attention to business, my health failed. I lieeanie weak, nervous, was uiinldc to look after my interests, and manifested all !l>e symptoms of a de- i line. I look three bottles of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, began to improve at ouce, A Chorus of “Vivos.” Mile. Lucie Enure resembles her fa ther, not only in appearance, but also in her hatred of publicity and show, be sides which she affects a simplicity and neatness in dress which gives her quite an English appearance. The liekle Pa risians (who tolerate the most outre of cycling costumes, by the way) complain tiiat she dresses t<x> much like a man. Unlike other girls of her age und po sition, Mile. Faure is to txi seen nearly every afternoon on the boulevard alone, and tho fact that she looks so English gave rise to an amusing incident the other day. An irrepressible gamin, upl recognizing in the tall and tailor goWM* id young womaq the pp sident’s daugh ter, greeted her with a lively grimace and a mocking shout of “Vive I’Angle- terre!” Nothing daunted, but with xomewhat lie.ghtenedcolor, Mile. Faure responded, “Vive la France!” whereup on au Eugli ihinull who was passing took in the situation at a glance and, raising his hat, remarked with a pro found bow, “Vive le president! ’—Lou- don Gentlewoman. ami gradually increased my weight from •me hundred and twenty-live to two hundred pounds. Since then. T and my family have used this medicine when n eded. and we are all in the best of health, a fact whieh we attribute to Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I believe my chil dren would have been fatherless to-day I a l it not been for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, of whieh preparation I cannot say too miich.’’—U. O. Hixson, Postmaster and Planter. Kinard’s, S. Avers Sarsaparilla r.ECCiVffiG MEOAL AT WORLD’S FAIR. /. YEK’S FUs Favc Doctor’s Bills. Lay Aside Something FOR YOUR FAMILY by buying a policy in tin* Mas sachusetts Bcnelit Life As sociation, from R. S. LIPSCOMB, Agt. Also I'’ire |nsurance Apt. Notice! I hl.> is no emporium, no grand aggregation, no symposium or other grand collection of high sounding circus liumbuggery. IU I I UK I’l.Al l. In yd villr Hoars. SasTF. I’lI''ds and all km.is of Uuildfie.* Mil- I fill I. S:i writ :i ipf I! :i ih| M :mh* Shingles f«»r I lif If.'ist |>u»il)h > ni.sli. AMVHT. yivcu free rcyarils to proper 't/.e.* fot m il-.iii!* frames, etc. HILLS for materials and esiimules made prompt ly. <>l I K K In warelems ■. Kespeet fa' ly. 3.,. 15 A ICICI*. O. L. Sciii’Mi'KiiT. Tnos. 15. Uitti.uk. Sol. 7tli .1 udiein | Cfrcait. (*. s. Com. \YM. .McdlnVAN. SCHIUPERT, ■ CUTLER > k ■ UcGOWAK, ATTOI* SJ.iVS-A T-l „ A \V . Union and Gaffney, 5. C. Ofticc (lays al <ialVncy. Friday an I Satur day of cae!i week. Very careful and prompi nltention iriven to a I Mmsi ness en I rusted i. i a-;. {•^"Practice in ail the court.,. A .Monster Meteor. A remarkable incident is reported from tho state of Chihuahua, Mexico. On a recent afternoon “a tremendous explosion was heard, and n» enormous mass of burning matter was seen to fall from the heavens, striking tho side of a mountain and bringing down with it in its course entire cliffs, and finally plunging ‘.*00 feet into the ground, mak ing a hole from which boiling water still issues. One of tho most singula? phenomena observed was the heavy rata falling from the sky immediately after the descent of the meteor. Tho people are very superstitious, as this is one of the many realizations of the prophecies of the vision seeing girl of Tabasco,. The same meteor destroyed the hous«v of a miner, killing his two children.” J. E. WEBSTER, -Attorney-A.t> Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soccialtv. DR. I. M. HAIR, DENTIST, Office Jin Sell Ictnycr iMiildfmr. Tixdli ex tracted wit haul pain. First-class work at rcasonalilc prices. \\'ill lie at t'acolct from t lie lot h to Fit I, of oacti moiitii. The cheapest thing on earth—The Weekly Ledger at one dollar a year. TVtUlresH 'l A nic J^csucicsi*., CjAKKSiLJY, fc*4. C. Docm the Karth Move? Quo of the wonders of tho coming Paris exposition will bo a 3(10 foot tower in which the scientists will experiment with a pendulum to ascertain if it is possible to detect or demonstrate tho motion of the earth. A similar experi ment was once made by Foucault under the cupola of the Pantheon, hut the re sults were far from satisfactory. In the coming experiment the pendulum will bo 350 feet in length, with a steel globe Weighing 18Q pounds nt its cud.—St Louis Republic. Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat ent business conducted for MOOCRSTC Fit*. OunOrricc isOppositc U. 8. PatentOrnci and we cause, urc patent in less tune than those rernato from Washington. , i Send model, draw mg or photo., with dcscrip-i ] tion. W-i advise, if patentable or not, free of Vharite. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A PaPPMUT. “ How to Obtain Talents," with' cost of same in the U. S. pmJ foreign countries sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Ops. PATENT Orncc. Washington. O. C. . VWVVWWWWVWW I