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1 Slii Ml THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., AUGUST 27, 1896. THE HARVEST FIELD. A SHADOW ON THE SPLENDOR OF A SHUNCM HOME. v.» R.r. Dr. Tnlmnzn on thn Ku«cep(lhllHT •ml tkio rower of ChlMlnm.!—From • World of Sin ami Suffering to • World of IVnco an (I Joy. Wasiiinuton, Auk. 2fl.—While the Feapert nro busy in many parts of tho land ami tho harvests are In'inKRathored the accno brought boforo us in this sub ject is especially appropriate. The text is II Kings iv, 18, 1ft, iO: "Ami when the child was grown it fell ou a day that he went out to his father to tho reapers. And ho said unto his father, ‘My head, my head!’ And ho said to a lad, ‘Carry him to his mother. ’ And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother ho sat on her knees till noon and then died." There is at h ast one happy homo in Shuncm. To the luxuriance and splen dor of a K r( ‘ nt house had l>oon given tho advent of a child. Even when tho angel of life brings a now soul to tho poor man’s hut a star of joy shines over tho manger. Infancy, with its helplessness and innocence, had passed away. Days of boyhood had come, days at laaghtor and frolic, days of suilihino and prom ise, days of strange questions and curiosity and quick development I sup pose among all tho treasures of that house the brightest was the hoy. One day there is tho shout of reapers hoard afield. A boy’s heart always bounds at the sound of sickle or scythe. No sooner have the harvesters cut a swath across the field than the lad Joins them, and tho swarthy reapers feel young again as they look down at that lad, as bright grid beautiful as was Ruth in tho harvest (leMs of Bethlehem gleaning after tho fpapers. But tho sun was too hot for fiim. Congestion of the brain neixed on I see tho swarthy laborers drop their ficklcs, and they rush out to see vrhat is Ityo mutter, mid they fan him, Riid they fry to cool his brow, but all is of no gyail. In tho instant of consciousness be puts his hands against his temples and cries out: “My head, my head!’' ^Lnd tho father said, “Carry him to his piother,” just as any father would have •nid, for our hand is too rough, and our yoico is too harsh, and our foot is too joud to doctor a sick child if there bo jq pur homo a gentler yoieo and a gen tler hand and a stiller footstep. But all cf no avail, While tho reapers of 8huncm were busy in tho field there came a stranger reaper that way, with keener scythe and for a richer harvest. Ho reaped only ono sheaf; but, oh, what a golden sheaf that was I I do not want to know any more about that heart breaking scene than what I see In just this ouo pathetio sentence: “Ho sat on her knees till noon and then died.” Though hundreds of years have passed ■way since that boy skipped to the har dest field and then was brought homo I d 4iad o« hia mother’s lap, the story II fcflills us. fcdeed, childhood has a charm always and everywhere. I shall now speak to you of childhood, its beauty, its susceptibility to impression, its power over tho parental heart and its blissful transition from earth to heaven. llenuty of Childhood. The child’s beauty does not depend Open form or feature or complexion or apparel. That destitute ono that you Ifaw on tho street, bruised with unktnd- ijcss nn(j in rags, has a charm about her, even under her destitution. You havo forgotten a great many persons whoiq yqu met, of finely cut features and with i rect posture and with faultless co*n- ploxinn, while you will always remem ber the poor girl who, on a cold, moon, light night, as you were passing lato home, in her thin shawl and barefoot ou the pavement, put out her hand and anid: “Pleaso to givo me a penny.” Ah, how often we havo walked on and said, “Oh, that is nothing but street vagabondism I” but after we got a block or two on we stopped and said, “Ah, that is not right!” and wo passed up that same way and dropped a mite into 'that suffering hand, as though it were not a matter of second thought, so ashamed wero wo of our hard h^arted- ness. With what admiration we all look upon a group of children on the play ground or in tho school, and wo clap our hands almost involuntarily and say, "How beautiful I” All stiffness and dignity aro gone, and your shout is heard with theirs, and you trundle their hoop and fiy their kite and strike their, ball, and all your weariness and anxiety arc gone, as when a child you bounded over tho playground yourself. That father who stands rigid and unsympa thetic amid the sportfulness of children ought never to havo been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitari ness. Tho waters leap down the rocks, but they have not the giaceful step of hildhood. Tho morriug comes out of the gates of the cast, throwing Jts silver the lake and its gold on the towers d its fire ou tho cloud, but it is not so right and beautiful as tho morning of Thcro is no light like that whioh indlcd in a child’s eye, no color like t which blooms on a child’s cheek, n music like tho sound of a child’s oico. Its face in tho poorest picture re- eems any imperfection iu art. When we aro weary with toil, their little hands pull tho burdens off our back. Oh, what a dull, stale, mean world this would bo without the sportfulness of children! When I find people that do not like children, I immediately doubt their moral and Christian character. But when the grace of God comes upon a child, how unspeakably attractive! When Samuel begins to pray and Tim othy begins to read the Scriptures and Joseph shows himself invulnerable to temptation, how beautiful the Becnel 1 know that parents sometimes get nerv ous when their children become pious, because they have tho idea that good children always die. The sti ange ques tions about God and eternity and the excite apprehension in the pa- ■onta) mind rather than onograkila^iou. fhdord therv are some people that •sum fnarked for heaven. This world is too poor a garden for them to bloom iu. Tho hues of heaven are in the petals. There is something about their fore head that mokes yon think that tho hand of Christ lias been on it, saying, “Let Ibis one come to me, and let it come fn me soon. ” While that ouo tar ried in the house you felt there was an angel in the room, andyon thought that every sickness would be the last. And when, finally, the winds of death did scatter the leaves, you were no more surprised than to see a above the cloud on a dark night, for you had often said to your companion, “My dear, we shall never raise that child.” But I scout the idea that good children always die. .Samuel the pious boy be- c iae Samuel the great prophet. Chris tian Timothy Is'camo a minister at Ephesus. Young Daniel, consecrated to God, became prime minister of all the realm, and there are in hundreds of the schools and families of this country to day children who love God and keep his commandments, and who are to bo foremost among tho Christians and the philanthropists and the reformers of the next century. The grace of God never kills any one. A child will he more apt to grow up with religion than it will be apt to grow up without it. Length of days is promised to tho righteous. The religion of Christ does not cramp the chest, or curve the spine, or weaken the nerves. There are no malarias floating up from the river of life. The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of a child a supernal beauty. “Her ways p.vo ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” MoUliiix <>f Childhood. I pass on to consider the susceptibility of childhood. Me n pride themselves on their unchaugeability. They will make an elaborate argument to prove that they think now just as they did 20 years ago. It is charged to frailty or fraud when a man changes his senti ments in polities or in religion, and it is this determination of soul that so of ten drives back the gospel from a man’s heort—it is so hard to make avarice charitable and fraud honest and pride humble and skepticism Christian. The sword of God’s truth seems to glance off from those mailed warriors, and the helmet seems battle proof against God’s battleax. But childluxxl—how suscep tible to extuuplo and to instruction! Von are not surprised at the record, ■'Abiaham liegat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob,” for when religion starts in a family it is apt to go all through, Jeze bel a murderess, you are not surprisixl to find her son Jehnram attempting as sassination. Oh, what a responsibility npon the parent and the teacher! The musician touches tho keys, and the re sponse of those kej's is away off amid the pipes and the chords, and you won der at the distance between the key and tho chord. And so it is in life. If yo* touch a child, the results will come back from manhood or old age, telling just the tune played, wliethcr ill* dirge of n great Horroiv or ti« rathrtu <4 a great Joy. Tho word that the Sabbath f Ule hands they havo caught bold of mr entire nature, and yon rannot rcuch yourself away from their gncip. i You are different men and women from | what you wire before they gave you the first lesson. They have revolution ized your soul. There are fountains of 1 joy in your heart which never would I have been discovered bid they not dis covered them. Life is to you a more 1 stupendous tiling than it was before I those little feet started oil the pathway | h) eternity. Oh, how many hopes, how many joys, how many solicitudes that _ little one has created in your soul I You star corao out go to school every day, a school of self denial, a school of patience, in which you are getting wiser day by day, and t that influence of the child over yon will increase and increase, and, though your children may die, from the very throne j of (iixl they will reach down an infln* 1 once to your soul, leading you on and ! leading you up until you mingle with their voices am' sit beside their thrones. The grasp which tho child has over the parent’s heart is seen in what tho parent will do for tho child. Storm and darkness and heat and cold arc nothing to you if they stand between you and your child’s welfare. A great lawyer, when yet unknown, one day stood in tho courtroom and made an ehxjuont plea boforo some men of great attain ments, and <i gentleman said to him afterward, “How could you bo so calm standing in that august presence?” “Oh,” said Erskine, “I felt my children pulling at my skirts crying for bread.” What stream will you not swim, what cavern will you not outer, what battle will you not fight, what hunger will yon not endure for your children? Your children inns’; have broad though you starve. Your children must bo well clothed though you go in rags. You say, “My children shall be educated, though I never had any chance. ” What to you are weary limbu and aching head and hands hardened and callous if only the welfare of your children can be wrought out by it? Their sorrow is your sorrow, their joy your joy, their ad vancement your victory, And, oh. when the last sioknssa comes, how you fight buck the march of disease, aud it is only after a tremendous struggle that you surrender. And then when tho spirit lias fled the great deep is broken up, and Rachel will not be comforted because her children uro not, and David goes up the. palace stairs, crying: “O Absalom, my son, my son, would God I had died for thee I O Absalom, my son, my soul” A Lost Treasure. There is not a largo family, or hardly a large family, that lias not bent over siroh a treasure and lost it. In tho fam ily fold is there no dead lamb? I have ■ocn many such coses of sorrow. There is ono pro-ominout iu my memory as pastor—Scovillo Haynes McCollum. The story of his death has brought hun dreds unto God. Ho belonged to my parish in the west A thorough boy, 9 or 10 years of age. Nothing morbid, pothiug dull about him. His voice ftudest and his foot swiftest ou fh« sygronnd. Oft«* h* h*B mcw iute yiy ou.so aud thrown himfleff down on the school teacher will this afternoon Wilis- P*** exhaustion of boisterous per in tho ear of the class will bo echoed ‘' iud ^ ^ tt ^nsMan, con- LpIt frnm of lierhr. rw Bccrated to God, keeping his command ments. That is the kind of childish I J wa* in Hulwtuiico when they say: “O ord, this ixn’t right. It is hard to take Mijx child. You havo no right to take this child. Spare this child. I can’t givo him up, and I won’t give him up.” Tho Lord answers that kind of a prayer 8omotiir.es. Tho child lives on and lives or. and travels off in paths of wicked ness to perish. At tho end of every prayer for a child’s life say, “Thy will, O Lord, be done. ” The hrlg.itout lights that can Ixi kin dled Christ has kindled. Li t us, old and joung, rejoice that heaven is gal boring up ko much that is attractive. In that far land wo are not strangers. There are those there who speak our name day by day, and they wonder why so long wo tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families into the kingdom of heaven, it would take me all day to mention their name*. A great‘multi tude before the throne. You loved them once, you love them now, and ovw and anon you think yon hear their voices calling you upward. Ah, yes, they have gone out from all these families, and you want no bixik to tell you of tho dy ing expeoonoe of Christian children. You have beard it. It has been whis pered in your ear, O father, O mother, O brother, O sister. Toward that good land all Christians uro bearing. This snapping of heartstrings, this flight of years, this tread* f tho heart reminds us that wo nro passing aw ay. Under spring blossoms and through summer harvests and across autumnal leaves and through tho wintry snowbanks wo aro passing ou. Oh, lojoico at it, children of God, rejoice at it! How wo shall gather them up, tho loved and tho lostl Before wo mount our throne, before wo drink of tho fountain, before wo strike the harp of our eternal celebration, we will ery I out, “Whore are our loved and lost?” And then how we shall gather them up! Oh, how wo shall gather them upl Jit thin dark world of t-ia and pula We only moot to part again, Rut whon wo roach tho honventy nhora Wo thoro ahull moot to part no moro. The hope that wo Khali son that day £houM chaiio <mr proxont grief* away, Whon thooo t.h >rt years of pain uro past, Wo’ll meet boforo tho throne at lunt. back from everlasting ages of light or darkness. Tho homo aud (ho school de cide the republic or the despotism, the barbarism or tho civilization, tho up building of an empire or the overthrow ing of it. Higher than parliament or congress are tho school and tho family, and tho sound of a child’s foot may moan moro than the tramp of a host. What, then, aro you doing for the pur pose of bringing your children into tho kingdom of U*xl? If they are so puscep- tiblo, and if this is the very best time to act upon their eternal interests, what aro you doing by way of right impul sion? There were some harvesters in tho fields of Scotland ono hot day, and Han- j mill Lomond was helping them gather the hay. She laid her babe under a tree. While she was busy in tho field there was a flutter of wings in tho air, aud a golden eagle clutched tho swaddling band of tho babe aud flow away with it to tho mountain eyrie. All tho harvest ers and Hannah Lomond started for tho cliffs. It was two miles before they came to tho foot of tho cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount tho cliff? No human foot had over trod it. There wore sailors thero who had gone up tto mast in tho day of terrible tempest They did not dare risk it. Hannali Lo mond sat thero for awhile aud looked up and saw tho eaglo in tho eyrie, and then sho leaped to her feet, and sho started up where no human foot had ever trod, crag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root, until sho reached tho eyrie and caught her babe, the onglo swooping in fierceness all around about her. Fastening tho child to her hack, sho started for her friends and for homo. Oh, what a dizzy de scent, sliding from this crag to that crag, catching by that vino and by that root, coming down farther and farther to tho most dangerous pass, where sho found a goat aud some kids. Sho said: “Now I’ll follow tho goat; tho goat will know just which is tho safest way down. ” And she was led by tho animal down to tho plain. When sho got there, all tho people cried, “Thank God, thank God!" her stomgth not giving way un til tho rescue was effected, And they cried: “Stand back now. Givo her air!” Oh, if a woman will do that for the physical life of her child, what will you do for the eternal life of your boy Mid your girl? Lot it not bo told in the groat day of eternity that Hannah Lo mond put forth moro exertion for the saving of the physical life of her child than you, O parent, have ever put forth for the eternal lifo of your little one. God help you! Tower of Childhood. I pass on to consider tho power which a child wields over the parental heart We often talk alxiut tho influence of parents upon children. I never hear piety I believe in. Whon the days of sickness came, suddenly and ho was tclcl that ho could not git well, ho said: “Jesus alone can save mo. Jesus will save me. Ho has saved mo. Don’t cry, mamma. I sh;ill gn right straight up to heaven.” And then they gave him a glass of water to cool his hot lips and ho said: “Mamma, I shall take a draft from the water of lifo after awhile, of which if ouo drink ho shall never get thirsty again. I lay myself at Jesus’ feet, and I want him to do just what ho thinks best to do with me.” In those days “Rest For tho Weary” was a now hymn, and ho had learned it, and in a pi^fcct ecstasy of soul in his last hour ho cried out: “Jn tho Christian's homo in glory Thero remains a land of rest. Thuro iny Saviour’s (jono U loro me To fulfill my souI'm request. Thoro la rest for tho weary, Thoro is rest for you. “Blnu, oh, sing, yo holrs of glory, Shout your triumphs ns you go, Sion’s gates are open for you. You shall find an entrance through. Thero Is rest for the wuury. "There is rest for yon, papa; thoro is rest for you, mamma. “ And then pot ting his hands over his heart, ho said, “Yes, thero is rest for mo.” And then ho asked them to road “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. Ho maketh me to lio down in green pastures and loadcth mo beside still waters,” and ho cried out: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Only 10 years oldl And then he said, “Now I wish you would just turn this lied so I can look once more on tho foli age mid see the sun sot.” And they turned tho bed. And he said, “I do so wish that Jesus would hurry 'and como and take mo.” They said to him, “ Why, are you not willing to await tho Lord’s time?” “Yes,” ho said, “I am, Ait I would rather Jesus would como j and hurry and take mo.” And so, with ! a peace indescribable, ho passed away. The (Jain of l>e»th. Oh, there is nothing sad about a child's death save tho grief in tho par ent’s heart I You sec the little ones go right out from a world of sin and suffer ing to a world of Joy. How many sor rows they escape, how many tempta tions, how many troubles I Children dead are safe. Those that livo are iu peril. Wo know not what dark path they may take. Tho day may como iu which they will break your heart, but children dead uro safe—safe forovor. \Wiepi»g parents, do not mourn too bit terly over your child that has gone. Thero aro two kinds of prayers made at a child’s sick bod. One pray r the Lord likes; the other prayer he duos not like. When a soul knocls down at a child’s sick bed and says: “O Lord, spare this little one. Ho is very near to my heart. Tithing Caro of the I'.ye*. An eye expert says: “Don’t road while you nro traveling, but if you will read, let it bo books or newspapers with tho largest typo you can get hold of. Read ing in a car in motion is also much eas ier and less injurious if a large card or an envelope bo hold just undv r each line you nro reading and moved down as each line is road. ” The use of tinted writing papers is very beneficial to the eyes, but tho colors chosen should bo gray, neutral tint or bluish green. Red dish brown, pink, yellow or strongly yellowish green should bo avoided. Thoso who snfior in any way from im paired vision and have much writing to do should use the typewriter. Tho writer can lean back in a chair and change Irom ouo position to another without ceasing to work, and thorp it npita of the cramping effects u}>oii dif- fristt eots of muscles inseparable from tewlhuwy writing. Looking for any length of time through wire gauze blinds is injurious to the sight. .(Vn oculist tells of a police detectivo who came to him with bis eyes in a shocking condition. Ho had nearly blinded himself by locking through such blinds for several weeks together. La dies’veils, when thick, frequently injure tho sight, espi'cially when of the dot pattern. The desirability of keeping the eyes cool is urged. It is a good plan to bathe the ryw clon'd every morning with moderately cold water. Tho eon- stttnfc practice of this habit tends to strengthen and preserve tho sight. Bnt if the eyes aro actually inflamed, water of the some temperature as the air in very cold weather may increase tho in flammation, and tepid water will, under such circumstances, be most beneficial. Slight inflammation in the eyes may bo relieved bv bathing them with cold or nearly cola tea or the invaluable bo- racic acid and camphor eyewater, which may bo obtained from any druggist WOES OF A PRETENDER. ■e lift* to C^ntt'iul With KMcrly Foyle* mill Adlpono TUmio The Marquis do Lnppc, a former Ohainbordist and a K'li-in-law of tho Due de Broglie, n fuv s to follow tho Due d’Orleans', now that the duke’s strategy is the same as General Bon- lunger's. lie thinks ho ewes it to him self to resign membership in the royal ist committee of Bordeaux. According ly he lias written at* follows to tho Comte de Lur Saluces, president of that commith'o: “The alliances entered into with the revolutionary party at tho last munic ipal Bordeaux elections have shown mo that I was no longer in agreement with iny enlloagnes of the royalist committee of tho Gironde. Under these circum stances I think it only right to tender my resignation. ” It is tliought that all tho elderly members of tho committee will follow this example. Tho royalists are now combined with what may be called the independent labor party of Bordeaux. M. do Luppo calls these confederates the worst ouomii's of social order. Meanwhile the Due d’Orleans, who fears to have a Falstafiian figure, is at Marieubad undergoing u "cure.” The waters there keep down obesity. For that reason they were taken every year by tho Comte do Chamber*!, who had a Bourbon appetite for f*xxl and could not, owing to his lameness, take exer cise enough to keep a chain built figure. Ono cannot wonder at the duke re quiring a course of Muricnhad waters when one remembers how he lunched aud dined at the conciorgerio and at Clairvanx. The fatty diathesis for which the (Jomtessc de Paris also goes to M«r- ienbad was hereditary with the Spanish and Neapolitan Bourbons. The father of Philippe Kgalite also was so fat that he had to get specially made carriages, it being impossible to enter those built for ordinary persons. Extreme rotundity in a young pre tender would be an obstacle to success. It would dcpoctizo him, prevent him from appearing on horseback or making a dash on a cycle into tho heart of France. This mode of locomotion has been strongly recommended by the tur bulent spirits of tho party. Flying for ward ou a cycle he would not bo identi fied. He might shoot through country towns, putting up only at chateaus be longing to partisans.—Paris Letter. Texas Wild Horses. I think it was in Swisher county that I saw’ wild horses for Rio first time. There were 80 in tho bunch. I was told by a herder that the cattlemen were in the hnbitof shooting tliostallions, They have ugly tempers and sometimes at tack and kill the stock horses. Whon I saw the wild horses for the first time, it gave mo a tin-ill of delight. I remem bered tho pictures in the geographies I studied in when I went to school in Vir ginia of Texans throwing the lasso and the mustangs of the plains being suto duod aud converted into amiable crea tures, suitable for family purpose's. I give it rs my opinion that the only safe wild horse is a dead one. Those I saw Were genuine descendants of tho Cortes stock, which began roaming in the ear ly diij's (4 the conquest and multiplied, crossing the Rio Grande and spreading over the country from the gulf of Mex ico (o the Pacific ocean. Wo had a strong fk-ldgiass in our outfit, and, mouutiug a small knoll which a native called “the mountain, “ I took a look at tho herd. The leader was guarding tho mares and colts, just ns the books say they do. Wo approached within a half mile of the herd and could make out their color pretty well. There was a pretty white mare in the bunch which I wanted. We chased them several miles, but they got safely off, and all the satis faction I had is that I saw real wild horses, not horses gone wild, but the original stock which for several centu ries had been wholly free from the dominion of man.—Dallas News. ••So Very UnImportant.” “There is nothing of our own—not even tho button at tho back of our shirt collar—so treacherous as our memory,” writes James Payn in his “Gleams of Memory.” Tho humorous novelist confesses that though he never can recall a date, not even his own birthday, yet many futile, ridiculous things abide in his memory. For instance, ho can remember bnt two items, mid thoso ludicrous, regard ing his first private tutor. Ono is his naiue, Tbyim, which ho supposed was given to him on account of his lank and lean appearance. Tho other is that he was half starved, for, on being asked to breakfast, ho cut off that projecting foot of the bacon which no one eats, •long with the usual slice, and devoured it with apparent relish. Mr. Payn tells a story illustrative of how* dangerous it is to reproach a person whoso memory lets slip important things, but retains thoso that are unim portant. A Intor of a college, moro remarkable for his satire than his urbanity, asked some questions of the treasurer, to which tho latter replied rather petu lantly: “Hrnv should I know? Ono can’t re member everything.” "No,” replied tho tutor softly, “but this is so very unimportant. ” Several years after tho tutor was ap pointed regius professor of Greek. Ho had tho impression that ho could hold both posts and did so for some tirao till it was discovered that it w’as illegal. The fact was ferreted out by the treasurer, who blandly remarked that it was just one of those “unimportant” flutters that suited his capacity, and compelled him to givo np one position. The tutor’s retentiveucss of “unimpor tant” facte cost him £1,000 a year. anything said about the infiucnco of * I don’t want to part with him, but thy children upon their parents. You go to .will he done”—that is the kind of ■chuol to them. You no more educate ! prayer tho Lord loves. There is another them than they educate you. With theii ’ kind of prayer which I have heard men P*»t m mi AntliMplle. Peat enjoys certain antiseptic quali ties. A dead body which was buried in this substance for over 100 years was found in a state of gtssl prest nation. Peat is used in the northern countries of Europe for surgical bandages, and , the favorable results obtained by Rus sian doctors have induced the French war office to utilize it in their hospi tals. LOSS OF VOICE After Acute Bronchitis CURED BY USING Cherry Pectoral AYER’S A PREACHER’S EXPERIENCE. “Three months ago, I took a vio lent cold which resulted in an attack of acute bronchitis. I put myself under medical treatment, and at the end of two months was no lietter. I found it very difficult to preach, and concluded to try Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. The first bottle gave me great relief; the second, which I am now taking, has relieved me almost entirely of all unpleasant symptoms, and I feel sure that one or two Ixit- tles more will effect a permanent cure. To all ministers suffering from throat troubles, I recommend Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral.”—E. M. Brawley, P. IX, Dist. Secretary, Am. Bapt. Publication Society, Petersburg, Va. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral GOLD MEDAL AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. AYER S LEADS ALL OTHER lARSAPARILLAS. DR. I. M. HAIR, DENT' ST, Ofliro In SottlcmyiT I ililinj;. Toctk o.x- ttriicteil without puiu. iist-ciass work ul> rt'.'isoiiMhU- nriiM's. Will ho ••* I’ni-olet front th«‘10th to Mth of ouch month. • u. RIP-A-N-S UJ The modern stand- mrni U ard Family Medi- V) cine: Cures the u > common every-day n ills ol fcemanity. w z o jgS . George III •n<l Despotism. Geotge III had at last reached his aim. In tho early days of tho min istry his influonco was felt to bo pre dominant. In its later and moro dis astrous days it was supremo, for Lord North, who becamo tho head of tho ministry on Grafton’s retirement iu 1770, was tho mere mouthpiece of tho king. “Not only did he direct tho minister,” a careful observer tells us, “in all important matters of foreign and domestic policy, but he instructed him os to tho management of debates in parliament, suggested what motions should bo made or opposed aud how measures should bo carried. “Ho reserved for himself all tho pat- ronago, ho arranged tho whole cast c f tho administration, settled tho relative places and pretensions of ministers of state, law officers and members of the household, nominated and promoted the English aud Scotch judges, appointed and translated bishops and deans and dispensed other preferments iu tho church. He disposed of military govern- meuts, regiments and commissions and himself ordered the marching of troops. He gave and refused titles, honors aud pensions. “ All this immense patronage was steadily used for the creation of a party iu both houses of parliament at tached to the king himself. (George was, in fact, sole minister daring tho 15 years which followed, and the shame of the darkest hour of English history lies wholly at his door.—Greene’s “Short History of English People.” Foot I'ackril Ta*. It is said that np to about 1850 the tea wan trodden into chests by barefooted Chinamen, but tho fact Ixs-oiuing known in Europe caused a decided fall ing off iu the sales, upon which the merchants insisted that the tea should bo packed by hand and not by foot SOUTHERN RAILWAY. riEDMOXr AIH MNE. Condensed Sctieriulo of rn«*fMi£«r Train*, Northbound. June 14, ISOS. Lv. Atlanta, C. I orero** luford. GalnoRv11k<... ” Lula ” OornoMa— - Mt.Atry. “ Tooeoa ” Westminster •• Benocn ** Central ” Greenville . M Spartanburg ** Gaffnevs. " Blacksburg “ King's Mt “ Gastonia.. JLr. Charlotte . ” Danville At. Richmond . Ar. Washington •’ Raltm’n PUH ” Philadelphia ” N$w York 1 Vea. Fnt. y Hi Mo. Tt No. 311 No.IS Dally. Dally. Dally >12 (10 HI 11 15 1* 7 H) ft ! 1 uu v 12 15 " sAo » | is .ys t !>!#< ft !0 Ui »i 2 2* I* 2 01 10 12 a 2 43 p 2 23 « 11 05 n 2 40 « 11 27 a 2 A0 ft 11 3!> a A V, p 3 17 ft 11 AS n _ 8 48 ft 12 20 p 4 9* p 4 DA ft 12 41 p 4 4A p 4 ft 1 20 p a 'Jb p A 25 » 2 10 n A 18 p rt 13 ft 8 22 p n 53 a 4 11 p T 08 p 7 OS ft 4 30 p 7 81 ft 5 00 l> 7 .VI ftl A 28 p 8 20 p 8 33 ft C 20 p ,12 go A 1 30 P.ll 25 I> j « ft) & (1 40 P (100 n ! « 42 ft <1 40 p 8 nS ft It 25 P , 10 -25 ft 3 (» a! .. ;12 A8 m *1 2) ;> Sontlibo und. Lv. N. Y..P. R.R. •* Philadelphia . " Baltimore.... •* Washington.. Lv. Richmond .. Lv Ves. I Fat.Ml No. .17 No. 3.1 Daily. Dailv. 4 :<0 p 12 1A a 0 AA pi 3 ftO a it 21) p *i 22 a 10 43 p 11 1A a ’"|- Danvllle ... Chnrlotta .. ” Castonia ... *' Kinx's Mt '* lllaekshurg .. ** (+ufTnej-s “ Spartanburg. •* Greenville.... ** CVntral Remva “ Westminster •• Toccon ** Mt. Airy ” Cornelia •• Lula ** Gainesville... “ Buford Nor*toss Ar. Atlanta, R. T. Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 2 00 a 12 35 p A 30 0 3A 10 40 Vo. 14 Daily 2 00 a 11 87 12 28 1 15 1 85 2 K> p (1 05 p 0 40 n 10 55 p 12 20 p 11 31) p 1 10 p 1 35 p ... * 12 00 ii 203 p * 12 24 r 2 20 p • ••••*» 1 00 a 3 05 p 1 50 a 4 40 p • • • • • »a 2 35 a 5 40 p 2 58 a 01« I* 6 22 p 0 53 p 3 80 a •••••*• 7 40 p 6 25 • 4 21 a 7 45 p 6 35 a 4 30 n 8 12 p Wf t 4 57 n 8 30 p Ti> 007 p 7 f • 948 p sir« 0 20 a 10 30 p 9 38 a 5 20 u 9 30 p sap a M” noon. "N" night. “A" a. m. ’’P"?. ra. Noa. 87 and 38—Washington nnd Bouthweqp •rn Vestibule Limited. Through Pul' sleeiMTs 1 s'tween New York and N< w Orl< via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, also lietwoen New York and Memphi*,_ Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham, train also earrias Richmond-Augusta alee* cars Ixdween Danville and Charlotte. F class thoroughfare coach between Washington and Atlanta. Dining car* serve all meala eft route. Nos. 3A and 80-Unltad States Fast Mail. Pul> man sleeping car* beta eon New York, Atlanta and New OrTeona. Noa. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping can between Rlehmoud and Danville. The Air Line Belle train, Noa. 17 and 18, will, from June 1st to October lat, InGH, be operated between Atlanta an*. Mt. Airy, Go., daily ex cept Sunday. J. M. CULP, Traffic MVr., W. H. ORKEN, Gan'l Hupt., ^ Washington, D. G. Washington, D. Q W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK, .. Uen'l Pass. Ag't ., Aau'tGcn'l Pas*. Ag’t, w *»hin gtoq, p, C. Atlanta, Ga^