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I THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 13, 1898. 5 THE BRIDE OF MOSES. HOW ZIPPORAH DECIDED HER MATRI MONIAL DESTINY. A OlairlouA Kxample and IiiHiiiration For Women of All Time, — Goal Haat Work For Younc and Old—How We Are Call ed to Special Labor. [Copyright, 1S38, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, May 8.—From a rustic Biblo scene Dr. Taltnage in this ser mon draws practical and inspiring les sons for all classes of people. The text is Exodus iii, 1, “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest ajf Midiau.” In the southeastern part of Arabia a man is sitting by a well. It is an arid country, and water is scarce, so that a well is of great value, and flocks and herds are driven vast distances to have their thirst slaked. Jethro, a Midiauite sheik and priest, was so fortunate as to have seven daugiiters, and they are ptactical girls, and yonder they come driving the sheep and cattle and camels of their father to the watering. They lower the buckets and then pull them up, the water plashing on tho stones and chilling their feet, and' the troughs are filled. Who is that man out there sitting unconcerned and looking on? Why does ho not come and help the women in this hard work of drawing water? But no sooner have tho dry lips and panting nostrils of the flocks begun to cool a little in tho brimming trough of tho well than some rough Bedouin shepherds break in upon tho scene and with clubs and shouts drive back tho animals that were drinking and affright these girls until they fly in retreat, and the flocks of these ill mannered shep herds are driven to the troughs, taking tho places of tho other flocks. Now that man sitting by tho well begins to color up, and his eye flashes with indignation, and all tho gallantry of his nature is aroused. It is Moses, who naturally had a quick temper anyhow, ns he demon strated on one occasion when he saw an Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gave tho Egyptian a sudden clip and buried him in tho sand and as ho show ed afterward when ho broke all the Ten Commandments at once by shattering tho two granito slabs on which tho law was written. But the injustice of this treatment of tho seven girls sets him on fire with wrath, and he takes this shep herd by tho throat and pushes hack an other till ho falls over the trough and aims a stunning blow between the eyes of another as ho cries, “Begone, yon villains!’’ and he hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle and camels of these in vaders and drives them back, and hav ing cleared tho place of tho desperadoes ho told tho seven girls of this Midiauite sheik to gather their flocks together and bring them again to tho watering. Oh, you ought to see a fight between tho shepherds at a well in tho orient as I saw it in December, 1890. There were here a group of rough men who had driven tho cattle many miles, and hero another group who had driven their cattle as many miles. Who should have precedence? Such clashing of buckets! Such hooking of horns! Such kicking of hoofs! Such vehemence in a language I fortunately could not understand! Now tho sheep with a peculiar mark across their woolly Lacks were at the trough and now tho sheep of another mark. It was one of tho most exciting scenes I ever witnessed. An old book describes ono of these contentions at an eastern well when it says: “One day tho poor men, the widows and the or phans met together and were driving their camels and their flocks to drink and were all standing by the water side. Daji came up and stopped thorn all and took possession of tho water for Ins master’s cattle. Just then an old woman belonging to tho tribo of Abs came up and accosted him m a suppliant manner saying; ‘Bo so good, Master Daji, as to let my cuttlo drink. They are all tho property I possess and I live by their milk. Pity my flock, have compassion on me. Grant my request and let them drink.’ Then came another old woman and addressed him: ‘Oh, Master Daji, I am a poor, weak old woman as you see. Time has dealt hardly with me. It has aimed its arrows at mo and its daily and nightly calamities have destroyed all my men. I have lost my children and my husband, and since then I have been in great distress. These sheep uro e'l that f possess. Let them drink, for I live on the milk that they produce. Pity my forlorn state. I have no ono to tend than. Therefore grant my suppli cation und of thy kindness let them drink.’ Put in this case the brutal slave, so far from granting this humble request, smoto tho woman to the ground.” Tho Tirltfo of Moaos. A like scrimmage has taken place at tho well in tho triangle of Arabia be tween tiio Badoniu shepherds and Moses championing the cause of the seven daughters who had driven their father’s flocks to tho watering. One of these girls, Zipporali, her name meaning “little bird,’’ was captured by this he roic behavior of Moses; for however timid woman herself may he she al ways admires courage in a man. Zip- porali became the bride of Moses, one of tbo mightiest men of all the cen turies Zipporah little thought that that morning us she helped drive her father’s flocks to the well she was splendidly deciding her own destiny. Had she staid in the tent nr house while the other six daughters of the sheik tended to their herds her life would probably have been a tame and unevent ful life in the solitudes, but her indus try, her fidelity to her father’s interest, her spirit of helpfulness, brought her in to league with one of the grandest char- icters of all history. They mot at that famous well, and while she admired the courage of Moses he admired tho filial behavior of Zipporah. \ Thu fact tiiat it took tho seven daugb- trs to drive the flocks to tho well im- r lit is that they were immense flocks and that her father was u man of wealth. What was the use of Zipporah’s bs- mcaning herself with work when she might have reclined on the hillside near her father’s tent and plucked buttercups and dreamed o< t romances and sighed idly to tho winds and wept over imag inary songs to the brooks? No, she knew that work was honorable and that ev ery girl ought to have something to do, and so she starts with tho bleating and lowing and bellowing and neighing droves to the well for tho watering. Around every homo there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and every daughter of the family, though there ho seven, ought to be doiug her part to take care of the flocks. In many households not only is Zipporah, but all her sisters, without practical and use ful employments. Many of them are waiting for fortunate and prosperous matrimonial alliance, hut some lounger like themselves will come along and after counting the large number of fa ther Jethro's sheep and camels will mako proposal that will be accepted, and neither of them having done any thing more practical than to chew choco late caramels the two nothings will start on the road of life together, every step more and more a failure. That daughter of the Midianitish sheik will never find her Moses. Girls of America, imitate Zipporah. Do something practi cal. Do something helpful. Do some thing well. Many have fathers with great flocks of absorbing duties, and such a father needs help in home or office or field. Go out ami help him with the flocks. The reason that so many men now condemn themselves to nnafliauced and solitary life is because they cannot support tbo modern young woman, who rises at half past 10 in the morning and retires after midnight, one of the trashiest of novels in her hands most of tho time between tho late rising and the lata retiring—a thousand of them not worth one Zipporah. There are questions that every father and mother ought to ask the daughter at breakfast or tea table and that all the daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each other: “What would you do if the family fortune should fail, if sickness should prostrate the bread winner, if tbe flocks of Jethro should bo destroyed by a sudden excursion of wolves and hears and hyenas from the mountain? What would you do for a living? Could you support yourself? Can you take care of an invalid mother or brother or sister as well as yourself?” Yea, bring it down to what any day might come to a prosperous family. “Can you cook a dinner if the servants should mako a strike for higher wages and leave that morning?’’ Every minute of every hour of every day of every year there are families flung from prosperity into hardship, and, alas, if in such exi gency the seven daughters of Jethro can do nothing but sit around and cry and wait for some one to come and hunt them up a situation for which they have no qualification! Get at something useful, get at it right away. Do not say, “If I wero thrown upon my own resources, I would become a music teacher.’’ There are now more music teachers than could bo supported if tbey were all Mozarts and Wagners and Handels. Do not say, “I will go to em broidering slippers." There aro more slippers now than there are feet. Our hearts are every day wrung ly tbo story of elegant women who wero once afilu- eut but through catastrophe have fall en helpless, with no ability to take care of themselves. Our friend and Washingtonian towns man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnifi cent thing when he built and endowed the Louise homo for the support of the unfortunate aristocracy of tbe south— the peoplowho once had every thing, but have come to nothing. Wo want anoth er W. W. Corcoran to build a Louiso home for the unfortunate aristocracy of the north. But institutions like that in every city of the land could not take care of nnn-half tho unfortunate aristoc racy of the north and south whose large fortunes have failed and who, through lack of acquaintance with any style of work, cannot now earn their own bread. There needs to he peaceful yet rad ical revolution among most of tho pros perous homos of America by which the elegant do nothings may he transformed | into practical do somethings. Let use less women go to work and gather the flocks. Como, Zipporah, lot me intro duce you to Moses. But you do not mean that this man affianced to this country girl was tho great Moses of his tory, do you? You do not moan that ho was the man who afterward wrought such wonders there? Surely yon do not mean ho whoso staff dropped, wrigaled into a serpent und then, clutched, stiff ened again into a staff? You do not mean the challenger of Egyptian thrones and palaces? You do not mean he who struck the rock so hard it went in a stream for thirsty hosts? Surely you do not mean tho mun who stood alone with God on the quaking Sinaitio ranges, not him. of that most famous funeral of all time, God coming down out of tho heavens to bury him? Yes, tbe sumo Moses defending the seven daughters of the Midianitish sheik, who afterward rescued nil nations. I’rc ititratlon For ftix-clal Work. Why, do you not know that this is the way men and women get prepared for special work? The wilderness of Arabia was the law school, the theolog ical Kumiuury, tho university of rock and sand, from which he graduated for a mission that will hulk seas and drown armies and follow the cloud of fire by night and start tho workmen with bleeding hacks among Egyptian brick kilns toward the pasture lauds that How with milk and tho trees of Canaan drip ping with honey. Gracious God, teach all the people this lesson. You must go into humiliation and retreat and hidden closets of prayer if you are to bo fitted for special usefulness. How did John the Baptist get prepared to becomo a forerunner of Christ? Show me his wardrobe. It will he hung with silken socks and embroidered robes and attire of Syrian purple. Show me his dining table. On it the tankards ablusti with the richest wines of the vineyards of Engedi and rarest birds that were ever caught in net and sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers before the hunter. No; wo aro directly told “the same John had his raiment of camel's hair” —not tho fine hair cf tho camel which we call camlet, but the long, coarso hair such as beggars in tho east wear—ami his only moat was of insects, tho green locust, about two inches long, roasted, a disgusting food. Tiieso insects were caught and the wings and legs torn oil', and they were stuck on wooden spits and turned before tho lira. Tho Bedouins pack them in salt and carry them iu sacks. What a menu for John tbo Bap tist! Through what deprivation he cam<; to what exultation 1 And you will have to go down before you go up. From tho pit into which his brothers threw him and tho prison in which his enemies incarcerated him Joseph rose to be Egyptian prime min ister. Elijah, who was to bo tho great est of all the ancient prophets; Elijah, who made King Allah's knees knock, to gether with tho prophecy that tho dogs would be his only undertakers; Elijah, whose one prayer brought more than three years of drought and whose other prayer brought drenching showers; the man who wrapped up his capo of sheep skin into a roll and with it cut a pat!) through rajrng Jordan for just two men to pass over; the man who with wheel of lire rode over death and escaped irBo tbe skies without mortuary disintegra tion ; tho man wlio, thousands of years after, wai called out of the eternities to stand beside Jesus Christ cn Mount Ta bor when it was ablaze with the splen dors of transfiguration—this man could look back to tbo time when voracious and filthy ravens were bis only caterers. You see John Knox preaching the coronation eermeu of James VI and ar raigning Queen Mary and Lord Darnlry iu a public discourse at Edmburgb ami telling tho French embassador to go koine and call his king a murderer, John Knox making all Christendom feel his moral power and at his burial tbe Earl of Morton saying, “Hero lietb a man who in his life never feared tbo face of man.” Where did Jobu Kuux got much of his schooling for such rc sounding and everlasting achievement: He got it while in chains pulling at tbo boat’s oar in French captivity, tio iau privations and hardships of your life may on a smaller scale bo the pretace and introduction to usefulness and vic tory. isee also iu this call cf Moses that God has a great memory. Four hundred years before be bad promised tho deliv erance of tbo oppressed Israelites of Egypt. Tho clock of time has struck the hour, and now Moses is called to tbo work of rescue. Four hundred years is a very long time, but you see God can remember a promise 400 years us weli as you can remember-100 minutes j Four hundred years include all your 1 ancestry that you know anything about and all tho promise.! made to them, an ! ! wo may expect fulfillment in onr heart and life blessings that wero predicted I to our Christian ancestry centuries ago. i You have a dim remembrance, if any j remembrance at all, c? your groat-prune- i father, but God sees those who wore on I their knees in lh9S us well as tl.c.-e i n their knees in 1898, and tbo Lies mg ’ * he promised tbu former and their <le- ! ecendunts have arrived or will arrive. ; While piety i; not inreuitary it is a I grand thing to kuvo had a pious nuc ;- [ try. So God in Ibis chapter calls op 1 tho pedigree of the people whom Moses i wits to deliver, and Moses is ordered to say to them, “The Lord God of your iu- ! them, tho God of Abraham, tbu God of | Isaac and the God of Jacob, hath tour | mount’.) you.” If that thought; bo di- ! vinely accurate, let me ask, What arc v/u doiug by prayer and by a holy life , for tbe redemption < f tbo next 400 years' Our work is not only with tbe people < f i the latter part of the nineteenth century, but with tiio.se iu tho closing of tbe I twentieth century and tbo dosing of tbu tweuty-fin t century and tbo clos ing of the twenty-second century ami tho closing cf tho twenty-third century. For 400 years, if the world continues to swing until that time, or if it drops, then notwithstanding tho iufiuencoY.il* go ou iu other latitudes and longitudes of God’s universe. No ono realizes how great bo is for goad or for evil. There are brandings out and rebounds and reverberations and elaborations of influence that can not be estimated. The o0 or 100 years of our earthly stay is only a small part i of our sphere. Tho flap of tiio wing of tho destroying angel that smoto tl o Egyptian oppressors, the wash of th ) Ked sea over the heads < f the drowned Egyptians, were a! I fulfillments of prom ises four centuries old. And things occur in your life and in mine that we cannot account for. They may be the echoes of what was promised iu tbe six teenth or seventeenth century. Oh, the prolongation of the divino memory! Worli For the Agrd. Notice also that Moses was 80 years cf age when ho got this call to become the israclitish deliverer. Forty years ho had lived in palaces as a prince; another 40 years he had lived in tho wilderness of Arabia. I should not wonder if h i had said: “Take a younger man for this work. Eighty winters have exposed my health; 8J summers have poured their heats upon my head. Thera a;v 40 years that 1 spent among the ener vating luxuries of a palace, and tutu follow tho 40 years of wilderness hard ship. I am too old. Let me off. Better call a man in the forties or liftieu ul ! not one who has entered up n the eighties.” Nevertheless, ho undertook tho work, and if we want to know whether he succeeded, ask tho abandon ed brick kilns of Egyptian taskmasters, and the splintered chariot wheels strew a on the beach of tho Bed sea, and the timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed over und the Egyptian:* gone under. Do not retire too early. Like Moses you may have your dhiof work to do after at). It may not Lu in the big' piece* of tho field; it iiay not he\v!i < a strong arm and an utiletio foot and :• clear vim m are requirVi, but Ihciti; ■oiriething for you yet to do. Perhaps it may be to round off the work you have already done; to demonstrate tbe pa tience you have been recommending all your lifetime; perhaps to stand a light house at tho mouth of the bay to light others into harbor; perhaps to show bow glorious u sunset may come after a stormy day. If aged men do not feel strong enough for anything else, let them sit around in our churches and pray, and perhaps iu that way they may accomplish more good than they ever did in the meridian of their life. It makes us feel strong to see aged men and women all up and down the pews, their faces showing tbey have been on mountains of trans figuration. We want in all onr churches more men like Moses, men who have been through the deeps and climbed np tho shelled beach on the other side. Wo want aged Jacobs, who have seen lad ders which let down beaveu into their dreams. Wo want aged Peters, who have been at Peutecosts, and aged Pauls, who have made Felix tremble. There .are hero and there those who feel like tho woman of 90 years who said to Fouto- nelle, who was 85 years of age, “Death appears to have forgotten us.” “Hush,” said Fouteuelle, tho wit, patting his finger to his lip. No, my friend, you have not been forgotten. Yon will ho called at the right time. Meantime, be bolily occupied. Let the aged remember that by in creased longevity of tbo race men aro not as old at GO as tbey used to be at 50, not as old at 70 as tbey used to be at GO, not as old at 80 as they nsed to be at 70. Sanitary precaution better un derstood; medical science further ad vanced ; laws of health more thoroughly adopted; dentistry continuing for lon ger time successful mastication; homes and cburcbcs and courtrooms and places of business better veutilated—all these have prolonged life, and men and wom en iu the close of this century ought not to retire until at least 15 years later than in tho opening of the century. Do not put tho harness off until you have fought a few more battles. Think of Muses starting out for his chief work an octogenarian; 40 years of wilderness life after 40 years of palace life, yet just be- ginuiug. There lies dying at Hawarden, Eng land, one of tbo most wonderful men that ever lived since the ages of time began their roll. He is tbe chief citizen of the whole world. Three times has he practically been king of Great Britain. Again and again coming from the house of commons, which ho had thrilled and overawed Ly his eloquence, on Satur day, ou Sunday morning reading pray ers for the people with illumined coun tenance and brimming eyes and re sounding voice, saying: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and iu Jesus Christ, his only Sou, our Lord. Tbo world has no other such man to lose as Gladstone; tho church has no other such champion to mourn over. I shall never cease to thank God that on Mr. Gladstone’s invitation I visited him ut Hawarden and heard from his own lips Lis belief in tho authenticity cf tbo Holy Scriptures, the divinity of Jesus Christ and the grandeurs of the world to come. At his table and iu tbo walk through bis grounds I was im pressed as I was never before, and prob ably will never be again, with tho maj esty of a nature all consecrated to God and tho world’s betterment. In tho presence of such a man what havo those to say who profess to think that our re ligion is a pusillanimous and weak and cowardly and unreasonable affair? Matchless William E. Gladstone 1 Still further, watch this spectacle of genuine courage. No wonder when Moses scattered the rude shepherds he won Zipporah’s heart. What mattered it to Moses whether the cattle or tho seven daughters of Jethro were driven from the troughs by tho rude herdsmen? A sense of justice fired his courage, and the world wants more of tho spirit that will dare almost anything to see others righted. All tho time at wells of com fort, at wells of joy, at wells of religion and at wells of literature there aro out rages practiced, the wrong herds get ting tho first water. Tbosa who have tho previous right come in last if they come iu ut all. Thank God wo have hero and there a strong man to set things right! 1 am so glad that when God has an especial work to do he has some one ready to accomplish it. Is there a Bible to translate, there is a Wyclif to translate it; if there is a literature to be energized, there is a Shakespeare to energize it; if there is an error to smite, there is a Luther to smite it; if there is to Le a nation freed, there is u Moses to free" it. But courage is needed iu religion, in literature, in statesmanship, iu all spheres; heroics to defend Jethro's seven daughters and their flocks and put to flight tbe insolent invaders. And those who do the brave work will win somewhere high reward. Tho loudest cheer of heaven is to he given “to him that overcometb. ” Uow tiod Call*. Still further, see in this call of Moses that if God has any especial work for you to do ho will find you. There was Egypt und Arabia aud Palestine with their crowded population, but tho man the Lord wanted was at the southern point of the triangle of Arabia, aud he picks him right out, tho shepherd who kept tho flock of Ji thro, his father-in- law, the priest ami sheik. Ho God will not find it hard to take you out from tho 1,GOO,000,090 of tho human race if ho wants you for anything especial. There was only just ono man qualified. Other men had courage liku Moses; oth er men had some of the taieuts of Moses; other men hud romance iu their history, as had Moses; other men were impetuous like Moses, hut no other man hud these different qualities iu tbe exact proportion us hud Moses, und God, who makes no mistake, found tho right man for the right place. Do not fear you will bo overlooked or that when yon are wauted God cannot find you. He knows your name, your features, youi temperament and your characteristics, and iu whut land, or city, or ward, oi neighborhood, or house yon live. Ho will not have to send oat scoots or ex plorers to And your residence or place of stopping, and when he wants you be will make it as plain that ho means you as he made it plain that he needed Moses. Ho culled his name twice, as afterward when he called tho great apostle of tbo gentiles be called twice, saying, “Saul, Saul,” aud when he called the troubled housekeeper bo call ed her twice, saying, "Martha, Mar tha,” aud when he called the prophet to his mission he called him twice, say ing, “Samuel, Samuel,’’ aud uow when ho wants a deliverer he calls twice, say ing, “Moses, Moses.” Yes, if God has anything for us to do ho will call us twice by name. At tho first announce ment of our name w’e may think it pos sible that we misunderstood the sonnd, but after he culls us twice Ly name wo know ho means us as certainly as when ho twice spoke tbo names of Saul or Martha or Samuel or Moses. You see, religion is a tremendous personality. Wo all have the general call of salvation. We hear it in songs, in sermons, in prayers; we hear it year after year. But after awhile, through our own sudden and alarming illness or tho death of a playmate or a school mate or a college mate or tbo decease of a business partner or tbo demiso of a next door neighbor, wo got tho especial call to repentance aud a new life and eternal happiness, and wo know that God means us. You havo noticed the way in which God calls us twice? Two failures of investments; two sicknesses; two persecutions; two bereavements; two disappointments; two disasters. Moses, Moses 1 Still further, notico that tho call of Moses was written in letters of liru. Ou tbe Sinaitio peninsula there is a thorn bush called the acacia, dry and brittle, and it easily goes down at the touch of Ihe flame. It crackles and turns to ashes very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these bushes on fire, goes to look at it. At first, no doubt, it seemed to be a botan ical curiosity, burning, yet crumpling no leaf, parting no stem, scattering no ashes. It wau a supernatural fire that did no damage to the vegetation. That burning bush was tho call. Your call will probably come in let ters of fire. Ministers get their call to preach in letters ou paper or parchment or typewritten, but it does not amount to much until they get their next call in letters of fire. You will not amount to much in usefulness until somewhere near you find a burning hush. It may bo found burning iu tho bectio flush of your child's cheek; it may bo found burning in business misfortuue; it may he found burning iu tbe fire of tbe world’s scorn or bate or misrepresenta tion. But barken to tho cracklo of the burning bush 1 Oh, whut a fascinating and inspiring character this Moses! How tamo all oth er stories compared with tbo biography of Moses! From the lattice of her Lath ing house ou tho Nile Thermutis, daugh ter of Pharaoh, sees him in the floating cradle of papyrus leaves made water tight by bitumen; bis infantile cry is beard among tbe marble palaces and princesses hush him with their lulla bies; workmen by tho roadside drop their work to look on him when as a boy ho passed, so beantiful was he; two howls put before his infant eyes for choice to demonstrate his wisdom, tho one bowl containing rubies and tho oth er containing coals of fire. Hufflciently wise was he to take tho gems, but di vinely directed ho took tho coals aud put them to his month, aud his tongue was burned, and ho was left a stammer er all his days, so that ho declared iu Exodus iv, 10, “I am slow cf speech aud of slow tongue;” ou and ou until ho set firm foot among tho crnmbling basalt, and his car was not deafened by the thunderous “Thou shalt not” of Mount Hiuui, tho man who went to the relief of tho Israelites who wero scourged be cause without chopped straw they were required to mako firm bricks, the story of their oppression found chiseled on tho tomb of Roscbere at Thebes, aud when his armies wero impeded by venomous serpents, seut crates of ibises, the snake destroying birds, to clear tbe way so that his host could march straight ahead, thus surprising the en emy, who thought they must take an other route to avoid tho reptiles; the whole sky uu aquarium to drop quails for him aud the hosts following; tbe only man in all ages whom Christ likens to himself; tho man of whom it is writ ten, “Jehovah spoke unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh to his friend;” the man who had tho most wondrous funeral of all time, tbo Lord coming down out of heaven to bury him. No human lips to read the service. No choir to chant a psalm. No organ to roll a requiem. No angel alighting upon the scene, hut God laying him out for the last sleep; God upturning tbe earth to receive the saint; God smoothing or banking the dust above tho sacred form ; God, with farewell and benediction, closing the sublime obsequies of law giver, poet aud warrior. “Aud no man kuowctb of bis sepulcher unto this day.” Get your eye on him, instead of trying to imitate some smaller example. A great snowstorm came on a prairio in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh was lost, but after awhile struck tbe track of another sleigh aud felt cheered to go on, since he had found tho track of another traveler. Ho heard sleigh- bells preceding him aud hastened ou and caught np with his predecessor, who said, ”Where aro you going’;” “lam following you,” was tbe answer that camo back. The fact is that they were both lost aud had gone round and round in a circle. Then they talked the mat ter over, aud, looking up, saw the north star, aud toward the north was their homo, and they started straight for it. Ob, instead of imitating men liku our selves and circling round aud round, let us look up aud take some starry guide like Moses aud follow on until we join him amid the “delectable moun tains.” You say you cannot reach his character. Oh, no. Neither can you reach tho north star, Li.t you cun ba guided by its heavenly pointing. ON TO CUBA! Are You Ready to Answer the Expected Call of Our Government for 400,000 " ? I he men will face greater danger than Spanish Pullets. Cuba has an unhealtbj: climate which none hut hardy, vigorous bodies can resist . YOU may be one of that splendid array: hence, If you wish to avoid a miserable record of sickness, or possibly worse, you should at once put your system In condition to witlr- stand the baneful Cuban climate. If your digestion is disturbed, blood impure, bowels Irregular or you bare malarial germs in your system, take liberal and frequent doses of I’riekly Ash (titters: It is thegroates; system regulator and blood puritier on earth. It cleanses the howels. cures constipation, re lieves Indigestion, vitalizes the hlood. strengthens the kidneys, liver, stomach ami bowels. Its marvelous purifying aud strengthening' pn>|>ert!es will so fortify the body that it will be proof against the germs of yellow fever, malaria oreholera. In short, it keeps the system in pel feet order. Pot a Bottle in Your Knapsack. MONTHLY SUFFERING. # T*housands of women are troubled at monthly inter vals with pains in the bead, back, breasts, shoulders,sides hips and limbs. But they need not suffer. These pains are symptoms of dangerous derangements that can be corrected. The men strual function should operate painlessly. IW| makes menstruation painless, and regular. It puts the deli cate menstrual organs iu condi tion to do their work properly. And that stops all this pain. Why will any woman suffer month after month when Wine of Cardui will relieve her? It costs $i.oo at the drug store. Why don’t you get a bottle to-day? For advice, in cases requiring special directions, address, giv ing symptoms, “The Ladies’ Advisory Department,” The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Teun. •• Mrs. R0ZENA LEWIS, of Ocnavllls. Texas, lays: “I was troubled at monthly interva's with terrible pains In my head and back, but have been entirely relieved by Wine Of Cardui.” WJiMt PU CARDUI The Hot Springs of Arkansas The Mountain-Locked Miracle of the Ozarks. The hot waters, the mountain air. equable climate and tbu pine forests make Hot r-pringstlie most wonderful health and (Meas ure resort in the world, summer or winter. It is owned, endorsed anu controlled I y the IT. 8. Covernmcnt and lias aueemmodattons tor all classes. The Arlington and 1’ark hotels and <iO others and -CO boarding Louse* are open all summer. Having an altitude oflOOOfeetit is a issol. safe and nearby refuge dining the healed term in the souui. For information concerning Hot Springs address ('. F. Cooley. Manager Rusiness Men’s League. Hot Springs. Ark. For reduced excursion tickets and partic ulars ofthetrip see local agent or addles* W. A. Turk, tien’l I’ass. Agt., Southern !!y_ Wa-hington. I). C. Money to Lend on improved farms in York county or Cherokee township adjoining: repayable in easy annual installments. For further, particulars imply to C. F.. SPF.XUEH. Attorney-at-Liivr, 3-24-:imo YoHKViti-K. S. C. Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co., T ! META HLEof tbe Ohio River and Charles ton Hallway Company, conjunct ly will* the South Carolina and Ocorgia Kailioud. SenEUt’i,e in effect May 1st. 1S:k NOHTII nor NIL Eastern Time. SOUTH nor nix A. M. (S. C. A. (i.) p M. Lv. 7 10 CHAIM.ESTON Ar. 2 00 •• r»7 liHAMHVM.LE 1,- 5 5» ” 10 25 KINGSVILLE ** 4 44 (O. lv A C.) “ 12 05 CAMDEN ;i oo ** I K El.SHAW 2 oo - 1 45 LA.NCAS I EU 1 IS) •• '* CATAWHA .1 UNCTION 12 15 - 2 55 HOCK 1111.1. 1! 55 •* ;t :ai YOl'KYll.LE 11 15 ” + 50 HLACKSBUKG ** In It) 5 20 S1IK1.HY ** '.i ao Met ween Hi.ACKstn in; and M.uuo' NOKTH sou 7H BOI'ND. HOI'NU* A. M. p. M. Lv. 7 40 HI.At KSBl'KG A i. e; lo s (0 FA M> Lv. 5 50 “ S 10 PATTERSON SPRINGS •• 5 45 •• !l 20 SI! i.l.l! Y *• : do " !l 45 I.ATT 1 Mol,’ U " 4 2>> *• 9 .Vj MOORKSHOIU) •* 4 It* •• 10 05 HE.MMFT I A •• 56 ’’ 10 25 1 ORES’! CITY •• ’• ill 50 KU I'HERI OI.'DTON *• a <6 •’ 11 15 MILWooD 2 45 ” 11 25 GOLDEN YU.I.EY. 2 2») ” ii ;i5 THERMAL CITY »* 2 15 *• 12 oo GLKNWOOD *• 1 50 - 12 20 MARION ** i no 1* M. p. M. Gaffney Hkamh. NOKTH SOITTII HOUND. HO| nd. I*. .V. IV M Ar. 7 51 111. ACKSBURG Lv. 5 otl - 7 :i5 CHF.IR'KEI FALLS 5 15 1 v. 7 15 GAFFNEY A r. 5 U5 IV M IV M Trains north of Camden run dally except Sunday. Trains between Charleston and Kliu svllle run daily. For Information as to rates. Clyde Line Sailing, etc., call on local contracting and traveling agents of Loth roads, ot * u EMERSON. T. M., L. A S. C. ft (». K. K.. Charleston, S. c r E. E.Cli AY, Traffic Manager. S. H LUMPKIN. Gen’l. Pass. Agent, lllacksht rg, S. C