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f ATTRACTICAIi HELP. ’ REV. DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE CHUF^CH OUGHT TO BE. Th<> ICinlnrnt IMvim- Sh>h lh« Conerr^K* | (ion Hhoulil Sing and That n Few Hymn* | An- Enough—Sermons Must !(<• Simple and Forceful—I’rayer Is Helpful. ^Copyright, 1S98, by American I'ress Asso ciation.] Washington, .Tum-12.—If iK oplotm- | dorst.iod religion to be tho practical re- | enforcomcut that Dr. Talmagc says it is j in this sermon, the number of Christian disciples would bo greatly multiplied; | text, Psalms xx, 2, “Scud then help j from the sanctuary.” If you should ask SO men what tho church is, they would give yon 50 dif- i fereut answers. Ono man would say, “It is a convention of hypocrites. ” An other, “It is iiu assembly of people who feel themselves a great deal better than I others.” aother, “It is a place for gossip, where wolverene dispositions • devour each other.” Another, “It is a place for the cultivation of superstition j and cant. ” Anoi \r, “It is an arsenal | where theologians go to get pikes and muskets and shot. ’ Another, “It is an art gallery, where men go to admire grand arches and exquisite fresco and musical warble and the Dantcsque in gloomy imagery." Another man would say, “It is the best place on earth ex cept my own home. ’ “If 1 forgot thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning!” Now, whatever tho church is, my text tells you what i‘ ought to be—a great, practical, homely, omnipotent help. “Send thee help from the sanctu ary. ” The pew ought to yield restful ness for the body. The color of tho up holstery ought to yield pleasure to the eye. Tho entire service ought to yield strength for the moil md struggle of everyday life. Tho Sabbath ought to bo harnessed to all the six days of the week, drawing them in the right direc tion. The church ought to be a magnet, visibly and mightily affecting all the homes of tho worshipers. Every man gets roughly jostled, gets abused, gets cut, gets insulted, gets slighted, gets exasperated. By the time the Sabbath comes ho has an accumulation of six days of annoyance, and that is a starve ling church service which has not strength enough to take that accumulat ed annoyance and hurl it into perdition. Tho business man sits down in church headachy from the week’s engagements. Perhaps ho wishes he had tarried at homo ou the lounge with the newspa pers and the slippers. That man wants to be cooled off and graciously diverted. The lirst wave of tho religious service ought to dash clear over the hurricane decks and leave him dripping with holy and glad and heavenly emotion. “Send thee help from the sanctuary. ” -S-' Suuctuury Help. ’ In tho first nlace, sanctuary help ought to como frmAhe music. A woman dy ing in England persisted in singing to the last moment. Tho attendants tried to persuade her to stop, saying it would exhaust her and make her disease worse. She answered; “I must sing. I am only practicing for tho heavenly choir.” Music on cartli is a rehearsal for music in heaven. If you and I are going to take part in that great orchestra, it is high timo that we were stringing and thrumming our harps. They tell us that Thalberg and Gottschalk never would go into a concert until they had lirst in private rehearsed, although they were such masters of the iiistrumeut. And can it be that we expect to take part in the great oratorio of heaveu if wo do uot rehearse here? But i am not speaking of the next world. Sabbath song ought to set all the week to music. Wo want uot mure harmony, not more artistic expression, but more volume in our church music. Tho English' dissenting churches far surpass our American churches iu this respect. An English audience of 1,000 people will give more volume of sacred song than an American audience of 2,000 peopla I do uot know what the reason is. Oh, you ought to have heard them sing in Surrey chapel! I hud the opportunity of preaching tho anniver sary—1 think the ninetieth anniversary —sermon iu Rowland Hill’s old chapel, and when they lifted their voices in sacred song it was simply overwhelm ing, and then,iu the evening of the same day, iu Agricultural hall, many thousand voices lifted in doxology. It was like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of many thuuderiugs and like the voice of heaven. The blessing thrilled through all the laboring throng, And heaven was won by violence of song. Now, I am no worshiper of noise, but I believe that if our American churches would with full heartiness of soul and full emphasis of voico sing the songs of Zion, this part of sacred worship would have tenfold more power than it has now. Why not take this part of tho sacred service and lift it to where it ought to be? All the annoyances of life might be drowned out by that sacred soug. Do yon tell me that it & not fashionable to sing very loudly? Then, 1 say, away with tho foshiou. Wo dam back tho great Mississippi of cougrega- tioual singing and let a few drops of melody trickle throngh tho dam. I say take away the dam and let tho billows roar on their way to tho oceanic heart of God. Whether it is fashionable to slug loudly or uot, let us sing with all possible emphasis. Mnal« In th* Church. We hear a great deal of the art of singing, of music as an entertainment, of mnsic as a recreation. It is high time wo heard something of masie as a help, a practical help. In order to do this, we most have ouly a few hymns. New tunes and new hymns every Sunday make poor congregational singing. Fif ty hxuus are enough for 60 years. The Episcopal church prays Ure same prayers every Sabbath aqd year after year and ceutnry after century. For that reason they have the hearty responses. Let os THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY. S. r., JUNE 1<», 1898. trke a hint from that fact and let as sing the sanio songs Sabbath after Sab bath. Ouly iu that way can \vc como to tho full force of this exercise. Twenty thousand years will not w<?ur out the hymns of William Cowper, Charles We-b y .md Isaac Watts. Suppose i*>\v each person in an audience has brought all the annoyances of tho last ;](i5 days. Fill the room to the ceiling with sacred n»iig, and you would drown out all those annoyances of the last :Jt'.5 days, and you would drown them out forever. Organ and cornet are only to marshal the voice. Let the voice fall into lino and in companies and in battalions by storm take the obduracy and sin of tho world. If yon cannot sing for yourself, sing for others. By trying to give oth ers good cheer, you will bring good cheer to your own heart. When Londonderry, Ireland, teas be sieged many years ago, tho people inside the city were famishing and a vessel came up with provisions, but tho vessel ran on tho river bank and stuck fast. The enemy went down with laughter and derision to board the vessel, when the vessel gave a broadside lire against the enemy and by tho shock was turned back into tho stream and all was well. Oh, ye who are high and dry on the rocks of melancholy, give a broadside fire of song against your spiritual cno- mics, and by holy rebound yon will oome out into the calm waters. If wo want to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy. Mythology tells us of Amphion, who played his lyre until the mountains were moved and the walls of Thebes arose, but religion has a mightier story to tell of how Christian song may build whole temples of eter nal joy and lift tho round earth into sympathy with the skies. A n»-uv»-nly Clock. I tarried many nights iu London, and I used to hear the bells, the small bells of tho city, strike the hour of night—1, 2, 3, 4—and among them the great St. Paul’s cathedral would comeiu to mark the hours, making all the other scuuds seem utterly insignificant as with mighty tongue it announced the hour of tho night, every stroke an overmaster ing boom. My friends, it was intended that all the lesser sounds of the world should be drowned out in tho mighty touguo of congregational song boating against the gates of heaveu. Do you know how they mark the hours in heaven? They have no clocks, as they have no candles, but a great pendulum of halleluiah swinging across heaveu from eternity to eternity. Let those refuse to King Who never knew our God. But children of the Heavenly King Khould speak their joys alumni. Again, I remark that sanctuary help ought to come from the sermon. Of 1,000 people in any audience how many want sympathetic help? Do you guess 100? Do you guess 500? You have guessed wrong. I will tell you just tho proportion. Out of 1,000 people in any audience there are just 1,000 who need sympathetic help. These young people want it just as much as the old. Tho old people sometimes seem to think they have a monopoly of tho rheumatism, and tho neuralgias, and tho headaches, and the physical disorders of the world, but I tell you there are uo worse heart aches than are felt by some of tho young people. Do you know that much of tho work is done by the young? Raphael died at 37, Richelieu at Sl.^ustayus Adolphus died at 58, Innocent Til came to his mightiest influence at 37. Cortes conquered Mexico at 30, Don Jefhn woA Lcpanto at 25, Grotius was attonuoy general at 24, and I have noticed*amid all classes of men that some of the se verest battles and the toughest work come before 30. Therefore we must have our sermons and our exhortations in prayer meeting all sympathetic with tho young. And so with these people farther on in life. What do these doc tors and lawyers and merchants and mechanics care about tho abstractions of religion? What they want is help to bear the whimsicalities of patients, the browbeating of legal opponents, the un fairness of customers who have plenty of fault finding for every imperfection of handiwork, but no praise for 20 ex cellences. What dues the brain racked, hand blistered man care for Zwiugli’s “Doctrine of Original Sin” or Augus tine’s “Retractions?” You might as well go to a man who has the pleurisy and put on his side a plaster made out of Dr. Parr’s “Treatise ou Medical Ju risprudence. ” Divine Freocriptlon. While all of a sermon may not bo helpful alike to all, if it be a Christian sermon, preached by a Christian man, there will bo help for every one some where. Wo go into an apothecary’s store. Wo see others being waited on. We do not complain because wo do not immediately get the medicine. We know our turn will come after awhila And so while all parts of a sermon may not be appropriate to our case, if we wait prayerfully before tho sermon is through we shall have tho divine pre- scriptiou. 1 say to young men who are going to preach the gospel, we want iu our sermous not more metaphysics, nor more imagination, uor more logic, nor more profundity. What wo want in our sermons and Christian exhortations is more sympathy. Wheu Fatbci^Tay- lor preached iu tho Sailors' Bethel at Boston, the Jack Tars felt thcy*liud help for their duties among tho ratlines and the forecastles. When Richard Weaver preached to tho operatives iu Oldham, England, all the workmen felt^bey had more grace for the spindles. When Dr. South preached to kings and princes and princesses, all the mighty men and women who heard him fell preporatiou for their high station. People will uot go to church merely as a matter of duty. There will not next Sabbath bo 100 people in this city who will get'up in the morning and say: “The Bible says 1 must go to church. It is-my duty to fco to church, therefore I will go to church. ” The vast multitude of people who go tojjbuech, go to church beoauso they like it, and tho multitude of people who stay away from church stay away because they do not like it I am not speaking about tho way tho world ought to be. I am speak ing about the way the world is. Taking things as they are, wo must make the centripetal force cf tho church mightier than the centrifugal Wo must make our churches magnets to draw tho peo ple thereunto, so that a man will feel uneasy if he does not go to church, say ing: “I wish I had gone this morning. I wonder if I can’t dress yet and get there in time. It is 11 o’clock; now they are singing. It is half past 11; now they aco preaching. I wonder when the folks will be home to tell us what was said, what has been going ou. ” When the impression is confirmed that our churches, by architecture, by music, by sociality anil by sermon, shall be made the most attractive places on earth, then wo will want twice as many churches as we have now, twice as large, and then they will not half accommodate the people. Forceful Religion. I say to the young men who are en tering the ministry wo must put on more force, more energy and into our religious services more vivacity if wo want the people to come. You look into a church court of any denomination of Christians. First you will find the men of large common sense and earnest look. The education of their minds, tho piety of their hearts, tho holiness of their lives qualify them for their work. Then you will find in every church court of every denomination a group of men who utterly amaze you with the fact that such semi-imbecility can get any pulpits to preach in. Those ai’e the men who give forlorn statistics about church decadence. Frogs never croak in run ning water, always in stagnant. But I say to all Christian workers, to all Sun day school teachers, to all evangelists, to all ministers of tho gospel, if we want our Sunday schools, and our prayer meetings, and our churches to gather tho people wc must freshen up. The simple fact is the people are tired of the humdrum of religionists. Reli gious humdrum is the worst of all hum drum. You say over and over again, “Come to Jesus,” until tho phrase moans absolutely nothing. Why do you uot tell them a story which will make them come to Jesus in five minutes? You say that all Suuday school teachers and all evangelists and all ministers must bring their illustrations from tho Bible. Christ did not wheu ho preach ed. The most of tho Biblo was written before Christ’s time, but where did ho got his illustrations? He drew them from the lilies, from the ravens, from salt, from a candle, from a bushel, from loug faced hypocrites, from gnats, from moths, from large gates and small gates, from a camel, from the needle’s eye, from yeast iu the dough of bread, from a mustard seed, from a fishing net, from debtors and creditors. That is the rea son multitudes followed Christ. His il lustrations were so easy and so under standable. Therefore, my brother Chris tian worker, if you and I find two illus trations for a religious subject, and tho one is a Biblo illustration and the other is outside the Bible, I will take the lat ter because I want to bo like my mas ter. Looking across to a hill, Christ saw tho city of Jerusalem. Talking to the people about the con- spicuity of Christian example, he said: “The world is looking at you. Be care ful. A city that is .h* on a hill cannot be hid. ” While he was speaking of the divine care of God’u children a bird flew past. * He said, “Behold tho ravens.” Then looking down into the valley, all covered at that season with flowers, he said, “Consider the lilies." Oh, my brother Christian workers, what is tho use of our going away off in some ob scure part of history or ou tho other side of tho earth to get an illustration when the earth and the heavens are full of illustrations? Why should wo go away off to get amllustratiou of the vicarious suffering^ of Jesus Christ wheu as near us as Bloomfield, N. J., two little childreu were walking on the rail track, and a train was coining, but they were on a bridge of trestle work, and the little girl took her brother and let him down through the trestlework as gently as she could toward the wa ter, very carefully and lovingly and cautiously, so that he might not be hurt in the fall and might bo picked up by these who were standing near by? While doing that the train struck her, and hardly enough of her body was left to gather into a funeral casket. What was that? Vicarious suffering. Like Christ. Pang for others. Woe for others. Suf fering for others. Death for others. Help In Frayer. What is tho use of our gofng away off to find an illustration iu past age wheu during tho great forest fires iu Michigan a mail carrier ou horseback, riding ou, pursued by those fiunies which had swept over 100 miles, saw an old man by tho roadside, dismounted, helped tho old man ou tho horse, saying, “Now whip up aud get away?” The old man got away, but the mail carrier perished Just like Christ dismounting from the glories of heaven to put us ou tho way of delivtranee, then fulling hack into the flames of sacrifice for others. Pang for others. Woo for others. Death for others. Vicarious suffering. Again, I remark that sanctuary help ought to como through tho prayers of all tho people. The door of the eLmal storehouse is hung ou one hinge, a gold hinge, the hhigu of prayer, and when the whole audience lay hold of thnt door it must t^ome open. There a:e many people spending their first Sab bath after some great bereavement. What will your prayer do for them? How will it help the tomb in that man’s heart? Hero are people who have not been in church before for teu years. What will your prayer do for them by rolling over their soul holy memories? Here are people -in crises of awful temp- tatiou. They are on tho verge of despair or wild blundering or theft or suicida What will your prayer do for them in the way of giving them strength to re sist? Will you be chiefly anxious about the fit of tho glove that yon put to your forehead while you prayed? Will you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric of the pastor’s petition? No. no. A thou sand people will feel, "That prayer is for me, ” and at every step of the prayer chains ought to drop oil, and temples of sin ought tocrash intodnst, and jubili es of deliverance ought to brandish their trumpets. Iu most of our churches we have three prayers—the opening pray er, what is called the “loug prayer” and the closing prayer. There are many people who spend their first prayer in arranging their apparel alter entrance aud spend the second prayer, the “long prayer, ’’ in wishing it were through and spend the last prayer in preparing to start for home. The most insignifi cant part of every religious service is the sermon. The more important parts arc the Scripture lesson and the prayer. The sermon is only a man talking to a man. The Scripture lesson is God talk ing to man. Prayer is man talking to God. Oh, if wo understood the grandeur and the pathos of this exercise of pray er, instead of being a dull exercise, we would imagine that the room was full of divine and angelic appearances. Church Must Frogrcus. But, my friends, tho old style of church will not do the work. We might as well now try to Like all tho passen gers from Washington to New York by stagecoach, or all the passengers from Albany to Buffalo by canal boat, or do all the tattling of the world with bow aud arrow, as with the old style of church to meet the exigencies of this day. Unless the church in our day will adapt itself to the time it will become extinct. Tho people reading newspapers aud books all the week, in alert, pictur esque aud resounding style, will have no patience with Sabbath humdrum. We have no objection to bands and sur plice and all the paraphernalia of cler ical life, but these things make uo im pression—make no more impression on the great masses of the people than tho ordinary business suit that you wear ou Pennsylvania avenue or Wall street. A tailor cannot make a minister. Some of the poorest preachers wear the best clothes, and many a backwoodsman has dismounted from tho saddlebags, aud iu bis linen duster preached a sermon that shook earth and heaven with its Christian eloquence. No new gospel, only the old gospel iu a way suited to tho time. No uew church, but a church to bo tho asylum, tho iuspiratiou, tho practical sympathy and tho eternal help of tho people. But while half of tho doors of the church aru to be set open toward this world the other half of tho doors of tho church must be set open toward tho next. You aud I tarry here only a brief space. We want somebody to teach us how to get out of this life at the right time and in tho right way. Some fall out of life, some go stumbling out of life, some go groaning out of life, some go cursing out of life. Wo want to go singing, rising, rejoicing, triumphing. We want half the doors of tho church set iu that direction. Wo want half tho prayers that way, half the sermons that way. Wo want to know how to get ashore from tho tumult of this world into tho land of everlasting peace. W o do not want to stand doubting and shiv ering when wo go away from this world. Wo want our anticipations aroused to the highest pitch. Jvbus Leiuls. We want to have the exhilaration of a dying child iu England, the father telling me tho story. Wheu ho said to her, “Is the path narrow?" she answer ed: “Tho path is narrow. It is so nar row that I cannot walk awn in arm with Christ, so Jesus goes ahead, and ho says, ‘Mary, follow.’ ” Through tho church gates set heavenward how many of your friends and mine have gone? The last time they were out of tho house they came to church. The earthly pil* grirtiugo ended at the pillar of public worship, and then they marched out to a bigger and brighter assemblage. Some of them were so old they could not walk without a cauo «r two crutches. Now they have eternal juvenesceaco. Ur they wero so young they could not walk except us tho maternal hand guided them. Now they bound with tho hilari ties celestial. Tho last time we saw them they were wasted with malarial or pulmouic disorder, but now they have no fatigue and no difficulty of res piration in tho pure air of heaven. How I wonder wheu you and 1 will cross over I Some of you have had about euough of the thumping aud flailing of this life. A draft from tho fountains of heaven would do you good. Complete release you could stand very well. If you got ou the other side and had per mission to come back, you would uot come. Though you were invited to come back and join your friends on earth, you would say: “No, let mo tar ry hero until they come. 1 shall uot risk going back. If a man reaches heaven, he had better stay here.” join hands with you in that uplifted splendor 1 When tho shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past? In Freyburg, Switzerland, there is the trunk of a tree 400 years old. That tree was planted to commemorate an event About teu miles from the city tho Swiss conquered the Burgundians, aud a young man wanted to take tho tidings to tho city. He tank a tree branch and ran with such speed tho teu miles that when ho reached tho city waving the tree branch he had only strength to cry, “Victory!" and drop ped dead. The tree branch that ho car ried was plantod, and it grew to be u great tree 20 feet in circumference, and tho remains of it are there to this day. My hearer, wheu yon have fonght your last battle with sin and death mid hell, and they have been routed in the con flict, it W’ill bo a joy worthy of celebra tion. You will fly to the city and cry, “Victory!” and drop at the feet of tho great King. Then the palm branch of the earthly race will be planted to be come tho outhrauching tree of everlast ing rejoicing. When ahull theue cyea thy heaven buflt walls And puarly Knt«m behold, Thy bulwurku with ynlvutlon etrong Aud uUtwM of utun.ng gold 7 To Prevent Iron Rust. Among the new aud useful metallur gical processes of note the San Francis co Scientific Press speaks of one by which iron may bo effectively protected from rust. In this a solution of fensjey- anido is mixed with a flaxseed varnish, to which has been added a small quan tity of turpentine or benzol. The evap oration of the alcohol leaves the flaxseed varnish, which forms a coat and pro tects tho cyanide of iron, the same being deposited upon the metal by the use of the ferrocyauide, the only preparation required by iron for such treatment be ing the removal of jany rust that may have formed on it not admitting of the action of such a solution. Another proc ess of interest to workers in metallurgy is that of substituting the use of man ganese for German silver, the different metals and their proportions being as follows: Copper, 07.25 per cent; man ganese, 18.50 per cent; zinc, 18 per cent; aluminium, 1.25 per cent, tho color of this metal closely resembling German silver, being also fully as strong as tho best quality of the latter and possessing superior adaptation for casting. France and Depopulation. While European Russia will need ouly 45 years or so, Germany about 05 years, Austria-Hungary 70 years, Eng land 80 years, Italy 110 years, it will take France over 800 years to double its population! What signifies tho loss of Alsace-Lorraine’s 1,500,000 souls com pared with the loss France suffers every day? In the last five years the German population has increased by 8,000,000, who are every one fully German; France, meauwhile, has increased her people by only 175,000, who are not even of French nationality. The in crease of a nation is of the utmost im portance to^he success of its country. It has meant much in the nineteenth century; it will mean more in the twen tieth. England, Germany, aye, even Italy, have millions of representatives ou foreign soil;France has none, or ton few to signify. The Gallic race has Mt it aud will in the future learn more bitterly still the truth of tho proverb, “The absent are ever iu the wrong. ”— Humanitarian. Dr. Miles 9 Heart Cure Cures a Hrominent Attorney. Forest Veterans. The largest British oak is the Major or Queen oak, iu Sherwood forest (where Robin Hood and his merry out laws shot the king’s deer aud robbed the rich aud helped the poor and held their revels ’neath the greenwood tree), and is supposed to bo one of a forest planted 1,500 years ago. Tho isle of Man lias the largest fuchsia tree iu the world and it constitutes one of tho notable sights of Ramsey. England’s largest willow tree ou record was grown at Borcham, Essex, aud the smallest Brit ish trees are tho two inch dwarf wil lows of Ben Lomond, Clwnag, whose orthography proclaims the laud of the leek, boasts of a tree without roots, and tho eldest trees iu Britain are the fa mous Bentley and Wiufartbing oaks, which were two centuries old wheu William the Conqueror’s oak at Wind- stir burst from its acorn.—Philadelphia Record. liar Advice. There wero two women saying good- by at the corner. (Jno was round and plump and healthy, tho other was thin mid apparently ill. It was evident that wo one who was uot iu health had been telling her troubles to the one who had probably never been in any^other state, and she was receiving sympathy and advice so cheerfully given that uo pass er could fail to overhear it. “There, goodby,” said the well one, “and don’t take any medicine. You are perfectly well, you know, and God is love.”—Boston BudireL Little Pimples Tum to Cancer. Cancer often results from an im purity in the blood, inherited from generations back. Few people are en tirely free from some taint in the blood, md it is impossible to tell when it will break out in the form of dreaded Can cer. What has unpeured tf> be a mere pimple or scratch has developed into tho most mahgnant dancer. “I had a severe Cancer whl?h was st first 9nly a few Mutches, that 1 thought would Boon psss away. 1 way treated by severul able physicians, bnt In spite of the* 1 efforts the Oan- cerspread until my con dition bccamealarmlng. After ninny months of treatment and growing steadily worse. I de cided to try 8. 8. 8. which wa« so strongly recommended. The first bottle produced an Im provement. 1 continued tb« medicine, and In four months the last llt- tle scab dropped off. Ten years have elapsed, lad not a sign uf the disease has returned.” R. F. Wir.t.iaMS, tiillsberg, Miss. It is dangerous to experiment with Cancer. The disease is beyond the skill of physicians. 8. 8. 8. is tho only cure, because it is tho only remedy which goes deep enough to reach Cancer. SS.S.'ft. Blood (Swift’s Specific) is the only blood remedy guaranteed Purely Vegetable. All others contain potash and mer cury, the most dangejous of minerals. Boohs on Cancer and blood diseases mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Vim M ‘ ** YS R. R. C. PHELPS, tho leadingpensioa attorney of Belfast, N. Y., writes; “I was discharged from the army oa account of ill health, and suffered frosk heart trouble ever since. I frequently had fainting and smothering spoils. My form was bent as a man of ?0. I constantly wore an overcoat, even in summer, for fear at taking cold. 1 could not attend to my busi ness. My rest was broken by severe pain« about the heart and left shoulder. Three years ago I commenced using Dr. Milet^ Heart Cure, notwithstanding I had used much patent medicine and taken drugs from doctors for years without being helped. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure restored me to health. It is truly a wouderful medicine aud It affords me much pleasure to recommend this rem edy to everyone.” Dr. Miles' Remedies I are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re funded. Book on dis eases of the heart and | nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, lad. Dr. Mile#* CLINE BROS. & CO., Livery Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. First-class turnouts; prompt attention^ and courteous attendants. tsr-w e solicit your patronage. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. The State of South Cauoi.ixa. / County ofciikeokfi:. i - Office of I’kouate Judge. \ Whfreas. .1. En. Jefferies, as (Mi rk of Court has made suit to me. to grant him letters of ad min 1st ration oft he est ate of and effects of Charles U. Webber. s,*. »r . —i These are there fore to cite and adtnonisb all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Charles G. Webber, deceased, that they be and appear before me. In the Court of Probate, to be held at Gaffney City. &. (Cherokee Court. House) on Wednesday, .Tuly20tli next, after publication thereof, at II o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why tin-said udministrar- tion should not bo granted. Given under my hand, t his 7t li day of June^ Anno Domini, Is 1 .#. J. E. Webster, •W-fit Probate Judge. CREIGHTON & MARTIN, -CONTRACTORS FOR — Tubular Wells For Domestic or Boiler Use, -- -- ^ REPRESENTED BY W. C. MARTIN. -=j Any persons wishing to see one of tli«~s« wells at work will please eal! at .1. C. Lip scomb's residence, as Ids is open to inspec tion of visitors. Mr. Lipscomb will also give any in format ion concerning cost etc. of same DR.' J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 2(>th of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday morning each week, returning to office ut 2:30 T. E. McGEHEE, Contractor and Builder, GAFFNEY, S. C. Plans and specifications furnished on ap plication. Good building material furnislierfi promptly and at reasonable prices. 4-7-Jab Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co.^ T 1 META BliE of the Ohio River and Charles ton Railway Company, conjunetly with, the South Carolina and Georgia Uailioad. SCIIKDI I.F in effect May Hith. Is w. N |!ouxn. I Eastern Time. SOUTH nou.vn. ■t! A. M (S. e. k. G.) **• M. Lv. 7 10 (TIARLKSTON Ar. 8 INC •• I) (XI BRANCHVILLE •• 5 4f *• 10 10 KINGSVILLE 4 a r M (O. R. & C.) F M- *• 12 Of, CAMDEN 2 33 •• 1 or, KERSHAW «* 1 J* •• 1 rxi LANCASTER •* 12 ** l> :mi CATAWBA .U NCTION •• 12 «• •• • > f,.» ROCK HILL •• It 44 ** U YORK VILLE 44 11 04 •• 4 :tr» BLAt KSBI RG *• 10 Mt • 4 5 if EARLS • 4 <) *• •• 1.0 PATTERSON SPRINGS •* !! A 44 « INI SHELBY *• o to •• « 40 LATH MO RE *4 8 & • 4 t !V> Mot IRES BoKO ** 8 It *• — 10 HENRIETTA ** 7 M *• 7 lift FOREST CITY • « 7 » •• h 10 RUTHKRFORDTON ** »« 8 :«» Mil.Wool* 4* ii £ ** 8 85 GOLDEN VALLEY. * 4 «> It •* 11 IX) THERMAL< TTY * 4 •i <6 •• 0 ■::< GLENWOOD *• 5 4t Ar. u 0 u 50 MARION Lv. A r, a Gaffney Hkanch. nokth BOUND. SOUTH nouNb. p. Ar. M. 7 50 KLACKSHCKG i r. h. i Lv. » m 7 :ii CHEROKEE 1 ALLS 1 •• 5 a Lv. 7 15 GAFFNEY Ar. 5 3* p. M. 1 1'. M Trains north of Cumib'ii run dally eseopt Sunday. Trains lietween Charleston and KingsvIDa run dully. For in format Ion as to rates, Clyde : Ll»e ^ailing, etc., call on local conlrunlng 1 and i raveling agents of both roads, m L. A. EMERSON. T. M., K. 7 .GRAY. 8. C. (i G. 11. U.. Traffic Manager. Charleston. H. C. < Jnclniiut). Ohio.. S. It Lt'.MPK I N. Gen'l. Freight aud Pass. Agent HUcksbirg, S. C.