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THE LEDGER: OAFF*)EV. SEPTEMBER 21), 1898. 5 THE LIMITS OP LIFE. DR. TALMAGE TALKS ON THE DANGER OF HAVING TOO MUCH. t ! he »T«t»»h«l of (Hunt—fn Ifnt A I'M i>4 h SlroDMT aii» R.. **yOt\T Man Hcm-o 44i* IT«5iA* Worry of l Ht'lrkn AitrtwrUu. A 1 ICopyrtsT.t. 183R. by America* r»«*>s Anro- ciation.j WAWimoro^, Kept. 8J.—Frpra a pBHest^e of Scriptare that probotVy ijo othor clergyman ever prv«oli<S1 fpoja Knr. Dr. Tahnago iu thiH dlflcoorse wrts frirrtt a trnth vtry opproprkrto Itfr tbuat who bava nuhealthy ainbitlwi for graat wealtu or fauAv The tuat 1h 1 Cbrod. x*. «, T: “A hi on of grrat etatnro. .whoee fin- gor* and tow were four and twaty, dx on each hand and rSx on each -foot, and ho also was the hob of a giant. Bot, •wh#u ho defied Israel, Jonath.-m, the roti of Kliimea, David’s brother, siewhim. M Malforumtioo photographed, and f«r what reason? Did oct this passage slip hy piirtake into the sacred Scripture*, a* sometimte a pnragwiph nttetly cb- noiions to theedittu: getciato his news paper during his absence? I» not tidi S«r«ptrralerrata? No, no; there wnoth- ing haphazard about th« fiible. TW* passage of Scripture was As oertainly m *oml«d t/j be pat in the Bible k* the verse. "In the beg-rnnlny Gk*! created the h«tvone and the earth," or, "fc>'od so loved the world that h^«T.v« Ub enly begnttep Son." And 1 select it for wy t»« todsy be cause it is charged wnh prwctical and treaiendous njeaujog By tire {/eople of Ded the Phili«Mne« bad been ooiwjeered, •vidtJi tlm exceptfQB of a ghtfife. f He race of giants is mostly evSimA, I era gbid to rtvv ThtTe is no use for giants now except to fKlnwra tii© iawme of imiseune. But tberp wore ruany (rf them In olden tiincs. Gdliatfi T.’m> accord log to the Bible, 11 foot 4^ inches high, or, if you doubt this, tlye famous Pliny declares that at Crete, by an earthquake, a monument wss broken open, di*cover- ing the remains of n giant 4(1 oubite long, or Cl) feet high, ft), whether you take sacred or profane history, join must come to the couqluwon that ttiere were in these times cases of btunau aWtuda monstrous and appalling. The diniit 1« ItlrftoTjr. David hid smashed the sfra.^i e? erf tbeso giants, but there were other giants that the Dsosi/tean vaars had noi yet subdued, and one of thorn stands in my text Ho was not only of Alpine stature, hut had a surplus of dfg>1«B. To the ordinary fingers was anne*«l an additional finger, and tho foot had also a superfluous addrtifhnh. fie had 24 terminations to hands and feet, wheio others have 20 It was not the only in stance of the kind. TaTfirHiar, the learned writer, says that the emptror of Java hud a son endowed with tho f me number of exfeniKHes. VoJqgtfu*, e poet, had nix fingers on tpieh band, auperfuis, in his oeletrratvd 1etJ3«r«, speaks of two families near Berlin sim ilarly equipped of band and foot. All of which 1 can believe, for I have seen two eases of tho same physical super abundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, tho stripling warrior, bad dispatched one giant the nephew cf David slays this monster oi my text, and there he lies after tbe lirt- tle in Gath, a dead giant- Bis rtaUuw did not Kive him, and his superfluous appendices of hand and foot did not save him The probability was that iu the battle his sixth huger on bis hand made him clumsy iu the uno of bis weaMn end bis sixth toe crippled his gait. Bo- hold the prostrate and malforiaed gleet of tho text: "A man of grout stature, whoso fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each baud and six on each foot, apd bo also wa« the bob of a giant But when he defied Israel, Juia* than, tho son of Shimta, Dowd’s broth er, slew him.” [a Tho Common Mon. > Behold how superfluitma are a tjmf- drauco rather than a help! In all the Jxittle at Gath that day t£ere was not a ifian with ordinary hand and ordinary foot and ordinary stature that wr.s not better off than this physical curiosity of my text. A dwarf on the right side U ■Irongor than a giant on the wrong ride, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you oanaotuso for God and tho betterment of tho world is a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and • ter rible hindrance. Tho most Of the good done in the world and the *au£t «f those who win tho battlee for tho right are ordinary people. CWut the fingers, of their right hand, and they have just five—no more and no lew. One Dr. Duff among missionaries, but S,00f) mission aries that would toll you they have only common endow meat One Floronoe Nightingale to nurse »he sick in oetb apicuous places, but 10,000 women who are justasgocftl uurfiwt though never heard of. The "Swamp Angel” was a big gun that during the ertvtl ww made a big doIbc, hut musket? of ordinary caliber and shells of ordinnoy heft d*4 the execution. Proa dent Tyler and his cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experimont with the "Peacemaker," a groat iron gun that wae to affright With its thunder foreign Davies. Tho gunner touches it off, and it explodes and leaves oabiuet ministers dead on the deck, while at fbat time, all up aad down our coastu, were oftonan td ordi nary bore, able to be the defense oi the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world Is big guns. Aitm the peMrictews, whe have made ell the noise, go home bnarpe from angry discussion on the evening nf the first Monday in November, the next day the people, with the nilaut halleta, will sottlo everything and settle it right, 1,000,000 of the whit? slips of parcr they drop making about an tooth dous» as the fall of an apple blossom. Clear back in the otmntey today there are mothers, in plain apron and shoos fashioned on a rough last by a shoe maker at the end of the lane, rocking i babies that aro to be the Martin Luthers a*4 09 B'INens rvivl J Wo Vhs vM Wo fJSfcirftkw'n 3nd tlte tvSuliiuijt^.hs iha! tho OoQrgo Whitcfields of the future. The longer I live the more 1 like c-ymmou folks. They do Dn* world’s work, bearing tho w« ld , b bards**,, trmtfiig fho World’s fftnyatj**- cttjat?thg at^WofitT* couKO- ktrisat Aa infer bsf^*y\v a nep rii j e ap a WioatA da o Wirt \>r a Ifc'Jgkl# i* HaUtWffdl ikd RociefV wtiuld fn t9» !*«** teateiTenr fftlure iVdre aot of oypKkLSu lawyers to spe thaAcgiii itosi fhtor rights. A T4w>*>e * 4 Witlard ^byker risfi? v> etninexAfn t)hi» medical profes- sirav 1M '-Ai# rtuil invited (jwwp Juheria and aenridl Arer fldv to the wqcld if it w* re uui lot ytflwvrnimon dbetorn! The phy^ciU 1* his f#g, driving at* the tooe (Jt tethfitri^rbouiw oy riding nn hRtoahadL, »r> the sa£- |<0' ndhth dhy of (Jto TOe* and <x*xtkM if) to toko Wild of tfy ifota Um; while tho f:\pn- Wy, vcl*h te«i looking on rmd ^grf»fyg‘'F<to hi* j#U*-ioH iu regard to tttr fntknt fiA tofrj-ing him «ajs "TlteSJfe Clod> I a/to d^vred the case; he is goteVg dtoites in me gu adajto«£to)u Ota* tb* mefittan •f too Qt tnetropontan *hf pwsho* if* 1 illnstrioa?i liv- tag u$<> (If toe yrwMtft. rtt« nwotoa af veaiiiu d» toe She in all depEfrf- gient# Puopla nO» saftsfied with ordi- aJbeBrs f*T ordinary dw- t&toafl ot Dftof to spo wlx* they with a tof^l f 11 ®? vmxto Jto Tri.toMd-rt rhAal taidcovin^-if ci «4 4asHi»ai a:vd ^isdal addemlft, they Uxn*M& A e«M*Jh fWm'mu.t o< money fir ttvattliood tu»4 tejr tho supply of TJtotoi vrt teigo tetdvd UM after vtc httoe ^ao^TiiOto is iicjiArtnot, for wjttm' the tf&rK^tfrity for gry- hiif, ®*ft tteat tjj&orfofch not &r \n oW?»L CkRIki of hi? own i« woroe fl:a« an hifldel, ” but tho large and fabulous sums for which many struggle, if obtained, woulff bo a hindrance rather than an advantaga Tho anxieties and annoyances of those uipw ecJMiwt ImVe 1^:00010 plethoric can oaK' by ttorc wtro ijossosj? thujji. U w«t |Ci o good thing when through yw* toiW'try f«>d prosi^erity you oau own the bouse ft» which you live. But xpn -<jKO 41* bouses and you bav^SI TfnrtoT^ifw to (*i^lhct and ail those tenants to please. Suppose you kavv auD in Ixit-vusuccesses njiMl in nhiuufl dVftry fliryctiqn You have frrvev)tr,iefits. The fire boll rings at ru^h wy stiuss to.hx)k out of fha uffn'low to seJ • it is any cf ywur mills. Kpidcmg^cf crime conies, and tfuw ato vtuti ;-/ial ai/sc'oud-- ing in all direcCfi&s, and ytm wonder whethor any of your bookkeepers will e)m«« A paplc ctrikos the v , n’MrfKT' /lv1ti . and you are like a bon under n sky full of hawks mid trying tairh todA ih rt') your own ©vkrgrown chkl«iluji spjiely uiidtr <viug. wutC«« hue htidi roachcd you have to trust so many im portant things to others that you are apt to become the prey of othore. and you are swindled and defrauded, and the anxiety you had on your brow when you were earning your first $1,000 is not equal to the anxiety on your brow now Unit you have won your (jauO.OOO fftnuTMitoJ oamiio. Tfc? toWTlde with noch a ono is he is spread out liko tho unfortunate ono in my text. Yon have more lingers and toes than you kuow what to do with. TwenU* were useful; 24 area hindering Diwraeli ■t«y* frirat a king of Fotond Otrffcoutod hie throne and joined $kj {pq*&&fiud tocamo a portor to carry burdoa*. And soma on® askod him why ho did so, and he replied: "Upon my tWmm, ibo lead which I oast Arif etvtofip tar th^u tho uno you iMh to© "eugh over- to bo pibied, for ■oo uto o*UW r 4*> torigblutst is hrTE a straw whra courpurod to that weight aBdMi«toit£ I htoorerk I have slept more in four nights than I have during (41 QSejBtaCL I Urgju ta Dvo and to ho a king myself. Elect whom you choose. As ttfrtoENt, lam fife Vety tt-wtruld be piadarw to return to court." loodedT ptrsons ought tteeNr wfiMMunmVs uvv real, and their in KOUBta tuA their nervous prostration 11111 imwtoin " I reply that they oould get ton ® the hatkersome surplus by giving it away. If a man has more he ran carry without vexa tion, let him drop a few of them. If his ttrtoton fe»4e great he eaanot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from iototof *» aaoeh, tot him divide with those who have nervous dyspepsia be- vtohMMr eaanot gwt euough. No; they guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the original five. They go limping with t^at they call gout anil Itooto aof tot gkuto of ny taat, to>W use lamed by a aug»Tflaou* toe. A frW of th^> by charities bleed themselvee of this financial obesity and momtav fMhosto bat asany of them hang on to the hindering superfluity ttt feoft. and then, as they are com- pelted to floe the saoaey up anyhow, ia their last will and testament they gen- evoadly pve some of k to the Lord, ex pecting tw doubt that fie will feel very tatift <Mfar4 to dMte Thonk God that once in awhile we feave a Peter Oooper, who, owning an interest in the iron wurha a* Trento*, mad to Mr. Lester: to>. ndl tori faite easy about tho amount toe are making Working un der one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seems to me some thing Wrong Everybody has to ooxao to ns for it, and we are making money too Mto* tot togtoHnoril tho poioe. asrd toil whilo oar philuntlin^lBt wm JortMVu# Xitoper Inofetnto, whbli moth ers a hundred institute* of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wo*t 3. $00 years for Peter Cooper I Doatitbod ttsaeroaltr. komylnd fer the beuevoleat instibn- Ihei g*t a legacy from men who Aistr life were as stingy as death, hut who iu their last will and tostaiituri buetowtd money on hospitals pad mi sioc&Y tocioticfs flat for snflb i I.bjtve no nsrpwt. Tiny wo aid , have tuhon tYoey eurvt of ft. with tiiem if ' they oould emi bought up half of heaven and let it out ut ruinous rent or loaned ; the money to cek“Ptial citizens at 2 per ; cYnt a month and gf>t a "cftsner’’ on harps fyid* Lxpcutf?*. 'They lived in this j woahl ftO er W (Caqhs in the prb^ace to j apirrMiug Og and want aiql aude co etforts ^tu hr afief. The chirittofc of sooli ptrtpfr ar« in the "Patio post j future" They »*• th* ! Tljb Jakitodj^lity is tPvCif oath a o«Xr iu a donation 6> her uevolcnt fivriidSbs taoa to at'uae for M^s M'Hiuie cTejwiietjtdiM'iiK Uh) lieirs at law ; wifl try.tn bik£k tho-wull by pfoviiy? that the old was nmile or cfrwy, gud the ex^wgso of the litigation abc/nl! leave in tfie lawyer’s ba(Kle what was meant for the Bib^e scsijtty. Ob, ya oves^eighted, successful fsisinesB man, ; wheroer tfii*»B«caieMjHicli your cjpr Of , ydhr eyos, let me pay tbut if yau arV prostTati*d with anxietivs about keeping i or inventing these tnsnArndoos fortunes I can tell ycfginjw yen edfi do more to get yocf hdhlth back an4 yoar sjAri^. j mhed than by ^rinkiag gallons Of bad tasting wafcsr at Horatogu, Homhurg or Carlsbad. Gh'« to God, imniunity anfl j the Drble 19 pnr ^ent of all your iu- eo:»e, and it will make a new nmu of 4 yon, and from rootless walking of the Goer at utght you ehall have eigtit beurs’ sle^i withotft th^ hdlp of hro- r rakleof potaiMum, and from no appetite you will hardly be able to wait for your regqiar meal* and yonr wtQr oho^k IvBl fill ui). and. whvn you die A»e hleitsings of -Hjh sc \^io but for yon wduld have r porhLed wiH blowin all over your grave. Perhaps tome of you wtll take this advice, lute the most of you will uc% wid yfw v?Hl tvy to or.ye jjcnr swe-lhto | huad hy on i< moko fiagtrs nn4 , your rbeiHbatie foot by k©-ttiitg oq it hxac ahtd riiojc well bo a sigh df relic In' 1 bou you aro gau'o out of tfee W(rrdv\, anff vTfim over your w-nmius ths> minister nxjftus the words, "Bloasedassi tho dead who die iu the Lord, ” persons who have keen appreciation of tho ludi crous will hardly be able to keep their facts straight But, whethor in that di rection my words do good or not, I nm auxions thnt all who have only ordinary equipment be thankful for what they have and rightly employ it. I think yvm all have, figuratively as well aslltorallt?, fingers enough. Do not long for hinder ing hapestUriKirp. SmndiHg in the pres ence of thhi fallen giaut of my text and in thi? post mortem exUmins.tion of him, let na kani how much better off we (ire with just tho usual hand, the u:-:ur,l foot. You have thanked God for a thonsayd fhjtigs, Irct I war ran $ yyp never thanked him for those t aY) imiif*- mentx of work aed Lo«)»c?ion tout no one hut the infinite and omnipotent G»u? could have ever planned or made—tie hand uud the foot. Only that soldier or tiiut meehifoio Who in a bottle or through machinery has lost thefti knows anything adequately about their value, and o«ly tho Christian scieuflfct cini imv e 9ty {^preciatiou of whht di- vintrmasterpteoes they aro. Tire Hand That VVorVn. Sir Charles Bell was eo impresst'd with the wondrous construction of the human hand that when the Earl of Bridgewater gave if40,000 for essays ou the wisdom and goodness of God and eight book* were written Kir Charles Bell w*oto his entire book ou the wis dom and goodness of God ms displayed iu the human hand. The 27 bones iu the hand and wrist with cartilages and ligaments and phalanges of the fingers all msdo just ready to knit, to sew, to build up, to pull down, to weave, to write, to plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friendly sain tat loa. Tho tips ef it® fingers are so many telegraph offices by reason of their sensitiveness of touoh» The bridges, the tunnels, tho cities of the whole earth, are tho vic tories of the hand. The hands are not dumb, hut ufUm speak as distinctly as the lips. With our hands wo invite, we repel, we invoke, wo entreat, we wring th«n in grkf, or chip them in joy, or spread them abroad in benediction. The malibrniationof the giant's hand in the text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned of Cod more exquisitely and wondrous- ly than any human niechani-sm that wm ever contrived, I charge you to use it for God and the lifting of tho world out of its moral predicament Employ it ki tho sublime work of gospel hand shak ing. You oau see the bund is just made for that. Four fingers jast set right to touch your neighbor’s hand on one Bide, and your thumb set bo as to clinch it ou tho other side. By all its bones and joints and muscles and cartilages and ligaments the voice of nature joins with tho voice of God commanding yon to shake hands. The custom is os old as the Bible anyhow. Jehnsaid to Jehon- nfiab: "Is thine heart right as my heart is with tbioeJheart? If it be, give pie thine hand. ” When bands join in Christian salutation, a gospel eketrieftiy thrills across tfio palm from heart to heart, and from the shoulder of one to the Khoulder of the other. With the timid and for their encour agement, shake hands. With the trou bled in warm hearted sympathy, shake bauds. With the young man just enter ing business and discouraged at the small mU/>s and tho large wpensea, shako hands. With the child who is new from God and started on unending journey, for which ho needs to gather great supply of strength and who can hantiy reach np to you now because you are ao much taller, shake hands. Across cradles and dying beds and graves, shake hands With your ene mies, who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you oan afford to forgive, shake bunds. At the door of the churches where people oopie in and at the door of churches wherfi people go out, shake hands. Let pulpit shake bauds with pew and Kabbath day shake hands with weekday and earth shake hands with heaven. Ob, the strange, tho mighty, tbs undefined, the mys terious, the eternal power of an honest hand shaking I The difference betwem tht\-e times and the millennial times is that now myiTrt: rfr.Ao Imnds, but then all will sl>si'«x» hrvu*.. fluv'ir* and f'rfjt- iiosl, across soar., .nation vvfMi nat'sn, Ood and man. church militant and ; oburek triumphant Tk« [Iruwan Foot. Yfe, the trialfonralinu of this fallen giant’s foot glorifies Jo*' ordinary foot, for which 1 fair you ka\e never once 1 thaukoTGpd. The 2 t> bones of the foot ere the admiration <rt the anatomist. Hie an4i of the foot fashioned with a 1 groee mid a pcWeq that Trajatr’s arch qr 1 (Xir.ws:iti4ie’« arch or any other arch | could utA equal Those arches stanll where they were planteil hut tkic arch ef tin. foot js on abatable .arch, a yielding arch, u flying arqh and ready ^ f<r movements innumerable The hu man foot so fashioned as to enable a man to stand upright at. np oth’er crea- | ture and leave the hand that would wtherwiflo have to help i;i bafaupittg the body free for anything it chooees. Tile foot of the oatnol fashioned fur tbo paud, ! the foot of the bird faHhioued for flie i tree branch, the foot of tbo bind faph- rcued for tho slippery roc*k, the foot of the Ijon fashioned to rend ito prey, the | loot of the horse fashioned for tho solid earth, but tho foot of manmade to cross ' the desi'^t (fr climb the tree or scale tho cliff or walk the earth or go anywhero j he needs to go. With that divine triumph of aoatotqy in your possession v.'hcre.do youValk? In what path of riglitoon»»?ie* or wT.«t p:Uh of sin have you ssUtt down? Where have you left the mark <?f' your foot- *tej)t»? Atni'd tho potrifaotlooe to tke roseks have L-ecn ler.nd tho mtrrk'nf the fcc-t of birds &ik1 beasts of thoesunds of yenra ago. And God oan trfcee out all the footstep* of your lifetmie, and tho« yon made 50 yedra ago are as plain a* tho?e made in the ke*t soft wefttbeu, all of theuvpetrifiixl tor the Jhdfcinwit ^ s y- Oh, the foot I Give me tho natiftiiography of yens foot frhm tha time you slepptHl out pi the eradio until today, a-ud I will tell yo*r ex art ohUrarter ikjw and what aro your prospeote for tho wbrld to como. That there might bo no doubt about tho fact that both these pieces of divine mechanism, hand and foot, belong to Christ’s service both hands of Christ and both feet of Citriet were spiked ou the cross. Right through the arch of both his feet to the hollow of his instep went the iron of torturo, and from tho palm of his hand to the beck of it, and there is not a muscle or nerve or bone anjong the 2.7 Iwnea «f temfl ^td wrist or among the Vi hones of t'ho foot but it belongs to him now and forever. I'tie ife-m’tjr <U' R<-<-% te©. That is tho most t>oar.titol foot that gee^ about jsiths grqatori; usofuin^s, rind that the most beautiful hand that does tie most to help others I was reading of three women in rivalry about the uppouiuuoe of the hand And the one reddened her band with berries and said tbo beautiful tings made hers tbo most beautiful. And another put her hand in tho mountain brook and said as tho waters dripped off that her hand was tho most beautiful. And another plucked flowers oh the l ank, and under the bloom contended that her baud was the most attractive. Then a poor old wunmu appeared, and, looking up in her decrepitude, asked for alms. And a wom an who had not taken part iu the rivalry gave her alms. And all the women re solved to leave to-this beggar the ques tion as to which of all thehaads present was the most attractive, and she said, “The most bountiful of them all is the ono that gave relief to my necessities,” and ns shoso said her wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude and her body dis appeared, and iu place thereof stood the Christ, who long ago said, "Inas much as yo did it to one of the least of these, ye did it unto mo,” and who to purchase the eervico erf cur hand and foot here on earth hud his own Lund and foot lacerated. KIPLING AT GLOUCESTER. Cfotk WVtfh au A1H ('*< <« Knre BtiSH Him w. Whipped the Wrong Kan. An actor who was iu Washington, re cently ou his way to join tho army of stage folk who aro trooping into New York to begin rehearsals played in a Chicago stock company a part of the summer, Bays u writer iu the Washing ton Post. It wasn’t an especially suc cessful company and there were periods when the ghost did not walk for weeks at a time. Tbo actor I speak of is what they oall on the stage a handsomo dress er. He is especially addicted to clean linen, and a day dawned when he found that all his shirts were ut too laundry and he was penniless. Ho went to call on tlx? Chinaman who kept the laundry. In this instance the Chinaman kept the shirts, too, for no threats, no entreaties, no proffers of watches and scarfpius as securities, no argumcota of any kind, mrfiiovd to move him. Ho wanted money. Two whole days the actor endured this state of things. Then salaries were paid. The actor marched tt> the laundry, laid down the money, seized the Chinaman by the collar of his pyjamas, jerked him over the counter and rubbed the floor down with him, kori ion tally, perpendicular ly and spirally. The poor oriental sput tered out a great deal of talk and one front tooth, I believe. A policeman happened to be passing, an eccentric fellow, casually peered iu and asked the occasion of the affair. Tho actor ex plained. “Ah, thin,” said tho offloer sympa thetically, “you'll have to do it over ag’in. It’s not him that kapes tho joint Hop Sing is sick. You’ve been doin np toe wrong man. But, thin, ” consoling ly, “they all needs it." u wwtpAa e boo nr r. Wlien I was introduced to the cap tain, he was seated iu his little shop and surrounded on all .sides hy toy v«s- svls ef various simm ton wm#c ^f hie own hands. A funny little mam was 1 the captain, with a fringe to fliwy whieftrw around hisfhee and.with stub- H by fingers whith aiMued one hy ttrir dexterity with cl* m^dle. But be wax very hospitable, Midi was immediately provided with a ebuir. The juvenile jpioh&rnau by whom I had been introduced wanted the capfain ' to talk, as he bad not ofily a fund of iu- 1 terertiug stories and an iuiioituble way of telling them, but he had a knowledge and command of the English language | that were remarkable. Finally, after a pause, caused by the exertion of threading h& needle, tho captain waved his pipe ia the directum of a square of paper fastened to the wall and said, "Perhaps you’d he interested to read that, miss?” I took it down and read the directions for a model of a fishftig sebooner, very parfiealar directions being given that everything on deck should be perfect to the smallest detail. TUpx-ue article tbut stands out in my memory is "gDvrv butts.” There were a thousand other articles mentioned, but that alone re main* to rise up :md haunt "Gurry kr*«r But when I arrived at the signatuae I exclaimed, “Why, it’s Rndyard Kip ling!” which was a very aheurd remark for me to make, hut I was exoried. "Cf course it is," answered the cap tain, as if I should have known it all along. "Of course it is. Those are the directions for a ship I was to have ninde for kirn so he amid halve ft by hint n\fl he eouM rtffer to it when be was writ ing hi« story, ‘Captains Courageous.’ I had fhe rheumatism 6e hod I otiUkln’t finish it,” he addol. "How did you come to hnrrw kSndl What did he look liko? What did he soy? How did he talk?” 1 asked. My questions didn’t feeze the captain in the slightest. I found out afterward that he was married. "Why, I was here in tho shop, tend ing to some young gentlemen about hw size,” he said, waving hie pipe in th» direction of the juvenile yachtsman, “when three gentlemen came down toe walk u-laughing. Well, they came uud knocked at the door—'they dlcli't oowrt right in, mind you; they knocked—and when I srvu, ‘Come iu, gentlemen, ’ onu to them—he wasn’t Mr. Ki-fjfeig*—rays, ‘Why, we oau’t come in till we know how yon stand en the weiicy (juYsrion, ’ he says. " ‘Well, penth-men,’ I Brjyg, ‘I can’t tell how I stand on the money qneetio* until I know what you want.’ "Well, at that they all laughed, and the jolly one that had done all the (bik ing said, ‘Well, I guess you’re the man we want.’ "Bo in the,y came, and lie introduced me to Mr. Kipling and tho oth** gen- tlenmni. I never raw three jolliw gen tlemen, all the time letting off jokes ou each other and now and then one on mo. "Well, finally they told mo what they came for, which was about my making the boat, ‘just like ono I’d been ou myself, ’ they said. "I said I would if I oould, and I tried good and hard, but I bad the rheumatism so bad I couldn’t finish it.” “W’hat do you—what do all the peo ple of Gloucester—think of ‘Captains Courageous:’ ” I asked. " Why, miss, ” said the captain, lean ing luck in bis chair and waving bs pipe eloquently, "the very first rhaptei of that story was taken and jnst disseob- ed right here in Gloucester, and I will say this much—that it’s fairly surpris ing how much ho does know abwut th* ‘Banks’ and the hfe up these.”—Oqa Philadelphia Ptfsa. Copper Colored Splotches. Thbp© :s onlyone quy iporv»-the^(l£j >b^fe iKififed thi a"•^•^^nVjmnabil f/Jocni toward bott optfx blo<tfk antCc vf&i- $■'&• a.. cu*fa,tr tiwdv* jlixi perman5:-r\6^r^ PMP.rvvtjac'e of th« taint^ • a^rrrl? tgJRx^vg.- tiT a7 fk>/ ‘sme TBe< 't *?U2j Look! A Stitch in Time Siivc'k nlin>. IlDjrhes’ Tonic (new Improved, inse jjlensant). taken In early Spring and I'nil prevent* Ci.ll:s. DetiKue muf Miiliiriul i’ever*. Act* on the liver, toms up the sy*- tem. lietter than (|ulnlne. (•utiranteiMl. Try it. At Druioito*. 50c uud fl.00 bottles. An Old Idea. Every day strengtheua the belief of emi nent phytieiuu that impure blood iv the rauae of the maiority of our diseaMe. Twenty-five years ago thie theory wn» iuksI aw a bnem for tlie formula of Browns’ Iron Bitters. The nmny retnarkublecnreaeffiHted by tiiie famous old hoaMhold remedy an ■ufllcient to prove thet the theory ia correct. Brown*’ Iron Bitten is eoid by all dealer*. “Owly, They IlreuthaF' Our father was u typical officer of the time qf Nicholas I, writes Prince Kropotkin in The Atlantic. Not that be was imbued with a warlike spirit er much in love with camp life. I doubt whether he spent one single night oi his life ut a bivouac ffro or took part In ono single battla But under Nicholas I that was df a quite secondary impor tance. Tho truq military man of those time* was the officer who was enamored of the military uniform and utterly despised ull other sortR of attire, whose soldiers were trained to perform almost inhuman tricks with their legs and rifles (to break the wood of tho rifle into pieoaa while "presenting anus” was one of those famous tricks), and who oould show on a parade a row of soldiers as perfectly aligned and as mc- tionless as a row of toy soldiers. “Very good,” the Grand Duke Mik- had «*M ouw of a regiment after hav ing kept it for one hour moetooless, "presenting arms,” "only, they breathe!” To respond to the then current eoo eeptiou of a military man was certainly my fathar’s ideal UOOD’S Sarsaparilla is the Oni ■ ■ True Blood Purifier, Great Nerva Tonic, Stomach Regulator. To toom sands its great merit Is KNOWN. V - FOR ih hair to fall 5ie» entire system.* ,?»*•*** vfftich fwe Tfas# direct (fie poison Jt trtiBa poet- [■titpfag ous rilaswm. Uirmy boiJU . rate uvrt Irat )t id f»yy vc •VfleriuK 2 Orel fee seed that P.h 14 at) no ,t a bun^rc-t ray. I fhrr foils pateev wi( th*-y dto rd . 8. S. I •was VT(,'*r!T aid Vlriightefl on try a kjgi frailer, matt fly. i regained 'ne^And my fia- *oiQi\^!>t${*riy -of (jUkl ifxrk.S.j. lice of m jjjpineraU 5wld trii* ri yrw j .rtjuih/ Ujv, dr>« n* ftIfi. <> ffufst.i d Vji|i e of 8. S. Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. mi (s H*PrT*w VTcteTAht.®, and ^‘sned y guarantfee- .‘btyevpury, or othe the discab'i? sdtfreefcy Swif: pany, AU£ nta, Georgia. 1 . ■ w the onty agtUain itwral. si L>i Mf*ate p^K^cCoca- Pietafit Saving anil iRmtjnent Cff. Greenville, S/C. iwO:v:x£®. The loan plrm of iliis conipaijy vv ilf t*- found (ar :! < !«■ <li >ii , e;!l ' , i' in ("try vay*l«ae» tin: plans of Bitildiap- & Loan,-. As^oelafiotsK. Our plan i* a dellr.ito c nti «>r <ft youscnvVblc. rati it. l*mus made an a mi roved properljr. J. 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