The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, December 08, 1898, Image 5
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY. S. C., DECE3IBER 8, 1898
FIFE'S MINOR CHORD.
DR. TALMAGE TALKS OF MAN’S COM"
PENSATION FOR SUFFERING.
Thr I’hilosopliy Tlmt < 011101* of FnJtU.
Character Muxt Ho Tent pored l>>-
Flre—Sin Xo Accident In God’w Plan.
RloHMiiiKH Di»trul«e.
[Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Washington, Dec. 4.—In this dio-
conrso Dr. Talninge takes an optimiMtio
view of many things that are usually
accounted as inexplicable in human ex
perience and shows us that even trouble
and ailliction may not he wholly with
out their brighter side; text, Psalm
xhx, 4, “I will open my dark saying
upon the harp.”
The world is full of the inexplicable,
the impassable, the unfathomable, the
insurmountable. Wo cannot go three
steps in any direction without coming
up against a hard wall of mystery, rid
dles, paradoxes, profundities, laby
rinths, problems that wo cannot solve,
hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher,
anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinxes
that will not speak. For that reason
David in my text proposed to take up
some of these somber and dark things
and try to set them to sweet music. “I
will open my dark sayings on a harp.”
So I look off upon society and find peo
ple in unhappy conjunction of circum
stances, and they do not know what it
means, and they have a right to ask,
Why is this? Why is that? and I think
I will bo doing a good work by trying
to explain some of these strange things
and make you more content with your
lot, and 1 shall only ho answering ques
tions that have often been asked me, or
that wo have all asked ourselves, wMle
I try to set these mysteries to music
and open my dark sayings on a harp.
Interrogation the first: Why does God
take out of this world those who are
useful and whom wo cannot spare and
leave alive and in good health so many
who are only a nuisance to the world?
I thought I would begin with tho very
toughest of all the seeming iuscrutables.
Many of tno most useful men aud wom
en die at 80 or 40 years of age, while
you often find useless people alive at 60
and 70 and 80. John Careless wrote to
Bradford, who was soon to he put to
death, saying, ‘‘Why doth God suffer
mo aud such other caterpillars to live,
that can do nothing but consume tbo
alms of the church, and take away so
many worthy workmen in tho Lord’s
vineyard?” Similar questions are often
asked. Hero are two mep. The one is a
noble character and a Christian man.
He chooses for a lifetime companion one
who has been tenderly reared, and ho
is worthy of him aud he is worthy of
her. As merchant or farmer or profes
sional man or mechanic or artist he
toils to educato and rear his children.
Ho is succeeding, but he has not yet
established for his family a full com
petency. He seems indispensable to that
household; but one day, before ho has
paid off tho mortgage on his house, ho
is coming homo through a strong north
east wind, aud a chill strikes through
him, and four days of pneumonia end
his earthly career, and tho wife and
children go into a struggle for shelter
and food. His next door neighbor is a
man who, though strong and well, lets
his wife support him. Ho is arouud at
the grocery store or some general loaf
ing place in the evenings while his wife
sews. His boys are imitating his exam
ple, aud lounge aud swagger aud swear.
All the use that man is in that house is
to rave because the coffee is cold when
ho comes to a late breakfast, or to say
cutting things abont his wife’s looks,
when he furnishes nothing for her
wardrobe. The best thing that could
happen to that family would be that
man’s funeral, but ho declines to die.
Ho lives on aud on and on. So wo have
all noticed that many of the useful are
early cut off, while tho parasites have
great vital tenacity.
TUe Darker Way.
| I take up this dark saying on my
harp and give three or four thrums on
the string in tho way of surmising aud
hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man
was taken out of the world because ho
aud his family were so constructed that
they could not have endured some great
prosperity that might have been just
ahead, aud they altogether might have
gone down in the vortex of worldliness
which every year swallows up 10,000
households. And so ho went while he
was humble aud consecrated, and they
were by tho severities of life kept close
to Christ aud fitted for usefulness here
and high seats in heaven, and when
they meet at last before tho throne they
will acknowledge that, though tho fur
nace was hot, it purified them and pre
pared them for an eternal career of
glory and reward for which no other
kind of life could havo fitted them. On
the other hand, the useless man lived
on to 60 or 60 or 70 years because all
the ease ho ever can have ho must have
in this world, aud you ought not, there
fore, begrudge him his earthly longevi
ty. In all the ages there has not a sin
gle loafer ever entered heaven. There
is no place for Him there to hang
arouud; not even in tho temples, for
they are full of vigorous, alert and
rapturous worship. If the good and use
ful go early, rejoice for them that they
have so soon got through with human
life, which at best is a struggle. And if
jtho useless and tho had stay, rejoice
that they may bo out in the world’s
fresh air a good many years before their
final incarceration.
) Interrogation tho second: Why do
good people have so much trouble, sick
ness, bankruptcy persecution, tbe three
black vultures sometimes putting their
fierce beaks into one set of jangled
nerves? I think now of u good friend 1
onettbad. Ho was a consecrated Chris-
tinjliuan, an elder in tho church, and
us polished a Christian gentleman as
ever walked Broadway. First his gen
eral health guvu out and ho hobbled
around 014 g CPhCjjm t>ld man
1
After awhile paralysis struck him.
Having by poor health been compelled
suddenly to quit business, he lost what
property ho had. Then his beautiful
daughter died; then a son became hope
lessly demented. -Another son, splendid
of mind aud commanding of presence,
resolved that ho would take care of his
father’s household, hut under the swoop
of yellow fever at Feruandiua, Fla., he
suddenly expired. So yon know good
men and women who havo had enough
troubles, you think, to crush 50 people.
No worldly philosophy could take such a
trouble and set it to music, or play it
on violin or flute, but I dare to open
that dark saying on a gospel harp.
Yon wonder that very consecrated
people have trouble? Did you ever know
any very consecrated man or woman
who had not had great trouble? Never!
It was through their troubles sanctified
that they were made very good. If you
find anywhere in this city a man who
has now, and always has had, perfect
health, and never lost a child, aud has
always been popular and never had
business struggle or misfortune, who is
distinguished for goodness, pull your
wire for a telegraph messenger boy and
send me word, and I will drop every
thing and go right away to look at him.
There never has been a man like that
and never will bo. Who are those arro
gant, self conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others and
who think more of a St. Bernard dog
or an Alderney cow or a Southdown
sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man?
They never had any trouble, or tbe
trouble was never sanctified. Who are
those men who listen with moist eye as
you tell them of suffering and who
have a pathos in their voice aud a
kindness in their manner aud an excuse
or an alleviation for those gone astray?
They are the men who have graduated
at the Royal Academy of Trouble, and
they have tho diploma written in wrin
kles on their own countenances. My,
my I What heartaches they had! What
tears they have wept! What injustice
they have suffered! The mightiest in
fluence for purification and salvation is
trouble. No diamoud fit for a crown
until it is cut. No wheat fit for bread
till it is ground.
|
StrciiRTtli From Sorrow.
There are only three things that can
break off a chain—a hammer, a file 01
a lire—and trouble is all three of the u.
Tho greatest writers, orators and re
formers get much of their force from
trouble. What gave to Washington Ir
ving that exquisite tenderness aud pa
thos which will make his books favorites
while the English language continues
to be written and spoken? An early
heartbreak, that he never once mention
ed, and when 30 years after the death
of Matilda Hoffman, who was to havo
been his bride, her father picked up a
piece of embroidery and said, ‘‘That is
a piece of poor Matilda’s workman
ship,” Washington Irving sank
from hilarity into silence aud walked
away. Out of that lifetime grief tho
great author dipped his pen’s mightiest
re-enforcement. Calvin’s ‘‘Institutes
of Religion,” than which a more won
derful book was never written by hu
man hand, was begun by the author at
25 years of age, because of the persecu
tion by Francis, king of France. Fara
day toiled for all time on a salary of
£80 a year and candles. As every brick
of tho wall of Babylon was stamped
with tho letter N, standing for Nebu
chadnezzar, so every part of tho temple
of Christian achievement is stamped
with tho letter T, standing for trouble.
When in England a man is honored
with knighthood, he is struck with tho
flat of tho sword. But those who havo
come to knighthood in tho kingdom of
God were first struck, not with the flat
of tho sword, but with the keen edge of
the scimeter. To build his magnificence
of character Paul could not havo spared
one lash, one prison, one stoning, one
anathema, one poisonous viper from tho
hand, one shipwreck. What is true of
individuals is truo of nations. The hor
rors of tho American Revolution gave
this country this side of the Mississippi
river to independence, and the conflict
between England aud France gave tho
must of this country west of the Missis-
| sippi to the United States. France
owned it, hut Napoleon, fearing that
| England would take it, practically
made a present to the United States—
for ho received only ^15,000,000 for
Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado,
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and tho In
dian Territory. Out of the fire of the
American Revolution came this country
east of tho Mississippi, out of the Euro
pean war came that west of tho Missis-
j sippi river. The British empire rose to
' its present overtowering grandeur
through gunpowder plot ami Guy
Fawkes’ conspiracy aud Northampton
insurrection aud Walter Raleigh’s be
heading and Bacon’s bribery and Crom-
j well’s dissolution of parliament and the
! battles of Edge Hill and tho vicissitudes
of centuries.
Tempered I»y Fire.
So tho earth itself, before it could be-
1 come an appropriate aud beautiful resi
dence for tho human family, had, ac
cording to geology, to bo washed by
universal deluge and scorched and mudo
incandescent by universal fires and
pounded by sledge hammer of iceberge
and wrenched by earthquakes that split
continents and shaken by volcanoes that
I tossed mountains and passed through
the catastrophes of thousands of years
before paradise became possible and the
groves could shake out their green ban
ners and the first garden pour its car
nage of color between tho Gihon and
the Hiddekel. Trouble—a good thing for
t the rocks, a good thing for nations, as
j well as a good thing tor individuals. So
! when you push against mo with a sharp
interrogation point, Why do the good
suffer? 1 open tho dark saying on a harp,
and, though I can neither play an organ
I or cornet or hautboy or bugle or clar
inet, 1 have taken some lessons on tho
gospel harp, aud if you would like to
hear me 1 will play you these: ‘‘All
things work together for good to those
who luveGod." ‘‘Now uo chastening
for the present seemeth to ho joyous,
but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteous
ness unto them which aro exercised
thereby.” “ Weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
What a sweet thing is a harp, and I
wonder not that in Wales, the country
of my ancestors, the harp has become
the national instrument, aud that they
have festivals where great prizes are
offered in the competition between harp
aud harp, or that weird Sebastian Erard
was much of his time bent over this
chorded and vibrating triangle, and was
not satisfied until be had given it a
compass of six octaves, from E to E
with all the semitones, or that when
King Saul was demented the son of
Jesse came before him aud, putting his
fingers among tho charmed strings of
tho harp, played the devil out of the
crazed monarch, or that in heaven there
shall be harpers harping with their
harps. So you will not blame me for
opening the dark saying on tho gospel
harp:
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake!
Interrogation third: Why did the
good God let sin or trouble come into
tho world when he might havo kept
them out? My reply is, Ho had a good
reason. He had reasons that he has
never given us. He had reasons which
he could no more make us understand
in our finite state than the father, start
ing out on some groat and elaborate en
terprise, could make tho 2-year-old
child in its armed chair comprehend it.
One was to demonstrate what grandeur
of character may he achieved on earth i
by conquering evil. Had there been no
evil to conquer aud no trouble to con
sole, then this universe would never
have known an Abraham or a Moses or
a Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a
Christ or a Washington or a John Mil-
ton or a John Howard, and a million
victories which have been gained by
the consecrated spirits of all ages would
never have been gained. Had there been
no battle, there would have been no
victory. Nine-tenths of the anthems of
heaven would never have been snug.
Heaven could never have been a thou
sandth part of the heaven that it is. I
will not say that I am glad that sin
and sorrow did enter, but I do say that
I am glad that after God has given all
his reasons to an assembled universe
ho will bo more honored than if sin aud
sorrow had never entered and that the
uutalleu celestials will be outdone aud
will put down their trumpets to listen
aud it will he in heaven when those
who have conquered sin aud sorrow
shall enter as it would be in a small
singing school on earth if Thalberg aud
Gottscbalk and Wagnei aud Beethoven
aud Rheinberger and Schumann should
all at once euter. The immortals that
have been chanting 10,000 years before
the throne will say, as they close their
librettos, ‘‘Oh, if we could ouly sing
like that!” But God will say to those
who have never fallen aud consequent
ly have not been redeemed, ‘‘You must
bo silent now; you have not thp qualifi
cation for this anthem.” So they sit
with closed lips aud folded hands, and
sinners saved by grace take up tho har
mony, for the Bible says‘‘no man could
learn that song but tho hundred and
forty and four thousand which wore re
deemed from tho earth.”
The Itecoiiipense of Sin.
A great prima donna, who can now
do anything with her voice, told mo
that when sho first started in music her
teacher in Berlin told her sho could be
a good singer, but a certain note she
could never reach. “And then,” sho
said, ‘‘I went to work and studied and
practiced for years until I did reach it.”
But tho song of the singer redeemed,
the Bible says, the exalted harmonists
who have never sinned could not reach
and never will reach. Would you like
to hear me in a very poor way play a
snatch of that tune? I can give you
only one bar of the music on this gospel
harp, ‘‘Unto him that hath loved ns
and washed ns fro n our sins in his own
blood aud hath made us kings and
priests unto God aud tho Lamb, to him
he glory aud dominion forever and ever,
amen.” But before leaving this inter
rogatory, why God let sin come into
tho world, let mo say that great battles
seem to bo nothing but suffering and
outrage at the time of their occurrence,
yet after they have been a long while
past wo can see that it was better for
them to have been fought, namely, Sal-
amis, Inkerman, Toulouse, Arbela,
Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lex
ington, Sedan. So now that the great
battles against sin aud suffering aro
going on wo can see mostly that which
is deplorable, but 20,000 years from
now, standing in glory, we shall appre
ciate that heaven is better off than if
the battle of this world’s sin and suf
fering had never been projected. But
now I come nearer home and put a
dark saying on tho gospel harp, a style 1
of question that is asked a million times
every year. Interrogation tho fourth:
Why do I have it so hard while others
have it so easy, or why do I have so
much difficulty in getting a livelihood |
while others go around with a full |
portemonnaie, or why must I wear thtsa
plain clothes while others havo to push
hard to get their wardrobes closed, so
crowded are they with brilliant attire,
or why should 1 have to work so bard
while others havo 365 holidays every
year? They are all practically cue quea*
tiou. I answer them by saying it is be
cause the Lord has his favorites, and ha
puts extra discipline upon you aud ex
tra trial because he has for you extra
glory, extra enthronement, aud extra
felicities.
That is no guess of miuo, but a divine
say so, “Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth.” “Well,” say some one,
“1 would rather havo a little less in 1
heaven and a little more here. Discount j
my heavenly robe 10 per cent and let ,
mo now put it on a fur lined overcoat.
But me in a less gorgeous room of the
house of mauy mansions aud let me
have a house here in a better neighbor-
fcoud.*' No, no. God is not going torop
heaven, which is to be your residence
for nine hundred quadrillion of years,
to fix up your earthly abode, which you
will occ-jpy at most for loss than a cen
tury, and where you may perhaps stay
ouly ton years longer, or only one year,
or perhaps a month more. Now you had
better cheerfully let God have his way,
fur, you see, ho has been taking care
of folks for near 6,000 years, and
knows how to do it, and can seo what
is best for you, better than you can
yourself. Don’t think you are too in
significant to he divinely cared for. It
was said that Diana, tho goddess, could
not bo present to keep her temple at
Ephesus from burning because she was
attending upon the birth of him who
was to bo Alexander the Great. But I
tell yon that your God aud my God is
so great in small things as well as large
things that he could attend the cradle
of a babe and at the same time the
burning of a world.
Divine Chnittiiicment.
And God will make it all right with
yon, aud there is no song that you will
sing every hour your first teu yhars in
heaven, and the refrain of that song
will bo, “I am so glad God did not let
me have it my own way I” Your case
will be all fixed up in heaven, and there
will be such a reversal of conditions
that wo can hardly find each other for
some time. Some of us who havo lived
in first rate houses here and in first rate
neighborhoods will he found, because of
our lukewarmness of earthly service,
living on one of the back streets of the
celestial city, and clear down at tho end
of it at No. 808 or 909 or 1505, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes, and a cramped one at that, will
in tho heavenly city he in a house
fronting tho royal plaza, right by tho
imperial fountain, or in tho heights
overlooking the river of life, the char
iots of salvation halting at your door,
while those visit you who aro more than
conquerors and those who aro kings and
qneens unto God forever.
You, my brother, and you, my sister,
who havo it so hard here, will have it
so lino and grand there that you will
hardly know yourself and will feel dis
posed to dispute your own identity, aud
the first time I seo you there I will cry
out, “Didn’t I tell you so when you sat
down thero in tho pew and looked in
credulous because you thought it too
good to be true?” And yon will an
swer, “You were right—the half was
not told me.” So I open your dark say
ing of despondency and complaint on
my gospel harp and give yon just one
bar of music, for I do not pretend to be
much of a player. “Tho Lamb which
is in tho midst of tho throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.” But, I must confess, I am
a little perplexed how some of you
good Christians are going to get through
the gate, because there will bo so mauy
there to greet you, aud they will all
want to shake hands at once aud will
all want the first kiss. They will havo
heard that yon are coming, and they
will all press around to welcome you
and will want you to say whether you
know them after being so long parted.
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion
I tell you whose hand of welcome you
had better first clasp, and whose cheek
is entitled to the first kiss. It is the
hand aud tho cheek of him without
whom you would never have got thero
at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling of
the skies, as he cries out, “I havo loved
thee with an everlasting love, aud the
fires could not burn it and tbe floods
could not drown it.” Then yon, my
dear people, having no more use for my
poor harp, on which I used to open your
dark sayings and whoso chords some
times snapped, despoiling the sym
phony, you will take down your own
harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play to
gether those celestial airs, some of the
names of which are entitled “The King
In His Beauty,” “Tho Land That Was
Far Off.” And as the last dark curtain
of mystery G forever lifted it will be
as though all the oratorios that were
ever heard had been rolled into one and
“Israel In Egypt,” and “Jepbtha’fl
Daughters,” aud Beethoven’s “Over
ture In G,” aud Ritter’s first “Sonata
In D Minor,” aud tho “Creation,” aud
tho “Messiah” had been blown from
the lips of one trumpet or been invoked
by tho sweep of ouo bow or had dropped
from tho vibrating chords of ouo harp.
Adjourned to Eternity.
But here 1 must slow up lest iu try
ing to solve mysteries I add to tho mys
tery that wo havo already wondered at
—namely, why preachers should keep
ou after all the hearers are tired. So I
gather up into one great armful all tho
whys and hows and wherefores of your
life and mine, which we havo not had
time or tho ability to answer, and write
on them the words, “Adjourned to
eternity.” 1 rejoice that wo do not un
derstand all things now, for if wo did
what would wo learn iu heaven? If wo
know it all down here iu tho freshman
and sophomore class, what would be
the use of our goiug up to stand amid
the juniors and the seniors: If we could
put down ouo leg of tho compass and
with tho olhor sweep a circle clear
arouud all tho inscrutahlet, if wo could
lift our little steelyards and weigh tho
throne of tho Omnipotent, if we could
with our seven day clock measure eter
nity, what would bo loft for heavenly
revelation? tfo I movo that we cheer
fully adjourn what is now beyond our
comprehension, and as, according to
Kolliu, tho historian, Alexander tho
Groat, having obtained tho gold casket
in which Darius hud kept his rare per
fume, used that aromatic casket there
after to keep his favorite copy of Homer
in and called tho book, therefore, tho
“edition of tho casket, ” and at night
put tho casket and his sword under his
pillow', so I put this day into tho per
fumed casket of your richest affections
and hopes, this promise wortli more
than anything Homer ever wrote or
sword ever conquered, “What I do
thou kuowest not now, but thou sbult
know hereafter,” aud tljaf X yyll the
MATES OF GREAT MEN.
The Wives of Both Disraeli and Gladstone
Were Brave.
Once when Gladstone was making an
ontdoor speech it began to rain. (Quietly
Mrs. Gladstone, with her sweet, moth
erly face, and who always accompanied
her husband, stood up, and, opening a
domestic looking umbrella of the Gamp
species, held it over him. Tho spectacle
W’hich the old couple presented there
standing together was so touching and
appealed so thoroughly to tho good feel
ings of tho crowd, because of the strik
ing picture of Darby and Joan domes
ticity, that when a burly costermonger,
who had been loudest in his catcalls
and hooting of Mr. Gladstone up to
that moment, suddenly shouted, “Three
cheers for the grand old woman 1” every
one responded with a will.
Lady Beaconsfield showed similar de
votion to Gladstone’s great rival on
more than one occasion. She, too, was
devoted to her husband, and many old
parliamentarians recall tho story of how
after having had her hand terribly
crushed iu the carriage door while driv
ing down to the house of parliament
w’ith Disraeli she refrained from utter
ing a cry or from saying a word about
her injury lest his mind should be divert
ed from tho great and important speech
which he was to deliver that night. It
was not until ho reached home and
found the doctor at her bedside that ho
was made awaro that sho had sustained
any hurt.—New York Herald.
Dancing Birds.
Ono of tho majiy strango sights on
tho plains of southern Africa is a party
of waltzing ostriches. Their queer an
tics have been described thus:
“When there are a number of them,
they will start off in tho morning and
after running a few hundred yards will
stop, aud with raised wings will whirl
rapidly round till they are stupefied or
perhaps break a leg. The males pose
also before fighting aud to make their
court. They kuoel on their ankles,
opening their wings and balancing
themselves alternately forward and
backward or to one side or the other,
while tho neck is stretched on a level
with the back aud the head strikes tho
sides, now on tho right, now on the
left, while the feathers are bristling.
Tho bird appears at this time so absorb
ed iu its occupation as to forget all that
is goiug on around him and can bo ap
proached and caught. Tho male alone
utters a cry, which sounds much like
an effort to speak with the mouth shut
tight.”
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poetry its Cheniers, and philosophy
its Descartes.
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Favorite
Silent and Light Running Sewing Machines
And The Ledger for one year. Full de
scription ot maelilue ohii be bud at
this ollli'e.
This iiiaehine is iruarnnteeil for five yenrs
by \l. I.. Alexander, the dealer In IM.mos
and Organs. Greenville, S. F.
Send money pt 1 he Ledger by Express or
Money Order and the nmehlne will be
shipped on ten days trial. If niaelilne In
not HutUfactory we will pay return freight
aud refund the money.
££(JRE rheumatism by hiking:
i lood’s Sarsaparilla,which by neu
tralizing the acid in the blood perma
nently relieves aches ami PAINS.
For Rent —
4-room cottujreon Victoria Avenue.
3-room cottage on Gaines St
ti-roora eottiure near corporate limits wilt*
2Vj acre lot.
Watch —
the expiration of your Insurance Policy
and when it expires call on me and hnvt
it renewed. My companies are strictly
first-class.
For Sale —
2 good farm mules.
F. G. Stacv.
OSBORNE’S
Auaus'a, Ga. Actual Uu-iness. No Text Books.
Short time. Cheap board. Send for Catalogue.
Ohio River and Charleston Railway Co.,
T l M K TA FILE of the Ohiolliver and ( liar lev
ton Railway Company, eonjunctly with
the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad.
Schedule In effect May 16th. 1*98.
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Trains north of Camden run daily ex cent
Sunday.
Trains between Charleston and Kingsville
run daily.
For information as to rates. Clyde Line
Sailing, etc., call on local contracting and
traveling a.-ents of both roads, oj
F,»A- EMERSON. T. M., E. F.ORAY,
S. C. G. li. 1{., Traffic Manager.
Charleston. S. C. Cincinnati. Ohio
S. It LUMPKIN,
Gen’l. Freight and Pass. Agent.
HI neks burg. S. C.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY;
Condensed Hehedate of Passenger Trains.
In Effect Oct. 10, 1898.
Northbound.
Xo.ia
Dally
Ve*.
No. 33
Dally.
No.i8;r*t.Ml
Ex. jNo. M
Sun. | Dally.
Lv. Atlanta, C. T.
7 53 a
12 00 m
4 nr.plll 50
P
'• Atlanta. E.T.
8 59 a
1 09
P
5 85 p
!2 59
•
“ Noreros*
9 39 a
6 2s p| 1 27
B
“ Bufurd
10 n5 a
7 98 p
“ Uaineavill*...
19 35 a
2 22
P
7 43 p
2 20
s
•‘ Lula
10 M a
f2 42
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8 98 j>
2 49
•
Ar. (Ymueita.
11 25 a
f3 99
P
8 35 p
Lv.Mt. Airy
11 89 a
“ Toccoa
11 53 a
3 89
P
3 25
•
'• Westminster
12 31m
* • i - -
4 93
a
“ Seneca
12 52 p
4 15
P
4 22
a
'' Central
1 4<t p
4 52
A
“ Greenville...
2 34 p
5 22
P
5 45
a
“ Spartanburg.
3 87 p
6 19
P
0 37
•
“ Gaffneys. ..
4 20 p
0 44
P
7 15
a
- Blacksburg..
4 33 p
7 99
P
4 »>)
A
" King's Mt
593 p
7 5s
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“ ^•istonia
5 26 p
8 2n
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Lv. e iiarlotte
6 90 p
8 22
P
,
!* 25
a
Ar. Greensboro
9 52 pjl9 43
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:i2 io
p
Lv.Greensboro..
19 50 p
Ar. Norfolk
7 SO a
Ar. Danville . ...
11 25 pAl 51 p
1 85 p
Ar. Richmond ...
0 49 a
6 40 a
•) 25 p
Ar.Washington
“ Bnltm ePRR.
6 42 a
9 35 p
8 03 a
11 35 p
“ Philadelphia.
•• New York...
lu 15 a
12 43 m
2 56 a
ti 23 o
Southbound.
Veit.
No. 37
Dally.
4 iiu
6 &5
9 29
10 43
No. 11
Daily
Kst.Mt
;No. 35
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Lv. S' V..IV N T! mm
“ Philadelphia I 3 50 a
•' Baltimore. . 0 31 a
Washington.. jll 15 a
Lv. Richmond . 12 91 m 12 91 ut 12 luat
Lv. Danville .
Lv. Norfolk
Ar. Greensboro
Lv Greensboro
Ar. Charlotte .
Lv. Gastonia..
“ Kiugs.Mt.
“ Blacksburg
* Gaffneys ..
“ Spartanburg. 12 20
“ Greenville....'
“ Central
“ Seneca .
“ Westminster
" Toccon ..
M Mt. Airy
“ Cornelia.
'• Lula
'• Gainesville .
“ Buford |
“ Noreross
Ar. Atlanta, K. T.
Ar. AtlauUi. C. T. !
2 30 a
1 33
3 25 a
2 18
n oo i
4 15 a f3 IS j
m 3 37 t
4 35
5 25
0 19
a 19
4 55
3 ,V>
NO: ' BOSS NOON TKaIN.
p’iilv Except Sunday.
Lv. A'tlantn, central lime
Ar. N'.r ti es. < utern time
Lv. Noreross,«;.s • tii timo .,
Ar. Atlanta, eetirral time
“A" a. in. “p” ji. m. “M" r.o.ci.
«a
N 14 p) 0 37 a
8 40 p! 7 29 a
9 12 p 7 « a
r- tl P‘ 8 27 a
l ew P| 9 30 a
V ./O pi » 39 a
XT
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2 -M V
2 1 1
m. ••if r.o.ci. "X” night.
Chesnjxn'.to Line Steamers m daily -va-vi.-o
between Norfolk and havtiniore.
Nos. 37 uud3s—Daily. V» nshington ami South
western Vestibule Limited. Tlirongli l'•a:lm t i
•leeping chi's between New York and No i Or
leans, via Wm-hiogton, Atlanta I 1 H< utg tm
erv, aud also bet ween New York ami M nionti,
viuVVashingtou.At' intaand Birmr. •ham. First
class thoroughfui • coarhen Udween Washing
ton and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all meals
en route. Pullmandrnwi'q;-i<H.m sieepuigears
between Greerm’noro and Norfo It. Close n
neetton at Korfrnk forOLD POINT COMFORT
arriving there iu lime for breakfast
Nos. 35 ami 3tt—United States Fast Mail
runs solid between Washington ami New Or
leans, via Southern Railway. A. >V. P. it. R..
and L- As N. K. R.. I cing composed of bagg igo
car and roach'-1, through with 'it ehongo for
pasi.engerf ) "t ail classes. Pullman drawing
room sleeping cars between New York amt
New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery.
Leaving Washington each Wednesday,a tourist
• replug ear will run through lot ween Wash
ington and ran Francisco without change.
Nos. 11,37. .3 and 12—Pullman r.< oplnv ear*
between Richmond and flisrlo'tr. vw bativdie,
toulhbuund Nos. 11 and 37, noun.ioaud No*,
lis and 12
FRANKS. GANNON. J. M.CULP,
Third V-P. * Gen. Mgr., Traffic M'g'r.
V. Mir" u “•». q. &S!M*k 11
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