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i THE LEUGEU: GAFFNEY, S. C., DECEMBER 29, 1898. THE CRADLE OF JESUS TARGET FOR EARTHLY AND DIABOLIC HOSTILITIES. Peril* of flio Xetrltorn Snvtonr the Sul>jeet of Hr. Till inn jje’* ('hriNtmiiM Sermon — What Have Been Hail the Habe Been Slain. [Copyright, 1S03, by American Press Asso ciation. 1 Washington, Dec. 25.—In a most un usual way a scene connected with the nativity is emphasized by Dr. Talmnge in this Christmas discourse; text, Mat thew ii, 13, “Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.” The cradle of the infant Jesus had no rockers, for it was not to be soothed by oscillating motion, aj are the cradles of other princes. It had no embroidered pillow, for the young head was not to have such luxurious comfort. Though a meteor, ordinarily the most erratic aud seemingly ungovernable of all skyey ap- pearancess had been sent to designate the place where that cradle stood and a choir had been sent from the heaven ly temple to serenade its illustrious oc cupant with an epic, yet the era die was the target for all earthly and diabolical hostilities. Indeed I give you as my opinion that it was the narrowest and most wonderful eseape of the ages that the child was not slain before he had ta-ken his first step or spoki n his first word. Herod canid not afford to kn-ve him born. The Cieears could not afford to have him born. The gigantic eppres- lions and abominations of tbo world could not afford to have him horn. Was thera ever planned a more systematized or appalling bombardment in all the world than the bombardment of that cradle? Tho Herod who led the attack was treachery, vengeance and sensuality im- pesonated. Asa sort of pastime he slew Hyrcanus, the grandfathi r of his wife. Then heslew Mariamne, his wife. Then ho butchered her two sons, Alexander and Aristobulns. Then he slew Antipa ter, his oldest son. Then he ordered burned alive 40 people who had pulled down the eagle of his authority. He or dered tho nobles who bad attended up on his dying bed to be slain, so that there might be universal mourning aft er his decease. From that same death bed he ordered the slaughter of all the children in Bethlehem under 2 years of age, feeling sure that if he massacred the entire infantile population that would include the destruction of the child whose birthplace astronomy had pointed ent with its finger of light. What were tho slaughtered babes to him, and as many frenzied and bereft mothers? If he had been well enough to leave his bed, ho would have enjoyed seeing the mothers wildly struggling 4* keep thsir babes and holding them bo tightly that they could not be sepa rated until tho sword took both lives at one stroke, and others, mother and child, hurled from roofs of houses into the street, until that village of horse shoe shape on tbo hillside became one great butcher shop. To have such a man, with associates just as cruel and an army at his command, attempting the life of tho infant Jesus, does there seem any chance for his escape? Then that flight southward for so many miles, across deserts and amid bandits and wild beasts (my friend, tho late missionary and scientist Dr. Lansing, who took the same journey, said it was enough to kill Loth the Madonna and the Child), and poor residence in Cairo. You know how difficult it is to take an ordinary child successfully through’tho disorders that are sure to assail it even in comfortable homes and with all deli cate ministries, and then think of the exposure of that famous babe in villages and lauds where all sanitary laws were put at defiance, his first hours on earth $pent in a room without any doors, and ofttimes swept by chilled night winds, then afterward riding many days under hot tropical sun, aud part of many nights lest the avenger overtake tho fu gitive before he could bo hidden in an other land. The Myaterlona Arrival. Tho sanhedrin alio were affronted at the report of this mysterious arrival of a child that might upset all convention alities and thnatcu the throne of the nation. “Shot the door and bolt it and donble bur it against him!” cried all political aud ecclesiastical power. Christ on a retreat when only a few days of age, with all the privations and hardships and sufferings of retreat! When the glad news came that Herod wasdead and the Madonna was packing up and taking her Child home, bad news also came that Archelans, the sou, had taken the throne—another crowned in famy. What chance for tho Lube’s life? Will not some short grave hold tho wondrous infant?” “Put him to death!” was the order all up and down Palestine and nil up and down the desert between Bethlehem and Cairo. The cry was: “Hero comes an iconoclast of all established order! Here comes an aspirant for the crown of Augustus! If found on tho streets of Bethlehem, dash him to .death on tho pavement! If found on n hill, hurl him down the rocks! Away with him !” But the babe got homo in safety and passed up from infancy to yontb, and from youth to manhood, and from carpenter shop to Messiahship, aud from Messiah- ship to euthroumeut, until tho mighti est name on earth is Jesus, and there is no mightier name in heaven. What I want to call your attention to is your narrow escape and mine and the world’s narrow escape. Suppose that attempt on the young child’s life had been successful! Suppose that delega tion of wise men, who were to report to Herod immediately after they discov ered the hard bed in tho Bethlehem caravansary, had obeyed orders and re ported! Suppose the beast carrying tho Madonna and the Child in tho flight had stumbled and flung to death its riders! Suppose Archelans hud got his hands on the babe that his father had failed to Audi Suppose that among the children clashed from the Bethlehem house tops or separated by sword of the, enraged «onstahulary Jesus bad per ished ! XVliaC Hiivhl Have riven. Then, to begin on the outermost rim of my subject, Christmas festivities would never have been observed, Christ mas carols never sung, Christmas gifts never bestowed, Christmas games never played, Christmas hells never rung. What an awful subtraction from tho world’s brightness would have been the making of 25 like other days of the year! Glorious day! After bright ening England aud Holland aud Ger many for centuries it stepped across the sea and pronounced its benediction on our shores. Why, we never get over our childhood Christmases! Father aud mother joined in them. They forgot their rheumatisms and shortness of breath, and for awhile threw off the sorrows of a lifetime while they strug gled with m mn to who should first in the morning Aout the “Merry Christ mas!’’ Then there were all the inno cent allurements as to who brought the presents a»d Aio wtmderment as to how sleighs drawn by reindeer coaid come down th* nriiawLir, and afterward the disappoi^tMuat as some older broth- »r or sister, with all the pride of dis covery, tried to persuade us that the chimney had not been the channel of generous (townt. Cik, what times they were, the Christmases of our boyhood and girlhood dr.ys! We still feel in our pulses some •« the •xnherance which we then unwittingly stored up for future times, wbwi the eya might lose some of its luiri*. Mri the foot some of its spring, and fhe heart some of its re bound. h«Hy and roiemary and ivy and miitletoe looked interwoven! The Puritani mav not have liked tho day, and John Calvin may have pro nounced it mperstitious and feared it wonld bring into religious observance the saturnalia of the heathen, the dec orations of ivy uiapproprmte because ivy had haw ehriiaated to Bacchus, and mistletoe Inappropriate because mis tletoe had bton aaaociated with Drudical rites, bat wa testify that Christmas never did m a»jr harm, and the only objection we ever oxpressed was that it was to Iftvjr * tnav from Christmas to Christmas. Maaieriasaieal controversy as to whether it on^ht to be celebrated on the 6th of Jtuinwf , or 2Uth of M -rch, or 29th of 5«pta«»ber, or 25th of De cember dial not bwther us then any more than it bethare us now. It always came at the light time, although a lit tle late, and uaw tra rwulize that Christ mas aomes opportunely, just after the shortest ftaf’ af tba year, Dec. 21, and at the time when days are lengthening and the sun is recommencing its up ward couraa, telling as that spring and summer are coming. Oh, what a forest of Christmas trear—trees hearing 12 manner ad —new standing throughout tbt households <J Christen dom ! Oh, what hosannas are ascending on this day, the Christmas of a Sav iour’s birth, this year blending with the Sabbath of a Saviour’s resurrection 1 Do you not feel the thrill, tho glow, the enlargemaufc tha triumph of this day, and will not your charities go forth un til you sympathize with the quaint old Christmas carol—bo old I do not know who wrote it—its title, “Scatter Your Crumbs:” Midst the freeRjng sleet and snow Tho tnuid robin comes. In pity drive him not away, Bat scatter out your crumbs And leave your door upon the latch For whosoever conies. Tho poorer they, more welcome give And scatter out your crumbs. All have to spare, none arc too poor, When want with winter conies, And life is never all your own. Then scatter out the crumbs. Boon winter falls upon your life. The dny •< reckoning comes; Against yomr sine, by high decree, Are weipked those scattered crumbs. ('ferlstiuati Bella. Can the augel which St. John saw with measuring rod measuring heaven or hath any seraphic intelligence fac ulty enough to calculate the magnifi cent effect which 1,898 Christmas mornings and 1,898 Christmas noons ami l,8Wb kUkriitemi nights have had on our poor old planet? Let us thank God that we live to see this Christmas, the lulls of which ring out so clear, so inspiring, io jubilant—bells of family reunion, belk of chnrch jubilee, bells of national victory. But had either Mel chior or Balthasar or Caspar, the three wise men of the east, who had put down tho sacks of aromatic frankincense or bags of chinking gold by tho bare feet of tho infant Lord, reported to Herod’s palace the place where they found the child the swift horses of executioners wonld have carried death to that babe cradled iu Mary's arm, and the Bethle hem star waald have been a star of tragedy, aud instead of a song of nativ ity, which the nations are now chant ing, this day would bo chiefly memora ble for the shriek of bereft motherhood. Still further remarking upon tho nar row escape which you and I had and all the world had in that babe’s escape, let me say that hud that Herodic plot been successful the one instance of ab solutely perfect character would never have been unfolded. The world had enjoyed the lives of many splendid men before Christ came. It had admired its Plato among philosophers, its Mith i- dates among heroes, its Herodotus among historians, its Phidias among sculptors, its Homer among poets, its ^Esop among fabulists, its zEschylus among dramatists, its Demosthenes ainoug oratoti, its jEsculapius among physicians, yet among the coutemporu- riee of those men there were two opin ions, as now there are two opinions, eonosrning every remarkable man. There were plenty in those days who said of them, “He cannot speak.” or “Ho cannot sing.” < r “He cannot phi losophize,’’ or “His military nchievo- ment was a mere accident,” or “His chisel, his pen, his medical prescrip tion, never deiervtd the applause giv en. ” But couieruing this full grown Christ, whese life was launched three decades before that first Christinas, the moan of camels and the bleat of shaep and tho low of cattle mingled with the babe’s first cry. while clouds that night were resonant with music, aad star pointing down whispered to star, “Look, there Le is!” A Perfect l.lfe. Tnat Christ, after tho detectives of Herod aud Pilate and sanhedrin had watched him by day and watched him by night, year afttr year, was reported innocent. It was found out that when he talked to the vagrant woman in tho temple it was to tell her to “go and sin no more,” and that if ho spoke with the penitent thief it was to prom ise him paradise within 24 hoars, and that as ho moved about ho dropped ease of pain upon the invalid’s pillow, or light upon the eye that lacked optic nerve, or put bread into the bands of tho hungry, or took from the oriental hearse the dead young man and vitaliz ed him and said to tho widowed moth er, “Here he is, alive and well,” and she cried, "My boy, my boy!” and ho responded, “Mother, mother!’’ And tho sea, tossing too roughly some of his friends, by a word easier than a nurse’s word to a petulant child bo made it keep still. The very judge who for oth ers reasons allowed him to be put to death declared, “I-find no fault in him.” Was there ever a life so thor oughly ransacked and hypercriticised that turued out to be so perfect a life? Now, can you imagine what would have been the calamity to earth aud heaven, what a bereavement to ail his tory, what swindling not only of the human race, but of cherubim and sera phim and archangel, if because of infer nal incursion upon the bed of that Beth lehem babe this life of divine and glo rious manhood had never been lived? Tho Christie parables would never have been uttered; the sermon on the mount, all adrip with benedictions, never preached; the golden rule, iu picture frame of everlasting love, would never have been hung up for tho universe to gaze upon and admire. Can yon imagine what a scarification of the world’s'literature would bo the removal of all Christ ever did and said? It would tear down the most important shelves of yonder Congressional library, and of the Yatwan library, and of Brit ish maseum, and Berlin and Bonn and Vienna and Madrid and fst. Petersburg libraries, aud iSt. Paul’s life would have been an impossibility, and his epistles would never have been written, and St. John, from the basaltic caverns of Patinos, would never have heard the seven trumpets or seen the heavenly walls with 12 layers of illumined crys tallization. O wise men ef tho east! I am so glad you did not report to tho imperial scoundrel at Jerusalem where the babe was, for the hounds would have soon totu to pieces the Lamb, and I am so g)'d that not only did you bring tho frankincense aud the myrrh to the room in that caravansary, but that you brought the gold which paid his traveling expenses and timse of Jo seph aud Mary in that long and danger ous flight to Cairo, iu Egypt, aud paid their lodging and board tbere-and paid their way baik again. Well enough to bring to the barn of tho Saviour’s na tivity the flowers, for they aromatized the dreadful atmosphere of the stable, but the gold was just then the most im portant offering. So now the Lord ac cepts yonr prayers, for they are the per fume of heaven, but he asks also for the gold which will pay the expeuso of taking Christ to all nations. ■\Vli«*n I’eace Came. Still further remarking upon the nar row escape which you and I and the world had iu the diversion of the perse cutors from the place of nativity, let me say that had that Herodic raid upon the swaddling clothes been successful the world would never have known the value of a righteous peace. Much has been made of the fact that the world was at peace when Christ came. Yes. But what kind of a peace was it? It was a peace worse than war. It was the peace of a graveyard. The Roman eagles had plucked out tho world’s eyesight and plunged their beaks through the heart of dead nations. It was a peace like that spoken of by a dying Indian chieftain when a Christian home mis sionary said to him, “You have been a warrior, aud I suppose have been in many feuds, but you must bo at peace with all your enemies in order to die aright.” Tho dying chieftain replied: “That’s easy enough. I am at peace with all my enemies, for I have killed all of them.” That was the style of peace on earth when Christ came, but the spiriv of ar bitration, which is to garland the tomb of this century aud coronet the brow of the coming century, is consequent upon the midnight anthem above Bethlehem, two Lars to that music, the first of di vine ascription aud the second of earth ly pacification. “Glory to God aud peace to men.” In his manhood Christ pronounced the same doctrine, “Blessed are the merciful.” Before the Bethle hem star flashed its significance, the theory was: “Blessed is wholesale cut- throatery. Blessed are those who can kill the most antagonists. Blessed are those who can most skillfully wield tho battleax. Blessed are those who can stab the deepest with spear or roll a chariot wheel over tho most wounded or put his charger’s hoof on the moit dead.” The entirely new theory of our Christ was blessing for cursing, prayer for those who despitefully use you, foundries to turn spears into pruning hooks, redhot furnaces to melt swords into molds shaped like plowshares. If gigantic acerbities and worldwide tiger- isms had, without any gospel opposi tion, gone on until now and been aug mented bj* 1,898 years of ferocity, by this time what would this world have been turned into? You need not remind me of the awful wars since the opening of the year 1 of our Christian era; for if the earth has been again and again lacerated into an Aceldama through improved weaponry of death aud more rapidity of fire, Prussian breechloader which iu 1800 startled the nations with unprecedented havoc eclipsed by contrivances that can sweep vaster numbers to death by one volley and telegraphy adding to gunnery new facilities for slaughter by instantly or dering erinies to where they can do the most wholesale murder—I say if all this woe has been wrought, how much worse would it have been if the Christ- ly revelation had not been let down from heaven on five ranged ladder of musical scale and there had been no preaching of good will all up and down Christendom ,for 19 centuries! The Bethlehem manger has given tho most potent suggestion of peace tho world has over received. Tho cavalry horses cannot eat out of that manger. I.lKlit on Park Pillow*. I take another step forward in show ing the narrow escape you and I had and the world had iu the secretion of Christ’s birthplace from the Herodic detectives, aud tho clubs with which they would have dashed the babe’s life out, when I say that without tho life that began that night in Bethlehem the world would have had no illumined deathbeds. Before tho time of Christ good people closed their earthly lives in peace, while depending upon the Christ to come, and there were antediluvian saints and Assyrian saints end Egyptian saints and Grecian sail, 'and Jerusalem saints long before tho clouds above Bethlehem became a balcony filled with the best singers of a world where they all ring, but I cannot read that there was anything more than a quieting guess that came to those before Christ deathbeds. Job said something border ing on the confident, hut it was mixed up with a story of “skin worms” that would destroy his body. Abraham and Jacob had a little light on the dying pillow, but compared with the after Christ deathbeds it was like tho dim tallow candle of old beside the modern cluster of lights electric. I know Elijah went up in memorable manner, but it was a terrible way to go—a whirlwind of fire that must have been splendid to look at by Chose who stood on tbo banks of the Jordan, but it was a style of ascent that required more none than yon and I ever had, to bo a placid oc cupant of a chariot drawn by such a wild team. The triumphant deathbed*), as far as 1 know, were the after Christ deathbeds. What n procession of hosan nas have marched through the dying room of the saints <rf the last 19 centu ries! What cavalcade of mounted halle luiahs has galloped through the living visions of the last 2,000 years save 100! Peaceful deathbeds in tho years B. C.! Triumphant deathbeds, for the most part, reserved for tho years A. D.! Be hold the deathbeds of tho Wesleys, of the Doddridges,of the Leigh Richmonds, of tho Edward Paysous; of Vara, the converted heathen chieftain, crying in his last moments: “Tho canoe is in tho eea. The sails are spread. She is ready for the gale. I have a good Pilot to gnido mo. My outside man and my in side man differ. Let the one rot till tho trumpet shall sound, but let my soul wing her way to the throne of Jesns. ” Of dying John Fletcher, who entered his pulpit to preach, though his doctors forbade him, and then descended »o tho communion table, saying. “I am going to throw myself under the wings of tho cherubim before the mercy seat,” thou sands of people a few days after follow ing him to the grave, singing: With heavenly weapons he has fought The battles of tho Lord, Finished his course and kept the faith And gained the great reward. Of Pastor Emilia Cook, the great French evangelist, who sat in my church iu Brooklyn one Sunday morn ing and in a few days shipwrecked aud dying, after his wife said to him, “God will help you, my dear; he will give you peace,” replying: “But I have it. Peace! I have it!” Of Prince Albert, quoting with his last breath, “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself iu thee.” Of tho dying soldier who had been shot through the mouth and coaid not talk, aud when the chaplain ap proached him motioned for pencil aud paper and wrote: “I am a Christian, prepared to die. Rally round the flag! Rally round tie flag!” Of John Brown of Haddington, who said: “I desire to depart and be with Christ, and, though I have lived GO years very comfortably in this world, I would turn my hack up on you all to be with Christ. There is no one like Christ—no one like Christ. I have been looking at him these many years aud never yet could find any fault in him but was of my own mak ing, though he has seen 10,000 friults iu me. Oh, what must ho be iu himself when it is he that sweetens heaven, sweet* ns Scripture, sweetens ordinances, sweetens earth, sweetens trial.” Of Joins Janeway, saying in his last mo ments: “I have done with prayer and all other ordinances. Before a few hours are over I shall be in eternity singing the song of Moses and the Lamb. I shall presently stand on Mount Zion with an innumerable company of an gels and with spirits of just men made perfect and with Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. Halleluiah!” Some one ought to preach a course of sermons on triumphant Christian deathbeds, aud then let some one preach a sermon on triumphant infidel deathbeds—that is, if ho can hear or read of one of this latter kind. 1 never heard of one. Do tell us of one. There never was one. And had tho babe of Betbelebem died the same week in which he was born there never would have been a trium phant Christian deathbed. It is the wonderful story of Christ, now rapidly filling the earth, that makes trium phant Christian deathbeds. Tho Bethle hem star had to give way before tho rising snn, which was to become tho noonday Sun of Righteousness. A (•rami Tltoimlil. Are you ready now for a thought that overtowers all other thoughts in impor tance and grandeur? Pray that you may be ready. It as far exceeds anything I have said as all the gold mines of Cal ifornia, developed and undeveloped, ex ceed the thimbleful of gold dust which iu 1848 a California miner brought from a mill race and put upon tho desk of a surprised capitalist. In remarking upon Fbe na-.-ow escape which you and I and the world marie let ma say that had the Hrrodie raid cm that room of tho Bethlehem khan been a snceossfnl raid or had somt cold taken by the child in that flight toward Cairo been fatal, heaven would have been to us an eternal impossibility. With our fallen nature uuebauged, unregenerated, unrecon structed through Jesus Christ, the hu man race would be no more fit for heaven than a noisome weed P fit for a queen’s garland, no more than a shattered base viol is fit to leuid iu a Dusseldorf mu sical jubilee. If at ono time Garibaldi seemed to hold in his right hand the freedom of Italy and Washington seem ed at one time to hold in his right hand American independence aud Martin Luther seemed to hold in his right hand tho emancipation of the chnrch of God for all nations, bo in grander and better sense the infant horn in that Bethlehem stall held in one hand the ransom of earth and in the other the rapture of heaven. He started that night for three places which ho must reach or we never could reach heaven, Gethseinauo and Cavalry and Olivet, tho first for agoniz ing prayer, the second for excruciating suffering, the third for glorious ascen sion, as the lar» of gravitation relaxed for once to let him up out of his exile. Had his life been ouly one day or one year of duration, instead of 83 years, had ho died in Bethlehem or iu Cairo or in tho desert between, not a church would ever have been built, not a hos pitnl ever npened, not a nation ever freed, not a civilization ever inaugu rated, not a soul saved. Oh, what a crisis that was in the world’s history! What a crisis iu the eternities! I think that the angels who composed the choir for tho Christmas cantata above Bethle hem were not the only angels around that night. I think there were some who, instead of holding librettos of avh stial music, itood all up and down tho steeps of h<*n\ eti with drawn swords, keen and two edged. That cradle must bn defended. That flight into Egypt must ini hovered over by winged cohort. That humble stopping place iu Cairo must be watched by celestial bands de scending amid the Egyptian pyramids and tiie sphinx which hud .dready stood tin n* for agvs wlebruting kings, none of whom ever had such glory iss will bo won by that Prince slveping in his mother’a arms ntnkr their long shad ows. Hear it, all ye people—in that babe’d survival oar heaven was involved. And shall we not add la our usual Christmas congratulation at a Saviour’s birth the joy at she babe’s rescue? Tin- Worlit'a ('llrla( Hina (•Iff. Now let the Christmas table bo spread. Let it bo an extension table made up of the tables of your house holds, and added to them the tables of celestial festivity, all together making a table long enough to reach across a hemisphere—yaa, long Miough to reach from earth ta heaven. Send out the in vitations to all the guests whom we would like to have come and dine. Come all the ransomed of earth and all the crowned of heaven. As at ancient banquets tho king, who was to preside, came in after all tho guests had taken their places at the table. Ho perhaps i» may ho now. Let the old folks who sat at either end of yonr Christmas table 10 or 20 or 40 years ago be seated, their aches and pains all gone. Behold, they sit down in the exhilaration of everlast ing yontb I Como brothers and sisters who used to retire with us early on Christmas eve so that the mysteries of bestowed gifts might bo kept secret, aud who rose with us early on Christ mas morn to see what was to he re vealed, Come all the old neighbors of our boyhood and girlhood days who used to happen in toward tho close of this day to wish ns a merry time. Como all the ministers of Christ who have in pulpits for many a year been telling tho story of the star that pointed to tho world’s first Christmas gift and at tho same time wakened Herod’s apprehen sions. Come aud sit down, ye heralds of “tho glad tidings,” whether yon were sprinkled or plunged, whether your thanks today bo offered iu liturgy of ages or prayers spontaneous, whether you bo gowned in canonicals or wearing plain coat of backwoods meeting house. Como iu ! Room at this Christmas table for all those who have Lowed at tho manger in whjttevur world yon now live: Part of the host have crossed tha flood, Aud part are crossing now. Yea, come aud cit at this Christmas table, all heaven! Archangel at that end of the table, and all tbo angels un der him .'djeining. Como down, come iu and take yonr places at this Christ mas banquet. The table is spread, and tho King who will preside is about to enter. He comes! Him of Bethlehem, him of Calvary, him at Olivet, him of tho throne! Rise aud greet him. 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H 25 a fa Go u 3 oo p Lv lit Airy. 11 Hi a ■! “ Toeeea 11 63 ft * 3 30 p M Wsstuunster 12 31 in " Ken pc* 12 52 p 4 IS n ** (Antral . .. 1 4ft ril “ Greenville . 2 34 p 5 22 p “ KpartXnbiirg. 3 37 p Il 10 p ** Gaffneys 4 20 i* 0 44 p .... “ liiftckaburg 4 28 p 7 00 p “ King's Ml 5 03 p “ J^astonls 6 a p Lv. i ifUrlotte ft J Ju p S 23 p Ar. Gi eiMulH-pa y 52 p 10 43 p Lv. Orreuaboro 10 50 p Ar. Korfoik 7 50 n Ar. Danville 11 25 P 11 M p Ar EUchaiond 0 40 Ii - (1 40 a Ar. Washington 0 42 ft •* Paltm'c Pltti 8 03 a " Piiiiadeipnia. hi 15 a “ New York... ... 12 43 in 1 St.il Vrs. No t 1 Kout Ii hound. No. 33 No. 37 Daily [ftallv. ) PhilndrltdiiA Fjiltiuvirr tl 55 (1 20 Lv. Btuhmi.nd 12 ui m f 12 01 lit 12 101 Lv. Dan\41la 8 15 |> 180 a 010 Lv. Norfolk 0 35 p| Ar. Graeusliora . 6 45 ft .. • Lv Greensboro 7 20 p 7 05 ai 7 37 Ar. ('harlotte 10 00 p 0 26 a ! J C . Lv. Gastonia 10 4V p I I 1- . •iiiHt.oi! .... ,1V Kiag's Alt Blacksburg JJI SI Gaffneys .. Tl 4(1 p 10 45 j> lu to all 34 a fg 5J 1 .is -Oi H 2 50 a 103 p 3 35 a' 2 is p ft 4 55 ji M ,n pj a - it 55 p. i).» (il Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine searches out a>l impurities in the System, and expels them harmlessly by the natural channels Valuable to Women. Especially valuable to women is Browns Iron Bitters. Backache vanishes, headache disappears, strength takes the place <>1 ireakursa, and the glow of health readily routes to the pallid cheek when this won- 'li rful remedy is taken. For sicklv children or overworked men it hits no equal. No home should be without this tiimons remedy, i Browns’Iron Bitters is told by sdl dealers. Don't Tobacco Spit ami Smoke Your Life Anay. | To quit tobacco easily and forceir, be mag i r.ctlc, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No To- , Bae, the wonderworker, that makes weak men i strons All druggists, floor II. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co , Chicago or New Ysrk. bpnrtiintmrg. 12 2i» " Wevenvtlie... *• Central “ f- eneea " Westiiiiiutrr “ Toccoa " Alt. Airy " GornWia. .... *• Lula., ! 4 15 " GaiuesvUlo... 4.5 “ Buford ... Norcross j 5 25 Ar. Atlanta, E. T. C !d Av- Atlanta, 0. TU 5 io NoR(IKtOSS N<)ON TK.\1N. Daily Except Sunday. Lv. Atlanta, oratral tinn Ar. Nor i- at. caster" * mo . ..i Lv. Norcross, eastern tints . Ar. Atlanta, central tinn "A” a. m. i'” •> to. SI" no Chesapeake Line Ste-iei* r-> iu daily t> between'Norfolk sml t o tiinoro. N'-s. 37 iind'W*--Daily. t\ iishnigton sml Sj western Ycbtibnic-Lim'm.h l.- ingo i'uli Sleeping cars between N v York Net leans, via Washington, ..a-.-.t and -it ery. and also lH-tween NV viaW aMiiiiRton.Atiat a ami i class ihois. iglifnre cacho.le i a ton and Atlanta. Dining tars .< . .• Hi* en route. PuUniitn ur.i .mn^ i > i . sks ;nng between Greensboro »n<l N t i Meet ion ut Forfljlk bn-1 >1 .!> l'< > s T t ( arriving ti er* >u line- 'n- bn « h No ■ — mns lean aud _ _ car and coat pnsHoijgerfiof i»JI clus.i— ITiHiiiiiu dm i>h»*i sjaej mg cars 1- .m hi N ■ \ \ni i New Ora art-, via Atlanta uni at*- Leaving Wu met' cv-h Wi , . sfbeping '-nr will rua through • m ■. tngtou slid can K. uk-ih. > .h h. ■ t eti Nos. 11,3.. to :• > - , between Rtubniond u n t< !,m b oi ««uxlili<miid Nos. 11 and 37, t. irthoouud 118 and 12 FRANK 8 GANNON, J V < T’LI*. Third Vi*, k Gen. Mgr., Trwi.'h Mg' Washington, D. C. Wi-■ .go ,, W. A. TJ KK. .- i( 11 to, ■ GonT Pars Ag't , A»S tiieu 1 Pa s A| Wash in s on. D <' (J