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rHE TltAVEUNG MAN.
REV. DR. TALMAGC ADDRESSES THE
COMMERCIAL DRUMMERS.
He Thinks They Arc Knliiled to
Words of Wurmcnt Sy'inpntli)—The
Safeir nurds uml Opport ui> I lies—Time
Passed ou Hullrond Trnius.
{Copyright, 18k9, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
Waftiington, Feb. 19.—In this dis-
ccurse Dr. Talmago gives words of good
cheer to comuierclal travelers and tells
of their safeguards and then opportuni
ties; text, Nahum ii, 4, “The chariots
fchall rage in the streets; they shall jus-
tie one against another in the broad
ways; they shall seem like torches;
they shall run like the lightnings.”
It has been found out that many of
the arts and discoveries which we sup
posed were peculiar to our own ago are
merely the restoration of the arts and
discoveries of thousands of years ago. I
suppose that the past centuries have
forgotten more than the present century
knows. It seems to me that they must
have known thousands of years ago in
the days of Nineveh oMhe uses of steam
and its application to swift travel. In
my text I hear the rush of the rail
train, the clang of the wheels and tho
jamming of the ear couplings. “The
chariots shall rage in the streets; they
shall justle one against another in tho
broad ways; they shall seem like
torches; they shall run like the light
nings. ”
Have yon ever taken your position in
the night fur away from a depot along
the track waiting to see the rail train
come at full speed? At first you heard
in the distance a rumbling, like tho
coming of a storm, then you saw tho
flash of the headlight of the locomotive
us it turned the curve; then you saw
the wilder glare of the fiery eye of the
train as it came plunging toward you;
then you heard the shriek of the whistle
that frenzied all the echoes; then you
paw tho hurricane dash of cinders;
then you felt tho jar of tho passing
earthquake and you saw the shot thun
derbolt of tho express train. Well, it
seems that we can hear the passing of
a midnight exj.ress traia in my text,
“The chariots shall rage in the streets;
they jnstlu one agaiiyst another in the
broad ways; they shall seem like torches;
they shall run like the lightnings.”
I halt tho train long enough to get on
board, and I go through the cars, and I
find three-fonrths of the passengers are
commercial travelers. They are u folk
peculiar to themselves, easily recogniz
ed, at home ou all the trains, not startled
by the sudden dropping of tho brakes,
familiar with all tho railroad signals,
can tell you what is the next station,
how long the train will stop, what place
tho passengers take luncheon at, can
give you information on almost any
subject, sro cosmopolitan, at home ev
erywhere from Halifax to Bun Francis-
so. They sro on tho 8 o'clock morning
train, on the noon train, on the mid
night train. You take u berth in a
sleeping cur, and citbei above you or
beneath you is one of these gentlemen.
There aro 100,000 professed commercial
travelers in the United States, but 000,-
000 would not include ull those who are
sometimes engaged in this service. They
spend millions of dollars every day in
the hotels and in tho rail trains. They
have their official newspaper organ.
They have their mutual benefit associa
tion, about 4,000 names ou tho rolls,
and have already distributed more than
$200,000 among families of deceased
members. They are ubiquitous, unique,
and tremendous for good or evil. AH
the tendencies of merchandise aro to
ward their multiplication. Tho house
that stands buck on its dignity and
waits for easterners to come, instead of
going to seek bargain makers, will have
more and moro unsalable goods on the
shelf and will gradually lose its control
of tho markets. While the great, enter
prising and successful houses will have
their agents on all the trains, and “their
chariots will rage in the streets, they
shall justlo one against another in the
broad ways. They shall seem like
torches, they shall run like the light
nings. ”
Entitled to Warm Sympathy.
I think commercial travelers can
stand u sermon of warm hearted sym
pathy. If you have any words of good
cheer for them, yon had better utter
them. If yon have any good, honest
prayers in their behalf, they will be
greatly obliged to you. I never knew a
man yet who -Hd not like to be prayed
for; I never kbew a man yet that did
not like to bo helped. It seems to me
this sermon is timely. At this season
of the year there are tens of thousands
of men going out to gather tho spring
trade. Tho months of February and
March in all our commercial establish
ments are very busy months. In a few
days our national perplexities will all
bo settled, and then look out for the
brightest ten years of national prosperi
ty which this country has ever witness
ed. AH our astute commercial men feel
that we are standing at tho opening
gate of wonderful prosperity. Let tho
maunfacturers put the bauds on their
wheels and the merchants open a new
»et of account liooks in placd of those
filled with long columns of bad debts.
Let ns start on a new commercial cam
paign. Let us drop the old tune of
“Naomi” and take up “Ariel’'or “An
tioch.”
Now you, tho commercial traveler,
have received orders from the head
men of the firm that you aro to start
on u long excursion. You have your
patterns all assorted and prepared. Yon
have them put up in bundles or eases
and marked. You have full instructions
as to prices. Yon know on wbat prices
you are to stand (inn and from what
prices you may retreat somewhat. You
have your valise or trunk or both pack
ed. If I were a stranger, I would have
fto right to look into that valiso, but as
I am your brother I will take tho liber
ty. I look into tho valise, and I con
gratulate you on all these comfortably
articles of apparel The seasons are no
changeable you have not taken a single
precaution too many. Borne night yon
will get out in the snow bank and have
to walk three or four miles until you
get to the railroad station, and you
will want all these comforts and con
veniences. tint will you excuse me if I
make a suggestion or two about this
valiso? You say, “Certainly; as wo are
living a plain, frank talk I will not lie
Affanded at any honorable suggestion.”
Hut in among your baggage some
-PLv’-cf'Mvvy • »clertf\ir~r>'ifftlf'fufiio reading*
it 1* in history, or a poem, or a
book of pure fiction, or sonic volume*
that will give you information in regard
to your line of business. Then add to
that a Bible in round, beautiful type
Bmall typo is bail fur the eyes any
where, but peculiarly killing in the jolt
of a rail train. Put your railroad guide
and your T?ii le side by side—the one to
show you the route through this world
and the other to show you the route to
tho next world. “Oh,” you say, “that
is superfluous, for now in all tho hotels
in tho parlor yon will find a Bible, and
in nearly all tho rooms of the guests
you will find ono. ” But, my brother,
that is not your Bible.
Should t arry a DIM*.
You w ant your own hut, your own
coat, your own blanket, your own Bible.
“But,” you say, “I am not a Chris
tian, and you ought not to expect me
to carry u Bible.” My brother, a great
many people are not Christians who
carry a Bible. Besides that, before you
get home you might become a Chris
tian, and you would feel awkward
without a copy. Besides that, you
might get bad news from home. I see
you with trembling hand opening the
telegram, saying, “George is dying,”
or “Fannie is dead; come home!" Oh,
as you sit in tho train, stunned with
(lie calamity, going home you will have
no taste for fine scenery or for conversa
tion, and yet you must keep your
thoughts employed or you will go stark
mad. Then you will want a Bible,
whether you read it or not. It will be
a comfort to have it near you—that
book full of promises which have com
forted other people in like calamity.
Whether yon study the promises or not
you will want that book near you. Am
I not wise when I say put in tho Bible?
Now, yon are all ready to start. You
have your valise in the right hand, and
you have your blanket and shawl strap
in the left hand. Good) y! May you
have a prosperous journey, large sales--
great percentages. Oh, there is one
thing I forgot to ask you about 1 What
train are you going to take? “Well,”
you suy, “I will tak? the 5 o’clock Sun
day afternoon train.” Why? “Oh,”
yon say, “I shall save a day by that,
and on Monday morning I will be in
tho distant city, in the commercial es
tablishment, by the time tho merchant!
come down. ’ ’ My brother, you are start-
iug wrong. If you clip off something
from the Lord’s day, the Lord will clip
off something from your lifetime suc
cesses. Sabbath breaking pays no better
for this world than it pays for the next.
There was a large establishment in New
York that said to a y’oung man: “We
want you to start tomorrow afternoon
— Sunday afternoon—at .1 o’clock, for
Pittsburg.” “Oh,” replied the young
man, “I never travel on Sunday.”
“Well,” said the head man of the firm,
“you must go. We have got to make
time, and you must go tomorrow after
noon at <5 o’clock.” Tho young man
»uid: “I can't go; it is against my con
science. I can’t go.” “Well,” said the
bead man of the finn. “then you will
ksvs Is kas yo%t sitastisa. Tksis sx«
plenty of men who would liks to go.”
The temptation was too great for the
young than, and ho succumbed to it.
He obeyed orders. Ho loft on the 5
o’clock train Sunday afternoon for
Pittsburg. Do you want the sequel in
very short meter ? That young man hai
gone down into u life of dissipation.
What has become of th business firm?
Bankrupt—one of the I m a confirmed
gambler. Out of ever, (week, get 24
hours for yourself. \ mr employer,
young man, has no right to swindle you
out of that rest. The bitter curse of Al
mighty God will rest upon that com
mercial establishment which expects it<
employees to break tho Sabbath. What
right has a Christian merchant to sit
down in church on tho Sabbath when
his clerks are traveling abroad through
the land on that day ? Get up, professed
Christian merchant, so acting. You
have no business here. Go out and call
that boy back. Thero was a merchant
in 1837 who wrote: “I should have
been a dead man had it not been for the
Sabbath. Obliged to work from morn
ing until night through the whole week,
I felt on Saturday, especially on Satur
day afternoon, that I must have rest
It was like going into a dense fog. Ev
erything looked dark and gloomy as if
nothing could be saved. I dismissed all
and kept the Sabbath in the old way.
On Monday it was all sunshine, but had
it not been for the Sabbath, I have no
doubt I should have been in my grave. ”
Now, I say, if tho Sabbath is good for
tho employer, it is good for tho em
ployee. Young man, tho dollar that you
earn ou the Sabbath is a redhot dollar,
and if you put it into a bag with 5,000
honest dollars, that redhot dollar will
burn a hole through the bottom of the
bag and let out all the 5,000 honest
dollars with it.
How to Occupy Time,
But I see yon change your mind, and
you are going on Monday morning, and
I see you take the train—Pennsylvania,
or the Baltimore and Ohio, or the Hud-
Ion River, or tho Erie, or tho Harlem,
cr the New Haven train. For a few
weeks now you will pass half of your
time in the rail tjain. How are you go
ing to occupy tho time? Open the valise
and take out a book and begin to read.
Magnificent opportunities have our
commercial travelers for gaining infor
mation above all other clerks or mer
chants ! Tho best place in the world to
study is a rail traiu. I know it by ex
perience. Do not do as some commer
cial travelers d<>—as many of thorn do,
as most of tM .h do—sit reading tho
same newapnpor over and over again
and ull the advertisements through and
through, then sit for two or three
hours calculating tho profits they ex
pect to make, thou spending two or
three hours looking listlessly out of tho
window, then spending three or four
hours in the smoking car, the nastiest
place in Christendom, talking with
•ion who do not km w ns much as yon
do. Instead of that call William Shakes
peare, tho dramatist, and John Ruskin,
tho essayist, and Tonnyson, the poot,
and Bancroft and Macaulay, the his
torians, and Ezekiel and Paul, tho in-
sjiired men of God, and ask them to sit
with yon and talk with yon, as they
will if you utk them. I hear you say:
“I do wish I could get out of this busi
ness of commercial traveling. I don’t
like it.” My brother, why don’t you
read yourself out? Give me a young
man of ordinary intellect and good eye
sight and lot him devote to valuable
i yoading the time not actually occupied
' i»» commercial errand, and in six years
he will bo qualified for any position for
which ho is ambitions.
■r hli y t “i lif^Tiio taste for
reading!” Now, that Is the trouble,
, but it Is no excuse. Thero was u time,
my brother, when yon had no taste for
cigars; they made yon very sick, but
you jiersevercd until cigars have become
to you a luxury. Now. if you can afford
to struggle on to get a laid habit, is it
not worth while to struggle on to get a
good habit like that of reading? I am
amazed to find how many merchants
and commercial travelers preset ire their
ignorance from year to year notwith
standing all their opportunities. It was
well illustrated by one who had been
largely successful and who wanted the
show of a library at home, and lie wrote
to a book merchant in London, saying,
“Bend me six feet of theology and about
ns much metaphysics and near a yard
of civil law in old folio I’’ There la no
excuse for a man lacking information
if ho have the rare opportunities of a
commercial traveler. Improve your
mind. Remember the “Learned Black
smith,” who, while blowing the bel
lows, set his book up against the brick
work and became acquainted with 50
languages. Remember the scholarly
Gifford, who, while uu apprentice,
wrought out tho arithmetical problem
with his awl ou a piece of leather. Re
member Abercrombie, who snatched
here and there a fragmentary five min
utes from an exhausting profession and
wrote immortal treatises on ethics.
Stud)- I.nxvn of Commerce.
Bo ashamed to sell foreign fabrics or
fruits unless you know something about
the looms that wove them or the vine
yards that grew them. Understand all
about the laws that control commercial
life, about banking, about tariffs, about
markets, about navigation, about for
eign people—their characteristics and
their political revolutions as they affect
ours; about the harvests of Russia, tho
vineyards of Italy, the tcatields of
China. Learn about the great commer
cial centers of Carthage and Assyria
and Phoenicia. Read all ubout the Medici
of Florence, mighty in trade, mightier
in philanthropies. You belong to the
royal family of merchants. Be worthy
of that royal family. Oh, take my ad
vice and turn tho years of weariness
into years of luxury. Tako those hours
yon spend at the depot waiting for the
delayed train and make them Pisgah
heights from which yon cuu view the
promised land. When you aro waiting
for the train hour after hour in the
depot, do not spend your time reading
the sewing machine advertisements and
looking np the time tables of routes you
will never take, going tho twentieth
time to tho door to see whether tho
train is coining, bothering the ticket
agent and telegraph operator with ques
tions which you ask merely because you
want to puss away tho time. But ratlnrf
summon up the great essayists and
philosophers and storytellers uud think
ers of the ages and have them entertain
yon.
JJnt you have come now near the end
of your railroad travel. . I can tell by
the motion of the car that they are
pulling the patent brakes down. The
engineer rings the bell at the crossing.
The elope. “AH outr ertee the
condnetov. You dismount from the
train. You reach the hotel. Tho land
lord is glad to see you—very glad. He
stretches out his hand across the regis
try book with all the disinterested
warmth of a brother. You are assigned
an apartment. In that uninviting apart
ment you stay only long enough to
make yourself presentable. You descend
then into tho reading room, and thero
yon find tho commercial travelers sit
ting aronnd a long table, with a great
elevation in tho center covered with ad
vertisements, while there ore inkstands
sunken in the bud of tho table and
scattered ull around rusty steel
aud patches of blotting paper,
course yen will not stay there,
saunter out among the merchants,
present your letters of introduction and
authority. You begin business. Now,
let me say, there are two or three
things you ought to remember. First,
that all the trade you get by the prac-
ticeof “treating’’ will not stick. If you
cannot get custom except by tipping a
wineglass with somebody, you had bet
ter not get his custom. An old commer
cial traveler gives as his experience
that trade got by “treating” always
damages the house that gets it in one
way or the other.
Besides that you cannot afford to in
jure yourself for the purpose of benefit
ing your employers. Your common
sense tells you that you cannot get into
tho habit of taking strong drink to
please others without getting that habit
fastened on you. I do not know whether
to tell it or not. I think I will A close
carriage came to tho door of my church
in Brooklyn one night at the close of a
religions service. Some one said, “A
gentleman in that carriage wants to see
you.” I looked into the carriage, and
there sat as fine a salesman and as ele
gant a gentleman oa New York ever
saw, but that night he was intoxicated.
He said ho wanted to put himself u&doY
my care. He said he had left home, and
he never meant to go back again. I got
into the carriage with him and rode with
him until after midnight, trying to
persuade him to go home. I have been
scores of times to Greenwood, following
the dead, but that was tho most doleful
ride I ever took. After midnight I pier-
suaded him to go home. Wo alighted
at his door. We walked through his
beautiful hall, his wife and daughter
standing buck affrighted at his appear
ance. I took him to his room. I un
dressed him. I put him to bed. Where
is that homo now? All broken up.
Where are the wife and the daughter?
Gone Into the desolations of widowhood
and orphanage. Where is the nmn him
self ? Dead by the violence of bis own
hand.
Po Not Uuln Yonr Ronl.
O commercial traveler, thongh your
firm may give yen tho largest salary of
any man in your line, thongh they
might give yon 10 per rent of all yon
sell, or 80 per cent or 50 per cent cr 99
per cent, they cannot pay enough to
make it worth your while to ruin your
soul I Besides that, a commercial house
never compensates a man who has been
moially mined In their employ. A
young man in Philadelphia was turned
out from his employ because of inobria-
Dm got in the service of tho raer-
w \nt who employed him, and here is
the letter ho wrote to his employer:
“Bir—I come into your service un-
corrupt in principles and in morals, but
the rules of your house required mo to
spend my evenings at places of public
entertainment and amusement in search
of customers. To accomplish my work
in your service I was obliged to drink
with tV i"! and join them'in their pur
suits of pleasure. It was not my choice,
but the rule of tho house. I went with
them to tho theater uud billiard t«-
pens
Of
Yon
You
ble, but it was not my choice. I did not
wish to go; I went in your service. It
was not my pleasure so to do, but I wad
the conductor and companion of tho
simple ones, void alike of understand
ing and of principle, in their sinful
pleasures and deeds of deeper darkness,
that I might retain them as your cus
tomers. Your interest required it. I
have added thousands of dollars to the
profits of your trade, but at wbat ex
pense you now see, and I know too well.
Yon have become wealthy, but I am
poor indeed, aud now this cruel dis
missal from your employ Is tho recom
pense I receive for a character ruined
and prospect* blasted in helping to
make you a rich maul” Alas for the
man who gets such a letter as that!
Again, I charge you, tell the whold
truth about anything you sell. Lying
commercial travelers will precede yon.
Lying commercial travelers will come
right after you into the same store. Do
not let their unfa.r competition tempt
yon from the straight line. It is an aw
ful baigaln that a man makes when he
sells his goods and his soul at the same
time. A young man in one of the stores
of New York was selling some silks. He
was binding them up when he said to
tho lady customer, “It Is my duty to
show you that there is a fracture in
that silk. ” Bhe looked at it and rejected
tho goods. The head of tho firm, hear
ing of it, wrote to the father of the
young man in the country, saying:
“Come and take your son away. He
will never make a merchant.” The fa
ther came in agitation, wondering what
his boy had been doing, and the head
men of tho firm said: “Why, your son
stood here at this counter and pointed
out a fracture in the silk, and of conr.se
the lady wouldn't take it. W’e are not
resjKjiisiUo for the ignorance of cus
tomers. Customers must look out for
themselvfs, and we look out for our
selves. Your son will never make a mer
chant. ” “Is that all?” said the father.
“Ah! I am prouder of my boy that I
ever was. John, ge-t your hut and come
home. ”
But it is almost night, and yon go
back to tho hotel. Now comes the
mighty tug for the commercial traveler.
Tell mo where ho spends his evenings,
and I will tell you where he will spend
eternity, and I w’ill fell yon what will
be his worldly prospects. There is a
abundance of choice. There is yo
room with tho books. Thero are
Young Men’s Christian association
rooms. Thero are the week night serv
ices of the Christian churches. There ia
tho gambling saloon. There is the thea
ter. There Is the house of infamy.
Plenty of places to go to. But which,
Oimmortal man,which ? OGod, which?
“Well,’’you say, “I guess I will—I
guess I will go to tho theater. ” Do you
think the tarrying in that placo until
11 o’clock at night will improve yonr
bodily health, or your financial pros
pects, or your eternal fortune ? No man
ever found the path to usefulness, or
honor, or hipplnMa, os commercial suo*
•ms. cm ktavw. tfcroeffc Mm AmerUaa
theater. “VfsU.** rou say, “I guess,
then, I will go to—I guess I will go to
tho gambling saloon. ” You will first go
to look. Then you will go to play. You
will make $100, you will make $500,
you will make $1,000, you will make
$1,500. Then you will lose all. Then
you will borrow some money so as to
start anew. You will make $50, you
will make $100, you will make $000.
Then you will lose all. These wretches
of tho gambling saloon know how to
tempt you. But mark this: AH gam
blers die poor. They may make fortunes
—great fortunes—but they lose them.
“Well,” you say
the theater, and if I
gambling saloon, then I guess—I guess
I will go to the house of infamy.”
Commercial travelers have told me that
In tho letter box at the hotel, within
one hour after their arrival, they have
had letters of evil solicitation in that
direction. It is far away from homa
Nobody will know it. Commercial trav
elers have sometimes gone in that evil
pa<;h. Why not you ? Halt! There aro
other gates of ruin through which a
man may go and yet come out, but
that gate has a spring lock which snaps
him in forever. He who goes there is
damned already. He may seem to b«
comparatively free for a little while.
but he is only on the limits, and the
satanic police have their eyes upon him
to bring him in at any moment. The
hot curse of God is on that crime, and
because of it there are men whose heav
en was blotted out ten years ago. There
is no danger that they be lost; they are
lost now. I look through their glaring
eyeballs down into tho lowest cav
ern of hell. O destroyed spirit, why
coinest thou in here today ? Dost think
I have the power to' break epen the
barred gateway of the penitentiary of
the damned? There is a passage in
Proverbs I somewhat hesitate to read,
but I do not hesitate long: “At the
window of my house I looked through
my casement and beheld among the
simple ones, I discerned among the
youths, a young man, void of under
standing, passing through tho street
near her corner, and he went the way
to her house in the twilight, in the
evening, in tho black and dark night.
He goeth after her straightway, as an
ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to
the correction of tho stocks, till u dart
strikes through his liver.”
. How to Spend UvonliiKH.
Bnt now the question is still open—
Where will you spend your evening? O
commercial travelers, how much will
you give me to put you on the right
track? Without charging yon a far
thing I will prescribe for yon a plan
which will save you for this world and
tho next, if you will take it. Go, before
you leave home, to the Young Men’s
Christian association of the city where
you live. Get from them letters of in
troduction. Carry them out to tho towns
and citioe where yon go. It thoro bo no
eneb association in tho place you visit,
then present them at tho door of Chris
tian churches, and band them over to
the pastors. Bo not slow to arif'e in the
devotional meeting and say: “lama
commercial traveler. I am far away
from home, and I come in bore tonight
to seek Christian society.” The best
houses and tho highest style of amuse
ment will open before yon, and instead
of yonr being dependent upon tho lep
rous crew who h.-mg around tho hotels,
wanting to show yon all tho slums of
tho city, on tho one condition that you
will pay their expenses, yon will get the
benediction of God in every town yon
visit. Remember this, that whatever
place you visit had influences will seek
you out. Good influences you must seek
out.
While I stand hero | bethink my-
“if I can’t go to
can’t go to the
self of a commercial traveler who was
a member of my church in Philadel
phia. He was a splendid young man,
the pride of his widowed mother
and of his sisters. It was his joy to
support them, and for that purpose ho
postponed his own marriage day. He
thrived in business, and after awhile
set up his own household. Leaving that
city for another city, I had no oppor
tunity for three or four years of making
inquiry in regard to him. When I made
such inquiry, I was told that he was
dead. The story was. ho was largely
generous and kind hearted and genial
and social, and ho got into the habit of
“treating” customers and of showing
them all the sights of the town, and ho
began rapidly to go down, and he lost
his jioaition In the church of which
he was a member, and he lost his posi
tion In the commercial house of which
he was the best agent, and his beauti
ful young wife and Ida sick old mother
aud his sisters went into destitution,
and he, as a result of his dissipation,
died in Kirkbrido Insane asylum.
O commercial travelers, I pray for
you the all sustaining grace of God.
There aro two kinds of days when you
aro especially in need of divine grace.
The one, the day when you have no
success—when you fail to make a sale—
and you are very much disappointed,
and you go back to your hotel discom
fited. That night you will be tempted
to go to strong drink and rush into bad
surroundings. The other day, when yon
will especially need divine grace, will
be when you have had a day of great
success and the devil tells you you must
go and celobruto that success. Then you
will want the grace of God to restrain
you from rollicking indulgences. Yes,
there will bo a third day when you will
need to be Christians, and that will be
tho last day of your life. I do not know
where you will spend it. Perhaps in
your house, moro probably In a rail car,
or a steamer, or the strange hotel. I see
you on your last commercial errand.
You have bidden goodby to the family
at home for the last time. The train of
your earthly existence Is nearing the
depot of the grave. Tho brffkes are fall
ing. Tho bell rings at the terminus.
Tho train stops. All out for eternity.
Show your ticket now for getting into
the gate of the shining city—the red
ticket washed in the blood of tho Lamb.
tin* Klondike.
Mr. A. C. Thomas, of Marysville,
Tex., has found a more valuable dis
covery than has yet been made in the
Klondike. For years he suffered un
told agony from consumption, ac
companied by hemorrhages; and
was absolutely cured by Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. Ho declares
that gold is of little value in compar
ison with this marvelous cure;
would have it, even if it cost a hun
dred dollars a bottle. Asthma, Bron
chitis and all throat and lung affec
tions are positively cured by Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump
tion. Trial bottles free at Du Pre
Drug Co. Regular sizes 60cts. and
$1.00. Guaranteed to cure or price
refunded.
The train boy books moie passen
gers than the general passenger
agent.
Not one child dies where ten form
erly died from croup. People have
learned tho value of One Minute
Cough Cure and use it for severe lung
and throat troubles. It immediately
stops coughing. It never fails. Cher
okee Drug Co.. Gaffney, S. C., and R.
S. Withers, Blacksburg, S. C.
Patience is all right in its placo,
but it is better to back tenacity to
win.
Beauty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. AJ^drug-
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c,:
Building and Plasterii]
ter Hair, Dynamite,*
mite Caps, call on
THE LIMESTONl
"Telephone 57
IVotioe*!
For the next 110 days I will
si’ll you, for cash, dry goods, no
tions, shoes, hats, groceries, tin
ware, hardware, etc., at eut^
prices, i ]i> packages of parch
ed colieo for 10c. Good green
coliee 10c per lb; medium, LI
lbs lor $i. A feV made-up suite
at a low figure. Call and fcoe
my prices. Yours respectfully.
I. M. PEELER.
3,/*
SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 3
Candented Sohodale of I'awengar Trots*
In Effect Oct. 10, IbM.
Vet. No 18
Northbound. No.lfc Jfo. 8# K*. No, 3%
Ball) Daily. s an . Daily.
Lv
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Ar. Atlanta, central tune
~“ Ii A”a. m. r, P" p. m. “M” noon. “N’* night
insr
‘SI
Line Steamers in daily hcrvteft
altlmore.
nt.
Chttsapeake Line St«
between Norfolk and t
Nos. 37ftnd38--Diiily. Washington end Soafls-
vrestoru Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman
Sleeping oars between New York and New Or
leans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgom
ery, and also between New York mdMemphis,
viuWashnif ton, Atlanta and Birmiughotn. First
class thoroughfare coaohes between Washing
ton and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all xueesn
eu route Pullman draw ins-room sleeping ea>*a
between Greeasbero and Norfolk. Giose co.«
section at Ferfelk for OLD POINT CaMJrokl?
arriving there la Uro* for breakfast
Noe. 31 and 80—United States
run* solid between Washington and
leans, via Southern Railway, A. 4k W.
and L. A N. K. R.. being corn posed of baggapt
ear and ooaches, t> rough without change ft y
passouger#-of all olawws. Pullman drawl* ;
room s.eeplng oar* between Now -York anl
New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomer
Leaving Washington each Wednesday,a tourG
will r ''
sleeping car
in^tou and San
run through between Was t
Francisco without chang-4
■ anciaco
Nos. 11,3*. 58 and 12—Pullman sleeping ea t
between Richmond and Charlo; to, via Dan
southbound Nos. 11 and 37, northbound
88 and 13
FRANK S. GANNON. J. M. CULP,
Third Y-P. 4k Gen. Mgr„ Traffic M'g*:
Washington, D. Ii 'Waehini “
W. A. TURK, 8. EL BAR]—
Gen'l Pass. Ag’t,, Ass’t
w afthington, D, C.
Lime, Coal, Slung'
|Blasting Powder, Fu:
|E SPRINGS LIME
CARROLL & C
SOUTH CAROLINA & (f EORGIA RAM
TIME TAID*!.<-; -VO. ,3.
HI EFFECT 12.01 A. M., SWROAT, OCTOBER, 20, I8i!
WKST—1st (’pass Daily.
Leaves, a. nt.. 7 10 .Chari
a. m„ 0 30 Auff
a. in., 1120 Colei
“ a. m„ 10 10 Kins
LAST-
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Smyrna.
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Mooresboro
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STATIONS.
(Sunday Excepted.),
Blacksburg . .
Cherokee Fails...
..., Gaffney
Train No. 77, going wi st, tnaks daylight connection at Lancaster with the K. A (R. : at
Rock Hill ult.li the Southern R. Ii.. gidnc norths a'. Ula'.Li-lri, - r bn yeittnrZ; ""’irtiTu
No. 7H» JfoftSf.'casl. tnakdWcdnnectfon at .Marlon, N. <w :tli the - iiiUi rn R 1 it |». ;, s .
hurg with the Southern, and at Lancaster with the K.\. C. R. R. Praia No Ml, foln.- east,
makes connection at Hhulby. N. C.. with the S. A. L. It, K.. going Mtsi. All local iroight
trains will carry passengers if provided w.th tickets.
L. A. EMMERSON, Traffic Manager.
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