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The text Is Isiiiali xxv, 11, "lie shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadetb forth his hands.” In the summer season multitudes of people wade Into the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas to dive or float or swim. In a world the most of which is water all men and women should learn to swim. Some of you have learned the side stroke Introduced by George Pewters in IHCiO, eaeli stroke of that kind carrying the swimmer a distance of six feet, and some of you may use the overhand stroke invented by Gar dener, the expert who by it won the 50b yard championship in Manchester in 1802, the swimmer by that stroke car rying his arm In the air for a more lengthened reach, and some of you may tread the water as though you had been made to walk the sea, but most of you usually take what Is call ed the breast stroke, placing the hands with the backs upward, about live inches under the water, the inside of the wrists touching the breast, then pushing the arms forward coincident with the stroke of the feet struck out to the greatest width possible, and you thus unconsciously illustrate the mean ing of my text, "lie shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadetb forth his hands to swim.” The i'shernian seeks out unfrequent ed nooks. You stand all day on the bank of a river in the broiling sun and fling out your line and catch nothing, while an expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock and, in a place where no fisherman has been for ten years, throws out his line and comes home at night, his face shining and his basket full. 1 do not know why we ministers of tbe gospel need always be lisbing in the same stream and preaching from tl.e same texts that other people preach from. 1 ciiunot understand the policy of the minister who in Bhickfriars, London, England, every week for 30 years preached from the Epistle to the Hebrews. It is an exhilaration to me when 1 come across a theme which I feel no one else has treated, and my text is one of that kind. There are paths in God's word that tire well beat en by Christian feet. When men want to quote Scripture, they quote the old passages that every one has heard. When they want a chapter read, they read a chapter that all the other people have been reading, so that the church today is ignorant of three-fourths of the Bible. l*iii.li Do tv it Iiiliintty. You go into tlie Louvre at Baris. Y T ou confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. As you come out your friend says to you, “Did you see that UembrandtV” "No.” “Did you see that UubeusV" “No.” "Did you see that Titian?” "No.” "Did you see that Raphael?” "No.” “Welt,” says your friend, “then you did not see tlie Louvre.” Now, my friends, I think wo are too much apt to confine our selves to one of the great corridors of Scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person out of a million who has ever noticed tlie all suggestive and powerful picture in the words of my text. 'rids text represents God as a strong swimmer, striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. “lie shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swiimneth spreadetli forth Ids hands to swim.” The figure is bold and many sided Most of you know how to swim. Borne of you learned it in the city school, w here this art is taught; some of you in boyhood, in the river near your'fa ther's house; some of you, since you came to manhood or womanhood, while summering on the beach of the sea. It is a good thing to know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you will after awhile perhaps have to help others. 1 do not know anything more stirring or sublime than to see some man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras into the sea to save Charles Turner, who had dropped from the royal yard while trying to loosen tin* sail, bringing him back to the deck amid the huzzas of the passengers and crew. If a man lias not enthusiasm enough to cheer In such circumstances, he deserves himself to drop into the sea and have no one help him. The Koynl Humane Society of England was established In 1771, its object to ap plaud and reward those who should pluck up life from the deep. Any one who lias performed such a deed of dar ing has till the particulars of that bravery recorded in a public record and on Ids breast a medal done In blue and gold and bronze, anchor and mono gram and Inscription, telling to future generations the bravery of tlie man or woman who saved some one frout drowning. But if it Is such a worthy thing to save a body from the deep I ask you if it is not a worthier thing to save an Immortal son!. And you shall see this hour tlie Son of God step forth for tills achievement. “He shall spread forth Ids hands In the midst of them, as In) that swimmeth spreadetli forth his hands to swim.” Mon( Iliilcfal Word. In order to uuderstand the full force of this llgute, you need to realize that our race Is in a sinking condition. You sometimes hear people talking of wont they consider the most beautiful words In our language. Oik* mnu says It is "home,” another tiinu says it Is tho word "mother,” another says It Is the word ".Igsns,” but I tell you the bitter est word in ^11 our language, the word most angry and baleful, the word sat- united with the most trouble, the word that accounts for all the loathsomeness and tlie pang and tlie outrage and the harrowing, and that word Is "sin.” You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters describe tliu circuit!- feren and pierce the diameter of ev erything bud lu tlie universe. Bln Is a sibilant word. Yntt cannot pronounce it without giving the si»s of tlie Hume or the hiss of the serpent. Bin! And then If you add three letters to that word It describes every one of us by nature—sinner. \Ve have outraged the law of God, not occasionally, or now and then, but perpetually. The Bible declares It. Hark! It thunders two claps: "The heart Is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.” "The soul that slnneth, It shall die.” What the Bible says our own con science uft>ms. After Judge Morgan bad sentenced Lady Jane Grey to death his conscience troubled him so much for the deed that he became insane, and all through his insanity be kept saying: "Take her away from me! Lady Jane Grey! Take her away! Lady Jane Grey!” It was the voice of conscience. And no man ever does anything wrong, however great or small, but bis conscience brings that matter before him, and at every step of Ids misbehavior It says, “Wrong, wrong!” Sin is a leprosy; sin is a paralysis; sin Is a consumption; sin Is pollution; sin Is death. Give It a fair chance, and It will swamp you and me, body, mind and soul, forever. In this world it only gives a faint Inti mation of its virulence.,,You see a pa tient In the first stages of typhoid fe ver. Tlie cheek is somewhat flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a slight chill. "Why,” you say, "ty phoid fever does uot seem to be much of a disease.” But wait until tlie pa tient has been six weeks under It, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect gone, then you see the full havoc of tlie disease. Now, sin in this world Is an ailment which Is only in its first stages, but let It get under full sway, and It Is an all con suming typhoid. Oil, if we could see our uupardoned sins as God sees them, our teeth would chatter aud our kuees would knock together, and our respira tion would be choked, and our heart would break. If your sins are uuforgiv- on, they are bearing down on you, and you are sinking—sinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed. IliKlt Water Marie. Then what do we want? A swim mer—a strong swimmer, a swift swimmer! And, blessed be God, lu my text we have him announced. “He shall spread forth his hands In (lie midst of them, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim.” You have noticed that when a swimmer goes to rescue any one lie puts off his heavy ap parel. He must not have any such im pediment about him If he Is going to do this great deed. And when Christ step ped forth to save us he shook off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free, and then he stepped down into tlie wave of our transgressions, and it came up over his wounded feet, and It came above the spear stab in his side — aye, it dashed to the lacerated tem ple, the high water mark of anguish. Then, rising above the flood, "He stretched forth Ids hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spread- eth forth his hands to swim.” If you have ever watched a swim mer, you notice that his whole body Is brought into play. Tlie arms are flex ed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head Is thrown hack to escape strangulation, the whole body is It! propulsion. And when Christ sprang into the deep to save us he threw ids entire nature into it- nll Ids godhead, Ids omniscience, his goodness, ids love, his omnipotence, head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out ou the sea and so deep down in the waves and so far out from tlie shore that nothing short of an en tire God could save us. Christ leaped out for our rescue, saying, "Lo, 1 come to do thy will!” aud all the surges of human and satanic hate beat against him, and those who watched him from the gates of heaven feared he would go down under the waves and Instead of saving others would himself perish; hut, putting ids breast to tbe foam and shaking the surf from Ids locks, he came ou and ou until he Is now within the reach of every one here, eye om niscient, heart infinite, arm omnipo tent, mighty to save, even unto the uttermost. Oh, it was uot half a God that tram pled down bellowing Geuncsuret; It was not a quarter of a God that mas tered tlie demons of Gadara; it was not two-thirds of a God that lifted up Laz arus into the arms of his overjoyed sisters; it was uot a fragment of a God who offered pardon and peace to all the race. No. This mighty swimmer threw Ids grandeur, Ids glory, Ids might, his wisdom. Ids omnipotence and his eternity into this one act. It took both hands of God to save us— holli feet. How do I prove It? On the cross were not both hands nailed? Ou the cross were not both feet spiked? His entire nature involved In our re demption! Jesua Alone. If you have lived much by the wa ter, you notice also that If any one Is going out to the rescue of the drown ing he must he Independent, self reli ant, able to go alone. There may be a time when he must spring out to save one, and he cannot get a lifeboat, and if he goes out mid has not strength enough to bear himself up and bear another up he will sink, and Instead of dragging ore corpse out of the billows j’ou will hata two fo drag out. When Christ sprang out luro the sea to de liver us, lie had no life buoy. His Father did not help him. Alonu In the wine press, alone lu the pang, alone In the darkness, alone on the mountain, alone In the sen! Oh, If ho saves us he shall have all the credit, for "there was none to help," no oar, no wing, no ladder! When Nathaniel Lyon fell In the battle charge In front of his troops, lie had a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang into the contest and plunged In the spurs till the horse's llnuks spurted blood, all France applauded him. But Jesus alone! "Of tlie people there was none to help." “All forsook him and fled.” Oh, It was not a fiotlUa that sailed down and saved us. It was not a clus ter of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one person, Independent and alone, "spreading out his hands among us as a swimmer spreadetli forth his hands to swlin!” Behold, then, the spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ (lie swim mer! I believe It was lu 1848 when there were six English soldiers of the Fifth fuslleers who were hanging to a capsized boat—a boat that had been upset by a squall three mile* from shore. It was lu the night, but one man swam mightily for the beach, guided by the dark mountains that lifted their top through (ho ulght. lie came to tbe beach. He found a shore man that consented to go with him and save (lie other men. aud they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where tho men were, but after awhile they heard their cry. "Help, help!" and they bore down to them, and they saved them and brought them to shore. Oh, that tills moment our cry might be lifted long, loud and shrill till Christ, the swim mer, shall come and tako us lest we drop a thousand fathoms under! Tfc«t tiospel l rui'nt. If you have beau much by the water, you know very well that when ouu Is In peril help must come vary quickly, or it will be of ue use. One minute may decide cverythiug. Immediate help the man wunm or no help at all. Now, that is just tlie kind of relief we want. The case Is urgent, Imminent, Instantaneous. See that soul sinking! Son of God, lay hold of him. Be quick, be quick! Oh, 1 wish you all under stood how urgent this gospel la. There was a man In the navy at sea who had been severely whipped for bud behavior, aud he was maddened by It and leaped Into the sea, and no sooner had he leaped Into the sen than, quick as lightning, an albatross swooped upon him. The drowning man, brought to his senses, seized hold of the albatross and held on. Tbe flut tering of the bird kept him on the wave until relief could come. Would now that tlie dove of God’s convict ing, converting and saving spirit might flash from the throne upon your soul and that you, taking hold of its potent wing, might live and live forever. The world has had strong swimmers besides tbe one of the text, perhaps the greatest among them Matthew Webb of the British mercantile marine serv ice. He leaped from the deck of the Russia, the Canard steamer, to save the life of a sailor who had fallen over board. No wonder the passengers sub scribed for him a large reward and tbe Royal Humane Society of London dec orated him with honors. A mighty swimmer was he, by the strength of his own arm and foot pushing through the waters from Blackwall pier to Graves end pier, 18 miles, and from Dover to Calais, JO miles, where he crossed, yet he was drowned at last In our Ni agara's whirlpool. But the strong swimmer of my text put out alone to swim a wrathier sea and for vaster distance, even from world to world, to save us who were swamped In guilt and woe, and brought us to the shore of safety, although he at last went down into the whirlpool of human and satanic rage. "He descended into hell!” Not a New Invention. New modes have been invented for rescuing a drowning body, but there lias been no new invention for rescuing a drowning soul. In 1785 Lionel Lukin, a Loudon coach builder, fitted up a Norway yawl as a lifeboat and called it the Insubmergible, and that has been Improved upon until from all the coasts of tlie round world perfect life boats are ready to put out for the relief of marine disasters. In Id years the French Society For Saving Life From Shipwreck, by their lifeboats and gun apparatus saved 2,121) lives. The Ger man Association For the Rescue of Life From Shipwreck, the Royal Na tional Lifeboat Institution and our United State's life saving service have done a work beyond the power of statistics to commemorate. What rocket lines and sling life buoys and tally boards and mortars and ham mocks and cork uinttressea and life saving station* filled with machinery for saving the bodies of tha drowning! But let me her# and now make it plain that there has been no new way In vented for tbe moral and eteraal res cue of a struggling soul. Five hundred attempts at such contrivance have been made, but all of them dead failures. Hear It! "There Is none other name under heaven given among men where by we must be saved” than tbe uame of Jesus. The mighty swimmer of my text comes down off the bench of heav en and through the breakers, comes buffeted and bruised, and, reddening the waves from his own lacerations, he cries: “Lay hold of my arm! Rut your head on my shoulder! Hear the beating of my loving heart! Be ye saved, for I uni God, and there Is no other!” I want to persuade you to lay hold of this stroug swimmer. "No," you say; "It Is always disastrous for a drowning man to lay hold of a swim mer.” There Is not n river or lake but has a calamity resultant from the fact that when a strong swimmer went out to save a sinking man tlie drowning man clutched him, threw his anus around him, pinioned his arms, and they both went down together. When you are saving a man In the water, you do not want to come up by his face. Y'ou want fo come up by his back. Y’ou do uot want him to hold you while you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so strong a swlrair.er he comes not to our back, but to our face, and he asks us to throw around him the arms of our love and then promises to take us to the beach, and lie will do It. Do not trust that plank of good works. Do uot trust that shivered spar of your own righteousness. Christ only can give you safe transportation. Turn your face upon him, ns the dying martyr did In olden times when he crlod out: "None but Christ! None but Christ!” Jesus has taken millions to the land, and he Is willing to take yeti there. Oh, what hardness to thrust him hack when he has been swimming all the way from the throne of God. where you aro now, and Is ready to swim nil the way back again, taking your re deemed spirit! Don’t Slrnitvle. I have sometimes thought what a spectacle the ocean bed will present when In the last day tlie water is nil drawn off. It will be a line of wrecks from beach to bench. There Is where the harpoouers went down. There Is where the line of battle ships went down. There Is where tlie merchant men went down. There Is where the steamers went down, a long line of wrecks from bench to bench. What a spectacle lu the last day, when the water Is drawn off! But, oh, how much more solemn If we had an eye to see the spiritual wrecks and the places where they foundered! Y’ou would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came down in their awful catastrophe, putting out for their souls, "spreading forth his hands as a swimmer spreadetb forth Ids hands to swim,” but they thrust biiu In tbe ^re heart, and they smote bis fair cheek, and the storm and durkneNA swallowed them up. I ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold of him now. Y’ou will sink without 1dm. From horizon to horizon not one sail In sight, only one strong swimmer, with head flung back and arms out spread. 'I hear many saying: "Well. I would like to be a Christian. 1 cm going to work to become a Christian.” My brother, you begin wrong. When a man is drowning and a strong swim mer comes out to help him, he says to him: "Now, be quiet. Rut your arm on my arm or ou my shoulder, but don’t struggle, don’t try to help yourself, and I’ll take you ashore. The more you struggle aud tbe more you try to help yourself tlie more you impede me. Now, be quiet, and I’ll take you ashore.” When Christ, the strong swimmer, comes out to save a soul, the siuner says: "That’s right. I am glad to see Christ, and I am going to help 1dm in the work of my redemp tion. 1 am going to pray more, and that will help him, and 1 am going to weep extravagantly over my sins, and that will help him.” No; It will uot. 'Stop your doing. Christ will do all or none. You cannot lift an ounce, you cannot move an inch, in tlds matter of your redemption. I.ny Hold of Christ. This is the difficulty which keeps thousands of souls out of the kingdom of heaven. It Is because they cannot consent to let Jesus Christ begin and complete tlie work of their redemp tion. “Why,” you say, “then is there nothing for me to do?” Only one thing have you to do, and that is to lay hold 7>f Christ and let him achieve your salvation and achieve it all. I do uot know whether I make the mat ter plaiu or uot. I simply want to show you that a man cannot save him self, but that the Almighty Son of God can do it and will do it if you ask him. Oh, fling your two arms, the arm of your trust and the arm of your love, around this omnipotent swimmer of the cross! "Have you ever stood by and seen some one under process of resuscitation after long submergence? The strong swimmer has put him on the beach aft er a struggle in the waters. To excite breathing in tlie almost lifeless body what manipulation, what friction of the cold limbs, what artificial move ment of the lungs, what breath of the rescuer blown into tbe mouth of the rescued! Aud when breathing begins, and after awhile the slight respiration becomes the deep sigh, and the eyes open, and the blue lips take on a smile, what rejoicing, what clapping of hands all up aud down the beach, what congratulation for the strong swimmer and for all who helped in the restora tion, what shouting of “He lives, he lives!” Like this is tlie gladness when a soul that has been submerged in sin and sorrow Is "coming to.” What de sire on tlie part of all to help, and, when under the breath of God and un der the manipulation hy the wounded hands of Christ, the life eternal of the soul begins to show itself, all through the ranks of spectators, terrestrial and celestial, goes the cry: “lie lives! Re joice, for the dead is alive again!” May the living Christ this moment put out for your rescue, “spreading his hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadetb his hands to swi-*!” GOT HIS DISCHARGE. THINGS CAME JUST RIGHT FOR THE NAVAL MACHINIST. An Incident of n Three Yenrw’ ('mine on Hie Vennonl XV lileli (iocm (•• Show How SinnII, After Ail. Thin (treat World of Ourti Kently In. Several years ago a quiet young chap shipped as a machinist in the navy abosn# the receiving ship Ver mont at the Brooklyn navy yard. He gave San Francisco as his place of nativity. He was assigned to a cruiser about to start for tho China station by the Suez canal route. He was a crack mechanic and very soon showed the engineers that he knew how to earn his rate and wages. He never said much about himself. He wasn’t any thing of what Is called a “inan-o’-war chaw,” and, although he had been up and down the world a good deal, S he let others do tlie talking. He was j perhaps the quietest man lu the Amur- j lean navy at the time he served. His ship got to the Asiatic station | all right and cruised back and forth I there between China and Japan for i close on to three years. Then she was I ordered hack to the United States. | She had a lot of “overtime” men [ aboard of her by that time, sailors whose time had expired, but who pre ferred to wait until they reached the United States before they took their j discharges. When the ship was or dered back home, a lot of overtime men from other ships on tlie Asiatic station were sent to her to be brought back to this country. This machinist—call him Beall—had just 21 days left of his three year en listment wlien the ship left Yokohama for San Francisco via the Hawaiian Islands. All of the overtime men were talking about their trip around from San Francisco to New York by passenger steamer. They had all ship- lied at the Brooklyn navy yard, and the navy always sends men to the point whence it takes them when they enlist unless they “waive transporta tion” for the purpose of stopping oil’ at an intermediary point. It took the ship 1! days to “fetch up” Honolulu from Yokohama, and then Beall, the machinist, had live days yet to serve. “Are you going to waive transporta- The Place *o Buy year Fresh Meal: ill L. W. MeUninn'.-i up-nufUn iii.-ut 1 marki .. tlio only market run In city style. I alwiys lie vi fine hi i f, Pork. Miition, Sausa/i: and I isii; a Is j ( ountl v Pl<vliice Hlid ' Poultry when they can lx* (rotten. Fancy j Gro 'i t ii **. < i. ir- and Tob.n'i ■ ('nine, ol rail phone No. tilt. IhirneM block. Good fat rattle and _"’ecn hides wanti<1: wlU-puy spot r. »h for t hem. Respect fell y L. W. S. C. Si G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. j. In Eflect 12:01 A. M.. Sunday, October, 1st, 1899 Between Camden. S. C.. end Blacksburg, S. C. i: \sri.ttN miK. STATIONS. Sunday, r. m. Except Sunday. tion and drop < are you going The Conversion of Chinn, William Elliott Gritlis, a writer on Chinese mutters, says: “If Christian missions in China advance in tlie next 35 years In the same ratio as in the past 35 years, there will be at the end of that time 26,000,000 of communi cants and a Christ ;n community of 100,(XX),000 people, one-fourth of the Chinese nation.” A Conpr Servlet*. In romote parts of Scotland tlie old Covenanters’ love for long services on the bare hillside still lingers. At Ding wall a recent communion service In tiie open air lasted from 10 a. in. until 4 p. io. without exhausting the staying pow er of the congregation. The Limestone Slur. Tho young ladies wlio edit the Limestone Star are nothing if not progressive. They have issued the following circular to the former stu dents of tlie college: To Alumnae and former students of Limestone: The “LimestoneStar” hasjust risen upon the literary world, and to each old student of Limestone into whose home it sheds its beams this month tiie editors send loving greeting. A’e hope you will feel the need of its light each month. We have chosen the name advisedly, for Limcsone is a place which fosters lofty aspira tions. The “Star” is to scintillate with the wit and wisdom of its con tributors, and the sentiments ex pressed are to lift our minds above tho dross of earth to the starry heights of tho literary world. All of us who have studied at Limestone and have gone away know how eagerly wo glean every item of news about the ohl girls and how much we are interested in all that pertains to dear old Limestone. Through the “Star” you may keep in clcse touch with your Alma Muter. The paper will be a bond of union between us and those who are absent- Every t me we send it our thoughts will go out lovingly to }0U uml when you read it many pleasant memories of auld iang syne will come trooping up. Will not ouch one send her name to our business manager to be entered on the subscription list? Wo feel that you are ready to encourage us in any worthy uuderlaking and we shall feel disappointed if even one old student is not numbered among our subscribers. The subscription price is twenty-five cents a year. V’ery truly yours, Vikgixia Bates, Annuo May Martin, Violet Mookeiieai*, Agnes Littlejohn, Sl'HtE Dukst, The Editors. Colt It IK NaI'IKK, e. \t i ■ MDEN 4. 12 M. 10 D! ;is A LB 11 :ir .... w J 1VILLE ..ill .-•*> .... KF RSIIAW ...II 10 HEATH SPRINGS .Id *>7 PLEAS A NT HILL .. 10 LAN . ASIHR ...10 .,) .... Kl \ ! RSI DM . to 2t > .. SPRi Mi DELL . Ill) Ii AT AW H A .1 E .ACTION . , .. 1 !l) uo LI E-SLIE ! <1 ;V) .... HOC K HILL ...; !) 40 NE- " PORT . ..j !) 15 TI R/. Ml !) 10 . Yoi: KVILLE « 55 ■ 11 A RON . .' 8 40 II IcKo 1!Y GROVE .... ...; S !.V> SMYRNA i 8 15 BLA* ' I v S i SI 1C (J .. 1 55 | A. M. Y at San Francisco, or around to New York Between Biacksbiirg.S.C., and Marion,N.C. VV eat. I i East. lit. ■Ml'!',.* EASTEKN TIME. 2d t loss. lllxed. - r Mixed. - 1 utily. Diiily. Except STATIONS. Except Fu min v. Sunday. A. M• | 1*. M. 8 |0|. , BLACKSBURG 1 c. 40 s . . EARLS. ... : ii 8<l s <o' .... . PATTERSON SPRING s r, 12 ') e<l| SHELBY .. . ! || ik) to 0 LA I' !'! MORE i 1 50 Ill lie ... MOOR ESIiOUO. i 4 40 10 . .. HENRIETTA 1 4 -it) 10 5m| . . Ft fftKST CITY. . . . ;j .7) 11 i.V Kl rUEREOKi) ION. | 4 *5 '1 85' .. MlU.WiO!) ■ j (tfi II C> .. GOLDEN VALLEY — 7i 1:2 or, ..THERMAL CITY | *4 45 1« )! . GLEN \V<Mil) .. :J iO 12 r» :, i . . MARloN 1 2 00 with us?” the men asked him when tlie ship pulled into Honolulu. “Don’t know yet,” the machinist re plied. After coaling at Honolulu—which took four days, done leisurely—the skipper of the ship decided to take a bit of a run around tlie Hawaiian Is lands before up anchoring for San Francisco. Beall's time expired on the morning that his ship was headed for Lahnina, on the island of Maui, a lit tle sail of about 85 miles from Hono lulu. The ship dropped her anchor within about 300 yards of the Lahaina beach along toward 3 o’clock in the I afternoon. The Island of Maul is very beautiful to look upon—a veritable gem of the ocean. If swell a one was ever fashiou- | ed by tho hand of the creator. Beall, j the machinist, was off watch and standing on tlie toVallant fo’c’sle, ' smoking his pipe, when the ship cast j her anchor off Lahaina. There was some longing in his quiet gray eyes. He knocked the ashes out of his pipe, stretched ids arms and then walked down to the mainmast ami told the of ficer of the deck that lie wanted to see the commanding officer. The command ing officer came out of his cabin. “What is it, my man?" he asked the machinist. “My time Is out, sir.” said the ma chinist. "I guess I’ll take my dis charge here.” The commanding officer looked sur prised. "This Is rather a queer notion,” he said. “Y’ou shipped in New Y’ork, did you not? I should think you would want to get back to the United States after your three years on the China station. Or, at any rate, that you would prefer to wait until we get back to Honolulu, if you want to waive transportation mid take your discharge down here among the islands. Why do you want your discharge today aud here?” The machinist smiled as he replied: "Because this island here, Maui, Is my home. At this moment my father and mother and seven brothers aud sisters are on this island. They are at a place not very far from Lahaina, call ed Spreckeisville. The girl that 1 am going to marry is also there. I was fiorn in Frisco, but my father came down to lids Island as engineer of a sugar plantation when I was 2 years old. None of them know that 1 am within just a few miles of home now. I want to give them a little surprise. 1 waive transportation, aud I’ll tako my discharge now.” The commanding officer listened to the recital with interest.* “Of course we’ll give you your dis charge, son,” he said, “although I’m sorry to lose you, ami I had hoped you might ship over. Close mouthed men are wanted in tin* navy. You owe us some thanks, 1 think, for starting you off at New York, taking you around the world for three years and then fetching you up within an hour or so of your home on the very day your time is out. To all intents and pur poses, we have been a yacht for you.” It was rather a remarkable happen ing for a fact. The machinist packed Ids tilings and went over the side, amid the pleasant salutations of the men, about two hours later, with Ids bag mid hammock and a couple of thou sand dollars in gold, his savings dur ing the cruise. A couple of hours later he was with Ills people and his sweet-. h(*nrt in Spreckeis ville. it is u small world.— Washington Star. 1*. M. 1 t Class. | Gaffney Divisicn. EAST GUN TIME. STATIONS. /. r '! A .'i 1 A 4! I" ,.| r. ::•> till) !tL.\( KSItnu; . i;, :r, ;> r> ii < iii.roki:i. falls ; w i, ■;n •i i ’ ti !!l . CiAf I NLY .Tlti ii 05 1’ " A M | A M 1’ M Yranis Nos. :“J anil It! conned at BlacKs- !>\:'-r with trains on the GatCmy IMvision. !.".t':i N< . T.’i-oaiicd ; at Cannlen v.iihtiio R.. at Cat aw ha S. A. L.. itointf North; i to:n No. 'I connects at BlacUshun.' with I he Southern Railway from l lie S<mt Ii. At. Marion. N. ( v.iih the* Southern R.tllwav iroing West. NAMIEL Hi NT. i’resiilent. A. TEJl'l’, Sii|>eri:itcii<i«:nt. S. I!, LI AITKIN, (Jou‘1. Tiissen^er A(;eiit. < il’inrst« m 1 >i vision of 11 for oil pi 1 ints south. Train .No. ‘'.5 !c;i vin^ < ':i . : ..y. ,. -1, makes count S. i\. wit Ii tbe L. .1 c. .1 met ion with t lie S. j ;U Kook Hill with tie; .•'oinjr No l-tli. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 1 C«c<lctis«!l Srli».iIiito of Tatsen^ep Train*. In Effect June llth, 1300. Ven. No. 18 Fat. Ml Ncrthbouud. No. 12 No. 3H Kx. No. 36 Doily Dully. Sun. Daily. Lv. Atlanta, C.T. 7 00 a 12 00 m 4 35 p 11 50 P 41 Atlanta, E. T. 8 5 J a 1 U0 p 5 85 p 12 50 • 44 Norcross l) 30 n 8 ‘28 p 1 30 ■ 44 Buford 1005 c 7 Cb p 2 25 . • 44 (iainesville... 10 3i a 2 22 p 7 43 p • 44 Lula 10 .'*8 a 2 42 p 8 10 p 2 50 » 44 ('oruolis 11 25 a 3 U0 p 8 35 p Ar. Mt. Airy It 3d a S !0p 3 42 . * Lv 1 OCvJOkl • . ..... i i O-S !• 3 U p 0 05 p ft u West minster !2 2! ui l 20 ft 41 Keue-a ! 2 52 i) 4 15 p 4 37 ft 44 Central 1 48 p 5 02 ft 41 Greenville. . 2 84 p 5 22 p 5 50 ft 44 Spartanb jrg. 8 87 p IS 13 p 8 45 ft 44 (IfjTnpvs 4 20 p (5 40 p ,...... 7 25 ft 44 Iffnck.J.eirg. • 4 83 p 7 02 p ....... 7 42 ft 44 King's 3It.... 5 U3 pj 8 05 ft II 5 -5 8 28 ft Lv. ('Imrlotte ... « :X) i* s is p l) 25 ft Ar G reensboro U .72 p 1U 47 p| 12 06 P Lv <• iveesboro. . ll 45 p Ar Norfolk S 20 a •• Ar D.invi’ilo .. .. 11 ‘25 p ii u P iw P Ar Richmond ... OU') a Ii 00 8 25 p Ar. Washington 8 42 a 9 05 d 44 Iv.'Rtl.i'e PER. s uo a 11 25 P 44 PhilamdoLia. 10 15 a 2 5tS ft II New- York .. 12 43 m t> 23 • Sonttibouu.l. rT'srr.r. it.ti: “ Philadelphia. Baltimore “ V ashinirton. Lv. Richmond ... Lv. llHiivlilo Lv. Norfolk . Ar (»i eensl>oro.. iFst.HI Yes. I No 11 No. .35 No. 37 Daily Daliv. IlalD. 12 T.i a; 4 au 3 .'>0 a ti 55 <i 2:‘ a| i> 20 11 U a 10 45 12 Oiun 11 00 W 0 02 p 5 80 n | S 35 p 5 15 r .L_ Lv. Gre.-nshoro Ar. ( iiuriotto .... Lv. Hastu’du “ re, **I f “ Kekdmrc. " UuiCnoy* ... " Bpartanborg. “ (ti eenvihe.... “ Central ” F. ueca “ Westminster. “ T< M-coa *• Mt. Airy " Cornelia “ Lula. " Cainesville... “ Buford •' Norcross Ar. Atlanta, E. T. 7 24 p i (i5 a !li) uo p y ii u 10 •fi) l> 10 07 o 11 31 p|10 45 a. 11 H p 1 > 53 a 12 23 all 34 1 25 h 12 30 4 08 4 30 4 iA 6 25 0 10 7 37 a 12 05m 1 12 ]> 1 33 p 2 03 p 2 24 p 3 15 p < 30 P -Soli. 5!*P Kx s 45 p ooo p 0 30 p 3 05 a 7 12 p « 30 8 00 p 7 13 p « & • 8 18 p 7 it* p fl 57 • 3 37 p 828 p 7 i) • | N 40 p ' 7 48 • #15 p 8 27 • 4 55 p 10 U0 p! 0 30 a 3 55 p # DO p 1 8 30 ■ M” noon. “N” ni^iiL ilenuty la Blood Deep. Clcfin blood means a clean skin. No beauty wit liout it. ('ascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your hlood and keep it clean, by -tining up the lazy liver and diiving all im- jiuritie* from the bodv. Begin to day to Inni'-h pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and timt sickly liilious complexion by taking Was the result of ins iplondid I Cascarets,—beauty for tenants. Alldrtn- •Hlth. Indomitable will and tre- i t "-' ' Uk,2ov, Business Manager. IRHinurk's Iron Serve health | mcndouB energy are not found where j | Stomach, Liver, Kidneys nntl Bow- j ela are out of order. If you want ♦ liese qualities and the success they ' bring use Dr. King’s New Life Rills. They develop every power of brain and bodv. Only 2.'» cents at Chero kee Drug Co. FREE! in it t ii rant. (’all ;tt the Cher okee Dni^ Co. Sind get a I :’i e sainplg . \\ ollonl s Kxjjccto- iireatebt couffh rem edy ul tlie ;>go, Ar Atlanta, C. T.I 3 lu "A” h. in. “P” p. m. Chesapeake! Linn iS'eaniera in daily aervio* between Norfolk mid Hu tinioru. Nos. 87 nnd its—Daily. \\ ashuiuton and South- western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullmaa sleeping ears betwiMju Now York ami New oi lcans. vm Washington, Atlanta and Montp on ery, and also ts-fween Now Y’ork and Memphis, viuW.ishini'ton.Atlantaand Binuin^liuin. Als4 *l<imnt PULLMAN LiHHAKY UBSICRV.V TION CAR8 tjotwemi Atlanta nml Now 3'ork. Ptrst Ths« thoroughfare coaches between Wa.-h* inKloiiaml Atlanta. Dinlnirearx nerveaU meitll on route. Pullman dinwinit-rooc: slroiiluKeuri between Gtei'iislioro and Norfolk Close con nection at Norfolk forOLD POINT COM POUT. Nos. 35 and 8ii—United Hatoa Fast Mail runs solid be*wrHti Washington and New Or ion.is, \ in Southern Hallway, A. Ac W. P. K. 1L ■ml L. A X. It. Ji., being coiniHMod of huggaif* car and conches, through without change fof ) iisseugers of all classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping ears lietweeu New Y’ork ana New Orleans, via Atlanta and Montgomery nod between Charlot’e ami Birmingham Alss } ullmnn Drawing Itooiu Buffet Sleeping Cart 1 etwe.ui Atlanta nnd Asheville. N.C. I.eavim Wii-hington rneh Tuesday nnd Friday, a tourist sleeiting ear will rmi through beiweea Wnshingti .i amt San Francisco without ahang* Dining ears serve ail meals *nrout« N'ti 11,3.1. 84 and 12 Pullnmn nb-enfirg car* be! a oen Richmond and • ’h t rlo tr, vl i llaii villix Mtuihhounl Nos. 11 aud tsi, noiThUmnd Xus. b4 uml 13 FRANK S. HANNON, J. M CULP, Third V P. & Hen Mgr., Traffic MVr. \Viistdugton, D. O. Washington, D. CL W A TURK. b. H H ARDWICK, (jt It l Hus:,. Ag't., Ass'tUcU 1 i'sss Ag't., WaMuagVwi*. D. U 4MNit* <i%