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'(Safety Fepoait Boxes at moderate Bent. \iluyH and hoIIh Htocka andBonds. , * w Buys County and Sdiool Ciaimn. Your busincsH solicited. PILLARS OF SMOKE. TRIALS OF TRUTH EXPRESSED WITH A BIBLICAL SYMBOL. Il*v. Dr. Talninite Sola Kordi ISio Snf- ferinii of Ihe Churrli of Cod In a I’oworfisl Sermon—A Plea I’or I nlty of Knilrnvor. [Copyright, Louis Klopseh. 1st!).] Wasih.ni.ton, live. 17. — The trials j through which the truth has struggled I are by l)r. Tahnage here set forth un- | der a Bible symbol of great suggestive- i ness and power; text. Soloinon’s Song, iii. 0, “Why is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” The architecture of the smoke is won drous, whether (lod with his linger curves it Into a cloud, or rounds it into a dome, or poiuts it in a spire, or spreads it iu a wing, or, as in the text, hoists it iu a pillar. Watch it winding up from the country farmhouse in the early morning, showing that the pas toral industries have begun, or see it ascending from the chimneys of the j city, telling of the homes ted, the fac- ! lories turning out valuable fabrics, the printing presses preparing hook and newspaper and all tin* in,HOC wheels of work in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mounts with such buoyancy, and spreads such a delicate veil across the sky. and traces such ! graceful lines of circle and semicircle, j and waves and tosses and sinks and j soars and scatters with such afllueuee | of shape and color ami suggestiveness j that, if you have never noticed it, you are like a man who has all his life liv- | ed in Paris and yet never seen the * Luxembourg, or all his life in Rome and never seen the Vatican, or all his life at I.ockport and never seen Niagara. Forty-four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that somebody preached a sermon recogniz ing this strange, weird, beautiful, clas tic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the volcanic hills when Cod touches them, and in my text the glorious church of Cod coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke. In the first (dace, these pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffer ing tlic church of Cod has endured. What d<> l mean by the church? L mean not a building, not a sect, but those who in all ages and all lands j and of all beliefs love Cod and are | trying to do right. For many centuries j the heavens have been black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set side by side, you could girdle the earth with the tiros of persecution Rowland Tay lor burned at lladleigh. Latimer burn ed at Oxford, John Rogers burned at Smitblield, John Hooper burned at Cloueostcr, John lluss burned at Con stance, Lawrence Saunders burned at Coventry, Joan of Arc burned at Rouen. CaMiollcs mid I'rotoNtantN. FroUstanis have n presented Cath olics as having a monopoly of perse cutors, but both IToiostant and Cath olic have practiced infamous cruellies. Tlie Catholics during the reign of Ituu- noric were by Protestants put to the worst tortures, snipped of their cloth ing. hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights .suspended from their feet, then let down, and ears and eyes, nose and longue were* amputated, and red hot plates of iron were put against the tenderest part of their bodies. Ceorge Bancroft, the historian, says of the state of Maryland: “In the land which Catholics had opened to Prot estants mass might not be said public ly, no Catholic priest or bishop might utter his faith in a voice of persuasion, no Catholic (night teach the young. If a wayward child of a papist would but become an apostate, the law wrest ed for him from Ids parents a share of their property. Such were the meth ods adopted to prevent the growth of popery.” Catholicism as well as Protestantism has had its martyrs. It does seem as if when any one sect got complete domlnaney in any land the devil of per secution and cruelty took possession of that sect. Then see the Catholies after the Huguenots. See the gentiles after the Jews in Touraine, where a great pit was dug and fire lighted at the bottom of the pit, and 1(50 Jewish victims were consumed. See the Pres byterian parliament of England, more tyrannical in their treatment of op ponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Bap tists by Piedo Baptists, persecution of the Established church against the Methodist church, persecution against the (Junkers, persecution against the Presbyterians, ruder Emperor Diocle tian 111,000 Christians were massa cred, and 700,000 more of them died from banishment and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the Wal- deiises, of the Albigenses, of the Nos- torians. Witness St. Bartholomew's massacre. Witness the Duke of Alva driving out of life 18,000 Christians. Witness Herod and Nero and Deelus and Hildebrand and Torqucumdn and Earl of Moutfort and Lord Claver- house, who, when told that he must give account for Ids cruelties, said. "I have no need to account to man, and as for God I will take him In my own hands.” A red line runs through the church history of 1,000 years, a line of blood. Not by the hundreds of thou sands, hut by tin* millions, must we count those slain for Christ’s sake. No wonder John Milton put the groans of the martyrs to an Immortal tune, wrlf- I Ing: AvcnK<*, O Lord. Iliy Hauylitcred saints, whose bom'* | Lie itutn-red on the Alpine mountains cold. The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies if rolling up all at once ' would have eclipsed the noonday sun | and turned the brightest day the world ever saw Into a midnight. "Who l» ‘ this tliul cometh up out of the wilder* 1 net's like pillars of smoke?” lias persecution censed? Ask that I young man who is trying to be a | t'ltrlsiian In a store or factory, where . from morning to night la* is the butt of I nil the mean witticism) or unbelieving employees. Ask Unit wife whose hus band m.aki s her fondness for the house of God and even her kneeling prayer by the hed^dc a derision and Is no ‘pore tit for her holy companionship Uatii a filthy crow would he lit com panion for u robin or a golden oriole. Compromise with the world ami sur render to Its conventionalities iitel it may let you alone, but all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer per secution. Be it theater going, card playing, wine drinking, round dancing Christian and you may escape criti cism and social pressure. But be an up and down, out and out follower of Christ, and worldling will wink to worldling as he speaks your name, and you will he put in many a doggerel and snubbed by those not worthy to black en your oldest shoes. When the bridge at Ashtabula broke and let down the most of the carload of passengers to in stant death. Mr. P. P. Bliss was seated on one side of the, aisle of the car writing down a Christian song which lie was composing, and on the other side a group of men wore playing cards. Whose landing place in eterni ty would you prefer—that of P. P. Bliss, the gospel singer, or of the card play ers? A great complaint comes from the theaters about the ladies’ high hats because they obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady reporter asked me what 1 thought about it, and I told her that If the indecent pictures of ac tresses in the show windows were ac curate pictures of what goes on in many of the theaters night by night then it would be well if the ladles’ hats were a mile high, so as to completely obstruct the vision. If professed Chris tians go to such places during the week, no om* will ever persecute them for their religion, for they have none, and they are the joke of hell. But let them live a consecrated ami Christian life and they will soon run against sneering opposition. Itniul ToRi-tlicr. For a compromise Christian charac ter an easy time now. but for conse crated behavior, grimace and carica ture. For the body, thanks to the God of free America, there arc now no swords or tiery stakes, lint for the souls of thousands of the good, in a figurative sense, rack and gibbet and Toniueinada. The symbol of the do mestic and social and private and pub lic* suffering of a great multitude of God's dear children, pillars of smoke. What an exciting scene iu India when, during the sepoy rebellion, a regiment of highlanders came up and found the dead body of one of General Wheeler’s daughters, who had been insulted and mauled and slain by the sepoys. So great was the wrath against these mur derers that the Seoteli regiment sat down, and. cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of General Wheeler, they divided it among them, and each one counted the number of hairs given him, and each took an oath, which was executed, that for each Lair of the murdered daughter they would dash out the life of a bestial sepoy. Pitt as we look over the story of those who iu all ages have suffered for the truth, while we have vengeance* to the Lord, let us band together in one solemn vow. one tremendous oath, after hav ing counted the host of the martyrs, that for each om* of tiiose glorious men and women who died for the truth an immortal shall live, live with God and live forever. But. as I already hinted in the first sentence* of this sermon, nothing can lx* more luar.t’.ful than the figures of smoke on a clear sky. Von can see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor, now enchanted castles, now troops of horsemen, now banner ed procession, now winged couriers, now a black angel of wrath >mdor a spear of tin* sunshine turned to an an gel of light, and now from horizon to horizon tin* air is a picture gallery filled with m.v tel pieces of which God •is the artist, burning clouds of smoke born iu tin.* sunrise and evening clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sep ulchers of the sunset. The beauty of tin* transfigured smoke is a divine symbol of the beauty of the church. The fairest of all tie* fair is sin*. Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke I lie church. They are the parasites of the church, not the church itself. Her mission is to cover the earth with a supernatural glad ness, to < pen all tin* prison doors, to balsam all the wounds, to moss all the graves, to burn up the night in the fireplace of a great morning, to change Iron handcuffs into diamonded wrist lets. to turn the whole race around and whereas it faced death, commanding it, “Right about face for lien von!" Ac cording to the number of the spires of the churches in a!) our cities, towns and neighborhoods are the good homes, the worldly prosperities and tlie pure morals and the happy souls, ('rime Mini Chiiroliea. Meet mo at any depot the world over, and with my eyes closed take mo by tin* hand and load me so that my feet will not stumble, and without my once looking down or looking on the level take me to some high roof or tower mid let me see the tops of tin* churches, and I will tell you tlie proportion of suicides, of arsons, of murders, of thefts. According as tlie churches are tminerous an* the crimes few. Ac cording as the churches are few the crimes are numerous. The most beau tiful organization tin* world ever saw or ever will set* is the nitteli maligned church, tlie friend of all good, the foe of all evil, “fair as tin* moon and clear ns the sun." Beautiful iu her Author, beautiful in her mission, tlie heroine of tile centuries, the bride of Christ, tin* queen of tin* nations! Men may desecrate it. as Cromwell, when he stabled ids cavalry horses in St. Paul's cntlicdrn!: or break off the •hi. i of Christ, ns did the . o. lasts In York minster; or hull again: I it au gust liierary antipathies, as did Gilt- bun; or plot its overthrow, as do some in every community whose pride and hate and debauchery an* reproved by the Ten Couiuiamluu tits v. hich it tlttin ders and the sermon en the mount which it ht'cnlhcs. But it will stand t. long us the earth stands, tin* same unique and wonder working and beatific and miniculous tiling for w hich God decreed it. Bmull w its tax their brain to say tilings that will put her at disadvantage, but many of them will send for its condolence when dy ing, and their children will lie gathered up under Us hunt-diet ions after tin* pa- rental curse has been removed. Through her gates will march all tlie influrnres for good that shall ever reach our world. Take her membership as a mass, not speaking of the acknowl edged exceptions, they are the noblest, grandest, kindest, best men and wo men of the ages. But for them the cuith would long ago have been a burned out volcano. They have been tlie salt that lias kept tin* hiiinnn race from putrefaction lusufferaldc either to human or angelic olfactories. You lying and hypocritical world, shut tqi those slanders about tin* church of Christ, an Institution which, far from being what It ought to be and never pretending to be perfect, is 500 times better than any other Institution that the world ever saw or ever dream ed of. The highest honor I ever had and the highest honor I shall ever re ceive and tlie highest honor 1 ever want is to have my name on her rec ords as a member. At her altars I re pented. At her sacraments I believed. In her service let me die. From her doors let me bo buried. O church of God! Thou home of tlie righteous! Thou harbor from tempest! Thou refuge for the weary! Thou lighthouse of many nations! Thou type of heaven! I could kiss thy very dust with ecstasy of affection. I-'or lu-r my tears shall (all, For her my prayers ascend. To her my toils and cares he given Till toils and cares shall end. “Perfumed smoke,” says Solomon In the words following my text. Not like the fumes coughed up from the throat of a steam pipe, or poisoned with the gases of chemical factories, or tloating in black wrath from the conflagration of homesteads, or sul phurous from blazing batteries, but sweet as a burning grove of cinna mon, or jungle of sassafras, or tlie odors of a temple censer. “Who is lids, that comoth out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense?” Hear It, men and women everywhere, that the advance of the genuine church of Christ means peace for all nations. Victor Hugo, in his book entitled “Ninety-three,” says: “Nothing calmer than smoke, but nothing more star tling. There are peaceful smokes, and there are evil ones. The thickness and color of a line of smoke make the whole difference between war and peace, between fraternity and hatred. The whole happiness of man or his complete misery is sometimes express ed in this thin vapor which the wind scatters at will.” The great French man was right, but I go further and say that as tho kingdom of God ad vances like pillars of smoke the black volumes belching from batteries of war and pouring out from portholes of ships will vanish. A distinguished general of our civil war told me that Abraham Lincoln proposed to avoid our civil contiiet by purchase of all the slaves of the south and setting them free. He calculated what would be a reasonable price for them, and when the number of mil lions of dollars that would be requir ed for such a purchase was aunouuced the proposition was scouted, and the north would not have made the offer, and Uk* south would not have accept ed it if made. "But,” said my military friend, “the war went on, and just the number of millions of dollars that Mr. Lincoln calculated would have been enough to make a reasonable purchase of all the slaves was spent in war, be sides all the precious lives that were hurled away in the 250 battles. In oth er words, there ought to be some other way for men to settle their controver sies without butchery. The church of God will yet become the arbiter of nations. If the world would allow it, it could today step in between Germany and France and set tle the trouble about Alsace and Lor raine, and between England and her antagonists, and between all the other nations (lint are flying at each other’s throats, and command pence and dis band armies, and harness for the plow the war horses or saddled .for cavalry charge. That time must come or through the Increased facility for shooting men and blowing up cities and whelming hosts to Instant death, so that we can kill a regiment easier than we could once kill a company and kill a brigade easier than we could once kill a regiment, the patent of fices of the world more busy than ever in recognizing new enginery of de struction. tlie liumnn race will after awhile go fighting with one arm, and hobbling wit!) one foot, and stumbling along with one eye, and some ingenious inventor, inspired of tlie archangel of all mischief, will contrive a machine that will bore a hole to the earth's center, and souk? desperate nation will throw into that hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a planet into frag ments, dropping the meteoric stones on surrounding stellar habitations. Column of I'enee. But this shall not be, for whatever I let go I hang on to my Bible, which tells me that the blacksmith’s" shop shall yet come to its grandest use when the warrior and the husbandman shall enter It side by side, and the soldier shall throw into its bank of fires Ids sword, and tlie farmer shall pick it up n plowshare, nu.l tlie stralghtest spear shall be bent Into a crook at each end. and then cut In two. and what was ono Spear snail tie two pruning nooks. Down with Moloch and up with Christ! Let no more war horses cat out of the manger where Jesus was born. Peace! Forever roll off the sky the black pillars of smoke from the Maren- gos and Sahunaneas and Borodiuos and Sedans and Gettysburgs of earth! And rigid after them roll Into the heav ens the peaceful vapors from the chim neys of farmhouses and asylums aud churches and capitals of Christian na tions, and as the sunlight strikes through these vapors they will write In letters of Jet and gold all over the sky from horizon to zenith, “Glory to God in tlie highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." While thinking of these things I look ed out from my window, aud the wind was violently blowing. And 1 saw from many chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and whirled in great velocity, volume after volume, fold after fold, and carried on the swift wind were the great pillars of smoke. And helped by Solomon hi the text 1 saw the speed of tin* church symbolized. Do you real ize tin* momentum the church of God Is under? Why, (la* smoke of a chim ney on tlie top of Mount Washington tvheu the wind is blowing (>'.) miles tho hour is slow as compared with the celerity of good luflueuces. For 50 cenlurles tlie devil laid it Ids own way among tin* nations. Nearly all the great missionary movements htive been started within the century, and see what one century lias done to recover tin* world from 50 centuries of devas tation. What great revivals! What iiilghiy churches! What saved mil' lions' From the ruins of Babylon and As syria and Nineveh and the valleys of the Nile conlliumtions have been ex humed, proving to nil fair minded men llml the Bilile is the truest book ever written. The mythologies of Egypt were found to have embodied Iu tlie tin; knovyledee of uiau's exmilsiou paradise and the sacrifice of a great emancipator. Moses’ account of the creation, corroborated by the hammer of Christian geologists; the oldest pro fane writers, Hiromus, Helanicus and Berosus, confirming the Bible account of ancient longevity; Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible accounts of de stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same story of Christ as Matthew aud Luke told; Macrobius telling of the massacre of children In Bethlehem and 1’hlcgon sketching at Hit* crucifixion. It is demonstrated to nil honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen Bryant wrote “Thnnatopsls” or Longfellow wrote “Hiawatha” as that God, by the hand of prophet and apos tle, wrote the Bible. All the wise men in science and law and medicine and literature and merchandise are grad ually coming to believe iu Christianity, and soon there will bo no people who disbelieve in It except those conspicu ous for lack of brain or men with two families, who do not like the Bible be cause it rebukes their swinish propen sities. The Open Door. The time is hastening when there will be no infidels left except libertines and harlots and murderers. Millions of Christians where once there were thousands and thousands where once there were hundreds. What a bright evening this, the evening of the nine teenth century! And the twentieth century, which Is about to dawn, will, in my opinion, bring universal victory for Christ and the church that now is marching on with step double quick or, if you prefer the figure of the text, is being swept on in Hie mighty gales of blessing, imposing and grand and ma jestic and swift like pillars of smoke. Oh, come Into the church through Christ the door, a door more glorious than that of the temple of Hercules, which had two pillars, and one was gold and the other emerald! Come iu today! The world you leave behind Is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start iu the coal mines of Pennsylvania, which u. some places have for many years been burn ing and eating into the heart of the mountains, or whether it shall begin near tlie California geysers, or wheth er from out the furnaces of Cotopaxi and Vesuvius aud Stromboll it shall burst forth upon the astonished na tions 1 make no prophecy, but all geol ogists tell us that we stand ou tlie lid of a world, the heart of which is a rag ing. roaring, awful flame, and some day God will let the red monsters out of their imprisonment of centuries, and New York on lire in 1835, and Charles ton on lire in 1805, and Chicago on tiro in 1872, and Boston on lire in 1873 were only like one spark from a black smith’s forge as compared with that last universal blaze which will tie seen in other worlds. But gradually the flames will lessen, and the world will become a great living coal, and that will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the mountains will smoke, and the val leys will smoke, and the Islands will smoko, and the seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and the five con tinents will he five pillars of smoke. But the black vapors will begin to les sen in height and density, and then will become hardly visible to those who look upou it from the sky gal leries, and after awhile from just one point there will curl up a thin, solitary vapor, aud then even that will vanish, and there will la* nothing left except the charred ruins of a burned out world, the corpse of a dead star, the ashes of an extinguished planet, a fallen pillar of smoke. But that will not interfere with your investments if you have taken Christ as your Saviour. Secure heaven ns your eternal homo, and you can look down upon a dismantled, disrupted and demolished earth without any per turbation. Wlion wrapped in (Ire (lie realms ol ethor (flow, And heaven’s last thunders fhake tho earth below, Thou, undhniaynd, shalt o'er the ruins smile And light thy torch at Nalurc’a funeral pile. Tilt* ApiK lltu of u (lout. Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose Stomach and Liver are out of order. All such should know that Dr. King’s New Life Pills, the won derful Stomach and Liver Kemedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures perfect health and great energy. Only 25 cents at Cherokee Drug Company. Notice. Tin* regular quarterly meeting of the Hoard of County Commissioners will be held in their odlreon Tuesday. January Cd. I'.KH). All par ties holding claims against the county will file them in the otHce of the County Super visor, properly approved, on or before that date. N. LIPSCOMB. Supervisor Cherokee Co. Summons for Relief. (COMPLAINT NOT SEKVEI).) Statk or South Caiiolina, i Court of Com- CouNTYorCineiinKEK, ) moil Pleas. \V. o Lipscomb and J. C. IJpsrnmh, formerly partners trading under the name and style of W. o. Lipscomb and Brother, PlaintltTs, against Anthony Dawkins and Fanny Dawkins, Defendants. To Anthony Dawkins and Fanny Dawkins. Defendants in this action: You AUK IlKHMlY SUMMONKP lllld required to answer the complaint In this action widen Is this day tiled In tlie office of the Clerk of tin* Court for Hie said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to tlie said complaint on the Kubserlticr at Ids office at OatTncy, H. C , within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of tlie day of such service, and If you fail to answer tlie complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff' in lids act Ion will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. (Dated) Dec. Ilth, ItW.I. (Jalfney, S. C. J. e. JicrreitiKH. Plaliilin"s Attorney. J. Ell J KKYKItlKS, Clerk C. C. Pi s. NoTICK. To the defendant, Anthony D.iw- klus: Take notice, that tlie summons of which tin* foregoing Is a copy, together with tlie complaint In this action. Is this day tiled lu the office of the Clerk of the (’ourt of t 'om- mini Pleas for t he County of Cherokee and Ml ate aforesaid. J.C. J KKYEIUKH, Plaintiff's Attorney. lay of December, DW. lS-12-dt LEADING TO SMILE. One of tin* Wnrtleat Thlntrs For (lie (.yinnnat to Do. “Tlie thing I found hardest to learn in my business was to smile,” said a professional gymnast who did a very clever specialty recently at one of the local theaters. “I started out In acro batic work when I was only 15 years old as one of a ‘family’ of five. My Instructor was Charles McDonald, an old time circus performer and one of the best of his day. While he was put ting me through my paces he was continually yelling: ’Look pleasuut! Look pleasant!’ And my main trouble for years was iu following that same order. “No matter how hard I tried I would forget myself, and when I was doing an extra hard ‘turn’ I was certain to make horrible faces, screw up my eyes aud grit my teeth. It took all the ef fect out of my act and must have seemed very funny to the people in the audience. Oftou, after performing some difficult feat, I have been morti fied to bear a roar of laughter, and at last I determined to either learn how to smile or quit the business. 1 got the knack at last, and now. it has be come a sort of second nature. “The point is a great deal more im- portaut than one would suppose. I know an equilibrist, for instance, who Is very popular on the vaudeville cir cuit, not so much ou account of the difficulty of his act as the smiling ease with which it is apparently done. You would never suppose from his face that he was making any special exer tion, and that of itself gives remarka ble grace and finish to his work. “I am not the only one iu the busi ness, however, who has found it hard to smile at the right time. Almost ev ery ballet dancer, eccentric character dancer and skirt dancer has had trou ble on the same score. Most of them finally acquire .a horrible fixed grimace that is supposed to lie a smile, but has no more suggestion of merriment than a brick wall. It is produced by culti vating a certain set of muscles and made to appear and disappear on the principle of pulling a string.”—New Or leans Times-Democrat. MANAGING SMALL BOYS. How Some Molhcm Tnke All the Spirit Out uf Them. “I am always made sorry when 1 ride iu the cars, through the shopping districts particularly,” said the wo man to a newspaper man, “to see the mothers ill treat small boys. It is ethical cruelty, but quite as disastrous as physical ill treatment might be, it seems to me. “I see poor little fellows of 7 and 8, nice little men who would be manly if they were allowed to be, pushed iuto that seat aud out of it into another as if they were so many little dummies. They usually are very nearly that, for seven or eight years of such pushing and pulling is enough to take all the spirit out of a small boy unless he has unusual vigor of character. “A boy of that age ought to be be ginning to look out for his mother and finding seats for her. Occasionally a sensible mother, who treats her boy like a human being, is to Ik* found, and it is a pleasure to see the two together. "The boy who is dragged around like a litt|c* muff during Hie early part of his life is apt to come to himself after a time if he is not entirely ruined, and then he goos to an opposite extreme, Is rude and self asserting, while he Is try ing to establish an equilibrium, and the mother can't imagine what the trouble is.’’--New York Times. “Yep’* op “Ylip.” A curious American colloquialism, of which I certainly cannot see the ad vantage, writes William Archer iu Fall Mall Gazette, Is the substitution of “yep” or “yup” for “yes” and of “nope” for “no.” No doubt we have In England the coster’s “yuss,” but one hears even educated Americans now aud then using "yep” or some other corruption of “yes,” scarcely to l*e In dicated by the ordinary alphabetical symbols. It seems to me a pity. Educated Americans, too, will often say “somewheres” and “a long ways.” I have little doubt that this “s” has a grammatical history of Its own. Prob ably It is an old case ending, just ns “he goes out nights,” on which Mr. Andrew Lang Is so severe, is a sur vival of the “o’nlghts” which Shakes peare puts lu the mouth of Julius Cae sar (“Sleek headed men aud such us sleep o’uights”). *" At the same time, ns “somewheres” has become Irremediably a vulgarism iu England, It would, I think, be a graceful concession on the part of ed ucated Americans to drop the “s.” After all, “somewhere” does not Jar In America, and “somewheres” very distinctly Jars In England. The Limit. "Put your tongue out,” said tho doc tor to 4-yenr-old Gilbert. Little Gilbert protruded the tip of his tongue. “No, no; put It right out,” said the doctor. The little fellow shook his head weakly, and the tears gathered lu his eyes. “I can’t, doctor,” he ventured at last. “It’s fastened on to me.” Rendlnir. Read not much at a time, but medi tate ns much as your time and capaci ty and disposition will give you leave, ever remembering that little reading and much thinking, little speaking and much heniing, Is the best way to be come wise. (•olden. Judge—Was the stolen Jewelry gold or silver? Well, why don’t you an swer? Prisoner—Don’t you know. Judge, what silence Is?—Ellegende Blatter. He Fooled The Murifoiix. All doctors told Kenictc Hamilton, of West Jefferson, <)., after suffering 18 months from Rectal Fietual, ho would dio unless u costly operation was performed ; but he cured himself with five boxes of liucklon’s Arnica 8'u!vo, the surest Pile euro on Earth, and the best Salve In tho World. 25 (eats a box. Hold by Cherokee Drug C impuny. Nino skeletons of men who woro killed in the Black Hawk war of 1832 have boon found In Stillman Valley, 78 miles from Chicago. ^-n Coughs, Colds, Croups, q . ' Asthma and all Throat and r nhbl Lung Teoubte relieved in- -i stantly by Dr. Wolford's Expectorant Call at the Cherokee Drug Co., and get a (ree sample bottle. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 3. In Effect u:ot A. M., Sunday, October, 1st, 1899 W. st. 337 1st < ilaaa. I’usscnpi'r Daily. Except Sunday. P.M.I 12 40' 1 <>;> 1 17 1 t.l 2 C.V 2 10| 2 :wi 2 4.')! f 3 (b| 3 15 3 35' 3 no 4(0 .... 4 20 4 Ilo! 4 50 5 (Nil ■ r >2» P. M.i EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. CAMDEN DEKAI.lt WEST VI EKE KERSHAW HEATH SPRINGS PLEASANT IIILL . . . .LANCASTER RIVERSIDE ... SPRING DELE ;atawba junction.. LESKIF. ROCK DIKE NEW PORT .. THUS AII .... YOUKVIl.EE . SHARON . HICKORY GROVE .... SMYRNA BEACKSBUKG Kant. 3*. | 1st Class, jPassenger Daily. Except Sunday. A M. 12 10 ! 11 37 ill 25 Ill 10 10 57 10 52 10 35 10 20 10 10 to 00 SI 50 <) 40 SI 15 SI 10 8 55 8 40 8 25 8 15 7 55 A. M. Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,N.C. West I I 2<1 Class. Mixed. Daily, Except Sunday. A. M.i 8 10 8 3;>l 8 40 y 20 10 Onl lo 10; 10 10 50| 11 15 11 35 11 45 12 05 12 25 .. . 12 50 I*. M.i EASTERN TIME. “Jl STATIONS. BEACKSBURG EARLS PATTERSON SPR1N SHEERY . ... KATT1MORE MOORESKORO. HENRIETTA .. FOREST CITY. UUTIIEKFOKHTO: .Ml 1,1.WOOD ... GOLDEN VAEEIP ..THERMAE CITY GKENWOOD ... MARION .... East. 1 '4. WEST. 1st ei i-s. 15.! 13. >, a C; a £■ Gaffney Division. EASTERN TIME. 2d Class. Mixed. Daily, Except Sunday. l*. M. t> 40 ti 20 ti 12 ti 00 4 50 4 40 4 20 3 50 3 25 3 05 2 50 2 45 2 20 2 oo — 1*. M. EAST. 1st C SISS. 14. ; 10. STATIONS. iii I* M A M 5 30 ; Ii 00 5 45 j ti 20 li 00 I li 40 l* M A M . »■ 1 A «! t> M . . BEACKSBURG 7 45 .1 35 CHEROKEE FAKES 7 30 0 20 GAFFNEY 7 10 ti 05 . AM PM Trains Nos. 32 and It; connect at Klacks- burg with trains on tlie Gaffney Division. Train No. 32 connects at Camden with Hie ( liarleston Division of t he Soul hern Railway for iill points south. Train No. 33 leaving Camden at 12:40 p. rn., "oin*- West, makes connection at Eancaster. s. ( with the E. & C. R. It., at Catawba Junction with .the S. A. K.. goinc-North; ut koek Hill with the Southern Kjiilwuy from# North. Train No. 11 connects at Blacksburg with the southern Railway from tlie South. At Marion. N. C., with tlie Southern Railway going West. SAMUEL HUNT, 1‘reKhlein. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. S. II. LUMPKIN, (JenT. Passenger Agent. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Oondoused Schedule of Passenger Trains. In Effect Nov. 10, 1390. Yes. No. 18. FbtM.v Northbound. No. 12JNo. 38. Kx. N o. 30. Daily. Daily Sun. Daily. Lv. Atlanta,CT 7 60a 12 (Om 4 30 p 11 50 p " Atlanta,ET 8 ft) a 1 UOp 5 30 p 12 50 a “ NOrcross.. 9 33 a 0 23 p 1 20 a “ Buford 10 36 a 7 UOp 1 5.1 a " Gainesville 10 35 a 2 25 p 7 33 p 2 Is a " I Ailn 10 58 a 2 45 p 8 OJp 2 38 4 “ Cornelia.... 11 26 a 8 3up “ ML Airy... 11 30 a 8 85 p Lv. Toccoa 11 51 a 3 33p 0 OOp 3 25 a “ \V'minster. 12 3lni 4 04 a “ Seneca 12 62 p 4 15 p ...... 4 22 a “ Central 1 40 p 4 48 a " Greenville. 2 34 p 5 22 p 6 50 a “ Spar'burg. S37p 6 13p . . 0 45 a “ Gaffney.... 4 20 p 6 40 p ........ 7 25 a “ liluckbburg 4 38 p 7 02 p •••••••• 7 42 a •• King s Mt.. 6 03 p 8 05 a “ Gastonia... 5 20 p 8 LHt» " Charlotte.. 0 30p 8 ittp ........ 9 25 a Ar. Urc'naboro 9 52 p 10 47 p .... 12 00 p Lv. Gre'nsboro 11 45 p Ar. Norfolk... • ••*.. . 8 k5 u Ar. Danville... 11 25 p 11 60 p 1 22 p Ar. Richmond.. 0 00a 0 00a 0 25p Ar. W’hington. 6 42 a 9 Oflp 11 25p “ B’morc P.R 8 00 o “ Ph'deltihia. “ New York. 10 15 n 3 5<i a • • • • s • • • 12 4 m 0 28 a F»t M a Yea. Southbound. No. 35. No. 37. No. IE Daily. Daily. Daily Lv. N.Y .Po.H. 12 15 n 4 80p 6 55 p 0 20 p “ Phdelphia. “ Paitimore.. 3 50 a 0 22 a “ Wnsh’ton.. 11 15 u 10 45 p Lv. Richmond.. 12 01 u 1! OOp 11 Wp Lv. Danville.... 0 02 p 5 .’Oh C 10 a Lv. Norfolk 8 36 p Ar. Gre’nsboro 6 15 a Lv. Gre’nsboro 7 24 p 7 05 n 7 87 a Ar. ( harlot to.. 10 00 p 0 25 a 12 05iii Lv Gastonia... 10 40 i> 10 07 a 1 12 p “ King's ML. 1 88 p “ Blacksburg ii iii p 10 45 a 2 OJp “ Gaffney.... 11 4 (ip 12 26 a 10 68 a 2 24 p “ Spar'burg. 11 34 h 8 15 p “ Greenville. “ Central. .. 1 25 a 12 3u p 4 ;op 5 42 p frrr " Kcuecn. .. 2 28 a 1 30 p 0 U«P Ex. " W’minsler. 0 25 p Bun. “ Toccoa 3 25 a 2 15 p 7 OJp ii ufa “ Mt. Airy... ........ 7 28 p 0 C9a “ Cornelia... 7 82 p 0 35 a " Lula. 4 is a 8 lip 3 33p 8 0.'p C 07 a “ Gainesville 4 33 n 8 20 p .7 20 a “ Buford. .. 4 5‘> a 8 48 p 7 48 a “ Norcross. 5 25 a 9 18 n 8 27 a Ar. Atlanta,ET 6 10 a 4 65 p 10 OOp 9 80 a “ Atlanta,Cl 5 10 a 3 55 j> o otip 8 30(> Between Lula and Athens. STATIONS. Lv. .Lula .Ar 10 60a 7 85p Msysville “ 10 19 a T CO p “ Harmony “ 10 03 a 0 63 ji 12 30 p Ar. Athens .Kv 0 25 a 6_00y Note close connection made ut Lula with Siuin line trains. 8 10 p 8 34 p 8 60 p 0 30 p No. 12. Daily “A" a. m. "P" p. m. “M" noon. “N” night.' Chcsaixmko Line Steamers in daily service) between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. 37 and 3b—Ihnly. Washington and Southwestern Vestibule KimPed. Through Pullman sleeping cars between New York and New Urieuna, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also betwoen New York and Memphis, via Washington. Atlanta and Bir mingham. Also elegant PUM.MAN LlBHAHY Obskkvation Cars ftetween Atlanta and New York. Firatclaas thoroughfare coaches be tween Washington aud Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals en route. Draviug Washing- Ington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a tourist sleepingear will run through between Washington and San Francisco without change. Pullman drawing-room sleeping ears Isttween Greensboro and Norfolk, (’lose connection at Norfolk forUi.it Point Comyout. Nos. 35 and 85—United States Fast Mall runs ■olid between Washington and Now Urle/r.s. via Southern Kailway, A. & W. P. It. K. and L. A N. U. K.. being composed of baggage ear and coaches, through without change for pas sengers of all classes. Pullman drawing room aieoping cars between New York and New Or leans, via Atlanta and Montgomery and l>e- tween Charlotte and Atlanta. Dining oars serve all meals on route. Nos. 11, iU, 34 and 12—Pullman Bleeping ears betwoen Richmond and Chunotle, via Dan ville, southbound Nos. 11 and 38, northbound Nos. 34 and 12. FRANK H. GANNON. J. M.CUEP, Third V-P. A Gou. Mgr. T. M., Washington. W. A niBK. 8. II. HARDWICK. G. P. A,. Washington.^ A. G. P. A.,Atlanta.^