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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.^