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NEW YEAR THOUGHTS DR. TALMAGE MAKES SOME T1CAL SUGGESTIONS. PRAC- \Vc Should MnUv <li«* Mont of Our Brief I.lvcs—Inlidellf}' (he Source of Much AYoe—ClirlMt’a MntclileMH ! StoricH. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, ISM.] Washington, Dec. SI.—In this holi day discourse Dr. Tulmage lakes the opportunity of offering some very prac tical and useful suggestions; text, Psalms xc, 1>, "We spend our years as a tale that is told.” The Israelites were 40 years in the wilderness, and during 118 years of the 40 nothing is recorded of them, and, I suppose, no other emigrants had a duller or more uninteresting time than they had. So they got to telling stories —stories concerning themselves or con cerning others; stories about the brick kilns of Dgypt. where they had toiled in slavery; stories about how the wa ters of the lied sea piled up into pal isades at their crossing; story of the lantern hung In the heavens to guide them by night; story of ibises destroy ing the reptiles of the wilderness; stories of personal encounter. It must have been an awful thing to have had nothing to do for "8 years except to jet lost every time they tried to etucape from the wilderness. So they whiled away the time in story telling. In deed, there were persons whose one business was to narrate stories, and they were paid by such trifles as they could pick up from the surrounding listeners. To such instances our text refers when it says, "We spend our years as a tale that is told.” At this tremendous passage from the year 1SU9 to iiie year 1900 it will do us all good to consider that our whole life is a story told—a good story or a bad story, a tragic story ora mirthful story, a wise story or a foolish story, a clean story or a lilthy story, a story of suc cess or a story of failure. “We spend our years as a tale that is told.” In tin* tirst place, 1 remark that ev ery person's life is a very interesting story. My text does not depreciate “a tale that is told." We have all of us been entertained by the story teller ■when snow bound in the rail train, or in the group a winter's night in the farmhouse, or gathered around a blaz ing hearth with some hunters at the mountain inn. Indeed, it is a praise worthy art to impersonate a good story well. If you doubt the practical and healthful and inspiring use of such a story, take down from the library Washington Irving's "Tales of a Trav eler” or Nathaniel Hawthorne's “Twice Told Tales." Hut as Interesting as any of these would be the story of many an obscure life if the tale were as well told. Why do we all like biographies and autobiographies? Because they are stories of eminent human lives. But the story of the life of a back woodsman. of a man who looks stupid, of one about whom you never heard a word, must be just ns thrilling on a small scale as on a large scale is a life of a Cyrus, or a Ctesar, or a Pizarro, or a Mark Antony, or a Charlemagne. Life Kx jM-rloiiocii. If you get the confidence of that very plain man Just come out of the hack- woods and can Induce him to give the stirring experiences of his life, he will tell you that which will make your blood curdle and your hair stand on end; that night when a panther dis puted his pathway on the way homo; that landslide, when the mountains seemed about to come down on his cabin; that accident to Ids household, and no surgeon within 15 miles; that long storm that shut them in and the food was exhausted; that contest at his doorway with bandits, who thought there might be within something worth taking; that deathbed, with no one but himself to count the fluttering pulses. Oh, yes, white "we spend our years ns a tale that is told.” it is an interest ing story. It Is the story of an im mortal. alud that makes it interesting. He is launched on an ocean of eternal years, in a voyage that will never ter minate. lie is striking the keynote of an anthem or a dirge that will never come to Its last bar. That is what makes the devotional meetings of mod ern times so much more Interesting than they used to bo. They are tilled not with discourses by laymen on the subject of Justification and snnetlliea- tion, which lay discourses administer more to the facetious than to the edi fying. hut with stories of what God has done for the soul—how everything suddenly changed; how the promises became balsamic in times of lacera tion; how be was personally helped out and helped up and helped on. Nothing can stand before such a story of per sonal rescue, personal transformation, personal illumination. The mightiest and most skillful argument against Christianity collapses under the un grammatical but sincere statement. The atheistic professor of natural phi losophy goes down under the story of that backwoodsman’s conversion. .Ktnrt A new. AH that elaborate persuasion of the old folks of the folly of giving up ac tive life too soon means nothing as compared with the simple incident you may reflate to them of the fact that Benjamin Franklin was governor of Pennsylvania at H'J years of age and that Dandolo of Venice at 90 years of age. although Ills eyesight had been destroyed through being compelled by bis enemies to look into a polished metal basin under the full blaze of the sun until totally blind, yet this sight less nonagenarian lending an army to the successful besiegement of Constan tinople! When an old man hoars of such Incidents, lie puts aside his staff and ear trumpet and starts anew. The New Testament suggests the power of the “tale that is told." Christ was the most effective story teller of all the ages. The parables are only tales well told. Matchless stories: That of the traveler cut up by tho thieves and the Samaritan paying his board bill at the tavern; that of the big dinner, to which the invited guests sent in Qctitlous regrets; that of the shepherd answering the bleat of the lost sheep and all the rural neighbors that night helping him celebrate the fact that it was safe In the barnyard; that of the bad boy, reduced to the swines’ trough, greeted home with such hamiueliug and Jewelry that it stuffed the older sou with Jealousy iiud dlsgruntleiueiit; that of the Phari see full of braggadocio and the pub lican smiting Ids breast with u stroke that brought down the heavens In com- miseratlcii; stories nbvut leprosy, about paralysis, ffliout catalepsy, about drop sy, about ophthalmia—stories that lie so well told that they have rolled down to the present and will roll down through the entire future. I heard Daniel Baker, the wonderful evangelist of his time preach what I supposed was a great sermon, hut I remember nothing of it except a story that lie told, and that, I judge from the seeming effect, may that afternoon have brought hundreds into the king dom of God. I heard Truman Osborne preach several sermons, but I remem ber nothing of what he said In public or private except a story that he told, and that was, among other things, tho means of my salvation. The lifelong work of John B. Gough, the greatest temperance reformer of nil time, was the victory of anecdote, and who can ever forget his story of Joel Straton touching him on the shoulder, or of Deacon Moses Grant at Ilopkinton, or of the outcast woman nicknamed “Hell Fire,” but redeemed by the thought that she “was one of us?” Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist of worldwide fame and usefulness, who recently passed to his great reward on high, during his valuable'labors in the pulpit wielded the anecdote for God and | heaven until all nations have been mov ed by it. MtxKe IIIohkIiiuh Knoxvn. If you have had experiences of par don and comfort and discnthrallment, toll of it. Tell it in the most pointed and dramatic way you can manage. Tell it soon, or you may never tell it at all. 01), the power of “the tale that is told!” An hour’s discourse about the fact that blasphemous behavior is sometimes punished in this world would not Impress us as much as the simple slory that in a town of New York state at the close of the last cen tury 80 profane men formed them selves into a club, calling themselves "Society of the Druids.” They met regularly to deride and damage Chris tianity. One night in their awful meet ing they burned a Bible and adminis tered the sacrament to a dog. Two of them died that night. Within three days three wore drowned. In live years all the .'HI came to a bad end. Before justices of the peace it was sworn that two were starved to death, seven were drowned, eight were shot, live committed suicide, seven died on the gallows, one was frozen to death and three died accidentally. Incidents like that, sworn to, would balk any pro posed irreverent and blasphemous be havior. In what way could tho fact that In fidelity will not help any one die well be so powerfully presented as by the incident concerning a man falling ill In I’aris just after the death of Vol taire, when a professional nurse was called in, and she asked, "Is the gentle man a Christian?” "Why do you ask that?” said the messenger. The nurse replied, "1 am the nurse who attended Voltaire in Ids last illness, and for al! the wealth of Europe I would never sec another infidel die.” What discourse in its moral and spiritual effect could equal a tale like that? You might argue upon the fact that those fallen are our brothers and sis ters, hut could we impress any oue I with such a truth so well as by the | scene near Victoria park. Loudon, j where men were digging a deep drain, j and tho shoring gave way, and a great j pile of earth fell upon the workmen, i A man stood there with his hands In ] his pockets, looking at those who were [ trying to shovel away the earth from those who were buried, but when some one said to the spectator, “Bill, your brother is down there,” then tho spec tator threw off Ids coat and went to work with an agony of earnestness to fetch up liis brother. What course of argument could so well as that inci dent set forth that when we toil for the salvation of a soul It Is a brother whom we are trying to save? A Hrlef Story. A second reading of my text reminds me that life is not only a story told, but that it is a brief story. A long nar rative stretched out indefinitely loses Its Interest. It Is generally the story that takes only a minute or half a min ute to rehearse that arrests the atten tion. And that gives additional Inter est to the story of our life. It Is a short story. Subtract from our life all the hours of necessary sleep, all the hours of incapacity through fatigue or illness, all the hours of childhood and youth before we get fairly to work, and you have abbreviated the story of life so much that you can appreciate the psalmist’s remark when he says. “Thou hast made my days as a hand’s breadth.” and can appreciate the apos tle James’ expression when he com pares life to “a vapor that appeareth for a little season and then vanishes away." oV It does not take long to * r . all the vicissitudes of life—the gladness and the griefs, the arrivals and the de partures, the successes and the fail ures. the victories and the defeats, the ups and tho downs. The longer we Jve the shorter the years. We hardly get over the bewildering fatigue of se lecting gifts for children and friends and sec that the presents get off in time to arrive on the appropriate day than we see another advancing group of holidays. Autumnal fruit so sharp ly chases the summer harvest, and the snow of tho white blossoms of spring time come so soon after the snows of winter. It is a remark so often made that It falls to make any impression and the platitude that calls forth no reply, “How rapidly tlmo goes.” Every century is a big wheel of years, which makes a hundred revolu tions and breaks down. Every year is a big wheel of mouths and makes l‘J revolutions and then ceases. Geologists and theologians go into elaborations of guesses as to how long the world will probably last; how long before the vol canic forces will explode it. or meteoric stroke demolish It, or the cold of a long winter freeze.out Its population, or the fires of a last conflagration, burn It. That Is all very well, but so far as the present population of the earth Is concerned the world will last but a little longer. We begin life with a cry and end It with a groan, and tho cry and the groan are not far apart. Life, Job soys, is like the flight of a weaver’s shuttle or. as David intimates In my text, n story quickly told and laughed at and gone and displaced by another story as a "tale that is told.” 1 have to say that If life is so short we have not much of it to waste. In all our engagements 10 o’clock ought to be 10 o'clock, and 3 o'clock 3 o’clock, and 8 o'clock 8 o’clock. I will not waste your time, and you must not waste my time. Just reproof was that which Mrs. Washington, the wife of the first president, gave James Beale, the great painter. His daughter says: "My father had an engagement to paint a miniature of Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, the general being then out of town, lie was obliged to go to her house, and tho appointment for a sitting was arranged at 7 o’clock in the morning. My father arrived at the house, and. taking out his watch, ho found he was exactly on time. A thought then struck him that possibly it might be early to disturb a lady, and he decided to give ten minutes’ grace before knocking at the door. He ac cordingly walked the pavement and at the end of ten minutes pulled out his watch and rang the bell. He Mas ushered into the parlor, and Mrs. Washington, accosting him, drew out her watch and said she had given her orders for the day, had heard her daughter take her lesson on the harp sichord and had read all the morning papers and after all this had been waiting for him ten minutes.” Re Punctual. My friends, as our life is short, punctuality is one of the important vir tues and lack of punctuality one of the worst of crimes. How many who know nothing of punctuality! They arrive at the depot live minutes after the train is gone. They get to tho mharf In time to see that the steamer has swung 500 yards from the dock. They are late at church and annoy all Mho have promptly taken their places, the late comers not being as good as a Christian woman who, M’beu asked how she could ahvays be so early at church, replied, “It Is part of my re ligion not to disturb the religion of others.” The tardy ones mentioned are apt to speak the word of counsel M'hen It la too late. They are resolved to repent at some time in the future, but when they come up “the door is shut.” They resolve to save a soul M’hen it is already ruined. But short as time is it is long enough if mo rightly employ it. The trouble hi M - e M’astc so much time mo cannot catch up. Some of us have been cUys- ing time we lost at 20 years of age, or 30 years of age. or 40 years of age, and if Me lived 250 years M'e could never overtake it. Joseph, a poor apprentice, every morning passed a certain store as the church clock struck C. at the moment M’hen the merchant took doM-n his shutters, each of them saying “Good morning, sir,” and nothing else. What Mas Joseph's surprise to find that the merchant had suddenly died and left him his store and business. That Is not the only instance M’hore a man has made a fortune by punctuali ty. The poet’s verso reads: Time flics away fast, The while we never remember. How soon onr life here Grows oh! with the year That dies with the next December. A third reading of my text reminds me that life is not only a story told, but a story listened to. There is noth ing more vexatious to any one than to ted a story when people are not attend ing. They may be m bispering on some other subject, or they are preoccupied. One cannot tell a story effectually un less there arc good listeners. Well, that M’hich in my text is called the “tale that is told” has plenty of lis- | tellers. There is no such tiling as soli tude, no such tiling as being alone. | God listens, and tho air is full of spir itual intelligences, all listening, and the M’orld listens to the story of our life, some hoping it Mill be successful, oth ers hoping it will lie a failure. We talk about public life and private life, but there is no private life. The story of our life, however insignificant it may seem to he. Mill win the ap plause or hiss of a great multitude that no man can number. As a "tale that is told" among admirers or antagonists, celestials or pandemouiacs, the uni verse is full of listening ears as M’oll as of gleaming eyes. If we say or do the right tiling, that is UnoM’n. if we say or do the wrong thing, that is known. 1 suppose the population of the intelligences in the air is more nu merous than the population of intelli gences on the earth. Oil. that the story of our life might be fit for such an audience in such an auditorium! Qod grant that M’isdoin and fidelity and ear nestness and truth may characterize the “tale that is told.” A Title Tlittl In Told. Aye, all the world M’ill yet listen to find be redeemed by a “tale that Is told." We are all telling it. each in ids om’ii M'ay—some by voice, some by pen, some by artist’s pencil, sonic by harp and some by song; mother telling it to child, teacher tolling it to Sab bath class, reformer telling it to out cast. preacher telling it to assemblage. Tho story of the Loveliest of heaven coming down to this scarred and blast ed island of a world. He M as ordered back from Its shores and struck through M'Hh lances of human hate as soon as he landed. Shepherd’s dog baying on the hills that Christmas night was better treated than tills Ues- cuer of a race, yet keeping right on, brambles on brow, feet on spikes, flagellated Mitli whips that had lumps of lead fastened to them, through mid nights without lanterns, through storms without a shelter, through years that got blacker until they ended in a noonday with the sun blotted out. Mightiest tale ever told, and keep on telling it until the last sorrow is as suaged, and the last animosity is quenched, and the Inst desert is white with the lily, and golden with the cow slip. and blue with the gentian, and crimson with the rose. While reading my text the fourth time I bethink myself that the story of life will end M’hen the group breaks up. The "tale that is told” stops when the listeners depart. Sometimes we have been in groups Interestedly lis tening to some story told when other engagements or tho hour of the night demanded the going of the guests. That stopped the story. By this exit of another year 1 am reminded that these earthly groups will break up. No family group, or social group, or re ligious group, or political group stays long together. Suppose some tffle should take from the national archives the roll of yonder United States senate chamber or the roll of yonder house of representatives ns It was made up 20 years ago and then call the roll. The silence would be mightier than the voices that would hear and respond. The family group breaks up. Did you over know a household that for 25 years remained Intact? Not one. Was there ever a church record the same after the passage of 25 years or 15 years or 10 years? The fact Is that the story of our life will soon end, because the group of listeners will ho gone. So you see If we arc going to give tho right trend and emphasis we must give it right away. If there are old people In tho group of our influence, ail wo can do for them will bo In five or ten years. If there are children around us. In 10 or 15 years they will no longer be children, and they will he fashion ing the story of their own life. “What thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.’’ Passing all. passing ev erything. as a “tale that is told.” My text, in referring to tho years, re minds me that in 12 hours this year Mill forever have gone away. Ninety- nine out of the hundred years of this century will have disappeared. Wo have only ouo year of the century left. There ought to be something especial ly suggestive in the last year of a cen tury. It ought to be a year of un paralleled industries, of unheard of consecration. Not a person In any of our audiences this day can remember the first years of this century. Not a person In any of our audiences today Mill ever again see the last year of a century. End of the Century. Through medical science the M’orld’s longevity may bo greatly Improved in the future, as it has been in the past, but it would not be M’ell for the people to live too long. Some of them Mould, through their skill at acquisitiveness, gather too much, and sonic multimil lionaires would become billionaires and trillionaires. and some M’ould after UM’bile pocket a hemisphere. No. Death is useful in its financial limita tions, and then all have enough sor- iom’s and annoyances and sufferings by the time they become nonagenari ans or centenarians to make it desira ble to quit. Besides that, it M’ould not be fair so long to keep so many good old people out of heaven. So it is well arranged that those Mho stand by the deathbed of the nineteenth century Mill not be called to stand by the deathbed of the tM’cutUflh century. Oh. croM’d this last year with pray ers, M’ith hosannas, Mith kind M’ords, M ith helpfulness. Make the peroration of the century the climax’ of Christlike deeds. Close up the ranks of God, and (ft ring tlds remaining 12 months charge mightily against the host of Abaddon. Have no reserve corps. Let sM’iftest gospel cavalry gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll, and mightiest evangelistic batteries thun der on the scene. Lot ministers of the gospel quit all controversy M’ith each other and in solid phalanx march out for the M’orld’s dislnthrallinout. Let printing presses, secular and religious, make combined movement to instruct and emancipate the M’orhl. On all the lulls let there be Elijahs praying for “a great rain,” and on every contested field Joshuas to see that final victory is gained before the sun goes doM’n, and every mountain become a transfig uration. and every Galileo a M’alking place of him m Iio can hush a tempest. Let us he jealous of every month, of every week, of every day that passes M’ithout something significant and glorious MTought for God and tlds sin cursed M’orld. Let our churches he thronged M’ith devout assemblages. Let the chorals be more like grand marches than requiems Let this com ing year see the last wound of Trans vaal and Philippine conlllet. and tho earth quake wilh the grounding arms of the last regiment ever to bi mar shaled. and the furnaces of the foun dries blaze M’ith the fires that shall turn the last sM’ords into plowshares. And may all those Mhose lives shall go out in this last year of a century, as many Mill, meet in tho heavenly world those who in the morning and noonday of this hundred years toiled and suf fered for the M’orld’s salvation to tell them hoM - much lias been accomplished for the glory of him Mhose march through all the coming centuries the Scriptures describe as going forth “con quering and to conquer.” Oh, the contrast betMeen that uplifted spec tacle of eternal triumph in the pres ence of God and the Lamb and these earthly scenes, where “m’O spend our years as a tale that is told.” Urcad For 11 o ■-* t-*. A delivery uagon of one of the big bread baking factories stopped in front of an up town livery and boarding sta ble, and tM’o men at once unloaded bar rels of bread and carried them Into the stable. The bread looked good and Mas good. There Mere all sorts and sizes of loaves In the barrels—"home made,” “rye,” "Vienna,” "potato,” “graham” and "cottage." The curiosity of a man M’ho sum’ tho bread being delivered to the stable M’as aroused, and he ventured to ask the proprietor of tho stable u’hat it meant. “There’s nothing remarkable about It," said the proprietor Mith a laugh. “I simply buy it for horse feed. We grind the bread up and mix it M’lth other feed, and it makes first class food for horses. It Is stale bread and costs us 40 cents a barrel, and there are 50 or GO loaves to the barrel, so you sec It comes pretty cheap. Some of the bread is only a day old and is good enough for any man to eat, but the bread fac tories cannot sell It. What you see here are returned loaves from the grocer ies."—Ncm’ York Journal. Iturneil to Death. On New Year’s day, Eva, a colored girl about ten years old, the daughter of Jeff Watkins, who lives about two miles from Gaffney on the premises of \V. O. Lipscomb, was burned to death. It seems that the child and her mother were both asleep in front of the fire. The girl’s clothing be- i came ignited. When she awoke and I found her clothing on fire she rushed out of the house and ran to Mr. Moses Woods, about a quarter of a mile dis- ! tant. The wind fanned the flames as ! she ran and when she reached Mr. ’ Woods her clothing was burned ul- , most entirely off, while the flesh ' was almost burned to a crisp. The child was able to call for M ater, which was given her, but she was so badly burned that she was unable to make those who ministered to her suffer ings understand anything else. La ter in the day her father removed her to the cabin he occupied and that night death relieved her sufferings. A Peralan Romance. A Persian plaque in the South Ken sington museum, Londuu, bears by means of clever relief and brilliant col or a romantic talc, part legend and part history. Nobody knoM’s the pro portion of each. At all events, it is declared to he an Incident In the life of Baharam V of the Sassanian dynasty. Baharam, ac cording to legend and plaque, was a wonderful archer. During oue of his hunting expeditions, on M’hich Ids fa vorite wife had accompanied him, lie shot a sleeping antelope M ith such pre cision as to graze the animal’s ear. The antelope nM’oke and, believing himself annoyed by a fly, put his hind hoof to his ear to strike off the fly. A second arroM’ sent by the royal hand fixed the antelope's boof to his horn. The king's M ife merely said, “Prac tice makes perfect,” which touched the pride of her royal spouse. Indeed, as the penalty for her plain speaking, she mus sent out into the mountains to perish, but instead found shelter In a village. Here she lodged in an upper room ascended by 20 steps and, having bought a calf, carried it up and down every day. The king, passing by four years later, Mas amaz ed at seeing a young woman carrying a com- up a flight of 20 steps. The lady again took occasion to remark, “Prac tice makes perfect,” whereupon she unveiled, u-as recognized and restored to favor. American Ncxrn Via London. Another case of going abroad to get the neu’s. A London paper said the other day: “Ncm’ York Is on the eve of a fierce social struggle. The per sistence with which ‘Boss’ Croker, Mayor Van Wyck and the other mag nates of Tammany have been ignored by the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Gerrys, the Goulets, the Livingstons and the other members of New York's exclusive Four Hundred has so galled and irritated the families of the for mer that they have resolved upon founding a new and still more exclu sive society of their own, M’hich Is to take the sails out of its rival.” Wine Man. “Great idea, that of Mike’s,” said the enthusiastic heeler of the better sort, “lie isn’t satisfied M ith shaking bands with ids constituents in the ordinary May. When he meets one of them, he grabs both his hands.” "Ain’t that rather overdoing It?” said the cautious person. "It might look that way to you, but Mike knows liis business. As long as he holds the fellow's hands his Match is safe.”—Indianapolis Journal. napillllCN!!. Human happiness, according to the most received notions, seems to consist of three Ingredients, action, pleasure ond Indolence. And though these in gredients ought to he mixed In differ ent proportions, according to the par ticular disposition of the person, yet no one Ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying In some measure the relish of the whole composition. IlnltK. Habit hath so vast a prevalence over ! the human mind that there is scarcely I anything too strange or too strong to j he assorted of It. The story of the miser who, from being long accustom ed to cheat others, came at last to rhoat himself and M’itli great delight and triumph picked his ouu pocket of a guinea to convey to his hoard is not Impossible or improbable. An aching hack, a disordered di gestion, changes in the urine, head aches nervous weakness, all point to Bright's Disease. Take steps to cure | the trouble before the disease devel- 1 ' ops its dangerous stage. Thickly i Asu Bm'KKK is a certain remedy. It , heals and strengthens the kidneys, regulates the liver, stimulates the stomach and digestion, cleanses the bowels. It has been used in many severe and obstinate cases with tho most gratifying success. Hold by Cherokee Drug Co. The Minnie of It. “Doesn't it hurt your conscience to M’ear those pretty bird wiugs on your ! hat?” I “It does a little, because they are not genuine M’ings. They are only clever imitations.”—Chicago Trlbuhe. Having ii (in-lit Hun on Chtiiiilx-rlaiii'H G'oiikIi Reineily. Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug store, informs us that he is hav ing a great run on Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. He sells five bottles of that medicine to one of any other kind, and it gives great satisfaction. In these days of la grippe there is nothing like Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to stop the cough, heal up the sore throat and lungs and give re lief within a short time. The sales are growing and all who try it are pleased with its prompt action.— South Chicago Daily Calumet. For sale by Cherokee Drug Company. Worry often kills where a shotgun wouldn’t. It Never Fulls. Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy lias been on the market for several years, and the universal verdict is that it never fails to accomplish its work. It is a mild and efficient remedy* for all stomach and bowel diseoses. Its use does not interfere with business or pit mure, but adds to both. Nearly a'ljdiseusesjaro caused by indigestion. St'ip it and your health will he pt r- fect. A few doses of Tyner’s Dyspep sia Remedy will doit. Price 50cents per bottle. For sale by all druggists. The Hamberg-Americun lino will try petroleum us fuel. It has been demonstrated repeat edly in every state in the Union and in many foreign countries thatChan.- berlain’sCough Remedy is a certain preventative and cure for croup It. has become the universal remedy for that disease. M. V. Fisher, of Lib erty. AV. Vu., only repeats what has been said around tho globe when he writes: “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy in my family for several years and always with pt rfect success. Wo believe that it is not only the best cough Remedy, but that it is a sure cure for croup. It has saved the lives of our children a number of time.'.” This remedy is for sale by Chert kee Drug Company. Executor’s Notice. A I.L persons lioldinx clulins ujralnst Uio ** estate of Honjiiniin Purser, Ueeeused, are liereDy notillod to present the same to either of tho undersltfnt'd, duly proven, and all persons owlntf said estate. If tiie same ho due, art) nolilied to make payment to either of tin undersigned executors at onee. <). E. Tat*, Webster, E. Ii. Tatk, Gaffney and Lawn, Executors of the will of Benjamin Purser, deceased. 12-lii-at-iaw A MERICA’S Greatest Medicine is j Hood’s Sarsaparilla,because it pos- ! scsscs unequal led curative powers find : its record of cures is GREATEST. 5 ’ ’ i Why do you... | send your job printing out of town when can you get it done ; at home as cheap and in as good j style as you can away from j I home? Send for a Ledger rep resentative the next time you want job printing and give a homo enterprise a chance. Sununons for Relief. (COMPLAINT NOT SEKVEI).) Statk ok South Carolina, t Court of Com- COtJNTYOPt IIKUOKEE, )’ moll PIOUS. W. O Lipscomb and J. O. Lipscomb, formerly partners trudinir under the mime and style of W. O. Lipscomb and Hrothar, Plaintiffs, against Anthony Dawkins and Fanny Dawkins, Defendants. To Anthony Dawkins and Fanny Dawkins, Defendants in this action: You ahe IIkkuiiy Summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action which is this day filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the salt! complaint on the subscriber at his office at Gaffney, S. C , within twenty days after the servlet) hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and 15 you fail to answer the complaint within the t ime aforesaid, the plaint iff’ in 11dsnction wiil apply to the Court for the relief demanded in tin: complaint. (Dated) Dec. 11th, im Gaffney, S. C. J. C. .Tkkferibh. Plaintilf’s Attorney. J. Eli Jkitekiks, Clerk C. C. Pi’s. Notice. To the defendant, Anthony Daw kins: Take notice, that the summons tj which the foreiroina is a copy, together with Hit- complaint in this action, is lids day filed in tiie office of the l lerk of the Court of Com mon Pleas for the County of Cherokee and State aforesaid. •l.C. .1 EKKKKIKH, Plaintiff's Attorney. Gaffney, S. C„ The 11th day of December, ISIKi. l“-l--tit S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4- In Effect 12:01 A. M., SundaViDcccmber :4th, '99 Between Camden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C. WEST. EAST ‘d.v 1 38 •*«* 34. T. /. f/t I 3 I 1 'it r* I SI O w - /. 7 EASTERN TIME. Ls | 1 = 1 J </) tl AJ STATIONS. * £ >> 'T - rs >>E - - t'S! "■* r ^ i-* x - ®l ~ y ~ - <~ l\ M. | IV M. IV M. r. m. 8 201 12 50 CAMDEN 12 25 5 ;;o 8 50 j 1 15 DEKALB 12 02 4 50 9 20! 1 37! . . WESTVILLE ... 11 50 4 ;to It) 5<l| 1 40 K EKSIIA W 11 35 410 H 20 2 10 IIEATII SI-RINGS II 20 15 11 ;r» 2 15 •PLEASANT HILL II 15 ;i 00 12 :;o 2 35 ....LANCASTER ... lo 55 ** 1 no 2 50 RIVERSIDE 10 40 1 no 1 20 3 00 Nl'KINGDELL. hi :;o 12 40 2 30 3 III CATAWBA JUNC’N 10 MO 12 20 LESLIE .KocK HILL NEW I’OKT.... .. TIK/.AII ... YORK VILLK ... SHAKUN HICKORY GROVE SMYRNA . BLACKSBURG. Between Blacksburg.S.C., and Marion,N.C. WEST. 11 1 aa. EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. A. M. U. M. 8 ill 5 30 8 30 5 45 8 40 5 50 9 20 6 Ml 10 on 6 20 10 |0 (i 28 lo 25 6 38 10 50 6 55 It 15 7 10 II 35 7 22 II 45 7 35 12 05 7 4o 12 25 7 .">8 12 .’81 8 15 1*. M. l\ M. WE ST. 1st C lass. Iff. Iff. EAST ff’i. 1 £. BLACKSBURG 1 KARLS PATTERSON SP'GS SHELBY ... I,ATT I MORE . MOORESBORO... ... HENRIETTA .. FOREST CITY . RUTH EREORDTON MILLWOOD.. GOLDEN VALLEY THERMAL CITY . GLKNWOOD.... MARION Gaffney Division. EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. EAST. 1st Class. 14. | HI. - - j*?-;? U X Tax Returns. I will open the liooks for taking returns of pro|s*rty for the year I!nh) at my office, in tiie low 11 of Gaffney, on Mot,day, the 1st day of .lanuary, 1!*00. I will !«■ in tiie office till tiie ill Ii. and will attend the following places at the following dates from 1Ua.ni. till ii p. m. each day f< >r 1 lie purpose of receiving returns: At Moore Sol ool House, on Monday. Sth January, 11)00. At Grove, on Tuesday, the 9th day of Jan uary. 1UC0. At h imps Creek, on Wednesday, 10th Jan uary, 1900. At Cherokee Fall, on Thursday. Itlli Jan uary. 1900. At Riackshurg. on Friday and Saturday. 12th and Lilli January. liMK), At Grassy Pond, on Monday, January 15th. 1900. At Maud, on Tuesday, 16th January. 1900. At Ezell's, on Wednesday, Uth January, 1900. At Macedonia, Thursday, isili January, 11)00. At Wlilte Plains, Friday. 19th January, 1900. At Thiekcty Station, Saturday, 2otli Jan uary. 1900. At Dray ton vl lie, Monday':Ud January, 1900. At Wilkinsvillc, Tuesday, 2Jd January, 1900. At Surratt’s fl’ridmore's). Wednesday. 2fth January, 1900. At Asbury (T. D. Littlejohn's), Thursday, k’.’itli January, i'.KJO. At Ravenna (Brown's Store), Friday, 2tith January, 19<K). At Timber Ridge, Saturday, 27th January, lixxt. At Allen, on Tuesday, Q9th January, P.kio. And at the office until the 20th February, 1900, after which time the 50 per cent, will at- taeli to all who neglect or refuse to make re turns. AH persons are requested to give in any real estate, either bought or sold, who from or to; also in what School District they live. I have made arrangements with my assist ant, W. II. Ross, to be in tht* office to take re turns during the t ime that I am out of the olfice, for tiie accommodation of all that may cal I at t lie office. W. f). CAMP, 11-2S-law-2-20 Auditor Cherokee Co. N. B.—Persons owning property inside and outside of Graded School District No. 10 will please ascertain how much of their real es- tato is outside and inside and the value of each, and make return on two shoots; aTso“ railroads. Blanks, Bank and Income Tax Blanks, will be furnished on application at A uditor's office. I> M A M ! | A M I- M I ini 6 00 ...BLACKSBURG . 7 50 ;»(Hi I 20 6 20 : CHEROKEE FALLS 7 :to 2 40 I 40 6 40 GAFFNEY 7 10 2 20 PM AM jAMI-M Train No. :i2 leaving Marion. N. ('.. at 5 a. in., making close connection at Blacksburg, S. ('.. wllb the Southern's train No. JO for Char lotte, N. ('., and all p lints East, and connect ing with the Southern's vestibule going 10 Atlanta. Ga., ami all points West, and will receive passengers going East Irom train No. 10 on the C. A N. W. K. K., at Yorkvllh*, S. ('., at S.45 a. in., and connects at Camden, S. ('., with the Southern's train No. 78 arriv ing in Charleston, S. (’., at 8.17 p. in. Train No. :U with passenger conch attached, leaving Blacksburg at 5.:m a. in., and cnii- nectlng at Rock Hill, S. ('., wilh the 8,,^)],. ern’s Florida I rain for all points Soul h. Train No. lid leaving Camden, S. C , at 12.50 p. m. after the arrival of tiie Southern's Charleston I rain connects at Lancaster, S. ('., with Hie I,. \ C. R. K.: al Catawba Jimct ion wilh tiie s. A. I.., going East, at Rock lilll, S. ('., with tiie Southern's train No. 14 for Charlotte, N. and all points East, (kmnects at Yorkvllle, S. ('.. with train No. 9 on the C. \ N. W. R. R., for Chester, S. C. At Blacksburg wilh the Southern's vestibule going East, and the Soul hern's train No. .'15 going West, mid connecting al Marion, N. C., wilh t he Soul hern hot h East and West, SAMUEL III NT, President. A. TKIPP, NiijM-rlntf mlcut. S. It. LI Ml’KIN. Ueu'L PwsseuKer Agent Petition for Homestead. Tin: Statk ok South Cakomna, i County or CiiKitoKKK. ( Ex-Parte, S. G. Sarratt, W. J. Sarratt and Inez Surratt. Notice is hereby given that S. G. Sarratt, W. J. Sarratt and Inez Sarratt have applied tome, by petition, to liiive a homestead ill (lie personal estate of their deceased father, A. A. Sarratt, set off to them and their fol lowing named brothers and sisters: Clara Hoey Sarratt, Annie P. Sarratt, Anthony Sarratt, Etiiel Sarratt, and Vivion Sarratt. Said petition will come up for a hearing before me on the Lull day of January, 1900. J. K11. Jkkkbiuks, Clk. O. G. Pis. Dt-cemlsT lath, ls99.-4t. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Train*. In Effect Dec. 10. 1S99. Ves. No. 18. FslMa Hurt hbouud. No. 12. No. 38. Ex. No. 30. Daily. Daily Sua. Daily. Lv Atl.111ta.OT 7 50 a 12 I0m 4 30 p 11 .Vf'H. •’ Atlanta.ET 8 50 a 1 00 p 5 30 p 12 So a " Norcross.. 9 90 a 0 23 p 1 20 a " Buford. . 10 05 a 7 03 p 1 53 a " Omncsvillc 10 35 a 2 25 P 7 33 p 2 18 n “ Lula 10 58 u 2 46 p 8 OOp 2 38 a " Cornelia.... 11 25 a 8 30 p . . ... " Mt. Airy. 11 80 a 8 35 p Lv. Toucoa 11 51a 3 33 p 9 KO p 3 23 a Ar. Eiberioa.. 9 66 a 5 40 p " 11 45a Lv. Elbci Ion.. Lv. W'niiustur. 12 Sfiu 4 04 a •' Seneca... 12 52 p 4 15 p 4 28 a " Cential. ... 1 46 p '5 2211 ........ 4 65 a •• G1 tenville 2 yip 0 37 p 6 00 II “ Spur burg. 6 13 p . . . „ e , . . 7 03 a " Guff nay 4 20 p 0 40 p 7 45 a “ Blacksburg " King's Ml... 4 38 p 7 02 p ....... 8 02 a 5 03 p 8 27 a " Gastonia... 5 25 p . . t ( . . . • 8 61 a " Charlotte.. 0 80 p 8 18 p 9 50 a Ar. Grc’nsboro 9 65 p 10 4i p .... 12 23 p Lv G rc’nsboro 11 45 p Ar. Norfolk ... .... 8 25 a -rrr:.. Ar Danville... 11 25 p 11 56 p 1 38 p Ar. Richmond.. C 00a 6 00 a 6 25 p Ar. W'hington. 0 42 a 8 no p •' B'nioreP.R . 8 uu a 11 25 p " Ph'delphla, . . 10 15 0 12 42m 2 56 a " New f 01 U 0 23 a FstMn Ves. Soul liboinid. No. iij. X 0. 37. No. 11. Daily Daily- Daily" Lv N Y .Pa.R 12 15 n 4 30 p " rh'dolphia 3 60 a 6 55 p “ Baltimore.. 6 22 a 9 20 p ■ • • • . ♦ t " Wash'ton. 11 10 a 19 45 p S-— —————- -—»■ —■ ■ -■ — — -- Lv. Richmond.. J2 01 n 11 OOp 11 UOp Lv. Danville.. 5 48 p 0 60 a t! 10 11 Lv. Norfolk... 9 Ul a K 35 p Ar. Ure'nsboro 6 35 p 6 1511 — — — — ■■■ ■ — - Lv. Urc'nsboi0 7 10 p 7 05 a 7 37 n Ar Charlotte 9 45 p 9 25 a 12 05in Lv Gastonia. 10 42 p 10 97 11 1 12 p •• King's Mt. 1 38 p " Bla-kshurg 11 85 p 10 45 a 2 OOp “ Gaffney.. 11 lip HI 58 n 2 21 p •' Spiir'hurg . 12 26 a 11 34 a 3 15 p *' Greenville •' Central 1 80 u 12 30 p 4 30 p 5 42 p " Seneca 2 32 a 1 30 p 6 08 p Kx. •' W'mlnster 6 25 p 8u?i. " Toccoa. . 8 28 a 2 15 p 7 IK) p ITofTn Lv Elhcrlun 9 DO 11 1 30 p Ar, Klbcrton. . 11 45 a 5 40 p Lv. Ml. Airy... 7 28 11 0 Ui a " Cornelia . 7 32 p 6 .'1.5 a *' Lnln 4 18 a 3 14 p 8 OOp H 57 a •' Gainesville 4 86:1 3 83 p 8 20 p 7 20 a " Buford.. 0 02 a 8 48 p 7 48 a “ Norcross, $ V5 M 9 18 p 8 27 a Ar. Atlanta,KT 0 10 a 4 55 p 10 OOp 9 30 a “ Atlanta,OT 6 It) a 9 OOp 8 30 a So. Vi Ex. Hun Between Loin and Athene 8 10 p 8 14 p 8 50 p 0 90 p No. 13. Dally. STATIONS. No. 13. Daily 10 50 a 10 19 a 10 09 a H 05 a Lv . Lula Ar 11 !(fl a| " Maysvillo" 11 52 u " Harmony " 12 90 p! Ar .^Atliens .Lv Note close connection made at Lula with nmin line trains. “A" a m. "P" p. m. "M" noon. “N’ No. 10. Ex. Sua. 7 85 p 7 OOp 0 88 p 0 25 a _6 00 p night. Chesapeake Lino Steamers in daily servico between Nor'olkand Baltimore. Nos. Iff arm 88—Daily. Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman slseplngcars between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, nnd also between New York and Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Bir mingham. Also elegant Puli.man Linn ah y Onskitv ation Uakb between Atlanta and Now York. Firsteiasa thoroughfaro coaches be tween Washington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals eu route. Leaving Washing- Ington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays n tourist sleeping car will run through between Washington and San Francisco without clinngu. Pullman drawing-room slccnlng cars iietweon Greensboro and Norfolk. Close connection at Norfolk for Old Point Gomkoht. Nos. 35 and 86—United States Fast Mail runs solid between Washington and New Orleans, via Southern Railway, A. & W. P. It. R. and L Ac N It. Ii., being composed of coaches, throuuh without change for passengers of all classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping csra between New York and New Orleans, via At- laiita and Montgomery and between Chur- lotto nnd Atlanta. Dining ears ser'b all ir.eais on route Nos 11. 33,14 and ft—Pullman sleeping cars* between Richmond and Charlotte, via Dan ville, southbound Nos. 11 and 88, northbound Nos 34 nnd 12. FRANKS GANNON. J. M. CULP. Third V P A: (Sen. Mgr. T. M., Washington. W A. TURK. 8. H. HARDWICK. M> A : . WuahUjgtvU. A. U. p. A,. AlUlilfti