The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 05, 1900, Image 3
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