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AFFAIRS OF OTHERS. WE SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN THEM, SAYS DR. TALMAGE. What does it do? It causes the oil glands in the skin to lecome more active, making the hair soft and glossy, precisely as nature intended. It cleanses the scalp from dandruff and thus removes one of the great causes of baldness. It makes a better circu lation in thescalpand stops the hair from coming out. II Prevents and II Ceres Baldness Ayer’s Hair Vigor will surely make hair grow on bald heads, provided only there is any life remain ing in the hair bulbs. It restores color to gray or white hair. It does not do this in a moment, as will a hair dye; but in a short time the gray color of age gradually disap pears and the darker color of youth takes its place. Would you like a copy of our book on the Hair and Scalp? It is free. If ymi An not obtain nil thn bcnofltf you c-xnoctiul from tlm use of tlm Vigor write tlie Doctor about it. Address, DU. J. C. AY Kit. Lowell, Mr.se. 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[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1900.] Washington, Jan. 21.—In this dis course Dr. Tahnage shows how we should interest ourselves in the affairs of others for their benefit, but never for their damage; text, 1 Peter iv, 13, “A busybody in other men’s matters.” Human nature is the same in all ages. In the second century of the world’s existence people had the same characteristics as people in the nine teenth century, the only difference be ing that they had the characteristics for a longer time. It was 30U years of goodness or 300 years of meanness in stead of goodness or meanness for 40 or 50 years. Well, Simon Peter, who was a keen observer of what was go ing on around him, one day caught sight of a man whose characteristics were severe inspection and blatant crit icism of the affairs belonging to people for whom he had no responsibility, and with the hand once browned and hard ened by fishing tackle drew this por trait for all subsequent ages, "A busy body in other men’s matters.” That kind of person has been a trou ble maker in every country since the world stood. Appointing himself to the work of exploration and detection, he goes forth mischief making. lie generally begins by reporting the Infe licity discovered. lie is the advertis ing agent of infirmities and domestic Inharmony and occurrences that but for him would never have come to the public eye or ear. He feels that the secret ought to lie hauled out into light and heralded. If be can get one line of it into the newspapers, that he feels to be a noble achievement to start with. Hut he must not let it stop, lie whis pers it to ids neighbors, and they in turn whisper it to their neighbors, until the whole town is abuzz and agog. You can no more catch it or put it down than you can a malaria. It is in the air and on the wing and afloat. Taken by itself. It seems of little im portance. but after a hundred people have handled it and each has given it an additional twist it becomes a story in size and shape marvelous, if it can be kept going, after awhile it will he large enough to call the attention of the courts or the presbyteries or con ferences or associations. The most of the scandals abroad are the work of the one whom Peter in the text styles "a busybody in other men’s matters.” Mission of Kimliicmh. First, notice that such a mission is most undesirable, because we all re quire all the time we can get to take care of our own affairs. 'To carry our selves through the treacherous straits of this life demands that we all the time keep our hand on the wheel of our owu craft. While, as i shall show you before 1 get through, we ail have a mission of kindness to others, we have no time to waste in doing that which is damaging to others. There Is our worldly calling, which must be looked after or it will become a failure. Who succeeds in anything without concentrating all Ids energies upon that one tiling? All those who try to do many tilings go to pieces ei ther as to their health or their fortune. They go on until they pay lu cents on the dollar or pay their body into the grave. We cannot manage the affairs of others and keep our own affairs prosperous. While we are inquiring how precarious Is the business of an other merchant and finding out how many notes he has unpaid and how soon he will probably be wound up or make an assignment or hear the sher iff’s hammer smite Ids counter our own affairs are getting mixed up and en dangered. While we are criticising our neighbor for ids poor crops we are neglecting tbo fertilization of our own fields or allowing the weeds to choke our own corn. While we are trying to extract the mote from our neighbor’s eye we fall under the weight of the beam In our owu eye. Those men dis turbed by the faults of others are themselves the depot at which whole trains of faults arrive and from which whole trains of faults start. The men who have succeeded in secular tilings or religious tilings will tell you that they have no time for hunting out the deficits of others. On the way to their counting room they may have beard that a firm in the same line of busi ness was in trouble, and they said, “Sorry, very sorry.” Hut they went in and sat down at their table and open ed the book containing a full state ment of their affairs to see if they were In peril of being caught In a simi lar cyclone. (ladders about town, with hauls In pockets and lints set far back on the head, waiting to hear baleful news, are failures now or will lie failures. Christian men and women who go round with mouth and looks full of in terrogation points to find how some other church member Is given to ex aggeration or drinks too much or neglects Ids home for greater outside attractions have themselves so little grace In their hearts that no one sus pects they hove any. In proportion as people are consecrated and holy and useful they are lenient with others and disposed to say: “Wait until we hear the other side of that matter. 1 cannot believe tlint charge made against that man or woman until we have some better testimony than tlint given by these scandal mongers. I guess It Is a lie." World’* Wor*t Side*. Furthermore, we nre Incnpneltnted for the supcrvlsnl of others because we cannot see nil sides of the affair repre- headed. People are generally not so much to Idnme ns we suppose. It Is never right to do wrong, hut there may be*alleviutious. There may have arisen a conjunction of circumstances which would have flung any one of us. The world gives only one side of the transaction, and that is always the worst side. That defaulter at the hunk who loaned money lie ought not to have loaned did it for the advantage of another, not for his own. That jdtuig mail who purloined from ids employer did so because ids mother was dying for the lack of medicine. That young woman who went wrong did not' get enough wages to keep her from starving to death. Most people wlio make moral shipwreck would do ie exigency, but they have not the Courage to say “No.” Furthermore, we make ourselves a disgusting spectacle when we become busybodies. What a diabolical enter prise those undertake who are ever looking for the moral lapse or down fall of others! As the human race Is a most imperfect race, all such hunters find plenty of game. There have been sewing societies in churches which tore to pieces more reputations than they made garments for the poor. With their sarcasms and sly hints and de preciation of motives they punctured more good names than they had nee dles. With their scissors they cut character bias and back stitched every evil report they got hold of. Meetings of boards of directors have sometimes ruined good business men by insinua tions against them. The bod work may not have been done so much by words, for they would lie libelous, but by a twinkle of the eye or a shrug of the shoulder or a sarcastic accentua tion of a word. “Yes, he is ail right when he is sober.” “Have you Inquir ed into that man’s history?” “Do you know what business lie was In liefore he entered this?” “I move that the application be laid on Hie table until some Investigations now going on are consummated.” it is easy enough to start a suspicion that will never down, but what a despicable man is the one who started it! Slain !»> InterroKiition Points. There is not an honest man in Wash ington or New York or any other city who cannot lie damaged by such in- fernalism. lu a village where 1 once lived a steamboat every day came to the wharf. An enemy of the steam boat company asked one day. “I won der if that steamboat is safe?” The man who heard the question soon said to ids neighbor, “There is some sus picion about the safety of that steam boat.” And the next one who got hold of it said. “There is an impression abroad that there will soon be an acci dent on that steamer.” Soon all that community began to say, “That steam er is very unsafe.” And as a conse quence we all took the stage rather than risk our lives on the river. The steamer was entirely sound and safe, hut one interrogation in regard to her started a suspicion that went on until the steamboat company was ruined. Precisely so noble reputations and good enterprises and useful styles of business tire slain by interrogation points. Can you imagine any creature so loathsome as the one who feels himself or herself called to question I all integrity, all ability, all honesty, ail character? Buzzards looking for car rion. While I believe enough in human depravity to lie orthodox. I tell you that the most of people whom I know are doing the best they can. Faults? Oh, yes; all people except you and 1 have faults! Hut they are sorry about it, repentant on account of it and are trying to do better. About all Hie mar ried people I know of are married to the one person best suited. Nearly all the parents with whom I am acquaint ed are doing the hest they can for their children. All the clerks in stores, so far as I know, are honest, and all per sons in official position, city, state or nation, are fultiliing their mission as well as they can. The most of those who have failed lu business, so far as l know, have failed honestly. The singers are singing their best songs, the sculptors chiseling their best stat ues, the painters penciling their best pictures, the ministers preaching their lies! sermons. Take any audience that assembles in any church, .’inti if there are 5(10 people assembled I think at least 450 are doing the best they can, and if there lie 5,000 assembled at least 4,500 are doing the best tin*.- can. Iliintini; For Vulture*. All people make mistakes — say tilings that afterward they are sorry for and miss opportunity of uttering the right word and doing the right thing. Hut when they say their pray ers at night these defects arc sure to be mentioned somewhere between the name of the Lord, for whose mercy they plead, and the amen that closes the supplication. “That has not been my observation,” says some one. Well. I am sorry for you, my brother, my sis ter. What an awful crowd you must have got into! Or, as Is more proba ble, you are one of the characUrs that my text sketches. You have not lieou hunting for partridges nml^uail, hut for vultures. You have been micro- scoplziiig the world’s faults. You have been down in the marshes when you ought to have been on the uplands. I have caught you at last. You are “a busybody In oilier men’s matters.” How is it that you can always find two opinions about any one and those two opinions exactly opposite? I will tell you the reason. It is because there are two sides to every cliaracier—the best side and the worst side. A well disposed man chiefly seeks the best side. The badly disposed seeks chief ly the worst side. Be ours the desire to see the best side, for it is healthier for us so to do and stirs admiration, which Is an elevated state, while the desire to find the worst side keeps one in a spirit of disquietude and disgust and moan suspicion, and that is a pull ing down of our own nature, a disfig urement of our own character. I am nfralj the Imperfections of others will kill ustyet. The habit I deplore is apt to show itself In the visage. A kindly man who wishes everybody well soon dem onstrates liis disposition !n Ins looks. His features may fracture all the laws of handsome physiognomy, hut Hod puts into that man’s eyes and in the curve of Ids nostrils and in the upper and lower lip the signature of divine approval. And you sec it at a glance, ns plainly as though it had been writ ten all over Ids face In rose color: “Tlds is one of my princes. He is on the way to coronation. I bless him now with all the benedictions that In finity can afford. Look at him. Ad mire him. Congratulate him." The Slnmlerer. On the other hand, if one lie cynical about the character of others and chiefly observant of defects and glad to find something wrong in character the fact is apt to he demonstrated In Ids looks. However regular Ids fea tures ami though constructed accord ing to the laws of Kaspar Lavater, Ids visage is sour. He may smile, but it is u sour smile. There Is a sneer In the Inliatlon of the nostril. There Is a mean curvature to the lip. There Is a had look in the eye. The dexil of sar casm and malevolence and suspicion tins taken possession of 1dm, and you see it as plainly as though from the hair line of the forehead to the lowest point in the round of Ids ehhi it were written: “Mine! Mine! I, the demon of the [ill. have soured ids visage with my curse. Look at him! He chose a diet of carrion. He gloated over the misdeeds of others. It took all my infernal enginery to make him what he is—‘a busybody in other men’s mat ters.’ ” Hut there is a worthy and Christian way of looking abroad upon others, not for the purpose of bringing them to disadvantage or advertising their weaknesses or putting in “great prim er” or “paragon” type their frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and res cue. That is Christlike, and he who does so wins the applause of the high heavens. Just look abroad for the people who have made great mistakes and put a big plaster of condolence on their lacerations. Such people are nev er sympathized with, although they need an infinity of solace. Domestic mistakes. Social mistakes. Ecclesi astical mistakes. Political mistakes. Weep Wltli Woe. There is a public man who has made a political mistake from which he will never recover. At the next elections he will be put back and put down into a place of disapproval from which he will never rise. Just go to that man mid unroil the scroll of 100 splendid Americans who. after occupying high places of promotion, were relegated to private life and public scorn. Show him in what glorious company he has been placed by tiie anathema of the ballot box. There is a man or woman who has made a eou’ugal mistake, and a vul ture has been put into the same cage with a dove or a lion and a lamb in the same jungle. The world laughs at the misfortune, but it is your business to weep with their woe. There is a merchant who bought at the wrong time or a manufacturer whose old ma chinery has been superseded by a new invention or who under change of tar iff on certain styles of fabric has boon dropped from nilluenco into bankrupt cy. Go to him and recall the names of 50 business men who lost till but their honesty and God and heaven. I et them know there are hundreds of good men who have gone under that are bought of in heavenly spheres more than many who are high up and going higher. AH will acknowledge that good and lovely Arthur Tappan. who failed in business, was more to be ad mired than William Tweed in posses sion of his stolen millions. (io to that literary man who is starv ing with a brilliant pen hi his right hand. Ids literary position lost. Ids books unsalable, and tell him of the mightiest of the past and the present who suffered from nouapprcciation. Show the discouraged author whose manuscript the publishing house will not take that among the rejected man uscripts of Hie publishing houses for awhile were “Paradise Lost” and “Jane Eyre” and Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” and “Vestige* of Creation" and ‘Tilde Tends Cabin" and that Shakes peare was comparatively unknown in England until Germany acclaimed its appreciation of the greatest of drama tists. Enroll before that discouraged public man the cartoons in the time of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin coln and James G. Blaine and show all the misinterpreted and pursued the fact that they have it no worse than many who have preceded them and that in most cases it is Jealousy at suc cess that has caused the assault. Lift the CaSIen. Hear it! The more you go to busy ing yourselves In other men’s mat ters the better if you have design of offering relief. Search out the quar rels, that you may settle them; the fallen, that you may lift them; the pangs, that you may assuage them. Arm yourself with two bottles of di vine medicine. Hie one n tonic and the other an amcsthetic, the latter to soothe and quiet, the former to stimu late, to inspire to sublime action. That man’s matters need looking after in tlds respect. There are 10,000 men and women who need your help and need it right away. They do not sit down and cry. They make no appeal for help, hut within ten yards of where you sit in church and within ten min utes’ walk of your home there tire peo ple in enough trouble to make them shriek out with agony if they had not resolved upon suppression. If you are rightly interested in other men’s matters, go to those who are just starting in their occupations or pro fessions and give them a boost. Those old physicians do not want your help, for they are surrounded with more pa tients than they can attend to, hut cheer those young doctors who are counting out tneir first drops to na- tients who cannot afford to pay. Those old attorneys at the law want no help from you, for they take retainers only from the more prosperous clients, but cheer those young attorneys who have not had a brief at all lucrative. Those old merchants have their business so well established that they feel Inde pendent of banks, of all changes in tariffs, of ail panics, lint cheer those ,voting merchants who are making their first mistakes in bargain and sale. That old farmer who has 2<M) acres in bent tillage and Ids barns full of liar- vested crops and the grain merchant having bought his wheat at high prices liefore it was reaped needs no sympa thy from you, hut cheer tip that young fanner whose acres are covered with a big mortgage and the drought strikes them Hie first year. That builder with contracts made for the construction of half n dozen houses 'and the owners Impatient for occupancy Is not to lie pitied, but give your sympathy to that mechanic in early acquaintance with hammer and saw and bit and amid all the limitations of a journeyman. n«* n IIo*} IkhIy. Go forth to he a busybody in other men's matters, so far as you can ln.4p- lug them out, and help them on. The world is full of Instances of those who spend their life in such alleviations. But there is one Instance that overtoils and eclipses nil others. He had lived in a palace. Radiant ones waited up on him. Ho was charioted along streets yellow with gold and stopped at gates glistening with pearl and lio- saniiaed by Immortals coroneted and In snowy white. Centuries gave him not a pain. The sun that rose on him never set. II is dominions could not be enlarged, for they had no boundaries, and uncontested was ids reign. Upon all Hint luster and renown and en vironment of splendors lie turned Lis back and put down his crown at Hie foot of his throne and on a bleak De cember night trod Ills way down to a stone house in Bethlehem of our world. Wrapped lu what plain shawl, and pursued with what enemies on swift camels, and howled at with what brigands, and thrust with what sharp lances, and hidden In what sepulchral crypt until the subsequent centuries have tried In vain to tell the story by sculptured cross, and painted canvas, and resounding doxoluglcs, and domed cathedral, and redeemed nations. He could not sec a woman doubled up with rheumatism, but he touched her, and inflamed muscles relaxed, and she stood straight up. He could not meet a funeral of a young man. but lie broke up the procession and gave him back to his widowed mother. With spittle on Hie tip of his finger he turn ed Hie midnight of total blindness into the midnoon of perfect sight. He could not see a man down on his mat: ess helpless with palsy without calling him up to health and telling him to shoulder Hie mattress and walk off. He could not find a man tongue tied, but lie gave him immediate articula tion. He could not sec a man with the puzzled and inquiring look of the deaf without giving him capacity to hoar the march of life beating on Hie drum of the car. He could not see a crowd of hungry people, but ho made enough good bread and a surplus that required all Hie baskets. lie scolded only twice that I remem ber, ouce at Hie hypocrites with elon gated visage and the other time when a sinful crowd had arraigned an un fortunate woman, and the Lord with the most superb sarcasm that was ever uttered gave permission to any one who felt himself entirely commenda ble to hurl Hie first missile. All fur others. liis birth for others. His min istry for others. His death for others. His ascension for others. Ills en thronement for others. And now my words are to the invisi ble multitudes I reach week hy week, but yet will never see in this world, but whom I expect to meet at Hie liar of God and hope to see in the blessed heaven. The last word that Dwight L. Moody, Hie great evangelist, said to me at Plainfield, N. J., and lie repeated the message for mo to others, was. “Never be tempted under any circum stances to give up your weekly pub- lientiou of sermons throughout Hie world.” That solemn charge I will heed as long as I have strength to give them and the newspaper types desire to take them. Oh, ye people back there in the Shetticld mines of England, and ye in the sheep pastures of Australia, and ye amid the pictured terraces of New Zealand, and ye among the cin namon and color inflamed groves of Ceylon, and ye Armenians weeping over Hie graves of murdered house holds in Asia Minor, and ye amid the idolatries of Benares on the Gauges, and ye dwellers on the banks of Hie Androscoggin, and Hie Alabama, and Hie Mississippi, and the Oregon, and the Shannon, and .Hie Rhine, and the Tiber, and the Danube, and Hie Nile, and the Euphrates, and the Caspian stud Yellow seas; ye of the four corners of the earth who have greeted me stgain and again, accept this point blank offer of everything for nothing, of everything of pardon and comfort and illumination and safety and heav en, “without money and without price.” What a gospel for all lands, sill zones, sill ages! Gospel of sympa thy! Gospel of hope! Gospel of eman cipation! Gospel of sunlight! Gospel of enthronement! Gospel of eternal victory! Take it, all ye people, until your sins are ail pardoned, and your sorrows all solaced, and your wrongs nil righted, and your dying pillow he spread at Hie foot of a ladder which, though like the one that was let down to Bethel, may he thronged with de scending and ascending immortals, shall nevertheless have room enough for you to climb, foot over foot, on rungs of light till you go clear up out of sight of all earthly perturbation In to Hie realm where “Hie wicked cense from troubling and the weary are at rest.” Now (he Golf Cart. If otto would lie thoroughly up to date when he drives to the golf links, he must now go there in Ids golfing cart, for that is the newest tiling that the carriage makers have turned out. The cart is a four wheeled affair and looks like a dogcart or a game cart. The body lias one of those moderately high, boxlike bodies, with a concave curve at the hack. Hie whole made of solid wood Instead of being perforat ed with holes, as is done with the game carts, originally intended to take gamecocks to the pits and through which perforations air was admitted to the fowls, or slutted, as are Hie dog carts. Hie object In tlds instance being to admit light and air to the dogs. A fellow’s bundle of golf clubs needs neither light nor air. and so they are carried in a basket strapped diagonal ly across the rear of the cart, much as the horn basket is strapped to a road coach. One of these traps was shown at the recent horse show, and it occa sioned some comment among people who were pretty well up on carriages, but the puzzle was not solved, as the trap was one that was sent out of the ring early in Hie game. A number of these carts have lately been made for shipment to the fashionable country places.—New York Times. Aiiintenr Stun Pn!n(cr*. Why will some amateur sign writers practice their badly learned art upon a public tlint only passes by lo sneer? On a church up Woodward avenue Is Hiis sign lii gold on the bulletin board: “Devine Service at 10::;o Suudy Morn ings.” The other day Hds was read across In a drug store window; “Bell Jones Breath I’urfume Festively the Best.” But here Is one you may see any day well out on Lafayette avenue: “Blank’s 8hoes Are the Most Comp- fortnble Made." Almost as bad as this in Hie adver tisement of a certain tailor here In town: “Cloths Called For and Deliver ed. Overcoats Pressed While You Wote.” And with half a dozen night schools lu tho town loo!—Detroit Free Press. l>y*P«’l»nia can be, and is cured hy tho uso of Pain-Kili.kk. This is the mos: wonder ful and valuable medieim^ver known for this disease; its a>gi.in is entirely different ever known, medicine may e craves. Avoid s Puin-Killer.Fe .on Cun Cut* Swim? “Can cats swim?” was asked of an aid fisherman. “Why, certainly,” was the reply, “and that reminds me of a cat I once tried to drown that swam ashore. Sure ly there must have been hundreds or thousands of people who have drowned cats in life same way, but nevertheless this was an experience of my own. We had a cat that wo wanted to get rid of, and as humane a way as any to kill it was by drowning. So I put a couple of bricks iu the bottom of an old grain sack and put in the cat and tied the bag up carefully and securely and walked down to the end of a wharf, and stood there, and swung the bag with tfie cat and the bricks in It round like a sling until I could give it a good momentum, and then let it go, and slung it out to fall and sink iu the water, I should say 20 feet away. “I supposed, of course, that that was the last of the cat, but the next morn ing the first thing I saw when I went out of the house was Hie cat sitting on the veranda. “I suppose tho hag had a weak spot in it somewhere. The bricks were heavy and sharp cornered, and swing ing the hag round that way started It more, and the cat was desperate, and with the bag that way it scratched and tore its way out and got to the wharf and clawed Its way up and came ashore. “Can a cat swim? Why, sure!”— New York Sun. A ttuwNinn Slciith Rlilc. George Fuller vigorously describes his first sleigh ride behind a trio of Rus sian fliers: “After spending two weeks iu St. Petersburg in company with the general in charge of the imperial stud I proceeded to Krenovol, which is 800 miles southwest of St. Petersburg. We were met at the railway station with the regulation winter conveyance, a low sleigh, with three horses hitched abreast, a trotter In the center and a runner on each side. Then commenced the journey to Hie stud, and I never will forget that trip. After we were seated in the sloigfi and were comfort ably wrapped up in the fur robes Hie driver, who drives his team standing upright, gave an Indian warwhoop, and we were off. “The first jump took away ray breath. The snow flew in every direc tion, and as we whizzed around cor ners the sleigh would ride on one run ner, and I expected every momeut to he spilled out and have my neck bro ken. The driver never ceased liis whooping, and altogether I think I rode faster on that trip than I ever did before in my life. When I finally laud ed at the stud, more dead than alive, 1 said, ‘No more Russian sleigh rides for Uncle George.’ ’’—Breeder’s Gazette. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4. In Effect 12:01 A. M.. Sunday,December 24th, ’99 Between Camden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C. WEST. FAST Very CnnuolInR. A somewhat vexatious law in China compels every doctor after dark to hang up In front of his house as many lighted lamps as he lias sent patients into Hie next world. One evening a European, who was staying in Peking on business, set out In search of a doc tor for liis wife, who had been sudden ly taken ill. He called at the bouse of a good many, but was deterred at tho large number of lamps exhibited be fore each. At length, after tramping about for several hours, be came to the house of a doctor where only three lamps shed a melancholy light over tho entrance. Our happy European dashed into the house of this excellent man, awoke him and took him off to his lodgings. “I presume you are the best practi tioner in this city?" he said to his com panion as they went along. “What makes you think so?” “Because you have only three lan terns hung over your door, while all your colleagues have dozens displayed on their house fronts.” “Ah, is that the reason?” calmly re plied the Celestial. “The fact is I only lately set up in practice, and I have had but three patients.”—New Haven Union. Will Be Reimbursed. Losing the Charleston In Philippine waters will Involve a claim against tbo government by the men and officers of the ship for personal losses sustained by the vessel’s sinking. Each man is entitled to be reimbursed for every thing that he lost, it being required that each article, however, shall be enumerated and Its probable value giv en. When the American s! 'ps were lost at Apia In the great hurricane of March, 1S8!>, congress reimbursed all Hie meu and officers. Some of the claims of officers were as high as $2,500 and few were under 81,500. Rlprht In Style. “Marse Milton, cud yo’ gimme a few ole meal sacks yo’ doau’ want?” “What do you want with them. Aunt Hannah?” “Ah wants to make dem boys sum coats. Dey byard sum ob dem folks at do minstrils say dat sack coats wud be worn dis winter.”—Chicago News. :t:t. EASTERN TIME, I i STATIONS. u ■/. 1 U. •/. 1*. M. K JO K Ml 8 ^(i I*. M. | 12 .VI 10 501 11 ao 11 :r> 12 Ho CAMDEN.. 1 15 DEKALB | 1 27: . . WFSTVILLE 1 40 . . KERSILWV 2 10 HEATH SPRINGS 2 15 .PLEASANT HILL 2 :c> —LANCASTER 1 00! 2 50 RIVERSIDE lo 40 1 201 3 00 SPRING DELL. lo :io 2 301 3 to CATAWBA JFNC’.N 10 20 2 50 j 3 20 LESLIE 10 10 3 10 3 10, KU< K HILL 10 00 4 Uj 3 55 NEW PORT. .. 9 :t5 4 45 4 02 Tl R/.A II . 9 36 5 31 f 20 ... YORKYILLE ... •J 15 t> 00 4 35 SHARON 9 00 »* 251 4 50 HICKORY GROVE S 45 ii J,ij 5 00 SMYRNA S 35 7 oo| 5 20 BLACKSBURG. S 15 t». M.i 1*. M. i A. M. Between Blacksbnrg ) S.C., and Marion,N.C. WEST. 1 1 :<:t. EASTERN 1IME. FAST •i-i. 1 1 a. */> >) —* - X X « iT* ~ _U "/. A. N! »\ M. 8 10 5 30 8 30 5 45 8 40 5 50 9 20 6 OO 10 00 li 20 10 10 6 28 lo 25 6 3* lo 50 li 55 II 15 7 10 Freak Advert 1*11117. A recent police order in Chicago pro hibits freak advertising in the streets. To one man arrested, dressed as an Irish knight of olden times and bearing a tin shield with an advertisement upon it. a police captain said: “Why, that rig would make an automobile balk. It shall not be permitted.” Klk, I)tM»r anil Lion GoiiiK. In ten years the elk will be but a memory in Colorado, so far as hunting is concerned. In 20 years Hie deer will be unknown in this state as a game an imal. Mountain lion hunting will soon do away with those animals also.— Denver Republican. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Train*. Iu Effect Dee. 10,1839. STATIONS. I £ >. - - - BLACKSIIEUG . EARLS PATTERSON SP’Ot* SHELBY ! — LATTIMORE ! .. MOORFSItORO.. ! — IIFNRI F.TTA FOREST CITY . RFTIIFRFORDTON MII.LWOOD I golden vai.lfy THERMAL CITY GI.FN Wool) .... MARION A. I'.’i W KHT. 1*1 Class. : 15. 1:1. Gaffney Division. EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. •J. A. m. c H EAST. Is', class. 14. IM. >,at sss-i 1 1 Kj “ w x p I A II I A M I* M 1 <» GOO 1 BLACKSBURG . 7 50 H Ml 120 tl 20 ; CHEROKEE FALLS 7 HO 2 40 1 40 (. 40 GAFFNEY ! 7 10 2 20 I* M AMI (Ml- M Tl ain No. H2 lea vinjr Marlon. .N.C,, at 5 a. in” inakliur close connection at Blackslnirtr s’ *Rli lIk* Southern's train No. Hit for Char lotte, N. and all jiolnts Fast, and connect ing with the Southern's \c«,iil,iili' jjoinjMo Atlanta. G:i., and all points West, and will receive passeliKers Kid 14; Fast from train No. 10on the C. N. W. R. R., at Yorkvlllc, S. C., at 8.45 a. 111., and connects at Cainticn S. with the Southern's train No. tharriv- Iup in Charleston, S. C., at s.L p. m train No. H4 with pnsseuircr cnacli attached, leaving Blacksburg at 5.H0 a. in., and con necting at Rock Hill, S. with Die South ern's Florida Iruin for all point* South. Train No. XI leaving Camden, S. c . at l-.’.Vi p. in . after the arrival of the Southern's Charleston train connects al Lancaster, S. t'., with the I,. !'. R. R.; at fatuwlm June! Ion with the S. A. L.. going Fasi. at Rock Hill, S, with Hie Soil! hern's train No. H4 for Charlotte, N. r„ and all is.Inis Fast. Connects at Yorkvlllc. S. with train No. n on the C. A N. W. R. It., for Chester, S.i'. At Blacksburg with tin- Southern's vestibule going East, and the Southern’** train No. :i5 jroln*/West, and connecting at Marion, N with the* Southern l*ptli East and West. NAML'KL IH NT, I’resldeiir. A. TUI I*I', Superintendent. H. II. Ll'MI’KJN. U«uT. I’unnenKer Agent. Ves. No. 18.'FstMa Northbound. No. 12. No. 33. Ex. No. 36. Daily Daily Sun. Daily. Lv Atlanta.CT 1 7 53 a 12 (Otn 4 39 p 11 50 p ” Atlanta,ET 8 50 a 1 OOp 5 80 p 12 SO it ” Norerosa.. 9 30 a 6 23 p 1 26 a ” Union! 10 05 a 7 03 p 7 83 p 1 53 a " Gainesville lo 35 a 2 25 p 2 IS.a “ Lula 10 58 a 2 45 p 8 OOp 8 30 [> 2 88 a ” Cornelia... 11 25 a ’• Ml. Airy. 11 80 u 8 35 p Lv To ’mil 11 55 u 3 8Sp 9 Oi l p 3 28 a Ac Kiberton... Lv. Klberton... 0 09 a 5 40 |> 11 45a Lv. \v iniusler 12 aim 4 04 a “ Seneca. . 12 52 p 4 15 p . . . 4 28 a ” Central.... 1 46 p 4 55 a ’’ Greenville 2 84 p 5 22 p C 00 a " Spur'burg . 3 87 p f» Ftp 7 03 a ” GatTuev.... 4 20 p C 40 p 7 45 a “ Blacksburg 4 88 p 7 02 p ...... 8 02 a “ King's Mt.. 5 03 p 5 25 p ........ 8 27 a •' Gastonia... 8 51 a “ Charlotte.. 6 80 p 8 18 p 9 50 a Ar. Gru'nsboro 9 55 p 10 47 p .... 12 23 p Lv Gre'nsboro 11 45 |> Ar. Norfolk . . — 8 25 a Ar Danville... ’' 56 p 1 88 p Ar. Richmond.. 0 00 a <1 00 a C 25 p — ■ — ' ---■ - — ■■■■■. — — - , — Ar. W'hington. 6 42 a 8 50 p ’• Bmorcl'U „ . f . . T . . 8 00 a 11 25 p “ Ph'delphia. 10 15 11 2 56 a ’’ New York . 12 43m 0 28 a FstMa Ves. Southbound. No. 35. No. 37. No. 11. Daily Daily. Dally Lv N Y.,Pa.R. 12 15 ft 4 30 p " Ph'delphia. 3 5t) a 0 55 p ’’ Baltimore.. C 22 a 0 20p " Wnsli’ton.. 11 15 u 10 45 p Lv lii hiuond.. 12 01 n 11 OOp 11 OOp Lv. Danvilln.. . 5 48 p 0 50 a 6 10 a Lv Norfolk... 9 00 a 8 85 p 1 1 Ar. Gre'nsboro 0 35 p 5 15 a Lv. Gro’nshoro 7 II) p 7 05 a 7 37 a Ar Charlotte . 0 45 p 0 25 ;i 12 05m Lv Gastonia. 10 42 p 10 07 a 1 12 p “ King's Mt. ” Bin ksliurg 1 38 p 11 25 p 10 45 a 2 03p 2 24 p •’ Gaffney. 11 42 p 10 58 a *’ I'pnr'burg . 12 20 a 11 84 ;i 3 15 p •' Greenvillo *’ Central 1 30 a 12 30 p 4 80 p 5 42 p " Konecft 2 32 a 1 30 p 6 08 p Ex. “ W'niinstcr 6 25 p 7 OOp Hun. •* Tooroa.. Lv KllMirlon. 3 23 a 2 Ftp it ufTa 9 00 u 1 80 )> Ar. Kllii»rtn», 11 45 a 5 40 |> Lv. M1 Airy.. 7 28 p 6 0j a " Cornelia... 7 83 p 6 35 a ’’ Lula 4 18 a 3 14 p 8 00 p « 57 a •• Gainesville 4 8*1 a 3 8J p 8 20 p 7 20a ’’ Buford. 0 02 a • 48 p| 7 48 a “ Norcross. 5 25 a 9 18 p 8 27 a Ar Atlanta,KT 0 10 1! 4 55 p 10 00p ! tl 30 a " A tlunta.CT 6 10 a 8 55 p 9 OOp' 8 80 a Vo. 11. Ex. Hun Butweea Lula and Athens* No. 13. Daily. 0 Hip 8 54 p 8 Wp STATIONS. No. 12. Dally tfo.10. Ex. Sun. 10 50 a 10 19 a 10 OH a 7 35 p 7 OOp fl 88p Ojrta 6 OOp ll 05 n Lv .Lula Ar 11 HO u ’’ Muywviilc “ 11 52 a! ■' Harmony " 0 80 p 12 20 p'Ar. Athens Lv Note close connection mud* at Lula with main line trbins. ”A" iv rn. "P” p. m. “M" noon. “N” night. Chesapeake Line Steamer* in dally aervice between Nor'olkand Baltimore. Nos. H7 nuo 85- Daily Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman Hleeplugesrs between New York aud New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also between N*w York and Mcmuhis, via Washington, Atlanta and Bir mingham. Also elegant Piti.i.mam Library OneKRVATiON Car* between Atlanta and New Yoik Flrstcluss thoroughfare coachM bo- tween Wusiiington and Allauta. Dining cars serve all meals eo route. le aving Washing Ington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a tourist sleeping car will run ihrougb between WiiRhinglou and Ban Fmncisco without change. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Greetislroro and Norfolk. Oose connection at Norfolk for O1.0 Point Conkort. Nos. Xi and 86—United Status Faet Mall runs ■olid between Washington and New Orleans, via Sou 1 Ur rn Railway, A. & W. P. R. R. nn<{ LAN B It., boiog composed of coaches, througli without ctmngd for passengers of all classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping care b'dw* eu New York arid New Orleans, via At- b.nta and Montgomery and between Char lotte and Atlanta. Dining care serve all ti.eals un route Nos. tl. 3i, ;.4 and 12—Pullman sleeping care between Richmond and Charlotte, vtu Dan ville. southbound Nos. 11 and 38, northbound Nos H4iiud 12. FRANKS GANNON, .1 M.CULP. Third V P 4 Gen. Mgr. T M., Washington. W. A. TURK. B. li. HARDWICK, (i. U A u WttukmgWu, A. U. T- A., Athtulfe