The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, January 23, 1900, Image 3
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THEM, SAYS DR. TALMAGE.
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ry houses in the ITiiled States.
Repairing in the above lines a specialty.
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C. JEFFERIES 4~
GAFFNEY, S. C.
Commercial Lav. Corporation Law
Itcal Cstate l.aw.
Money to loan on approved security.
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Attorney-at-Law,
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Money to loan on Kcul Kstate.
Office over IL A. Jones & Co.’s store.
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Money to loan on city real estate.
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Offlceln Court House.(Probate'Judge sofflee
Gaffney City, S. C.
Practices in all tbo courts. Collec
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Tax Notice.
Tin* t iino for payment of State and County,
and also Commutation Load Tax. has been
extended without penalty until Feb. 1st, I!mn.
J. II. Jones.
1-ft-ltl-law Co. Treas. Cherokee Co.
Dissolutions.
T IIF. linns of O. F. Wilkins A Hro . and U.
M. W ilk ins \ Co., have I his day dissolved
by mutual consent, W. J. Wilkins retiring
from the linn of O. F. Wilkins A Hro . and
'<t. F. Wilkins from the firm of H. M. Wilkins
& Co All accounts due liy O. K'Wilkins A
Hro., will be paid by O K. Wilkins, and all
accounts and notes due f hem will lie payable
to ell her the umh rsigned.
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Co . will remain the same: that of O. F. Wilk
ins A Hro., will U i O. F. Wilkins.
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W. J. Wit.KINS,
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Petition for Homestead,
The State ok South c.uioi.ina, i
CoirxTV ok rnmioKKi'. f
Fx-Parte,
S. ti. Sarratt, W. J. Sarratt and Inez Sarratt,
Notice Is hereby given that S. U. Harratt.
W..I. Sarratt and Inez Sarratt have applied
tome, by petition, to have u homestead In
the personal ('state of their deceased father,
A. A. Sarratt, set olT to them and t heir fol
lowing named hrothers and sisters: Clara
lb icy Sarratt. Annie P. Sarratt, Anthony
{Sarratt, F hel Sarratt, and Vlvion Sarratt.
Said iH'iiliiui will come up for a hearing
liefore me on the -1st day of February, HMO.
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lirecinbcr Ifith. Isici.-ft.
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The nusybodv Hus n Mission to 1’c‘r-
form When Ills Motive Is Good.
Search Ont the Miserable and Oiler
Them Consolation.
[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