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Uniut dagger or 'flre- rour ginmlmotlier to (mnet) with sci.isors ami Bhat cowards, if not Proof of 1)1- Sxtcuded Hand Inite Mercy and Klopsch, 1900.1 i. 28.—The discourse a lesson of gratitude none of us fully appro- shows the dlviue meaning in our physical structure; text, I Corin thians xll, 21, “The eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee.” These words suggest that some time two very important parts of the human body got into controversy, and the eye became insolent and full of braggado cio and said: “1 am an independent part of the human system. How far I can see, taking in spring morning and midnight aurora! Compared with my self what an insignificant thing Is the human hand! 1 look down upon it. There It bangs, swinging at the side, a clump of muscles and nerves, and it cannot see an inch either way. It has no luster compared with that which 1 beam forth.’’ “What senseless tall*,’’ responds the hand. “You, the eye, would have been put out long ago but for me. Without the food I have earn ed you would have been sightless and starved to death years ago. You can not do without me any better than 1 can do without you.” At this part of the disputation Paul of my text breaks in and ends the controversy by declar ing, “Tbe eye cannot say unto the baud. I have no need of thee.” Fourteen hundred and thirty-three times, as nearly as I can count by aid of concordance, does the Bible speak of the human hand. We are all familiar with the hand, but the man has yet to be born who can fully understand this wondrous instrument. Sir Charles Bell, the English surgeon, came home from the battlefield of Waterloo, where he had been amputating limbs and binding up gunshot fractures, and wrote a book entitled “The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evidencing Design.” But it Is so pro found a book that only a scientist who is familiar with the technicalities of anatomy and physiology can under stand it. So we arc all going on opening and shutting tills divinely constructed in strument, the hand, ignorant of much of the revelation it was Intended to make of the wisdom aud goodness of Cod. You can see by their structure that shoulder and elbow and forearm are getting ready for the culmination in the hand. There is your wrist, with its eight bones and their ligaments in two rows. That wrist, with its bands of fillers and its hinged joint and turn ing on two axes—on the larger axis moving backward and forward and on the smaller axis turning nearly round. And there Is the palm of your hand, with its live bones, each having a shaft and two terminations. There are the fingers of that hand, with 14 bones, each finger with its curiously wrought tendons, five of the bones with ending roughened for the lodgment of the nails. There is the thumb, coming from opposite direction to meet the fingers, so that iu conjunction they may clasp and hold fast that which you desire to take. There Are the long nerves running from the armpit to the -10 muscles, so that all are under mas tery. The whole anatomy of your hand as complex, as Intricate, ac sym metrical. as useful, as Cod could make it. What can It not do? It can climb, it can lift, it can push, it can repel, it can menace, it can clutch, it can deny, it cap affirm, it can extend, it can weave, it can bailie, it can smite, it can humble, it can exalt, it can soothe, it can throw, It can defy, it can wave, it can imprecate, it can pray. Illustrsitr* Divine WlNilom. A skeleton of the hand traced on blackboard or unrolled in diagram or hung iu medical museum is mightily il lustrative of the divine wisdom and goodness, but bow much more pleasing when in living action all Its nerves and muscles and bones aud tendons aud tissues and phalanges display what God invented when he Invented the human band! Two specimens of it we carry at our side from the time when in infancy we open them to take a toy till in the last hour of a long life we extend them iu bitter farewell. With tbe divine help I shall speak of tbe band as tbe chief executive officer of tbe soul, whether lifted fur defense, or extended for help, or busied In the arts, or offered In salutation, or wrung in despair, or spread abroad in bene diction. God evidently Intended all the lower orders of living beings should have weapons of defense, and hence the elephant’s tus!:, and the horse’s hoof, and the cow’s horn, and the lion’s tooth, and the insect's sting. Having given weapons of defense to the lower orders of living beings, of course lie would not leave man, the highest order of living beings on earth, defenseless a^d at the mercy of brutal or ruffian attack. The right—yea, the duty—of self defense is so evident it needs no argumentation. The hand is the divinely fashioned weapon of de fense. We may seldom have to use it for such purposes, but tbe fact that we are equipped insures safety. Tbe baud is a weapon sooner loaded than any gun, sooner drawn than any sword. Its fingers bent Into the palm, it becomes a bolt of demolition. What a defense It Is against acci dent! There have been times in all our experiences when we have with the hand warded oft something that would have extinguished our eyesight or broken the skull or crippled us for a lifetime. While the eye has discovered the approaching peril the hand has beaten it back or struck It down or dis armed it. Every day thank God for rigid hand, and if you want to hear h» eulogy ask him who In swift revolution of machinery has had It crushed or at Clmpultepec or South Mountain or San' j nan Hill or Sedan lost It. Aud in passing let mo say that he who has the weapon of Up) hand unin jured ami in full use u Y’ou cowards who walk cane or carry n pistol in y et had better lay aside weapon. At the frontier ous lands or as an otiloj about to make an arr; may be necessary, bn’ lug In these clvlll such re-euforcenie; to go down these J wiif.t ifiag MleU' itJwffferers, uselessly to entry :mg ShUft of dcuiM* Iu our two l-'iiuls GetJ IrtrFe i:trull v.-eupons wo lived tmgjL M > V Layiuras of AgaaHi Hk’fcaail fcrtfie chief cxocu five Lefp,** Jfil K)/ the soul for nffonlins Fpec how tbfft hand is <■.>:)- strutted! How easily you can lower it to raise the fallen! How easily It is extended to feel the Invalid’s pulse, or gently wipe away the tear of orphan age, or contribute alms^gr smooth the excited brow, or beckon into safety! Oil, the helping hands! There are hun dreds of thousands of them, and the world wants at least 1,(100.000,000 of them. Hands to bless others; hands to rescue others; hands to save others. What are all these schools and church es and asylums of mercy? Outstretch ed hands. What are all those hands distributing tracts and carrying medi cines and Trying to cure blind eyes and deaf ears and broken bones and disor dered intellects aud wayward sous? Helping hands. Let each one of us add to that number, if we have two. Or if through casualty only one add that one. If f.ese hands which we have so long kept th. st into pockets through indolence or folded in Indiffer ence or employed in writing wrong tilings or doing mean things or heaving up obstacles in the way of righteous progress might, from this hour be con secrated to helping others out and up and on, they would bo hands worth being raised on the resurrection morn and worth clapping iu eternal gladness over a world redeemed. The great artists of the ages—Ra phael and Leonardo da Vinci and (jucutin Matsys and Rembrandt and Albert Diner and Titian—have done their best in picturing the face of Christ, but none except Ary Scheffer seems to have put much stress upon the hand of Christ. Indeed, the mercy of that hand, the gentleness of that I and. is beyond all artistic portrayal. Some of Ids miracles ho performed by word of mouth aud without touching the subject before him. but most of them he performed through the hand. Was the dead damsel to be raised to life? “He took her by the hand.” Was the blind man to have optic nerve re stored? “He took'him by the hand.” Was the demon to be exorcised from a suffering man? “He took him by the hand.” The people saw this and lie- sought him to put his hand upon their atllicted ones. Tl»e Lord’s Sympathy. His own hands free, see how the Lonl sympathized with the man who bad lost the use of his hand. It was a case of atrophy, a wasting away until the arm and hand had been reduced in size beyond any medical or surgical restoration. Moreover, it was ids right hand, the most important of the two. for the left side in all its parts is wca!: er than the right side, and we involun tarily in any exigency put out the right hand because we know it is the best hand. So tlint poor man had lost m re than half of his physical armament. It would not have been so bud if it had been the left hand. But Christ looked at that shriveled up right hand dangling uselessly at the man’s side mul then cried out with a voice that had omnipotence in it. “Stretch forth thy hand,” and the record Is, “He stretched it forth whole as the other.” The blood rushed througij the shrunk en veins, and the shortened muscles lengthened, and the dead nerves thrill ed, and the lifeless lingers tingled with resumed circulation, and the restored man held up in the presence of tin* skeptical Pharisees one of Jehovah’s masterpieces, a perfect hand. No won der that story is put three times lu the Bible, so that if a sailor were cast away on a barren island or a soldier’s New Testament got mutilated in battle and whole pages are destroyed the shipwrecked or wounded man iu hos pital would probably have at least one of those three radiant stories of what Christ thought of the human hand. How often lias the hand decided a destiny! Mary, queen of Scots, was escaping from Imprisonment at Loch- lover in the dress of a laundress and had her face thickly veiled. When a boatman attempted to remove the veil, she put up her hand to defend It and so revealed the white and fair hand of a queen, and so the boatman took her back to captivity. Again and again it has been demonstrated that the hand hath a language as certainly as the mouth. Palmistry, or the science by which character and destiny are read iu tbe lines of the hand. Is yet crude and uncertain and unsatisfactory, but ns astrology was Hie mother of astron omy and alchemy was the mother of chemistry it may be that palmistry will result in n science yet to be born. Again, as the chief executive officer of the soul, behold the hand busy in Cie aits! What a comparatively dull place this woi'ld would bo without pic tures, without statuary, without music, without architecture! Have you ever realized what i»0 seeming miracles are in the five minutes’ fingering of piano or harp or flute? Who but the eternal God could make a hand capable of that swift sweep of the keys or that quick feeling of the pulses of a flute or tho twirl of the fingers amid the strings of the harp? All the composers of mush; who dreamed out the oratorios aud the cantatas of tho ages wool 1 have bad their work dropped flat and useless but for the translations of tho baud. Un der the deft fingers of the performer what cavalries gallop and what bat teries boom and what birds carol and what tempests march and what oceans billow! The great architects of the earth might have thought out tlie Al- hnmhras and the Parthonons and the St. Sophias and the Taj Mahals, but all those visions would have vanished had It not been for the hand on hammer, on plummet, on trowel, on wall, on arch, on pillar, on stairs, on dome. The Triumphant Hand. In two discourses, one concerning tho ear and the oilier concerning the eye, l spoke from the potent in the Psalms* “lie that plantod' the ear, shall he uot hear?” and "Ht* that formed the ?” but what use In the ear If the with all Its s muscles nts and mes and > T!.o l an 1 iched tie’s arid Tjuift all the “temples aud swung all the cables under the aea ns well us lifted to midair the wire tracks on which whole trains of thought rush across the continents and built all the cities and hoisted the pyramids. Do not eulogize the eye and ear at tbe expense of the hand, for the eyo may be blotted out, as In the case oi Milton, and yet his band writes a “Paradise Lost” or a “Samson Ago- nistes;” as in the case of William II. Prescott, and yet his band may write the enchanting “Conquest of Peru.” Or the ear may be silenced forever, as In the case of Beethoven, and yet hid Land may put into immortal cadences the “Ninth Symphony.” Oh, the hand! The God fashioned hand.! The triune- pliant hand! It is an open Bible of di vine revelation, and the five lingers are the Isaiah and the Ezekiel aud the David and tbe Micali and the Paul of that almighty inspiration. A pastor in ids sermon told bow a lit tle child appreciated the value of bis hand when be was told that on the morrow it must be amputated in order to save bis life. Hearing that, be went to a quiet place and prayed that God would spare bis hand. The surgeon, coin ing the next day to do his work, found the baud so much better that amputa tion was postponed, and tbe band got well. The pastor, telling of this iu a sermon, concluded by holding up his hand and saying, “That is the very hand that was spared in answer to prayer, and I hold it up. u monument of divine mercy.” Again, the hand is the chief execu tive otlicer of the soul when wrung in agony. Tears of relief are sometimes denied to trouble. The eyelids at such time are as.hot and parched and burn ing as the brow. At such time even the voice is suppressed, aud there is no sob or outcry. Then the wringing of the hand tells the story. At tbe close of a life wasted in sin sometimes coined that expression of tbe twisted fingers— the memory of years that will never return, of opportunities the like of which will never again occur, and con science iu its wrath pouncing upon the soul, aud all the past a horror, ouly to be surpassed by the approaching hor ror. So a man wrings ins hands over the casket of a dead wife whom he had cruelly treated. So a man wrings Ida hands at the fate of sons aud daugh ters whose prospects have been ruined by Ids inebriety aud neglect and de pravity. So the sinner wrings hid hands when, after a life full of off’erd of pardon and peace and heaven, ho dies without hope. When there an: sorrows too poignant for lamentation on the lip and too hot for the tear glands to write in letters of crystal on the cheek, tbe band recites the tragedy with more emphasis than anytlhug in “Macbeth” and "King Lear.” Worse than tho wringing of the' hands was the punishment that Gran- mer gave his right hand when be put it in the fire of the stake and. without lunching, said: “Forasmuch as my hand offended iu writing contrary tu my heart, my hand shall therefore be the first punished. It shall be the first burned. This was the hand that wrote it.” Again, the hand is the chief execu tive officer of the soul in salutation. A former prexiffout of tho United Stated said. “I think handshaking is a great uuisanre, aud i^should be abolished. It not only makes the right arm sore, but shocks the whole system and uuiitd a man for writing or attending to other duties. It demoralizes tbe entire nerv ous and muscular system.” But while this exercise may be fatiguing it is also an opportunity. He who knows how heartily to shake hands has one of the mightiest arts for conveying happiness and good cheer and life eter nal. After you have shaken hands with one a line of communication id opened that was not open before. Two hands clasped in greeting are a bridge on which all sympathies and kind nesses and encouragements and bless ings cross over. To shake hands with some persons does us more good than a sermon—aye, it is a sermon. To shake hands with a good doctor when we are sick is nn anodyne, a tonic, a febrifuge, before lie feels the pulse or writes the prescription. To shako hands with a cheerful man when we are discouraged fills us with faith to try again what we have failed in do ing. To shake hands with some conse crated man, clerical or lay. after wo have wandered away into sin is to feel the grasp of a Father—God welcoming Lome the prodigal. Shake hands, O ye stofid and exclusive and coldblooded and precise and conventional Chris tians! Jehu cried out to Jehonadab: “Is thine heart right? If It be, give me thine hand.” There Is in an honest and Christian handshake a thrill of gospel electricity. You take part of Ids trouble, and he takes part of your jubilance. In that way you divide up anxieties and con gratulations. Tho main trunk line of that handshake lias branches of bless ed telegraphy right down to both hearts and up to both heads, and you both get the message the tamo instant. Take off the glove when you shake hands, for that glove puts the hide of a kid between the palm of your hand and the palm of his hand, and that animal’s hide is a nonconductor of this gospel electricity. Do not grip the hone of the forefinger and the bone of the little linger with a crushing power that puts one Into a severe suffering, which many of us have experienced from those who are more brutes than men. Take the hand gently, reasonably, heartily, and know that God ordered that form of salutation. This Is one important tiling that the hand was made for. You can see the Indication In Its shape and equipment-the four fingers to take your neighbor's hand on t’t<> one side, and the thumb to fake it on the other. Land the forearm so swung that you can easily draw It toward you. Of course there is a wicked shaking of hands, and Salomon refers to it when ho says, “Though hand Join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpun ished.” Shake hands In conspiracy to damage individual or community or nation; shake hands in wrongdoing— you help me stuff this ballot box, and I will see that when 1 am In power you shall have promotion; yon help me In my Infamy, and I will help you In your infamy. Oh, that is profana tion of n holy rite, that is sacrilege against a divine arrangement, that Is gripping your own destruction! Glad Urcctliitis. JUit shake hands tin.* way Fitt shook hands wifh^the their civilizatlou. Shake YJlssiounry Carey li William for with tbe'uindobs. Tor Whose salvation he became a lifetime exile. Sliako hands tin* way Havelock shook hands with beSieged women at Lucknow whom he had come to save from mas sacre. Shake bauds as David Braiu- erd did With tbe American Indians, whom be offered a glorious heaven through tlie gospel. Shake bands as Lincoln shook hands with the agitated mother to whom he gave back the boy who had fallen asleep from overfatigue ns a sentinel. Shake bands as during the civil war Anna Ross shook hands with tho wounded soldier iu Cooper Shop hospital, Fhiladelphiu. Shake hands as Van Meter, the city evangel ist, shook hands with the waif of the street coming penitent into the mid night mission. Shake hands as heaven shook hands with earth that night when a doxology in the gallery of clouds woke the Bethlehem shep herds. But it is not always in such glad greeting that we can employ our right hand. Alas that so often we have to employ the hand in farewell saluta tion! If your right hand retained some Impress of all such uses, it would be a volume of bereavements. Ob, the goodbys in which your right hand lias participated! Goodby at tlie steam boat wharf. Goodby at the rail train window. Goodby before the opening of the battle. Goodby at the dying pil low. We all needed grace for such- handshaking, though our hand was strong and their hand was weak, and wo will need grace for tlie coining goodbys, and that grace we had better seek while amid the felicities of health and homos unbroken. Thank God there will be no goodby in heaven! Again, tlie hand is the chief execu tive of the soul when employed iu ben ediction. No gesture of the human hand means more than that outstretch ed gesture. In many of our religious demonstrations we are not permitted to pronounce an apostolic benediction until we have been regularly ordained as ministers of the gospel, but there are kinds of benediction that you may all pronounce without especial permis sion from presbytery or conference or convention. Y’ou bare a right to spread abroad both right hand and left hand in bestowing a blessing of kindness and good will upon all you meet With botii bauds bless tbe children. Take them iu your arms and kiss their fair cheek. Take with them a round of merriment in the room before you leave it. and by prayer put them in the arms of that Christ, to go to whom in olden time they struggled to get out of tho arms of their mothers. Goff bless the cradles and high chairs aud nurseries all round tlie world! Extend your hands in benediction for the aged. Take their counsel and ask their prayers and smooth tbe path down the declivities. By neglect aud unfillal demeanor add no wrinkles to their brow, no more stoop to their should, rs. They have their hand on tho latch of the door through which they will soon go out of sight of your homes and churches. May tlie mantles of the Elijahs fall upon the Elishas! Spread your hand for the benediction upon all tlie men aud women in tho tug of life, many of them tired and buffeted and disheartened. Never go out of a store or shop or office or field without i>i'ououuciug a benediction. And what better use can I make of my hands, which are tlie chief execu tive officer of my soul, tliau now to spread them abroad in tlie apostolic benediction which has been pronounced for centuries and over hundreds of thousands of assemblages, at corona tions ami obsequies, at harvest homes and on fast days, by all tlie ministers of the gospel In the past as it will be by afi the ministers of the gospel until tbe church militant reaches up its right hand to take the right hand of the church triumphant—a benediction which, when it has full sway, will leave nothing for our world to want or heaven to bestow: “May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and tbe love of God. and tho communion of the Holy Ghost, bo with you all forever. Amen.” Proposals. To Worship In the Opera lluime. The congregation of the First Bap tist church will worship hereafter In tho auditorium of the court house. Air. W. H. Iloss, who has it leaSed from the county commissioners, has tendered the use of it to his church free of charge. This is very com mendable in Mr. Ross and the church feels very grateful to him for this kind deed. The Sunday school and preaching services will be held there next kSunday morning. September Circuit in the Supreme Court. For tho information of the attor neys in the Gth circuit, Clerk of Court Jefferies informs us that he has received official notification from the clerk of the supreme court that all cases in this circuit will be called from Tuesday, April 17th to April 22nd, inclusive. The time for the calling of all the other circuits in the State can he had at tlie clerk’s of fice. A Now Knglneer at the Cotton Mill. Mr. J. M. Wilson an experienced engineer, late of Spa tanburg, now has charge of the engine in the big cotton mill at this place, a position lately held by our old friend Mr. Lee Bird. The Ledger extends a kind greet ing to Mr. Wilson and will add the wish that his stay in Gaffney may be long, pleasant and profitable. A Call to Farmers. To the Citizens of Cherokee County : Whereas, the unwarranted rise in the price of fertiliz* rs calls for prompt action on the part of those interested, the citizens of tlie county are called to meet in tho court house on Mon day, tlie oth inst., just after the sales close, to take such action as they may think best in the premises. Respectfully, W.M. JKFFBRIE8. Announcement. N il. LITTLJOHN is hereby anoouuccd • as a candidate for n -election to tho office of mayor of Gaffney. Dissolutions. T ill*! firms of O. K. Wilkins & Bro.. and R. M. Wilkins A Co., ha ve t Ms day dissol veil hy mutual consent. W. J. Wilkins retiring from the linn of O. F. Wilkins & Bro , and (>. F. Wilkins trom tic lirni of U. M Wilkins A Co. Ail aecouMs due l»y (). F'Wilkins A Bro., will he paid by O K. Wilkins,aud till accounts and notes due them will Ik) payable to .either the undersiyned. The mime of tlie linn of R. M. Wilkins & Co, will remain the same; Unit oft). E. Wilk ins & Bro., will be O. E. Wilkins. <>. F.. W'II.KIN’S, W. J. \V 1 OKI NS, Gaffney, S. C„ Jan., ItUli. IhuO. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4. ; In EffectZ2;oi A. M., Sunday,December 24th, ’99 j Between Camden.S.U. and Blacksburg,S.C. WEST. ’ SSI EAST c ConKrcftslonnl Stirtorlnlisiii, The preponderance of “Prince Al berts” in this congress is a matter of general comment. “One would almost tliiuk a Prince Albert was the uniform of your house of representatives, don’t you know.” remarked a young lady of decidedly English accent as she looked down on the slow moving black clad figures on the lloor. « Even the gentle man from Arkansas, Mr. Terry, who lias worn bluish gray ever since his en trance into the house iu 1801, startled his confreres hy appearing in a black broadcloth Prince Albert suit of the most elegant cut aud finish.—Washing ton Star. 3 a KAST1CRN TIMK. STATIONS. ^ n £1, **1 P.M. P.M. s I'l l:> :»II s .'yt J l.-> !»:> I •.’7 10 50 1 40 11 20| - 10 I! :n 15 D ;«)| :.’ 1 00 r»o l :*ol :( 00 :toj :i 10 :.* 50 :i 30 :s 10 :t 4 m ;j 1 45 4 5 ISO 4 (> 00! 4 ti 35| 4 (i :i.v 5 7 00 5 1*. m.| e > 3 4. i? —: CAMDEN DEKALB . .WESTV ILLE.... KERSHAW HEATH SI’KI NGS. . PLEASANT HILL LANCASTER ... . RIVERSIDE. . . SIMM NG DELL ... CATAWBA Ji NC’N LESLIE ROCK HILL •• NEW POUT .. TIK/.A H . .. YORK VILLE .. SHARON HICKORY GROVE SMYRNA BLACKSBURG... i\ :.t. ! •: 35 13 03 11 50 11 ;i5 11 30 11 15 10 55 10 40 io :io to 3o 10 10 10 INI *.i 35 !) 30 !l 15 !) 00 X 45 K 35 X 15 A. M. 30 Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,N.C. WEST. 'll f 33. - — His Hosriment. At an entertainment in Edinburgh Just as tlie Boer war broke out the audl- dienee stopped the performance to sing the national anthem. So far this was ell right, hut more followed. A few hot headed spirits caught sight of a uniform, and the wearer, despite his protests, was carried shoulder high around the building. When lie regain ed terra flrma, some one asked him for tlie name of Ids regiment, his uniform not being familiar. “Regiment!” was tlie surprised reply. “Man, I am tlie doorkeeper. What’s gaun wraug wj’ ye a’?”—Spare Mo ments. Proposals for sites to locate the Limestone Mills will lio 1 erelvet! till February 15th, JiKtO. All propositions must lie submitted in writ ing, anil no slies utidfr 35 a.'res or more than I'm will Ik* considered. W. C. llAuun k. Sec. and Trcas. Limestone Mills. Gaffney. S. <’. Great Cut in Sewing Machine Prices $6c.oo Drop Head Demurest $24.00. Warranted 10 years. No better made. it. m. ivir»«coi*iu, Oaffuey, Id. C. tvo 0 EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. A. M. I x ini x 3.1I 8 t"; !) 30 10 00 10 10 10 35 10 50| H 15 H 35 11 15 13 05 13 35 13 5o P. M. WEST. EAST. 1;;. . BLACKSBURG .. EARLS PATTERSON St "OS SHELBY .0... — LATTlMoRE ... . MOORKSBOIMJ... — HENRIETTA ... FOREST CITY.. RUTHKRFORDTON Mild,WOO I) ...I GOLDEN VALLEY] . THERMAL CITY .. GLEN WOOD .. MARION ... O Property Near Limestone. Three tracts, within onc-linlf mile, of the College. Three tracts on tlie Metal Road, from n ic 7 miles of Gaff ney. One tract of 187 acres near the Macombsoii Shoals on Broad River. Apply to The finest lot of yellow and white pine shingles ever in Gaffney. Best Georgia pine Flooring, Ceiling and Weather boarding in the market.* Just re ceived, a carload of Doors, Sash, Mantles, Brackets, Turned Columns, Balusters, &c. Also Oak Cabinet Mantles and Tileing. Call and examine for yourselves, 1'rlces to suit the times. Respct.. L. BAKER, DR. J. F. GARRETT* Dentist, ,Gaffney, - - S. C. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 26th of each month; Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co.’s Store. Can be found at office six days In the we k SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. In Effect Dec. 10, 1899. I) IHI * Gaffney Division. 1st Class. 10- I 18. rtf'*?-s' x y. ^ x y. ~ — •e 3 —s: 3 •“x or. EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. EAST. 1st Class. 14. i ia. i * 7. ** »» M A M A M 1* M 1 CO 6 (2) BLACKSBURG 7 50 3 CO 1 30 ti 30 CHEROKEE 1 A ELS 7 30 3 40 1 40 6 49 . GAFFNEY 7 10 3 30 P M A M A M 1* M Fra in No 33 leaving Marion. S'. C at 5 a. m. making close connedlon at Blacksburg, S. wil b the Soul hern’s train No. 3ii for Char lotte, N. (’.. and all points f ast, and connect ing with the Southern’s vestibule (tolnjrto Atlanta, Ga.. and all points West, and will receive passenif* rs going East from train No. 10 on the C. N. W. U. It., at York v I tie, S. at x.45 a. m., aud connects at Camden, S. O., with the Southern’s train No. 78 arriv ing In Charleston, S. C., at s. 17 p. m. Train No. 34 with passenger coach attached, leaving Blacksburg at 5.30 a. m.. and con necting at Rock Hill, S. (’., with the South ern’s Florida train for all points South. Train No. 33 leaving Camden. S. C . itt 13.50 j). tn . after the arrival of the Southern's Charleston train connects at l.ancaster. S. wit li tlie L. A ( It. R.: at < 'atawha Jnm t lou with the S. A. !.., going East, it Rock Hill. 8. C.. with the Southern's trail Nn. 34 for Charlotte, N. and ml imlnt.-. Fast. Connects at Yorkville, ('.. with train No. U on the <A N. W. R. R., for < 'liestt r, S. ('. At Blacksburg with the Southern's vestibule going East, Hud the Southern's train No. 35 going Wist, and connecting at Marion, N. with the Southern both East and West. SAMUEL HUNT, 1'resident. A. TRIPP, < Superintendent. 8. H. LUMPKIN. QeuT. I’aMCUger Agent. Ves. No. 18. Northbound. No. 12. No. 38. Ex. Daily. Daily Sun. Lv A tlanta.OT 7 59 a 12 COin 4 30 p ” Atlanta,El' 8 50 a 1 09 p 5 50p " Norcross.. >9 30 a 6 23 p ’’ Buford. 10 05 a 7 03 p *’ Gainesville io 35 a 2 25 p 7 33 p “ Lula lo 58 a 2 45 p 8 00 p " Cornelia.... 11 25 a 8 30 p ” Mt. Airy. . 11 30 a 8 35 p Lv Toecnn 11 5'i n 3 33 p 9 00 p A r. E.berlon... 5 40 p Lv. Kilierton... 9 09 a Lv. \v'minster. 12 31 m " Seneca. 12 52 p 4 15 p ” Central.... 1 40 p ” Greenville 2 34 p 5 22 p - , T , •’ Spar'burg . 3 37 p 0 13 p ” Gaffney 4 20 p 0 46 p “ Blacksburg 4 38 p 7 02 p “ King's Mt.. 5 03 p *’ Gastonia... 5 25 p “ Charlotte.. 6 30 p 8 18 p, Ar. tirc’nsboro 9 65 p 10 47 p .... Lv Ore’nsboro Ar. Norfolk . It 46 p 8 23 u Ar. Danville... 11 25 p 11 56 p Ar. Richmond.. 0 00 a tl 00 a Ar. W'hington. 6 42 n ” B more P R 8 00 a " Ph'delphia. 10 15 u " New York. 12 43m FstMa Ves. Southbound. No. 35. So. 37. No. 11. Daily Daily. Dally Lv N Y., Pn.U. 12 15 a 4 30 p ’’ Ph'delphia 3 60 u 0 55 p ’■ Baltimore.. (i 22 a 0 20p “ Wiisli'ton.. 11 !5u 10 45 p Lv. Hi Jur.ond. 12 01 n 11 1)0 p 11 00p Lv. Danville.. 5 48 p 5 50 a 6 10 a Lv Norfolk... (UK) a X 35 p Ar. Gro'iisboro G 35 p 5 15 n Lv. Orc'nsttoro 7 10 p 7 05 a 7 37 n Ar <'liariotte . •9 45 p •9 25 a 12 05 m Lv Gastonia. 10 42 p 10 07 a 1 12 p King's Mt. HvBI.-k Usliurg Gaffney. 11 i?5 p 10 45 u 1 38 p 2 06 p 11 421, 10 53 ii 2 24 p “ Spar'burg. 12 20 a 11 34 n 3 15 p Greenville 1 30 a 12 30 p 4 30 p •' Central 5 42 p *' fV.’inra . 2 32 a 1 30 p (HWp •’ W'rnin-ler t» 25 p Tocroa.... 3 28 a 2 lap 7 OOP fiV Kilwrton. 0 00 a 1 HOP Ar. l‘.:l«Tlnn. 11 45 a 5 40 p Lv. M i Airy., 7 28 p “ Cornelia . 7 32 p •’ Lula ... 4 Ifia 3 i4p 8 OOp “ Gainesville 4 30 a 3 33 p 8 20 p " Buford. 5 02 a 8 48 p " Norcross. 6 25 ti II 13 p Ar. Atlanta,KT C 10 a 4 55 p 10 OOp “ Atlanta.CT 5 10 a 3 55 p 9 OOp FstMa No. 36. Daily. 11 50 p 12 50 a 1 26 a 1 5 la 2 18 a 2 33» 3 23 a 11 45 a 4 U4 a 4 28 n 4 65 a 6 00 n 7 03a 7 45 a 8 02 a 8 27 a 8 61 a » 50u 12 23 p 8 50 p 11 25 p 2 56 a 0 23 A 0 U5 a t) 30 A 0 35 A K 57 A 7 20 a 7 48 u 8 27 a 0 30 o 8 SO a Botweeu Lula and Athens. No. li. No. 10. Ex. No. 13. STATIONS. No. 12. Ex. Fun. Daily. Daily. Sun. 8 lOp 11 05 n Lv. .Lula Ar 10 50 a 7 35 p X 34 p 11 36 a “ Maysvillo “ ” Harmony “ 10 19 a 7 OOp 8 50 p 11 52 a Hi 03a 6 38 p (1 30 p 12 l>0p Ar. Athena Lv 9 25a 6 00 p Note _ main line trains. •‘A’'a rn. “P" p. m. "M" noon. “N” night. Chesapeake Line .Steamers In daily aervice between Nor >lk and Baltimore. Nos. 37 Ann 38—Daily Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullinau sleupiugcurs between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also between Now York at d Memphis, via Washington. Atlanta and Bir mingham. Also elegant Puli.MAN LlBRAHY Oiisr.it vation Caus between Atlanta and New York Pirs’chu* thoroughfare coaches be tween Washington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve nil tne».s en route. Leaving Wanhing- tngtou Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a tourist sleeping car will run throngh between Washington and San Francisco without change. Pullman drawing room Bleeping oars between CitconKboro and Norfolk. Close connection at Norfolk for Oi tt Point Comfort. Nos. 35 an;! !>)—United States Fast Mat) runs eolid lietweeii Washington and New Orleans, vis Southern Railway, A. & W. P. B. B. ana L & N K. R., being composed of coaches^ throngh without change for passengors of all elusurs. Pullman drawing-room siceplng cars between New York nnd New Orleans, via At lanta and Montgomery nnd between Char lotte and Atlanta. 1)1 mcnU en route. Nos H, 31. . 4 nnd 12—Pullman sleeping car* between Richmond and Charlotte, via Dan ville. southbound Nos. 11 sad 38, northbound Nos 34 and 12. FRANKS GANNON, J.W.CULP, Third V P .1 Gen. Mgr. T M., Washington. W. A. TURK. 8. H. HARDWICK. Ji r A.j. Washingtua, 4 U. r. A., AUauta. lining cars serve al) *fe. 1 A ^ r-v