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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
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