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"'•v TRIUMPHAL CHARIOT DR. TALMAGE SAYS RELIGION IS NOT A HEARSE. .. f '-* 1 The hair has _ no I i f e. It is starved. It keeps coming out, gets thinner and thinner, bald spots appear, then actual baldness. The only good hair food I t feeds the roots, stops starvation, and the hair grows thick and long. It cures dan druff also. Keep a bottle of it on your dressing table. It always restores to faded or gray Mind, we say u always.” $1.00 a bottle. All druggists. “ I have found your Hair Vigor to be the best remedy 1 have ever tried for the liair. Sly hair was falling out very bad, so I thought 1 would try a bottle of it. I nad used only one bottle, and my hair stooped falling out, and it is now real thick and long.” Naxcy J. Mocxtcabtle, July28,1SU8. Yonkers,N.Y. U Write tho Doctor. He will serd you his book on The Hair un i Sealp. Ask him any ques- thm you wish about your hair. You will receive a prompt answer free. Address. Dk. J. O. AYER, Lowell, Mass. Or. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. lones & Co.’s Store, t^'an be found at office six days In the week S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4. In Effect 12.01 A. M.. Sunday.December 24th, '99 Bfltfetn Camden,S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C. iz WEST. EAST 33. 38 34. St 'A X X X a c o w u cr. X •o c» EASTERN TIME. * . i t: i 4/ Of, u It -if j Vi a X X J. U-X 0- STATIONS. Cm — Ci* ^■7. 1 m “ * £ y. M. f*. M I l\ M. l». M. 8 20 12 51 CAMDEN 12 25 5 30 8 50 1 15 DEKALB ... 12 02 4 50 9 20 1 27 . .WESTVILLE.... 11 50 4 30 10 50 1 40 . ... 1\ EliSHAW 11 :15 4 to 11 20 2 io .HEATH SPRINGS 11 20 8 15 ii 3S 2 i; .PLEASANT HILL. 11 15 3 (X) 12 30 2 35' LANCASTER 10 55 2 35 1 00 2 50 HI VERSI HE io 40 1 no 1 20 3 oo SPK1NGDELL .. to 30 12 40 2 30 3 10 CATAWBA JUNCN 10 20 12 20 |*50 3 20 LESLIE 10 10 11 no h i io 3 0 >,.... ROCK HILL 10 00 10 40 ■ 4 1. 3 5. . ...NEWPORT. .. 0 35 8 20 r'i 4:> 4 02 .. TIUZAH ... 0 30 H (XI ' 5 30 4 2o . YORKVII,LE .. 9 15 7 30 li 00 4 if SHARON 0 00 (i 50 « 25 4 50 HICKORY OKOVE 8 45 0 20 5 35 5 col SMYRNA 8 85 (i (X) 7 09 5 20 . BLACKSBURG. 8 15 5 30 P. M. P. M. 1 1 A. M. 1 A. M. Between Blacksburg.S.C., and Marion,N.C. WEST. EAST. II. 33. 38. 18. \ l i X X X J 5 X o r"> y - Cl X rH EASTERN TIME. ei 8-> 'd £ c O u i Cg • X ?! X X s X Gu STATIONS. ii . k.* a*- ^ LA ~ Iml ^ ~ ~ X c *7. M. P. M. A. M. 1*. M . r h io 5 80 BLACKSBURG .. 7 48 0 40 8 30 5 45 FARES 7 :t2 (i 20 40 5 50 PATTERSON SP'GS 7 25 ti 12 !l 20 t! 00 SHELBY 7 15 (i (X) 10 (Hi ti 20 ... LATTIMORE ... li 55 1 fX) 1(1 10 ti 2S .. MOORES BORO... <i 4K 4 40 | 1(1 25 l> 3s ... HENRIETTA . « 38 4 20 L jo 50 li 55 FOREST CITY ti 20 8 50 i ii ir> 7 10 RUT IIEUFOR ETON li 05 •l 25 L. 11 35 7 22 MILLWOOD f> 53 3 05 7 85 GOLDEN VALLEY 5 4(1 2 50 SK : tv. 7 40 THERMAL CITY 5 87 2 45 7 5* . . GLEN WOOD .... 17 2 20 | 8 15 MARION 5 IXI 2 (X) IP. M. A. M. P. M. — 18. 13. P M 1 00 l 9) 1 40 A M 0 00 « 9) 0 40 PM AM EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. EAST. 1st t lass. 14. 10. =t-NI V'rf. * tfi . . BLAOKSBUUG . GIIEKOKEE FALLS GAFFNEY * r - - ” X A M I* M 7 00 ! ;i 00 7 ;«>. ” 40 7 10 ' 2 20 AM PM Train No. 112 loavlng Marlon. \. < .. atO a. m. making close connection at Blacksburg, S- C.. willi the Soutia rn’s train No. 00 for rbar- lotte, N. and all paints East, and connect ing with tlio Southern's vestibule going to AtlHnta, Ga. t and nil ixdnts West, and will receive passengers going East from train No. 10 on the C. & N. W. K. R„ at Yorkville, H. (’., at S.40 a. rn., and connects at Camden, M. G.^with the Southern's train No. 7Surrlv- ingjix^flbarieston, H. <!., ats.17 p. m. XiaHBfo. :U with pusst.-ngercoach uttachod, leSvtusVBIackHburg at O.liO a. m., and con necting ;it Itoek Hill, S. <!., with tho South- 1,era's Florida train for all points South. Train No. it! leaving Oaioden, H. G , at 12.50 P- ni . after tho arrival of the Southern’s t'harleston train connects at Lancaster, S. <with the E. »V if. H.; at Catawba Junct loa wit h the h. A. L., going East, at Itock 1111, S. C.. with the Southern’s triiln No. IH jr ('harlotte, N. C., and till points East. I’onnects at \ oi l, ville, S. ('.. with train No. 0 |theC. ft N. \V. If. If., for Chester, S. C. At aeksh’jrg with tho Southern's vestibule llig East, and the Southern’s train No. 35 Mtig West, ami connecting at Marion, N. C., Itlj the Southern both East and West. SAMUEL HUNT. Eresldeiic. A. TRIPP, Superintendent, .jpg 8. H. LUMPKIN, len’l. I’wMeuger Agent. Homnn Hie I» Prolonged by PrnctN cnl ReliKion—Care of the Health a Positive Christian Dnty—A Gospel ' of Life. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1900.] Washington, Feb. 18.—This sermon of Dr. TuImage preseuts a gospel for this life ns well as the next and shows what religion does for the prolonga tion of earthly existence; text, Psalm xei, 10, “With long life will I satisfy him.” Through the mistake of Its friends religion has been chiefly associated with sickbeds and graveyards. Tho whole subject to many people is odor ous with chlorine aud carbolic acid. There are people who cannot pro nounce the word religion without hear ing in it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter. It Is high time that this tiling were changed and that re ligion, instead of being represented as a hearse to carry out the dead, should be represented as a chariot in which the living are to triumph. Religion, so far from subtracting from one’s vitality, Is a glorious addl- 'ilon. It is sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles. When David, in an other part of the Psalms, prays that religion may be dominant, he does not speak of It as a mild sickness or an emaciation or au attack of moral and spiritual cramp. He speaks of it as ‘‘the saving health of all nations,” while God In the text promises lon gevity to the pious, sayiug, “With long life will I satisfy him.” The fact Is that men and women die too soon. It is high time that religion joined the hand of medical science In attempting to Improve human longev ity. Adam lived U30 years; Methuse lah lived 1)G9 years. As late lu the his tory of the world as Vespasian there were at one time lu his empire 45 peo ple 135 years old. So far down as the sixteenth century Peter Zartan died at 1S5 years of age. I do uot say that re ligion will ever take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but 1 do say that the length of human life will be greatly Improved. It is said in Isaiah Ixv, 20, “The child ■ball die 100 years old.” Now, if, ac cording to Scripture, the child is to he 100 years old may not the men and wo men reach to 300 and 400 and 500? The fact is that we are mere dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of the generations that are to come. Take the African race. They have been un der bondage for centuries. Give them a chance, and they develop a Tous- saint 1’Ouverture. And if the white race shall be brought out from under the serfdom of sin what shall be the body, what shall he the soul? Religion has only just touched our world. Give It full power for a few centuries, and who can tell what will be the strength of man and the beauty of woman and the longevity of all? Friend of Longevity. My design is to show that practical religion is the friend of longevity. 1 prove It, first, from the fact that It makes tho care of our health a positive Chris iau duty. Whether we shall keep early or late hours, whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be thorough or In complete mastieatiou, are questions very often referred to the realm of whimsicality, but the Christian man lifts this whole problem of health Into the accountable aud the divine. He says, “God has given me this body, ami he has called It the temple of the Holy Ghost, aud to deface Its altars or mar its walls or crumble Its pillars Is a God defying sacrilege.” He sees God’s cnligraphy In every page—ana tomical aud physiological. He says, “God has given me a wonderful body for noble purposes.” That arm with 32 curious hones wielded by 40 curious muscles, and all under the brain’s teleg raphy—350 pounds of blood rushing through the heart every hour, the heart In 24 hours beating 100,000 times, dur ing the same time the lungs taking in 57 hogsheads of air, and all this mech anism uot more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed and demolished. The Christian man says to himself, “If I hurt my nerves, if I hurt iny brain, if I hurt any of my physical fac ulties, 1 Insult God and call for dire retribution.” Why did God tell the Levltes not to offer to him In sacrifice animals Imperfect aud diseased? He meant to tell us in all the ages that we are to offer to God our very best phys ical condition, and a man who through irregular or gluttonous eating ruins his health is not offering to God such a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for bis cloak at Troas? Why should such a great man as Paul he anxious about a thing so insignificant as an overcoat? It was because he knew that with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth half as much to God and the church cs with respiration easy and foot free. An intelligent Christian man would consider it an absurdity to kneel down at night and pray aud ask God’s pro tection while at the same time he kept the windows of his bedroom tight shut against fresh air. He would just as soon think of going to the top of his house and leaping off and then pray ing to God to keep him from getting hurt. Just as long ns you refer this whole subject of physical health to tho realm of whimsicality or to the pastry coo or to the butcher or to the baker or to the apothecary or to the clothier, you are not acting like a Christian. Take care of all your physical forces— nervous, muscular, bone, brain, cellu lar tissue—for all you must be brought to judgment. Smoking your nervous system Into fidgets, burning out the coating of your stomach with wine, logwooded and Btrychntned, walking with thiu shoes to make your feet look delicate, pinch ed at the waist until you are nigh cut In two and neither part worth any thing, groaning about sick headache aud palpitation of the heart, which you think came from God, when they came from your own folly. What right lias any man or wormiu to deface the temple of the Holy Ghost? What Is the ear? Why, It Is the whispering gallery of the human soul. What Is the eye? It is the ob servatory God constructed, Its telc- scqpe sweeping the heavens, 80 won derful are these bodies that God names his own attributes after different parts of them. His omniscience—it is God’s ej'e. His omnipresence—it is God’s ear. His omnipotence—It is God’s arm. The upholstery of the midnight heav ens—it is the work of God's lingers. His life giving power—it is the breath of tho Almighty. Ills dominion—“the government shall be upon his shoul der.” A body so divinely honored and so divinely constructed, let us be care ful uot to abuse it. UhriMtimi Duty. When it becomes a Christian duty to take care of our health, is not the whole tendency toward longevity? If I toss my watch about recklessly and 3rop it on the pavement and wind It up any time of day or night l happen to think of it. and often let it run down, while you arc careful with your watch and never abuse it and wind it up just at the same hour every night and put it in a place where it will not suffer from tho violent changes of at mosphere, which watch will last the longer? Common sense answers. Now, the human body is God’s watch. You see the hands of the watch. You seo tin face of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch. Oh, be careful and do not let it run down! Again, I remark that practical reli gion is a friend of longevity In the fact that it Is a protest against dissipations which Injure and destroy the health. Bad men and women live a very short life. Their sins kill them. I know hundreds of good old men, but I do not know half a dozen bad old men. Why? They do uot get old. Lord Byron died at Missolonghl at 30 years of age, him self bis own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions the horse that dashed with him into the desert. Kdgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at 38 years of uge. The black raven that alighted on the bust above ids chamber door was de lirium tremens, Only thia and nothing more. Napoleon Bonaparte lived only just beyond midlife, then died at St. Hel ena, and one of bis doctors said that his disease was induced by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerlitz, the man who by one step of his foot iu the center of Europe shook the earth, kill ed by a snuffbox! Oh, how many peo ple we have known who have uot lived out half their days because of their dissipations and indulgences. Now practical religion is a protest against all dissipation of any kind. “But,” you say, “professors of reli gion have fallen, professors of religion have got drunk, professors of religion have misappropriated trust funds, pro fessors of religion have absconded.” Yes, but they threw away their reli gion before they did their morality. If a man on a White Star line steamer bound for Liverpool in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard and is drowned, is that anything against the White Star Hue’s capacity to take the man across the ocean? And if a man jumps over the gunwale of his religion and goes down never to rise is that any reason for your believing that religion has no capacity to take the man clear through? In the one case if he had kept to the steamer his body would have been saved; iu the other case If he had kept to his religion his morals would have been saved. A Healthy Balance. There are aged people who would have been dead 25 years ago but for the defenses aud the equipoise of reli gion. You have no more natural re sistance than hundreds of people who lie In the cemeteries today slain by their own vices. The doctors made their case as kind and pleasant as they could, aud It was called congestion of the brain or something else, but the suakes aud the blue Hies that seemed to crawl over the pillow in the sight of the delirious patient showed what was the matter with him. You, the aged Christian man, walked along by that unhappy one until you came to the golden pillar of the Christian life. You went to the right; he went to the left. That is all the difference between you. Oh, if this icligiou is a protest against all forms of dissipation then it is an il lustrious friend of longevity! “With long life w il 1 satisfy him." Again, religion is a friend of longev ity in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills men; It is worry. When a man becomes a genuine Christian, he makes over to God uot only ids affec tions, but his family, his business, his reputation. Ids body, Ids mind, his soul —everything. Industrious he will be, but never worrying, because God is managing his affairs. How can be worry about business when iu answer to his prayers God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and, if he gain, that is best and, if be lose, that is best? Suppose you had a supernatural nelg) t/<■ who came In and said: “Sir, I want you to call ou me in every ex igency. 1 am your fast friend. I could fall back on $20,000,000. I can foresee a panic ten years. 1 hold the control ling stock iu 30 of the best monetary institutions of tills country. Whenever you are in any trouble call on me, and I will help you. You can have 1117 money, and you cau have my influence. Here is my hand iu pledge of it.” How much would you worry about busi ness? Why, you would say, “I’ll do the best I can, aud then I’ll depend on my friend’s generosity for the rest.” Now, more than that Is promised to every Christian business man. God says to him: “I own New York and Loudon and St. Petersburg aud Peking, and Australia and California are mine. I can foresee a panic 1,000 years. I have all the resources of the universe, and I am your fast friend. When you get In business trouble or any other trouble, call on me, and 1 will help. Here Is my baud iu pledge of omnipo tent deliverance.” How much should that man worry? Not much. What lion will dare to put his paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in this? Is there uot au eternal vacation iu this? God I» 1'reaent. “Oh,” you suy, “here is a man who asked God for u blessing lu a certain enierprise, aud he lost $5,000 iu it. Ex plain that.” I will. Yonder is a fac tory, and one wheel is going north and the other wheel Is going south, and one wheel plays laterally aud the other plays vertically. I go to the manufac turer, and 1 say: “Oh, manufacturer, your machinery Is a contradiction. Why do you uot make all the wheels go one way?” “Well,” lie says, “1 made them to go In opposite directions ou purpose, and they produce the right result. You go down stairs and ex amine the carpets we are turning out In this establishment and you will see.” I go down on the other floor, and I see the carpets, and I am obliged to con fess that though the wheels lu that factory go in opposite directions they tm-n out a beautiful result, and while 1 am standing there looking at the ex quisite fabric an old Scripture passage conus into my mind—"All things work together for good to them who love God.” Is there not rest in that? Is there uot tonic in that? Is there not longevity in that? Suppose n man is all tho time worried about his reputation. One man says ho lies, another'says ho is stupid, another says lie Is dishonest, and half a dozen printing establishments attack him, and he is In a great state of excite ment and worry and fume aud cannot sleep, but religion comes to him and says: “Mau, God is ou your side; he will take care of your reputation. If God be for you, who can be against you?” How much should that mau worry about bis reputation? Not much. If that broker who some years ago in Wall street, after ho had lost money, sat down and wrote a farewell letter to his wife before lie blew his brains out; if instead of taking out of his pocket a pistol he bail taken out a well read New Testament, there would have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people of the world, try this almighty sedative! You will live 25 years longer under Its soothing power. It is not chloral that you want or morphine that you want; It Is Hie gospel of Jesus Christ “With long life will I satisfy him.” Again, practical religion is a friend of longevity iu the fact that it re moves all corroding care about a fu ture existence. Every man wants to know what is to become of him. If you get on board a rail train, you want to know at what depot it is going to stop. If you get on board a ship, you want to know Into what harbor it is going to run, and if you should tell me you have no interest iu what is to be your future destiny 1 would iu as po lite a way as I know how tell you 1 did not believe you. Before I had this matter settled with reference to my future existence, the question almost worried me into ruined health. The anxieties men have upon this subject put together would make a martyr dom. This is a state of awful un healthiness. There are people who fret themselves to death for fear of dying. Hcatb the Preface. 1 want to take the strain off your nerves aud the depression off your soul, and I make two or three experi ments. Experiment the first: When you go out of this world, It does not make any difference whether you have been good or bad or whether you be lieved truth or error. You will go straight to glory. "Impossible,” you say. “My common sense as well as my religion teaches that the bad aud the good cannot live together forever. You give me no comfort in that experi ment.” Experiment the second: When you leave this world, you will go Into an intermediate state, where you can get converted aud prepared for heaven. “Impossible,” you say. “As the tree falleth so it must lie, and I cannot postpone to an intermediate state that reformation which ought to have been effected In this state." Experiment the third: There is no future world. When a man dies, that Is the last of him. Do uot worry about what you are to do in another state bf being, you will not do anything. “Impossible,” you say. “There is something that tells me that death is uot tlifc appendix, but the preface.. There is something that tells me that on this side of the grave I only get started and that I shall go ou forever. My power to think says ‘forever,’ my affeetious say ‘forever,’ my capacity to enjoy or suf fer ‘forever.’ ” Well, you defeat me iu my three ex periments. I have only one more t< make, aud if you defeat me iu that I am exhausted. A mighty one ou a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled with forked lightnings and the earth filled with volcanic disturb ances, turned his pale and agonized face toward the heavens and said: “I take the sins and sorrows of the ages into my own heart. I am the expia tion. Witness earth and heaven and hell, I am tho expiation.” Aud the hammer struck him and the spears punctured him, and heaven thundered, “The wages of sin is death!” “The soul that sinneth it shall die!” “I wil by no meiv,\s clear the guilty!” Then there we ©silence for half au hour, and the lightnings were drawn back Into the scabbard of the sky and the earth ceased to quiver and all the colors of the sky begau to shift themselves Into a rainbow woven out of the falling tears of Jesus, and there was red as of the bloodshedding and there was blue as of the bruising and there was gro >n as of the heavenly foliage and there was orange as of the day dawn. And along the line of the blue I saw the words, "I was bruised for their in iquities.” Aud along the line of the red I saw the words, “The blood of Jesus Christ cleansed) from all sin.” And along the line of the green I saw the words, “The leaves of the tree of life for the healing of the nations.” And along the line of the orange I saw the words, “The day spring from on high hath visited us.” Qntt Worrying. And then l saw the storm was over, aud the rainbow rose higher and high er until It seemed retreating to an other heaven and planting one column of its colors on one side the eternal hill and planting the other column of its colors on the other side the eternal lull, it rose upward aud upward, and, be hold, there was a rainbow about tho throne. Accept that sacrifice and quit worry ing. Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity of this truth. Religion Is sunshine; that is health. Religion is fresh air and pure water; they are healthy. Religion is warmth; that is healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they will tell you that a quiet conscience aud pleasant anticipations are hygien ic. I offer you perfect peace ^.ow and hereafter. What do you want In the future world? Tell me, and you shall have It. Orchards? There are the trees with 12 manner of fruits, yielding fruit every month. Water scenery? There is tho river of life, from under the throne of God, clear as crystal and the sea of glass mingled with lire. Do you want music? There is the oratorio of the Creation led on by Adam, and the ora torio of the Red sea led on by Moses, and the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel, with swinging baton, controls the one hun dred and forty-four thousand who make up the orchestra. Do you want reunion? There are your dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to embrace you. waiting to twist garlands In your hair. You have been accustomed to open the door 011 this side the sepulcher. I open the door on the other side the sepulcher. You have been accustomed to walk in the wet grass on the top of the grave. I show you the underside of tho grave. The bottom has fallen out, and the long ropes with which the pallbearers let down your dead let them clear through into heaven. Glory be to God for this robust, healthy religion! It will have a tendency to make you live long In this world, and in the world to come you wifi have eternal life. "With loug life will I satisfy him.” PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. 1’eople You Know him) People You Don't Know. Lawson Spake, a successful young funner of Goucher, was among his friends in the city yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Lipscomb boarded the north bound vestibule Friday evening for the eastern shore of Maryland, where she goes to visit her parents. Mrs. Lipscomb will visit New Yori , Philadelphia, Boston and other cities in the inti rest of Carroll & Carpenter while north. Thos. P. Phillips, of Boiling Springs, X. O., was in the city Monday. Uncle Sidney Elliott went up to his farm in Cleveland county, N. C.. yesterday where he will spend some days. John Smith, a bright young man of Clover, York couniy. who has many friends in Gaffney, is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, on Race street. James Palmer, of Gowdeyvtlle, was a visitor to the city yesterday. N. L. Jackson.a promi: ent lumber man of Cowpens, was in the city Fri day on business. E. A. Trescot. Esq., of Blacksburg, was on professional business in the city yesterday. R. D. Vaughn, of Sifutt, one of Cherokee’s worthy you >g farmers, c ;lhd to see The L dger while in the city Friday. P. C. Lavender, of Earls, N. C., spent yesterday in the city. Rev. A. J. Hensley, of Grassy Pond, one of Cherokee’s prominent educators, made a busines trip to the city Saturday. Mrs. L. \V. Cooper was summoned by telegram yesterday to Wythville, Va., to attend the funeral of her step mother, Mrs. Six. Mrs. Cooper left on the vestibule by the way of Spar tanburg. She may remain in Vir ginia for several months before re turning,. R. P. Boberts, manager of Cherokee Falls Mills, was in the city yesterday on business. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS. Local Items Too Short fora Hcud Grouped Together. "The Girl from Chili” is coming. Cotton sold in Gaffney yesterday at 8 8-8 "There is Just one Girl” and she is "The Girl from Chili.” Don’t miss seeing her. ‘‘The Girl from Chili” or the tiger! Find out for yourself at tho opera h iuse tomorrow night. Nine prisoners are in jail awaiting trial at the next term of court. Two, both colored, tr j charged with mui- der. Property owners were busy yester day returning their property to Au ditor Camp for taxation. It was the last day. * Hamp Oglesby, colored, was com mitted to j.iil yesterday by Magistrate Scruggs charged with riding another man’s muie without permission. The court of common pleas and general sessions will convene in Gaffney the 5th of March—the first Monday. Judge Aldrich will preside. The city authorities have had neat houses built for tho hose reels and have distributed them over the city so they will be convenient in case of fire. The cold weather makes the luel trade active. Teams are busy all the time hauling wood and coal, but we have not heard of any advance in price. While it was cold yesterday it was fair and builders employed on wooden builc s were putting in good licks. Aliy j—jk work was necessarily sus- pe/ «. W. J. Wilkins has bought the beau tiful residence of I). H. Turner, on Cherokee avenue. This property was advertised twice in The Ledger which brought a purchaser before the next issue. Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, President of Limestone College, w ent to Asheville. N. C.. Saturday and delivered a lec ture in Bingham School Sunday and one in Dr. Vines Baptist church Sun day night to large audiences both times. Dr. Lodge is high in his praises of Asheville and is under ob ligations to many of her citizens for courtesies extended him and particu larly to Mr. J. II. Lunge, the untiring and hospitable host of the Glen Rock Hotel. 30NE FERTILZER THE BEST ALL ROUND.GUANO FOR ALL CROPS MANUFACTURED BY FS'ROYSTER GUANO CO. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. (Jypivss, H. ('., .Sept. 20, 1890. F. S. Royster Guano Co., Norfolk, Va. Your Orinoco Tobacco Guano has <jjiven me perfect satisfac tion tills? year, 1899, and I do not hesitate in recommending it tis R. L. IfAGOOD. a good Tobacco Fertilizer. Wit of n Little Pnsr-. There is a bright little page at the capitol who is undergoing ids first ex perience us a wage earner. He is as sharp as a brier and quick at retort. The other night at dinner his sister and his mother were Jollying the little fellow about the disposition of his first month’s wages. Ills sister said that on pay day she intended to stick to him closer than a brother. “No,” said his mother, “on pay day you will see me walking down the ave nue holding on to Ids arm"— “Holding on to my leg. you mean,” said the boy quick as a Hash.—Wash ington Star. The Grippe. This can be avoided by tak ing m inful doses of Patn-Kii i.s.n in hot water s\v« otoned, as well as by external ap plications, full directio'is nr ■ on each bot tle. A bottle of the Pain Killer kept in the house wdl prove valualfio n t only for tho Grippe, but for ordinary coughs cud < olds. Avoid substitutes, there is but one Pain- Riikr, IVny Davis’. Price 540c. uud 00c. THE DREAM OF ROGET. “A Tnutoloirtoxil Trio*’ Thnt ?.lnst Not Be? Taken Too Literally. Senator Hear has recently described one of Webster’s peculiarities as an orator. This was his use of several words having almost the same mean ing until he got the one that most per fectly expressed it. When his speeches were published, only this one of the several synonymous words was re tained. An exaggeration of this trick of spee/ appears iu “Tho Dream of Roget” /‘a tautological tale”), which appears in St. Nicholas over the signa ture of Grace Fraser. Roget was a mau who composed a thesaurus of words. Now, a thesaurus, or treasury, or words is a system of verbal classification. You take all the words and phrases that moan pretty much the same thing, range them iu a row, make these rows into sections, call the sections by ap propriate names, and—there you are! Falling asleep one night over Roget’s curious book, I dreamed that I was Ro- get himself, aud a very fat man into the bargain. A gentleman behind me was admonishing me to hasten, with the words: “Come, come, my good fellow; bowl, trundle, roll along!” “H’m,” thought I, “what it is to be stout! Quoting my very words, is he? I’ll show him!” Aud, turning, I ex claimed: "Go! Begone! Get you gone! Get away! Go along! Bo off! Off with you! Get along with you! Go about your business! .Go your way! Avauut! Aroynt! Away with you'” “Whew!” cried the saucy man. “What au Irascible, susceptible, ex citable, irritable, fretful, fidgety, pee vish, hasty, quick, warm. hot. touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, snappish, pet ulant, peppery, fiery, passionate, chol eric fellow it is!” This annoyed me. “►Sir,” 1 said, “you shall uot ridicule, deride, laugh at, mock, quiz, rally, flout, twit, roast, taunt or nakc game of me. This is ill treatment, annoy ance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, of a kind that 1 shall not stand!” The man apparently wanted to fight, for lie continued meditatively, "What a corpulent, stout, fat, plump, chubby, chub faced, lubberly, bulky, unwieldy”— This was more than flesh and blood could stand. 1 tried to chastise him, but he turned into a policeman, took me to the station and accused me be fore a judge of attempting “by tooth aud nail, vl et armis, at the point of the sword aud at one fell swoop, to be violent, to run high, ferment, effer vesce, run wild, ruu riot, to break the peace, to outberod Herod and to ruu amuck.” 1 denied tbe charge with vigor. “It is false, untrue, unfounded, fictitious. Invented, ben trovato, counterfeit, spu rious!” I cried. “The policeman is a hypocrite, tale teller, shulfler, dissem bler, serpent and Baron Munchausen. I am Innocent, stainless, unspotted, in offensive, dovelike, lamblike, with clean hands and with a clear con science. 1 demand atonement, repara tion, compensation, propitiation, amends and satisfaction.” “Take them all, Mr. Roget.” said the judge, and 1 was going for the police man when I awoke. And so the con versation. which could hardly lie call ed a model of conciseness, brevity, terseness, compression, condensation or pithiness, came to a close, termina tion, conclusion, finis, finale, finish, de termination and end. AntonIbIiccI the Doorkeeper. On the opening day of the session of the Fifty-sixth congress, says The Cri terion, a tall, gaunt man, shambling of gait, with “high water” trousers, a slouched hat mashed In any old way and an overcoat that needed brushing, presented himself at the center door of the house of representatives. He start ed to walk right in. but was stopped by one of the doorkeepers, who said to him testily, “Say, don’t you know you can’t go iu there?” “No, 1 didn’t know It, my friend. 1 thought 1 could,” he said mildly. “Nobody but members allowed in to day.” * “Well, I’m a member—Congressman Cushman of Washington.” “Oh, I beg your pardon. Walk right in.” . As Mr. Cushman strode Into the hall the astonished doorkeeper looked after him for a moment and then, turning to his assistant at the door, said: “Say, Bill v did you see that? Well, after that I ain’t got the nerve to stop anything.” The UoNt of Royalty. The Duke of Cambridge, cousin of Queen Victoria, has received more army pensions than any other member of English royalty. In 1850, ou the de cease of his father, tho country voted him an a muity of $00,000 a year. At 18 years of age he became a colonel, at 2 a major general, iu 1854 a lieutenant general, two years later a general on full pa’y, six years later a field marshal at $22,500 a year, and In 1801 he was appointed a colonel of the Grenadier guards at $10,000 a year. Ills resi dence, Gloucester House, he, of course, occupies rent and tax free, equivalent to about $12,500 per annum. lie holds the rungcrshlp of St. James’, Green and Hyde parks, which Increases his annual income by about $11,000, be sides over $20,000 which he draws yearly as rental of his estate year Wim bledon. .\o Intercut In IteliKlon. Nowadays the grandson of the Bible worshipers of bygone days, still nomi nally a Christian, au educated young fellow familiar with the literature of half a dozen countries, probably never has read a chapter In it and never will. He has a vague Idea that the book was lately overthrown by the higher criticism. But as to what tlie criticism Is or what the book he has but vague ideas. They bore him, and iu his hasty march through life has learned the trick of promptly ridding his path of all things that bore him. The litera ture of his work, whatever thnt may be, does not bore him—reports of stocks or of new microbes or of findings in court. These tilings he understands. What have those abstractions, he says, to do with life—life? Ills work Is his life. Work now puts a stress and strain on men of which our ancestors knew little. The American Is in the thick of it.—An American Mother In Ladies' Home Journal. Backbone. Centralia, Mo., has a flourishing or ganization known as the Backbone club. It has no sign, grip or password,! a local paper says, but every member must sign a pledge that he will not use tobacco during 1!)00. The rules provide that if any member shall break his pledge he must wear on tho lapel of his coat a badge bearing in large! letters tbe words, *T have no back-, bone.” Family History. Little Willie—Say, pa, did you ever have another wife besides ma? Pa—No, Willie. But why do you ask? Little Willie—The family record in the Bible says you married Anno Do- tniui 1877.—Chicago News. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Coodented Schedule o! Passenger Trains. In Effect Dec. 10.1390. Yes. No. 18. FstMa Northbound. No. 12. No. 38. Ex. No. 36. Daily Daily Sun. Daily. Lv Atlanta,CT 7 59 a 12 COni 4 30 p ii 50n “ Atlanta ET 8 50 a 1 00 p 5 30 p 12 5) a “ Norerosa.. t> 80 a 6 23 p 1 25 a " Buford. . 10 05 a 7 03 p 1 51 a “ Gainesville 10 35 a 2 25 p 7 38 p 2 18 a “ Lula 10 58 a 2 45 p 8 OOp 2 38a " Cornelia.... 11 55 n 8 30 J) " Mt. Airy. . 11 8'J a 8 35 p Lv Toecoa. 11 55 a 3 33 o 9 CO j) 3 28a At. Elbertou... 5 40 p 11 4j a Lv. Klberton... 0 00 a . Lv. W'ininstor. 12 81m 4 04 a " Bcneeu... 18 52 p 4 15 p ....... 4 28 n " Central.... 1 40 p . t f 4 65 a “ Greenville 2 84 p 6 22 p . . . • * » t . 6 00 a “ Spar'burg . 8 87 p li lit p 7 03 a M Gaffney 4 20 p 0 46 p .... ... 7 45 a •• Blacksburg 4 88 p 7 02 p 8 02 a •• King's Mt.. 5 03 p 8 27 a " Gastonia... 5 25 p 8 61 a “ Charlotte.. 6 80 p 8 18 p . ....... 9 50 u Ar. Gre'nsboro 0 55 p 10 47 p 12 23 p Lv. Gre'nsboro 11 45 p Ar. Norfolk ... 8 25 a Ar. Danville... 11 25 p 11 50 p 1 38 p Ar Rielnnoud.. C CO a (i 00 a 6 25 p Ar. W’hlngton. 0 42 a >••••• t • 8 50 p •' B'moreP.R . , ? n t . 8 00 a 11 85 p " rti'deluhia. . » » = ^ . 10 15 a ...a.... 2 56 a " New York . 12 4 in 0 23 a FstMa Yes. Southbound. No. 35. No. 37. No. 11. Daily Doily. Daily Lv N Y., Pa.K. 12 15 a 4 30 p '• I’h'delphia. 3 50 a 0 55 p ........ • a “ Baltimore.. 6 22 u 9 20 p " Wush’ton.. 11 15a 10 45 p Lv. Richmond.. 12 01 n 11 00 p 11 00 p Lv. Danville.. . 5 48 p 5 50 a 6 10 a Lv. Norfolk— 9 09 a 8 ;i5 p Ar. Gro'iirtboro (1 35 p r. 15 a Lv. Grc’nslxa o 7 10 p 7 05 n 7 37 u Ar. Charlotte.. 9 15 p it 25 a 12 or-ni .v (T Lv Gastonia.. 10 42 i> 10 07 a 1 12 p “ King's Mt. i :t8 p ... •• Bla- k.-burg 11 25 p 10 45 a 2 trip “ (..'itTnov 11 42 p 10 58 a 2 84 p *' Spar’burg . 12 50 a 11 :.'4 a 3 15 r •' Greenville 1 30 a 12 30 p 4 30 p . >ii •' Central 5 48 p (NO. ll. •' Seneca 2 33 a 1 30 p ti 08 p HjX. " W'minster . . 0 85 p Sun. " Toecoa 3 28 a 2 15 p 7 txi o ft of) Lv Kiberlon. 9 00 a 1 30 p . ....... A r. Filler ton. 11 4>a 6 40 o Lv. M l Airy.. 7 23 p 0 %iJ cl " Cornells.. 7 52 p 6 35 n “ Lola .... 4 18 a 3 Up 8 O'p li 57 a •' Gainesville 4 30 a 3 33 p 8 20 p 7 20n *' Buford.. 6 02 a . . t . . 8 48 p 7 48 a " Norcror.s. 5 25 a 9 18 p 8 27 a Ar. Atlanta,KT 0 10 a 4 55 p 10 OOp 9 80 a " Atlanta.CT f> 10 a 9 OOp 8 30a Between Lulu and Athens. No. H. Ex. Hun. No. 13. Daily. STATIONS. No. 12. Daily. No. 10. Ex. Sun. 8 lOp UOriaLv .Lula Ar 10 50 a 7 35 p 8 84 p 11 Mai “ Muytfvillo •' 10 10 a 7 09 p 8 60 p 11 52 al •' Harmony " 10 03 a 6 88 p 9 80 p 12_U0 p!Ar. Athene Lv 0 25a 6 00 p Note close connection made at Lula with main line trains. “A" a m. ''P” p. m. "M” noon. “N” night. Chesapeake Line .Steamers in daily service between Nor Ok and liaitiinoro. Nos. 37 ana 88—Daily Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleepingcars between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, and also between New York and Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Bir- tningnam. Also elegant Pullman Limhahy Okskuvation Cars between Atlanta and New York Firetelnss thoroughfare eouches be tween Washington aud Atlanta. Dining cars serve all meals eo route. Leaving Washing- ington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a tourist sleeping ear will run through between Washington and Ban Francisco without change. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between Greensboro and Norfolk, ('lose connection at N< folk for Olu Point ComKonx. Nos 85 and 35—United States Fast Mail run* solid between Washington aud New Orleans, via Bout hern Kmlway, A. & W. P. S. H. and L & N K. 11., being composed of coaches, through without change for passengers of hll classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, via At lanta aud Montgomery and la-tv. een Char lotte and Atlanta. Dining eats serve all meals en route < Nos. 11, hi, i>4 and 12—Pullman sleeping *r« 1st ween Richmond and Charlotte, v y -an- vlllo. southbound Nos. 11 and 88, norr and Nos 84 uud 12. FRANK B.GANNON. J.M.CUU » Third V P -t Gen. Mgr. T. M., W/ ^ gton. W. A. TURK. b. H. UAUl/', IOK, V