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TRIUMPHAL CHARIOT
DR. TALMAGE SAYS RELIGION IS NOT
A HEARSE.
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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.
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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.
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ing with tlio Southern's vestibule going to
AtlHnta, Ga. t and nil ixdnts West, and will
receive passengers going East from train
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ingjix^flbarieston, H. <!., ats.17 p. m.
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1,era's Florida train for all points South.
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<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.
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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,
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