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DRAMA DISCUSSED.
REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT CANNOT
BE SUPPRESSED.
lie SafceeBls TI»«t ChriBllanity
Should Control and Heform Public
Amusement—Tile Cbureli Should t*o
to the Theater.
Washington, March 18.—At a time
when the whole country is in contro
versy :ts never before concerning the
theater and some plays are being ar
rested by the police and others are be
ing patronized by Christian people this
sermon of Dr. Tulniage is of much iu-
West. The text Is I Corinthians vli,
31, “They that use this world as not
abusing it.”
My reason for preaching this dis
course is that I have been kindly in
vited by two of the loading newspa
pers of this country to inspect and re
port on two of the popular plays of the
day—to go some weeks ago to Chicago
and see the drama "(juo Vadis” and
criticise it with respect to its moral ef
fect and to go to New York aud see the
drama ‘ Hen-Hur” and write my opin
ion of it for public use. Instead of do
ing that 1 propose In a sermon to dis
cuss what we shall do with the; dra
matic element which (loti lias implant
ed in many of our natures—not in 10 or
100 or 1,000, but in the vast majority
of tlio human race. Some people speak
of the drama us though it wore some
thing built up outside of ourselves by
the Congreves and the Goldsmiths ami
the Sbakespeares aud the Sheridans of
literature ami that then we attune our
tastes to correspond with human in
ventions. Not at all. The drama is an
echo from the feeling which God has
implanted In our immortal souls. It is
seen lirst in the domestic circle among
the children 3 or 4 years of age playing
with their dolls and their cradles aud
their carts, seen ten years after in the
playhouses of wood, ten years after in
the parlor charades, after that iu the
elaborate impersonations in the acade
mies of music. Thespis aud AEschylus
and Sophocles and Euripides merely
dramatized what was in the Greek
heart; Terence and Plautus and Sen
eca merely dramatized what was iu
the Homan heart; Congreve and Far-
quhar merely dramatized what was in
the English heart; Uacine, Corneille
and Alfleri only dramatized what was
in the French and Italian heart; Shakes
peare only dramatized what was in
the great world’s heart. The dithyram-
bic and classic drama, the sentimental
drama, the romantic drama, were mere
ly echoes of the human sou!.
I do not speak of the drama ou the
poetic shelf or of the drama iu the
playhouse, but I speak of the dramat
ic clem Hu your soul and mine. We
make men responsible for it. They are
not responsible. They are responsible
for the perversion of it, but uot for the
original implantation. God did that
work, and 1 suppose lie knew what lie
was about when he made us. vVe are
nearly all moved by the spectacular.
When on Thanksgiving day we deco
rate our churches with the cotton and
the rice and the apples and the wheat
and the rye and the oats, our gratitude
to God is stirred; when on Easter
morning avo see written in letters of
Rowers the inscription, “He Is Uisen,”
our emotions tire stirred. Every parent
likes to go to the school exhibition,
with its recitations and its dialogues
and its droll costumes. The torchlight
procession of the political campaign is
merely the dramatization of principles
in\’olved. No Intelligent man can look
in any secular or religious direction
without finding tills dramatic element
revealing, unrolling, demonstrating it
self. What shall wc do Avitli it?
Love of the Beautiful.
Shall we suppress it? Y’ou can as
easily suppress its Creator. Y"ou may
direct it, you may educate it, you may
purify it, you may harness it to multi-
poteut usefulness, and that it is your
duty to do, just as we cultivate the
taste for the beautiful and the sub
lime.
Noaa’, I hat’e to tell you not only that
God has Implanted tills dramatic ele
ment in our natures, but I have to tell
you in the Scriptures he cultivates it.
he appeals to it, lie develops it. I u
uot care where you open the Bible,
your eye will fall upou a drama. Here
It is iu the book of Judges; the Ur tree,
the vine, the olive tree, the bramble—
they all make speeches. Then nt the
close of the scene there is a coronation,
and the bramble is proclaimed king.
That is u political drama. Here it is
in the book of Job. Enter Eliphaz, Bil-
dad, Zopliar, Elliiu and Job. The open
ing act of the drama, all darkness; tho
closing act of the drama, all sunshine.
Magnificent drama is tbe book of Job!
Here it is iu Solomon’s Song—the
region, an oriental regiou: Vineyards,
pomegranates, mountain of myrrh,
fiock of sheep, garden of spices, a woo
ing. a bride, a bridegroom, dialogue
after dialogue—iuteu.se, gorgeous, all
suggestive drama is the book of Solo
mon’s Soug. xlere it is in the hook of
Luke: Costly mauslon iu the night. Ail
the windows bright with Illumination.
The floor u-qunkc with the dunce. Re
turned son in costly garments which do
not very well fit him perhaps, for they
were uot made for him, but he must
swiftly leave off his old garb and pre
pare for tills extemporized levee. Pout
ing sou at the hack door, too mad to go
In, because they are making such a
fuss. Tears of sympathy running down
the old man’s cheek at the story of his
son’s wandering and suffering and
tears of Joy at ids return. When you
heard Murdock recite “The Prodigal
Son” in one of ids readings, you did not
know whether to sob or shout. Re
vivals of religion have started Just un
der the reading of that soul revolu
tionizing drama of “The Prodigal Sou.”
Horp It Is In the book of Revelation—
crystalline sea, pearl}’ gate, opaune
river, amethystine capstone, showering
coronets, one vial poured out incarna
dining the waters, cavalrymen of heav
en galloping on white horses, nations
iu doxojogy, hiiLHuinhs to the right of
them, hellcluiiihs the left of them.
As the Bible opens Avitli the drama of
the first paradise, so it It closes with
the drama of the second paradise.
Mind you, when I ssiy drama I do not
mean myth or fable, for my theology Is
of the oldest type 500 years old, thou
sands of years old, us old us the Bible.
When 1 speak of the drama at the be-
Mpining and the close of the Bible, 1 do
p>l4_mettu an ullcgoty. but 1 incau the
ti uT’rso stated that in grouping and in
startling effect it is a God given, world
resounding, heaven echoing drama.
Now. if God implanted this dramatic
element in our natures, and if he lias
cultivated and developed it In the
Scriptures. I demand that you recog-
uize it.
KxiJroaslon of Peeling:.
Because the drama lias again and
again been degraded and employed for
destructive purposes is nothing against
the drama any more than music ought
to be accursed because it lias been tak
en again aud again into the saturnalian
wassails of 4,000 years. Will you re
fuse to enthrone music ou the church
organ because the art has been tram
pled again and again under the feet of
the lascivious dauce?
It is nothing against painting and
sculpture that iu Corinth and Hercula
neum they were demonstrative of vul
garity and turpitude. The dreadful
museum at Pompeii shall throw no dis
credit ou Powers’ “Greek Slave” or
Church’s “Heart of the Andes” or Ru
bens’ "Descent From the Cross” or An
gelo’s “Last Judgment” The very fact
that again and again the drama has
been dragged through the sewers of in
iquity is the reason Avhy xve should
snatch It up and start it out on a
grand and a holy and a magnificent
mission. Let me say at this point in
my sermon that the drama will never
he lifted to its rightful sphere by those
people who have not sense enough to
distinguish between the drama and the
playhouse. The drama is no more the
theater than a hymubook Is a church.
I am not speaking in regard to the the
ater at all. The drama is a literary ex
pression of that feeling which God im
planted in the human soul. Neither
will tlie drama ever be lifted to its
proper sphere by wholesale denuncia
tion of all dramatists. If you have not
known men and women connected with
the drama who are pure in heart and
pure in speech aud pure In life, it is be
en use you have not bad very wide ac
quaintance.
Wholesale denunciation of all dram
atists will never elevate the drama.
Yonder stand u church aud a theater
on opposite sides of the street. The
church shouts over to the theater, “You
are all scoundrels!” The theater shouts
back, “Y’ou are all hypocrites!” And
they Itoth falsify. Dropping all Indis
criminate jeremiads against dramatists
and realizing that the drama is uot
necessarily connected with this insti
tution or with that, I want to show
you how the dramatic element in our
natures may lie harnessed to the chari
ot of civilization and Christianity.
An EverjUuy Druinu.
Fifty essays about tbe sorrows of
the poor could not affect me as a little
drama of accident and suffering 1 saw
one slippery morning iu the streets of
Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a
lad, wretched In apparel, his limb am
putated at the kuee; from the pallor of
the boy’s cheek, the amputation uot
long before. He hud a package of bro
ken food under ids arm—food he had
begged, 1 suppose, at the doors. As lie
passed on over the slippery pavement,
cautiously and carefully, I steadied
him until Ids crutch slipped aud he fell.
I helped him up as well as 1 could,
gathered up the fragments of the pack
age as well as I could, put them under
one arm and the crutch under the oth
er arm, but when 1 saw the blood run
down ids pale cheek I burst into tears.
Fifty essays about the sufferings of
the poor could uot touch one like that
little drama of accident and suffering.
Oh, we Avant iu all our differeut de-
partmeuts of usefulness more of the
dramatic element and less of the di
dactic. The tendency in this day is to
drone religion, to whine religion, to
cant religion, to moan religion, to croak
religion, to scpulcliarlze religion, Avhen
avo ought to present it iu animated and
spectacular manner.
What avo Avaut, ministers aud lay
men, is to get our sermons and our ex
hortations and our prayers out of the
old rut. The old hackneyed religious
phrases that come snoring down
through the centuries Avill never arrest
the masses. What avc want today, you
iu your sphere and I in my sphere, Is to
freshen up. People do not want in
their sermons the sham flowers bought
at the millinery shop, but the Japonlcas
wet with the morning dew, uot the
hevv Jjones of extinct megatherium of
* . ages, hut the living reindeer
caught last August at the edge of
Sckroon lake. We want to drive out
the droAvsy aud the prosaic and the te
dious aud the humdrum and introduce
the brightness aud the vivacity and the
holy sarcasm and the sanctified avR
and the epigrammatic poAver aud the
blood red earnestness and the fire of
religious zeal, and I do not know of
auy way of doing it as Avell ns through
the dramatic.
What la Needed.
But noAv let us turn to the drama ue
an amusement and entertainment.
Rev. Dr. Bellows of Ncav York many
years ago in a very brilliant but much
criticised sermon took the position that
the theater might he renovated aud
made auxiliary to the church. Many
Christian people are of the same opin
ion. 1 do not agree Avitli them. I have
po idea that success Is in that direc
tion. What I have said heretofore ou
this subject, as far as I remember, is
my sentiment uoav. But today I take a
Step in advance of my former theory.
Christianity is going to take full pos
session of this Avorld and control Us
maxims, its laws, its literature, its sci
ence uud Its amusements. Shut out
from tho realm of Christianity any
thing aud you give it up to slu aud
death.
If Christianity is mighty enough to
manage everything but the amuse
ments of the Avorld/ then it is a very
defective Christianity. Is it capable of
keeping account of the tears of the
world and Incompetent to make record
of its smiles? Is it good to follow tho
funeral, hut dumb at the world’s play?
Cuu it control all the other elements of
our nature but the dramatic element?
My idea of Christianity Is that it eau
and AVill conquer everything.
Now, Avliat avc Avant is to hasten
that time. How will it be done? By
the church going over to the theater?
It Avill uot go. By the theater coming
to the church? It Avill not conic. What
we want is a reformed amusement as
sociation iu every city aud town of tho
United Stales. Once announced and
explained and Illustrated, the Chris
tian and philanthropic capitalist Avill
come forward to establish it, and there
will be public spirited men everywhere
who will do this work for the dramatic
element of our natures. We need a
new Institution to meet and recognize
and develop and defend the dramatic
clement of our nature. It needs to be
distinct from everything that is or has
beeu.
I Avould have this reformed amuse
ment association having iu charge this
uoav lust ItutIon of the spectacular take
possessiou of some hall or academy.
It might take a smaller building at the
start, but it would soon need tbe lar
gest hall, and even that Avould not hold
the people, for he Avbo opens before
the dramatic clement in human nature
an opportunity of gratifieatiou Avithout
compromise and without danger does
the mightiest thing of this century, aud
the tides of such an institution would
rise as the Atlantic rises at Liverpool
docks.
A New limlltutlon.
There are tens of thousands of Cbris-
tiau homes Avkere the sons and daugh
ters are held back from dramatic en
tertainment for reasons Avklck some of
you AA’ould say are good reasons and
others would say are poor reasons, but
still held back. But on the establish
ment of such an institution they Avould
feel the arrest of their anxieties and
would say on the establishment of tills
uoav institution which I have called
the spectacular, “Thank God, this is
what avc have till beeu Availing for.”
Now’, sis I believe that I make sug
gestion of an institution which Aviser
men Avill develop, I Avant to give some
characteristics of this new institution,
this spectacular, if it is to be a grand
social and moral success. Iu the first
place, its entertainments must he com
pressed Avithin an hour aud three-quar
ters. What kills sermons, prayers and
lectures and entertainments of all sorts
is prolixity. At a reasonable hour ca’-
ery night every curtain of public en
tertainment ought to drop, every
church service ought to cease, the In
struments of orchestras ought to be
unstrung.
On the p'atform of this uoav institu
tion there Avill be a drama Avkich be
fore rendering lias been read, expurgat
ed, abbreviated and passed upou by a
board of trustees connected Avith this
reformed amusement association. If
there be in a drama a sentence suggest
ing evil, It AA’ili be stricken out. If
there be iu a Shakespearean play a
word with tAvo meanings—a good
meaning and a bad meaning—another
Avord Avill be substituted, an honest
word looking oniy one AA-ay. The ca
terers to public taste Avill have to
learu that Shakespearean nastiness is
no better than Congrevean nastiness.
Y’ou say, “Who Avill dare to change by
expurgation or abbreviation a Shake
spearean play?” I dare. The board of
trustees of this reformed amusement
association will dare. It Is uo deprecia
tion of a drama, the abbreviation of It.
I would like to hear 30 or 40 pages of
Milton’s “Paradise Lost” read at one
time, but I should be very sorry to
hoar the Avliolo hook read at one sitting.
Abbreviation is not depreciation.
Ou the platform of this ugav institu
tion this spectacular, under the care of
the very best men and Avomen in the
community, there shall be nothing avR-
ncssed that would be unfit for a par
lor. Any attitude, any look, auy word
that Avould offend you seated at your
oavii fireside, in your family circle, Avill
be prohibited from that platform. By
wiiat laAV of common sense or of moral
ity does that Avliich is not fit to be
seen or heard by five people become
fit to be seen or heard by 1,500 people?
On the platform of that spectacular
all the scenes of the drama avIII be as
chaste as Avas ever a lecture by Ed-
Avard Everett or a sermon by F. W.
Robertson.
i’lutfortu of Morality.
On that platform there shall be uo
carouser, uo Inebriate, no cyprlan, uo
foe of good morals, masculine or fem
inine. It is ofteu said we Lave uo right
to criticise the private morals of public
entertainers. Well, do as you please
Avitli other iustitutious. Ou the plat
form of this uoav lusL'tutlon avo shall
have ouly good men and good Avotneu
iu the ordinary social sense of good
ness. Just as soou as the platform of
the spectacular is fully and fairly es
tablished many a genius avIio hitherto
lias suppressed the dramatic element
in his nature because he could not Uud
the realm In which to exercise It will
step oA-er ou the platform, and giants
of the drama, their name known the
world over, avIio have been toiling for
the elevation of the drama, will step
over on that platform—such women as
Charlotte Cushman of the past, such
men as Joseph Jefferson of the present
Do you tell me this plan Is chimeri
cal? I ansAA’cr, It only requires one
mau somewhere betAveen here and San
Francisco or betAveen Bangor ami Gal
veston to see It and appreciate It one
man of large Individual means and
great heart, aud Avith a hundred thou
sand dollars he could do more good
than all the Lenoxes aud the Law
rences and the I'eubodys ever accom
plished. He Avould settle for all uu-
tious uud for all times the stupendous
question of amusement which for cen
turies has beeu under angry and vitu
perative discussion aud which is no
nearer being settled today by all ap
pearances than it Avns at the start.
I Avould go to such au institution,
such a spectacular. I should go once
a Aveek the rest of my life and take
my family Avith me, aud the majority
of the families of the earth Avould go
to such au Institution. I expect the
time AA'lll come Avhen I can without
bringing upon myself criticism, with
out being an Inconsistent Christian—
when I, a minister of the good old
Presbyterian church, will be able to
go to some uoav lustitutlon like this,
the spectacular, and sec “Hamlet” and
“Kiug I;oar” and “The Merchant of
Venice” and “The Hucbback” aud
“Joshua Whitcomb.” Meanwhile many
of us AA’lll have this dramatic elemeut
unmet and unrcgaled.
For my love of pictures I can go to
the art gallery, for my love of music 1
cuu go to the concert, for my love of
literature I can go to the lyceum lec
ture, but for this dramatic element !u
my nature, as strong as auy other pas
sion «,if the soul, there is nothing but
Injunction and prohibition. Until, sirs,
you can establish a spectacular or a
similar institution Avltb as much purity
aud Avitli as much cutcrtalumcnt as
this oue of Avklcl) I speak—until you
can establish some such Institution
you may tliuudcr away against evil
amusements until the lust minute of
the lust hour of the last day of the
world's existence aud without auy
avail.
We want this institution independ
ent of the church aud independent of
the theater. The church tries to com
promise tins matter, and Iu many
churches there are dramatic exhibi
tions. Sometimes they call them
charades, sometimes they call them
magic lantern exhibitions—entertain
ments for which you pay 50 cents, the
50 cents to go for the support of some
charitable Institution. An extemporiz
ed stage is put up In the church or In
the lecture room, and there you go and
see David and the giant and Joseph
sold into Egypt and little Samuel
awoke, the chief difference betAveen
the exhibition in the church and the
exhibition in the theater being that
the exhibition iu the theater is more
skillful.
Now let us have a new Institution
Avith expurgated drama and with the
surroundings I have spoken of, an In
stitution which aa’g can without sophis
try and Avithout self deception support
and patronize, an institution so uncom
promisingly good that we can attend it
without any shock to our religious
sensibilities, though the Sabbath be
fore Ave sat at the holy sacrament.
Beware of Contamination.
The amusements of life are beauti
ful, and they are A’aluable, but they
cauuot pay you for the loss of your
soul. I could not tell your character;
I could not tell your prospects for this
world or the next by the particular
church you attend, hut if you Avill tell
me where you were last night aud
Avliere you Avere tbe night before aud
Avhorc you have been the nights of
the last mouth I think I could guess
Avkere you will spend eternity.
As to the drama of your life aud
mine It Avill soou cud. There will he
uo encore to bring us back. At the be
ginning of that drama of life stood a
cradle; nt the end of it Avill stand a
grave. The first act, welcome. The
last act, farewell. The intermediate
acts, banquet and battle, processions
bridal aud funeral, songs and tears,
laughter aud groaus.
It AA-as uot original with Shake
speare when he said, “All the world’s
a stage and all the men aud Avomen
merely players.” He got It from St
Paul, who 15 centuries before that had
written, “We arc made a spectacle un
to the Avorld and to angels and to
men.” A spectacle in a coliseum
fighting Avith Avild beasts In au am
phitheater, the galleries full, looking
doAvu. Here avg destroy a lion. Here
avo grapple Avith a gladiator. When
avc fall, devils shout. When we rise,
angels sing. A spectacle before gallery
above gallery, gallery above gallery.
Gallery of our departed kindred look
ing doAvu to see If AA’e are faithful aud
Avortky of our Christian ancestry, hop
ing for our victory, wanting to throw
us a garland, glorified children and
parents with cheer ou cheer urging us
on. Gallery of the martyrs looking
doAA’n—the Polycarps, and the Ridleys,
and the McKails, and tbe Theban le
gion, and the Scotch Covenanters, and
they of the Brussels market place, aud
of Piedmont—crying doAvn from the
galleries, “God gave us the victory,
aud he avIII gi\-e It you.” Gallery of
angels looking down—cherubic, se
raphic, arcbaugellc — clapping their
wiugs at every ad\’antago we gain.
Gallery of the King from which there
Avaves a scarred hand aud from which
there conies a sympathetic A’olce, say
ing, “Be thou faithful uuto death, and
I will give thee a ctoavu of life.” Oh,
the spectacle In which you aud I are
the actors! Oh, the piled up galleries
looking down!
Scene: The last day. Stage: The
rocking earth. Enter: Dukes, lords,
kings, beggars, clowns. * No sword.
No tinsel. No crown. For footlights:
The kindling flames of a world. For
orchestra: The trumpets that wake the
dead. For applause: The clapping
floods of the sea. For curtain: The
heavens rolled together as a scroll
For tragedy: “The Doom of the
Profligate.” For the last scene of the
fifth act: The tramp of nations across
the stage—some to the right, others to
the left. Then the bell of the last
thunder will ring, and the curtain will
drop.
(Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopseh.J
A Brilliant Flnlali.
“I suav him kiss you Just before he
was levying,” said the sour visaged
aunt, aud she said it in a regular dull
thud toue.
“Yes, auntie.”
“Well, 1 chu realize that It would be
the lust thing he would think of." Aud
she sailed out us thougli she hud scored
every possible point.—Detroit Free
Pmm.
Two Long Deferred Monnmenta.
“One of the most meritorious little
measures before this congress,” ob
served Representative Kitchln of
North Carolina, "is that to erect monu
ments to the memory of General
Francis Nash and General William
Lee Davidson of the Old North State.
Way back in the early days the Con
tinental congress by A’ote requested
Governor CasAvell of North Carolina to
erect a monument oA’er General Nash
at a cost of $500, the expense to be
borne by the United States. That was
iu November, 1777, aud four years lat
er the Continental congress passed :i
similar resolution regarding General
Davidson, avIio commanded tho mili
tia of the district of Salisbury, N. C.,
aud was killed Iu a battle Feb. 1, 1781.
“Neither of these resolutions was
ever put Into effect although iu the
Twenty-sixth and the Fifty-fourth con
gresses efforts were made to author
ize substantial monuments to these
Revolutionary heroes. This congress
has been asked to appropriate $5,001
for the erection of each monument.”—
Washington Post.
A Story of Frfaelf.
Fuseli, an eminent historical painter,
Avko grew iu fame after 1770, when he
first formed the resolution to devote
his talents to puiutlng, avus rather fond
of sarcastic remarks at the expense of
his friends.
Northcote, a contemporary, exhibited
his “Judgment of Solomon.” Fuseli
looked at it with a smirk ou his face.
“Hoav do you like my picture?” In
quired Northcote.
“Much,” avus the answer. “The ac
tion suits the Avord. Solomon holds out
his Ungers like a pair of open scissors
at a child and says, ‘Cut it, I like it
much.’"
Northcote remembered this when Fu
seli exhibited a picture representing
Hercules drawing ids arrow at Pluto.
“How do you like my picture?" in
quired Fuseli.
'‘Much,” said Northcote. "It is clev
er, very clever, but he’ll never hit
him.” “He shall hit him,” exclaimed
the other, “aud that speedily.” AAvay
ran Fuseli with his brush and, us he
labored to give the arrow the true di
rection, was heard to mutter: “Hit
him! By Jupiter, but he shall hit him!”
—New Euglaud Home Magazine.
Alleged Boer Cruelty.
Sergeant T. Jewiss of the Royal ar
tillery, now with General Glory’s field
force, avrites this incredible story to
his sister at Gravesend: “God help the
Boers-wlieu our fcIloAvs do get a rub nt
them, for they are the most cruel men
that you would dream of! They bur
ied some of the Dublin fusileers alive,
poor devils, been use they were wound
ed, and the Duhlins, since they have
beeu re-enforced, are like a lot of mad
men, thirsting to get at tiie Boers. The
other day a troop of cavalry went out
reconuoiteiing aud saw three of our
troops tied up to three distinct trees,
and each of them had about 30 shots
in him, Avhlch the Boers had made.
Aud to see some of the houses that the
devils have looted Is shocking—doors
smashed iu; furniture uud goods that
they could not carry away they smash
ed to atoms.”—London Leader.
Rockefeller’* Links.
John D. Rockefeller will be able next
spring to entertain his friends nt his
place at Tarrytowu on his private golf
links. A nine hole course, which, it is
said, will he the finest in the country,
Is being laid out. It was planned by
Willie Dunn, aud he is supervising the
work. The course Avill be ready for
use early iu the season, and ouly Mr.
Rockefeller's guests will have access
to it. When AA-ork on the course Avas
started. It was supposed Mr. Rockefel
ler Avas building It for the use of
wealthy residents of that section, but
flits Is rwit^he c:ise.
That Tliroljljing Headache.
Would quickly leave you, if you
used Dr. King’s New Life J'ills,
Thousands of sufferers have prov« d
their matchless merit for 8ick nr.d
Nerveous Headaches. They make
pure blood and strong nerves and
build up your health. Easy to take.
Try them. Only 2'i cents. Money
back if not cured, hold by Cherokee
Drug Co.
It costs $4,4(Xl,(XHj a year to main
tain the 24 royal palaces of Emperor
William throughout the German em
pire.
Mrs. Harriett Evans, Hinsdale,
HI., writes, “I never fail to relieve
my children from croup at once by
using One Minute Cough Cure. I
would not feel safe without it.”
(Quickly cures coughs, colds, grippe
and all throat and lung diseases.
Cherokee Drug Co.
S, C. &G. E. R. R. CO.
Schedule No. 4.
Id Effect 12:01 A. M., Sunday.December 24th, '99
Between Camden,S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C.
WEST.
3A. |SS.
EAST
‘l 3Z , 347
*£3 I ’Jl
O
EASTERN TIME. ~
_ u
— r
•= Si ~
V- .7
STATIONS.
K 5f.|
H. M.
8 a*
8 iyi
y 20
10 50
n 30
11
12 3<>
i 00
1 20
2 30
2 501
3 10!
4 10
4 45 1
5 30,
b 00
« 251
b 35!
CAMDEN
DEKALH
. . WESTV1LLE
KERSHAW i
HEATH SPRINGS
PLEASANT HILL
....LANCASTER .
.... RIVERSIDE. 1
SPRING DELL |
CATAWBA JI’NG N
LESLIE I
ROCK HILL
NEW PORT
.. TIR/.Ali
... YORKV1LLE
SHARON
HICKORY GROVE
SMYRNA
.. BLACKSBURG..
P. M. i*. M.
P. M. I
12
251
5
30
12
02
4
SO
11
50
4
30
11
35!
4
10
11
20!
3
IS
11
15
3
00
Iu
55
35
10
40
i
00
10
80
12
40
10
20i
12
20
10
loj
ii
00
10
oo!
10
40
9
35;
8
20
y
30;
8
00
y
15
7
30
y
"0
0
50
8
45
0
20
8
35!
(i
00
8
15 i
5
■to
A. M. , A. M.
Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,K.C.
WEST.
11 33.
EAST
33. I 12.
- EASTERN TIME.
Im
—
X
G
•
tJ
*2
X
2.
|
£
STATIONS.
X
x;
4-> >t
.'a*
5 £ c
Is!
~ X c
a- * r
"Wx
A M
1’. M
A. M.
P. M .
8 10
5 30
BLACKSBURG
7 48
Ii 40
8 30
5 45
EARLS
7 :i2
li 20
8 40
5 50
PATTERSON KP’GS
7 25
(i 12
y 20
0 00
SHELBY
7 15
0 00
10 00
6 20
LATT! MORE
6 55
4 50
10 10
0 28
MOORKSBORO.
0 48
4 40
10 25
ti 3*
— HEN if I ETTA
t; 38
4 20
10 50
t; 55
Forest city
0 20
3 50
1] 15
7 10
Hl'TIIKRFOKDTON
t i 05
3 25
11 35
7 22
Ml 1,1, WOOD
5 53
3 05
11 45
7 :i5
GOLDEN VALLEY
5 40
2 5o
12 05
7 40
. THERMAL CITY
5 37
2 45
12 25
7 58
GLUNWOOD ...
5 17
2 20
12 50
8 15
MARION
5 00
2 00
H. M
P. M.
A. M.
P. M.
WEST.
Gaffney Division.
EAST.
1st Class.
1st < Bass.
10. 13.
EASTERN TIME.
14. 1«.
Daily
Except
Sundav.
Daily
Except
Sunday.
STATIONS.
Daily
Except
Sunday.
Daily
Except,
Sunda.,.
PM AM
1 00 , 6 00
1 20 , 6 20
I 40 ' « 40
PM AM
BLACKSBURG
CHEROKEE FALLS
GAFFNEY
A M P M
7 50 3 to
7 30 2 40
7 10 | 2 20
AM PM
Truln So. tt leg Ting kUrioa. N. C., gl 5 a. m.
inakhijr close connection at Blackuburir, S
C.. with the Southern's truln No. 30 for Char
lotte, N. f.. and all point* East, and connect-
Inn with the Southern's vestibule koIhiMo
Atlanta. Ga., nnd all isilnts West, and will
receive passengers koo'K East from train
No. 10 on tho G. & N. W. R. K., at Yorkville,
S. C., at 8.45 11. m.. and connects at Camden,
S. C., with the Southern's truln No. .8 arriv-
liur In Charleston, S. at 8.17 p. in.
Train No. 34 with passenger coach attached,
leaving Blacksburg at 5.30 a. in., and con
necting at Rock Hili. S. C., with the South
ern's Florida train for all points South.
Train No. 83 leaving Camden, S. C . at 12.50
m.. after the arrival of the Southern’s
harleston irulu connects at Lancaster, S.
C., with the L. A C. R. R ; at Catawba Janet
hoi with the H. A. L., going East, at Rock
Hill, S.C., with the Sottliern's train No. 34
for Charlotte. N. ('., and all points East.
Connects at Yorkville, S. C. with tiaih No. U
on the C. A N. W. R. R., for < hester, S. C. At
Blacksburg with the Southern's vestibule
going East, aud the Southern's train No. 35
going West, and connecting at Marlon, N.
with the Southern tjoth Fast and West.
MAML'KL HUNT,
Pres U1 eat.
A. TRIPP,
Superintendent.
3. H. LUMPKIN,
U«u'L Passenger Agent.
Oar Aathors Abroad.
Bret Harte says that England is good
enough for him; Mark Twain is pretty
much of the same opinion; Edgar Faw
cett echoes “Amen!” Stephen Crauo
ditto; Robert Barr likewise. And thus
we are losing them all to the mother
country. How are we going to have
au American literature at that alarm
ing rate of emigration? Aud why is
this thus? Euglaud does uot pay bet
ter prices for literary work, for her
best authors occupy the biggest pace
In American magazines, is it that
“the boys” are lionized more over
there?—Atlanta Constitution.
ArcoinalntinK Information.
“What is the price of this lovely an
tique chair?” asked the shopper.
“Thirty-seven dollars, uladam,” an
swered the dealer.
“Thirty-seven dollars!”
the lady in astonishment,
didn't suppose it worth
much.”
“Y'ou didn’t ask what it was worth,
madam,” replied the conscientious deal
er. “Y'ou asked the price.”—Chicago
News.
T‘ mmm 111 ■■ in ■■■■ ■■ ■■n . ■ . .i 11 ■ 1 iii-
exclaimed
“Why, I
half that
All Tosstiier.
You can get your Beef, 1‘oik and Sausage,
Country Produce and Vegetables, Groceries,
Heavy and Fancy, Canned Goods of most
every kind. Fruits and Confectioneries, Ci
gars and Tobacco. Fresh Fish Fridays and
Saturdays, all ai our place at Burnett Block.
Phone No. W.
The Up-to-Dafe Market.
fYT WANTED Good Beef Cattle.
FOR
Up-to-Date Job Print
ing, call at the
LEDGER Office.
Gaffney, S. C.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trolae.
In Effect Dec. 10, 1309.
Northbound.
Lv. Atlanta.CT
’• Atlanta.ET
“ No rc loss..
•• Buford. .
“ Gainesville
“ Lula
“ Cornelia....
" Mt. Airy.
Lv. Toccift—
No. 12.
Daily
7 5o a
8 50a
9 30 a
10 05 a
lo oj a
10 58 a
11 25 a
11 30 a
11 53 a
Ves.
No. 38.
Daily
12 00m
1 0o;,
2 25 p
2 45 p
8 33 p
5 40 p
No. 18.
Ex.
Bus.
4 30 p
6 30 p
6 23p
7 03 p
7 33 p
3 00 p
8 30 p
8 35 p
9 00 p
Ar. Eihertou..
Lv. Elberton...
9 OOh
Lv. W'iniuster.
12 idiii
“ Seneca. .
12 52 p
4 15 p
“ Central....
1 40 p
“ Greenville
2 34 p
6 22 p
•* Spar'burg .
3 37 p
C 13 p
*• Gaffney
4 20 p
0 41 p
“ Blacksburg
4 38 p
7 02 p
“ Kiag'N Mt.,
6 03 p
" Gastonia...
5 25 p
“ Charlotte..
6 30 p
8 18 p
Ar. Gre’nsboro
9 65 p
10 47 p
....
Lv Gre’usboro
11 45 p
Ar. Norfolk ...
Ar. Danville...
11 20 p
11 06 p
—
Ar. Richmond..
6 00a
6 00a
Ar. W’bington.
6 42 a
“ B more P R
8 00 a
“ Ph’delphia.
10 15 a
“ New York.
12 43m
FstMa
Vcs.
Southbound.
No. 35.
No. 37.
No. 11.
Daily
Daily
Daily
Lv N Y., Pa R.
12 15 a
4 BOp
“ Ph’delphia.
8 50 a
0 5ft p
.......
“ Bnlthnoro..
6 22 a
0 20p
" Wugh’ton
11 15 H
10 45 p
Lv Ri hmond.
12 01 n
11 00 p
11 UOp
Lv. Danville.. .
5 48 p
6 50 u
6 10 a
Lv. Norfolk
9 00 11
8 35 p
Ar. Grv’usboro
0 35 p
5 15 u
Lv. Grt-'nsboro
7 10 p
7 05 h
7 37 u
Ar Charlotte..
9 45 p
9 25 a
12 05m
Lv Gastonia.
10 42 p
10 07 u
1 12 p
“ King's Mt..
1 38 p
" Bln<'ksburg
11 25 p
10 4ft a
2 (Up
•* Gaffney
11 42 p
10 58 a
2 24 p
“ Spar'burg.
12 2(1 a
i;::: •
3 1 • * p
“ Greenville
1 30a
12 30p
4 30 p
“ Central
6 4Jp
•• Seneca . ..
2 32 a
1 3C p
fi 08p
*' W'mlnuter
<5 25 p
•' T<>ccoa
3 28 a
2 15 p
7 (Xi P
Cv Kllurloti.
' y 00 n
1 30 p
Ar. kl!>c*rton.
11 45 u
5 40 p
Lv. M 1 Airy .
7 23 p
“ Cornelia...
7 32 p
“ Lula
4 18 u
8 14 p
8 do p
•' Gainesville
4 36 a
3 33 p
8 20 p
“ Buford.
6 02 u
8 43 p
” Norcross.
6 25 a
9 18 p
Ar. Atlanta.KT
0 10 a
4 55 p
10 OOp
" Atlanta.CT
5 10 a
8 55 p
y oop
PetMa
No. 36.
Daily.
4 U4 ft
4 28 ft
4 55ft
6 00 it
7 03*
7 45*
8 tr»«
8 27 it
8 51 it
9 50 a
12 23 p
1 38 p
C 25 p
(T 0., :t
3 3j a
6 35 it
H 57 a
7 20 a
T 48a
8 27a
9
8 30-
Batwaaa Lula and Athans.
JfTii.
Kx.
boa.
No. 18.
Daily.
STATIONS.
No. 12.
Daily
No. 10.
Ex.
Sun.
• lOp
• «4p
• Mp
• 30 p
H 06a
11 36 u
11 62 a
i5jop
Lv ..Lala Ar
“ Maysvllle “
" Harmony M
Ar. Athens Lv
10 50 a
10 19 a
10 03 a
9 25a
7 36 p
7 09 p
6 38 p
6 OOp
■tain line train*.
“A" a. m. “P* p. m. “M” noon. "N” night.
Chesapeake Line Steamer* In daily aervlc*
between Nor' ilkand Baltimore.
No*. 37 ana 8h—Daily Washington and
Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Through
Pullman sleeping cars between New York and
New Orlean*. via Washington, Atlanta and
Montgomery, and also between New York and
Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Bir-
mlngnam. Also elegant Pui.uman Libhaht
Ohkkmvation Caius between Atlanta and New
York. Plrstcla** thoroughfare coach** be
tween Washington and Atlanta. Dining cars
serve all meals eu route. Leaving Wssbing-
Inglon Monday*, Wednesdays and Fridays
• tourist sleeping car will run through between
Washington and Ban Kiancisco without change.
Pullman drawing room slsepingcars between
Greensboro and Norfolk. Close connection at
Norfolk for Gun Point Comhiki.
Non. 85 and 36—United States Fast Mail runs
•Olid between Washington aud Now Urleaus,
via Southern Railway, A. A W. P. R. K. and
L & N. K. R., being composed of coaches,
through without change tor passengers of all
classes. Pullman draw mg room sleeping car*
between New York uud New Orleans, via At
lanta and Montgomery and between Char
lotte uud Atlanta. Dining cars serve all
Uicals on rout*
No. 11.83, 54 and 12—Pullman sleeping car*
between Richmond uud Charlotte, via Dan
ville. southl'ouud Nos. 11 and 33, northbound
Nos 34 and 12.
FRANK ». GANNON. J.M.CULP.
Third V P 1 Usn. Mgr. T. M., Waahlngttm.
W. A. TURK, b M HARDWICK.
bit t..
Jk £• Am-WMtuiuthtfh. A-tt.J