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Vi (TORY JX UETilEAT i jg I v \ ’} i >' i | >1 o» I! n&l* -i V* &. s ; ;< ^ ri -11 • ;■ 1 Dr ‘- TALMAGE SA> ‘ ^iSt. : . 4.-.15 WICKED AGE SAYS TRIUMPH OF THE SHORT. /m. ) If you nave it, you I i tii<* I'uiiMP of Slnuy IMoiih •?& i i ji ^ J'«'ii;ir»-n—S'lvo From Tom|itntion. \2c\'* 1 ‘ ‘ ^ < :i n in My Aluy lie Avorfed l»y Itun- about { il 0 j <2 niok A»vny From l-^vil. lO' hea v y fcc,ing N Washington, ^prll S.-From an old StOHUlcll, the kj j imo battle! stvne Dr. Talmage in this /formation of ^as, the ^ j dbconisi- niakos ^OUH.- startling snggi’s- nausca, sicH headache, [4 tii.ns a: to tlie iirst stylos of Christian 2nd general weakness of worlv and points lint tho roason of so | tile whole body# Uliiuy [(iOUS iailurcs^ U‘Xt, JoiSllllcl Yin, i f J You can’t have it a week 11 7 - “ Tbeu • sll!lil J« ,ise l u» the am- | without your blood iSs «nd soizo upon tho city.” 1 being impure and your fJj l1 0liL ' S;:, I h:,,!l l ' v, ' nin - wiU 1 , I ! n - v fam - 1 2 nerves all exhausted, fj .. „ ’ , , , .. r ^ 1 ^ tin* scone of tlie text. In tho wide open | n There s just one remedy M t>yos !llul lh , , luit . k i Ut onogationa and i ft Jj for you tho blanched chocks I realized what a : ^ thrilling drama it was. There is the ! V off flh ' (Aj i?s I edd city, shorter by name than an,, jk nS®' wLEr M Tam oilier city in tlie ages, spelled with two j n?. ‘* ij r. ,i^f I letters. A, I, Ai. Joshua and ids men ‘ i £i There’s nothing new I about it. Your grand- ^Jj parents took it. ’Twas [>■ r 1 an Old Sarsaparilla before > j i camp in an ambush on the west side of ^ ] Other sarsaparillas were I -j ‘ the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, A known. I: made the word Vi i s,r,n " 1 ^'Y.^ttaiions, i.m 30,- ! want to take it. How to do it is the ] I (pa -Hon. On a former occasion, in a | i st 1 aiglit 1 orurd, face to face tight, i I they had been defeated, but now they j ! are going to lake it by ambuscade. Oeu- j I end Joshua lias two divisions in bis ' nriny - . The one division tin* battle I I worn commander will lead himself, i the* other division he rends off to en- “ Sarsaparilla ” famous over tiie whole world. There’s no other sarsa parilla like it. In age and y warriors moving in si- | r <3 | lence, speaking only in a whisper; no I ciicl.ing of swords against shields, lest | I the walchmen of Ai discover it, and | <1 i tlie stratagoin I o a failure. If the roist aeiitisli army j the line the* j - ^ itnri *r 0 ci iiiLr MJidin 1 no i>i;i(* power to cure, it s The fi , ", . T , „ , 13 lorgets himself, all along t leader of them ail. pi | U(1 ,,| is ••mi.-jH" St.CJ a tiittli. Ai? dniggtsti. k j ; .b.sliua ta!;es the other division, the Ayer’s Pills cure constipation. ^4 one with which lie is to march, and After F' ?rribty I v. - as IndiKM .! to try vour Sarsapa took ti:r< • b-.t.'l-s and nov. n M l a n<tw iijan. 1 cvoiiId ruivisc all n feilowen-at.jr* s l<> try thi- r.iPdi' i for it ha» s’ood tlio test of tiioe a its curative power cannot be tx 4 celled.” l.U. fioon. jfin. 30,1S39. Browntown, Va 1 ; ti 1 L WrSie i!.* Ziocfar. If von have any r .mph.h.t v.lntcvcr anil il • the bv.t ninliral nlvlce j. Il it on the north side of the city of Ai and then spends the night in reeou- uoitering in the valley. 'There lie is, ini 1^' I lliiiiicing over the 1 1 ortlines *ii iho coni- ing day with something of the feelings of Wellington the night before Water- la) or of .Meade and Leo the night be- fo!0 (icttysburg. There he stands in tiie night and says to himself: "Yonder poa.'Kily r*'fmv*‘, writ• the f'ocior iL 4 . iy. V )ii •..in r'M><?ive a prompt to- 1 i-. the division in ambush on tho west ply, without r i t A'bl J. c. ayk.’i, bowa'ii, Mass. jk^l | side of Ai. Here is the division I have ■.jx-ywiw-Ae--41 under inv e'lacnil couimaud on the Dry K lo.” Look! Tiie morning ins to tip the liiiis. Tlie eers of Ai look out in the vy early, and, while they Ik* division in amhusli, tliey bcdiold the other divisions of Joshua. Hie consisting ol . lU( , tho ( .,. y -To arms! To arms!" rings Notions, Shoes, through all the streets of tlie old town. Plain F ; acts. St ood north tdi’t* i Q ( ritnnhoriii^ i,t* tin* hut t'lroady ho O a i.:ilit:ii-y ot: fill V- j liioi tilu;' vi ! do not kol* i behold the lints (trooTb s Shell’ !!;i!<!- and every sword, wiicthor hacked and ware, and almost anything car- * H,llt 01 ‘ ut ‘"b' v-eidcd. is biought out. . , . , ’ , and all tin* inhabitants of the city of ried in a general store,as ehtaiM . ’ * Ai pour through the gates, an intiniat- as any liou-e ’it the city. \\ lien in need of goods see ipy prices. . Yours to please, I. M. PEELER. ed torrent, and their cry is, “Como, we'll make quick work with Joshua and ids troop; !” No sooner had those people of Ai come out against the troops of Joshua 1 than Joshua gave such a cemmancl as he seldom gave—‘"Fall back!’’ Why. j they could not believe their own ears! ! Is Joshua’s courage failing him? The J. Cpouoh \V ■ 11,Act. .1. eon.M.i.ies otts. | treat is bcatt-n, and the Israelites arc* j cE Sc OTTS Hying, throwing blankets and canteens j on every side under this worse than LAWYERS. • Ihill Run defeat. And you ought to All business bit rust eel to us. -iv.-n prompt p,..,,. n )e soldiers of Ai cheer and cheer and vigorus m lent Ion. Ulliee up stairs, nc-xt | , , ■ . to ll. A. Jones A Co 'Rhone *7. | and cheer, out they iiuzza too soon. 'Tlie men lying in ambush are straining their vision to get some signal from Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. Joshua takes Ids burnished spear, glittering in the sun like a shaft of doom, and points it toward the city, and when the men up yonder in the ambush see it with j hawklike swoop tliey drop upon Ai [ «cr! without stroke ot sword or r.tah of spear take tlie city and put it to tin JAMKfi A. WIIvlvI?*, Attorncy-at-Lav/, OTVKI'TNTIC'V, W. CL Money to loan on Kt-ul Kslate, Office over It. A. Jones A: «'o.’x store. Hardin & McWhorter iVt toi'no v ?-* -t ( I XV. torch. So much for 1!i(* division that was in j aiiibi sli. How about the division under Joshua's command7 No sooner does GAFFNEY, - - S. C. Money to loan on city real estate. Office over It. A. Jones Ac ('o.’s Store. —- -■ - - ■ • ■ D.K.L C. 1’.Siinclers. W.S. Hall. Jr. DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL, Attorneys-at-Lav/. Office ovi J. nos. It. Hi 11. IIi.miv i\. osiioum: EUTLEfi So OSBORNE, LAWYERS. Joshua stop in tho (light than all Ids men stop with him, and as he wheels they wheel, for in a voice of thunder he cried “Halt!” otic* strong arm driving back a torrent of (lying troops. And then, ns lie points his spear through the golden light toward that fated city, Ids troops knew that they are to start for it. What a scene it was when tin* division in ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on the one side, and the tro- ps under Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side. Mud tlie men of Ai were caught between these two hurricanes of Israclitish courage, thrust before and behind, stabbed in breast and back, ground between the upper and the net tier millstones of 'Hod’s indignation! Woe to the city of Ai! Cheer for Israel! Victorious Hctrcat. Lessor.* the lirst: There Is such a thing as victorious retreat. Joshua’s falling back was the first chapter in ids successful besiegeinont. And there are times in your life when the best tiling you can do is to run. Y’oti were once tlie victim of strong drink. The demijohn and the decanter were your tierce foes. They came down upon you with greater fury than the men of Ai upon tlie men of Joshua. Your only safety is to get away from them. Your dissipating companions will come ] around you for your overthrow. Kim Rutledge St. Smith Shop. ! lur > olir lit>: 1 ' : ‘ 11 ljack! khi hack , from the drinking saloon! Fall back can do your sliHlng. t m- M-itlng. wheel ., .... .... oilimr. Veliieli-'. and imj,;, ii., mm r. paii d j fioia tlie wine party! Kmr flight m and imintcd. I j your advance; your retreat is your vie- W51111 E" : nd nludV'^| lory. There is a saloon down on the next street that lias almost been tlie ruin of your soul. Then why do you go along that street? Why do you not ! pass through some other street rather j than by tin* place of your calamity? j A spoonful of brandy taken for medic | inal purpeses by a man who ‘JO years j before Inid been reformed from drunk “iim s hurled into Inebriety iiud tit grave one of the best friends 1 ever hail. Ketrcat is victory! Prompt all) ni inn jiivcn all Inivinrss t a trusted to us. .Notary Till lie in office. J. E. WEBSTER, Attorney- A1- I^saav, Office in Oourt I louse n’robate-.I udire suffice Galfney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a specialty C. JEFFERIES GAFFNEY, S. C. Couitnerci.il I.iih-. C'orpor iUon I.uw Krai Fstate I.niv. Money to loan on approved security. ainined Your free f< >r a 11 pain, ivioney 'VV r . 'J'. A. N. WOOD, * BANKER, t urn Your K.icL on t iitn‘]l<-f. lien* is a converted Inlidcl. He is so , ) ctrong now in his faith in the gospel ^oes a general Banking and Lxchung# j |lt . bu ., s lic . CIU1 re!1( , aii v( | i!ll;; . v ^ at iusiness. Woll secured with Burglar- i y, ' u i’*«li'>«ido!.* ?-t v j I (Ilew .lack.son liuvis trwetsV Tyndall's roof safe and Automatic Tin:*; Lock tilasgou i.nivi-rsiiy a<ldrc-s7 Drop I them and run. You will be uu Infidel \y Deposit Bon# at mo-ten,:# y, jU die m.h-.s a you quit that. rent. Buys and sells ritoeks amt Bond* Buys County and ScliooJ Clainm. Your business solicited. These fueii of Ai will he too much for you. Turn yotn bai-k on the rank ami lilt* of unbel t f. i ly l loir tln-y cut you w 11ii their t wonls tiud truusiix you will) their javelins. 'There are people who have been well nigh ruined be cause they risked a foolhardy expedi tion in the presence of mighty and overwhelming temptations, and Hi** men of Ai made a morning meal of them. So,jilso, there is victorious retreat In tho religious world. Thousands of times the kingdom of Christ has seem ed to fall back. When the blood of the- Scotch Covenanters gave a deeper dye to the heather of the highlands, when the Yaudols of France chose extermi nation rather than make an unchris tian surrender, when on St. Bartholo mew’s day mounted assassins rode through the streets of Paris, crying “Kill! Bloodletting is good in August! Kill! Death to tlie Huguenots! Kill!” when Lady Jane (Jrey’s head rolled from the executioner's block, when Calvin was imprisoned in the castle, when John Knox died for the truth, when John Banyan lay rotting in Bed ford jail, saying, "If God will help me and my physical life continues, 1 will stay here until the moss grows on my eyebrows rather than give up my faith,” the days of retreat for Hie church were days of victory. The pilgrim lathers fill back from tiie oilier side of the sea to I’lymoulh Kock, but now are marshaling a con tinent for the Christianization of tiie world. The church of Christ falling back from Piedmont, falling back from Kue St. Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, falling back from Wurt- temberg castles, falling back from the Kruxi-.’s market place, yet all the time triumphing. Notwithstanding all the reverses which the church of Christ suffers, what do we see today? Twelve thousand missionaries of Hie cross on heathen grounds; eighty thou sand ministers of Jesus Christ in this land; at least four hundred millions of Christians on Hie earth. Falling back, yet advancing until the old Wesleyan hymn will prove true: ’J lip l.ion <-f JiiJali bliall break tlie chain And i.ivc- us i;.i victory a^ain and aguini But lln :e is a more marked illustra tion of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, tlie Jesus of the ages. First falling back froni^ an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling from celestial hills to terrestrial val leys, from throne to manger; yet that did nut seem to suflice him as a re in at. Falling back still farther from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Nazareth to Jerusalem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Golgotha to tlie mausoleum in tlie rod:, back down over the precipices of perdition until he walked amid the caverns of the eter nal captives and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty God, amid the Ahnbs and the Jezebels and the Belshazzars. Oh, men of the pulpit and men of the pew, Christ’s descent from heaven to cai th does not measure half Hie distance! It was from glory to pciiHtion. He descended into hell. All the records of earthly retreat are as nothing compared with this falling bade. Santa Anna, with the fragments of his army flying over the plateaus of Mexico, and Napoleon and his at my re- 1 rout ing from .Moscow into the awful sno.ws of Kus-ia are not worthy to be mentioned with (his retreat, when all tho powers of darkness seemed to be pursuing t'lirist as he fell back until the body of him who came to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. .Metliinks that the city of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabitants when they went to pursue Joshua as perdition was emptied of devils when they started for the pursuit of Christ, ami he fell bad; and back, down lower, down lower, chasm below chasm, pit ! i low pit, until he seemed to strike tlie bottom of objurgation and scorn and torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout of hell at the defeat of tho Lord God Almighty! Triumph of (lie V. iohi-d In Short, But let not tlie powers of darkness rejoice quite so soon. Do you hear Hint disturbance in the tomb of Arima- thea? 1 hear tlie sheet rending! What means that stone hurled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out? Kush him back! The dead must not stalk in this open sunlight. Oh, it is our Joshua. Let him come out. Ho comes forth and starts for tho city. He takes the spear of the Katnan guard and points that way. Church militant marches up on one side, and the church triumphant marches down on tiie other side. And tlie powers of darkness being caught between these ranks of celestial and terrestrial valor nothing is left of them save just enough to illustrate the direful over throw of hell and our Joshua’s eternal victory. On his head be all tlie crowns. In his hands bo all the sei-nter*. At Ids feet be all the liumr: . --arts; and here, Lord, is one of them. Lesson tlie second: Tlie triumph of tlie wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in a panic? There Is nothing so uncontrollable. If you had stood fit Long bridge, Washington, during the opening of our sad civil war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those men of Ai looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede they expected easy work. They would scatter them as the equinox the leaves. Oh, tho gleeful am! jubilant descent of the men of Ai upon the men of Joshua! But their exhilaration was brief, for the tide of battle turned, and these quondam con querors left their miserable carcasses hi the wilderness of Bethaven. So il always is. The triumph of the wicked is short. You make .$30,000 at the gam ing table. Do you expect to keep Iti You will dli* in the poorhouse. Y'oii make a fortune by iniquitous trallic. Do you expect to keep it? Your mon ey will scatter, or it will stay lonq enough to curse your children ultt'i you are dead. Call over the roll ot bad men who prospered and see how short was their prosperity. For awhile, like the men of Ai, they went from conquest to conquest, but after awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and they wore divided into three parts. Misfortune took their property, (he grave took their body and the lost World took their soul. I am always interested in the building of palaces Of dissipation. I like to have them built of Hu* best granite and have the rooms made large and to have the pil lars made very llrm. God Is going to conquer them, and they will be turned Into asylums and art galleries and churches. 'Tlie stores in which fraud lilcnt men do business, the splendid hanking institutions where the presi dent and cashier put all their property In their wives’ hands and then fail for .$;»(Si.(iihi, ail these Institutions are to become tin* places where honest Chris tian men do business. How long wifi it take your beys to gel through your ill g Men gains? Tho I wicked do not live out half their days, i For awhile they swagger and strut and make a great splash In the news papers. but after awhile it all dwindles | down into a brief paragraph: “Died j suddenly, April 8, 1900, at 35 years of | age. Relatives and friends of the fam- j lly are invited to attend the funeral on j Wednesday at ‘J o’clock from his late J residence on Madison square. Inter- ; meut at Greenwood or Oak Hill.” Some of them jumped off the docks. Some of them took prussic* acid. Some of them fell under tho snap of a Der- , ringer pistol. Some of them spent i their days in a lunatic asylum. Where ! are William Tweed and his associates? j Where are Keteham and Swartwout, I absconding swindlers? Where are j James Fisk, the libertine, and all the J other misdemeanants? The wicked do i not live out half their days. Disem- i bogue, O world of darkness! Come up, Hildebrand and Henry II and Robespierre, and, with blistering and | blaspheming and ashen lips, hiss out, ! “The triumph of the wicked is short.” Lesson the third: How much may he I accomplished by lying in ambush for I opportunities. Are you hypercritical | of Joshua’s maneuver? Do you say | that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle campfires on | Jersey heights, giving the impression j to the opposing force that a great army j was encamped there when there was ; none at all? 1 answer, if the war was | right, then Joshua was right in his j stratagem, lie violated no flag of j truce. Ho broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of j Ai. Ob, that we all knew how to lie j in ambush for opportunities to serve God! The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted. By tact, by stratagem, by Christian am buscade, you may take almost any cas tle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a regular besiegeinont of ar- ! gument, and you will be defeated, but just wait until the door of their hearts j is set ajar, or they are off their guard, j or their severe caution is away from I homo, and then drop in on them from a I Christian ambuscade. There lias been j many a man up to Ids chin in scientific i portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no divine revelation, his ; pen a scimeter flung into the heart of | theological opponents, who neverthe- j less has been discomfited and captured J for God by some little 3-year-old child | who has got up and put her snowy j arms around his sinewy nock and ask- ul some simple question about God. Oh, make a Hank movement! Steal a march on the devil! Client that man ( into heaven! A $5 treatise that will | stand all the laws of homiletics may ; fall to do that which a penny tract of j Christian entreaty may accomplish, i oh. for more Christians in ambuscade 1 —not lying in idleness, but waiting for a quick spring, waiting until just tbe | right time comes! Do not talk to a ■ man about the vanity of lids world on i the day when he has bought some thing at “13” and is going to sell it at “15.” But talk to him about the van ity of the world on the day when he has bought something at “15” and is compelled to sell it at “12!” Do not rub a man’s disposition the wrong way; do not take the imperative moo'd when the subjunctive mood will do Just as well; do not talk in perfervld style to a phlegmatic nor try to tickle a ton-id temperament with ail icicle. You can take any man for Christ if you know how to get at him. Do not send word to him that tomonow at 1(J o’clock you propose to open your bat teries upon him, but come on him by a skillful, persevering, God directed am buscade. Lesson the fourth: The Importance of taking good aim. There Is Joshua, but bow are those people in ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop on tho city, and how are these men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their flight and ad vance? There must be some signal—a signal to stop the one division and to start tlie other. Joshua, with a spear on which were ordinarily hung the colors of battle, points toward the city. He stands in such a conspicuous posi tion, and there is so much of the morn ing light dripping from that spear tip, that ail around Hu* horizon they see It. It was as much as to say: “There Is the city. Take it!” Take Kood Alin. God knows and we know that a great deal of Christian attack amounts to nothing simply because we do not take good aim. Nobody knows and we do iiwi know ourselves which point we want to take when we ought to make up our minds what God will have us to do and point our spear In that direc tion and then hurl our body, mind, soul, time, eternity at that one target. In our pulpits and pews and Hunday schools and prayer meetings we want to got a reputation for saying pretty things, and so we point our spear to ward the flowers, or we want u reputa tion for saying sublime things, and we point our spear toward the stars, or we want to get a reputation for his torical knowledge, and we point our spear toward the past, or we want to get a reputation for great liberality, so we swing our spear all around, while there is tlie iWd world, proud, rebellious and armed against ali righteousness, and instead of miming any farther away from its pursuit we ought to turn a i on el, plant our foot in the strength of tin* eternal God, lift the old cross and point it In the direction of the World s conquest till, tho redeemed of earth, mai-rhlng up from one side and the glorified of heaven murching down from the other side, the last battlement of sin is compelled to swing out the str* amors of Km::m:ol. O church of God, take aim and conquer! I have heard it said, “Look out for ^ man who lias only one idea; he is In*#*- sistibte.” 1 say look out for the maq who lias one Idea, and that a deter mination for soul saving. I believe God would strike me dead if I dared to point tho spear in any other direction. Dh, for some of tho courage and en thusiasm of Joshua! He thing two iirmleg from (he tip of that spear. It Is sinful for us to rest unless it Is to get stronger muscle and fresher brain and purer heart for God’s work. I fe**l on i my head the hands of Christ In a new j ordination. Do you not feel the sumo omnipotent pre sure? There Is a work for all of us. Oh, that we might stand up side by side and point tbe spear to ward the city! It ought, to be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drift ing off toward loose religion or what is culled “liberal Christianity,” which Is so liberal Hint It gives up all the car dinal doctrines of the Bible; so liberal that it surrenders the rectitude of the throne of the Almighty. That is liber ality with a vengeance. Let us decide upon the work which we as Christian men have to do and in the strength of God go to work and do it. it is comparatively easy to keep on a parade amid a shower of bouquets and hand clapping and the whole street full of enthusiastic huzzas, but it is not so easy to stand up in the day of battle, the face blackened with smoke, the uniform covered by the earth plowed up by whizzing bullets and bursting shells, half the regiment cut to pieces, j and yet the commander crying "For- , ward, march!” Then it requires old i fashioned valor. My friends, the great trouble of the kingdom of God In j this day Is the cowards. They do | splendidly on a parade day and at com- i munion, when they have on their best clothes of Christian profession, but in the great battle of life, at the first sharpshooting of skeptidsi , they dodge, they fall back, they break ranks. We confront the enemy, we open the battle against fraud, and, lo, we find on our side a great many people who do not try to pay their debts. And we open the battle against Intemperance, and we find on our side a great many people who drink too much. And we open the battle against profanity, and we find on our side a great many men who make hard speeches. And we open the battle against Infidelity, and, lo, we find on our side a great many men who are not sure about the book of Jonah. And while we ought lo be massing our troops and bringing forth more than the united courage of Austerlitz and Waterloo and Gettys burg we have to be spending our time in bunting up ambuscades. There are a great many in the Lord’s army who would like to go out on a campaign with satin slippers and holding um brellas over their heads to keep off the heavy dew and having rations of cau- vasback duck and lemon custards. If they cannot have them, they want to go home. They think it is unhealthy among so many bullets! Divine Mercy. I believe that tlie next year will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of God. It will be a year of successes for the men of Joshua, but.of doom for the men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail track, and you can hear the train coming miles away. 8o I put my ear to the ground, and I hoar the thundering on of the lightning train of God’s mercies and judgments. The mercy of God is first to he tried upon this nation. It will he preached in the pulpits, In theaters, on the streets—everywhere. People will be invited to accept the mercy of the gospel, and the story and the song and the prayer will be “mercy.” But sup pose they do not accept the offer of mercy-wbat then? Then God will come with his judgments, and the grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcations will swallow the money markets, and tlie tires will burn the cities, and the earth will quak* from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments; year of invitation and of warning; year of jubilee and of woe. Which aide are you going to be on— with tlie men of Ai or tlie men of Joshua? Pass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Israel. 1 would clap my hands at the joy of your coming. You will have a poor chance for this world and the world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to come up on you and upon the world unless you have the pardon and the comfort and the help of Christ. Come over! On tlds side are your happiness and safe ty; on the other side tiro disquietude and despair. Kternal defeat to tho men of Ai! Ftcruul victory to the men of Joshua! (Copyright, 1000, by Louis Klopsch.] Knew What She Wanted. There whs a tall and haughty young woman In a provision store this morn ing, a pretty girl, who wore a smart tailor gown aud an air of great Im portance. “Have you a nice roundhouse steak?" she asked the butcher sweet ly. when he came forward to wait upon her. The man’s face assumed a beefy hue Itself, and be looked well nigh apo plectic as be replied, “No, miss, 1 haven’t a round steak.” “Then send me a portcrloln. About seven pounds will be enough, I should think.” “Tenderloin is tho best out, miss; suppose you take that?” suggested tho clerk, his face growing still redder. “Kindly send me what I ordered,” said the young woman with great dig nity. “My mother-in-law Is entirely conversant with the cuts of beef, and I’m quite sure tliat’s the name she told me, and send ten pounds of rice with It.” Then she walked out of the shop with the pleased smile on her face of one who lias found housekeeping the merest child’s play, while the specta tors murmured “Bride!” to each other under their breath.—Baltimore News. KitlTiiry MUix-k by One Vote. The Kdgeficld correspondent of the Sunday State makes the following reference to the Gaffney delegates to the 11. Y. 1*. U. convention then in session at Edgefield: “Miss Carroll, of Gaffney, rendered a solo lust night in a most happy manner, exhibiting sweetness, expres sion and cultivation of voice,’’ and speaks of Dr. Robertson, M'ss Min nie Carroll and Miss Mary iirown as being among the prominent delegates in attendance. Rev. B. P. Robertson was elected president for the ensuing year. Charleston won the convention for next year by one vote over Gaffney. John K<lwar<U Dead. John Edwards, the colored man who became deranged about two weeks ago, and who hud been con fined in tlie jail here since a few days ufter liis derangement, died yester day afternoon about 1 o’clock. He will be buried this afternoon in the colored cemetery at Limestone. —Dr. 8. R Peck, the Charlotte eye specialist, will be in CafTnpy at the Lipscomb House Wednesday April 11th. One day only. THE KIRKMASTER. Tills Clinroh DlKnltnry Wns nn Itn- Ifortunt I'rrsoniiuc In Scotland. At a recent meeting of the Church of Scotland Office Bearers’ association J. A. Rollo, solicitor, delivered a most in teresting lecture on “The Kirkinastcr of Dundee; His Duties of Old and Pres ent Sphere of Usefulness.” He vivid ly described the duties performed by the kirkinastcr in olden times. The penalties to be intlicted upon transgressors had to be exacted with all rigor by him. Among these were the following: No man to “carry timber, redd stones or diclit his malt” in tlie kirkyard; pen alty, 40 shillings. No wine or ale sellers to receive any person in their homos auu keep table to them “in the morning while prayers and preaching be done and likewdso on the Sunday in time of preaching;” pen alty, suspension from business for one year. No person to “swear blasphemy;” penalty, for fir .t fault, 2 shillings or two hours In the "branks;” for the second, 20 shillings or six hours therein, aud for the third, banishment of Hie burgh. No children to "play, cry or perturb in the kirkyard or break the glass win dows in Hie kirk;” penalty, parents to pay 8 shillings and mend Hie “skaith.” No merchant or mariner to sail or take voyage on Sunday and all inhabit ants to keep “public exercise as pre cise as the ordinary days of preach ing;” penalty, £10. No person “to bring infants and bairns under *he age of 5 years within the kirk in time of sermon or prayers” aud no person “to rise and depart forth of tho kirk before Hie end and conclu sion of Hie sermon and prayers;” pen alty, for tho first and second faults, ad monition, aud for tlie third, 40 shillings or 24 hours' Imprisonment on bread and water and declaration of the fault from Hie pulpit. In their administration the town council seemed to have acted harmo niously with the church authorities down to the disruption in 1843.—Dun dee Journal. Unforgiving Aator. William Waldorf Astor seems to be trying to follow the old adage, “If you cannot speak well of another, say noth ing at all.” Within Hie last few months two notable Englishmen have died, Hu* D'.il.e ol Westminster aud George W. Kteovcns, the brilliant war corre spondent, and in each case Mr. Astor refused to permit an obituary of them to be published in the Pall Mail Ga zette. He had trouble with the duke over the purchase of Cliveden, his beautiful borne on the Thames, and never forgave Steevens for leaving Ids Journal for The Daily Mail.—Kansas City Independent. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4. In Effect 12:01 A. M., Sunday,December 24th, ’qo Between Camden.S.C. and Blacksburg,S.C. WEST. ’“ EAST as. iiia. , as , S4. EASTKKN TIME. 1 STATIONS. ►j-*-’ >.>> ~ * p 2 Us 2 Sid * B [ **'/. Wx p. M. P. M. 8 2D 12 50 8 50 1 15 Q 2D 1 27 ID 50 1 to ll 2D 2 10 11 ;r> 2 15 12 ao 2 U5 1 (ID 2 50 1 2D U (8) »> UO U ID • > 50 U 20 a ID U 40 4 ID U 55 4 45 4 02 5 UD 4 2D ti 00 4 lift 0 25I 4 50 G ;r» 5 (HI 7 00 5 20 P. M. 1*. M. FAM DEN DEKALli . . WESTVLEEE • ■ • KEKSHAW HEATH SPRINGS .PLEASANT 11 IliL —LANCASTER RIVERSIDE . SPRING DELL. CATAWBA .1 L'NC’N LESLIE ROCK HILL NEW POUT ... .. TIKZAH ... YOHKVILLE ...i SHARON HICKORY GROVE SMYRNA , UEACKSBCUU I*. M. t".’ e.<| I-.* ir.* II .-#1, ii as 11 2n, ti I., in .v. |0 411; to :sn; lo 2o io io; 10 le ii:{.') !i lift !• 15 11 mil H 45 h :i5| # 15 j A. M. ; I*. M. 5 III ■1 rii: 4 4 n 11 15 :i or 3 :tr, 1 m 12 41 12 20 il ne lo 4o M 20 5 INI 7 :io 0 50 IS 3< (I or 5 HI* A. M. Between Blacksburg,S.C., and Marion,».C. WEST. 11 i ait. EAST . : IS. 1 - EASTKKN TIME. i. 7 I Sc ; . STATIONS. ^ ?• * | P* s i tc ; c I V I •x-r. A. M. H 10 8 HO 8 40 il 30 10 IN) 10 10 10 25 10 50 11 15 n :i5 11 45 12 OT> 12 25 12 50 I*. M. i* X - H. M. I 5 mil 5 45 5 50i Ii mi Ii 20 Il 2* () .‘i* ♦5 5) 7 10 ?£! 7 40 7 58 8 15 1*. M. — " x — ’xl X .. KLACKSRL’KG 1 EARLS. ... j PATTERSON SP’GS SHELliY —i.ATTi more .. MooRESIIORO. . .. .HENRIETTA . FOR ES I' < |TY I uitherkokdton .MILLWOOD GOLDEN VALLEY THERMAE CITY G LEN WOOD I MARION 1 A. M. I 7 48 7 :e 7 25 7 151 Ii 55 (1 48 •i :»8 ll 20 ii o;> 5 S3 A 4o 5 :i7 5 17 5 mt| A. M. I I*. M . li 40 0 20 « 12 li INI 4 SO 4 40 4 2U li 50 a 25 li 05 2 50 2 15 2 -Ul 2 mi I*. M. WEST. 1st Class. in. la. t»>a£ Gaffney Division. EASTKKN TIMK. i” A - A- * —-UL? —W STATIONS. EAST. ! 1st Class. 1 14. I 1«. \ ***x A M 7 50 7 110 7 10 A M l* M li IN) 2 40 2 2*0 I* M P M I A M I I IN) li IN) KLACKSItrUG I 20 ti 20 CHEROKEE PALLS 1 40 il 40 . UAPPNEY ... I* M ! A n ! Train No. :i2 leaving Marlon. N. < at ft n. m. making elosr coiiiiuiaioii nt lilnrUsburg, s wHIi tlie SoulIutii’s train No. liii lor ('liar- lotte, N. ('., ami all |n>iiits East, and conn,‘fl ing with the Southern's vestibule going to Atlanta. Hu., and all ixiiuts West, and will receive passenger* going East from train No. to on the C. \ N. W. K. R., at York ville, S. C , at 8.45 a. in., and eonnis-ls at Camden, S. with the Soul hern’s train No. 78 arriv ing in Charleston S. C., al 8.17 p. in. Train No. ill w ith passengercoael. attached, leaving Hlaeksburg at 5.110 a. m., and con necting at Kock Hid, S. with the South ern’s Florida train for all points South. Train No. HU leaving Camden, S. C , at 12.50 I>. rn.. after the arrival of the Southern's charleston train connects sit Lancaster, S. C., with the E. A. C. K. K.; at Csitawhst .Innot lou with the S. A. L., going Esisl.at Koek HII1.S. with the Southern's train No. U4 for Charlotte, N. and sill imiIiiis East. Connects at Yorkvllle, S, ('.. with train No. l) on theC. A N. W. R. R , for Chester, S. C. At lillickshurg With the Southern's Vestibule going East, and the Southern's train No .15 going West, and eonneetlr.g :i' r Marlon, N. (*., with the Southern and West. SAMUKL HUNT, I'resiilent. A. Tit I PI', Kuperlnteiidttiit. 8. ». M MUHIN, Uvu’l. 1'oMieuger Agent. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It artificially digtists the food and aids Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is tbe latest discovered digest- ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cure: I Dysj tensia, Indigestion, Heartburn. Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausc , Sick Headache,Gastralgia,Cramps and all other resultsof imperfeetdigestion. Price 5CV*.»iirt ft. Large size contains 2V4 times small size. Hook all alxmtdyspepslu mulled free Prepared by E. C. DcWITT A CO.. Chicago. Simons for Relief. (COMPLAINT NOT SERVED.] Tin: Statk or Soci n Caroi.ina, j Court of ■ Com mmi County ot* Ciikhokkk. | Ph as. Leo D. Armstrong and C. A. Whitlock, Plaintiffs, against E. H. Wehhi r. li. M. P< nn..l. L. Harnett,.!. M. Harnett, A. M. i liastain, G. L. Hoswoll, T. p. Foster and H. F. Webber, Defendants. To E. II. Webber, It. M. Penn. J. M. Rarnett, A. M. Chastain, G. L. Hoswoll, T F. Foster, I. L. Harnett and It. F. Wo bin r. Defendants In this action: X ou are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, a copy of which is tiled In the office of the Clerk of Court for said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscribers at their office at Gaffney. South Carolina, within twenty days after the ser vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such ser vice. aud If you fail to answer the complaint within i he time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this ictlon will apply to tin; Court for tlie relief Icmanded in the complaint. Dated Gaffney, S. (., Feb. 24. I!«N). Attest: [Seal.] .1. Ell JKUt cniKs, Clerk Pis. Hi'ti.fu a ( isiiouni:, Plaintiffs’Attorneys. NOTICE. To the defendants E. II. Webber, H. M. Penn. .1. M. Harnett. A. M. Chastain! G. L. Boswell and T. F. Foster, absent de- teiidants: Take notice that the summons of which the foregoing is a copy, together with the com plaint in thi , act:on, is this day Hied in the nliceof tiie Clerk of Hie* Court of Common Pleas for Hie County of Cherokee and State aforesaid. ItUTI.EU A 08ROKNE, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys. Gaffney, S. C., Feb. 24, IHOO. DR. J. F. GARRETT Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S.C. )ffice over J. R. Tolleson’s new store In office from 1st to 2Gth of each month; SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Coodemed Schedule of Passenger Trelne. In Effect Dec. 10,1399. Northbound. No. 12. Daily Lv Atlanta.CT 7 50 a “ Atlanta.ET 8 5o a “ Norcross.. 9 ao a " Buford. 10 05 a “ Gainesville lu U5 a “ Lula.. . 10 58 a •* Cornelia.... 11 25 a " Mt. Airy. 11 Jo a Lv Toccoa. ll 53a Ar. Kiberton.. Lv. Kiberton... 9 0) a Cv. \v'minster. 12 Jim “ Seneca. 12 52 p “ Cential. ... 1 42 p " Gnonville 2 84 p " Spar'burg U 87 p " Guffnoy.. . 4 20 p “ Blacksburg 4 88 p “ King's Mt.. 5 08 p “ Gastonia... 5 25 p " Charlotte.. 6 80 p A r. G re'usboro 9 55 p Lv Gre'nsboro Ar. Norfolk.. . Ar Dsuville . . 11 25 p Ar. Richmond.. r> 90 a Ar. W'hington. “ B'more I*, it " Ph'delphia. ........ M New York. FstMa Southbound. No. d5. Daily Lv N Y .Pa.R. 12 15 a " Ph'delphia. 8 50 a “ Baltimore.. l i 22 a " Wash’ton. 11 lua Lv. Ri hmond. 12 01 n Lv. Danville.. 5 48 p Lv Norfolk . 9 00 a Ar. Gre'nsboro o ar* p Lv. Grc’nslsiio 7 10 p Ar Charlotte 9 45 i> Lv Gastonia, 10 42 p “ King s Mt. T " Blacksburg 11 25 p ** (lufriuiy. . 11 42 p •' Spnr'hurg . 12 20 a Greenville 1 80 a *• Central ** 2 32 a “ W'mlntder " Toccoa. 2 28 a Lv Kiberton. ' “ A r. Flherlon. j 11 45 a Lv. Ml Airy! J “ Cornelia... " Lula | 4 IS a •* Gainesville 4 80 a “ Buford.. 6 02 a “ Norcross. . 5 25 u Ar. Atlanta,KT 0 ]0a " Atlanta,CTI 5 10 a Ves. No. 18. FstMa No. 3S. Ex. No. 3ft. Daily Sun. Daily. 12 COm 4 3b p 11 50 p 1 Ojp 5 30p 12 50 a 6 23 p 1 25 • 2 25 p 7 08p 1 5) a 7 33 p 2 Is a 2 45 p 8 OOp 8 80 p 2 88 a 3 33 p 8 85 p 9 U) p 9 »a 5 40 p 11 45 a 4 94 a 4 15 p 4 28 a 4 55 a 5 22 p 0 00 a G 13 p 7 03 a G 40 p 7 4.5 a 7 02 p 8 02* 8 27 a 8 51 a 8 18 p ........ 9 50 a >0 47 p 12 23 p. 11 45 p 8 a 5 14 11 50 p 1 38 p 0 00 s G 42 a 8 00 a G 25 p 8 50 p 11 10 15 a 2 50 a 12 4 ,m G 23 a Ves. No. 37. No. 11. Daily. Dully 4 30 p li 55 p ...... 9 2Jp 10 45 p • •«**«• 11 00 p II OOp 0 50a G 10 a 8 35 p — 11 ■ 1 ■» 5 15 h 7 95 a 7 37 a 9 25 a 12 95 m 10 07 a 1 12 p 1 38 p 10 4.5 a 2 OOp 2 24 p 10 58 a II 81 a 2 I'd 12 30 p 1 30 p 4 80 p 5 42 p tt OBp 0 25 p imr Kx. Sun. 2 15 p 7 00 n ft on a 9 00 a 5 40 |> 1 80 p 7 28 p 9 Jo a 7 82 p • 35 a 3 Up 3 83 p 8 flop tt 57 a 8 20 p 7 20 a 8 48 p 7 48a 0 18 p 8 27a 4 55 p 10 OOp 9 8(1-t. 3 55 p 9 OOp 1 8 80 a. Betwoon Lula and Athens. RaTo: No. 1 i.l Ex. No. 13 Fan. jDaily. 8 10 p: 8 :i4 p STATIONS. II 05 a Lv. .Lula Ar II Ufi u| “ M.iysville ** 8 50p; 11 52 ai “ Harmony 9 .topi 12 00p Ar. Athens .Lv 10 50 a 10 19 a Id OU * 0 29 a Note close connection main line trains. Ex. Sun. Tton T 09 p 8 US p G 00 p made at Lula with “A " a in. ••P" p. m. "M” noon. *‘N'’night. ChrsnpMtko Lino Steamers in dally service between Nor Ok and Haiti more. Nos. U? auo Wi--Dni!y Washington and Sonthwefttoru Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta uad Montgomery, and also between New York and M• innhis, via Washington. Atlanta nud Bir- mingliam. Also elegant Pui.i.man Libiiaht Giisekvation Caps between Atlanta and New York Firstclase thoroughfare coaches be tween Weshington and Atlanta. Dining cars serve all mea.s en route. la-t^lng Wushir^. tngt/m Mondays, Wednesdays ami Krhjayi. a tourist slec-piugcar will run through liciweeix Washlngtou and Ban Francisco withou‘,«hangev Puiluiau drawing room sleeping cars betwews Grecneboro end Norfolk. Close roonecttcji at Norfolk for Oi.u Point ComVoui. Nos. U5 and UG—United BtsKs Fast Mall rnna solid lojlwecu Washlngluu and New Orleans via Southern Railway. A. A W. P. K. R. L A N R. It , being composed of coxA/es. thrnnwh w , ..Out change tor passenge^wof ol« f lvtis.'i Pullman draw lug room eh-stung car* tiiwreu New York and New Orluaua. via At-, lunin Had Moiilgomeiy and between Char iot I e and Atlanta. DiuWg care serve all, meals en route Nos II, Iti, ..4 nnd 13—Pullman sleeping raru between Richmond and Charlotte, vi<» Dam ville. southbound Nos. 11 aud UU, nurthboumi Nos :<4 and 12 fit A N K B GANNON. J.M.CULP. Third V P J Gen. Mgr. '/ M., Washington. XV A. TURK. 8. 11 UAUDW1CK. -JUf-Jku WMWbiUfi*. A..U. JL A AUMfv