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Well secured with Burglar* p Troof safe and Am Time Look Bafety Deposit Boxes fc moderate rent. Buys and sells ntocks anuBonds Buys County and f-tohool Claims. Your busmvss sollciteu. Ho Would Ho Away With the Doa- matiCH and Substitute a Creed Founded on Faith In Christ—That Alone to Be the Test. Washington, April 22. —At a time when the old discussion of creeds Is being vigorously and somewhat bitter ly revived this discourse of Dr. Tal- mage lias a special interest. The text is John xi, 44, “Loose him and let him go.” My Bible Is, at the place of this text, written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the rufns of the house of Mary and Martha and Laza rus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead sea. Bethany was the summer even ing retreat of Jesus. After spendiug tiie day in the hot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three frieuds. 1 think the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father and mother are not mentioned. But the sou and two daughters must have in herited property, for it must have been. Judging from wbat I saw of the foun dations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the bead of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular, an«l everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls—Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spiriluelle, somewhat dreamy, but af fectionate, anti as good a girl as could be found in till Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in consternation. Father gone and moth er gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their .brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house—no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise developed 1 judge that Martha prepar ed the medicines and made tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of tiie sufferer, hut Mary prayed and sob bed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus until the doctor announces that he can do no more. Tiie shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers into the adjoining room all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there, as he so often had been? Far away In the country districts, preach ing. healing other sick, how unfortu nate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived iii Bethany, Lazarus had been buried four days, and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breathless body disintegrates more rapidly than in ours. If immediately after decease the body had been awakened into life, unbelievers might have said he was only in a comatose state or in a sort of trance anti by some vigorous manipula tion or powerful stimulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. Jeans Wept. At the door of the sepulcher is a crowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesus, who was the family friend, and tiie two bereft sis ters. We went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but the day spo ken of In the Bible there was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed, and then lie begins to descend the steps, Mary and Martha close after him and tiie crowd after them. Deeper down into tiie shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and plash upon tiie backs of his hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a space as in that group pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoan ing that Ijc had not come before? Now all the whispering and all the crying and all the sounds of shulSiug feet are stopped. It is the silence of expectancy. Death had conquered, but now the vanquisher of deatli confront ed the scene. Amid the awful hush of the tomb the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his lips in the hospitalities of the village home came back to his tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be au echo he cries, “Lazarus, come forth!” The eyes of the slumber- er open, and he rises and comes to the foot of the steps and with great diffi culty begins to ascend, for the cere ments of the tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast, and his hands are fast, and the impediments to all his movements are so great that Jesus commands: “Take off these cerements! Remove these hindrances! L’nfasteu these graveclothes! Loose him and let him go!” Oh, 1 am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus he went on and com manded the loosening of the cords that hound his feet, so that he could walk, an<l the breaking off of the cerement that bound his hands, so that he could stretch out his arms in salutation, and the tearing off of the bandage from around his Jaws, so that he could speak. What would resurrected life have be*n to Lazarus if he had pot been f’-eod from all those cripplemeuts of his body? 1 am glad that Christ commanded his complete emancipation, saying, “Loose him and let him go.” Only Half Liberated. The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberat ed. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have tiie graveclothes eti ♦hem. They are. like Lazarus, hob bling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their soul, and I shall try to oltey the Master’* command that comes to me and comes to every n ulster of re ligion, “I/jokc him uiiil let him go.” Marty are bound hand and foot by re ligious creeds. Let no man misinter pret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or L n of them a creed about re ligion, u cr ed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The I'res by ter lan church Is now ujflt. U about Its creed. {Some good'men lu it "are for keeping It be cause it was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other good men In it want ision. I am with neither par ty. Instead of revision 1 want substi tution. I was sorry to have the ques tion disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offering the pardon and the comfort of the gospel to ail men, and the Westminster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. But now that the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed—and everything that man fashions is imperfect—let us put the old creed respectfully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed* for our times. John Calvin was a great and good man, but he died 336 years ago. I could call the names of 20 living Presbyterian ministers of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. Doubtful Destiny. “But,” you say, “it Is the same old Bible, and Jobu Calvin bad that as well as the present student of the Scriptures.” Yes; so It ! the same old sun in the heavens, but In our time It has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water, but in our century It has gone to run ning steam engines. It Is the same old electricity, but in our time It has be come a lightning footed errand boy. So it is the old Bible, but new applica tions, new- uses, new Interpretations. You must remember that during the last 300 years words have changed their meaning, and some of them now mean more and some less. I do not think that John Calvin believed, as some say be did, lu the damnation of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes would seem to Imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who Iwilieves in the damnation of infants himself deserves to lose heaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the ba bies in the next world I conclude from what he did with the babies in Pales tine when he hugged them and kissed them. When some of you grown peo ple go out of this world, your doubtful destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no “ifs” or “buts” or guesses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a metaphysi cian and by the proclivities of his na ture put some tilings in an unfortunate way. Logic lias its use, and metaphys ics has its use, but they are not good at making creeds. Harmony Not Necenaary. What a time we have had with the dogmatics, the apologetics and the her meneutics! The defect in some of the creeds is that they try to tell us all about the decrees of God. Now, the only human being that was ever com petent to handle that subject was Paul, and he would not have been competent had he not been Inspired. I believe in the sovereignty of God, and 1 believe in man's free agency, but no one can harmonize tiie two. It is not necessary that we harmonize them. Every scr oll that I have ever heard that at tempted such harmonization was to me as clear as a Loudon fog, as clear as mud. My brother of the nineteenth century, my brother of the sixteenth century, give us Paul's statement and leave out your own. Better one chap ter of Paul on that subject than all of Calvin’s institutes, able and bonest and mighty as they are. Do not try to measure either the throne of God or tiie thunderbolts of God with your lit tle steel pen. What do you know about tiie decrees? You cannot pry open the door of God’s eternal counsels. You winuot explain the mysteries of God’s government now, much less the myste ries of his government five hundred quiutillioo years ago. I move for a creed for all our denom inations made out of Scripture quota tions pure and simple. That would take the earth for God; that would be Impregnable against Infidelity and Apollyouie assault; that would be be yond human criticism. The denomina tion, whatever Its name be, that can rise up to that will be the church of the millennium, will swallow up all other denominations and be the one that will be the bride when the Bridegroom com- eth. Let us make it simpler aud plain er for people to get Into the kingdom of God. Do not hinder people by the Idea that they may not have been elect ed. Do not tag on to the one essentia) of faith in Christ any of the Innumera ble nouessentlals. A mau who heartily accepts Christ is a Christian, and the man who does not accept him is not a Christian, and that Is all there is of It He need not believe in election or rep robation. He need not believe in the eternal generation of the Son. He need not believe in everlasting punishment He need not believe In infant baptism. He need not believe in plenary Inspira tion. Faith In Christ is the criterion, is thd test, Is the pivot I* the indis pensable. But there are those who would add unto the tests rather than subtract from them. There are thousands who would not accept persons into church membership if they drink wine or if they smoke cigars or if they attend the theater or if they play cards or if they drive a fast horse. But do not substitute tests which the Bible dot's cot establish. There Is one passage of ficripture wide enough to let all in who ought to enter ami to keep out all who ought to be kept out, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt Ik* saved.” Get a man’s heart right, and itis life will he right. But now that the old creeds have been put under public scrutiny something radical must be done. Some would split them, some would carve them, some would elongate them, some would abbreviate them. At the present moment ami In the present shape they are a hindrance. Lazarus is alive, but hampered with the old graveclothes. If you want one glori ous church, free and unincumbered, take off tiie cerements of old ecclesias tical vocabulary. Loose her, and let her go! lu (be SbuUuM*. Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral shadows aud fears and hoppled by doubts aud fears and sins loug ago repented of. What they need is to understand the liberty of the sous of God. They speud more time under jho shadow _fff blual than at the Base of Calvary. TTiey havlTbeen sing ing the only poor hymn that Newton •ver wrote: ’Tie a point I long to know; Oft it causes anxious thought: Do I lore the Lord or not Am I his or am 1 not? Long to know, do you? Why do you not find out? Go to work for God, aud you will very soon find out The man who Is all the time feeling his pulse and looking at his tongue to see wheth er it is coated is morbid and cannot be physically well. The doctor will say, “Go out into the fresh air aud In to active life and stop thinking of your self, and you will get well and strong.” So there are people who are watching their spiritual symptoms, aud they call it self examination, and they get weak er and sicklier in their faith all the time. Go out and do something cobly Christian. Take holy exercise and then examine yourself, and Instead of Newton’s saturnine and bilious hymn that I first quoted you will slug Newton’s other hymn: Amiri ng grace, bow aweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. What many of you Christians most need is to get your graveclothes off. 1 rejoice that you have been brought from the death of sin to the life of the gospel, but you need to get your band loose, and your feet loose, aud your tongue loose, and your soul loose. There is uo sin that the Bible so ar raigns and punctures and flagellates as the sin of unbelief, and that is what is the matter with you. “Oh,” you say, “if you knew what I once was and how- many times I have grievously strayed you would understand why I do not come out brighter!” Then I think you would call yourself the chief of sin ners. I am glad you hit upon that term, for 1 have a promise that fits lu- to your ease as the cogs of one wheel between the cogs of another wheel or as the key fits into the labyrinths of a lock. A man who w-as once called Saul, but afterward Paul, declared, “This Is a faithful saying and worthy of all ac ceptation, that Christ Jesus came Into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” Mark that—“of whom I am chief.” “Put down your over coats and hats, and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen." So Saul said to the stoners of the first martyr. “I do not care to exert myself much, but I will guard your surplus apparel while you do the murder.” The New Testament account says, “Tiie witness es laid down tbeir clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name w-as Saul.” No wonder he said, “Sinners, of whom I am the chief.” Clear the Decks. Christ Is used to climbing. He climb ed to the top of the temple. He climb ed to the top of Mount Olivet. He climbed to the top of the cliffs about Nazareth, lie climbed to the top of Golgotha. Aud to the top of the hills and the mountains of your transgres sion he Is ready to climb with pardon for every one of you. The groan of Calvary is mightier than the thunder of Sinai. Full receipt is offered for all your indebtedness. If one throw a stone at midnight into a bush where the hedge bird roosts, it immediately begins to sing, aud into the midnight hedges of your despondency these words I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthem. Drop the tunes in the minor key aud take the major. Do you think it pleases the Lord for you to be carry ing around with you the debris and carcasses of old transgressions? You make me think of some ship that has had a tempestuous time at sea and now that it proposes another voyage keeps on its davits the damaged life boats and the splinters of a shivered mast and the broken glass of a smash ed skylight My advice is: Clear the decks, overboard with all the damaged rigging, brighten up tiie salted smoke stacks, open a new logbook, haul In the planks, lay out a new course and set sail for heaven. You have had the spiritual dumps long enough. You will please the Lord more by being happy than by being miserable. A^ain, my text has good advice con cerning any Christian hampered and bothered and bound by fear of bis own dissolution. To such the book refers when It speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us, even if we have the Christian hope, are cowards about death. If a plank fall from a scaffolding and just grazes our hat, how pale we look! If the Atlantic ocean plays with the steamship, pitch ing it toward the heavens and letting It suddenly drop, how even the Chris tian passengers pester the steward or stewardess as to whether there Is any danger. Backed up by tbe teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night uud see how many worlds there are and 'reflect that all you have seen, compared with the number of worlds lu existence, are less than the Augers of your right baud as compared with all the Huger* of the human race. How foolish, then, for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay iu. One of our first realizations In get ting out of this world, I think, will be that In this world we were very much pent up uud had cramped apartments and were kept on the limits. The most, even of our small world, is wa ter, and the water says to the human race, “Don’t come here or you will drown.” A few thousand feet up the atmosphere is uninhabitable, and tbe atmosphere says to the human race, “Don’t come up here or you cannot breathe.” A few miles down the earth is u furnace of fire, uud the fire snys k “Don’t come here or you will buru.” The caverns of the mountains are full of poisonous gases, aud the gases say, “Don’t come here or you will be as phyxiated.” Aud, crossing a truck, you must look out or you will be crush ed. Aud, standing by a steam boiler, you must look out or you will Ik* blown up. And pneumonias uud pleurisies uud consumptions aud apoplexies go across this earth in flocks, lu droves, lu herds, aud it is a world of equinoxes and cyclones uud graves. Yet we are under the delusion that It Is the only place fit to stay lu. We want to stick to the wet plank iu midoceuu while the great ship, the City of God, of the Celestial line, goes sailing past aud would gladly take us up iu a lifeboat. My Christian friends, let me tear off your despondencies uud frights about dissolution. My Ia>rd commands me regarding yo< saying, “Loose him, and let him go.” Heaven Is &5 per cent better than this world, a thousand per c«ut_k?t£$r, a million per cent better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant days you ever bad on earth and compress them all into one hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since Its first tower was built or Its first gates swung or its first song caroled. “Oh,” you say, “that may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing over from this world to the next, and I fear tbe snapping of the cord be tween soul and body.” Well, all tbe surgeons aud physicians aud scientists declare that there Is no pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all the restlessness at the closing hour of life is involuntary and no distress at SIL And I agree with the doctors, for wbat they say is confirmed by the fact that persons who were drowned or were submerged until all consciousness departed and were afterward resus citated declare that tbe sensation of passing into unconsciousness was pleasurable rather than distressfuL Tbe cage of the body has a door on easy hinges, aud when that door of the physical cage opens the soul sim ply puts out its wings and soars. Conte Into the Light. “But,” you say, “1 fear to go be cause tbe future is so full of mystery.” Well, I will tell you bow to treat the mysteries. Tbe mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do as the judges of your courts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case, aud they say, “I will take these papers aud give you my decision next week.” So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the next world-, aud some things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next world my decision about them. 1 can there study all the mys teries to better advantage, for the light will be Letter and my faculties stron ger, and I will ask the Christian phi- lasophers, who have had all tiie ad vantages of heaven for centuries, to help me, aud I may be permitted my self humbly to ask the Lord, aud I think there will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myself got into such an enraptured place. The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that I really dreaded was tiie landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Laud, aud there are many rocks, and iu rougli weather people canuot laud at all. Tiie boats taking tbe peo ple from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about 50 feet apart, and one mis- stroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave lias sometimes been fatal, aud hundreds have perished along those reefs. Besides that, as we left Port Said the evening before, an old trav eler said: “The wind is Just right to give you a rougli landing at Joppa; in deed I think you will not be able to land at all.” Tbe fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still as though It bad been sound asleep a hundred \ cars, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fears have pictured for you an ap palling arrival at the end of your voy age of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that tiie breakers will swallow you up, or that if you reaeli Canaan at all it will be a very rough landing. The very opposite will be true If you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into complete safety, and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a halleluiah on the other. “Land ahead!" Its fruits arc waving O’er the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where heavenly forms are seen. Rocks and storms I’ll fear no more When on that eternal shore. Prop the anchor, furl the saill 1 am safe within the veil! (Copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l METALS~m THE ARTS. Enormona Qnantitlea of Gold and Silver Are Consained. It Is easy to ascertain how much gold and silver are absorbed in tbe coinage of the various nations, but tiie most careful estimates as to the quantities of these metals used iu the arts and in dustries are only approximate. Statis ticians In the treasury department of the French gwernment recently under took the considerable task of compil ing tbe best information on this sub ject, and the figures they have reached ore probably as accurate as any that have yet been published. Most of the gold used in the arts Is for ornamentation, though It is also employed to a large extent for the most practical purposes, as In den tistry. It is doubtful If even Jewelry consumes a larger quantity of gold than some other ways in which It is used. The consumption for gilding alone is large. The films of gold leaf are thin, but enormous numbers of them are applied to a considerable va riety of manufactures, such os signs, Jewelry, books, frames, furniture, pot tery, and other articles, and tbe aggre gate value of the gold thus used is large. Tbe *onsumption of gold for gilding has considerably increased since electro gilding came into vogue, both because more gilding is done and also because tbe new process wastes a considerable quantity of tbe metal. Ac cording to tbe French figures, the United States consumes In the arts about 31,000 pounds of gold lu a year, which amounts In value to $10,000,000 In round numbers. France, however, with her pre-eminent manufactures of Jewelry and other articles of luxury, heads the list with an annual con sumption of about 35.200 pound* a year. Great Britain also surpasses the United States with 34.100 pouii'ls; Germany consumes 20,040 pounds; Switzerland, 18,000; Italy, 11,000: Utis- ■la, 9,000; Austria Hungary. 6,175, and Belgium aud Holland, 6.820. Perhaps one reason why the United States coilsumes in the arts a good deal more silver than any other country Is because photography here, with its amateur branch, is fur more extensive ly In use than In any other laud. Tiie chief Industrial uses of silver are for solid silver plate and silver plating, mountings for harnesses and other or namentation and photography. Tiie silver Industries In the United States consume over 555,000 pounds a year, Germany and Franco about 330,000 pounds each, Russia 209.000, aud Great Britain 208,000.—Exchange. Marriage U Too Easy. “The present open door policy for marriage in America cannot exist much longer,” writes Edward Bok in The Ladies’ Home Journal. “The question must be met, and it should be met squarely. Any discussion of divorce is untimely; it is futile at the moment. It is grappling with the question at the wrong end. Whether divorce is right or wrong; whether there should be di vorce at all, and on what grounds a decree of divorce should be granted— these are not the pressing questions of the hour. The whole matter of divorce does not begin to stand in such urgent need of discussion as does the ques tion of the laws of marriage. When we adjust marriage as we should ad just it, then we can give our attention to divorce. And then we shall find that In adjusting the one we shall have come pretty close to the wisest and best adjustment of tbe other. The practical solution of both, in short, lies in the proper adjustment and rigid enforce ment of laws which shall make mar riage more difficult of accomplish ment.” “I think DeWitt’s Little Early Risers are the best pills in the world.” says VV. E. Lake, Happy Creek. Ya. They remove all obstructions of the liver and bowels, act quickly and never gripe. Cherokee Drug Co. Sheriff’s Sale. State ok South C'auoi.ina, < In Court of County or Chehok ee. ( Common Pleas. S. M. Littlejohn, et a!., Plaintiffs, against F. T. C'antrel, et al.. Defendants. Hy virtue of a decree in the abov<; cause, made on March the 14th, 1900,1 will expose for public sale at Gaffney. 8. C’., before tin* Court House door, on the tirst Monday in May. litoe, next (salcsday) during t lie legal hours of sale, the following described real estate, to w it ; Lot s numbered sixty-six (»>;) and sixty-seven (67) on Sage Street in the town of Gaffney, and lx-irig a part of a ten acre lot formerly owned by L. C. Byars and B. K. Humphries, and being the same lots in which N. It. Littlejohn and Jas. R. Littlejohn purchased an interest at Sheriff's sale at Spartanburg Court House on the seventh day of March. Is.s7: each of said lots fronting on .Sage Street si.\ty-si\ feet and running hack one hundred and six teen feet, more or less. , Said lots to be sold separately. Terms of sale: One-third cash; the bal ance on a credit of twelve months with inter est from day of sale, to lx secured by bond of the purchaser with mortgage of the premises, the purchaser to have the privilege of paying ail cash, if he or she so desires. If terms of sale are not complied with within twenty- four hours said premises to he resold at next salesday at risk of purchaser. Purchasers to pay for all papers. \V. W. Thomas. 4-17-l!<00-law-3t Sheriff. S. C. & G. E. R. R. CO. Schedule No. 4- In Effect 12:01 A. M.. Sunday.December 24th, ’99 Between Camden,S.C. and Blacksburg.S.C. WEST. EAST ~35. <33 . , ' 3* , 34. EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. S Z z r.z -tf*: -u; 5 j » 5^. ' 7; ^ Y "x iz * 5r 5 no 5 aoi P. M. ' CAMDEN DEKALB . .WEST VI LEE.... KERSHAW HEATH SPRINGS .PLEASANT HILL ....LANCASTER ... RIVERSIDE HPKINGDELL. CATAWBA JI NC’N LESLIE ... ROCK HILL — NEW PORT. .. .. TIR/.AH ... YOKKVILLE ... SHARON HICKORY GROVE SMYRNA .. BLACK SB l KG WEST 11 33. A. M H 10 n :jo H 40 it 30 10 00 10 10 10 Z> 10 SO 11 15 11 35 11 45 13 05 13 35 13 50 P. M EASTERN TIME. STATIONS. P. WEST. 1st Class. .. BLACKSBURG EARLS PATTERSON SP’GS SHELBY ....LATTIMORE .. MOORES BOKO... HENRIETTA ... FOREST CITY . KUTHEKFORDTON MILLWOOD .... GOLDEN VALLEY THERMAL CITY GI.ENWOOD .... MARION Gaffney Division. IS. ■■y. 13. * EASTERN TIME. 1 . M. 1 1*. M. 12 35 5 30 12 <>2 4 50 11 5o 4 30 II 35 4 lo 11 30 .1 15 11 15 3 00 lo 55 2 35 10 40 1 00 lo :jo 12 40 10 10 ll no 10 00 10 40 9 :i;> h “n 9 30 k no 9 15 7 9 uo », 50 H 45 0 30 h :i5 »; oo * 15 5 30 A. M. A. M. EAST. 32. 18. r . t. /. X r* *7 ** Cl f* a £ r. T. _!~ _ ^ - r ^ y ~ A. M. V. M . 7 4a 0 40 7 32 ti 20 7 35 6 12 7 r> ti 00 6 55 4 50 6 4s 4 40 6 3- 4 30 6 30 3 50 (i 05 3 25 5 53 •i 0.7 5 40 2 .50 5 37 2 45 5 17 2 30 5 00 2 00 A.M. 1*. M. EAST. 1st Class. 14. 10. STATIONS. .. BLACKSBURG CHEROKEE FALLS GAFFNEY Jj’c zZ? : a ; E A- x = 1 A M PM 7 50 3 00 7 :u> 3 40 7 10 3 30 AM P M^ . at. 5 a. tn. PM AM 1 00 6 00 1 30 0 30 1 40 ! « 40 P M I A M Train No. :C leaving Marion. N.< making cloae connection at Blacksnuig, s C\. with the Southern’s train No. 30 for Char lotte, N. and all point* East, and connect ing with the Southern's vestibule going to Atlanta, Oa.. and all noint* West, and will receive passengers going East from train No. loon the C. A N. W. R. R., at Yorkvllle, S. C., at M5 a. m., and connects at Camden, H. V., with the Southern’s train No. 7s arriv ing in Charleston, S. C.. at *.17 p rn. Train No.34 with passengercoacl: attached, leaving Blacksburg at 5.:s» u. in., aud con necting at Rock llhl, S. C.. with the South ern’s Florida train for all points South. Train No. 33 leaving Camden, S. c . at 13.50 u. m.. after the arrival of tin* Southern's charleston train connects at Lancaster, s. C., wltii the LAC. It. R.; at Catawba Junct ton with the S. A. L., going East, at Rock Hill, S.C.. with the Southern’' train No. 34 for Charlotte. N. and all isiints East. Connects at Yorkvllle, S. C.. wltii train No. ti on the C. AN. W. It. K., for < 'best« r, S. C At Klaekshurg With the Southern's vestibule going East. and the Southern’s train No. 35 going West, and connecting til Marion, N.C., with the Southern bulb East ami West. SAMUEL HUNT, President. A. TRIPP, Superintendent, S. H. LUMPKIN, Uen’L Psaeenger Agent. RULES AND REGULATIONS —or TUB— Board of Healtb of the Town of Gaffney. L Yaccination in the town of Gnffncy is he-eliy made compulsory upon a’l persons; and ail persons in said town who cannot show evidence of successful vaccination wit bin the past four yeai .except *uch ;j. t ons as found by the physicians . bn: .j,*. ......i- tiligtOhclr. j'i h H C o , r !. i •'.s !ii:,:.e s\me uu.-. fc, ■ 1. , . j That In eav* any p 1 ■n. j- i-.- ;• : , : lo said town fhail fall u eu.-ry out the pro vision above by being vaccinated immedia’e- ly upon the publication of those rules, then spi h vaccination shall be done by some phy sician to be appointed by this Board, who, if necessary, shall be accompanied by an offi cer. to lx* appointed hy .said Board, for the Purpose of compelling vaccination, aod any jxi s iii v. iri -lia)| resist said physician or offi cer will], in the performance of such duties, or who shall refuse to I** vaccinated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemennor, aud on con viction thereof before the Mayorof said town shall be lined not more than one hundred do.- 1.1 rs, 01 not more than thirty days imprison- meiit to tiie town pi ison. 3. it i-, further order d.that all houses flow infected, or w liF-h may hereafter lie Infected, witli small-pox or any other contagiousdis- c:<se, shall be immediately Isolated, and shall ,je guarded hy officers to he appointed, and shall have a red flag displayed over them; and uo person shall he allowed to go fo or from .- lid house or houses, and no article of any kind shall be removed from same. 3. Any person found guilty before the Mayor of a violation of the requirements herein shall lx* fined not more than one hun dred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days in the town prison. This April the 12th, 19ou. J. D. Jones. Chairman of Board of Health. S. B. Crawley, < Jerk pro tom. Approved by the Town Council of Gaffney, this April the 12th. 19 0. N. H. Littlejohn, M. H. Ross, Mayor. Cierk of Town. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Coodeaaed Schedule of Passenger Trataa. In Effect Dec. 10,1S99. Vea. No. IS. FatMa Northbound. No. 12. No. 38. Ex. No. 38. Daily Daily Sun. Daily. Lv Atlanta CT 7 5) a 12 COm 4 30 p 11 50 a “ Atiuma ET b 50 a 1 OUp 6 30 pi 12 59 a “ Norcrosa.. 9 30 a 6 23 p 1 26 a “ Buford. 10 0.5 a • 7 03 p 1 53 a “ Gainesville 10 35 a 2 25 p 7 33 p 2 18 a •’ Lula .. 10 5H a ‘2 45 p 8 OOp 2 38a *' Cornelia... 11 25 a 8 30 p ..... •’ Ml. Airy. 11 30 a 8 35 p . Lv Toccoa li 5Ja 3 33 u 9 00 p 3 28 a Ar. fcilxrton.. 5 40 {i 11 45 a Lv. Eilicrton.. 0 CO a Lv. W'miiiiter. 12 .,lin 4 04 a *' Seneca. 12 52 p 4 15 p 4 28a “ Central.. . 1 40 i* 4 55 a “ Greenville 2 84 |> 5 22 p 6 00 a •* Spar burg . 3 87 p G 13 p 7 03a *• Gaffney.... 4 20 p 6 40 p 7 45 a “ Blaik-.liurg 4 8k p 7 02 p ...... . . 8 02 a “ King's 51t.. 6 05 p ........ 8 2> a *' Gastonia... 5 2.5 p • • • • • • • 8 51 a *' Charlotte.. 6 80 p 8 18 p ...... 0 5o a Ar. Gre'nsboro V 55 p 10 47 p .... 12 23 p Lv Gre'nsboro li 45 p Ar. Norfolk . . • • • • b u Ar Danville... 11 ‘25 p 11 50 p 1 38 p Ar. Richmond.. 6 00 a 0 00 a .... C 25 p Ar. W'hington. 6 42 a 8 .’Op “ B’moreP.lt k 00 a 11 2.5 p ” Ph'dciplna. !0 15 H 2 5*1 a ” New York. 12 4.IH 0 23 a FstMa Ve». Sontbbound. X o. 35. So. 37. No. 11. Daily Daily Daily Lv N V., Pa. If. 12 15 a 4 30 p “ Ph'delpbia. 3 50a 0 55 p *• Baltimore.. 6 22 a 9 20 |t “ Wush'toa 11 15 u 10 45 p ... - Lv Ri hmond. 12 01 u 11 nti’i II 00p .... Lv. Danville.. 5 48 p 5 50 a 6 10 a Lv Norfolk. 0 00 a M 35 p Ar. Gie'nsboro (1 35 p 5 15 a .... Lv. Grc'mhoi o 7 10 p 7 or. t. 7 37 a Ar t'liiirlotto 9 45 p 9 25 a 12 05m Lv Gastonia 10 42 p 10 07 a 1 12 p “ King « Mt. 1 8 k p *' Hia> Usliurg 11 25 p 10 45 u 2 Ubp *• Gaffney. 11 42 p 10 5k a '2 24 p •• Spnr'burg. 12 20 ti 11 24 a 3 15 p •* Greenville 1 30 -j 12 80 p 4 80 [< “ Central 5 42 p ** Seneca . 2 32 a 1 30 p « 08p J£x. •' WminMer ..... n 25 p Sun. " Toccoa 3 2S a 2 15 p 7 Ol'n li u5 n Lv Klberton. 0 00 U 1 50 p ... . . Ar. Klberton. 11 45 a 6 40 f. . a Lv. Mt Airy ... 7 2k p 6 30 a “ Cornelia.. 7 82 p • 35 a “ Lnia ... 4 18 a SMp 8 Oop 6 57 a •' Gainesville 4 36a 3 831- 8 20 p 1 20a " Buford.. 6 02 a - r • - 8 4 k p T 48 a “ Norcrosa. 6 25 a 0 18 p 8 27a Ar. Atlanta.KT « 10 a 4 55 p 10 00 p 9 80 x " Atlanta.CT 6 10 a 3 55 p 9 OOp 8 89a Batwi No. 18. Daily. i Lai* aad Athaaa. No. 10. STATIONS. No. 13. Daily. Ex. Suo. « 10p II 05 a Lv. .Lula Ar 10 50a TStp I K4 p 11 M a •• Mayaville " 10 10 a 7 09p 8 50 p H 53 u “ Harmony “ 10 03 » • 88 p 8 30p 12 80p Ar. Athens Lv 9 25al 6 OOp Note close connection made at Lula with ■tain line train* “A” a. m. “P* p. m. **M” boob. “N” night. Chesapeake Line Steamer# la daily aarvloa between Nor >lk and Baltimore. Nos. 87 ana 88—Daily Washington and Southwestern Veatibule Limited. Through Pullman sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta and Montgomery, and alco between New York and Memphis, via Waaiiingtoa, Atlanta aad Bir mingham. Also elegant Pullman Library Odnkhvation C'Aita between Atlanta and New Y k FirstcluM thoroughfare coachea be tween Washington and Atlanta. Dining cara serve all mea,» en route. Leaving Waahiag- itigton Mondays, Wednesday a and Kridaye a tourist sleepingcar will run through between Washington and Ban Franciaeo without ehanga. Pullman drawing room sieenlng ears between Gieeualxiro and Norfolk. Close connection al Norfolk for Old Point Comkoht. Nos. 35 aud 3d—United States Fast Mall rant aoiid Ixtweeu Washington and New Orleans, via Southern Railway, A. A W. P. R. K. and LANK, it., Ixing composed of ooachaa. through without ciiungo for passengers of all elas-es. Pulimnu drawing room sleeping cara txiwicn New York and New Orleans, via,At lanta and Montgomery and between lolie and Atlanta. Uiuiun a..'*: - en route Nos 11.3). land 12—Pullman sleeping rare between Richmond aud Charlotte, via Dan ville southbound Nos. 11 aad 88, northbound N<>s M4 and L PH A.NK SHANNON. J. M. CULP. Third v P 4 Gen. Mgr. T. M.. Washington. W. A. TURK. 8. H. HARDWICK. 3*1. A~ WaabiAglMs A. U. P. ag ears serve all