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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