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SO SHOULD THE FISHERS OF MEN
MEND THEIR NETS.
Dr. Tnlmage Warn* Christiana
Agalnat liurah Criticism — He De
plores Denominational Strife In
Gospel Work.
Washington, Jan. 27.—In tills dis
course Dr. Talmage describes the gos
pel net and how it is to be retired aft
er being damaged; text, Matthew iv,
21, ‘‘James, the sou of Zebedee, and
John, his brother, In a ship with Zebe
dee, their father, mending their nets.”
‘‘I go a-flshing!” cried Sltoon Peter to
his comrades, and the most of the apos
tles had hands hard from fishing tackle.
The fisheries of the world have always
attracted attention. In the third cen
tury the queen of Egypt had for pin
money $470,000 received from the fish
eries of Lake Moerls. And, if the time
should ever come when the Immensity
of the world’s population could not be
fed by the vegetables and meats of the
laud, the sea has an amount of animal
life that would feed all the populations
of the earth aud fatten them with a
food that by its phosphorus would
make a generation brainy and Intellec
tual beyond anything that the world
has ever imagined. My text takes us
among the Galilean fishermen. One
day Walter Scott, while hunting in an
old drawer, found among some old fish
ing tackle the manuscript of his im
mortal booK, “Waverley,” which be
had put away there as of no worth,
and who knows but that today we may
find some unknown wealth ot thought
while looking at the fishing tackle in
the text.
It is not a good day for fishing, and
three men are in the boat repairing the
broken fishing nets. If you are fishing
with a hook and line, and the fish will
not bite, it is a good time to put the
angler’s apparatus into better condi
tion. Perhaps the last fish you hauled
lu was so large that sometbiug snap
ped. Or, if you were fishing with a
net, there was a mighty floundering of
the scales or an exposed uail on the
side of the boat which broke some of
the threads and let part or all of the
captives of the deep escape Into their
natural elemeut. And hardly anything
is more provoking than to nearly laud
a score or a hundred of trophies from
the deep, and when you are in the full
glee of hauling in the spotted treasures,
through some imperfection of the net
they splash back into the wave. That
is too much of a trial of patience for
most fishermen to endure, aud many a
man ordinarily correct of speech iu
such circumstances comes to au in
tensity of utterance unjustifiable.
Therefore no good fisherman considers
the time wasted that is spent in mend
ing his net Now, the Bible again and
again represents Christian workers as
fishers of men, aud we are all sweep
ing through the sea of humanity some
kind of net. Indeed there have been
enough nets out and enough fishermen
busy to have landed the whole human
race In the kingdom of God long be
fore this. What Is the matter? The
gospel is all right, and it has been a
good time for catching souls for thou-
sauds of years. Why then the failures?
The trouble is with the nets, and most
of them need to be mended. 1 propose
to show you what is the matter with
most of the nets and how to mend
them. In the text old Zebedee and his
two boys, James and John, were doing
a good thing when they sat in the boat
mending their nets.
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The trouble with many of our neta it
that the meshes are too large. If a fish
can get his gills and half bis body
through tbe network, he tears and
rends and works bis way out, and
leaves tbe place through which be
squirmed a tangle of broken threads.
In our desire to make everything so
easy we relax, we loosen, we widen.
We let men after they are once in tbe
gospel net escape Into tbe world, and
go Into indulgences and swim all
around Galilee, from north side to
south side, and from east side to west
side, expecting that they will come
back again. We ought to make It easy
for them to get into tbe kingdom of
God, and, as far as we can, make it
impossible for them to get out Tbe
poor advice nowadays to many is: “Go
and do just as you did before you were
captured for God and heaven. Tbe
net was not Intended to be any re
straint or any hindrance. Wbat you
did before you were a Christian do
now. Go to all styles of amusement,
read all tbe styles of books, engage in
all tbe styles of behavior as before you
were converted.” And so, through
these meshes of permission and laxity
they wriggle out, through this opening
and that opening, tearing tbe net as
they go, and soon all the souls that we
expected to land in heaven before we
know it are back In the deep sea of the
world. Oh. when we go a-gospel fish
ing, let us make it as easy as possible
for souls to get In and as bsrd as pos
sible to get out.
Is tbe Bible language an unmeaning
verbiage when It talks about self de
nial, and keeping tbe body under, and
about walklug tbe narrow way, and
entering the strait gate and about car
rying the cross? Is there to be no way
of telling whether a man Is a Chris
tian except by bis taking tbe com
munion chalice on sacramental day?
May a man be as reckless about his
thoughts, about bis words, about bis
temper, about bis amusements, after
conversion as before? Alas, tbe words
of Christ are so little heeded when be
ftild, “Whosoever doth not bear bis
cross and come after me cannot be my
clsclple.” The church Is fast becoming
t s bad as tbe world, and when It gets
as bad as tbe world it will be worse
than tbe world by so mucb, as It will
add hypocrisy of a most appalling kind
to Its other defects.
Room Far All.
Furthermore, many of our nets trs
torn to pieces by being entangled wits
other nets. It is a sad sight to see fish
ermen fighting about sea room, and pull
ing In opposite directions each to get
his net, both nets damaged by the
struggle and losing all the fish. In this
land, where there are more than 70,-
000,000 people, there are at least SO,-
000,000 not in the Sunday schools and
churches. In such an Atlantic ocean
f>t opportunity there Is room for all
the nets and all tbe boats and all tbe
flfiberraeq and for millions more. There
should l>e no rivalry between churches.
Each one does a work peculiar to it
self. But there are cities 1q this coun
try. when ikfli Ji_gQw goings an
awful ripping and rending and tearing
of liNhlng nets. Indeed all over Chris
tendom at this time there Is a great
war going on between fishermen, min
isters against ministers.
Now, I have noticed a man cannot
fish and tight at the same time. He
either neglects his net or his musket.
It is amazing how much time some of
the fishermen have to look after other
fishermen. It is more than 1 can do to
take care of my own net. You see the
wind Is Just right, and It Is such a good
time for fishing, and the fish are comiug
in so rapidly that I have to keep my
eye and hand busy. There are about
200,000,000 souls wanting to get into
the kingdom of God, and It will
require all the nets and all the fisher
men of Christendom to safely land
them. Ob, brethren of the ministry, let
us spend our time in fishing Instead
of fighting. Bui If I angrily Jerk my
net across your net, and you Jerk your
net angrily across mine, we will soon
have two broken nets and no fish. Tbe
French revolution nearly destroyed the
French fisheries, and ecclesiastical war
Is the worst thing possible while haul
ing souls into the kingdom. My friends,
I notice in the text that James, the sou
of Zebedee, and John, his brother, were
busy not mending somebody clse’s nets,
but mending tbelr own nets, and I
rather think that we who are engaged
in Christian work in this opening cen
tury will require all our spare time to
mend our own nets. God help us in
the important duty!
Need of Common Sense.
In this work of repair w’e need to pat
Into tbe nets more threads of common
sense. When we can present religion
as a great practicality, we will catch a
hundred souls where now we catch
one. Present religion as an intellectu
ality, and we will fail. Out In the fish
eries there are set across the waters
what are called gill nets, and the fish
put their heads through the meshes and
then cannot withdraw them, because
they are caught by the gills. But gill
nets cannot be of any service in reli
gious work. Men are never caught for
the truth by their beads; It is by the
heart or not at all. No argument ever
saved a man, and no keen analysis ever
brought a man into the kingdom of
God. Heart work, not head w’ork.
Away with your gill nets! Sympathy,
helpfulness, consolation, love, are the
names of some of the threads that we
need to weave in our gospel nets when
we are mending them.
Do you know that the world’s heart
is bursting with trouble, and if you
could make that world believe that the
icliglon of Jesus Christ is a soothing
omnipotence the whole world would
surrender tomorrow—yea, would sur
render this hour. The day before
James A. Garfield was Inaugurated as
president I was in the cars going from
Richmond to Washington. A gentle
man seated near to me in the cars
knew me, and we were soon in famil
iar conversation. It was Just after a
bereavement, and I was speaking to
him from an overburdened heart about
the sorrow I was suffering. Looking at
his cheerful face, I said: “I guess you
have escaped all trouble. 1 should
Judge from your countenance that you
have come through free from all mis
fortune.” Then he looked at me with
a look I shall never forget and whis
pered in my ear: “Sir, you know noth
ing about trouble. My wife has been
In an insane asylum for 15 years.” And
then he turned and looked out of the
window aud into the night with a si
lence I was too overpowered to break.
That was another Illustration of tbe
fact that no one escapes trouble. Why,
that man seated next to you In church
has on his soul a weight compared with
which a mountain is a feather. That
woman seated next to you in church
has a grief the recital of which would
make your body, mind and soul shud
der.
The SUkea Thread.
When you are mending your net for
this wide, deep sea of humanity, take
out that wire thread of criticism and
that borsebair thread of harshness and
put in a soft silken thread of Christian
sympathy. Yea, when you are mend
ing your nets tear out those old
threads of gruflfness and weave in a
few threads of politeness and genial
ity. In the house of Cod let all Chris
tian faces beam with a look that means
welcome. Say “Good morning” to the
stranger as be enters your pew, and at
the close shake hands with him and
say, “How did you like the music?”
Why, you would be to that a man a
panel of the door of heaven; you would
be to him a note of the doxology that
seraphs slug when a new soul enters
heaven. 1 have in other days entered
a pew in church and the woman at the
other end of the pew looked at me as
mucb as to say: “How dare you? This
Is my pew and I pay the rent for It!”
Well, l crouched In the other corner
and made myself as small as possible
and felt although I had been stealing
something. 8o there are people who
have a sharp edge to their religion, and
they act as though they thought most
people had been elected to be damned
and they were glad of It. Oh, let us
brighten up our manner and appear in
gentleinanllness or ladyhood.
Tbe object in fly fishing is to throw
the fly far out, and then let it drop
gently down and keep It gently rising
and falling with the waters, and not
plunge It like a man-of-war’s anchor,
and abruptness and harshness of man
ner must be avoided In our attempt at
usefulness. I know a man In New
York who Is more sunshiny and genial
when he has dyspepsia than when he
Is not suffering from that depressing
trouble. I have found out bis secret.
When be starts out in the morning
with such depression, he asks for spe
cial grace to keep from snapping up
anybody that day, and puts forth addi
tional detetmlnation to be kindly and
genial, and by the help of God he ac
complishes It. Many of our nets need
to be mended In these respects, tbe
black threads and tbe rough threads
taken out, and the bright threads and
the golden threads of Christian genial
ity woven In.
In addition to this we need to mend
our nets with more threads of patience.
It is no rare thing for a fisherman to
spend one whole day before he can
take a St Lawrence pike, or an Ohio
salmon, or a Long Island pickerel, or a
Cayuga black bass, or a Delaware cat
fish. and he does that day after day
Without particular discouragcmcut
But what a lack of patience If we do
pot immediately succeed lu soul catch
ing. We are apt to give it up ami
Nty, “I will never try agulu.” Into ad
our nets we need to weave all along
the edge and all through the ccpter
great, long stout threads of Christian,
patii nee. How patient God has been
with us! Cnu we nut be patieut with
our fellows?
T!jrrn<1» of Fnilh.
Again, in mending our nets we need
also to put in the threads of faith aud
tear out all the tangled meshes of
unbelief. Our woik is successful ac
cording to our faith. The mau who
believes in only half a Bible, or the
Bible in spots; the mau who thinks
he cauuot persuade others; the mau
who halts, doubting about this and
loubtiug about that, will be a failure
in Christian work. Show me the mau
who rather thinks that the garden of
Eden may have been au allegory,
and is not quite certniu but that there
may be another chance after death/
and does not know whether or not the
Bible is Inspired, and I tell you that
man for soul saving Is a poor stick.
Faith In God aud Jesus Christ aud
the Holy Ghost and the absolute ueces-
sity of a regenerated heart iu order to
see God In peace Is one thread you
must have in your mending uet or you
will never be a successful fisher for
men. Why, how can you doubt? Tbe
rottenest thread to tear out of your
net is unbelief, and the most important
thread that you are to put iu it is
faith. Faith in God, triumphant faith,
everlasting faith.
Oh, this Important work of mending
our nets! If we could get our nets
right, we would accomplish more In
soul saving in the next year than we
have in the last 20 years. But where
shall we get them meuded? Just where
old Zebedee and his two boys meuded
their nets—where you are. James aud
John had no time to go ashore. They
were not fishing for fun, as you and 1
do In summer time. It was their live
lihood and that of their families. They
mended their nets where they were—in
the ship. “Oh,” says some one, “1 mean
to get my net mended, and I will go
down to the public library, aud I will
see what tbe scientists say about evo
lution and about the ‘survival of the
fittest,’ and I will read up what tbe
theologians say aitout ’advanced
thought’ I will leave the ship awhile,
and I will go ashore and stay there till
my net is mended.” Do that, my broth
er, and you will have no net left. In
stead of their helping you mend your
net they will steal the pieces that re
main. Better stay in the gospel boat,
where you have all the means for
mending your net. What are they, do
you ask. I answer all you need you
have where you are—namely, a Bible
and a place to pray. The more you
study evolution and adopt what is call
ed advanced thought the more useless
you will be. Stay iu the ship aud
mend your net That is where James,
the son of Zebedee, and John, his broth
er, staid. That is where all who get
their nets mended stay.
Avoid Denominational Strife.
I notice that all who leave the gospel
boat and go ashore to mend their nets
slay there, or, If they try again to fish,
they do not catch anything. Get out of
the gospel boat and go up into tbe
world to get your net mended, and you
will live to see the day when you will
feel like tbe man who, having forsaken
Christianity, sighed, “I would give a
thousand pounds to feel as I did in
1820.” The time will come when you
would be willing to give a thousand
pounds to feel as you did 'in 1001.
These men who have given up their re
ligion cannot help you a bit.
These dear brethren of all denomina
tions, afflicted with theological fidgets,
had better go to mending nets instead
of breaking them. Before they break
up tbe old religions let them go through
some great sacrifice for God that will
prove them worthy of such a work,
taking the advice of Talleyrand to a
man who wanted to upset tbe religiou
of Jesus Christ and start a new one,
when be said, “Go and be crucified and
then raise yourself from tbe grave tbe
third day!” Those who propose to
mend their nets by secular and skep
tical books are like a man who has
just one week for fishing and six of
the days be spends in reading Isaak
Walton’s “Complete Angler,” and
Wheatley’s “Rod and Line,” and Scott’s
“Fishing In Northern Waters,” and
Pullman’s “Vade Mecum of Fly Fish
ing For Trout,” and then on Satur
day morning, his last day out, goes to
the river to ply his art; but that day
the fish will not bite, and late on Sat
urday night be goes to bis home with
empty basket. Alas! alas! If, when the
Saturday ulght of our life drops on us,
it shall be found that we have speut
our time In the libraries of worldly
philosophy trying to mend our nets,
and we have only a few souls to report
as brought to God through our instru
mentality, while some humble gospel
fisherman, his library made up of a
Bible and tin almanac, shall come bomn
laden with tbe results, his trophies all
the souls within 15 miles of his log
cabin meeting bouse.
The FUhera Crowned.
In tbe time, of great disturbance Ifl
Naples in 1049, Massaulello, a bare
footed fishing boy, dropped bis fishing
rod, and by strauge magnetism took
command of that city of 000,000 souls.
He took of his fishing jacket and put
on a robe of gold in the orescuce ot
howling mobs, lie put h< band on
his lip as a signal and they were silent.
He waved his band away from him
and they retired to tbelr homes. Ar
mies passed in review before him. He
became the nation’s idol. The rapid
rise and complete supremacy of that
young fisherman, Massaniello, have no
parallel in all history. But something
equal to that and better than that is
an everyday occurrence in heaven. God
takes some of those who in tills world
were fishers of men and who toiled'
very humbly, but because of the way
they mended their nets and employed
their nets after they were meuded, he
suddenly hoists them and robes tbeni
and scepters them and crowns them
and makes them rulers over many
cities, and he marches armies of saved
ones before them lu review—Massa-
niellos unhonored on earth but radiated
In heaven. The fisher boy of Naples
soon lost bis power, but those people
of God who have kept their nets mend
ed aud rightly swung them shall never
lose tbelr exalted place, but shall reign
forever aud ever aud ever. Keep that
reward In sight.
But do not spend your time fishing
With hook and Hue. Why d|3 uot James,
the son of Zebedee, sit on the wharf at
Cana, his feet hanging over the lake,
aud with a long pole and a worm on
the hook dipped Into the wave wait for
some mullet tq swim up and be caucht?
Why did not Zebedee~spend Ids uTtor-
noou trying to catch one eel? No, that
work was too slow. These men were
-not mending a hook nud line; they
were mending their nets. So let the
church of God not bo content with hnv
ing here one soul and next mouth an
other soul brought into the kingdom.
Sweep all the seas with nets, scoop
nets, seine nets, drag nets, all encom
passing nets, and take the treasures in
by hundreds aud thousands am! mil
lions, aud uatious will be born iu a
day and the hemispheres quake'with
the tread of a ransoming God. Do you
know what will be the two most tre
mendous hours In our heavenly exist-
euce? Among the quadrillions of ages
which shall roll on what two occasions
will be to us the greatest? The day of
our arrival there will be to us one of
the two greatest. The second greatest,
I think, will be the day when we shall
have put in parallel lines before us
what Christ did for us and wbat we
did for Christ, the oue so great, the
other so little. That will he the ouly
embarrassment iu heaven. My Lord
and my God, wbat will we do and wbat
will we say when ou one side are
placed the Saviour’s great sacrifices
for us aud our small sacrifices for him
—his exile, his humiliatiou, his agonies
on oue hand and our poor, weak, insufii-
cient sacrifices on the other? To make
the contrast less overwhelming let us
quickly mend our nets, and, like the
Galilean tishennou, may we be divine
ly helped to cast them ou the right side
of the ship.
[Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopscli.]
PERSONAL PARAGRPHS.
People You Know aud People You Don’t
He Prayed Hard.
[Atlanta Journal ]
An old mau in Georgia named J«ck
Baldwin, having lost his hat in an old
dry well one day, hitched a rope to a
stump and let himself down. A
wicked wag named Neal cume along
just then and quietly detaching a hell
from Baldwin’s old blind horse he
approached the well, bell in hand,
and begun to ting-a-ling.
Jack thought the old horse was
coming and said: “ILug (he old
blind horse! He’s coming this way
stir-*, and he ain’t got no more sense
than lo fail right in on me Whoa,
Bail!”
The sound came closer.
"Great Jerusaii-ni! the old blind
fool will be right on top of me in a
mink! Whoa, Bail! Whoa haw,
Ball!’’
Neal kicked a little dirt on Jack’s
head and Jack began to pray.
* Oh, Lord have mc-rcy or: — whoa
Bui!—a poor sinner—I’m gone now;
whoa Bail. Our Father w ho are in—
whoa. Bail!—hallowed he th*—gi e.
Ball, gee! what’ll I do?—r atm. N"v,
1 lay me down to s’—gee, Bali!”
Just then in fell more dirt. "Oh,
Lord, if you ever intend to do any
thing for me—back, Bail! whoa!—
Thy kingdom come—gee, Bail! Oh,
Lord, you know I wus baptized
in Smith’s mill dum—whoa, Ball!
Oh! up! murder! whoa!”
Neal could hold no longer and
shouted a laugh which might have
been heard two miles, which was
about as far as Jack chased him when
he g it out.
M Prices.
I’or tlio next B0 days I will
sell you Dry (ioods, Notions,
Shoos, Hats and all other jojods
at cut prices.
I will sell you the host Axes
di the market at GO emits for
plain and 60 emits for hoveled.
Yours respectfully,
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sweetest, prettiest and most pop
ular young ladies, is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. John Swyggert, at Peak’s
She expects to be away two or three
weeks.
A. Schumpert, a prominent citizen
of Columbia, spent Friday in the
city.
C. W. P. Sullivan, of Greenville
was in the city Thursday.
James L. Reid, a prominent busi
ness man of Columbia, was in the
city Friday.
J, C. Jefferies, Esq., vi-as In Colum
bia last week on legal business. Mr.
Jefferies is one of our most prominent
attorneys and enjoys a large and lu
crative practice, allot which lie truly
merits.
Hon. C. W. Whisonant, of Wilkins-
ville, was in the city for a few hours
yesterday.
J. M. Hood, of Lancaster, was here
Friday on business.
Probate Judge J E. Webster re
turned to the city Sunday from Ar
kansas, where he has been on a short
visit to relatives. Judge Webster
was accompanied home by his broth
er Charley, who has been in Arkansas
for the past nine years. Mr. Charley
Webster comes back with shattered
health, but hopes are entertained of
his recuperating.
C. P. Eilis, of Dellingers, N. C.,
came in to see us while in the city
yesterday.
Elbert Keller, one of Maud’s good
citizens, was in town Friday.
T. P. Phillips, of Boiling Springs,
N. C., was in the city yesterday.
J. W. Castles, of Hickory Grove,
was among the visitors in the city
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. ti. W. Knight, of
Hopedale, Mass,, arrived in the city
Sunday.
J. T. Ross, of Charlotte, N. C., was
in the city Friday.
J. C. Arwood, of the Southern
Railway, was a* visitor in the city
Saturday.
Mrs. Sophia Redus, of Newberry,
who has been spending several weeks
with her cousin, Mrs. E B. Wilbur,
in this city, returned to Newberrj
yesterday. Mrs. Redus is a delight
ful lady and made many friends dur
ing her brief stay in Gaffney. She
returns to her homo with pleasant
recollections of our little city an ! we
but voice the sentiment of her friends
when we say we will be glad to have
her visit us early and often.
Miles Littlejohn, of Efta Jane, was
in tbe city Friday and Sunday.
W. A. Donald, of Thickety, was in
the city yesterday. Mr. Donald paid
bis respects to The Ledger while here
and as a consequence will keep in
touch with all Cherokee county for
the next year.
Hon. William Jefferies, of Home,
visited relatives here Friday and
Saturday.
E. C. Lanier, a prominent resident
of Harlem, Ga., was amhng th" visi
tors in the city Saturday.
Mrs. Julia A. Gaines is in Rich
mond visiting her nephew Pvof. R. E.
Gaines, of Richmond College.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A Osborne, of
Blacksburg, were the guests of Dr.
and Mrs. Fort on Friday.
A. P. Phifer, of Newberry, spent
Saturday in our city.
George G. Byers, of Gainesville,
Ga., spent Sunday in our midst.
A NEGRO RAPIST.
lie AMaulteU a Preacher'* Wife and U
Now Under Arrent.
|Columbia State.]
Jonf.sville. Jan. 26 —Last night a
negro man by the name of John Jam
ison attempted rape upon a married
woman, Mary Jane Young, who is
the wife of Gamewell Young, a
preacher. The Rev. Yuung was
away from home and hud been for
several days attending to his minis
terial duties. Jamison, tl.e attempt
ed rapist, lives nq^r by Young and
knew the situation. He went in tho
silent hours of tbe night and raised
the window of Young’s house while
the woman was asleep and made his
assault upon her. She awoke and
made an alarm and the brute left.
He has been arrested and is now in
the calaboose. Feeling runs high
among the colored people, but no vio
lence is feared.
An Approaching Marring*.
[Spartanburg Herald ]
Cards have been issued announcing
that on Wednesday evening, Feb.
6th, in the First Baptist church in
Gaffney, Miss Minnie Carroll and Mr.
Geo Garrett Byers, will be married.
Miss Carroll is a charming and
popular young lady of Gaffney, and
has often visited this city, where she
has many friends.
Wan Flr«t Written Ou a Confederate Note,
but Author Unknown.
Mr. E R. Harman, of Asbury, an
old veteran of the war between the
States and a good citizen as well,
was in our office a few days ago. He
had in his possession an old relic of
that bloody war in the shape of a
twenty-dollar Confederate rote with
a poem on the back of it. This pot m
is a familiar one and is prized by
every old soldier who still lives to
tell of the "storm-cradled nation lhaf
fell.”
It first came to light on the back
of a Confeder^'e b.*i, but its author
was never knu„n. erne poem is as
follows:
I am prepared to furnish poli
cies in the very pest companies
at tho lowest rates.
If you want a bond I can make
it for you.
See me before you insure.
F. G. STACY.
T. I. WALKER,
GAFFNEY, S. C.,
Deals Exclusively in
Representing notliint; on God’s earth now.
And nuuKht in the waters below It;
As the pledge of a nation that has p.u,sed
away,
Keep It. dear friends, and show it.
Show it to those who will lend an ear
To the tale this trllle will toll;
Of liberty, liorn of a patriot’s dream,
Of a storm-cradled nation that fell.
Too poor to possess the precious ore,
... 00 n 'uen of a stranger to borrow:
Me issued to-day our promise to pay
And hoped to redeem ou the morrow.
The days rolled on and the weeks became
« years.
But our coffers were empty still:
Coin was so scarce the treasury quaked
if a dollar dropped into the till.
Rut the faith that was in us was stronic in
deed.
Though our poverty well we discerned;
And this little note represents the pay
Our suffering veterans earned.
We knew it had scarcely a value in cold,
Yet as gold our soldiers received it;
It gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay,
And every true soldler belleved 11.
Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup is the safest and
surest cure for those dangerous affections of
the little one-croup, whooping-cough and
measles' cough. Physicians prescribe it. chil
dren like It. and doses are small. Price •
What Life Insurance Ones.
It lifts mortgages.
It educates orphans.
It preserves the family.
It cultivates saving habits.
It lightens the load of care.
It gives repose to the rich
man.
It gives courage to the poor
man.
It builds a barrier to the alms
house.
It supports the credit of the
business man.
It enables a man to live up to
Ins income.
It lays the foundations of
home and independence.
It encourages the marriage of
prudent men and women,
It keeps embarrassed estates
out of receivers’ hands.
It certifies to a man’s affec
tionate regard for his family.
It places the widow above the
need of marrying for a home.
It adds to a man’s years by
freeing 1dm from apprehension.
It saves orphan girls from the
necessity of working out.
' It heightens the esteem in
which wife and children hold a
man.
If you are interested in the
above subject call on
JONES J. DARBY,
Insurance and Real Estate.
JUS'T IIML
Dainty Designs in
STEHLIN6 SILVER;
Quaint Conceits in
RICH CUT GLASS;
New, Novel, Artistic,
Ornamental, Serviceable,
Economical, the most ap
propriate things for wed
ding gifts. See my display,
the most complete yet ex
hibited in Gaffney.
T. H. WESTROPE,
Wutchniakei and Jcwoler.
^ Bankrupt Sale.
MOTIOE Is hereby given to all persons tn-
‘ ’debted to the firm of Reason A Holland,
bankrupts of Gaffney, S. O., that all out-
staudtug accounts unpaid at that date will
he expoftod for public sale to the hlgheut bid
der on Feb. 4, 1901. It will he to the interest
of all persons Indebted to the above firm to
settle rattier than have their accounts ex
posed at public sale. In the meantime alj
wishing to settle can do so by calling ou the
trustee. Sale will take place at court house
Immediately after tho logal sales are com
pleted.
W. C. Hamrick
Trustee.
Until Feb. 4.
Lumiisr and guilders’ Material
and carries ia stock a complete linaof
DOORS. SASH,
BLINDS, PAINTS,
OIL,
PLASTERERS’
MATERIAL,
and everyt liing needed for building purposes.
Look him up when you need anything In
h’s line.
EOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains.
In EiTocFAIsy Gth, 1900.
Mertbbennd.
Npy 12.
Daily.
Ves.
No. 83.
Daily.
No, 18.
Fx.
Bun.
FstMa
No. 81
Dally.
11 50 p
12 50 a
1 20a
1 63a
2 18a
ftftfta
Lt. Atlanta,CT
" Atlanta,iiT
“ Nororoaa..
" Buford. ..
T 63 a
8 50 a
9 89 a
10 05 a
10 ho a
10 58 a
11 £5 a
U 30 a
11 63 a
12 (,0m
1 Oop
4 30 p
6 89 p
C 2jp
7 03p
7 oG p
8 OJp
8 Cop
8 85 p
9 OOp
“ Gainesville
“ Lula....
i 25 p
I 45p
“ Cornelia....
“ Mt. Airy...
Lv. Toco
8 83n
5 40p
8 28a
Ar. Kibertou..
Lv. Klbevton...
9 66 a
TTCa
Lv. W’mlnster.
“ Seneca.
“ Central
“ Greenville.
“ Spar'burg.
“ Gatfnev....
" btackKDurg
" King’s Mt..
** Gastonia...
“ Charlotte..
Ar. Gro’nsboro
12 him
12 p
li 3 P
t 84p
a 87 p
4 20 p
4 88 p
• 03p
6 25p
6 8up
0 55 p
'i'i6p
"$'22 P
6 13 p
6 40 p
T 02p
**•###••
• •es s s • •
TiffS
4 28a
4 65a
• 80a
7 08a
7 46a
•a:
8 SI a
9 60a
12 28 ft
"• isp
10 41 p
• e »»••••
* • e e • • •
Lv. G re’nsboro
Ar. Norfolk ...
11 46p
8 26 a
•ssseeea
Ar. Danville...
11 26 p
11 68p
188ft
Ar. Richmond..
6 CO u
6 00s
8 28 ft
Ar. W'hlngton.
“ B’moreP. R
“ Ph'delphla.
" New York.
••••••••
8 42 a
8 00 a
10 15 a
12 41m
••esses*
•**•••••
• * etas * •
• 80ft
11 26ft
IS:
Senthbennd.
FstMa
No. 85.
Daily.
Ves.
No. 37.
Daily.
No. 11.
Daily.
Lv. N.Y.,Pa.R.
*' I'h’deiphis.
“ Baltimore..
“ Wash'ton..
12 15 s
8 60s
6 22a
11 15 a
4 80 p
6 66 p
0 2op
10 46 p
••esesss
Lv. Richmond..
12 01 n
11 OOp
11 OOp
TlOa
Lv. Danville...
6 43p
6 60s
Lv. Norfolk
Ar. Gre'nsboro
9 00a
• 85 p
8 86 p
6 15a
Lv. Gre'nsboro
Ar. Charlotte..
Lv Gastonia...
“ King's Mt..
T lOp
9 45 p
10 42p
: 05 a
9 25 a
10 07 a
T 87 s
12 06m
1 l4p
• 16 p
4 80p
IgS
0 lOp
e 45 p
• •* sesaa
" blfc-Ksburg
*• Gaffney...
•• Spar’bv.rg.
“ Greenville
" Central ..
11 &p
11 42 p
12 20 s
1 8u a
10 45 a
10 58 a
11 84 a
12 80p
-nrs
'* Seneca .
" W’mlnster.
“ Toccoh
t 82 a
I 90p
8 28 a
t 15 p
Lv. Utburton..
Ar. Elborton..
It 45 a
9 00s
• 40 P
1 BOp
Lv. Mt. Airy..
♦ &p
T 82 p
ft Oop
>20p
ft 48p
• 18p
10 OOP
9 OOp
1 TKa
8 86 a
687a
7 20a
f 46a
• 87 a
AS!
" Cornelia.
“ Lula
“ Gainesville
•• Buford. ..
** Nororos*.
Ar. Atlanta,ET
" Atlanta,CT
"4'iia
4 80 a
• 02a
t 25 a
« 10 s
6 10 a
Tii'p
1 hip
4 65 p
1 65 p
Bntween Lula ani Athens.
Roil.
Kx.
Sun.
No. 18.1 STATIONS.
Daily, j
No. 12.
Dally.
Ex.
Sua.
• lOp
• 84p
8 60 p
9 80 p
11 05 s Lv...Lula .Ar
11 8C a " Maysrille "
11 52 * " Harmony “
12 80p Ar. Athens .Lv
10 SO a
10 13 a
10 08 a
9 26a
;s
• «
601
Sole close oonneotloa male nt Lain xrltn
■min line trains.
"A" a m. ‘ P" p. at. ‘‘M" noon. “N" night.
Chesapeake Lise Steamers tn dally Servian
between Norfolk end Baltimore.
Nos. 37 and 8t>—Dally Washington w
Southwestern Vestibule Limited. Throu
Pullman sleeping cars between New Yo
New Orleans, via Washington. Atlas
Montgomery, and also between New York
is, via
Memphli
Wsehiagtoi
Atlanta and Stf
CULM AN Lit
1 Pl
mingham. Also elegant Pullman LinaAKY
Observation Cam between Atlanta and New
York. Tlr.tclaas thoroughfare roaches b»
tw een Washington nod Atlanta. Dining
meals
trve all
igton 1
tourist
fashlngtonaBd'
ington Mot'svs,
w
»a route. _
Wrdnesds;
Leaving Washing*
and Fridays
P , . I . yt ani Frida
tourist sleeping car will run through bet
kB'lu— ” ' -
_ . .aa Frasoiseo without ehaage.
Pullman drawing-room sleeping cc-s between
Greensboro and Norfolk, Close conneeMsn at
Norfolk tot Out Point Oomtoat.
Noa. bb and tW—United State* Fast Mail i
solid between Washington and New Oris
t ria Southern Ballw^, A. ft W. F. A B.
ft N. U. R., being eeatpoeed mt
rough without changg far pesssng
Puhium dra
tween New Yoik sn_
lauta and Montgomery
mingham and Atlanta,
aiea • en route.
Nos. 11. ft, 84 aad U-l _ , .
betv.nrn Richmond sal Cftvlot
rills, southbound Noe. U ami tft
Nos 84 end Vi
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