The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 28, 1901, Image 15
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son c an art.
If it be an art it is the art
of telling a story simply and
convincingly.
Nobody knows more
about the strong qualities
of an establishment than
the proprietor who oversees
it. Other things being
equal, nobody should be
able to write more convinc
ingly of the articles he of
fers for sale.
In a store where the employer sells
goods side by side with his clerks It is
raio that the employer will not be the
best salesman.
The reason is simple. He
knows the goods from A to
Z. He probably has pur
chased them. He knows
his aims. His arguments
carry weight because they
are convincing.
The same arguments pre
sented in the same way,
with the same enthusiastic
spirit, the same knowledge
of detail, would attract
new customers if presented
through the advertising col
umns of this paper.
If you have not tried it,
why not begin?
If ycu have tried it and are not satis
fied, let us know about it
Yfinthrop College Scholarship
and Entrance Examinations.
The oxnnilrtatlona for the award of vacant
scholarships in Wlnthrop Cnlloxe and for the
admission of new students will be held at ihe
County Court House on Friday, July 12th, at
!i a. tn.
Applicants must not bo less than tiftcen
years of ajre.
When scholarships are vacated after July
12th they will be awarded to those makir ^
the hlRhest average at this examination. ^
The cost of attendance, including board,
urnished room, heat, light and washing, is
SV.00 per month.
For further information and a catalogue
address President 1). H. Johnson, Bock Hill,
8. O.
The Cherokee County Mutual
Association
has Issued between 400 and ">00 policies to the
citizens ol the county aggregating 1200,000.
There ar“ y> t a few property owners who have
not insured with us whom we think sliould do
so now, or as soon as possible, as a protection
to themselves and families, for the unex
pected happens to us all sooner or later and
happy is lie who Is prepared to meet lids
emergency ' •an safely say that there is
no cheaper or . a-r investment offered you.
Itev. A. Davidson, Gaffney, and Mr. Frank
McLuney, Abingdon, are agents, who arcau
thorl/.ed to appraise your property and issue
a policy ou same.
T. M. Littlejohn, Pros.
J. Rh Jeffeki ks. See, and Treas.
Do You Want Insurance ?
I am prepared to furnish poli
cies in the very oest companies
at the lowest rates.
If you want a bond I can make
lit for you.
See me before you insure.
F. G. STACY.
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C.
•Office over J. R. Tolleson’a new store
In office from 1st to 26th of each
ODonth:
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB,
Dentist,
OUice over R. A. lone* * ft Co.'s Stars.
Gan be fopnd at office six davs in the week
G. W. SPEER,
A'T'JTOK NRY AT-IvAW.
GAFFNEY. S. C.
Oflioe over J. W. Tolleson’a Store.
WALLACE & OTIS,
LAWYERS.
Gffltir between It. A. Jones and
haven port.
Phone 87.
J. E. WEBSTER.
A.ttonie>r-JVt-
Office in Court House. (Probate* Iudgs f office
Gaffney City, 8. C.
Practices in all the ooturtfl. Collec
tions a specialty
C. JEFFERIES «h
GAFFNEY, S. C.
H irnim rclal Ijsw. Corporation Law
Real Estate Law.
.Money Ad. °en on approved security.
JAMES A. WILLIS,
attobnicy at law.
o A. j- r H" V, *"»• c:.
• Notary Public In office. Prompt attention
given to bti business.
Office over K. A. Jones* »k>.'s store.
I). I!,Duncan O. P.Handers, W.8. Hall, Jr
DUNCAN, SANDERS & HALL,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Office yvsr J. 1C Toil** w's ft Oaf Mass.
Wasrixoton, July 7.—Although Dr.
TaImage was hindered from attending
the great annual meeting of the Chris
tian Endeavor society at Cincinnati,
his sermon shows him to be In sym
pathy with the great movement; text,
Amos lx, 13, “Behold the days come,
saith the Lord, that the plowman shall
overtake the reaper.”
Unable because of other Important
duties to accept the Invitation to take
part In the great convention of Chris
tian Endeavorers at Cincinnati, begun
last week, I preach a sermon of con
gratulation for all the members of that
magnificent association, whether now
gathered in vast assemblage or busy in
their places of usefulness, transatlantic
and cisatlantic. And, as It la now har
vest .time in the fields and sickles are
flashing in the gathering of a great
crop, I find mighty suggestiveness In
my text.
It Is a picture of a tropical clime,
with a season so prosperous that the
harvest reaches clear over to the plant
ing time and the swarthy husbandman,
busy cutting the grain, almost feels the
breath of the horses on his shoulders,
the horses hitched to the plow prepar
ing for a new crop. “Behold the days
come, saith the Lord, that the plowman
shall overtake the reaper.” When is
that? That is now. That la this day,
when hardly have you done reaping
one harvest of religious result than the
plowman is getting ready for another.
In phraseology charged with all ven
om and abuse and caricature I know
that Infidels and agnostics have de
clared that Christianity has collapsed;
that the Bible is an obsolete book; that
the Christian church Is on the retreat.
I shall answer that wholesale charge
today.
Between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 En
deavorers sworn before high heaven
that they will do all they can to take
America for God, Europe for God, Asia
and Africa for God—are not the signs
most cheering? Or, to return to the
agricultural figure of my text, more
than a million reapers are overtaken
by more than a million plowmen. Be
sides this, there are more people who
believe In the Bible than at any time
In the world’s existence.
Growth of Chrlatlanlty.
But now let us see whether the book
is a last year’s almanac. Let us see
whether the church of God is a Bull
Run retreat, muskets, canteens and
haversacks strewing all the way. The
great English historian Sharon Turner,
man of vast learning and great ac
curacy, not a clergyman, but an attor
ney as well as a historian, gives this
overwhelm 1 ng statistic In regard to
Christianity and in regard to the num
ber of Christians In the different cen
turies: In the first century 500,000
Christians, in the second century 2,000,-
000 Christians, In the third century
5,000,000 Christians, In the fourth cen
tury 10,000,000 Christians, In the fifth
century 15,000,000 Christians, In the
sixth century 20,000,000 Christians, In
the seventh century 24,000,000 Chris
tians, In the eighth century 30,000,000
Christians, in the ninth century 40,000,-
000 Christians, In the tenth century 60,-
000,000 Christians, In the eleventh cen
tury 70,000,000Cbrlstians,!n the twelfth
century 80,000,000 Christians, in the
thirteenth century 75,000,000 Chris
tians, In the fourteenth century 80,000,-
000 Christians, in the fifteenth century
100,000,000 Christians, in the sixteenth
century 125,000,000 Christians, In the
seventeenth century 155,000,000 Chris
tians, In the eighteenth century 200,-
000,000 Christians—a decadence, as you
observe. In only one century and more
than made up In the following centu
ries, while It Is the usual computation
that there were at the close of the nine
teenth century 470,000,000 Christians,
making us to believe that before this
century Is closed the millennium will
have started its boom and lifted Iti
hosanna.
Poor Christianity! What a pity It
has no friends! How lonesome it must
be! Who will take It out of the poor-
house? Poor Christianity! Four hun
dred millions In one century. In a few
weeks of this year 2,500,000 copies of
the New Testament distributed. Why,
the earth Is like an old castle with 20
gates and a park of artillery ready to
thunder down every gate. See how
heathendom Is being surrounded and
honeycombed and attacked by this all
conquering gospel. At the beginning
of the nineteenth century 150 mission
aries; at the close of that century 84,-
000 missionaries and native helpers
and evangelists. At the beginning of
the nineteenth century there were only
50,000 converts; now there are over
1,000,000 converts from heathendom.
Bo Christianity Is falling back and
the Bible, they say. Is becoming an ob
solete book I 1 go Into a court, and
wherever 1 find a judge’s bench or a
Clerk’s desk I find ft Bible. Upon what
book could there be uttered tl)e solem
nity of an oath? What book Is apt to
be put In the trunk of the young man
as he leaves for city life? The Bible.
What shall I find In nine out of every
feo homes In this city? The Bible. In
nine out of every ten homes In Chris
tendom? Tbe Bible. Voltaire wrote
(be propbecy that the Blb|e In the nine
teenth century wouhl become extinct-
Tbe century is gone, and 1 have to tel)
you that the room In which Voltaire
wrote that propbecy not long ago was
crowded from fiopr to eelUng with B1
bles from Switserland.
Bupfiosa the congress of tbe United
States should pass a law that there
should be no more Bibles printed In
America and no Bibles rend. If there
are 00,000,000 grown people In tbe
United States, there would be 00,000,-
000 people In an army to put down such
a law and defend their right to read
tfifi Bible. But suppose the congress
fit the United States should make a law
against the reading or the publication
of any other book—fiow people
would go ouf |n such a crusade? ( Opuld
you get people to go out and
risk their Uvea l» th« defenap of Hhuke
encore 7 * tragedies Of UlSds^ttft'f tHUtl
or Macaulay’s ‘.’History of England?”
You know that there are a thousand
men who would <t|e In the defense of
this book where there Is not more than
one man who woulh die In the defense
of any other book. Y'>u try to Insult
my common sense by lelling me the
Bible Is fading out from \J»e world. It
It tbe most popular book o' the centu
ries.
How do I know? I know It Just as 1
know in regard to other books. How
many volumes of that history are pub
lished? Well, you say 5,000. How
many copies of another book are pub
lished? A hundred thousand. Which
is the more, popular? Why, of course
the one that has the hundred thousand
circulation. And If this book has more
copies abroad in the world, If there are
five times as many Bibles abroad ns
any other book among civilized na
tions, does not that show you that the
most popular book on earth today Is
the word of God?
Oh,” say people, "the church Is a
collection of hypocrites, and it is los
ing its power, and it is fading out from
the world. Is It? A bishop of the
Methodist church told me that that de
nomination averages two new churches
every day. In other words, they build
730 churches In that denomination In
a year, and there are at least 1,500 new
Christian churches built in America
every year. Does that look as though
the Christian church were fading out,
as though It were a defunct Institution?
What stands nearest to the hearts of
the American people today? I do not
care in what village or what city or
what neighborhood you go. What is
It? Is it the postofflee? Is It the hotel?
Is It the lecture hall? Ah, you kuow
It is not. You kuow that that which
stands nearest to the hearts of the
American people Is the Christian
church.
Infidelity Decreasing.
You may talk about tbe church being
a collection of fes, but when.the
diphtheria . jur children off,
whom do you send for? Tbe postmas
ter? The attorney general? The hotel
keeper? Alderman? No. You send for
a minister of this Bible religion. And
If you have not a room In your bouse
for the obsequies, what building do you
solicit? Do you say, “Give me the
finest room in the hotel?” Do you say,
Give me that theater?” Do you say,
“Give me that public building, where I
can lay my dead for a little while until
we say a prayer over It?” No. You
say, “Give us the house of God.” And
If there Is a song to be sung at the
obsequies, what do you want? What
does anybody want? The “Marseillaise
Hymn?” “God Save the Queen?” Our
own grand national air? No. They
want the hymn with which they sang
their old Christian mother Into her last
sleep or they want sung tbe Sabbath
school hymn which their little girl sang
the last Sabbath afternoon she was
out before she got that awful sickness
which broke your heart. I appeal to
your common sense. You know the
most endearing Institution on earth, the
most popular institution on earth to
day, is tbe church of tbe Lord Jesus
Christ. A man Is a fool that does not
recognize It.
The Infidels say: “There Is great lib
erty now for Infidels—freedom of plat
form. Infidelity shows Its power from
tbe fact that It Is everywhere tolerat
ed, and It can say what It will.” Why,
my friends. Infidelity Is not half so
blatant In our day as it was in the days
of our fathers. Do you know that in
the days of our fathers there were pro
nounced Infidels In public authority,
and they could get any political posi
tion? Let a man today declare himself
antagonistic to the Christian religion,
and what city wants him for mayor,
what state wants him for governor,
what nation wants him for president or
tyr king? Let a man openly proclaim
himself tbe enemy of our glorious
Christianity, and be cannot get a ma
jority of votes In any state, In any city,
In any country, In any ward of Amer
ica.
A distinguished infidel years ago,
riding In a rail car in Illinois, said,
“What has Christianity ever done?”
An old Christian woman said: “It has
done one good thing anyhow. It has
kept an Infidel from being governor of
Illinois.” As I stood In tbe side room
of tbe opera bouse of Peoria, Ills., a
prominent gentleman of that city said,
“I can tell you the secret of that tre
mendous bitterness against Christian
ity.” Said I, “What is It?” “Why.”
said he, “In this very bouse Ifyere was
a great convention to nominate a gov
ernor, and there were three or four can
didates. At tbe same time there was
in a church In this city a Sabbath
acbool convention, and It happened that
one of the men who was In tbe Sabbath
school convention was also a member
of the political convention. In the po
litical convention the name highest on
the roll at that time and about to be
nominated was tbe name of tbe great
champion Infidel. There was an ad-
jonrnment between ballots, and In the
afternoon when tbe nominations were
being made a plain farmer got up and
said: ‘Mr. Chairman, that nomination
must not be made. Tbe Sunday schools
of Illinois will defeat blm.’ That end
ed all prospect of bla nomination.”
Tbe Cbrlstian religion Is mightier to
day than It ever was. Do yon think
that such a scene could be enacted now
as was enacted in tbe days of Robes
pierre, when a shameless w’oman waa
elevated to tbe dignity of a goddess
and carried In a golden cbtir to a
cathedral, where Incense was burned
to her and people bowed down before
her a* a divine being, she taking the
place of tbe Bible pad God, while In
tbe corridor of that cathedral were
enacted such scenes of drunkenness
and debauchery as bad never befora
been witnessed? Do you think that
such g thing could possibly occur In
Christendom today? No. Tbe police
of Washington or of New York or of
Paris would swoop upon It
•efeas* nad lUlialaa.
These opponents say that science Is
overcoming religion In our day. They
look through the spectacles of tbe In
fidel scientists, and they say: “It Is
Impossible that this book he true. Peo
ple are finding it out The Bible 1ms
got to go overboard. Science Is going
to throw It overboard.” Do you be
lieve that the Bible account of the ori
gin of life will be overthrown by Infidel
scientists who have 60 different theo
ries about the origin of life? If they
should all eotne up In solid phalanx, all
/igrcelpf o , one sentiment and one the-
qryl pernaps Christianity (night be dam-
aged, but there are net so uftiuy tUffef-
cnees of opinion Inside the churcK ns
outside the church. Oh, It intikcs me
sick to see these literary fops going
along with a copy of Darwin under one
arm and a case of transfixed grasshop
pers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about the “survival of the
fittest” and Huxley’s protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact is
that some naturalists, Just as soon as
they find out the difference between
tge feelers of a wasp and the horns of
a beetle, begin to patronize the Al
mighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas
siz, who never made any pretension to
being a Christian, puts both his feet
on the doctrine of evolution and says:
“I see that many of the naturalists of
our day are adopting facts which do
not bear observation or have not pass
ed under observatfon.” These men war
ring with each other—Darwin warring
against Lamarch, Wallace warring
against Cope, even Herschel denounc
ing Ferguson. They do not agree about
anything.
What do they agree on? Herschel
writes a whole chapter ou the errors of
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put tu the right place.
He says If It had beeu put four times
farther from the earth than It Is now’
there would be more harmony in the
universe, but Llouville conies up Just
In time to prove that the moon was put
In the right place. How many colors
woven Into the light? Seven, says
Isaac Newton. Three, says David
Brewster. How high Is the aurora
borealis? Two and a half miles, says
Lias. Ninety miles, say other scien
tists. How far is tbe sun* from the
earth? Seventy-six million miles, says
Laealle. Eighty-two million miles, says
Humboldt. Ninety million miles, snys
Henderson. One hundred and four
million miles, says Mayer. Only a little
difference of 28,000,000 miles! All split
up among themselves—not agreeing on
anything.
The Church Advanclnir.
Here thepe Infidel scientists have im
paneled themselves ns a jury to decide
this trial between Infidelity, the plain
tiff, and Cbrlstinuity, the defendant,
and after being out for centuries they
come In to render their verdict. Gen
tlemen of the Jury, have you agreed on
a verdict? No, no. Then go back for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agree on something. There Is not a
poor, miserable wretch in the city pris
on tomorrow that could be coudemued
by a Jury that did not agree on the ver
dict. and yet you expect us to give up
our glorious Christianity to please
these men who cannot agree on any
thing. Ah, my friends, the church of
Jesus Christ, Instead of falling back, is
on tbe advance.
I am mightily encouraged because 1
find, among other things, that while
this Christianity has been bombarded
for centuries Infidelity has not destroy
ed one church or crippled one minister
or uprooted one verse of one chapter of
all the Bible. If that has been their
magnificent record for the centuries of
the post, what may we expect for the
future? Tbe church all the time get
ting the victory, and their shot and
shell all gone.
And then I find another most encour
aging thought in the fact that tbe sec
ular printing press and tbe pulpit seem
harnessed In tbe same team for the
proclamation of the gospel. Every
banker in this capital tomorrow, every
Wall street banker tomorrow in Now
York, every State street banker tomor
row In Boston, every Third street bank
er tomorrow In Philadelphia, every
banker In the United States and every
merchant will hare In bis pocket a
treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or 30
passages of Scripture In tbe reports of
sermons preached throughout tbe land
today. It will be so in Chicago, so In
New Orleans, so In Charleston, so in
Bostan, so in Philadelphia, so In Cin
cinnati, so everywhere. 1 know the
tract societies are doing a grand and
glorious work, but I tell you there is
no power on earth today equal to the
fact that tbe American printing press
Is taking up tbe sermons which arc
preached to a few hundred or a few
thousand people and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening scatterlug
that truth to tbe millions. Wbat an en
couragement for every Cbrlstian man!
SlfnMtoaat Fact*.
Then you have noticed a more sig
nificant fact If you have talked with
people on the subject—that they are
getting dissatisfied with worldly phi
losophy as a matter of comfort. They
say It does not amount to anything
when you have a dead child in the
bouse. They tell you when they were
sick and tbe door of the future seemed
opening tbe only comfort they could
find was tbe gospel. People are hav
ing demonstrated all over the land that
science and philosophy cannot solace
the troubles and woes of the world, and
they want some other religion, and
they are taking Christianity, the only
sympathetic religion that ever came in
to the world. You just take a scientif
ic consolation Into that room where a
mother has lost her child. Try in that
case your splendid doctrine of the “sur
vival of tbe fittest.” Tell her that
child died because It was not worth us
much as tbe other children. That is
your “survival of the fittest.” Justify
your transcendentalism, your philoso
phy, your science, on that widowed
soul and tell her it was a geological
necessity that her companion should be
taken away from her, just as In the
course of the world’s history tbe mega
therium and the Ichthyosaurus bad to
pass out of existence, and then you go
on In your scientific consolation until
you get to the sublime fact that 50,000,-
000 years from now we ourselves may
be scientific specimens on tbe geologic
shelf, petrified specimens of an extinct
human race, ancfeifter you have got all
through with your consolation, If tbe
poor afflicted soul Is not erased by It,
we will send forth from any of our
churches tbe plainest Cbrlstian we
have, and with one half hour of prayer
and reading of Scripture promises the
tears will be wiped away, and the
house from floor to cupola will b*
flooded with tho calmness of an Indian
summer sunset. There Is where 1 see
the triumph of Christianity. People
are dissatisfied with everything else.
They want God; they want Jesus
Christ.
The fact Is that Infidelity and agnosti
cism are founded on Ignorance geolog
ical, Ignorance chemical, ignorance as
tronomical, Ignorance geographical. We
have heard whut tne enemies of Chris
tianity have lu»d to testify. Now I put
before you tho testimony of the church
qm earth apd the church In heavyo- Not
... X '
fifty, not a thousand, not o million,Tint
all of the church on earth and all of the
redeemed In heaven. Will you take the
evidence of those who have witnessed
ns well us felt the power of religion, or
will you prefer the testimony of those
who begin by declaring that they have
never witnessed or felt its power? You
tell me that ou a certain 4th of March,
2i years ago, a president of the United
States was Inaugurated. How do 1
know It? You tell me there were 20,-
000 persons who distinctly heard his
Inaugural address. 1 deny both. 1 de
ny that he was Inaugurated. I deny
that his Inaugural address was deliv
ered. You ask why? I did not see it.
I did not hear It. But you say that
there were 20,000 people who did see
and hear him. Is not the testimony of
the 20,000 who were present worth
more than the testimony of oue who
was absent? Now, there are some meu
who say they have never seen Christ
crowned iu the heart and they do not
believe It Is ever done. There is a
group of men who say they have never
heard the voice of Christ, that they
have never heard the voice of God.
They do not believe that anything like
It ever occurred. I point to twenty, a
hundred thousand or a million people
who say: "Christ was crowned in our
heart’s affections. We have seen him
and felt him in our soul, and we have
heard his voice. We have heard it In
the storm and darkness. We have
heard It again and again.”
Panacea For All Trouble.
You say morphia puts one to sleep.
You say in time of sickness it Is very
useful. I deny It. Morphia never puts
anybody to sleep. It never alleviates
pain. You ask why I say that. 1 have
never tried It. I never took it. 1 deny
that morphia is any soothing to the
nerves or any quiet In times of sick
ness. I deny that morphia ever put
anybody to sleep. But here are 20 per
sons who say they have all felt the
soothing effects of a physician’s pre
scribing morphine. Whose testimony
will you take? Those who took the
medlciuc or my testimony, I never hav
ing taken the medicine. Here is the
gospel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for
all trouble, the mightiest medicine on
earth. Here Is a man who says: “I
don’t believe In It. There is no power
In It.” Here are other people who say;
“We have found out its power and
know its soothing influence. It has
cured us.” Whose testimony will you
take iu regard to this healing medi
cine?
Young man, do not be ashamed to be
a friend of the Bible. Do not put your
thumb In your -vest, as young men
sometimes do, and swagger about, talk
ing of the glorious light of nature and
of there being no need of the Bible.
They have the light of nature in India
and China and In all the dark places of
the earth. Did you ever hear that the
light of nature gave them comfort for
their troubles? They have lancets to
cut and Juggernauts to crush, tint no
comfort. Ah, my friends, you iuid bet
ter stop your skepticism! Suppose you
are put In a crisis like that of Colonel
Ethan Allen. I saw the account and
at one time mentioned It In an address.
A descendant of Ethan Allen, who Is
an infidel, said It never occurred. Soon
after I received a letter from a pro
fessor In one of our colleges, who Is
also a descendant of Ethan Allen and
Is a Christian. He wrote me that the
Incident Is accurate; that my state
ment was authentic and true. The
wife of Colonel Ethan Allen was a very
consecrated woman. The mother In
structed the daughter in the truths of
Christianity. The daughter sickened
and was about to die, and she said to
her father: “Father, shall I take your
Instruction, or shall I take mother’s
instruction? I am going to die now.
I must have this matter decided.” That
man, who had been loud In hts infideli
ty, said to bis dying daughter, "M\
dear, you had better take your mother’s
religion.” My advice Is the same to
you. O young man! You kuow how re
ligion comforted her; you know what
she said to you when she was dying.
You had better take your mother’s re
ligion.
[Copyright, IMt, Louis Kiopsch, N. Y.]
ANEW WEED.
Found Near Gaffney and Sent to tbe Botan
ist at Clemson College.
The following is taken from a recent
issue of tbe Carolina Spartan, and
tbe weed referred to waa found by
Capt. Petty, editor of the Spartan,
during one of bis visits to bis farm
near the city:
"In May we saw growing near
Gaffney a weed which was new to ua.
About the (irat of June it began to
bloom. It grows in thin land, on
the road sides and even in hard roads
that are little used. We sent a
sample to Prof. P. Rolfs, botanist of
Olemaon College, and in his reply he
says:
’The specimen is a species of plan
tain or rib-grass—botanically it is
plsntago aristata Mich. Micbaux
was a French botanist who spent
much time In South Carolina during
the early part of the 19th century.
During his stay here he discovered
mnch tbst was of intereat and even
went so far as to establish a botanic
garden on James Island, I believe.
It is near Charleston at least. A
portion of the Micbaux herbarium la
still at Charleston College. These
facts establish tbe fact that the plant
has been known in certain parts of
South Carolina.
It Is no value as food for cattle. It
Is not nutritious nor Is It relished.
It frequently becomes a noxious
weed in graes land and on lawns
To prevent Its seeding it should be
mown at this time—the specimens
you sent are in bloom.’”
He Kept HU LegT
Twelve years ago J. W. Sullivan,
of Hartford, Conn., scratched his
leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation
and blood poisoning set In. For two
years he suffered intensely. Then
the best doctors "Urged amputation,
"but,” be writes, "I used one bottle
of Electric Bitters and 1 1-2 boxes of
Buckien's Arnica Salve and my leg
was sound and well as ever.” For
Eruptions, Eczema, Tetter, Halt
Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders
Electric Bitters has no rival on earth.
Try them (Cherokee Drug Company
will guarantee satisfaction or refund
money. Only fit) cents
Educate Year Bowels With Cm*carets,
Candy Cathartic, cure constlpaMon JorcvM.
We,(So. It C.C. 0 fait,dru- -iswretuud
SOUTAERN RAILWAY ITEMS.
Information of IntereHt to Mnmmer Tntv-
elem by thu Groat Konto.
The Southern Railway having in
augurated "Gentlemen’s Club CArs",
on ths Washington and South-west
ern Limited between Atlanta and
A 1 ew York, making this one of >he
inest passenger trains in the United
States, has succeeded in obtaining as
one of the oars for use on thtse trains
Gentlemen’s Club Car “Atlantic,”
which was recently used b} President
McKinley on his tour to the Pacific
Coast.
No better guarantee of the elegance
of these club cars could be giveu than
that they are of the cla-.s of Pullman
equipment selected by the President
for his tour, which, as a matter of
course, is of the finest workmanship
and latest design.
The Southern Railway announces
summer tourist rates to Southern
coast resorts—the Isle of Palms, S.
C., St. Simons and Cumberland Is
land. Ga., Pablo Beach, Fla., More-
head City, N. C., etc.
Tickets now on sale.
For detailed information apply to
any agent of the Southern Railway
Company.
Hundreds of the most delightful
summer resorts and summer homes
on the Southern Railway are quickly
and comfortably reached. Asheville,
Hot Springs, Tryon, Hendersonville,
Warm Springs, Lithia Springs, Isle
of Palms, Cumberland Island, Old
Point Comfort, Virginia Beach, Buf
falo Lithia Springs, Virginia Hot
Springs, White Sulphur and Lookout
Mountain, “The Land of the Sky,”
“The Sapphire Region,” and many
other near by and distant mountain
retreats. Southera Railway also of
fers superior service and accomoda
tions to reach the great lake region,
the Alleghany and Adirondack
Mountains.
Don’t make a selection for a place
to spend the heated season until you
write tbe undersigned for descriptive
literature of any resort place in
America and a summer home folder.
R. W. Hunt, D. P. A., Charleston,
S. C.; S. H. Hardwick, G. P. A.,
Washington, D. C.; W. E. McGee,
T. P. A., Augusta, Ga.; W. H. Tay
lor. A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga.; J. D.
McGee, C. P. and T. A., Greenville,
S. C.
The Southern Railway, in connec
tion with the K. C. M. & B. R. R.
via Birmingham, has established on
day trains leaving Atlanta 6:00 a. m.
arriving Memphis 8:05 p. m., and
leaving Memphis 8:15 a. m., arriving
Atlanta 10:15 p. ra., magnificent ob
servation cafe cars. These cars are
of the latest improved plan and
afford most comfortable accomoda
tions and excellent meals. The
meals on these cars will be served on
A la Carte plan from an elaborate
bill of fare. The rear portion of the
cars form an observation smoking
room, supplied with the latest papers
and periodicals, which can be occu
pied at a moderate cost.
This through service is in addition
to the Pall man sleeping cars between
Atlanta and Memphis, leaving At
lanta 4:15 p. ra. and arriving Atlanta
at II :30 a. m.
On account of the National Grand
Temple, Mosaic Templars of America,
Birmingham, Ala., July 30-August 4,
Southern Railway announces rate of
one first class for the round trip from
all points ou its lines to Birmingham,
Ala. and return. Tickets to be sold
July 28th, 29th and 30th, final limit
August 6th, 1901.
You can never cure dyspepsia by
dieting. Wbat your body needs is
plenty of good food properly digested.
Then if your stomach will not digest
it, Koaol Dyspepsia Cure will. It
contains all of tbe natural digestauts,
hence must digest every class of food
and so prepare it that nature can
use it in nourishing the body and
replacing tbe wasted tissues, thus
giving life,-health, ambition, pure
blood and good healthy appetite.
Cherokee Drug Co.
A drapery store in Connecticut
to wo is said to be run by three men
named England, Ireland and Scotland.
They met for tbe first time in America.
Scotland married England’s sister,
and Ireland is engaged to another sis
ter. The son of tbe first union is
called Ireland England Scotland.
Those famous littie pills, DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers, compel your liver
and bowels to do tbeir du^y, thus
giving you pure, rich blood to recup
erate your body. Are easy to take.
Never gripe. Cherokee Drug Co.
There are indications that tbe in
auguration of civil government in the
Philippines will not take place until
August 1. Judge Taft, it is believed,
will be the first civil governor. Gene
ral Chaffee will succeed General Mc
Arthur as commander of the military
force.
A discarded swain In Harmoffi, W.
Va , has brought suit against his
former sw< etheart to recover $27.05.
which he sp* nt in ice cream and fried
oysters for her.
The piles that annoy you so will be
quickly and permanently healed if
;rou use DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve,
leware of worthless counterfeits.
Cherokee Drug Co.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve should
be promptly applied to cuts, burns
and scalds. It soothes and quickly
heals the Injured part. There are
worthless counterfeits, be sure to get
DeWitt's. Cherokee Drug Co.
— ■ -
Family .harmony is preserved by
tbe ants. It is ssserted by Sir John
Lubbock, the astronomer, that “dur
log tbe many years he had ants under
observation, he never saw anything
Ilk a quarrel between two ants of ths
same community.
It Is easier to keep well than get
cured. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
taken now and then, will always keep
your hovels In perfect order. They
never gripe but promote easy, gentle
action. Cherokee Drug Co.
There are from twenty-five to
thirty thousand consumptives in New
York city a year. There are 8.100
deaths from consumption. Promis
cuous expectoration by consumptives
is the chief factor Id the spread of
the disease.
How Ar* Your Kidney* t
Dr. flobbt' SparsfQt Pill* cure ell kidney UU. Sem
ple free. Add. Btarutis Reined y Co , Chlee«oev IT r.
A SUPERB GRIP CURE.
Johnson's Tonic Is a superb Grip cure.
Drtvssoat every trmv of Grin Polsoa from
the system. Does It tjulck. Within un hour
It enters the blood nud hexln* to neutralist 1
the effects of tho poison. Within u day It
places u Grip victim beyond the point of
tluoKcr. Within e week, ruddy checks attest
return of perfect health. Price. 5o cents If it
cures. As(^ for^uiyjnli Chill «ud Fever
S. C. & G. E, R. R. CO.
GENERAL PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
SCHEDULE; EffecrnTjuiie l5 L l90j_
Koatl Down Eastern Time. Read Up.
No.
No.
No.
N
O.
:u
STATIONS
32
No.
No.
11
'
3
D
D'
iy
34
12
A. M
A.
M.
P.
M.
P -
M
P. M.
p. If.
H
20
12
50
Lv Camden Ar
12
25
5 30
H
50
1
15
Dekalb
12
02
4 50
0
20
1
27
W estville
It
50
4 30
10
60
IHI
•Ker-diaw
It
35
4 10
11
20
12
Heatli Springs
11
20
3 15
12
20
37
Lancaster
10
55
2 37
12
40
• >
50
Riverside
10
40
2 00
80
3
10
Catawba Jet
10
20
1 30
4
on
8
40
Rock mu
10
(XI
12. on
4
45
4
02
Tirzah
9
;io
9 10
5
20
4
Ih
Yorkvllle
9
15
8 50
5
45
4
34
Sharon
9
(XI
8 15
0
1:5
4
50
Hickory Grove
H
45
7 50
A. M.
0
2o
5
00
Smyrna
8
:i5
7 30
P. M.
No.
Ar Lv
No.
11
0
50
5
20
Blacksburg
8
15
7 00
12
—
Lv Ar
—
6 45
5
25
Blacksburg
7
4i>
0 40
7 :rJ
.»
43
Karls
4
;i2
0 20
7 4.»
5
49
Patterson
«
25
0 12
H 'JO
r.
Ml
.Shelby
7
15
0 IX)
9 on
6
21
Luttimore
11
iio
4 50
9 10
tl
30
Moorsboro
0
4 40
9 :ir>
41
Henrietta
6
;<*
4 20
9 55
(1
59
Forest City
0
20
;i 69
10 30
7
15
Kulher ford ton
6
Of.
3 25
12 00
7
50
Thermal City
5
30
2 45
12 :t5
H
to
G len wood
5
15
2 20
1 00
8
80
Ar Marion Lv
5
(XI
2 00
No.
No.
Gaffney Branch.
No.
No.
15
13
14
16
p U).
a.
ni.
STATIONS
a.m.
p.m.
5 :<o
6
00
Lv
Blacksburg
Ar
7 50
7 20
0 10
0
40'A
r
Ga Ifnev
Lv
7 10
ti 40
Note: Trains Nos J2 and XI are operated
dally. Trains Nos 34. H5,11. iu’. 13, 14, 15 and
Iti art; operated tlaily except Sunday.
Connections: At Camden with rktuMiern
Railway, S. A. L. and A. U. Line; at Catawba
Junction with Sealxtard Air Line; at Lan
caster with L. & C. R. IL: at Rock Hill with
Southern Railway: at Yorkvllle with Caroli
na .V North-Western U. R.; at Blacksburg
with Southern Railway ; at Shelby and Ruth
"j.; at Marion witli
orfordtou with S. AT L.
Southern Railway
♦2U minutes for dinner.
E. H, SHAW,
Gen. Fuss. Agt.
SOUTHERN RAILWAYS
Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trata*.
In Effect Jsa. 2rth, 1901.
Korthboand.
Lv. Atlahta.CT
“ Atlanta,ET
“ Norcross
“ Buford.
“ Guinesvill*
“ Lula
“ Cornelia....
" Mt. Aliy...
Lt. T6000a... ..
Ar. E'berton.
Lv. Elberton,..
Lv. \V’minster.
“ Scceca.
" Central...
•• Greenville.
M Spur'burg
“ Gaffney.".
•* Blacksburg
“ King's Mt..
*• Gastonia.
•• Charlotte..
Ar. Gre’nsboro
Ar. Durham ..
Ar. Raleigh—
Ar. Danville.
Ar. Norfolk
Ar. Richmond..
Ar. W'hington
“ B’nioreP.R
“ Ph’delphia.
“ New York.
Southbound.
Lv. N.Y.,Pa.R.
“ Ph'delphia.
•* Baltimore..
" W'gsh’ton..
Lv. Richmond.
Lv. Norfolk..
Lv. Danville....
Lv. Raleigh....
Lv. Durham ...
Lv. Gro'nsboro
Ar. Charlotte..
Lv Gastonia..
" King's Mt.
“ Blacksburg
“ Gaffney
" Spur’burg.
“ Greenville
“ Central
“ Seneca
" Wmlnster.
" Toccoa...
Lv. fciberton..
Ar. Elberton.
Lv. Mt. AiryT"
" Cornelia..
“ Lula
" Gainesville
“ Buford.
“ Norcross.
Ar. Atlanta,ET
“ Atlanta.CT
No. 12.
Daily.
Ves.
No. 38.
Dally
Expr.
No. 34.
Daily
T fi'J a
8 50a
9 30 a
10 05 a
10 35 a
10 56 a
11 25 a
11 30a
11 53 a
9 00 a
12 31m
12 52 p
1 42 p
2 84 p
8 37 p
4 28 p
4 47 p
I 15 p
5 40 p
6 40 p
6 65 p
11 25p
8 80a
6 00 u
FstMa
No. 35.
Daily.
12 15 a
8 Ma
6 22 a
11 15 a
12 01 n
0 86a
5 48 p
8 60 p
4 43p
7 lOp
0 45 p
10 42 p
11 02 p
11 25 p
11 42p
12 28a
1 80a
2 82 a
11 53a
4 18a
4 36 a
6 02 a
6 25a
6 10 a
5 10 a
12 10m
1 00 p
2 25 p
8 38 p
Taop
4 Up
6 22 p
0 18 p
6 4Ap
7 02 p
8 18 p
10 47 p
8 52a
6 80a
11 66p
8 30a
6 00a
6 42a
8 00a
10 15 a
12 Aim
Ves.
No. 37.
Daily.
4 80p
0 56 p
0 20p
10 46p
11 OOp
7 40p
6 50a
1 00a
2 30a
7 06a
0 26a
10 45 a
10 58 a
11 84
12 80p
imp
up
000a
8 w P '
FstMa
No. 34
Daily.
12 20p
1 2up
2 uBp
2 87 p
3 08p
8 33 p
8 58 p
4 19 p
TSOp
T&5p
8 06 p
6 27 p
8 lOp
7 07p
7 43 p
7 57 p
8 17 p
8 36 p
oaop
11 44 p
8 52
6 80a
12 51a
8 30a
0 00a
7 85a
0 Ua
11 85 a
2 08p
No. 11
Daily
11 OOp
7 40p
0 10a
1 00a
280
7 87 a
12 05m
1 12 p
1 88 p
2 OOp
2 24 p
8 Up
4 30 p
6 40 p
0 09 p
0 29p
7 08 p
2 uup
8 14 p
8 J9p
7 36 p
7 40 p
8 lOp
8 32p
0 00i
9 8-.*p
10 15 p
9 Up
11 aop
12 80a
1 28a
113a
i 18a
188a
t 88a
inn
4 uba
4 28 a
486a
• 02a
is:
• 02a
8 97a
151 a
• 80a
12 28 p
• 28 p
• 25p
8 60p
11 86 p
8 80a
0 88a
Expr.
No. 8*.
Dally.
11 OOp
7 40p
4»a
1 00a
8 80a
• 48a
8 06a
8 51 •
8 12a
9 83a
9 48a
10 20a
11 U»
12 10 p
IS 80p
12 48 p
1 24 p
0 800
TftTp
iaop’
2 45]
8 171
8 62)
4 881
888
Ho. 11.
Ex.
Ban
4 56 p
8 65 p
Botwoen Lula uad Athens.
Ex.
Sun.
No. 13.
Dally.
STATIONS.
No. 12.
Daily.
10 60 a
10 14 a
9 54a
9 06a 8 80p
Lula with
zs*
8 56 p
8 20p
8 16p 11 05 a Lv. ..Lula .Ar
8 61 p 11 41 a " Muysville
• Up 12 Olm *• Harmony “
_10 OOp 12 50p Ar. Athens l Lv_
Note clone connection mad* at
main line trains.
-A” a m. "P" p. m. “M" noon. “N" nigh*.
Chrsapeak* Lin* Bt«am*rs In dally sarvloa
between Norfolk and Baltimore.
No* 87 and 88—“Washington and Boathwest
ern Limited.” Bolid Pulman train, being oora-
poaed exclusively of finest Pullman equipment
of latest design, through between New York
and Atlanta. Through Pullman sleeping can
between New York and N*w Ormans, via
Washington, Atlanta aud Montgomery and al
so between New York and Memphis, via Wash
ington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Elegant
Pullman Library observation cars between Ma
con and New York. Dining care serve all
meals enroute. Pullman sleeping cars between
Greensboro and Raleigh. No coach servioe on
this trsiu. These trams will stop at Gaines
ville, Lola, Toccoa. Seneca. Gaffney and Blacks
burg only to take on and let off peseangers fuf
and from Washington and beyond and for and
from Green rill e-Columbia and Bpartaabnrg-
Oolumbla lines. _ _
Nos. 88 and 84- “Atlanta and New York Ez-
saine numbers for end from Washington. New
York and the east, carrying through Pullman
Sleeping can between Charlotte and New York,
Charlotte and lUchmond md Norfolk. Leav
ing Washington Monday*. W#
edneedays and
Med
(ilngtoa to
Connection at
rs a tourist sleeping car will be operat
on this train through from Wash
Francisco without change
Greensboro with sleepers for Raleigh.
Pullman cars on this train between Atlanta
and Charlotte. Ample first and second class
soach accommodations for local and through
travel.
Nos. Hand 80—“United States Fast MsITruns
solid between Washington and New Orleans,
- A W . P B. R. and
poeod of cos
therat change for paieeufer* <
jllinsn drawing room sleeping cam
itween New York and New Orleans, via At
lanta and Montgomery and between Bir
in Ingham and Richmond. Dining cars serve
all meals en route.
Nos. II aud la-BeUd kxtl train between
\tisnta Close oonneotiun at
via Southern Railway. A. ft W. P. B. R. and
L. ft N. R. R-, being oompoeud of ooachea.
through without change for passengers of all
elasaeH.
betweei
Rli hnicsM) and At
Norfolk for Old Point Oonron*. t t
A'lwctal attention is called to above schedala
particularly the inauguration of Irstne Noe. ■
and 84. also that Noa 87 and88are msd*a»
elusive Pullman train, without oueob sevvloa-
tNKB, GANNON. •.■ HARDWICK.
V. P. ft Gen k
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