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I TALMAGE SERMON * By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby terian Ohurcb, Chicago Chicago, Aug. 31.—Sound advice in view of the uncertainty of life is given in this sermon by liev. F. De Witt Tnl- mnge on the text Isaiah xxxviii, 1. “Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die.” I am going to stay aboard this planet as long as I can. When the time comes for me to die, I believe sufficient grace will be given to me with which to die. But I have never felt less like dying than at the present time. My home was never so happy, my friends never more kind, my work never more ab sorbing. Present earthly life is inex pressibly sweet to me. I feel in refer ence to it a great deal as did Christo pher North, the physical and literary athlete, who. with his friends and chil dren. used to race over the heather of old Scotland, his yellow curls a-flying in the winds, singing and shouting as he ran. because he was bubbling over with joy and animal spirits. 1 am in love with the world because I like the people who are in it. But. though earthly life may be a priceless boon to some people as well as to myself, yet there must come to all a time when we shall have to die. Perhaps, like Hezekiah of my text, who besought Cod by prayer to in crease his earthly day. we may be aide to prolong our existence ten, lifteen or even twenty years by rigidly obeying the well tested physical laws of health. Dio Lewis, the great lecturer upon hy giene, once declared that every normal healthy child born into the world ought to live to be at least 100 years old. He asserted that nearly all the members of the human race do not live out half their earthly life be cause they do not eat the right kind of food, wear the proper clothing and take the proper amount of exercise. But though the longevity of the hu man race might be increased to 100 or even 200 years, though the present gen eration might be able to reach the two hundredth and fiftieth milestone which marks the highway of life's journey Instead of only the twentieth or fif tieth or seventieth milestone, yet for every man and woman there must come at last an end to earthly exist ence. The Bible distinctly and em phatically states it. All history proves it. Though Dio Lewis himself rigidly practiced the laws of health which his keen and far reaching intellect framed; though he only ate just enough food to replenish the amount of waste tissue; though he wore the proper clothing and daily took the proper amount of physical exercise, yet Dio Lewis him self had to die. So the same words of warning which the prophet Isaiah brought to the sick ruler in the ancient Jerusalem palace I bring to you. They are just as pertinent for the present generation as they were to the Hebrew king who lived nearly 3,000 years ago. The First Steps Necessary. In anticipating his earthly demise a common sense man should in the first place set his temporal house in order. That means he should, if necessary, get bis life insured. He should make out bis last will and testament. He should appoint the executors of bis es tate, and the future guardian of bis children. He should explain the de tails of his business and Invest bis moneys in such a manner as that his executors can easily carry out bis plans. He should train up his chil dren or his lieutenants so that they may carry on his work after be is dead. He should, if desirable, buy his family plot and make all arrange ments for the last resting place of him self and his loved ones. We have con tempt for the man who has so little interest in the temporal welfare of his wife and children that be will not make a last will and testament “But Mr. Talmage," answers some one, “I would do as you say. but I am very superstitious about this matter of making a will. I intend to make a will and fix up my temporal affairs when I feel that my life is drawing to an earthly close, but not now. I have al ways superstitiously felt that when a man makes bis last will and testament he will certainly die before the year is out. Therefore I want to postpone making my will as long as possible.” Although I am, comparatively speak ing, a young man, yet I have had a great deal of experience in sickrooms and by deathbeds, and, my brother, I want to warn you as a friend that in all probability when you come to die you will not have any time to fix np your estate and make an intelligent will and last testament In all proba bility you will be in such physical and mental weakness Chat you will not have enough strength to do anything else but lie in your bed and murmur a few words of farewell until you are gone. Therefore, my brother, what you want to do in reference to setting your temporal house in order through the influence of your last will and tes tament you bad better do right away. When death comes, your brain may be too feeble to plan and your fingers too trembling to bold a pen. Furthermore, my friend, that state ment of yours about being supersti tions in reference to making a will is .very foolish. It is aa foolish as the su perstition some people have about sitting one of thirteen at a table or looking at the new moon over the wrong shoulder or carrying a new born babe downstairs before ne is car ried upstairs. It is so foolish that I am surprised it should be anywhere entertained among intelligent people. (Too will not die because you make your last will a:to ■ lament, but you ought to make your last will and testa ment in reference to your temporal af fairs because your death is inevitable. "Set thine house in order.” A ({ucMliiMi Aiinweri-d. “But, Mr. Talmage,” says some oth er, “what is the good of making a last will and testament? 1 have nothing to leave except the few clothes in my wardrobe, and there are not many of them. 1 am a clerk on a comparative ly small salary. 1 live up to the last cent of my income, and I cannot af ford to insure my life for the benefit of my children.” Mj brother, that is a very b»-ave and frank statement to make. You say it is useless for you to make a last will and testament because you hail' noth ing to leave and you cannot afford to even get your life insured. If you, a great, big. strong man, are having such a hard time to make a living, what will your physically weak wife do with a big brood of little ones strap ped upon her back when you are dead? If it is so hard for you to swim in the current of life and keep your head above the waters, how will she, a poor widow, be able to do it when your strong arm is gone? Will the world be kinder to her than it is to you? Has the cruel world ever been any gentler or extended a more helpful hand to a wife and mother who is left a poverty stricken widow than it has for you? Mark you, for what most men fool ishly squander every year, for the money they spend for cigars and lux uries, for theater tickets, fishing ex cursions and baseball games, clubs and parties, they could get their lives insured for enough, and more than enough, to support and educate their children long after they are dead. Fur thermore, my brother, if you are not willing to economize in your selfish in dulgences for the physical maintenance and mental development of your chil dren by insuring your life, then your professed love for your wife and chil dren is a mere insincere profession of the lips and not of the heart. “Set j thine house in order.” “But.” I hear some one saying, “the i temporal aspects of this text do not ; affect me at all. I do not have to get ; my life insured. I am not poor. I am j one of the wealthiest merchants of this city. I am building up a fortune, which is growing larger every day. If my wife or children wish to buy any thing, all that they have to do is to go down to the city stores and charge the | same to me. I pay for all their lux- ' urics without a murmur. Besides that, I have made a last will and testament | and left them everything.” Yes; your statement may be all true. But, my successful merchant friend, have you literally set your temporal house In order? Have you taken your wife into your business confidence so that she knows your plans and ideas? Have you ever made her your business confidant so that she would be able to take care of the money and the busi ness after you are dead? Have you taught her the difference between the stability of a government bond and a Wall street speculation in stocks? Have you ever taught her the neces sity of taking a receipt? Why, the wife and the mother of your children may be as helpless as a little child iu refer ence to business matters after you are dead. She might be so helpless that the executors Could swindle her out of her money as easily as you could cheat In business a five-year-old lad. Leave your wife sense as well as cents; leave her brains as well as bonds. “Set thhie house in order.” Make Wlee Provisions. One of the dearest friends of our family some years ago was left a I widow with $300,000. Her executor persuaded her to Invest the same In railroad stocks so that she might have a million dollars. She went into Wall street and speculated. Today she Is absolutely penniless. Make no such mistake in reference to your wife as that husband made in reference to bis wife, who was our family friend. The old proverb trenchantly teaches that “any fool can make money, but it takes a very wise man to keep it.” When you set your temporal house in order, see that your loved ones will be able to care for the money which you will l>equeath them. See that the money which you will leave will not be able to slip througb their fingers as water can run througb a sieve. But my text has a wider scope than the mere fixing up of the temporal house. In anticipating his earthly de mise a common sense man should set his spiritual as well as his temporal house In order. He should prepare for his own eternal journey over the river of death, besides looking after the tem poral interests of the members of the household be is going to leave behind. Unless a man has taken a long journey away from home, a Journey which runs up Into the months and perhaps Into the years, he can have no concep tion of the Immense amount of prep aration necessary. In the first place, be must get bis letter of credit drawn up and signed. It would be practically impossible to start on a journey around the world, as I did some years ago, and carry enough gold and silver with you to pay all your necessary expenses. Why, the gold and silver would be as heavy as a satchelful of lead. Besides, the gold and silver that are stamped in the American mint would not be ac ceptable In foreign lands. Every coun try has its own system of national cur rency. Further, if a traveler should be weighed dowu with a satchelful of coin he would io all probability be waylaid by some thief and murderer and slain for his gold. So It Is the cus tom of the traveler about to start on s long journey to buy a letter of credit He peys to the cashier of any one of our great American banking houses, like Brown Bros, or J. P. Morgan ft Co., a certain amount of money. That bank gives him a letter of credit, and be can get the money noted In the let ter of credit cashed by the agents of that bank In almost every city of the wt.rkl. If you are going into any dan- giv -us region it is also very important for you to have a passport. This pass port, signed by the secretary of state at Washington, is a notification that you are ; American citizen. If any foreign insults or maltreats you, that mu. .il have to answer for the insult to the United Stall's government. GefilnK un Ktcrnnl Pnaaport. Now. my friend, as you have to take an eternal journey, as perhaps in the very near future you will have to leave this old planet and go Into the endless life beyond, what spiritual preparation have you made for the momentous embarkation? Have you made the proper spiritual preparation for the journey which shall take you into a country where you would like to live through endless eternity, where you would like to live until time itself shall be no longer? Have you in readi ness for this eternal journey a letter of credit made out at the Bank of Di vine Grace? Have you an eternal pass port written in red ink—written in the blood which flowed out of the wounded side of a dying and an atoning Christ? If you have not such a letter of credit, you are ill prepared, you are lost in deed, even though in this world you had all the wealth of a Rothschild, a Vanderbilt, a Rockefeller or an Astor, even though you once on earth lived in as magnificent a mansion us did Dives of old, at whose gate the dogs were licking the sores of a dying beg gar. Shrouds have no pockets, and a skeleton’s bony fingers can hold no gold, and all your worldly riches will then be but dross, which you cannot carry with you on that last journey. But, if you have the let'ter of credit of divine grace and the passport stamped with the crimson seal of Calvary, then the long journey will be accomplished safely, and the gates of the New Je rusalem will be opened unto you, no matter how financially poor you may have been on earth, because you are pleading there for admittance in Christ's name. Henry Clews tells us that when old Cornelius Vanderbilt, the richest man of his day, lay dying, turning his back upon his $90,000,000 as though he had been the poorest outcast in the street, he had to ask his Christian wife to pray for him and sing one of the old Christian hymns which she had learned in her father’s house. May we, one and all, never make the mistake the aged millionaire made in trying to fix up our divine passport at the last mo ment. May we, long before our earthly demise, apply at the Bank of Grace for a letter of credit which will* suc cessfully carry us through the dark days when we are dying and be suffi cient for us until we realize the bright and triumphant advent of a heavenly welcome. The houis. Lunar Journey. The simile of death as a long jour ney away from the family fireside is very striking. When a man takes a long earthly journey, he is very apt to gather his family about him and say. “If I should take this journey, in all probability I will return borne at such and such a time,” or if the father is going into a new country to establish another home he says to his children: “After 1 am settled there and find ev erything all right you can sell the goods and pack up and come to me.. I will be in such and such a place at such and such a time.” Or perhaps the man who is about to take a long jour ney will do as my father and myself did when we started on our journey around the world. We were to set sail from San Francisco and go by the way of the Sandwich Islands, Samoa, Australia and India. It was a long, hard Journey, and mother was phys ically unable to undertake it So fa ther said: “Mother, you take the two girls and go to Europe and meet Frank and myself as we come around the world. Meet us either at Briudisi or In Paris or Ixmdon.” So mother set sail from New York and went east. Father and myself set sail from San Francisco, going west. We were all to meet by a preconcerted plan at the French capital. My brother, as you must take this long journey through the valley of the shadow of death with the divine pass port In your bands, how cun you ever expect to rejoin your loved ones unless you make previous arrangements with them where to meet? Having a letter of credit at the Bunk of Grace, you say you expect to Journey to the Celes tial City. Have you ever told your loved ones about that city? Have you ever told them how to get to that cen ter of the universe? Have you ever told them there Is only one way to reach your destination, and that la for them to obtain forgiveness of their sins by the blood of the Lamb, so that their heavenly advent shall be made pos sible? If It is important for you to make spiritual preparatious tor the journey of death by being washed in the Saviour’s blood. Is it not just as Important for your loved ones to be cleansed by the same blood? You should tell your loved ones how they can be cleansed from sin a* surely ss the guide, many years ago, told the traveler bow bis body could be cleansed as be became covered over with a swarm of leeches when be was ford ing a shallow river in Burma. In hor ror the foreigner began to pall them off, for the vampires were draining away bis life’s strength. But the guide bade him cease or be would destroy himself. Then the guide prepared a bath in which be diluted some herbs, the juices of which were fatal to the life of the leech. Then be directed the traveler to lie down In the prepared waters, and Immediately his body waa freed from the vile aquatic worms. Hava yon ever told your loved ones that the only way they can m'set yon In heaven la by bathing themselves In the blood of the Lamb, so that the fa tal worm of sin which Is sucking at their hearts shall fall off and die? I would plead with you, men and women, who are trying to set your house in order, to look after the spir itual welfare of your loved ones as well as your own. because I do not un derstand how heaven can ever be a truly and entirely happy place for any man who has neglected to look after the spiritual interests of those who on earth were near and dear to him. I know that the Bible distinctly declares that heaven is to be a bright and a happy place; but, for one, I think that even celestial happiness would be mar red if, when we are safely there, we were conscious that our loved ones had missed their opportunity of com ing in through our own neglect to tell them the way to the great white throne. I well remember in our jour ney around the world how the heart ached when In faroff Australia father and I received a cablegram that moth er was sick and had to return to Amer ica and could not meet us in Paris. I well remember how anxiously we two, 12,000 mill's from homo, looked at each other. Then we began to worry about the illness which some months later ended my mother’s earthly life. And, oh, if we were disappointed by not meeting my mother in the French cap ital, how much more disappointed will some of us be, when we reach heaven, if we should feel that our brothers and sisters and husbands and wives, fa thers and mothers and children, should have been in any way prevented join ing rs in heaven and especially if the obstn le has been one of our making! For my own part, I can sympathize a great deal with the prayer aJkveeplng ! wife once made by the bedside of her husband, whom she supposed to be asleep. With the tears raining down her checks she said: “O God, save ray husband! Save my dear, dear hus band! And. if by any means my own sinful life has made him turn his back upon thee, then blot out my name from the book of life, if thou wilt! Only save him!” My brother and sister, preparing for the groat and eternal journey beyond the grave, I beg of you at this critical time to look after the spiritual interests of your loved ones and those who are near to you. But there is one overwhelming thought about my text upon which I love to dwell. If we go to the throne of grace in the right spirit of prayer, God will let every one of us live as long as is necessary to do the work he wants us to do in his name. When the prophet Isaiah entered the royal palace of Jerusalem and said to the sick Hezekiah, “Thus saith the Lord, set thine house in order, for thou shalt die,” the king turned his face toward the wall and began to weep. Hezekiah was not weeping because he had to die. He was not afraid to die. But he wept because he could not accomplish for God and his people that which seemed necessary for him to do. Then, In answer to Hezeklab’s prayer, God said to Isaiah the prophet, “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears. Behold, 1 will add uuto thy days fifteen years.” So today, if, like Hezekiah, we will pray in the right spirit, God will let most of us live Jong enough to carry the gospel message to all of our dear ones as well as to spiritually prepare for our own eternal journey. But as our earthly time is short, in order to make this spiritual preparation our selves and to help make the spiritual preparation of our loved ones by bring ing them to the Saviour, we must con secrate ourselves to the Lord’s service now. By the power of the Holy Spirit we must consecrate our lives to God’s work as we have never consecrated them before. We must so eat and drink and breathe and talk and pray that we shall make Christ the supreme ruler of our lives so that in all things we may do nothing inconsistent with our allegiance to him. Are you and 1 like Hezekiah—ready to surrender our lives entirely to the Divine Master’s will? “Christ or Diana f” Some of us have seen the noted pic ture which bears the title “Christ or Diana?” The central figure is a beau tiful girl, with one of the sweetest, noblest faces ever painted by an art ist’s brush. With true dramatic pow er the master has surrounded that young girl with all the horrors of a Neronlan persecution. There in the background of the picture is the am phitheater in which wild beasts are tearing the martyrs to pieces and crunching the bones of the slain. There are the torches made out of the living bodies of men and women, cov ered with pitch, who are dying for their belief In the lowly Nazarene. There are the gnm faced Roman sol diers. There is the pleading lover, as well as the pleading mother and fa ther, begging the young girl to re nounce her belief In her Saviour. And there the young maiden stands be tween the altar of a heathen God and the solemn upright cross, upon which is banging the bruised body of a dead Christ That picture may be dramatic and powerful; but, oh, my brother, there is a truer scene being enacted here to day. As I speak the words of my text your own eternal redemption, as well as that of all your loved onec, is pleading with yon. They are pleading with you to stop worshiping at the altar of Caeaar, which la the altar of sin. They are pleading with you be cause If yon do not cease to bow be fore sin’s altar you shall surely die But If yon will in the few years that are left on earth bow before the cross and accept Christ as your Saviour you shall oteraally live And If you here and now consecrate your life aright to the Divine Master's service your loved onee, by bearing the gospel message from your Ufe, may eternally live also. May the Holy Spirit lead every one of as to make the right preparations for Ibe Imminent Journey through the lark valley of the shadow of death. [Copyright, IMS. by Louis Klopsch.] FOR BETTER ROADS. New Asnoolullon Formed to Improve American IfUvl:way*. Ever f’.uce the automobile became a fashionable fad the forecast has often been made thr.t the sentiment for good roads would at last be given a winning neadwuy in all parts of the country, says the Washington Star. It was felt that some such force was necessary to Convince state legislatures of the ne cessity of passing effective good ron<!s laws and that the influences behind the automobile industry and use would forward the campaign for such ends. But for some reason the movement has lagged until now. Recently there was organized in New York city “the Associate Road Users of America" under the initiative of some of the foremost automobilists of the metropolis. The association is a composite of all the interests concerned in the betterment of the American highways, the automobollsts. the cy clists, the road drivers and the truck owners. This combination insures an active campaign not only for better highways in the country, but for good city pavements. The association is pledged to secure both and to work for the satisfactory regulation of traffic, the erection of street signs and road guideposts, the proper lighting of streets and high ways, the prohibition of the obstruc tion of the highways with destructive materials or their flooding with water and particularly the strict enforcement of all speed ordinances. The League of American Wheelmen did wonderful work In overcoming the inertia of the rural districts and in stimulating the state legislatures in the good roads movement. But It had a long, hard fight and did not accom plish all that was to be done. The country is so vast, the habit of permit ting the roads to remain in semidisre- pair is so fixed, the cost of scientific road making on the great American scale is so enormous, that the wheel men found themselves only the leaven in the great lump. Their influence, however, was excellent and produced results which have been effectively supplemented by the government’s work and by the few associations of automobollsts near the large -cities. The association of the interests de scribed will permit a great member ship, covering many states, and good results should soon flow from the or ganization. AMERICAN HIGHWAYS. Foley’s Honey ana Tar 'urea colds, prevents pneumonia. One Minute Gough Cure For Coughs, Colds and Croup. FOR Un-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Director Dodge on the Importance of Good Itondn. In a country as large as that In which we live, with the greater part of its producing regions widely sepa rated from the markets which they serve, the matter of transportations is one of vast importance, writes the lion. Martin Dodge, director of the of fice of public road inquiry, in the Fo rum. This applies particularly to our agricultural products; for, while a great portion both of our manufac tured output and of our farm growth must be moved long distances by rail or water before reaching a market, practically all of the latter must also be transported for greater or less dis tances over the public highways. The question of marketing these agricul tural products, amounting in the Unit ed States to $1,000,000.000 annually, on terms that the dealer can afford to pay and the grower to accept often reduces itself to a question of cheap and quick delivery—In other words, to a question of economical transportation. It has been shown by mathematical demonstration that it costs more to move a bushel of wheat or a ton of hay ten miles over the average coun try roads of the United States than to transport the same burden 500 miles by railway or 2,000 miles by steam ship. It has happened many times in different parts of the country that farmers have let crops go to waste be cause the cost of hauling them to the nearest market or railway shipping point over wretched and ill kept roads amounted to more than could be real ized for them afterward, whereas if good roads on which heavy loads could be hauled bud been at band the same crops could have been marketed at a small profit to the producer, while the economic gain resulting from their ap plication to useful puritoses would have been very considerable. Provide For Innpeetlnn and Repair. Wherever improved roads are made there should be provision for their maintenance, and maintenance should mean weekly inspection of them and immediate repair of every little break, says the New York Tribune. Where roads are built with state aid, under the present excellent law, such Inspec tion and repair are matters of state as well as of local concern, and It would be well to have some formal under standing or agreement upon it between the state and the local authorities. This is the more desirable since the extent of state aided roads is rapidly increas ing and will doubtless in future in crease still more rapidly. It is true, as the state engineer reports, that the roads which have been built give un qualified satisfaction to the people who use them and In nearly every case lead to a demand for farther extension of the system. RomS. Mast Bs Paid Far. The only way we can ever expect to build and have good roads in this state Is by contract and by taxation, and we have advocated this coarse for eome time, says the Newberry (N. C.) Herald. In fact, we feel sore that even those of our citizens who are most afraid of taxation and bold np their hands in holy horror at the suggestion of an Increase in taxation would cease all opposition after using some good roads and would become the moat ar dent and enthusiastic advocates ot taxation for roadbuilding. We believe thoroughly in advertising. To prove it we are going to use this space for our own pur poses. We have advertis ing space to sell, and we know it will pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best homes in thi* community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. The news it brings is news of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what you had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he could procure elsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would be con* fined to one person. You could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. You do not believe it would have the same ef fect? If you told the story in the same way it would. We are ready to do our part to prova it. Do yon care to try it? ft ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ l Southern Railway Schedule. Trains from Atlanta. Greenville. Spartan burg, etc., for Charlotte, Washington, etc. (daily 40, Ex- .(dally) 6:40 p m. No. stops at Gaffney on signal t<> take on passengers for Washington and beyond. Trains from Washington, Charlotte, etc., for Spartanburg, Greenville, Atlanta, etc., puss Gaffney: No. 30, Express, (daily) 0:53 a. m: No. 35. Fast Mail, (dally) 11:42 p. m; No. 11 (dally) 2:27 p. m; No. 37. Limited, (daily) 10:50 a.m. No. 37 stops at Gaffney on signal »o let. off passengers trom Washington. Through trains for Washington 'and th East. Connections at Atlanta for all point *20 nr inutes fordinner. Nora: Trains Nos 32 and 33 are operated dally. Trains Nos 34.35, 11. 12. 13, 14, 15 and 10 are operated dally except Sunday. CO.N'NKCTIONH MAUK BY SOUTBOCBD TBAIXS. At Marion: No. 32 connects at Marlon with Southern Uy train No. 30 which arrives at Marion at H:2M a. m„ from Chattanooga, Ashe ville and Intermediate points. At Blacksburg: No. 34 and No. 11 connect with Southern Uy train No. 30 which arrives at Blacksburg at 7:45 a. m., from Atlanta, Greenville, Spartanburg and Intermediate points. At Yorkvllle: No. 34 connects with CAN. W. train No. 70 which leaves Yorkvllle at 10:4s a. m., for GHStonl*. Lenoir and inter- m ed I atl points. At Uock Hill: No’s32 and 34 connect with Southern Ry train No. 75 which leaves Bock Hill at 3:30 p. m., for Chester, Columbia and Intermediate points. At Catawba Jet: No’s S! and 34 connect wltb S. A. L. train No. 32 which passes Ca tawba Jet at 7:54 p. rn.. for Monroe and Inter mediate points. At Lancaster: No’s 32 and 34 connect with L. A C. train No. 16 which leaves Lancaster at 4:45 p. m., for Chester and Intermediate points* At Camden with A. C. L. (N. W. of S. C.) for Charleston, Sumter, Florence. Darlington, Wilmington and Intermediate points. Train No. OH which leaves Camden at 4:15 p. m OOVRBCTIONS MAPE BY MOUTHBofTPD THA1NS. At Camden: With A. C. L. (N. W. of S. C.) No. 71 from Charleston. Florence, Darlington. Wilmington and Intermediate points, which arrives at Camden at 11:15 a. m.; with South ern By train No. 77 which arrives at Camden at 11;» a- m. from Kingsville At Lancaster: No-33 connects at Lancaster with L. A C. train No. 10 for Chester and In* termediate points. At Bock Hill: No’s Zl and 35 connect at Bock Hill with Southern By train No. M. leaving Bock Hill at 8:30 p. id., for Charlotte and points north. At Blacksburg: No. SSconneets with South ern By trains No 12 at 4:30 p. in.. No. 3H at 7:00 p. m. and No. 40 at 7;46 p. m. for points north. No’s33 and 35connect* with Southern By train No. 35, leaving Blacksburg at 11:25 p. m.. for poinusouth. At Marlon: No33 connects with S uthern By train No. 35. leaving Marlon at II :40 p. m . for Asheville, Chattanooga and Intermcdlst* points. Through car service without change lie* tween Marlon and Charleston on trains No’s M and 33. fc. H StiAW. Urn. I" *• Agt