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T MK SUMTER WATCHMAN, Eatabliahed April. 1S50. "3e Just and Fear noe-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's." THE TXUZ SOCTHKON, Established Jone I2n6 Consolidated Aag. 2,1881. . SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. -JANUARY 17,1900. New Series-ToL XIX. So.25 CHAPTER VIII. What is that to Ihc-e? Follow thou rr.?. When Rollin started down the st that afternoon thai Jasper stood lo ?3 ont of his window, he was not thin! of Rachel Winslow and did not ex to see her anywhere. He had come : denly upon her as she rn rn ed into avenue, and his heart had leaped u the sight of her. Ke walked alonj her now rejoicing, after all, in a li moment of this earthly love he cc not drive ont cf his life. **I have just been over to see1 ginia." said Rachel ''She tells me arrangements are nearly completed the transfer of the Rectangle propert "Yes; it has been a tedious cas< the courts. Did Virginia show yon tiie plans and specifications for bu ings?" "We looked over a good many. I astonishing to me where Virginia managed to get all her ideas about 1 work." "Virginia knows .more now ab Arnold Toynbee and east end Lon< and institutional church work in Arc ica than a good many professional si workers She has been spending nea all slimmer in getting informatioi Rollin was beginning to feel more ease as they talked over this corni work for humanity. It was safe cc mon ground. "What have yon been doing all sn mer? I have not seen much of vor Kachel suddenly asked, and then ] face warmed with its quick flush tropical color, as if she might have i plied too much interest in Rollin or 1 much regret at not seeing him of rene "I have been busy," replied Roi briei?y. "Tell me something about it," p? gisted Rachel "You say so little Ha ? a right to ask?" \ She put the question very franki; terning toward Rollin in real interest "Yes, certainly," he replied, with grateful smile. "I am not so certai that I can tell you much. I have bee trying to find some way to reach -tl men I once knew and win them inl more useful lives." .He stopped suddenly, as if he wei llmost afraid to go on. Rachel did ni venture to suggest anything. "I have been a member of the san; company to which you and Virginia b< long," continued Rellin, beginnin again. "I have made the pledge to d as I believe Jesus would do, and it i in trying to answer this question ths I have been doing my work. ' ' "That is what I do not understand Virginia told me about the other. 1 "^?eems wonderful to think that you ar trying to keep that pledge with us. Br; what can you do with the clubmen?" "You have asked me a direct ones t?on. and I shall have to answer i now," replied Rollin, smiling again ""You see, I askid myself after tba night at the. tent, yon remember"-h spoke hurriedly, and his voice tremble a little-"what purpose I could no\ Jhave in my life to redeem it, to satisf; my thought of Christian discipleship and the more I thought of it the more was driven to a place where I knew must take np this cross. Did yon eve think that cf all the neglected being in our social system none are quite s completely left alone as the fast youn; men who lill the clubs and waste thei time and money as I used to? Th churches look after the poor, miserai?! creatures like those in the Rectangle they make some efcert to reach th workingmen, they have a large cen stitueney among the average salar earning people, they sen3 money an< missionaries to the foreign heathen, bu the fashionable, dissipated young mes around town, the clubmen, are left ou: of all plans for r-. : . hing and Christian izing. and yet no class of people need: it more. I said to myself: -i know-these men. tle-ir good and bad qualities. ] have be. n one of them. I <-;ia not fiitec to reach the Rectangle people. I do noi knowhow. But I think ? could possibly reach some of these young men anc boys who have money and time t< spend.' So that is what I have bee:] trying to do. When I asked, as yon did. 'What would Jesus do V that was my answer It has been also my cross. Rollin's voice was so low on the last sentence that Rachel had difficulty in hearing him above the noise around them, but she knew what he had said. She wanted to ask what his methods were, but she did not know just hov,* to ask him. Her interest in his plans was larger than mere curiosity. Rollin Page was so different now from the fashion? able young man who had asked her to be his wife that she con Id not help thinking of him and talking with him as if he were entirely a new acquaint? ance. They had turned off the avenue and were going np the street to Rachel's home. It was the same street where Rollin had asked Rachel why she could not love him. They were both stricken by a sudden shyness as they went on. Rachel had not forgotten that day. and Rollin conld not forget it. She finally broke a long silence by asking him what she had not found words for before. "In yonr work for the clubmen, with your old acquaintances, what sort of reception do they give you? How do yon approach them? What do they say?" Rollin was silent when Rachel spoke. He answered after a moment: "Oh, it depends on the man! A good many of them think I am., a crank. I ? have kept my membi rs?ip np and ; in good ? [anding in that way. 1 t ! be wise and not provoke any unn : sary criticism, but yon would be [ prised to bow how many of the have responded to my appeal. I c hardly make yon believe that or few nights ago a dozen men bec h<westly and earnestly engaged : j conversation over religions quest: j I have had the great joy of seeing : I of the men give up bad habits an( gin a new life. "What would Jesus I keep asking it. The answer c( slowly, for I am feeling my way al One thing I have found out-the are not fighting shy of me. I tl I that is a good sign. Another thim j have actually interested some of t j in the Rectangle work, and when i ! started up they will give somethin I help make it more powerful, and addition to all the rest, ? have foul way to save some of the young feD from going to the bad in gambling. Rollin spoke with enthusiasm, face was transformed by his inter?s the subject which had now becon part of his real life. Rachel again n( the strong, manly, healthful tone his speech. With it ail she knew w? deep, underlying seriousness which the burden of the cross even while < rying it with joy. The next time spoke it was with a swift feeling justice due to Rollin and his new Iii "Do you remember I reproached ; once for not having any purpose wo living for?" she asked, while her be tiful face seemed TO Rollin more be tiful than ever when he had won sr cient self control to look up. "I w, to say I feel the need of saying, in j tice to you now, that I honor you your courage and your obedience your promise. The life you are liv: now is a very noble one. ' ' j Rollin trembled. His agitation v ; greater than he could control. Rac could not help seeing it. They wall i along in silence. At last Rollin sa i 'T thank you. It has been more th I I can tell to hear yon say that." '. j looked into her face for one momei She read his love for her in that lo< ! but he did not speak. WThen they separated, Rachel we i into the house, and, sitting down I her room, she put her face in her han and said to herself: "I am beginni: to know what it means to be loved I noble man. I shall love Rollin Pas after all. What am I saying ? R?ci Winslow, have you forgotten'' I She rose and walked back and fort I She was deeply moved. Nevertheless was evident to herself that her <?inoti< was not that cf regret or sorrow. Som how a glad, new joy had come to he She had entered another circle of e perience, and later in the day she r joiced with a very strong and since gladness that her Christian diseiplosh found room for this crisis in her fe< ing. It was indeed a part of it. for ! she were beginning to love Rollin j was the Christian man who bad w< j her heart. The other never would ha' j moved her to this great change, i And Rollin as he went back treasur; ? a hope that had been a stranger t<> hi: j since Each:-! had said no that day. 1 j that hope he went on with Iii.- w< rk . j tho days sped on. arid at no time v. ; he more successful in reaching and s:r j ing his old acquaintances than in il j time that followed that chance med::: i with Rachel Winslow. ! The summer had gone, and Raymon ? was once more facing the rigor of Ix ? winter season. Virginia had bern ab] to accomplish a part of her pla.:: f< "capturing the Rectangle," as si: I called it. but the building of houses i I tiie field, th?' transforming of lis bleai . bare aspect into an attractive park, a ?tf which was included in her plan, wa i a work t;>'? larg*? to be completed tba fall after si;" had secured th" property . Bn? a million dollars in the hands of person who really wants T-J do with i as Jesus would ought t?> accomplis] wonders for humanity in a short time and Henry Maxwell, going over io th : scene of the new work one day after ? ; noon hour with the shopmen, wa j amazed to see how much had been don' i outwardly. ' Yet he walked home thoughtfully j and his way lie could not avoid th< j question of the continual problem thrus I into his notice by the saloon. Hov i much had been done for the Rectangle j after all".' Even counting in Virginia': j and Rachel's work and Mr. Gray's i where had it actually counted in anj j visible quantity'/ Of course he said t< I himself that the redemptive work begui ! and carried on by the Holy Spirit ir ! his wonderful displays of power in th? : First church and in the tent meeting* I had had its effect on the life of Ray j mond, but as he walked past saloon aft ; er saloon and noticed the crowds goinii j in and coming ont of them, as he saw I the wretehed dens, as many as ever ap? parently, as he caught the brutality and squalor and open misery and degrada? tion on countless faces of men and women and children, lie sickened at the 1 sight. He found himself asking how j much cleansing could even a million ! dollars poured into this cesspool accom j plish? Was not the living source ?>f j nearly all the human misery they i sought to relieve untouched as long as ! thes*- saloons did their deadly but legi ti - ; mate work'.' What could ?-ven such nn ? selfish Christian discipleship as Vir j gilda's and Rachel s do to lessen the j stream of vice so long as the great spring of vice and crime flowed as deep and strong as ever? Was it not a prac ! ticaj waste of beautiful livea for these ^?r^MM^-mn . ?MIMI i i i . n i i - ? . young women io tnrow themseivt this earthly heil when for ever j rescued by their sacrifice the : made two more that needed rec:': i He could not escape the questio ; was the sa?n:' that Virginia Lai ] ; Reich'-1 in her statement that, i; opinion, nothing really would ev j done until the saloon was taken ? the Rectangle. Henry Maxwell : back to his parish work thai .-iii'' with added convictions en the li business. Bat. if the saloon were a fact ihr- problem of the life of RaymOn less were the First church anti its company of disciples who had ph themselves io ?lo as J. sus wonI< Henry Maxwell, standing at the center cf the movement, was not position to judge of its power as one from the outside might have < but Raymond itself felt the ton this new discipleship and was ch;-. in very many ways, not knowing the reasons for the change. The winter liad gone, and the was ended, the year which Henry ! well had fixed as the time dt which the pledge should be kept ; as Jesus would do. Sunday, the ? versary of that one a year ago. Wi many ways the most remarkable the First church ever knew. It more important than the disciple the First church realized. The year made history so fast and so serious the people were not yet able to g its significance, and the day it ! which marked the completion c whole year of such discipleship, characterized by such revelations ! confessions that the immediate a< in the events themselves could not derstand the value cf what had 1 done or the relation of their trial tn rest of the churches and cities in country. It happened that the week be that anniversary Sunday the Rev. . vin Bruce, D. D., of the Nazareth enue church, Chicago, was in I mond, where he had come on a visi some old friends and incidentally to his old seminary classmate, Henry ll well. He was present at the F church and was an exceedingly ati five and interested spectator. His count of events in Raymond, and es cially of that Sunday, may throw ir light on the entire situation than ; description or record from other sonri Dr. Bruce's statement is therefore h given. [Letter from Rev. Calvin Bruce. D., of the Nazareth Avenue chur Cliicago, to Rev. Philip S. Caxton, D., New York city] : "MY DEAR CAXTON-It is late Si da}* night, but I am so intensely awj and so overflowing with what I hi seen and heard that I feel driven write you now some account of 1 situation in Raymond as I have bf studying it and as it has apparen lome to a climax today. So this is ] only excuse for writing so extended letter at this time. "Ydn remember Henry Maxwell the seminary. I think you said the ls time I visited yon in New York th you had not seen him since we grad ated. He was a refined, scholarly fel)o" yon remember, and when he was call to the First church of Raymond with a year after leaving the seminary I sa io my wife: 'Raymond has made good choice. Maxwell will satisfy the as a sermonizer. ' He has been here ' years, and I understand that np to year ago he had gone on in the regal; course of the ministry, giving good sa isfaction and drawing a good congreg; tion to Ins morning preaching servie His church was counted the larges most wealthy church in Ray;-: ?nd. A I the best people attended it. and mo; i of them belonged. The quarti ? cho: j was famous for its music, esp* cially f< I its soprano. Miss Winslow, of wh im j shall have more to say, and, on tl: whole, as I understand the fact. Ma* well was in a comfortable berth, with j very good salary, pleasant snrronni ings. not a very exacting parish <;f vt fined, rich, respectable people, such j church and parish as nearly all th j young men in tie-' seminary in our tim j loob-d forward '.> as very desirable. I "But a year ago today Maxwell cam j into his church on Sunday morning an j at the close of his service made th ? astounding proposition that th<' mem J hers of his church volunteer for a yea ! not to do anything without first askin: i the question. 'What would Jesus dov and. after answering it. to do what i: I their honest judgment he would dc re . gardless of what the result might be t< j them I "The effect of this proposition as i . has been met and obeyed by a nit::;!" : of the members of the First church o: j Raymond has been so remarkable that i as yon know, the attention of thewholt j country has been directed to the move I ment. I call it a 'movement' because j from the action taken today it seem: ? probable that what has been tried hen j in the First church in Raymond wil i reach out inti; the tither churches and j cause a revolution in church methods, j but more especially in a new definition of Christian discipleship "In the first place. Maxwell tells m< he was astonished at the response made to his proposition Some of the rnosl ! prominent members in the church made j the promise to do as Jesus would ! Among them were Edward Norman. 1 the editor of The Daily News, which 1 has made snob a sensation in the news j paper world: Milton Wright, one of the leading merchants in Raymond: Alexander Powers, whose action in tht ! matter of the railroads against the in . terstate commerce laws made such a stir a'oout a year ago: Miss Page, one of Raymond's leading society heiresses, who has lately dedicated her entire for I tune, as I understand, to the Christian daily paper anti the work of reform in 1 the slum district known as the Rec : tangle, and Miss Winslow, whose repu , tation as a singer is now national, but : wiio. in obedience to what she has de ' cided to be Jesus' probable action, has ? devoted her talent to volunteer work ! among tin? girls and women who make ' up a large part of the city's worst and most abandoned populatio*. "In addition to the.se i. well, known ?i ! peorde has boen a gradually incre? ? number of G?ttistians from the j church and lately from other chm ' in Raymond: ? large proportio: ! these volunteers v.*h > pledge thoms* i to do as Jesus would comes from ; Endeavor societies; Tho young ps ; say that -'hey have already embodi< ; their society pledge the same print i in Thc word..-. -I promise him that 1 j strive to do whatev< r he would ! me do.' This is not exactly what i eluded in Maxwell's proposition. w is that the disciples shall try i . do v j Jesu.-- would probably do in the ? \ pies' place, but the result of an ho j obedience to either pledge, he cia ! will be practically the same, and h ? not surprised that the largest num have joined the new discip? (ship ? the Endeavor s tciety. **1 am sure the first question yon ! ask is. 4What has been the resul j this attempt, what has it accomplis! j or how has it changed in any way j regular course of the church or the c I mun i ty V "You already know something f reports of Raymond that have gone< . tho country what the results have b< j but one needs to come here and lc j something of the changes in indivic i lives, and especially the change in j church life, to realize all that is me j by this following of Jesus' steps so era Hy. To tell , all that would be write a long story or series of stor I am not in a position to do that, bt can give yon some idea perhaps of w has happened here from what has b told me by my friends and Henry M well himself. 4'The result of the pledge upon First church has been twofold-it brought about a spirit of Christian : lowship which Maxwell tells me ne before existed and which now impres him as being very nearly what Christian fellowship of the aposte churches must have been, and it ! divided the church into two disti: groups of members. Those who hi j not taken the pledge regard the oth j as foolishly literal in their attempts j imitate the example of Jesus. "Some of them have drawn out j the church and no longer attend, j they have removed their members! i entirely to other churches. Some J ? an internal element of strife, and ? heard rumors of an attempt on th I part to force Maxwell's resignation. do not know that this clement is v< j strong in the church. It has been hi i in check by a wonderful continuance spiritual power, which dates from t first Sunday the pledge was taken year ago. and also by the fact that many of the most prominent memb< have been identified with the mo'\ ment. .4The effect on Henry Maxwell very marked. I heard him preach our state association four years ago. I impressed me at the time as ha vii considerable power in dramatic deli erv, of which he himself was somewh conscious. His sermon was well wri ten and abounded in what the semina: students used to call 'fine passages The effect of it was what the av?rai congregation would call pleasing. Th f.iorning I heard Maxwell preach aga: for the first time since then. I shs speak of that further on. He is not tl same man. He gives me the impressic of one who has passed through a cris of revolution. He tells me this revolt tion is simply a new definition of Giri tian discipleship. He certainly hi changed many of his old views. His a titude on the saloon question is radica ly opposite to the one he entertained year ago. and in his entire thought c his ministry, his pulpit and paris work I find he has made a complet change. So far as I can understanc the idea, that is moving him on now i the idea that the Christian irv of ou times must rei resent a more literal ira itation of Jesus, and especially in th I element of sun- ring. He quoted to m in the course of our conversation sev eral times the verse from Peter. 4Fo hereunto were ye called, because Chris also suffered for you. leaving yon ai example, that ye should follow hi i steps. ' and he seems filled with the con j viction that what our churches nee< ! today more than anything else Ls th! 1 factor of suffering for Jesus in som* '? form "I do no* know that I agree wit! j him altogether: but. my dear Caxton ? it is certainly astonishing to note th( ! results of this idea as ?le y have im? pressed them; ives upon this city anc cpon this chart li. i "Yon ask how about the results or the individuals who have naide tm pledge and honestly tried t? be true ti } it. Those results are. as I have said, a j part ol' individual history and cannot j be told in detail. Some of them I can j give you, so that yon may see. that this I form of discipleship is not merely sen i timent or fine posing for effect, j "For instance, take the case of Alex? ander Powers, who was superintendent of the machine shops of the L. and T. R. R. here. When he acted upon the evidence that incriminated the road, he lost his position, and. more than that. I learn from my friends here his family \ and social relations have become so i changed that the family no longer ap ' pear in public. They have dropped out I of the social circle where once they j were so prominent By the way. Cax ! ton. I understand in this connection j that the commission, for one reason i and another, postponed action on this I case, ami it is now rumored that the j L. and T. R. R. will pass into a receiv? er's hands very soon. The president of . the road. who. according to tho evi ? dence submitted by Powers, was the ; principal offender, has resigned, and ! complications which have arisen since . point to the receivership. Meanwhile the superintendent has gone back to his ; old work as a telegraph operator. I met ! him at the church yesterday. He im ? pressed me as a man who had, like Maxwell, gone through a crisis in char I actor. I could not help thinking of him I as being good material for the ehnroh j of the first century, when the disciples j had all things in common. [TO CK CONTINUED.] X?e Boars' Grealfst Enemy. Tho question. '-What will th* Boer:* (' ? .v'iij Cecil Rhodes ii' the j catch biro V is q;]ite au interesting . ?rio ; a;:d perhaps the following tribute io the genial buccaneer from the weli known British historian, U\ E ii Lecky, will prove readable at tide stage of the game : .What lie did has been very clear ly established When holding the highly confident?! position of prime minister of the {'ape Colony, and be ing at the ea he time a privy council . or of the Queen, he engaged in a conspiracy for the overthrow of a neighboring 2nd friendly State in order to c?rry ou? this design he deceived the high commissioner whose prime minster he was Ile collected, under fasle pretences, a force, which was intended to co-oper? ate with an insurrection in Johannes burg: Being a director of the Char tered Company, he made use of that position, without the knowledge of h:s colleagues, to further the con spiracy He took an active and secret part in smuggling great quanti ties of arms into the Transvaal, which j were intended to be used in the rebel lion, and at a time when his organs in ; the press were representing Johan ! nesburg as seething with spontaneous indignation against an oppressive Government he, with another mil lionaire, was secretly expending many thousands of pounds in that town in I stimulating and subsidizing the j rising He was also directely cou j nected with the shaddiest incident in the whole affair-the concoction of a letter from the Johannesburg con ppirators absurdly representing English women and children at Johannesburg as in danger of being shot down by the Boers, and urging the British to come at once to save them, it was a letter drawn up with the sanction of Mr Khodes many wpeks before the raid and before any disturbance had risen, and kept in reserve to be dated and used in the hst moment for the purpose of indue the-your g soldiers of South Africa to join in tne raid, and of subsequently justifying their conduct before the war office, and also for the purpose of being published in the English press at the same time as the first news of the raid, in order to work upon English public opinion and persuade the English people that the raid through technically wrong, was j morally justifiable " There eau be little donbt that had a citizen 0!:' the Transvaal conducted him? self toward Cape Colooy as Rbodes bas borne himself towards the South Afri cso republic be would p<r.y the penalty with h?s life if Englond ever caught h?m The Boers, it is said, bave placed a price upon bis bead, but it is rot I'kely they will do anything which they are not entitled to do under the law Rbodes really engineered the Jameson raid, wbicb wa? nothing more nor lesa tbao an insurrection against the gnvenrment of tbe Sooth African republic- Io this country John Brow;, was bar ged for inciting an insurrec? tion. Ia Canada, about twenty vears ago, a half bred Indian ramed Riehl was ' xceu-ed for a like off?oce. Bur there is a ca?e io Sou'h Africa ?set' r,h?<?h >hows best how Eo gland f rea's offences of rbis kind A warrant was out for a Boer in Cape Colony for assaai'iog a Hottentot, but th'* Da'ch- ? ni:::, ferr wing that to appear before she E gdsh magistrate was equivalen' to a conviction, the word of a plack alway? b^ing taken tn preference to that of a Dutchman, eluded and finally resisted -T-sr ind was killed by rhe Eoglish i: fficern Tberennnn a few of bis kir^o-n ar d friends took up firms and piedged themselves to aveng his death .he? cvere pursued by tbe Eoglish fr<" ps and n^irly all of tbeoj we;e c?p?cred without much difficulty, and about half a d-zeo nf these ' ir.sar ?cr,\?tff were executed This even* H memorable one ir? Dutch annals aod hi? rerbaps done mort* ro perpetual rae hatred in South Africa rhan anything rhaf ever b;?nnr-ned [ foaie prominent New Forker Theodore Il i"sev< lt. for instance b uH organtZ3 an insurrection io lanada fnr the purpose of overthrowing the Canadian government and annix mg toe counrry to me United S a'es England would make shi=rr. shrift ot a m it he were ever captured Sc;, too, if Sir Wilfred Laurier should stir up a rrhoilen io Niw York, send bis raiders ioro the S;atc and make an armed assault 00 Aibaoy. what tbe federal government wouid do to birr, ;f O'-prared, would, io tbe language ct' fae street, be a plenry At tbe time of the J.io.?on raid Rbodes's arrest Wi-Qsd bave bien made had it been possible Thy papers were out. but. he eluded irrest. His fellow conspirators were captured, tried and seotecoed to dea*h ; but their eertecces were held up and 'bey wt>re turned over to Eng I a fid and ?et eff with a nominal pttoish ment. [? wnuid have been entirely !. wini had thc* conspirators been barged, bu: :he Boers leaned to tbe .ide of mercy, and the raider* escaped wit! Hule more damage than a tempo? rary o*? of liberty and a good scare The ma.t who plotted thc overthrow or the republic ; who sent his raiders into i he Transvaal, and whose duplicity ? nd gieed are largely respondi?le for the present unnecessary war, has managed to e?.cape nduishment for bis crime so far; but if rhe Boera should catch bim there can be little doubt that tb<-y would have tbe (Faoctioo of law for executing bim We have no idea that they will do this, for they aro not only a shrewd, but a I humane pi-cp?o, nod they have cot yet , embraced inc * higher amorality." ' LU e ro n h i s Com&j rciai-Andes' O T A S li gives color, flavor anet firmness to all fruits. Nc good fruit can foe raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least i S to EO% of Potash will give ? best results on all fruits. Write j for our pamphlets, which ought to be in every farmer's library. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. M Carolina and Georgia Ei? tel S, R. Schedule No. 4-In effect 12.01 a. m., Sun? day, December 24, 1S99 Between Camden S. C , aod Blacksbnrg, S. C. WEST. 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EAST. 2d cl ?ll ls? cl *33 Bastero time 1st cl ?32 2d cl *12 a m 8 10 8 30 8 40 9 20 10 00 10 10 0 25 10 so; 11 15 ll 35 11 45 12 05 12 25 12 50 p m p m STATIONS. 5 30 Biacksburg 5 45 Earle 5 50 Patterson Soriega 6 00 Shelby 5 20 Lan i mo re 6 28 Mooresboro 6 38 Henrietta 6 55 Forest City 7 10 Rutherford toa 7 22 Millwood 7 35 Golden Valley 7 40 Thermal City 7 58 Glenwood 8 15 ??arion p m a m 7 48 7 32 7 25 7 15 6 55 6 48 6 38 6 20 6 05 5 65 5 40 5 37 5 17 5 00 a m p m 6 40 6 20 612 6 CC' 4 rO 4 40 4 20 3 50 3 25 3 05 2 50 2 45 2 20 2 OG p m West. Gaffney Pivi&ioo. East. is; C!*ss. 13 1 13 EASTERN TIME. STATUSS lSt C?8S3. 14 i 16 p ra 1 00 1 20 1 40 p ta 6 00 6 0 6 40 H rn Biacksburg Cherokee Falls Gaff;-, ey a m 7 50 7 30 7 10 a m P 5? * 3 00 I 2 40 I 2 20 J p m *D?iIy eic pr Sunday Train No 3*2 leaving Marion, N. C., ac 5 ?A tu. miking close connection at Biacksburg, S <", wi h the Southern's train Ko 36 for Char lorte, N C. and ail point- East and connecting wiih the Southern'.* vestibule ?>ing to A'ianta, Ga, and all points West, and will receive pas? sengers going Eas?from train No 10, on the C ? N W K K, at Y< rkville. S C. at S 45 a m. and connects af Camden, S C, with the Southern's ?r?in No 7S. arriving in Charleston, S 17 p to, Train No 34 with passenger coach attached leaving Biacksburg at 5 30 a tn, and connecting :ir Roc!' Hill w'ih the Southern's Florida train for all joints South. Train N o 33 leaving Camden. S C. at 12 59 p ra, a!tor the arrival of the Southern's Char? leston tr en connects ?r Lancaster. S C, with the L & CK K, at Catawba Junction with the S A L, going !.>.>*. at Kock Hill. S C, with the Southern's train. No 34. for Charlotte, N C, and all points Fast. Crncects ar York ville. S C, with fain No 9 on the C ? N W R lt. for Chester, S C. At Biacksburg with th? Southern's vestibule going Fast, and the South? ern's train No 35 going West, and connecting at Marion N C with the Southern both East aid West SAMUEL HUNT, President. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. S. B. LUMPKIN, Gen'l Passenger Ag?nt. Atlantic Coast Lie Rai Company of South Carolina. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Io effect Novemoer 19tb, ?899. SOOTH. NORTH. No ?35 No f57 56 59 02 45 25 45 15 No .f56 Lv Darlington Ar 8 05 Lv Elliott Ar 7 20 Ar Sumter Lv 6 40 Lv Sumter Ar Ar Creston Lv Lv CrestcD Ar 3 50 Ar Pre,:nails Lv 10 00 Oran^eberg Denmark No .32 5 6 a m 29 ; .> 03 15 48 - pm p ar .Daily. |Daily except Sunday. Tratos 32 and 5> carry through Pullaiao PaUce Buffet Sleeping Cars between, Sew York ?nd Macon via Augusta. t TM EMERSON, H M EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Gen'l Pa.6^ Agt J R KEN LY, Gen'l Manaor. Estate of Julius J. Myers, Dec'J IWILL APPLY TO th?? Jodg* of Probate of Sumter County on February 3 1900, for a Final Discbarge as Administrator of afore? said Estate. FRANK J.^KYERS, Jan 3-4t Adtnio's^tor.