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5? m IN HIS STEP 8 "What Would 3cs.ia So By Charles IL Sheldon. Orniurk'ohtfd and l <h..( fn '<??'. /onu 4iii I'M l*uUUtiii:\i < <?. ../ y?u?li/< .V-?^ 8 CHAPTfcR VIII. it U tut tu th*t>7 Kollow thuu me. When Rollin started down the street that afternoon that Jasper stood looking oat of hia window, he was not thinking of Rarhel Winslow und did not expert to toe her anywhere. He had come sud? denly upon her as she turned into t'te avenue, and hh> heart had leaped up at taw sight of her. Ho wslkoij along by aor now rejoicing, after all. in a little moment of this earthly love ho conld not drive out of hia life "I hove jrurt been over to see Vir amid Rachel. "She tella me the igementa are nearly completed for Ike transfer of the Rectangle property.'' "Yea; it has been a tedious case in the court*. Did Virginia show yon all aha plana and apeciflcationa for build lawa?" "We looked over a good many. It ia to me where Virginia has to get all her ideaa about this "Virginia knows more now about Are Lid Toynbao and east end London and inatitotional church work in Amer? ica than a good many professional alum wiarkete She has been spending nearly all summer in getting information." BoiUn waa beginning to feel more at anew as they talked over this coming rk for humanity It was safe com' ground. "What have yon been doing all sum aaset I have not seen much of yon,' Machsl suddenly asked, and then her face warmed with ita qnick flush of tropical color, as if she might have im? plied too much interest in Rollin or too mach regret at not seeing him of ten er. "1 have been busy." replied Rollin briefly "Tell me something about it," per sasted Rachel "You say so little Have 1 a right f*aak?' \ Ate pat the question vory fraskry, laming toward Rollin in real interest. "Yea, certainly." he replied, with a grateful smile. "I am not so certain that I can tell yon much. I have been trying to And some way to reach the snen I once knew and win them into asore useful lives. " ?He stopped suddenly, as if he were ?imoat afraid to go on. Rachel did not venture to suggest anything. "I have been a member of the same eotnpany to which you and Virginia be? lang, '' . ontinued Rollin. beginning again. "I have made the pledge to do as I believe Jesus would do, and it is ft* trying to answer this question that I have been doing my work." "That ia what 1 do not understand. Virginia told me about the other. It sat ma wonderful to think that yon are trying to keep that pledge with us. But what can yon do with the clubmen V' "Yon have asked me a direct ques? tion, and I nhall have to answer it Bow," replied Rollin. smiling again. "Yon see, I asked myself after that night at the tent, yon remember"?he ?poke hurriedly, and his voice trembled a little?"what pnrpoee I could now have in my lifo to redeem it, to ?nt* fy my thought of Christian dixciplesbip, and the more I thought of if the more I waa driven to a place where I knew I moat Uikt* np this crons. Did yon ever think that ? f all tbo neglected beings in onr social eystetn none are quite so completely left alone as the Cant young men who fill the clul*n and waste tbeir time ar.d money a>? I used to? The ehnrchea look after the poor, miserable creature* like tin*-.- in the Rectangle, they make some effort to reach the werk,n mi. p they have a large con? stituency among tie* average salary earning jm-ojiI". they *<-n0 money und mis |. Hiii * t<? tie- for. :"n heathen, lait the fashion..!?!?? ill ^ij?i: ?! \orn_c men nronnd town, the clnbmcn. are left out of all plaaa fei issahlHg and Christian* icing, nai yet no class of pi oplr r.- ils It more 1 vul t , i . If l kn-.v. tIx? sc neu. ill ir ..,1 mid bad qnailtica. I have I.e. n one oT them. I am not ti .1 to rench the Rcctnr^le |M-ople. 1 an not know bow lint I think 1 could possibly reach some of thes.? young; m< n and boy* who have money and time to spend " So that in what I have bOSSI trying to do When I asked, as yon did. 'What would Jeans do?' that was my answer It baa been ulno my R*?!lin m voice waa so low on the last sentence that Rachel had difficulty in hearing him aliove the noise around them but she knew what he had maid. Hhe wanted to ask what hia methods were, hot she did uot know just how to ask him Her interest in hie plun.s was larger than mereenrionity. Rollin Page waa so different now from the fashion? able young man who had asked her to be hia wife that Mho could 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 atreet to Rachel's home. It waa the same street where Rollin had asked Rachel why ahe conld not love him. They were both stricken by a andden shy neue aa they went on. Rachel bad not forgotten that day. and Rollin conld not forget it. Hhe finally broke a long silence by asking him what she had not found worda for before. "In yonr work for the clnbmen. with your old acquaintances, what sort of reception do they give you? How do yon approach them? What do they sayf Rollin wan Mi lent when Rachel apoke. He answered after a moment: "Oh. it depend* on the man I A good of them think; 1 a?, a qrank. 1 I have kept my memoerslnp up and am in good standing in that way. I try to bo wive and not provoko any unneces snry crlticittn, bnt yon would be sur? prised |a> know how many of tho men have rajajpondad to my appeal. I could hardly mako yon believe that only a few nights ago a dozen men became honestly and earnestly engaged in a conversation over religious questions. I have hud the great joy of seeing some of the men givo up bad habits and be? gin a new life. 4What would Jesus do V I keep r.sking it. The answer comes slowly, for I am feeling my way along. One thing I have found out?the men are not fighting shy of me. I think that is a good sign. Another thing?I have actually interested somo of them in the Rectangle work, and when it is started up they will give something to help make it more powerful, and, in addition to all the rest, I have found a way to save some of the young fellows from going to tho bad in gambling." Rollin spoke* with enthusiasm. His face was transformed by his interest in the subject which hod now become a part of nis real life, Rachel again noted the strong, manly, healthful tone of his speech. With it all she knew was a deep, underlying seriousness which felt the burden of the cross even while car? rying it with joy. The next time she spoke it wa> with - swift feeling of justice dne to Rollin and his new life. "Do you remember I reproached yon once for not having any purpose weth living for?" she asked, while her beau tiful face seemed to Rollin more beau? tiful than ever when he had won suffi? cient self control to look up. "I want to say I feel the need of aaying, in jus? tice to you now, that I honor yon for your courage and your obedience to your promise. The life yon ore living now is a verSr noble one.'' Rollin trembled. His agitation was greater than be could control. Rachel could not help seeing it. They walked along in silence. At last Rollin said I "I thank yon. It has been more than I can tell to hear yon say that" He looked into her face for one moment. Sbe read bis love for her in that look, bnt be did not speak. When they separated, Rachel went into the house, and. sitting down in her too n, she put her face in her handa tnd aa d to herself: "I am beginning to kno v what it means to be loved by I noble man. I shall love Rollin Page. after all. What am I saying? Rachel Winalow, have yon forgotten"? She rose and walked ' k and forth. She was deeply moved. Nevertheless it was evident to herself that her emotion was not that of regret or sorrow. Some? how a glad, new joy hod come to her. Hhc bad entered another circle of ex? perience, and later in the day she re? joiced with a very strong and sincere gladness that her Christian discipleship found room for this crisis in her feel? ing. It was indeed n part of it, for if she were beginning to love Rollin it was the Christian man who bad won her heart. Tho othey never would have moved h?*r to this great change. And Rollin us he went back ire.vured a hope that 11M been a strange;- |o hill since Rucb/.d hod said no that day. Ill that hope he went on with bis work Ol the days sped on, and ut no tiuifl Wi he more successful in reaching and sav ing his old acquaintances than in tin time that followed that chance meeting with Rachel Winslow. The summer had gone, and Raymond was once more facing the rigor of hvr winter M-a^on. Virginia had been able to accomplish a part of her plan for "capturing the Rectangle," as sin railed it. but the building of houses in the hold, the transforming of its bleak, ban? aspect into an attractive park, all of which wan included in her plan, was a work too large to l>o completed that fall after she had secured the property, lint a million dollars in tho bands of a pajajBjsj who really wants to do with it as Jesus would ought to accomplish wonders for humanity in a short time, and Henry Max .veil, going over to the sern? of tho new work one day after a ?Mel hour with the shopmeu. was amazed to seo how much had been dono outwardly. Yet M walked home thoughtfully, and on his way he could not avoid the question of the continual problem thrust into his notieo by the saloon. How much had been done for tho Rectangle, after all? Even counting in Virginia's nnd Rachel's work and Mr. Gray's, where had it actually counted in any visible quantity ? Of course he said to himself that the redemptive work l>egnn and earned on by tho Holy Spirit in his wonderful displays of power in tho First church and in the tent meetings had had its effect on the life of Ray? mond, but as he walked pant saloon aft? er saloon and noticed the crowds going in and coming out of them, as he saw tho wretched dens, as many as ever ap? parently, as he caught tho brutality and squalor and open misery and degrada? tion on countless faces of men and women and children, he sickened at the sight. H ? found himself asking how much cleansing could even a million dollars poured into this cesspool Meeom plish? Was Ml the living source of nearly all the human misery they sought to relieve untouched as long as these saloons did their deadly but legit i mate work? What could even such un? selfish Christian discipleship as Vir ginia s and Rachel's do to lessen the stream of vice so long as tho great spring of vice and crime flowed as deep and strong as ever? Was it not a prac? tical waste of beautiful lives, for those young women to tttrow themselves into j this Oftfthij li**11 when for every ion] | rsscusd by tlieir laciiflce the saloon made two more th.it needed rescue? Ho oonld ut>t eocapo the question. It was the Silin?' that Virginia had put to Rachel in her statement that, in her opinion, nothing really would ever be dime until the saloon was taken ont of the Rectangla Henry Maxwell went hack to bit parish work that afternoon with added convictions on tin* license business. But. if the saloon were a factor in the problem of the life of Raymond, no less were the First church and its little Company of disciples who had pledged themselves to do as JosUI would do. Henry Maxwell, standing at the very Center of the movement, was not in a position to judge of its power as some one from the outside might have done, bnt Raymond itself felt the touch of this new discipleship and was changed in very many ways, not knowing all the reasons for the change. The winter had gone, and the year was ended, tho year which Henry Mas well had fixed as the time during which the pledgo should be kept to do as Jesus would do. Sunday, the anni? versary of that one a year ago, was in many ways the most remarkable day tho First church ever knew. It was more important than the disciples in tho First church realized. The year had made history so fast and so serious that tho people wTere not yet p.ble to grasp its significance, and th<3 day itself, which marked the completion of a whole year of such discipleship, was characterized by such revelations and confessions that the immediate actors, in the events themselves conld not un? derstand the value of what had been done or the relation of their trial to the rest of the churches and cities in the country. It happened that the week before that ajnniversary Sunday tho Rev. Cal? vin Bruce, D. D., of the Nazareth Av? enue church, Chicago, was in Ray? mond, where he had come on a visit to nome old friends and incidentally to see his old seminary classmate, Henry Max? well. He was present at the First cLnrch and was an exceedingly atten? tive and interested spectator. His ac? count of events in Raymond, and espe cially of that Sunday, may throw more light on the entire situation than any description or record from other sources. Dr. Bruce's statement is therefore here given. [Letter from Rev. Calvin Bruce, D. D., of the Nazareth Avenue church, Chicago, to Rev. Philip S. Caxton, D. D.. New York city]: "My Dkah Caxton?It is late Sun? day night, but I am so intensely awake and so overflowing with what I have seen and heard that I feel driven to write you now some account of tho situation in Raymond as I have been ttudying it and as it has apparently tome to a climax today. So this is my only excuse for writing so extended a letter at this time. "Ydn remember Henry Maxwell in the seminary. I think you said the last time I visited you in New York that you had not seen him since we gradu? ated. He was a refined, scholarly fellow, you remember, and when he was called to the First church of Raymond within a year after leaving the seminary I said to my wife. 'Raymond has made a good choice. Maxwell will satisfy them as a eermonizer.1 Ho has been here 11 years. ? nd I understand that up to a year a, he had gone on in the regular course of the ministry,^giving good sat? isfaction and drawing a good congrega? tion to Iiis morning preaching service His church was counted the largest, most Wealthy church in Raymond. AH the boat people attended it. and most of them belonged The quarto t choir was famous for its music, especially for its soprano. Miss Winslow, of whom 1 shall have more to say. and. on the whole, as I understand the fact. Max? well was in a comfortable berth, with a very good salary, pleasant surround? ings, not a very exacting parish of re? fined, rich, respectable people, such a church and parish as nearly all the young men in the seminary in our time looked forward to as very desirable, "lint a year ago today Maxwell came into his church on Sunday morning and at the close of his service made the astounding proposition that the mem? bers of his church volunteer for a ye:?.r not to do anything without first asking the qnOStion. 'What would Jesus dot' and. after answering it. to do what in their honest judgment In? would do. re? gardless of what the result might be to them "Tho effect of this proposition as it has been met and obeyed by a number of the members of the First church of Raymond has been so remarkable that. as you know, the attention of the whole country has been directed to the move? ment. I call it a 'movement' because from the action taken today it seems probable that what has been tried here in the First church in Raymond will reach out into tho other churches and causo a revolution in church met hods, but more especially in a new definition of Christian discipleship "In the first place. Maxwell tells me he was astonished st the response made to his proposition Some of the most prominent members in the church made the promise to do as Jesus would Among them were Edward Norn an. the editor of The Daily News, which has made such a sensation in the news? paper world; Milton Wright, one of the leading merchants in Raymond; Alexander Powers, whose action in the matter of the railroads against the in- I terstate commerce laws made such a Stir about a year ago; Miss Page, one of Raymond's leading society heiresses, who has lately dedicated her entire for? tune, as 1 understand, to the Christian daily paper and the work of reform in the slum district known as the Rec? tangle, and Miss Winslow. whose r epu? tation as a singer is now national, but who. in obedience to what she has de? cided to l>o Jesus' probable action, has devoted her talent to volunteer work among the girls and women who make np a large part of tho city's worst and most abandoned population I "In addition to the.se.well, known L people has beeti a gradually Increasing nnmber of Christiana from the First chnrch find lately from other chnrches in Raymond; A large proportion of these volunteers who yledg > themselves to do as Jesus would comes from the Endeavor societies. The young people say that they have already embodied in their society pledge the same principle in the words. 'I promise him that I will strive to do whatever he would have me do.' This is not exactly what, is in? cluded in Maxwell's proposition, which is that the disciples shall try to do what Jesus would probably do in the disci? ples' place, but the result of an honest obedience to either pledge, ho claims, will be practically the same, and he is not surprised that the largest numbers have joined the new disciple-hip from the Endeavor society. "I am sure the first question you will ask is, 'What has been the result of this attempt, what has it accomplished, or how has it changed in any way the regular course of the church or the com? munity f MYou already know something from reports of Raymond that have gone over the country what the results have been, but one needs to come hero and learn something of the changes in individual lives., and especially the change in the church life, to realize all that is meant by this following of Jesus' steps so lit? erally To tell all that would be to write a long story or series of stories. 1 am not in a position to do that, but I can give yon some idea perhaps of what has happened here from what has been told me by my friends and Henry Max? well himself. "The result of the pledge upon the First chnrch has been twofold?it has brought about a spirit of Christian fel? lowship which Maxwell tells me never before existed and which now impresses him as being very nearly what the Christian fellowship of the apostolic chnrches must have been, and it has divided the chnrch into two distinct groups of members. Those who have not taken the pledge regard the others as foolishly literal in their attempts to imitate the example of Jesus. "Some of them have drawn out of the church and no longer attend, or they have removed their membership entirely to other churches. Some are an internal element of strife, and I heard rumors of an attempt on their part to force Maxwell's resignation I do not know that this element is very in check by a wonderful continuance of spiritual power, which dates from the first Sunday the pledge was taken a year ago. and also by the fact that so many of the most prominent members have been identified with the move? ment. "The effect on Henry Maxwell is very marked. I heard him preach a,t our state association four years ago. He impressed me at the time as having considerable power in dramatic deliv? ery, of which he himself was somewhat conscious. His sermon was wTell writ? ten and abounded in what the seminary students used to call 'fine passages.' The effect of it was what the average congregation would call pleasing. This Imming I heard Maxwell preach again for the first time since then. I shall speak of that further on. He is not the same man. He gives me the impression of one who has passed through a crisis of revolution. He tells me this revolu? tion is simply a new definition of Chris? tian disciplcship. He certainly has changed many of his old views. His at? titude on the saloon question is radical? ly opposite to the one ho entertained a year ago. and in his entire thought of his ministry, his pulpit and parish work I find he has made a complete change. So far as I can understand, th 1 idea that is moving him on now is the idea that rhu Christianity of our times must represent a more literal im? itation of Jesus, and especially in the element of S*off< ring. He quoted to me in the course of our conversation sc\ - era! times the verse from Peter. 'For hereunto were ye called, because Christ also suffered for you. leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps.' and he seems filled with the con? viction that what our churches need today more than anything else is this factor of suffering for Jesus in some form "I do not know that I agree with him altogether; but. my dear Caxton, it is certainly astonishing to note the results of this idea as they have im? press' d themselv a upon this city and upon this church. "You ask how about tho results on the individuals who have made the pledge and honestly tried to be true to it. Those results are, as I have said, a part of individual history and cannot be told in detail. Some of them I can give you, so that you may see that this form of disciplcship is not merely seu timent or fine posing for effect. "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 changed that the family no longer- ap? pear in public They have dropped out of the social circle where once they were so prominent. By the way, Cax? ton. I understand in thiH connection that the commission, for one reasou and another, postponed action on this case, and it is now rumored that tho L. and T. R. R. will pass into a receiv? er's hands very soon. Tho president of the road. who. according to the evi? dence submitted by Powers, was the principal offender, has resigned, and complications which have arisen sineo 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 Ho im? pressed me as a man who had, like Maxwell, gone through a crisis in char? acter. I could not help thinking of him as being good material for the church of the first century, when the disciples had all things in common. It has been held [TO nK CONT1NUED.1 Tbe Boerb' Greatest Enemy Tho question. "What will tho Boom do with Cecil Rhodes if they ooteh him?" is quite an interesting one ; and perhaps the following tribute to tho genial buccaneer from the well known British historian, W. E II Lecky, will prove readable at this stage of the game : 'What he did boi been very ciear ly established When holding the highly confidents! position of prime minister of the Cape Colony, and be it.g at the tame time a privy council lor of the Q,ueen, he engaged in a enspirac') for the overthrow of a neighboring and friendly State \r. order to carry oat this design he! deceived the high commissioner whose prime minster he was lie 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 were intended to be used in the rebel lion, and at a time when his organs in the press were representing Jobso nesburg as seething with spontaneous indignation against an oppressive Government he, with another mil lionsire, was secretly expending many thoussnds of pounds in that town in stimulating snd subsidizing the rising He wss also directely con nected with the shaddiest incident in the whole affair?the conpoction of a letter from the Johannesburg con spirators nbsurdly representing English women sod children at Johannesburg as in dsnger of being shot down by tbe Boers, and urging the British to come at once to save them, it was s letter drswn up with the sanction of Mr Rhodes many weeks before tbe raid and before any disturbance had risen, snd kept in reserve to be dated and used in the last moment for the purpose of induo the*young soldiers of South Africa to join in the 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 rsid through techically wrong, wss morally justifiable There oan be little donbt that had e oitiseo of the Transvaal conducted bim? self toward Cape Colony as Rhodes bss boroe himself towsrds tbe South Afri oso republic, be would pay tbe peoalty with his life if Englood ever oaught him The Boers, it is said, have pieced s price opoo bis besd, bot it is not bkely tbey will do anything which they am not entitled to do under tbe lew Rhodes really engineered tbe Jameson raid, which wa? nothing more nor lea- than an insurrection epanst the goveorment of tbe Sooth African republic. To this country J >hn B ow was banged for inciting an insurrec? tion. In Canada, about twenty year? ago, a half bred lodier. named R<?'bi wei (xeeu'ed for a liko offence. But there is a cane io Sou'h Africa UssH r,hi?h t-hows bast bow Holland tree's off.?,.cps of rhi? kiod A warrant wan out for a Borr in Cape Colony for assailing a Hottentot, but tb^ Dufch? Ben, knowing ?bat to appear before th? E giish magistrate was cquivalem to a eooviotlon, tb * word of a blaok always bpiniz taken in preference to that ot a Dutchman, e u 1 < d an t finally resisted arrest and was killed by the English i flWra Thereupon a few of bin bie?m-n nr d friends took up arms and piedged thi'imelee> to avoog his death They rcere pursed by tbe Eaglifb troops and nearly all of tb*Mu were capered without much difficulty, and about half a d'z*n of thise 1 insur genie" were esesnt?d This event i? ? memorable one in Dutch annals and he? {e h^ps done more to pprpetuao* race hatred in Sourii Africa than anything thar eve beppeOed If some prominent New Yorker ? Theodors il osevi It. for instaooe? h uld organic) an insurrectiou io Canada for the purpose of overtbrowi ig lbs Caosdiso goven roent and eon-x if?L' the country tit the United 8 S ee Eogland would make sh"rt shrift ot n m if he were ever captured So, too, if Sir Wilfred L*urier should stir op a rebellma io N?w Yirk, eeod bis raiders into the S'ate and make ao armed assault on Albany, what the federal governmest would do to bim, if otptured, would, iu tbe language of the street, he a plenty At tho time of the JamtkOB raid Rhodes's arrest would have been made bad it been possible Thu papers were out. bot he eluded irrest. His fellow ooospirators wre captured, tried and sooteooed to death ; but their sentences were held up and tbey were turned over to Eng land and let iff with n nominal pouit-h meat. I would have been entirely h wlul had the conspirators beeo hanged, but the Boere leaned to tbe aide of mercy, and the raider* escaped wit! little more damage than a tempo rsry o??s of liberty and a good scare Tho ma.i who plotted tbe overthrow ot the republic ; who eent bis raiders into the Transvaal, and whose duplicity i nd gteed are largely responsible for the present unnecessary war, has managed to escape punishment for bis crime so far; but if the Boers should oatob bim there can be little doubt that tbey would have tbe tanction of law for executing bim We have no idea that tbey will do this, for tbey are not ooly s shrewd, but e humane p"opl<?, and they havt not yet embraced the ??higher morality."? Memphis Cotta?? rcial-App*^! f^OTASH gives color, flavor and firmness to I all fruits. No good fruit can be raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to 10% of Potash will give best results on all fruits. 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EAST. 2d cl ?11 let cl ?33 Eastern time 1st cl ?32 2d cl ?12 am p m STATIONS. a m 8 10 6 30 Blacksburg 7 48 8 30 5 45 Earls 7 32 8 40 6 50 Patterson Seringa 7 25 9 20 6 00 Shelby 7 15 10 00 *5 20 L-to mo re 6 55 10 10 6 28 Mooresboro 6 48 0 25 6 38 Henrietta 6 38 10 60; 6 56 Forest Citv 6 20 1115 7 10 Rutberfordton 6 05 11 35 7 22 lliilwood 5 66 11 45 7 35 Golden Valley 6 40 12 05 7 40 Thermal City 5 37 12 25 7 58 Glenwood 6 17 12*0 8 15 Mariou 5 00 pmpm am p m 6 40 6 20 o 12 6 CO f0 40 20 50 25 05 60 45 20 2 00 p m West. Gaffnev Divibioo. Boat, 1st Class. ? I 13 EASTER;' TIME. STATIONS 1st Claas. 14 I 16 pro um 1 00 6 00 1 10 6 0 1 40 6 40 pm am Blackcburg Cherokee Falls GaffY.ey am p tp 7 50 3 CO 7 30 2 40 7 10 2 20 am p m ?D*ily exc pt Sunday Train No 32 leaving Marion, N. C, at 5 a tu, making cK>i?e connection at Blacltsbarg, $ wi-h the inntkora'e train No 36 fur Char? lotte, N G. ami all points East and connecting with the Southern'; vestibule gnng to A'lanta, Qa, an t all points Wast, ami wi'l receive pas sengen going Ka^from train No 10, on the C A N W K K, at Yorkville. S C, at 8 45 a m. and eoaaaeti a' Camden, S Cm with the Southern's tr*in No TS. arriving in Charle.-ton, 8 17 p m. Train No 34 with pant-ti.ger coach attached leaving Blacktburg at 5 M a in, ami connecting :it Reek Hill wuh the Southern's Florida train fc?r all joints South. Train No 13 leaving Camden. S C, at 12 51 p m, alter tan arrival of the Southern'* C har* iestoM train connnata at Lancaster, s C, with (he LA CK K, at Catawha Junction with theS A L. going East, at Itnek Hill, S C, with the Southern's train. No 34. for Charlotte, N C, and all p.>ints KaaC Crnneets at York? vilie. g C, with fain No 9 on the C * N W K ft, tor Chester, SC. At BlacksbuTg wi'h the Southern'* veMibule go:njr East, and the South ern'i1 train No 35 going We*i, and connecting at Marion N C with the Soulheru both Ka.-t atd Waat SAMUEL III)NT, President. A. THIPP, Superintendent. S. B. LI M PK IN , (len'l Passenger A*?nt. Atlantic Coast Line Railroa? Company of Sonth Carolina. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In effect November 19th, 1899. SOOTH. No ?35 66 59 5 .9 6 12 a m No t57 8 i 2 8 45 9 25 5 45 9 15 a oi NORTH. No No Lv Darlington Ar L? Ar Lv Ar Lv Ar Elliott Sumter Somter Creaton Oregon Prevails O' r...peb?rg De. jark f56 8 05 7 20 6 40 Ar Lv Ar Lv Ar 3 60 Lv 10 00 p m ?3? 6 03 6 1? 4 48 J 4 \\f Pf ?Daily. | Daily except Sunday. Trains 32 end S"> carry throagb PoM^m Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars between, Sew York aod Macon via Augusta. * T M EVERSON, H M EMER^oN, Traffic Manager. Gen'i Pak? Agt J R KENLY, Gen'l Mnoe^?r. Estate of Julias J. Myrrs, Dec'l IWILL APPLY ?o thejodg? of Probate of Sumter County on Februaiy 3 1900, for e Final Discharge as Admi ietffotaff o*' afore* ?aid Estate. FRANK J. V. .?: :S, Jan 3?4t Ac t?. . - i-ator.