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m IN HIS STEP
8 "What Would
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By Charles IL Sheldon.
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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*^!
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GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
South Carolina anil Georgia Ex?
tension R. R. Company.
Scbedde No. 4?In fffect 12.01 a m., Son
day, December 24, 1899
,-nj rninic
Between
Camdeo S. C , and Blacksburg. 8. C
WEST.
EAST.
2d cl
?35
1st cl
?33
Eastern time.
llv cl
?32
2d cl
?34
p m p m STATIONS. p m po
8 20 12 50 Camdeo 12 25 6 30
8 50 1 15 Dekalb 11 02 4 60
8 20 1 27 Weetville 11 60 4 30
10 50 140 Kersbaw 11 35 4 )0
11 20 2 10 H*atb Sorioge 11 20 3 15
113> 2 15 Pleasant Hill 11 15 3 00
12 30 2 35 Lancaster 10 5- 2 35
1 CO 2f0 Riverside 10 40 1 00
1 20 3 0j Spriogdell 10 30 12 40
2 30 3 10 Catawbe Junction 10 20 12 20
2 50 3 10 Lrslie 10 10 11 00
3 10 3 43 Rock Hill 10 00 10 40
4 10 3 55 New Port 9 35 8 20
4 45 4 < 2 Tirz&b 9 30 8 ?0
I 30 4 2U Yorkville 9 15 7 3C
6 00 4 35 Sbarou 9 00 6 60
6 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 4 s 0 20
6 35 5 00 Smyrna 8 35 6 00
7 00 5 20 Blackaborg 8 15 5 3C
pmpm am i m
Between
Blacksburg, S. C, and Marion, N. C
WEST.
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.