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3csus Do By Charles IL Sheldon. 0?pvr*?/h^'l nmt xniNi*he<l in httok f<mn <*) * .rn.iMi - l'vl iw^/unj Co. ?>/ (.Vtfcutf #? 4?a?<. , ,..\,\,\ f..^ ??a?????* i+tott #+??;$ ???>?<s?< *'Or take th* case of Mr. Norman, editor of The Daily News. He risked ki* entire- fortune in obedience to what .fee believed wae Jesus* probable action and revolutionized hi* entire conduct ?f the paper at the risk of a failnie. 1 ?end yon a copy el ycMterday's paper I want yon to read it carefully. To my anind. it ia one of the most interesting and remarkable papers ever printed in the United States. It is open to criti? cism. bat what cooM any mere man attempt in this line that wonld he free aVom criticism? Take it all in all. it ia no far above the ordinary conception of a daily paper that I am amazed at the resrrftt He tells me that the paper ia beginning to be read more and more by Use Christian people of the city. He is very confident of its final success. "Read his editorial on the money ?sjaeatioa; - U > the one on tho coming ?lection in Raymond, when the quest ion -?a* license will agai i be an issue. Both ?Titele? are of the I ?st from thin point af view He says he never begina an ?ditorial or. in fact, any pari of his ?aew spa per work withont first asking. *What wonld Jesus do?' The result is ?ertainly apparent ? Then there is Milton Wright, the aacrchaot He has, I am told, so rev.. mt ionized his business thai no man is beloved today in Raymond. His clerks and employees have affec? tion for him thai is very touching. During the winter, while he was lying dangerously ill at his home, scores of clerks volunteered to watch or help in ?ay pot-cble way. and his return to his asoru was greeted with marked demon? stration* All thia h.e been brought ?boat by the element of personal love introduced into the business. This love is not mere words, but the business it ?elf is carried on under a system of co? operation thai is not a patronising rec? ognition of inferiors, but a real sharing an the entire business. Other men on the street look upon Milton Wright as add. Ii is a fact, however, thai while he has lost hesvily in some directions he has increased his business and is to? day i es pec ted and honored as one of the beat end most snccessful merchants in Raymond. "And there is Miss Winslow. She aas chosen to give her great talent to the poor and wretched of the city. Her plans include a music il institute where chorus** and classes in vocal music shall >fcb s feature. She is enthusiastic over her life work. In connection with her life work. In connection with her friend Miss Page she haa planned a i course in music which, if carried out. will certainly do much to lift up the lives of the people down there. I am mot too old. my dear Caxton, to be in? terested in the romantic side of much that has also been tragic here in Ray? mond, and I must tell you thai it is well understood there thai Miss Wins low expects to be married this spring to a brother ot Miss Pa ice, who was (?nee ? society leatler and clubman and who was converted in a tent where his wife thai is to be took an active part in the aw/vice. I don't know all the details of thin little romance, but I can imagine there is a little sto-y wrapped up in it, and it wonld be interesting reading if we only knew it all. "These are only a few illustrations cf tsaralte in individual lives owing to ?hedience to the pledge. I meant to have spoken of President Marsh of Lin coin college. He is a gradual* of my aim* mater, and I knew him slightly When I was in the senior year. He has taken an active part in the recent mu? nicipal agitation, and his influenco in the city is regarded as a very large factor in the coming election. He im stressed me. ss did sll the other disciples an this movement, as having fought out aome har? questions and as having taken np some real burdens that have ??used snd still do cause that suffering / af which Henry Maxwell speaks, a suf? fering that does not eliminate but does appear to intensify a positive and prac? tical joy. "But 1 am prolonging this letter, possibly to your weariness. I am un? able to avoid the feeling of fascination which my entire stay here has incr ?ased 1 want to tell yon something of the meeting in the First church today "As I a lid. I heard Maxwell preach Ai his earnest request I had preached for him the Sunday before, and this was the first time I had heard him since the association fonr years ago His ser? mon thia morning was as dift'ereut from . hin nenn on then as if it had I n Wrought out and preached by Home one living on anoth t ?<!: net I was pro? foundly touched. I believe I actually ehed tears once Others in the congre? gation were moved like myself. His taxi wns 'What is that to thee? Fol? low thou me And it was a numt un nsnallv impre*.?ive appeal t<? the C hris? tiana of Raymond to oU-y Jesus' teach? ing* and follow in his nt. j a, regardless of what others inL'ht do. I cannot give yon even the plan of the sermon It would take too long. At the close of the service there was the usual after meet? ing that has Ucomo a r gnlar feature am* the First church Into this inciting have come ali those who made the pledge to do j * .I.sna would do. and the time ia spent ir mutual fellowship, con fe.tsn.n. qmstiotis as to what Jesus wonld do in iqieciul cases and prayer that the one great guide of every dis riph I ci ndnct may I?. the Holy Spirit "M ov. ll n kel BJat tOOOfJM into this meeting. No' h ng in all my ministerial life < ixtoti. has ho moved me as that meeting I never felt the Spirit's pres cmee so powerfully It was a nie? ting of weminiscences and of the ino*t loving fefjowi i tn i im Latibly driven iu thought hack to the first years of Chris? tianity. Th? re was something about all tlii 4 that was apostolic in its simplicity and Christ imitation. "I ashed ?iuostious. Ono that seemed to arouse more interest than o^y other was in regarl to the extent of f . Christian disciples' sacrifice of personal property. Henry Maxwell tells me that so far no ouo has. interpreted the spirit of Jesus in such a way as to abandon his earthly possessions, give away all his wealth or in any literal way imitate the Christians of tho order, for exam? ple, of St. Francis of Assisi. It was tho nnanimons consent, however, that if any disciple should feel that Jesns in bis own particular case would do that there could be only one answer to the qnestion. Maxwell frankly admitted that he was still, to a certain degree, uncertain as to Jesns' probable action when it came to the details of house? hold living, the possession of wealth, the holding of certain luxuries. It is, however, evident that very many of these disciples have repeatedly carried their obedience to Jesus to the extreme limit, regardless of financial loss. There is no lack of courage or consistency at this point It is also true that some of the business men who took the pledge have lost great sums of money in this imitation of Jesus, and very many have, like Alexander Powers, lost valu? able positions owing to the impossibility of doing what they had been accus? tomed to do and at the same time doing what they felt Jfsns would do in the same place. In connction with these cases it is pleasant to record the fact that many .who have suffered in this way have at once been helped financial? ly by those who still have means. In this respect I think it is true that these disciples have all things in common. Certainly such scenes as I witnessed at the First church at that after service this morning I never saw in my church or any other. I never dreamed that an h Christian fellowship could exist in this age of the world. I am almost in? credulous as to the witness of my own senses. I still eeem to be asking myself if this is the close of the nineteenth cen? tury in America. ??But now. dear friend, I como to the I real cause of tho letter, the real heart I of the whole question as the First church of Raymond has forced it upon me. Before the meeting closed today steps were taken to secure the co-oper? ation of all other Christian disciples in this country. I think Henry Maxwell took this step after long deliberation. He said as much to me ono day when 1 called upon him and we were discuss? ing the effect of this movement upon the church in .general. *' 'Why,' he said, 'suppose that the church membership generally in this conntry made this pledge and lived up to it. What a revolution it would cause In Christendom! But why not? Is it any more than the disciple ought to do? Has he followed Jesus unless he is will? ing to do this? Is the test of disciple ship any less today than it was in Jesus' time?' **I do not know all that preceded or followed his thought of what ought to be done outside of Raymond, but the idea crystallized today in a plan to se? cure the fellowship of all the Christians in America. The churches through their pastors will be asked to form disciple gatherings like the one in the First <%urch. Volunteers will be called for in tba great body of church members in the United States who will promise to do as Jesus would do. Maxwell spoke particularly of the result of such gen? eral action on the saloon question. He is terribly in earnest over this. He told me that there was no question in his mind that the saloon would be beaten in Raymond at the election now near at hand. If so. they could go on with somo courage to do the redemptive work begun by the evangelist and now taken up by the disciples in his own church. If the nal? Kin triumphs again, there will be a terrible and, as he thinks, unnec? essary waste of Christian sacrifice. But, however we differ on that point, he has convinced his church that the time has come for a fellowship with other Chris | tians. Sorely, if the First church could work such changes in society and its smronndings, the church in general, if combining such Kllowship. not of creed, bnt of conduct, ought to stir the entire nation to a higher life and a new con " eeption of Christian following. "This is- a grand idea. Caxton, but right here is where I find myself hesi? tating. 1 do not deny that the Christian disciple ought to follow Christ's steps as closely as tlnvo here in Raymond h?ve tried to do, bnt I cannot avoid asking what the r? rait will be if 1 ask my church in Chicago to do lt. I am writing this after feeling the solemn, profound touch of tho Spirit's presence, and I oonfoai to yon. old friend, that 1 cannot c.ill Dp in my church a dozen prominent business or professional men who would mike tin-* trial at the risk of all that they Bold d< ;ir Can yon do any better in your church 1 What are we to liy that the church Would not. respond to tho cnll( 'Coma and Buffer?' The actual results' of the pledge ms obeyed h? rt In Raymond are enough to make any pastor tremble j'.iid .-it the sain. > time long with yearning that th y might occur ia hia own parish. Certain? ly, never have I Boen a church so signal' lv blessed by the spirit as this one, Bui am I myself ready to take this pledu'e? I ask the question honestly, and 1 dread to face an honest answer, i know well enough that I would have to chaui/e very much ??? lnr Mfo If I 121'iv* took to follow his atopa so closely, l have called myself a Christian for many years. For the past ten years I have enjoyed a life that has had compara? tively little Buffering in it. 1 am?hon? estly I say it?living at a long distance from municipal problems and the life of the poor, the degraded and tho aban? doned. What would the obedience to this pledge demand of me? I hesitate to answer. My church is wealthy, full of well to do. satislied people Tin; stand? ard of their discipleship is, I am aware, not of a nature to respond to the call to suffering or personal loss. I say, 'I am aware.' I may be mistaken. I may have erred in not stirring their deeper life Caxtou, my friend, I have spoken my inmost thought to you. Shall I go back to my people next Sunday and stand up before them in my large city church and say. 'Let us follow Jesus closer; let ns walk in his steps, where it will cost us something more than it is costing ns now ; let ns pledge not to do anything without first asking, 'What would Jesus do?' If I should go before them with that message, it would bo a strange and startling one to them. But why? Are we not really to follow him all tho way V What is it to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate him? What does it mean to walk in his steps?" The Rev. Calvin Bruce, D. D., of the Nazareth Avenue church, Chicago, let his pen fall on the paper. He had come to the parting of tho ways, and his question, he felt sure, was the question of many and many a man in the min? istry and in the church. Ho went to his window and opened it. He was op? pressed with the weight of his convic? tions, and he felt almost suffocated with the air of the room. He wanted to see tho stars and feel the breath of the world. The night was verv still The clock in the First church was striking mid? night. As it finished a clear, strong voice down in the direction of tho Rec tanglo came floating up to him as if borne on radiant pinions: "Must Jrsus boar the cross alone And all the world go tree? No! There's a cross for every one. And there's a cross (or me." It was the voice of one of Gray's old converts, a night watchman at tho packing houses, who sometimes solaced his lonesome hours by a verse or two from some familiar hymn. The Rev. Calvin Bruce turned away from the window, and after a little hesitation he kneeled down. "What would Jesus do? What would Jesus do?" Never bad he yielded himself so completely to the Spirit's searching re? vealing of Jesus. Ho was on bis knees a long time. He retired and slept fitfully, with many awakenings. He rose before it was clear dawn and threw open his window again. As the light in the east grew stronger ho repeated to himself: "What would Jesus do? What would he do? Shall I follow his steps?" The sun rose and flooded the city with its power. WThen shall the dawn of a new discipleship usher in the con? quering triumph of a closer walk with Jesus? When shall Christendom tread more closely the path he made? It is the way the Master trod. Shall not the servant tread it still? With this question throbbing through bis whole being the Rev. Calvin Bruce went buck to Chicago, and the great crisis of his Christian life in the min? istry suddenly broke irresistibly upon him. CHAPTER IX. Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goost. The Saturday matinee at tho Audi? torium in Chicago was just over, and the usual crowd was struggling to get to its carriage before any one else. The Auditorium attendant was shouting out the number of different carriages, and the caniage doors were slamming as the horses were driven rapidly to the curb, hold there impatient by the drivers, who had shivered long in the raw east wind, and then let go to plunge for a few minutes into the river of vehicles that tossed under the ele? vated railway and finally went whirling off up the avenue. "Now, then, 6241" shouted the Au? ditorium attendant. "Six hundred and twenty-four!" he repeated as there dashed up to the curb a splendid span of black horses attached to a carriage having the monogram "C. R. S." in gilt letters on the panel of the door. Two girls stepped out of the crowd toward the carriage. The older one had entered and taken her seat, and the at? tendant was still holding the door open for the younger, wbo stood hesitating on the curb. "Come. Felicia t What are yon wait? ing for? I shall freeze to death!" called tho voice from the carriage. The girl outside of the carriage hast? ily unpinned a bunch of English violets from her dress and handed them to a small l?oy who was standing shivering on the edge of the sidewalk, almost under tho horses' feet. lie took them with a look of astonishment and si "Thank ye. lady!" and instantlyburb d a very grimy face in the bunch of per fume. The girl st< pped into th< car? riage, the door shut with the incisive bang peculiar to well made carriages < f this sort, and in a few moments the coachman was speeding the horses rap? idly up one of the boulevards. "You are always doing Rome queer thing or other, Felicia." said the older girl as the carriage whirled ?<ii past Ibe great residences already brilliantly lighted. "Am 1 ? What have 1 done that is queer now, Rose?" asked tho t.tiur, looking tip suddenly and turning her head toward her sisb r. **( In. giving those violets to thai boy ' 1!<- looked as it ho needed a good hot supper more than a bunch of violets. It's a wonder you didn't invite him home with ua 1 shouldn't have liecn surprised if you had, \"'t aroalways doing such quet r 111ii?? -<. I \ lieia." ??Would it lw ?, : r to iuvii ? boy like thai to come to tho house and gel a hot supper?" Ft lieia asked the ques? tion softly and almost as if she were alone ??Queer isn't just the word, of course," replied Rom indifferently. "It would be what Mine. Blanc calls outre - -decidedly. Therefore you will please not invite him or others like him to hot suppers because I suggested it. Oh, dearl I'm awfully tired." She yawned, and Felicia silently looked out of the window in tho door. "The concert was etupid, and the I violinist was simply a bore. I don't Ree how you could .sit ho still through it all," Rose exclaimed, a little impa? tiently. "I liked the music." an ' rered Felicia quietly "Yon like anything. I never saw a girl with BO little critical taste. " Felicia colored slightly, but would not answer. Rose yawned again and then hummed a fragment of a popular song. Then she exclaimed abruptly: "I'm sick of almost everything. I hope tho 'Shadows of London* will be exciting tonight. " ?The Shadows of Chicago!' " mur? mured Felicia. " 'The Shadows of Chicago!' 'The Shadows of London.' the play, the great drama with its wonderful scenery, the sensation of New York for two months. You know we have a box with tho De lanos tonight." Felicia turned her face toward her sister. Her great brown eyes were very expressive and not altogether free from a sparkle of luminous heat. "And yet we never weep over tho real thing on the actual stage of life. What are the shadows of London on the stage to the shadows of London or Chi? cago as they really exist ? Why don't we get excited over the facts as they are?" "Because the actual people are dirty and disagreeable and it's too much bother, I suppose," replied Rose care? lessly. "Felicia, you never can reform the world What's the use? We're not to blamo tor tho poverty and misery. There have always been rich and poor, and there always will be. Wt ought to be thankful we're rich." "Suppose Christ had gone on that principle*" replied Felicia, with un? usual persistence. "Do you remember Dr. Bruce's sermon on that verse a few Sundays ago, 'For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he be? came poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich ?' " "I remember it well enough." said Rose, with some petulance. "And didn't Dr. Bruce go on to say that there Was BO blame attached to people who had wealth if they are kind and give to the needs of the poor ? And I am sure the doctor himself is pretty comfortably settled. He never gives up his luxuries just because some people in the city go hungry. What good would it do if he did ? I tell you, Felicia, there will al? ways be poor and rich in spite of all we can do. Ever fcince Rachel has written about the queer doings in Raymond you have upset the whole family. Peo? ple can't live at that concert pitch all the time. You see if Rachel doesn't give it up soon. It's a great pity she doesn't come to Chicago and sing in the Auditorium concerts. I heard today she had received an offer. I'm going to write and urge her to come. I'm just dying to hear her sing." Felicia looked out of the window and was silent. The carriage rolled on past two blocks of magnificent private resi? dences and turned into a wide drive? way under a covered passage, and the sisters hurried into the house. It was an elegant mansion of graystone, fur? nished like a palace, every corner of it Warm with thr- luxury of paintings, sculpture, art and refinement. The owner of it all. Mr. Charles R. Sterling, stood before an open grate fire smoking a cigar. He had made his money in grain speculation and rail? road ventures and was reputed to be worth something over two millions. His wife was a sister of Mrs. Winslow of Raymond. She had been an invalid for several years. The two girls. Rose and Felicia, were the only children. Rose was 21 years old, fair, vivacious, educated in a fashionable college, just entering society and already somewhat cynical and indifferent, a very hard young lady to please, her father said sometimes playfully, sometimes sternly. Felicia was 19, with a tropical beauty somewhat like her cousin, Rachel Wins low, with warm, generous impnlnes just waking into Christian feeling, ca? pable of all sorts of expression, a puzzle to her father, a source of irritation to her mother and with a great, unsur veyed territory of thought! and action in herself of which she was more than dimly conscious. There was that in Felicia that would easily endure any condition in life if only the liberty to act fully on her conscientious convic? tions were granted her. "Here's a letter for you. Felicia," said Mr. Sterling, taking it out of his pocket. Felicia sac down and instantly opened the letter, spying as she did so. "It's from Rachel." "Well, what's tho latest news from Raymond?" asked Mr. Sterling, taking his cigar out of his mouth and looking at Felicia, as he often did. with half shut eyes, as if he were study rig her. "Racial says Dr. Bruce has been studying in Raymond for two Sundays and has seemed very much interested in Mr. Maxwell's pledge In the First church. " "What do< < Rachel say about her? self?" naked Rom?, wh i was lying on a couch almost buried under half a dozen elegant cushions. "Sho i i still singing at the Rectangle. Bincothe tent me. tings closed she sings in an old ball until the new buildings her friend Virginia Pat e is putting up are completed." "I must write Rachel to come to Chi cago and visit ns. she ought not to throw awa) her voice in thai railroad town upon all those people who don't appreciate her." Mr. St< rling lighted a new cigar, and Rose exclaimed "Rachel i-. awfully queer, I think. She might sit Chicago wild with her voice if the Hang III the Auditorium. 1 and there v.h<? goes on, throwing her voice away on people who don't know what they are hearing. " \v\ , [TO B*l CONTINUED. J Memoria! Meeting In Eilerbe s Honor. Addresses od Life and Char? acter of Late Governor. The j>iot assembly for memorial tSO/eieeN in honor of the late Governor Wiiliam Haselden E'lerbo was ooo vened in the hail of the house of iepreceotatives promptly at noon last Thursday and was called to order by Senator John 0. Sbeppard, president pro tern of the Renate, who presided ami made a Fbnrt introductory address Gen R. R Hemphill, clerk of tbe sonate, read tbe resolution caliing tor tbe joint assembly. 'I he assembly then rose to receive the governor, supreme oourt and State bouse omoials Governor McSweeney entered with Senator W. A. Brown, of Marino, fallowed by Rev W. K. Rich? ardson witb Representative W. J Montgomery, of Marion, Attorney General Bellinger with Senator Living s'on, of Marlboro, Chief Justice Mclvor, Associate Justices Pope, Gary and Jones and tbe other State officials and members of tbe joint committee The proceedings were theo opened with an appropriate prayer by Rev W R Riobardson, pastor of tbe Washing? ton Street Methodist church wbiob Gov Ellerbe attended Senator W. A Brown, of Gov El? lerbek oouuty then offered tbe following preamble and resolutions : Whereas since the adjournment of th9 last general assembly of South Oar* olioa ao ioecrutable providence has taken from us by death the young but oapable and highly distinguished chief magistrate of tbo Stite, William H. Eilerbe, therefore, be it Resolved 1 That while we bow in bumble submission to this dispensation of God's providenoe, we realize the great loss suetaioed by tbe State and country and grieve at the departure of a lovable und loyal gentleman and pa triotio oitilvQ and a faithful aod effi cunt chid magistrate 2 That each house hereby reoords its bigb appreciation of tbe distinguish cd and devoted services of the deceased to bis state, from the position of private citizen to that of tbe highest place in the gift of tbe people 3. That we, tbo representatives of tbe people, hereby jointly tender to tbe be reaved family of tbe deceased sincer est sytnpatly and condolence, as the loss wbiob ts great to tbo oouotry is irreparable to them. 4. That these resolutions be spread upon tbe journals of tbe respeotive bouses, aod that an engrossed copy be transmitted to tbe tfflicted family 5 That as a further token of respect and esteem to tbe memory of the dcoeased this joint assembly do now adjouro. 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The following verses,, which have a decidedly Kiplingesque flavor were clipped from a communication to the Oxford Press, published at Oxford, Cheater county, Fa, from a private soldier in the Twelfth United States infantty, on duty in the Phil ippines : He aio't no gold-laced "Belvedere," Ter sparkle io tbe too ; He don't parade witb gay cockade, And poses in bit guo ; He aio't do "pretty toldier boy," So lovely, spick aod span, He wears a crust of tan ?n' dust, Tbe reg'lar army man ; Tbemaicbio', parcbio', l'ipe-clay ttarcbio', Re?Mar array mao. He aio't at borne io Sunday t-cbool, Nor yet at social ten, And ou tbe d*y he gets bis pay 11( 9 apt to spend it tree ; lie aio't no temp'rance advocate, He likes ter till tbe can ; He's kinder rough an', m?*jbe, tough, The reg'lur army n an ; TLe rann', ti-ariu', v-ioneiiujea sweario', Reg'lar armv man No state'II cah him "ooble eon," He ain't r o la off a' pet, Hu* let a row s'.arc anybow, They'll bend for hie , you bet I He dou't cut anj ice at all Io fush'n's e -cial plan, He ?;et? the j lb to face a Ulrb, The teg'lar army BtaB ; Toe inilltn', ilrtllin', Made ter kiilio', Keg'iar army man. They ain' no teare find over him When he goes oft' ter war, He gitd no speech nor pray er fo I "preach" Pro09 mayor er governor : lie p.irks bis lutle knapsack up A nd tro's eft* in trie van, Ttr start the Bgbl and itari it u^ht The teg I *r arms dj iu ; The ratlin', batliit', Coll or gatlin', Ri g'Iar army bbo. He nnkei do fuit about the job, He don't thIk. tiig or brnv?-, I lie knows he's in to ligbi ni w:d, Or belp fill up a grave ; He aio't no "u anwna'w dartta', ' but He dot 8 the h? it he tan, And lie's tbe cbap that mos the scrrp, The leg'lar anuy iui>n ; The dandy, haudy, Cool and sa< dy , Reg'lar army rxao. NO crop can grow with= out Potash. Every blade of Grass, every grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied you can count on a full crop? if too little, the growth will be " scrubby/' Send for our books telling all about composition of fertilizers best adapted for all crops. They cost you nothing. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St.,New Yorh. ?-4 Sonth Carolina and Georgia Ex? tension R. R. Company. Schedule No 4?In effect 12.01 * m., Sun? day, December 24, 1899 Between Camdeo S. C , and Blacksborg. S. C. WEST. EAST. 2d cl ?35 1st cl ?33 Eastern time 1st cl ?32 2d cl ?34 p m p m STATIONS. p m 8 20 12 50 Oanideu 12 25 8 50 115 Dekalo 11 02 9 20 1 27 Westville 11 bO 10 50 1 40 Kersbaw 11 35 11 20 2 10 !! niu Springs 11 20 11 M 2 15 Pleasant Hill 11 1 > 12 30 2 35 Lancaster 10 55 1 CO 2 10 Riverside 10 40 1 20 3 00 Springdell 10 30 2 30 3 10 Catawtia Junction 10 20 2 50 3 *0 Leslie 10 10 3 10 3 40 Rock Hill 10 00 4 10 3 55 New Pott 9 35 4 45 4 C2 Tinab ' 9 30 5 30 4 20 Yorkvilie 9 15 6 00 4 35 Sharon 9 CO 6 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 45 6 35 5 00 Smyrna 8 35 7 00 5 20 Blaclisburg 8 15 p en pro a to p m 6 30 50 30 10 15 00 35 00 12 40 12 20 11 oo 10 40 8 20 8 00 7 30 6 50 8 20 o 00 5 30 a m Between Blacksbux,., S. C, and Marion. N. C WEST. EAST. 2d cl ?11 1st cl ?33 Eastern time let cl ?32 2d cl ?12 am p m STATIONS. a ra 8 10 5 30 Blackeburg 7 48 8 30 5 45 Earls 7 32 8 40 5 50 Patterson Soring* 7 25 9 20 6 00 Sbelbj 7 15 to 00 S 20 Lattimore 6 55 10 10 6 28 Mooresboro 6 48 10 25 6 38 Hearietta 6 38 10 50; 6 55 Forest City 6 20 1115 7 10 Rutherfordton 6 05 11 35 7 22 Millwood 5 E5 11 45 7 35 Golden Valley 5 40 12 05 7 40 Thermal City 5 37 12 25 7 58 Glenwood 6 17 12 to 8 15 Marion 5 03 p m p in am p m 6 40 6 20 b 12 6 CO to 40 20 50 3 25 3 05 2 50 2 45 2 20 2 00 p m West. Gaffoey Division. East. 1st Class. I EASTERN TIME. II* CIrss 15 I 13 STATIONS. 14 | 16 am a m p 01 6 00 Blackeburg 7 SO 3 00 6 20 Cherokee Falls 7 30 2 40 6 40 Gaffney 7 10 2 20 am a m p m ?Daily exc pt Sunday Train No 11 leaving Marion, N. C, at 5 4 a tn. making close connection at Blacksburg, S C, wi'h the Southern's train No 36 for Char? lotte, N C. and all points East and connecting with tbe Southern'* vestibule going to Atlanta, Qa. and all points West, and will receive pas? sengers g?>irg East from trair No 10, on the C k N W R K, at Yorkville, S C. at 8 45 a m. and connects at Camden, S <\ with tbe Southern's train No 78, arriving in Charleston, 8 17 pm, Train No 34 with paprenger couch attaobed .ea ving Blacksburg at 5 30 a tu, and connecting at Ruck Hill with the Southern's Florida train for all points South, Train No 33 leaving Camden, S C, at 12 50 p m, after the arrival of tbe Southern's Char? leston train connects at Lancaster, S C, with the L k C R R, at Catawba Junotion with tbe SAL. going Kart, at Rock Hill. S C, with the Southern's trais, No 34, for Charlotte, N C, and all points East. Ccnnecte at York v.lle. S D, with train No 9 00 the C ? N W R R. for Chester, SC. At BJacksburg wiih the Southern'? vestibule going East, and tbe South? ern's train No 35 going West, and connecting at Marion N C with tbe Southern both East aad Wert SAMUEL HUNT, President. A. TRIPP. Superintendent. S. B. LUMPKIN, Gen'l Passenger Ag-nt. Estate of Julias J. Myers, Dec'd* IWILL APPLY 'o the Judge of Probate o Sumter County on February 3. 1900, for a Final Discbarge as Administrator of afore-', sud Estate. FRANK J. MYERS, Jan3?4t Administrator. MCE TO TAXPAYERS. OFFICE OF COUNTY TREASURER SUMTER COUNTY. Sumtbr, S. C , Sept 59, 18?9 TyyOTICE is hereby giver, that 1 s?||| be in ^\ tin office in the County Court Houte at .>umtrr tiom October 15tb to December j;lst, 1899, ^elusive, tor the collection of iHits 'or tne ?dial >ear 1899. The levy is as tollofes : For State purposes. 5 mills. For County ptrpOtM, S| mills. For School purposes, 3 mtils. Total levy, 11} milis. Also thf- followinf special school levus 5 School T ist net No 1, 2 mills School Die tried No 16, ] nilla. School District No 18, I mills. School District No 2?, 3 mills. Sit OliO, 2 mills. Honeord, 2 mills. Pri?itteir, 2 mills. -v<? 5, 1 Bill. No 17, 1 mill. Comtnut ?tion Roai Tax for 1900 is alto f a\ it Ic at ihe t-atue time. H. L SCARBOROUGH, Oct 4 Tr.asurer Sumter Co. Paper novels, new paper novels at H O. Oiteea k Co'l.