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IN HIS STEPS. *4 mi\at ???oui? 3 cs us So? By Charles M. Sheldon. Opjfrf?rft??'d and puMvihtd in l^ooh form by thc <?> Advance Publishing Co. of Ctiicago. I CHAPTER XU. Yet lackest thoa one thins. Sell all that test and distribute unto the poor, and thou bave treasure in heaven. And. come; follow When Henry Maxwell began to sj to the souls crowded into the settlen Itali that night, it is doubtful if he over before faced such an andiene ?is life. It is quite certain that city of Raymond did not contain s a Tariety of humanity. Not even JBectangle at its worst could furnisl many men and women who had fa entirely ont of the reach of the chu and all religions and even Christian flnences. What did he talk about ? He had .ready decided that point. He told .the simplest language he could c< maud some of the results of obedie to the pledge as it had been taken ^Raymond. Every man and woman ihat audience knew something ab . ^Jesns Christ They all had some idei nis character, and. however much tl -had grown bitter toward the forms Christian ecclesiasticism or the so< system, they preserved some stand; of right and truth, and what littie so ef them still retained was taken fr the person of the peasant of Galilee. So they were interested in what M; .well said. *4 What would Jesus do 1 * * "began to apply the question to the soc problem in general after finishing 1 story of Raymond. The audience v tespectfully attentive it was more tb fthat It was genuinely interested. 3k?r. Maxwell went on faces all over 1 'frail leaned forward in a way very s dom seen in church audiences or ai where else, except among workingm cr the people of the street when or they are thoroughly aroused. "WI -would Jesus do?" Suppose that w< the motto not only of the churches, t of the business men, the politicians, t newspapers, the workingmen, the ? ciety people. How long would it tal '-ander such a standard of conduct, revolutionize the world ? What was t trouble with the world ? It was suff < ing from selfishness. No one ever liv who had succeeded in overcoming se ishness like Jesus If men followed hi regardless of results, the worKl won at once begin to enjoy a new life. Henry Maxwell never knew he much it meant to hold the respectf attention of that hall full of diseas 'and sinful humanity The bishop ai Dr Bruce, sitting there, looking o seeing many faces that represented seo] of creeds, haired of the social orde desperate narrowness and sel?shnes marveled that even so socn, under ti / influence of the settlement life, ti softening process had begun to lesse the bitterness of hearts, many of whic had grown bitter from neglect and i: difference. And still, in spite of the outwar show of respect of the speaker, no cn? not even the bishop, had any true coi cepticn of the pent np feeling in tia: room that night. Among the men wh had heard of the meeting and hau r< , sponded to the invitation were 20 cr 3 out of work, who had strolled past th settlement that afternoon, read the nt tice of the meeting and had come i out of curiosity and to escape the chi' east wind, lt was a bitter night, an the saloons were full, but in that whol district of over 30,000 souls, with th exception of the saloons, there4 vas ne. a door open to the people except tl: clean, pure. Christian door of the settle ment Where would a man without ; home or without work or withon friends naturally go unless to a saloon It had been the custom ai the settle ment for a free and open discussion ?: follow an open ^meeting of t .Vis kind and when Henry Maxwell finish; d an; sat down Th" bishop, who presided to night. r<:.-<- and made the annonc? : : :. that any man in the hail was at liberty to ask questions, to speak out his i ? ings or declare his convict i< ns. al. . y? with the understanding that whdeva took nar~ was ia observe the 1 rules that governed parliamentary : : fl? ies ano obey the three minn: . rule, which, by common consent, would b-. enforced on account of the numb : present Instantly a number of voices fron; men who had been ai previous meetings of this kind exclaimed, "Cons? nr. con? sent ! " Th? bishop sat down, and immediate .ly a man near the middle of the hail rose and began to speak. "I want to say that what Mr. Max? well has said tonight comes pretty close to me. I knew Jack Manning, the fel? low he told about, who died at his t>rked on next case to his in hop in Philadelphia for two was a good fellow. He lent ivhen I was in a hole, and i chance to pay it back. He w York, owing to a change igement of the office that mt. and I never saw him en the linotype machine ras one of the men to go he did. I have been out time since. They say in a good thing. I won't al myself, but I suppose I'm A man naturally is when 'adv job because a machine ce. About this Christianity t. it's all right, but I never any such sacrifice on the .h people. So far as my ob es. they're just as selfish riv for m<?ney or worldly ybody. I except the bishop ;e and a few others, but 1 much difference between I men of the wor?d. as they're called, j church members when it came to b ; ness and money making. One clas j just as bad ns another there." f Cries of * "That's so!" "Yon 'rerigh i "Of course*!" interrnnted the speal : and the minute he *at down two 1 j who were on their feet for several : j onds before the first sneaker was throi i began to talk at once, j The bishop called them to order i j indicated which was entitled to floor. The man who remained stand began eagerly. '.This is the first time I was evei here, and maybe it'll be the last. F is. Fm about at the end of my stri I've tramped this city for work m I'm sick. I'm in plenty of compa; Say, I'd like to ask a question of ' minister if it's fair. May I'?" "That's for Mr. Maxwell to saj said the bishop. "By all means." replied Mr. Mi well quickly. "Of course I will i promise to answer it to the gentlema: satisfaction. "This is my question." The m leaned forward and stretched out a lo arm, with a certain dramatic force ti grew naturally enough ont of his c< cition as a human being. 4T want know what Jesus would do in my eas i haven't had a stroke of work for t1 months. I've got a wife and three ch dren, and I love them as much as if was worth a million dollars. I've be living cf? a little earnings I saved ? during the World's fair jobs I got. I1 a carpenter by trade, and I've tried ? erv way I know to get a job. Y'ou s, we ought to take for our motto 'Wb would Jesus do?' What would he do he was out of work like me? I can't somebody else and ask the question, want to work. I'd give anything grow tired of working ten hours a di the way I used to. Am I to blame I cause I can't manufacture a job for m self? I've get to live and my wife ai my children. But how ? What wou Jesus do? Yen say that's the questh we all ought to ask. ' ' : Henry Maxwell sat there staring ; {' the great sea of faces all intent on hi and no answer to this man's questic seemed, for the time being, to be poss ble. "OGod!" his heart prayed. "Th is a question that brings up the enti: social problem in all its perplexing e] tanglement of human wrongs and i present condition, contrary to every d sire of God for a human being's we fare. Is there any condition more awfi than fora man in good health, able ar eager to work, with no means of hone: livelihood unless he does work, actual] unable to get anything tc do and drive to one of three things-begging f< charity at the hands of friends <. strangers cr suicide or starvation What would Jesus do? It was a fai question for the man to ask. It was til only question he could ask, supposin him-to be a disciple of Christ, but whs a question fer any man to be obliged t ask under such conditions!" Ail this and more did Henry llaxwej j ponder. All the others w. re thinking ii the same way. The bishop sat ther with a lock so stern and sad that it va ' not hard to tell how the question move* ! him. Dr. Bruce had his head bowed The human problem had never sceme< : to him so tragic as since he had take! ; the pledge and left his church to ente: ! the settlement. What would Jesus do ! It was a terrible question, and still th* ! man stoe>d there, tall and gaunt and al I most terrible, with his arm stretcher : ont in an appeal which grew every sec end in meaning. At 1( ngXi Mr. Maxwell spoke, i "Is there any man in the room wh< . is a Christian disciple who has been ir this condition and has tried to do a; Jesus would do? If sc?, such a man cai: answer his question better than ? can. ' There was a mom< ct's hush ov: r x\:r ? room, and then a man near the front oi the hall slowly rcs;?. He w;;s an old man. and the hand he laid on the bac? of the bench i xi iront of him trembled . as he spoke. "I think ? c::n safely say that I have ; many times been in just such a condi? tion and have always tried to be c I Christian under all conditions. I don't know that I have alway., asked this question, 'What would Jesus do?' when . I have beenVut of work, but I do know I have tried to be his disciple at all rimes. Yes." tho maxi went on. with a ; sad smile that veas more pathetic to the bishop and Mr. Maxwell than the young man's grim despair-"yes. I have beg? ged, and I have been to the charity or? ganizations, and I have done every : thing when ont of a job, except steal \ and lie. in order to get food and fuel. I don't know that Jesus would have done pome of the things I have been obliged j to do for a living, hut I know I have j never knowingly done wrong when out i of work. Sometimes I think maybe he j would have starved sooner than beg I don't know The old man's voice trembled, and he ; looked around the room timidly A si ! lenee followed, broken by a fierce voice j from a large, black haired, heavily ? beafded man who sat three seats from : the bishop. The minute he spoke nearly i every man in the hall leaned forward eagerly Thc man who had asked the ; question, "What would Jesus do in my : case?" slowh sat down and asked the i man next to him. "Who's that?" * .That's Carlsen, the socialistic lead? er Now you'll hear something. " "This is all hush, to my miad." ho? gan Carlsen, while his great, bristling j beard shock with the deep, inward anger of the man. "The whole of our system is at tau lt. wiiat we call < lization is rotten to the core. Thei no use trying to hide it or cover it We live in an age of trusts and c bines and capitalistic greed that me simply death to thousands of inno< i men, women and children. I th j God. if there is a God, which I \ much doubt, that I, for one, have n< dared to marry and try to have a ho Home! Talk of hell! Is there any ' ger than the one this man with three children has on his hands ri this minute? And he's only ono ou thousands, and yet this city and e\ other big city in this country has i thousands of professed Christians i have all the luxuries and comforts ; who go to church Sundays and s their hymns about giving all to Je and bearing the cross and following 1 all the way and being saved! I d( say that there aren't some good i and women among them, but let minister who has spoken to us here night go into any one of a dozen a tocratic churches I could name and T pose to the members to take any si pledge as the one he's proposed here i see how quick the people would lax at him for a fool or a crank or a fana" Oh, no! That's not the remedy. T. can't ever amount to anything. We got to have a new start in the way government. The whole thing needs constructing, i don't look for any form worth anything to come ont the churches. They are not with people. They are with the aristocra with the men of money. The trusts -? monopolies have their greatest men the churches. The ministers as a cl are their slaves. What vre need is system that shall start from the co mon basis of socialism founded on 1 rights of the common people' ' Carlsen had evidently forgotten about the three minute rule and w launching himself into a regular o: tion that meant, in his usual surroui ings. before his usual audience, an bc at least, when the man just behind h: pulled him down unceremoniously a rose. Carlsen was angry at first a threatened a little disturbance, but t bishop reminded him of the rule, a: he subsided, with several mutterin in his beard, while the next speaker I gan with a very strong eulogy on t value of the single tax as a genni remedy for all the social ills. He w followed by a man who made a bitt attack on the churches and ministe and declared that the two great obst cles in the way of* all true reform we the courts and the ecclesiastical m chines When he sat down, a man who bo every mark of being a street labor sprang to his feet and poured out a pe feet torrent of abuse against the corpc ations. cspeciaUy the railroads. Tl minute his time was up a big. brawl fellow who said he was a metal work by trade claimed .he floor and declare that the remedy for the social wron: was trades unionism. This, he sail would bring on the millennium for 1; bor more than anything else. The ne: man endeavored to give some reasoi why so many persons were out of en ployment and condemned inventions J the works of the devil Ke was loud! applauded by the rest of the company Finally the bishop called time on tl .'freefor all" and asked Rachel :o sim Rachel Winslow had grown into very strong, healthful, humble Cari: tian during that wonderful year i Raymond dating from the Sunda when she first took the pledge to do a Jesus would do. and her great talent c song had been fully ecrrsctrated to th service of her Master. Wi:-. :: she bega: to sing tonight at luis s< ttl? ::: ?::< ; ing. she had c%.v< r prayed more d ;epl for results to come from her voice-th voice which she now regarded as th Master's, io be ns d for him. Certainly her prayer was being an swered a*5 she sang. She had chosen ti: words ? Hark, ihe voiee of J??i!s calling, Follow me, follow nm! Again Henry "Maxwell, sitting there was reminded of his first night at th ? Rectangle in the tent when Rachel san: j the people into quiet. The effect wa ! the same here. What wonderful powe: j a good voice consecrated to the Master": ! service always is! Rachel's great nat i ural ability would have made her ene of the foremost opera singers of thc ag . Surely this audience had never before I heard such melody. Hov/could it? The ' men who had drilled in from the stre ! ! sat entranced hy a voice which vbacl j in the world" never could be heard bj j the common people because the ownei i e>f it would charge ?? or ?3 for the ! privilege. The song poured < nt thron r. j the hall as ire-- and glad as if it were ;: j foretaste of salvation itself: Carlsen, with hisgreat Mack bearded i face, absorbed the music with the deer ! love of it peculiar to his nationality. ; and a tear ran over his cheek and glis ; tened in his beard as his face softened ! ami became almost noble in its aspect, i The man out of work who had want? d j to know what Jesus would d<> iii Ids j place sat with grimy hand on the l ack . of the bench in front of him, with his ! mouth partly open, his great tragedy ; for the moment forgotten. The song ! while it lasted was food and work and j warmth and union with his wife and ! babies once more The man who had I spoken so fiercely against the churches j and the ministe rs sat with his head j erect at first, with a look of stolid re ? sistance. as if he stubbornly resented ? tbe introduction into the exercises of j anything that was even remotely con J nected with the; c hurch or its form of j worship, but gradually he yielded t<> j the power that was swaying th?' hearts ! of all the persons in that room, aa?! a ' look of sad thoughtfulness crept over j his face. Th?; bishop said to himself that night while Rachel was singing that if the world of si ufa 1. diseased, depraved, lost humanity could only have the gospel j preached to it by consecrated prima donnas*and prof- isional !. norsand altos and bassos he believed i? would hasten the coming of the kingdom quicker ! than any other one? force. "Why. <-h. ; why." he cried in his heart as he lis ! tened, "has the world's great treasure in J somr been so often held far from thc ? pour because tile*' personal possessor 01 voice or fingers capable of stirring di? vinest melody nus so often regarded the gift as something with which to make ! money? Shall there be no martyrs ! among the gifted ones of the earth? I Shall there be no giving of this great gift as well as of others?" j And Henry Maxwell again, as before, ; called up that other audience at the : Rectangle, with increasing longing for I a larger spread of the new discipleship. [ What he had seen and heard at the set t tlement burned into him deeper the be? lief that the problem of the city would j be solved if the Christians in it should ; once follow Jesus as he gave command ! ment. But what of this great mass of j humanity, neglected and sinful, the very kind of humanity the Saviour came to save, with all its mistakes and narrowness, its wretchedness and loss of hope-above all. its unqualified bit? terness toward the church ? That was j what smote Henry Maxwell deepest. Was the church, then, so far from the Master that the people no longer found him in thc church ? Was it true that ! the church had lost its power over the ? very kind of humanity which in the j early ages of Christianity it reached in the greatest numbers? How much was true in what the socialist leader said about the uselessness of looking to the church for reform or redemption be ! cause of the selfishness and seclusion and aristocracy of its members ? He was more and more impressed with the appalling fact that the com? paratively few men in the hail, now being held quiet for awhile by Rachel's voice, represented thousands of others just like them, to whom a church and a minister stood for less than a saloon or a beer garden as a source of comfort or happiness. Ought it to be so? If the church members were all doing as Jesus would do, could it remain true that armies of men would walk the streets for jobs and hundreds of them curse the church and thousands of them find in the saloon their best friend? Hov.* far '?vere the Christians responsible for this human problem that was personally illustrated right in this hall tonight? Was it true that the great city churches would, as a rule, refuse to walk in Je? sus' steps so closely as to suffer, actual? ly suffer., for his s.-rke? [TO BE CONTINUED.] ?- ? ?-P THOSE BOER LADIES. By biddle Life They Are Almost Too Fat to Walk. The Boer woman is very little like the trim, handsome Du ich woman of her ancestral Holland. She is seldom pretty. Her complexion is her princi? pal charm, and she guards this care? fully whenever she goes out. She is never seen outdoors without a great' peaked bonnet on her head, her visits to church being made behind an al? most oriental seclusion of veils. This is necessary to preserve the pink ami white of her skin, for the climate would otherwise soon tan it to the col? or of sole leather. Her eyes an.-small and set close together, and her features ; are irregul?r. Her cheeks are broad and flat, and. her hair is naturally light in color, although lime and weather soon bleach it from its carly straw color. At a very early age sue ??oses, all her teeth, for she is constantly chewing sweet cakes and confection? ery. A European yeoman would ^replace tlie molars that nature has deprived her ol' with weil mounted works of art, but the Boer woman does not ?lo I lils. She thinks it would be impious thus to try to duplicate the wer!: cf the Crea'.or. Her figure is thick and al:.mst waistless. While still a young woman she begins to grow fat. and by the time middle life is reached she is often so unwieldy that the only ex? ercise she is aide to lake is to waddle cumbrously from one armchair to an? other. She is clad in a loose, scantily made gown, devoid of trimming and apparently waistless. The day gar? ments of the Boers are also their night? clothes, so the gown is generally wrin? kled.-Charleston .News and Cornier. Samoa's Tn??'iit;: ~?:?:I. Samoa's talking mau, or "tokifali." is a character. All the affairs of state of the village in which he holds office are carried upon his shoulders. In or? dinary he is the chief adviser, persuad? er, convincer and restrainer of the leading chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence, he makes the mos; of it. He enjoys im? munity from many things, lie cannot be sj :of in ur-'dnary terms, if h should oe necessary to speak <>!' his eyes or his mouth or his limos, special honorable words mus? be used, words which attach to him alone and have never been applied to the persona! paris cf ordinary men. As he stands to deliver his soft, per? suasive, mellifluous oratory, with staff of office in his hand and his fly duster thrown over l:is shoulder, any one can see that he is a man of groat impor? tance, or if this is not apprirent from his attitude it may be gathered from the attention paid to his utterances by gray haired chiefs and by youths and maidens. If thc talking man is a (dov? er fellow and understands his busi? ness, he is the chief ruling power in his tribe, although the nominal headship is always vested in a chief or patri? archal figurehead. And the Minister Smiled. The Yofk (Me.) Transcript says that a Portland minister recently called up? on one of the families in ids parish. Ile ascended the steps and knocked at tho door. Receiving no response, lie was about to depart when he heard a window in thc next house open anni a woman's voire? s.-iy. "Mrs. Smith, the ministers at j our door." What was the pastor's surprise and amusement when he caught Mrs. Sndi h's response wafted gently around the corner ol" rho house. *-Sh. don't you s'poso I know i< !" Tho next Sunday after service Mrs. Smith met her pastor and expressed her sorrow that she was away when he had called. Our Curious Firn in. A wonderful piece of self analysis, worthy of St, Augustine, which occurs in one of John Donne's funeral ser? mons, gives poignant expression to what must doubtless have been a eom i mon condition ol' so sensitive a brain. "I throw myself down in my cham? ber, and 1 call in and invite God and his angels together, and when they are ; there I neglect God and his angels for j the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a j coach, for the whining of a dog; I talk , on in the same posture of prayer, eyes lifted up. knees bowed down, as though I prayed to God, and if God should ask me when I last thought of God in that prayer I cannot tell. Sometimes I find that I forgot what I was about, but when I began to forget it I cannot tell. A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knee, a noise in mine car, a j chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayer." It is this brain, turned inward upon itself and darting out on every side in purely random excursions that was re? sponsible, I cannot doubt, for all the contradictions of a career in which the inner logic is not at first apparent. Fortnightly. Tvro lin?2road Passes. i When its limited express trains were j put on some years ago. the Lake Shore ! Railway company decided to charge j extra for the privilege of riding on them, and John Newell, who was pres ! ident of the system at that time, gave I orders that passes, half rate tickets, j etc., should not be honored on the "fli ! ors." Ii was not intended, of course, j that the complimentaries issued to high ? officials ol" other roads should be void j on the fast trains, but through an over ? sight a yearly pass was sent to D. W. ! Caldwell, president of the Nickel Plate, j which bore on its face the words: "Not good on Lake Shore limited j trains." A few days after Mr. Caldwell's pass j had been issued Mr. Newell received j an annual pass on the Nickel Plate with the following indorsement: j "Not good on passenger trains." I Messrs. Newell and Caldwell remain j ed consistent enemies uutil the former j died and was succeeded by the latter i as president of the Lake Shore.-Chi I cago Times-Herald. Somev.liat Mixed. A gentleman from a neighboring town in Mississippi told the following last night: "I walked into a small store the oth? er day and found the proprietor lying on the counter just dozing off into a sleep. Ile roused himself on my ap? proach, and. jumping to the floor, quoted tiic familiar line: ** *A horse I A horse! My kingdom for a horse!' " 'Where did you get that?' I asked. " 'Oh. don't you know? That's what Absalom said when his horse ran un? der the tree and left him hanging by the hair to a limb. 1 thought every? body knew where that came from.' .Memphis Scimitar. Great City For Prayer. I A visitor to Moscow soon discovers ! why it is called the Holy City. Ev j cry 20<; or CPO feet there is a cathedral, j church, chapel or shrine, and which j ever way yen look you see people j crossing themselves. Until one has ! seen Moscow the piety of the place is ; not easily understood. The outsider j cannot imagine Moscow conditions. He j cannot imagine church bells ringing . all the time and people praying in the. j public street? at all hours of day and i night. v Mn.sie For Fish Rait. Arr eccentric hermit named William Schneller, who lives at Franklin. Mich., is said to be oue of the most successful fishermen in ins part of the country, and he claims to call the fish to him by singing "Old Hundredth." Ile goes out in his boat and takes a station iu fairly deep water. Then he sings, at the same time keeping his eyes on the water in search of tish. Gradually the fish crowd about his boat, he claims, and when enough are gathered togeth? er the wily fisherman casts a net and catches dozens at a single haul. The old gentleman has a famous voice, and his n? Ighbors are inclined to believe his strange story.-Chicago Record. Honest Boy. "1 am giad there are a few honest people left. Two years ago I sent a hoy around the corner to buy a postal ear.'!. I have never seen the boy to this cay." "You don't call that boy holiest?" "Yes. sir. This morning I received a postal with tins on the hack: 'Dear Sir-Here is your postal. 1 started in business with the penny you gave me and have prospered. Thanks.' "- Chi? cago News. Kissing and ?lncrpr?Take Ti:r.e. It's all very well for you and Nellie and Emsie to unite in millions of hugs and kisses, but please consider the time it would occupy your poor old very busy uncle. Try hugging and kissing Emsie for a minute by the watch, and I don't think you'll man? age it more than 12 hours a day.-Let? ter of Lewis Carroll. A '"iii? C U 8 A N 0iL cures ( *uts> TO Burns, Bruises, Rheuma g> tism and Seres. Price, 25 cts n (>. W crh-i.p I/ri.r. Cn VOR SALK. EXTRA FINK BARREDP YMOUTHS J iso, F ?- for H at chi rr? L"> for $? 00. Xicefy Packed in X-ir Baskets* Ji HN A CULLOM, Ridge Spring, S. C. J .ri 21 4 r: HOICE: Vegetables will always find a ready market-but only that farmer can raise them who has studied the great secret how to ob? tain both quality and quantity by the judicious use of well balanced fertilizers. No fertil? izer for Vegetables can produce a large yield unless it contains at least 8% Potash. Send for our books, which furnish full information. We send them I? free of charge. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. ia El? ten 1R. Company: Schedule No. 4-Io effect 12.01 a. m., Son? dar, December 24; 1899. BPtweea Ip.oden S. C , and Blaeksburg, S. C. WESr EAST. 2<i cl lit cl 1st cl 2d ci *33 *33 Eastern tice. ?32 *34 * pm p rc STATIONS. Dm pm 8 20 12 50 Camden 12 25 5 30 8 tO 115 Dekalb ll G2 4 50 9 20 1 27 Westville ll 50 4 30 10 50 1 40 Kershaw 11 35 4 10 11 20 2 10 Heath Springs ll 20 3 15 11 35 2 15 Pleasant Hill 11 15 3 00 12 30 2 35 Lancaster 10 55 '?36 1C0 2 f0 Riverside 10 40 1 00 1 20 3 03 Springdell 10 30 12 40 2 30 3 10 Catawba Junction 10 20 !2 20 2 50 3 20 Lsslie 10 10 ll 00 3 10 3 40 Rock Bili 10 00 10 40 4 10 3 55 New Port 9 35 8 20 4 45 4 '2 Tirzah 9 30 8 GO 5 30 4 20 Yorkville 9 15 7 30 6 00 4 35 Sharon 9 00 6 50 6 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 45 6 20 6 35 5 00 Smyrna 8 35 6 00 7 CO 5 20 ?lacksbnre; 8 15 5 30 pm pm aro am Between Blacksbnrg. S. C., and Marion. N. C WEST. EAST. 2d cl *11 lsr cl *33 Ebdtem time. l?t cl *32 2d cl .12 a m 8 10 8 30 8 40 9 20 lU 00 10 10 10 25 10 50 11 15 ll 35 11 45 12 05 12 25 12 50 p m West. p m STATIONS. 5 30 Bla?ksborg 5 45 Earls 5 50 Patterson Soring* 6 00 Shelby 5 20 Lattimore 6 28 Mooresboro 6 38 Henrietta 6 55 Forest City 7 10 Rutberfordton 7 22 Millwood 7 35 Golden, Valley 7 40 Thermal Ciry 7 58 Glenwood 8 15 Marion p m a m 7 48 7 32 7 25 7 15 6 55 6 48 6 38 6 20 6 05 5 55 5 40 5 37 5 17 5 00 a m P m ? 40 6 20 to 12 6 CO 4 ?0 4 40 4 20 3 50 3 25 3 05 2 50 2 45 2 20 2 00 p m Gaffoev Divisico. East. Isi Cla=3 . EASTERN TIME. Hst Clses 15 I IS j STATIONS. i 141 16 :> m 1 00 1 20 1 40 p u ? m 6 00 6 20 6 40 a m Blaeksburg Cherokee rails ?Gaffcey a m 7 50 7 30 7 10 a rc : D m 3 0$ 2 40 2 20 p m *D*ily exe pt Scnday. Tr::in No 32 leaving Marion, N. C., at 5 a ru, making c!<sc connection at Blaeksburg, S '". with thc bou.hern's train Nc 30 for Cbar lo'te, N C, ami al! points East and connecting with the Southern's vestibule going to Atlanta, Ga. ??nd ail points West, and will receive pas? sengers going East fro tn train No 10. on the C k N IV R R, at Yorkville, SC, at S 45 a m, and connects at Camden, S C, with the Southern's train No 7S. arriving in Charleston. S 17 p rn, Train No 34 with passenger coach attached leaving Blaeksburg at 5 30 a rn, and connecting at Rock Hill whh the Southern's Florida train for all points South. Train No 33 leaving Camden, S C. at 12.50 p m, ??'.ter the arrival of the Southern's Char? leston train connects at Lancaster, S C, with the L & C R K, at Catawba Junction with the SAL. going East, at Rook Hill. S C, with the Southern's traiB, No 34. for Charlotte, N <\ and all points East. Ccnnects at York? ville. .S T. with train No 9 on thc C a. N \Y R H. tor Chester, S C. At Blaeksburg wi h the Southern's vestibule going East, ana the South? er.-.'.- tir.ir? No 35 going West, and connecting at Marion N C with the Southern both East atd West. SAMUEL HUNT, President. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. S h. L?'MPKIN. <?en'! P:isscnL'er A^nt. BARBED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS From Thoroughbred Prize Wiuoers ?1.50 FOR 15. Safe Arrival Guaranteed. L. C. DARSEY, Box 12. Sunny Side, Ga. J.nu 31 2m Albums ! Phot graph, Autograph and Scrap. H G Os'een & Co. \ Atlantic G??si Line Rai CONDENSED SCHEDULE. In effect January 14th, iSOO. SOUTH. NORTH. No No No No .35 -fbi t-6 *32 a 02 Lv Darlington Ar 8 05 S 45 Lv Elliott Ar 7 20 9 25 Ar Sumter Lv 6 40 3 46 Lv Sumter Ar 6 19 4 43 Ar Creston Lv 6 27 5 45 Lv Oresfcn Ar 3 50 9 15 Ar Preval?a Lv 10 00 5 10 Oran^-t-burg 5 02 5 48 Denmark 4 23 7 f>5 Augusta 2 30 H ra A tm pm pm *D.:i:y fD&ily na pt Su-day. Trains 32 ?rd 33 carry through Pullman Piihcc Bu?e! S:<ep:r,g CKTS between New Yoik nnd Mncon via Augusta. T M EMERSON H M EMERSON, Tiaffic t?auHger. Gen'l Pass. Ag^. J R KENLY, Gtn'l iianager.