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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1*7
TO APPLE PIE.
[San Francisco American.]
Delicious ration.
Rare combination
OI fruit preserved bjr Ere;
Should I 'ell It to tnee,
All tbatisdue tbee.
Hall, thou would’at not believe.
Half of my pain
Is owed In main
To sheltering thee at night;
Half of my pleasure
To generous measure
Of tbee at seat one right.
Crusty replies,
Deep qulverlug sighs,
From my heart s Inmost core
Sins I’ve committed.
Good deeds omitted,
All owed to tnee—and more.
Yet. do 1 love thee,
And naught above thee
Or on this eartn bel w.
Shall ere Induce me,
When friends produce thee,
To answer to them—No!
Record this vow
Henceforth from now
And ever from this night,
Her most I’ll prize,
Whose apple pies
Can fill me with delight.
A Prolific Sow.
W. M. Griffin, of the Twenty-eighth district
of Sumter county, Ga., has a four-year-old so w
that has littered and raised seventy-two pigs in
the last three years.
Mississippi Crops.
The Winona, Miss., Advance speaking of the
crons says “the corn crop of this section is be
lieved to be as good, if not better this year than
the crop of any previous season for a number
of years.’’
Dead Capital.
It is said that the amount of dead capital in
vested in farm fences in the United States,
alone reaches the inconceivably large sum of
five thousand millions of dollars, and that
making new fences and repairing old ones
costs two hundred millions annually.
So of Any Bird.
In twenty days the eggs of one hen would
exceed the weight of her body. So of any
bird. Vet the whole of that mass of albumen
is drawn directly from her blood. If stinted
in food, of course, it would limit the number
as well as the size of the eggs.
Professional Fruit-growing.
Fruit growing is one of the best professions
in the world to bring out the sterling qualities
of a man, for he will find new difficulties con
stantly arising which must be surmounted, and
all his successes and defeats will alike help to
develop his own character.
What We Produce.
Great is the Republic By the latest returns
of the Agricultural Department, the leading
farm products of the country amount to $4,-
014,000,000 yearly. That alone, independently
of manufactures, fisheries, etc., represents an
average income of 8700 a year for every man,
woman and child in the country,.
WhatCood Cows will Do.
Good butter cows will make a pound of but
ter to every fourteen to eighteen pounds of
milk. “General purpose cows” want from
twenty-two to thirty-one pounds, and some
cows would require fifty pounds of milk to
make a pound of butter. Average dairies re
quire somewhere about twenty-five pounds of
milk to make a pound of butter.
Albemarle Wines.
The following item, taken from a letter to
the Fruit and Grape Grower, will prove inter
esting to many of our readers.
By the last English mail I received a letter
from which the following is a extract:
“ thinks that there is no wine as good as
yours, ani says that none suits him better.
What is the price of a cask, and could you sup
ply us? There is a blood making quality ii
your red wine that suits a weak digestion and
assimilates to a constitution not over strong.
The wine referred to was pure Virginia grape
juice, clarified and bottled iD England ”
Ere long Virginia will be as widely renown
ed for her wine, as she is at present for her to
bacco. W. Mann.
Cood Seed Wheat.
There is but one way to have good seed
wheat, and that is to grow it. Here is our plan:
Select an acre or two, according to your needs,
of the very bast wheat land on the farm. I f it
is clover sod, so much the better, and if you
can spare four or five loads of coarse manure,
to be ploughed down, better yet. Plough now,
and leave nothing undone to put the surface
in the best possible condition. Let the har
row, roller, cultivator and plank drag follow
each other at such short intervals as may be
neccessary to make a perfect seed-bed, not
more than two or three inches deep. The
patch being small, this may be done at odd
hours, mornings or evenings, and the time not
be missed.
As sowing time approaches, apply six or
eight loads per acre of good tine stable manure
and twenty-five bushels of lime, and with the
last workings thoroughly mix this in. A week
or so before sowing time (don’t sow too early
—land prepared in tnis way will ‘push things’),
mix together two hundred pounds of fine bone
and as much unleaehed ashes, dampening them
a little to keep them from flying, for use in the
drill. If found too damp to work well in the
drill mix a little wheat bran with it for a drier;
Now you are ready to sow, and we are going
to skiD over the matter of variety .merely stop
ping to say select whatever sort your own ex
perience or that of your neighbors has proven
most profitable in your own locality. See to
it that your seed is clean and pure if you have
to hand pick it. This will not be very much of
a job if you follow our next advice, which is
to sow but half a bushel per acre. That sounds
radical, we know, but for this once we want to
ask you to be radical just by way of experi
ment. Set the drill to sow but one peck per
acre, and then drill in both ways.
What Will the Harvest Be ?
The Crops In the United States.
The Rural Xeic Yorker summarizes, in its
latest issue, the crop reports received in answer
to its letters to all parts of the United States:
COTTON—A LARUE CROP.
Favorable outlook in New England.
Dubious prospects in the Northwest.
Corn promises the heaviest yield for years,
North. South, East and West.
Apples short, except in Michigan and New
York.
l’eaches, a full crop North—short in the
South.
Potatoes—A full crop in the Eastern, Middle
and Southern States, and in ail the Western
except Illinois, Minnesota and Indiana.
Wheat short in Nebraska, Dakota, Indiana,
Ohio Tennessee, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan
and iewa; elsewhere a full crop, or above an
average. , _
The hay crop is heavy in Maine, \ ermont,
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, Vir
ginia Maryland, Kansas, Colorado; medium iR
New York and Michigan, and light in Nebraska,
Dakota, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Kansas, Tennessee and lower Canada.
Tobacco will be short, as judged from the
reports thus far received.
Q ats Large crops in Florida, South Caro-
lina Virginia, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts,
Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Canada; short
crops in Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland, Illi
nois, Michigan and Nebraska.
Select Society.
[New York Sun.]
Mrs. Waldo (of Boston)—I have a letter
from your Uncle James, Penelope, who wants
us to spend the summer on his farm.
Penelope (dubiously)—Is there any society
in the neighborhood?
Mrs. Waldo—I’ve heard him speak of the
Hoisteins and Guernseys. I presume they are
pleasant people.
A Rose on an Apple Tree.
[Lynn Item]
A curiosity can be found at the residence of
Joseph Plummer, in Upper Swampscott. About
four years ago Mr. I’iummer set out an apple
tree which has blossomed and borne fruit every
season. This year was no exception as regards
apple blossoms and small fruit, but in addition
the tree starts out smiling with a handsome
white rose. The rose was in full bloom this
morning, and, appearing as it does from a
branch loaded with apples, it proves quite an
attraction. The sight is an unusual one, and
Mr. Plummer will show the flower to all in
terested.
Cotton Seed Products.
Two- thirds of the cotton seed oil sold in the
United States goes to the makers of lard and
butterine, and its use to the extent of about 20
per cent, has been one of the most 'powerful
influences in reducing the price of lard. It is
also being used for cooking, and a large pro
portion of the oil taken with salads and sar
dines is the product of the cotton fields. Hap
pily scientific men declare that it is perfectly
wholesome, and some say that it is better than
animals fats, at which vegetarians will rejoice.
It is estimated that not far from 600,000 tons of
cotton seed are used in this industry every
year, and that from 400,000 to 500,000 barrels
of crude oil are produced, half of which is ex
ported from the states. The oil is not only
product of the seed. The meal, after the oil
has been expressed, is sold, either loose or com
pressed into cake, for animal food, cattle tak
ing to it kindly, and for fertilizing purposes.
When refined it is difficult to distinguish be
tween the cotton and olive oils.—Chicago
Times.
Keep the Mangers Clean.
[Cultivator.]
The more high-bred and spirited the horse,
the more dainty he will be about his feed, and
the greater care must be taken to keep feed-
boxes and mangers free from filth. Almost
any scrub would, however, refuse to eat out of
mangers as they often are left, with portions of
the unconsumed hay or grain to be run over
and soiled by fowls while the horse is away at
work. This is a too common condition of many
farmers’ stables at this season, when increas
ing warmth dulls the appetite and makes soiled
food doubly offensive by its decay. Many a
hard-worked horse gets off his feed, as it is
said, and grows poor from this cause alone.
More care should be taken at this season to
feed only what will be eaten, clean, either of
hay, meal or grain. If any remains when the
horse is taken out in the morning to work, it
should be removed from the feed-box and given
to some other animal that will eat it outside
the stable.
Olives, English Walnuts—Almonds.
The San Francisco Examiner supplies the
following interesting, though brief account of
a flourishing olive plantation in California.
The olive was successfully grown ou St. Si
mons Island on the Georgia coast many years
ago—some of the trees are standing yet—and
in all probability the business could now be
more profitably engaged in than ever before.
We doubt not the olive could be grown and
the oil manufactured in other of the Southern
States. The Examiner says:
Colonel Eilwood Cooper, the largest olive
grower and manufacturer of sweet oil in the
world, has been at the Lick for the past day or
two. Before he left on the Queen for his big
orchards near Santa Barbara he gave a report
er some interesting points about the business.
“Santa Barbara is the great olive country of
the United States and of the world,” said the
prosperous grower. “But they can be raised
all the way from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.
I hear of a few trees in Georgia, but nowhere
else in America are they produced as exten
sively as in California. I have 400 acres now
of olive trees, eighty of which are bearing. I
began in a small way in 1873, and planted
from 1,000 to 3,000 trees each winter ever
since. It takes the trees from four to six or
seven years to bear. I expect to make from
my present crop from 20,000 to 25,000 bottles
of oil. There is the biggest sort of market
right here at home for every bottle that can be
made. California can’t begin to produce the
tenth part of what is required. The present
crop is very good. The trees are in fine con
dition, and are bearing well. I employ thirty
men steadily, and a good deal of the time I
have from sixty to seventy. I am also engaged
largely iu raising English walnuts aDd al
monds. They are not so profitable as the ol
ives; still they go very well with them This
year I shall raise at least ten car loads of Eng
lish walnuts and four or five of almonds.
A Calamus Farm
A QUARTER OF AN ACRE REPRESENTS A SMALL
FORTUNE.
[Griffin (Ga.) News.]
A short time ago Colonel E. W. Hammond
was passing through the northern part of Fa
yette county, on the Newnan ro id, when he
came in sight of a very marshy swamp that
was covered with a luxuriant growth. This
excited his curiosity, as the swamp lends were
so marshy that it seemed almost impossible
that anything should grow there.
He got out of the buggy and investigated the
growth, which proved to be calamus, a most
valuable drug, owing to the medical properties
of the roots of the plant. A short distance
further on he discovered a farm house, and
driving up he met an old gentleman sitting in
front of the dwelling reading a copy of the
Griffin Weekly news, who seemed to have an
air of contentment and prosperity about him
that at once stamped him as a person who kept
fully’ informed, and was wide awake to the in
terests of diversified crops. Accosting him
with a pleasant “good morning,” the Colonel
enquired the cause of his planting his swamp
in calamus.
“I will tell you,” said he, “when I first mov
ed on this place it was very unhealthy; my
stock died rapidly, and my family had no health.
My wife had been in the habit of keeping cala
mus in the house for her own use, and she de
cided to plant out a small patch on the edge of
the swamp. It began to spread rapidly, and
in a short time the whole quarter of an acre of
marsh was covered with it. The cattle drank
the water from the branch on which it grew,
and at once became healthy and ceased to die.
It was then that I first began to take an in
terest in the growth of the calamus, and to take
pains to save and dry the roots for market, as
I understood that it would sell well.”
“Have you ever made a sale?” enquired the
Colonel.
“Yes; I shipped 81,300 worth to a Northern
drug house last year from the quarter of an
acre you see down there in the swamp, and
they were very much pleased with the quality
of the drug, so much so, that they have given
me an order for all I could raise this year. I
have raised all I could for them, and have
orders now for 85,265 worth that I will ship as
soon as it can be dried sufficiently. • That quar
ter of an acre pays me better than my entire
farm, and I shall, as soon as I can get slips
enough, plant out the rest of the marsh. Let
me give you a bunch of the roots to take home.
Will you have them?”
Y'ouDg or middle-aged men, suffering from
nervous debility or kindred affections, should
address with 10 cents in stamps for large trea
tise, World’s Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
of Cfjougljt.
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature
whence men, properly informed, might bring
forth something for ornament, much for cur
iosity and more for use.—J. Dyer.
None can love freedom heartily butgood men;
the evil love not freedom, but license, which
never bath more scope or more indulgence than
under tyrants.—Milton.
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and
mutual harmony of the members, animated by
a healthy constitution.—Dryden.
A man must be excessively stup’d, as well
as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue
but on his own side.—Addison.
Calumny robs the public of all that benefit
that it may justly claim from the worth and
virtue of particular persons, by rendering their
virtue utterly insignificent.—South.
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star
Those only are beautiful which, like the plan
ets, have a steady, lambent light, are luminous
but sparkling.—Longfellow.
Round dealing is the honor of man’s nature;
and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold
and silver, which may make the metal work
better, but it embaseth it.—Lord Bacon.
He that provides for this life, but takes no
care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but a
fool forever, and acts as untowardly and cross
ly to the reason of things as can be imagined.
— Tillotson.
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerful
ness are not infrequent concomitants of gen
ius; and we are never more deceived than
when we mistake gravity for greatness, so
lemnity for science and pomposity tor erudition.
—Colton.
Real friendship is a slow grower, and never
thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known
and reciprocal merit.—Lord Chesterfield.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the
outer gate of a palace. It may serve to cast a
gleam of light on those that are without, while
the inhabitant sits in darkness.—Hannah More.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession;
from the which as men of course do seek to re
ceive countenance and profit, so ought they of
duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends,
to be a help and ornament thereunto.—Lord
Bacon.
Hope is, indeed, very fallacious, and prom
ises what it seldom gives; but its promises are
more valuable than the gifts of fortune, and it
seldom frustrates us without assuring us of
recompensing the delay by a greater bounty.
—Dr. Johnson.
Curious fttctgf.
The women engaged in the manufacture of
cheap Bibles in London are worse paid than
almost any other wage-workers there.
It isn’t always the biggest baby that makes
the biggest man. William Beckwith, of Lyme,
eighteen years old and a perfect giant, weighed
but two and one-fourth pounds at his birth.
Now he weighs 238 and is gaining. Perhaps
it’s the Connecticut air and good surroundings.
The tropical gooseberry, which is cultivated
in Florida, grows on a handsome tree from ten
to fifteen feet in height. The fruit is rather
smaller than the Siberian crab apple, and the
shape a flattened globe. It contains one hard
seed. The fruit is only moderately valuable,
but the tree is ornamental.
It is now given out that the 51,000,000 dollar
package of money at the national triasi r , for
a long time used for the special delectation of
brides, they being allowed to handle it, is
nothing more than a package of paper carehilly
lied up and preserved. A man who would
cheat a poor bride is mean enough to do any
thing.
A watchmaker in Milwaukee has trained a
common canary bird to sing faultlessly, “We
won’t go home ’till morning.” As soon as the
bird was born his education began, and by
hearing this tune played to him three or four
times a day for eight months he acquired it
perfectly; but there his acquirements end. He
never heard another tune.
Several centuries ago the Chinese destroyed
their great forests. Abbe David, the French
naturalist, now expresses the belief that they
did this to rid themselves of tigers, leopards
and other formidable beasts. Ancient forests
exist in China only among the mountain ranges,
and the plains are so completely cultivated that
native plants are seldom found.
The house or sobbing wren is a bird peculiar
to South-western Texas. Its melancholy Dote
is described as very impressive. It begins in a
high, clear key, like the tinkling of silver bells,
and descending gradually from one chime to
another, it suddenly falters, breaks off, and
sobs like a child—the song dying away in a
gasp. The song is beard only in the opening
light of dawn, and is repeated but a few times.
The singer is rarely seen during the day.
ETgle feathers are highly prized by the In
dians, and their method of capturing the bird is
this: They repair to the mountains and dig a
pit, which- is covered lightly with reeds and
grass. A piece of buffalo meat, done up in a
wolf skin, is laid on the pit. The eagle swoops
down, alights upon the wolf skin and begins to
tear it. The Indian, who is concealed in the
pit, seizes the bird by its legs and drags it into
the pit, where he crushes its breast with his
knees.
A novelty in Long Island farming the pres
ent year will be the extensive cultivation of
peanuts as an experiment.
A plot of ground set out in black walnut and
allowed to remain twenty years, it is asserted,
will yield a larger profit than in aty other
mode of investment on a farm.
“In Ceylon, at least,” says Sir James Ten
nant, “leopards have a strange fancy for the
flesh of smallpox victims, the specific odor of
the disease seeming to strongly attract them.”
A strange fish has been discovered off the
Morocco coast. It is a foot and a half long,
and of deep black color, and has an enormous
mouth with elastic membranes resembling a
pelican’s.
Two Kansas City newspaper men exposed a
medium recently by squirting aniline dve on
the face of a materialized spirit. The dye was,
of course, found on the medium after the spir
it departed.
Collections of military buttons arc just now
the fashionable rage. One young member of
the Astor family is credited with the posses
sion of a string of these trinkets in which near
ly every government of the world is represent
ed.
It appears from the Cornell University Reg
ister for 1884-85 that the library of that insti
tution contains about 51,200 volumes and 15,-
000 pamphlets, and receives additions now at
the rate of about 5,000 volumes annually. The
library has a fund not yet available, of about
8700,000.
“One cubic inch of gold,” says the Jewellers’
Circular, “is worth 8210; one cubic foot $312,-
380, and one cubic yard, 89,796,762 (counting
the ounce at §18). At the commencement of
the Christian era there were altogether §427,-
000,000 worth of gold, but at the time of the
discovery of America only §57,000,000 remain -
ed. At present the value of all the gold in
the world is counted at §6,900,000,000.
Cocaine, the new antithetic, is a colorless
fluid not unlike glycerine. Under its effects a
patient at a hospital the other day submitted
to the ball of his eye being punctured by a del
icate spear head knife, and in its place a small
suction pump inserted, which brought out
some pus from a sac which the knife had
punctured, and all the while the patient, ment
ally conscious, chatted pleasantly with the
operator, as insensible of the operation as
though it were being performed on his hat
band.
The Prohibition Conflict.
A business letter dated Marshall, Texts,
July 22d, says: “Prohibition is booming; the
4th of August tells the tale for the Lone Star
State. One Anti died yesterday — whisky
killed him; one vote less to overcome.”
A week or two ago a Prohibition speaker
was shot at—the ball going into the wall be
hind him—while replying to an Anti; and one
night last week just as Dr. A. G. Haygood, of
Georgia, had closed a speech, some one threw
a rock into the audience, which hit a man on
the head, inflicting an ugly wound. This is
one solid argument (?) the Antis have found.
On Wednesday, July 13th, Mr. John S. Hos
kins, Jr., the young co-editor of the Lexington,
Miss., Bulletin, was shot and killed by an
Anti-Prohibitionist on account of his fearless
editorial utterances—the Bulletin being thor
oughly prohibitionist in sentiment. This makes
two prohibition editors killed in Mississippi.
Such occurrences as the above will be sure
to strengthen the Prohibition cause.
The crusade is just about to begin in Florida,
and from the tone of the papers a large major
ity of the counties will go dry.
0l[RPlfLPIT
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
The Hamptons, July 24.—The Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage’s subject this morning was:
“Preaching, Teaching and Exhortation,” and
his text, Romans xii.) 7-8 verses: “Or min
istry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that
teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on
exhortation.”
Before the world is converted, the style of
religious discourse will have to be converted.
1 ou might as well go into the modern Sedan
or Gettysburg with bows and arrows instead
of rifles and bombshells and parks of artillery,
as to expect to conquer this world for God by
the old styles of exhortation and sermonology.
Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons most
adapted to the age in which he lived; but if
those sermons were preached now they would
divide an audience into two classes—those
sound asleep and those wanting to go home.
But there is a religious discourse of the fu
ture. Who will preach it, I have no idea; in
what part of the earth it will be born, I have
no idea; in which denominations of Christians
it will be delivered, I cannot guess. That dis
course or exhortation may be born in the coun
try meeting-house on the banks of the St. Law-
r ence, or the Oregon, or the Ohio, or the Tom-
bigbee, or the Alabama The person who shall
deliver it may this moment be in a cradle
under the shadow of the Sierra Nevadas, or in
a New England farm house, or amid the rice
fields of Southern savannahs. Or this moment
(here may be some young man. in some of our
theological seminaries, in the junior or middle
or senior class, shaping that weapon of power.
Or there may be coming some new baptism of
the Holy Ghost on the churches, so that some
of us who now stand in the watch towers of
Zion, waking to a realization of our present in
efficiency, may preach it ourselves. Tnat com
ing discourse may not be fifty years off. And
let us pray God that its arrival may be hasten
ed, while I announce to you what I think will
be the chief characteristics of that discourse or
exhortation when it does arrive, and I want to
make the remarks of the morning appropriate
and suggestive to all classes of Christian work
ers.
First of all, I remark that that future relig
ious discourse will be full of a living Christ in
contradistinction to didactic technicalities. A
discourse may be full of Christ though hardly
mentioning His name; and a sermon may be
empty of Christ while every sentence is repeti
tious of His titles. The world wants a living
Christ, not a Christ standing at the head of a
formal system of theology, but a Christ who
means pardon, and sympathy, and condolence,
and brotherhood, and life and Heaven. A
poor man’s Christ. A rich man’s Christ. An
overworked man’s Christ An invalid’s Christ.
A farmer’s Christ A merchant’s Christ. An
artisan’s Christ. An every man’s Christ.
A symmetrical and fine-worded system of
theology is well enough for theological classes,
but it has no more business in the pulpit than
have the technical phases of an anatomist or a
psychologist or a physician in the sick room of
a patient. The world wants help, immediate
and world-uplifting, and it will come through
a discourse in which Christ shall walk right
down into the immortal soul and take ever
lasting possession of it, filling it as full of light
as is this noonday firmament.
That sermon or exhortation of the future
will not deal with men in the threadbare illus
trations of Jesus Christ In that coming ad
dress there wi i right be instances of vicarious
suffering taken out of every-day life, for there
is not a day somebody is not dying for others.
As the physician saving his diptheretic patient
by sacrificing his own life! As the ship captain
going down with his vessel while he is getting
his passengers into the life-boat As the fire
man consuming in the burning building while
he is taking a child out of a fourth story win
dow. As in summer the strong swimmer at
East Hampton, or Long Branch, or Cape May,
or Lake George, himself perished trying to res
cue the drowning. As the newspaper boy one
summer, supporting his mother for some years,
his invalid mother, when offerei by a gentle
man fifty cents to get some especial paper, and
he got it, and rushed up in his anxiety to de
liver it and was crushed under the wheels of
the train, and lay on the grass with only
strength enough to say: “Oh! what will be
come of my poor sick mother now?”
Vicarious suffering. The world is full of it.
An engineer said to me on a locomotive in Da
kota: “We men seem to be coming to better
appreciation than we used to. Did you see
that account the other day of an engineer who,
to save his passengers, stuck to his place, and
when he was found dead in the locomotive,
which was upside down, he was found still
smiling, his hand on the air-brake?” And as
the engineer said it to me, be put his hand on
the air-brake to illustrate his meaning, and I
looked at him and thought: “You will be just
as much of a hero in the same crisis.”
Oh, in that religious discourse of the future
there will be living illustrations taken out from
every day life of vicarious suffering—illustra
tions that will bring to mind the ghastlier sac
rifices of Him who, in the high places of the
field, on the cross, fought our battles, and
wept our griefs, and endured our struggle, and
died our death.
A German sculptor made an image of Christ,
and he asked his little child two years old who
it was, and she said: “That must be some
very great man.” The sculptor was displeased
with the criticism, so he got another block of
marble, and chisselled away on it two or three
years, and then he brought in his little child,
four or five years of age, and he said to her:
“Who do you think that is?” She said: “That
must be the One who took little children in His
arms and blessed them.” Then the sculptor
was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the world
warns is not a cold Christ, not an intellectual
Christ, not a severely magisterial Christ, but a
loving Christ, spreading out His arms of sym
pathy to press the whole world to His loving
heart.
But, I remark again, that the religious dis
course of the future will be short. Condensa
tion is demanded by the age in which we live.
No more need of long introductions and long
applications, and so many divisions to a dis
course that it may be said to be hydra-headed.
In other days men got all their information
from the pulpit. There were few books, and
there were no newspapers, and there was little
travel from place to place, and people would
sit and listen two and a-half hours to a relig
ious discourse, and “seventeenthly” would find
them fresh and chipper. In those days there
was enough time for a man to take an hour to
warm himself up to the subject and an hour to
cool off. But what was a necessity then is a
superfluity now. Congregations are full of
knowledge from books, from newspapers, from
rapid and continuous intercommunication, and
long disquisitions of what they know already,
will not be abided. If a religious teacher can
not compress what he wishes to say to the
people in the space of forty-five minutes, better
adjourn it to some other day.
The trouble is we preach audiences into a
Christian frame, and then we preach them out
of it. We forget that every auditor has so
much capacity of attention, and when that is
exhausted he is restless. The accident on the
Long Island railroad some years ago came from
the fact that the brakes were out of order, and
when they wanted to stop the train they could
not stop, and hence the casuality was terrific.
In all religious discourse we want locomotive
power and propulsion. We want at the 6ame
time stout brakes to let down at the right in
stant. It is a dismal thing after a hearer has
comprehended the whole subject to hear a
man say “Now to recapitulate,” and “a few
words by way of application," and “once
more,” and “finally,” and “now to conclude."
Paul preached until midnight, and Eutychus
got sound asleep and fell out of a window aud
broke his neck Some would say: “Good for
him.” I would rather be sympathetic like
Paul and resuscitate him. That accident is
often quoted now in religious circles as a warn
ing against somnolence in church. It is just
as much a warning to ministers against pro
lixity. Eutychus was wrong in his somnolerc
but Paul made a mistake when he kept on un-
| til midnight. He ought to have stopped at
i eleven o’clock, and there would have been no
! accident. If Paul had gone on to too great
length, let all of those ol ‘ us who are now
preaching the Gospel remember that there is a
limit to religious discourse, or ought to be, and
that in our time we have no apostolic {lower of
miracles.
Napoleon in an address of seven minutes
thrilled his army, and thrilled Europe. Christ’s
sermon on the mount, the model "sermon, was
less than eighteen minutes long at ordinary
mode of delivery. It is not electricity scat
tered all over the sky that strikes, but electric
ity gathered into a thunderbolt and hurled,
and it is not religious truth scattered over,
spread out over a vast reach of time, but relig
ious truth projected in compact form that
flashes fight upon the soul and rives its indif
ference.
When the religious discourse of the future
arrives in this land and in the Christian church,
the discourse which iB to arouse the world and
startle the nations, and usher in the kingdom,
it will be a brief discourse. Hear it all theo
logical students, all ye just entering upon re
ligious work, all ye men and women who, in
Sabbath schools and other departments, are
toiling for Christ and the salvation of immor
tals. Brevity! Brevity!
But I remark also, that the religious dis
course of the future of which I speak will be a
popu.ar discourse. There are those in these
times who speak of a popular sermon as though
there must be something wrong about it. As
these critics are dull themselves the world gets
the impression that a sermon is good in pro
portion as it is stupid. Christ was the most
popular preacher the world ever saw, and con
sidering the small number of the world’s pop
ulation had the largest audiences ever gath
ered. He never preached anywhere without
making a great sensation. People rushed out
in the wilderness to hear him, reckless of their
physical necessities. So great was their anxi
ety to hear Christ that, taking no food with
them, they would have fainted and starved
had not Christ performed a miracle and fed
them.
Why did so many people take the truth at
Christ’s hands? Because they all understood
it. He illustrated his subject by a hen and her
chickens, by a bushel measure, by a handful
of salt, by a bird’s flight and by a lily’s aroma.
All the people knew what He meant, and they
flocked to Him. And when the religious dis
course of the future appears, it will not be
Princetonian, nor Rochestrian, not Andoveri-
an, not Middletonian, but Oiivetic—plain,
practical, unique, earnest, comprehensive of
all the woes, wants, sins, sorrows and necessi-
li is of an auditory.
But when that exhortation or discourse does
come there will be a thousand gleaming scime-
ters to charge on it. There are in so many
theological seminaries professors telling young
men how to preach, themselves not knowing
how, and I am told that if a young man in some
of our theological seminaries says anything
quaintor thrilling or unique, faculty and stu
dent fly at him and set him right, and straight
en him out, and smooth him down, and chop
him off, until he says everything just as every
body else says it.
Oh, when the future religious discourse of
the Christian church arrives, all the churches
of Christ in our great cities will be thronged.
The world wants spiritual help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort. All know
themselves to be mortal and to be immortal
and they want to hear about the great future.
I tell you, my friends, if the people of our great
cities who have had trouble only thought they
could get practical and sympathetic help in the
Christian church, there would not be a street
in New York, or Brooklyn, or Chicago, or
Charleston, or Philadelphia, or Boston which
would be passable on the Sabbath day if there
were a church on it; for all the people would
press to that asylum of mercy, that great house
of comfort and consolation.
A mother with a dead babe in her arms
came to the god Veda, and asked to have her
child restored to life. The god Veda said to
her: “You go and get a handful of mustard
seed from a house in which there has been no
sorrow, and in which there has been no death,
and I will restore your child to life.” So the
mother went out, and she went from house to
house, and from home to home, looking for a
place where there had been no sorrow and
where there had been no death, but she found
none. She went back to the god Veda and
said: “My mission is a failure; you see I
haven't brought tfie mustard seed; I can’t find
a place where there has been no sorrow and no
death.” “Oh,” says the god Veda, “under
stand your sorrows are no worse than the sor
rows of others; we all have our griefs, and all
have our heart breaks.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep, and you weep alone;
For tfie sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.”
We hear a great deal of discussion now all
over the land about why people do not go to
church. Some say it is because Christianity
is dying out, and because people do not be
lieve in the truth of God’s word, and all that.
They are false reasons. The reason is because
our sermons and exhortations are not interest
ing, and practical, and helpful. Some one
might as well tell the whole truth on this sub
ject, and so I will tell it. The religious dis
course of the future, the gospel sermon to come
forth and shake the nations and lift people out
of darkness, will be a popular sermon, just for
the simple reason that it will meet tfie woes
and the wants and the anxieties of the people.
There are in all our denominations ecclesias
tical mummies sitting around to frown upon
the fresh young pulpits of America, to try to
awe them down, to cry out: “Tut! tut! tut!
Sensational!”
They stand to-day preaching in churches
that hold a thousand people, and there are a
hundred parsons present, and if they cannot
have the world saved in their way, it seems as
if they do not want it saved at all.
I do not know but the old way of making
ministers of the gospel is betier—a collegiate
education and an apprenticeship under the care
and home attention of some earnest, aged
Christian minister, the young man getting the
patriarch’s spirit, and assisting him in his re
ligious service. Young lawyers study with old
lawyers, young physicians with old physi
cians, and I believe it would be a great help if
every young man studying for the gospel min-
stry could put himself in the home, and heart,
and sympathy, and under the benediction and
perpetual presence of a Christian minister.
But I remark again, the religious discourse
of the future will be an awaking sermon. From
altar rail to the front door step under that ser
mon an audience will get up and start for
heaven. There will be in it many a staccato
passage. It will not be a lullaby; it will be a
battle charge. Men will drop their sinB, for
they will feel the hot breath of pursuing retri
bution on the back of their necks. It will be
sympathetic with all the physical distresses as
well as • the spiritual distresses of the world.
Christ not only preached, but He healed par
alysis, and He healed epilepsy, and He healed
the dumb and the blind and ten lepers.
That religious discourse of the future will be
an every-day sermon, going right down into
every man’s life, and it will teach him how to
vote, how to bargain, how to plow, how to do
any work he is called to, how to wield trowel
and pen and pencil and yards ick and plane.
And it will teach women how to preside over
their households, and how to educate their
children, and how to imitate Miriam and Esther
and Vashti and Eunice, and the mother of
Timothy, and Mary, the mother of Chris:; and
those women who on Northern and Southern
battle- fields were mistaken by the wounded for
angels of mercy fresh from the throne of God.
Yes, I have to tell you the religious discourse
of the future will be a reported sermon. If
you have any idea that printing was invented
simply to print secular books, and stenography
and phonography were contrived merely to set
forth secular ideas, you are mistaken. The
printing press is to be the great agency of Gos
pel proclamation. It is high time that good
men instead of denounc ng the press, employed
it to scatter forth the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The vast majority of people in our cities do not
come to church, and nothing but the printed
sermon can reach them and call to pardon, and
life, and peace, and heaven.
So I cannot understand the nervousness of
some of my brethren of the ministry. When
they see a newspaper man coming in they say:
“Alas, there is a reporter.” Every added re
porter is ten thousand, fifty thousand, a hun
dred thousand immortal sou)4 added to the au
ditory. The time will come when all the vil
lage, town and city newspapers will reproduce
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and sermons
preached on the Sabbath will reverberate all
around the world, and, some by type, and
some by voice, all nations will be evangelized.
The practical bearing of this is upon those
who are engaged in Christian work, not only
upon theological students and young ministers,
but uoon all who preach the Gospel, and all
who exhort in meetings, and that is all of you
if you are doing your duty. Do you exhort in
prayer meeting? Be short and be spirited
Do you teach in Bible class? Though you
have to study every night to be interesting
Do you accost people on the subject of religion
in their homes or in public places? Study
adroitness and use common sense. The most
graceful and moat beautiful thing on earth is
the religion of Jesus Christ, and if you awk
wardly present it, it is defamation. We must
do our work rapidly, and we must do it effect
ively. Soon our time for work will begone.
A dying Christian took out his watch and
gave it to a friend and said: “Take that
watch, I have no more use for it; time is ended
for me and eternity begins.” Oh, my friends,
when our watch has ticked away for us the
last moment, and our clock has struck for us
the last hour, may it be found we did our
work well, that we did it in the best way, and
whether we preached the gospel in pulpits or
taught Sabbath classes, or administered to the
sick as physicians, or bargained as merchants,
or plead the law as attorneys, or were busy as
artisans, or as husbandmen, or as mechanics,
or were like Martha called to give a meal to a
hungry Christ, or like Hannah to make a coat
for a prophet, or like Daborah to rouse the
courage of some timid Barak in the Lord’s
conflict, we did our work in such a way that it
will stand the test of the j udgment. And in
the long procession of the redeemed that march
around the throne, may it be found that there
are many there brought to God through our
instrumentality and in whose rescue we are ex
ultant.
But, O, you unsaved, wait not for that re
ligious discourse of the future. It may come
after your obsequies. It may come after the
stonecutter has chiseled our name on the slab
fifty years before. Do not wait for a great
steamer of the Cunard or White Star line to
take you off the wreck, but hail the first craft
with however low a mast and however small a
hulk, and however poor a rudder, and how
ever weak a captain. Better a disabled schoon
er that comes up in time, than a full-rigged
brig that comes up after you have a sunken.
Instead of waiting for that religious discourse
of the future—it may be forty, fifty years off—
take this plain invitation of a man who, to
have given you spiritual eyesight, would be
glad to be called the spittle by the hand of
Christ put ou the eyes of a blind man, and
who would consider the highest compliment of
this service, if at the close five hundred men
should start from these doors, saying: “Wheth
er he be a sinner or no, I know not. This one
thing I know, whereas I was blind, now I
see.”
Swifter than shadows over the plain, quicker
than birds in theirautumnal flight, hastier than
eagles to their prey, hie you to a sympathetic
Christ. The orchestras of heaven have already
strung their instruments to celebrate your res
cue.
“And many were the voices around the throne;
ReJ >lce, for the Lord brings tuck his own.’’
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE
EAST TKNNE -SEE, V1KU1N1a A linunuia i».j
Day Express from 8s
ft Fla. No. 14. 7 40
RomeExpress fromNorth
•Gin. ft Mam. Ex. from
North, No. 11. 410 a m
Day Express from North
No. 13. 3 20pm
•Day Ex. from Savannah
and Brunswick, No.
16 7 45 pm
•From New York, Knox
ville and Alabama points
No.15. 1015 pm
DEPART.
•Day Express North, E.
andWest No 14,1220 am
•For Rome, Knoxville,
Nsw York,Cincinnati and
Memphis, No. 12.. 7 35 am
•Fast Express South for
S’vh&Fla. No, 13. 601 pm
•For Savan’h, Brunswick
and Jacksonville No 15
5 05am
•New York Lim. Nortt
N. Y. Phila. eto. No. It
4 30 oir
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
From Savannah* 7 30 am | To Savannah*.... 6 50 am
Barn’sv’llt 7 45 am
Bar’sv’lef.. 9 45 am
Macon* 9 so pm
HapevlUef.. 140 pm
Macon*..... 105 pm
Savannah*.. 5 30 p ■
To Macon*.8 30 am
To Hapevllle....l2 00 m
To Macon* 2 00 pm
To Savannah* ... 6 50pm
To Barnesvulef.. 3 00 pm
To Baroesvlllet.. 6 25 pm
WESTERN AND ATI
From Chata’ga* 2 23 am
** Marietta... 8 0U am
*' Rome......... 11 05 am
“ Chata’go* .. 6 30 am
" Chata’ga*.. 144 pm
'* Chata’ga*.. 6 35 pm
, ANTIC RAILROAD.
To Chattanooga* 7 60 am
To Chattanooga* 140 pm
To Rome 8 46pm
To Marietta. 4 40 pm
To Chattanooga* 5 50pm
To Chattanooga* 11 00 pm
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
From M’tgo’ery* 6 10 am J To Montgo’ery* 1 20 pm
“ M’tgo’ery* 125 am I To Montgo’ery* 10 03 pm
“ Lagrange* 8 45 am | To Lagrange*.... 5 05 pm
GEORGIA 1
From Augusta* 6 40 am
“ Covington* 7 55 am
“ Decatur... 10 15 am
“ Augusta*.. 100 pm
'* Clarkston.. 2 20pm
“ Augusta.*.. 5 45 pm
IAILROaD.
To Angnsta*....
To Decatur
To Clarkston....
To Augusta*...
To Covington...
To Augusta* .
8 00 am
9 00 am
12 10 pm
2 45 pm
610 pm
7 30 pm
RICHMOND AND DANVILLL RAILROAD-
From Lula 8 25 pm I To Charlotte*... 7 40 am
“ Charlotte* 12 20 pm | To Lula 4 30 pm
“ Charlotte* 9 40 pm | To Charlotte*... 6 00 pm
Georgia pacific railway.
From Bir’g’m*.. 6 50am | To Blrming’m*.
“ Tallapoosa 9 00 am 1 To Tallapoosa..
“ Btarkvllle* 5 43 pm I To Starkville*..
550 pm
5 00 pm
8 15 am
*D Aliy—fDAlly except Sunday—^Sunday only. All
other train* daily except Sunday. Central time.
I F YOU INTEND TO TRAVEL WRITE TO JOB
W. White, Traveling Passenger Agent Georgia
Railroad, for lowest rates, best schedules and
quickest time. Prompt attention to all communlca
tlons.
T HE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
OEOBQIA RAILROAD COMPANY,
Office General Manager.
Augusta, Ga., May. 8. 1887.
Commencing Sunday, 9th Instant, the following
passenger schedule will be operated:
Trains run by 90th meridian time.
FAST LINE.
NO. 27 WEST-DAILY, j NO. 28 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Augusta 7 45am | L've Atlanta ...„.2 45pn
L’veWashington.7 20am | “ Gainesville...5 55am
“ Athens 7 45am I Ar. Athens 7 2'ipn
“ Gainesville..5 55am I Ar. Washington. .7 20.in
Ar. Atlanta .....1 00pm f “ Augusta 8 lflpn
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS.
NO. 2 EAST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta ...™.8 00am
Ar. Gainesville..,.8 25pm
“ Athens .... —...5 35pm
“ Washington 2 20pm
“ Milledgeville...4 13pm
“ Macon 6 00pm
“ Augusta — 3 35pm
NO. 1 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Augusta 10 45aa
“ Macon 7 lOan
“ Milledgeville.9 38am
“ Washlugton.il 20an
“ Athens.. 9 OOan
Ar. Gainesville... 8 25pn
“ Atlanta 5 45pn
NIGHT EXPRESS AND MAIL.
NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 8 WEST-DAILY.
L’ve Atlanta—..7 30pm L’ve Angnsta...._.9 40pn
Ar. Augusta 5 00am j Ar. Atlanta 6 4 an
COVINGTON ACCOMMODATION.
L’ve Atlanta.—— .6 10pm I L’ve Covington. 5 40an
Decatur 6 46pm “ Decatur 7 25am
Ar. Covington—8 30pm I Ar. Atlanta 7 55an
DECATUR TRAIN.
(Daily except Sunday.)
L’ve Atlanta 9 00am , L’ve Decatur.——8 45am
Ar. Decatur 9 30am I Ar. Atlanta —10 15am
CLARKSTON TRAIN.
L’ve Atlanta 12 10pm | L’ve Clarkston 1 25pn
“ Decatur 12 42pm | “ Decatur 48pn
Ar. Clarkston 12 67pm I Ar. Atlanta * 20pn
MACON NIGHT EYPRESS (DAILY).
NO 15—WESTWARD I NO. 16-EASTWARD.
Leave Cau.uk 12 50 am Leave Macon 6 30 pm
Arrive Macon.... 6 40 am | Arrive Camak ...11 00 pm
Trains Noe. 2.1, 4 and 3 will, if signaled, stop at any
regular schedule flag station.
No connection for Gainesville on Sundays.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers tt
and from the following stations only:Grovetown,Har
lem, Dearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford-
ville, Union Point, Greenes boro, Madison, Rutledge
Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone
Mountain and Decatur.
Train No. 28 will stop at and receive passengers t,
and from the following stations only: Grovetown, Har
lem, Dearing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford
ville, Union Point, Greenes boro, Madison, Rutledge,
Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, BtOLS
Mountain and Decatur.
No. 28 stops at Harlem for snpper.
I. W. GREEN, E. 11. DORSEY,
Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Pass. Agent.
JOE W WHITE,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Augusta. Ga.
^TLANTA ft NEW ORLEANS SHOUT LINE
VICKSBURG AND SHBKVEPOBT, VIA MONTGOMERY
Qly line operating double dally trains and Pull
i Buffet Sleeping Cars between Atlanta and Nee
Only line op
man J
Orleans wltbout change.
Takes effect Sunday. Anril 3<1, 1887
south bound
No. 50
Dally.
Leave Atlanta 1 20 pm
Arrive Fairborn 2 08 pm
“ Palmetto 2 24 pm
“ Newnan 2 47 pm
“ Grantvllle 313 pm
” LaG range 3 52 pm
“ West Point 4 20 pm
Opelika 6 04 pm
Ar. Columbus, Ga.6 31 pm
dr. Montgomery 715 pm
Ar. Pensacola 5 oo am
dr. Mobile 215 am
dr. New Orleans 7 10 am
No. 52.
Daily.
10 00 pm
11 07 pm
11 26 pm
12 08 am
12 50 am
1 55 am
2 42 am
348 am
11 01 am
7 05 am
2 00 pm
l so pm
7 20 om
No. a
Dally
5 06 pn
614 pn
6 26 pn
6 53 pn
7 20pn
8 oo pn
NORTH bound .
Lv. New Orleans
“ Mobile
“ Pensacola
“ Selma
“ Montgomery
" Columbus
Lv. Cpelika
Ar. West Point
“ La Grange
“ HogansviUe
“ Grantvllle
“ Newnan
“ Palmetto
“ Pnlrpurn
” Atl nta
TO
No 51.
Lally.
8 10 pm
I 00 am
10 20 pm
9 45 am
7 45 am
8 05 am
9 46 am
10 27 am
10 58 am
II 23 am
1137 am
12 03 pm
12 29 pm
12 41 pm
1 25 pm
No 53.
Dally.
8 05 am
1 25 pm
1 05 pm
2 35 pm
3 10 pm
12 02 am
113 am
1 58 am
2 50 am
313 am
3 58 am
4 45 am
6 06 am
6 10 am
No 1,
Dally
7 oo an
7 33 an
7 50 an
8 23 an
8 56 an
9 ll an
10 00 an
SELMA, VICKSBURG AND SHKEVEFOBT.
(Via Aaron. 1
No 12.
v. Montgomery 8 15 am
r. Selma 12 05 pm
‘ Marlon 2 50 pm
‘ Akron 6 35 pm
• Meridian
‘ Vicksburg
‘ Shreveport
No 6.
No 51
8 30 pn
5 50 pn
7 22 pm
910 pn
12 30 an
7 30 an
fi AS ——
THROUGH CAR SERV1CK.
Pullman Buffet Sleeping car, No. 50, Atlanta to
N”w Orleans.
No. 52, Pullman Buffet Sleeping car, Washlngtoi
to Montgomery, aud Pullman Parlor car, Montgom
ery to New Orleans.
No. 51, Pullman Buffet S eeping ears New Orlean:
to Atlanta, aud at Atlanta to New York.
No. 53 Pullman Parlor car, NawOrleans to Mont
gomery, and Pullman Ballet Sleeping ear Mont
gomery to Washington.
CECIL GABBETT, CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
General Manager. Gen. Passenger Agent.
Montgomery, Alabama.
A. J. OEMS, Gen. Agt. O. W. CHEARS, O. P A
Atlanta. Ueorgi-
"DIEDMONT AIR-LIME ROUTE.
BICHMOND ft DANVILLE B. B CO.
CONDENSED SCHEDUIX IN EFFECT MAT 29,1887.
Trains ran by 75Ch Meridian time—One hoar faster
•ban 90’h M“rl«1Un time.
Northbound. No . 5 if >AU ‘ T - No ^
Leave Atlanta 7 00 pm 8 40 am
Arrive Gainesville 912 pm 10 36 am
“ Lola 9 37 pm 11 oo am
*• Toccoa 10 40 pm 12 02 n’n
“ Seneca - - - ll 38 pm 12 56 pm
“ Easley 12 37 am 2 lo pm
“ Greenville - -- -- -- l 04 am 232 pm
“ Spartanburg 219 am 846 pm
Leave Spartanbnrg 2 4oam
Arrive Tyron 4 07 am
•• Saluda - -- -- -- -- 4 57am
“ Fiat Rick 5 37am
“ Hendersonville 5 53 am
“ Asheville Too am
“ Hot Springs - -- -- 9 00 am
Leave Spartanburg 219 am 3 46 pm
Arrive Gaffney 3 06 am 4 35 pm
“ Gastonia - - - 4 2u am 5 42 pm
“ Charlotte 5 05 am 6 25 pm
“ Salisbury 6 48 am 8 01 pm
11 Raleigh 2 lu pm • 6 30 am
“ Goldsboro’ 4 30 pm 11 20 am
“ Greensboro’ 8 28 am 9 40 pm
“ Danville 1010 am ll 29 pm
“ Richmond 3 60 pm 615 am
“ Lynchburg 115 pm 2 oo am
“ Charlottesville - - - - 3 40 pm 4 10 am
“ Washington - -- -- - 8 23 pm 8 10 am
“ Baltimore ------- 11 25 pm 10 03 am
“ Philadelphia 3 oo am 12 35 pm
“ New York 6 20 am 3 20 pm
Southbound. No . 50 DAU ‘ Y ' N o. 52.
Leave New York - >- - 445am y30pm
“ Philadelphia 7 20 am 6 67 pm
“ Baltimore 9 45 am 9 42 pm
“ Washington ll 24 am ll oo pm
“ Charlottesville - - - - 3 35 pm 3 00 am
“ Lynchburg ------ 6 50 pm 5 15 am
“ Richmond - - 3 oo pm 2 30am
“ Danville 8 50 pm 8 05 am
“ Greensboro’ 10 44 pm 9 48 am
“ Goldsboro 1 --- 12 30 am tSIOptn
“ Raleigh •-- 5 30 pm t 1 00 am
“ Salisbury - - ----- 12 39 am 1123am
“ Charlotte 2 25 am 1 00 pm
“ Gastonia - -- -- -- - 3 24 am 142 pm
“ Gaffney’s 4 50 am 2 51 pm
Arrive Spartanburg - -- -- - 636am 334 pm
Leave Hot Springs - -- -- - 7 oo pm
•• Asheville 9 49 am
“ HendersonAllle - - - - 11 07 pm
“ Flat Rick 1123pm
“ Saluda 1153 pm
“ Tyron 12 39 am
Arrive Spartanburg ------ 210 am
Leave SpartaDburg - -- -- - 5 36 am
“ Greenville 6 50 am 4 48 pm
“ Easley 7 15 am 5 14 pm
“ Seneca - -- -- -- -- 8 40 am 6 12 pm
“ Toccoa - - - • 9 46 am 7 08 pm
“ Lula --1104am 8 22 pm
“ Gainesville ll 26 am 8 46 pm
Arrive Atlanta 1 20 Dm 10 40 pm
* Daily except Saturday. t Dauv -xcepc Sunday.
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On trains 50 and 61 Pullman But' s -n>er be
tween New York and A'lanta. Puilmau S.sapor be
tween opartauburg and HotSpn gs.
On trains 52 and 53 Pudman Buffet Sleeper be
tween Washington and Montgomery; Wasnlhgton
and Augusta. Pullman Sleeper between Greens
boro’ and Rlcbmond; Greensboro’ and Balelgb.
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valuable Htumplnfg Outfit, con
taining ttie following patterns : 1
set Initials. I S in* high, 1 Dancing
Girl. 9 In. high, l Running Boy, 7
In. high, 1 spray Daisies, 5 in. high,
1 bunch Hoses,4^ in. high, 1 cluster
Apple Blossoms, 3x4 in., 1 Owl on brunch, 4 Uj in. high, l bunch
Peaches, 1 cluster Daisies, 1 spray Wheat, 1 spray Morning
Glories, 1 Calla Lily, 1 bunch Forget-Me-Nots. 1 Rosebud with
leaves, 1 spray Pansies, 1 spray Bachelor's Button with grasses,
1 Pink, 1 Day Lily with bud ami foliage, 1 spray Vinca, 1 bunch
Daisies, 1 Juponlca Bud with leaves, 1 Fat Boy (comic), 1 cluster
Forget-Me-Nots, 1 Pansy, 1 spray DnWi.-n, l Star Flower, 1 spray
Spanish Rose, 1 Outline Design, 1 Vine, 4 patterns for flannel
embroidery and 3 smaller designs for Crazy Patchwork, making
In all 35 Elegant Patterns, worth at retail from 5 to 20 cents each,
and 1 Complete Alphabet worth 75cents, also 1 box best Powder,
15c., 1 Improved Distributor, 10c., and 1 Complete Book of In
scription to our paper. This Outfit is entirely netr, and must not
be confounded with the cheap catchpenny affairs advertised by
others. *ix subscriptions and six Outfits will lie sent for #1.50.
Do not miSB this chance I Satisfaction guaranteed. As to our
reliahilitv. wa refer to any publisher in New Yorkr Address,
fcs U. MOORE A CO., X? Park Place, Sew York.
SOLID FACTS!
“Seven Springs” Iron-alum Mass, win give yon an
appetite, strengthen you up, cure Dyspepsia, Dla-
rhoea and all Headaches, parity the blood, act on
tbe Kidneys, relieves Catarrh and ward, air Ma
larla Price 503ts and 61.00 per bottle. DICKEYS
PAINLESS EYE WATER cures Inflamed eyes
at once. No Cure—No P»y. A9k for It. Sold by
all druggists or seat by mail postpaid. Price 25cts.
Dickey ft. Anderson. Manufacturers, Bristol,
Tenn 589-Sid
TEACHERS WANTED.
Teachers wante*.—September S“»«lon. 10 Presl ■
dent9 of Colleges, 29 Prlnclnales of High Scuo.ils, 15
Teachers of Music, 8 Art Teachers, 10 Teachers of
French and German, 20 Assistant in Lltarary Ds
p irtment of Schools and Colleges. Governesses.
Address SOUTHERN TEACHERS AGENCY, P.
0 Box 410. Birmingham, Ala. 608 2 nos
1 PFljmn WANTED (Samples FREE) for DR.
A tH,N | i) 8COTT’8 beautiful ELECTRIC COR-
HUU11 1U SEr8 BRUSHES, BELTS. Etc. No
risk, quick sales. Territory given, satisfaction guar
anteed. Dr. Ncotl’s 843 Broadway, N. Y
Si90 261 eow
D A fPFlJfllCI TH°3. P. SIMPSON, Washington,
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1 a A M til obtained. Write tor Inventor’s
Guide.
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Pristine addiaaa HENRY B. MYERS, ’’tWPskiwa'
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Mexican
Mustang
Liniment
Sciatica,
Lumbago,
Burns,
Scalds,
Stings,
Bites,
Bruises,
Bunions,
Corns,
CURB
Scratches,
Sprains,
Strains,
Stitches,
Stiff Joints,
Backache,
Galls,
Sores,
Spavin
Cracks.
Contracted
Muscles,
Eruptions,
Hoof Ail,
Screw
Worms,
Swinney,
Saddle Galls,
Files.
THIS COOD OLD STAND-BY
accomplishes for everybody exactly what is claimed
forlt. One of the reasons for the great popularity of
the Mustang Liniment Is found in Its universal
applicability* Everybody needs such a medicine.
The Lumberman needs it in case of accident.
The Housewife needs it for generalfamily use.
The Canaler needs it for his teams and bis men.
The Mechanic needs It always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs it in case of emergency.
The Pioneer needsit—can’tget along without It,
The Farmer needs It in bis bouse, bis stable^
and bis stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatman needs
It in liberal supply afloat and asbore.
The Horse-fancier needs it—it is bis best
friend and safest reliance.
The Stock-grower needs It—it will save hin|
thousands of dollars and a world of trouble.
The Railroad man needs it and will need it so
long as his life is a round of accidents and dangers.
The Backwoodsman needs it. Tbere is noth
ing like It as an antidote for the dangers to life,
limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
The Merchant needs it about his store among
his employees. Accidents will happen, and when
these come the Mustang Liniment is wanted at once.
Keep a Bottle in the House* "Tis the best of
economy.
Keep a Bottle in the Factory* Its immediate
use in case of accident saves pain and loss of wages.
Keep a Bottle Always in the Stable for
•■•e when wanted.
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